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“I don’t like that thing, that, ‘New York is back thing,’” Erick Sermon said “Everybody say, ‘I’m bringing New York back.’ I don’t like that. New York never went nowhere. You have underground people, people are making Hip Hop…They all over the place but it just ain’t mainstream and dope enough to go on radio ‘cause of how radio is. They never did that. There’s no bringing New York back. You gotta do what you have to do.” New York still comes out with some amazing artist these days from A$AP Rocky to Joey Bada$$ which are some highly influential young artist.

Though the Wu-Tang Clan is an old school crew they are still continuing to progress and move forward. They are trying some new marketing strategies with their new commercial album “A Better Tomorrow” in which they are planning on dropping strings of records on the new album via limited edition Boombotix portable speakers. The Wu revealed that the speakers would hit on November 28^th and the actual full album release would be on December 2^nd following them signing a new deal with Warner Bros.

During a talk with Life + Times about his new film “Jimi: All Is By My Side,” some music related questions were given to Andre 3000. “As far as an OutKast album, we don’t have any plans to do one. After this tour though, I’ve been thinking about recording this album that I always wanted to record. We’re both working on solo albums. Big Boi is damn near through with his next album. I think after we finish this last show on October 31^st in New Orleans. I’d love to get in the studio and see if I can conjure up something.”

Everyone compares Nicki Minaj with Lil Kim; therefore, Lil Kim finally addressed her thoughts on the situation: “The Nicki situation cannot be fixed unless it’s financial involved because it’s deeper than that.”

Lil Kim believes that Nicki Minaj copied her whole image.

“She made the first [‘Flawless’ remix] record toward me. She been waiting for so long just to even just say the word Queen Bee. That’s how obsessed she is, She’s been waiting to say that. Come on, you’re on a record with Beyoncé. If I have a record with Beyoncé, I’m not saying nothing remotely to even let this chick think what I’m talking about. We all know what it is. It’s so deep that when I finish putting together this documentary, people will understand” (The Breakfast Club).

Kanye West was reportedly seen playing basketball with Kobe Bryant and some others at the Open Gym Courts in Orange County. TMZ says that Kobe was giving Kanye a few pointers on his game; therefore, he wouldn’t have to try so hard while playing on tour. After doing a couple drills and playing a full game, they headed out.

Charlamagne the God from Power 105 and Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg took it to Twitter to argue about Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa’s marriage. The feud started after Rosenberg mentioned on air that Khalifa had cheated on Amber, with twins. After that matter Charlamagne made a few subtweets referring to Rosenbergs comments:

“Just saw some legendary sucker shit come across my timeline. SMH.”

“When a married man airs out another married man about cheating trust me the shoe will be on the other foot one day. Mind your business.”

After seeing Charlamagne’s tweets, Rosenberg later responded:  “@cthagod lol life lessons from a morally corrupt lowlife ... Go back to kissing corporate ass and not contributing to hip hop...”

“Ether” was aimed toward Jay Z in which Jay Z responded with “Takeover.” As Nas discussed his friendship with Jay Z, he explained why he no longer listens to either tracks.

“It’s just old…I mean, I don’t feel anything from it, I just—It’s old. It’s so old. It’s another chapter. It’s old. Classic for sure. History even. I haven’t heard that thing in [awhile]. I don’t listen to that. That or the other thing…He knows that. I told him ‘I can’t listen to this.’ I mean, it’s great. It’s great times, but that was then…But that’s my dog. So, that was a different time. That’s my dog. It’s too good right now. Everything is right…History is history. Can’t change history. It is what it is, but it’s love.”

Details of Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifas marriage falling apart are beginning to come to light. The radio station Hot 97s, Peter Rosenberg, helped in shedding light on the situation by giving more details on what lead to the divorce. So Peter Rosenberg on behalf of Amber Rose who he says is his good friend said that the marriage was not over like Wiz claimed it was when he was caught with another girl the day before Amber filed for divorce. Amber also said that she found Wiz in bed with not just one woman but with two identical twins.

Last year at 2013s Made In America Festival in Philly Asap allegedly slapped a female fan. Rocky avoided the charges for a while because the case was put on hold until the plaintiff had a viable address for the rapper. In July of this year it had caught back up with him when he was hit with a lawsuit. Tmz is now reporting that Rocky is denying every having smacking the woman saying that instead most likely it was the fans at the show. The alleged victim is suing for at least $75,000 claiming Rocky’s slap lead to a string of ailments that interfere with her ability to “enjoy society with her minor child as a young, single mother.”

On NPR Microphone Check Andre 3000 talked about the benefits of OutKast getting their start in the South rather than in a city like New York. Well according to Andre the city of Atlanta and the South in general provided way more freedom for an artist “no one expected anything from the South” Andre said. He also added that if they did hail from New York there would have been expectations for the type of music and style of rap they produced.

Producers of the next Bond film reportedly have offered Rihanna a role in the next film as a Bond Girl. A UK tabloid, OK!, is reporting she will be alongside Daniel Craig in the next film as a sort of Cameo role. The new film will begin filming by the end of this year and is expected to hit theaters November 2015.

French Montana was married to Nadeen Kharbouch from 2007 to 2014. The couple had their son in 2009 then later separated in 2012.

“Although they  were living separately and dating other people, they were never able to go through the legal process of officially divorcing because of French’s busy schedule." (Hollywood Life)

J. Cole evaluates Jay Z as his mentor before he was even signed to him. “Jay was mentor before I ever signed to him,”  J.Cole mentioned in a video. “I studied his moves that much…I got to go on tour with him and steal a lot of gems. That’s how you supposed to do it. You’re supposed to learn and take pieces from the greatest. So, Jay was my mentor before I ever signed to him. And now that I signed to him it’s just a blessing to be able to hit him for advice and get that real 20 years of experience or however long he been in the game. It’s priceless.”

Nas is happier with releasing his newest music knowing that Rap is a ‘young man’s game.’

"It’s a younger man’s game today in a lot of ways, so I felt more happy to put out music now than I ever have before because my lane is a great place to be at," he says. "It took a lot of time striking the iron, breaking down walls to be where I am. What better place and time than to put out something new when the world is watching?" 

Bone thugs-n-harmony has one copy of their final group album, which is being held at $1 million.

“When I heard about what Wu-Tang Clan was doing—and I think it was you who told me about it—I just thought it was a brilliant and genius idea,” said Krayzie Bone during an interview back in July.

“We talked about it for a while then we were coming up on this world tour. We said, ‘We need to do everything simultaneously.' The idea for that is to make it the final group project. What better way to go out and to solidify the [Bone thugs­-n-harmony] brand. I don’t see no other way. It has to be big. We have to make sure we reach everybody. So I think doing it like this will be huge, especially for our last group album.”