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Cooler heads might prevail or maybe not tonight when Nicki Minaj makes an appearance on Funkmaster Flex's Hot 97 show.
It was less than a day ago when Nicki, taking the advice of her Young Money boss Lil Wayne, refused to perform at Summer Jam 2012 because of a diss aimed at her by Peter Rosenberg. Tonight Flex promises all questions will be answered and then some.
This is a must hear event. Flex's show starts at 7 P.M. Eastern time on www.Hot97.com
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Nas brought out a very special guest during his set Sunday at Summer Jam 2012. The Queens MC welcomed Lauryn Hill to the stage for performances of two crowd favorites, "Ready or Not" and "Lost Ones."
Check it out below.
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Producer Nottz drops a new gem featuring Dwele and Pusha T off of his upcoming EP "In My Mind," which will be released on June 6th.
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Summer Jam 2012 featured a who's who of hip hop artists from coast to coast. Big Sean represented Detroit well during his set. He brought out 2 Chainz and Pusha T to perform the G.O.O.D Music hit "Mercy."
Check out the footage below.
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As you have probably all heard by now, Hot 97 and YMCMB are feuding following Nicki Minaj's refusal to perform at Summer Jam 2012 Sunday [June 3rd] after the Harajuku Barbie was dissed by Peter Rosenberg.
It shouldn't be a major surprise that Hot 97's competitors would have something to say to say about the situation and today Power 105.1 responded to it by giving Hot 97 their "Donkey of the Day" award for dissing their headliner.
Peep the audio below as DJ Envy and Angela Yee go in.
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It seemed like the perfect union – a marriage that brought together two of the country’s wealthiest families.
He was the multi-millionaire son of the late financier and tycoon Jimmy Goldsmith, she a scion of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
But now Ben Goldsmith and his music producer wife Kate, who have three children, are to divorce after she embarked on a passionate love affair with an American rap singer named Jay Electronica.
Ben and Kate Goldsmith pictured in December 2010. The couple are set to divorce after she embarked on a passionate love affair with an American rap star
Last night Mr Goldsmith confirmed the split, saying: ‘I’m pretty shell-shocked by everything. All I am thinking about now is my children.’
The marriage ended with a dramatic showdown at the family home in Notting Hill, West London, on Wednesday morning.
Mr Goldsmith, 31, confronted his 30-year-old wife over explicit text messages and emails he found on her smartphone that she had received from and sent to the New Orleans-born hip-hop artist, who now lives in London and is one of her clients.
After initially denying the romance, Mrs Goldsmith confessed to the affair when her husband told her he had read the text messages.
During a heated altercation, Mr Goldsmith slapped his wife and kicked a child’s toy at her.
He then took the children to school. By the time he returned, she had called police and they were at the house to arrest him.
Last night a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed that officers were called to attend a domestic disturbance in the couple’s street at 8am and arrested a man on suspicion of common assault.
The couple's marriage is on the rocks after Mr Goldsmith confronted his wife over explicit messages she had sent to rapper Jay Electronica (pictured)
Mr Goldsmith was released after being given a caution.
Sources say the marriage has become increasingly volatile and turbulent during the past two years, but added that Mr Goldsmith had never hit his wife before.
One friend of old Etonian Mr Goldsmith said yesterday that he was ‘devastated and miserable’ over the collapse of his marriage to Kate, whom he has known since he was 18.
He has moved out of the marital home to stay with friends and has a suitcase of clothes in his offices in the West End.
‘Ben is heartbroken, devastated and thoroughly miserable,’ a friend of the couple said. ‘He suspected Kate was cheating on him because she has been behaving increasingly erratically for some time.
‘She is obsessed with this chap called Jay Electronica who is one of her clients. She is always on the phone to him and out with him until four or five in the morning most nights. Sometimes she even stays with him.
‘Ben was paranoid about their friendship months ago, but when he confronted her about an affair earlier this year she denied it.
‘Then last week he found a series of texts and email messages. They were very intense messages planning sexual liaisons.’
Ben, who has been drowning his troubles at his local pub The Scarsdale in West Kensington, where he has been overheard discussing the affair, has told friends that the marriage is over and that he intends to file for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
Kate inherited an £18 million fortune after her father, banker Amschel Rothschild, hanged himself at the Bristol Hotel in Paris in 1996. It is understood that her affair with Jay Electronica, a father of one whose real name is Timothy Elpadaro Thedford, has been going on for close to a year.
She has been in constant touch with him on Twitter and last month the rapper posted a picture of Kate aboard a helicopter on his site. He also recently tweeted: ‘The handling of the heart is a very delicate art cause its paper thiiiiin.’ [sic]
Electronica, 36, who is signed to Kate’s record label Round Table, was born and raised in the violent crime-ridden Magnolia Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been rapping since 2004 and is known for controversial and explicitly sexual lyrics.
He has a three-year-old daughter with Grammy award-winning singer Erykah Badu. He keeps a relatively low profile in London but works with some of the industry’s biggest talents, including Jay Z and Sean ‘P-Diddy’ Combs. He is also friendly with heiress and socialite Nicky Hilton and regularly tweets Kate’s brother James, who is believed to know about the affair.
Starting out: Ben and Kate at their 2003 wedding in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The rapper is currently in LA following the death of his grandmother Dorothy Flowers, but he is expected to be reunited with Kate shortly.
Sources close to the Goldsmiths say that although the marriage has been on the rocks for some time – the couple had a trial separation earlier this year – they are deeply shocked that Kate has left Ben for a bad-boy rapper.
Mr Goldsmith tried to save the marriage but has now told friends ‘there is no going back’.
A family friend told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Ben has said that Kate has confessed everything to him. He has said this is definitely it and the marriage is over. He will be filing for divorce on the grounds of adultery. He has moved out and is staying with friends.’
The split has been another blow to the wider Goldsmith family, who are still reeling from the divorce of Ben’s older brother, Tory politician Zac. His ten-year marriage to Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley collapsed in 2009 after he embarked on an affair with Kate’s younger sister Alice Rothschild.
In a bizarre twist to the family saga, Zac and Alice now live together in a house on the Goldsmiths’ family estate in Richmond, South-West London, and plan to marry as soon as Zac’s divorce is finalised.
Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Ben’s mother, is said to be devastated about his marital breakdown and spent last week looking after her grandchildren.
Meanwhile, Kate’s family are reported to be ‘worried sick’ about her new relationship. ‘Her mother and all her family are very concerned that Kate is going off the rails,’ says a friend.
‘Kate and Alice are talking but most of the family are not on speaking terms with her at the moment. The whole situation is very sad.
‘Ben and Kate have a wonderful family, a lovely house and everything they could have wanted. The problem is, Kate is hanging out with Jay all the time and she has become a different person. There have been some very explosive rows.
‘She’s out nearly every night until the early hours and has become obsessed with this rapper.
‘Her explanation to her husband has always been that it’s work and that’s why she and this guy have been spending so much time together.’
The source added that Ben had been worried about Electronica since January, but Kate assured him the relationship was a working one and nothing more.
‘They had a trial separation earlier this year. They both went off and did their own things. I think Ben saw a couple of girls, but there was nothing serious. Kate convinced Ben to give it another go, which he did.
‘He was furious when he found out that Kate had been cheating on him with Electronica. He is totally heartbroken.’
The marriage took a knock two years ago when Kate became close to a friend of Ben’s, but the couple agreed to try to make things work.
Last summer they were reported to have suffered another rocky patch over Kate’s busy work schedule. Mr Goldsmith put the family home on the market in April.
The couple claimed they needed to downsize, but the truth was that the problems in their relationship were becoming more evident.
Now the couple will have to thrash out a complicated and legally fraught divorce settlement. Zac’s divorce to Sheherazade is still not settled because of the financial structure of the Goldsmith dynasty.
Sir Jimmy left his family a £1.2 billion fortune, but much of the capital is tied up in trusts run by trust managers. The brothers’ fortunes, and that of their sister Jemima, is mostly from inheritance income, not capital.
Meanwhile Kate, who went to Bryanstone School in Dorset, is determined to continue working with Electronica and her record label and management company.
Ben and Kate started dating in 2000 when they were regulars in the social pages of Tatler magazine, where Ben was frequently voted most eligible bachelor – topping even Prince William at the time.
In 2003 the couple celebrated their engagement at Annabel’s in Mayfair, the club named after Ben’s mother, and were married that September. Ben was 23 and Kate 21.
They followed a family tradition of marrying young. Ben’s father eloped with his first wife, Bolivian tin heiress Isabel Patino, when he was 21, and Ben’s older sister Jemima surprised society when she married Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan at the same age.
Kate’s father was 25 when he married her mother, heiress Anita Guinness, who was 23.
The Rothschild and Goldsmith families, blood relations who can trace their heritage to the Jewish ghettos of 18th Century Frankfurt, are powerful and influential in the worlds of finance and politics.
Sir Jimmy amassed his £1.2 billion fortune through pharmaceutical and banking interests.
Through his marriage to Lady Annabel, a close friend of the Prince of Wales, he was also a high-profile society figure.
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West Coast rapper YG hits up the strip club and watches the ladies "Pop It" in this brand new video. There's plenty of pole riding, p-popping and a$$ shaking so you might want to make sure your boss isn't looking over your shoulder if you're watching this clip at work.
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@Rideordietv caught up with Prodigy at his spot scene for his video "Pretty Thug" off his upcoming HNIC 3 dropping July 3rd. Prodigy speaks about his eagerness to work with TI. Prodigy also confirms that there will be another Mobb Deep album.
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The war between New York radio station Hot 97 and Nicki Minaj just got turned up a notch. As we previously reported, Nicki pulled out of last night's Summer Jam concert after Peter Rosenberg criticized her song "Starships" as not being hip hop.
Funkmaster Flex defended Peter last night by taking to the turntables to say the station would no longer support Nicki.
"We aint f*cking with commercial rappers no more," he told the audience of 50,000 plus in New Jersey. "If you lost the f*cking streets it's your fault! If you don't go gold it's your fault! I'm dedicated to tearing you down. F*ck with me! We're gonna show you mama. You think you didn't sell any records this time?"
Meanwhile Rosenberg tweeted this morning that he doesn't regret what he said.
Check out what Funk Flex had to say below.
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Mac Miller releases a cover of 2Pac's classic courtesy of DJ Semtex.
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Sanford, Florida (CNN) -- George Zimmerman returned to central Florida late Saturday and will surrender to authorities before a Sunday afternoon deadline, his attorneys said.
A judge revoked Zimmerman's bond Friday, saying he misled the court about his finances.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, is accused of shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martinin a gated community in Sanford in February. Zimmerman argues he acted in self-defense.
"While out on bond, Mr. Zimmerman has been living in a secure, undisclosed location as there are significant threats against his life," his attorneys said Sunday on the official website for his defense.
"The defense team has coordinated with the Sanford Police Department to ensure Mr. Zimmerman's security when he turns himself in before today's 2:30 p.m. deadline," the website posting said.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the case that sparked anger across the country.
Martin's family contends that Zimmerman racially profiled the 17-year-old who was walking home from a convenience store. Martin was black; Zimmerman his white Hispanic. His family has said Zimmerman did not act out of racial bias.
Seminole County Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. ordered Zimmerman back to jail, saying the 28-year-old was not truthful about how much money he had access to when he was freed on bond in April.
Lester's ruling on Friday followed allegations by prosecutors that Zimmerman had $135,000. At the time, his wife told the court under oath that the family was indigent.
Zimmerman's attorneys said they will request a new bond hearing to address the issue. "The defense team hopes that Mr. Zimmerman's voluntary surrender to Sanford police will help demonstrate to the court that he is not a flight risk. Furthermore, the vast majority of the funds in question are in an independently managed trust" which Zimmerman and his attorneys cannot access directly, the statement on his defense website said.
Zimmerman's trial is not "anticipated" to be ready until some time in 2013, the statement said, and the next bond hearing will determine whether he waits "those many months in jail or not."
Zimmerman was charged in April after the case was referred to a state attorney for a review.
The money in question appears to have been donated to Zimmerman through a website he set up to help with a legal defense fund.
Citing recorded jailhouse conversations between Zimmerman and his wife, prosecutors alleged the two spoke in code when discussing the money in a credit union account, according to a court documents filed Friday by State Attorney Angela B. Corey.
In light of that, Lester revoked Zimmerman's bond and ordered he turn himself in no later than Sunday afternoon.
Zimmerman "fully controlled and participated in the transfer of money from the PayPal account to defendant and his wife's credit union accounts," Corey said in court records. "This occurred prior to the time defendant was arguing to the court that he was indigent and his wife had no money."
Mark O'Mara, Zimmerman's attorney, said in April that the money raised by the website was put into a trust account that the attorney controls.
But in court documents, Corey said the money still belongs to the defendant.
The judge "relied on false representations and statements" by Zimmerman and his wife when the court set his bond at $150,000, Corey said. Zimmerman was required to post only 10% of that.
Corey argued that the court should revoke the bond or increase it.
Lester appeared angry that the court had not been told about the money.
"Does your client get to sit there like a potted palm and let you lead me down the primrose path?" he asked Zimmerman's lawyer. "That's the issue."
O'Mara said he had discussed the judge's decision with Zimmerman, who was not in court.
"He's frustrated because he now has to come out of hiding," O'Mara said in an interview with CNN.
"You need to realize we're still talking about a 28-year-old who's being charged with a crime he does not believe he committed, and his whole life has been turned upside down, so I think that it all needs to be kept in context."
Source: CNN
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Drake and Waka Flocka Flame had a special surprise in store for the packed house in Chicago during Drake's "Club Paradise" tour stop. The duo brought out Chief Keef to perform his hit record "I Don't Like."
Shot by @AcePRodriguez
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REDMAN JAM SESSION "SAWD OFF SHOT GUN" shot in KILLA CALI .BattleCat , Joseph, WeasalLoc, Deon, Genasis, Caffeine, Dennis, Craig, Jay the KeyBoardist, Jay the Bass player, R.I.P Quan
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Trae Tha Truth releases the official visuals for his all-star remix to "I'm On." The A.B.N. Renegade recruited Mark Morrison, Gudda Gudda, Big K.R.I.T.,Bun B, B.o.B., Jadakiss, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Tyga for this certified heater.
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Nelly Furtado and Nas team up for "Something" off of Nelly's upcoming album The Spirit Indestructible, due out September 18th.
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Bad Boy recording artist Machine Gun Kelly returns with a new video for "Invincible." The Ester Dean assisted track will be featured on MGK's upcoming album Lace Up, which will be released later this year.
Check out the visuals below.
No tags version of a track that will appear on Childish Gambino's upcoming mixtape
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Brick Squad's Frenchie 1017 collabs with his MDE artists Joffy, ZoeBalla and Deezy on a song entitled "No Jokes." The last verse features Young Image who is no longer with us. R.I.P.
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