DJ NOBODY and McDAVE's Ear to Street: Hip Hop Drop 5-28-2010

50 people dressed in black jumped Kat Stacks in broad daylight. She was in ATL going to a studio called Euro South trying to rap. Unfortunately, she got the crap beat out of her and is messed up pretty bad.

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"President Barack Obama responds to the Gulf spill by suspending new drilling leases in alaska"

As President Obama prepares to spend part of Memorial Day weekend in the Gulf area addressing the current oil spill, he’s taking steps to prevent future spills by putting a halt to new drilling until better cleanup and safety methods are in place

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Big Boi's Album Cover

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R&B singer Alicia Keys is officially off the market after announcing being pregnant with her first child from soon-to-be husband/producer Swizz Beatz.

According to new reports, the hip-hop couple will officially wed later this year.

Alicia Keys is in a motherhood state of mind: She's pregnant with her first child. The Grammy Award-winning R&B singer has been dating producer Swizz Beatz, who has written hits for Beyonce (bee-AHN'-say), Jay-Z and others. They're engaged to be married at a private ceremony later this year. Representatives for the couple confirmed the news Thursday night. (Associated Press)

Beatz's ex-wife, Mashonda, recently filed a lawsuit against the producer in New York.

In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Mashonda Dean says the man who officially became her ex-husband two weeks ago already owes her $334,000 in missed payments. "I so much wanted both of us to get on with our lives and maintain our respect for one another, but he now shows that his priorities and sense of responsibility are screwed up," R&B singer Dean said. Dean's lawyer, Bernard Clair, called the nonpayment "particularly troubling" because of reports that Beatz bought a seven-carat engagement ring for Alicia Keys earlier this year and that they're moving into a $14.5 million duplex penthouse on Crosby Street. (NY Post)

However, Beatz has defended himself and refuted his ex-wife's claims.

He said he'd agreed to pay Dean more than the judge required and much more than his lawyer recommended -- he even had to sign court papers acknowledging that he was going against his attorney's advice. "I gave over what the judge was recommending to give. I gave her $700,000 up front, because I thought $200,000 wasn't enough for what she wanted to do. I still get spit in my face for it," he said. He suggested that the subsequent payments had been ready to go when he discovered "she'd been selling all my stuff out of my house." (NY Post)

Beatz recently spoke on his divorce from Mashonda.

"I don't got a wife no more," Swizz told radio personality DJ Enuff. "I'm 99 percent done, 99 percent. You lucky, you lucky I'm telling you. I'm lucky in a lot of ways, also, with my divorce but it's like the hardest thing I've ever been through. By far. You know what I'm saying? But it was a learning experience. The thing that upset me the most was the approach from the other side, it didn't have to be like that because it's false. It's like false things and having the wrong people around. Pumping yourself thinking you're gonna get a TV show off of so-called exposing. It's like clown things and it's, like, I'm always quiet with this sh*t. I can't answer, I can't even feed into because it's that much foolery to me...The reason why I got my divorce is for real sh*t. I didn't get busted cheating, it wasn't none of that. I had to, I got put into a situation where she was making me pick the relationship with my older son over my marriage." (The Wizards NYC)

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PHOTOS ARE REAL!!!!

G-Unit leader 50 Cent explained his decision to lose over 50 pounds for his upcoming Things Fall Apart movie.

According to 50, his shocking weight-loss was inspired by a friend who experienced cancer.

"It's about a Heisman hopeful who could possibly be going to the league and everyone is assuming he's gonna make it and then he's hit with an illness," 50 explained in an interview. "I had a friend of mine who actually experienced cancer and it's what motivated me to write this screenplay. You don't have to make everything personal, but that project was. That's why I committed to playing a role where I lost 54 pounds. I had to discipline myself enough until I achieved it but... I got it. (Cleveland News)

Photographic evidence of the dropped weight hit the Internet yesterday (May 26).

50 Cent lost a lot of weight for his upcoming movie "Things Fall Apart". In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer. He dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks. "I was starving." Now he's back on tour and says, "I've been eating. I'll be back in shape in no time!" (This Is 50)

G-Unit's Lloyd Banks confirmed 50's weight-loss last month.

"He did lose a lot of weight, man," Banks revealed in an interview with DJ Envy. "Like a good 40, 45 pounds. And I was around him everyday, so you didn't see it as much as people did but when I seen the pictures, it's affected everything. He's crazy, it's non-stop working, running ten miles, all that Universal Solider sh*t. He's in shape man, but he's been on icees man. All he ate was icees since February 23rd. And I ain't seen him, not sure if he cheated or not, all I seen was freezers of icees and I eat in front of him. KFC, Burger King." ("Sucker Free Sundays")

Recent reports suggested that he lost weight and removed body art to help with his acting career.

50 Cent is making moves to further his career in the film industry. The rapper is making a serious transition into acting, and has committed to removing some of his tattoos for an upcoming role in the film Things Fall Apart, which he co-wrote and produced. In addition Fif will lose 50 pounds for the on-screen feature. (Hip Hop Honey)

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Eminem's Recovery Tracklisting

1. Cold Wind Blows

2. Talkin' 2 Myself Feat. Kobe

3. On Fire

4. Won't Back Down Ft. Pink

5. W.T.P.

6. Going Through Changes

7. Not Afraid

8. Seduction

9. No Love Ft. Lil Wayne

10. Space Bound

11. Cinderella Man

12. 25 to Life

13. So Bad

14. Almost Famous

15. Love the Way You Lie Ft. Rihanna

16. You're Never Over

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New York rapper Lloyd Banks has said G-Unit's new record deal is nearly complete and might cause problems for other artists.

The "Punch Line King" did say fans could expect to hear new records from him in the weeks to come.

"We gonna let the ["Beamer"] remix bubble through Memorial Day weekend," Banks said in an interview. "They can also expect a new record from Tony Yayo as well. We gotta make this a G-Unit summer..We're very close [to a label deal]. So close I want to tell you something now, but I don't want to ruffle no feathers...I don't want to get anybody nervous. It's gonna complement what we been doing, the hard work we been doing. It's gonna give us the international platform." (MTV)

Tony Yayo recently spoke on being released from InterscopeRecords last year.

"When we got dropped from Interscope it was like, 'Aww, man,'" he said in an interview. "It was like you know a crushing thing. You know, when you used to being on top and now you feel like, for me, you're feeling like you on the bottom...When I got dropped, I'm not gonna front. I was a little down about it. It's not like it was because of the money, because Interscope, they advanced me for my second album. So I got money that I didn't even deserve...but it's just the whole thing of being dropped and everybody looking at you." (XXL Mag)

Earlier this year, Yayo accused the company of blackballing G-Unit.

"I feel like Interscope was trying to blackball me," Yayo explained in an interview. "But to each's own, man, like, when T.O.S. came out, I felt like it was a classic album, T.O.S., but I felt like, a lot of stuff I was starting to learn about the [rap] game, like, why wasn't our album up two weeks ahead of time on iTunes? You know what I'm saying? It feels like there's always something messed up, I felt the office up here, G-Unit, was doing more work than Interscope. That's why I feel like I was getting blackballed." (True Stories Radio)

Last March, Banks talked about the advantages of rolling as an independent artist.

"This is my year. That's the other thing. When you are working independent, you can decide when...sometimes when you are working for a label, they put you on that time clock. Sometimes, things can get forced. We'll see in the very near future, it's a very smart option [for G-Unit to go independent.] Based on the response that I've gotten from 'Beamer, Benz of Bentley,' the artist is more powerful than you think...When I did the, 'Officer Down' - the response to Rick Ross - it was already 700 - 800 thousand free download before we even made the deal with iTunes. Before they approached me and I still sold 60 or 70 thousand." (All Hip Hop)

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Renowned producer Dr. Dre has announced that his long-awaited Detox album should be out this fall.

Dre also said his "Under Pressure" Jay-Z single is likely to be released sometime in June.

Will we be able to get our hands on Detox this year? Dr. Dre provided the latest update on when his long-delayed opus will finally arrive in stores. "The song with Jay-Z should be out next month. We'll see how that goes," the Doc told Terrence and Rocsi on Wednesday's "106 & Park." The first single, "Under Pressure," features Jay-Z and production from Scott Storch. As for the album, Dre gave us a reason to want a short summer. "Hopefully at the beginning of fall," he revealed. (Rap-Up)

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Drake Ft. Jay-z Light it up