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Billboard.com's The Juice spoke to Young Jeezy about "TM:103," his fourth studio album, set to be released December 20th.

Here's what he had to say on it:

Grammy-winning rapper T.I. has decided to let fans know he and 50 Cent have ironed out past issues revolving around remarks about his wife, Tiny, not taking the fall for his 2010 drug possession conviction.


While Tiny was asked by television host Wendy Williams for her reaction to 50's past comments, Tip interrupted and confirmed they recently chopped it up.

T.I. spoke to the Juice about Meek Mill, who, before he joined MMG, was briefly signed to T.I.'s label, Grand Hustle Records.

Young Jeezy made his way to MTV’s RapFix show earlier today and joined Sway to speak on his upcoming album “TM 103″. During their conversation, Jeezy opened up about his relationship and rumored beef with Rick Ross, explaining where things stand at this point. Young Jeezy feels that Rick Ross and himself should sit down and talk about their situation.

The 54th annual Grammy Awards are set to air on Febuary 12th but tonight the nominations are being revealed. Kanye West leads the pack with 7 nominations followed by Adele and Bruno Mars with 6 nominations each. Lil Wayne nabs 5 nominations while Drake, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj earn 4 nominations each.

Record Of The Year
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Holocene – Bon Iver
Grenade – Bruno Mars
The Cave – Mumford & Sons
Firework – Katy Perry

Young Jeezy has been steady building his CTE roster, adding Freddie Gibbs to the team earlier this year, but Tuesday night (November 29) on Twitter DJ Folk revealed that he tried to get the Snowman to sign another rap rookie in addition. Folk originally tried to recruit Big K.R.I.T. as he envisioned the rapper/producer as CTE’s version of Kanye West.

Juicy J's new mixtape "Blue Dream & Lean" is out now, and AllHipHop spoke to him about it, about him joining Taylor Gang & the possibility of a new Three Six Mafia album. Here's what he had to say on it.

On Taylor Gang:

“Yea man it’s going down, that’s it, it’s real, it’s done, I’m in. That’s my brother, we going on the road and we gonna impact.”

Yesterday, during a videoshoot for Bay Area rapper Kafani, a one-year old boy was shot in the head and remains in a coma. Kafani denies having any part in the shooting, which took place just after 6 pm,  in a liquor store parking lot. Supposedly over fifty gun shots were fired into a large crowd of people, leaving eight people hit and a body that resembled Kafani in a van, riddeled with bullets.

UPDATE:

According to the Jamaicain Observer, prisoners, including Vybz Kartel did not escape from the New Horizon Adult Remand Centre. Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green stated early this morning "I know nothing about that. If that had taken place I would would certainly have known,"

Usher's ex-wife wants to take away his kids ... claiming the singer has repeatedly blown off his legal obligations as a co-parent ... and even worse -- he CLOSED her Saks 5th Avenue credit card ... this according to court docs obtained by TMZ.


Tameka Raymond -- who had 2 kids with Usher during their brief 2 year marriage -- filed court papers in Georgia ... asking a judge to strip Usher of joint physical custody of their children ASAP.

A$AP Rocky spoke to HipHopDX about his mixtape, he identified the girl in the video for "Purple Swag," and spoke on a joint A$AP project; as well he clarified that the "Deep Purple" mixtape was not official, but created by a fan in Paris (& more). Check out excerpts below.

On The Girl In "Purple Swag":

A close friend and associate of the rapper Trae Tha Truth was fatally shot on Thanksgiving Day (November 25).