Kate Upton will give Sports Illustrated readers an encore as she lands on the cover of the magazine's swimsuit issue for the second year in a row.

The 20-year old beauty from Michigan has been all over the place in the last year. She landed a feature in U.S. Vogue and the November 2012 cover of Vogue Italia, Kate was also ranked the 5th sexiest model on MODELS.com's "Top Sexiest Models" of 2012 list and No. 3 on AskMen's Top 99 Women for 2013 list.

Kate joins an elite list of models who've commanded the cover multiple years in a row: Christie Brinkley went back-to-back-to-back in 1979, 1980 and 1981; Elle MacPherson did the same between 1986 and 1988; Paulina Porizkova posed in 1984 and 1985 and Tyra Banks starred in 1996 and 1997.

TMZ was the first website to capture photos from the shoot. They posted pics back in December, although they didn't know at the time Kate was shooting the S.I. cover.

"We can finally talk about Antarctica," Kate tweeted when the news broke on Friday. "Took us 2 months to thaw out"

The issue hits newsstands February 12.

Check out a few hot videos starring Kate below.

Kate Upton: Swimsuit Superstar!

Kate doing the "Cat Daddy" dance

Kate Upton - GQ - The Many Talents of Kate Upton

Kate Upton GQ Behind the Scenes -- The Reason HD Video Was Invented

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A$AP Rocky has been dropping freestyles on every radio show recently. During his stop in Paris, France recently the Harlem rapper spit a freestyle over his own "F*ckin Problems" instrumental for Generations radio.

 

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Big Sean will be releasing his Hall of Fame album soon. Rap-Up TV caught up with the Detroit rapper recently to talk about the album, his two Grammy nominations and more.

Sean said the new single will be released this month. Miguel, Jhene Aiko, Kid Cudi, Nas and Common are featured on the album. The G.O.O.D. Music rapper is hoping to get Eminem on the record.

"We gotta make that happen," Sean said of getting in the studio with Eminem. "That might be the last thing I do. I wanted to make sure me album was completely done before I went and played it for him. You know, if he wants me to play it for him. I know a while ago he reached out."

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Tyler, The Creator and the rest of the OFWGKTA homies Jasper Dolphin, Taco Bennett, and Lionel Boyce are back and ready to bring the ruckus in the second season of their sketch comedy series. Loiter Squad.

Season 2 kicks off on Adult Swim Sunday, March 10th at Midnight ET/PT. Check out the trailer below.

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Mary J. Blige was hit with a lawsuit Thursday alleging she had defaulted on a $500,000 loan from Bank of America.

Reuters reports that the bank filed the lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court. They say the singer took out the loan in 2005 and stopped making re-payments in June 2012. B of A is looking to recoup $511,324 in principal and interest on the loan they claim the singer owes.

This is the second lawsuit in the last several months filed against the 9-time Grammy Award winner. In November 2012 Signature Bank took legal action over an alleged default on a $2.2 million bank loan by the singer and her husband.

HipHollywood caught up with Mary on the red carpet of Vibe's inaugural Impact Awards show held on Friday at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles, to talk to her about the recent stories that have hit the press about her.

"There's really nothing you can say about the negative things that are in the media about you," Mary said. "All you can do is keep pushing, keep your head up and just let people be people. [Let] haters hate and just do what you do. Use all of that to fuel you to do something better."

The news isn't all bad for Mary, who has sold 50 million albums worldwide during her career. On Friday Vibe honored her with their first Impact Award.

"It feels great to be honored with the Impact Award tonight. Because I believe I've made an impact on so many people's lives. It feels good," she said.

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Krondon of Strong Arm Steady releases his free album Everything's Nothing to get his 2013 campaign started. The veteran West Coast emcee gets some nice production from Rich Kidd, D.R.U.G.S., DJ Khalil, Cardo, 321, DJ Dahl and more.

Download the album for free from http://strongarmsteady.net/en/

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Future continues to promote his latest album Pluto 3D by releasing new visuals for "Homicide" featuring Snoop Dogg a.k.a. Snoop Lion. This live clip was shot during Future's show at the Key Club in L.A. back in November.

Pluto 3D is available now on iTunes.

Troy Ave is back with another one of his Keymixes. This time Harry Powder takes on Young Scooter's new single "Colombia." Troy said he will begin to package the Keymixes together and release them 4 at a time instead of every other week.

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Kanye West has been catching some heat recently for his style of dress. Lord Jamar specifically called the G.O.O.D. Music CEO out for wearing skirts.

Vlad TV recently caught up with Lil Mama and Lil Kim's new artist Tiffany Foxx to get a woman's perspective on the situation.

"Fashion is changing all the time. So, you know I don't judge nobody for it and I love Kanye," Foxx said. "He's probably the only one that could do it. Him and Andre 3000. Everybody else I'mma have to be like side eye. It's cool, I like it."

Tiffany and Lil Mama go on to talk about what other females are popping in the industry and Tiffany explains how she linked up with Lil Kim

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Shady Records is fully reloaded and ready to impact the music scene in a big way in 2013. In addition to 50 Cent's upcoming Street King Immortal album, the label will release a new CD from Yelawolf.

According to Billboard, Catfish Billy has already started recording the new project in Nashville.

Joe Budden just released his No Love Lost solo album via E1 Records. After Joell Ortiz, Royce Da 5'9 and Crooked I drop their next solo discs, Slaughterhouse will begin work on their follow up to 2012's welcome to: Our House.

And then there's the captain of the ship, Eminem. Shady Records president Paul Rosenberg tells Billboard that Slim will deliver his highly anticipated eighth solo album sometime after Memorial Day.

 "We fully expect to be releasing a new Eminem album in 2013. He’s been working on it for some time," Rosenberg said. "It’s safe to say that it will be post-Memorial Day at some point, but we’re not exactly sure when. We’ve got some dates locked in for him to perform live in Europe in August, so we’re trying to see what else lines up."

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Earlier today 50 Cent celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the release of his classic album Get Rich or Die Tryin' by releasing a new track titled "Financial Freedom." Judging by the response from Twitter users, the G-Unit CEO has dropped another heater.

The song is currently trending worldwide.

Check out a sample of reactions from Twitter below.

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Newcomer Elevator Jay drops off his new single "Give It To Em." Check out what this rapper from Charlotte has to say.

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Waka Flocka Flame made another appearance on The Breakfast Club this morning. He said he's really reasy to turn things up this year. He just dropped his Duflocka Rant 2 mixtape and has finished his next album, Flockaveli 2.

Waka talked about rappers biting his style, Slick Pulla, Kobe Bryant, Chris Brown, Uncle Luke's letter to Rick Ross, Beyonce's Super Bowl performance, not needing an education to rap, acting and more.

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Toni Braxton has had an amazing career. She has recorded seven solo albums and sold over million records worldwide. The singer has won 6 Grammy Awards, 5 American Music Awards, and 9 Billboard Music Awards. She says she's had enough of music though.

In a recent appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, Toni explained why she made the decision to stop recording.

"I'm falling out of love with it, it's weird," Toni said. "I don't know what to say when I hear songs. They don't impact me. I've been trying to listen to songs. Record companies have been calling me, so it's a good situation to be in, but I'm not really interested at all."

Toni said she will tour sporadically, but has to careful with that because she has Lupas. You can catch Toni in an upcoming Lifetime movie, Twist of Faith. It airs February 9 at 8PM on Lifetime TV

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Walter Slonopas had seen enough. After the company he worked for, Contech Casting LLC in Clarksville, Tenn issued him the number 666 for the third time on documents he quit, calling the number a satanic omen.

He was first issued an ID badge ending with the number when he was hired by the company in April 2011. He complained and received a new number. Several months later the company changed it's payroll system and Slonopas was again given ID that contained the number. He quit, but later returned to work after the company apologized. The final straw for Slonopas came when he received his most recent W-2 form which also included the number 666.

"I cannot accept this number. If you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil," Slonopas told ABC News.

666 is considered the Number of the Beast by several religions. It is referred to in the Bible, in Chapter 13 of the New Testament Book of Revelation.

Slonopas says if he is not issued a new W-2 with a different number he won't file his taxes.

Contech Casting LLC wants Slonopas to come back to work for them. They have apologized again, blaming the W-2 error on a company outside the firm that generates the tax forms by computer.

"We are certainly sorry he was put through all this," said Robert LaCourciere, the vice president of sales and marketing for Contech Casting's parent company, Revstone Transportation Group . "We hope he does contact us because we'd love to have him back at work."

If you were Slonopas would you go back to work for this company?

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Teddy P stopped by Los Angeles radio station Power 106 recently for a pretty funny interview with Big Boy's Neighborhood.

The singer talked about wanting to join the Illuminati, blowing ridiculous money on 34 cars, how he and his wife pick out the women they bring home to have sex with and more.

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Hard Knock TV recently caught up with Taylor Gang boss Wiz Khalifa for a chat about a variety of subjects. In part 2 of their interview Wiz talks to Nick Huff Barili about his friendship with NBA superstar Kevin Durant, wanting to work with Dr. Dre, new song with Joe Budden, Molly, Tyga, who he currently listens to musically and doing a movie with 50 Cent.

"We had talked when we shot the Chief Keef video," Wiz said. "I just respect 50 from a business standpoint as well as music. And that's what we were talking about is how to expand and build on what we both have going on and how we could do it together. We made a song together. I was like 'let's do a movie.' And that's basically how me and Snoop did our situation. Through time I think we'll put it together and make it work. But it's something I'm definitely taking serious as a project for this year."

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AP.9 is reportedly shopping a sex tape with Coco Austin for $100,000. The Mob Figaz rapper has not been shy about his sexual exploits with Ice-T's wife. In December photos of the two hugging, kissing on each other and AP grabbing the reality star's butt emerged.

Earlier this week AP said the two had unprotected sex.

"We had sex unprotected," he told Star Magazine. "I really hope she isn't pregnant!”

Now there is a new report that a sex tape is being shopped.

Publicist Kali Bowyer told RumorFix that reps for the rapper contacted her asking for “help to promote and sell pictures and video above the 100k offer."

There is audio also being shopped.

According to Bowyer, the musical artist “has various pics, audio and footage of him placing his hand into her private parts, acts of oral sex, doggy style positions with miscellaneous graphic exploits and sexual conduct.”

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Bowyer told RumorFix she turned down the offer to help promote the sale of the tape.

"While I personally will not engage in something so crude and disgusting, I have no hesitation in blowing the lid off his intentions," Bowyer said.

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The gun debate continues to rage on across America in the wake of mass shootings like the ones in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut.

The main focus is currently on assault rifles, but according to statistics gathered by Buzzfeed, Americans are far more likely to die by handguns.

89% of all gun murder victims in the U.S. are killed by handguns.

African Americans make up 57% of all gun murders, according to data from the 2010 FBI Uniform Crime Report.

60% of handgun murders are committed against blacks and 27% against whites.

Shotgun murders are the complete opposite according to statistics. 60% of shotgun murder victims are white and 30% black.

Rifles kill blacks and whites almost equally.

Are these statistics surprising to you? What do you think of them?

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