Earlier this week, XXL magazine debuted its 2011 “Freshman Class” issue featuring a bunch of dudes–some of whom I’ve never seen or even heard of it. It’s kinda crazy how I had to dissect the cover by using Google to figure out  who majority of the guys were, aside from Yelawolf, Diggy, Lil Twist and Cyhi The Prince. To be honest, the cover is straight up garbage! And I honestly don’t know why half of these guys even made the cover, like Mr. “Toot it & Boot it” aka YG. Is this really the future of Hip-hop? ‘Cause if it is, then we’re in serious trouble! Anywhoo, let me get to the real topic at hand–where are the female rappers? This is the fourth year XXL has left out the femcees. Over 3 million people live in the United States, and you mean to tell me there aren’t any dope female rappers out there?

Nicki Minaj is doing her thing right now, so why is it that female rappers are still being treated like they’re outcasts?

What’s your take on this lackluster cover?

It’s safe to say that VH1 is giving everybody and their mama a reality show nowadays. Well, they’ve got another hit on their hands with their new show “Love & Hip-Hop” which features “the women of Hip-hop”, Swizz Beats’ ex-wife Mashonda, singer and G-Unit’s former first lady Olivia, Fabolous’ babymama Emily Bustamante, Jim Jone’s wifey Christine Lampkin, Joe Budden’s ex-jumpoff model/aspiring rapper Somaya Reece. The show hits television screens Monday, March 14th at 10:30 PM EST. From the looks of it, this show is filled with D-R-A-M-A! Check out the trailer below…

Will you be tuning in?

Looks like the Capo, Jim Jones is in some serious hot water! According to the NY Daily News, the Harlem rapper is being sued by two chicks from Houston, Samantha Stotts and Sharie Johnson, who appear in his new “Summer Time” video for making them look like “hoes” on camera. Apparently, the two chicks were chillin’ in South Beach, when Jimmy and his goons began filming them as they were running around half-naked on the beach. According to them, they had no idea their ta-tas would end up on the Internet for the world to see.

“It makes me look like I’m a ho. They made us look very risqué,” Stotts said. “That’s not my personality.”

The video which was posted on YouTube, garnered more than 30,000 views before being pulled down yesterday for violating the site’s “policy on nudity or sexual content”.

“I don’t have a problem with rap-video girls,” Johnson said. “But I never wanted to do this. It just makes it not fun for people to go to Miami. If I ever go to Miami again, I’m never, ever going to be topless again.”

So, they really thought Jimmy and his crew were  just filming them for their own enjoyment when they had bottles of champagne, stacks of cash and strippers on deck? Give me a break!

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The original “Queen of Hip-hop” Lil Kim makes it clear that she’s not going to back down and she’s ready to reclaim her throne by any means necessary–even if she has to step on Nicki’s neck. OUCH! The pint-size rapper paid a visit to Hot97 earlier today where she gave buddy Angie Martinez a great interview, which in my opinion was funny as hell. Kim talked about a range of topics from Faith Evans and the Notorious biopic to expressing her discontent with her clone Nicki Minaj and her crumbling relationship with Diddy.

On her relationship with Diddy:

“I’m sick of it. I’m sick of him at least not being loyal to one person… Be loyal to one person, and then maybe I can open my arms back up to you. I felt like out of everybody, he should have done that to me… My problem with you, Puffy, was the fact that you sit there and say you would never let homegirl talk reckless about me but you on a record and she talking reckless about me.”

On her beef with Nicki Minaj:

“I’ve always tried to remain as humble as possible, so even though people felt like, ‘Kim is Hollywood. She don’t know what’s going on in the streets,’ I always kept my ear to the streets. I’m always on the Internet. I saw her coming up. I saw her making her way… And I saw her coming in the game like, ‘All you chicks that been in the game for 10 years move over. Y’all need to sit down’—I thought that was disrespectful. [We] put together a little collage that we gon’ show and put out there just so people can see the history of how she came into the game and what she was doing and why this might have been offensive not just to me but to other females in the industry.”

Glad that it took Nicki Minaj’s swagger jackin’ a$$ to make Kim realize that her presence in the game is greatly missed. And for those of you calling Kim a hater and saying that she’s bitter, she has every reason to be mad. Nicki straight up jacked her style and has the world forgetting who was the originator. As for her thoughts on Diddy, she’s right! Dude is an opportunist. Hopefully, Kim will use this beef  as a way to finally put out some heat.

Listen to the full interview over @RR

Yesterday, Harlem’s Princess Teyana Taylor hit up the opening up Fendi’s new boutique at Beverly Center in Los Angeles in rockin’ style. The event hosted by designer Chloe Sevigny brought a few stars out including actresses Tracy Ellis Ross and Dania Ramirez.

Those boots are baddd!

The Louis Vuitton Don is branching out into designing footwear…again, by launching his own line of loafers. Kanye West has teamed up with shoemakers Stubbs and Wootton, who are known for their European-styled slippers and loafers. Stubbs and Wootton owner Percy Steinheart dished to the NY Post,

“We were honored that he approached us to do something together. We do a lot of crests. And (Kanye) loves crests.”

Kanye’s line is set to hit store shelves in Spring 2011.

Will you be coppin’ Yeezy’s loafers?

Yesterday, Mr. Steal Ya Girl aka Trey Songz hit up Macy’s Herald Square in NYC to do some promo for Rocawear; meeting fans and signing autographs. In case you didn’t know, Trey is the new face of Rocawear along with our girl Melanie Fiona. Peep the flicks below…

“Calling all the girls…”

NYC was filled with celebs last night as they flocked to the many exclusive events that went down in the city that never sleeps. Chris Brown, Fabolous, and supermodel Jessica White attended Swatch’s launch party for their New Gents Collection at the Gansevoort.

While, our fav U.K. chick Estelle made her rounds yesterday along with Trey Songz, Method Man and others who came out to the launch party of Def Jam Rapstar at the Hudson Hotel.

“We da best” aka DJ Khaled shared DJ’n duties with Funkmaster Flex…

Donnis and Young Joc…

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Is the Beyonce still considered the hottest chick in the game? While, Rihanna and the other wannabe’s try to emulate her, Forbes magazine just dropped its “Most Powerful Women List” and surprisingly Beyonce didn’t make the top 5. Sure, she and hubby Jay-Z may be at the top when it comes to raking in the dollars, but her “hottest chick in the game” title is in jeopardy of being revoked! The “Single Ladies” hitmaker, came in ninth place on Forbes’ list, while Lady Gaga is two steps ahead of her at No. 7. Now, the “hottest chick in the game” according to Forbes is First Lady O! President Obama’s wifey claims the No. 1 spot–beating Oprah Winfrey. Well, it does make sense that Michelle would be the most powerful woman. Um…her hubby is running our country.

We can’t but wonder…has Bey has lost her swag?

St. Lunatic Nelly is back with a blazing new track “Just A Dream” and is prepping the release of his new album 5.0. Complex magazine recently caught up with the Midwest rapper to talk about a few things including his on-and-off again relationship with Ashanti. This summer, Nelly and Ashanti were spotted at T.I. and Tiny’s wedding holding hands which set off speculation that the two were back on again. Well, according to Nelly he’s focused on his career right now and Ashanti’s focused on handling her business as well.

Complex: Yeah. This kind of goes along with that. I don’t know what your relationship with Ashanti is like or what led to an alleged breakup, but then the gossip sites will say you said that you’re back together and have pictures of you two holding hands at T.I. and Tiny’s wedding. Is it an on-and-off situation because you’re not good at cutting people if they don’t hurt you, personally?

Nelly: We never admitted that we were together or back together or separated, but we heard that. Only thing we ever said was we friends and it’s the same way now. I’m focused on 5.0. I got an album coming out on November 16th, she’s working on her project right now.

Complex: But are there things that happened in the relationship that have gotten you to a point where you’re not going to be dealing with her in the same capacity?

Nelly: It’s not like that. My ultimate goal and our ultimate goal is to be individuals, to sustain what we been able to sustain. You wanna make sure that when you get into a time and place that you’re able to do what you need to do, and right now, that’s my album. You don’t want to be into a situation where you do an hour-long interview and 45 minutes is based on something and you’re like, “Yo, what about this?” And that’s something that we’ve been able to maintain. Like, whatever becomes of our relationship. Whatever, whenever, or however, that’s going to be something that we’re going to do and we’re going to judge. It’s not going to be manipulated by outside people looking in, who don’t even know what the fuck is going on. I think that the only way you can maintain that is to just do what you do. I have to be Nelly. She got to be Ashanti.

If these two want to be like Jay-Z and Beyonce and keep their relationship a mystery…well good for them. But, there can only be one Jay and B! I’m pretty sure Nelly is still tapping that anyway…