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Danny Brown blasts Too $hort: ‘He treated me like a fan boy’

Off-kilter rhymer Danny Brown got to recently meet one of his idols, but apparently the interaction was less-than-cordial for the rapper. Brown tweeted that he got the chance to meet Bay Area rap legend Too $hort recently in Hawaii, but the $hort Dawg more or less brushed him off. The Detroit rapper didn’t go into detail, but he made it clear that he got little-to-no-love from the rap elder statesman.

Harry Belafonte wants to sit down with Jay-Z and Beyoncé

Entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte’s 2012 criticisms of superstar couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s perceived lack of activism have sparked a war of words in the media between he and Jay. The hip-hop superstar fired back at Belafonte, both in song (on Magna Carta Holy Grail’s track “Nickels and Dimes”) and in a recent Life+Times interview, where he defiantly declared that his “presence is charity.”