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Original Content <p>A recent trend that has surfaced in hip-hop is to do collaborative projects with another artist. I'm not saying that artists haven't done this before, I'm saying that it's become a trend. Arguably two of the greatest, Kanye West & Jay-Z, may have gotten this trend going when they dropped <strong>Watch The Throne</strong>. That was definitely a successful collab that everyone was (and still is, it seems) pumped about. And now there have been rumours of a lot of other joint efforts coming up (and some have already dropped).
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News <p>Chris Brown and Rihanna have caused a lot of controversy recently by remixing each other songs, "Turn Up The Music," and "Birthday Cake" respectively. </p>
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News Tagless and dirty version of Nicki's latest single. Her album is out April 3rd.
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News Here's the CDQ of this song, part of Converse's "3 Artists, 1 Song" series
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News DMX's new single, which he premiered while on The Breakfast Club
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News Behold Snoop Dogg "“Road To Riches” [Doggisodes #17] (Sitting By The Water)" Video, a new offering from Snoop Dogg, which was released on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012.
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News <p>With the release of "Careless World" only yesterday, Tyga gives us some details on how the Nas collab came together, his single "Rack City," his past mixtapes and more in <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://www.yrbmagazine.com/2012/02/tyga-view-from-the-top/" target="_blank">his recent interview with YRB</a>. He also gets the cover of the issue. Check some excerpts below and photos for the cover story.</p>
<p>On Nas Collab:</p>
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News <p>"Juice" has pretty much become a cult classic among hip-hop heads, and now Tupac Shakur's signed contract for the movie is <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tupac-signed-contract-/251000285220?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D4%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D6493970956528230745" target="_blank">up for grabs on E-bay</a>.</p>
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News <p>Yesterday a North Carolina court upheld a ruling from 2010 that Game must pay $5 million to five Greensboro police officers because of an incident back in October 2005.</p>
<p>The police officers filed a defamation suit against the rapper in 2006, and the $5 million is to compensate for damages. The officers claim that they were slandered and their identities were wrongfully used in Game's DVD "<span id="intelliTXT">Stop Snitchin’ Stop Lyin’."</span></p>
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News <p>The other week <a href="http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/travis-porter-member-strap-arrested-at-airport-news.1443.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a member of Travis Porter, Strap, was arrested in the airport</a> for trying to bring firearms through security. Fellow group members, Ali and Quez spoke to <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://www.vibe.com/post/v-exclusive-travis-porter-talks-about-straps-arrest-guns-are-not-answer-128425" target="_blank">VIBE</a> on the incident, here's what they had to say:</p>
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News <p>Since Chris Brown and Rihanna have hopped on each other's songs, they've caused a lot of people to start talking, and not in a good way.</p>
<p>One of the people who has spoken out against Chris Brown is WWE champion, CM Punk. He and Breezy have exchanged words over Twitter.</p>
<p>It started with the wrestler tweeting to the R&B singer on February 19th, "I would like @chrisbrown [to] fight somebody that can defend themselves,” he wrote. “Me curb stomping that turd would be a #wrestlemania moment."</p>
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News Behold Logic (MD) "The Spotlight" Video, a new offering from Logic, which was released on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012.
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