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News Jet Life's Young Roddy drops his mixtape, with features from Curren$y, Smoke DZA & more.
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News <p>A month or two ago there was a video making its way around the internet which promoted the MegaUpload website. The YouTube video featured a jingle for the site, and had appearences from quite a few artists, including Kanye West, Diddy and Will.i.am. Well it turns out the C.E.O. of MegaUpload is none other than Swizz Beatz, whose real name is Kasseem Dean. If anyone had ever bothered to check the <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://megaupload.com/?c=about" target="_blank">"About Us" </a>page on Megaupload maybe we would have realized this sooner!</p>
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News Yelawolf hospitalized, cancels his show.
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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> Pill recently dismissed rumours that he was no longer a part of MMG, and now he has taken to Twitter to vent some of frustrations. Read what he had to say on labels, tv and the radio below.</p>
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News <p>The D.C. rapstress plans to drop the LP's first single in November.<br />
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LoLa Monroe has revealed that she signed to Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang imprint, breaking the news in an interview with Atlanta’s V-103 (via Rap-Up). During the chat, she said that the decision to link with the “Black and Yellow” rapper was based on the fact that their visions aligned.<br />
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<p>Yesterday, during a videoshoot for Bay Area rapper Kafani, a one-year old boy was shot in the head and remains in a coma. Kafani denies having any part in the shooting, which took place just after 6 pm, in a liquor store parking lot. Supposedly over fifty gun shots were fired into a large crowd of people, leaving eight people hit and a body that resembled Kafani in a van, riddeled with bullets.</p>
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News <p>In a recent interview with Shade 45, Wiz Khalifa explained the meaning of his upcoming album, <strong>O.N.I.F.C.</strong></p>
<p>During the radio show he revealed that the acronym stands for "Only N*gga in First Class." His inspiration for this title came from Prodigy's debut album <strong>Head N*gga In Charge</strong>, "It’s inspired by Prodigy’s <em>H.N.I.C.</em>,” <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">added</span> Wiz. "When he dropped that, I felt like that sounded so strong."</p>
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News <p>Pusha T recently did an interview with<em> <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="http://www.sneezemag.com/pushat/">Sneeze Magazine</a></em> where he discusses going solo, <em>Watch the Throne</em>, and <em>Fear of God Part II</em>. Interestingly, he says that he passed on the "N*ggas in Paris" beat! It's a great interview, check out some of the highlights below:</p>
<p><strong>On <em>Watch The Throne</em>:</strong></p>
<p>You were around for some of the<em> Watch The Throne</em> sessions, were there any beats on that album that you passed on?</p>
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News <p>HipHopDX recently caught up with B.o.B. to talk about the rumours of him and T.I. working on a collaborative album entitled <em>The Man and The Martian</em>.</p>
<p>Check out what B.o.B. has to say on it:</p>
<p>HipHopDX: Talk a bit about <em>The Man and The Martian</em> album that you and T.I. are reportedly working on...</p>
<p>B.o.B.: <em>The Man and The Martian </em>is something we’re talking about, an idea that we’re playing with. We just kinda wanna let it happen and record as we see fit.</p>
<p>DX: That idea’s kind of crazy though.</p>
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News <p>Hate it or love it, the underdog is on top! Since he first began to make noise with his 2010 mixtape Lace Up, Machine Gun Kelly has worked his way into hip-hop's collective consciousness. It wasn't always pretty (see MGK's August flash-mob arrest or his tiff with Yelawolf), but it's always been passionate.<br />
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Now, thanks to that passion, Machine Gun Kelly can stand alone as MTV News' Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2011, it was revealed on "RapFix Live."<br />
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News <p>Jim Jones recently spoke to MissInfo about rumours of an altercation that he was involved in on Monday.</p>
<p>He told MissInfo that while he was alone in Harlem three men stepped to him, "the first guy, I beat the shit out of him, then the second guy jumped in with a metal pipe. I was so amped up I didn't even feel him hitting me with it.I was still putting a beating on the first guy, but when the third guy pulled out a gun, I got out of there. I left. Anyone with a brain would do the same."</p>
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