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Kid Cudi is not your average rap artist so you can’t expect him to have average artwork for his albums and his latest sticks to that formula. Cudi’s upcoming album “Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven” is coming out on December 4^th and he has just today decided to show off the album artwork which is pretty trippy. The artwork shows Kid Cudi in the wild with his arms open with some crazy blur effect. Hopefully this album is as amazing as his past albums have been but we’ll see soon enough. Until then check out the artwork below.

Nicki Minaj’s ex Safaree Samuals is said to be about to sue her to get a cut of all the profits they off of her first three albums. Samuals also wants money for her singles “Only” and “Flawless” and “Feeling Myself” which were all huge hits so it makes sense. This lawsuit has not been filed yet but he is said to already have lawyers ready to go and he has tons of evidence that he was hugely apart of all of her output which will include voice memos, studio session footage, and eye witness accounts. Keep it right here for updates on this situation.

It was just reported yesterday that both Tyler, The Creator and Hodgy Beats of Odd Future were both taking shots at each other while they did their sets at their annual carnival. In a new post today on Hodgy Beats Instagram he post a video of him and Tyler speaking on the situation saying "Tyler told me to stop being a bitch, so I said alright." and the two seemed to be back on each others good side which is good news for their fans who saw them grow as artist together.

Hodgy Beats one of the original members of Odd Future along with Tyler, The Creator calls him a fraud. During his show at Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, Tyler talked about his frustration with people in his circle and now it seems like we know who atleast one of the people is. The words seemed to be aimed at Hodgy Beats who talked poorly of Tyler earlier in the night during his own set. "N*ggas got me fucked up. I put too many n*ggas on. I helped too many of my motherfucking friends out. And n*ggas gonna come foul? And you know who the fuck I'm talking about, n*gga. And yes, it's getting real. I love you though," Tyler said to the crowd. Today on twitter Hodgy expressed that he fealt as though Tyler is a fraud and had turned his back on Odd Future. Earl Sweatshirt was not even at the Carnival this year so he could be another person who feels Tyler let him down which is really unfortunate.

Drake is no stranger to magazine covers with the amount of popularity he has obtained since he showed up in the rap game. His latest magazine cover has to be one of the best to him because it is for Toronto Life magazine and everyone knows how much Drake represents his city. Drake is on the December issue of the magazine and is placed at the number one spot at the top of the “Toronto’s 50 Most Influential People” which is really impressive.

Future has been having a crazy year when it comes to music and becoming very popular in that field with tons of projects only aiding his success. 2 Chainz had success like this back in 2012 and 2013 and because of that of course people would like him to comment on Future. During a Rap Radar podcast Chainz was a guest and they asked him to compare his success then to Futures success right now. "It's that glow. It's that feeling. It's literally feeling like God put his hand on you," he said but he said it can also be a bad thing putting so much work in because while he was doing it he actually missed the birth of one of his children which he is not proud of.

Rich Gang is officially getting back together which no one thought would happen. Rich Homie Quan posted a picture of himself on the Cash Money logo to announce that “Rich Gang Pt. 2” will be happening. Again Birdman will be hosting this mixtape just like the first one and fans of their music should be really happy right about now.

50 Cent is not cool with fellow rapper Rick Ross at all and he continues to show this via his Instagram posts. Today 50 took to his Instagram to post a picture just outside Rick Rosses brand new WingStop he opened in New York City. 50 added the caption “A fat chicken,selling chicken 🐓 them people know you got a ass whooping coming lol” So 50 definitely isn’t happy Ross is opening his chicken joint in his city but keep it locked right here for further updates on this ongoing beef.

Trick Daddy was on The Breakfast Club radio show recently and during the interview he commented on the state of the rap game. "Four out of five new artists come out sound like Future. Three out of five of 'em look like Young Thug." He said in the interveiw. Trick went on talking about how he doesn’t like the femine way rappers dress these days obviously talking about Young Thug. Young Thug caught wind of this and took to twitter saying “Dear trick daddy..😭😂😭😂 Mr. #TRICK TRICK DROP YO OLD PUSSY ASS OUTSIDE A CLUB, PUNKED YO TEETH OUT AND IS STILL BREATHING #OLDPUSSY FREEZE ME” and finished by adding “Again #BreakfastClub IS THE DEVAaaL.... UMA DO EM LIKE GUWOOP DID EM IF THEY CALL ME DOE....” Young Thug has not been shy when it comes to snapping back at people who talk about him in a way he does not like but who knows if that is really a good thing.

Back in January of 2014 Dr. Dre and Jimmy Lovine started up Beats Music but it was lackluster and did not stand up to the competition. Since then Apple bought Beats out as a whole and with it bought Beats Music for $3.2 billion. Now with Apple Music doing well they really have no use for Beats Music but it has just been announced by Apple that they will be shutting down the service on November 30^th. So looks like if there were any remaining Beats Music users they will have to make the switch to Apple Music.

As previously reported Metro Boomin and Young Thug had a beef going on over social media because of Metro saying that rappers should not try and reach Futures level. But this seems to have been squashed and we know this because Metro Boomin took to his twitter and posted "There was a misunderstanding with real emotions but it's resolved. Thugger my brother 4 life," which is a clear sign the beef is done.

2 Chainz appeared in the latest episode of Rap Radar’s podcast and he shared some really interesting information. In the podcast Chainz says that his next album will be called B.C. which stands for Before Chainz. “It’s gonna be called B.C., like B.C. and A.D. B.C. is Before Chainz,’ obviously. A.D. would be like After the Dope Game,’ After the drugs, everything is a different feel. But B.C. is done. It’s Tity Boi. It’s nostalgic.” 2 Chainz says. He did not stop there though 2 Chainz then announced that he actually has a project with Lil Wayne in the works called “Collegroove” which will be dropping very soon so fans of both artist should be pretty excited right about now.

Fans of Joey Bada$$ know him for his 90’s throw back look and sound so when he deviates even the slightest from his norm the fans react and not in a good way. Just yesterday an artist named G Herbo dropped his track called “Lord Knows” which was produced by Metro Boomin and featured Joey Bada$$ and is not the last song he will have featuring Joey. The track is very hard which Herbs fans enjoyed because it is in tune with today but Joey’s fans were not happy about it because he is never on club banger type records. Joey Bada$$ did not take this from his fans taking to his twitter saying “If you have a problem with me expanding and experimenting my sound, you're just as bad as the critics who marginalizes me to 90s music.” Joey posted and added "If you ain't down for the ride just hop off the bandwagon now." So Joey is not letting his fans box him into a specific genre and style which is a good thing in the long run even if he loses some of his following.

Spike Lee’s upcoming film “Chi-Raq” has stirred up plenty of controversy already because of it’s depiction of Chicago. Tons of drill rappers from the city felt as though the film was a little too far on the comedy side and expressed their displeasure online. Now, Nick Cannon, who plays a Chicago gangster rapper in the film has release his song “Pray 4 My City” which has a ton of footage from the actual film and of course Nick rapping which is interesting because it is not his style at all. Check out the clip below.

Kid Cudi has an album right around the corner called “Speedin’ Bullet to Heaven” but what was just announced today is that he will also be going on tour. The new “Especial” tour will be starting out in Denver on November 30^th and Cudi will be going to 16 different cities in the United States and it all comes to an end on December 22^nd. Tickets should go on sale really soon so fans should keep an eye out for those and more tour date location announcements.