VIDEO: Fabolous – “Gone For The Winter” ft. Velous (“Juice” movie remake) [KingpinTV.net]

After a series of weekly freestyles, and a comprehensive throwback mixtape alongside DJ Clue, Fabolous is back to work. The Def Jam/Desert Storm MC returns to promoting his The Young O.G. Project.

For “Gone For The Winter,” Fab’ continues a popular trend of honoring 1990s films through contemporary music culture. Quickly, Heads will notice the plot, the fashion and haircuts, and the storyline homage to Juice. Moreover, the song’s blend-tape style employs the same eerie Jazz accents from Nas’ “Represent.” The video then breaks in a different direction altogether…

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NEWS: Sean “Diddy” Combs Offers $200 Million To Buy Fuse TV! [KingpinTV.net]

The performer who now just calls himself Diddy would use the music channel to boost distribution for his Revolt TV, another music service that launched in October, Bloomberg reports citing “three people with knowledge of the situation.” Comcast helped to launch Revolt to fulfill its agreement, in return for government support for its 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal, to add minority-owned networks.

But it’s been hard to secure distribution: Revolt only  reaches about 22.8M homes, while Fuse is in 74M. Madison Square Garden put Fuse on the block in September retaining JP Morgan to “explore all strategic alternatives.” Distributors pay an average of 8 cents per month for each home Fuse reaches.

Stifel analyst Benjamin Mogil noted at the time that Fuse could