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After receiving the word on Weezy’s situation, B.o.B. chops it up with VladTV and shares his thoughts on the matter. He basically feels that hip-hop artists have become so powerful and influential that they often have to face huge opposition and become targets. He also draws comparisons to his Grand Hustle boss, T.I.’s case. You keep your nose clean, Bobby Ray.

Bobby Brown had a show in NYC last night at, you guesed it, B.B. King (technically singular not plural). I’d hedge a bet that Mel D. Cole‘s photos are better than actually hearing him at this point. But still, who doesn’t have a soft spot for this troubled soul. It must be Bobby!

Last night in Obama’s backyard, Kid Cudi stepped to the mic and addressed the crowd in Club Love. Kid Capri was on the 1′s and 2′s too. No Kidding. Never know who you’ll find in D.C. at Howard Homecoming.

“You know they actin’ funny in the back, Mac.”

Big jammy-jam in Philly last night and two former rivals showed support to one another. During Jadakiss set he surprised the crowd with the hometown boy, Beanie Sigel. He runs through “Mack Bitch,” his verse from Raekwon’s “Have Mercy,” and “Feel It In The Air,” before dissing Jay-Z?!...

Ok, tryin’ to figure this out from the footage. After the end of the first verse of “Feel It The Air” which goes “I read between the lines of your eyes and your brows/Your handshake ain’t match your smile/ These niggas foul!” Sig adds “Alllready.” Then as he leaves stage, he yells, “Love y’all, Philly. This is my muthafuckin’ house. I run this town tonight!” Then it sounds like he repeats it. Then did he come back on stage and spit more at Jay? Footage is unclear. Hopefully, there’ll be more video for clarity. Feels like he definitely went at him. The question is how severe.

Update: Oh is on the case and it appears that the chopped video part is Sigel comin’ back on stage to kick his version of BP3′s second verse from “What We Talkin’ About”. As we all know, the original goes, “Grown men, want me to sit ‘em on my lap/ But I don’t have a beard and Santa Claus ain’t Black/ I repeat you can’t sit on my lap/ I don’t have a beard, now get off of my sack.” Apparently, Beans took offense ’cause you catch the end of his version where he goes at the 5:10 mark, “I’m comin’ down my chimney with a Mac and go blat! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!” Ouch.

Now that he can do it. Who would want to?

It’s too early for this bullshit. Here’s the soft rock collabo we heard was gonna happen about a month ago. Weezy adds some generic bars to Weezer’s newest snoozefest. “Gotta stop mixing alcohol with pharmaceuticals.” Ok, buddy. Sounds like shit to me so it’ll probably go #1 Pop. Ha!

Courtesy: Weezy’s Headquarters

Image: Neon Limelight

Guess Drizzy took control of his Twitter account away from Oliver and got caught up in the excitement of his 23rd birthday. After a night of partying with Trey Songz at DC’s Club Love, he got on his computer and went innnn. Nine times!

Ok kid, don’t say YN never did nothing for ya. L’Chaim!

Ayo technology. Late last night, Swizzy BubbleTweeted some footage of him in the studio rockin’ to this. Thankfully, Damien ripped it to YouTube. Let’s hope, Kasseem created some heat for the Dark Man.

I was wondering why Lonnie would just now make a video for a track off his Universal Mind Control. However, I am assuming this is the official video that they chose out of the many other submissions for the Make Common’s Day contest. Directed by Josh Milowe of APLUSFILMZ.

As promised, Free keeps his word and drops his latest mixtape midnight on the dot. Although it may not be the work we were all expecting, he did gives us a heads up yesterday and he still supplies the streets with some bangers as well as some new material. Download mixtape here. Tracklist after the jump. (more…)