Earlier this week, Coolio stopped by Angela Yee‘s morning show on Shade 45 and discussed replacing DMX in the boxing exhibition December 12th. Afterward, he talked about laying the smack down on crappy rappers. Go figure.

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Two weeks after his birthday, Puff celebrates his 40th tonight at the Plaza Hotel. Check out the league of extraordinary gentleman…and Rick Ross. The gang’s all here. James Cruz

Guess what? 50 Cent made another television appearance tonight. This time around, he went one on one with Chelsea Handler. After some mild flirting, they discuss his new album and business ventures.

This afternoon, Dr. Dre held an in-store press conference for his Beats headphones at the Union Square Best Buy in NYC. In attendance were Jimmy Iovine, Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn, and Monster Cable creator Noel Lee. After their respective introductions, I asked Dre his stance on Game and 50 Cent’s on-going feud. Unfortunately, Dre’s response was interrupted by Jimmy. After the jump, Dre speaks on his long-awaited album, Detox…again.

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Apparently, after the show isn’t the after party. At a Denny’s in Champagne, IL Wale and J.Cole break out in a freestyle cipher as they wait for their food. Chew on that. JCF

Game to Joe La Puma that he’s glad Jigga never responded to his diss records. 50 is funny, but Jay is witty. Jay-Z is not to be toyed with. If he fuckin’ responds, if he feels like you’re really pissing him off and he responds, he’s gonna fuck you up! He would fuck me up, I’m just glad he didn’t fuckin’ respond, so I didn’t have to go dig in my fuckin’ bag and try to fuck him up.

As the headline suggests, Wale ponders on how Pac’s candor would be affected if he had a Twitter account. How’s that for a trending topic.

On Reneda Romain’s Ear Candy show on Hip Hop Nation, Khaled claims that he’s indeed a sand nigga. Sim Sim Salabim!