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WILL.I.AM is one of the most annoying fixtures in pop music, and now the auto-tuned bastard claims to have started a car ''company.'' I've placed the word ''company'' in quotations for reasons you will soon learn - it's a term to be used very loosely. Personally, I think he's full of shit, but a press release landed here at Kik Axe Music™ HQ, and that makes this fair game.

New York R&B songstress TANYA aka T6 hit Kik Axe Music™ with a link to a new freestyle she did over DRAKE's Make Me Proud. The reworked track is called I'm So Tired of You, and is being offered as a free download as of today.

Fans of the King of Pop with a few bucks to burn need to take a serious look at this. The Hot Toys Music Icons Series MICHAEL JACKSON ''Beat It'' figure is a 1:6 representation of Jackson has he appeared in the Beat It music video. Offered by Sideshow Collectibles, full specs on the figure can be seen below.

One of our New Year's resolutions that we hope to keep up with will be to cover more hip-hop here at Kik Axe Music. Readers ask for it, and we certainly get the press releases to support it - we just don't have the manpower to always deliver. But, since it's Christmas Eve, here's 15 quick headlines from the rap world. Should we call this feature Random Rap (like our Random Rock column), or call it Ghettoblaster (which sounds kinda cool)? Sound off below...

This one hit my inbox twice this week, the first time less than 24 Hours after the death of North Korean asshole KIM JONG ILL - the second, just two days later. Yes, I'm belated, but since Persian-born, Los Angeles-based emcee MALKOVICH took the time to break out a track called Jim Kong Ill, it's only right that it be shared here on Kik Axe Music™. It's a free download via Bandcamp, but you can stream the NSFW song below.

Hip-Hop super-crew LA COKA NOSTRA (LCN) has hit Kik Axe Music™ with the pre-Christmas news that they're currently prepping MASTERS OF THE DARK ARTS, the follow-up to their 2009 debut A BRAND YOU CAN TRUST. In the spirit of giving, LCN is offering you a FREE DOWNLOAD of their new song Malverde Market featuring SLAINE and ILL BILL. Hip Hop super-crew, La Coka Nostra (LCN) has re-surfaced in time for the holidays with a new song for free download and video! Malverde Market features LCN members Slaine and Ill Bill (who also produced the track.

THE LULLS IN TRAFFIC, a collaboration between former COPELAND frontman Aaron Marsh and lyricist Ivan Ives (a Rolling Stone 'Artist to Watch') has released an original holiday song as a FREE DOWNLOAD. Silver Bells Are Ringing Only Grey can be streamed or downloaded below, right here on Kik Axe Music™.

Taking a cue from JAMES BROWN while sampling ISAAC HAYES, SNOOP DOGG enlisted help from NATE DOGG, DAZ DILLINGER, TRAY DEEE, and BAD AZZ for his 1996 single Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto. The track from CHRISTMAS ON DEATH ROW comes in at Day 21 in our 2nd Annual 25 Days of AXEmas here at Kik Axe Music™.