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Yea, these videos are still coming and we are now up to number seven. Here Khaled hits the studio and appears in a few video shoots along the way. We The Best I guarantee it!

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Previously: Ep. 6

Last week, Preemo was in the motherland and met with former South African president Nelson Mandela. While out there, he also made a plea to Nas to collaborate on an album. Good luck on that happening.

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A few days ago, Kanye said his album cover was banned from retail and implied that Walmart had a role in it.  EW reached out to the bargain chain and they said they never saw the artwork.

“We’re excited about Kanye West’s new album and we look forward to carrying it in our stores on November 22nd. As always, it’s our standard practice to carry the edited parental advisory version. We did not reject the cover artwork and it was never presented to us to view.”

Well, that’s strange. Shouldn’t matter anyway, on Monday, Ye said there will be five different covers for his album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

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Jada’s The Champ Is Here 3 may arguably be one of the year’s best mixtapes. While you huddle on that, here’s the project’s latest visual featuring his D-Block squadron.

Crooked I’s been holding down his music series by himself for the last three months, but this week, he gets assistance from the Free Agent over Waka’s beat.

Last Week: “Boardwalk Empire/Hello”

Karen Civil‘s on it and got a hold of some new music from Fayetteville’s finest. No word as to where this is from, but maybe it’ll end up on his upcoming mixtape. That is, if it ever comes out.

Move over Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Moonie and Count trade places in the latest video in support of Don’t Feed The Killaz Vol. 3. Visually, Creative Control outdid themselves with this clip. Motion picture, shit for real.

When Lil Wayne’s I Am Not A Human Being was released digitally on September 27th, it debuted at number two on the Charts and a week later, dropped to number 16. But since its retail release last Tuesday, Weezy grabs Billboard’s spot this week after moving 125K copies. Even in Rikers, Dwayne’s out of this world.

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Sometimes if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself. CyHi tells Rap-Up how he sneaked his way to lay his verse down for “So Appalled”. G.O.O.D. move.

“I wasn’t supposed to be on ‘So Appalled’. People don’t know that. I kinda cheated. [Kanye] said, ‘Can you think of something to write on the hook?’ I peeped he was kinda sleepy at the time. So he went to sleep, went to the room or something. I stayed in the studio and I said I’m not gonna just do no hook. I’m gonna do my verse.”

I did a verse and didn’t tell him the verse was on there and I hid it. He was playing the album for some very important musicians and he played the song. He don’t know my verse is gonna come on and everybody in the room goes bananas. He said, ‘I gotta keep it.’”

J.Cole was booked at Rutgers University this past weekend and during his set, he brought out the MPC and created a beat. Try freestyling over that, rappers. Ha!

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