The west coast allstars rhyme cypher from tonight’s BET Hip-Hop Awards.

Here are the performances from tonight’s BET Hip-Hop Awards. Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy & Juicy J – “Work Hard Play Hard”: Meek Mill & Kirko Bangz – “Amen / Young & Gettin It”: Rick Ross & Omarion – “Hold Me Back / Ice Cold”: T.I. – “Trap Back Jumpin / Go Get It”: 2 Chainz [cont.]

Young Jack Thriller speaks with Joe Budden – reluctantly – explaining why the Shady / Slaughterhouse crews are not appearing at this year’s BET Hip-Hop Awards cyphers.

Here are the first two episodes of BET’s 2012 Cypher series. In part one, we see Tito Lopez, Brianna Perry, Relly, Fame, The Kid Daytona and K’La. The second clip finds RZA on the turntables, with Core Masson, Kosha Dillz and Boy Jones.

Stephen Hill, BET’s President of Music Programming and Specials, spoke with Complex today about the altercation between Rick Ross and Young Jeezy camps, which happened this weekend at the filming of the BET Awards. “I think there’s a lot of misinformation that went out. For the Twitter Generation, 140 characters for some people just equals [cont.]

BET has released the official line-up for their popular “cypher” series, which traditionally feature new and seasoned emcees rhyming together, serving as interludes for the annual BET Awards show. Participating in the cyphers for this year’s show are: Ab-Soul, Angel Haze, A$AP Rocky, B.o.B, Boy Jones, Brianna Perry, Cassidy, Childish Gambino, Chip, DJ Premier, DJ [cont.]

Andreas Hale has left BET. As many of you may know, the former HipHopSite news editor made the jump to HipHopDX a few years back, and eventually to BET as Executive Editor of Music for the station’s website. Hale has just left the company, offering a glimpse inside the controversial network, which he sums up [cont.]