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No Summer Plans Yet? Timbaland, Lil Wayne & Nicki Minaj Latest Tour Updates

Posted on 12. Apr, 2011 by Cara.

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The summer is chock full of superstar hip hop artists performing around the country (and world); here’s the latest updates: Timbaland canceled an upcoming Australian tour, so, unfortunately, fans down under won’t be seeing the rapper anytime soon. It was also confirmed that Nicki Minaj will be the opening act for Britney Spears’ upcoming tour. [...]

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Singer Nate Dogg Dead at 41, Fellow Rappers React

Posted on 18. Mar, 2011 by Cara.

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Rapper Nate Dogg, credited with creating the singing/rapping G-funk sub-genre of hip hop, passed away the night of March 15th at a Laguna Niguel care facility due to complications from multiple strokes. The 41-year old artist was partially paralyzed as the result of a stroke he suffered in 2007.
Born Nathaniel D. Hale, he first [...]

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Lil Kim & Diddy Friendship Over?

Posted on 08. Mar, 2011 by Cara.

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Rapper Lil Kim is no longer speaking to former friend and collaborator Diddy for two reasons: he did not visit her while she served a 10-month prison sentence between 2005 and 2006 after being convicted of perjury and because he didn’t stop hip hop superstar Nicki Minaj from dissing Lil Kim on his “Hello Good [...]

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Lil Wayne’s “6 Foot 7 Foot” Video Premieres Thursday On MTV; Details On His Hip Hop Empire

Posted on 02. Mar, 2011 by Cara.

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Lil Wayne’s “6 Foot 7 Foot” video premieres on MTV tomorrow night at 7:54 E.T. With a potentially hot video, a lucrative career (despite jail time) and notoriety for signing both Drake and Nicki Minaj to his Young Money empire, is Lil Wayne “takin’ over” the hip hop world just like he did when he [...]

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Drake’s “It’s Never Enough” Mixtape Shelved So He Can Finish “Take Care” Album

Posted on 16. Feb, 2011 by Cara.

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Hip Hop superstar Drake, who rose quickly to fame after signing to Lil Wayne’s Young Money label and releasing “Thank Me Later” in 2010, has stopped working on his mixtape “It’s Never Enough” to concentrate completely on his next album, “Take Care.”
Drake explains, “I have decided that I’m going to push It’s Never Enough and [...]

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Nicki Minaj To Tone Down Her Image?

Posted on 11. Feb, 2011 by Cara.

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Nicki Minaj, whose album “Pink Friday” just went platinum, recently talked about toning down her image because of her conservative upbringing and lasting fears.
When she was younger, her biggest fear was that she was going to hell for having sex before marriage, “When I was younger, I felt like I had been taught that pre-marital [...]

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Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” Turns Into “Platinum” Friday

Posted on 09. Feb, 2011 by Cara.

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Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” album sales recently surpassed Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” but they didn’t stop there. “Pink Friday” currently holds the number one spot on Billboard’s Top 200 List, just as her album sales total reached 1,035,000, making her album platinum.
After only eleven weeks on the charts, “Pink Friday” moved up [...]

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Trey Songz & Kodak Caught With Their “Bottoms Up” Over Song Rights Lawsuit

Posted on 08. Feb, 2011 by Cara.

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Derrick Price, Doc Mob Records and IHip Hop Music filed an $18 million lawsuit on February 2nd in New York against Trey Songz, Atlantic Records, Kodak, Gee Robertson, Kane Beatz and others over the rights to the song “Bottoms Up.”
According to the allegations, Doc Mob hired producer Milton James to produce “Bottoms Up” for Doc [...]

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Nicki Minaj The Dark Horse Against Kanye West’s Dark Fantasy

Posted on 03. Feb, 2011 by Cara.

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Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” and Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” were both released on November 19th, 2010, and in the beginning, West’s album was beating Minaj’s by what seemed like a landslide. His album debuted at number one and sold 497,000 records in the first week compared to Minaj’s 376,000. But Minaj’s album [...]

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Grammy Awards Performance Line-Up Full of Hip-Hop/Rap Superstars

Posted on 02. Feb, 2011 by Cara.

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The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, which will take place in a little over a week, have just added several more superstars to their performance lineup: Drake, Rihanna, Cee Lo Green, Gwyneth Paltrow and the Jim Henson Company Puppets. Drake and Rihanna will perform together, as well as Cee Lo Green and Gwyneth Paltrow. Drake and [...]

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