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Jas Prince, son of Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Prince, is credited with discovering Drake. Jas signed the rapper to his company Young Empire Music Group and to Aspire Music Group. In 2007 Cash Money Records wanted to sign Drizzy and Jas agreed to a deal that would give him 22% of of the rapper's future profits and advances.

Jas Prince and Drake

According to court documents, Jas later approached Lil Wayne's manager Cortez Bryant with a new deal demanding more money.

Jas ended up filing a lawsuit seeking $4 million dollars from Birdman and Cash Money, claiming he was cheated out of royalties.

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Bryant now says he only signed the new deal because he thought he might be killed if he didn't.

The docs claim that Prince chased them around the table with a gun and threatened to kill them if they didn’t sign the new agreement. He goes on to say Cortez didn’t call the police because he feared for his life and he just signed the document, according to The Jasmine Brand.

Read the court documents here.

Drake is not involved in the lawsuit.

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Producer Mike Free is taking DJ Mustard to court to get money and credit for hits he claims he composed, but Mustard took credit for.

Free, real name Mikely Adam, claims he's the person who wrote, composed and recorded the hit records "Rack City" (Tyga), "I'm Different" (2 Chainz), "I Don't Fuck with You" (Big Sean), "Don't Tell Em," (Jeremih), "Party Ain't a Party" (Jamie Foxx) and many more.

According to TMZ, Free says Mustard took full production credit for some of the songs and didn't pay him what he's due on others.

In his lawsuit Free is asking for his production credits and money owed to him.

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Chicago rapper Chief Keef is not slowing down on the new music. The Glo Gang boss gets production from HurtboyAG and Malikondabeat for his song, "Randy Moss."

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Shy Glizzy links up with DJ Drama to release his latest mixtape entitled Law 3: Now Or Never. Features include Migos, Young Dolph, Bobby Shmurda and more.

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Here's Gwen Stefani's new music video for her single entitled "Spark the Fire." The song is produced by Pharrell Williams. It's available now on https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spark-the-fire/id947109786?i=947109790.

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Producer Key Wayne is in the lab completing his forthcoming project entitled From Now On. Take a listen to his infectious single, "Same Nigga," featuring TY Dolla $ign.

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On Monday, December 1, Fabolous announced he would be releasing his next album entitled The Young OG Project on December 25. The lead single off of it is called "Lituation."

The Brooklyn, New York rapper talked to MTV about the forthcoming release and why he chose "Lituation" as the first offering to the fans.

“This is a word that I’ve been hearing floating around and I thought, why not make a song of it?’ It’s really about a situation that can get lit," Fab said. “You can come into a situation and it can be [calm] and you can turn it up and get it a little lit. It’s real street, like New York street... kinda aggressive. I wanted to start with that just to get the feel, and get you there first, and then the rest of the album will take you different places.”

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Hollywood Jack Thriller recently sat down with Slink Johnson, the star of the hilarious television show "Black Jesus."

They discuss the show, Slink's first love being hip hop, him being 6'7" with lethal elbows on the basketball court, being the "master of the West African monkey spank technique," being from Arkansas, rapping with Too $hort in 1989, spits a rhymes and much more.

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Slaughterhouse emcee Crooked I recently sat down with Steve Lobel of Blurred Culture to chop it up in part one of their interview.

He talks about what hip hop means to him, dislike for the term "haters," sucker mc's, the origin of his name and more.

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Charles Barkley is making controversial statements once again. The outspoken former NBA player was a guest on Philadelphia radio station 97.5 The Fanatic recently when the topic of the Ferguson grand jury deciding not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown came up.

Barkley thought the grand jury made the right call.

"The true story came out from the grand jury testimony," Barkely told Mike Missanelli, adding that "three or four witnesses, who were black, said exactly what the cop [Wilson] said."

The looting and riots were a sore point for Barkley. He doesn't even consider the troublemakers to be African Americans.

"Those aren't black people, those are scumbags," he said. "There is no excuse for people to be out there burning down people's businesses, burning down police cars. We have to be really careful with the cops man, because if it wasn’t for the cops we would be living in the Wild, Wild West in our neighborhoods,” Barkley continued. “We can’t pick out certain incidents that don’t go our way and act like the cops are all bad. Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn’t for the cops?” 

What's your take on Barkley's comments?

Eric Bolling To Bob Beckel: Are You Questioning Charles Barkley's Blackness?

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01. Def Loaf Feat. Ty Dolla $ign, RJ, YG & Jake&Papa - Try Me (G-Mix)
02. Compton AV - Green Light
03. The Game - F.u.n
04. The Game Feat. Bobby Shmurda, Skeme & Freddie Gibbs - Hit Em Hard
05. The Game Feat. French Montana, Sam Hook & Dubb - Married To The Game
06. The Game Feat. Lil Wayne & Chris Brown - F*ck Your Feelings
07. The Game Feat. Tyga & Eric Bellinger - Best Head Ever
08 O.T Genasis - Coco
09. Jeezy Feat. YG, Ty Dolla $ign & Beenie Man - Link Up
10. Vell Feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Childish
11. Casey Veggies Feat. Iamsu & YG - Backflip
12. Young Chop Feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Cap 1 - Ain't F*cking With Her
13. Que Feat. Problem - Work In
14. Tyler Cymone Feat. Problem - Let's Ride
15. Diggy Simmons Feat. French Montana & DJ Mustard - Ain't Bout To Do
16.Juliann Alexander - Goodie Goodie
17. Kyle - Don't Wanna Fall In Love
18. TeeFLii - Change Your World
19. Fergie Feat. YG - La Love
20. E-40 - Choices (Yup)
21. Kg Hunid Feat. Elmer Demond - Oso Vivid Party
22. The Weekend Feat. Schoolboy Q & Rick Ross - Often (Remix)
23. Jay Rock Feat. Kendrick Lamar - Pay For It

Check out Magic Juan's new mixtape entitled The Shrine

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Neef Buck of the Young Gunz and State Property drops off a new single entitled "Why Not?" This is off of the Philadelphia rapper's forthcoming mixtape, Forever Do Me 7. Check it out up top.

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Lupe Fiasco's long awaited album, Tetsuo & Youth, will finally arrive on January 20, 2015. The Chicago rapper locked down features from Guy Sebastian, Trae Tha Truth, Fam Lay, Glasses Malone, Ab-Soul, Nikki Jean and more

Peep the cover art up top and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

1. ‘Summer’
2. ‘Mural’
3. ‘Blur My Hands’ (Feat. Guy Sebastian)
4. ‘Dots & Lines’
5. ‘Fall’
6. ‘Prisoner 1 & 2′ (Feat. Ayesha Jaco)
7. ‘Body Of Work’ (Feat. Troi & Terrance Martin)
8. ‘Little Death’ (Feat. Nikki Jean)
9. ‘No Scratches’ (Feat. Nikki Jean)
10. ‘Winter’
11. ‘Chopper’ (Feat. Billy Blue, Buk Of Psychodrama, Trouble, Trae Tha Truth, Fam Lay & Glasses Malone)
12. ‘Deliver’
13. ‘Madonna (And Other Mothers In The Hood)’ [Feat. Nikki Jean] 14. ‘Adoration Of The Magi’ (Feat. Crystal Torres)
15. ‘They.Resurrect.Over.New’ (Feat. Ab-Soul & Troi)
16. ‘Spring’

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Maejor teams up with Waka Flocka Flame and Ying Yang Twins for "Tell Daddy." Peep the official music video.

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Nicki Minaj will be releasing her new album entitled The Pinkprint on December 15. Today she has unveiled the tracklist.

Features include Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Beyonce, Jeremih, Ariana Grande, Meek Mill, LunnchMoney Lewis and Skylar Grey.

It's available for pre-order now.

Amazon: http://goo.gl/rbjZx4 

Target: http://goo.gl/BhXtAY 

Walmart: http://goo.gl/W2Gmds 

Best Buy: http://goo.gl/3je4LV 

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Hollywood Jack Thriller recently caught up with LL Cool J while he was supporting his wife's Simone I. Smith's Macy's Trunk Show in New York City.

LL and Simone talk about the lines of jewelry that were presented, parts of the proceeds going to the American Cancer Society and more.

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Tinashe has seen her star rise steadily over the last year. She kept her momentum going at the 2014 Soul Train Awards. Check out her performing the hit songs "Pretend" and "2 On" below.

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The 2014 Soul Train Awards aired Sunday, November 30. It featured some great performances. One of the highlights was Lil Kim, Missy Elliot and Da Brat performing their 1997 collaboration, "Not Tonight (Ladies Night Remix)."

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