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Future is busy in the studio working on his next album, Future Hendrix. The first single is "Karate Chop." The Atlanta rapper teams up with Lil Wayne to remix the song.

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It's incredible to think that after releasing 12 solo albums and many classic records, Nas has never won a Grammy. That could change tomorrow night. He's nominated for four Grammys at the 55th annual awards show.

The song "Daughters" off of Nas' Life Is Good album is nominated for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.

The rapper told MTV that he's just happy his 17-year old daughter Destiny still sees him as being a cool dude.

"I think she's more happy for just the fact that her dad's not corny," he said. 'Cause, you know, her dad could be ... [it's] your parents! So I'm just lucky that we cool, that she still thinks I'm cool."

HipHollywood also caught up with Nasir at his pre-Grammy concert.

"I'm just happy to be in this game. I feel like there's a lot of people out there that deserve to be acknowledged, not just me," the rapper said.

The Grammys air tomorrow night at 8PM EST.

Nas Hosts Pre-Grammy Nomination Celebration

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Kate Upton will give Sports Illustrated readers an encore as she lands on the cover of the magazine's swimsuit issue for the second year in a row.

The 20-year old beauty from Michigan has been all over the place in the last year. She landed a feature in U.S. Vogue and the November 2012 cover of Vogue Italia, Kate was also ranked the 5th sexiest model on MODELS.com's "Top Sexiest Models" of 2012 list and No. 3 on AskMen's Top 99 Women for 2013 list.

Kate joins an elite list of models who've commanded the cover multiple years in a row: Christie Brinkley went back-to-back-to-back in 1979, 1980 and 1981; Elle MacPherson did the same between 1986 and 1988; Paulina Porizkova posed in 1984 and 1985 and Tyra Banks starred in 1996 and 1997.

TMZ was the first website to capture photos from the shoot. They posted pics back in December, although they didn't know at the time Kate was shooting the S.I. cover.

"We can finally talk about Antarctica," Kate tweeted when the news broke on Friday. "Took us 2 months to thaw out"

The issue hits newsstands February 12.

Check out a few hot videos starring Kate below.

Kate Upton: Swimsuit Superstar!

Kate doing the "Cat Daddy" dance

Kate Upton - GQ - The Many Talents of Kate Upton

Kate Upton GQ Behind the Scenes -- The Reason HD Video Was Invented

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A$AP Rocky has been dropping freestyles on every radio show recently. During his stop in Paris, France recently the Harlem rapper spit a freestyle over his own "F*ckin Problems" instrumental for Generations radio.

 

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Big Sean will be releasing his Hall of Fame album soon. Rap-Up TV caught up with the Detroit rapper recently to talk about the album, his two Grammy nominations and more.

Sean said the new single will be released this month. Miguel, Jhene Aiko, Kid Cudi, Nas and Common are featured on the album. The G.O.O.D. Music rapper is hoping to get Eminem on the record.

"We gotta make that happen," Sean said of getting in the studio with Eminem. "That might be the last thing I do. I wanted to make sure me album was completely done before I went and played it for him. You know, if he wants me to play it for him. I know a while ago he reached out."

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Tyler, The Creator and the rest of the OFWGKTA homies Jasper Dolphin, Taco Bennett, and Lionel Boyce are back and ready to bring the ruckus in the second season of their sketch comedy series. Loiter Squad.

Season 2 kicks off on Adult Swim Sunday, March 10th at Midnight ET/PT. Check out the trailer below.

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Mary J. Blige was hit with a lawsuit Thursday alleging she had defaulted on a $500,000 loan from Bank of America.

Reuters reports that the bank filed the lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court. They say the singer took out the loan in 2005 and stopped making re-payments in June 2012. B of A is looking to recoup $511,324 in principal and interest on the loan they claim the singer owes.

This is the second lawsuit in the last several months filed against the 9-time Grammy Award winner. In November 2012 Signature Bank took legal action over an alleged default on a $2.2 million bank loan by the singer and her husband.

HipHollywood caught up with Mary on the red carpet of Vibe's inaugural Impact Awards show held on Friday at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles, to talk to her about the recent stories that have hit the press about her.

"There's really nothing you can say about the negative things that are in the media about you," Mary said. "All you can do is keep pushing, keep your head up and just let people be people. [Let] haters hate and just do what you do. Use all of that to fuel you to do something better."

The news isn't all bad for Mary, who has sold 50 million albums worldwide during her career. On Friday Vibe honored her with their first Impact Award.

"It feels great to be honored with the Impact Award tonight. Because I believe I've made an impact on so many people's lives. It feels good," she said.

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Krondon of Strong Arm Steady releases his free album Everything's Nothing to get his 2013 campaign started. The veteran West Coast emcee gets some nice production from Rich Kidd, D.R.U.G.S., DJ Khalil, Cardo, 321, DJ Dahl and more.

Download the album for free from http://strongarmsteady.net/en/

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Future continues to promote his latest album Pluto 3D by releasing new visuals for "Homicide" featuring Snoop Dogg a.k.a. Snoop Lion. This live clip was shot during Future's show at the Key Club in L.A. back in November.

Pluto 3D is available now on iTunes.

Troy Ave is back with another one of his Keymixes. This time Harry Powder takes on Young Scooter's new single "Colombia." Troy said he will begin to package the Keymixes together and release them 4 at a time instead of every other week.

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Kanye West has been catching some heat recently for his style of dress. Lord Jamar specifically called the G.O.O.D. Music CEO out for wearing skirts.

Vlad TV recently caught up with Lil Mama and Lil Kim's new artist Tiffany Foxx to get a woman's perspective on the situation.

"Fashion is changing all the time. So, you know I don't judge nobody for it and I love Kanye," Foxx said. "He's probably the only one that could do it. Him and Andre 3000. Everybody else I'mma have to be like side eye. It's cool, I like it."

Tiffany and Lil Mama go on to talk about what other females are popping in the industry and Tiffany explains how she linked up with Lil Kim

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Shady Records is fully reloaded and ready to impact the music scene in a big way in 2013. In addition to 50 Cent's upcoming Street King Immortal album, the label will release a new CD from Yelawolf.

According to Billboard, Catfish Billy has already started recording the new project in Nashville.

Joe Budden just released his No Love Lost solo album via E1 Records. After Joell Ortiz, Royce Da 5'9 and Crooked I drop their next solo discs, Slaughterhouse will begin work on their follow up to 2012's welcome to: Our House.

And then there's the captain of the ship, Eminem. Shady Records president Paul Rosenberg tells Billboard that Slim will deliver his highly anticipated eighth solo album sometime after Memorial Day.

 "We fully expect to be releasing a new Eminem album in 2013. He’s been working on it for some time," Rosenberg said. "It’s safe to say that it will be post-Memorial Day at some point, but we’re not exactly sure when. We’ve got some dates locked in for him to perform live in Europe in August, so we’re trying to see what else lines up."

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Earlier today 50 Cent celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the release of his classic album Get Rich or Die Tryin' by releasing a new track titled "Financial Freedom." Judging by the response from Twitter users, the G-Unit CEO has dropped another heater.

The song is currently trending worldwide.

Check out a sample of reactions from Twitter below.

POW!

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Newcomer Elevator Jay drops off his new single "Give It To Em." Check out what this rapper from Charlotte has to say.

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Waka Flocka Flame made another appearance on The Breakfast Club this morning. He said he's really reasy to turn things up this year. He just dropped his Duflocka Rant 2 mixtape and has finished his next album, Flockaveli 2.

Waka talked about rappers biting his style, Slick Pulla, Kobe Bryant, Chris Brown, Uncle Luke's letter to Rick Ross, Beyonce's Super Bowl performance, not needing an education to rap, acting and more.

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Toni Braxton has had an amazing career. She has recorded seven solo albums and sold over million records worldwide. The singer has won 6 Grammy Awards, 5 American Music Awards, and 9 Billboard Music Awards. She says she's had enough of music though.

In a recent appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, Toni explained why she made the decision to stop recording.

"I'm falling out of love with it, it's weird," Toni said. "I don't know what to say when I hear songs. They don't impact me. I've been trying to listen to songs. Record companies have been calling me, so it's a good situation to be in, but I'm not really interested at all."

Toni said she will tour sporadically, but has to careful with that because she has Lupas. You can catch Toni in an upcoming Lifetime movie, Twist of Faith. It airs February 9 at 8PM on Lifetime TV

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