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VIA:  THEURBANDAILY.COM From HipHopIsRead.com Here’s an interesting concept for a mixtape: take The Black Album acapellas and lay them over Blueprint 3 (unofficial) instrumentals. I guess folks are adamant about wanting your old shit, Hov… DOWNLOAD HERE 1. Jay-Z – Jay-Z DJ Kut Intro (0:25) 2. Jay-Z – Thank You Mom (3:50) 3. Jay-Z – Do I Entertain […]

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VIA: HelloBeautiful.com While watching the “Notorious” film on HBO, I was intrigued by not only the story which, I thought that I knew already like so many others of my generation, but also by how clear his relationships were with the women in his life. The Faith Evans and Lil Kim storyline was extremely telling. […]

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VIA:  THEURBANDAILY.COM Hip-Hop producer Shawty Redd has turned himself into authorities after killing a man on New Years day in Henry County, Georgia. According to reports, Shawty Redd got into an argument with another man at his residence and feared for his life when the victim was shot and killed. Currently no bond has been […]

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VIA:  THEURBANDAILY.COM RealTalkNY lists their top video vixens of the decade. I think Superhead is a little high up there and Esther Baxter should be higher but what do you think?

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VIA:  BILLBOARD.COM The past decade has shown us a lot, from the death of Michael Jackson to the birth of Auto-tune.  It has also brought us some of the most horrific scandals and probably one of the worst economic crisis this country has seen in a long time.  Of all of these things, which will […]

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VIA:  HELLOBEAUTIFUL.COM New Atlanta based “Alter Ego” photographer Derek Blanks transforms Vivica into two personalities.

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VIA:  SOHH.COM As we close out an old decade and look forward to a new one, we have to think about some of the biggest trends in Hip-Hop and get some insight from some of the veterans of the game. For rapper Rakim Auto-Tune took over the past decade. “In hip-hop, as far as music and […]

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VIA:  THEURBANDAILY.COM Some of the real headlines for 2009 (“Lil Wayne Can’t Sell House Because Of Weed Smell”) and “ Cop Pulls Out Gun At Snowball Fight”) were pretty outrageous. We can only imagine what 2010 has in store. Check our predictions: 10. “Dr. Dre Goes To Med School” After years of delaying the release […]

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Via: Examiner.com   Lil Wayne’s farewell concert and farewell tour continues, as the rapper gets ready to head for a brief one year jail stay.  The farewell concert tour kicked off on December 17th, and hit a road block in Texas when Lil’ Wayne and some of his entourage were detained by the Texas Border […]

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Via: LA (Reuters)  The groundbreaking sci-fi movie “Avatar,” Michael Jackson‘s death and Hollywood’s $10 billion-plus box office record rank among the 2009 “moments of significance” recognized by the American Film Institute. The advent of Twitter as a promotional force in television and movie marketing, NBC’s cost-cutting TV experiment with “The Jay Leno Show,” and what […]

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  There comes a time when a gal’s just gotta put her foot down. Or not, as it were. So when Alexander McQueen called on his Spring/Summer 2010 runway models to slip on his death-defying, 10-inch-tall Armadillo shoes, catwalkers Abbey Lee Kershaw, Natasha Poly and Sasha Pivovarova quit the show in protest, Kershaw tells Frockwriter. […]

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  Here’s a few tips to AVOID the drama Know the family: Have your significant other prepare a list of family members you’ll be meeting and a few key facts about each one. This will familiarize you with each person you meet. If Aunt Rita just got divorced, you don’t want to ask where her […]