Shanell steals the spotlight in the smoldering video for “So Good” featuring Lil Wayne and Drake. The Young Money crew pulls into a drive-in movie theater, where Lil Wayne pops the trunk on a Porsche Panamera and unveils his sexy protégée. Drizzy appears on the projection screen as Ms. Shanell flirts with Denver Broncos running back Willis McGahee.

As the sun rises the next morning, she puts the moves on her hunky co-star, with her seductive song “6 AM” serving as the soundtrack.

Shanell is working on her long-awaited debut album and will release her mixtape Nobody’s Bitch next month.

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The “Club Paradise” tour touched down in Houston on Thursday night. During his headlining set, Drake brought out his tourmates Meek Mill and French Montana along with surprise guest Rick Ross, who performed “Stay Schemin’” for the first time together. The crowd sang along as each MC took turns on the mic, with Meek providing ad-libs. Watch them tear up the Toyota Center.

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Drake jumps on the remix to DJ Drama’s single “We in This Bitch,” which also boasts a new verse from Future.  The original track featured Future, Young Jeezy, T.I., and Ludacris, and will appear on Drama’s upcoming album Quality Street Music.  

“Not time for no good girl/ They hold on, they cling too much/ I just want a hood bitch that tells me I sing too much,” raps Drizzy.  

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Drake kicked off the second leg of his “Club Paradise” tour with some special guests. The Canadian hip-hop star pulled into the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Monday night for the first date of the North American trek with 2 Chainz, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, and French Montana (J. Cole will meet up with them tonight in Irvine).

After serving up solo sets, Drizzy brought back his tourmates including Waka Flocka for “Round of Applause,” French Montana for “Stay Schemin’,” and 2 Chainz to perform “No Lie” for the first time live. Surprise guest The Weeknd joined him for “Crew Love” and the crowd roared when Lil Wayne skated out for “HYFR” and “The Motto.”

Check out some highlights below.

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Tyga kicks it old school in the video for his Careless World single “Still Got It” featuring Drake. Set in Harlem in the early ’90s, the Young Money rapper spits game to a girl, while wearing a Fendi bucket hat, puffy jacket, gold chains, and holding a retro cell phone. But after his leading lady (Audra Simmons of RichGirl) walks away with another guy, gunfire erupts and the block disperses. Drake does not appear in the video, but look for a cameo from Teyana Taylor.

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Only hours after dropping his rip-roaring collaboration with Big Sean (“Burn”), Meek Mill breaks us off with another heavy-hitting record from his DJ Drama-hosted mixtape Dreamchasers 2, which arrives Monday. The Maybach Music MC, whose debut album Dreams & Nightmares is due August 28, teams with Drake and Jeremih on “Amen.” Sing their praises below.

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With features on singles for Kanye West and Nicki Minaj and rumors of signing to G.O.O.D. Music, 2 Chainz is hip-hop’s man of the moment. Now the former Playaz Circle member enlists Drake for “No Lie,” the first single off his upcoming Def Jam debut Based on a T.R.U. Story, due August 14. The two will perform the song live on the “Club Paradise” tour, kicking off May 7.

Is the hype real? Listen and weigh in below.

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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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