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News <p>Chris Brown has been ordered by a Judge to remain on Supervised Probation as he completes his sentence for beating his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna.</p>
<p>This Thursday Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, showed up without the r'n'b singer himself for a hearing. Geragos asked that his supervised probation end because of Brown's good behaviour. Superior Court Judge George Lomeli agreed that Brown was on good behaviour however ordered that he continue to report to a probation officer in his home state of Virginia.</p>
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News <p>Alori Joh, a friend and affiliate of Kendrick Lamar and the Top Dawg Entertainment crew, passed away between Tuesday, February 7th and Wednesday, February 8th, at the age of 25. As of now the details of her death are scarce.</p>
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News <p>So the rumour is that Earl Sweatshirt, a member of Odd Future, is back home from a reform school in Samoa. A new twitter account appeared, apparently his, <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#%21/earlxsweat"><span class="screen-name screen-name-earlxsweat pill">@earlxsweat.</span></a></p>
<p>Tyler, The Creator, tweeted, "Oh. Thebe has... I mean Earl Has A Twitter @earlxsweat."</p>
<p>Earl Sweatshirt's first tweet was simply "Home," and then "nigga need followers. give me 50,000 and i’ll release this shit for everybody."</p>
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News <p>Underground hip-hop artist Tech N9ne is heading on tour, starting in March, hitting 90 cities in the States along with Machine Gun Kelly and more. Peep the dates for the <strong>Hostile Takeover</strong> tour.</p>
<p>March 24 – The Midland Theatre – Kansas City, MO</p>
<p>March 25 – Cotillion Ballroom – Wichita, KS</p>
<p>March 26 – Cains Ballroom – Tulsa, OK</p>
<p>March 28 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK</p>
<p>March 29 – Palladium Ballroom – Dallas, TX</p>
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News <p>Collaborations between hip-hop artists seems to be on the rise, some good (Jay-Z & Kanye) and some not-so-good (Gucci Mane & V-Nasty), however if Schoolboy Q and A$AP Rocky collab I have feeling that'd be dope.</p>
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News <div>While Missy Elliott's follow-up to 2005's The Cookbook is nearing Detox-like delays, and Timbaland's last release was 2009's Shock Value II, it appears the frequent collaborators are ready to drop their next solo projects - at the same time.</div>
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<div>"Me and Missy are both coming with our albums at the same time, and it will be in June," explained Timbo in an interview with MTV News.</div>
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News <div>During the height of Hip Hop’s days of selling quasi-legal mixtapes in the streets, DJ Whoo Kid found himself on the wrong side of an industry beef. After a feud between the Terror Squad and Roc-a-fella camps that allegedly began at Club Carbon, a few overt and subliminal diss records were thrown back and forth. As was customary at the time, Whoo Kid put a Sauce Money diss track directed at Big Pun on one of his mixtapes.</div>
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News <p>Last night, February 6th, Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z performed for a sold-out show at the famed Carnegie Hall. The performance has elicited praise all around. The concert was put on to raise money for the United Way of New York City and the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation, so tickets were pricey, some being re-sold for $1000.</p>
<p>Jay-Z started the night looking the part in a white tux, but by the end of the night he changed back in to his usual attire-- black t-shirt and gold chain.</p>
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News <p>The Grammy Awards only added a best dance recording/dance field in 2003, now to go along with that at this year's Grammys there will be a dance segment, and Chris Brown and Lil Wayne have been confirmed to perform during it.</p>
<p>Grammy show producer Ken Ehrlich says, "we decided to go all out this year. All we're going to try and do next week is to try and put the home audience in the middle of it. ... It is more than just sitting there and watching it."</p>
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News <p>Although Jay-Z's own success is undeniable, his label, Rocawear, which he started with Dame Dash hasn't been doing so well.</p>
<p>Rocawear recently had to lay off 28 of their 58 employees in their Manhattan headquarters, and they experienced a $500 million loss in sale globally. Their solution is to do a first-time ever television ad for the company.</p>
<p>Jay-Z himself will star in Rocawear's first-ever T.V. campaign. The ads, which were filmed back in November, will air on BET, MTV, TNT and also during NBA games.</p>
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News <p>Associated Press recently spoke to J. Cole about his debut album, his Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, and what he has learned from Jay-Z. </p>
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Industry <p>A lot of tracks get posted on HNHH and some of them fly under your radar, maybe because you've never heard of the artist before, you just didn't feel like clicking, or it wasn't labeled “very hot.” Whatever the reason, we're gunna start exposing some of the audio from the past week that you may have slept on every Monday...</p>
<p><strong>Bodega BAMZ- 100 Keep It (Prod. V'Don) Feat. Smoke DZA & Willie The Kid</strong></p>
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