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YG
“Toot It & Boot It”

Clean Version: http://limelinx.com/files/78eaf97bcc29d339a53bffaddabb1b73
Dirty Version: http://limelinx.com/files/dd1f430b142a86ee6a519c152c043eb4
Instrumental: http://limelinx.com/files/c9c8590068c2d9550580ee678a99fe1f
DJ’s this is the debut record from YG who comes to you from Compton out on the west coast and recently signed to Def Jam.

Chrisette Michele has been chosen as the opening act for Maxwell’s anticipated tour in support of the recently released and anticipated album “Blacksummers’night”.
Michele, riding high on the Billboard 200 Albums charting #1 album “Epiphany,” will tour with Maxwell through fourteen cities starting July 12.
According to organizers, Michele will join Maxwell at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium [...]

Ginuwine
A Man’s Thoughts
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Review
2009 release, the sixth album from the R&B vocalist. A Man’s Thoughts was produced by The Underdogs, B Cox, Timberland, The Runners, Johnta Austin, Oak and Polow Da Don. The album includes guests appearances from Brandy, Missy Elliott, Bun B and Timberland.
1. Interlude
2. Show Off
3. Trouble [Feat. Bun B]
4. Last Chance
5. Interlude
6. [...]

Usher’s ongoing divorce is already getting deep, just days after documents were filed in Georgia.
According to revealing documents obtained Tuesday, Usher wants a copy of nearly everything his soon to be ex-wife Tameka Foster-Raymond has touched — including cards, letters and personal notes written over the course of their 22 month marriage.
In the Grammy [...]

Chart-topping Def Jam star Jeremih just unveiled the steamy video for his rising single “Birthday Sex” and it’s a winner.
Taken from his soon to be released self-titled debut, “Birthday Sex” finds Jeremih singing “you say you want passion, I think you found it” before blazing the signature hook “Girl you know I…”
In related news, Jeremih’s [...]

The-Dream

Barely a year out from the release of his Def Jam artist debut, the-Dream returns Dec. 16 with his sophomore set, “Love vs. Money.” “In the beginning I was just having fun. I didn’t want people thinking too hard, I just wanted them to gravitate toward my lyrics,” the-Dream tells Billboard.com. “But this time my [...]

Hip-hop performer and entrepreneur Jay-Z and Norwegian songwriting/production duo Stargate have joined forces under the StarRoc banner, which will encompass a record label and music publishing company under Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture with Live Nation.
According to the principals, “the focus is to find new talent and develop artists through mutually beneficial global partnerships which include [...]

Well here it is. The much talked about XXL Mag interview with Foxy Brown’s tearful confession about Jay-Z the Camel:
“A lot of things have happened over the years between Jay and I,” she says of the man who signed her to a multimillion-dollar deal at Def Jam in 2005, nine years after their classic duet [...]

During the first week of July, Nas’ controversial untitled album leaked onto the Internet ahead of its July 15 release date via Def Jam.
But Nas’ business partner Anthony Saleh shrugs it off.
“I don’t think the leak has hurt Nas in any way,” he says, adding that leaks have “helped those who have delivered on [...]

Veteran rapper LL Cool J is gearing up to release his final album on Def Jam, the label he helped turn into a hip-hop powerhouse more than 20 years ago.
“Exit 13,” set for release on July 18, marks the follow-up to 2006’s “Todd Smith,” which sold a disappointing 335,000 copies in the United States, [...]

50 Cent–real name Curtis Jackson–has today (September 17) blamed Kanye West’s record label Def Jam for yesterday’s chart defeat, saying Def Jam had been “rigging” sales.

The two rivals were battling it out for number one in the charts–with West’s Graduation beating 50 Cent’s Curtis.
West’s single “Stronger” has also beaten 50 Cent’s “Ayo Technology” in the [...]

 
Before 2007 is out, Eve, Missy Elliott, Foxy Brown, Trina, Shawnna and Remy Ma should have new albums in stores, setting the stage for a banner year in the world of female rap. For the long-suffering genre, that would mean that more than two or three titles could finish in the top 100 of Billboard’s [...]