According to reports, Nicki Minaj's cousing Nicholas Telemaque, 28, was gunned down in Brooklyn Sunday night.

Nicholas Telemaque had just left C-PAC nightclub just blocks from his home when he was shot multiple times in his torso at E. 52nd St. and Farragut Road in East Flatbush about 2:40 a.m., cops and a relative said.

"It's disgusting," said cousin Roger Clarke, 41. "Young kids, they don't value someone's life."

Telemaque died soon after he was taken to Kings County Hospital.
SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

BV is reporting that Def Jam payed out an estimated $1,078,000 to create Rihanna's new hit "Man Down". The label spent $18,000 on a two week writting camp in L.A. that included paying for studio time for the writers, producers and studio engineers. Rock City, a writting duo based out of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, cleaned up niced receiving about $15,000 for writting the hit (which took them only 12 minutes do do btw). The producer earned $20,000. The Vocal producer, earned $15,000. The rest of the mili went to mixing, mastering and rolling out the album totalling up to the remaining $1,010,000. Wow.

Lil B sat down with MTV to discuss his new LP I'm Gay (now available on itunes). Lil B, also known as the Based God, tells MTV "Don't let a word make you discriminate upon another human being...Because at the end of the day no matter what you do, I should be happy for your because your alive. You're living life." Lil B hopes that the album will break barriers and show people that words really mean nothing. Read the rest over at MTV...

The Huffington Post is reporting that Amber Rose has lost her modeling contract with CAA Modeling Agency over her nude pic scandal. If Amber did release her own nudey pics hope it was worth it....

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Earier this week Mediatakeout.com released some NSFW photos of Amber Rose stating (and then retracting) that Amber sent them to Nicki's boyfriend SB. Both Nicki and Amber are denying the story on twitter which leaves us with many unanswered questions. Who leaked the photos? Who was Amber sending the photos to? Who was holding the camera?


Peep the photos on mediatakeout.com

But, at least she sounds great..

One of the longest unions in hip hop has ended, Tashera has seperated from DMX due to his cheating with video model Yadira Borrego . Borrego is claiming that she is DMX fiance and while DMX admits to fathering two kids with Borrego he has clearified that he and Borrego are not engaged and never have been!

Both DMX and Tashera are reported to be filming their own reality shows so were pretty sure things will be getting messy real soon..

The lovely Ms. Jill Scott sat down with Billboard.com to discuss her new album, her newfound 'free'dom, her divorce and failed engagement. check it out...