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Common and Q-Tip’s supergroup The Standard may have a new member. According to XXL, Nas may be the newest member of the all-star rap group.
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The duo is apparently interested in adding another MC to the crew. It has to be confirmed, but Nas, who has previously collaborated with both artists, is reportedly interested. The Standard formed back in 2007, but have not actually released any music. Both artists have been working on solo material– Common recently released a new disc and Q-Tip is working on his next effort.

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The NBA All-Star festivities will be underway next weekend in Orlando and if you think it’s all about basketball, you’re wrong. Pitbull, Mary J. Blige, Nicki Minaj, Ne-Yo, will.i.am and Flo Rida will all be performing through the weekend.
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Pitbull and Ne-Yo are teaming up for the NBA All-Star Game’s halftime show. The pair will perform their single “Give Me Everything” and have promised that “special guest performers” will be involved. Last year this slot was given to Rihanna, who brought out Drake and Kanye West.

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Common and Drake have recently exchanges words in their lyrics, inciting what many are calling a feud. But Common told reporters at Sundance that it’s not really all that serious.
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The musician refused to elaborate on his lyrical jabs, noting, “I feel like I said everything I really needed to say on the record. I just looked at it as like `Hey, it’s just a hip-hop battle.’” He added, “The time to talk is on record as far as I’m concerned. If we in the ring, then we just handle our business in the ring.”

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We never took Common or Drake to be the sort of rappers to be beefing with one another, but thanks to lyrics in one of Common’s new songs “Sweet” off his new album The Dreamer, The Believer, a battle has ensued between the two MCs. The argument stems from portions of the famed Chicago rapper’s new song in which he essentially calls out other rappers that he deems to be “soft.” And seeing as he references rapper’s who sing, (Some hoes ass niggas/Singing all around me man, la la la/You aint muthaf-cking Frank Sinatra/Uh, lil bitch), of which Drake is currently the most popular, the Young Money rapper took exception.
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Common added fuel to the fire when he recently appeared on MTV VJ Sway’s radio show “Sway In The Morning” and confirmed that “Sweet’ was indeed aimed at Drake. “”He open his mouth and said some things,” Common said when discussing Drake’s objectinon to the diss. “If he want it, that’s what he want,” Common added when asked if he’s now beefing with Drizzy. Check out Common’s full interview with Sway below.

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Now, Drizzy’s producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, has fired back at Common through a series of tweets. Two days ago, 40 tweeted, “@common, I remember being called a b***h in grade 9 cause I had your cd. Good thing I also had 456 by kool g rap on me. Now that’s real ;).” However, shortly after 40 followed up by clarifying. “I’m not dissing, just facts,” he wrote. “I love common.”
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Seeing as there is definite beef between the two MCs, we want you to decide for yourself who you think is the best MC. And we think the best way to determine which rapper has the better skills is by checking out both of their respective Myspace Radio stations where you can listen to all their hit songs. And as always, we love when you hash things out on the comment board below!