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Jay-Z calls himself the best rapper alive, and he’s made a cool half billion dollars off his talent — but when it comes to giving money to the charity he founded, he’s recently been more of a nickel-and-dime kind of guy.

The Daily reports, the hip-hop artist gave just $6,431 to his own charity in 2010, a year in which he earned an estimated $63 million, according to tax records for the Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund.

His superstar wife, Beyoncé, made in the neighborhood of $87 million, according to a Forbes estimate — yet she didn’t give her husband’s foundation a dime.
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Amazon today announced a video deal with Viacom, Inc. which will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream TV shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo. The deal increases the total number of Prime Instant Videos to more than 15,000, the company reports. In December, there were 13,000 movies and TV shows available, so it’s a moderate increase in terms of quantity, but a big step in terms of Amazon becoming a more viable Netflix competitor. Read More


Checkout the trailer for Ricky Rozay’s next visual for Yella Diamonds, off his latest mixtape “Rich Forever”.

Directed by Dre Films


Directed by Mr. Boomtown

Too $hort drops an official video for “Hey” featuring Silk-E, off his upcoming album “No Trespassing” which drops February 28th.

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You can check out the 25 nominees below, and stay tuned to GWOP as we’ll keep you updated with their numbers 10-6 next week and the remaining 5 on February 19th at 10:30pm on MTV2. We may even drop our top 10 GWOP MC list so stay tuned….

2 Chainz
50 Cent
Big Sean
Common
Drake
Eminem
Fabolous
French Montana
Jadakiss
JAY-Z
Jim Jones
Kanye West
Lil Wayne
Lloyd Banks
Maino
Meek Mill
Nas
Nicki Minaj
Red Café
Rick Ross
T.I.
Wale
Wiz Khalifa
Yelawolf
Young Jeezy


Cousin Bang comes by to visit Flea, to pay him a visit on a “bet” that they made OVER THE GIANTS VS PATRIOTS…..

COUSIN BANG™ COMING REAL SOON……

@MR_CAMRON

@COUZINBANG

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Completing the One World Trade Center will cost $3.8 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports, making it “by far” the most expensive building in the world.
The new estimate, which includes construction-cost overruns and a decision by the Port Authority to now include leasing expenses in its public numbers, is up from a previous estimate of $700 million.

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Singer M.I.A. gives everyone the middle finger during her SuperBowl Halftime performance along with Pop icon, Madonna and rapper Nicki Minaj. Although we rather see Nicki Minaj’s breast pop out do to a wardrobe malfunction, M.I.A.’s gesture was pretty cool, nonetheless. Checkout her latest video “Bad Girls”
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Curren$y drops a 5 track EP titled “Here” at Halftime on Sunday Bowl Sunday. Download after the jump.
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