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Adele leads the pack in nominations for the 39th annual American Music Awards, which were announced today.

The British singer whose album, 21, has been sitting on the Billboard 200 chart for 32 weeks is nominated in four categories.

Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, The Band Perry, Taylor Swift and Rihanna are up for three awards each.

Kanye West, Chris Brown, Bruno Mars, LMFAO and Jason Aldean follow closely behind with two nominations apiece.

The AMA's will be shown live on Nov. 20 from the Nokia Theatre in L.A. and air live on ABC.

Check out the full list of categories and nominees below.

Artist of the Year

Adele
Lady Gaga
Katy Perry
Lil Wayne
Taylor Swift

 
Pop or Rock Music: Favorite Female Artist

Adele
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga

Pop or Rock Music: Favorite Male Artist

Justin Bieber
Bruno Mars
Pitbull

Pop or Rock Music: Favorite Band, Duo or Group

LMFAO
Maroon 5
OneRepublic

Pop or Rock Album

Adele - 21
Rihanna - Loud
Lady Gaga - Born This Way

Rap/Hip-Hop Music: Favorite Artist

Lil Wayne
Nicki Minaj
Kanye West

Rap/Hip-Hop Album

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
The Throne - Watch the Throne
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

Soul/R&B Music: Favorite Male Artist

Chris Brown
Trey Songz
Usher

Soul/R&B Music: Favorite Female Artist

Rihanna
Beyoncé
Kelly Rowland

Soul/R&B Album

Chris Brown - F.A.M.E.
Rihanna - Loud
Beyoncé - 4

Alternative Rock Music: Favorite Artist

Foo Fighters
Black Keys
Mumford & Sons

Adult Contemporary Music: Favorite Artist

Adele
Bruno Mars
Katy Perry

Latin Music: Favorite Artist

Pitbull
Enrique Iglesias
Jennifer Lopez

Country Music: Favorite Female Artist

Sara Evans
Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift

Country Music: Favorite Male Artist

Jason Aldean
Brad Paisley
Blake Shelton

Country Music: Favorite Band, Duo or Group

Zac Brown Band
Lady Antebellum
The Band Perry

Country Music: Favorite Album

Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
The Band Perry - The Band Perry

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Check out the cover art for Rihanna's upcoming album, Talk That Talk.

You can cop the album November 21, with either the standard cover (above) or the deluxe edition (below).

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Nas pays a visit to his old stomping grounds of Queensbridge, New York in the new video for his single, "Nasty."

Nas' 10th studio album, Life Is Good, drops later this year.

Lil Mama has been telling everyone that will listen that Nicki Minaj stole her style. Now she's claiming that if the two of them ever did beef it could have had the same tragic ending as Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

"If we decided to go at each other and then somebody ended up dead, everybody in hip-hop would be like, 'Oh my God, it's so sad what happened to them.'" Lil Mama tells XXL. "It's just like what happened with Pac and Biggie. The same people that promote it and it's sad."

However, Lil Mama does admit there is no real animosity between her and Nicki.

"She came to my show... the greeting was beautiful. It was like, 'Hi beautiful, how are you?' you know what I mean. It wasn't like 'Hi,' and then the name calling or screwed up face or anything negative. If someone has something negative to say about you or they don't like you, they wouldn't greet you and say, 'Hello beautiful.'"

What's your opinion on the Biggie/Tupac comparison?

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Beyonce gets the cover for the November issue of Harper's Bazaar.

Check out the behind-the-scenes footage and pictures taken by by photographer Terry Richardson, at the Standard Hotel in NYC.

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Tyrese jumps back into the r&b scene the Brandon Alexander-produced club track, "Too Easy."

The singer/actor was more than happy to share the spotlight with 'Fast Five' co-star, Ludacris.

"I was excited that I could call on my friend and co-star Ludacris to make this record and incredible video.," Tyrese told The Boombox. "As you can see we were having just way too much fun!"

The song appears on Tyrese's upcoming album, 'Open Invitation,' due Nov. 1.

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Barack O'Drama's new album, Third Power, hit's store shelves today October 11).

Check out the latest visuals from the project as Drama recruits Ya Boy and Akon.

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Fresh from taping a 9-minute long Shady 2.0 cypher for the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards, Slaughterhouse hit up the studio and previewed a brand new track titled "Who's The Illest?"

Peep the footage below and be on the lookout for their new album coming in 2012.

The BET Hip Hop Awards air tonight at 9P/7C.

Nicki Minaj has a lot to be thankful for. She has a successful rap career ahead of her, but getting to this point was hard for the Harajuku Barbie.

In a new interview with Cosmopolitan magazine, Nicki reveals the frustration of trying to get her foot in the door of the music business caused her to contemplate suicide.

“I felt like nothing was working. I had moved out on my own, and here I was thinking I’d have to go home. It was one dead end after another," she said. “At one point, I was, like, ‘What would happen if I just didn’t wake up?’ That’s how I felt. Like maybe I should just take my life?”

Now that she's tasted success, Nicki has no plans to let it go. She told Cosmo about her big plans for the future.

“I will have put out five albums and will have an Oscar and Grammys,” she says of her future plans. "And I will be getting married and, a couple of years after that will have a bun in the oven. … My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It’s a never-ending saga,”

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Snoop Dogg has had such a huge impact on the the music business it shouldn't be surprising that the entertainment bug has rubbed off on his family.

Looking to follow in her famous fathers footsteps is 12-year old singer Cori B. Her brand new video for the single "Do My Thang" premiered today.

Check it out below.

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Method Man is in the process of putting together his fifth solo album, The Crystal Meth. Finding the right producers for the project hasn't gone as smoothly as the Wu Tang Clan rapper would have liked. Attempts to get Just Blaze and Timbaland on board the project didn't pan out.


"We’ve tried. I've tried [Just Blaze] a few times and it just didn’t work out," Method told Vibe. "Timbaland on the other hand, he would send you a skeleton beat and I can’t rock to a skeleton beat. I need an actual beat because when I write, I write to the music, so that didn’t work out. I'm gonna give it you you raw. A lot of times when we approach these cats and we see them face to face, yall exchange numbers, then you call them and you don't get an answer. Or they tell you weird sh*t like 'I don't do that kind of music anymore.'"


Meth still has one artist in mind that he would very much like to work with. During his chat with Vibe, he mentioned that he really likes what Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator is doing.


"Right now I want to get that kid from Odd Future, Tyler, The Creator -- I just want to hear some of the sh*t he got. He’s in that vain that I like as far as beats go. I would want him to produce something. As far as rhyming on some sh*t I would leave that up to him. Because like I said a lotta people sleep on Meth -- don't sleep on me I'm dope."


Although some fans have compared Odd Future to a young version of Wu Tang Clan, Meth said there really aren't any similarities.


"I don’t see any similarities, as far as the movement, maybe. but I don’t see any similarities because some of the shit they talk about," Meth said "The sh*t we use to talk about was 5% Nation of Islam, Gods and Earth…you know 'block sh*t.' Let them do them and I enjoy them. I’m not going to lie. And yes I do know more than just one song that they’ve done. Some of these people on Youtube and shit, they’re f*cking incredible with their comments."


The Crystal Meth doesn't yet have a release date.

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Slim The Mobster has patiently waited for his time to shine and the spotlight is now shifting to the Aftermath artist.

Slim was already on his way to becoming one of the West Coast artists to check for, when a meeting with Dr. Dre changed the South Central MC's career.

"I felt like the streets was all I had, then I met Dr. Dre," Slim says "I actually went to his studio with a cd and asked if he would listen to my cd and in the process I left my number on a lottery ticket. Five minutes later he called me back. I've been with him ever since."

Slim has helped pen more than 200 songs for Dre's Detox album.

Next up is his own street album titled War Music, which is scheduled to drop October 25.

"It's called 'War Music' -- war is the bad and music is the good," Slim explains of the album's title. "I feel like I'm in basic training right now. I'm getting ready to go onto something bigger."

War Music will have features from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Prodigy and Kendrick Lamar. Production duties will be handled by Sha Money XL, Nottz, Bink and more.

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Slim The Mobster Ft Snoop Dogg "What Goes Up"

Slim The Mobster "Doom" Freestyle

Slim The Mobster "Work For It" (Price On Ya Head)

Slim The Mobster "Gunplay"

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Not many women get serenaded in front of thousands of people for their birthday, but not every woman is the mom of a pop superstar.

Chris Brown was in Charlotte, N.C., Friday for a stop on his F.A.M.E. tour when he got the crowd to join him in singing happy birthday to his mother, Joyce.

Check out the footage below.

While there have been several reported offers for the sex tape of late rapper, Tupac Shakur, none had hit seven figures until now. This new offer isn't even for the sex tape itself.


Jay Grdina, CEO of NOHO, the anti-hangover drink is willing to pay $1million for the rights to the unreleased 2Pac song that is playing in the background of the tape according to TMZ.

Grdina wants to use the song as the official theme song for SOHO.


Before becoming CEO of NOHO, Grdina was a porn actor who went by the name Justin Sterling. He was once married to XXX queen, Jenna Jameson.

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A video showing an attempted murder-by-train in Mexico City has been making it's way around the internet.

In the footage captured on CCTV in June, two women are seen talking to each other in a subway station. When a train approaches, one of the women tries to shove the other in front of it. During the struggle they both end up falling onto the tracks.

The conductor acted quickly by applying the brakes in time to avoid crushing the women. But the attempted murderer was pinned underneath the train with a broken leg and hip.

Elinsurgente Press is reporting that the assailant's name is Cristian Romero Alanis, 27. She became jealous because her lover had started seeing someone else and decided if she couldn't have her, then nobody would.

Alanis is charged with attempted murder and could face 20 years in jail if convicted.

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Big Sean surprised the crowd at his NYC concert over the weekend by bringing out Kanye West.

Sean was performing at Best Buy Theater when he brought out the Louis Vuitton Don to perform "Marvin & Chardonnay."

Peep the footage below.