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<p>T.I. has been ordered to report back to Forrest City Correctional Facility -- where he served seven months of his 10-month sentence in 2009 for weapons charges -- in Arkansas no later than Nov. 1 to begin serving an 11-month sentence for violating his federal probation.<br />
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<p>Drake recently revealed that he's taking a break from working on his highly-anticipated R&B mixtape, 'It's Never Enough,' to focus more seriously on rapping.<br />
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News <p>Yet another con man has been arrested for impersonating Drake's manager, and attempting to rip off unsuspecting promoters looking to book the rap star.<br />
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According to a complaint filed by Milwaukee, Wisconsin promotions company, Eagles Entertainment, Joey Turner Jr. (aka Jo Flowroshus) posed as Drake's manager, Cortez Bryant recently, and bilked the promotions company out of a $9,000 deposit for a show scheduled to take place Sept. 1 in Milwaukee.<br />
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News <p>Grammy-winning rapper Eminem's Recovery moved up a notch to No. 2 with 81,000 copies falling one slot behind Sara Bareilles' Kaleidoscope Heart which sold 89,500 records. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the rapper's new album has sold 2,501,400 records to date.<br />
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Soulful singer Fantasia's Back To Me fell from Top 10 moving down six slots to No. 11 with 29,400. After three weeks in stores, the singer's new LP has sold 186,600 copies.<br />
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<p>Petey Pablo ran into some legal trouble this past weekend after he was arrested at North Carolina's Raleigh Durham Airport for carrying a Smith & Wesson pistol in his carry-on luggage. Pablo was arrested with the handgun on Saturday, Sept. 11, nine years after the terrorist attacks on America. But after posting $50,000 bond, Pablo, born Moses Barrett III, claims that the gun wasn't actually his, nor that it was a publicity stunt to promote his new music. Pablo says he was simply protecting a friend from doing something stupid.<br />
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News <p>Jay-Z has something to say…and he’s not doin it in a rap!<br />
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He’s releasing a book/memoir!<br />
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The book is called ”Decoded” and no word on a release date, but it will include interviews with Jay’s close friends and family and go back to his childhood, drug dealing days, and how he became famous, etc.<br />
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Here’s what he had to say about being an author (Dream Hampton, editor from The Source, is co-writing) :<br />
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News <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>Read below final letter written by Lil Wayne before he was placed in Solitary Confinement for the remainder of his sentence stemming from a violation in May, when prison guards found he'd been keeping a pair of headphones and an MP3 player charger in his cell on Rikers Island. Lil Wayne is expected to be released on November 4th.</strong></span></span></p>
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News <p>GRAND RAPIDS -- It was the day to interview B.o.B.<br />
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In the middle of the afternoon Aug. 3, my first question for this summer's hip-hop/pop king was simply "How does it feel?"<br />
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"Um, it feels ...," began Bobby Ray Simmons Jr., pausing for three seconds, "it feels so good."<br />
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A lengthy bout of elated laughter followed over the phone as the Atlanta-raised and -based artist was getting ready to sound check for a performance at Six Flags St. Louis.<br />
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<p>G-Unit leader 50 Cent has explained his recent vouching for Soulja Boy Tell Em weeks after footage hit the Internet suggesting he may be a cocaine user.<br />
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Calling into New York radio station Hot 97 Thursday (September 9) night, 50 blamed celebrity groupie Kat Stacks for setting him up and said the 20 year-old rapper does not do cocaine.<br />
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<p>Producer Swizz Beatz's ex-wife Mashonda opens up about her past marriage to the hitmaker and shared details about his newlywed Alicia Keys wanting to exert her role as a mother in the October issue of Sister 2 Sister.<br />
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According to Mashonda, Keys wanted their son to view the singer as her new mother.<br />
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News <p> Cool & Dre have made no secret that they are fans of Cash Money, but now much bigger moves are being made with the two hip-hop staples. The duo has just announced a brand new partnership agreement with the powerhouse record label run by Baby. Apparently, the agreement will allow them to produce tons of tracks for both Cash Money and its subsidiary Young Money imprint (which, of course, is lead by Lil Wayne and features Drake and Nicki Minaj).</p>
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News <p>DJ Funkmaster Flex had a very special guest for the launch of his website, as incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne made his first phone interview, calling in from Rikers Island where he is serving a sentence for criminal possession.</p>
<p>When asked what music he's listening to, Weezy regretfully admitted that he doesn't listen to music there because he is incapable of listening to himself, which is what he usually does. Instead, he listens to sports or "I listen to my thoughts," he said. He aspires to record with either Andre 3000 or Tech N9ne in the near future.</p>
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