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Memorial Day weekend is here, which means it’s the official start to summer! If you can’t wait to put on your favorite pair of sunglasses and head to the beach here are 10 songs to take you there. Just remember the sun screen.Launch Videos

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Fans waiting on the next Outkast album may have to keep dreaming, but one half of the duo, Big Boi announced via twitter he is 80% done with the completion of his next solo album.  Sir Lucious Left Foot also announced that his music partner Andre 3000′s solo project will follow his. The ATL duo’s last collabortive effort was The Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in 2003.   In 2010, Big Boi dropped his first solo project Sir Lucious Left Foot :The Son of Chico Dusty to favorable reviews.

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According to Rap-Up.com, Roc Nation announced earlier today through their website that the Sri Lankan singer had joined its management team. Fellow Roc Nation management signee Rihanna congratulated M.I.A. on Twitter today, saying “welcome home.”

M.I.A. will join the likes of Wale, Rihanna, and new signee Meek Mill as the featured artists signed to Roc Nation Management. The house that Hov built is representing a diverse selection of artists!

M.I.A. is currently preparing her fourth album Matangi for a fall release via Interscope Records.

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Chris Brown released two new videos just in time for the holiday weekend. While “Sweet Love” exhibits his sensitive side “Mercy” portrays his party self and his high profile lifestyle.

Clad in a black leather jacket showing off his abs, Brown’s “Sweet Love” video tries to convince women everywhere that he should be in their beds.more

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Pete Rock banged the war drum when he heard Lupe Fiasco‘s re-creation of the 1992 Pete Rock and CL Smooth classic, “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.).” While Lupe and Rock have yet to resolve their “fair use” dispute, Chiddy Bang producer DJ Xaphoon Jones offered his insight about the music in question and why even sample-heavy hip-hop producers can catch feelings when their music is on the chop. more

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Those are words you might not have guessed you’d hear in a Justin Bieber song, but when the Biebs adds 2 Chainz to his remix the game changes.
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The night before Jennifer Lopez debuted her new single to the world “Goin’ In” on the season finale of American Idol, Mix 104.1/Boston got the lucky opportunity to talk to J-Lo exclusively.Read More and Watch Video

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Flo Rida has released the video for “Whistle” and this time he’s on a beach in Acapulco, Mexico.

Keeping with his usual steamy feel, women can be seen frolicking in bikinis as the bare-chested Rida raps from the rocky area overlooking the ocean; from a mysteriously placed bed on the beach; and from a nighttime party in the sand.Read More & Watch Video Now!

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“I think there comes a time in your life where it’s good to dream and it’s good to have goals; then the goals don’t end there,” Nelly Furtado said in an interview with 97.1 AMP/Los Angeles. “It’s not like a ladder where you climb to the top of the ladder and just sit there and look at the rooftop. It doesn’t really work that way.”Read More

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It’s been two years since Kanye West released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy but that didn’t stop him from revealing a new video for the album’s last track “Lost In the World.”

Filmmaker Ruth Hogben and photographer Nick Knight collaborated with West to create a film for the single. The track, which was released earlier this month, features a sample of Bon Iver’s “Woods” and Gil Scott-Heron’s “Who Will Survive in America.”Watch Now