Not even a tour bus explosion can stop DJ Khaled. Days after his bus went up in flames while he was on his way to a show in Orlando, the Cash Money DJ was in L.A. shooting the star-studded video for “Take It to the Head,” the first single off his upcoming album Kiss the Ring.

Khaled called on director Colin Tilley and his collaborators Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne. Drake, sporting a Toronto Blue Jays jacket, Birdman, and Busta Rhymes even stopped by to make cameos.

“#TAKEITTOTHEHEAD video going be award winning!” tweeted Khaled, who called into Angie Martinez’s show on Monday to discuss his accident.

“I couldn’t grab nothing out the bus. I only grabbed my laptop that had that Kiss the Ring music in it,” said Khaled, who lost his jewelry and clothes in the blaze. “We blessed to get out.”

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Everyone seems to think Drake and Rita Ora, Jay-Z‘s newest Roc Nation protegé, are now dating according to many online publications. Rita Ora, was linked to be dating reality star Rob Kardashian, but the couple is no longer together. Insiders say that Drake and Rita have been flirting with each other a lot, and also Rita Ora gave Drake a ring that belonged to her grandfather.

Drake and Rita were spotted leaving an event a couple nights ago in the picture above. Enough to say their dating? Not so sure, what’s your opinion?

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Noah “40″ Shebib recently sat down with CNN to do an exclusive interview in which he goes into detail about living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). We first heard of 40′s condition on Drake‘s MTV Documentary in 2010 “Better Than Good Enough“. Check out what this phenomenal producer and individual had to say below in his interview.

Q: What was it like to receive that diagnosis as such a young man?

A: It started with sensory issues. I woke up one day and all the temperature in my body was distorted. My sense of hot and cold and what that meant to my brain was very confusing. Any time something like that happens to your body – which is very difficult to explain when you have MS – is that your brain is tricked, so your nerves are telling you something that’s not true. Any time your brain is telling you something that’s not true, there’s a little bit of trauma for your body in general to understand what’s going on, so you’re a little bit in shock.

I went to the hospital very quickly after that and was diagnosed within a couple of weeks. It continued to escalate to a much worse place in a month, and I spent the next two years of my life getting back on my feet.

Q: What exactly were your sensory problems like?

A: It’s a funny story. My leg was just on fire when I woke up one day. I was at the studio. I had fallen asleep and had woken up at 2 o’clock in the afternoon the next day, and my first initial thought was, “Oh, I must’ve fallen asleep by the heater or something. My leg is really hot.” Then I got in my car and the floor heater was only on, on the left side. I thought, “That’s interesting.”

You know, you have all these other explanations except that your brain is telling you something that’s not true. Then I get home and I sit down at my computer, and I’m thinking the heater is just blasting hot air down there. “Where is that heat coming from?” Then I put on my boots and I said, “Oh my god, this boot is really hot. This boot must’ve been beside the heater.”

You always have an explanation, and of course it led me to understand that something was definitely wrong, which led me to the hospital, and as I said – by the end of that month – I was off my feet and not walking.

Q: What was it like to be off your feet, unable to control your own body?

A: I would say it was inspiring, as bizarre and twisted as that may sound. I tried to see the best light of it and how I could use it to my advantage.

In an almost shallow twisted way, I said, “I’ve got this disease I’m going to live with it. I’m going to win with it and my story is going to be that much better when I get there.” I made that decision very early on in my diagnosis.

I remember lying in my hospital bed and they have the little table they swing across your bed to put your meal on, and I quickly put my meal on the chair beside me, put my laptop and the little keyboard, and went directly to work in the hospital bed. Luckily enough for me, I don’t think anything will ever be able to stop me from making music.

Q: What’s the hardest part of dealing with your disease?

A: I think one of the biggest struggles people with MS face is trying to define it to people and explain how it manifests itself. It’s very difficult, you know. This morning I had to lie down on my bed to get my socks on because I couldn’t bend over. You know, that’s not something I tell anybody. Then the things that I deal with on a daily basis are usually pretty miniscule, so I keep them to myself, but they add up, and it’s hard for people to understand that.

So I’ll say to someone, “Oh, I can’t do that today. They’ll say, “Yeah, but you were playing basketball with us yesterday.” They don’t understand why or how, and it doesn’t make sense to a lot of people. It’s very difficult to grasp the concept.

People are confused, so they result to the obvious answer. “Oh well, that’s probably because this happened. Oh, that happens to everybody. Everybody’s tired today. Oh, we’ve all had a long week.” That’s the most frustrating thing for me in the world, because you’re taking for granted how hard I work to be on this level with you.

I try to stay quiet about that stuff. I don’t need to have a parade about how hard I’m working. It’s just exhausting explaining to people what you have to deal with if you’re trying to keep it quiet and just trying to live a normal life.

Q: People ask why don’t you just try harder, get a little more sleep, or have another cup of coffee?

A: It’s funny, you know, one of the things I deal with is sports. I played hockey my whole life. When I was diagnosed, I was probably on the ice 5 or 6 times a week at that time. I haven’t really stepped on since. Every few years, I stop myself and say, “What are you doing? Why don’t you go play some sports? Stop being such a baby! Get out there!”

The first time I did that, I was on the ski kill and got stuck halfway down because my legs went numb on me. I was on the snow for about 40 minutes before my friends came and rescued me and dragged me down the hill. Then another couple years go by and I think to myself, “What are you doing? Come on! Go play some hockey!” I jump on the ice and skate with some friends and then don’t walk for a week after that.

I’m constantly forgetting even myself what the repercussions of my disease are. I’ll be like, “Come on! Get up! You can do this!” So not only is it difficult for someone else to understand, it’s also difficult for me to understand.

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Drake is ranked #3 on Entertainment Weekly‘s list of top 30 greatest artist right now, Taylor Swift and Adele filled the top two spots. Find out why EW chose Drake for the 3rd spot.

“Why we love him: Because he’s not afraid to lift the curtain on his life in a genre generally known for treating emotional vulnerability like kryptonite. The Degrassi star-turned-mega-rapper has built his career on getting personal, peppering his confessional tracks with unfiltered accounts of his relationship to fame, women, and self-doubt. But that’s not to say the man lacks swagger; this is the guy, after all, who named his 2010 debut Thank Me Later.”

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OurStage and Real Hip Hop Network are looking for the hottest hip-hop artist for the Real Hip Hop Network “Rise” Competition.

Here’s the deal. You upload your best track before April 30, 2012, and we’ll let our fans tell us who’s the dopest of them all. If that’s you, you’ll get an all – expenses paid trip to all 27 dates on Drake‘s summer U.S. tour, with a performance slot at each stop. And we know you can’t roll up in a hoopty, so we’re throwing in a customized tour bus to keep your swag factor high. Oh, and you’ll also get a starring role in the Real Hip Hop Network “Rise” documentary, just to make sure everyone knows exactly who you are.

Want this sh** forever? Then let’s do this. Grab all the info HERE.

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Timbaland kept it real when he stopped by Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club.” The super-producer reminisced on the past and looked to the future, speaking about the return of Missy Elliott, his upcoming album Shock Value III (which he personally calls Ezekiel’s Wheel), a Drake and Aaliyah collaboration, and where Aaliyah would be if she was alive today.

On the features on Shock Value III, which has been delayed from June: “I got Wayne, Ross, I wanna do one with Kanye, mostly the rappers I got this time.”

On a Missy Elliott/Nicki Minaj collaboration: “Missy would want that. I wanna do that with this record. I know Nicki like Missy. I think it should be for [Missy's album] more than mine. I think it would make more of a statement to be with hers. I think if it was a record for mine, I would give it to her.”

On who he sees having longevity: Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Nicki Minaj. “She has a brain. I look at her as a woman now,” he said of Nicki. He also co-signed A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz.

On Drake: “I look at Drake and he seems like he angry, some internal problems. That’s my dude, but sometimes I be like, you alright?”

On recording a collaboration with Drake and Aaliyah: “I know they tryna drop some Aaliyah records. I got something that I never put out. I’m trying to get one done now just for the fans, but if [Drake] do it, it should be with me and him and Missy. The best decision what the fans would want to see is all three of us. It can’t be something to make money off of ’cause I think it’s wrong to make money off the dead.”

On where Aaliyah’s career would be now: “I think she would have been Beyoncé status ’cause she was the first one who was doing all those things.”

On his weight gain: “I went back to being fat, just say it. I’m fat, fat boy. Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat! My momma big, I got fat-tabloids or whatever—fat genes.”

Source: Rap Up

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21yr old Rorrey Fenty, Rihanna‘s brother, speaks on Riri’s love life to Heat magazine a couple days ago. In his interview with Heat magazine, Rorrey gives details about how his sister dealt with the public break-up with Chris Brown and on how Drake almost became his brother-in-law. Transcript of the interview is after the jump. Let us know what you think, you think this is true or false?

Rorrey On Rihanna’s Relationship With Chris Brown:
“Rihanna and Chris Brown were great together, they were like soul mates. It’s a very sensitive subject – I just blank it out and I think she blanks it out, too.”

“When she looks unhappy, it’s not because of her missing Chris, it’s because of how hectic her lifestyle is – she sometimes does 13-hour days.”

On Rihanna’s Relationship With Drake:
“Rihanna doesn’t have a boyfriend right now. Drake and Rihanna used to be together – and he’s a pretty cool dude.”

“I was in a club in LA, and he saw me and came over. I was nearly his brother-in-law, but I didn’t know him so well, so I was touched by that.”

On Protecting His Sister:
“I’ve always been protective of her. Certain guys will be looking at her or coming on to her, and I tell them to move away and be careful not to bother her.”

“We don’t have a drinking age in Barbados, so we started partying at 14 years old.” [Sources differ on whether their is a legal drinking age in Barbados. The general consensus is that the age is 18 but anyone between the ages 10-18 can be served a drink if accompanied by their parents - a practice that is pretty common in the Caribbean]

On Rihanna’s dreams of getting married:
“I just want her to be happy. She has talked to me about getting married and having children. She plans on settling down, but she wants to focus on her career. She needs a man who likes to do the stuff she likes doing, someone laidback and fun-loving.”

“There are a million guys across the world waiting to take her out, but she says they are more intimidated by her than anything else.”

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Drake lends his pen game to Melanie Fiona on “I Been That Girl.” Drizzy writes from the female perspective on the cautionary cut off Melanie’s sophomore album The MF Life, in stores Tuesday.

She and her fellow Canadian have history together, performing as teens in the group The Renaissance. “We go back to singing in cocktail lounges and basements,” Melanie told Rap-Up TV. “We’re just both so proud of each other.”

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Nobody really knows if this is real beef or not, but Drake and Maliah Michele seem to have had an argument over Twitter recently. Drake recently tweeted, “Sometimes I wanna tweet things like “Bitch how you stop fuckin with me and now you live on twitter everyday”…but then I just don’t.” Drake didn’t say who it was towards, but Maliah Michele was quick to write back, taking it as it was a jab her way.

“Lmao Yess I love twitter and I don’t f**k with disrespectful crybaby ass niggas that’s y,” she wrote on her account without aiming it directly at Drizzy. Drake responded with, “Guilty consciences all around me. Lol.”

Soon into the Twitter beef, Maliah fan’s told her to stop beefing and get over it, which she replied, “idk y its just show business.” She followed that reply with, “Lmao y y’all think that is the only man in my life it was 2 years ago. Please no more talk about him. Find me someone else. Who will appreciate me.”

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