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<p>Another "Jay" has been added to the Roc Nation roster. It was announced yesterday (Nov. 12) that New Orleans rapper Jay Electronica signed with Jay-Z's personal imprint, joining acts J. Cole and Willow Smith at the recently formed label. And to celebrate, Jay-Z threw a lavish party at New York club The Box that neither Jay E, nor anyone else in attendance, would soon forget.<br />
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News <p>Justin Bieber is apparently very serious about his "rap" career, so much so, that the youngster is planning on releasing a mixtape with Young Money member Lil' Twist. According to Twist, the teen heartthrob will take his flow to a full album.<br />
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News <p>After taking to his Twitter account to express his outrage over an interview with Matt Lauer, the full “Today” show interview reveals why. During the pre-taped chat, things took a turn for the worse after the network made ‘Ye watch a clip of former President Bush speaking about the rapper’s infamous remarks.<br />
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<p>G.O.O.D. Music rapper Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon II album is reportedly en route to sell up to 220,000 records in its first-week on store shelves.<br />
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Based on one-day estimates, Cudi's new record will debut on the charts amongst other new albums including Cee-Lo Green's The Lady Killer.<br />
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News <p>As most of you hip-hop fiends know, Kanye West’s highly anticipated new album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" leaked online Tuesday afternoon. Now remember, the album doesn’t officially come out until November 22nd. But has that ever stopped the internet before? Of course not. What’s funny is, to our generation, the day the album leaks online is the real release date. Who cares when it comes out in stores?</p>
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<p>Lil Wayne may have spent the past eight months doing a bid at Rikers Island, but his personal life chased him to the clink. While serving his bid, Weezy was slapped with paternity papers by a Missouri woman claiming that they conceived an illegitimate child back in 2002, and now, the 8-year-old child's grandmother has obtained a court order that forces the rapper to submit to a paternity test.<br />
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News <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.billboard.com/news/artist/wiz-khalifa/783995" rel="nofollow">Wiz Khalifa</a>, the Pittsburgh MC who has been climbing the Hot 100 with his single "Black & Yellow," was arrested last night (Nov. 8) on marijuana charges in Greenville, NC, the <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/11/09/entertainment-us-nc-rapper-charged_8088945.html?boxes=Homepagebusinessnews" target="_blank">Associated Press</a> reports.
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News <p><b>With his debut project, Crash Landing dropping Exclusively on HotNewHipHop on November 15th - 23 year old Los Angeles Rapper Kid Ink is here with HNHH for an exclusive interview.<br />
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SD: It’s almost showtime, Ink. Are you nervous in any sense?</b></p>
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News Lil Wayne gets three years of probation.
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<p>Lil Wayne has been giving his fans glimpses of his first day of freedom with a series of pictures, and the latest shows the I Am Not a Human Being MC partaking in a little business and pleasure.<br />
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<p>While this might have been a bit too heady for our holiday gift guide, Yale University has recently announced that it will publish 'The Anthology of Rap.' The book is billed a 1000-page collegiate text that studies the impact of hip-hop within the African-American community, as well as the current role of rap lyrics as a strand of modern poetry. Yale Publishing mainly focuses on academic texts, so this is yet another indication that hip-hop as gone all the way from the streets to the academy since its birth in the late '70s.<br />
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