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Why do you like to do it in September?! I like September! Do not tough my September ... especially after 9th of September. This is my personal human right to have a good September, do you know it?!



(it was my crazy reply to some int'l news event )

Drake recently reacted to Kendrick Lamar's verse on Big Sean's new song "Control." Lamar calls out several rappers on the track including Drake, J. Cole, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky and Mac Miller. However, the Canadian rapper doesn't feel that Lamar is threatening him in any way. "I didn't really have anything to say about it," Drizzy said.

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When Lady Gaga kicked off the month-long iTunes Festival, she did so with a slate of new tunes, including a track called "Jewels And Drugs," a duet with T.I. and Too $hort. Due to a reported visa problem, T.I. had to do his verse on "Jewels & Drugs" via videotape, though Too $hort was able to take to the stage at London's Roundhouse to lend his voice to the track.

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Paul McCartney has posted his lastest track, "New," online. The song includes lyrics for his wife Nancy Shevell, with McCartney crooning: "All my life I never knew what I could be / what I could do / till we were new." McCartney's forthcoming album, New, will be released on October 14.

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Keith Urban has unveiled some new details regarding his upcoming album, Fuse, in a behind the scenes video. The country rocker's seventh studio effort will combine traditional instruments alongside digital ones: "First and foremost, I think I was trying to find ways to fuse those together," he says in the vid.

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Jennifer Hudson has released "Bleed for Love," a cut from the soundtrack to the upcoming film, Winnie Mandela, in which she also plays the lead role of the wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela. "'Bleed for Love' has such an incredible and meaningful message about the power of love and the extension of the human heart," said Hudson in a statement.

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Following disappointing opening sales for "Applause," the first single from ARTPOP, Lady Gaga tells the Guardian that she's not looking at things from a "financial perspective": "It's literally not even been two weeks since my first single came out and it's all, 'She's over', or because I'm not number one yet, 'She's finished'," she began.

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Following the announcement of actor Sacha Baron Cohen that he was leaving the production of the Freddie Mercury biopic, screenwriter Peter Morgan has told the BBC that the film will "probably not . . . happen." Cohen departed after clashing with Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May over the tenor of the re-telling.

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Debbie Rowe, former wife of Michael Jackson and mother of his two eldest children, says that, years before his death, doctors "would try to outbid" each other in order to supply the King of Pop with painkillers. The revelations, according to CNN, came in the ongoing wrongful death suit brought by Jacko's family against concert promoter AEG Live.

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Rumors of David Bowie returning to the stage continue to persist, even though the singer and his representatives have said it won't happen. The Mirror reports that Live Nation has offered Bowie a lucrative deal to play live at the Olympic Park in East London in 2014. The tabloid notes that the company has close links with Bowie's tour agent John Giddings.

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