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​Single of the Week: "Rain Drops," Yung Redd feat. T.C.

This is a leak from the soon-to-be-released Eviction Notice 4. You're welcome.

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After establishing itself as the preeminent weekly rap news roundup, Turning The Screw is shutting its e-doors. This will be the very last installment. Rocks Off will continue to bring you all the hip-hop happenings as they happen (or as we hear about them), but go ahead and cry into your hands now.

Rap-A-Lot signed an exclusive distribution deal with Fontana.

Suge Knight's lawyer argues his client was not acting all Suge Knight-y again.

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​Single of the Week: "I'm Hungry," Coota Bang

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The "Dirty South" will be honored at this year's VH1 Hip-Hop Honors. Naturally, Scarface is the one offering up the "This whole situation is a backwards insult" insight.

Z-Ro's Heroin is supposed to come out this June.

Note: Always agree to produce an inmate's album, lest you be stabbed repeatedly.

New Yeezy this September?

New Nelly music! New Nelly music! (Those are sarcastic exclamation points.)

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​"Get Well Soon, Bun" Single of the Week: "Countin' Money," Bun B feat. Yo Gotti

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That Trae vs. The Box situation grows more and more unreal each week.

Cham's Venom is supposed to be coming out this summer. It sure seems like we've written that sentence a time or two before, doesn't it?

The album cover for Paul Wall's Heart of a Champion is out. It's a picture of him sitting down. It sure seems like we've seen that a time or two before, doesn't it?

Via Will.i.am's Twitter: "Today Latinos are the new blacks in america (with no martin luther king)"

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Nosaprise at the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

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Single of the Week: "Start Today," Nosaprise

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Bun B took part in that Gumball 3000 thing.

For whatever reason, we spent, like, 45 minutes on YouTube Saturday morning watching various amateur "June 27th" videos. Whatever... it's entertaining. Of the people that we'd never heard of, this guy was the best. These guys were the worst.

Eminem's next single is premiering this Thursday. In the meantime, he's been keeping busy by making fun of Ben Roethlisberger.

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Single of the Week: "Lando," HISD

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Scarface is remaking some of KRS One's classic Criminal Minded. And his mixtape we wrote about a while back will be released next week. And he has a full length in the pipeline as well. And we just creamed our pants.

It's starting to look like the Trae vs. The Box storyline is way more involved and rooted in precedent than anybody had anticipated. Crazy.

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Single of the Week: Kritikal Van Gogh, "Dog Eat Dog"

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​Beyonce had tongues wagging at this weekend's Coachella Festival when she joined husband Jay-Z onstage for "Forever Young" in a T-shirt with the words "punk-ass motherfucker" prominently displayed. Katy Perry, Kate Bosworth and Anne Hathaway didn't seem to mind the profanity.

Devin's new album, Suite 420, is out tomorrow. Get it. Wait - first read this. Then get it. Oh, and interesting aside: The track on there that Mike Dean produced was actually plucked from the annals of history. It was apparently recorded several years ago, and still jams. Devin releases 420 tomorrow night at Warehouse Live; if you can't see the stage through all the smoke, we're pretty sure he'll be up here somewhere.

Not music-related, but still: Here's Dave Chappelle talking about man-rape in Houston.

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Single of the Week: "Inkredible," Trae feat. Weezy and Ricky Ross

Congrats go out to Trae and the rest of the ABN camp. "Inkredible," the first single off of his Tha Truth LP was picked as MTV2's Jam of the Week. Been a while since a Houston artist was able to say that.

Underground Single of the Week: "Going ATW," ATW

These two are quickly becoming "I'm Going To Listen To Everything These Guys Send Me At Least Once"-level rappers. Solid, solid stuff here.

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Single of the Week: "Callin' My Phone," Slim Thug feat. Slim

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Texas Takeover is doing an NCAA-style bracket pairing Houston rap albums up against each other. The first Final Four match-up has We Can't Be Stopped vs. 3 N' Tha Mornin' Pt. 2. It's more fun to participate in than it sounds.

Hip Hop DX is a right awful site, but they do pilfer Houston's rap garden regularly, so they have to at least be a little smart. Here's Bun's little story with Rap-A-Lot they did.

Care to know why Mack 10 and Ice Cube were at each other's throats for a bit?

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Here's that Devin the Dude EP that we kept forgetting to post. It's looking like his new album is going to be out of sight.

Scarface is going to release a mixtape. We will check the internet every 20 minutes for the rest of our life until it leaks. P.S. Watch the video of 'Face talking about the tape. He seems crazy like a homeless person.

Oh, and Big Pokey's Warning Shot tape comes out Wednesday. He's having a concert at The Roxy March 31. Bring your flak jackets. And your crosses. Z-Ro and Jay'Ton are supposed to be there too.

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"Hey, Remember That?" Single of the Week: "Who Dat Mad," Big Pokey, Big Steve and Big E

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Bun B interviewed with Hip Hop DX. There's nothing new of importance that you have to read, but it's Bun, so check it out.

A long time ago we wrote about the ban that 97.9 FM had on Trae's music that everyone was being very tight-lipped about. It looks like Trae, never one to mince words, is finally going to release that You Can't Ban The Truth mixtape this week that people have been talking about. As soon as it hits the Net we'll post it here. Look for it. It'll be hot. And even if it's not, it will at least have a couple of parts where he's calling people out. That's always interesting.

Oh, also, those Trae bobbleheads have surfaced. (More about the aforementioned mixtape at this link too, but you have to give your email address to read about it.)

Young Jeezy would like for you to forget that he ever called himself "Young Jeezy" please. A simple "Jeezy" will suffice, because that's much less ridiculous.

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