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Mixtape: How Fly

Headliners: Curren$y & Wiz Khalifa

Co-Starring: The two lyricists went for dolo on this one.

Essential Info: These cool kids connected over the Web. When New Orleans hornet Curren$y stung the hell outta the instrumental to the Pittsburgh MC's "Say Yeah" for his track "Modern Day Hippie," Wiz reached out to him. They linked up in Louisiana to work on the project, but, according to Curren$y, the two ended up spending more time on Bourbon Street than in the studio.

"We partied too much," he explained. "Every time he came down for us to get working, we ended up on Bourbon Street. We went to the studio a few times, but we were mostly in the club. So we both had to finish it on the road."

"Drunk Dialing" and "Rolling Up" are just a couple of records that recall their time in the French Quarter. But Curren$y said the vibe on How Fly isn't all bottle popping. "One of our favorite records, 'Car Service,' is a woozy, bass-rattlin' anthem about the road to success."

Streets Is Talking

Rick Ross says he'd pick getting props for a hot 16 over almost any other form of pleasure. He's at such a creative space right now, he gets a rush throwing songs out almost as soon as they're recorded.

"Aw, man. It's better than sex when you go create something that's actually dope and turn around [and put it right out]," he said about feeding the Internet and the streets with mixtape material. "That's like one of my favorite kicks. It's online everywhere. It's on every blog, and I literally decided two hours ago to do that, and by me doing that, this is reaction, this is the response. That's what we look for, we look for response. We need our records to have a response."

Already lauded as arguably the best rap album of the year so far, Ross' #1-debuting Deeper Than Rap already got the response he's been seeking. One of the album's major boppers was "Maybach Music 2." Ross just released a remix of that record with a new lineup, consisting of Fabolous, the Birdman and Pusha T.

"Once again, it was just pushing the envelope," the Bawse explained. "We did 'Maybach Music,' a critically acclaimed record. We did a shout-out to Jay-Z, and then on '2,' T-Pain, Kanye West, myself and Lil Wayne. It was an event. It was definitely a boss move. And then, we came back with '2.5.' I just got so many artists telling me, 'Oh, man, if only I could've got on that record.' It's a lot of people's favorite joint. So, I went and got some of my favorite MCs — of course, Birdman.

"I look at my favorites for different reasons, and it's also about a feeling I get," Ross added. "When I hear Birdman rapping, it's a feeling used to I get when I'm in the streets that you could only get from that big homie that was making money. That's the feeling I get when I hear Birdman. Fabolous, he did his thing. I most definitely touched it. It wasn't no commercial game, no financial game. It was just me doing it for hip-hop, doing it for the streets of New York, doing it for L.A., doing it for the South."

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