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Fabolous announced that his new album will be titled “Young O.G.” instead of “Loso’s Way 2” as originally intended. Fab first announced Loso’s Way 2 way back in 2010 and we still have seen no sign of the album. The delays on the project have inspired Fab to retire the title. Fab was quoted saying “This is kinda very early. I haven’t really told anybody about that. This is breaking news,” while at Complex’s Sneaker show Quickstrike today. There is still no release date but this change of the title shows us that Fab is making moves.

Remy Ma has just announced an upcoming mixtape titled “I’m Around” she has said that the lyrics are going to be about her recent time in prison. She was quoted saying “It’s kind of impossible, after being in prison for six and a half years and being home for 19 days, to no talk about what I’m going through right now,” In an interview with MTV. “It’s very hard not to bring up what I went through. In the future, I don’t want to dwell on the past. I don’t want to dwell on the past now, but that was a large part of my life so it has affected me in a lot of ways. It will show in my music.” Remy Ma also stated she has plans in the works for her new album, which is to follow the mixtape.

According to TMZ, Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey have been reportedly separated since May. While living in different homes, based on the extent of their contract, Nick is allowed to see the kids. Sources in which are connected to the couple state that the separation was influenced after Nick’s appearance on Big Boy’s Radio show in March. Cannon had named five girls that he has slept with, one being Kim Kardashian. Sources claim that the reveal of Kim Kardashian is what pushed Mariah away.

Khalifa goes in depth about why he chooses not to include any violence in his music. He feels that his younger fan base should have other options in hip hop music. “I kept violence—Well, I still keep violence out of my music because a lot of the kids from where I’m from and just not even where I’m from, but just the inner-city in general. That’s all we hear. That’s all we know. That’s all we really look up to. And it’s cool because we enjoy that from certain people, but I just always—just as a kid and being different I gravitated towards other things along with that. So, I just want to give kids an option to look at somebody who doesn’t talk about that stuff. Who they still think is [as] cool as those same people. You know what I mean? Cause that’s who I am in real life anyway. So, it’s not really hard to do that through my music.”

Everyone has been accepting the ASL Ice Bucket Challenge; however, due to Mayweather’s insulting comments toward 50 Cent, he came up with a new challenge for Mayweather. 50 Cent challenged Floyd to read a page from a Harry Potter book out loud, from start to finish with no mistakes. In return, 50 Cent will donate $750,000 to whichever charity Floyd desires.

Lecrae, a faith-based rapper, challenges the hip hop community. Lecrae asks that rappers examine their lyrics before demanding justice from others in regards to the Ferguson situation.

“Dear Hip Hop, we can’t scream ‘murder, misogyny, lawlessness’ in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.” — Lecrae (@lecrae) August 19, 2014

Kid Cudi Collaborated with Guizeppe Zonatti on a pair of puffy red sneakers. The only problem is that Cudi’s vision doesn’t seem to be appealing to his audience. But maybe that is the point because Cudi could be going down a road of his own creating a style that can catch on and blow up in the near future.

Ab-soul released his album back in June and now has just come out saying there will be a tour and he has 40 dates set for the tour so far. The official poster for the tour says “More dates to be announced” So if you were looking forward to seeing Ab-soul live in concert the next three months he will be all over North America.

Kendrick Lamar who is said to be working on his next studio album after his debut, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, has many songs with the producer Flying Lotus. In an interview with Pitchfork Lotus said “I went on tour and he recorded to a bunch of my songs. I don’t know if he’s gonna use them or not, but he recorded a bunch of stuff, which is why there’s no Captain Murphy album out yet. He took all my beats.”

Kendrick has said that he feels no type of pressure going into his sophomore album after the success of his debut album.

French Montana, during a Billboard interview, admits to dating Khloe to build up his fan base. Reality star Khloe later responds to the interview with a tweet stating, “It's amusing to me that Y'all think I don't see it. I was the first one to see it. I just don't care”.

Kid Ink sued after his dog attacked the pizza delivery man. Pizza delivery man, Garnik Nazarian, claims the dog bit his arms, legs, face and other parts of his body.  According to the lawsuit, Nazarian's injuries are so bad; he won't be able to deliver pizzas for a long time to come. So, in addition to medical bills and pain and suffering, he wants lost profits (TMZ).