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Rawkus Records, which amazingly enough was run by Rupert Murdoch's son James, at least was never tainted before News Corp spread its nasty influence around the place. Here's the 2000 underrated classic with just quality spitting and the Rest in Heaven to one West Coast crooning legend. Happy Black Friday to you all in America, with more coming in a bit, stay tuned at The Whole Delivery. 

World class bootlegging at its finest : An unauthorized album, "The Girls Love Drake," which features selections from the Toronto rapper's mixtape "So Far Gone" and other tracks, was released May 28th by a label called Canadian Money Entertainment and distributed by the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) on iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon. Obviously, the Drake camp is not happy by this: After finding the album on iTunes, Drake's management sent a cease-and-desist notice to the retailer, which has since removed it. At press time, the album was still available on Rhapsody and Amazon, although Drake's manager Al Branch says he's having it removed from these retailers as well. "This is a straight bootleg, a scandal. We are behind promoting records at radio, but haven't sold it," Al Branch, Drake's manager, tells Billboard.com. "iTunes position is that they are store and they stock everything. They have a waiver and as long...