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The Australian rapper has the most hip-hop grammy nominations this year. T.I. in an interview with L.A. Leakers he shows that he is proud of his artist but he knows most other hip-hop artist won’t be. “Congratulations to Iggy for those four Grammy nominations… I appreciate being a part of—Just being able to contribute. I know she works extremely hard. She works extremely hard and she has an incredible vision for what it is that she wants to see herself. We all proud of her. Regardless of whatever anybody else got to say. We proud of her.”

Chris Brown and Plies have been battling things out via Twitter in regards to Chris Brown’s remarks regarding Karrueche Tran. Plies was the first one to call out Chris Brown on the situation; Chris Brown was quick to respond.

Plies tweeted: “If U Tell A Female Business Just When U Get Mad U A Fuck N*gga”

Chris Brown was quick to reply with “@plies If no one listens to your music anymore your career is dead blood”

Both Lil Wayne and Tiger have expressed their recent issues with Young Money, Tyga has made it clear that he will be releasing his album regardless: “The album is done so like I’m going to put it out independently, I’m just getting out [of] my deal right now,” Tyga said when asked about his label situation. “I feel like as an artist what we do creatively should never be imprisoned and at the end of the day we do it to bring it to the fans. It’s not a selfish thing it’s just not fair to the fans. You’ve got millions of people who want your music and they don’t understand the behind the scenes politics. I’m dropping regardless. I’m paying for my own videos and everything so I ain’t waiting on nobody. Everything come to the light so you got to treat people the way you want to be treated at the end of the day.”

Rolling Stone has recently named Kanye’s 808’s & Heartbreak Album the most ground breaking of all time: “Kanye West’s Auto-Tune-heavy, emotionally naked fourth album came after a brutal year during which his mother died and his engagement broke up,” the famed music-based magazine wrote. “But the album’s cavernous sound and exposed-soul lyrics confused even those who had been aware of West’s recent trials. Its core aesthetic was like nothing in Hip Hop: freshly butchered feelings enumerated in detail, but masked by digital processing; beds of spare synths used to balance a mix of singing and rapping. However, over time it served as a new template for up-and-comers in Hip Hop and R&B. Drake cited West as his budding sound’s ‘most influential person’ when he was hustling mixtapes, while artists like Future further tweaked the idea of using Auto-Tune as a way to convey emotions that evoke too much feeling when spoken of explicitly.”

Young Thug discussed, during an interview, how he transitioned into rap after getting into trouble as a kid: “Anyone can rap if you’ve got brains, so I just went with it. I was in the streets at eight, nine years old. I was going to school so my dad and mom would keep buying me clothes, but when I got out I did what I wanted to do – fighting, all kinds of shit.”

 

Rapper Beanie Sigel has reportedly suffered a gunshot wound to the torso after an altercation in Pleasantville, New Jersey. This all went down this morning and after Beanie had just been released from prison in August. Sigel was just recently on his first new track since his release from prison. The Atlantic City press wrote this about Beanie “Sigel was shot in the torso and transported to AtlanticCare Regional Medical Center’ city campus. Police confirmed the victim as Dwight Grant, which is Sigel’s real name. The second victim reportedly refused medical treatment on the scene, the cause or extent of the injury was not immediately available. The shooting was reported at 9:25 this morning at 834 Spruce Ave. No information on additional victims or the shooter was immediately available.” There is no word on the extent of his injuries just yet but of course we will keep you up to date with the situation.

 

Though it seems like Tyga and now Lil Wayne are ready to up and leave Cash Money behind Lil Waynes manager has said otherwise. Cortez Bryant, which is Waynes long time manager, says that everything is “good” with the label. Tmz confronted Cortez leaving a club last night and when asked about the situation he replied “We good.” “I’m smiling” and added “I wouldn’t be out at the club right now.” Cortez also said “Tyga’s good too. That’s my brother” So it would seem as though things may have already have been mended within the label but only time will tell and we will keep you up to date with any big moves that Wayne or Tyga make.

Tyga tweeted out yesterday “#TheGoldAlbum is going to my first independent release 2015.” This tweet came after a tweet where he called Lil Wayne a “LEGEND.” He obviously called Wayne this because of him calling out the record label Cash Money. There are no further details on Tygas delayed album but the drama within the Young Money Cash Money walls has really been coming to light and it will be interesting to see what happens from here on.

Under his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles Dr. Dre is having a 10,000 square foot studio built. Having bought a 20,000 square foot house just after Apple officially bought beats he has more than enough room. It also seems that he is having it built because he is going to work on a new project that isn’t detox but something big hopefully we will get actual information on this project next year and maybe even a release date.

Lil Wayne’s tweets from today say it all, Cash Money Records refuse to release Tha Carter V, Lil Wayne is fed up:

“To all my fans, I want u to know that my album won’t and hasn’t been released bekuz Baby & Cash Money Rec. refuse to release it.”

“This is not my fault. I am truly and deeply sorry to all my fans but most of all to myself and my family for putting us in this situation.”

“I want off this label and nothing to do with these people but unfortunately it ain’t that easy”

Many people are all riled up about the recent Eric Garner and Mike Brown tragedies; Puff Daddy has finally had enough and spoke out to the people via Instagram: “I can’t take it anymore! It’s Enough, and enough is enough! Honestly my emotions are all over the place. We as artists, myself included, all have to step up and be better leaders in our communities. It’s a hard burden to bear, but we have been chosen whether we like it or not. We need to do whatever we can in a POSITIVE way, to help unite people of all colors in this injustice! In order to be successful, it is very important that we have a well ORGANIZED, STRATEGIC plan. This is super important in order for us to make change!! REAL organization, REAL strategy and a TRUE commitment to not forget and move on like we usually do when the news stops reporting. This has to stop and we as a people are the only ones that can stop it. I truly do not have the right to preach, but I do have the right to speak. #EricGarner #MikeBrown #UNITE”

After being asked about Outkast Reunion, Andre 3000 admitted to not wanting to go on the tour in the first place: “Honestly, just, you know—I didn’t wanna do the tour.  We hadn’t performed in 10 years. It was old songs. I’m like, ‘How am I gonna present these songs? I don’t have nothing new to say.’ So I was like, ‘Maybe I can start saying new stuff while doing these old songs.’ It became a theme where I was more excited about this than the actual show. This is fun, running out in these.”

CeeLo Green was recently  asked by paparazzi about the allegations on Bill Cosby, making it very clear that it is unfair of anyone to assume on the matter: “No, no, no, I’m saying that can be the perception,” he said. “And it is the perception of many simply because he hadn’t made a formal statement defending himself. But you can’t defend yourself in that capacity. You just have to let facts be facts and so on and so forth. The facts have to speak the loudest. With that being said, none of it seems fair. And of course to any victim in that situation, it’s highly unfair. Extremely unfair. It’s not for me to really judge it. I definitely can’t judge it but it’s just unfortunate because he’s so beloved to so many people.”

J. Cole has had his new album “2014 Forest Hill Drive” leaked on the internet sadly but with it came a song called “Fire Squad.” In this track J. Cole took shots at many white rap artist saying “History repeats itself and that’s just how it goes / Same way that these rappers always bite each other’s flows/ Same thing that my nigga Elvis did with rock ‘n’ roll / Justin Timberlake, Eminem and then Macklemore.” A little later in the track Cole adds  “While silly nigga argue over who gon’ snatch the crown / Look around my nigga, White people have snatched the sound / This year I’ll be probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.” After that line he says “I’m just playin’, but all good jokes contain true shit / Same rope you climb up on. They’ll hang you with.” Make sure to purchase J. Coles album when it officially drops on December 9^th and support this artist who really does put his all into his music.

Yesterday December 2^nd Meek Mill was finally freed from prison with Rick Ross tweeted out “Meek home” as well as Meek posting a video of him in his hood partying after his release. Meek Mill was supposed to release his sophomore album back in September but it was put on hold after his incarceration. There is still no word on what the new release date for the album will be but it can’t be too far off.