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Follow the Queen Bee LIL KIM in the experience of a lifetime as she makes her way around the country on her highly anticipated and well received "Return Of The Queen Tour 2012"

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Eric B. & Rakim laid the foundation for a lot of modern day hip hop with their 1987 classic album "Paid In Full." Backstage at the 2012 Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, Rakim told Seandra Sims of AllHipHop.com that the duo plans to release a 25th anniversary edition of the disc with several new tracks,

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Trav originally dropped this single last April and now he releases official visuals to the remix featuring Waka Flocka Flame. The clip was directed by Benjamin Di Giacomo and will most likely appear on Trav's long awaited project "P.U.S.H. (Pray Until Something Happens)."

The-Dream teams up with Pusha T for "Dope B*tch." The track will appear on The-Dream's upcoming album The Love IV.

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Check out the latest video from Philadelphia MC Mike Knox. The Cardiak-produced "It's Whatever" is featured on Knox's latest mixtape "Boston George 2," which is hosted by 50 Cent and DJ Kay Slay.

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Record executive Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond is facing the possibility of life in prison after being convicted of all 13 charges in his drug trafficking trial according to AllHipHop.com.

Rosemond stood accused of running the “Rosemond Organization,” which prosecutors alleged shipped hundreds of kilos of cocaine from the West Coast to New York on a weekly basis using various courier services.

According to the report, Rosemond sat emotionless when the jurors reached their verdict.

At one time Rosemond was the head of Czar Entertainment. His client list included The Game, Michael K. Williams, Groove Theory, Akon, Mike Tyson and Sheek Louch.

Rosemond will be sentenced at a later date.

Infamous Mobb Deep's Prodigy is getting ready to deliver his new solo album "H.N.I.C. 3' on July 3rd, and he's bringing some of the usual suspects with him. Production and features include Boogs Boogetz, Havoc, Sid Roams, The Alchemist, Ty Fyffe and Beat Butcha.

Peep the full tracklist below and deluxe cover up top courtesy of HHNM

1 Without Rhyme or Reason (Alchemist)
2 Slept On (Alchemist)
3 Pretty Thug (Ty Fyffe)
4 My Angel feat Willie Taylor of Day 26 (Beat Butcha)
5 Co-Pilot feat Wiz Khalifa (The Colombians)
6 Live (Alchemist)
7 Make It (Hot Young L)
8 Get Money feat Boogz Boogetz (Young L)
9 Life Is What You Make It (S.C.)
10 Award Show Life (S.C.)
11 Who You Bullshittin feat Havoc (Sid Roams)
12 Skull & Bones (Beat Butcha)
13 Smack That Bitch feat Esther (Valentino)
14 Let Me Show You feat Vaughn Anthony (Ty Fyffe)
15 Gangsta Love feat Esther (Valentino)
16 What’s Happening feat T.I. (T.I.)

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Nicki Minaj called into Power 105.1 this morning to talk to The Breakfast Club. Of course the topic of conversation was Nicki's cancellation of her appearance at Summer Jam 2012.

Nicki took the opportunity to dead the rumor that she was planning an onstage funeral to once and for all bury her arch enemy Lil Kim. She also talked about how she and Foxy Brown linked up for the failed show, a planned Young Moneyconcert to make up for the cancellation and a lot more.

Check out what Nicki had to say below.

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After releasing an alternative rock album with his band WZRD earlier this year, Kid Cudi is ready to return with his third solo disc.

Cudders took to Twitter to make the announcement to his 510,000 followers early this morning.

"My new album is entitled 'indicud', " he wrote. "It will be my version of The Chronic 2001, some songs ill produce, others ill feat &/or play songwriter."

No release date information is available yet.

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MONTREALITY catches up with Styles P to see what the D-Block rapper has been up to lately. They discuss his upbringing, his book 'Invincible,' his current relationship with former fellow Ruff Ryder DMX, upcoming D-Block projects, the legacy he wants he wants to leave behind and a lot more.

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Meek Mill and French Montana are two of the hottest names in the streets right now so it's only right they team up for another collaboration, "Acting Up" that also features Rico Love and Wale.

Cameos from Stalley and Juelz Santana.

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Curren$y's highly anticipated album The Stoned Immaculate was just released several days ago. The New Orleans spitta teams up with 2 Chainz for the official video for "Capitol" off of the project.

Cop The Stoned Immaculate from iTunes.

What was supposed to be one of the biggest shows of Nicki Minaj's her career at Summer Jam 2012 turned into a war of words with event organizers. Eventually Nicki cancelled her performance altogether. Artists and fans have come down on both sides of the fence. Some have blamed Nicki for not performing, while others think it was wrong of Peter Rosenbergto criticize her given the fact that she was the headliner.

One artist who did perform at the event thinks Nicki did the right thing by pulling the plug on her performance.

In a letter sent out to her 45,000 Twitter followers today, Lauryn Hilloffered her support to Nicki. Check out what Lauryn had to say below.

No disrespect to Nicki, but I need to clear up an inaccuracy. I was not scheduled to be a special guest on her set at Summer Jam, I was invited by Nas to perform with him. I don't have details on exactly what transpired between the station and the artists, but I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. We can do better than this, there is a better way, or else 'we' (the proverbial we) find ourselves in danger of being hypocrites!!!

Ms. Lauryn Hill 

What's your take on the situation? Should Nicki have ignored the criticism and performed anyway?

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Cooler heads might prevail or maybe not tonight when Nicki Minaj makes an appearance on Funkmaster Flex's Hot 97 show.

It was less than a day ago when Nicki, taking the advice of her Young Money boss Lil Wayne, refused to perform at Summer Jam 2012 because of a diss aimed at her by Peter Rosenberg. Tonight Flex promises all questions will be answered and then some.

This is a must hear event. Flex's show starts at 7 P.M. Eastern time on www.Hot97.com

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Nas brought out a very special guest during his set Sunday at Summer Jam 2012. The Queens MC welcomed Lauryn Hill to the stage for performances of two crowd favorites, "Ready or Not" and "Lost Ones."

Check it out below.

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Producer Nottz drops a new gem featuring Dwele and Pusha T off of his upcoming EP "In My Mind," which will be released on June 6th.

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Summer Jam 2012 featured a who's who of hip hop artists from coast to coast. Big Sean represented Detroit well during his set. He brought out 2 Chainz and Pusha T to perform the G.O.O.D Music hit "Mercy."

Check out the footage below.

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As you have probably all heard by now, Hot 97 and YMCMB are feuding following Nicki Minaj's refusal to perform at Summer Jam 2012 Sunday [June 3rd] after the Harajuku Barbie was dissed by Peter Rosenberg.

It shouldn't be a major surprise that Hot 97's competitors would have something to say to say about the situation and today Power 105.1 responded to it by giving Hot 97 their "Donkey of the Day" award for dissing their headliner.

Peep the audio below as DJ Envy and Angela Yee go in.

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It seemed like the perfect union –  a marriage that brought together two of the country’s wealthiest families.

He was the multi-millionaire son of the late financier and tycoon Jimmy Goldsmith, she a scion of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

But now Ben Goldsmith and his music producer wife Kate, who have three children, are to divorce after she embarked on a passionate love affair with an American rap singer named Jay Electronica.

Ben and Kate Goldsmith pictured in December 2010. The couple are set to divorce after she embarked on a passionate love affair with an American rap star

Last night Mr Goldsmith confirmed the split, saying: ‘I’m pretty shell-shocked by everything. All I am thinking about now is my children.’ 

The marriage ended with a dramatic showdown at the family home in  Notting Hill, West London, on Wednesday morning.

Mr Goldsmith, 31, confronted his  30-year-old wife over explicit text messages and emails he found on her smartphone that she had received from and sent to the New Orleans-born hip-hop artist, who now lives in London and is one of her clients.

After initially denying the romance, Mrs Goldsmith confessed to the affair when her husband told her he had read the text messages.

During a heated altercation, Mr Goldsmith slapped his wife and kicked a child’s toy at her.

He then took the children to school. By the time he returned, she had called police and they were at the house to arrest him.

Last night a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed that officers were called to attend a domestic  disturbance in the couple’s street at 8am and arrested a man on suspicion of common assault.

The couple's marriage is on the rocks after Mr Goldsmith confronted his wife over explicit messages she had sent to rapper Jay Electronica (pictured)

Mr Goldsmith was released after being given a caution.

Sources say the marriage has become increasingly volatile and turbulent during the past two years, but added that Mr Goldsmith had never hit his wife before.

One friend of old Etonian Mr Goldsmith said yesterday that he was ‘devastated and miserable’ over the collapse of his marriage to Kate, whom he has known since he was 18.

He has moved out of the marital home to stay with friends and has a suitcase of clothes in his offices in the West End.

‘Ben is heartbroken, devastated and thoroughly miserable,’ a friend of the couple said. ‘He suspected Kate was cheating on him because she has been behaving increasingly erratically for some time.

‘She is obsessed with this chap called Jay Electronica who is one of her clients. She is always on the phone to him and out  with him until four or five in the morning most nights. Sometimes she even stays with him.

‘Ben was paranoid about their friendship months ago, but when he confronted her about an affair earlier this year she denied it.

‘Then last week he found a series of texts and email messages. They were very intense messages planning sexual liaisons.’

Ben, who has been drowning his troubles at his local pub The Scarsdale in West Kensington, where he has been overheard discussing the affair, has told friends that the marriage is over and that he intends to file for divorce on the grounds of adultery.

Kate inherited an £18 million fortune after her father, banker Amschel Rothschild, hanged himself at the Bristol Hotel in Paris in 1996. It is understood that her affair with Jay Electronica, a father of one whose real name is Timothy Elpadaro Thedford, has been going on for close to a year.

She has been in constant touch with him on Twitter and last month the  rapper posted a picture of Kate aboard a helicopter on his site. He also recently tweeted: ‘The handling of the heart is a very delicate art cause its paper thiiiiin.’ [sic]

Electronica, 36, who is signed to Kate’s record label Round Table,  was born and raised in the violent  crime-ridden Magnolia Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been rapping since 2004 and is known for controversial and explicitly sexual lyrics.

He has a three-year-old daughter with Grammy award-winning singer Erykah Badu. He keeps a relatively low profile in London but works with some of the industry’s biggest talents, including Jay Z and Sean  ‘P-Diddy’ Combs. He is also friendly with heiress and socialite Nicky Hilton and regularly tweets Kate’s brother James, who is believed to know about the affair.

Starting out: Ben and Kate at their 2003 wedding in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

The rapper is currently in LA following the death of his grandmother Dorothy Flowers, but he is expected to be reunited with Kate shortly.

Sources close to the Goldsmiths say that although the marriage has been on the rocks for some time – the couple had a trial separation  earlier this year – they are deeply shocked that Kate has left Ben for a bad-boy rapper.

Mr Goldsmith tried to save the marriage but has now told friends ‘there is no going back’.

A family friend told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Ben has said that Kate has confessed everything to him. He  has said this is definitely it and  the marriage is over. He will be filing for divorce on the grounds of adultery. He has moved out and is staying with friends.’

The split has been another blow to the wider Goldsmith family, who  are still reeling from the divorce  of Ben’s older brother, Tory politician Zac. His ten-year marriage to Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley collapsed in 2009 after he embarked on an affair with Kate’s younger sister Alice Rothschild.

In a bizarre twist to the family saga, Zac and Alice now live together in a house on the Goldsmiths’ family estate in Richmond, South-West London, and plan to marry as soon as Zac’s divorce is finalised.

Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Ben’s mother, is said to be devastated about his marital breakdown and spent last week looking after her grandchildren.

Meanwhile, Kate’s family are reported to be ‘worried sick’ about her new relationship. ‘Her mother and all her family are very concerned that Kate is going off the rails,’ says a friend.

‘Kate and Alice are talking but most of the family are not on speaking terms with her at the moment. The whole situation is very sad.

‘Ben and Kate have a wonderful family, a lovely house and everything they could have wanted. The problem is, Kate is hanging out with Jay all the time and she has become a different person. There have been some very explosive rows.

‘She’s out nearly every night until the early hours and has become obsessed with this rapper.

‘Her explanation to her husband has always been that it’s work and that’s why she and this guy have been spending so much time together.’

The source added that Ben had been worried about Electronica since January, but Kate assured him the relationship was a working one and nothing more.

‘They had a trial separation earlier this year. They both went off and did their own things. I think Ben saw a couple of girls, but there was nothing serious. Kate convinced Ben to give it another go, which he did.

‘He was furious when he found  out that Kate had been cheating on him with Electronica. He is totally heartbroken.’

The marriage took a knock two years ago when Kate became close to a friend of Ben’s, but the couple agreed to try to make things work.

Last summer they were reported to have suffered another rocky patch over Kate’s busy work schedule. Mr Goldsmith put the family home on the market in April.

The couple claimed they needed  to downsize, but the truth was that the problems in their relationship were becoming more evident.

Now the couple will have to thrash out a complicated and legally fraught divorce settlement. Zac’s divorce to Sheherazade is still not settled because of the financial structure of the Goldsmith dynasty.

Sir Jimmy left his family a £1.2 billion fortune, but much of the capital is tied up in trusts run by trust  managers. The brothers’ fortunes, and that of their sister Jemima, is mostly from inheritance income, not capital.

Meanwhile Kate, who went to  Bryanstone School in Dorset, is determined to continue working with Electronica and her record label and management company.

Ben and Kate started dating in 2000 when they were regulars in  the social pages of Tatler magazine, where Ben was frequently voted most eligible bachelor – topping even Prince William at the time.

In 2003 the couple celebrated their engagement at Annabel’s in Mayfair, the club named after Ben’s mother, and were married that September. Ben was 23 and Kate 21.

They followed a family tradition  of marrying young. Ben’s father eloped with his first wife, Bolivian tin heiress Isabel Patino, when  he was 21, and Ben’s older sister  Jemima surprised society when she married Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan at the same age.

Kate’s father was 25 when he  married her mother, heiress Anita Guinness, who was 23.

The Rothschild and Goldsmith families, blood relations who can trace their heritage to the Jewish ghettos of 18th Century Frankfurt, are powerful and influential in the worlds of finance and politics.

Sir Jimmy amassed his £1.2 billion fortune through pharmaceutical and banking interests.

Through his marriage to Lady Annabel, a close friend of the Prince of Wales, he was also a high-profile society figure.

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