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  Drake, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross Pretend It's 1996 for 'No New Friends' Video

  June 10, 2013 – Cash Money Records isn't at its peak in 2013, but don't tell that to Drake, Lil Wayne, Birdman, Rick Ross, and DJ Khaled. The new Colin Tilley-directed video (via In Flex We Trust) for "No New Friends" — featured on Khaled's forthcoming album — is an explicit throwback to '90s opulence and pre-HD aesthetics, a large portion of it shot through a camcorder timestamped May 15, 1996. …
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  Poor Decision-Makers Rick Ross, Wale, and Lupe Fiasco Rap About 'Poor Decisions'

  June 4, 2013 – The rapping gentlemen amassed for the new Maybach Music Group single "Poor Decisions" should each know a thing or two about that song's titular subject.Rick Ross likely lost a few million dollars in future income after rhyming about rape on "U.O.E.N.O." On the other hand, Wale recently got into it with a basketball announcer who foolishly chose to insult the D.C.-based MC. …
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  The 40 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2013 So Far

  June 3, 2013 – Thanks to Baauer's "Harlem Shake," a phony-baloney, Google-bomb banger forced down our throats, 2013 will go down as the year the major labels and kinda-like-a-big-deal tastemakers cracked the Internet buzz-machine code. …
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  No Trivia's Rap Songs of the Week: Trinidad James Adds to the 'U.O.E.N.O.' Convo

  May 30, 2013 – Disclosure "Grab Her!"J. Dilla is the Arthur Russell of hip-hop: A slept-on, productive genre-hopper while he was alive who has proven to be immensely influential in death. Dilla's influence on the strange non-rap sounds of chillwave or Soundcloud dance, and just his warm, do-whatever, sample-whatever spirit loom large. It's a beautiful thing. On "Grab Her!," from U.K. …
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  Download the Birdman-Rick Ross Collaborative Album No One Needed

  May 23, 2013 – Rappers have a history of announcing collaborative albums that will almost certainly never happen: The-Dream and Kanye, Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana, Drake and Rick Ross. Ross and Birdman were once in that category, too, until they decided to drop an old album titled The H: The Lost Album, Vol. 1 today as a free mixtape. If rap mixtapes could be carbon-dated it sounds like this one would turn up as having been formed in 2009. …
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  20 Dope Albums By Wack Rappers

  May 23, 2013 – In celebration of French Montana, Ace Hood, Rocko, and other names we never would have imagined showing up on a best of anything list, here's our look back at some of our favorite guilty pleasures, rhyme wreckers, sucker MCs, and suspect spitters who made albums we love anyway. …
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  The 'U.O.E.N.O.' Rape Rap Controversy One Month Later

  May 23, 2013 – "This shit sound crazy!" That's rapper Future, on the intro to Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O.," off the latter Atlanta rapper's mixtape Gift of Gab 2, released in February. …
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  Rick Ross' Belated Apology for 'U.O.N.E.O.' Could Cost Him Millions

  April 17, 2013 – To think, if Rick Ross had issued that eloquent actual apology three weeks ago instead of claiming/exemplifying ignorance over the exact parsing of the word "rape" — or, Bawse forbid, his own sense of decency kicked in before he recorded his offending "U.O.N.E.O" couplet — the Maybach music CEO could be a few million dollars richer. …
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  Rick Ross Belatedly Releases Implausibly Perfect Apology

  April 12, 2013 – Rick Ross' recent case study in failed crisis management has reached the "overdue apology" phase."To every woman that has felt the sting of abuse, I apologize," Rozay said in a statement issued today, as quoted by Salon. "I recognize that as an artist I have a voice and with that, the power of influence. …
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  Rick Ross' 'U.O.E.N.O.' Rape Rap Gets Him Kicked Off Reebok Campaign

  April 11, 2013 – Reebok has officially dropped Rick Ross' endorsement deal following public outcry over Rozay's rape-condoning lyric on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O.""Reebok holds our partners to a high standard, and we expect them to live up to the values of our brand. Unfortunately, Rick Ross has failed to do so," the company said in a statement (via TMZ). …
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