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News <p>Kim Kardashian is firing back against Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly's criticism of her Elle photo shoot withJustin Bieber. "I thought the shoot was all in good fun - we had a good time," Kim said on Lopez Tonight of The Graduate-themed pictorial, which features the 29-year-old starlet in romantic scenarios with the 16-year-old "Baby" singer and appears in the magazine's September issue.
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News <p>Chris Brown may be hitting his musical stride again. Notching Greatest Gainer/Airplay honors for a second straight week, the singer is this close to notching a top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with "Deuces." The breakup song-featuring Tyga and Kevin McCall-moves 15-11 in its sixth week on the chart.<br />
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Released to iTunes June 29 along with another new Brown song, "No B.S.," "Deuces" moves 60-59 on the Digital Songs chart. Up 11% in digital sales, the song has sold 132,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.<br />
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News <p>Rapper DMX has been arrested yet again.<br />
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The troubled rapper, 39, was taken into custody Thursday in Maricopa County in Arizona for probation violation, according to RadarOnline.com.<br />
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DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was reportedly cited for use of Oxycontin without a prescription, failing to submit to drug testing, failing to participate in counseling programs, failure to make payments and driving on a suspended license. He was also allegedly in possession of cocaine at the time of his arrest.<br />
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News <p>This past Sunday (August 22), New York City's B.B. King Blues Club & Grill played home to the 2010 Underground Music Awards, which highlights the best unsigned and independent artists within the urban music scene. The event honored rappers including J. Cole, Tiye Phoenix, Travis Porter, Fred the Godson and Statik Selektah, among others.<br />
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News <p>Common is no stranger to the fashion world, revealing to The BoomBox this past June that he was interested in designing and producing accessories such as belts and ties. But the Chi-town native is taking it one step at a time. The emcee has recently announced that he is partnering with Diesel to promote the label's Only the Brave fragrance campaign, intended to highlight future faces in hip-hop.<br />
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News <p> Ever since 50 Cent dropped 'Before I Self Destruct' last year and experienced his first true bomb, he's been relatively silent on the rap front. Of course, he's still been acting, pulling publicity stunts and ruthlessly taunting some of the biggest artists in the game, but there haven't been any new verses from the vicious Queens native lately. That all changed over the weekend when 50 heard the new Cee-Lo jam entitled 'F--- You.' </p>
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<p>Eminem cannot regain his previous Top 5 position, Trey Songz continues his dominance at No. 7 plus John Legend and The Roots wake-up their competition.<br />
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Grammy-winning rapper Eminem's Recovery dropped out of Top 5 this week, moving down three slots to No. 6 with with 65,800 while Zac Brown Band's You Get What You Give topped the chart with 153,700 sold albums. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Em's new album has sold 2,656,200 records after 14 weeks in stores.<br />
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News <p>Cash Money Records' co-founder Baby has compared his artist Lil Wayne to the late pop icon Michael Jackson and reveals the high hopes he has for the rapper when he returns from jail. Watch Lil Wayne's latest Interview from jail <a href="http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/en/play/v/04f1241-175/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.<br />
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The Birdman credits Wayne's hard work ethic as reason enough for the comparison.<br />
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News <p>Grammy Award-winning producer/rapper Swizz Beatz has been a busy man lately. This past July, the self-proclaimed "One Man Band Man" married singer Alicia Keys, with whom he is expecting a child. In addition to their fairytale wedding, the couple enjoyed a Mediterranean honeymoon, traveled to Africa and performed in a traditional Zulu ceremony. Now, Swizz is back at work again, announcing a new album and record deal.<br />
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News <p> Rihanna's found a rather comfortable spot heating up the Billboard charts this week. The Bajan beatuy's latest single 'Only Girl in the World,' tops the Digital Songs charts with 249,000 first week downloads marking her eight single to debut on Digital Songs, and her sixth to debut at No. 1, the most reached in each category by an artists since 2005, the year the chart launched. The song jumped 72 spots on the Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and currently sits at No. 3 on the singles chart after premiering three weeks ago.</p>
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News <p>A handful of shady concert promoters have invoked the wrath of hip-hop princess Nicki Minaj, by planning a series of fake shows that claim to feature the in-demand rapper.</p>
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