NEW VIDEO: 2 CHAINZ 'CRACK'

"Started from the trap, now I rap/ No matter where I'm at, I got crack," raps 2 Chainz on the illicit "Crack." 

Check out Tity Boy's video for the grimy track, off his Grammy-nominated Based on a T.R.U. Story debut.

WAKA FLOCKA WARNS: "DON'T LET DA MEDIA FOOL U, THIS SH*T REAL"

Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame is reportedly not letting fans believe new reports which claim former affiliate Gucci Mane's Twitter page was hacked this weekend and therefore their issues are nonexistent.

While Waka did not elaborate much, he did insist fans should not let the media trick them.

"#BossLife," he tweeted early March 17th.

"Dont let da media fool u. This sh*t real Shawty" (Waka Flocka Flame's Twitter)

Last night, an interesting twist popped up online which suggested Gucci's Twitter account fell victim to hackers which sparked an unexpected feud with Waka.

Hmm...Rahim from Warner/Atlantic says Gucci's manager claims Gucci's twitter account was hacked into. But then why is it that more than 12 hours later, 1) there is no "explanation" or retraction tweet. And 2) The diss tweet is still up. Look, hacking happens, so it's possibility. But it doesn't seem to add up in this situation. Also, usually you don't see just one hacked tweet. Also...Gucci can be volatile. So, I'll just say instead, I hope this incident of bad blood between one of my favorite buddy teams in trap rap isn't irreversible. (Miss Info TV)

Despite the update, some media outlets were skeptical of the hacker angle.

After Gucci's tweets last night Waka responded, "Somebody tell Gucci Mane 2 SUCK A D*CK." That tweet has since been deleted. But strangely, as of today, Waka Flocka is still retweeting disparaging comments from his followers about Brick Squad 1017 an telling them to support his label, Brick Squad Monopoly. (XXL Mag)

Some websites have suggested the tensions all center on Hollywood actress Selena Gomez.

Not necessarily best known for staunch commitment to his declarations, Gucci Mane has made the executive decision to relieve Waka Flocka Flame of his Brick Squad 1017 post. The reasons for this are still vague, but we have heard that Waka too had a thing for Spring Breakers actress Selena Gomez, whose intimacy with Wop on set had been rumored. (Complex)

OPRAH RESPOND TO TERRENCE HOWARD ON 'THE STEVE HARVEY SHOW'

"It was supposed to be like a little scene, and because Terrence Howard misbehaved it turned into a bigger scene, and then a bigger scene." Yes, Oprah Winfrey said that and more!

"He's a misbehavin' kinda boy," the former Queen of Daytime TV told Steve Harvey on his very popular show. "He was on Twitter the other day talking about my breastesses."

It seems that Oprah is still holding onto that "Queen of All Media" title she earned back in the '90s. Last week, Howard, while doing press for his current film, Dead Man Down, spoke about his upcoming film, The Butler, in which he has a love scene with Oprah and told the world about the experience.

"Oprah and I had such chemistry. To be able to make out with Oprah and to have love scenes with her and those tig ol' bitties ... She's such a lovely, voluptuous woman ... That was wonderful," said Howard.

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Call the remark the glorification of the Black body, or a tasteless and classless commentary, O said that she was not offended by the remark at all, because, well, look at her!

Harvey, ever keen to point out a point, interjected that he had spoken to Howard and gave him some unsolicited advice. "I told Terrence Howard, 'you gonna mess your whole life up son. This ain't who you want to play with. Do you a lil' movie scene. Try to act like a professional about it, then go on 'bout ya business.'"

Say what you want but according to the owner of OWN, Harvey could've kept his comments to himself, according to her, she does have "big breastesses."

POLICE TAKE TYGA'S LAMBORGHINI, ENTIRE INCIDENT CAUGHT ON TAPE [VIDEO]

Young Money's Tyga could not roar back at police heading into the weekend as he had one of his pricey Lamborghini cars impounded by police the same night his boss, Lil Wayne, was hospitalized for a seizure.

Details and footage of the entire showdown have surfaced across the Internet.

Tyga's Friday night was worse than yours -- the rapper was stripped of his white Lamborghini after it was IMPOUNDED by cops ... and TMZ got it all on tape. Law enforcement sources tell us... Tyga was pulled over around 11:00 PM for an unknown traffic violation in Hollywood. But when cops asked him for license and registration, Tyga had NEITHER ... no current registration AND the rapper was unlicensed to drive. We're told Tyga was not arrested for the violations -- but the police issued him a citation and had his primo ride impounded ASAP. He was also given a field sobriety test, as seen in the footage, but was not busted for DUI. (TMZ)

The 23-year-old rapper vented out his frustrations after the ordeal went down.

"#F*ckLAPD," he tweeted March 16th. (Tyga's Twitter)

All of this news comes months after Tyga became a father with the birth of King Cairo Stevenson.

It's time to break out the cigars and congratulate Tyga on his newest title: father. The YMCMB artist and his girlfriend, Blac Chyna, welcomed their first child, King Cairo Stevenson, on Tuesday (October 16). The 22-year-old rapper (born Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson) tweeted out a photo of him cradling the newborn in his arms to his followers with the simple caption: "Most Amazing feeling ever #Blessed #2Kings @KingCairo." Chyna tweeted that she carried the bundle of joy for 40 weeks and that he weighed in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce: "Welcome King Cairo Stevenson 7lbs 1 oz ....... #blessed !!!!" (MTV)

He recently refused to dish out details on his relationship with the baby's mother, video vixen/model Blac Chyna.

"I don't know, man," Tyga said when asked how he hooked up with Blac Chyna. "You can't really hide nothing from the people, you know what I'm saying -- we got a real gangsta relationship. Y'all not gonna see us doing no crazy, corny stuff. You know what I mean? We got an understanding. [laughs] We go to the strip club together, do stuff like that." ("Big Boy's Neighborhood")

Check out Tyga's run-in with police:

DIDDY, MACKLEMORE JOIN FRENCH MONTANA ONSTAGE AT SXSW 2013

Diddy stopped by French Montana's closing set at the Fader Fort in Austin, Texas during SXSW on Saturday. Before Puff came out for his Montana-feature "Ocho Cinco,” “It’s All About The Benjamins” and “Same Damn Time,” Macklemore also dropped in to perform his chart topping single “Thrift Shop.”

George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell Talk 'Finding The Funk' - and Getting Paid for It - at SXSW Panel

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What began -- on paper, at least -- as a discussion on the documentary "Finding the Funk" by producers Nelson George and Arthur Baker (who moderated the conversation) quickly ran off the rails and became as much an exploration on the beginnings and future of the genre as it was an hour-long storytelling session, with Parliament-Funkadelic chieftain George Clinton trading war stories back and forth with P-Funk cohorts and collaborators Bernie Worrell and Bootsy Collins. The trio -- responsible for such classic funk staples as "Flash Light," "Mothership Connection" and "Funkentelechy," among many more -- kicked back and forth memories of acid-aided studio sessions, backstage antics on the road, and the philosophy of funk music alongside additional panelists Lumar Leblanc (drummer in the Soul Rebels Brass Band) and Sly Stone's daughter Novena Carmel.

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Much of the banter was a love-fest, with the three old friends eager to share the credit for pioneering the genre. "Mr. Clinton had an enormous vocal range," said Worrell at one point when talking about what made P-Funk so influential. "I went to see him at a grammar school in Plainsville, NJ when I could sneak out the house, and the range... he had the pure, beautiful, clear falsetto." Clinton similarly paid compliments back to those who worked in his bands along the way: "With Bootsy, I was able to do everything I wanted to do with a doo-wop group... Bernie could hear a car accident and remember every sound from it, and make anything musical."

But they also delved into the writing, recording, and engineering process behind creating an entirely new genre from scratch -- which, of course, was not really from scratch at all, but was rooted in much of the music at the time, specifically Motown and the Beatles. "Sgt. Pepper -- we liked it so much, we recorded the entire album in 1967, but never put it out," said Clinton. "But that turned us around -- that and Sly's music -- that you could be funk and pop at the same time. We had all of it. Eddie Hazel could play psychedelic, we were a Motown group; we just put it all together. And then Bootsy came along and all he added -- all we had to add -- was the emphasis on the one. You could add that to the ABC's, and it would be funk in two seconds. And from then on, everything we did was funky for real, no matter how pop we tried to be."

Clinton's mixing and production skills also led to unintended innovations in the genre; he recorded "Maggot Brain" with a full band before eventually editing it down to just two guitars in a stark atmosphere; tracked between 50-60 voices on "Knee Deep" over four minutes, eventually looping it and editing out and adding in different takes to create the 15-minute behemoth that it became; and fought hard to push forward in the mix Worrell's inspired bassline in "Flash Light." "They said the bass was too loud," he recalled. "I wanted them to flinch!"

In the true spirit of P-Funk, the discussion also slipped into marked irreverence and oddball moments; Clinton told of Bootsy making fun of him for years for never being very successful with women ("Women were afraid of me," he laughed. "Until I bought a spaceship."), while Worrell momentarily forgot Tina Turner's name and instead referred to her as "the Sagittarius who moved to Europe." But they also took the discussion seriously when talking about the state of the genre currently, as well as the popularity of their music in samples in the hip-hop world. "I think their version of [funk is alive]; every generation will have their own angle of the dangle, as Mr. Clinton would say," laughed Collins. "And I think it's good, because that way it'll always keep things fresh and you come up with new stuff."

"Mystikal... Chuck D., Rakim, Eminem. That stuff is as funky as you can get," said Clinton. "And that's the way they perceive it, and that keeps the funk alive."

Clinton himself got into hip-hop through Afrika Bambaataa, who he said brought him records by Rakim and KRS-One before they even came out. "I heard people just talking over music, but we did that over "Mothership Connection" [in 1975]," he said. "But they took it one step further and recorded it for the club. I didn't know what to think of that, but then De La Soul brought us a check for $100,000."

That check, he said, helped open his eyes to the reality that many artists who were being sampled in hip-hop -- and even artists doing the sampling -- were getting exploited by record labels, leading to the battle for his copyrights that he is currently undertaking in the courts. "My brain didn't click that we were supposed to get paid for this," he said of artists sampling P-Funk. "I'm glad they're doing it, because they're keeping us alive. That didn't come about for years later, which is what we're doing right now, fighting for our copyrights; the record company took money from [artists], but didn't give any of it to us. They don't give the money to the people who have it coming."

Eventually, Collins -- while being asked about how he got into the music that eventually defined an era -- was able to distill the essence of the movement. "Each and every person has to find their own funk," he said. "Funk to me is making something out of nothing. We didn't have nothing, so we did what we did with what we had."

NICKI MINAJ, BIRDMAN VISIT LIL WAYNE AT HOSPITAL

Lil Wayne's friends and family have been hitting visitor hours at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai hospital.

Earlier in the week, the "A Milli" rapper was hospitalized after experiencing seizures. Since the news broke, Drake and Chris Paul have visited Weezy's bedside. This weekend, both Nicki Minaj and Birdman visited the rapper at the hospital.

Minaj visited her Young Money boss on Saturday night for about an hour. TMZ captured the "Starships" singer leaving the parking garage. Birdman, who tweeted that Wayne was "feelin good" and "will be home real soon" when the news broke, also stopped by the hospital Saturday during the day.

No update on Lil Wayne's current health status has been given. "I'm good everybody." Wayne tweeted from the hospital on Friday. "Thx for the prayers and love."

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