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Today marks the day ten years ago when Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan passed away at age 35. The rappers son Young Dirty Bastard has announced an event in Atlanta that will commemorate his dad. In an interview with XXL ODB’s wife talked about the difficulties following his death “I feel bad because a lot of things aren’t going our way. This is the 10-year anniversary and we were supposed to have a big thing in New York. We wanted to do different things but got no support, no money to make it happen. It’s just sad. Everybody else is making money except for us. We don’t have any help, we don’t have any support. Everybody who helps us gave up.”

After many weeks Keyshia Cole is being sued for her alleged attack on Sabrina Mercadel who is an associate of Birdman. Sabrina filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court that goes against Keyshia Cole for the hefty sum of at least $1 million. She is suing for battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and premises liability. Cole allegedly punched Mercadel in the face and insinuated that she was a hooker by saying “You can get your money later.”

During the Concert for Valor in Washington D.C. earlier this week Eminem had an expletive-filled performance. Em opened with “happy motherfuckin Veterans Day” and as most rap artist these days do proceeded to throw the word “fuck” around numerously. The show was streamed live on HBO and people watching took to twitter to question why Eminem would use profanity at a concert celebrating the nation’s veterans.

Organic who is co-founder of King Of The Dot, a rap battle league founded in Toronto, says he does not like battlers that use their lyrics more than once. “From a promoters stand point, if I were to book someone who recycled i wouldnt book them again. Were paying for new material, not old shit,” he posted on twitter. “That’s just laziness and a rapper taking advantage of a promoter making them pay for something they’re evidently half assing,” he said in another tweet.

Big Bank Hank (born Henry Jackson) who was the founding member of the old school hip hop group The Sugar Hill Gang has passed away. The reports are saying that Hank lost his battle with cancer at around 2AM yesterday in the greater NYC area at the age of 57. The Sugarhill Gang are widely thought of as the first act to really make hip hop popular with their 1979 song “Rapper’s Delight.”

Rick Ross is still rocking with the Miami Heat even after they lost their huge star player.  He believes in his team so much he is willing to put $100,000 on the line saying that the Heat will make the playoffs and the Cavs+Lebron won’t. As of right now the Heat are 5-2 and the Cavs are 3-3 so it is a little too early to be making any predictions but the two teams will be seeing each other for the first time this season on Christmas Day in South Beach where Rick Ross will undoubtedly be sitting courtside.

Video game developer Capcom continues to want to work with Drake after the Drake Vs. Lil Wayne tour where the whole theme was “Street Fighter.” Now Capcom is working with OVO and releasing a “Street Fighter” OVO collaboration line of clothing with owl logos seated upon the Capcom logo and wearing a karate type headband. This is a pretty cool video game collaboration that Drake has got in his hands and hopefully this trend keeps going on.

 

In a video released today Rick Ross introduced everyone to the newest member of Maybach Music Group. “This aint no street cat that’s getting a little paper tryna make a CD. But this really somebody that got something to say man”. “The music he make it gon’ represent, they gon’ feel it from the South, East Coast. The homie got a message that gon’ resignate everywhere there’s a real nigga on the block”. Yowda joins fellow artists Omarion, Rockie Fresh, Meek Mill, Wale, Stalley, Gunplay, DJ Scream, Fat Trel, and Tracy T.

After getting poor reviews on the new video for “Only”, Nicki Minaj quickly responded to the issue: “The artist who made the lyric video for ‘Only’ was influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called ’Metalocalypse’ & ‘Sin City,’ both the producer, & person in charge of overseeing the lyric video (one of my best friends & videographer: A. Loucas), happen to be Jewish…I didn’t come up w/the concept, but I’m very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I’d never condone Nazism in my art.”

When asked about the lyric video, Osbourne (the video creator) answered with the following: “First, I’m not apologizing for my work, nor will I dodge the immediate question. The flags, armbands, and gas mask (and perhaps my use of symmetry?) are all representative of Nazism.”

Earlier this year, Kanye West mentioned in many interviews that he strives to be a part of high-end fashion, in which 50 Cent responded with: “In Kanye’s case, wanting to be a part of high-end fashion, that’s a process, it’s not something that just happens. It’s like—they’re not gonna allow you to tomorrow wake up and say, ‘This idea, that idea. This idea and I’m in and I’m hot.”

50 Cent was recently discussing the matter with Fashionista and added on about Kanye. ” There are really talented people [already in the business] and it kind of irks them that the person who’s been receiving the opportunity — that they really want and have been working, preparing for it for a long time — just comes out of somewhere else.”

August Alsina hasn’t really gave much insight on his feelings about his recent seizures and health concerns; however, while in a recent interview with The Breakfast Club, he did just that. “I don’t live in the moment. I miss everything. So for that to happen to me, it was very, very humbling, but in the same breath, it was a sign of God saying, ‘You a king. Now go back and live as a king and do it the right way.’”

“I knew I was cool. I knew that I’d be fine,” he adds, “It’s shit like that that show me each and every day that there’s something so much bigger than us in this world.”

In Eminems song Shady CXVPHER he makes a reference to the incident between Ray Rice and his ex-fiance, involving Lana Del Rey. Once Azealia Banks heard the lyric: “…I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice like Ray Rice…” she posted a tweet to Lana Del Rey saying: “@LanaDelRey tell him to go back to his trailer park and eat his microwave hotpocket dinner…”

The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation is planning on releasing a new song from the Iconic rappers archive. The song will cost 99 cents when it releases on Tupacs website 2Pac.com with some proceeds going to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center in Stone Mountain, Geogia with all funds benefiting the foundation. The fans that choose to support the song will be getting a mixtape with more guests on it.

The 21 year old Chance the Rapper has come to some fame after his mixtape “Acid Rap” dropped. But Chance is also an activist having been involved in the #SaveChicago initiative and is always trying to speak out against the city’s youth and violence. Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented Chance with the cities “Outstanding Youth of the Year” award. Chance later called it “The most important award I will ever win” via instagram.

Nicki Minaj fans have taken to twitter to share their anger in her new lyric video for her record “Only”. The video is a cartoonesque lyric video that features the likes of Drake, Lil Wayne, and Chris Brown but also includes “SS-style armbands, gas masks, tanks, and Maus-style armies at attention,” At a point in the video there is what seems to be footage of a bomb launching then exploding and though Nicki has remained silent the director of the video has been retweeting feedback positive and negative.