The Madden Challenge: Bow Wow vs. The Game

The Madden Challenge: Bow Wow vs. The Game

Because trash talking is an important part of the game. 

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Grafh ft. Busta Rhymes & Prinz - Like Ohh Video

Grafh ft. Busta Rhymes & Prinz - Like Ohh Video-Hip Hop Videos/ Busta Rhymes

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50 Cent Tops Forbes Hip Hop Rich List

50 Cent Tops Forbes Hip Hop Rich List

Jay-Z comes in second; Diddy, third.

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Mobb Deep Sue Former Manager

Mobb Deep are reported to have filed a lawsuit against their former manager for releasing their recordings without permission.

Gossip website TMZ.com is reporting that Mobb Deep’s Havoc and Prodigy have filed a lawsuit claiming Norman "Purfek Storm" Bell released the two disc album "Infamous Archives" in 2007 without their permission and are seeking over $1 million in unpaid royalties.

The lawsuit also claims Bell, who managed Mobb Deep between May 2004 and November 2007, distributed their tracks on the Mobb Deep The Mix Tape Before 9/11 and Purfek Storm Mix Tape Volumes 1 & 3 mixtapes with intent to profit.

Mobb Deep are claiming Bell has committed copyright infringement, trademark counterfeiting, trademark infringement and trademark dilution.


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Illa J To Release Album Produced By Brother J Dilla

Delicious Vinyl Records, the label that helped late producer J Dilla get his start in the game, will be releasing an album from Dilla's brother Illa J [click to read] . The 21-year-old younger brother of the late producer has relocated to Los Angeles from Detroit after Dilla's death. Since the move, Illa J has used his brothers equipment to create a studio called Yancey Boys Studio. There, using unreleased beats from Dilla, Illa J has crafted an album of his brother's beats and his own signing and rapping.

"From '95 through '98 Jay Dee was my go-to guy for hot beats and remixes. He was always making beats, always. So there was a select amount of tracks that he composed for me during that time, only they never got used. When I finally met Illa J last year, I gave him a CD containing those unreleased beats," said Mike Ross, founder of Delicious Vinyl.

Illa J adds, "Dilla was 12 years older than me. So back in the day in Detroit, I was just a little kid, sitting on the stairs in our house, watching him make those first beats for Slum Village. So I always felt my brother's tracks and had an instinct for what I wanted to do over them."

To Ross, who released classic records from Young MC, Tone-Loc and Masta Ace, the Yancey family is simply musical. "Illa J can write, sing, play and rap. Not just a little bit of each - he's really the complete package! And anyone who loves Jay Dee's music is going to flip out when they hear what his younger brother's been laying down. For over a decade these beats have been waiting in the vault for this moment. It's like Jay Dee made these tracks with an extrasensory purpose, so that Illa J could make this album. There is no question that this is exactly what they were meant for. These beats belong to Illa J, they're his birthright, and I really believe Jay Dee would be proud of what his brother is doing."

The album has yet to be given a title or release date.
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Chuck Philips Accepts Buyout, Leaves L.A. Times

Chuck Philips [click to read], the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose story in the Los Angeles Times connecting Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond and Puff Daddy to Tupac's shooting at New York's Quad Studios was retracted earlier this year, is leaving the paper.

Philips is among the 150 editorial staff who are departing either through buyout or lay off, Kevin Roderick wrote on his LAObserved.com blog on Tuesday, adding that Philips requested and was given a buyout. An e-mail to Philips seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.

Philips was the author of a controversial, two-part article published in September 2002 that concluded Tupac was murdered by a member of Compton-based Southside Crips in retaliation for his stomping out of Crip Orlando Anderson in the lobby of MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The article quoted anonymous sources that claimed Notorious B.I.G. was in Vegas and colluded with the Crips to murder 'Pac.

Philips won the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's top award, in 1999 for his reporting on the entertainment industry. His departure leaves a void in the Times' coverage of Hip Hop, with only a handful of staff and freelance writers knowledgeable in the culture.

"Since the days of Cheo Coker, it's never been a place friendly to Hip Hop," a Times writer who asked to remain anonymous said. (Coker was a Times staff writer who went on to write Biggie's biography). "He left the paper over 10 years ago, and there's a lot of guys here now who are reaching in the dark – they don't know what they're doing."
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