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If this is what Summer is like in the Windy City, we might have to make a trip soon. With that being said, here’s the video for Mikkey and Twista’s newest collab. Produced by Tha Bizness.

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Saw the God last night at Blue Note. So this is only fitting. He raised the bar. He set the standards. Rakim Allah is a supreme MC who’s timeless catalogue proves he’s one of the all-time greats in hip-hop culture. 90s babies study your lessons.

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We got the whole block bumpin’.

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Previously: No One Can Do It Better

Tical recently stopped by the Wooster Street Social Club for a cameo appearance on TLC’s reality series, NY Ink. While there, he got the Killa Beez logo tatted on his forearm. Be sure to check out the show tonight at 10 PM.

Tuesday night at Southpaw in Brooklyn, Drizzy was in the building for the Elevator Fight show and FADER caught up with him quickly after. He speaks on his sophomore album, Take Care and says the official first single will be coming in a week or two.

Just in time for the summer, Estelle gave the green light to BET to premiere the brand new visual for her collaboration with The Bawse. All Of Me coming soon.

What, ’cause good men are hard to find? Whatever. Here’s Spitta’s latest flick in support of his upcoming album. Who knows, maybe she’ll find him during the Weekend At Burnie’s on June 28.

Missy has been musically M.I.A. for quite sometime and has opened up about her fight against Graves’ disease. In an interview with People mag, Missy discusses the incurable disorder and how she’s been fighting its symptoms.

“I was [driving and] trying to put my foot on the brake, but my leg was jumping. I couldn’t keep the breakdown and almost crashed. I couldn’t write because my nervous system was so bad–I couldn’t even use a pen. I’m 30 pounds lighter because I’ve been exercising.” Elliott continues. “My thyroid is functioning, so I haven’t had to take medication in about nine months. [But] you live with it for the rest of your life.”

Missy will be featured on the next VH1 Behind The Music June 29 at 10 p.m.

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LMFAO recently stopped by to speak with Ryan Seacrest. They say that while in a nightclub in Cannes, Kanye approached them to talk about their music.

“I was playing “Champagne Showers” and he said that ‘That was one of his biggest moments and best times at a club EVER,’” said Redfoo. “He was like ‘I need to understand what is going on with that.”

Last week, Lil Wayne’s Swizz Beatz produced track “Dear Anne” hit the ‘net. Well, in the new issue of XXL, Mr. Carter says he really isn’t a fan of the track anymore.

“That was actually a record for Tha Carter III that just leaked,” Wayne told XXL last week in Miami’s Hit Factory. “It leaked out and everybody’s thinking that it’s going on Tha Carter IV ’cause I was actually gonna put it on Tha Carter IV . But I had been listening to it and didn’t like it. I don’t like it ‘cause the song, all the verses are old. And me being a perfectionist, I hate going with old verses.”

Full story when the issue hits newsstands on July 12th.