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Rapper, Nerco, tells all about Biggie and his fans vs. Kool G Rap: “I’m different than most people, most people just fucking listen. Most people just put on the radio, ‘Oh Biggie, [“Big Poppa,”] that’s the shit. We love that.’ I didn’t like Biggie when he did all that. I liked Biggie with ‘Party And Bullshit,’ after ‘Party And Bullshit’ came out and then Puffy started promoting the commercial shit I got turned off. I was listening to Kool G Rap, ‘Ill Street Blues,’ ‘On The Run.’ I felt G Rap should have blown up like Biggie. But most people, you’ll talk to someone, they don’t know who G Rap is. And everybody says they love Biggie. And I’m Brooklyn, obviously Biggie’s amazing, but these people, are they true when they say they like shit? I don’t think so. I think people are trendy.”

A$AP Rocky got his start to fame mostly through viral success and was one of the first to achieve that. Hailing from the NYC when he first performed live he had a large crowd already from his viral success and following. During a piece Ferragamo called “A Man’s Story” Rocky reflects on his first show at ALIFE Boutique after the release of his video for “Purple Swag” A$ap Rocky had this to say “They wanted me to come by and do three songs, And when I say it was a line around the corner, people couldn’t even get in and I just kept thinking to myself — wait, all of these people are here for me? This can’t be real. It’s my first time, it’s my first show.” Then Rocky reflects on crying tears of happiness after the show “It turned out crazy. People were dressed how they saw me dressed in the videos. And when I got in the car on the way home, and I cried — because I was happy, that’s when I felt that I made it.”

Fabolous has just announced a new album for the holidays called The Young OG Project and now he is letting loose that he signed a management deal with Roc Nation. This was announced via Twitter and an interview with MTV. Hopefully this partnership is good and benefits Fab in his future projects and his upcoming album will drop on December 25th.

Timbaland, having started out with R&B, is going back to his roots crafting another Ginuwine album. Ginuwine slowly slipped out of the spotlight in the 00’s after he and Timbaland went their separate ways. Back in the 90’s the duo made countless hits together and the timeless hit, Pony. Ginuwine has announced that a new album will be produced by Timbaland and will hopefully make a 2015 release date. This could be the start of R&B rising back to its prominent position in the music industry and hopefully Timbaland decides to give more of the 90’s artist he worked with a reboot.

During Red Bull’s 30 Days in L.A. there have been a ton of big performers and guest appearances. Last night A$AP Mob had the stage and Young Money’s Drake showed up to perform his verse on the hit song “Tuesday” with a lot of people only getting short clips of the performance in instagram clips you can tell the crowd was loving it.

According to Q-Tip’s newest tweets, Lil Wayne has abandoned Young Money and joined The Zulu Nation: “@LilTunechi is now a member of the ZULU NATION! Join us wearezulunation@gmail.com,” he said in the first tweet. “Help me in welcoming @LilTunechi to fold of the Zulus.” Lil Wayne has not yet made comments on the matter.

Eminem has been dishing out many alarming lyrics about some of the most popular celebrities in 2014. With that being said, Tyler The Creator, being an Eminem fan, admitted to Shady XV being a bad album: “I love you Marshall, you are my favorite rapper, but dude ‘ShadyXV’ is f—ing ASS,” “Hahaha, why won’t someone who loves him tell him NO.”

As everyone has heard, Pusha T and Kanye West finished a collaboration that has recently been leaked. Pusha T explained the incident during a recent interview: “What people don’t know is, ‘Lunch Money’ wasn’t supposed to come out when it did. It was an accident. In dealing with iTunes and Google Play and things like that, you have to queue it up early. So we queued up a version early, for the space, and ‘Ye decided to take it out of the queue, because he wanted to do other things that you hear in the beat now. And you know, he be gone, I be gone, things get lost in translation and it didn’t get taken out of the queue for Google Play. So that’s how people had the wrong version first. And when people had the wrong version, and I found that out, I was like it has to go, we gotta just put it out.”

After being asked about working with Jay Electronica on his new album, Common told only good things about the New Orleans Rapper: “I have a ultimate respect for Jay Electronica,” he said when asked about why he brought him on tour. “I think he’s one of the dopest emcees. I can go back and listen to his raps he did in 2010 and be inspired. He’s timeless already. His emceeing abilities is high level. It feeds me the way it always fed me. Hip Hop provides so many things for me.”

In an interview with High Snobiety Big Sean had this to say about his upcoming album “We don’t want to set a date just yet, we’re just making sure everything’s right, It’s pretty much ready; you guys will get it as soon as it’s ready and we’ll be making that announcement soon…It’s way darker than anything I’ve ever done, way harder than any album I’ve ever done. I’m pretty sure you’re going to like this album. The sound of it is definitely better than the mixtapes but it’s more of that type of intensity, high-level raps, and just not giving a fuck and going in.” Hopefully Big Seans takes his next album to another level and really impresses the hip-hop community.

Rick Ross in an interview with Hot 97 had this to say about Meek Mills incarceration “I spoke to him and it may be five days from now, the big homie was sentenced to six months off the rip. We done got our hopes up a couple of times so I said I wasn’t going to feed into that again. When he come home, he come home. At worst it won’t be more than a month at this point.” Meek is in prison for violating his probation after a 2009 drugs and gun conviction.

While in an interview with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club he was asked about his assault allegations from porn star Mellanie Monroe he stated that he has to go through the process but that the ordeal is already half way out the door.  Maino also had this to say about the whole situation “Let me just tell you this though, “I don’t really [speak] on things that’s not true…But I was in a situation–You know what, let me say this. In my life, anytime I’ve been accused of something, I swear to you I’ve always been at least 30 percent guilty. If somebody said I’ve done something, I’ve done something. Never in my life, until this time here, have I been absolutely 100 percent innocent. But that thing is about to get thrown out. It’s already halfway out the door. I’m just waiting on the call to tell me it’s already finished. The sad part about it is that particular situation, if a woman says that then you have to actually go through the process. So, It doesn’t matter. You can be walking down the street and a woman says ‘Yo, Envy did this, did that.’ They gon’ at least arrest you and you gotta go through the process. Now the truth will come out in the end. But, you know what? Most people don’t hear the truth…I’m not here to make everybody happy. So, the people that believe it is the people that don’t fuck with me anyway.” Only time will tell how his case ends up but keep it locked for more information as it arrives.

Another Hollywood walk of fame star for hip-hop will be placed next month. Others range from Queen Latifah to Tupac but on December 4^th another will be added this time being Pharrell Williams. The Chair of the Walk of Fame Committee had this to say about the picks “We know that the new selections represent the best of the entertainment industry and will be a great addition to the Walk of Fame for both the Hollywood community and fans from around the world who visit Hollywood every year.”

Hip-Hop artist Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, and Lecrae and others all give their thoughts on the Ferguson grand jury decision. Macklemore went to twitter and tweeted “The system that instills & protects white supremacy wins again. Humanity loses…No justice. I pray for Mike Brown & his family. So sad,” Will.I.AM tweeted ““My heart goes out to the family of #MikeBrown, the people of #Ferguson and #america as a whole…”  Kendrick Lamar tweeted out “Didn’t we say LOVE yourself? They don’t LOVE u. The world don’t LOVE u. Worldly things don’t LOVE u. The master will serve justice,” Up and coming artist Mick Jenkins too took to twitter to post “This does not anger me. This is not surprising. And I don’t feel like it should be. But I do understand those who are angry/surprised,” This is just some of the hip hop communities thoughts on the matter for more turn to social media and see what the artist are saying.

Kendrick Lamars short film has already been shown at Sundance’s NEXT Fest back in August but the film titled “m.A.A.d” will next be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The documentary is 14 minutes in length and acts as a companion to Kendricks album good kid m.A.A.d city. The museum offers a description of the film which is this “Kahlil Joseph’s double-screen projection m.A.A.d is a lush portrait of contemporary Los Angeles. From barbershops to marching bands, from homeboys drinking in the streets to the iconic carpet of shimmering lights, the camera in m.A.A.d sinuously glides through predominantly African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles catching a dizzying array of quotidian moments suffused with creativity, joy, and sadness. Joseph’s film is accompanied by a thick booming soundtrack provided by emerging hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar and indeed m.A.A.d is part of the title of Lamar’s highly acclaimed second album Good Kid m.A.A.d. City.” Hopefully the film gets great reception at the museum when released and furthers the hip hop medium into the realm of art.