Mikey: With BISD in stores now, Fif is taking his wit and charisma all over late night television. Tuesday night it was Conan and last night, Fifty did Jimmy Kimmel performing “Do You Think About Me”, which is one of the few tracks off BISD where Curtis talks openly about his past  relationships with the opposite sex, “It’s like Paul McCartney stuck in my head, fell in love with a b-tch walked away with one leg.” (props to Yardie)

(Jimmy Kimmel interview, Conan O’Brien, and Yahoo Maximum appearances after the jump)

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Mikey: Last night, Jay-Z and Young Jeezy joined Rihanna on stage at her show in Brixton, London. Peep RiRi and Young Jeezy performing “Hard” after the jump. (props to Team Supreme)

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Diddy Performing/Partying At Quo For Obie Of Motion Ent Ann Bash Part 2 from Whatspoppin TV on Vimeo.

Diddy’s birthday was Nov. 4th, and my What’sPoppin.net boys sent over this clip of Puff partying at Quo the other night…Back in the day, I remember Puff would celebrate his born day with Princess Fergie and Martha Stewart and the like, at his annual gala. This year, he toasted himself by dropping trou and dancing bare legged.
*scratches head*

Well, variety is the spice of life.

More footage of Puff’s performance after the jump…He was in sore need of a belt from the get…

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Here’s a twit pic from Vanessa/Amprgroup who had a great seat at last night’s Jay-Z concert in Los Angeles. Along with bringing out Rihanna for her new single, Hov was also joined by J.Cole, and Pharrell (NERD was the opener). (thanks to Ill for the heads up)

This clip is from the nosebleeds, is there anything closer?

(video of “Run this Town” after the jump)

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R.Kelly devoted time to tribute Michael Jackson onstage at the Los Angeles stop of his “Ladies Make Some Noise” tour. No surprise because Kels wrote “You are not alone” and more for MJ. Along with showing that awesome clip of director Brett Ratner and Michael Jackson rockin’ R.Kelly’s “Ignition” in a car…Kels also shared some kind of new MJ-tribute song…

Thanks to Rap-Up for the R.Kelly concert coverage, more of their video clips after the jump…Also, there’s a hilarious write-up of the R.Kelly NYC show by NYMag’s Vulture Blog (spotted on FakeShoreDrive)…
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(spotted on Mr. X’s XclusivesZone)

UPDATE: here’s more footage from last night’s epic Red Bull Big Tune Battle of the Beats event at Opera in Atlanta. Jadakiss performed, and aspiring producers battled for the chance to collaborate with a major artist (last year’s winner, C-Sick, got his track laced by Nas)….then Alchemist and Just Blaze went beat for beat in a friendly “beat-off” (lol, ok, that didn’t sound right)

Look how happy the whole crowd is! Now this is one of those perfect hip hop moments. I remember how fun Swizz Beats vs. Kanye West was at Summerjam a couple years ago. This is even better.
I can’t wait for more footage of this to come out (hit me if you see any), looked amazing!

(read more about Red Bull Big Tune here, and on one of the finalists here)

UPDATE: More footage from the beat battle after the jump…

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(Jay Electronica “Exhibit C”)

Mikey: Sure, Jay Electronica is a dope emcee, but tonight I also learned that he’s joker and a talker… and a drinker lol. With Jack D in hand, Jay took the stage for the Red Bull “Live From Somewhere” show at Santos in NYC to perform for his hardcore blog-built fan base…. Jay E brought out fellow New Orleans native Curren$y and the legendary Pete Rock, and also called out his famous homies (he tried to charge everyone’s bar tab to Paul Rosenberg, and stuck up for Dame Dash, who was being heckled). But besides all the drunken banter, Jay E. spit freestyles, rocked “Google Eyes”, and, of course, “Exhibit C” (which was restarted 4 times because of sound difficulties).

Bonus: download full audio from the  Jay Electronica “Secret Show” in NYC (props to KQuick and GrandGood)

(More clips after the jump)

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um….I had this clip playing while also keeping one eye on the SyFy vintage “V” marathon. But then I had to mute the TV when Beanie started veering off with a wild comparison between him and Jay-Z’s relationship to that of New Jack City’s Nino Brown and Gee Money (and even Tony Montana vs Manolo)…

“Hold up, can I get a lil’ silence in here…..when you looked at that movie, New Jack City…all G-Money was trying to do was prove his loyalty to Nino…and G-Money was the one who brought Nino the crack amd told him this is the new s–t….but then Nino treated G-money like he was a worker instead of a partner and a friend. The ‘world is mine,’ you remember that s–t? I put you onto this s–t. When you watch that, you see G-Money crying out! At the end of the movie, Nino shoulda never killed G-Money. Just like Scarface shoulda never killed Manolo…”

According to this, there is a DVD dropping tomorrow as well…

Update: Paul Cantor wrote an interesting analysis on the Beanie vs Jay-Z melodrama too

Mikey: Last Thursday, Snoop came to the Big Apple and rocked the Nokia Theatre with  Method Man & Redman setting things off. Looks like it was a smokin’ good time (ha), props to  Spotcoffee & Wrong Crowd for the footage.

(Method Man & Redman and more Snoop after the jump)

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