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Seven Rihanna covers and Complex magazine still isn’t done. The second cover subject of the mag’s February/March 2013 issue is Kid Cudi and the interview covers everything from the G.O.O.D. Music rapper getting off antidepressants to getting back to producing tracks on his new album, Indicud, to giving his late father a proper burial.
Music fans all across the world waited patiently after Justin Timberlake teased news of a new track, last week. Last night, just after the Golden Globes wrapped up, the former curly-haired N’SYNC heartthrob, dropped his Jay-Z-assisted ultra-classy track, “Suit & Tie.”
Apparently Ice’ T’s wife, Coco, never really learned her lesson. Less than a month after images of the curvy blonde, and Bay Area struggle rapper AP.9 emerged, more flicks have hit the ‘Net, proving that she knew she had gone too far.
T’yanna Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G.’s first born and daughter, got a new lip tattoo honoring her father. Whether the late, great rapper would appreciate her homage is up for debate, though.
Over the weekend, Haiti marked a dismal anniversary. Three years ago on January 12, the small country, known as the La Perle des Antilles (the pearl of the Caribbean) was ravaged by a catastrophic earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale.
Does anybody have more fun being a rapper than Wiz Khalifa? Shortly before he becomes a father, Wiz and the Taylor Gang took a trip down to Brazil.
Queensbridge rapper Nas has partnered with Hennessy to become a spokesman in its second annual, award winning Wild Rabbit campaign.
High on the list of things not to do is firing guns at police officers, but it appears that Frank Emmitt Nance didn’t get that memo. The 20-year-old Atlanta resident was charged with shooting a newly recruited police officer in the face Friday night, possibly resulting in the young man catching the fade.
What Diddy gets, Diddy wants, even if it’s an expensive mansion being sought after by a member of Hollywood’s elite. The Hip-Hop mogul is eyeing the same home as that of producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Lil Twist announced a partnership with headphones company Nikura USA during a stop at the Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, yesterday. Twist’s Google alerts probably hit overload this week after he was accused of being a bad influence on weed-smoking Justin Bieber, and now the 20-year-old is looking to expand his notoriety.
Wale reps Washington D.C. and the rest of the DMV, but for his latest music video he chose New York City as the backdrop. The rapper headed uptown to Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood to shoot the visual for the Chinx Drugz-assisted “Let A N***a Know” off his Folarin mixtape.