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Nearly a year ago, Mr. Hudson shot this video in Rome with Kanye West. It was uploaded six months ago to vimeo, but today, we finally get the visual aid from their xcursion. Who’s gon drive ya home, ma?

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Today marking Trey’s birthday, he released his anticipated new mixtape which includes 8 original joints and remixes. Tracklist and download after the cut.

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Everyone’s got a million and one questions, so here’s a new cut featuring the lyrical stylings of Sauce Money. He’s just trying to live—as you should.

Weezy joined his Cash Money familia yesterday afternoon at the Bayou Classic in New Orleans. He performs “Bed Rock” and then assists Tyga with the adlibs to “Deuces”. Young Money’s for the children.

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Nelly’s got a chip on his shoulders. Yesterday, he turned to his Twitter account to vent about the lackluster promotion of his current album, 5.0 Apparently, Universal Motown only shipped 200,000 copies. Read up what he had to say below.

A record deal is a 50/50 partnership!As a artist its your job to provide the record company with music that they(record company)can sell! Thing about the partnership is that n the public eye the responsibility is not 50/50!the artist is always the 1who catches 90% of the blame. When a artist doesn’t deliver sufficient material they(artist)gets its budget cut for next album or worse dropped from the label!

So not only is the label ur partner but also disciplinarian and 90% of the time the one who decides if the partnership continues! Nodoubt wen a artist doesn’t deliver a song that does crack top of the charts or even top10 the label is quick to say artist didn’t deliver. So intern the artist must bare the brunt of that failure and take responsibility and consequences as handed out by his or her label!!

So who fault is it when a artist gives the label not only a #1 hit but there first top40 #1 n label history!sell 2mill n singles n 2.5month. Who should be held responsible wen a artist has a history for selling records so its not like a new artist n no1 knows his r her name? Benefit of the doubt: Maybe no1 wants to hear music from that artist?well if that was true then the artist would not have a #1 song! Benefit of the doubt:Maybe no1is checking 4 the artist anymore?Well if that was true then how do u explain selling 2mill singles n 2.5month?

I careless about haters u cant hate on #1song n 2.5mill n singles!but the fact is that some1 need to holdup there end of the partnership! If the music wasn’t good how do u get to #1 and 2.5mill!!but if folks say they didn’t even no wen the album came out????? If u only ship 200thound of an album how many are u f#cking tryen to sell??the artist does control that nor does he or she control marketing. “”5.0″”Every1 luvs da album n say its crazy!So wen u hear folks say they didnt no it was out r there were hardly any n the store!WTF?

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The original version of this featured Asher Roth. But now, Wiz comes through with a verse of his own. As hhnm pointed out, Bobby Ray’s No Genre mixtape is on the way, so maybe this makes the final cut.

Man, he told ya it would be a best seller. For the week of Dec. 5th, Jay-Z’s memoir Decoded debuts at number three on the New York Times Best Seller, hardcover non fiction list. He trails Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken and George Bush’s Decision Points.

On  a related front, dream hampton sounds off about her role with the project.

I’m am NOT mad Jay isn’t yappin about me in friggin interviews. Being famous is corny, I feel sorry for my famous friends. …and 90% of real media, including the Wall Street Journal & NY Times, writes, in English, aby my contribution…..so yeah. that was exhausting. I can’t imagine being an actual celebrity in this age of persistent identity. #nobueno

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Previously: Oprah Giveaways Jay-Z’s Decoded

Whoa. This may be a little bit too hot for TV Ms. Keri Baby. For her latest motion flick, Keri brings out the guns and the freak in her. Co-staring Rozay, Dawn Richards, Faith Evans, and actor Columbus Short.

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Weezy and Wiz weren’t the only performers three nights ago during Khaled’s birthday bash at King Of Diamonds. SpiffTV comes through with Rozay and Puff’s performance featuring Blac Chyna doing her tricks on the pole. Lots of T&A. Viewer discretion is unnecessary. Ha!

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Before Mr. West made this track one of his G.O.O.D. Friday joints, this beat belonged to Strong Arm Steady. Check out their version below. Sounds G.O.O.D.

“This song was supposed to be on Arms & Hammers – until Kanye bought it for a much bigger price and I’m glad for our guy Pete Rock he did, here is our version. Enjoy!” – Strong Arm Steady