Derick G. shares some shots from the set of the “9 Piece” video.

Previously: Rick Ross ft. 8Ball & MJG – 9 Piece (Remix)

“Kanye would always tell be how beautiful I was and that I was going to be iconic. He always said that, ‘Baby, you are iconic. You don’t understand what you have. I didn’t. I didn’t understand it.”

Ok, well this somewhat makes up for the Ross cover. Notice I removed the quotes from “Sexy” in the post title.

Although, it could have been a little more gratuitous. Hit the jump for another image, and click through to VIBE for more quotes from the article.

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Get it? It’s funny because he’s fat.

Check out Angela Yee’s Q&A with Ross, Meek and Pill here.

Previously: Rick Ross & Andy Samberg Cover Complex’s June/July Issue

Moonie and Count do a photoshoot with Timberland for an upcoming campaign.

Previously: L.E.P. Bogus Boys Announce Clothing Line

Julia Beverly of Ozone caught some shots from the set of K.R.I.T.’s “Country Shit” remix video.

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This is very ill. Ffiteen minutes of super rare footage of Pac’s infamous bathtub photo shoot with renowned photographer David LaChapelle shortly after his release from prison.

Here are some of Lachappelle’s comments on the shoot:

DM: I feel that a lot of your work emphasises on beauty in people, regardless of colour or size. One of my favourite pieces of your work is “Becoming Clean” with Tupac Shakur amongst others. How was it like work with him?

DL: Tupac was great, he was very sensitive and is truly a good person. I wrote to his mum when he died and she sent me flowers and gave me his last song, “Ghetto Gospel.” When we did the shoot, he had just come out of prison and every shot has a reason, it’s never random, so this was the idea of the photo shoot, him becoming clean. He had given this interview when he was still in prison and he really opened up and was so honest. I had read it and thought it was so truthful so for the work I did with him, there was this idea of washing away and rebirth. And we did another shoot where he posed as a slave on a cotton field. They traced rapping and rhyming to “call and repeat” during slavery time in sugar cane and cotton fields to pass the time. It’s on the Hotel Lachapelle book. Tupac came to the shoot 2 hours early, which was very unusual for a rapper. So I wasn’t ready for the shoot and he didn’t care. He reminded me of my black friends whom I went to art schools with, he was so cool, open-minded and chill. He wasn’t judgemental. Then later on, I found out that he had gone to an art school. He left behind a big bag of socks and underwear because he had just come out from prison and never picked it up. He died shortly after. I still wear his socks sometimes (laughs).

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Photographer Zach Wolfe shoots Yela for I-D Magazine in Austin during SXSW.

Previously: Bizarre ft. Yelawolf – Down This Road (Video)

Astute sneakerheads noticed that Kanye broke out the yet to be released, or even properly photographed, Air Yeezy 2 for his Coachella set last night. There are a bunch of fuzzy screenshots floating around today for your review, but Ibn Jasper just posted what appears to be the first clear shot of the kicks to surface yet. Fuzzy shot of the entire sneaker after the jump.

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As shot by Creative Control.

Previously: Rick Ross & Wiz Khalifa Cover The Source

Wiz will rep the Negro y Amarillo on the cover of the next issue of VIBE.

Props: Mikey Fresco

Hit the jump for some footage of Wiz performing “Mezmorized” with ¡Mayday! at the University of Miami.

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