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Today marks the 15th year anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur, the hip hop industry is keeping his legacy alive, by paying homage with tributes and DJs have his records on heavy rotation. Check out this rare footage of Tupac Shakur on popular late night talk show Arsenio Hall.
After slipping up on his 2008 and 2009 taxes by “forgetting” to pay the Internal Revenue Service a grand total of $5,601,033.99 (and that’s after he had already paid off a $1.13 million in December 2010), Weezy F. Please Say The Baby Money paid off his $5.6 million tax bill.
Watch Katt Williams go in on Steve Harvey again in a new diss video. Diddy and Jermaine Dupri also get done dirty.
Word on the street is that in the upcoming issue of XXL, the Bawse has some choice words for the “Gucci Gucci” rapper.
Over the weekend an interesting set of videos featuring Serena Williams half dressed and twerking in an apartment allegedly belonging to Drake hit the Internet.
Barack O’ Drama raises his campaign to the Third Power.
For an inside edition, camera’s were allowed into Sway Calloway’s radio studio, to get a glimpse of his morning routines. As a journalist and radio host in the hip-hop game for over 15 years, Calloway certainly has exclusive stories to share. He talks 2pac, Aaliyah and Michael Jackson and weighs in on the status of hip hop. While MTV’s RapFix (hip hop talk show partially created by Sway) approaches it’s 1 year anniversary, Calloway shows no signs of slowing down at the same time still finding ways to reinvent media culture.
Back in March, rapper Wiz Khalifa released his gold-selling LP, entitled Rolling Papers. The disc debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling over 197,000 copies in the first week. The Pittsburgh native is already working on his new album. “Yeah, I’ve started working on a next album just to get a feel for where I’m going with it,” Wiz told MTV News on the BMI Urban Awards red carpet last month. Khalifa also announced that “No Sleep” is the fourth single off the album.
The wait is almost over. Lupe Fisaco’s new mixtape, entitled Friend Of The People will be available this Fall. According to Emperor Lu (LL) over at KTT, he recently spoke to Lupe in Toronto and he reports that Lupe said his mixtape will probably drop on Thanksgiving Thursday (November 24). In support of his gold-selling album Lasers, Fiasco is embarking on a United States “Generation Laser” tour. The tour kicked off on September 1st in his hometown Chicago.
You may remember David Joseph as a finalist on the MTV reality show, “P. Diddy Starmaker” and since the conclusion of the show David has been in the studio creating great music and showcasing his skills. Peep his new video for “Get Down” when you hit the jump.
