Watch The Throne NYC Listening Session

Good question. Just a few weeks after Jay held is own, The Throne held a private listening session last night at the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Guests included Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, DJ Khaled, Pusha T Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip and more. Watch The Throne drops digitally August 8 and in retail stores August 12.

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BirdMan, Joe Budden, Dj Whoo Kid, & Q Tip React To Mavericks Win

The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat to win the 2011 NBA Finals 4-2. Several rappers tweeted their reactions to the outcome of the series, which saw the 'superteam' of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh lose to the less-glamorous Mavs, led by Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki.

"S/O to both teams 4 an amazing final. Now ..... handle all this lockout talk," Joe Budden tweeted. "Heat fans ... y'all have a great team & had a great season. Nothing to be mad at. & on 2nd thought, i won't be bashing y'all. But i called Dallas in 6 & i'm up about 8 stacks ... i'll take free $ all day long."

"ok BIRDMAN loses 2million -- I win $250 x 16 idiots = $4000 --- nice and CLEVELAND, Ohio wins the NBA finals!!!!!!!!" DJ Whoo Kid tweeted.

"And next year its gonna be even worse for miami," Q-Tip tweeted. "This was their year. #choke."

Q-Tip Responds To Consequence

Rapper Q-Tip has taken exception to comments made by his cousin and fellow emcee Consequence regarding Tip's alleged ambivalence towards getting Cons' second album released, which Q-Tip was reportedly executive producing alongside Kanye West. In a recent interview, Consequence blasted his cousin and also called himself 'the glue' within A Tribe Called Quest's latter years. Tip, the famous frontman for Tribe, didn't take too kindly to Consequence's choice words.

"GLUE? I gave the nigga a look," Q-Tip tweeted. Consequence was featured on several mid-90s Tribe songs when he was still an unknown rapper. "He doesn't know what he's talking about."

Consequence Blasts Q-Tip & Kanye

Rapper Consequence is no longer affiliated with G.O.O.D. Music and he is no longer friends with G.O.O.D. Music head Kanye West nor is he friends with his cousin Q-Tip. The rapper revealed in a recent interview that there is some bad blood between him and his more famous former associates.

“We definitely have personal issues,” he told Sway Calloway. “[Q-Tip] and Kanye elected to be executive producers of my Cons TV project. It's ABG [ed: anybody gets it].”

“I’m not harping on anything, but I’ma point out the obvious. I committed my time, my energy, my efforts to what we all committed to,” he added. “That’s the Cons TV project. It’s not to be understated. They rolled with me through everything. They heard the stories on the ‘Job Song.’ They heard ‘Uncle Rahiem.’ They rooted for me. This was the coup de gras.”

“My purpose for coming here was clarification," Cons said. "There are many fans who still align me with G.O.O.D. Music, and it’s not fair to their intellect that they’re fooled in that matter."