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Jay Z was seen sporting a Five Percent Nation Medallion while attending a Brooklyn Nets game.  It appears that the rapper association with the Nation of God and Earth is drawing criticism.  Some people think the rapper is supporting racism by wearing the medallion.  Clarence 13x founded The Five Percent Nation in 1963 after separating from the Nation of Islam.  The Five Percenters believes the Black man was the original man the creator of civilization and the personification of god.  Their name derives from the ideal that 10% of the population (elites) manipulated and control 85% of the population that is unaware of the true nature of human control.  The remaining 5% work to enlighten that the 85% of the truth.  There are some Five Percenters who question Jay wearing the medallion.  This is not the first time he was seen wearing the medallion.  He wore a piece last year during an interview with The Breakfast Club.  It is said that Jay is not an active member of Five Percent, no one has vouch for him.  It is known that you do not wear the medallion if you do not totally subscribe to the life.

Queens rappers DJ Whoo Kid and 50 Cent has been working together for 10 years.    During those ten years the two rappers has gotten into several fights.  DJ said he pissed 50 Cent off so many times, he is such a perfection.  DJ said one day "The stage hand that operates the sound wasn't muting the 'Many Men’ volume from the video. While I would play the song, the audio from the video would be playing too. This idiot kept forgetting to hit mute, and after the third date, 50 starts getting pissed at me. I was sitting on top of the stage and there was this fire pole separating us, so he couldn't punch me yet. Sometimes he'll try to grab me or play fight, so after the show he grabbed me. The lights go out -- and this is in Toronto by the way -- I come down the pole, and my boy was like '50 wants to see you.' I go see 50 and he's like, 'Why you fucking everything up every show?".  50 new I was mad after the incident but he never says sorry instead he put his hand on my head and say I love you man.

In a recent interview rapper 50 Cent revealed that he has 10 films and four television shows in the works.  One of the television show is based off a book 50 wrote called "Playground" which is about bullying. According to 50 the bullying book was inspired by his son.  50 said “He was telling me a scenario one time about something that was going on in his school. And I found myself trying to explain it,” he said. “And things that we do as kids—We understand the difference between right and wrong as adults. So, while I’m explaining it to him I’m like ‘oh.’ This is when I acknowledged that I was actually the bully in the school at that point. So, I wrote it from a more responsible perspective. I want you to like the bully like you liked him in the past in those actual shows. Like Dennis The Menace and Bart Simpson, those other characters. And then have him acknowledge his mistakes.” The animated show which was reportedly picked up by Fox will take a look at bullying from the bully perspective. The rapper has been working away from music which gave him a chance to work on the film and television which is being produced by Cheetah Vision.

Rapper Nas will appear on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.  The late night talk show with the political theme will also feature former Virginia representative Tom Davis, Caption Paul Watson, Journalist Carrie Sheffield and MSNBC host Alex Wagner. There has been other personalities associated with Hip Hop that has appear on the show such as Jay Z, Mos Def, Chris Rock, John Legend and Michael Eric dyson.

Lil Boosie threw a 60th birthday party for his mother over the weekend.  His neighbors in the gated community in Louisiana where he is currently renting a house complained about noise and parking violation.  The rapper mother said it was just a small family gathering.  She felt they were being single out.  On March 5, Boosie was released from prison, during a public appearance Boosie said “I just feel I stand alone in the music industry.” “As for the rap game, I feel like the music I got, the rap game wide open for me to take over,” he said. “I feel like what I been hearing these last three, four days on the radio and stuff is different from my music. Like I said, it’s different from my music. And different brings greatness. So, I just feel I stand alone in the music industry to tell you the truth".  The rapper is about to perform a string of out of state concerts , ticketmaster has tickets listed for Boosie performance in Birmingham and Nashville in April.  The rapper has not been cleared to leave the state of Louisiana.  Before he is able to leave the state Boosie has to prove himself over time and follower procedure to make a request through his officer.

In 2013 while serving time in prison, Gucci Mane worked on 12 project (3 project are with 1017 Brick Squad) with help from Ronald "Caveman" Rosario.   His share of profits from those project is supposedly $1.3 million.  Gucci Mane sells and benefits from TrapMerch.com an outlet the Rosario co-owns.  The site sells mixtapes and free Guwop tee shirt among other things.  Rosario also detailed Young Thug's complicated label situation, noting that Gucci Mane is position to benefit from any success Rich Gang manage rapper might experience.  Thug is signed to 1017 Brick Squad even though he is being manage by Birdman.  How do Gucci Mane get project done from behind bars.  He just calls from jail and give direction on projects and we go from there.

During an interview Love & Hip Hop reality star Benzino talked about the shooting he was involved in on his way to his mother funeral.  Benzino was grazed in the back and shot in the arm by his nephew Gai Scott.  The shooting was the result of tension between Benzino and Scott and other family members. The reality star said "I can’t talk too much about that only because of course it’s an investigation still going on…Only thing I wanna say about that as far as live on camera is that my mother was a beautiful, beautiful woman,” Benzino said. “And what’s transpired with her over the last 10 years was just really unfortunate. As far as her—I would have wanted her to retire. And be somewhere on the island and stuff, but things happened. Things happened that was out of my control. I’m in Atlanta and she’s up here. And she has other daughters and nephews and stuff. It’s just—it’s unfortunate. Money brings the worst out of people.”  He also said “With my mother not here probably—I just start losing faith in human beings. I just start—because when I grew up it wasn’t like this,” he said. “You know what I’m saying? When I grew up…Just society on a whole. It just, it wasn’t like this. People had genuine love for each other. We live in an age of social media now and it’s no genuine love because you really don’t even know who you talking to half the time…I think with my mom passing and with the things that transpired it’s definitely made me a little bit colder. But then there could be something that happens next week that makes my heart happy again".  There is no known date as to when Benzino would leave the hospital.  He will have to have physical therapy on his hand.  His nephew Scott is being charged with assault with the intent to murder.

Chicago rapper Lil Marc (Marc Campbell) was supposedly kill for mocking the death of his rivals in the street.  Two day after the release of  his video call "No Competition" the 20 year old rapper was shot and killed.  The song make light of other people death.  Lyrics on the song goes   “Mask up, young n*ggas on dummy, catch you in broad day leave em like J Money.”  There is also an online poster that says “Yall must not heard lil Marc competition..can’t stand on the bus stop after making something like that".  It is ironic the rapper was shot in the head in front of an bus stop mid-day on Friday March 28th.  He leaves behind a pregnant girlfriend.  The murdered may be related to a shooting the happened earlier in the day.  The motive behind the shooting is still speculation and police are still investigating.

John Kennedy Center Hip Hop Culture Worldwide Festival 2014 takes place March 25-April 13th in Washington DC at Georgetown University.  At the festival, Nas talked about members of the culture not taking a greater responsibility to rap about topic that touch on social justice issue.  He do not see enough emcees who are brave enough to be honest.  Socially conscious topic can come off as preachy, so a lot of rappers stay away from it.  Nas thinks rappers has the ability to do more then the latest trend.  There is a number of different rap style such as party rap, more intense rap and techno style rap.  People are just experimenting with rap music.  Nas said "Imagine me trying to come in that rap game at 19 years old. It was impossible. I had to do something that mattered, or I would not have gotten that respect from [the rapper at the time]. If I didn’t get that respect from them it was over. But now it’s a lot easier. "I would like to see people remember it’s an art form because the better we all become we push each other to make the whole art form better. Then we won’t have to worry about who won the Grammy".