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A couple of days ago, Kid Cudi took it to Twitter to express his feelings about today’s rap and rappers.

“Anyone and everyone can rap now. It’s not an impressive field to be in anymore. Ima just learn more instruments and plot more symphonies. So on the rare occasion I stumble across some new shit thats powerful and has meaning, I become impressed w that artist. Because they could dumb down their music, surely connect to a larger audience and make a shit ton of money, but thats not impressive. Big whoop u sell a shit ton of records, so have many artist before you. Whatelse u got? What u got for mankind? For the human race? Rap music is a hustle I respect, But we need more people approaching it like an artform w some peace of mind.”

Insecurities kept J.Cole from performing certain songs a while back, he went in depth with his reasoning during an interview: “Some of these songs I never performed until this tour,” J. Cole said. “There was a time I was super insecure about doing these songs because nobody knew ‘em outside of the internet. You know what I mean? And it’s just funny now to come back five years later and realize that that was all—That all meant nothing. And these shows always remind me every night like ‘Oh shit, they get it. They were living by this.’ And they still do. These kids are the internet. The living, breathing, fuckin’ version of the internet. This tour and a lot of things that I do, a lot of decisions that I made come from a mentality of ‘I know what it’s like to be y’all. And I know what I would want to see.’ And on the other hand, it’s made from a selfish artist standpoint. Like ‘Yo, I just want to perform these songs.’ You know what I mean? So, it’s just as much for me as it is for them.”

After hearing the song “Vegas” from Eminem’s Shady XV, Iggy did not take Eminems lyrics about her lightly. Instead, she tweeted the following:

“im bored of the old men threatening young women as entertainment trend and much more interested in the young women getting $ trend. Zzzz.  Its especially awkward because my 14 year old brother is the biggest eminem fan and now the artist he admired says he wants to rape me. nice! Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic. good morninnggggg!!!!!! off to camera block for AMAs!”

Lil Wayne admits that Nicki Minaj took it upon herself to make pop music recently, to prove herself as an artist. “Her going back to her roots. Bar for bar straight lyrical content. Honestly, don’t know what to expect because she can be unpredictable at times when she gets in the studio. She’s grown a lot. The last album was showing her versatility—how she can make a straight hood/club banger and at the same time, still be dominant in the pop industry. Now that she has tested the waters all she’s doing now is going back to where she enjoyed best.”

In Pusha T’s new song “Lunch Money” that was released yesterday Pusha said “You might have caught me on TMZ, Cameo tryin’ to sue a nigga / Fuck ‘em ‘cause I party hard like there’s three of me.” TMZ reported in September “According to a lawsuit filed in Miami, the rapper agreed to do an appearance at Cameo nightclub on August 16 -- and part of the deal banned him from appearing at any other clubs within 30 miles of Miami-Dade County within 15 days ... before or after his Cameo gig.” Cameo says that Pusha going to Dream Nightclub cost them $13,000 in sales.

Eminem and crew at Shady are really bringing all they got to the table for their upcoming compilation double-disc album, Shady XV. In a podcast with Dj Whoo and Paul Rosenberg a mixtape was confirmed and will have 66-tracks or 3 hours of music. If a song you loved isn’t on the mixtape then it will be on the huge mixtape that drops ahead of the “Shady XV” album.

Faith Evans had an interview with HipHollywood where she talked about plans to work on putting together another posthumous duets album with Biggie Smalls that follows Diddy’s “Duets: The Final Chapter released way back in 2005. Faiths album would be called “The King and I” and will feature Evans and B.I.G.  Faith Evans says to “Think Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole. When talking about the album and that it is still in very early stages and she hopes to have it release sometime in the next year.

Tyga had a pre-birthday celebration at Greystone Manor in West Hollywood that he didn’t end up showing up to. Reports say that Tyga’s reason for not showing up to the venue was because his female guest which was 17-year old Kylie Jenner could not get access to the venue under California law. Tyga turned 25 today (November 19^th) and has still yet to confirm his relationship status with Kylie.

Nicki goes in depth with her song Anaconda, and how the lyrics came about: “I wanted to create a song that embraced curvy women,” she said. “I wanted to be sexual but be playful with it. And I wanted it to be so melodic that even if you don’t understand English you could still go along with the melody and you would have no idea about all the raunchy shit I’m saying—I get a kick out of that. It was simple to write. I just created the melody and then I let the words happen. I started laughing when I said, ‘Boy toy named Troy.’ That whole song, I was just being dumb. It was a joke. My biggest thing was seeing how my girlfriends Sherika and Thembi were going to react. If they don’t like a song, they’ll be like, ‘No.’ As soon as they walked in the studio; we were laughing and having fun. I thought, if we’re doing this, then everybody is going to have fun with it.”

Many people are saying the movie, “Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B” was not worthwhile. With this being said, Wendy Williams expressed her opinion on air during her “Wendy” broadcast. “Everybody got an opinion. Well I must tell you, whether you loved or hated, you watched. It was the second highest-rated movie on all of cable this year so far. Not just Lifetime, but all of cable. And I must say, ‘Flowers In The Attic’ was number one, then us, so thank you. We all have opinions. But I must say if you still want to see the Aaliyah movie it comes on tonight at 8 o’clock on Lifetime. Thank-you! And by the way, you, Alexandra Shipp, did a terrific job as Aaliyah.

Drake’s vocal coach, Dionne Osborne, was ready to turn drake into a singer who rapped rather than a rapper who sings: “It was the mixtape, So Far Gone, and he was already pretty huge. On our first session, I told him that my goal was to make him a singer who raps, not a rapper who sings. I know Drake loves rapping, that's his first love. But the road is just littered with rappers who sing. They all try it. If you love music, you love singing, but not everyone succeeds. So on that first tour, we're on the road, and Cortez Bryant, Lil Wayne's manager, comes up to me and says, ‘Drake told me you changed his life.’ I just started laughing. He said that? But what I do think I did, honestly, was that I was the first person who treated Drake like a professional singer. I said, ‘Here's the deal. You have to change your diet. You're heading out on tour in the spring and not thinking about your asthma or your allergies. You've got to take care of yourself too. Let's focus on helping you do your job.’"

Mistah F.A.B. has been giving back to his community for the last seven years for the holidays. This year, he has recently announce the 7^th Annual Turkey Giveaway, in North California: “The group is committed to making a difference in the lives of Oakland residents in need by providing hot meals as well as warm coats for the winter season,” the press release states. “A buffet dinner will be served at no cost to deserving families and individuals. The gathering will take place near Northside Supermarket on the corner of 45th and Market Street in North Oakland. In addition, frozen turkeys, non-perishable food items, care packages with home products/toiletries, coats, clothing and blankets will also be available to families in need.”

There was plenty of speculation that J. Cole would release his next album by the years end. This came true today when J. Cole put his upcoming album up on iTunes for pre-order called 2014 Forest Hills Drive with a December 9^th release date which puts J. Cole up against Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V. This album will have 13 songs and has no pre-release singles which is unusual but we know J. Cole usually delivers some classic hip-hip.

While doing a show in DC the Migos were allegedly involved in a brawl that went down just after the show. Multiple tweets from locals who were at the show state that the group got into a scuffle and when all was said and done Quavo had his chained taken from him and was bleeding from the face. Since this has happened Chief Keef took to twitter posting the photo of Quavo’s chain before soon deleting the post. Then Fat Trel sent out a warning to rappers visiting DC saying that they need to “check in” before they can visit DC. It is unknown if either Chief Keef or Fat Trel have anything to do with the Migos getting jumped.

Producer Timbaland, known to have worked with Aaliyah along with Missy Elliot back in the late 90s up until her death, was interviewed by Ebro at Hot 97 today talking about the new Aaliyah biopic on Lifetime. “Everybody keeps telling me stop blaming Lifetime but blame Wendy and I’m like well…I didn’t follow the story, so I have to believe the fans. It’s just hard for me to believe. I don’t want to diss this lady like that; I want to know the full details before going in. I always thought it was a rumor…I thought it was a joke. Evidently it wasn’t,” Timbaland said. Hopefully this movie doesn’t tarnish the memory of a young star gone too soon.