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Snoopy Dogg
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Maybe murder isn’t the case after all? Eleven solo albums into his career, Snoop Dogg insists that fans have yet to see the real him, but on his next album, he hopes to change all of that. “It’s a project where it’s more about the element of surprise, but at the same time it’ll be talked about in due time,” Snoop told News this weekend at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. “It’s special; it’s a real special project to me because it’s like the reincarnation and the birth of me becoming who I really am.”

Drake
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It seems as if Drake is experiencing a bit of growing pains. On his 2009 Trey Songz-assisted single “Successful,” the then-burgeoning star rapped about his yearn for the spotlight, and now that he has it, he’s having a bit of difficulty adjusting, he tells GQ Magazine. “I’m trying to find the same feelings that I had for women when I had very little going on, which is tough.

Rapper Coolio
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Rapper Coolio, real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr., is seen in a booking photo March 9, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Coolio was arrested for two outstanding misdemeanor warrants for traffic violations after the car he was riding in was pulled over during a routine traffic stop. It’s the same place that his son Grtis is incarcerated for allegedly robbing someone at gunpoint.

Jah Rule
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Ja Rule fans may have enjoyed last week’s radio interview from behind bars on Sirius XM, but the Department of Corrections did not. Last week, on his birthday (February 29) Ja called into Renada Romain’s Ear Candy Morningsshow on Hip Hop Nation and spoke on his current incarceration, his Pray For the Day charity and his new Pain is Love 2, but on Tuesday (March 6), the multiplatinum rap star faced a disciplinary hearing over the phone interview.

Chris Brown
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Fresh off his Grammy win for Best R&B album, Chris Brown announced Thursday (March 1) that his next album, Fortune, will be released May 8. Fans have been waiting for album news since Brown dropped the single “Turn Up the Music” in January followed by a music video the next month, which racked up more than 8 million views in its first week.