T-Pain feat. Lil Wayne - Bang Bang Pow Pow

T-Pain drops the first single, "Bang Bang PowPow Ft. Lil Wayne", off his new album, rEVOLVEr, which hits stores December 6th.

Ryan Leslie - "Beautiful Lie" In-Studio

Check out the video of Ryan Leslie in the studio making his new record, "Beautiful Lie" and brainstorming the video. Paris here we come!

DiamonDollar Music Presents: Dre Weez - "By The O" (Official Video)

DiamonDollar Music artist, Dre Weez new visuals for the song, "By The O" off his upcoming mixtape.

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DiamonDollar Music Presents: Squidy Bo Feat. Dre Weez - "I'm Da Man" (Official Video)

Politically Incorrect coming soon!

DiamonDollar/Public Service Music Presents:

Squidy Bo Ft. Dre Weez

Jay Z is The GQ Man Of The Year!

Jay-Z is one of four people to be honored as GQ's Men of the Year 2011. Joining Hov are Mila Kunis, Michael Fassbender and Jimmy Fallon.

Lace Up wit OVO: Drake Brings Out Machine Gun Kelly in Cleveland [Video Inside]

At the Cleveland date of his Club Paradise Tour, Drake brings out Machine Gun Kelly to perform Wild Boy in front of his home town.

Drake Biography 'FAME: Drake' To Be Released In 2012 As Comic Book [Full Cover Inside]

A new Drake biography is headed our way in comic book form.

FAME: Drake will cover Drizzy's career from his days as an actor on Degrassi: The Next Generation, to his rise to fame in the music business.

“What makes Drake such a distinctive creative personality is that he's not just one thing. His music encompasses hip-hop, rap, old style rhythm and blues, soul and pop," the book's author,Marc Shapiro told MTV.

Shapiro goes on to describe the Young Money artist as being “refreshingly real and down to earth."

"When was the last time you heard of a celebrity blowing off a lucrative tour to be at his mother's side during her stay in the hospital? Drake did just that. You could die of old age waiting to find somebody who has as much soul, creatively and as a human being, as Drake," says Shapiro.

FAME: Drake is being published by Bluewater Productions and will be available January 2012. The book will feature the art of Mike J.C. The cover was illustrated by Joe Phillips.

WTF?!?!? Oscar De La Hoya Accused Once Again Of Cross Dressing & Drugs By Model "It Was Beyond Kinky. Things I Don't Even Know How To Explain Were Done W/Him"

Oscar De La Hoya is trying to get his personal life back on track. The former boxing great has come clean in recent weeks about his cross dressing fetish as well as cocaine and alcohol abuse. Pictures of him dressed in fishnet stockings and high heels are plastered all over the internet from one of his alcohol fueled parties with model Milana Dravnel.

When the pictures initially surfaced, De La Hoya said the photos were fake and reportedly paid Dravnel $20 million dollars in hush money to make the problem go away according to Fox Sports. As part of the deal Dravnel had to agree to give back the fishnets, heels and lingerie she had kept from their party.

After going to rehab for drug and alcohol abuse the Golden Boy Promotions CEO finally admitted it was him in the embarrassing photos.

"Let me tell you, yes, yes, it was me (in those pictures)," he told Univision in September 2011. "I am tired now of lying, of lying to the public and of lying to myself."

Seems as if Oscar might have to make one more admission if new allegations turn out to be true.

The New York Post is reporting that De La Hoya is being sued by model Angelica Marie Cecorafor emotional distress, false imprisonment and assault and battery stemming from a drug and sex orgy at the Ritz-Carlton in New York.

According to the report De La Hoya hired Cecero through a modeling agency. After the two had dinner Oscar asked her to spend the night, which she agreed to.

Once in the hotel room Cecero alleges that De La Hoya got smashed on alcohol, then started trying on her lingerie.

“It was beyond kinky,” the 25-year old told The Post. “Things that I don’t even know how to explain were done with him. He started to put my stuff on, my underwear. I had a skirt with me. He put that on. He was the exact same size as me. He fit into the tiniest pair of underwear that I had been wearing. He was dancing, playing around with my [clothes], playing a woman, very feminine."

Cecero says the two had sex and that De La Hoya ordered drugs be delivered to the hotel. After that, he became even more out of control. She decided to call her roommate to join them.

“She is a dancer. I thought he would definitely be interested in her,” Cecora said. “He had asked her to bring some stuff with her. Some more underwear, some vibrators, toys . . . She brought a vibrator, a d****, a bong."

De La Hoya reportedly started snorting cocaine and asked her to perform a very extreme sex act. She told him that she had never done anything like that before and claims the images still haunt her.

“He was in these positions that [still] keep flashing into my head," she said.

Eventually Cecero and her Russian roommate kicked De La Hoya out of the hotel bedroom so they could sleep, but he kept sneaking back in to crawl in bed with them.

After the pair made it clear they would leave if he didn't sleep on the couch, he eventually left them alone. When they awoke the morning after he was gone and left her with a $1500 hotel bill, which she did not pay. She claims De La Hoya's lawyer later tried to settle the bill with her.

He looked fine with his wife in this picture, what went wrong?

Dre Weez - Fire Up (DiamonDollar / Public Service)

Dre Weez new video "Fire Up" is out! check it out below and follow @DreW33z on Twitter

Nicki Minaj Turned Off By Men W/Money "You Can't Run Game On A Rapper. I'm Always 10 Steps Ahead Of Them" Sees Herself As "Non-Pretty"

If you're planning on getting at Nicki Minaj you better have something else going for yourself besides money because that's a major "turn off" for the "Super Bass" rapper.


"I may be smiling in their face, but my antenna is up. When they're trying to show off their cash or their watch, it's an immediate turn-off," she told Cosmopolitan. "I'm around millionaires and athletes every day who think, 'All I need to do is get in a room with Nicki Minaj,' and they're gonna leave with my number. You can't run a game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of them."


So what exactly does the Harajuku Barbie like in a man?


"I do like a dope nose profile, one that's straight on the side. And I like full lips. I've never kissed someone who doesn't have full lips."


The Young Money superstar admits she doesn't view herself as pretty and that's just fine by her. She compares her looks to Lady Gaga's.


"We both do the awkward non-pretty thing. What we're saying - what I'm saying anyway - is that it's OK to be weird. Any maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say? I think it's an attitude we both share."

Young Jeezy Talks 'TM103,' Recording A Joint Album With T.I. & President Obama "I Think Obama Is In A Serious Situation Right Now"

Young Jeezy is preparing to make it snow this Christmas when he releases his long awaited TM103: Hustlerz Ambition album on December 20.


During a conference call yesterday, the Snowman revealed details about the project, working with T.I. and even gave his opinion on President Obama.


"The time is here," Jeezy said of TM103. "I'm not just dropping it because it's a deadline. It's time. I feel like the streets waited long enough, and they need their spokesperson -- their people's champ -- to come back, and talk to them and lead them. So this is not a thing about Def Jam and me trying to meet a quota. I know I said September 20 the first time, but it didn't feel right because there was nothing for me to say at the time. Now there's something for me to say, because the people are ready to be spoken to."


Production on the project will come from J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Lil C and Lil Lody, who produced Jeezy's new street single, ".38."


Although no official tracklisting for TM103 is available yet, one song that is almost sure to make the cut is the recently released "F.A.M.E." featuring T.I. The two Atlanta rappers are close friends and might possibly even record an album together according to Jeezy.

“My first option would be Tupac, but he’s no longer here. Rest in peace to him," he said. "Me and Tip actually were together and we [talked] about it. We've just hit the ground running and been doing so many records that I don't think it's impossible. And we've known each other [long] enough to put something like that together, and I definitely think that the city would need it, because it would be a good look. And it would be an amazing album release party, by the way."


The conversation then took a political turn as Jeezy talked about President Obama's current woes.


"I think Obama is in a serious situation right now," he says. "Because you can change a lot of things, but at the end of the day, we all need money to live, and I think that's everybody's problem... The sooner Obama can get some people some money and some jobs, him and Michelle [Obama] will be way better off. We're gonna ride for them like they ride for us, but we need money right now, man."

Information from Billboard was used in this article.

Drake - "Take Care" - November 15th (Trailer)

Drake has come a long way since his first mixtape, Room For Improvement back in '06.

Now he's ready to release his sophomore album, Take Care, with the "Headlines" single leading the path. Here is the video trailer of "Take Care" in stores Nov. 15th

Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator & Hodgy Beats Dive Into Crowd From 2nd Floor During NYC Show @ The Terminal [Video]

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Tyler, The Creator and Hodgy Beats turned their stage diving up a notch during last night's concert at The Terminal in NYC.


The two Odd Future members somehow made their way from the stage to the second floor of the venue before taking a leap of faith into the crowd.


Tyler has already broken his foot once back in June while stage diving at an L.A. show, but that obviously didn't scare him enough to prevent him from upping the ante last night.


"New York Was F*cking Legit As F*ck N*gga!!!!! SICKKK," Tyler wrote on Twitter after the show. "That F*cking 2nd Floor Jump Was Gnar."

Snoop Dogg Celebrates His 40th Birthday Onstage W/Bootsy Collins + Double G News Network: GGN Ep. 11 [2 Videos]

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Today is Snoop Dogg's 40th birthday.


The West Coast legend celebrated a couple of days ago by joining Bootsy Collins onstage during his 40th b-day bash. A classic moment for sure.


Happy Birthday Snoop!!


Also check out the latest episode of the Doggfather's Double G News Network, as he lists 10 movies to watch on a first date.


Peep the movie list below, then check out the videos.


Snoop Dogg aka Nemo Hoes' Movies To Watch On A 1st Date:
1) Penitentiary
2) The Mack
3) Claudine
4) Truck Turner
5) Cooley High
6) Cornbread, Earl & Me
7) The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
8) Let's Do It Again
9) Petey Wheatstraw
10) Dolemite

Snoop Dogg Parties for his 40th

Double G News Network: GGN Ep. 11 - Movies to Watch on a First Date

Method Man Talks To Complex About His 25 Most Essential Songs. Recalls Being High On Mushrooms In L.A. W/2Pac, RZA & GZA Writing Ol Dirty's 1st Album & More

When Method Man speaks it's always a good idea to pay close attention. The Wu Tang Clan rapper has seen it all in his 21 years in the business.

With four solo albums, five Wu Tang discs, two Blackout! projects with Redman and last year's Wu Massacre cd with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah under his belt, Johnny Blaze has quite a few stories to tell. Luckily for us he lets us in on more than a few little known secrets in a new interview withComplex, as he breaks down his "25 Most Essential Songs."
Here are just a few of the highlights:

* Wu Tang Clan was originally only supposed to have three members, Ol' Dirty B*stard, GZA and RZA.

* The first time he saw the "Method Man" video on tv he was dead broke, eating white rice with ketchup on Thanksgiving, thinking "this f*cking rap sh*t is weak."

* Raekwon and Ghostface Killah didn't like Notorious B.I.G.

* He was on angel dust when he recorded 'Tical'

* He recorded four different versions of "All I Need"

* Ol' Dirty B*stard's first album was written by RZA and GZA with the exception of "Brooklyn Zoo."

* True Master did a lot of the production on Only Built For Cuban Linx.

* He was high on mushrooms out in L.A. at a party during the height of the Biggie/2Pac beef and feeling uncomfortable. 'Pac approached him and let him know if there was anybody on the East Coast he would f*ck with it would be Wu Tang Clan.

* He lost interest halfway through recording "Extortion" with Mobb Deep because he was so high

There's a lot more to the interview. To read it in full head over to Complex.

Kanye West Announces New G.O.O.D Music Album To Drop Spring 2012

Kanye West and his G.O.O.D Music family are teaming up for a brand new album.


Yeezy made the announcement earlier today via Twitter.

The current G.O.O.D Music roster includes Common, Big Sean, Kid Cudi, Cyhi Da Prynce, Pusha Tand Mos Def.

We'll keep you posted as more information becomes available.

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Dwight Howard Talks To Esquire About Fatherhood And How “Women” Make It So Hard For Ballers To Spend Time With Their Kids

Oh so Royce gets gagged but this dude can just talk his yang freely?? Esquire talked to Dwight Howard about being a father and here’s what he had to say:

SR: I know it’s a subject you haven’t wanted to talk about publicly, but is fatherhood a part of your life?

DH: It’s very important. Hopefully me and my son’s mom will come to a better agreement for my son. When I do see him, we have the best time in the world. He acts just like me. He tries to run like me. He looks back and smiles like me. Fatherhood is great and it will get better. He’s young. He’s gonna need his father in his life. People say you don’t need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father’s Day and why it’s not celebrated like Mother’s Day.

SR: I’ve been around the NBA enough as a writer to see the women who would give anything just to get impregnated. And I’ve seen the men who didn’t care how many kids they had in how many different places, just as long as they had someone to f**k on the road. Pardon my French.
DH: I understand. With some of my teammates, they try so hard to be around their kid, and then the mother of their child makes it so hard. A lot of guys just say, “I’m not gonna deal with it.”

SR: It’s always the kids who pay the price.
DH: I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn’t have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren’t around. I was lucky to have mine around.

Wonder what his dad thinks about all the drama with Royce.

They also talked to him about his smile and his big shoulders…

SR: You’ve got a smile that other human beings respond to. It’s a beautiful smile, even during games.
DH: When I’m smiling and having fun, that’s when you should have a problem. If I’m out there frowning and looking mean, that’s when you know you’ve beat me — because I’m not having fun. I’ve been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten. He said, “Dwight, I remember I told you to stop smiling. I like when you smile. Keep doing it. I’m sorry for ever telling you not to smile.” I said, “Dad, look, I’m young. This is what brings me joy. This is my sanctuary. This is my church. This is where I show God that I’m thankful for life.” I’m going to show it when I play basketball, when I’m on the streets, when I’m having fun. When I’m anywhere, I’m going to show God that I’m thankful just for life. I’m living out my dream. This is what I want to do.

SR: Do you think the players’ union can hold it together?

DH: We’ve got to. We’ve got to stick together. I know, as much as I try to do for the game of basketball and be an ambassador for the NBA, I don’t want my money cut short. I work hard. Not just in games, but off the court, too. When the NBA asks me to do something, I’m there.

SR: You’re representing.

DH: That’s my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That’s really why I play basketball. That’s my whole purpose of playing basketball. I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

SR: That’s no small thing for a man to carry.
DH: It’s not. But that’s why God gave me big shoulders.

Do you believe this guy? Is Royce really stopping him from being a father or is he getting in his own way?

Chris Brown Talks Why He started Rapping

When Chris Brown hopped into this year's BET Cyphers, he showed how far he's come in the short amount of time that he's been rapping.


In a new interview with Fuse TV, Breezy breaks down why he decided to test his mic skills.


"I think it's more acceptable. It's kind of like in the 80's when everybody was trying out the rap thing," Chris said. "Everybody was doing it, but they were dancing and incorporating everything. You had MC Hammer and so many other people who used hip-hop and dance. That was kind of the essence of hip-hop, b-boying, the whole street art. Everything kind of incorporated into one."


Chris also said that fans these days are more accepting of artists trying new things.


"Kids these days, they don't have a one-track mind," Breezy explained. "They don't like just one thing... they like everything, so that makes them who they are. I think that's what it is with me. A lot of different genres--a lot of different things I bring to my music. That's why I wanna do rap. That's why I wanna do any other kind of song I can do. It's just one of those things that's more acceptable now."

Chris Brown on Fuse

T.I. Talks To Howard Stern About Getting Into A Fight In Prison.

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T.I. was a guest on Howard Stern's Sirius XM show today (October 18).


The Atlanta rapper was there to promote his new book, Power & Beauty, but somehow ended up in a conversation about a fight he had while in prison.


Tip also visited The View this morning as well.

Peep footage from both interviews down below.

T.I. Interview With Howard Stern

Lion King That Hoe

GQ Interview The Survivors: EMINEM

It's Friday afternoon in the suburbs of Detroit, and Marshall Mathers is sitting in an office at the back of his industrial-size recording studio, where he logs nine-to-five days every week like he's a working stiff. He looks as low-key as he does onstage—no fashion logos or excessive jewelry, just a gray T-shirt, camo shorts, a military-style cap, and a necklace with a diamond pyramid. He precisely lines up a bottle of water and a sixteen-ounce can of Red Bull.

The rapper better known as Eminem is 39 now. That he's funny shouldn't shock you—his raps have always been full of back-of-the-class barbs—but his deadpan delivery and the fact that he never cracks a smile means you can quickly find yourself missing the joke. That he's first and foremost a major hip-hop fan—one of the biggest rap nerds I've ever met—won't surprise you either. Music was his salvation. He is, after all, the whiteboy who twisted rap into his own image, thereby offering a lifeline to kids just like him. Turned out there were fucking millions of them. And there still are. His most recent album, Recovery, was the best-selling album of 2010 and arguably the strongest work of his career.

The current Mathers narrative revolves around his triumph over a nasty addiction to prescription meds. It's not a touchy subject: Within minutes, he introduces the topic, explaining how he used to drink and pop pills to get through his concerts. "I'm very much a creature of habit," he says, picking up his Red Bull. "If I'm used to waking up in the morning and having one of these, I could do it every morning for the next ten years straight until I find something else to move on to. So if I'm used to taking a Vicodin when I wake up in the morning because I'm hungover from drinking or taking pills..." He trails off. "The bigger the crowd, the bigger my habit got."

Mathers says you can trace the arc of his addiction by listening to his albums: He was more or less sober writing the white-trash party that was The Slim Shady LP (1999); he credits experimentation with drugs for taking his music to unexpected places on The Marshall Mathers LP (2000); with The Eminem Show (2002), he struck the perfect balance—a potent mix of punch-line raps and intensely biographical material. Then the balance tipped: His fourth album, Encore, was his weakest, and it took him two years to complete because of his addiction to pills. "Five or six songs leaked from the original version of Encore," he says. "So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. In my head I was pissed off: 'Oh well. Songs leaked. Fuck it. I'm just going to take a bunch of fucking pills and go in there and have a party with myself.' I'm sure the more pills I took, the goofier I got."

He's a little hazy about that time, when he was taking, by his own account, somewhere between sixty and ninety pills a day, including Valium, Vicodin, Ambien, and Seroquel (used to treat schizophrenia). "Ambien," he says, "ate a hole through my brain." He thinks he went to rehab in 2005, but don't hold him to that. Like I said, it's a little hazy.

Rehab was not a safe space for Eminem. "Look," he says, "every addict in rehab feels like everyone's staring at them. With me? Everyone was staring at me. I could never be comfortable. There were people there that treated me normal. Then there were a bunch of fucking idiots who aren't even concentrating on their own sobriety because they're so worried about mine. They're stealing my hats, my books—it was chaos. Everything was drama in there. And at the time, I didn't really want to get clean. Everybody else wanted me to. And anyone will tell you: If you're not ready, nothing is going to change you. Love, nothing."

He left rehab pissed off and heavily burdened with what he calls "woe is me"—and started popping pills again. It nearly killed him. "I came to in the hospital and I didn't know what the fuck happened," he says. "Tubes in me and shit, fuckin' needles in my arms. I didn't realize I had [overdosed]. I wanted my drugs—get me the fuck outta there! I think I was clean for two weeks. I was trying so hard—I was trying to do it for my kids—but I just wasn't ready."

What finally got him clean after a second relapse wasn't his kids or his coma or even hip-hop. This time he really thought he was going to die. "I had a feeling in my arm that was weird, man," he says. "Like, it really freaked me out. So I went to some people I trust and said, 'Look, I know I need help. I'm ready now.' I got a room in the same hospital where I overdosed, and I detoxed."

He came out that time and lost himself in the music again, the same way he had when he was 12, after years of bouncing from school to school. "I'm just this shy kid," he remembers, slipping into the glowering, rapid-fire intensity of his best rhymes. "And I get thrown into a classroom with more people I don't know, and I'm going into my shell and I'm worried about how my shoes are bummy as fuck and I'm wearing Salvation Army clothes, and these kids are behind me and they're making comments and whispering, and I don't really know that they're talking about my clothes but I feel like they are, and they're talking about my haircut. I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. You're thrown out there to the fucking wolves. Hence when N.W.A starts saying Fuck you to the police and to everybody—'Fuck you who doubted me'—holy shit, I want to say that."

Rappers aren't supposed to cop to having feelings, much less battling addictions or getting professional help, but if you own any of his self-hating, mommy-baiting, ex-wife-excoriating music, you know that Mathers built his career on saying things about himself that his peers simply wouldn't about themselves—like how the very thing that made him a music prodigy, and continues to push him, also made him a junkie.

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