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Ricky Sauce (Rick Ross) is back with an insatiable appetite for waffles. Watch as the rapper dives in on plates of chicken, hash browns, syrup and whatever else he can get his hands on.
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Problem teams up with ABN/Grand Hustle artist Trae Tha Truth and J-Stalin to put together an official music video for the song "Killer." Video directed by Philly Fly Boy.
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Fans have patiently waited for Papoose to deliver his debut album The Nacirema Dream, and the wait is almost over. On March 26, 2013 the project will be available via Honor B4 Money Records and Fontana Records.
In this new vlog titled "Journey To The Nacirema Dream," Papoose talks about what fans can expect from the project, why it's taken so long and the album being his life story.
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Snoop Dogg has a significant debt to settle with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). TMZ reports that the government has filed a federal lien against the rapper claiming he owes $546,270.29 in unpaid tax bills.
According to documents filed Snoop owes $101,952.44 for 2009 and $444,317.85 for 2011.
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California emcee YG links up with Wiz Khalifa and Young Jeezy to film an official music video for "Playin," The Cardo-produced track can be found on YG's mixtape, Just Re'd Up 2.
The video was shot in Beverly Hills, California by director Matt Alonzo.
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Azealia Banks released a freestyle over Baauer's 2012 single "Harlem Shake" a couple of days ago. The Brooklyn producer wasn't happy about it and had the song removed from Azealia's Soundcloud account.
Not to be deterred, Azealia thumbs her nose at Baauer and releases an official music video for the track.
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If there was any doubt about Miguel's current place in R&B, those questions were answered when he won Best R&B Song at the 2013 Grammy Awards for "Adorn."
The song is off of his sophomore album, Kaleidoscope Dream. A project many thought should have been nominated for Album of the Year.
The 27-year old, born Miguel Jontel Pimentel, covers the newest issue of Billboard. In the cover story he talks about Grammy night, Kelly Clarkson's shout out, a desire to work with Beyonce, upcoming Alicia Keys tour and more.
Check out the cover story below.
Congrats on winning your first Grammy. Since the award wasn't televised, where were you when you found out?
I found out in the car as we were pulling up to the red carpet. It was an "Oh, shit" moment. I had my girl with me and it was like, "How crazy is that? And I get to perform?" It was just a great feeling.
When did you know that the performance was happening, and how did you arrange to start singing the song from the crowd?
A week-and-a-half out we knew that we could perform. I wanted to make an intimate thing but I had a bigger vision about the crowd. I got to tip my hat to [telecast producer] Ken Ehrlich-he really had the vision. I did want it to be a stripped-down performance, and it really was genius of him to put us in the aisle.
So you win the award, have a great performance, Kelly Clarkson shouts you out in her speech. How did you celebrate?
I stopped by the Sony party-had to do that to say thanks. I've been to these parties for years, but this seemed like the special night. I actually own something. I wasn't just a part of it. So then I stopped by Chris [Brown]'s party to see Mark Pitts-he signed both of us; he's like my mentor. Then I went to my room. I had a suite, and I had all my friends over and family and we just partied. I didn't sleep until the next day, which was awesome.
All this success in the last 12 months means a lot to you, coming off how you began this whole process almost exactly one year ago with the Art Dealer Chic mixtapes. You released those independently rather than through RCA just after the Jive merger. Why?
In late 2011 I was like, "I'm going to put out a series of micro EPs." I just knew I wanted to put out free music and make it very quality vs. quantity, very personal. Make the whole thing a personal creative process from the artwork to the painting to the design to the production and writing-just for the people who discover music like I do online or my favorite blogs. We put out the first one at the top of February of 2012, and "Adorn" was on that and it got quite a buzz. It got a great response and Mark Pitts, my A&R, was convinced that it should be a single and I was excited, but I was like, "Are you sure this could work?" He was like, "Man, that sh*t is going to kill." And he was right.
You had written the song "Kaleidoscope Dream" with Salaam Remi almost two years before the full album came together. How did that ultimately determine the direction of the album?
I wanted it to be as edgy and alternative as my lifestyle. I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude. I don't go to the club and pop bottles. I have my smooth moments, I suppose, but my life isn't like that. Honestly, I don't really listen to R&B music. I'm much more into lots of rock'n'roll. That juxtaposition was really important to highlight. Overall I wanted people to feel the way we would if we had a drink for the first time and we actually have a conversation. I wanted them to walk away knowing I wasn't going to give them my deepest, darkest fucking secrets, but that there was some character to my personality. So that when you do have drinks with someone for the first time you can go, "You know what, this guy is kind of cool. I like where his head is at."
Some of the songs are romantic, others are more overtly sexual. How much were inspired by your own seven-year relationship, and what does your girlfriend think of some of those songs?
"P*ssy Is Mine" was not her favorite song. That whole song was freestyle. What makes it interesting is the juxtaposition of ego and vulnerability. It's kind of rolled in this vulnerability, wanting to claim it -- "Tell me that it's mine" -- but it's also out of this vulnerable need: "I want to feel I'm the only one in this moment." I've really been there. It felt like such an honest moment.
You're about to go on tour with Alicia Keys. You'd worked with her on "Where's the Fun in Forever" for your album, so did that opportunity come about through the collaboration?
She just laid it on me. She really came out upon gearing up for the release of Girl on Fire. She just kind of asked me, "Hey, would you be down to come out?" And I said, "Absolutely." We had enough time to really appreciate and respect each other's integrity as musicians. I really love her as an individual, and she's a light amongst a lot of the bullsh*t in this whole thing. I'm really excited and honored that she invited us out. We'll do our damnedest to work the crowd up before she plays.
So, since you're about to tour with Keys, you may know that her secret for voice lubrication is melted gummy bears. Do you have any rituals of your own for keeping that falsetto intact?
Nothing as good as that, but all-natural honey is my favorite. And then an apple before I go on. What are those pink and yellow ones? Honeycrisp. You know what else I like as an alternative? Nectarines. It's a similar texture, especially when you get a good nectarine.
An artist you may have worked with is Beyonce. What's the story behind that photo of you two in the studio last fall?
Have I worked with Beyonce? [laughs] I was really nervous to ask her, that was all, I just asked her to take a photo with me and she was really sweet about it. That's all I can say. I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though, I would love that.
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So So Def will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special concert at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre on February 23rd. Bow Wow, Xscape, Da Brat, Kris Kross, Jagged Edge, Anthony Hamilton, Lil Jon, Dem Franchize Boyz, Bass All-Stars, Bone Crusher, J-Kwon, Dondria, Young Bloodz, Fresco Kane and other guests will participate.
Jermaine Dupri stopped by The Breakfast Club to talk about the concert, his legacy, rumors of financial trouble, Frank Ocean being the savior of R&B, Trinidad James, Odd Future and more.
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(Reuters) - A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured 1,200 people.
People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt the shock wave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 1,500 km (950 miles) east of Moscow.
The fireball, travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second according to Russian space agency Roscosmos, had blazed across the horizon, leaving a long white trail that could be seen as far as 200 km (125 miles) away.
Car alarms went off, thousands of windows shattered and mobile phone networks were disrupted. The Interior Ministry said the meteorite explosion, a very rare spectacle, also unleashed a sonic boom.
"I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it were day," said Viktor Prokofiev, 36, a resident of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains.
"I felt like I was blinded by headlights."
The meteorite, which weighed about 10 metric tons and may have been made of iron, entered Earth's atmosphere and broke apart 30-50 km (19-31 miles) above ground, according to Russia's Academy of Sciences.
The energy released when it entered the Earth's atmosphere was equivalent to a few kilotonnes, the academy said, the power of a small atomic weapon exploding.
No deaths were reported but the Emergencies Ministry said 20,000 rescue and clean-up workers were sent to the region after President Vladimir Putin told Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov to ease the disruption and help the victims.
The Interior Ministry said about 1,200 people had been injured, at least 200 of them children, and most from shards of glass.
WINDOWS BLOWN OUT
The early-morning blast and ensuing shock wave blew out windows on Chelyabinsk's central Lenin Street, buckled some shop fronts, rattled apartment buildings in the city center and blew out windows.
"I was standing at a bus stop, seeing off my girlfriend," said Andrei, a local resident who did not give his second name. "Then there was a flash and I saw a trail of smoke across the sky and felt a shock wave that smashed windows."
A wall and roof were badly damaged at the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant but a spokeswoman said no environmental threat resulted.
One piece of meteorite broke through the ice the Cherbakul Lake near Chelyabinsk, leaving a hole several meters (yards) wide.
The region has long been a hub for the Russian military and defense industry, and it is often the site where artillery shells are decommissioned.
A local Emergencies Ministry official said meteorite storms were extremely rare and Friday's incident may have been connected with an asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool that was due to pass Earth.
But an astronomer at Russia's Academy of Sciences, Sergei Barabanov, cast doubt on that report and the European Space Agency said its experts had confirmed there was no link.
The regional governor in Chelyabinsk said the meteorite shower had caused more than $30 million in damage, and the Emergencies Ministry said 300 buildings had been affected.
Despite warnings not to approach any unidentified objects, some enterprising locals were hoping to cash in.
"Selling meteorite that fell on Chelyabinsk!" one prospective seller, Vladimir, said on a popular Russian auction website. He attached a picture of a black piece of stone that on Friday afternoon was priced at 1,488 roubles ($49.46).
RARE EVENT
The Emergencies Ministry described Friday's events as a "meteorite shower in the form of fireballs" and said background radiation levels were normal. It urged residents not to panic.
The first footage was shot by car dashboard video cameras and soon went viral.
Russians also quickly made fun at the event on the Internet. A photo montage showed Putin riding the meteorite and Nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovksy said in jest it was really a new weapon being tested by the United States.
Experts drew comparisons with an incident in 1908, when a meteorite is thought to have devastated an area of more than 2,000 sq km (1,250 miles) in Siberia, breaking windows as far as 200 km (125 miles) from the point of impact.
Simon Goodwin, an astrophysics expert from Britain's University of Sheffield, said that roughly 1,000 to 10,000 metric tons of material rained down from space towards the earth every day, but most burned up in the atmosphere.
"While events this big are rare, an impact that could cause damage and death could happen every century or so. Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop impacts."
The meteorite struck just as an asteroid known as 2012 DA14, about 46 m in diameter, was due to pass closer to Earth - at a distance of 27,520 km (17,100 miles) - than any other known object of its size since scientists began routinely monitoring asteroids about 15 years ago.
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JUST HOURS LATER AN ASTEROID THE SIZE OF A FOOTBALL FIELD PASSED EARTH BY 17,150 MILES.
A 150-foot asteroid hurtled through Earth's backyard Friday, coming within an incredible 17,150 miles and making the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling coincidence, a meteor exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains just hours before the asteroid zoomed past the planet.
Scientists the world over, along with NASA, insisted the meteor had nothing to do with the asteroid since they appeared to be traveling in opposite directions. The asteroid is a much more immense object and delighted astronomers in Australia and elsewhere who watched it zip harmlessly through a clear night sky.
"It's on its way out," reported Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object program
at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
Asteroid 2012 DA14, as it's called, came closer to Earth than many communication and weather satellites orbiting 22,300 miles up. Scientists insisted these, too, would be spared, and they were right.
The asteroid was too small to see with the naked eye even at its closest approach around 2:25 p.m. EST, over the Indian Ocean near Sumatra.
The best viewing locations, with binoculars and telescopes, were in Asia, Australia and eastern Europe. Even there, all anyone could see was a pinpoint of light as the asteroid buzzed by at 17,400 mph.
As asteroids go, this one is a shrimp. The one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 6 miles across. But this rock could still do immense damage if it ever struck given its 143,000-ton heft, releasing the energy equivalent of 2.4 million tons of TNT and wiping out 750 square miles.
By comparison, NASA estimated that the meteor that exploded over Russia was much smaller -- about 49 feet wide and 7,000 tons before it hit the atmosphere, or one-third the size of the passing asteroid.
As for the back-to-back events, "this is indeed very rare and it is historic," said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science. While the asteroid is about half the length of a football field, the exploding meteor "is probably about on the 15-yard line," he said.
"Now that's pretty big. That's typically a couple times bigger than the normal influx of meteorites that create these fireballs," he said in an interview on NASA TV.
"These fireballs happen about once a day or so, but we just don't see them because many of them fall over the ocean or in remote areas. This one was an exception."
As the countdown for the asteroid's close approach entered the final hours, NASA noted that the path of the meteor appeared to be quite different than that of the asteroid, making the two objects "completely unrelated." The meteor seemed to be traveling from north to south, while the asteroid passed from south to north -- in the opposite direction.
Most of the solar system's asteroids are situated in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and remain stable there for billions of years. Some occasionally pop out, though, into Earth's neighborhood.
NASA scientists estimate that an object of this size makes a close approach like this every 40 years. The likelihood of a strike is every 1,200 years.
The flyby provides a rare learning opportunity for scientists eager to keep future asteroids at bay -- and a prime-time advertisement for those anxious to step up preventive measures.
Friday's meteor further strengthened the asteroid-alert message.
"We are in a shooting gallery and this is graphic evidence of it," said former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, chairman emeritus of the B612 Foundation, committed to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids.
Schweickart noted that 500,000 to 1 million sizable near-Earth objects -- asteroids or comets -- are out there. Yet less than 1 percent -- fewer than 10,000 -- have been inventoried.
Humanity has to do better, he said. The foundation is working to build and launch an infrared space telescope to find and track threatening asteroids.
If a killer asteroid was, indeed, incoming, a spacecraft could, in theory, be launched to nudge the asteroid out of Earth's way, changing its speed and the point of intersection. A second spacecraft would make a slight alteration in the path of the asteroid and ensure it never intersects with the planet again, Schweickart said.
Asteroid DA14 -- discovered by Spanish astronomers only last February -- is "such a close call" that it is a "celestial torpedo across the bow of spaceship Earth," Schweickart said in a phone interview Thursday.
NASA's deep-space antenna in California's Mojave Desert was ready to collect radar images, but not until eight hours after the closest approach given the United States' poor positioning for the big event.
Scientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object program at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimate that an object of this size makes a close approach like this every 40 years. The likelihood of a strike is every 1,200 years.
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Chris Brown gets back to doing what he does best, and that's putting out quality music. The superstar singer drops off a new song titled "Home." The clip gives us a behind the scenes glimpse of life on the road for Breezy.
Remo The Hitmaker, Oun P, Fred The Godson, Loaded Lux, Charlie Clips & Murder Mook remember Big L on the 14th anniversary of his passing with the song "Live On (Forever)."
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Alicia Keys made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote her latest album, Girl on Fire. The singer performed "Girl on Fire" and "Brand New Me."
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T.Rone, a Jacksonville, Florida singer and rapper Nyemiah Supreme have teamed up to
release "Hello Love (F.U.)" a remix to T.Rone's recently released single "Hello Love," which
has gotten over 500 spins at Urban and Rhythm radio stations across the country. The
track, while short and sweet, tells a story about a man, who is seduced by and marries a
woman who ends up killing him and taking his money "just to be a thousandaire."
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Super produced araabMUZIK delevers his highly anticipated mixtape, For Professional Use Only. The beat maker delivers 20 hard hitting tracks he crafted for Joe Budden, Styles P, Azealia Banks and more.
Tracklist:
01. Araab Muzik - This For The Ones Who Care (5:03)
02. Araab Muzik - The Prince Is Coming (3:55)
03. Araab Muzik - Getting 2 The Point (4:46)
04. Araab Muzik - Never Have To Worry (2:58)
05. Araab Muzik - Hammer Dance (3:05)
06. Araab Muzik - Turn Tha Tide (2:28)
07. Araab Muzik - Runway Bass (2:33)
08. Araab Muzik - I Can Show You (3:13)
09. Araab Muzik - Beauty (4:23)
10. Araab Muzik - Street Knock (3:22)
11. Araab Muzik - G Riding (2:30)
12. Araab Muzik - So Good (3:50)
13. Araab Muzik - AraabStyles (3:06)
14. Araab Muzik - Heaven (3:56)
15. Araab Muzik - Y.N.R.E (2:26)
16. Araab Muzik - SUCCUBI (2:49)
17. Araab Muzik - D.R.U.G.S (3:15)
18. Araab Muzik - World Is Lost (2:37)
19. Araab Muzik - Astro Dust (4:37)
20. Araab Muzik - Words Of A Chameleon (2:44)
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Tyler, The Creator is gearing up for the April 2 release of his third solo album titled Wolf. The Odd Future rapper has released the official music video for the album's lead single "Domo 23."
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Produced By Tara Razavi.
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