After spending a good portion of the last year and a half working on Slaughterhouse projects, Jump Off Joe Budden is ready to get back on his solo grind.
First up for the New Jersey MC will be his mixtape titled A Loose Quarter, dropping soon. Joe will then concentrate on his first solo album since he released Padded Room and Escape Route in 2009.
His new album is titled No Love Lost and is scheduled to be released later this year.
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ABN/Grand Hustle artist cruises through the streets of Houston in his new music video for "Rollin." The song is off of Trae's new mixtape Tha Blackprint.
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Only DMX could take a simple task on a laptop and turn into a hilarious event. During a recent visit to radio station Power 105.1, the rapper was asked to Google his name. After some convincing he finally gave it a try.
Watch the results below.
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2 Chainz celebrated his 36th birthday in style this past Sunday at Liv Nightclub in Miami. The Atlanta rapper was joined by Lil Wayne onstage and the two performed "Yuck" off of Tity Boi's album Based On A T.R.U. Story.
Peep the performance below and do yourself a favor by grabbing Based On A T.R.U. Story now from iTunes.
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T.I. sat down with Fuse recently to talk about his long awaited album Trouble Man. Tip said that the next single from the album will be a collaboration with Lil Wayne titled "Ball."
He also revealed that he has features lined up with Pink, Cee Lo Green, R. Kelly and Andre 3000.
"One of my proudest moments is when I got to collaborate with [Andre] 3000," Tip said. "The is a record that has been in the works for probably about six years now. We finally got around to doing it, and the record is called 'Sorry.' It's a phenomenal tune and he's phenomenal on it."
Trouble Man will be released on December 18th.
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Kendrick Lamar stopped by the Raheem DeVaughn Show while out in Washington, D.C. recently to promote his upcoming album good kid, m.A.A.d. city.
In addition to chopping it up about the album, Kendrick talked about his recording process in the studio, incorporating a live band into his stage shows, co-signs from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, plus more.
K. Dot also spit a freestyle over the "Stay Schemin" instrumental.
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Miguel recently stopped by Los Angeles radio station Power 106 to perform his hit single "Adorn" on Big Boy's Neighborhood. The song is off of the singer's sophomore album Kaleidoscope Dream.
You can download the track off of the three-song EP Kaleidoscope Dream: The Water Preview on iTunes, which is a prelude to the Kaleidoscope Dreamproject which will be released October 2nd.
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Lupe Fiasco and Australian singer Guy Sebastian came together to perform their hit single "Battle Scars" on The X FactorAustralia.
Following the performance host Luke Jacobz talks to Lupe and Guy about how the song came together and the reception it's been getting worldwide.
You can download "Battle Scars" now from iTunes.
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The G.O.O.D. Music famliy visited The Breakfast Club this morning to promote their Cruel Summer album. Kanye West wasn't on deck, but Big Sean, Pusha T, Teyana Taylor, Common and Cyhi Da Prynceheld it down for the team.
They talked about the delay in the release of the album, the Young Money conflict, Kim Kardashian, possible Rihanna/Teyanna beef, why Kanye doesn't do promo and more.
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When Vince Young entered the NFL out of the University of Texas he was thought to be a can't miss prospect. The quarterback was drafted third overall by the Tennessee Titans and signed a contract guaranteeing him $26 million.
Six years later he is dead broke and out of the NFL.
Where did things go wrong for Young? The fingers are pointing in all different directions.
The first mistake that Young made was becoming the first client of a company, 1 Next Level Sports and Entertainment Inc., formed by Major Adams, a Houston criminal defense attorney, and the quarterback's uncle, Keith Young, a former middle school teacher.
"He was just very young ... and allowing these people to have too much control over his life and his name," Trey Dolezal, Young's attorney told MSNBC.
Young is suing Adams, and a North Carolina financial planner, Ronnie Peoples, alleging that they misappropriated $5.5 million. In some cases, the pair allegedly forged his signature or impersonated him on the phone or in emails, according to the lawsuit, filed in Houston in June.
Adams denies the allegations.
"This is a person scrambling helplessly and pointing in all directions to blame others to get out of debt," said Charles Peckham, Adams' attorney.
Peckham admits that his client twice wrote checks to himself from Young's accounts, but "both times were out of necessity, including once when the agent was required to use personal funds to charter a plane for the quarterback after he missed a team flight."
Besides the $26 million that Young somehow spent, he is also in default on loan of $1.9 million dollars from Pro Player Funding LLC, that he took out during the NFL lockout in 2011.
Young is now attempting to stop Pro Player from enforcing a judgment of nearly $1.7 million. He claims that Adams and Peoples obtained the loan instead of him.
"They conspired to take Vince's money," Dolezal said. "It's that simple."
Young was attempting to make it as a backup quarterback for his third team, the Buffalo Bills this offseason when Pro Player began their attempts to collect the rest of the money they were owed, after Young missed a payment and the loan went into default.
Young blames Pro Player as the reason the Bills cut him.
"I wasn't in the room when they (the Bills) made a decision, but what would you think? It certainly wouldn't help me if I'm the owner or the head coach knowing all this is going on with Vince and then he goes out and plays poorly," Dolezal said.
Bills coach Chan Gailey declined to comment on the story.
Peoples has filed a countersuit in which he castigates Young for allowing his uncle to serve as his business manager despite having no expertise in that field.
Peoples claims in the countersuit that every decision he made was approved by Keith Young. And he calls Vince Young's unwillingness to accept responsibility "a common occurrence ... as (former Titans coach) Jeff Fisher, (Texas coach) Mack Brown, numerous NFL executives, coaches, teammates, scouts, girlfriends and illegitimate children will attest."
Peoples' attorney, David Chaumette, said he has documents to support the strongly-worded filing.
"You'll find there was a lot of money being spent in a bunch of different directions," Chaumette said.
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Future's debut album Pluto did quite well, spawning the hits "Magic," "Tony Montana," "Same Damn Time" and "Turn On the Lights." It's set the Atlanta rapper up nicely for the upcoming release of his mixtape Super Future and album Future Hendrix.
Future sat down with Montreality to talk about those projects, the keys to success, the kind of student he was in school, his first big paycheck, his biggest fear, memorable tour stories, his legacy, what he hopes to leave behind and more.
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The Wu-Block duo of Sheek Louch and Ghostface Killah return with the latest single off of their upcoming album. D-Block spitter Jadakiss lends a hand on this one.
The Wu-Block album hits stores on October 9th via eOne Records. The project contains features from Raekwon, Method Man, Jadakiss, GZA, Styles P and Masta Killah.
Meek Mill drops the latest single "Young & Gettin It" from his upcoming album Dreams & Nightmares. The Philly MC gets an assist from fast rising Houston rapper Kirko Bangz.
You can pre-order Dreams & Nightmares, which drops October 30th from MeekMillDreamTeam.com.
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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in northern Mexico on Monday, setting off a massive search by police and soldiers in an area close to the U.S.border.
Authorities in Coahuila state said the 132 inmates fled the prison in Piedras Negras, a city across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, through a tunnel that was 21 feet long and 4 feet in diameter, then cut their way through a chain link barrier and escaped onto a neighboring property.
Coahuila Attorney General Homero Ramos Gloriasaid the director and two other employees of the state prison have been detained for an investigation into the escape and are being questioned about possible involvement by authorities at the penitentiary. The prison houses about 730 inmates and the escape represented almost a fifth of its population.
The tunnel "was not made today. It had been there for months," Ramos told the Milenio TV station. "The prison was not overcrowded, none of our prisons are. We have 132 inmates escaping through a tunnel, and it doesn't make sense."
Authorities say they also found ropes and electric cables they believe were used in the break.
Federal police units and Mexican troops were deployed to search for the inmates and authorities in Coahuila state offered rewards of up to $15,000 for information leading to the arrests of each prisoner.
Ramos said 70 members of an elite military special forces unit had been sent to search for the prison along with federal police.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was aware of the prison break and officials are in communication with Mexican law enforcement, according to an e-mailed statement.
Ramos said in a press conference that police are investigating a shootout 160 miles south of Piedras Negras after the prison break to determine if any of the four people killed were fugitives.
He said that 86 of the escaped inmates were serving sentences or pending trials for federal crimes, such as drug trafficking, and the rest faced state charges.
Other Mexican states have said in the past that they are not prepared to handle highly dangerous federal prisoners.
It was one of the larger prison breaks to hit Mexico's troubled penitentiary system in recent years.
In December 2010, 153 inmates escaped from a prison in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, right across Laredo, Texas. Authorities charged 41 guards with aiding the inmates in that escape. Mexico's drug gangs frequently try to break their members out of prison.
Coahuila, where Monday's prison break took place, has seen a wave of violence tied to the brutal Zetas cartel's battles with the Sinaloa cartel, allies of the now weakened Gulf Cartel.
Authorities in Coahuila did not say which gang was believed to be behind the escape.
Last week, Gulf cartel leader Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez was arrested, leading experts to anticipate an increase in violence in parts of northern Mexico as the Zetas Cartel attempted to take over turf.
In Piedras Negras, family members had gathered outside the prison to hear word of their loved ones.
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For power couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West money is no object. On West's 35th birthday in June, Kardashian bought him a $750,000 rare Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4.
Kardashian turns 32 on October 21st and word is West is shelling out $1 million to make sure it's a perfect birthday for his reality star girlfriend.
“Kim has been really down about turning 32 and having two failed marriages behind her and no children, so he wants to make this extra-special," a source tells The Sun UK. “Plus it’s her first birthday since they’ve been together as a couple. Kanye has never been shy of splashing out on the women he loves, but this time he’s pulling out all the stops with presents.”
West reportedly has set up a trip to Pine Cay, an 800-acre privately owned island in the Turks and Caicos group (just south of the Bahamas). There the couple will party with a group of friends for a special birthday celebration.
A chef from a five-star hotel will cook for them privately every night.
The Louis Vuitton Don is also spending a grip of money on designer gear for Kardashian, including a "made-to-order special edition Prada bag, lined in a “KK” print, a pink diamond bracelet and a couture Chanel dress."
It seems pretty extravagant, but West has professed his love for Kim in the song "Way Too Cold."
“And I’ll admit, I had fell in love with Kim / Around the time she had fell in love with him / Well that’s cool, baby girl, do your thing / Lucky I ain’t had Jay drop him from the team," Ye rapped.
Kardashian seems to feel the same. She appeared on The View earlier this month where she spoke with Barbara Waltersabout her relationship with West.
"What about marriage? Do you want his child? Where are we?" Walters asked Kardashian.
"Technically I'm still married," Kardashian said of her still-pending divorce from Kris Humphries. "Anything I'd be in now would be a permanent relationship." She added that she "thinks" West is her "perfect match."
"Is this the one that you're in now?" Walters asked. "I hope so," the reality star replied. "I believe so."
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