Filed under: Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop News, Soul/R&B, R&B News, interviews

Tamar Braxton has had quite the bit of success over the past couple of years.

Braxton Family Values -- her hit show on the WE network -- continues to be a smashing success she's finally finding her groove in music, scoring a number one record on iTunes with "Love and War."

Now she is expecting several other big things in her life. Like a new single, new album and oh yeah, a new baby. In the coming months she'll give birth to her first child with her husband, music producer Vince Herbert.

We sat down with Tamar in person for a quick but EXCLUSIVE chat. Here's how it went.
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Public Enemy will be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week and one person who definitely feels the group deserves the honor is Anthrax's Scott Ian.

"In 1986, '87 and '88, Public Enemy was my favorite band on the planet," he says. "They changed music. [Their 1987 album] It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, I compare that album to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Guns 'N Roses' Appetite For Destruction or Led Zeppelin's IV. It you make a list of albums that changed the world, that changed the way we hear music, that album has to be on that list. It was so mind-blowingly sonically different from anything that anyone had ever heard. It was lyrically so strong. And scary - in a good way."
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Yikes ... maybe Beyonce should re-think walking through a crowd of over-zealous fans during her concerts.

Queen B is currently on her Mrs. Carter World Tour, but her show took a turn for the worst during her April 15 concert in Belgrade, Serbia.

There's video footage of the singer walking through the crowd with a bodyguard right behind her when all of a sudden, a fan reaches over the barricade and seems to slap Beyonce across the face. Another fan to seems to pull her hair as well.
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Filed under: Hip-Hop, R&B News, Hip-Hop Videos

Cassie's dropping her mixtape RockaByeBaby tomorrow (April 11), but before she does that she's warming fans up with "Paradise," featuring Wiz Khalifa.

Cassie being, well, Cassie... the visuals are stunning to say the least.

The Left Coast-inspired video finds her rolling around in a lowrider, smoking weed with her homies and chilling outside of a liquor store.

Edgy stuff.
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Filed under: Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop News, Busted

Gucci Mane was in an Atlanta court yesterday (April 9), where he was indicted on one count of aggravated assault in an incident last month which saw him allegedly hit a man in the head with a champagne bottle.

The victim, a soldier in the military, said Gucci struck him while he was trying to talk to a security guard, and that he'd received 10 stitches following the attack.

Gucci was denied bond and had been behind bars for two weeks waiting on the court to decide whether they'd indict him or not.
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Jay-Z is reportedly planning to sell his share of the Brooklyn Nets. Jay, who currently owns 1/15 of 1% of the organization, apparently intends to launch a new venture as a sports agent, heading up Roc Nation Sports, which he cannot do as an owner of an NBA team. Maybe give Master P a shout? [NetsDaily]

"Accidental Racist" fans rejoice, LL Cool J and country singer Brad Paisley have reunited for another classic, "Live for You," which appears on LL's masterfully titled LP, Authentic. The album also features Eddie Van Halen, Travis Barker and Monica, so there's that. [HuffingtonPost]

The Rick Ross controversy continues, as a show in Ottawa, Canada was reportedly canceled yesterday (April 9), due to student protests regarding his questionable lyrics on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." Get it together, Rawse. [OttawaCitizen]
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