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Cover your ears! I’m sorry, but this had to be documented. I hope you had your breakfast first.

Spotted: Hattie C

Making his rounds, Jermaine chopped it up with MempHitz on BET’s late night program, The Deal. He spoke on how his, um, deal with Roc Nation and kicks a freestyle. Get back to rap, you Twitter too much. #funnypunchline!

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Please don’t give Lil Mama the location.

Sidebar: Kanye West is bossy.

In the above magazine’s cover story, Puff comes clean on his past sexual conquests. Mama, he’s a changed man.

“I guess the things that used to thrill me don’t thrill me so much anymore. Intimacy is more important to me than sleeping with hot chicks. I don’t even know if I really savored every menage a trois I had. I don’t want to do it all over again. Love is something I strongly connect with, but it’s not something I’ve conquered. I really can’t sit here pretending to be the premier expert on love.”

Ah. More turkey sandwiches and cuddlin’ with Cassie. Who got the camera?

Props: Starpulse

“You got me through two years up north with ‘The Bridge Is Over.’“

More edutainment from Hip Honors taping night (If you ain’t noticed, we had to remove all our footage. Ho hum!) as The Teacha pays tribute to DMX. “In the 90s, hip-hop was gettin’ soft and y’all know what I’m talkin’ ’bout… A dog came out!” Woof-woof.

Props: 1515 Boys

Previously: KRS-One: “Def Jam Destroyed Hip-Hop”

I heard these two joints that one morning when I was guest co-hosting The Morning After With Angela Yee. I think we posted at least one of these but since we switched to WordPress, I can’t find it. Oh well. Anyway, Leslie’s upcoming mixtape, The Beat Made Me Do It is a problem. I guaran-damn-tee it!

Props: NR, yeah I said it, NR.

Lil Wayne says that while on tour in Florida, some promiscuous girls riddled his tour bus after he denied them sex. Meet your death in less than eight seconds, indeed. After the jump, the Clipse speak on a botched robbery, DJ A-Trak recalls switchin’ a set last minute, and Diamond D reminisces on shitty draws.

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In case you ain’t know so, Fab’s number eight on MTV‘s Hottest MC list. Here’s why:

Why He’s Hot: Fabolous started his Loso’s Way campaign by telling the world that it was “his time,” and the boy from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood lived up to his claim. Loso’s Way — a concept project inspired in part by the gangster film “Carlito’s Way” — became his first #1 LP on the Billboard albums chart, selling nearly 99,000 units in its first week of release. All year, we’ve been hearing “It’s Loso, in case you didn’t know, so …” for a reason: Fab never runs out of ammo with his tireless punch lines and swag.

50 delivers a caveat to hip-hop fans that listening to Fat Joe’s music is hazardous to your health. As a fan of Mr. Jackson, I wish he devoted as much energy to his new records as he does to these skits. Not hatin’, just statin’.

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Whoever said Jimmy Iovine didn’t care about his artists? Here, he and Diddy hold court on his patio. Steve Berman of Eminem skit fame and The Game (remember him?) stop by too. Aww, it’s a family affair!

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