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In an interview with Nylon Lil Wayne talked about being about the music. When asked about this he had this to say When I first started doing it, you only did it to be the best—not to have a hot song or popularity or for Instagram or Twitter. I’m one of the last of a dying breed…the ones who are only about the music. You have to want to be unforgettable. The only other people who I can think of like that are Kanye and Beyoncé. With Lil Waynes Tha Carter V supposed to be dropping on December 9^th but with no pre-orders out yet it looks as though there might be another delay coming but hopefully we get some new music from Wayne soon.

After 50 Cent has failed to pay the $17.2 million that he owes to Sleek Audio his bank account has been frozen. 50 is either unwilling or unable to split with the money and has had his account frozen as punishment though he was ordered to pay the sum way back in April. So it looks like 50 Cent will have to give in and pay up or face more legal action against him from the headphone company.

 

After listening to Puff Daddy’s newest album, 50 Cent was no impressed and made sure to speak his mind: “When you see Last Train to Paris, to me, that’s an R&B record ‘cause of how much Puffy is singing on the record,” 50 Cent says. “And then, I think it’s trash. I think that project is garbage because I didn’t think it was cool for Milli Vanilli to sing and I know he can’t actually hit the notes in front of us live.”

Many people would agree with Chris Rock when he claims that Kanye West and Jay Z are the greatest rappers of all time. During an interview today Chris Rock spoke very highly of the two rappers: “Jay Z’s the best rapper ever,” “Kanye’s getting on him,” Rock says. “Kanye may eventually pass him.” Rock also believes that Kanye is the “most interesting guy that ever picked up a mic.”

Lil Wayne spoke about his journey in the music industry in a recent interview: “When I first started doing it, you only did it to be the best—not to have a hot song or popularity or for Instagram or Twitter. I’m one of the last of a dying breed…the ones who are only about the music. You have to want to be unforgettable. The only other people who I can think of like that are Kanye and Beyonce.”

Rapper, Nerco, tells all about Biggie and his fans vs. Kool G Rap: “I’m different than most people, most people just fucking listen. Most people just put on the radio, ‘Oh Biggie, [“Big Poppa,”] that’s the shit. We love that.’ I didn’t like Biggie when he did all that. I liked Biggie with ‘Party And Bullshit,’ after ‘Party And Bullshit’ came out and then Puffy started promoting the commercial shit I got turned off. I was listening to Kool G Rap, ‘Ill Street Blues,’ ‘On The Run.’ I felt G Rap should have blown up like Biggie. But most people, you’ll talk to someone, they don’t know who G Rap is. And everybody says they love Biggie. And I’m Brooklyn, obviously Biggie’s amazing, but these people, are they true when they say they like shit? I don’t think so. I think people are trendy.”

A$AP Rocky got his start to fame mostly through viral success and was one of the first to achieve that. Hailing from the NYC when he first performed live he had a large crowd already from his viral success and following. During a piece Ferragamo called “A Man’s Story” Rocky reflects on his first show at ALIFE Boutique after the release of his video for “Purple Swag” A$ap Rocky had this to say “They wanted me to come by and do three songs, And when I say it was a line around the corner, people couldn’t even get in and I just kept thinking to myself — wait, all of these people are here for me? This can’t be real. It’s my first time, it’s my first show.” Then Rocky reflects on crying tears of happiness after the show “It turned out crazy. People were dressed how they saw me dressed in the videos. And when I got in the car on the way home, and I cried — because I was happy, that’s when I felt that I made it.”

Fabolous has just announced a new album for the holidays called The Young OG Project and now he is letting loose that he signed a management deal with Roc Nation. This was announced via Twitter and an interview with MTV. Hopefully this partnership is good and benefits Fab in his future projects and his upcoming album will drop on December 25th.

Timbaland, having started out with R&B, is going back to his roots crafting another Ginuwine album. Ginuwine slowly slipped out of the spotlight in the 00’s after he and Timbaland went their separate ways. Back in the 90’s the duo made countless hits together and the timeless hit, Pony. Ginuwine has announced that a new album will be produced by Timbaland and will hopefully make a 2015 release date. This could be the start of R&B rising back to its prominent position in the music industry and hopefully Timbaland decides to give more of the 90’s artist he worked with a reboot.

During Red Bull’s 30 Days in L.A. there have been a ton of big performers and guest appearances. Last night A$AP Mob had the stage and Young Money’s Drake showed up to perform his verse on the hit song “Tuesday” with a lot of people only getting short clips of the performance in instagram clips you can tell the crowd was loving it.

According to Q-Tip’s newest tweets, Lil Wayne has abandoned Young Money and joined The Zulu Nation: “@LilTunechi is now a member of the ZULU NATION! Join us wearezulunation@gmail.com,” he said in the first tweet. “Help me in welcoming @LilTunechi to fold of the Zulus.” Lil Wayne has not yet made comments on the matter.

Eminem has been dishing out many alarming lyrics about some of the most popular celebrities in 2014. With that being said, Tyler The Creator, being an Eminem fan, admitted to Shady XV being a bad album: “I love you Marshall, you are my favorite rapper, but dude ‘ShadyXV’ is f—ing ASS,” “Hahaha, why won’t someone who loves him tell him NO.”

As everyone has heard, Pusha T and Kanye West finished a collaboration that has recently been leaked. Pusha T explained the incident during a recent interview: “What people don’t know is, ‘Lunch Money’ wasn’t supposed to come out when it did. It was an accident. In dealing with iTunes and Google Play and things like that, you have to queue it up early. So we queued up a version early, for the space, and ‘Ye decided to take it out of the queue, because he wanted to do other things that you hear in the beat now. And you know, he be gone, I be gone, things get lost in translation and it didn’t get taken out of the queue for Google Play. So that’s how people had the wrong version first. And when people had the wrong version, and I found that out, I was like it has to go, we gotta just put it out.”

After being asked about working with Jay Electronica on his new album, Common told only good things about the New Orleans Rapper: “I have a ultimate respect for Jay Electronica,” he said when asked about why he brought him on tour. “I think he’s one of the dopest emcees. I can go back and listen to his raps he did in 2010 and be inspired. He’s timeless already. His emceeing abilities is high level. It feeds me the way it always fed me. Hip Hop provides so many things for me.”

In an interview with High Snobiety Big Sean had this to say about his upcoming album “We don’t want to set a date just yet, we’re just making sure everything’s right, It’s pretty much ready; you guys will get it as soon as it’s ready and we’ll be making that announcement soon…It’s way darker than anything I’ve ever done, way harder than any album I’ve ever done. I’m pretty sure you’re going to like this album. The sound of it is definitely better than the mixtapes but it’s more of that type of intensity, high-level raps, and just not giving a fuck and going in.” Hopefully Big Seans takes his next album to another level and really impresses the hip-hop community.