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Jay-Z’s Rocawear Lays Off Staff Prior to Blue Ivy Carter’s Birth
Jay-Z‘s popular hip-hop clothing line Rocawear laid off half of its employees on Jan. 6, one day before Blue Ivy Carter was born, reports New York Post. According to the New York State Department of Labor, 28 people out of a staff of 56 were let go for “economic” reasons.
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Wiz Khalifa Tweets Pictures of Studio Sessions With Chris Brown + Adam Levine
Rapper Wiz Khalifa is keeping himself busy in 2012 as he’s locked in the studio working hard on his new LP ‘O.N.I.F.C.,’ which will be his follow-up to his platinum-selling debut ‘Rolling Papers.’
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Monica + Brandy to Reunite with ‘It All Belongs to Me’ Single
Monica and Brandy have teamed up for a new song ‘It All Belongs to Me,’ which will impact radio on Feb. 6, reports Rap-Up. The songbird’s reunion is remarkable considering that it’s been 14 years since the duo’s 1998 Grammy-winning hit ‘The Boy Is Mine,’ which spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Their new song ‘It All Belongs to Me,’ was written and produced by hitmaker Rico Love.
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Rare Kanye West Live Performance Video from 1996 Surfaces Online
Before Kanye West was a ‘College Dropout,’ he was a young teenager rapping on the scene with a gangsta lean. Although urban legend has it that the Chicago native was a ferocious MC when he was a youngster, we haven’t bear witness to his earlier years of him spitting rhymes on the mic.
Someone went digging around on YouTube and found an old video of a 19-year-old West rapping onstage at a Chicago-area club. The clip, which was uploaded in 2010, features Yeezy and a local rapper named Phenom sharing the stage at the Double Door venue in 1996. The video features a confident West reciting rapid-fire punchlines and repeating the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard line, “I’ve never been tookin’ out / I keep MCs lookin’ out.”
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Diddy Hit with a Lawsuit Over Name of Empress Perfume Line
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Comedian Pokes Fun at Jay-Z and Beyonce with ‘Glory’ Song Parody
Every since Blue Ivy Carter entered the world on Jan. 7, her doting parents, Jay-Z and Beyonce, had been fodder for the tabloids. Her birth, and the couple’s extraordinary efforts to secure their privacy, is now the subject of a song parody.
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Drake + Common Star in ‘Imagine’ Parody Video
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Lil Wayne Prison Memoir Hitting Bookstores in November
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Amber Rose to Release New Song with Wiz Khalifa
Rapper Wiz Khalifa‘s boo Amber Rose teased us last year that she was recording a new song that will shock and awe us. Apparently, she wasn’t kidding. The blond bombshell plans to debut her new single on Tuesday (Jan. 10) at 9AM EST on gossip website Perez Hilton.
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Wiz Khalifa Denies Ripping Off ‘Black and Yellow’ Concept
Wiz Khalifa reportedly is denying that he stole the idea of his chart-topping hit ‘Black and Yellow’ from a Pennsylvania songwriter. The rapper was slapped with a copyright-infringement lawsuit by local artist named Maxmillion who alleges that Wizzy lifted the concept of ‘Black and Yellow’ from his song ‘Pink N Yellow.’
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Watch Rappers Spell Out Their Names in Funny Video
Rappers love to spell their names, this, according to an amusing video that was recently posted online. In the clip, rappers from Eve, Snoop Dogg, MC Lyte, Common, Queen Latifah, Diddy, Fabolous are featured spelling their rap monikers.
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Kanye West Launches Design Company DONDA
After debunking a fake Twitter page (which is now shut down), Kanye West went on his own Twitter account to announce that he is launching a new design company called DONDA, named after his late mother, Dr. Donda West. In his lengthy tweets, Yeezy describes his new company as a think tank of creative ideas that will change the world.