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Kanye West according to MTV UK, has spent $60,000 on only two Christmas gifts for baby North West. The reports are that he spend over $50,000 on a diamond encrusted tiara, and another $9,400 on a matte-black SUV car similar to that which he drives.

In an interview with Time magazine, Nas talked about the state of the U.S. as of today after the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and others. Nas said the current climate of the country is like how it was during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Also he said it is not okay for the country to look like “apartheid South Africa.” Nas added “We may have read about the Civil Rights [movement], but you didn’t live it, you may have read about lynchings in Mississippi and Alabama, but you didn’t live through it. It was before this generation’s time, before my time. Now you get to see it. Something that’s always been going on. Something that’s been going on entirely too long. It’s not cool to look like apartheid South Africa [in] 1988. How are we going to be the free world or the most powerful country when inside this country we’re fighting because of skin color? That’s just embarrassing. I’m one of the guys that’s out there saying, ‘Listen, it has to stop.’” Nas spoke a little more about the subject adding “It’s important that every time I see a black child I look him or her in the eyes and I say ‘This is your world. You’re a king or you’re a queen,’ everything else is telling them that they were slaves. It’s important that they know history for black children doesn’t start in this great country. It started in the world’s first civilization on that continent they call Africa. A lot of whites are very ignorant about American history. Lots of black people are upset with themselves because they have hatred towards themselves because they’re too dark or they’re this or they’re too that. And there’s a lot of healing that needs to come onto this country. America, we are really smart enough to figure it out, but I guess it’s safer to hang out and be ignorant, and be hateful, and think that one person is better than the other.”

Bobby Shmurda and his GS9 crew are in deep now as we know they were arrested just the other day but now all the details of the reasoning are beginning to surface. An inside source on the case has revealed that they officially found “$52,000 worth of crack which is 262 grams, a pound of marijuana, $40k in cash, 3 guns, and 1 AR-15 rifle. With all this evidence stacked up against Bobby and his crew Shmurdas attorney, Howard Greenburg, says that the rapper is innocent.

Cassidy recently battled Dizaster at “Ether” in Los Angeles earlier this month where a lot of people feel he showed that he is still one of the best battle rappers. Now Cassidy is saying that he is getting an offer of $500,000 to battle. In an interview with BattleRap.com Cass says “I call myself Mr. Chicken, niggas hear me talking this chicken talk so they think the only reason I battled was for the money. Nah, I battled ’cause that’s what I love to do. That’s the cloth I’m cut from. But, at the end of the day, I feel I’m an established enough artist to get paid for what I do. Even though I like to go to the clubs and party, before I put an album out or anything I used to go to the club to party and have to pay to get into the club. Now, when I go to the club to party, people gotta pay me to come do what I love to do ’cause I’m me. I feel it’s the same thing with this battle shit. Niggas gotta pay me.”

New reports are saying that Rapper Lil Kim failed to pay taxes back in 2010. In tax documents that have surfaced thanks to Life & Style, Lil Kim owes the IRS $126,725.12 in back taxes from the years 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Hopefully Lil Kim gets everything cleared up soon and for more information keep it locked.

At Quad Studios, the infamous studio that 2Pac was shot the first time at, Bobby Shmurda and members of his GS9 group were arrested. Police confiscated many weapons from the studio. Back in June Bobby was arrested for another gun possession so if this new charge is added he could be looking at some hard time. “These arrests were the result of a long-term investigation. My office has a sealed indictment against a number of individuals. The investigation did involve a number of violent incidents as well as narcotics trafficking.” said the director of public information about the situation. There is also a video that surfaced of the crew being lead out of the studio by cops in cuffs.

 

Hopsin has always voiced his opinions of the music industry and rap but he usually chilled out after a while and got back to making his music. Yesterday Hopsin took to his facebook page and wrote “I just wanted to take time out to say I appreciate all of u who have supported my music over these past few years. A Lot of u have told me stories about how I have changed your life. You too have changed mine in ways that u can never imagine. Unfortunately, tonight is the night that I am actually moving away to Australia. Over the past couple years I have come to conclusion that this profession just isn’t for me, so im going to venture out into new areas of life. I will always be an MC at heart, but this rap stuff just isn’t for me. I hope Youguys can respect it. I’ve signed over my half of the funk volume label to my business partner Dame. I also wished Swizzz, Dizzy Wright and Jarren Benton good luck in their careers. Thank u all! I’m out.” It is assumed that he chose Australia to live with his Australian girlfriend.

50 Cent has just closed a deal with underbrand Frigo RevolutionWear for a huge $78 million. 50 made sure to let all his fans know via his instagram account and also touched on the subject while on Seth Meyers’ late night show. The underwear will sell for $100 a pack so it looks like 50 Cent is never stopping with his business ventures and it seems to really be working out for him.

Fabolous signed to Def Jam in 2006 sending his career to new levels and he recognizes that he could have taken a totally different path. While in an interview with Hot 97 Fab talked about rejecting G-Unit around the same time.  When asked if he feels like he has made any mistakes in his brand he said responded with “Not really. I think everything that’s happened to this point has happened for a reason. I could’ve signed to G-Unit in ’05 or ’06 and I may be in a different place than I am today, or I could’ve stayed at Interscope when they fired Clue… So the things I’ve done in my career have led me to the place that I am now.”

After being away from Twitter for almost a month, Kanye West returned to show his support for the Eric Garner and Ferguson protests:  “600,000 people rallied for justice on Dec. 13th #blacklivesmatter

9:29 PM – 15 Dec 2014”

Kid Cudi’s “Chillin While We Sippin” was recently leaked, and he didn’t hesitate to point out who did it. Yesterday on Twitter he posted these tweets back and forth with Chuck Inglish:

Kid Cudi: “Hoe ass niggaz leak unfinished material that doesn’t belong to them.”

“I dont condone the recent leak. I dont honor it or the two hoe ass niggaz involved in the production. The vocals were stolen from me.”

Chuck Inglish : “@KidCudi ain’t never been no hoe in me my nigga. You better call Rich. Cuz this ain’t what you want.”

Kid Cudi: @Chuckisdope break open that piggy bank hoe ass nigga and lawyer up

“Soooo happy I have the best fuckin lawyer in the business” Kid Cudi Tweeted last.

Sony was recently hacked and emails have been sent between Sony executives were released to well-known people such as Kevin Hart, Angelina Jolie, and president Obama. After speaking on a possible collaboration during an interview, Jaden and Willow Smith were also targeted by the emails: “Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good,” Willow Smith said during their interview with New York Times.

The email released about Willow and Jaden Smith was titled the following:  “Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School is Overrated.” This email was exchanged between Tom Rothman and Doug Belgrad, in the email they also made a joke about not including the two young celebrities in any movies.

Facebook deactivated Lil B’s account for 30 days for posting this status which got over 1,000 likes: “If you were born in the 1950’s or before and your family did not push to have segregation and slavery stop ur grandparents are p*ssy.”

Twitter has not blocked Lil B for his anti-America tweets, and he made sure to mention his Facebook deactivation:  “I keep it real!!!!!!” In fact, that’s why Facebook is “scared”, because I keep it tooooooo real!!! Hehe I won’t lie to yall!!”

Last Saturday the “Millions March” took place in New York City to protest police brutality. This comes after the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Akair Gurley who were all killed by cops in the last couple months. The turn to this march was huge with an estimated 50-100,000 people there. In the crowds were Russell Simmons, Nas, and Def Jams vice president Kevin Liles which sent a very powerful message.

Sony’s email has been hacked very recently letting loose a lot of things the company probably didn’t want out to the general public just yet. One interesting thing found is that Kanye’s team had reached out to Sony to possibly create an “immersive cinema experience” In the e-mail Yeezys creative director Elon Rutberg said “I supervise all of Kanye’s film and media projects, and we have a major film project coming up that involves both cinematic and technological innovation, so I naturally thought Sony and wanted to reach out,” Rutberg wrote in the email. “We premiered a multi-screen cinema experience to great response at Cannes 2012, and are looking to take the storytelling to the next level with a feature length film, shot for an immersive cinema experience.” To see what Kanye can do in the cinema business could be very interesting.