Looks like someone had a long look in the mirror and decided it was time to strike back? Five days in and three G-Unit disses by Young Buck… by the time the week is over he may not need Game.

Yeah, yeah, we know… it’s a little tardy and maybe even irrelevant, but why not? Go there homie.

Get yours and even if 50 doesn’t let you out of that contract, at least you let him know EXACTLY how you feel about him!

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Fresh off a year where he was found out and ‘begging for mercy,’ Young Buck sets off 2010 with a pair of G-Unit disses. The first, “Happy New Year,” was presumably released as the Apple dropped and “Steroids,” the newer diss, surfaced closer to the end of the weekend.

It could be an act of desperation in an attempt to resuscitate his career, or he could really mean what he’s saying. The bad thing is, most people don’t really care anymore.

Cold thing about it is “Steroids” is actually a decent diss. Nice beat, well orchestrated bars, great energy, concept, etc. He seems to have generated a decent amount of interest, but dude really can’t win in the long run.

Buck kinda did himself in with that long ass message whimpering about how he fucked up… before we know it they’ll be claiming he’s bi-polar like the boy Game.

They really should do a Fuck G U-Not album together.

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Yesterday news broke of a beef with between Royce Da 5′9″ and Benzino that had been stewing for awhile.

Turns out there is little to no beef – unless Royce wants it -  says Zino.

The former SOURCE owner apparently reached out to Slaughterhouse for an interview and the group turned HHW down because Kim Osorio is the wife of Royce’s manager (or some shit like that).

According to this timeline from 57th Ave, Royce shot the first bullet, Benzino bucked back… and is willing to go the distance if need be.

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Is it really all that damn serious?
Words: Mario “2Tyme” Hankton

I am watching a tube video of R. Kelly mildly expressing irritation at some of today’s artist’s lack of respect and integrity. It made news about a week or so ago, but the content therein had been brewing for some time. Ironic how history repeats itself… Seems like just the other day Kells was unseating Aaron Hall as the new R&B King…

The irony of his personal troubles and his professional opinion are too something to marvel, but the reality is, he’s made some tracks (pun intended) during his reign. Then I immediately think about the age old first person musical argument. “YALL aint nothin! without David Ruffin!”

Artists, or their supporters, have been exclaiming themselves as the savior of music in one way or the other since the inception of the art form. It was a method of marketing one’s ability or sales potential and in other ways it’s just that good old ID (see Sigmund Freud).

Rappers are notorious, or should I say N.O.T.O.R.I.O.U.S, for committing first person acts of “big timing.” Don’t even think for a millisecond that this is unique to Hip Hop and R & B, or that fighting through sound just started. I won’t even take you all the way back to Africa for that.

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It’s been months since Trey Songz dropped attempted to ether R. Kelly with his own rendition of “D.O.A.” and as he prepares to make his own push, for his own album, Kellz is finally responding.

He doesn’t go so far as to actually say dude’s name, but he does reference the new generation of R&B thugs.

“You cannot give your opinion and talk about someone who’s done what they’ve done in this industry; which is change the industry and brought a new genre of music and ideas to the industry and still doin’ it,” he says. “You don’t do that. It’s like tryna throw a rock on top of the SEARS Tower.”

He suggests toward the end of this exclusive with DJ Skee that he would never question the artisitc choices of any of his predecessors -Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway and others among them. In essence, any artist attempting to go at him is more or less disrespecting the process that has taken years to materialize as it is today.

“Fortunately I am smart enough and I am wise enough that I don’t need to retaliate to sell my album, to be a better man a bigger man, or a tougher guy,” Kellz says before ending his spill. “I don’t need to retaliate to do any of that. And besides, elephants don’t swat flies.”

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