Queens legend LL Cool J teams up with Joe for "Take It." The song is off of LL's upcoming thirteenth studio album, Authentic Hip Hop.
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YMCMB/Militia Gang artist Cory Gunz just wrapped up the video shoot for "Foreign." The track will appear on Cory's upcoming mixtape, That’s WTF I’m Talkin’ Bout.
Expect the tape to drop later this month.
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Last night 50 Cent declared all out war on Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the CEO of Mayweather Promotions, Leonard Ellerbe.
As we previously reported, 50 distanced himself from The Money Team on Twitter earlier in the week and announced his own boxing promotions company, SMS Promotions.
Last night the rift between Floyd and 50 grew even wider as the G-Unit boss challenged Floyd to box his fighter Yuriorkis Gamboa and called out Ellerbe.
The 30-year old Cuban born Gamboa is the former WBA and IBF Featherweight champion. He has an impressive professional record of 21-0, with 16 knockouts. He was also a standout fighter as an amateur. He was the four-time Cuban national champion, a 2003 Pan American Games gold medalist, a 2004 Olympic gold medalist, a 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships bronze medalist, a 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalist and a 2006 World Cup champion.
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50 said Floyd has been ducking the big money fight with Manny Pacquiao.
Evidently a lot of fans feel the same way. So far 11,649 people have retweeted what 50 wrote and 2,011 people have added it to their "favorites."
Meanwhile, Floyd has seemingly aligned himself with Rick Ross. He Tweeted that he would be working on music with MMG.
That Tweet drew negative responses from some of his followers.
Floyd also made reference to 50 Cent getting shot.
That comment drew more criticism.
50 later said that Floyd wasn't smart enough to use Twitter and had someone else doing it for him. He also said Floyd spent most of his money tricking on hoes.
Floyd tricking off $50,000 on stippers in Atlanta
50's last Tweet of the night took a shot at Floyd's money problems.
Looks like this might just be getting started.
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Nicki Minaj is currently on her Pink Friday: RELOADED Tour international tour. The Young Money star performed at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England last night.
The Harajuku Barbie also found time to make an an appearance on Britain's Alan Carr: Chatty Man show.
Between sips of Cactus Jack’s Apple Sour Schnapps, Nicki talked about her love for the U.K. fans, signed Alan's chest, spoke about her upcoming Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up album, her new reality show and more.
Check out the rest of Nicki's 2012 international tour dates below.
Nov 2 - UK Manchester @ Manchester Arena
Nov 3 - UK Sheffield @ Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
Nov 5 - Ireland Dublin @ O2 Arena
Nov 7 - UK Cardiff @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
Nov 24 - NZ, Auckland @ Vector Arena
Nov 27 - AUS, Adeliaide @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Nov 30 - AUS, Sydney @ Sydney Entertainment Centre
Dec 3 - AUS, Brisbane @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Dec 5 - AUS Melbourne @ Rod Laver Arena
Dec 8 - AUS Perth @ Perth Arena
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In these tough times white Americans are facing Chris Rock believes they need a white president they can believe in. In this hilarious "Message for White Voters" filmed for Jimmy Kimmel Live, Chris points out all the reasons why Barack Obama is just the man for the job.
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Alicia Keys was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live's show In Brooklyn, New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday.
The 14-time Grammy winner, who is a New York resident talked with Jimmy about her 2-year old son Egypt and the water damage Hurricane Sandy caused to some of her musical equipment.
Alicia also filmed a funny "Helping Parents to Rock" PSA.
Later in the show she performed "Girl on Fire."
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Alicia Keys performs "Girl on Fire"
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As promised Nelly drops off his Scorpio Season mixtape. The project has features from Chris Brown, Murphy Lee, City Spud, Lady G, Yo Gotti, Travis Porter, Bizzy Crook, Trae Tha Truth, B.O.B and more.
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West Coast rapper Nipsey Hussle is a fan favorite. While he's yet to release his debut studio album, his mixtapes have definitely held his fan base down.
Nipsey is about to release the third installment of his Marathon mixtape series on December 21st.
Peep the cover for that up top and the Victory Lap photo shoot with Jorge Peniche below.
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Alicia Keys releases the official music video for the Inferno Version of her single "Girl on Fire" featuring Nicki Minaj.
The song is the title track off of Alicia's upcoming fifth studio album which will be released on November 27th.
Cover story via Billboard
A lot can happen in the span of three years. Just ask Alicia Keys. Since the 2009 release of her last album, "The Element of Freedom," the singer/songwriter/musician/ producer/actress has penciled in a few more hyphens next to her name. In addition to becoming a wife and mother, Keys began co-managing her career, produced her first Broadway play, directed her first short film, executive-produced a made-for-TV movie as well as an upcoming theatrical film, designed her own Reebok shoe line and recently launched an animated storytelling app for children.
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And in the middle of this whirlwind of activity, she found time to write and record a fifth studio album, the aptly titled "Girl on Fire."
"These last three years have been the most in every way," Keys says during a promotional stopover in Dallas. "The most newest, the most difficult, the most loving, the most dream-filled, the most breaking free . . . an entire crazy dynamic of lessons and emotions to grow into and claim. This whirlwind has definitely forced me to be who I am, to be free enough and brave enough to just not accept anything else-nor try to be anything else."
That declaration rings loud and clear throughout "Girl on Fire." Fine-tuning the self-discovery process she initiated with 2007's As I Am, Keys alternately rages and simmers on the Nov. 27 RCA Records release-her first since former label J Records was absorbed under the RCA banner. The singer's trademarks are still in place: impassioned soulful vocals, self-accompanied by distinctive piano fusing classical and gospel runs with R&B/ hip-hop and pop melodies and beats. But this time around, Keys' creative spark is stoked by enterprising collaborations and deeper lyrical honesty.
Opening track "Brand New Me" sets the stage: "It's been awhile, I'm not who I was before/You looked surprised your words don't burn me anymore/Been meaning to tell you, but I guess it's clear to see/Don't be mad it's just a brand new kind of me/Can't be bad I've found a brand new kind of free," sings Keys, whose chic bob is also emblematic of her changing focus.
"That's the most personal song Alicia has done," says RCA CEO Peter Edge, who signed Keys to J. "She has a very emotional way of delivering a song. But on this album she has dug deep, become more confessional and personal versus talking in gen- eralities. It's a very big step in a new direction."
Keys adds, "This is me stepping into my complete woman- hood, my journey to becoming fearless."
She credits her husband, songwriter/producer/DJ Swizz Beatz, and 2-year-old son Egypt for helping her see the world with new eyes and feeling "less contained and much more open." In fact, two months after Egypt was born, Keys began writing a few songs by herself. Then she would bounce ideas off longtime collaborator and friend Kerry "Krucial" Brothers.
"It was a very eased-in process that helped me realize one thing," she recalls. "I just wanted to craft great songs and create emotion with incredible songwriting talents. That was the mandate."
As part of that mandate, Keys sought out people she hadn't worked with before. So joining such returning collaborators as Brothers and John Legend are singer/songwriters Bruno Mars and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, producer Salaam Remi, Pop & Oak (whose production credits include Nicki Minaj and Elle Varner), emerging producer/remix artist Jamie xx and fellow U.K. up-and-coming singer/songwriter Emeli Sande, who co- penned "Brand New Me."
Edmonds says it was a phone call invite from Keys' camp that set things in motion for him to fly to Jamaica to collaborate with the singer/songwriter on the simple, acoustic guitar-laced love song "That's When I Knew." The idea for the song came to him as he watched Keys sing and play in the studio.
"I experienced the full essence of who Alicia is, and a song idea clicked with me right then," says Edmonds, who had met the singer only a couple of times beforehand. "Watching her sing, her emotion . . . that's when I knew who she was and how special she is. I call her 'Sunny Vibrations.' You're never sure of how a collaboration is going to go. But writing with her was so easy. We were on the same page in terms of words and melody. She writes from the heart."
"It was fun to experiment with people I hadn't worked with before," Keys says. "With all the new things I've been experiencing, it felt right to push myself and see where it took me."
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Mixing live and programmed elements, the resulting album is both organic and contemporary, accented by heavy drums with electronic and reggae infusions. Leading the charge is the title track. Co-written and co-produced by Keys, Jeff Bhasker and Remi, the single was recorded as a three-track suite: a main version plus two remixes, Inferno and Bluelight. Keys first performed the Inferno version-featuring Nicki Minaj-at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 6 assisted by Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas. With support from not one but two advertising synchs, "Girl on Fire" debuted at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, Keys' strongest-ever bow as a lead artist. It's No. 4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and No. 5 on Adult R&B.
Keys shifts from fiery inspiration to scorching intimacy on "Fire We Make," a duet with Maxwell capped by a remarkable guitar solo from acclaimed Warner Bros. newcomer Gary Clark Jr. And in addition to "Brand New Me," Capitol/EMI's Sande - who released her own debut album earlier this year-collaborated with Keys on two additional songs: the stripped-down "101" and the can't-buy-me-love ballad "Not Even the King." "It's rare in this business to find someone you connect with so naturally in such an electric, creative capacity," says Sande, 25, who first met Keys when she opened the latter's 10th-anniversary Piano & I concert in London. "The first song we wrote together was '101.' It reminds me of the Alicia I fell in love with when I was 15 years old."
The Keys that early fans fell in love with has come a long way from the Hell's Kitchen native and corn-row-rocking ingenue whom Clive Davis introduced in 2001 as his latest J Records music phenomenon. Spurred by the No. 1 R&B and pop single "Fallin'," Keys scored the first five of her 14 Grammy Awards-including best new artist and song of the year-with multiplatinum debut album Songs in A Minor. Since then she has released three more top-selling al- bums (see box, opposite page) as well as the 2005 set MTV Unplugged.
Along the way, she has logged 14 top 10 singles and eight No. 1s on the Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs chart and nine top 10s and four No. 1s on the Hot 100. Among the chart- toppers in that mix are "You Don't Know My Name," "If I Ain't Got You," "My Boo" (featuring Usher), "Like You'll Never See Me Again," platinum-selling singles "No One" and "Empire State of Mind" (with Jay-Z) and the 2010 hit "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)," which spent 12 weeks atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
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Master P is preparing to drop his new Al Capone mixtape. Here's some behind the scenes footage of the No Limit boss knocking out the music video for "Friends with Benefits" featuring Houston's Kirko Bangz.
P brings out the 2013 Lamborghini and mingles with a bevy of sexy women.
For More Master P, No Limit Forever & NLF Artist:
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Al Capone coming soon.
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Machine Gun Kelly and the EST Boys tour Europe for the first time in the latest episode of Kellyvision II. MGK has some fun cruising the streets with a fake mustache and practicing with his band in preparation for upcoming shows.
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With a strip club full of young ladies doing what they do as the setting, Uncle Murda releases his official music video for "Peel Her Off."
Murda's First 48 mixtape will be dropping soon.
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Here's some nice behind the scenes footage of Rihanna’s Unapologetic album photo shoot. We get to see her in Las Vegas at the shooting range, backstage at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, at the iHeart Radio music festival and more.
Riri's Unapologetic album drops on November 19th.
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Big Boi is gearing up to release his second solo album titled Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors on December 11th. Here's some great on the set pics from his upcoming music video "Mama Told Me," which features Kelly Rowland.
Also check out the cover art for the new album below.
**UPDATE** November 12th
Big Boi has released some official behind the scenes footage for the video. He and Kelly talk about the concept of the video, working with the director Syndrome and more.
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DJ Whoo Kid got wild and crazy on Halloween in Las Vegas with Lexani Rims for a special SEMA party. MGK rocked the crowd with his raging antics while Whoo Kid held it down on the turntables.
Porn celebrity girls Alexis Ford and Nikki Benz were also in attendance.
Just a few days earlier Whoo Kid and SMS Audio rocked a crowd of 7,200 at Aruba's Halloween Ghost Town street party.
For bookings and events for Whoo Kid and Machine Gun Kelly email djwhookidmp3@gmail.com for best quotes ! Follow @djwhookid on Twitter and Instagram LACE UP!!
Check out video and pics from the events below.
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DJ Whoo Kid and Machine Gun Kelly rocking Vanity in Las Vegas
Pic source: Vanity Nightclub Facebook
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1017 Brick Squad artist Young Scooter drops off an in studio music video for "Hector Story." The songs serves as the intro off of DJ Swamp Izzo's mixtape, Voice of the Streets, which drops today on LiveMixtapes.
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Kanye West and the rest of his G.O.O.D. Music family have been tight lipped for the most part about a possible Cruel Winteralbum.
In an interview last month with HipHopSince1987, Q-Tip would only confirm that he would be on the album.
"I can't let out too much details about it, but yeah I'll be on it. Kanye has the plan for all of that," Q-Tip said at the time.
Now director and editor, Austin Christianson, has released a short video trailer for the album that probably raises more questions than it answers.
The 53-second clip shows scenes of trees, an abandoned field and a pond with audio of George H. W. Bush's January 16, 1991 "New World Order" speech playing throughout.
Whats does it all mean? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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