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Kanye West Leads BET Hip-Hop Awards Nominees

West gets nine nods; Jay-Z and Lil Wayne have seven each. By Gil Kaufman Kanye West Photo: Vince Bucci/ Getty Images Kanye West may be in hot water with just about the entire world after interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMAs , but that didn’t stop him from notching the most nominations for the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards . Despite his checkered awards-show history, ‘Ye leads the pack with nine nominations for the show, which will be taped in Atlanta on October 10 and air on October 27.

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Timbaland’s Shock Value 2 Inspired By ‘Twilight’

‘I’m up on all that,’ the songwriter/producer says of the vampire craze. By Shaheem Reid Timbaland Photo: MTV News Other than Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 , Timbaland says he’s been taking a break from working on outside production. He wanted to focus on his own LP, Shock Value 2, due November 23.

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Day26’s Willie Taylor Apologizes To Fans For Nude Photos

‘It is incredibly disturbing that someone [would] distribute these private moments to the world,’ he says in a statement. By Shaheem Reid Day26’s Willie Taylor (file) Photo: MTV News Willie Taylor of Day26 is the latest celebrity to have nude photos of himself leaked to the Web. On Wednesday (September 16), photos of Taylor popped up on the gossip Web sites

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Jay-Z’s ‘So Ambitious’ Is ‘Ferocious,’ Pharrell Williams Says

‘I wanted to make sure that kids heard this record and felt inspired,’ rapper/producer says.

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Jay-Z Looks At Blueprint 3 Leak As ‘A Preview’

‘I may be the most bootlegged artist in history,’ Hov told MTV News.

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DJ AM: The Aftermath, Tributes, and Legacy

DJ AM – nee Adam Goldstein – was the Kevin Bacon of LA’s music-celebrity scene, except he was connected to everyone by two degrees. His death gets more tragic as it unfolds. The outpouring for him out there’s large.

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Courtney Love: Pam Anderson Lives in a Trailer Park

Courtney Love image via Photo Agency; Pamela Anderson via Getty. Spencer Pratt recently revealed that he's suffering in the current economic downturn, saying woefully, “We definitely don't receive a $100,000 to show up at nightclubs anymore.” Life is hard, indeed.

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Pamela Anderson, Fashion Designer

Designer Richie Rich (L) and Model Pamela Anderson walk the runway after the Richie Rich Fall 2009 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at the Waldorf Astoria on February 18, 2009 in New York City.

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Tony Yayo Calls Cormega Back To The Streets

Yayo talks about recruiting a fellow Queens MC, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes Cormega and Tony YaYo Photo: MTV News Two generations of Queens MCs: Tony Yayo and Cormega. In the ’90s and early on in this decade, Mega was getting on majors like Def Jam and Interscope (the Firm’s The Album ), but he made his niche working independently

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