• Hip Hop News: The Game, Drake, Big K.R.I.T., Jay Sean And More

    By Jonah Bayer • May 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM


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    Ne-Yo has come under heat for titling his upcoming album R.E.D. which is the same title as The Game’s last disc however he claims that he didn’t rip off the rapper. “No … I don’t feel like I ripped off The Game’s album,” he told TMZ, adding that his title stands for the phrase “realizing every dream.” (Apparently that dream doesn’t include coming up with an original album name.) “Until The Game comes up to me and says he has a problem with it, I don’t care what people think,” he added.

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    You probably already know that Travis Porter’s debut disc From Day 1 is dropping on May 29th but they’re the first to admit that they’re “nervous” about the release. Iin an interview with MTV News Strap explained, “It’s a lot of pressure working on your first album, leading up to the release, but we had so much fun putting the work into this album, being so creative, I feel like we won’t have nothin’ to worry about.”
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    If you haven’t heard Jay Sean’s collaboration with Pitbull on “I’m All Yours,” get ready for a summer jam worth writing home about. “It’s taking the modern movement of dance, which has obviously taken over the whole world, but I’m not putting it in the nightclub environment,”Jay Sean told MTV News. “The Pitbull collaboration actually happened in Australia, where we were on tour together, and you know, we’re all fans of each other. We got talking, like, ‘Man, we should do something.’ So we laid it out right there and then.”
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    Drake fans should know that the rapper  appears on a remixed version of DJ Drama’s hit “We In This Bitch.” “When you have a record like that and [you want] to add onto it, there’s not a lot of things you could do,” Drama told MTV News. “[Drake] came with a monster verse, [and he's] another young, fresh talent, somebody out here that I look at the same way I look at Meek, who’s really keeping hip-hop culture moving forward, so I felt it was only best.”
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    Similarly Tyga recently opened up about working with Big Sean on their collaboration “I’m Gone.” In a new interview with MTV News Tyga told the site, “When I made this record, I was just like, ‘Sean would be dope on this.’ The record was already done — that’s why Big Sean is at the end of it. We made the beat longer because I was just like, ‘Let’s just add him to it.’ ”
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    Finally Big K.R.I.T. has released the tracklisting for his album “Live From The Underground” and the disc which is out on June 5th will feature Melanie Fiona, 8Ball, MJG, 2 Chainz and Anthony Hamilton. However the biggest shocker is the fact that the album will also feature a cameo from  86-year-old blues legend BB King who collaborates with Big Krit on a song called “Praying Man.”
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