Hip Hop dance in Germany!

Check out this crew "B2D" at the 2006 German Hip Hop Championships. They placed 2nd.

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Jay-Z inks $150 MILLION deal with Live Nation

A couple of weeks ago, the internet was abuzz about Jay-Z looking for a $150 million deal for his new ventures. Well he got it!

Jay-Z is reportedly close to reaching a deal with Live Nation Inc. for a whopping $150 million that would give the concert promoter a stake in virtually every aspect of his career. According to reports from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, the deal would give the company a stake in everything from his music to his music-related business for 10 years.

In the arrangement, Jay-Z would get a $25 million upfront payment, plus advance payments of $10 million per album for a minimum of three albums and $25 million toward concert tours. Live Nation would also pay $20 million in exchange for publishing, licensing and other rights.Additionally, the company is expected to commit $50 million to finance Jay-Z's investments and entertainment venture, Roc Nation, which is rumored to include a record label, music publishing, talent consulting and managing projects."I've turned into the Rolling Stones of hip-hop," Jay-Z told the Times.Jay himself sees the deal as a way "to reach the consumer in so many different ways," and wants "to be on the front lines in that fight."Live Nation's most recent deals include agreements with Madonna and U2. (Ballerstatus)

MARIAH Beats ELVIS, the BEATLES are next!

Congrats are in store for pop diva Mariah Carey who just surpassed Elvis for the greatest number of #1 hit singles on the Billboard charts. She is now second to the Beatles who have 20. What does she have to say about her recent history-making accomplishment?

"I really can never put myself in the category of people who have not only revolutionized music but also changed the world," Carey told The Associated Press on Tuesday via phone from London. "That's a completely different era and time ... I'm just feeling really happy and grateful." Carey's single is the new No. 1 single on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart: The song also is No. 1 on the trade magazine's digital download chart thanks to a precedent-setting 286,000 downloads in its debut week.

Carey said being in such company was gratifying not only because of her personal success, but what it meant for women and minorities. "For me, in my mind the accomplishment is just that much sweeter," she said. "In terms of my ethnicity, always feeling like an outsider, always feeling different ... for me it's about saying, 'Thank you Lord, for giving me the faith to believe in myself when other people had written me off.'" (yahoo)

AZN-American Hip Hop!

...and ya'll might have thought that all American rappers were Black, Latino with an occaisional white dude. This is Korean American native New Yorker, Shogunna, who believes he is the best Asian rapper alive. I don't know about all that. He might have taken a page out of Lil' Wayne's book on that one, but you can check his flow for yourself. Definitely filled with NY flava.

Shouts to aznraps.com for this one. For mo' info on Shogunna, peep shogunna.com/

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Estelle Gets Lippy about HIV

British dahling Estelle stopped traffic in London as one of the spokepeople of the Get Lippy HIV and AIDS awareness campaign with The Body Shop and MTV. See the video here

I ain't mad at sistawoman gettin' paid to promote an important cause, (even though I don't use Lippy lip balm).

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50 Cent & G-Unit head to the Motherland!

50 Cent and G-Unit are teaming up with Virgin Mobile to put on two concerts in South Africa this May.

The whole camp is coming out for the "Virgin Mobile 50 Cent and G-Unit Tour," including Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. The crew is set to hit the Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg on May 1 and stop at the Belville Velodrome in Capetown on May 3.

Tickets for the concert - presented and produced by SABC 1, Showtime Productions and Virgin Mobile - are available at computicket.com.

G-Unit sophmore project Shoot to Kill is supposed to drop this summer. (Shouts to SOHH)

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Bey-Z Making it Official?

According to People, Jay-Z and Beyonce were recently issued a marriage license in New York. Too bad we know they probably got secretly married in the Caribbean already!

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Kanye's NEW Video

Homecoming

MARIAH DISSES UK RADIO JOCK?

It seems to be going oh so well and then boo ya kah - nothing. Take a listen

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