Meek, Wiz Khalifa, Eminem & Vince Staples in Running For Oscar

Rappers Eminem's, Meek Mill's, Wiz Khalifa's and Vince Staples' songs are among the 74 being considered in the Original Song category for the 88th Academy Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Both Meek Mill and Vince Staples are in the running for their own songs featured in Creed. The Philly rapper featuring Jhene Aiko and Ludwig Goransson for "Fighting Stronger," as for the Long Beach native's collaborative work with Donald Glover, Jhené Aiko and Ludwig Göransson for "Waiting For My Moment."

Impressively, Wiz Khalifa's biggest hit-to-date Furious 7's "See You Again" featuring Charlie Puth—which peaked number one on Billboard 's Hot 100 for 12 weeks—is up for the golden man.

The nods would be a first for the three rappers who now share the category with 2002 Original Song winner Eminem, who was also nominated for Southpaw's "Phenomenal."

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Tyga Reacts to Criticism Over "The Gold Album" Sales

Tyga recently released his latest project, "The Gold Album," on Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube for free due to his conflicts with YMCMB, so the rapper was shocked that he was getting criticism over album sales. The L.A.-born emcee took to Twitter to respond to Complex writing a story about how Nielsen SoundScan showed the album selling a mere 2,200 copies. Tyga said that he didn't even intend to make money off of the project and added, "Yall mfs is funny. I put my album out myself for free on spotify,soundcloud, YouTube to stream. Didn't plan on selling it Kuz of label problems. It's a dope album. Got a lot of great feedback and millions of streams."

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Big Hutch Disses Shyne

Shyne bashing Kendrick Lamar's highly respected album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, has rubbed many people the wrong way. Fellow West Coast rapper Game already stepped up in Kendrick's defense on Twitter not too long ago, and now Big Hutch of Above The Law has chosen to defend Kendrick as well. Hutch spoke to Yahoo Music about Shyne using Twitter to slay Kendrick's new album by calling it "trash" over and over again. Hutch didn't respect that one bit and feels as though it was a "cowardly" move. "I don't really get that. I don't get Twitter bashing, Twitter banging. We don't do that. I'm an ex-con. I thought he was an ex-con. That's how that man eat. That's how Kendrick Lamar eat. So, for you to publicly say something is trash, that's just a hater move. got no issue with Shyne, but I have issue with cats Twitter bangin'. At the end of the day, c'mon gangsta, do it the right way. Come to one of his shows...

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