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Exclusive: 50 Cent Bet His Entire Career On Beating Kanye West In This Never-Before-Seen Footage

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On September 11th, 2007, while many Americans were memorializing the World Trade Center attack, hip-hop was watching for the results of 50 Cent’s bold wager – that he would end his solo music career if Kanye West’s “Graduation” album outsold his “Curtis” released that same day.  In this never-before-seen footage captured exclusively by SOHH.com, 50 […]

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10 Reasons Why Kanye West’s ‘Graduation’ Remains Memorable

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    The Release Day Battle with 50 Cent

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    The Emergence of Electronic Arena Rap

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    It Reflected Kanye’s Perfectionism and Tenacity

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    That T-Pain Feature

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    Takashi Murakami’s Involvement

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    It Yielded the Glow in the Dark Tour

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    Its Rock Influences

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    Inspired Artists like Drake, Childish Gambino, and Doja Cat

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    It Still Has Some of His Best Egotistical Anthems

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    “Big Brother” Foreshadows ‘Watch the Throne’

Kanye West Responds To Queen Elizabeth’s Death By Seemingly Ending All Of His Feuds

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Perhaps more than any other active musician today, Kanye West is often upset with multiple people and entities for various reasons. Now, though, he seems ready to put all that aside following yesterday’s (September 8) death of Queen Elizabeth II, which appears to have moved him.

On Instagram late last night, Ye shared a post. The post has three slides, with the first being white text on a black background. It says, “Life is precious. Releasing all grudges today. Leaning into the light.” The next two slides are photos of a young Queen Elizabeth.

As for those grudges, it’s not clear if West meant yesterday was the day he was releasing them, or if he was releasing them just for the day before returning to beefing shortly after. Whatever the case, his life has been filled with a number of notable feuds lately.

Most recently, he’s been upset with Adidas and Gap over perceived slights. He and Kid Cudi are also beefing at the moment and West’s relationships with his former GOOD Music artists are in various states. Kanye has also taken to relentlessly going after Pete Davidson in recent months, and there seems to be friction with Kim Kardashian going on right now, too.

Today In Hip Hop History: Jay-Z Released His 11th LP ‘The Blueprint 3’ 12 Years Ago

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On this date in 2009, Hip Hop’s most recognized cultural icon dropped his eleventh album entitled The Blueprint 3 on the Roc Nation/Asylum/Atlantic imprint.

Produced by Hov himself, Kanye, No I.D.This Jigga project boasted more guest appearances than any of his previously released full-length albums, the Neptunes, Swizz Beatz, and several others. The singles from this LP are arguably some of Jay-Z’s most recognized songs by millennials; “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” “Run This Town,” ” “Empire State of Mind” and “On to the Next One” were chart-topping tracks during the summer and fall of 2009 and will forever be remembered as some of Hov’s most revered hits.

Commercially speaking, this album became Jay-Z’s eleventh number one album, breaking the record of pole position albums he once shared with Elvis Presley. Selling almost a half-million copies in its first week, TB3 was certified platinum by the RIAA within two months of its release. Currently, the album has sold over 3 million copies.

Salute to Jay, Ye, Rihanna, Drake, Alicia Keys, and everyone involved with this essential piece of Hip Hop history!

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