Here's what made the news today, Feb. 13, 2012:
Though he skipped Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony, Kanye West swept the rap categories, including a best rap album for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
Canadian R&B singer Melanie Fiona took two Grammys for “Fool For You,” her team-up with Cee Lo Green.
The American Catholic League is spitting brimstone over Nicki Minaj's performance at the Grammys, which featured a pope, an exorcism and — worst of all — a “scantily clad female dancer stretching backwards [over] an altar boy.”
Rick Ross plans to release two solo LPs in 2012, according to DJ Khaled, as well as contributing to Dr. Dre’s ever-unreleased Detox.
Killer Mike has announced R.A.P. Music, a new album produced by El-P and due May 15.
Almost two months later, an American concert promoter remains “captive” in Angola after Nas failed to show up for a New Year’s concert in Luanda.
Common’s beef with Drake is, uh, “kind of over now.”
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