Artist: Rihanna
Song: You Da One
Featurings: None
Album: Talk That Talk
Genre: R&B

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Rico Love - Feels Like Home

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Gucci Mane ft Slim Dunkin Rocko - Fresh As Fuck

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ig Boi is ready to start his next venture. The OutKast MC has started a new label, called Purple Kids, with his daughter, Jordan, reports Billboard.

“My daughter just turned 16-years-old, and you can see it on MTV’s [My Super Sweet Sixteen], where they get cars, and things that depreciate and just don’t mean nothing,” BB said. “I wanted to give my child something that she can grow and build and nurture. So I gave her her own label.”

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Cali Swag District member M-Bone was shot and killed last night (May 15) after a drive-by shooting took place on La Brea Avenue in Inglewood, Calif., where M-Bone stood outside of his parked car. He was

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The nominees for the 2011 BET Awards have been announced and Lil Wayne leads all rappers with five nominations.

Weezy is up for five trophies in such categories as Best Hip-Hop Artist, Viewer’s Choice for his hit single “6 Foot 7 Foot” and three nods for his collaboration with BET Awards frontrunner Chris Brown (who received six nominations, the highest of any other artist), for “Look At Me Now.”

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Snoop Dogg, citing the success of televised musical talent contests, has revealed plans to produce a hip-hop version of The X Factor. Saying that The X Factor and American Idol are “great shows,” Snoop wants to create a version with a little more street savvy and find hip-hop’s next big star.

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Keyshia Cole has been very vocal this week, using her Twitter account as a portal to set the record straight on all things unclear.

A couple of days ago, she took to her Twitter to let her frustrations about the 2011 BET nominations —which she felt snubbed by— be known. Now, the pint-sized R&B singer has gone the social media route again, this time to let

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Talk about an odd couple. Yesterday (May 19) a peculiar photo of T-Pain and pop star Ke$ha surfaced on the internets. The flick pictured the two nose-to-nose in what appears to be a tender moment, or a photo opp meant to generate posts like this one. To add to the weirdness, Pain has one hand on Ke$ha’s forehead and the other on a bottle of

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[It appears that Jay-Z is preparing to enter the world of television by inking a partnership deal with Adult Swim. Reported by Adweek and confirmed by sources at Turner Broadcasting, Cartoon Network’s parent company, additional details are scant at this time.]

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Drake made a surprise appearance during the Washington, D.C. stop on Lil Wayne’s I Am Still Music tour, performing several songs with his mentor, and addressing the rumors that he had split from his Young Money crew.

The group has some big demands in order to sign on the dotted line…

What appeared to be a showing of support for the Kentucky Wildcats following a NCAA tournament win last weekend has now officially sparked an NBA investigation for rap mogul Jay-Z.

[Rapper Nas and Damian "JR Gong" Marley will launch an international tour next month, in support of their critically acclaimed album Distant Relatives.

The tour will kick off in Hawaii on February 9th and will hit 11 countries over 22-dates, with the final show concluding in ]

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[Rapper Chamillionaire sat down with AllHipHop.com and further explained his recent revelation that he has split with Universal Records, which was once home to the Grammy Award winning rapper and his label Chamillitary Records.

The rapper's album third album Venom was delayed several times throughout 2010, due to creative differences between Chamillionaire and Universal, his recording home for the past six years.

"The reason why I haven't released any music]

Rapper 50 Cent may have momentarily gotten $8.7 million richer after encouraging his Twitter followers to invest in a money-losing penny stock, but now the hip hopper may be in big trouble with the Security Exchange Commission.

Engadget gave us a sneak peak earlier but yesterday, Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson officially released his line of headphones Sleek By 50 Cent at a press conference at CES in Las Vegas.

Thirteen years after the death of legendary Brooklyn rapper, Notorious B.I.G., Los Angeles police officials are investigating new evidence that might finally close the unsolved case. Christopher Wallace was shot and killed in his car, while leaving a music industry party in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, but a perpetrator has not been named in the case.

Swizz Beatz may have had a lucrative 2010 with his music and budding art career, but the IRS wants him to cough up the bread.

Video vixen Amber Rose and rapper Wiz Khalifa are the latest urban duo rumored to be more than friends after being spotted together last week in Los Angeles.

 Eminem topped the Grammy nominations with a whopping 10 nods when the honors for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards were announced on Wednesday night.
 

 Hip-Hops star Fabolous visited a group of middle school students in Jamaica, Queens yesterday (December 7th) to inspire the teenagers as part of the After-School All-Stars (ASASNY) program.

 Young Jeezy was arrested in the Bahamas over this past weekend for an unknown infraction, according to the Bahamas’ Tribune newspaper.

 Fellow marijuana smoker Snoop Dogg has come to the defense of world famous country singing - pot smoker Willie Nelson, who was recently busted in Sierra Blanca, Texas with six ounces of marijuana.

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 Kanye West was recently awarded the top spot in Rolling Stone’s year-end album issue.

West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which came out November 22nd and received a five-star rating review from the magazine, 

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Alicia Keys gave birth Thursday to Egypt Daoud Dean, her son with producer husband Swizz Beatz.

"Swizz ‘Kaseem Dean’ Beatz, 32 and Alicia Keys, 29 welcomed their first child together, a son Egypt Daoud Dean on October 14th in New York City," a rep for the couple confirmed to MTV News. "Egypt is welcomed by Beatz’s three other children."

A federal judge hands down an 11-month sentence to T.I. for violating various terms of his probation.

Thursday, when asked about his role in preventing an Atlanta man from jumping from a 22-story building, T.I., said “I don’t expect this to have any different impact on any of my circumstances.” It’s not clear if he was correct or not, as U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. ordered him to return to prison for 11 months for violating the terms of his probation.

Respected Hip-Hop DJ, DJ Khaled, has recently signed to one of the most hyped record labels, Cash Money Records.

Khaled revealed his new partnership with Cash Money little by little via Twitter. He tweeted pictures throughout the day stating that he was on his way to a “big meeting”, and pictures of him with Cash Money CEO Birdman and Co-Founder Slim.

Khaled then tweeted, “It’s getting serious, my Lawyer Theo and Cash Money Lawyer Vernin Brown just landed from a helicopter to make this meeting! $wethebestforever”.