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The 86th annual Academy Awards were held in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2. It was a big night for the film 12 Years a Slave, which won Best Picture, while actress Lupita Nyong’o took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.

Other notable winners included Matthew McConaughey, who won Best Actor in a Leading Role for Dallas Buyers Club, Jared Leto was awarded Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Dallas Buyers Club and Cate Blanchett took home the award for Best Leading Actress for her role in Blue Jasmine.

Check out the full winner's list below.

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“12 Years a Slave”

ACTOR

Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”

ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”

DIRECTOR

Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Spike Jonze, “Her”

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

“20 Feet from Stardom”

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

“The Great Beauty” (Italy)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

“Frozen”

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”

COSTUME DESIGN

“The Great Gatsby,” Catherine Martin

FILM EDITING

“Gravity,” Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

“Dallas Buyers Club,” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

ORIGINAL SONG

“Let It Go” from “Frozen,” music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

ORIGINAL SCORE

“Gravity,” Steven Price

PRODUCTION DESIGN

“The Great Gatsby,” Catherine Martin (production design) and Beverley Dunn (set decoration)

SOUND EDITING

“Gravity,” Glenn Freemantle

SOUND MIXING

“Gravity,” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

VISUAL EFFECTS

“Gravity,” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk and Neil Corbould

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

“Mr. Hublot”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life”

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM

“Helium”

Highlights From the 2014 Oscars

'12 Years a Slave' Wins Best Picture Oscar

Oscar-winners Share Their Joy

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Lupita Nyong'o dances with Pharrell at the 2014 Oscar Awards

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Pharrell Williams' song "Happy" is No. 1 on the Billboard charts for good reason. The tune automatically brightens your day every time you hear it. Pharrell got the chance to perform it at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday, February 2.

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He even ventured into the audience and danced with Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and last night's Best Actress in a Supporting Role winner Lupita Nyong'o.

Amy Adams feels the need to strut her stuff while Pharrell performs "Happy"

Check out the performance below

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He offers multiple videos on YouTube including his most recent effort "Real Recognize Real" The young Arizona Emcee is preparing to impact the game in a Major way.!!

Dredator, Gilli Conway, Yung Aura and Radiio Rah teams up for this dope Major Without The Label Freestyle Cypher.

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Murder Mook is eyeing a rematch with Loaded Lux. Hopefully that will go down soon. He recently sat down with Doggie Diamonds of Forbez DVD to cover a few subjects.

Mook states that he's undefeated, talks memorable match ups with Jae Millz, Loaded, Party Arty and Iron Soloman, fans talking trash on Twitter, speaks on possibly battling Math Hoffa, says he's the blueprint for everything battle rappers are doing today and more.

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Janelle Monae remakes Robert Palmer's 1988 hit song "Simply Irresistible" for E!'s Live from the Red Carpet 2014 soundtrack.

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The Philadelphia 76ers honored Allen Iverson by retiring his number 3 jersey during a special ceremony on Saturday, March 1.

Iverson a.k.a. The Answer will go down in history as one of the best athletes to ever play in the National Basketball Association. In fourteen seasons he scored 24,368 points, had 5,625 assists, 1,983 steals and 3,394 rebounds.

The 6' 0", 165 lbs guard won the NBA scoring title four times, won the league MVP in 2001, was an eleven time All-Star, a four time NBA scoring leader,  a three time NBA steals champion, a two-time All-Star Game MVP and the 1997 Rookie of the Year.

A.I's jersey retired on Saturday, March 1, 2014

Iverson was gracious during his speech Saturday night at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

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My greatest moment as far as my career was just getting drafted but then you have a day like this. It is a blessing from God that I got my jersey raised and I am proud I didn’t lose it the way I felt like I was. It was a great day and I will remember it for the rest of my life. I didn’t expect it to be this nice. These people rolled out the red carpet for me. If anybody is a basketball player and they saw what happened here tonight, they should get their butt to a gym and work on their game because the way these people did it for me -- they did it all. They showed me how much they respect what I did for this city and this franchise.

Congrats Allen, it was an honor to watch you play

Allen Iverson delivers speech during retirement ceremony

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Former Aftermath emcee Bishop Lamont recently stopped by Sway In the Morning recently to chop it up with host Sway Calloway. You already know that Sway wasn't going to let him leave the studio without spitting a freestyle. Watch as Bishop drops bars off the top of the dome.

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Barkhad Abdi's breakout performance as Muse, a Somali pirate in the hit 2013 film Captain Phillips has earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. However, he's still struggling to make ends meet.

According to MSN, Abdi' was paid $65,000 for his role in the movie, which has earned $217 million worldwide at the box office, yet he still wears borrowed clothes.

Captain Phillips stars Tom Hanks (left) and Barkhad Abdi

The 28-year old, whose family fled war torn Somalia for the United States when he was six, was working as a limo driver when he got word that Sony Pictures was looking for actors to work beside Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips, a movie based on a true story

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Abdi not only landed the role, but was so convincing in his movie debut he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor and hopes to do the same at the 2014 Oscars on Sunday, March 2.

He'll be competing against Bradley Cooper (American Hustle), Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street) and Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club).

Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass (left), Mike Tyson (center) and Barkhad Abdi

If he wins tonight Abdi plans on moving to Los Angeles full time. He's already reading scripts for new films.

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It's family over everything over at Love and Loyalty Records. Company CEO, TY Nitty, gets that point across in his new music video entitled "Team Double L."

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Sheek Louch, Styles P and Jadakiss, together known as The Lox, drop some new heat to assure hip hop fans have something to bang this weekend. Take a listen to their latest track entitled "New York City."

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During an interview with Angie Martinez earlier in the week, Steve Stoute went out of his way to downplay 50 Cent's accomplishments and exclude him from his list of the top 5 most influential people in hip hop.

"I feel like he’s always gearing up for something that never happens," Stoute told Angie.

Never one to bite his tongue, 50 came face to face with Stoute during a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on Friday (February 28).

Judging by their body language in the photos from that night, it appears the G-Unit mogul is making sure Stoute, who appears to be copping pleas, knows how he feels about the comments.

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BEIJING (Associated Press) — More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in southwestern China late Saturday in what authorities called a terrorist attack, and police fatally shot five of the assailants, leaving 28 people dead and 113 injured, state media said.

The attackers, most of them dressed in black, stormed the Kunming Train Station in Yunnan Province and started attacking people in the late evening, witness Yang Haifei, told the official Xinhua News Agency in an interview from a hospital where he was being treated for chest and back wounds.

"I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he told Xinhua, adding that people who were slower ended up severely injured. "They just fell on the ground," Yang said.

Xinhua did not identify who might have been responsible for the attack, but said authorities considered it to be "an organized, premeditated violent terrorist attack."

In an indication of how seriously authorities viewed the attack — one of China's deadliest in recent years — the country's top police official, Politburo member Meng Jianzhu, was on route to Kunming, the Communist Party-run People's Daily reported.

The violence in Kunming came at a sensitive time as political leaders in Beijing prepared for Wednesday's opening of the annual meeting of the nominal legislature where the government of President Xi Jinping will deliver its first one-year work report.

Xi called for "all-out efforts" to bring the culprits to justice.

A Xinhua reporter on the scene in Kunming said several suspects had been "controlled" while police continued their investigation of people at the train station. The reporter said firefighters and emergency medical personnel were at the station and rushing injured people to hospitals for treatment.

The authorities said five suspects were shot dead but that their identities had not yet been confirmed, Xinhua reported. Overall, 28 people were confirmed dead and 113 injured, it said.

State media outlets did not immediately cite a motive for the attack or say what group might be behind it, but they typically use the phrase "terrorist" for attacks blamed on separatists from the far western region of Xinjiang, home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule among parts of the Muslim Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) population.

Most attacks blamed on Uighur separatists take place in Xinjiang, but Saturday's assault took place more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) to the southeast in Yunnan, which has not had a history of such unrest. However, a suicide car attack blamed on Uighur separatists that killed five people at Beijing's Tiananmen Gate last November raised alarms that militants may be aiming to strike at targets throughout the country.

More than 60 victims of Saturday's attack were taken to Kunming No. 1 People's Hospital, where at least a dozen bodies also could be seen, according to Xinhua reporters at the hospital.

At a guard pavilion in front of the train station, three victims were crying. One of them, Yang Ziqing, told Xinhua that they were waiting for a train to Shanghai when a knife-wielding man suddenly came at them.

"My two town-fellows' husbands have been rushed to hospital, but I can't find my husband, and his phone went unanswered," Yang sobbed.

Footage in China's state broadcaster CCTV showed a heavy police presence near the station and plainclothes agents wrapping a long knife in a plastic bag as investigators collected evidence following the attacks.

Pictures on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed bodies covered in blood at the station.

The Security Management Bureau under the Ministry of Public Security called the incident a "severe violent crime" at its official Sina Weibo account.

"No matter what motives the murderers hold, the killing of innocent people is against kindness and justice. The police will crack down the crimes in accordance with the law without any tolerance. May the dead rest in peace," it read.

The Kunming Railway Station, located in the southeastern area of the city, is one of the largest railway stations in southwest China.

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Check out Soulja Boy's new music video for his song "Dirty Diana." Produced by R2D2 Beats. 

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Former NFL star Randy Moss passed his athletic genes down to his daughter, Sydney Moss.

Sydney, a 5-foot-10 sophomore guard at Thomas More College, broke the Division III record for points in a game by scoring 63 on Friday to help her team defeat Waynesburg University by a score of 106-88.

The previous record for points was 61, set by Ann Gilbert of Oberlin College in 1991.

The win put Thomas More into today's title game against Washington & Jefferson in the 2013-14 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Women's Basketball Championship Tournament in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

Thomas More is 27-0 on the season. Check out highlights of Sydney's record setting game below

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Kendrick Lamar and SchoolBoy Q land on the cover of the latest issue of Billboard magazine. It has to feel great for both artists and Top Dawg Entertainment CEO, Anthony Tiffith, to see everything coming together for the label.

Schoolboy's just released Oxymoron will land at the top of the Billboard 200 with sales north of 150,000 and Kendrick's Good Kid, M.A.A.D City disc propelled him into superstardom.

TDE has much more in store with artists Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, SZA and Isaiah Rashad on deck.

During their cover story for Billboard, K. Dot and Schoolboy talk about making it out of the hood. Q also speaks on getting his first gun from his grandmother, overcoming an addiction to Xanax and Percocets, becoming a Crip and more.

Tiffith revealed that Kendrick will release a new album in September 2014, and a Black Hippy disc with Jay, Ab, Schoolboy and K. Dot will probably drop this year as well.

To read the full interview head over to Billboard.

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Jennifer Lopez calls on YMCMB emcee Tyga to assist her on the remix to her new single entitled "Girls." The song was produced by DJ Mustard.

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Chicago emcee Lupe Fiasco keeps the new music. After releasing "Snitches" and "Snitches 2 (30's)" earlier in the week, Lupe drops "DopeBoysAtAllStarWeekend" featuring Gizzle.

Lupe included a message with this latest release: "Play this first then 30's."