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Ever wonder how artists like Waka Flocka Flame and Roscoe Dash got their songs on the radio without having record deals? Hurricane Dave, programming director of Atlanta's Hot 107.9, sat down with Hip Hop Wired and spilled the beans on how unsigned artists can get their songs played on the radio!

Some people just can't get enough of Nicki Minaj, and neither can Black Men magazine! Here are Nicki Minaj's Black Men Magazine shoot and cover photo!

Atlanta police and sponsors of Screen on the Green at Piedmont Park plan to use lessons learned from the last movie viewing when they show “Dreamgirls” tonight. The summer movie series hopes to keep things quiet since the showings were temporarily suspended after marauding teens took over the park during the June 3 screening of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

Atlanta's own India.Arie will be among the 2010 inductees into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, organizers have announced. The annual awards show moves to a new home this year. It’ll be Sept. 11 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre and will be broadcast live at 8:30 p.m. on Georgia Public Television.

jungle boogie (jungle –oft attrib to Hindi jangal + boogie – prob alter of bogle – goblin, object of fear) a 1974 hit by Kool & the Gang, frequently sampled by hip-hop artists, perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever recorded.

Three years after "Stomp the Yard" premiered in theaters a sequel is now on the way. "Stomp the Yard: Homecoming" centers on a student at Truth University (Terrence J from BET's "106 & Park"), who must overcome personal obstacles to win the national step-up title.

Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.'s wax statues were unveiled yesterday on Tupac's birthday, June 16. Check it out here!

Eve was seen at the Trousdale Lounge in West Hollywood last night and we saw something quite scary. Click here for details!

"My son was killed by the Black Mafia Family." Those nine words, spoken by a grieving mother one morning in 2004, started journalist Mara Shalhoup on a trail that, more than five years later, has led to the publication of "BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family."

Garry Shider, the musical director for George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic band known for wearing a diaper on stage, died June 16th at the age of 56.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. may be undefeated in the ring, but he suffered a loss to Just for You Entertainment yesterday (June 16th) in court.

As fans eagerly await Dr. Dre's long-delayed "Detox" album, now comes word another song has leaked, although its clearly unfinished. Dr. Dre's "Under Pressure" featuring Jay-Z was reportedly produced by Scott Storch and serves as the first single from Dre's upcoming new album "Detox."