Hip-hop’s most notorious figure, Marion “Suge” Knight, is suing hip-hop’s reigning rapper, Kanye West, over a 15-carat, $135,000 diamond stud earring that was stolen from him three years ago.

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Yeezy + Jeezy = Amazin’. Off that 808s & Heartbreak (Nov. 24).

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Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak and Ludacris’ Theater of the Mind will both be released a day earlier, on Monday, November 24th.

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“It’s too big, it’s too wide, it’s too strong, it won’t fit, it’s too much,” sings Beyoncé. Get your mind out of the gutter! She’s talking about an ego, of course.

The Elvis “BlacElvis” Williams and Harold Lilly-produced track is slated to be the second urban single off Beyoncé’s third album I Am… Sasha Fierce. Look out for the Kanye West remix!

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Kanye West and T-Pain “Go Hard” in the new video from DJ Khaled off his We Global album. Look out for Rick Ross the Boss.

For those who haven’t already seen it, here’s the official album cover for Kanye West’s fourth studio album 808s & Heartbreak (Nov. 25). If you missed our album listening write-up, read it here.

Kanye West hit the stage twice during the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. Once was to perform his single “Love Lockdown” (above) and the second time he joined Estelle for “American Boy” (below).

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Kanye West gets animated once again in his new video for “Heartless,” the second single off 808s & Heartbreak (Nov. 25). Watch the Hype Williams-directed video below.

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Beyoncé performs “If I Were a Boy” at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool, U.K. on Thursday.

Estelle and Kanye West dedicated “American Boy” to President-elect Barack Obama.

More photos below.

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