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.

 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.

T.I. admits that he doesn’t go out as much as he used to since he was released from jail earlier this year, because he doesn’t feel safe when he isn’t carrying a gun.

The rap star recently spent time behind bars after being sentenced for illegal fire arms possession, stemming back to an arrest in 2007.

At the time the Live Your Life hitmaker claimed he purchased the weapons as he feared for his safety - and now says he won’t risk his life if he can’t protect himself.

This weekend, Lil Wayne again reached out to his fans and supporters through a letter written from prison.

In his fifth letter correspondence from jail, Weezy said that although sometimes the days go by slowly, he’s doing his best to stay positive.
< What’s poppin?!

Me, I’m good, figured I’d update my glorious fans again. Better sooner than later right? I’ll try to do this more frequently.

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Despite being associated with Dre during his days as a G-Unit member, Buck said he has not gotten in touch with him for over three years.

"Dr. Dre is an individual who I wish I heard from at some point in time because his voice in my situation would means a lot. He don’t have to on my side or [50 Cent's] side, but just say something, bro. I even told Game to say ‘what’s up’ to Dre for me, but I haven’t heard anything..I haven’t received an email or spoken to Dre in three years…I haven’t heard from Dr. Dre or Eminem… not to say my situation is any part of their business but at a point in time I was sitting in front of these dudes. And I’m not looking for them to take sides or anything, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what is being done to me from their artist." (VIBE)

Released just last week, the promo clip racked up 6.6 million YouTube views in one day - the most for a video on the site.

Five days later, Love The Way You Lie is approaching the 22-million mark.

In the video, silver-screen siren Megan Fox and Lord of the Rings actor Dominic Monaghan fight and then make up in a passionate clinch, possibly explaining at least some of its attraction to music fans.

Kanye West’s video portrait for new single ‘Power’ was released the same day as the Eminem/Rihanna clip, receiving a comparably modest 1.4m hits in the same 24-hour timeframe.

Rapper Kanye West says he has been invited back to the MTV Video Music Awards, a year after his microphone-grabbing antics made him an internet joke.

The 33-year-old artist used Twitter to announce talks with MTV VMA organisers over a planned performance at the September 12 ceremony in Los Angeles.

"Just met with MTV and it’s about to go down! VMA’s!!!!!!!!!!(sic)" West tweeted to his more 600,000 followers last night.(SMH)

Kanye West has been a bad boy but now he’s back. He will be joined by Drake and Florence + the Machine (Best New Artist nominee). These are the first announced performers for the VMA’s 2010.

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In an interview Wednesday (August 11) with New York hip-hop station Hot 97, Kanye West played new music, gave Nicki Minaj accolades and revealed a few nuggets of news to host Angie Martinez.
The first revelation: West will put out a remix of "Power" featuring Jay-Z on Friday. He also hinted that his still-untitled upcoming LP will drop November 16, revealing a track from the album called "See Me Now," which features Beyonce and Charlie Wilson and was produced by Lex Luger, No ID and West himself. Other producers confirmed for the album are Q-Tip, Pete Rock and the RZA.

What were West’s requirements for potential producers? "People with that intangible sound. People that everybody copied. The originators. That’s what my thing is: quality. What is the best of the best?"

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Lil Wayne’s popular No Ceilings mixtape has many notable tracks, one of the top rated being I’m Single which he shot a video for just before he began his prison sentence for weapons possession. Weezy’s cinematographer for The Nino Brown Story, DJ Scoob Doo shot the video and explained that it will give viewers the same feel of excitement as if it was the first time they’ve heard the record.

"The thing with Wayne, if you don’t get a chance to see how hard he worked on the record, and the wit and pizzazz he had with it, he wants to give you that same feeling the first time you hear it," Scoob told MTV News. "Which he does audio-wise, but him performing it for you in the studio is what really it’s about as far as this video."

On April 15, Southern rapper T.I. revealed that the title of his upcoming album will be King Uncaged. The project will be his seventh solo studio release and marks his first release post incarceration.

Making the announcement via his website, TrapMuzik.com, T.I. also revealed that he is working with producers Jim Jonsin, Danja, and The Runners on the album, and will also collaborate with ATL rapper B.o.B. The album is scheduled to be released in the late summer on August 24th.

Dr. Dre Confirms Detox Single With Jay-Z (Video) 


Dr. Dre has literally had the internet going nuts in the past week, ever since rumours started circulating of the first official "Detox" single being around the corner, in form of a collaboration with none other than Jay-Z.

While fans have become weary of getting excited for "Detox" over and over again without it coming to fruition, the craze has hit home once again and the Doctor’s long awaited album is the number one topic amongst Hip-Hop fans all over.

After a picture of Dr. Dre and Jay-Z in the studio leaked a few days ago (see to your left), the song was confirmed to be real. Shortly after, Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine made it official when he announced that the song was called "Under Pressure".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmcx_b0WvAU

Yesterday, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine appeared on CNBC for an interview about the "Beats by Dr. Dre" headphones and 6:40 minutes into the interview, Dr. Dre himself confirms the Jay-Z collaboration and announces that he is pushing to get "Detox" out this year. Watch the interview below:

However, fans shouldn’t be too quick to get their hopes up for "Detox" to drop this year. Dr. Dre also spoke to the  Boston Herald, here is an excerpt of the interview:

"But when asked if “Detox” would appear before next year, he was noncommital. “I’m on my slow creep right now,” Dre said. “But then I’m gonna come hit ’em with the tsunami.”"

It looks like we’re going to have to play the waiting game once again. Bring on "Under Pressure", Dre! We got you!

DMX is back in the doghouse. The troubled rapper was arrested and brought to a Phoenix jail on Tuesday (March 9) for using illegal drugs.

According to Reuters, the Yonkers-bred MC, born Earl Simmons, admitted to a probation officer that he had been abusing cocaine since he was released from jail nine months ago. He is currently facing five counts of violating his probation and being held without bond.

 Lil Wayne may end up in front of a judge again, but this time to defend himself against a copyright infringement lawsuit.

The Royalty Network filed a $2.5 million dollar lawsuit against Lil Wayne and Cash Money Records in Manhattan Federal Court yesterday (February 17).

According to the lawsuit, "Mrs. Officer" was produced by Darius “Deezle” Harrison, who claimed he owns the rights the song.

Harrison seeks all profits that have been derived from "Mrs. Officer", which also featured R&B crooner Bobby Valentino and rapper Kidd Kidd.