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Lil Wayne took to Twitter to blast Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper, who was fined after a video surfaced of him using racially insensitive language at a Kenny Chesney concert.

Lil Wayne took to Twitter to respond to the comments Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper made at a Kenny Chesney concert.

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In a video that was released Wednesday (July 31), the NFL player was reportedly upset that he was not allowed backstage at the country music concert. Cooper then went on a rant, using a racial slur reportedly aimed at the Black security guard who would not let him backstage.

Lil Wayne responded to Cooper’s comments by sending out a tweet.

Cooper was fined Wednesday for his comments and yesterday (August 2), he left the team and was excused by the Eagles from all team activities.

“Right now, I think it’s important for me to take some time to reflect on this situation,” Cooper said in a statement released by the team, as per NFL.com. “The organization and my teammates have been extremely supportive, but I also realize that there are people who will have a tough time forgiving me for what I’ve done. The best thing for me, and for the team, is to step away for a period of time.”

The Eagles also provide a statement. “Riley Cooper will be seeking counseling and we have excused him from all team activities,” the statement said, as per NFL.com. “This is all new territory and we are going to evaluate this timetable every step of the way. He will meet with professionals provided by the Eagles during this period of time to better help him understand how his words have hurt so many, including his teammates.”

Cooper’s Eagles teammates are divided on Cooper and his comments. Quarterback Michael Vick said that he could accept Cooper as a teammate, while running back LeSean McCoy described learning of his teammate’s comment as “losing a friend,” saying, “I can’t respect a guy like that,” as per NFL.com.

 

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“Where U Been” was produced by Mike Will Made It and features Chicago rapper Cap 1.

Listen to 2 Chainz’s “Where U Been” below.

Lil Twist named in a newly-filed battery report following an incident at the home of Justin Bieber.

Shortly after celebrity gossip site TMZ obtained a battery report made against rapper Lil Twist, the 20-year-old emcee has chosen to speak out against the damning report, which was filed earlier today (August 1).

The battery report was filed against Lil Twist this morning by a woman who says she was manhandled by the Young Money rapper while at Justin Bieber’s mansion. Upon leaving the mansion, the woman reportedly headed directly to the local sheriff’s department.

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In a statement released to HotNewHipHop.com, Lil Twist is claiming that he did nothing wrong and revealed that the woman who filed the battery report was allegedly the one out of hand.

“Lil Twist was not involved in any battery. He asked the guest of a third party at the home to leave, and security escorted the guest from the premises after the guest became disruptive,” read a statement made on behalf of Lil Twist.

According to the woman who filed the report, as she attempted to leave Bieber’s mansion on Thursday, Lil Twist became forceful as he attempted to prevent her from leaving the pop star’s home.

Although Bieber was not home at the time of the alleged incident, this doesn’t serve as the first time Lil Twist has found himself in legal trouble involving the singer’s property.

Just weeks ago, Lil Twist was arrested for allegedly driving Bieber’s Fisker Karma while under the influence.

 

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T.I. gives credit to the family of Trayvon Martin for their level-headedness throughout the George Zimmerman trial.

The death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin and thehighly-publicized trial that followed remains a much-discussed topic of conversation with many still voicing their opinion on the matter. Among those to offer their thoughts on the George Zimmerman trial was Atlanta rapper T.I. who didn’t hold back when it concerned comments he made this week.

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During an interview with Power 98 FM, T.I. revealed that he would have taken justice into his own hands if he was the father of Trayvon Martin and would have instead found himself on trial.

“Man, it was some bullshit…My hat goes off to the Martin family, because if it was me and my child, it wouldn’t have been no trial,” said T.I., according to Radio.com. “I’d have been on trial. It would’ve been the trial of the father who killed the man who killed [his child]. That would have been my story. My hat goes off because they [the Martin family] are much more clear and level-headed thinkers than I. I definitely think something needs to be done, but it’s just another harsh reminder of the world that we live in.”

T.I.’s comments about the Zimmerman trial comes shortly after fellow rapper Rick Ross released “I Wonder Why,” a record in which the Maybach Music Group founder compares himself to Martin and even uses audio from the trial in the song’s outro.

Later in his interview with Power 98 FM, the Hustle Gang leader touched on his upcoming album,Trouble Man II: He Who Wears the Crown. While the rapper turned reality star didn’t reveal many album specifics, he did promise a project that would make whoever decides to distribute the album very “happy.”

“I’ve been working on this one since the last one dropped,” T.I. revealed. “I haven’t decided exactly where I’m going to take [the new album] yet as far as a company for distribution, but wherever I take it, there’s going to be some happy people in that building.”

 

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Local Virginia rapper Antwain “Twain Gotti” Steward faces murder, malicious wounding, and firearms charges in Newport News after the 22-year-old allegedly rapped about the crime in one of his songs. According to a report by the Daily Press, Steward is accused of fatally shooting Brian Dean, 20, and Christopher Horton, 16, on May 10, 2007. Steward was 16 at the time.

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The case went cold for years, but police charged Steward with the two murder counts on July 9 citing his lyrics featured in a 2011 YouTube video as evidence of his guilt. The video has since been taken down from the site.

An affidavit for a Newport News Circuit Court issued search warrant provided the lines from the song:

Everybody saw when I [expletive] choked him. But nobody saw when I [expletive] smoked him, roped him, sharpened up the shank then I poked him…had me crackin up so I joked him, it is betweezy six feet ova, told ya [expletive] with my money I’ll roast ya

Witnesses at the time said that Horton and Steward had gotten into a fight before the shooting took place. Authorities allege that Horton and his visiting friend Dean were gunned down on the front porch of Horton’s house as a result of gang retaliation.

Steward is now being held without bond. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for October 2.

Twain Gotti’s Twitter feed has still managed to send out a series a tweets proclaiming his innocence after his arrest and detainment.

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Lil Wayne also says that he listens to Odd Future, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Future, UGK, 8 Ball & MJG and A$AP Ferg.

Lil Wayne recently said he does not “know where Hip Hop is at,” but added that he still has an appreciation for Odd Future, A$AP Ferg, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and others. He also added that he enjoys “the old stuff” and is “amazed” by new music videos.

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“I listen to a lot of Odd Future,” Lil Wayne said in an interview with XXL. “I’ve been listening to a lot of old stuff, though. Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of Bone Thugs, [E. 1999 Eternal], that album. I listen to a lot ofUGK, a lot of 8Ball & MJG and that’s kind of it. As far as new, I listen to Future, to a lot of the older mixtape stuff [and] A$AP Ferg.”

While he listens to Odd Future, A$AP Ferg and Future, Wayne said that he is still “amazed” by new videos he sees.

“I don’t know where Hip Hop is at,” he said. “I just listen to the old stuff, and my television stay on SportsCenter. Even when I’m flipping through the channels, I stumble across MTV or BET or whatever, if I stop and watch that video it’s because I haven’t seen that video. I’m so amazed. I don’t know if it’s new. I don’t know who the person is.”

Lil Wayne was also asked about his I Am Not a Human Being II project. This was his attempt at being “underground,” he said.

“Overall I felt good about the project because I approached it in a manner of—and this may sound silly—trying to be underground.”

In 2011, Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator spoke about a speech Wayne gave him at an award show. “I wanted to kind of fan out and shit,” Tyler said. “He gave me a speech about how happy he was that I won a [MTV] VMA and that seeing my mom go crazy kind of made him feel like he won it too, because that shit was real as fuck.”

Last year, Lil Wayne performed with Odd Future in Los Angeles as part of OF’s Camp Flog Gnaw tour.

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Problem comments on his relationship with Wiz Khalifa, shares advice he’s received from the Taylor Gang leader.

While speaking with Vlad TV recently, Compton rapperProblem reportedly shared his belief that crooner Chris Brown, who’s lent his talents as a rapper on the occasional track, is better than most present-day rappers.

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Problem cited Breezy’s “non-threatening” approach and the ability to create a melody with his words as the reason why the Virginia songster is one to look out for as an emcee. The West Coast spitter also went on to reference Drake’s singing/rapper career as one of the reasons why Brown should be able to rap when he chooses to do so.

“He’s not afraid to be non-threatening,” Problem explained. “He’s gonna put a whole lot of attitude in each word. He has R&B cadence when he’s rapping. So, it’s a melody that’s gonna be with it at all time. And he’s saying shit…If Drake can sing, he [Chris Brown] should be able to rap.”

Problem’s comments on Brown’s skills as a rapper likely stem from the addition of the singer on his “Like Whaaat (Remix).” On top of a rapping Brown, “Like Whaaat (Remix)” also features Tyga, Master P, and Wiz Khalifa.

In addition to Problem’s thoughts on Brown, the rapper’s relationship with Wiz Khalifa is also discussed during his interview with Vlad TV. According to Problem, although talks of joining Taylor Gang have never been brought to the table, he says he has received a welcoming amount of advice from the Pittsburgh lyricist.

“No, we’ve never had that discussion,” Problem revealed. “He’s more trying to—as a friend telling me the dos and don’ts so I don’t make any mistakes…’Make sure this is intact’ or ‘Get it like this’ or ‘Say this like this.’ We talk like that. How to build my brand. That type of shit.”

Problem’s interview with Vlad TV can be found below.

 

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Nicki Minaj is asked about Drake’s status with Young Money Cash Money Billionaires and she says her answer sounds “like a riddle but maybe one day you’ll be able to unravel that one.”

Nicki Minaj has responded to questions regarding Drake’s status with Young Money Cash Money Billionaires. During a recent interview with New York radio station Hot 97, Minaj was asked whether Drake is in Young Money or not and Minaj offered what she said sounded like a riddle as her answer.

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“Is he not in Young Money?” Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flexsaid to Minaj. “I’m not saying it wrong but something is definitely not the same as the first album [with Drake]. That’s how I feel. How do you feel?”

“Peoples’ perception of their reality is their perception of their reality,” Minaj said. “Sometimes people make moves based on their perception of what reality is. I know that sounds like a riddle, but maybe one day you’ll be able to unravel that one. All I can say is this, Lil Wayne is everything to me. I can’t speak for anyone else. What Young Money and Cash Money did for Nicki Minaj, I can never repay them for. So, I am forever indebted to them. Whatever happens with any other artist, I don’t know.

“[Drake’s] so talented,” she continued. “Sometimes, we’ve seen this. Sometimes when you’re really intelligent and you’re really talented, you also think a lot. Sometimes your mind is racing with thoughts. It is what it is. People go through their own motions and you’ve gotta respect it and keep it moving. We all love the team. We all love Wayne. That’s what’s gonna always hold us together. Drake is my baby because that’s how it was when we came in. So whenever I think of him, ‘That’s my baby.’ Whatever is going on now, obviously we’re all very busy and you know, shit happens. It gets a little hard to have a real connection when people are on different sides of the world, working on different things. You just never know who people got in their ear or what they’re feeling or maybe they felt wronged in some way. I don’t know. I just know that Drake is my baby and Wayne is my everything.”

“On a lot of his songs, he makes references to making appearances or people asking him for appearances on a song,” Flex said to Minaj. “I hear him talk about that or people sweating him for a verse…Did you ever feel like he was responding to somebody specific? Did you ever feel he was referring to you on those songs or not really?”

“I’ve never taken that personal,” Minaj said. “I think that when you are in a place where Drake is, which is, everybody is asking him for a verse or a feature, sometimes, it is what it is. He’s speaking the truth. However he decides to take that, whether he is taking that as a compliment or not, I don’t know. But, he’s speaking the truth and I think he’s speaking about every-damn-body. I’m not exempt from that and neither is anyone else. If you’ve been asking him for a verse or a song or done a verse or a song with him, then maybe you are included. I don’t know, but he’s not lying.”

The interview can be heard below, courtesy of Hot 97, as streamed by Late Nite Creep.

Drake and Nicki Minaj have collaborated on several songs, including “Make Me Proud” and“Champion.” Drake has said that he feels Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne are “iconic.”

“Nicki is such a character and Wayne is such a character,” Drake said in a 2011 interview with Power 106. “There’s people that dress up like them for Halloween. There’s people that wanna talk like them, be like them, get tattoos like Wayne, and do their hair like Nicki. I mean they’re so iconic. That’s also something I always try to push myself with my music ’cause I feel like that’s the only way I can be iconic. I’m just sort of a more stripped down individual as far as image wise, so that’s always something I pay attention to.”

Drake said in the same interview that the relationship he has with Minaj can become “competitive.”

“As much as it’s loving, it’s also competitive because competition pushes,” Drake said. “We push each other. When I hear Nicki get on a verse and kill the way she does, it doesn’t even become a male/female thing because it’s beyond that. Like she’s rapping better than a lot of males out there period, so it just becomes a verse thing.”

Drake has denied rumors that he’s leaving Young Money for years. “I’ll tell you if you wake up in the morning and you think Young Money ain’t my team, you out of your mothafucking mind,” he said at a 2011 concert.

 

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Ray J briefly reenacts Kanye West’s brawl with a photographer while outside of a Hollywood nightclub.

While Kanye West may have his gripes with the paparazzi, R&B crooner Ray J seemed quite welcoming of a TMZphotographer in a video posted on the celebrity gossip site this week. The “I Hit It First” singer even went on to mock Kanye and the Yeezus rapper’s now-notorious confrontation with a paparazzo at LAX.

In the video, Ray J is approached while exiting Tru Hollywood nightclub and proceeds to engage in a spiel about higher education.

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“Listen, go to college. Forget all that. Go to college,” said Ray J. “Do something good with your life. You can’t hit the 7 and eleven like us all the time. You can’t be lucky like this. Go to college and get a good education. I’m not watching anything. I’m only watching scholars go to college and get a good graduation.”

Later in the video, Ray J is seen playfully wresting with the photographer in a manner reminiscent of Kanye’s July 19 brawl at LAX. In his altercation with a photographer, the G.O.O.D. Music emcee was seen tussling with the man and attempting to take his camera.

Due to a past relationship with Kim Kardashian, Kanye’s current girlfriend and the mother of his daughter, Ray J has not shied away from speaking on his former relationship. In April, the singer released “I Hit It First,” a record which touched on his past fling with the reality star.

Kanye has yet to respond publicly to “I Hit It First” or any comments made by Ray J.

Video of Ray J mocking Kanye can be found below.

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Kanye West is helping to implement a new music writing program for at-risk youth in the South Side of Chicago. “Got Bars” will be a collaborative effort between the ARK of St. Sabina youth center and the Donda’s House Non-Profit organization. Donda’s House was named for West’s late mother Dr. Donda West.

“My mom spent her life as an educator, and I am happy that Donda’s House can pick up her torch and honor her life’s mission,” said Kanye in a statement.

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The program will work with students between the ages of 15-24 to teach them how to write and record music. Upon completion an EP of the participant’s recordings will be released. “Got Bars” will also provide lessons on exercise, yoga, nutrition, media-literacy, and etiquette training.

“Art instruction and particularly music instruction leads people to become better problem solvers, more flexible,” said Donnie Smith, Donda’s House Executive Director. “There are just so many outcomes that come from the study of music and particularly music writing.”

As Donda’s House’s co-founder and assistant director, Che “Rhymefest” Smith will be on hand to instruct participants in the writing and recording process in a professional studio.

“I am so happy to launch ‘Got Bars’ to honor Kanye West’s mother’s memory and to fulfill one of my Aldermanic campaign goals. ‘Got Bars’ will change our youth musically, get them healthy and keep them busy in a creative, peaceful environment,” added Rhymefest.

The initial program will run from August through October of this year. Those interested in participating in “Got Bars” can apply at dondashouse.com through August 2.

 

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The two video models featured in Tyga’s “Make it Nasty” video who filed a lawsuit against the YMCMB rapper are now asking for $20 million according to TMZ. Vixens Elizabeth Velasquez and Azia Davies claim that their breasts were exposed in the clip without their consent, and the two women want $10 million a piece in punitive damages.

20 million is 250 times what fellow Cash Money employee Bow Wow was ordered to pay a French porn star for using her image in a version of the video “Drank In My Cup.” In aFacebook post Bow Wow contested that he did not make the song or the video with Celine Tran’s likeness, but because he did not answer the lawsuit Tran was awarded $80,000 by default judgement.

It’s likely to say that Tyga will be pursuing legal measures for the Velasquez and Davies’ $20 million case.

 

Aswad Ayinde, the MTV award-winning video director of The Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly” was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexual assault. He’s believed to have raped and impregnated several of his own daughters.

The MTV award-winning director of The Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly” video was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexual assault Friday (July 26), according to The NY Daily News. This will be added to a 40-year sentence Aswad Ayinde received more than a year ago for similar charges regarding the sexual abuse of his daughters.

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Ayinde has been under investigation for raping his daughters and forcing them to have his children. The 55-year-old fathered six children with his daughters between the 1980s and early 2000s, performing the deliveries himself and burying children that didn’t survive, according to the NY Daily News.

The 50-year prison term was given to Ayinde in a trial regarding the abuse of his now 35-year-old daughter. He was convicted of abusing her repeatedly from the time she was 8.

“I can’t describe how much you hurt me and my sisters,” his daughter told Ayinde in court, according to NorthJersey.com.

Ayinde had nine children with his former wife Beverly and more with two other women in New York, according to court records. His former wife Beverly testified in a pre-trial hearing in 2010, saying that Ayinde believed the world was going to end. “He said the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen,” she said in the hearing.

Prosecutors said that Ayinde hoped to have a “pure” bloodline. He molested five of his daughters and fathered six children with them, the family and their attorney said, according to NorthJersey.com.

New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services faced scrutiny due to this case. Some of Ayinde’s crimes were reportedly committed while the family was under investigation by the agency. Some of the crimes were also committed after Ayinde acknowledged that he tried to take his children from a hospital where they were being held when the state had temporary custody of them in the early 2000s.

Ayinde beat the children using wooden boards and steel-toed boots, according to the NY Daily News report. Ayinde’s former wife Beverly says fear kept her from speaking to authorities. “I was afraid to ever accuse him of being demented or being a pedophile,” Beverly said in court in 2010. “I knew the word, but I wouldn’t dare use it because it would result in a beating.”

In order to avoid further investigations, Ayinde reportedly moved the family often, at one point spending time in an abandoned funeral home in New Jersey.

When Ayinde moved to Brooklyn, he met and lived with Subhana Rahim, an attorney who reportedly lived with him from 2001 to 2004. Rahim says she discovered that Ayinde was abusing his children while she was pregnant with his child in 2002. “He was this successful artist who had worked with The Fugees,” Rahim told the paper. “I was shocked when he told me they were his daughters and that he’d been sleeping with them…I didn’t try to understand something so ridiculous.”

During the trial that ended Friday, Superior Court Judge Raymond Reddin, spoke with Ayinde about his actions.

“By 13, most fathers are taking their daughters to the park…teaching them to ride a bike,” he said, according to the NY Daily News. “You took her in the bedroom and repeatedly raped her to complete your disgusting, revolting fantasies.”

After finding that Ayinde fathered other children with other women, his daughters contacted authorities in 2006.

“We found out we had other siblings, young siblings, and we had to put him to a stop,” one of his daughters said after the sentencing hearing, as per NorthJersey.com. “Even though we were healing, they could still fall victim.”

One of Ayinde’s daughters had four children with her father. Two have genetic illnesses, which doctors believe were likely related to incest. One of her children died in 2010 of spinal muscular atrophy. She was 9.

Ayinde faces further investigation for abusing his other daughters and could face more prison time pending the results of future trials. He faces at least three more trials regarding the sexual abuse of his daughters.

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In 2003, Cleveland, Ohio native Amanda Berry went missing until May 2013, when she was rescued after a decade of imprisonment and rape.

In a story that shocked the United States, it was revealed that Ariel Castro, who was sentenced to life and 1,000 years in prison just this week, kidnapped Berry and two other women, and had been holding them in captivity for years. All three women, and the six-year-old daughter of Amanda Berry, who Castro fathered, were saved.

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Berry, now 27, has begun to acclimate herself to the world as it is in 2013. But along the way, she went back to a time before tragedy struck.

On Saturday (July 27), Berry came on stage with her family at a Nelly concert in Cleveland. Nelly’s career, of course, was at an all-time-high in 2003, just one year removed from Nellyville, which has gone six times platinum in the United States.

“He said, ‘Everyone, here’s Amanda Berry,’ and she came out with a friend, another young woman,” said concertgoer Kayleigh Fladung to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “She didn’t say anything, but she was smiling and happy. “She waved to the crowd, everyone went crazy cheering, and she went backstage. Nelly did his set, four or five songs, and then he brought her out again and everyone cheered.”

“It was cool to see but still very surprising,” added Fladung.

As he brought Berry out, Nelly said, “I want to make sure we get a chance to thank you… because I can’t even imagine the type of strength and the type of courage that it took to keep it going. So for that, again, I commend you…and for that, I want you to stay here,” before dedicating his peformance of “Just a Dream” to Berry:

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DJ Khaled’s marriage proposal to Nicki Minaj was a strange development in the world of hip-hop this week but Rick Ross has encouraged Nicki to accept the offer from the popular Florida-based spin doctor.

Even though he’s close with Khaled, he told Power 106 that he had no idea it was going down.

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“It was some chatter going around, but I can’t say that I knew, but it was some chatter,” Ross told Los Angeles’ Power 106 host Rikki Martinez.”Time to sit that a** on his lap.”
The initial video proposal was aired on MTV and replayed through various blogs and websites. The 10-carat ring has been valued at roughly $500,000. Some have theorized that the proposal is a hoax, Ross said otherwise to Martinez. “He has a ring valued at about half-a-million dollars,” Rozay reasoned. “If they tie the knot, I have to most definitely represent like a boss.”

At press time, Nicki Minaj had not commented publicly.

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Rick Ross says he knew that DJ Khaled was “infatuated” with Nicki Minaj during a visit to Los Angeles radio station Power 106.

Rick Ross says that he did not know that longtime friend and collaborator DJ Khaled was going to propose to Nicki Minaj, as DJ Khaled did in a MTV News video that debuted yesterday (July 25).

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But the Maybach Music Group leader says during an interview with Los Angeles radio station Power 106 that there were rumors circulating that something along those lines would happen during the filming of the DJ Khaled “Take It To The Head” video. “There was some chatter going around, but I can’t say that I knew,” Rick Ross says during the interview. “We get there. You hear certain things. I really just don’t absorb a lot of stuff I hear. But it was some chatter.”

While at Power 106, Rick Ross said that he had not seen the proposal, but that they have his blessing if they were to indeed get married. “That’s my brother,” he says. “As long as he’s happy, I’m happy.”

Looking at a screen shot of Khaled from the proposal, Rick Ross said that Khaled looked serious. “I see that it’s not planned, but I’m reading the small description underneath and it says he has a ring from Rafaello & Co, if I’m reading that correctly, that’s valued at about a half a million dollars,” he says. “If you spend a half a million dollars, you’re dead-ass serious.”

Rick Ross says he has a wedding gift in mind for the potential couple. “No telling what type of car I may give ’em as a gift if they was to tie the knot,” he says.

Although he could neither confirm nor deny the legitimacy of the proposal, Rick Ross says people will have to see how things unfold. “I know Khaled,” he says. “That’s been my brother. I know he’s been infatuated with Nicki. I guess we all just gotta sit back and wait.”

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