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Best Posts of 2007
Interviews:
Real Talk with 50 Cent
Real Talk With Lupe Fiasco
Real Talk With The Sexy Angel aka Lola Luv
Ciara Celebrates Her 22nd Birthday
Real Talk With Juelz Santana: Discusses Hip Hop Police, Camron, T.I., & Peedi’s Diss

Discussions:
MTV’s List Of The 10 Hottest MCs In The Game
Top 5 Hip-Hop Lyricists
Who Is To Blame For The Most Hated Songs Getting The Most Play?
Who Do You See As The Future Of Rap?
If You Could Force One Rapper Into An Early Retirement, Who Would it Be?
Is It True That Nice Guys Finish Last?
Reader’s Responses To, “Black Women Hating On Kim Kardashian”
What Is The Last Album You Actual Paid Retail For?

Etc…
Recap Of Jay-Z’s Tenure As President Of Def Jam
Fabolous 30th Birthday Party Red Carpet
Jay-Z Shows NY What An American Gangster Is With The Help Of Lil Wayne, Diddy & The Roc
Cassidy Freestyles About God & The Bible
Clip Of Jay-Z/50/Kanye/Diddy/T.i. On Stage
Pictures From The Ozone Awards Weekend 2007
Tell Em Why You Mad: David Banner Addresses People Hating On The South
FunkMaster Flex Car/Bike Show 2007 Pictures
Fabolous, “From Nothin’ to Somethin’,” Listening Session

Part 1: 50 vs. Camron

50 Cent seemed to be the most talked about person in the hip hop industry this year for various reasons. From beef with Camron, a battle with Kanye West and rumors of making 400 million, 50 stayed in the headlines through out the year. RealTalkNY has made a recap on 50 Cent’s 2007, part 2 is below…

Real Talk With 50 Cent
50 Cent Responds To The GZA Dissing Him & Soulja Boy
50 Cent Comments On Beyonce’s Crotch, Jay-Z, Nas, Irv, Etc .
Audio: 50 Cent Talks Reckless About Jay-Z, Diddy, Lil Wayne, Nas & Kelis
Everything 50 Cent Related…

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RealTalkNY takes a look at 2007’s top music videos
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Street Knowledge/Cheap Thrills Prods. was in the house to capture Nas live and in rare form at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. The show presented by Live Nation and produced a sold-out and eager crowd, to see their favorite M.C. God’s Son aka Nas. After a warm-up performance by DJ Mister Cee and introduction by Funk Master Flex, Nas came out to the sounds blaring through the sound system of Marley Maul and was warmly greeted by his loyal fans. Nas started the show with the classic cut ” New York State of Mind” and continued to run through his catalog from the beginning of his career to his most recent album Hip hop is Dead. Briefly speaking on his most anticipated album to date, the still to be released “Nigger”, Nas promised the hip hop faithful that the album would be packed with thoughtful and controversial themes and that the title had mainstream Americas’s “panties in a bunch”.

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By Michael Partis

Hip Hop heads are some of the smartest, most varied people you’ll ever meet. You got the 80’s old-school cats who cling to KRS-One, Rakim, or Public Enemy as the greatest MC’s of all time (period), and keep the Five Percenters tradition alive. You get the Phillies and Backwood smoking, Hennessy & Baileys drinking, D.I.T.C, Canibus, Purple Tape (a.k.a Raekwon’s 1^st album for those not up on history) lovers from early to mid-1990’s. There’s the people like myself who came up on Vanilla Dutches being the number one choice, Cassidy killing Freeway, G-Unit mixtapes had the biggest buzz on the streets, DMX and Eminem being the most marketed rappers on the planet (damn, can you remember a time when DMX was Def Jam’s biggest star), and Ruff Ryders and Dipset being the crews holding down “the streets.” And finally you got the new Hip-Hop heads; a mix between cats who love Jim Jones & Dipset for they “swagger,” the Lil Wayne obsessed, the True Religion jean wearers, and new “backpackers” (the Lupe, Little Brother, Saigon, Brother Ali faithful) always ready to say “the real hip-hop is right here.”

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RealTalkNY’s recap of Jay-Z’s tenure as President of Def Jam. Featuring clips from LL Cool J, Beanie Sigel, Joe Budden, Jadakiss, and Redman. We first take a look at the mishaps and then the accomplishments.

50 Cent Deads Beef In Africa
Audio: 50 Cent Talks Reckless About Jay-Z, Diddy, Lil Wayne, Fat Joe, Ja-Rule, Nas & Kelis
Video Of 50 Cent Dissing Kanye
Offical Cam’ron vs 50 Cent Post

After a year of living under a “cloud of suspicion,” R&B singer Brandy has been officially cleared of any wrongdoing related to the fatal car accident she was involved in last year.

While the California Highway Patrol (C.H.P.) initially found Brandy responsible for Aboudihaj’s death, the L.A. City Attorney have decided not to file charges against her, according to TMZ. The accident, which occurred on the San Diego freeway on Dec. 30, 2006, has caused a lot of controversy for the singer.

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Video Interview with Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco Talks About His New Clothing Brand, “Fall Of Rome”
Video: Lupe Fiasco Speaks On Why He Doesn’t Spit Gangsta Lyrics
Album Review: Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool

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