While the world impatiently waits for Nicki Minaj to strike back at Remy Ma for the back-to-back blows, From The Vault journeys back you to the year 2004 for yet another Urban classic.

Today’s pick is ‘Lean Back’ by a Fat Joe and Remy fronted Terror Squad.

Helmed by 00’s producer-extraordinaire Scott Storch, the track is the definition of club banger and sees Joe and Rem trading verses while commanding the listener to pull up their pants and… lean back.

A Billboard smash, it topped the Hot 100 tally for 3 consecutive weeks during Summer 04 and placed #10 on the Year End Chart.

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DJ Khaled, Kevin Hart, Lil Jon and N.O.R.E all make appearances in the Jessy Terrero and Raul Conde directed visual where the clan can be seen hanging out in the streets of their beloved New York City and getting crunk with scantily clad ladies.

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Hopefully the explosive beef between the Terror Squad Queen and Hip-Hop’s current leading lady Nicki Minaj brings more attention to the talent that is Remy Ma and gives her a big enough platform to really shine on her own.

As heard on ‘Shether,’ her raw energy, her unapologetic and aggressively explicit content paired with her deep tone – as well as her life story – makes her one of the most interesting artists at the moment.

As always, we’d love nothing more than to see, or should we say HEAR. the ladies make peace on a fiery track which would not doubt would be a home-run.

If Jay Z and Nas can, why couldn’t they?

Your thoughts?

Congratulations are in order for Adele!

The Brit-bred superstar has confirmed her long-rumored marriage to partner Simon Konecki.

Full story below…

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The unstoppable singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran is on his way to the top of the Billboard 200.

Good news for his set ‘Divide‘ below…

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All roads lead to March 24th for R&B crooner Trey Songz.

The 30-year-old will uncage new album ‘Tremaine’ on said date and is keeping the stream of videos a’coming with the visual for ‘Song Goes Off.’

Issued as the third offering from the LP, the visual finds Songz in playboy form.

Watch the clip, which samples Teena Marie’s ‘Ooo La La La,’ below…

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Ed Sheeran is shattering streaming records with new album ‘÷’ as we write, but he’s not resting on his laurels.

The Brit-bred superstar is pounding the promotional pavement in support of the set. And the latest stop on that trek brought him to ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’

Backed by a full band, Sheeran performed #1 smash ‘Shape Of You.’

Watch him in action below…

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Nicki Minaj may be sworn enemies with Lil Kim, but that didn’t seem to stop her from channeling the rap icon in Paris today.

Ever the provocateur, Onika drew on a look that has become synonymous with her rival.

See what we mean below…

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As one of the world’s brightest stars, Rita Ora is often prepared to meet fans from all walks of life as she circumnavigate’s the globe.

Alas, much to the horror of onlookers, today saw the Pop star see her kindness towards to her fans thrown in her face when she was verbally assaulted by a man as she made her way out of Paris‘ Gare Du Nord station.

What happened when the triple threat politely declined his suspicious handshake?

Sexism, insults and distressed fans below…

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Foxy Brown has reignited her feud with Remy Ma to defend her pal Nicki Minaj.

How she did it?

Via a diss track named ‘Break’s Over’ which seeks to dismantle Remy’s brand with cruel and undeniably wounding remarks about her time in jail and her recent miscarriage.

Yes, these are the lows they’ve reached.

Listen below…

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Ed Sheeran is currently braving a glitter-stained storm whipped up by Lady Gaga’s fans.

Why?

They believe he was talking about her when he explained why he feels a number of artists tank after their second album.

Read below…

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Future stunned fans when he announced the surprise release of his fifth album, the self-titled effort ‘Future.’

A feature-less affair, the album not only led a pack of hip hop releases releases for the week, but also outpaced top-sellers from other genres to lay claim on the Billboard 200’s top spot.

Billboard reports:

Future scores his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his new self-titled effort starts atop the list, earning 140,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 23, according to Nielsen Music.

…more than half of its units were powered by streaming activity: 73,000 units (equaling 109 million streams of the album’s songs during the tracking frame). The rest of its units were comprised of traditional album sales (60,000) and track equivalent album units (7,000).

From the way things are shaping up, the hitmaking rapper is set to unseat himself on next week’s Billboard 200 with his follow-up release, ‘HNDRXX.’  Until we find out for sure, tuck in below to see who joins him in this week’s refreshed “Chart Check:  Billboard 200.”

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2017’s spring and summer Urban touring circuit is looking to be quite the hot ticket.

After announcements from the likes of crooners The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, and John Legend, we learned of tours from leading rap acts Future and Chance the Rapper.  Now, Lil’ Wayne is getting in on the action.

Announcing the dates for his ‘Kloser 2 U’ tour, the announcement of its stops was immediately followed with a tease that the hitmaker will tour the states with his Young Money cohorts Drake & Nicki Minaj.

“I just got off the phone with Nicki and she told me to tell y’all, ‘Hello,’” he said. “We might have to do something special. We might have to do some Young Money reunion s–t out here this summer. I might have to bring all my friends from America, all my friends from Canada, the whole OVO.”

Until we officially find out what that “reunion” could entail, find out where you can see Wayne by his lonesome inside:

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All roads lead to March 24th for R&B heartthrob Trey Songz.

Leading his seventh album, ‘Tremaine,’ to shelves that day, Songz has been hitting the promotional trail hard in support of the project.  In addition to lending an unconventional ‘reality dating show’ via the VH1 web series – ‘Tremaine the Playboy’ – the singer has been releasing numerous visual cuts from the project.

The latest?  ‘Playboy’ and ‘Song Goes Off.’  Get into them both inside:

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