There are rumors floating around that Ma$e is thinking about making another comeback into the rap game after he recently recorded a couple of records with French Montana. Could his current tax problems have anything to do with the rumors?
TMZ is reporting that the former Bad Boy Records artist owes the IRS 124,774.85 in back taxes. It seems Ma$e or his accountant failed to to pay for the years 2000, 2001 and 2004.
Ma$e's reps didn't respond to a call from TMZ.
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Lil Kim is gearing up to hit the road for an 11-city run. Kim's 'Return of the Queen' tour kicks off in Austin, Texas on May 11, and makes it's way through the Bronx, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and San Francisco before winding down in West Hollywood on June 13.
Peep the dates below.
May 11 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
May 13 – Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall
May 18 – Bronx, NY – Paradise Theater
May 19 – Albany, NY – Northern Lights
May 20 – Philadelphia, PA – Club ONYX
May 22 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
May 25 – Markham, IL – Adrianna’s Night Club
May 27 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theatre
June 1 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
June 11 – San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine
June 13 – West Hollywood, CA – Key Club
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A$AP Rocky performs his first single "Goldie" and brings out Master P and his No Limit family for "Make Em Say Uhh!" and "I Miss My Homies" (dedicated to Trayvon Martin) live at Coachella on April 21, 2012.
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DJ Whoo Kid catches up with T.I. and chops it up about a variety of topics.
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Bobby Ray is getting ready to drop his sophomore album Strange Clouds on May 1. Check out a preview of the album above.
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Check out the visuals for Slaughterhouse's lead single off of their upcoming album welcome to: Our House.
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ATLANTA -- Jon Jones might not yet have the household name he aspires for, and the comparisons to such transcendent figures as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods may be premature.
But if he continues to turn in performances as clinical as Saturday's lopsided unanimous-decision victory over Rashad Evans at UFC 145, it won't be long before Jones' ambitions of crossover superstardom become manifest.
Jones delivered a dominating showing against Evans -- his estranged friend and former training partner -- before a sellout crowd of 15,545 at Philips Arena. The cageside judges gave Jones all but two of a possible 15 rounds. Two judges scored it 49-46, while the other scored it a 50-45 shutout. (SI.com had it 49-46.)
Yes, Jones was extended the distance for the first time in three years and failed to deliver the crowd-pleasing denouement the fans have come to expect, but the fight was mostly one-sided. In fact, it's hard to imagine a competitive opponent for Jones unless Anderson Silva moves up to 205 pounds.
"He's so frustrating and long and he's very creative," said a downcast Evans, who fell to 12-2-1 in UFC fights (and 22-2-1 overall). "He was able to keep me from doing what I really wanted to do, and that's what he needed to do to get the win."
The cathartic victory closed the book on a soap opera-worthy saga that began in 2010, when Jones first joined Evans' training camp in Albuquerque, N.M., despite the inconvenient fact both men had designs on the same light heavyweight title. A vow never to fight one another was broken -- by whom it no longer matters -- and a brotherhood forged over more than a year of training together was shattered.
"Definitely my most satisfying victory," said Jones, who made his third defense of the UFC light heavyweight title since becoming the youngest belt holder in the organization's history in March 2011. The Rochester, N.Y., native has now beaten four current or former world champions in a row since a third-round TKO of Mauricio Rua to capture the UFC's 205-pound strap.
Jones, who emerged from the tunnel without the "playoff beard" he'd been growing since the first day of training camp, measured distance brilliantly with his 84-and-a-half-inch wingspan -- the longest in UFC history -- and showed every bit of the elusiveness that's vaulted him from promising prospect to the consensus pound-for-pound top three in just three years.
Evans landed some modest strikes in the opening round, but was largely unable to negotiate inside Jones' freakish reach. Neither fighter did much to press the action, though Evans stirred the crowd when a heavy right kick smacked off Jones' cheekbone. "He rocked me." Jones said. "I wouldn't say that I was hurt, but I was definitely wobbled."
A fierce Jones uppercut whistled a deadly lyric to open the second round, but missed its target. Jones began to stalk Evans, delivering a right hand followed by a vicious lead elbow that staggered the challenger. By the time Jones connected with a hard one-two combination to end the round, the champion was firing short elbows like punches and inflicting visible damage on Evans' face.
An overhead right from Evans connected early in the third round, but Jones responded with a hard left kick off the ribcage. When a flying left knee caused Evans to drop his guard, Jones couldn't exploit it. "He had those sneaky elbows that kept getting in," Evans later remarked. "I played the wrong game for that."
Jones briefly mixed up his attack in the fourth, but the action slowed toward the end of the frame, prompting boos from the dissatisfied crowd. Jones was safely out of range when Evans missed a nasty hook near the end of the round, with Jones landing a short left elbow as the horn sounded.
Evans clearly needed something dramatic in the final round to alter the outcome, but it never came. A Jones trip takedown briefly electrified the crowd, but the challenger quickly found his footing and made it to the finish line, where the outcome (as Evans' body language concurred) was never in doubt.
After the fight, UFC president Dana White confirmed Jones' next opponent will be former two-division champion Dan Henderson. "I feel great that I already have a mission and I'm going to work hard to better myself," said Jones, who improved to 10-1 since joining the UFC (16-1 overall). "[Henderson] is an awesome opponent. He's got extreme knockout power and I'm excited to conquer [him]."
Earlier in fight week, Jones had likened the exhaustive build-up to Saturday's fight to a healing process. "The more you hear the story, the more we all go at it and talk about the coaches and try to figure out who is telling the truth, it's almost therapeutic for everybody," Jones said Wednesday. "So I think this fight will be like the last counseling session for the whole situation."
At Saturday's post-fight press conference, both Jones and Evans allowed for the possibility for a renewed friendship, admitting respect for one another -- an optimistic coda to an promotion laced with animosity.
"I have a lot of thinking to do about this situation," Jones said. "I hope to rekindle some communication with Rashad, and I hope we can do that in private. There is a lot of emotion between us that can lead to a friendship."
Source: CNNSI
Fight recap
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Shawty Lo has big plans for 2012 and beyond. Mikey T The Movie Star sits down with the D4L/G-Unit artist to find out how he will be expanding his brand by getting his own headphone line and cologne as well as putting out an autobiography and biopic.
Also be on the lookout for Shawty's new album Still Got Units, and mixtape Million Dollar Man coming soon.
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Nicki Minaj certainly knows how to get people's attention. First she deletes her Twitter account leaving behind 11 million followers, now she is talking about leaving the rap game altogether.
In a new interview with Tim Westwood, the Harajuku Barbie expressed frustration with the response her latest album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded has gotten. The disc debuted at No. 1 in both the U.S. and the U.K., but the sales figures (253,000 U.S.) weren't as high as some expected for the opening week and more than a few critics have given the disc poor reviews.
"People aren't even giving the kid props for taking it back to the essence," she said in one of her many accents. "This is my fourth mixtape really. The kid did it like that to feed her fans. But really, now the kid is thinking maybe she should leave the game."
At that point her hype man Safaree said people are ungrateful.
"Not my babies, not my Barbz," Nicki replied. "But these other folk finna make the kid leave the game."
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Mr. Porter is a busy man these days. He recently left D12 and is hard at work on his solo debut album The Memo, as well as handling production duties for other artists.
Hip Hop-N-More recently caught up with the rapper/producer formerly known as Kon Artist and got some some insight into his work with 50 Cent and G-Unit.
Check out an excerpt from the interview below.
HHNM: You produced 50 Cent’s chart topper ‘P.I.M.P’ but I don’t think you worked with him again after that apart from G-Unit’s ‘Stunt 101’. What’s the reason?
Mr. Porter: Man, when it comes to that situation, we’ve done a lot of records in between. What happened was really just timing. I went different ways and all that. What people don’t realize about 50 is that, that guy held our ship for a long time. We were going through turmoil and 50 was out there by himself. I think that’s the story that should be told. He has been recording music to my beats but they just didn’t make the cut or whatever. 50’s the man though. He held it down for Shady/Aftermath when we weren’t going through a good phase. Dre lost his son, we lost Proof. 50 was out there grinding by himself.
We recently have been talking a lot about some records. Maybe it will happen on his new album, I don’t know. I wasn’t giving it my 110% on the records that I was sending him since I wasn’t in a right space but hopefully, that will change now and we will work soon.
HHNM: So did you recently send him any beats? Any possibility you could land up on his new album?
Mr. Porter: Yeah, actually I am currently looking for a record for him. I gave one record away that was specifically for him. I had to give it to another artist because it was a deadline issue. It had to be turned in, in time.
HHNM: And who’s the artist that you gave the beat to?
Mr. Porter: Umm..well I’ll say it will be coming out around next month. And it was a group, not a solo artist.
HHNM: Ahh..Slaughterhouse?
Mr. Porter: Maybe. And the crazy part is that I actually gave away one of my singles. It was a single I wrote for myself. Then I thought it would be perfect for 50 and then the whole situation came up and went to somebody else.
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The video for the lead single off of Slaughterhouse's upcoming album welcome to: Our House premiere's Sunday [April 22] on MTV2 and MTVJams. In the meantime check out this sneak peek of the clip below.
New music from young Diggy featuring K-Mac
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Tracklist
1. Come Fly Wit Me (Prod. By LG & Jae Millz)
2. All In My Mind Feat. Smoke Dza & Gudda Gudda (Prod. By Cash Hits & Jae Millz)
3. Palm Trees, Sunshine & The Sand (Prod. By Cash Hits)
4. Living Better Than I Look (Prod. By LG)
5. Dear Smoke Alarm (Prod. By LG & Jae Millz)
6. Live From The Lenox Lounge (Prod. By LG)
7. This Is 4 Her (Prod. By Cardiak)
8. Everyday Is 4 20 (Prod. By Cash Hits)
Tracklist:
01. Members West (Intro)
02. So Hard (Prod. by Mars)
03. LOVE (Prod. by Nottz)
04. Join The Gang (feat. Mistah FAB) (Prod. by Sid Roams)
05. Warning Jacket (feat. JellyRoll) (Prod. by DJ Khalil)
06. One Mistake (feat. Washay Choir) (Prod. by Lee Bannon)
07. Got No Gun (feat. Obie Trice) (Prod. by The Art Teacher)
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Nicki Minaj appeared on The Graham Norton Show recently alongside actor Mark Ruffalo and comedian John Bishop. The Young Money star entertained the audience talking about her new album, kissing Madonna, deleting her Twitter account, balloon boy and a lot more.
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Curren$y is getting ready to drop his new album The Stoned Immaculate on June 5. The project boasts features from Wale, Marsha Ambrosius, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa and more.
Peep the full tracklist below.
Tracklist:
01. What It Look Like (Feat. Wale)
02. Privacy Glass
03. Armoire (Feat. Young Roddy & Trademark)
04. Take You There (Feat. Marsha Ambrosius)
05. Showroom
06. Capitol (Feat. 2 Chainz)
07. No Squares (Feat. Wiz Khalifa)
08. Sunroof (Feat. Corner Boy P)
09. Chasin’ Papers (Feat. Pharrell)
10. That’s the Thing (Feat. Estelle)
11. Chandelier
12. Fast Cars Faster Women (Feat. Daz)
13. Jet Life (Feat. Big K.R.I.T. & Wiz Khalifa)
14. Audio Dope 3 (Bonus Track)
15. One More Time (Bonus Track)
16. J.L.R. (Feat. Young Roddy & Smoke DZA) (Bonus Track)
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Redman and Runt Dawg go in over Dead Prez's classic
Suge Knight has a problem with Rick Ross for appearing on the song "Tupac Back" with Meek Mill. Suge feels so strongly about the issue that he sent a warning to Ross that he will physically harm him if the two ever cross paths.
Knight let his feelings be known Friday [April 20] during an interview with L.A.'s 93.5 Tattoo and Cee Cee show.
"I can't sit up here and say I'm bitter to Rick Ross, 'cus like anybody else, we don't know Rick Ross," Suge said according to HipHopDX. "That's a guy who uses somebody else's name. This guy comes from being a correctional officer. I don't got nothing negative [against him] personally, I just feel like he do do good music, and you can't take that from him. That boy got bars, he's gonna write…at the same time, I feel like there's a line you cross, and Rick Ross crossed that line. If you're gonna be with guy [Diddy] who killed Tupac, you can't go turn around and do a record [called] 'Tupac Back'…Rick Ross is a grown a$$ n*gga. I'll beat the dog sh*t out of Rick Ross for manipulating these people out here."
Well damn!
Shout to X for the audio
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New music from Gucci Mane featuring Chris Brown and Lil Wayne off of Gucci's upcoming mixtape, I'm Up.
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Styles P releases a nice remix to "How I Fly" with two new verses from Nitty Scott MC and Spitta.
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