Ludacris continued his busy dual promo run with an appearance on The Ellen Show this week. The Atlanta-native sat down with Ellen DeGeneres to discuss his newly released Ludaversal album, getting married, and having a baby on the way. Later in the show, his Furious 7 co-star Vin Diesel introduced his performance of “Good Lovin” with singer Luke James, filling in for Miguel.

The rapper-actor also stopped by ESPN’s Highly Questionable with Bomani Jones and Dan LeBatard on Tuesday afternoon. Luda spoke on transitioning from working radio to becoming an artist, past issues with Bill O’Reilly, and planning a private wedding for his wife.

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From one great interview to another. With his new No. 1 album out and available to the masses, Kendrick Lamar is now on a promo run, to discuss anything and everything behind his major-label sophomore LP, To Pimp A Butterfly. Sitting down with MTV News’ Rob Markman in part one of their interview, the TDE MC breaks down records off the album and reveals the project was originally to be titled Tu Pimp A Caterpillar, with TU paying homage to Tupac Shakur.

“That was the original name and they caught it because the abbreviation was Tupac, Tu-P-A-C,” Lamar told MTV. “Me changing it to Butterfly, I just really wanted to show the brightness of life and the word pimp has so much aggression and that represents several things. For me, it represents using my celebrity for good. Another reason is, not being pimped by the industry through my celebrity.”

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Boosie Badazz drops another fire track called “No Juice.” Here, the Baton Rouge messiah cleverly calls out dudes who fake the funk on a daily basis. You know them. The guys in the club clamoring to another man’s table and bottles. We’ve all witnessed this. As Boosie says, “No Juice,” for you.

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Rick Ross returns with another MMG remix. After jumping on Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” earlier this month, the biggest boss heads to Texas. Houston’s Chedda Da Connect has been buzzing in recent months with his “Flicka Da Wrist” viral hit, so of course Rozay blesses the popular club track with a guest verse.

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As Tony Yayo celebrates his birthday today, the Queens rappers borrows another ’90s banger — this time from Black Moon. Over “Niguz Talk Shit” from their debut album, Enta Da Stage, Yayo talks about his views on today’s rappers, the changing climate of the streets and more.

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Azealia Banks gets on her ice princess ish in the latest video in support of her Broke With Expensive Taste album. Like a rap game Medusa, the Harlem MC unleashes her fury on mysterious flying objects in a CGI world. Judging by most of her tweets, she was made for this role.

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Future’s relentless street campaign in 2015 continues. Just days after dropping off the video for “F**k Up Some Commas” off last year’s Monster mixtape, the Freebandz CEO returns with another visual. Directed by Vincent Lou Film, Future smokes up, sits back and reflects in “March Madness.” Find it on his newly released 56 Nights mixtape with DJ Esco.

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Shortly after being announced as the headliner for this year’s Summer Jam, Kendrick Lamar sat down with the Hot 97 morning team earlier today for one of his first interviews since the release of To Pimp a Butterfly. Naturally, K. Dot delved straight into his new album, explaining what the butterfly in the storyline represents and the thinking behind that 2Pac interview, as well as reacting to the overwhelming critical acclaim (give it time before crowning it a “classic,” people).

But perhaps the juiciest tidbit of the conversation is that Kendrick and J. Cole are still looking to release that joint project. Eventually.

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Ever since Apple bought Beats for $3 billion, Forbes’ annual Hip-Hop Cash Kings list has become a cakewalk (no pun intended) for Dr. Dre (sorry, Hov and Puff). But what about the richest rookies in the game? Looking to mix it up a little bit, Forbes has announced the 2015 Hip-Hop Cash Princes.

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Cookin’ Soul laced Styles P and newcomer Blazin with some incredible ’70s influenced sounds for “True & Living.” Man, I’d love to hear C.S. and SP to do a whole album together. I bet Eskay is probably wildin’ at home off this.

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