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Industry Weekly review of the Hip-Hop and R&B sales/charts.
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News Details from Chief Keef's hearing for violating probation have been reported and the young rapper showed up to court in fatigues and signed official court documents as "Chief Keef" instead of his government name.
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News Chief Keef makes headlines on Twitter again, this time for posting an x-rated Instagram photo.
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News Although rumors have been circulating, which speculate that Chris Brown's new tattoo depicted a battered woman and/or Rihanna, Chris Brown's publicist denies this.
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Industry HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week.
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Industry HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week.
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News Legends" is an editorial initiative that will feature trailblazers and icons in hip hop culture. Our goal is to not only pay homage to artists who have impacted rap and rap culture, but to reconnect them to the HNHH community. In this edition, MC Lyte spoke to HNHH about how she got her first start, the challenges she faced while on the come up and fills viewers in on what she's got coming up. This is our first instalment, but keep checking out HNHH for more to come.
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Original Content HNHH's "Underrated Audio" puts you on not-too-mainstream music you might have missed from the past week.
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News <p>Rap producer Shawty Redd can now put his legal troubles behind him. MTV News learned exclusively from Redd's attorney Ashutosh Joshi on Thursday (November 3) that the Atlanta hitmaker has been found not guilty of murder, as well as lesser charges he was hit with after the fatal 2010 New Year's Day shooting of Damon Martin.<br />
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The bench trial, which began Monday, was decided by a judge without a jury and concluded Wednesday. On Thursday, Judge Wade Crumbly cleared the "Who Dat" producer (real name: Demetrius Lee Stewart) on all charges relating to Martin's death.
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News <p>The release of Tha Carter IV has been delayed by Lil Wayne’s jail sentence, but one producer assures it will be worth the wait when it does come. “Carter IV gonna change your life,” Dow Jones, one-half of hitmaking duo Tha Bizness, tells <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rap-up.com/2010/07/19/lil-waynes-tha-carter-iv-is-gonna-change-your-life-says-producer/">Rap-Up TV</a>. “It’s something that you ain’t never seen before. We thought Carter III was incredible and he took it a couple steps up.”<br />
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News <p>Though music industry vet Steve Stoute and Recording Academy president Neil Portnow vowed to work together to increase diversity at the Grammy awards -- as a result of Stoute's claim that the awards were "losing touch," it looks hip-hop and R&B artists are losing again.<br />
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The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences made more than 30 modifications to the awards on Wednesday, April 7, a move which Stoute has referred to as "a step in the right direction, but still a Band-Aid on the problem."<br />
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News <p>Rumors that longtime New York DJ Mister Cee, real name Calvin Lebrun, was busted for public indecency last week have been largely unfounded until today (April 5). While his fellow Hot 97-associate Funkmaster Flex has been aggressive and staunch in Cee's defense, official police documents confirm that he was indeed exposed in a homosexual act when arrested.<br />
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