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Besides being one of the best rappers on the planet, Eminem is also very knowledgeable about football. The Shady Records boss is a fan of his hometown Detroit Lions, who made the playoffs this year for the first time since 1999. He also follows the not as fortunate Dallas Cowboys.

GQ magazine caught up with Mr. Mathers to talk sports and get his pick to win the Super Bowl this year. They also got Super Bowl picks from Slaughterhouse members Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz.

GQ: Where were you when Tim Tebow nearly broke Twitter with that overtime pass last Sunday night?
Eminem: I was in my living room, watching, and I really wanted Pittsburgh to win. The Steelers are one of my favorite teams. It's all good, though. Tebow's doing some really incredible sh*t right now. He does certain things that other guys just can't do. The critics are always talking about his mechanics and sh*t like that, comparing it to the standard of what a quarterback should be, but he's defying them. Every week, he seems to defy them.

GQ: With Matt Stafford, Megatron, and Ndamukong Suh—there's a real-life football team in Detroit. What was having a good football team to root for like this season?
Eminem: Oh my god, it's incredible. It's so f*cking exciting. We've got pieces, man. We just need a few more things. We need to spend a few of our draft picks getting better in the secondary. [Lewis] Delmas is ill. Our defensive line is awesome. We get Mikel LeShoure and Jahvid Best back next year, too. We've got bona fide stars on our team. It feels good to finally root for a team that's headed in the right direction. F*ck, man, if you look at Stafford—this was his first full season. 5,000 yards! He did some incredible sh*t, and I can't grasp how he got left off the Pro Bowl team for Eli Manning.

GQ: You're a Cowboys fan, too. Can Dallas ever win a Super Bowl with Tony Romo as the quarterback?
Eminem: Yes, they can. I hate to sound f*cking cliché, but I truly believe that Romo gives them the best chance to win. It's very frustrating to watch them week in, and week out. They blew all those fourth quarter leads this year. Man, it's hard to be a football fan. You get invested in your teams and it literally can ruin your entire f*cking week. And just for the record—I am a Lions fan first and foremost. But growing up as a kid, the Lions were so bad for so long, that I picked up another team in the Cowboys.

GQ: Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers?
Eminem: I'm old school, so I'll take Brett Favre. But yo, Rodgers is insane. The sh*t that he's doing this year is just stupid.

GQ: Is Cam Newton the real deal?
Eminem: Cam Newton is no f*cking joke. I know everybody, before the season, had their doubts. They didn't think he'd work in the NFL. But that kid is ill. His sh*t is crazy. He can pass and run, and do them both extremely well.

GQ: And the Saints—they just knocked your Lions out of the playoffs. Could the 49ers slow them down?
Eminem: I'm really interested in that Saints-Niners game. Drew Brees is playing like a f*cking animal right now, but the way that the 49ers have turned that team around. It's crazy, right? That's going to be a hell of a game to watch. I think the Broncos and Patriots could be crazy, too. I don't know how far Houston's going to make it, though. Baltimore's tough.

GQ: If you're building your own NFL team, in any era, and you can pick your quarterback and head coach—who are you going with?
Eminem: Wow. This is hard. I want to…Man, this is hard. Joe Montana? Or Troy Aikman? I mean, Aikman was a winner, too. But I'll go Montana. And coach? F*ck. Tom Landry. Give me Tom Landry in that hat. Yeah. Can't go wrong with Joe Montana and Tom Landry.

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To read the full article head over to GQ.com

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Jay-Z's new song "Glory" about the birth of his daughter Blue Ivy Carter is making noise on the charts already. The song features Blue Ivy's first cries. Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel also discovered Beyonce's previously unheard vocals.

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People say it's generally bad luck to get your lover's name tattooed on your body because break ups happen frequently and you end up having to cover it up or have it removed. Iggy Azalea doesn't seem worried after getting A$AP Rocky's name tatted on her fingers.

What was supposed to be a musical collaboration between the beauty from Australia and Harlem's A$AP has ended up turning into much more for the two fast rising rap stars. Iggy recently spoke with Vibe about how the two became more than friends, her upcoming projects and what she thinks of Azealia Banks.

VIBE: Okay, so we have to talk about the A$AP tattoo. What’s the story behind that?
Iggy: Ugh, it’s hard to say without getting myself in trouble. [Laughs]

Say as much as you can.
I don’t know how to put it. It’s like… I… I don’t know… I love him and that’s all there is to it. We have our own thing going on and I’m not the only one that [got the tattoos]. I’ll tell you that. [Laughs] I’m just the only one with it on my fingers!

Now, is it that you love the movement or is there something going on between you and A$AP Rocky.
It’s not the movement. I’ll tell you that.

Okay, so saying as much as you can, if someone wanted to approach you for a date or something serious, would you be able to say “yes” or “no”?
I’d have to say that I’m taken.

Nice. Okay. When did you first meet the A$AP mob?
We have a mutual friend, Chase N. Cashe. He kinda showed me their stuff and he showed them mine. I came out to New York for the CMJ festival, and I couldn’t make their shows, but I got some of their numbers and was like, ‘When you’re out in LA and you do a show, I’ll come support.’ They ended up coming out a few weeks later, and Chase introduced us all. I was supposed to be doing a song with Rocky but… [Laughs]

I guess there was more than just a song there, huh?
[Laughs] Something was happening. There was definitely some chemistry. I mean, we would do a song, but with everything that’s kind of going on, I think it would be kinda corny right now. Like, 'Rocky and Iggy do a love duet!' [Laughs]

Aw! That’s the classic, unconventional love story.

It’s funny to me that everybody is so surprised about it. This should show you as a public how much you don’t see behind closed doors. Artists still do have personal lives. It feels like everything is so exposed and everybody knows everything, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s still private. It just came as a surprise like, 'What the f*ck,' but you guys just don’t know. [Laughs]

Yeah. I mean, people have a hard time separating real life from celebrity, so once they get a glimpse of that real life, they bug out.

And it’s scary! It’s scares me! I see how people twist regular music stuff, and I’m like, I don’t know about personal life. It’s like, you want to tell everyone about all kinds of different stuff, but I don’t want to ruin it by letting everybody in because not everybody’s happy for you.

Exactly.

I always say: Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happienes and let it come back, but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you and that’s really scary.

Are you frightened by your growing success?

Sorta. It’s weird. It’s like you’re scared about it ‘cause you see a lot of things snowballing that you don’t have control over and youre’ like ‘Whoa.’ And then, you’ll get scared that you’ll lose it too or that it won’t keep going. What if I fail? What I go back to regular [life]? What if I fall off? It’s like I’m scared to see what’s over the mountain, but I have a wolf chasing me and I have to keep going. I have to keep going.

A double-edged sword.

Yeah, for real. When I first put my first video out, I sat down with my friend at this café, and we’re like, ‘Holy sh*t, what did we just do?’ [Laughs] You just can’t be prepated for the criticism. When you’re in the industry, you get critiqued a lot, but when you see real strangers going in on you, you’re like, I’m not prepared for it at all. It’s hard not to be affected by it. When you first get exposed, you want to look [at the comments], but you have to train yourself. You know what I mean?

Do not look at your mentions!

Yeah, even with me and Rocky. ‘Is Rocky dating Iggy?’ It’s like, I don’t even want to see the comments on that. Or I’ll see, ‘No, Iggy’s not dating him. Iggy’s dating blah, blah.’ [Laughs] It’s like, whatever! Wrong, wrong, wrong!

You know, one thing that everyone is speaking up about also is you and Azealia Banks. What’s going on there?

I have no deal with her. I don’t know her personally. I said it about Kreyshawn, too. If I don’t know you personally, how could I have a problem with you? What would I have a problem about? I don’t know that person. If somebody wants to say something about me, that’s something I can’t control. But a stranger? Whether it’s an artist or just a person writing a comment, you could never say anything that could make me mad enough to feel like I have some personal problem with you. I don’t know you. I truly don’t understand it. I just keep making my own music, and I’m deaf to that. What is there to say? Nothing.

What's coming up next?
I'm doing a song with Yelawolf. I have a song with Dev coming out, and this is all going to be promotional songs before the album. I have a song with Skeme and Kendrick [Lamar] that we're putting out, and I'm trying to get a song with just me and Kendrick, like, really freestyling and stuff. 

Q and A written by Niki McGloster at VIBE. Pics from MissInfoTV.

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With the third installment of his Apply Pressure mixtape series on the way, Cassidy drops something new for the streets.

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Shanell's new single "My Button" gets official visual treatment as the YMCMB singer gears up for her debut album, which will be released later this year. The video features cameos from Lil Wayne, Mack Maine, Birdman and Lil Twist.

The track is produced by "N*ggas In Paris" beat maker Hit Boy.

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Common teamed up with the legendary Roots crew yesterday on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to perform "Celebrate" off of his brand new album The Dreamer/The Believer.

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Drake is apparently still heated at the tattoo artist who inked his name across a girl's forehead, then referred to him as a "soft goofnugget r&b dude" in an interview with Vice.com.

As we previously reported, Drake got angry when he heard about what the tattoo artist said about him.

“The guy who tatted is a f*cking a$$hole though, I will tell you that," Drake told Mando Fresco of Los Angeles’ Power 106 at the time. "I don’t f*ck with that guy. F*ck you to that tat artist by the way. And you should lose your job and should never do tattoos again and I don’t f*ck with you. And if I ever see you, I’ma f*ck you up.”

Now the tattoo artist, Kevin Campbell of L.A.'s Will Rise claims Drake did actually stop by his work place when he was in L.A. recently and sent his bodyguard in to confront him while he waited in the car. In a series of tweets Campbell describes what happened as he talks with other Twitter users.

Do you think Drake should have just left the situation alone? Or was he right to call out the goons?

Drake telling Mando Fresco he's going to f*ck Kevin Campbell up

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It's been several days since Common fired off his latest Drake diss, and Drizzy hasn't shot back. The good people over at EgoTrip put together this hilarious clip showing that the two might have become friends and deaded their beef.

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Lil Wayne is releasing a new book detailing his 2010 stint in prison.

"Gone Till November" will give fans an inside look into Weezy's 10-month bid on New York's Rikers Island on a gun charge. The rapper kept detailed diaries and notes of day to day events, people he met, his kids and family according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The book will be released November 28 through Grand Central Publishing, a division of the Hachette Book Group.

“We are thrilled to be publishing Wayne’s prison memoir," said Ben Greenberg, executive editor at Grand Central Publishing. "He kept detailed journals of his inner and outer life while he was on Rikers Island, and they certainly tell a story. They are revealing.”

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50 Cent sat down Andrea Chang of the L.A. Times while at CES 2012 to talk about his new SMS Audio headphone line and to find out if 50 considered himself a direct competitor to Dr. Dre's Beats By Dre.

Check out their Q and A below.

There are ear buds and headphones that were already on the market. You weren't satisfied. If you were satisfied you wouldn't have made your own product is that right? So tell me about some of the problems that you had with the existing products.

My headsets were breaking for one, that's why I was conscious of durability. And I don't see myself in direct competition with Dre.

Why?

I see myself in competition with all of the audio companies because the category is so big why would I just pinpoint Dre? People are conscious of it because of how close we are in relation. I understand it--in hip hop culture there's always the competitive nature in how we compete for different things they think that's what's actually going on, but it's not really.

Have you talked to Dre after you decided to come out with your own headphones?

I did following it, but it wasn't about headsets because it wasn't really on his radar like that. He was so happy because they just sold Beats. You get a $300 million dollar check you're pretty happy (laughs).

So no bad blood then between you guys kind of competing in the same space?

Nah, I don't think so.

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2 Chainz aka Tity Boi continues his independent grind that will soon lead to a major label record deal as he teams up with Grand Hustle boss T.I. for the remix to his hit record "Spend It."

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Things got very emotional for Amber Rose when she appeared on MTV's RapFix Live yesterday [January 11). Sway was asking if all the talk about her ex Kanye West bothered her current boyfriend Wiz Khalifa when she broke down.

"Wiz knows that I've never loved a man the way I love him. He knows that, he's very secure with that," Amber said. "He knows that know matter what I would never go back to that. and he also knows that I haven't talked in so long--so nobody really knows my side of the story. No-one knows what I've been through. The things that I've had to deal with when Kanye made his album. And he talked reckless about me on his album. And them I have people throwing things at me in the street because they're fans of Kanye's."

There was a long pause as Amber tried to compose herself. Sway tried to make her feel more at ease by telling her to take her time, but by that point the tears were starting to flow.

"I'm just crying because I don't deserve to bullied like that," she said. "I'm a nice girl, I don't bother anybody. And I keep my mouth shut because I don't want any trouble. But to be bullied through music and through stuff like that it's not fair to me. I don't deserve that."

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Nicki Minaj has been added to the list of performers at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards it was announced yesterday (January 11).

Minaj joins Jason Aldean ,Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift as the the first confirmed performers on the show which airs live on CBS on February 12.

Adele is also rumored to in talks to sing at the event.

Minaj is also nominated in four categories: Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance for "Moment 4 Life.", Best Rap Album for Pink Friday, and Album Of The Year (as a featured artist on Rihanna's Loud).

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The FBI has made public a 94-page file on late Wu Tang Clan member Ol' Dirty Bastard. The file claims that ODB and other Wu Tang Clan members were involved in various crimes ranging from drug dealing, murder, illegal guns, weapons possession and car jacking in the 80's and 90's.

In a post dated January 8, 2012, Rich Jones of the GUN.IO blog says he obtained the files from the FBI under the Freedom Of Information Act.

"One of my hobbies is liberating government documents using Freedom of Information Act requests," Jones writes. "The FBI's FOIA policy allows you to get the file of anybody who is deceased, so I filed a request to get all documents mentioning Russell Tyreese Jones, aka Ol' Dirty Bastard, aka ODB, aka Big Baby Jesus, member of the Wu-Tang Clan hip hop collective, who died in 2004 of an accidental drug overdose, a lethal mixture of cocaine and the prescription drug Tramadol, a synthetic opiate. The FBI responded with 94 pages of police reports, court proceedings and news clippings, which cover an assortment of crimes perpetrated by and against ODB."

The documents indicate that Bloods gang members were used in some instances as enforcers for the Clan.

Robert "Pooh" Johnson, a one time Wu Tang Clan affiliate was murdered on Staten, Island New York on December 30, 1997 with a gun that was allegedly illegally purchased in Stubenville, Ohio by someone associated with the Wu Tang Clan. According to the FBI file, Johnson's unsolved murder was ordered by someone within the Wu Tang Clan.

Affiliates that demonstrated loyalty and proved to be trustworthy were given recording contracts.

According to these papers, ODB was arrested more than 15 times on charges that ranged from resisting arrest to injuring a child, as well as assault, the attempted murder of a police officer, refusing to pay child support and being a felon in illegal possession of body armor.

ODB was himself the victim on violent crimes.

He was shot in the stomach in 1994 following an argument with another rapper. And in July 1998, ODB was shot in the back while being robbed of money and jewelry at an apartment in Brooklyn. The bullet entered his back and exited through an arm. He left the hospital nine hours later, before being cleared by doctors at St. John's Hospital in New York.

Several weeks after the 1998 shooting a man was shot to death in Ohio, and ODB was pulled over nearby. Police found guns in his car but he was never charged with the crime.

On January 15, 1999, OBD was involved in a shootout with New York City police.

To read ODB's full FBI file go HERE.

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DJ Whoo Kid came up to Thisis50 and spoke with Young Jack Thriller on a few stories that went down in his life. In this video, Whoo Kid talks about 50 Cent firing him

Blue Ivy Carter is not even a week old and already she's made history by becoming the youngest person to appear on the Billboard charts.

Jay-Z featured Blue Ivy's first cries at the end of "Glory," a song he recorded and released just a couple of days after Beyonce gave birth.

Officially billed as "featuring B.I.C.," an abbreviation of Blue Ivy Carter -- "Glory" enters Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at No. 74.

According to Billboard the song is Jay's 107th entry on the charts. The number is significant because it mirrors Blue Ivy's birth date of 1/07.

Little Blue sure knows how to make a grand entrance.

Billboard also explains why Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" didn't get the distinction first.

Taking a page out of Stevie Wonder's proverbial book on how to be a sentimental musical dad, Jay-Z recorded his precious girl's first seconds of life -- her breathing, cries and coos -- just as Wonder did on his iconic song "Isn't She Lovely," written for his then-newborn daughter Aisha.

 

Why does B.I.C. claim the mark for youngest charted artist and not Wonder's girl? Two reasons: young Aisha was never officially credited on "Lovely" and the song did not reach a Billboard chart until Jan. 29, 1977 (when it entered Adult Contemporary at its No. 23 peak), almost two years after she was born.

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Kanye West might want to tighten up his security because he's got one super crazy fan on the loose.

A video recently surfaced of a woman who had tatted Yeezy's name across her butt. In the video she explained it's something she's always wanted to do.

"I put Kanye’s name on my a$$ because this is something I wanted to do a while back," she says in the clip. "I put him on my arm a year ago. And I did it because that's all I think about is Kanye. I wanted him on my a$$ because I already live my life where that's his a$$. So, I might as well put it there. Now I don't care if you don't sleep good at night...if you sing all of your tunes for him because you love him so much. He's mine OK."

Not satisfied with putting his name all over her body, this woman has taken it a step further by legally changing her name from Linda Resa (she wouldn't reveal her former last name) to Kanye Resa West.

DJ MoonDawg of Chicago radio station WGCI invited Ms. West up to the station to find out out just what the hell is going on in her head.

Peep the madness below.

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