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News With lots of projects in the works, producer Hit-Boy talks about re-focusing on rapping, recording with Britney Spears, and confirms "Cruel Winter" is not coming.
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News <p>Since "Stillmatic" and "Hip Hop Is Dead" are celebrating 5 and 10-year anniversaries next week, <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2011/12/nas-remembers-the-making-of-stillmatic-hip-hop-is-dead/">XXL</a> spoke to Nas on the impact of "Ether." Read what he said on it below.</p>
<p>XXL: How do you feel about the word "Ether"transitioning from being your song title to becoming slang?</p>
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News <p>2 Chainz is making quite a splash as a solo artist these days. The former Duffle Bag Boyz member has a new track heating up the charts, and artists are reaching out left and right for collabs. His most recent collab is with rap royalty Jadakiss, and it seemed to take fellow emcee Joe Budden by surprise. Joe had previously asked about Chainz single on Twitter a while back, making fun of the line when he talks about sexing women in a casket because he’s “killing these h*es”.
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News <p>The recently appointed EVP of A&R at Def Jam says that Hov is already working on new material.<br />
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Though he just released his collaborative album Watch the Throne with Kanye West, Jay-Z is already recording new music. According to producer No I.D., Hov has "started again" on laying down fresh material, but that he's unclear if it's for a new album.<br />
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News <p>Call him Air Fuhrer ... because this weekend, Kanye West compared himself to both Michael Jordan and Adolf Hitler during a performance in England.<br />
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West was performing at the Big Chill music festival Saturday night ... when he went on one of his signature rants ... this time focusing on the hardships of being so painfully misunderstood (see video below).<br />
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"I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm f**king insane ... like I'm Hitler."<br />
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News <p>The Pittsburgh emcee explains the recent slew of collaborations with his peers.<br />
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Fans' curiosity continues to grow as Wiz Khalifa released five new tracks via his Twitter account featuring Curren$y and Big Sean: "O.T.T.R.," "Weed Brownies," "Dot Dot Dot," and "Flowers," produced by Big Jerm, and "Proceed," produced by Cardo.<br />
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In an interview with MTV, Wiz Khalifa spoke on the tracks, without confirming any plans to release a joint project with his counterparts.<br />
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News <p>Few details about Lil Wayne's highly anticipated album, 'Tha Carter IV,' are out there. What we do know is that it's led by the hyperactive banger, '6 Foot 7 Foot,' featuring Young Money's Cory Gunz. But Gunz isn't the only Young Member contributing to Weezy's ninth album. Nicki Minaj is also making a guest appearance.<br />
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"I recorded something for 'Carter IV,' and I recorded something with the Birdman recently," the popular Queens rapper told MTV, regarding her contribution to Wayne's latest record and Cash Money boss Birdman's upcoming 'Bigger Than Life.'<br />
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News <p>Since Rick Ross made the announcement that he had chosen to bring his Maybach Music imprint to Warner Bros. Records, fans and critics alike have been wondering who the next signee under the new deal would be. Ross didn't venture far from his Miami roots to look for Maybach Music's newest recruit: Atlanta rapper Pill has just joined the roster.<br />
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News <p>Having just been released from prison in November, Lil Wayne returned last week with a hot new single to prove that he's back to dominate the charts once again. </p>
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Nearly two weeks later, King Tech and Crooked I debate if Flex's comments were just a case of free speech or disrespecting the late, great 2Pac.<br />
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Despite an apology and attempts to clarify his two-week-old comments about “not sucking 2Pac’s dick,” Funkmaster Flex is still being questioned for the timing of his statements. Fellow deejay and radio personality King Tech, called Crooked I—who like ‘Pac once called Death Row Records home—to get a different viewpoint on both the timing and the comments.<br />
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News <p>Earlier this morning (October 7) an email allegedly written by Nas to the higher ups at Def Jam was circulated on the Internet. In the letter, God’s Son scolds his record label for refusing to release a sequel to his 2002 compilation, The Lost Tapes. [Read below]<br />
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News <h2>The Game Revamps Nas' Subliminal 50 Cent Diss For New Mixtape, "I Have Eight Versions Of The Song"</h2>
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<p>Black Wall Street associate DJ Skee recently revealed that Game's "Street Runners" Nas collaboration, which send a subtle diss 50 Cent's way, was recorded over four years ago.</p>
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<p>According to Skee, the Brake Lights track had been kept under wraps.</p>
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