A veteran Hip-Hop producer has filed a lawsuit against Lady Gaga’s producer Rob Fusari and his company Rob Fusari Productions over several of the pop singer’s hit singles. Calvin Gaines is a Hip-Hop producer who started out working with New York legends like MC Lyte, Stetsasonic, Salt-N-Pepa, Ultramagnetic MC’s and others. On June 15th, Gaines filed a $1,000,000 dollar lawsuit in United States District Court,  Southern District of New York, claiming he was cheated out of credit and royalties for co-authoring Lady Gaga’s hit single’s “Paparazzi,” “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” and “Disco Heaven.” According to the lawsuit, Fusari and Gaines met each other around 1997, when they co-authored and co-produced five songs for Brandy, which were never released. The pair went on to co-write and co-author Destiny’s Child’s smash singles “No No No” “You’re the Only One.” The songwriting duo later linked to write the three songs in question for Lady Gaga. According to Gaines, he is 20% owner of the copyrights in the songs, but Fusari allegedly transferred Gaines’ interests in the compositions to Sony/ATV songs. According to Gaines’ lawsuit, he has never received a penny in connection with his co-authorship of the three hit singles.

Gaines claims he is owed millions from royalties from Lady Gaga’s The Fame album, which has sold over 3 million copies in the United States. The record has also been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum in 25 other countries.

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Cops arrested a mixed martial arts “fighter/trainer” as their suspect in this case.

The best part of this story is that middle school girls know a perv-ass poseur when they see one. Police say a twentysomething man with a fake badge is on the loose, trying to perv on middle school girls in Chatsworth. He allegedly told one girl outside Lawrence Middle School, 10100 Variel Avenue, that he needed to put a tracking device in her bra. Now cops are on his trail and are hoping anyone who has had a similar experience or who might know who this is can call them at 818-832-0609.

In one incident, only May 23, the douche threatened to arrest a female student, according to cops at the LAPD’s Devonshire Division. They say this upstanding citizen is Latino or Asian, a whopping 5 feet, 5 inches tall, with brown eyes and hair.

Update: On Thursday afternoon the LAPD announced that they arrested 24-year-old Van Nuys resident Joseph Reyes Rogero, described as a mixed martial arts “trainer/fighter” employed at M1 Global Gym, which lists pros such as Fedor Emelianenko on its roster of house fighters. Cops allege he molested “several minors,” and they jailed him in lieu of $1 million while they prepare evidence

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For years, African-Americans have defined what is cool and trendy in American pop culture. But some are now saying that African-Americans are no longer needed as music executives, because of the similarities of Black and white artists these days.

While former music executives Antonio “L.A.” Reid and Sylvia Rhone have been instrumental in ushering-in a slew of African-American artists into mainstream media, many labels believe that they don’t necessarily need African-American executives to sell hip-hop or pop records. “Now that Rihanna and Katy Perry are so similar, why do you need a black executive?” said hip-hop pioneer Russel Simmons.

Some argue that African-Americans still play a crucial role:

“You still need soul,” says one of the rare black women in mid-management.

Adds a black lawyer: “As creative people, African-Americans have led the charge in determining what is hot in pop culture. Let’s not forget the big picture. We’ve been the tastemakers on the cutting edge and telling the world what’s hot.”

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For the second year in a row, Chilliwack will be represented at the world hip-hop championships in Las Vegas. That right was earned by The Franchise, a group of eight dancers from Project Dance aged 10 to 13, when an outstanding qualifying round propelled them to Las Vegas July 26 to 31, to compete amongst the world’s best in hip-hop. The win was a brilliant capper to a great competition season for Project Dance, beginning with the Chilliwack Music & Dance Festival, followed by Dance Power in Chilliwack, Rising Star in Mission, the Surrey Dance Festival, Synergy in Surrey and 5678 Showtime in Surrey. Among the multitude of placements, high-score trophies and bursaries, 10-year-old Halle Konrad emerged as the provincial representative. She competed for the provincial junior title in Kamloops the week of June 6. “There are too many accomplishments to do everyone justice” said Project Dance owner/director, Amanda Quinton. “In only our third year of operation, we are a force to be reckoned with.

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Already co-signed by Lupe Fiasco, Jay Electronica, Big Sean, and many other of the big named emcees, Lil B has added to his list Lil Wayne for an upcoming collaboration.

Lil B took to twitter to announce the exciting and surprising announcement that we can look forward for a Lil B/Lil Wayne collaboration.

“Studio with @liltunechi lastnight was amazing we got something 4 yall, check me out Lil Wayne Feat Lil B ON HIS NEW MIXTAPE

Many have already expressed their anticipation for the BasedGod and New Orleans rapper after Lil B tweeted a few days ago regarding a shoutout that Wayne had for Lil B.

“I can’t belive wayne just shouted me out nd fuks with BasedGod I’m done - Lil B”

While many people have different opinions, you can be sure that this will be one of the most interesting collaborations in Hip-Hop this year.

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(SN) Who is Pull A Hoe Records where are you from what’s your style and what are you representing.

Pull A Hoe Records Is A Independent Hip Hop Record Label from Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada our style is raw underground hip hop ,street rap ,true to life music, touch bases on everything from the ghetto, to the suburbs, from street life drugs prostitution, we try to open the eyes of our listeners and show um different ways out of different situations such as u don’t gotta push those drugs u dont gotta rob, these things do happen on a daily basis, and if we can help people out threw our music then u can say we are happy with our self and our accomplishments. Our group is a close connected set of friends, with long pasts we are all born and raised in the northend of Winnipeg we represent anyone that supports our music anyone that see’s some of the

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