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Chrisette Michele is back from her overseas experience to drop online today her brand new project “Audrey Hepburn: An Audiovisual Presentation”. Here we get to see a more diversified, more dynamic Chrisette Michele.. one who seems to have grown and is experimenting by incorporating many different sounds within her own. Dropping the tape on her 30th Birthday,  this 9 track project Audrey Hepburn: An Audiovisual Presentation pays tribute to Aubrey Hepburn and her lifestyle. Stream and download it after the jump… (more…)

Chrisette Michele teams up with her Def Jam label-mate 2 Chainz after a temporary hiatus. Check out the brand new collaboration entitled, “Charades” above. Also be on the lookout for Audrey Hepburn: The Mixtape dropping on December 8th.

For all those who have been calling for Soulja Boy’s musical downfall, your prayers may have finally been answered in the form of his third studio album The DeAndre Way and its first week numbers.

Moving close to 13, 400 units in his first week, SB didn’t make a lot of noise on the Nielsen SoundScan report, released today (December 8). Soulja’s last disc, 2008’s iSouljaboytellem sold about 45,500 copies in week one.

Curren$y’s new disc Pilot Talk II also debuted on the chart this week. The set moved about 18,400 copies in its first go-round, beating out the ATLien. Last July the first installment of Spitta’s PT series moved 10,700 units in its first week.

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Last month, confusion erupted when news broke of Rick Ross walking out of the Soul Train Awards after losing out to Eminem in the “Best Hip Hop Song” category. Chrisettle Michele voiced her frustrations to her “Aston Martin Music” collaborator and Hip-Hop as a whole even questioning, “Who stands off at an awards show because they don’t win?”

In the December/January issue of The Source, Rozay took time to respond and clear the air on the entire situation.

Your third hit single this year was “Aston Martin Music” featuring Drake and Chrisette Michele. It earned a bit of controversy  after you left the Soul Train Awards without performing the record. Chrisette got upset, even tweeting “If this is the way of Hip-Hop is then I denounce it.” What Happened?

Basically, I had an opportunity to perform “Aston Martin Music,” which Def Jam put together. The day before the awards I went there for rehearsal…it was a lot of things going on onstage and for the first time, me being at an award show I had no input. It was a little uncomfortable. I just came from the BET Hip-Hop Awards [where I invited] MC Hammer down to the pyro stage. As a result, we were voted the number one performance at the awards. I wouldn’t risk that for a three-minute opportunity I’m not comfortable with.

The word coming from the show was they you were upset Eminem beat you in the Song Of the Year category and you stormed out.

Not at all. I’ve been going to award shows for a long time and I’ve never had a problem with who won. I’m happy I’m recognized. We were in the trailer, going over these particular [performance] issues [with the sows producer]. Out of respect, we came back out there to give them a reaction to the nomination. They gave the award to Eminem. I applauded. Big Record. That wasn’t the issue. Like I said, the things we requested weren’t met. It had nothing to do with Chrisette Michele. It may have had to do with me not knowing the other 50 people that were onstage at [rehearsal] and we doing my record.

Have you talked to Chrisette?

I haven’t spoken to Chrisette Michele or her team. but I didn’t speak to her to [invite her to] the show either. It was something maybe the label set up. [But] her choice of words were ugly. Denouncing Hip-Hop, that ain’t cool. Using ugly words could give off the wrong impression. That could make your hat look ugly to me now. That could make your haircut look ugly to me now. Hopefully if we win a Grammy, she’ll come out and accept it withy our boy. Give me a kiss on the cheek.

New Source Issue Hits Stands December 14th.

The official version of Rick Ross, Chrisette Michele and Drake’s “Aston Martin Music” video dropped today. Deciding to put Drake’s verse on here was win for all involved.

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I’ll say it again, Derick G is a beast with a camera. Whether it be still shots or videos, it really doesn’t matter. This time G uploads the visuals from his time at the Rick Ross, Chrisette Michele and Drake shoot for the “Aston Martin Music.” Check out a few here, but see the rest at Derick’s official headquarters.

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While the majority of  us were counting down the hours until the weekend started, Rozay, Chrisette Michele and Drake were in Miami yesterday shooting the video for “Aston Martin Music.” Of course, if it’s pictures, Derick G. had it covered. Below are a few of the pics from the set. Head over to his site to see the rest.