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Once again back is the incredible. For RESPECT.‘s 3rd year anniversary, J.Cole returns to the front cover. Issue hits newsstands November 27th. YN explains the cover selection below.

Love & Hip-Hop‘s K.Michelle leaves little to the imagination on the cover of KING‘s reality issue. Back yard banging like a Benzi. On newsstands next month.

Much like her previous cover, Robyn sports her birthday suit on the front of Gentlemen’s Quarterly’s annual “Men Of The Year” issue. Hilarious excerpt below. Read it in full here.

A$AP returns to the cover of Complex for their Dec/Jan issue. In the excerpt from the cover story, he speaks on his ongoing feud with SpaceGhostPurrp. Read it in full here.

Do you think there’s any possibility for reconciliation?
It happened. It’s like it was meant to happen. It is what it is. When the heat came down, he was the only scared one. He was going to have to serve three days in jail like everybody else. Long story short, Purrp went down South, started talking shit about niggas. It was a cowardly move.

Pharrell continued his promo run for his Places & Spaces I’ve Been overseas. Above is his most recent stop at the Colette boutique in Paris and US Rap News has the highlights. Cop the book here.

Freddie got fingered—again. Yesterday, Gibbs made local headlines in Gary, Indiana for having an officer’s squad car in his upcoming video. The cop was demoted and stripped of the vehicle. As for Fred, well, he figured the news had bigger fish to fry.

Despite his controversial history, Luther Campbell is giving back to his community these days as an assistant football coach at Dade County’s Northwestern High. Below is an excerpt from the NY Times’ piece on his new gig. You can read the full piece here.

They know him as the coach who spends late-night hours analyzing game film, not the man who once made music and drank until sunrise. They know he will drill them, over and over, on their defensive assignments. He will blow that whistle. He will implore them to set the edge and mind their gaps. He will say in a postpractice talk: “Forget football, gentlemen. This is about life. You have to decide how bad you want it.”       

He will tell them not to swear.

Following the release of his memoir, Pharrell lets us tag along to LA’s BOOK MARC store for his meet-and-greet. In the clip, he speaks on the publication and interviewing Jay-Z for it. Purchase it here.

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Guess who’s back. Billboard released their annual “Maximum Exposure” issue this week and under the R&B/Hip-Hop sidebar, the Double R was selected as the only domain that counts out here. You want to be in the public? Screw ya budget. It’s just us!

Lil Wayne’s upcoming prison memoir, Gone Till November will document his time behind bars from March to November 2010. The 23-page hardcover will be released on March 14, 2013 and is now up for pre-order here.

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