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In a surprising turn, three artists noted for their mixtape work have decided to release their next tapes for retail purchase. After last year’s So Far Gone by Drake attaining gold status, Amazon.com has revealed that impending mixtapes from Waka Flocka Flame, Vado and Joe Budden will all get a retail release.

Waka Flocka’s Flockaveli and Vado’s Slime Flu will be hitting shelves this October 5, while Joe Budden’s highly anticipated Mood Muzik 4: A Turn for the Worse gets an October 26 release. Both Slime Flu and Mood Muzik 4 will be released via E-1 Music, while Aylum Records will handle Flockaveli.

There is no word as to whether the three mixtapes will also be released for free download. All three mixtapes are currently available for pre-order at Amazon.com

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Platinum Producer Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys celebrated their new marriage today (July 31st) during an intimate ceremony aboard a 260-foot yacht on the Mediterranean Sea.

Miss Info reports that Swizz and Alicia were married earlier this week in the United States, before heading to the exclusive resort Costa Smeralda.

According to reports, a handful of family and friends were on hand to celebrate the marriage, in addition to Keys’ pregnancy.

Swizzy, born Kasseem Dean, celebrated two bachelor parties as well, according to Miss Info. In addition to celebrating in New York, the producer partied on Friday (July 30th) at Sardinia’s exclusive Billionaire Club.

Alicia Keys wore a Vera Wang gown during the celebration, while Swizz wore a suit made by Tom Ford.

The singer, 29, who is pregnant, and the producer, 31, exchanged vows in front of close family and friends in a private home on the Mediterranean Sea.

Their friend Dr. Deepak Chopra presided over the intimate ceremony.

Keys wore an ivory silk, georgette-draped Vera Wang goddess gown with jewel detail on the back shoulder.

She carried a bouquet of purple calla lilies. The groom donned a classic Tom Ford tuxedo.

“Wowwwwwwwwww,” Beatz (real name: Kasseem Dean) Twittered Saturday. He later wrote, “It’s a brand new day I feel like Nas and Diddy song love y’all and blessing!”

Drake held his first annual Ovo (October’s Very Own) Festival in conjunction with Blackberry yesterday (Aug. 1) in his hometown of Toronto, Canada, and took the term “putting on for his city” to another level. Aside from performing a slew of his own hits, Drake brought out the best of the best in hip-hop, including Jay-Z, Eminem, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, Bun B and Fabolous for the inaugural event.

Despite the stellar acts preceding Drake, there was no doubt who the audience had come to see when he took the stage. Opening up with “9 am in Dallas”, backed by a killer band and 16,000 fans, October’s Very Own tore through mixtape obscurities and album singles to equal crowd acclaim.

Rick Ross was brought out for “Blowin’ Money Fast”, while Drake stood grinning behind him, in as much awe as his audience. Kardinal Offishall came out for “Ol’ Time Killin’”, Fabolous came out for “Throw It In The Bag”, and Young Jeezy joined in for “Unforgettable”. But in between the features is where Drake really shone. Although, in typical Canadian style, he is too bashful to admit it, his recent success is all his own. Songs like “Fireworks” and “Best I Ever Had” drew deafening applause based on his showmanship and his borderline-neurotic need to please his fans.

He had the audience in the palm of his hand and hanging on his every word. Just as he was telling his crowd that he wanted this concert to last “Forever”, he took the evening to its apex. Eminem came out for a dead-on recitation of his verse on the Boi-1da-produced single. Jay-Z came out minutes later for “Run This Town”, causing the man sitting beside me not only to jump out of his chair, but almost over the chair in front of him.

Closing out the night solo with “Over”, Drake yelled “point the biggest skeptic out, I’ll make him a believer” with a ferocity that assured you it wasn’t just bravado.

I’ve been reading a couple of early reviews from The Toronto Star and Eye Weekly that chalked up Drake’s dramaturgy to a swollen ego and famous friends. What they are quick to call ego, is actually pride. Pride in his city and the level of recognition he has finally been able to bring to it. Could Maestro Fresh Wes have brought this much platinum to Toronto for just one night? This is something Toronto has been working towards for decades, and the Forest Hill superstar knows he is on stage because of the people that came before him. He’s as a humble as the first Canadian hip-hop artist to go platinum in the United States and Canada can be.

Drake may be on voice rest for a couple days, following one of the loudest shows I’ve ever been to and what is sure to have been one hell of an after-party, but he’ll get his voice back. And as long as Toronto’s finest keeps reminding himself of the city that made him, he’ll continue to make Toronto proud and grow as hip-hop’s furthest reaching voice today.

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Lil Wayne isn’t the only one in the Young Money camp with legal troubles, as Drake is now being sued by Playboy Enterprises.
According to misstilaomg.com, the suit accuses Drake, Cash Money, and Universal of Copyright Infringement. Specifically, the song sampled at the beginning of Drake’s hit song, “Best I Ever Had,” is allegedly property of Playboy Music, Inc. and Playboy Enterprises.
The song in question is “Fallin’ In Love,” by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Dennison/Reynolds. The suit claims that the defendants “knew or should have reasonably known, that the sound recording was protected by copyright…” and that “each Defendant continues to infringe upon Plaintiff’s rights in and to the copyrighted sound recording.”
The goal of the suit is to get the court to issue an injunction, which mean the defendants would be forced to stop selling/distributing the song, and to stop profiting from it. In addition, the Drake and the others would be required to account for all profits, gains and advantages made from the song, and pay costs and attorney’s fees.
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After lying low the last six months or so following last September’s MTV VMAs debacle when he foolishly interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech, Kanye West is finally ready to show his face in public again as he’s—drum roll please—been tapped to open the 10th Annual BET Awards on Sunday, E! News has learned exclusively.

Where’s Beyoncé when we need her?

The “Jesus Walks” rapper will perform his new single “Power,” the song that was leaked to the Internet last month in which he dissed Saturday Night Live (”F–k SNL and the whole cast/Tell ‘em Yeezy said they can kiss my whole ass”).

“Power” also suggests West is finally getting a grip on his out of control ego—at least by his standards. (”Now I embody every characteristic of the egotistic/He know, he so, f—kin’ gifted/I just needed time alone, with my own thoughts/Got treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault”). He performed the tune at a show earlier this month to benefit his Kanye West Foundation as well.

The stage-crashing hip-hopster, whose new album Good Ass Job is expected to drop in the fall, has two nominations: one for Best Collaboration with Lil’ Wayne and Eminem and another for Video of the Year with Jay-Z and Rihanna.

Queen Latifah will emcee the BET ceremony, which will air live on the cable channel from Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditiorium this Sunday.

Other performers include Slim Shady, Alicia Keys, Usher, Drake, Trey Songz, Dirty Money, and Nicki Minaj. Organizers are also planning a tribute to mark the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death.

DRAKE

Drizzy Drake received nods for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist and Best Collaboration for “Successful” with Trey Songz and “Forever” featuring Eminem, Kanye West and Lil Wayne. He’s also nominated three times as part of Young Money.

JAY-Z

Young Hov leads the pack with five nominations. His “Empire State of Mind” will be competing in the Video of the Year, Best Collaboration and Viewers’ Choice categories. He’s also nominated for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist in addition to picking up a second nod for “Run this Town” in Best Collaboration

NICKI MINAJ

In addition to being nominated for Best New Artist and Best Female Rap Artist, Ms. Minaj has three nominations with Young Money.

TREY SONGZ

Trey’s career year continues with four nods, including two Best Collaborations, Best R&B Male Artist and Viewers’ Choice.

BEYONCE

Fresh off dominating the Grammys, Beyonce’s nominated for Best Female R&B artist, the Viewers’ Choice Award for “Sweet Dreams” and Best Collaboration and Video of the Year for “Video Phone” with Lady Gaga.

ALICIA KEYS

A. Keys is nominated for Best Female R&B Artist and three times for her feature on Jigga’s “Empire State of Mind.”

MELANIE FIONA

Though a newcomer, Melanie Fiona will be competing with the big dogs on the big day. Aside from being nominated in the Best New Artist category, she’ll also be competing for Best Female R&B Artist, Video of the Year and Centric Award.

FABOLOUS

Fab’s nominated for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist and for Best Collaboration and Viewers’ Choice for his appearance on Trey Songz’s “Say Ahh.”

YOUNG MONEY

The game’s hottest crew is being rewarded for their efforts. YM is nominated for Viewers’ Choice, Best Group and Best New Artist.

RIHANNA

RiRi’s nominated for Best Female R&B Artist, Best Collaboration for her part in Jay-Z’s “Run This Town” and Viewers’ Choice for “Hard” featuring Young Jeezy.

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Bun B knows he has an angel in his corner, with Pimp C looking down on him from up above. And Bun smiles as he talks about a record off of his upcoming LP, Trill O.G. The song features Pimp, Trey Songz and the late Tupac Shakur. The Port Arthur, Texas, legend says that it feels like a higher power intervened allowing the cut “Right Now” to come to fruition.

“I don’t know, the big man was with us on this one,” Bun said of his late UGK partner, Pimp C, earlier this week in New York.

“It was a song that was originally recorded in one version for a Tupac tribute album. Whatever reason, it didn’t make the [Tupac] album and ended up getting locked up in a vault. Somebody opened up the vaults and was like, ‘We got this record y’all did. Do you still want the record?’ We put some new music on top of it to get it back to a fresher feeling and give it more of a party vibe. When you listen to it, it really was a party record. [Producer] Steve Below put a real good beat behind it. I went in and did a fresh verse, got a new hook to it.

“I always knew we would have to get somebody new to sing the hook because that ain’t my job. I’m an MC. We called up the young boy Trey, he was more than happy to fit us in his hectic schedule. He was getting ready to go out on the [Blueprint 3] Tour. He worked it out for us. I think we put together something people are going to be playing for a long time.”

Bun said the track also captures his UGK partner’s essence.

“Anybody that knows Pimp’s personality, this is classic Pimp C — definitely talking about the ladies, definitely talking about getting money,” Bun said. “Same thing with Tupac; to me, this is the ‘Let Me See It’ Pimp C-meets-the ‘I Get Around’ Tupac. It’s a fun time had on this record. I think a lot of people will have a good time when they hear it. The craziest thing about this record is when you think about it, Tupac’s verse is from the ’90s. Pimp C’s verse is from the 2000s. My verse is from 2010. We got a song that spans across three decades and is just coming out now. And it’s gonna crush anything that’s out there. It sounds like we all literally came out the booth yesterday. It feels natural.”

With such storied careers, it’s easy to imagine UGK and Tupac would’ve collaborated while Pimp and ‘Pac were still around, but oddly, Bun said they didn’t cross paths.

“We never got to meet ‘Pac,” Bun said. ” ‘Pac got our album, I believe Edi [from the Outlawz] was saying, maybe two weeks before he passed away. Scarface gave Tupac the UGK Ridin’ Dirty album. ‘Pac went to Edi and said, ‘I don’t know who these dudes is’ — this is what Edi is telling us — ‘but they gonna be down with us. They talking about the same thing we talking about. These dudes is gonna be down with us, they on the same thing we on.’ It was crazy because Edi told us [Tupac] got the album and he was listening to it. And in one week, he lost two cousins. ‘One Day’ was a big record for him. Literally, one day [his cousins] were here, the next day they were gone. That [song] was something that helped them get through what he was going through at the time.”

Trill O.G. comes out August 3, and besides features from ‘Pac and Pimp, Young Jeezy, Drake, Gucci Mane, LeToya Luckett, Yo Gotti and the aforementioned Trey Songz all appear on the LP.