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No matter Allen Iverson’s personal woes, he is still a hero to many who grew up on the game of basketball.

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Why have you forsaken us Selita Ebanks?  This year, the model hinted in not so many words that she is retiring from appearing in the annual Victoria’s Secret  Fashion Show.

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J. Cole’s featured verse on Fabolous‘ The S.O.U.L. Tape 2 gets some more new life.

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It’s been a stand out year for Aristotle and his By Any Means crew. However, he isn’t too big to not give back to the community.

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Most people are on food stamps because they have no choice, but Cory Booker has taken an alternate route. The Newark, N.J. mayor, bringing in nearly $14,000 a month, announced that he will live off the equivalent of food stamps for an entire week, starting tomorrow.

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Hip-Hop critics who spend more time focusing on negative aspects of the culture, should examine the career and life of independent MC Macklemore. Not many figures in the gamehave layers like the Seattle wordsmith, who recently exposed a little about his past in New York City with The Breakfast Club.

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It’s been about a month since Fat Joe dropped his last record, “Yellow Tape,” so this is a bit overdue. Joe Crack’s latest single is called “Angels Sing 2,” and it’s a keeper

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Chicago shootings hit another high note over the weekend when as many as six people were killed and 15 others were wounded during a shooting sprees erupting Friday (Nov. 30). According to authorities, five of those killed were fatally shot, while the sixth person was stabbed.  

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LeBron James’ astounding 2012 just got even sweeter. The Miami Heat forward has been named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year.

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Not sure if this is a good sign or a bad sign, but T.I. is already talking about the sequel to his 8th studio album, Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head before it is even out.

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Sir Michael Rocks lyrically kneads the proverbial dough on a smooth track titled “Make This Bread.” This joint is very Chi-town player like, excluding the five-buttoned powder blue suit, thankfully.

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Mitt Romney can’t win for losing. The two-time failed presidential hopeful, has been voted by GQ magazine as one the “Least Influential” people of 2012. Romney joins a list comprised of “a collection of people so uninspiring that we should round them up and stick the on an iceberg.”