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Beyonce came, saw and conquered the 12th annual BET Awards.

She "only" one won award, but by flashing that big smile every time cameras cut to her (approximately every 10 seconds), she was the star of the evening.

Her man, Jay-Z, took home a pair of awards (Best Group and Best Video), so it was a successful night for the parents of Blue Ivy Carter all around.

With Samuel L. Jackson handling hosting, and stars such as Bey, Jay, Chris Brown, Kanye West and Nicki Minajon hand, there was mega-star wattage.

Minaj's performance and the lack of censorship are sure to cause some people headaches today, while lighter and heavier moments were abundant.

Jokes were made about Lauryn Hill's tax problems and Kanye's cutting off Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs. His GF Kim Kardashianwas present as well.

Finally, a moving Whitney Houston tribute by Mariah Carey, Monica, Brandy and the late star's mom Cissy Houstonleft nary a dry eye in the venue.

Full list of winners at the BET Awards:

Best Female R&B Artist: Beyoncé

Best Male R&B Artist: Chris Brown

Best Group: The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West)

Best Collaboration: Wale featuring Miguel, "Lotus Flower Bomb"

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist: Nicki Minaj

Video of the Year: The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) featuring Otis Redding, "Otis"

Video Director of the Year: Beyoncé & Alan Ferguson, "Party"

Best New Artist: Big Sean

Best Gospel: Yolanda Adams

Best Actor: Kevin Hart

Subway Sportswoman of the Year: Serena Williams

Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice Award: Mindless Behavior, "Hello"

Centric Award: Common

Watch performances from the show below

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Rihanna and Chris Brown may no longer be dating but their families still remain close. On Saturday Rihanna revealed that her grandmother, Ciara "Dolly" Brathwaite, had passed away. The singer took to Twitter to say her goodbyes as well as post pictures of her grandmother, whom she referred to as "Gran Gran Dolly."

"Goodbye ‪#grangranDOLLY get your beauty rest until I see you," the singer wrote,

Chris Brown reached out to Rihanna with a tweet.

Chris's mom, Joyce Hawkins, also extended her condolences to Rihanna via Twitter.

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Young Jeezy hops on a couple of popular cuts and remixes them. Future's "Itchin" and Curren$y's "Jet Life" get the Snowman treatment. Both tracks can be found on Tapemasters Inc new mixtape “Slight Work 2," which you can download from LiveMixtapes.

Check them out below.

"Itchin"

"Jet Life"

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Jim Jones Returns with parts 4 and 5 of his Vampire Life movie. Both tracks, which feature Ryder and Don Juan can be found on Jim's latest mixtape Vampire Life 2: F.E.A.S.T. (The Last Supper).

You can download the tape from Datpiff.

Redman puts together a Gilla House remix of Kirko Bangz "Drank In My Cup."

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Roscoe Dash hits the beach with his woman without a care in the world in his new video for IDGAF (I Don't Give A F*ck). The Atlanta rapper enlisted directed Ben 'B.' Epstein to shoot the clip.

No word on which project the song will end up on at this point.

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Hot 97's Miss Info is Los Angeles for the 2012 BET Awards being held at the Shrine Auditorium tonight. While there she caught up with Big Sean and Meek Mill to get their take on Chris Brown's "I Don't Like" diss going at Drake.

Check out what they had to say below and don't miss the BET Awards airing at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific tonight.

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Tyga got the chance to show and prove his mic skills on BET's The Backroom. The YMCMBrapper let loose a few nice bars in this 1:18 clip.

Tyga's sophomore album Careless World - Rise of the Last King is available on iTunes now.

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French Montana and Coke Boy Chinx Drugz invaded London recently and stopped by Tim Westwood's BBC Radio 1studios to drop a freestyle over what seems to be everyone's favorite instrumental at the moment.

Look out for French's debut album Excuse My Frenchto drop later this fall.

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With his Million Dollar Man mixtape just a few days away from dropping, Shawty Lo gives us an extended preview of his up coming "MVP" music video. The clip features Brick Squad boss Gucci Mane and Rocko.

Track produced by Zaytoven.

Million Dollar Man drops July 4th.

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Eminem called into Shade 45 earlier today and chopped it up with DJ Whoo Kid. The two talked about Eminem's recording process, his upcoming album, the Slaughterhouse project, the loss of MCA of the Beastie Boys, Ice-T's the 'Art of Rap' documentary and a lot more.

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Chris Brown hops on Chief Keef's "I Don't Like" and fires point blank rounds at Drake

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Jenny Boom Boom caught up with Miguel at the 2012 BET Awards. They talked about his 3 nominations, his new single "Adorn," Usher's influence on his career and how her radio station Connecticut's Hot 93.7played a big part in jump starting his career.

The BET Awards air July 1, 8P/7C.

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One of the most effective ways for citizens to get their voices heard is to exercise their right to vote. In the hip hop community sometimes that right is taken for granted. To that end The Hip Hop Caucus was founded in 2004. Headed by “Hip Hop Rev” Lennox Yearwood Jr., their purpose is to get young people to be active in elections, policy making, and service projects. 

This year The Hip Hop Caucus has called on 2 Chainz to become a spokesperson for the campaign.

“As a youth offender, I spent much of my adult life feeling like I couldn’t participate in the democratic process. Like I had ruined my chances. It’s only recently that I learned that my voting rights could be reinstated. That meant me and many like me had rights we were unaware of. I joined the Hip Hop Caucus‘ “Respect my Vote!” campaign to help inform and empower the minorities and disconnected of this country. And it isn’t just about felons. It’s young people, women, families. Voting effects our communities, schools, jobs. It’s important," he said.

In addition to 2 Chainz, the Caucus has also called upon Travis Porter and DJ Red Alert to help out.

Source : Complex

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Check out some behind the scenes bloopers from Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg's movie Mac And Devin Go To High School. The movie will be available on DVD July 3rd.

Soundtrack available now on iTunes

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Azealia Banks teams up with her favorite rapper Styles P for her new Drums of Death produced single

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Meek Mill was one of the performers at the 25th Annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills on Friday 9June 29th). Meek rapped his way through his club hit "House Party."

The song appears on Meek's Dream Chasers mixtape which you can download here

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Vlad TV recently sat down with Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly. He talked to them about the things he's learned from Diddy since being signed to Bad Boy, his ability to rap while getting punched in the face by fans, the fact that he considers himself a great rapper and the upcoming Warped Tour.

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Big K.R.I.T.'s debut album Live from the Underground is in stores now and doing quite well. The Def Jam artist is keeping that momentum going by shooting a video for the Ludacris assisted track "What U Mean."

Check out a few pics from the set below and pic up the album from iTunes.

Spotted at HHNM

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Kelly Rowland is getting ready to return with a new album and thanks to Rap-Up we get a chance to listen to a snippet of her Lil Wayne assisted first single "Ice."