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Looks like Brisco is living up to his "Opa-Locka Goon" nickname.

NBC Miami is reporting that police there are looking for the rapper, real name British Alexander Mitchell, after they say he knocked an 18-year old man unconscious causing severe injuries last week following an altercation.

After the fight Brisco reportedly fled the scene in his white Range Rover.

This isn't Brisco's first time making the news for something other than his music. In 2009 while at a Miami barbershop he was robbed of cash, jewelry and his Range Rover.

Once arrested Brisco will be charged with aggravated battery.

NEW YORK — Jay-Z and Kanye West's forthcoming album may be called Watch the Throne, but soon enough fans will be listening, not just looking, and it will have been worth the wait. On Thursday night, MTV News was among the shortlist of media outlets invited to get an early listen to power duo's collaborative project.

The listening session was held in the Mercer Hotel, where the New York Post previously reported that parts of the album were recorded. Though it was originally set to begin at 8 p.m., Jay-Z walked into the hotel lobby closer to 9 (word is he was at a Yankees game hoping to see Derek Jeter get his 3,000th hit). The group of journalists followed the rapper up to a suite that had been transformed into a recording studio. Seated in the rear of the room, wearing a Yankees snap-back hat and crisp, white shell-toe Adidas, Hova balanced a MacBook Pro in his lap. After asking those in attendance to introduce themselves, he got right into playing selections from the album, loudly.

Standout tracks included a pair of songs that feature Odd Future crooner Frank Ocean. Jay-Z relayed that he reached out to Ocean after hearing his Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape and wanted him to contribute to his next solo album. After their initial work went well — Ocean appears on one of two songs Jay-Z revealed he has recorded for the solo LP — Hova invited the crooner to get down on Watch the Throne too. The only other guest on the album is Beyoncé, who appears on the resounding "Lift Off," which sounds like it was tailor-made to be performed in large stadiums.

On another particularly interesting song, Jay-Z and Kanye deliver verses directed to their hypothetical unborn sons. (Note: Jay-Z's press representative asked that lyrics from songs not be quoted.) The Brooklyn MC recalled that Yeezy first recited his verse to him at New York's Museum of Modern Art. "I told him I wasn't going to get on it," Jay-Z told MTV News of the song, adding that he thought Kanye's verse, running down his myriad past mistakes, is one of his best ever. "The honesty of it, it's just really cool."

Throughout the album, Yeezy holds his own when rapping alongside Jay-Z, a lyricist of the highest caliber. Other standout tracks that feature the duo trading rap bars include a song whose beat features a chopped up Otis Redding vocal sample that many requested be played again. Another song called "Living So Italian" also got a favorable response from the room.

Jay-Z played over a dozen songs and said that he hoped to finalize the track list by this weekend. He also admitted that the album is actually on its third itineration. Initially, he and Kanye were looking to make a grandiose project with elaborate songs, but they felt that doing so would take away from its enjoyment, so they chose to pare it down sonically.

"It's just so big and so much, you don't want that sh-- screaming in your house," Jay-Z said, referring to their early single, "H.A.M." "If we don't make records that we like and represent the culture, we would be over."

The room didn't start thinning out until near midnight, and as the session winded down, Jay-Z started playing additional tracks, including a song whose lyrics seems to hint that it was produced by No ID. Nodding his head along to the knocking grooves, he also played a song that features Swizz Beatz that he said probably won't make the final cut.

While pre-order receipts of Watch the Throne indicate that it will be shipped on "2011-08-02," Jay-Z and his representatives did not provide a solid release date for the highly anticipated album beyond saying fans would hear it "soon." Keep watching.

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While most Americans celebrated 4th of July by shooting a few fireworks into the sky, Dallas police were dealing with an out of control mob of people shooting fireworks at them and a photojournalist.

This went down Tuesday morning (July 5). News 8 photographer Robert Flagg was the 1st on the scene at Creekside Villa apartments in Southeast Dallas. He says that at 1st the crowd was only shooting at each other until they saw him and started aiming his way.

"Once I got there, I noticed it was just basically a war zone going on," Flagg said. "The missiles — or whatever they were — they were hitting, they were bouncing off my chest and off my camera. One hit me in the back, and it burned my neck and it burned my shirt."

Once police arrived on the scene they quickly realized they were outnumbered and had to call for additional back up.

"Those officers that arrived were being shot at by fireworks," said Dallas police spokesman Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse. "In fact, one officer who was actually hit by a bottle rocket in the arm. Once enough officers got there, the crowd dispersed. That's considered aggravated assault, and it will be filed as that and will be investigated to its fullest, and hopefully we can find out who actually did it."

Apartment residents said this is what happens in the hood.

"It's every day; it's every day," said one tenant. "This is the hood. That's how it go down every day."

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Immortal Technique has been grinding hard for eleven years in the rap game. The 33-year old is also a political activist who has gained a cult following during that time span.

He was recently interviewed by Doggie Diamonds and said he was cool with fans downloading his music for free. He rationalized that it was only right due to record companies short changing artists for years.

"Get on the internet and just steal my music off of it, because I really don't care about that," he said. "I've had some arguments with executives about that. And I think that they have a lot of audacity -- accusing kids of robbing music when they've been robbing artists for years. Even now it's come up that they were taking royalties under the guise of of licensing of past catalogs. It's just an embarrassment for them to be using the word 'steal' when realistically speaking, they're the biggest thieves and gangsters in this entire business," he continued. "They make everybody that rhymes aboutv doing gangster sh*t look pathetic with in terms of the amount of money they've stolen and the amount of culture that they have robbed from our people."

Peep the rest of the interview where Immortal talks about the American's government's connection to Osama bin Laden and much more.

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This is the second single from Ace Hood's upcoming cd 'Blood, Sweat & Tears' which drops August 9.

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Didn't take long for Casey Anthony spoofs to start popping up.

Check this one out by Blake S. Campbell using Fabolous's "You Be Killin Em" instrumental.

While it seems like everyone has gotten caught up in the planking craze, there's one person you will never catch doing it.

West Coast rapper Xzibit's dislike for the new trend comes from his belief that planking was originally used as a way to stack more slaves on ships as they were transported from Africa to the U.S..

"Planking is THE dumbest sh*t ever," X wrote on twitter yesterday. "Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade. It's not funny. Educate yourselves."

What do you think of Xzibit's comments?

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Wide receiver Roy Williams of the Dallas Cowboys is learning the hard way that money can't buy you love.

Williams mailed a pre-recorded marriage proposal along with a $76,000 engagement ring to Brooke Daniels, a former Miss Texas, right before Valentine's Day of this year. Daniels said "thanks" for the ring, but that marriage thing isn't going to happen.

Williams, who reportedly also mailed $5,000 for dental work and a baseball for Daniels' brother, is now suing to get the ring back.

It's unclear why Williams mailed the engagement ring instead of proposing in person, but an affidavit filed in Ector County, Texas also lists Michael Daniels, Brooke's father as a defendant.

Daniels said he would return the ring to Williams.

"He said (to Brooke Daniels), 'I'm not like a lot of people, I don't want the ring back. You'll eventually come back to me,' and she didn't," Michael Daniels told the Odessa American. “I want to wash my hands of it. It’s just a hassle. I’ll take care of my daughter. I don’t need him.”

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New video from Sade for "Love Is Found," which appears on her greatest hits album 'The Ultimate Collection.'

James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond was hit with 13 felony charges yesterday (July 6) for his role in running a cocaine ring that prosecutors says raked in $10 million annually.

The indictment charges Rosemond with occupying a “supervisory and management position” in a continuing criminal enterprise that trafficked cocaine from January 2007 until Rosemond was caught after being on the run for a month. In addition to cocaine distribution and possession, the head of Czar Management is facing conspiracy, money laundering, and obstruction of justice counts.

The government is also looking to seize millions in property owned by Rosemond.

Allhiphop reports that IRS plans to seize Rosemond's $1 million dollar condominium on the Hudson River in Manhattan, as well as a luxury condo in Belltell Lofts in Brooklyn worth $2.6 million.

The Smoking Gun reports that the 21-page indictment does not mention Tupac Shakur's 1994 shooting.

Last month an inmate by the name of Dexter Isaacs admitted his role in the shooting. Saying he was paid by Rosemond to shoot the rap star at a recording studio in Manhattan.

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Raekwon and Nas linked up in Oslo, Norway for the latest video off of Rae's latest album 'Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang.'

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Yelawolf has had enough of twitter and is walking away from the social networking site following the leak of one of his songs.

"Gangster Of Love" hit the internet over the 4th of July holiday weekend. An obviously upset Yelawolf went off on a particular blog site then said goodbye to twitter.

He later called into DJ Green Lantern's Invasion Radio to talk about what happened and why he's leaving twitter alone.

“I don't have Twitter drama anymore, I relieved myself of it. I'm done with it. It's over for me. It'll be run by management from now on,” he said. "I find myself too personal with it and I just can't help it. It's my personality. It's one thing to get a leak. It's another thing it's another thing when the person who leaks it can sit there and cuss you out about it."

Yela also clarified that the leaked record will not appear on his Shady Records debut 'Radioactive' which hits stores September 27.

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With his deal with Tech N9ne's Strange Music in place, Jay Rock is ready to release his debut album 'Follow Me Home' July 29.

Here's some new visuals from the Watts native.

Eminem continues his hot streak as he becomes the first artist artist ever to sell one million digital copies of an album in the U.S.

Just weeks after Bad Meets Evil's 'Hell : The Sequel' made it's debut at number 1, Slim's 'Recovery' album passes the digital platinum mark. The album was also the best selling album of 2010 and won a Grammy for Best Rap Album.

“Recovery selling one million digital albums is an incredible achievement by an incredible artist,” said Interscope Records’ Vice Chairman Steve Berman. “I have had the pleasure of working with Eminem throughout the course of his career, and I’m delighted to be a part of yet another milestone on his amazing journey.”

Eminem's longtime manager Paul Rosenberg was just as pleased.

"We are thrilled to congratulate Eminem on the history-making digital sales success of Recovery," he said. "Over the years we've made a concerted effort to engage Em's online fan base so this achievement is especially rewarding. Eminem made an amazing album with Recovery and the fans responded in record numbers."

Gucci Mane wasted no time getting back into the swing of things following his release from Fulton County jail yesterday.

AllHipHop reports Gucci partied last night at Club Onyx, an Atlanta strip joint. The 1017 Brick Squad CEO also dropped a new mixtape “Writings on the Wall 2.”

Gucci had been locked up since April  following numerous probation violations stemming from a 2005 aggravated assault case. Most recently Gucci was accused of pushing a woman out of his moving car after she refused to have sex for money with him. His attorney Ashutosh Joshi told MTV yesterday that his client's probation from that 2005 case would be completed once he was released.