Cash Money turned heads last week when the label signed late 90s-early 2000s Rock-Rap band Limp Bizkit.

Now, label head Birdman explains what impacted the surprising move.

“Fred [Durst] reached out, bruh,” Birdman said in an interview with XXLmag.com.

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Grammy Award winner singer, Ne-Yo, on behalf of his Compound Foundation, added some sizzle to the school day at Seattle’s Aki Kurose Middle School.

Ne-Yo served as “Principal for the Day” for the nearly 600 Seattle students who are the winners of the Get Schooled Foundation’s National Attendance Challenge, an effort to increase daily attendance rates nationwide.

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The music star was the executive producer on Undefeated, which was named best documentary at the prestigious ceremony. Diddy was clearly overwhelmed by the win and took to his Twitter account to post several messages.

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Drake and Common may have squashed their highly publicized beef, but that doesn’t mean that the Young Money rapper is finished airing out his dirty laundry in public. Now, Drake addresses several other feuds he has going with Pusha T, Ludacris and Future.

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Lil Wayne has always been one to venture into clothing lines but now he is taking it a step further as he announces plans for his first line of kicks.

Lil Wayne has revealed that he plans to release his first signature shoe line.

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50 Cent recently took a trip to Kenya which has proved to be an enlightening moment and new chapter in his life.

 50 Cent originally took the trip to Africa earlier this month to further his mission to alleviate hunger, but the visit also inspired him to hit the studio.

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Jim Jones was arrested yet again on Monday morning, in what is proving to be the worst week of the rapper’s life.

Reports claim that Jones was arrested in Manhattan for driving with a suspended license.

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Too Short recently talked about the possibility of hanging up the mic after album number 20.

As Too Short gears up to release his 19th studio album, No Trespassing, he finds himself thinking about retirement.

“Hip Hop is very addictive,” explained Short Dog in an interview with DJ Skee on Hip Hop Nation’s “World Famous Weekends,” when pressed about the subject of retirement.

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Bow Wow recently went into detail about how he had the “Stay Schemin’” beat first, but somehow it ended up with Rick Ross.

Bow Wow recently spoke with Tim Westwood regarding his favorite producer and had the chance to explain the story behind the “Stay Schemin’” beat. While “Stay Schemin’” is a Rick Ross track, Bow says he had the instrumental before the MMG boss.

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The newest edition to the very successful and always growing Cash money Label, is  Florida bred rock group Limp Bizkit, headed by Fred Durst.

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