As we draw closer to the August release date of Lil Wayne's new album 'Tha Carter IV' lawsuits keep pouring in from producers wanting to get paid for their work on it's predecessor, 'Tha Carter III.'

Just within the last week, Wayne has been sued twice. First by producer David Kirkwood, who claims he's owed $1.5 million, then the production team of Play-N-Skillz sued him for $1.5 million for producing the hit song "Got Money."

"A Milli" producer Bangladesh sued Weezy for $500,000 last May, and in March of this year Darius ‘Deezle' Harrison sued the rapper for $20 million for his production work on the album.

Add Jim Jonson's accusation that he was never paid for his work on "Lollipop" and you have five producers who are still looking to get paid three years later.

Signeo USA, the company that produces Ludacris' Soul by Ludacris headphones has fired off a lawsuit at their rivals over at Beats By Dr Dre.

While details are kind of sketchy, AllHipHop reports that the lawsuit, which was filed on June 2nd in The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, names Beat Electronics LLC.  LLC is owned by Dr Dre and produces his high end headphones . Also Monster Cable, a home theater cables manufacturing company was also named in the suit.

The Beats by Dr. Dre brand has done well since they hit the market. Dre most recently designed a BBDD sound system for the new Chrysler 2012 300S.

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Now that ink has dried on the reportedly hefty signing bonus she received from Columbia Records, the hard work begins. For Kreashawn her job is clear. Convince the rap world she and her White Girl Mob can be taken seriously.

Her youtube hit "Gucci Gucci" got people's attention. But it's a recent tweet with her using the N-word that has people talking.

“People are actin so funny omg lol… I got 200k views… not 200k dollars…WTF YOU WANT FROM A N*GGA?! DMX VOICE." she wrote on twitter.

The 21-year old, real name Natassia Zolot, defends her use of the word. Saying she is a product of her environment, having grown up in East Oakland, in an area called "murder dubs."

"Personally in my songs I don't use it at all. If I'm freestyling and I said it, that's just for that point in time. she told the OC Times "Any songs I'm writing I don't use it. But like I said in Oakland, Asian people will call Mexicans that. A Mexican will call a black dude that. A white person will call an Asian that. Everyone calls each other that. I feel like that word is used in the low income community more than anything. I can see if I was some rich crazy trick and I was just saying this because it's hip-hop. No, I was raised around this. Me and my sisters were all raised around this. People call me that. But personally I'm not flaunting it around. I don't say it in my music because of how, if I'm putting myself out there to the world there are going to be a lot of people who don't like it."

I guess "growing up around it" would explain why Kreayshawn's sister V-Nasty of the White Girl Mob uses the word almost every other sentence in videos we've seen of her freestyling.

Is it ever ok for white people to use the N-word?

Kreayshawn "Gucci Gucci"

Kreayshawn's sister V-Nasty of White Girl Mob

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Lebron James is not having a good series so far in the NBA Finals. His team is down 3 games to 2 in the best of 7 series with the Dallas Mavericks. To make matters worse, he's had to deal with crazy rumors that his girlfriend and mother of his two kids, Savannah Brinson slept with fellow NBA star Rashard Lewis recently causing his bad play on the court.

The rumor mill begin to spit out so many wild stories, Lewis finally decided to call Houston radio station 97.9 The Box to flatly deny the allegations that were started initially by Box personality. Nnete.

"I can most definitely tell you that those rumors are 100% false. They're not true. I don't know how it came up." Lewis said. "I think if anything they need to let the man play. He's trying to win a championship and the media putting all this negative stuff out about him aint gonna do anything. but mess with his head."

Lebron had a triple double is last night's losing effort for the Heat, but again he did not carry the team on his back down the stretch. Some would argue that he shouldn't have to carry a team that already features talents like Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade.

Fair or not though, it's Lebron who will take the brunt of the criticism if his team loses.

Do you think the pressure is getting to Lebron?

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Slaughterhouse emcee Crooked I drops a new video in support of his latest EP 'Million Dollar Story.'

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Check out the first official video from Drewtradition's upcoming album, Carry On Tradition. "High Enough" features Chace Infinite, Ryu, and Ras Kass.

Carry On Tradition features appearances by B-Real, Freddie Gibbs, Apathy, Young De, El Prez, Planet Asia, Sick Jacken, Krondon, Davinci, Tristate, Damani, and more! The album will release this summer.

Stars will be out in abundance to perform at the 2Pac 40th Birthday Concert Celebration. The event will be held June 16 in Atlanta at Atlanta Symphony Hall.

2Pac's mom, Afeni Shakur and comedian Mike Epps will host the event, while Erykah Badu will headline.

Other acts on the bill include Meek Mill, 8-Ball and MJG, Roy Ayers, Bun B, Too $hort and many more.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation for the Arts.

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Lil Wayne's first unplugged concert airs Sunday on MTV.

The network released a preview of the concert showing Wayne performing "Money On My Mind." The song originally appears on the 2005 album 'Tha Carter II.'

To catch the rest of the show tune in Sunday June 12, at 9 P.M. eastern.

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Rakim is definitely one of the best rappers ever. He's revered by other rappers and fans alike. He's earned that respect by being a great lyricist.

During a trip to the UK for a concert last month, "The God Emcee" was asked by Soul Culture to name his favorite verse ever.

He selected a verse from the 1992 song "The Punisher."

Check out the video below as he explains why he picked that song, then spits some of the lyrics.

Rakim Speaks On His Favorite Verse

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Rapper Lupe Fiasco has never been one to bite his tongue as far as his political views are concerned. He's gone into even deeper water now by labeling President Obama a terrorist, during an interview with CBS News’ “What’s Trending.”

"In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. " he said. "For me, I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because it’s really just some oil, which we can really get on our own.”

The rapper also said he sees voting as a waste of time.

"I don’t get involved in the political process because it’s meaningless, to be honest. First of all I’m a real big believer if I’m gonna vouch for someone, then I’m gonna stand behind everything that they do. That’s just how I am as a human being. So politicians aren’t gonna do that because I don’t want you to bomb some village in the middle of nowhere.”

Check out the full interview below and let us know what think of Lupe's comments.

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Rap and country collided last night at the 2011 CMT Awards.

Ludacris lent his vocals to country music singer Jason Aldean's song "Dirt Road Anthem remix.” The Nashville crowd seemed to like the collaboration.

Ludacris tweeted that history had been made and that an official remix co-produced by Big K.R.I.T. would be available on iTunes beginning today.

What did you think of the performance?

Beyonce became the latest victim of a premature album leak, when her new cd '4' hit the internet three weeks ahead of it's June 28 scheduled release date.

The singer addressed the issue via her Facebook page.

My music was leaked and while this is not how I wanted to present my new songs, I appreciate the positive response from my fans. When I record music I always think about my fans singing every note and dancing to every beat. I make music to make people happy and I appreciate that everyone has been so anxious to hear my new songs.

No word on whether or not her record label Sony will move up the original release date.

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Slim Thug and his Boss Hogg Outlawz drop a heater off their upcoming album 'Serve and Protect 3.'

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We previously reported on a story about goons out looking for Prodigy, wanting to do him harm, because of his hard hitting autobiography 'My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy.'

Infamous Mobb's Ty Nitty, Capone, Cadillac Tah and Mike Delorean of Bars & Hooks have all made video replying to the book. Either denying the allegations or trying to distance themselves from past felonious capers.

When the biggest goon of them all Don Contablinsky made his videos titled "F*ck Prodigy" some speculated it might even be P himself, poking fun at the others by parodying them.

Check out the Don's latest video and tell us what you think.

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Karrine Steffans became famous by claiming she slept with a who's who of celebrities and athletes. Her best-selling novel, "Confessions of a Video Vixen" named names, places and events.

Stars like Usher, Diddy, Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap were all mentioned in the book Steffans now admits was all a big lie. A hoax to sell more books to a public what was all too eager to believe her tales of sex and violence.

In a new youtube video, a half dressed Steffans finally comes clean.

"The vixen doesn't exist, but you can't tell people that because they won't believe that," she said. "It was all fabricated. I didn't even name my books. 'Confessions of a Video Vixen' -- I would have never named that book that. Somebody else named it."

In the videos, parts of a documentary being shot by My-kel Monroe, we don't see Steffans apologize or even sound remorseful for trashing people's names just to make money. Instead she talks about not wanting to a 45-year old video vixen.

"Who the hell wants to be a 45-year old vixen?" she continued. "Pamela Anderson couldn't even pull it off. I don't wanna be Pam Anderson. I don't want to be 40-something years old and can't get a job, because I'm 45-years old and my thing is being sexual."

Queens rapper Kool G. Rap, who has a son with Steffans received some of the harshest criticism in the book.

G. Rap told AllHipHop he didn't feel bad about the things that were written about him because he knew the allegations of him abusing her were false.

"I'm not the monster she tried to portray in her book," G Rap said. "In her first book, she mixed lies with truth. And captured an audience that wasn't able to decipher what was true from what was false. If I feel I'm not guilty of anything, I'm not going to vigorously defend myself, I know what it is. It seemed like her story was a story and that's it. It's always two sides to a story. It's her story, my side of the story and the truth. And I would consider my story more closer to the truth. I'm not trying to put out a book. If I did put out a book, it wouldn't have anything to do with any of that."

Karrine Steffans Admits Her Video Vixen Books Were All Lies Pt 1 of 3

Karrine Steffans Admits Her Video Vixen Books Were All Lies Pt 2 of 3

Karrine Steffans Admits Her Video Vixen Books Were All Lies Pt 3 of 3

Kool G. Rap Responds To Karrine Steffans Lies