50 Cent to release “The Kanan Tape” on Thanksgiving

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This Thanksgiving is going to be packed with brand new music with a mixtape from Lil Wayne, Erykah Bado, Mike Will Made It and now 50 Cent is joining in. 50 Cent will be dropping his “The Kanan Tape” on Thanksgiving day which is November 26th. 50 made the announcement via his Instagram account posting a picture of the album art.

Missy Elliot lands the cover of Billboard Magazine

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Missy Elliot has been out of the spotlight for many years now but with the new music she is putting out for the people you can feel the old Missy Elliot spirit is back. Her latest music video for her song “WTF(Where They From)” was a huge success making it feel like Missy had never left. Missy Elliot has landed the cover of Billboard Magazine and in it she talks all about her comeback and how she has to adapt to the way things are these days with the internet making every thing move quicker. You can check out the full story right here.

Fetty Wap is back on his feet

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Fetty Wap had a bad motorcycle accident about eight weeks ago in which he had broken his leg. Though this left him in a wheel chair for some time he healed nicely and maintained his success performing shows and all. Now Fetty Wap is able to walk again at with it being his one year anniversary of signing his deal with 300 Entertainment it could not be a better time for him. As long as he keeps making his catchy radio songs he will continue to be popular in the rap game for years to come.

Lil Wayne has a successful elbow surgery

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Lil Wayne is about to release his highly anticipated mixtape “No Ceilings 2” next week so everyone is looking out for that. Wayne tweeted out though that he had just had a successful elbow surgery that had been done by Dr. Kaplan at the University of Miami hospital but know one knows why the surgery was needed. But this being Lil Wayne it could very well be skateboarding related which would make a whole lot of sense since he had to have nine stitches back in 2011 for the same reason.

Video has surfaced of Busta Rhymes’ gym brawl

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Video has now surfaced of Busta Rhymes actual gym altercation from early on last Summer. Busta was arrested in New York for what had transpired but until now no one had any idea what really went down. The new video that surfaced gives everyone a clear picture of what happened that day though there is no audio. Busta does indeed throw protein shake and tosses the employee’s computer comfronting him with a security guard trying to stop it. This happened because Busta was told he could not enter the gym until her spoke with the manager and the reason for that is because Busta allegedly made racist and homophobic remarks towards the staff when his cameraman was denied entrance.

 

Lil Durk passed up the huge opportunity of having a verse on Chief Keefs track “Don’t Like”

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Everyone knows Chief Keefs mega hit track that even got Kanye West’s attention and had him have to make a fire remix to it. Some new news about that track has just surfaced though in a new interview Young Chop did with Hot New Hip Hop where he talks about who was all in the room when “Don’t Like” came together. There was Durk, Chop and Keef with Lil Reese set to join them. “Durk, I don’t know what happened, he didn’t want to get on the song or some shit like that, so Reesy walked in the door. [I sald] ‘Bro, get on this,’ because Reesy, that’s my homie, he listen to me on some real shit.” This one song kick started Keef career and made his name known all around the world and Durk could of got some of that shine.

Kim Kardashian said to be moving her and Kanye’s sons due date

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Kim Kardashian is said to be moving her baby boys due date with his previous due date set around Christmas day. She and her doctors have decided it would be best to move it up to around Thanksgiving because of her medical history. As you may remember their daughter North arrived around five weeks early because Kims blood pressure went through the roof. Hopefully all goes well for them and they have a healthy baby boy coming up real soon.

Kid Cudi says he wrote his song “Young Lady” about Emma Watson

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On Kid Cudi’s last album, Indicud, there was a track called “Young Lady” and Cudi just recently revealed that the song was actually about famous actress Emma Watson. Kid Cudi let the world know via his twitter at 4:58am saying  “Ok, Young Lady was written about Emma Watson.” Now will Emma Watson react to this who knows but it would be pretty cool if she did so keep it locked right here. Emma Watson played Hermione Granger in all Harry Potter movies.

Chance The Rapper has been named Chicagoan Of The Year

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Chance The Rapper has received Chicagoan Of The Year by Chicago’s own Chicago Mag. They have named him one of the most important people in the city along with four other people but Chance actually gets the cover of the magazine. This is well deserved for all that Chance does for his city which is very impressive for someone so young. Check out behind the scenes of the shoot below.

An elementary school in Chicago has a Chief Keef Lesson plan

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Parents of students at an elementary school Chicago are not happy at all after they found out that the school had a Chief Keef lesson plan. For all those that don’t know Chief Keef is a Chicago drill rapper whose music is all about money, woman, drugs, and guns. A substitute teacher at Fiske Elementary School gave his students a quiz and the subject of this quiz was Chief Keef. Parents are not happy knowing that the subject has a substantial criminal history. One parent commented  “I had never heard of him, But after careful research I found out that his music is about having sex, using the ‘B’ word, anti-police, and supporting gangs.” Check out some of the question below and you’ll see just how ridiculous this substitute teacher really is.

Where was he placed on house arrest?

Who shot Chief Keef when he was 16?

What Kanye West song was Chief Keef featured on?

At what age did he stop attending school?

What was Chief Keef debut album?

What year was “Bang” release?

Trey Songz had to pay the IRS $750,000 in back taxes

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Trey Songs just had to cough up a whopping $750,000 to the IRS because of taxes he did not pay back in 2013. This was the total number of taxes owed from his entire income in 2013 and according to TMZ Trey Songz is now a debt free man in the clear after paying the whole thing on October 28th. He took care of business faster then anyone usually does who is in the music industry so it is pretty impressive and hopefully he doesn’t slip up on them again.

Hangout Fest 2016 to have some big names

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The music festival called Hangout Fest 2016 will be going down on May 20th – 22nd at Gulf Shores, AL and will have some big names performing. The Weeknd, who is hugely popular right now with all of his radio hits, will be headlining with Calvin Harris and Florence + the Machine. Though the show isn’t an all out hip-hop fest there is still notable performers from the genre each night. Other hip-hop artist include Fetty Wap, Run the Jewels, Big Grams, Raury, Pell, and Vince Staples which is way more then enough to put on some amazing shows.

A$AP Rocky brings out Lil B during his San Francisco show

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A$AP Rocky did a big thing for San Francisco last night bringing out the well known native rapper Lil B to perform during his concert. Everyone at the show turned up when Lil B started performing which is awesome to see that amount of support for an artist who doesn’t seem as big. A$AP and crew all joined in on the stage just having a great time. Check out a clip below.

Kid Cudi reveals the “Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven” Artwork

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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 4th 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.

Safaree Samuels to sue Nicki Minaj

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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.