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  Listen to Karmin's Excruciating Remix of Drake's 'Started From the Bottom'

  February 25, 2013 – Drake's new single "Started from the Bottom" is a thumb of the nose at his critics, an affirmation that, like Rick Ross, he can push his persona beyond its limitations and come out the other end even bigger. Of course, he can get away with this for a reason — the breadth of his artistic vision, as evidenced on his 2011 masterwork Take Care, allows him to blindingly feed his own mythology, however disingenuous he may be. …
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  Kendrick Lamar's Drake-Bolstered 'Poetic Justice' Video Will Tear Your Heart Out

  February 22, 2013 – Crucial to Kendrick Lamar's 2012 breakout album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, is the Compton rapper's keen grasp of setting. The sensual Janet Jackson song sampled on "Poetic Justice" led recent remixers Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip to recast the song as an endearingly goofy homage to the singer, who actually acted alongside the A Tribe Called Quest rapper in John Singleton film Poetic Justice. …
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  Drake and Chris Brown Trying to Stick Each Other With Nightclub Brawl Damages

  February 14, 2013 – Drake may have just settled one lawsuit, and Chris Brown's legal woes keep getting worse, but now the two Grammy winners are going after each other in court. TMZ reports that Drizzy and Breezy are each trying to blame the other for their infamous June 2012 brawl inside New York nightclub W.i.P.Romain Julien, a French male model who was present for the fight, has filed suit against Drake, Brown, and the venue for injuries he claims  …
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  Drake Closes the Door on 'Marvin's Room' Lawsuit

  February 11, 2013 – Drake may have celebrated his recent Grammy win for Best Rap Album with the outrageous video for his new origin-anthem "Started From the Bottom," but the 26-year-old rapper has another reason to gloat: TMZ reports that Drizzy has settled his lawsuit with Ericka Lee, the female vocalist who appeared on the hip-hop star's 2011 drunk-dial dirge "Marvin's Room."As SPIN previously noted, Lee claimed that Drake promised he …
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  Drake Toasts Grammy Win With 'Started From the Bottom' Video

  February 10, 2013 – Whatever you call Degrassi, Drake isn't on the bottom anymore. In fact, his auterish, storytelling-driven, R&B-shading Take Care just won the Grammy for Best Rap Album. …
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  Grammys 2013: Who Should Win the Big Categories

  February 7, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong (we'll get you yet, Esperanza Spalding!). …
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  Drake's 'Started From the Bottom': Sincere Trolling

  February 4, 2013 – Drake's new single, “Started From the Bottom,” released over the weekend, is slim. But that's the plan for big-time artists in the Internet era who are dropping return singles, it seems. You throw something underwhelming out there because there's no need to do better, let the buzz build (and oh, it will, regardless), and follow it up with something far more substantial when the stakes are higher later on. Call it the Beyonce model. …
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  Hear Drake Set His Origin Story Straight on 'Started From the Bottom'

  February 2, 2013 – Drake dropped a new song earlier than expected Friday night (February 1), following reports that he would hold it for Grammys night. Under three minutes and produced by Mike Zombie "Started From the Bottom" retreads the Young Money MC's not-so-easy coming up.Sinister piano and soft, spare drum fill out the back as Drizzy lets on that his childhood wasn't all teen dramas and hip-hop bar mitzvahs. …
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  Lil Wayne 'Baked' Up Two New Collabos and One Dumb Tattoo

  January 2, 2013 – So that's Lil Wayne's new face tattoo — the one that says "BAKED" — consider yourself enlightened, thanks to LilWayneHQ. Despite our initial theories, the, ahem, loaded word is not a reference to Weezy's unusual courtroom performance last September. …
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  Jay-Z, Coldplay, Nas, and Drake Had to Work on New Year's Eve

  January 2, 2013 – That New Year's Eve hangover may have faded, but we're still piecing together bits of the night's oversize celebrations. …
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