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Curren$y keeps busy and drops off his new mixtape just in time for Christmas titled 3 Piece Set. Download it below and enjoy the holidays.

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With Christmas one day away, producer/rapper Bangladesh gives a funny new music video of what the holiday is like in his hood.

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Written by Rob Markman @RobMarkman with reporting by Ade Mangum @HollywoodAde Via MTV

Mixtape Daily Main Pick

Artists: Troy Ave and DJ Holiday

Representing: Brooklyn

Mixtape: White Christmas

Real Spit: Troy Ave takes his hustle seriously and never takes days off, so on December 25 while most of us are off from work, the Brooklyn rap upstart will be delivering his latest tape White Christmas.

For the Yuletide-themed tape, Troy appropriately hooked up with DJ Holiday who screams his "Holiday Season" battle cry on tapes all year 'round for artists like Wiz Khalifa (Cabin Fever 2) and Gucci Mane Trap Back). "The reason why I named it White Christmas, it was originally supposed to be named Holiday Season and that just plays into the whole Troy Ave and DJ Holiday collab, but White Christmas just fit so well," Troy told Mixtape Daily alluding to his past in the streets where he's alleged to have peddled snow of a different kind.

White Christmas isn't all cocaine-laced however, on the Mac Miller-assisted "Chillin" Troy speaks of his summertime rendezvous. "Antisocial" is a goal-oriented, get-money ode where the rap rookie makes his aims very clear. "I ain't come here to socialize, I don't care if I know you guys/ One focus in between my eyes: get rich," he spits over the somber violin beat.

The DJ U-Neek-produced "Blanco" is a street-centered brag fest. "I Stevie Wonder 'bout n---as, three words for y'all/ Troy Ave that n*gga, sweet and simple I ball," he raps.

Still, in the end it's the drug-infused raps where Troy makes his killing. "It felt organic, it felt like I was doin' it an injustice by not calling it White Christmas seeing as how I am Harry Powder," he said.

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Azealia Banks' career is just starting to take off, but unlike a lot of other artists in her position she is already looking at an exit plan.

The 21-year old Harlem rapper recently sat down with Hypetrak TV to talk about what she has planned for the future.

"I would eventually like to stop rapping," Azealia said. "That's just the honest truth. Like one day I don't wanna rap anymore just because it's easy you know what I mean, but it's kind of tacky and I think it's very unladylike. I like it, but I think I'm going to get tired of it. I would like to get two albums out. Like get all of the urban stuff like rap music out. Whatever ideas I have in me out and into fruition the maybe go back to school. Take voice lessons again and do like contemporary jazz. I definitely don't see myself being a rapper forever."

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Ludacris teams up with Swizz Beatz and Pusha T for "Tell Me What They Mad For." Pusha goes in on Lil Wayne. Luda also goes in, but it's not clear who he's aiming at.

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BEHIND THE LENS TV:CAUGHT UP WITH HARLEM'S OWN REMO THE HITMAKER TO FIND OUT WHATS GOING ON WITH HIM AND TO ALSO ASK ABOUT PRODUCER RUMORS THAT HAVE BEEN CIRCULATING ABOUT THE NEW LUDACRIS SINGLE.

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The Cranberry Show teams up with Jenesis Magazine & contributed a track entitled "Revelations" for Jenesis' 'Under the Radar Mixtape'. This is the video for that sh*t...ENJOY

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Written by Chase Hoffberger @chasehoffberger Via Daily Dot

Google slashed the cumulative view counts on YouTube channels belonging to Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG, and RCA Records by more than 2 billion views Tuesday, a drastic winter cleanup that may be aimed at shutting down black hat view count-building techniques employed by a community of rogue view count manipulators on the video-sharing site.

Universal's channel is the one that took the biggest hit. According to figures compiled by the YouTube statistics analysts at SocialBlade, the record company's YouTube channel lost more than 1 billion views from its preexisting tally of 7 billion views Tuesday.

Sony/BMG was the second largest sufferer, dropping more than 850 million views in one day, bringing its total number of views to a mere 2.3 million. RCA, which got off scot free by comparison, dipped 159 million views. Its tally now sits more modestly at 120 million views.

In addition, each label's YouTube archives are now surprisingly thin. UMG, which had long held a heavy hand in YouTube operations, now only boasts five videos on its YouTube channel, none of which are actual songs—and none of which last more than 1:23.

Sony's page, by comparison, is currently empty. The company did not respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment.

Other notable channels affected include the ones belonging to Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, Beyoncé, and Avril Lavigne, among others. More than 500 prominent YouTube channels have been stripped of preexisting YouTube views in the past 30 days, something that causes concern when you consider that YouTube views counts, unlike subscriber statistics, are cumulative and cannot organically drop at any point throughout their existence.

Google's takedown of these major music channels came on the same day that hundreds of YouTubers took to Google forums and their own YouTube channels to inform their peers that they'd been subject to a series of video takedowns for violations of YouTube's Terms of Service (TOS). Some speculated that the widespread video takedowns were caused by a technical error, but YouTube confirmed that the users violated TOS item 4, Section H, which bans automated methods of inflating view counts. 

"This was not a bug or a security breach. This was an enforcement of our viewcount policy," wrote a Google representative on the forums.

The apparent crackdown on fake views became a major talking point Wednesday on Black Hat World, a forum where users trade tips about unethical search engine optimization tactics.

The thread's first post alluded to a friend of the poster who "sells likes" and was recently told by four different customers that their videos "got deleted due to TOS violation."

"Now I also got a message from a customer who ordered views from me that his video was removed," the individual wrote, sparking a six page conversation that continues on to this moment—and mentions Universal Music Group throughout.

"I spoke with some people on Skype and 2-3 more have the same problems with videos being removed for fake views," the original poster added in a later post. "Likes are from YLH (YouLikeHits) and AddMeFast and views from ViralSocial in my case."

Later in the thread, the conversation turned towards an individual known in some online circles as Tapangoldy, a 16-year-old seller of YouTube views who is prominent on the cheap favors website Fiverr and claimed last month to have already raised $60,000through the site. Recently, he closed up shop for a few days "to fix all issue thanks."

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Tapangoldy, who among other things had offered YouTubers an excess of 10,700 new views to any video of their choosing for $5, held a 98 percent "Gig Rating" before becoming inundated with negative reviews on Wednesday, most of which painted him as a fraud who uses bots to accrue YouTube views.

Although Tapangoldy seems to be one of the top-rated sellers of YouTube views, he isn’t the only Fiverr user whose business has been affected. One Black Hat World user wrote, “I'm just having great fun watching the Fiverr bloodbath. Most the top rated gigs for views are either paused or being flooded with bad reviews.”

How closely is Tapangoldy tied to Universal, Sony, and RCA? It's something we can't presently confirm. The Daily Dot has been unable to contact him during his temporary exile, and he could have nothing to do with the labels’ overnight YouTube collapse. But Tapangoldy's sudden change in fortune comes at an interesting time considering all of the preexisting elements, their pertinence to the major label music structure or otherwise.

YouTube did not respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment.

UPDATE: Universal acknowledged the sudden drop in views, and told the Daily Dot that the Universal Music Group channel, though popular, has been mostly dormant since the company shifted its focus to individual channels hosted on Vevo, which Universal founded in conjunction with Sony Music, Abu Dhabi Media Company, and E1 Entertainment in 2009.

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Coming straight out of Atlanta, meet 20 year-old Jamaal Davis, the newest member of the Boombox Family! The young spitkicker grew up as an Army brat, moving around and living in areas such as California, Virginia, Texas and Japan for 5 years before finally settling in Atlanta, GA. No matter where he landed, he always found a way to master his rhymes and find good hip hop. "NIGHTIME COOLIN'" is the 1st song off his upcoming mixtape, TOKYOMACK, coming in 2013. Enjoy!

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2 Chainz drops off the official music video for "I'm Different." The song is off of Tity Boi's debut album Based On a T.R.U. Story, now available on iTunes.

YMCMB rapper is gearing up for the release of his Dead Presidents 2 mixtape. He holds his fans down in the meantime by releasing "God Bless the Child."

Produced by The YoungStars

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A Roc-A-Fella reunion concert took place a couple of nights ago at Gramercy Theater in New York. The sold out crowd witnessed performances by Young Chris, Neef Buck, Peedi Crakk and Memphis Bleek.

Unfortunately Jay-Z and Sparks didn't make it, and Beanie Sigel and Oschino are doing bids, but it was a great event nonetheless.

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Styles P keeps busy this holiday season. The Ghost drops another new freestyle titled "Been Around." Peep that up top and make sue you cop Pinero's new album The World's Most Hardest MC Project now available on iTunes.

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Odd Future singer Frank Ocean decided to release this new song titled "Wiseman." The track was supposed to be on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's new movie Django Unchained, but didn't make the cut.

Tarantino explained the song's omission to Pitchfork.

"Frank Ocean wrote a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way, there just wasn't a scene for it. I could have thrown it in quickly just to have it, but that's not why he wrote it and not his intention. So I didn't want to cheapen his effort. But, the song is fantastic, and when Frank decides to unleash it on the public, they'll realize it then."

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Jay Rock stopped by Shade 45's Soul Assassins radio recently. The Top Dawg Entertainment emcee spit a freestyle for the crew.Also West Coast production team Produced by THC speaks on who they are working with and who there influences are. Letting us know they have been down with Soul Assassins Radio on Shade 45 for a while now.

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America has seen a rash of mass shootings in places such as Newtown, Connecticut, Aurora, California, Virginia Tech, the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and Columbine High School.

Celebrities across the country like Carmelo Anthony, Beyonce, John Legend, Jamie Foxx, Will Ferrell, Chris Rock, Cameron Diaz, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Aniston, Conan O'Brien, Sarah Silverman, Olivia Munn and more have teamed up with http://www.demandaplan.org/ seeking a change in America's gun policies.

Tt’s time. Join more than 750 mayors and 750,000 grassroots supporters to demand that President Obama and Congress step forward with a plan to end gun violence.

 

Our efforts cannot bring back the 20 innocent children murdered in Newtown, CT -- or the 34 people murdered with guns every day in America. But we can prevent future tragedies by passing common sense legislation that will:

 

1. Require a criminal background check for every gun sold in America
2. Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
3. Make gun trafficking a federal crime, including real penalties for “straw purchasers”

If you're interested in signing the petition for change head over to http://www.demandaplan.org/ and watch the powerful message below.

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The beautiful and talented Twanée blesses her fans with a cover of Whitney Houston's "Who Would Imagine a King."

"Christmas is my favorite time of year," Twanée says. "And I chose this song because it brings me back to my childhood. This was a household favorite."

Directed by Chris "Broadway" Romero

Who Would Imagine A King was originally sung by Whitney Houston. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/who-would-imagine-king-feat./id267929798?i=...
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Nas is facing a possible new financial hurdle after being sued by a concert promoter who was kidnapped in December 2011 after the rapper failed to show for a concert in Angola.

As we previously reported, 51-year old Patrick Allocco, CEO of AllGood Concerts and his 22-year old son, also named Patrick were kidnapped by local Angola promoter Henrique "Riquhino" Miguel after Nas was paid $300,000 for a New Year's Eve concert, then failed to show.

The Allocco's passports were taken away and they were forced to stay at a hotel until Nas repaid the money he received.

Nas eventually returned the funds and the father and son were allowed to return back to the United States in February 2012.

TMZ is reporting that the elder Patrick Allocco filed a $10 million federal lawsuit against Nas on Friday. Allocco claims that while being held for 50 days he was beaten and constantly threatened.

Allocco also claims that because he was held so long he was unable to business, and as a result lost his home and his company. 

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