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New Music: Usher's Here I Stand:
2008-05-21 21:38:00
1. Intro2. Love In This Club3. This Ain?t Sex4. Trading Places5. Moving Mountains6. What?s Your Name7. Prayer For You Interlude8. Something Special9. Love You Gently10. Best Thing11. Before I Met You12. His Mistakes13. Appetite14. What?s A Man To Do15. Lifetime16. Love In This Club Part II17. Here I Stand 18. Will Work For LoveDownload it here.
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Hip Hop Dx's interview with Plies:
2008-05-21 20:31:00
On the arrival into Atlantic Records to interview the Florida rapper, Plies , the television in their lobby spotlights the growing tensions after the Sean Bell verdict sent shivers down the spines of black New Yorkers everywhere. The mind behind the ?100 Years? record has served as the voice of the unheard since he first dropped ?Tell Dem Krackers Dat? back in 1999. After the success of his debut album The Real Testament, Plies was able to utilize his name to continue to bring awareness to the hood. But as they say, ?with great power comes great responsibility,? and Plies ? the man ? fell under scrutiny via his YouTube casting call for his Bust It Baby reality show. The Ft. Myers, Florida self-proclaimed ?goon? sits down with HipHopDX for an introspective look at how his career affects his messages, if his reality show is a good or bad look for black women nationwide and why, if you have enough money, you can buy your community service hours.HipHopDX: What?s up with you, man?Plies: W...
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TQ on CASH MONEY RECORDS:
2008-05-21 20:11:00
From AHH:By TQ:I think it was ?99... The Lakers are in the playoffs. I could give a f**k about anything but Purple and Gold right now. I just got a funky a** TV, and I'm stuck on the 405 in traffic trying to get home and puff me one. The first quarter just ended, and I'm watching it in my car. Ni**as is blowing up my phone like it's Christmas... "Dawg are you listening to the radio?" I'm like, ?No ni**a I'm watching' the Lakers! Why the f**k aren't you?? My homie tells me that ?Them Cash Money ni**as are up at the station calling you out!? Calling me out? I thought it was some beef, but who the hell is Cash Money? "Anyway, hit me after the game pimp?"That?s when I get a two-way from my dawg Julio G. He?s like, ?Man if you around you need to come to the station. These N.O. cats Baby and Slim wanna meet you.? Now this is the West Coast. Outside of Outkast and Master P, the South wasn?t bustin? a grape out here at the time. Now don?t get me wrong, I love South music, just not as...
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Hiding in Hip Hop: Terrence Dean's down low sexcapade with the industry:
2008-05-21 20:01:00
Dean is at Keenen Ivory Wayans' birthday party. "There were two male celebrity actors standing a few feet in front of us. They didn't notice us because the club was dark. Both men are young and very attractive and have starred in some comedic and dramatic films. One of the actors, "Junior," is a tall, muscular, brown-skinned brother who got his start in television and is known for his comedic roles in films. He never married, but has a couple of children with a girlfriend. The other dark-skinned actor, "Fritz," has been in a few movies and has starred in a popular television drama." The two are obviously a gay couple, which surprises Dean, although he says there has been much speculation about "Junior."Deezee Say's: I personally always thought that the Wayan's clan had some type suspect ways, way back in the era of In Living Color. Although all the Wayan's men are married and living the lifestyle on completely straight black men, I'm almost sure that they have dipped and dived...
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Nigga Please!
2008-05-21 00:42:00
"Sean John is fashion Viagra. I?ve had 40 year-old men tell me that once they started wearing Sean Jean, everything changed for them, [including] their sex life."
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Nas's new Single: NIGGER
2008-05-21 00:39:00
?People [are] afraid of criticism/ But I always put myself in this sacrificial position/ ?Anytime we mention our condition, our history or existence, they calling it reverse racism.?"In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is the king,? Nas raps as he leads into the chorus, ?They say we N-I-double G-E-R / We are, much more / but still we choose to ignore the obvious/ Man, this history don?t acknowledge us /we were scholars way before colleges.?Click here to listen to Nas? ?N.*.*.*.*.R.?
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New Music:
2008-05-21 00:37:00
? Ciara feat. Ludacris - High Price (full) - listen? Keri Hilson - Energy (snippet) - listen? Solange Knowles - I Decided (Freemasons Remix) (full) - listen
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New Music:
2008-05-21 00:31:00
Gorilla Zoe - ?I?m Dumb?Soulja Boy - ?Marco Polo? (Feat. Bow Wow)
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Queen Pen and Plies were dating?
2008-05-21 00:29:00
Real Recognizes Real is hearing whispers that there might have been more to the Queen Penn domestic abuse claim that first meets the eye (For the original story, click here). Word going around is that Queen Penn's baby father suspected that she may have been cheating with rapper Plies . And that allegedly is what caused him to act up with Penn.Assuming that is what happened. In our book, that doesn't excuse anything...Photo credit to Whatspoppin.net
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MJG gears up his solo attempt:
2008-05-21 00:17:00
MJG, who serves as half of the acclaimed duo 8Ball & MJG, is preparing to release his first solo effort in over a decade. This Might Be the Day will serve as MJG's official follow up to 1997's No More Glory. The album, which features the lead single "Shades," will be released July 1 on 404 Music, and also has appearances from 8Ball, Gucci Mane and others.An album entitled Pimp Tight was also released April 29 on the Sacramento based, independent label Real Talk Entertainment. However, 404 Music's president and CEO Nina K. Easton maintains that This Might Be the Day is the official solo album, as it is the only one of the albums to be released in conjunction with MJG Muzik.Either way, the album will serve as the third release featuring 8Ball & MJG within the last two months. Suave House partnered with Koch Records to release We Are the South (Greatest Hits) on May 13. In hopes of preventing fans from becoming confused by the three different releases on three different labe...
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R.Kelly's sex tape is shown in court?
2008-05-21 00:06:00
Over @ SR.com:There was a freak show in a Chicago courtroom today courtesy of the U.S. prosecutor?s office. In the opening statements of R. Kell y?s child porn trial, prosecutors called Kelly a child pornographer and showed jurors the controversial sex tape that is at the center of the charges against the singer.The tape shows Kelly engaged in sexual acts with a minor under 15. Prosecutors say the girl in the tape was 13 at the time. She has steadfastly refused to testify against Kelly prompting speculation that she was paid off. Kelly faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. The trial is expected to last 2 weeks.If you haven?t seen the R.Kelly child molestation sex tape and you are 21 or older, click here.
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R.Kelly's brother to testify against him?
2008-05-19 23:37:00
- R Kell y was both emotionally and physically abusive towards his ex-wife. - R Kelly and his ex-wife had an off the wall sex life, that includes frequent ménage-a-trois.- R Kelly has had a number of inappropriate relationships with underage women - including a sexual relationship with deceased singer/actress Aaliyah.- R Kelly molested his own niece.- R Kelly has engaged in numerous gay relationships and his hit song Trapped in the Closet is loosely based on R Kelly's life.
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New Music:
2008-05-19 23:34:00
Plies ft Janet Jackson and Ne-Yo ?Bust it Baby Pt 3?
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Nas is forced to change the title of his "Nigger" LP?
2008-05-19 23:31:00
That?s right. The album title of the century has been changed. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that a representative for Def Jam has confirmed to them that hip-hop artist Nas has made an eleventh-hour decision to change the title of his new album from N*gger to simply Nas.L.A. Reid, Island Def Jam Music Group chair, publicly denied widespread reports that label execs were uncomfortable with his decision. ?We stand firmly behind and beside our artists with pride and with pleasure,? Reid told MTV News at the time. ?Anything Nas wants to do, I completely stand beside him.?Last week in a MTV News story, Nas suggested he was facing new pressure. ?Everybody is trying to stop the title?. Record stores are gonna have a problem in this day and time selling a record with that title. Who knows what?s gonna turn out and be on that title? Who knows what that title will be?? Either way, the album is due in stores on July 1st.
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Wendy Williams' husband has a sex tape out, Watch it Below:
2008-05-19 22:05:00
Click here if you want to see it. It's his fat ass and some fat chick.
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Nigga PLEASE! 50 disrespects the south rappers:
2008-05-19 22:01:00
No Cents went on the attack of artists from the South on 106th and Park Friday:On the South, Fif was less than complimentary when asked how the south stays so unified and the East coast doesn?t.?New York City is the mecca,? 50 said. ?It?s the essence of where it comes from. The competitive nature of the art form it makes us compete more. Their kinda in a survival circle ?like if we all hold on we might could stay close enough to the bay?. If you add them all up they?d be like one me. All of them.?Via SOHH
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Rapper Queen Pen in Abusive relationship with Baby Daddy?
2008-05-19 21:58:00
Queen Pen, a tough-talking rapper and advocate for domestic violence victims, is in fear for her life as police hunt her ex-boyfriend, who allegedly pummeled her in front of their children and broke her Grammy Award in a fit of blind rage. Pen, 35, said she was attacked May 9 after an argument, during which her ex - Kendall Wicker, 29 - trashed her East Flatbush apartment, put a brick through her windshield and threatened to kill her.The outburst came three months after Pen told police that Wicker, who is the father of two of the rapper?s five children, punched her in the face so hard during a dispute that she needed oral surgery to secure teeth knocked loose by the blow. A police report of the incident makes no mention of a physical assault and neither Pen nor police have seen Wicker since the latest incident.Source
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Palow keeps it real on MASE:
2008-05-19 21:54:00
Polow Da Don on why Ma$e wasn?t in Rich Boy?s ?Get This Paper? video (Source):?Mase had got caught up. There was a rumor that he was looking for a transvestite. The video shoot was the day after. It was crazy because people were killing him on the radio. He was like, ?I ain?t worried about that. I?m on the way.? He just never showed up.?
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T.I ain't from Bankhead, and niether is Shawty Lo: Who really cares?
2008-05-19 21:51:00
Here's what the tipster is saying about T.I.'s questionable hood claim:"T.I's high school is in Riverdale in Clayton County, (Outskirts Of ATL). It is not close to Bankhead at all this place where you would probably want to move to get away from the trap. Bankhead is westside the city clayton county (southside) is where riverdale is it is 30 or more mile away from the city of Atlanta".[Source]With all this stuff coming from Shawty Lo saying T.I. not from Bankhead. What he fails to mention he hasn't lived in Bankhead his whole life either. That little punk from Moultrie, GA, home of the world's largest tractor show. Yea that's hood for ya. How exactly or when he got to Bankhead I'm not sure, but I do know all his family, the Walkers, all live down here. Alot of people I know all say Shawty Lo lived down here for sometime. It isn't uncommon for Lo to be seen down here. What it all boils down to is Shawty Lo got mad at T.I. cuz T.I. wouldn't get on his song and I heard this al...

New Music:
2008-05-19 21:49:00
Beyonce - "Should Have (Now I Know)Beyonce - "New Shoes""Kick Him Out (Next Ex)"
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New Music:
2008-05-19 21:43:00
Blood Raw - Get Away (Prod. by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)Blood Raw - Trying To Get Home (Feat. Lyfe Jennings)Blood Raw Feat. Mannie Fresh - Almost There Blood Raw - I Got Problems (Prod. by The Runners)
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New Music:
2008-05-19 21:40:00
Ja Rule Feat. D-Lyfe - Love Me No More (Remix)Bonus: Ja Rule Feat. Mary J. Blige - Press OnJean Grae Feat. Busta Rhymes - Love Thirst Remix
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New Music:
2008-05-19 21:38:00
David Banner - Hello ("The Greatest Story Ever Told" coming July 15th!) Mike Jones - ?Cutty Buddy? Feat. T-Pain, Lil? Wayne & Twista
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HOTTEST MCs of 08 list: This is some bullshit!
2008-05-19 20:33:00
After last year's hotly debated 'Hottest MCs In The Game' countdown, MTV aired the 2008 edition of the special yesterday. Check out the list below of who the network's panel (MTV News Hip-Hop Brain Trust) consider to be the top 10 MCs right now. The main criteria when compling the list was simply MCs who have been prominent within the last year. This is the most bullshit list ever. Even worst than last year. I understand that they said who had been prominent ( Who has stood out more) within the last year, but then they should have changed it to "Prominent MCs" in the game instead of "Hottest Mcs in the game". Yeah, every time they release these bullshit full list I get real heated, so if you agree with this wack ass list you mind as well scroll down or up to another post. I respect all artist that have made the list wheter they belong or don't. I just feel that some rappers are placed in the wrong slot if they should have been placed on the damn list at all!10. T.I. (#2 in 200...
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New Music: Papoose
2008-05-17 00:44:00
Papoose has recorded ?My Girl,? a song for the special women in his life including fiancé Remy Ma. ?I wish [the judge] could lock me up and let you go,? Pap raps. Papoose ?My Girl?
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Turk to be released from jail?
2008-05-17 00:24:00
Lil Waynes fellow Hot Boys member Turk , or as the government knows him Tab Virgil Jr., might be getting out of jail soon. Turk was arrested in 2004 after a drug raid went bad in Memphis, TN. Turk was charged with second-degree murder for shooting a SWAT team member and took a ?best interest plea,? which means he disputed some of the charges, but agreed on a set punishment. He was sentenced to 10 years behind bars and pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.His lawyers appealed and he was granted to make oral arguments before the judge. The Court of Criminal Appeals rescinded Turk?s guilty plea, ruling that the rapper entered the plea without fully understanding the consequences. May 27 is the big day where Turk will find out if he will be released on time served, or if he will get a new trial. ?I?ll be home by the summer,? he recently said. ?My whole time was fighting, man. Just trying to get back in court and get back out. That?s how I stayed focused.? Turk said ...
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Akon responds about his lies?
2008-05-17 00:22:00
As we previously reported, the Smoking Gun published an article about a month ago that claimed Akon maunfactured most of his criminal past, including being the ringleader of a ?notorious? car-theft ring, plus they said he didn?t spend four and a half years in prison, as he has said. The Smoking Gun said that Akon spent only a few months in an Atlanta jail for stealing a single car, according to police, court and corrections records. Akon is now responding to these statements and talking about how the report has changed his rep. ?It?s an article,? he said. ?Everyone?s entitled to their own opinions and views. At the end of the day, the Konvict movement is keeping me out of jail. It?s nothing I want to glorify or go back to. Honestly, I?m glad something like that came out, because it opens the minds of other people who?re thinking positive.?Deezee Say's: WTF? Is he saying that he did lie? Or that he didn't? Just from this response we can tell that this ugly ass nigga was lying?
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New Music: Jennifer Hudon:
2008-05-17 00:19:00
? JENNIFER HUDSON - SPOTLIGHT
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Get your own "Bust It Baby" gear:
2008-05-16 23:03:00
In conjunction with the release of "DEFINITION OF REAL," Plies is holding a special "Real Things" promotion in which two diamond chains will be awarded to a pair of very lucky fans. The promotion ? which will run for three weeks, beginning on the album?s June 10th street date ? allows fans to enter for a chance to win either a diamond "Plies Bust It Baby " chain or a diamond "Goon" chain.Plies is also offering exclusive swag to fans who pre-order "DEFINITION OF REAL" via the Atlantic Records Media Store (located at store.atlanticrecords.com/>). In addition to an immediate MP3 download of "Bust It Baby Part 2," buyers will receive a FREE girl?s "Bust It Baby" baby-t.Deezee: I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. I promise you!
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Big Boi to release album "Sir Lucious Left Foot" in late summer:
2008-05-16 23:00:00
Atlanta rapper Big Boi has been out of the spotlight and off the charts for quiet some time now. That, however, is about to change as he gears up to deliver his first solo album, "Sir Luscious Left Foot...Son Of Chico Dusty."The LP, which is set to hit stores this coming August, is being produced mostly by Organized Noize, who handles a vast amount of Outkast 's material including the entire Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik LP and "So Fresh, So Clean" from Stankonia."I'm shooting to finish the album by the end of August," Big Boi tells Billboard.com."This album is Big Boi to the extreme," he continues. "It's like a recession special. I'm talking about what's going on in the world, with everything from rising gas prices to the election. It's just my insights on life up to this point."Mary J. Blige, Andre3000, T.I., & Raekwon will all be appearing on the album.The first single, "Royal Flush" featuring Andre 3000 and Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon has already hit the airwaves with a v...
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