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Drake Signs With Lil Wayne's Young Money Label 'It's just a great day,' Drake says of deal; his material will be distributed by Universal Republic. By Shaheem Reid Views 2,627 Favorites Comments 1 Rating 100% Rate this Article Permalink Flagged... Flag Adult Hate Spam Other Add to My Profile Print ShareThis Mixtapes are a movement. For some, giving away music could mean much more than trying to sell their tunes — but Drake played the game right. He started giving away his mixtape So Far Gone earlier this year, and the word of mouth spread with fans, his peers and record-company executives: a recent New York concert found [Warner Music exec] Lyor Cohen in the crowd, standing among screaming fans, including Kanye West and Talib Kweli. Well, the wait is over: After...

60 RAPPERS IN 60 DAYS: Andre 3000 Linda Hobbs Three Stacks is still in love with rap   Scarface ­ Nothing is wrong with rap at all…you got to love rap because the only thing rap has ever said to people is, ‘we gon’ tell how it is.’. Andre 3000 has publicly said he’s bored with rap, but this much is certain: Whenever OutKast’s outlandish other half pops up on a song, Andre Benjamin, 35, leaves rappers, clubs, and the Internet in a tizzy. Andre has always rapped (and sang) about women, but he’s really a “conscious rapper”—although he’d never refer to himself as such. He’s also the rare artist who knows what it feels like to go diamond. Jay-Z has called him a genius. Even Lil Wayne rapped that you “gotta stand out like Andre 3K,” on his Tha Carter III (Cash Money/Universal, 2008). In 1995, the same year tensions brewed betw...