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T.I. & Floyd Mayweather Reportedly Get Into A Fight In Las Vegas (VIDEO)

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) There are reports coming out of Las Vegas that rapper T.I. and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. were involved in a fight at a Fatburger restaurant early Sunday morning. According to TMZ, Tip approached Mayweather and began arguing with him for some unknown reason.

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[ALSO READ: Lil Wayne Attempts To Fight Marcos Maidana After Mayweather Bout (VIDEO)]

The encounter then became physical as T.I. reportedly swung at Mayweather causing a brawl to break out. Chairs were thrown and police say a Fatburger employee was injured. The victim apparently is not cooperating with investigators.

[ALSO READ: Supperclub L.A. Releases Statement About Videotaped Fight + T.I. & Game]

Watch video of the incident below.

KimYe Officially Married In Italy

By: yourfavenightmare Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are now husband and wife.

The pair exchanged vows at the historic Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy, a 16th Century fortress in front of a bevy of friends and family.

Famed vocalist Andrea Bocelli sang as Bruce Jenner walked Kim down the aisle and planned bout by Sharon Sacks, a friend of the Kardashian family.

The couple was married in front of a massive wall of flowers. The ceremony was officiated by Rich Wilkerson Jr., a Miami-area pastor.

A source with People magazine said Kanye West was visibly nervous.

“It was funny how nervous he was. He clearly knew the gravity of what he was about to do. This morning he was all smiles, but as it got closer, you could see that the nerves were kicking in. It’s common for most grooms. I’ve seen it all before.”

During ceremony, People reports, the guests applauded when the newlyweds’ kissed and then again at the presentation of the bride and groom. Kris Jenner was crying.

There have been no reports of Jay Z or Beyonce being in attendance or who comprised his half of the wedding party. However, Kim’s bridesmaids were her sisters Kourtney, Khloe, Kylie and Kendall.

New Kanye West Music Featured In Adidas World Cup Ad

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Kanye West shares brand new music with the world as part of Adidas’ marketing campaign for the world’s most popular sport. Mr. West provides the soundtrack to the shoe company’s 2014 FIFA World Cup ad “The Dream: all in or nothing.”

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[ALSO READ: Kanye West’s Next Album Reportedly Will Be “Soulful” & “Dark”]

Watch the Adidas commercial featuring Kanye’s “God Level” below.

Nas Names His Favorite Songs From Hip Hop's "Golden Age"

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(AllHipHop News) In the May 22 edition of Rolling Stone magazine, the publication asked several music artists to name some of their favorite songs from special playlists. One of the stars that participated in the feature was Nas.

[ALSO READ: Nas Names His Favorite Southern Rappers]

The emcee’s selections were all tapped from Hip Hop’s “Golden Age” of the 1980’s. Not surprisingly, the majority of the songs were released in 1988 – a quintessential year in the history of the culture.

“Hip Hop has had so many golden ages, but I picked the Eighties,” said the Queens, New York legend. “That’s when it turned from rock-sounding, disco-sounding s**t to the essence of rap.”

[ALSO READ: New Nas Album To Feature Timbaland, Swizz Beatz & No I.D. Production]

Check out Nas’ list of favorite 80’s Hip Hop songs below.

1. Public Enemy – “Rebel Without a Pause”  (1988)
2. Eric B. & Rakim – “My Melody” (1987)
3. Run-DMC – “My Adidas” (1986)
4. EPMD – “It’s My Thing” (1988)
5. Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick – “The Show” (1985)
6. Big Daddy Kane – “Ain’t No Half -Steppin'” (1988)
7. De La Soul – “Plug Tunin'” (1988)
8. Slick Rick – “Hey Young World” (1988)
9. Dana Dane – “Nightmares” (1987)
10. Queen Latifah feat. Monie Love – “Ladies First” (1989)

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Set To Marry, Guests Convene In France

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(AllHipHop News) Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and their guests had a rip-roaring time in Versailles on Friday for a luxurious wedding party.

The couple will wed today in Florence, Italy at the Forte di Belvedere. About 600 guests are expected.

This will be Kanye’s first marriage and Kim’s third.

According to reports, Jay Z will attend and Beyonce might.

Pictures of the couple were posted at the New York Daily News web site.

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EXCLUSIVE: Calvin Klein Bacote Explains Jay Z's Reaction After Being Arrested + MORE (VIDEO)

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) When Jay Z uttered that he “never felt more alive than riding shot gun in Klein’s Green 5”on The Black Album, he was speaking about Calvin Klein Bacote’s car. In the first part of AllHipHop’s EXCLUSIVE interview with Bacote, he explains Jay Z’s reaction when the two of them were arrested.

At the end of the “Allure” lyric, Jay Z states he never felt more alive “till the cops pulled guns”, seemingly in reference to the pair being arrested following a fight at a party. The pair were charged with attempted murder, attempted murder to maim, battery assault, and possession of a deadly weapon and according to Klein, Jay Z took the arrest well and changed his life from it:

Our reaction were the same: we got caught. But, he channeled that situation into something positive and productive. Only thing I’m doing now at this point is..it took me a long time for me to get it, but now I got it. So, I’m kind of following the footsteps of those same words and my sense of creating myself and just doing the right things this time around.

According to Bacote, before taking the wrap for the crime, him and Jay Z faced 40 years in prison. Bacote was released after four years and released his first book Neighborhoods Under Siege: Memoirs of a Brooklyn Don this past February.

Check out the first part of AllHipHop’s interview with Calvin Klein Bacote below:

Donald Sterling Will Let His Wife Sell The Los Angeles Clippers

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) The Los Angeles Clippers may be relinquished of the Sterling’s sooner than many expected.

According to TMZ, Donald Sterling has given his wife Shelley Sterling full control to negotiate the force sale of the Los Angeles Clippers. While neither Shelley or Donald Sterling have revealed how much of the team the are willing to sell, sources for ESPN state that the league will only accept Shelley Sterling’s sale if its for the entirety of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Donald Sterling currently has until this Tuesday (May 27th) to respond to the NBA’s charge towards him to sell the Los Angeles Clippers that was filed earlier this week. Under IRS law, if the Sterlings sold the team for $1 billion they would have to pay $328.5 million in taxes towards federal long-term capital-gains tax and California tax.

Schoolboy Q Explains Why He Quit Weed In Europe, Concepts For New Album + MORE (VIDEO)

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Schoolboy Q is so synonymous with marijuana consumption that he named a song “Bet I Got Some Weed”. In a recent interview, Q explains why he temporarily quit weed while touring in Europe, what fans can expect from the Oxymoron follow-up and more.

Though Q has mentioned numerous times over the past year and a half that he has a desire to quit smoking marijuana, it was only during the European leg of his Oxymoron tour did he follow through fully. According to Q, him quitting marijuana in Europe was easier because of the quality of weed in Europe:

It’s something I’ve wanted to do. It’s not like I quit heroine, Just weed. I quit over there just to see if I was a slave of it. I was able to quit. ‘Cause the weed was so bad, it was like might as well not smoke it. I felt like I did right.

In regards to his next projects, Q asserts “I got two of my next albums titled and concepts of how I wanna attack and how I wanna put certain things to the light.” After that admission, Q gives fans a few details of upcoming song topics and concepts:

I haven’t even talked about my mom yet. I left that out my album for other albums. I never talked about my father. Just saving certain things for different albums and concepts.

Check out the full interview below:

Hip-Hop Rumors: Is There Beef With Q-Tip And JD?

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OHHHHHH! I heard there was beef with Jermaine DuPri and Q-Tip! As you know, both men are legends, but there may be some friction. Here is the deal. The dude Q-Tip is not only a rapper, but he’s an acclaimed producer as well. Well, he just leaked a new song from the Mariah Carey record. The joint is called “Meteorite” and he just released the “Q-Tip Version.”

MARIAH CAREY “METEORITE” Q-TIP VERSION

NEW MUSIC: MARIAH CAREY "METEORITE" Q-TIP VERSION

This has lead some to think that there is some beef between the two. Specifically, people have started to say that JD didn’t use Q-Tip’s version. But, I have news for ya! There is no beef. There are indeed two versions of the song and both of them are Q-Tip’s. So, when the album Me. I Am Mariah drops on Tuesday, the version on the album was also produced and co-written by Q-Tip.

NO BEEF!

“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.

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Ma$e Reveals What The Notorious B.I.G. Did On A Scary Plane Ride + MORE (VIDEO)

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News)  One of the most eerie facts is that the Notorious B.I.G.’s only two albums released while he was alive focused on death. However, during an interview with the L.A. Leakers on Biggie’s birthday (May 21st), Ma$e revealed how he used his music to help others deal with a frightening plane ride.

According to Ma$e, Biggie used his Ready To Die album to help people deal with the very real possibility that they could die during a shaky private jet flight:

One time everybody was on the plane and the plane start shaking. It was everyone’s first time on a private jet. We all from the ghetto, we don’t know about no private jets. So we on a private jet and the joint just started shaking. Everybody getting scary, cause the the plane is shaking like it’s about to crash. Then Biggie puts his head down with his hoodie on and pulls out his CD….Ready To Die. [Laughs] Everybody started laughing and it just made the whole trip better.

Ma$e also discussed how the creation of his Bad Boys Record debut, 1997’s Harlem World was like being a “rookie on a championship team”.

Check out Ma$e discuss how Biggie recording Life After Death changed how he recorded Harlem World plus more below:

D'Angelo Delivers Lecture at "A Conversation With D'Angelo"

By: Rea Davis @IamReaDavis Updated Category: Alternatives
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Neo-soul, R&B, and funk icon D’Angelo recently gave a lengthy interview to documentarian Nelson George as a part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival in New York at the Brooklyn Museum. George also featured D’Angelo in his documentary “Finding The Funk” earlier this year. D’Angelo is known as a musical genius and one of the best artists and musicians of our time, especially for R&B and soul. D’Angelo is also an amazing instrumentalist on the piano and guitar. His voice is an instrument itself as his range spans 5 octaves and his vocals and music showcase melodious chords and runs. Brown Sugar and Voodoo were pivotal albums in the neo-soul movement. There were plenty of jewels in this interview such as how D’Angelo’s first experience at the Apollo nearly ended in disaster. D’Angelo shared that he likes going “deep into the onion” when recording, and Mtume gave him a much needed confidence boost at a critical moment. Viewers also learn that D’Angelo met Quest Love on a show where Goodie Mob, The Fugees, and The Roots were playing. In the lecture spanning nearly 90 minutes, the torchbearer of R&B soul opened up in a way that fans have rarely seen him do before. Check out the full lecture video below.

Also check out Nelson George’s “Finding The Funk” documentary below.

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Quentin Tarantino Turning "Django Unchained" Into A TV Series

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Quentin Tarantino has dangled the prospect of his next project since 2012’s Django Unchained for over a year. During a recent press conference at the Cannes film festival, Tarantino divulged plans to turn the 2012 film into a miniseries for television.

According to Tarantino, he will use 90 minutes of unreleased Django Unchained footage for a planned miniseries consisting of four hour-long chapters. While Tarantino did not reveal how he will release the TV he does allude to the Netflix-style of binge watching where they release all the episodes of a TV series at once:

It would be a mini-series and people love those. You show people a four-hour movie and they roll their eyes. Show people a four-part mini-series and they’ll sit and watch it all in one sitting.

Check out the full interview with The Guardian here.

Mike Meyers Talks Kanye West + Admits Black People Were Treated Differently During Hurricane Katrina

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) On August 29th, 2005, southeast Louisiana was hit with a Category 5 hurricane, Louisiana particularly experiencing over 80% of the reported 1,836 deaths from Hurricane Katrina. In a recent interview with GQ, Mike Meyers discussed his views on the racial differences in the treatment of people during Hurricane Katrina and speaks on Kanye West’s infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” statement.

According to Meyers, West informed him prior to his infamous remarks about former President Bush that “he was going to take some liberties” with his speech. Before saying that he was “super proud to have been next to him”, Meyers admitted that while West’s comments may have been slightly exaggerrated, they conveyed an uncomfortable truth about the treatment of the people of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina:

I assume that George Bush does care about black people—I mean I don’t know him, I’m going to make that assumption—but I can definitively say that it appeared to me watching television that had that been white people, the government would have been there faster. And so to me that’s really the point—the look on my face is, to me, almost insulting to the true essence of what went down in New Orleans.

Check out Mike Meyers and Kanye West’s segment below and his full interview with GQ here:

Havok Jones To Release Female ‘90s Groups Homage EP & Debuts Xscape’s “Who Can I Run To”

By: Rea Davis @IamReaDavis Updated Category: Alternatives
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The quadruple force that is Havok Jones, uniquely comprised of Kea Aleis, MaiDai, Aire B. and Neiko, have just released their first single “Who Can I Run To,” a remake of the ‘90s super group Xscape’s chart-topping single, off their homage-based EP. Executive produced by super producer Miyk Snoddy, who has created for the likes of The Dream, Kelly Rowland, Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, Estelle, Jamie Foxx and Lupe Fiasco, and vocal arranged/produced by emerging songwriter and producer Leon Giles, Side A of the two-part series includes five new renditions of ‘90s girl groups favorites.
“We’re so thankful and excited for the opportunity to honor the women who influenced us by creating an entire project dedicated to their great music,” said Havok Jones. “There are so many groups who inspired us and we want to start our careers by showing our appreciation because without them there would be no us. Sisterhood is our foundation.”
The group has been described as one who embodies the vocal ability of En Vogue, charisma of TLC, star power of Destiny’s Child and strength of Xscape. As far as Havok Jones is concerned, the resurgence of the girl group starts and ends with them! The group released their viral single “Where You At,” which will be a bonus track on their new EP, last week and will hit the pavement running with their radio single “WhoYou?” feat. Young Thug at the top of June also featured on the EP. Side B of the innovative project will release late summer. Check out their Xscape cover below!