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News French Montana and his crew link up with Evil Empire to bring us the third installment of their "Coke Boys" series
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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>According to reports, 28 employees have been laid off from Jay-Z's Rocawear offices in New York City. That number equals half of the total staff in Rocawear's Manhattan office. The layoffs reportedly took place on January 6 and were due to "economic" problems.<br />
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More information on the layoffs can be found at the Department of Labor website. <br />
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News <p>Last year, Drake released a song, "Marvin's Room," that quickly went viral and prompted various remixes by fellow artists intrigued by the depiction of a young woman on a phone call as the rapper drunkenly croons, "You could do better."<br />
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Now, Ericka Lee, revealing herself to be Drake's ex-girlfriend, has stepped up, saying she was the voice on the other end of the phone call. The woman is now suing Drake for excluding her from sharing co-writer royalties on one of his biggest recent hits.<br />
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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>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>French Montana has now been signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records, as they revealed on BET's 106 & Park yesterday.</p>
<p>Diddy explained why he signed the Bronx rapper, "It's obvious.His work ethic, his song-making, the effect he has on the youngins. If you ever been to one of his shows, every time he drops a record. Also, it's important, I'm from New York, you know what I'm saying. I rep New York to the fullest. And for real, for real, can't nothing move in this city without us being a part of it."</p>
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News <p style="text-align: justify;">Mary J. Blige recently shared some details with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2011/09/mary-j-blige-reveals-details-on-her-rick-ross-duet/">XXL</a> about recording with Rick Ross for his upcoming <em>God Forgives, I Don’t</em> album which is expected to be released in December. The song was done in Marvin Gaye’s studio in LA.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">“I did a crazy, crazy record with Rick. Rick is fly. He picks the best beats man. That guy is amazing with that.</p>
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News <p>Soulja Boy is opening up about his new relationship with former Crime Mob member Diamond. The twosome have already made headlines after photos of them getting extra close hit the 'Net.<br />
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In an interview with Atlanta radio station 107.9, the 20-year-old made it official. "You already know how that go," he explained. "What's another man's trash is another man's treasure. Me and shorty rocking, straight like that."<br />
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Diamond also chimed in on the call, "Yeah it's official," she added, but refused to divulge any other details.<br />
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News <p>Everyone is trying to get a piece of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA). The New York Post reported this morning that Diddy, Jay-Z, Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine and SRC’s Steve Rifkind are all trying to sign the buzzworthy Los Angeles group.<br />
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News <p>A South El Monte, Calif. man posing as a backup dancer was arrested Friday (Feb. 18), after stealing a laptop, a Louis Vuitton purse and various other valuables from the set of a Lil Wayne music video shoot.<br />
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According to police, Marco Negrete, 20, took a laptop, purse, a wallet and tickets to the NBA All-Star game, sometime between 9PM and midnight Thursday night (Feb. 17), from a trailer at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif. The trailer was located on the set of the music shoot for Lil Wayne and Cape Town, South Africa singer Porcelain Black.<br />
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News <p>There's little doubt that Bay Area rapper Lil B has become hip-hop's resident eccentric over the last year, but does he have a little more to tell us about our day and era? A professor at UC Berkeley thinks so. In a recent lecture, professor Geoffrey D. Nunberg swagged out a class of undergraduates by using Lil B as a core example in his 'History of Information' course.<br />
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