 | Eminem, Jay-Z and Usher bring home two Grammys. |
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 | Public Enemy's frontman Chuck D. will protest the United States' immigration law with the of launch a new art collection inspired by PE's classic song "By The Time I Get to Arizona." |
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 | Sean "Diddy" Combs was recently named one of the largest minority-owned business in New York. |
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 | Trey Songz, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Get Schooled today launched the “Wake Up! NYC” campaign in New York City to reduce truancy and chronic absenteeism in New York City high schools. The launch occurred at Isaac Newton Middle School in East Harlem, NYC. |
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 | Two topless Texans are suing rapper Jim Jones after they were showcased on a promotional video for his song "Summer Time." |
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 | Rapper Game has been ordered to pay almost $100,000 to a company that claims he is refusing to pay a hefty jewelry bill. |
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 | Lil Wayne recently settled a $1.2 million tax bill, Dorrough arrested. |
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 | Rapper Luke "Uncle Luke" Campbell has announced his next venture will be running for Mayor of Miami Dade. |
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 | Rapper Drake, Rihanna, Cee Lo Green, Gwyneth Paltrow and the Jim Henson Company's Puppets have been added to the February 13th lineup of performers during the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. |
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 | DC rapper Wale ended months of speculation when he took to Twitter this weekend (February 5th) and confirmed that he has finally signed with Ross' imprint, after reports originally surfaced that he was heading to Maybach Music. |
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 | A Washington D.C. production company has filed an $18 million lawsuit over the rights to the music on the Trey Songz and Nicki Minaj song "Bottoms Up.” |
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 | Rapper Lil Wayne is hitting the road this March for his I Am Music II Tour.
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 | Kanye West has announced that he will be releasing a new album in the summer of 2011. |
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 | Rapper Rhymefest landed his first victory as a budding politician when officials cleared him to run for Alderman of the 20th Ward, in Chicago. |
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 | Rapper Eminem is back in more ways than one. The emcee announced the signing of two new acts: underground supergroup Slaughterhouse and upstart rapper Yelawolf. |
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 | Jay-Z has invested in the Brooklyn-based chicken wing restaurant Buffalo Boss along with his mother, Gloria, and sister Andrea. |
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 | Rap label, No Limit Records, is being relaunched as No Limit Records Forever.
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 | A Los Angeles judge has ordered rapper the Game to pay $50,000 damages in an assault case. |
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 | Rapper/ actor Ice-T will release a memoir set this April titled Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood |
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