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Hip-Hop Rumors: Quickies Edition With Swizz Beatz, Chuck D, A$AP Rocky, DJ Premier & More!

By: JP DelaCuesta (@JPdelacuesta)Category: RumorsJanuary 12, 2012

Swizz Strikes Back With Mixtape:

After scrapping his album, Haute Living, a little while back, Swizz took to Twitter recently to announce that a new, untitled, mixtape is on the way…

“In the studio working on my mix tape 🙂 oh yeah I also cut all the collars of my shirts lmao.”

Yo Gotti Dropped A Dud!

Gotti’s debut album is on pace to sell between 12,000 and 15,000 copies in its first week. In another words, a major letdown for someone with a pretty decent buzz despite the album’s overall negative critical reception.

“IN NEW YORK N JUST FOUND OUT SO MO F*CKD UP SH*T ABOUT DA LABEL!!! #TheIndustryTrynaHoldMeBack. HOW DA F*CK YU EXPECT A N*GGA TO SALE SUM RECORDS WHEN U DONT SHIP NONE????”

Better luck next time Y.G.!

Meet Cash Money’s Newest Artist, Chris Richardson:

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/34542314]

The former American Idol contestant is the new member of Baby’s Cash Money Records. Another attempt at crossing over? What ever happened to Kevin Rudolf?

Childish Gambino Announces New Mixtape:

The new project, titled Mixtape, will be dropping soon. Just a title and the image above were released. Gambino will be hitting the road and touring with Fool’s Gold artist Danny Brown beginning in March.

A$AP Rocky and AraabMUZIK Collaboration Project On the Way!

A$APMUZIK coming soon! Both artists will also be performing in April at the 2012 Coachella Festival, so expect for some of this heat to be heard for the first time there!

More Quickies:

-DJ Premier revealed in a recent interview with Bootleg Kev that he has worked with Busta Rhymes on several tracks from his upcoming Cash Money debut.

-Lupe Fiasco’s third album Lasers has officially been certified Gold. We want Food and Liquor 2…NOW!

-Chuck D will appear on iconic rocker Meat Loaf’s new album that drops in February. “Chuck D is the rapper’s rapper. He is the original, and every rapper that has come after him wants to be like him. For us to have him on this record is a major coup and I am so impressed with what he wrote!

-J. Cole’s “Work Out” single has been certified Platinum. Keep it up, Cole!

-Nelly was recently photographed in the studio with Dr. Dre, who seems to be working on everything except Detox as of late. Can we all just agree already that that sh*t is NEVER coming out!?

Joe Budden Releasing “Mood Muzik: The Box Set” On February 21st

By: JP DelaCuesta (@JPdelacuesta)Category: NewsJanuary 12, 2012

(AllHipHop News) On February 21, Joe Budden will be releasing a complete box set of his critically acclaimed and fan favorite Modd Muzik series.

The extremely limited edition set comes loaded with Mood Muzik 1, 2, 3, 4 and Mood Muzik 4.5, with “a few extra bonuses as well.” Only 100 copies of this set are being pressed for release and purchase, all of which come autographed by Budden.

Fan favorites like “Bullsh*t Rappers and Metaphors,” “Dumb Out,” “The Future,” “Remember the Titans,” and many, many more will all be included.

Mood Muzik: The Box Set will be available on February 21st. You can pre-order the set now for $70.00.

In addition to this limited release, Joe will be having two exclusive concerts at Irving Plaza in New York City on February 26 and 27, where he will be performing a majority, if not, all of the material from his Mood Muzik series. Tickets for the concert are available now.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Amber Rose Cries Over Kanye On MTV RapFix Segment!!

By: JP DelaCuesta (@JPdelacuesta)Category: RumorsJanuary 12, 2012

Who’s having the bigger week: Amber or Blue Ivy Carter? The obvious answer is little baby Blue, but Amber just can’t seem to stay away from the “news” making lately. Two days after the release of her first single, “Fame,” which featured her man Wiz Khalifa, the model, “actress,” and now “singer,” hit up the MTV RapFix couch to talk about her music and more.

Amber told host Sway: “Today on your show, I just want to let it be known that I am so done with the Kanye questions. That’s my past, I’m done with it. I’m done, I’m moving on with a new career. I’m in love with Wiz. I’m happy. I just want to move on with my life, and we can get everything out right now and then I’m done.”

Check out the video here.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Another Crazy Fan Gets a Drake Tattoo?!!

By: ginatorres27Category: RumorsJanuary 12, 2012

Another Drake super fan has gotten a tattoo of the rapper. An unidentified fan has gotten a portrait of Drake along with the word “Drizzy” inked on their leg. I hope to GOD this is a girl and not a dude!

The goofy looking tattoo truly captures Drake’s essence, doesn’t it! At least it wasn’t on her forehead like the other loony chick. Check out a photo of the tatt below.

In related news, forgive me for being a few days late on this, but D12 rapper Bizarre was recently inked with a portrait of Nicki Minaj. See the photo below.

This post got me thinking, would you ever get a tattoo paying homage to your favorite celebrity? Here’s a collection of photos of people who were crazy enough to do just that:

Alrighty then!

“Red Tails” Film Survives Despite “Blackout” By Hollywood Backers

By: seandrasimsCategory: LifestyleJanuary 12, 2012

Iconic filmmaker Gerge Lucas appeared on the The Daily Show With Jon Stewart this week to share details about his forthcoming Red Tails movie and the difficulties faced by films like it.

Red Tails, with an all-star cast boasting Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr. singer Ne-Yo, and more, depicts the well-publicized story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a valiant group of fighter pilots in World War II. The Star Wars creator put forth $58 million of his own money towards the overall price tag of the film.

“It’s a reasonably expensive movie. Normally black movies, say Tyler Perry movies or something, they’re very low budget,” the film’s producer, Lucas, told Stewart on the show. “Even they won’t really release his movies, it goes to one of the lower, not major distributors…And this costs more than what those movies make.

“They don’t believe there’s any foreign market for it and that’s 60 percent of their profit…I showed it to all of them and they said ‘No. We don’t know how to market a movie like this,'” Lucas added.

In Hollywood, it seems to Lucas, there must be at least some White element to films in order for them to be seen as lucrative. “It’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all. It’s one of the first, all-black action pictures ever made. It’s not Glory where you have a lot of white officers running these guys into cannon fire. They were real heroes.”

Red Tails hits theaters on January 20. Check out the trailer below: