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Aubrey Graham is set to hit the big screen. Well, his voice that is. As of now, his role is unknown, but Reuters reports that Drake will lend his vocals for the new animated Ice Age film.

Singer/Actress Jennifer Lopez is the latest voice addition to the forthcoming animated film “Ice Age: Continental Drift.” Lopez and actor Jeremy Renner will join new voice cast members Keke Palmer, rapper Drake, Wanda Sykes and Aziz Ansari. The new additions was announced on Tuesday (April 26) during a Fox presentation, during which the studio met potential promotional partners, licensees and retail partners.

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Bonsu Thompson continues his conversation with Al Lindstrom and speaks on his apprehensiveness on working with The Source and recruiting Combat Jack to his Mind Squad.

Believe it or not, Havoc tells MTV that he hasn’t yet read Prodigy’s book, My Infamous Life. Despite the surrounding controversy, he says that he supports his Mobb Deep Co-D. He then goes on talk about accidentally shooting a Def Jam employee—at Def Jam!

Although Gucci Mane’s still behind bars, there’s no delaying the release of the Ferrari Boyz album with Flocka. Waka tweeted that the project is going to be released June 21. Hopefully by then La Flare makes bail.

Snoop keeps his #PuffPuffPassTuesdays moving along with another viral clip off the album. No peer pressure here, but you might wanna pick up Doggumentary if you haven’t already.

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Diddy brought his Coming Home Tour over to the Tabernacle in the ATL last night. He didn’t come alone though. Before hitting the stage he brought out Lloyd, Roscoe Dash, YC, and Big Boi. Nice robe, Puff.

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Common honored Dr. Maya Angelou last week at the first, Common Ground Foundation Gala. During the event, GoWhereHipHop was able to interview the two humanitarians as part of their latest Camovement series.

Excited about Prince William’s wedding this week? Well Odd Future’s Tyler, The Creator isn’t, and let’s it be known on the cover of NME magazine. Peruse scans of the cover feature below.

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Freddie was in the home of Biggie and Jay last night at Southpaw. Blow! was there and captured his performance and a brief interview.

Sidebar: Tour mate Big K.R.I.T. gets it in too

You never know what you’ll find on the Internet. Here’s film from the set of 2Pac’s iconic “Becoming Clean” photo shoot. Shot by photographer David LaChapelle, the photo was taken following Pac’s release from prison. Below is an interview of LaChapelle discussing the shoot.

DM: I feel that a lot of your work emphasises on beauty in people, regardless of colour or size. One of my favourite pieces of your work is “Becoming Clean” with Tupac Shakur amongst others. How was it like work with him?
DL: Tupac was great, he was very sensitive and is truly a good person. I wrote to his mum when he died and she sent me flowers and gave me his last song, “Ghetto Gospel.” When we did the shoot, he had just come out of prison and every shot has a reason, it’s never random, so this was the idea of the photo shoot, him becoming clean. He had given this interview when he was still in prison and he really opened up and was so honest. I had read it and thought it was so truthful so for the work I did with him, there was this idea of washing away and rebirth. And we did another shoot where he posed as a slave on a cotton field. They traced rapping and rhyming to “call and repeat” during slavery time in sugar cane and cotton fields to pass the time. It’s on the Hotel Lachapelle book. Tupac came to the shoot 2 hours early, which was very unusual for a rapper. So I wasn’t ready for the shoot and he didn’t care. He reminded me of my black friends whom I went to art schools with, he was so cool, open-minded and chill. He wasn’t judgemental. Then later on, I found out that he had gone to an art school. He left behind a big bag of socks and underwear because he had just come out from prison and never picked it up. He died shortly after. I still wear his socks sometimes (laughs). 

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