If you think hip hop is dead you may be the one with the problem.

Photography: Steven Taylor via HypeBeast

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Last night Swizz Beatz was in the studio and had a special guest with him, designer Christian Louboutin. He showed off some exclusive kicks as well.

Damn! Besides French touching on other subjects the one that stood out was the real reason why he didn’t sign with Kanye. It being the fact that Kanye doesn’t own a phone but communicating via email and French not really adopting to emails. Seesh! I have to agree with French and say “I feel like if I had went there we would definitely have made history….” var _hsPlayer = _hsPlayer || [];_hsPlayer.push(["id", "5981891", "hsPlayer_5981891", [670, 100]]);(function(){var x=document.createElement("script");x.type="text/javascript";x.async=true;x.src="http" + ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "s" : "") + "://www.hulkshare.com/hsPlayer/hsPlayer.js.php";var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(x, s);})(); var _hsPlayer = _hsPlayer || [];_hsPlayer.push(["id", "5981884", "hsPlayer_5981884", [670, 100]]);(function(){var x=document.createElement("script");x.type="text/javascript";x.async=true;x.src="http" + ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "s" : "") + "://www.hulkshare.com/hsPlayer/hsPlayer.js.php";var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(x, s);})(); var _hsPlayer = _hsPlayer || [];_hsPlayer.push(["id", "5981888", "hsPlayer_5981888", [670, 100]]);(function(){var x=document.createElement("script");x.type="text/javascript";x.async=true;x.src="http" + ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "s" : "") + "://www.hulkshare.com/hsPlayer/hsPlayer.js.php";var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(x, s);})();

Damn! According to the NY Post he’s that guy. A Mega rep told us: “We have never received any word that any artist has [individually] filed a take-down . . . [we have] legally binding agreements with the performers that appear in the video . . . They promised that they had the rights to enter into that agreement and it’s not interfering with any third-party rights.