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2 Chainz Joins ’2 Broke Girls,’ Hilarity Ensues

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After the 55th Annual GRAMMY award show ends and the trophies are all doled out, 2 Chainz will be swinging with the cast of CBS’ 2 Broke Girls. The GRAMMY nominated rapper will be making a cameo on the sitcom.

According to THR, 2 Chainz will be playing himself. He surprises Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) who are on a private plane to the GRAMMY Awards.

2 Broke Girls is a comedy that airs on CBS about two waitresses with dreams of starting their own business. The odd couple (streetwise Max Black and sophisticated Caroline Channing) are on a mission to raise the money for their startup.

2 Chainz is nominated for three GRAMMY awards, including best rap album for Based on T.R.U. Story as well as best rap performance/best rap song for “Mercy.”

The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards will air February 10, 8PM EST on CBS. The episode of 2 Broke Girls is scheduled to air on February 11.

-E. Parker, CBS Local



Fall Out Boy Team Up With 2 Chainz In New Music Video

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An unlikely collaboration, recently reunited Fall Out Boy explained how they came to join forces with 2 Chainz.

“We’re on the same label, we’re fans, and we went out to dinner, hung out, played him some music,” Pete Wentz told B96/Chicago. “[We] came up with this idea for doing the video. Hopefully we’ll do more stuff in the future. He’s awesome. He slayed the video.”

Their new song “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)” showcases Patrick Stump’s familiar vocals while the video tells a dark tale. 2 Chainz is shown lighting a bonfire in the middle of the woods as two girls throw the band’s equipment and old albums into the flames. Once everything goes up in flames 2 Chainz heads to the van where the guys are tied up and lights a match, hinting that they’re up next. But does he do it? You just have to watch to see.

The band realize they’ve been away for a while but couldn’t be happier to be back.

“For me it’s awesome. It’s an interesting situation,” Pete said. “We’ve been rehearsing and having to do it in secret. It’s been a lot of fun it’s been a lot to keep in and not tell people.”

Patrick further explained why the group waited so long to announce new music was on the way.

“We didn’t really want to break the hiatus until we knew we were happy with everything. If we weren’t happy with it we weren’t going to come back,” he explained. “That was a hard thing to explain to people. I’m so happy to have it out there now.”

Fall Out Boy’s fifth studio album Save Rock And Roll will be released on May 7, the 10th anniversary of their first full length studio album Take This To Your Grave.

-Annie Reuter, Radio.com


PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Returns With Diplo, 2 Chainz And Tyga

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Back in December Diplo dropped a hint about a genre-shaking mashup that was underway, a song that featured PSY‘s “Gangnam Style” and the vocals of ATL club-king 2 Chainz.

Diplo’s latest remix gives new life to PSY’s pop sound. But now that the song has hit the net, what does the producer really think of the monster he created? The song, which is part of PSY’s latest EP Gangnam Style (Remix Style) includes the vocals of 2 Chainz and Tyga, who trade verses over the Diplo-helmed track.

In December, Diplo spilled the beans on Twitter about the collabo: “no lie i just finished something with @psy_oppa and @2chainz the mayan calendar predicted this.”

[Check out 2 Chainz's take on guest verses below.]

While the song was released on Tuesday (March 5), on Monday Diplo offered a comment on remixes.

“When I’m by myself in a hotel room I just count all the s***** remixes I’m finishing and deadlines I’m missing to fall asleep,” he tweeted.

For more on this story go to Radio.com.


Fall Out Boy Promises ‘Diverse’ Guest Stars On New Album

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In advance of the forthcoming comeback album from Fall Out Boy, bassist Pete Wentz has taken to the band’s website to promise a “diverse” cast of guest appearances on Save Rock and Roll (out April 16).

“So I was thinking about some of our past features (ones that stuck with me): Jay-Z, Brendon Urie, John Mayer (guitar), Debbie Harry, Lil Wayne, and Elvis Costello,” Wentz wrote on the band’s site today (March 12). “The features that we have on Save Rock and Roll will be just as diverse – we are fans of all different kinds of music and the features will reflect that. If anything we have gone farther…”

True to Wentz’s word, the music video (below) for the album’s first single, “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” features hip-hop star 2 Chainz, who also joined the band onstage to add a rap to the song during an appearance at this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend.

Save Rock and Roll will be Fall Out Boy’s fifth studio album, the band’s first since the hiatus implemented following their 2009 release, Folie à Deux.

Wentz recently published his first novel, Gray, a fictional rock star memoir that looks at the darker side of life on the road with an emerging band.

FOB frontman Patrick Stump, meanwhile, published a piece taking down Internet hate culture just last week.


Lil Wayne’s ‘IANHB2′ Collaborators React To Health News

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While Lil Wayne‘s fans eagerly await the release of his tenth studio album, I Am Not A Human Being 2, the recent news of Weezy’s health problems have turned excitement for new music into anxiety over his condition.

But fans were not alone. Wayne’s colleagues were also on Weezy-watch, including IANHB2 feature artists, who hit Twitter to express their concern.

When Wayne was rushed to the hospital on March 12 after convulsing in seizures at a video shoot, he was released before heavy hand-wringing set in. Days later, it was reported that Wayne was readmitted and in the ICU. The news sent shock waves across the music world.

A tweet from the head of Wayne’s YMCMB label, Mack Maine, attempted to give hope to fans who got wind of a report from TMZ that the rapper was being read his last rites (a report the site deleted without comment). Maine insisted that “Wayne will update you all soon” and that “We watching the Syracuse game.”

Lil Wayne’s @LilTunechi account sent out a Tweet that elicited more questions: “I’m good everybody. Thx for the prayers and the love.”

Many of the members or Lil Wayne’s inner circle have remained relatively quiet on the matter, but several featured artists on his forthcoming IANHB2 album have given their reactions to the news.

On I Am Not A Human Being 2, 2 Chainz can be heard on ”Days and Days” and “Rich as F***”. Lil Wayne appeared on Playaz Circle‘s club hit, “Duffle Bag Boy,” where 2 Chainz, then Tity Boi, was largely introduced to the hip-hop masses. When he got the news, he offered a simple response to the matter.

He also turned the heat on the media for its part in disseminating the news, presumably the “last rites” report.

Soulja Boy, who appears on IANHB2‘s “Trigger Finger” retweeted the messages from Mack Maine’s and Lil Wayne’s accounts. He also added his own.

He later followed the Tweet with a more cryptic message.

For more on this story, including a complete IANHB2 track listing, go to Radio.com.


Beyonce, Nine Inch Nails To Headline Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival

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Beyonce and Nine Inch Nails will be headlining Jay-Z‘s second annual Made in America festival, to be held August 31st and September 1st at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the rap mogul announced Wednesday (April 10).

Jay passed up the traditional blog post or press release to announce the event’s all-star lineup. Instead, he took to Spotify this afternoon to release a playlist of the artists to be featured at the Labor Day weekend event. NIN and Bey were, respectively, the first and last artists revealed on the playlist, which was updated incrementally over the course of the 12 o’clock hour today.

Queens of the Stone Age, Phoenix, Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chainz, Macklemore, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Miguel, Deadmau5, Public Enemy, Imagine Dragons and The Gaslight Anthem are among the artists rounding out the lineup, with DJ Calvin Harris returning for his second year.

Find out the rest of the details at Radio.com


Kanye West And Pusha-T Put ‘Numbers On The Board’ After Jay-Z’s ‘Open Letter’

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G.O.O.D Music pals Pusha-T and Kanye West joined Jay-Z in surprise-releasing new music yesterday, delivering a new song, “Numbers on the Board.”

While Kanye doesn’t appear as a feature on the track, he did head up its production. The hip-hop mogul revealed his excitement Thursday (April 11) afternoon on Twitter.

“Our family Hov brought that real hip hip s*** this morning so me and Pusha wanna keep that feeling going,” tweeted Kanye West.

The music is moody and dark, with a nod to Jay-Z’s “Intro: A Million And One Questions/Rhyme No More” from In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. He samples Jay’s lyrics: “Motherf****** can’t rhyme no more/ about crime no more…”

Check out the full story on Radio.com. Listen to the song, here.


UPDATE: 2 Chainz Robbed At Gunpoint, San Francisco Police Now Confirm

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UPDATE (4 p.m. EST, June 10): This is a developing news story. Head to Radio.com for the latest breaking news in this case.

It turns out that rapper 2 Chainz was, in fact, the victim of a robbery at gunpoint Sunday afternoon (June 9) in San Francisco, the San Francisco Police Department now confirms to Radio.com.

This information conflicts with a report obtained by Radio.com earlier today (June 10), in which police spokesman Dennis Toomer stated that San Francisco police believed 2 Chainz had not been the victim of the robbery; rather, it had been a member of his entourage (“He was not the victim of a robbery,” he said this morning. “He was there, but he wasn’t the victim.”).

Several hours later, when Radio.com placed a follow-up call to SFPD, Toomer told Radio.com that the information had been correct at the time of the original call, but later in the morning, investigators informed him that the victim was actually 2 Chainz.

According to Toomer, the rapper was walking with his entourage in the 800 block of Howard Street at about 4:30 p.m. when they were approached by a suspect carrying a handgun, who fired a gunshot. While most of the group scattered, 2 Chainz reportedly fell to the ground and was approached by the suspect, “who robbed him and fled the scene.”

Toomer said the rapper was robbed of his wallet, which contained credit cards and cash money, as well as a cell phone.

Read the latest developments on Radio.com.



2 Chainz Arrested For Drug Possession At Los Angeles Airport

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Just days after the superstar rapper was robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco, 2 Chainz has been arrested at Los Angeles’ LAX airport for possession of marijuana, promethazine and codeine (the primary ingredients in “purple drank,” AKA “Sizzurp”).

An official media statement provided by Sargent Belinda Nettles, the Public Information Officer for the LAX Airport Police, reads in full:

“At approximately 1 p.m., Airport Police Officers responded for a narcotics investigation in the baggage check area of Terminal 5.  Transportation Security Administration advised Airport Police officers they found marijuana and a bottle of promethazine with codeine (purple drink/syrup) in the checked bag of 35 year old Tauheed Epps (2 Chainz), a resident of Riverdale, Georgia.

Airport Police Officers investigation revealed Epps was on board an outbound flight, he was removed from the aircraft and arrested for California Penal Code Section 11350a H & S – Possession of a controlled substance.

Epps was transported to the Airport Police station for preliminary processing and transported to and booked at the LAPD Pacific Division Jail without incident.”

“We cannot confirm Tauheed Epps has been arrested until he is booked,” explained Sgt. Nettles earlier in the day when by Radio.com today (June 11). “There was an incident today, though.”

The arrest follows the aforementioned robbery in San Francisco, which despite conflicting reports from both the San Francisco police and 2 Chainz himself, was eventually confirmed, with the rapper allegedly having his wallet and other personal items stolen in the chaos after the assailant fired a shot.

Read more on Radio.com.


2 Chainz And Pharrell Make A Fashion Statement With ‘Feds Watching’

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Mark this day down in your calendar, because it may well be the day 2 Chainz brought the waif back. It also may be the first video where Pharrell shows up as the worst-dressed person on set.

Pharrell’s fashion faux pas aside, director Ryan Hope (Wiz Khalifa, George Michael — and New Music To Know artist Alpine) exploits a silhouette not often seen in hip-hop videos. And a look that hasn’t been popular since the ’90s when Kate Moss brought heroin chic to the masses.

But the look of the video, which switches off between the black & white style of a Herb Ritz photo shoot and a color-saturated Martin Scorcese drugs & gangsters film, matches the lyrics.

For the first time in his career, this artist formerly known as Tity Boi is rapping about designer clothes from Alexander Wang, Commes Des Garçones, Armani, Givenchy and Gucci. All while throwing dollar bills at strippers and dealing drugs so, don’t worry, he’s not completely in a new universe.

Read more and watch the video on Radio.com.


[LISTEN] NEW Jason Derulo Feat. 2 Chainz “Talk Dirty”

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Jason Derulo (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images for NARM)OMG I LOVE THIS SONG! An instant banger! Jason just announced his new album “Tattoos” will be coming out September 24th. Take a listen to the new single:

Hear Drake’s New Song ‘All Me’ featuring 2 Chainz and Big Sean

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Drake drops songs before sunrise like it’s 5:00 a.m. in Toronto. His latest, “All Me,” moves away from Drake featuring Drake and taps 2 Chainz and Big Sean for a pair of verses on either side of Drake’s stand-out feature. “I’m the light-skinned Keith Sweat,” Drake informs us in the vaporous, midnight jam. Stream or download the track below, which kicks off with a sample of Aziz Ansar’s ridiculous braggadocio comedian character, “Raaaaaaaandy.”

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This is the latest in a steady stream of tracks Drizzy has been releasing, and may be featured on his forthcoming album Nothing Was The Same, due out September 17 on his Drake’s label, October’s Very Own.

Read more at Radio.com


WATCH: Jason Derulo Feat 2 Chainz “Talk Dirty to Me” Video

2 Chainz Arrested Following 8-Hour Tour Bus Standoff

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(Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Coachella)


2 Chainz. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Coachella)

In the early hours of this morning (Aug. 22), a tour bus was pulled over on I-40 and Meridian in Oklahoma City, Okla. for a broken taillight. 2 Chainz and 10 associates were on board and refused to open the doors to the authorities, who suspected drug usage on the bus. After a standoff lasting approximately eight hours, 2 Chainz and co. were arrested for Obstruction of a Public Officer.

“We stopped the bus about midnight and it was near I-40 and Meridian,” Oklahoma City Police Department Sergeant Jennifer Wardlow told Radio.com while the investigation was still underway. “The reason for traffic stop was it looks like there was a broken taillight. When officers went up to bus and made contact with the driver, there was evidence of drug usage going on the bus. We’re not getting into specifics of what it was, but it was apparent to the officers that there was drug use going on the bus. The driver was taken into custody without any problem. When he got out and shut the door, it locked so the officers couldn’t get into the tour bus.

Read more on Radio.com.


Win Lil’ Wayne Tickets All Weekend With Energy!

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This weekend, listen to Energy 103.7 to win tickets to see Lil Wayne in the America’s Most Wanted Festival on Tuesday, August 27th at the Sleep Train Amphitheater! Wayne will be joined by T.I., 2 Chainz and G-Easy. Tickets are still available at LiveNation.com.



Watch Robin Thicke, Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz in ‘Give It 2 U’ Video

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Robin Thicke’s new video for “Give It 2 U” is a football-themed bonanza featuring 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar and a whole lot of ladies shaking their thang.

In an interview with Radio.com, Thicke said the song is “very Michael JacksonPrince, but also pretty hip-hop,” calling it “a big, shiny pop record.”

Though Thicke gets quite suggestive on the track, he said the sexy song is meant to be tongue and cheek, just like most of his album. “I’ve written so many songs about my insecurities, my fears, my failures, my relationship problems, my personal issues, my issues with God and the universe,” he explained. “I’ve written about everything. I think that’s why this album I was like, ‘I don’t want to write about myself anymore. I just want to write stuff that makes people feel good.’ This is the most fun, feel-good musicicon1 Watch Robin Thicke, Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz in Give It 2 U Video I’ve ever made.”

Read more on Radio.com.


Update: Guns and Drugs Found on 2 Chainz’s Tour Bus

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(Theo Wargo/Getty Images)


(Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Last month, 2 Chainz was arrested following an eight-hour tour bus standoff after his concert on Aug. 21. 2 Chainz had a show earlier that night at Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Center as part of Lil Wayne‘s America’s Most Wanted Tour with T.I. and Future, neither of which were on the bus.

Radio.com spoke with Oklahoma City Police Department Sergeant Jennifer Wardlow who confirmed that narcotics were found on the bus. Upon further investigation, The Oklahoman reports that Oklahoma City police found weapons including two semi-automatic pistols and a 12-gauge shotgun as well as painkillers and marijuana residue on 2 Chainz’s tour bus.

“The search warrant return shows police discovered two .40-caliber semi-automatic pistols along with a partial box of ammunition for the handguns. Twenty shells for the 12-gauge shotgun also were seized,” The Oklahoman writes.

Read more on Radio.com.


2 Chainz on the ‘B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME’ Album Cookbook: ‘It’ll Really Teach You a Few Things’

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(Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
(Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

With his sophomore studio full-length, B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME, hitting stores this week, (September 10), superstar rapper 2 Chainz sat down with Ryan Cameron and his morning show crew at Atlanta radio station V-103 to talk about what fans can expect the second time around.

“I’m excited about it, I worked with some great producers, still kept it ATL,” he said during the interview regarding the new album while referencing his hometown of Atlanta, GA. “Still stayed in my lane, but I definitely (grew) on this one. I widened my lane, I’ll say that. I didn’t get outside of it. I’m very excited about the music, the mixes, the arrangements.

“I put a lot of work into this album. It was non-stop,” the “Birthday Song” rapper added. “It’s just a lot of heart, sweat and tears, a lot of culture, a lot of lifestyle, a lot of traveling…I didn’t reach a glass ceiling, so I still feel like I can grow some more.”

Another big topic of conversation during the interview was food, with 2 Chainz talking about including his cookbook, #Mealtime, as a bonus feature on the new album.

Read more on Radio.com.


UPDATE: 2 Chainz Robbed At Gunpoint, San Francisco Police Now Confirm

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UPDATE (4 p.m. EST, June 10): This is a developing news story. Head to Radio.com for the latest breaking news in this case.

It turns out that rapper 2 Chainz was, in fact, the victim of a robbery at gunpoint Sunday afternoon (June 9) in San Francisco, the San Francisco Police Department now confirms to Radio.com.

This information conflicts with a report obtained by Radio.com earlier today (June 10), in which police spokesman Dennis Toomer stated that San Francisco police believed 2 Chainz had not been the victim of the robbery; rather, it had been a member of his entourage (“He was not the victim of a robbery,” he said this morning. “He was there, but he wasn’t the victim.”).

Several hours later, when Radio.com placed a follow-up call to SFPD, Toomer told Radio.com that the information had been correct at the time of the original call, but later in the morning, investigators informed him that the victim was actually 2 Chainz.

According to Toomer, the rapper was walking with his entourage in the 800 block of Howard Street at about 4:30 p.m. when they were approached by a suspect carrying a handgun, who fired a gunshot. While most of the group scattered, 2 Chainz reportedly fell to the ground and was approached by the suspect, “who robbed him and fled the scene.”

Toomer said the rapper was robbed of his wallet, which contained credit cards and cash money, as well as a cell phone.

Read the latest developments on Radio.com.

Advertising Agency Trolls Internet with Video Featuring Kids Reciting Explicit Rap Lyrics

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(Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

(Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Unhappy with the current lyrical state of hip-hop? So is an ad agency out of Los Angeles called Amusement Park Entertainment.

The company created a very NSFW video in which several school-aged children recite some of the most explicit lyrics from rap songs that include A$AP Rocky’s “F****** Problem,” Rick Ross’ ”Hold Me Back,” 2 Chainz’s “Birthday Song,” Lil Wayne’s “B*****s Love Me,” Meek Mill’s “Levels,” and, perhaps most disturbingly, Ross’ verse on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.,” which includes him rapping about slipping a girl a “Molly.” The verse, which was later removed by Rocko, was criticized for glorifying rape and led Reebok to drop him as a brand spokesman.

The agency — whose website states they’ve worked with Nike, Pepsi and Gatorade — put a statement in the comments below the video to explain their intent. They insist it’s not meant to be a call for cleaner hip hop lyrics, a watering-down of the genre or a statement of condemnation. Instead, they are asking for more “balanced honest” lyrics from what they refer to as “some of my favorite rappers.”

Read more on Radio.com.

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