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Morgan Creek and Universal Pictures are looking for a new director for a movie based on Tupac Shakur's life after Antoine Fuqua backed out of the project following a failed attempt to find an actor he felt was suitable for the role on 'Pac.

Variety is reporting that John Singleton is in negotiations to take Fuqua's vacated spot.

Singleton is very familiar with Shakur, having directed him in the movie 'Poetic Justice.' The two became such close friends that Singleton wrote the screenplay for 'Baby Boy' with 'Pac in mind as the lead. The role was eventually played by Tyrese Gibson after 'Pac was killed.

Check out some rare BET footage of Singleton and 'Pac having some fun facing off in a foot race below.

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Give the Drummer Some is Travis Barker's debut solo album. The Blink 182 drummer recruited some of rap's biggest names for the project.

Check out the new visuals for "Just Chill," featuring Kobe, Bun B and Beanie Sigel.

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Machine Gun Kelly releases visuals for "Welcome to the Rage," taken from his new project Rage Pack.

Quote from Machine Gun Kelly:

"The Rage Pack is my 1st music project since the release of Lace Up last year. The music is inspired by the energy me and my fans create during my live performances. There has been a lot of controversy with the word "rage"...we don't talk it...we live it! Wild Boy was the first release off the Rage Pack...I'm excited for the world to hear what we've created....Welcome to the RAGE!!"

"Wild Boy" featuring Waka Flocka Flame is available on iTunes now! Download the explicit version HERE. Clean version available HERE.


The Rage Pack drops this Friday 10.14.11

Two years after his fling with Rihanna fizzled out Drake is still licking his wounds.

The two superstars dated briefly following Riri's break up with then-boyfriend Chris Brown. Rihanna eventually moved on to a more serious relationship with baseball player Matt Kemp, leaving Drizzy out in the cold.

"At the time it hurt, but she didn't mean to," Drake told Elle magazine in their new issue. "I'll never put that on her. I was hurt because I slowly started to realize what it was. I guess I thought it was more. That was the first girl with any fame that paid me any mind. You spend days reading about this person in magazines. All of a sudden you have this number-one song and you're at some birthday party and there she is. And you're just some naive kid from Toronto staying in some shitty-ass hotel who got invited to this party on a whim. That's just how it happened."

Rihanna hasn't talked much publicly about dating Drake other than to say it was bad timing.

"It was at a really fragile time in my life, so I just didn't want to get too serious with anything or anyone at that time," the singer told The BoomBox last year.

For now Drake seems to have his eyes set on his Young Money label mate, Nicki Minaj. The two of them pretended to get married via Twitter last year.

"I don't know if we were really pretending. I'd marry Nicki. I think Nicki would be one of the only people that would understand me at the end of all of this and be able to love me."

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Royce Da 5'9 had one of the most talked about verses in the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards cyphers.

The Slaughterhouse MC showed his affection for Roc Nation's pop princess Rihanna, by uttering the words "hi Rihanna" several times during his time on the mic.

After the show the line became a trending topic on Twitter.

Riri responded with her own tweet the next day that read: “Hi @Royceda59.”

When Royce made an appearance on 106 and Park yesterday (October 12) the topic of conversation was his now famous line.

"I seen her overseas, me and Em were performing at the V Festival. She was coming out to perform with us. I’m just a Detroit guy, everybody’s treating me like I’m famous, but I still feel regular. She came up to me and told me that she liked one of my songs, so I just felt like, you tell me that again, we go together—has to happen. I just express myself through my music. I just thought it was a line I was going to say, I didn’t know she was going to hear it. I didn’t know it was going to become this, trending for 20 hours,” said Royce.

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Royce Da 5'9 talks about "hi Rihanna" line from BET cyphers

Slim The Mobster teams up with Prodigy for a new track off his upcoming street album, War Music, available November 8.

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DJ Cosmic Kev of Philadelphia's Power 99 radio station invited Diggy Simmons to the show recently.

Check Diggy's freestyle out below.

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Millions of people use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to keep up with friends, family, news, celebrities, etc. Charles Barkley isn't one of those people. As a matter of fact he thinks you're a loser if you spend time on either one.

"Tweet is for losers. And what I mean by that, if you wake up in the morning and you're worried about what I'm doing, you a damn idiot. You are a damn idiot," Barkley said. "I don't feel the need to put every thought that comes in my head out to the world. I don't feel that. And I hope nobody wakes up in the morning and says let me follow Charles Barkley for the day. I don't Facebook -- I'm not trying to keep up with people from my past. I'm running from them."

The comments come from a 'Rant and Rave' video posted by Barkley on his website.

What do you think of Sir Charles's comments?

As we reported last week, Luther Campbell has given Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled and Diddy until January 2012 to start giving back to the city of Miami in the form of community work, or risk having their passes revoked.

Campbell, also known as Uncle Luke was the front man for the Miami-based rap group 2 Live Crew. More recently he had an unsuccessful run at the Mayor's office.

The ultimatum was issued via an article Campbell wrote for the Miami New Times.

I've got a message for Lil Wayne, his Cash Money Brothers, DJ Khaled, Puff Daddy and all the rappers from other parts of the country who now live in Miami. I'm tired of seeing these cats using up our beaches, soaking up our sunshine, taking over the nightclubs, and sleeping with our women without investing anything into the community. I want to know when Lil Wayne is going to do more than show up courtside at the American Airlines Arena. Hell, it's not like he paid for them anyway. You know he got comped.

This free loading and mooching of my city has got to stop. There used to be a day when out of town rappers were scared to throw their weight around Miami. It didn't matter if they were coming from New York or Los Angeles, they knew better than to act like they owned this mother fucker.

Artists knew better than to come to Miami and disrespect us.But now folks in Miami's entertainment industry have gone soft, turning into a bunch of groupies just because they want to say they drank Rozay with the Cash Money crew.

Lil Wayne has finally responded. Writing on twitter that Campbell is "trippin." More surprising was the shot Wayne took at DJ Khaled, saying he wasn't "feelin" the DJ.

I think Luke is pretty serious about that deadline, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

What do you think of Wayne's new beefs with Khaled and Campbell?

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Maino is known as a real street dude. One who has made it in the game despite a lot of hardships. However, he says his tough guy image sometimes works against him when he does work giving back to the community.

The rapper has been working with Russell Simmons to help end gun violence, but he says the media only wants to talk about his checkered past or old beefs.

"Nobody cares about when you're doing positive. They only notice when Maino smacks the sh*t out of somebody," the Brooklyn rapper said. "They care about whatever fight they heard about or nonsense footage."

Maino was also asked his opinion on the Outlawz claim that they smoked 2Pac's ashes.

"I don't feel no way about it," he said. "It is what it is. Those were his people though. I wonder what it burned like."

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Rumors are flying that Beyonce's pregnancy isn't real and that the singer is using a surrogate to carry her and Jay-Z's first child.

Speculation heated up after the singer appeared on the Australian tv show “Sunday Night HD.” As the singer sits down her stomach seems to fold in an almost impossible manner.

Beyonce's publicist. Yvette Noel-Schure, told ABC News that the rumors were: “Stupid, ridiculous and false.”

Check out the pictures and video below and judge for yourself.

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Nas grabs the cover for the November issue of XXL. The veteran MC gets interviewed by Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator.

Check out an excerpt from the interview below.

“You, Em, Jay, Snoop, like, you guys all started when you was exactly my age,” Tyler said. “The fact that you guys are still here makes me just always think, like, Fuck, could I?”

“Oh, you definitely can,” Nas replied. “Someone like you is, you’re interesting, for a lot of reasons. So someone like you, you can’t wait to see what’s next.”

And the topics continued to get deeper as the conversation went on.

“Are you, like—this question might catch you off guard, but I ask myself this—like, when you wake up, like, are you happy,” Tyler asked. “Like, are you satisfied how everything turned out?”

“Dawg, I was naming my album Life Is Good because of how happy I am about how happy things have turned out,” Nas answered. “Sometimes I may wake up and wish my kids were living with me. That’s the only thing, you know what I mean? Our loved ones that are not around no more, like my mom. That’s the only thing. But other than that, everything is great, even when I’m alone. Even when there’s no one around.”

To catch more of the interview pick up the November issue of XXL, on stands October 25.

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DMX and Swizz Beatz stopped by 106 and Park yesterday (October 11) just before the airing of the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards.

X was there to premier his new video for "Last Hope." He also talked about what it felt like performing at the awards show, how music has changed, his comeback, movies and more.

"I'm gonna do what I do. I have a fan base. I love them, they love me and I got a pretty good understanding what I'm here for," X told the crowd

Swizz said X's new albums is coming along nicely and hinted that there might be a few surprises in store.

"Expect the unexpected," Swizz said of the album. "Expect the new improved, expect hip hop, expect real music, expect a message to the masses out there that really listen to our music. Expect the dog to be back."

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Marvel Studios has finally rolled out the official trailer for 'The Avengers.'


Right next to 'The Dark Knight Rises,' this has to be one of the most anticipated movies of 2012.

'The Avengers' stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye.


Check out the official synopsis and trailer below.

When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

The Avengers continues the epic big-screen adventures started in "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk," "Iron Man 2," "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger". Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, "Marvel's The Avengers" is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series "The Avengers," first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since.

Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when "Marvel's The Avengers" assemble in summer 2012.

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Tyler, The Creator brings two of his fellow Odd Future members, Taco and Jasper Dolphin along for the ride in this wild video for "B*tch Suck D*ck."

The song can be found on Tyler's latest album, Goblin.

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Kelly Rowland teams up with G.O.O.D Music artist Big Sean for the latest single off of her album, Here I Am.

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The 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards provided a look at hip hop's past and present.

The show opened with the return of T.I., who joined Young Jeezy on stage to perform "F.A.M.E." and "Flexin." Heavy D closed the show with a medley of his old school hits.

In between those acts were performances by DMX, Swizz Beatz, Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco, Wale, Meek Mill and Roscoe Dash.

Check out some of the show's highlights below.

Young Jeezy & T.I. "F.A.M.E." x "Flexin'"

DMX & Swizz Beatz "Medley"

Big Sean "I Do It" x "Marvin & Chardonnay" (feat. Roscoe Dash)

Lupe Fiasco "Words I Never Said" (feat. Erykah Badu)

Heavy D "Medley"

Officer Ricky, Wale & Meek Mill "Medley"

Wiz Khalifa "Taylor Gang"

LL Cool J accepts 2011 'I Am Legend' award