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Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) announces last US performances

 
Yasiin Bey -- also known as Mos Def -- has finally been allowed to leave South Africa, where the rapper has been detained for most of this year. Already planning his retirement, the Brooklyn rapper has announced what will be his final live performances in the United States.
 
Bey was being held in South Africa after the country's government took issue with his "World Passport," an ID issued by a pacifist advocacy group that Bey used when he enter

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YG's new mixtape CD will only be available on Black Friday

YG has announced what he calls "The World's 2nd $100 CD," a special limited edition, physical copy of his upcoming Red Friday mixtape, which will only be available on Black Friday.

Red Friday was originally scheduled to only be available digitally, but hardcore YG fans can secure a physical copy of the mixtape for their collections... for a price. The $100 CD will be signed by the Compton rapper and only 1,400 copies of the disc will be printed. The CD will go on sale this Friday at YG's meet and greet event in Oakland, California, and once the CD sells out, it's gone forever.

You can get more details about the eve

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"All Eyez On Me" biopic now scheduled for release on Tupac's birthday

 

The highly anticipated Tupac Shakur biopic was originally teased to be released sometime this year, but today it was announced that the film will be released next year, on Tupac's birthday.

Actor Dom Santana, who will play Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight in All Eyez On Merevealed the new release date on his Instagram. "Get ready it’s coming. And please no whining about the date. It’s Pac’s b day. We’re all anxious for it to come out but people gotta remember it’s a major film and there’s a lot of process to releasing major films. Because it was Tupac a lot of buzz was created word of mouth even while we were filming which u

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Chance & Others Voice Compassion Over Kanye West

Kanye West has quite the growing support group as Chicago emcee, Chance The Rapper, rallied alongside the laundry list of artists and personalities showing their support for the exhausted GOOD Music Boss.

Chance seized a moment amidst his BBC Radio 1Xtra performance and vocalized his thoughts regarding the issue at hand. “I want to extend a very special prayer to my big brother, Kanye West I know there's a lot of weird folks out there but you already know that I'm a hundred grand. I want to just extend this prayer and this love from all the way in Britain. We might come home early to see this man. Happy Thanksgiving.”

The short speech was taken between his performance of “All We Got”, later adding “I think everybody goes through

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On This Day, West Introduced “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”

On this day sixteen years ago, Hip-hop received Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, marking the fifth installment to his already critically-acclaimed laundry list of magnum opus work and potential classics.

The album debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 and released four massive hits “Power”, “Monster”, and “Runaway”, and the international hit “All OF The Lights”. Three years following its initial release, West attained RIAA Platinum, accounting over one million copies sold nationwide.

Apart from these, critics nominated it “Best Record of 2010” through numerous polls and year-end lists, citing it a “glorious culmination” of West's previous fo

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As Far As We Know About Kanye West's Recent Hospital Admissions

November 21—Various online hosts report Kanye West being admitted in a Los Angeles Hospital earlier today.

According to the reports, the incident took place while West was lodging at personal trainer Harley Pasternak's household, with further allegations of the GOOD Music boss “acting erratically”. When paramedics and the local police arrived, reports indicate West was hesitant upon medical admission but eventually complied and was handcuffed to a gurney whilst being transported to the hospital.

While other online sources appear in disarray regarding the event, NBC recently reported that West is “under observation,” and that the admission intends to “protect his own health and safety.” While further information is still a

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