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  Pitbull and Common Ride for Jay-Z on 'Open Letter' Remakes

  April 16, 2013 – "Would they have messed with Mr. Carter if he was white?" That's been an unspoken question hanging in the air ever since a couple of U.S. lawmakers from Florida suddenly showed an interest in human rights when it might embarrass Jay-Z and Beyoncé — and by extension President Obama. …
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  Game and Common Are Divine on 'Jesus Piece,' Kanye West Backslides

  December 5, 2012 – First things first, Kanye West doesn't deserve his name on the marquee of this one. Yeezy may have absolutely murdered Rihanna's "Diamonds" last month, but he contributes only a single slurred-out line (repeated for the chorus) to the Game's latest single: "Something like my Jesus piece." That's it. …
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  Kanye West Deflates Ego for 'Cruel Summer' Promo Video

  September 20, 2012 – If the prevailing verdict on Kanye West's G.O.O.D. …
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  G.O.O.D. Music, 'Cruel Summer' (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)

  September 17, 2012 – Everything about Cruel Summer, the first compilation album from Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music crew, should play like a victory lap — run in Oscar De La Rentas on a Persian rug adorned with images of cherubs. …
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  Play Kanye West G.O.O.D. Music 'Cruel Summer' Leak Bingo

  August 27, 2012 – Kanye West has been promising to finally drop his G.O.O.D. label's first comp, Cruel Summer for about a year now. Since Mother Nature has a special way with major label rap album release dates, spring turned into summer and summer ultimately turned into September, and 2012's Yeezy-less summer feels especially cruel indeed. …
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  'Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts' Returning With Special on 'Compton,' 'O.P.P.'

  February 6, 2012 – Everyone's favorite old-school hip-hop tutorial Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts will return to television this month, MTV2 has announced. …
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  Take Cover: Common Unleashes Fiery Drake Dis

  January 9, 2012 – No longer content to beef with Maya Angelou and Sarah Palin, conscious hip-hop icon Common has found the softest target humanly possible for his ire: Canadian hunk, television superstar, and occasional rapper Drake. Apparently, Common was able to download Rick Ross' DatPiff-crashing Rich Forever mixtape and managed to make it all the way to the end of the 80-minute behemoth. …
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  Common Lyrics Ignite Beef With Maya Angelou

  December 19, 2011 – In conscious hip-hop circles, beefing with Maya Angelou ranks somewhere on the sacrilege meter between feuding with Gil Scott-Heron and waging war with Richard Pryor. …
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  Rock the Bells: Behind the Scenes

  August 25, 2011 –  …
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  Gaga to Open VMAs, Patti Smith Movie + More

  August 19, 2011 – Lady Gaga stopped by MTV HQ Thursday afternoon with a special message: She'll deliver the opening performance at the Video Music Awards, which she announced by having fans, aka Little Monsters, unfurl a massive banner in New York's Times Square. "I thought as usual, instead of me announcing it, I'd let the Little Monsters do it for me," she said. …
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