Janelle Monae recently performed on Belgium TV program "De Laatste Show." She did "Tightrope" and you can watch the full performance on the show's website.

The nominations for the 2010 BET Hip-Hop Awards have been announced and Diddy and Dirty Money combined to pick up four nominations in three categories. Here is the break down:

Reese's Perfect Combo Award

"Hello Good Morning (Remix)" by Dirty Money featuring Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj

"All I Do is Win (Remix)" by DJ Khaled featuring Rick Ross, T-Pain, Busta Rhymes, Diddy, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Jadakiss and Nicki Minaj

Hustler of the Year

Diddy

Best Club Banger

"Hello Good Morning" by Dirty Money featuring T.I. and Rick Ross

As an aside, Hype Williams (director of Dirty Money's "Angels," "Hello Good Morning" and "Hello Good Morning (Remix)" music videos), received a nod in the Hip-Hop Video Director of the Year category.

On Twitter, Aasim announced that he would be releasing his own remix of Dirty Money's "Loving You No More." He suggested that he might even release it tonight.

According to an E1 Music promotional e-mail, which I followed up with to confirm it's accuracy, Gorilla Zoe's third album, "King Kong," has been moved off of it's scheduled October 26 release. It is now simply listed as fall 2010.

On Saturday, I mentioned that Aasim would be releasing his own unofficial remix of Ne-Yo's "Champagne Life" today and he released it this evening. Download now. This mix features Aasim with an opening verse for the record.

Back in July of 2009, "1,000 Stacks" by Nelly featuring Diddy and The Notorious B.I.G. appeared online. In December of 2009, we heard that Diddy would serve as a producer on Nelly's then untitled new album. And in June of this year, it was reported that Diddy would be featured on the album, now titled "Nelly 5.0."

Billboard's Muriel Concepcion confirms that "1,000 Stacks" will be featured on the release, which is simply titled "5.0" and set to hit stores on November 16.

Over on Diddy's Facebook page, there is an image posted that is presumably the single cover for Dirty Money's latest single, "Loving You No More" (free download) featuring Drake. Check it out below.

Block Entertainment CEO Russell "Block" Spencer has confirmed to me that Boyz N Da Hood will return for a third album, as previously reported, but it will be with an all-new lineup.

The group's first album consisted of Young Jeezy, Jody Breeze, Big Duke and Big Gee. The second album saw Gorilla Zoe fill in the slot vacated by Jeezy. With the third album, they are apparently starting from scratch.

No word on when the album is slated for release. It is also unclear if the group will remain with Bad Boy or will be part of Block Entertainment's new deal with Atlantic and E1. Though, it is assumed that they are presently Bad Boy at the moment, as Diddy has said that all of the artists he had on Bad Boy under Atlantic are still with the label, unless reported otherwise.

On his Facebook page, you can listen to "Miss America" by Jeremy Greene.

If you are a regular Bad Boy Blog reader, you know that I've generally skipped 50 Cent's recent critical comments aimed at Diddy. Mainly because I think it's a waste of editorial space and attention.

He talks about how he likes Dirty Money's "Angels" and how Diddy "was hitting notes" on the record, then he says the music Diddy is making right now "sucks." "Angels" had Biggie vocals and 50 Cent has even jumped on numerous records with recycled Biggie vocals, but then he's critical of Diddy for using Biggie vocals or referencing Biggie. I feel that, in general, these statements are hypocritical.

And with 50 Cent, it all seems to depend on the moment and the timing of this most recent moment has always seemed weird to me. Everything seemed to be fine until Diddy aligned with Rick Ross and began to use the Supreme Team moniker. The original Supreme Team was a drug operation led by Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff who, at one time, was alleged to have had a hand in the shooting of 50 Cent in 2000.

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