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  We're No. 1! U.S. Tops Illegal Downloads List, Drake Is Most Pirated Artist

  September 17, 2012 – Pound your chest in pride, 'Muricans! The U.S. has topped the list of the 20 most prolific file-sharing countries, with 96.6 million illegal downloads moved via peer-to-peer client BitTorrent in the first half of 2012, according to a report by music trend aggregator Musicmetric and published by the BBC. …
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  Frank Ocean, Miguel, and Holy Other Usher in PBR&B 2.0

  August 22, 2012 – Something happened last year to R&B, something more radical than most of us realized. …
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  Nightclub Wants Chris Brown and Drake to Pay Up $16 Million

  August 15, 2012 – When Drake and Chris Brown and their respective entourages got into an infamous brawl at a New York nightclub in June, the dispute allegedly began when someone threw a bottle. At least five bystanders were injured, as well as Breezy, though Drake seemed to come out unscathed. …
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  Aaliyah's Posthumous LP Really in the Works, Other Details Anybody's Guess

  August 10, 2012 – You might be aware that on Sunday, Drake posted a new song featuring his own vocals over a previously unreleased Aaliyah recording, with production by the Canadian rapper-singer's usual partner Noah "40" Shebib. …
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  Hear Aaliyah's Posthumous Drake Team-Up 'Enough Said'

  August 6, 2012 – Leave it to one of Aaliyah's biggest fans to handle a new song from the late R&B artist tastefully. Drake, who has a tattoo of the "Are You That Somebody?" singer on his back and sampled her for his 2010 Thank Me Later track "Unforgettable," joins Aaliyah on "Enough Said," which Drake posted ahead of his hometown OVO Fest in Toronto on Sunday. …
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  Full Made In America Lineup Announced: Drake, Run-DMC, Chris Cornell Added

  July 31, 2012 – In the months since Jay-Z announced he would be curating the Made in America Festival in Philadelphia, which takes place Labor Day weekend and is intended to "embody the American spirit," he's put together an lineup as eclectic as America itself (or at least its hipper enclaves), including co-headliner Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Odd Future and more. …
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  Your 2012 MTV VMAs Nominees Are... Mostly Rihanna and Drake

  July 31, 2012 – Cementing the fact Rihanna seems to have been everywhere over the past year or so, the pop star has tied Drake as the most-nominated artist for the 28th installment of MTV's Video Music Awards. Both artists received five nods each, but if you count the vids Rihanna is featured in, including "Take Care" with Drake, she's nominated 11 times. Katy Perry comes in just behind them with four nominations. …
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  Polaris Prize 2012 Short List: SPIN's Guide to the 10 Key Acts

  July 17, 2012 – After announcing its long list last month, Canada's Polaris Prize jurors have whittled the pool down to ten native acts whose recent albums deserve short-list status for the $30,000 award that commends each year's "best album based solely on artistic merit without regard to sales or genre." When the list was released today, we realized we've weighed in on almost all of them, so consider this a SPIN User's Guide to the 2012 Polaris Prize …
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  No Trivia's Top 50 (Mostly Rap) Songs of the Year So Far

  July 5, 2012 – Ubiquitous major-label last great hope 2 Chainz makes four appearances on this list. None of those appearances are on any of his own songs, though he is a nice addition to each and everyone of them, particularly "Beez In The Trap," where he mentions Nicki Minaj's "doo-hickey." But this is just the story of major-label rap music this year: A whole lot of nothing you didn't ask for, to get to that something you actually want to hear. …
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  NBA's Tony Parker Sues NYC Club for Letting Chris Brown and Drake Mingle

  June 22, 2012 – In an apparent attempt to render the Dreezygate fiasco even more ridiculous, San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker is actually suing the club where Drake and Chris Brown's crews incited one of the most frivolously dramatic hip-hop beefs in recent memory by starting a bottle fight that injured a handful of bystanders — for $20 million. According to TMZ, the suit alleges negligence on behalf of the W.i.P.'s security and claims  …
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