Sway caught up with YMCMB’s Mack Maine, Birdman and Tyga on the red carpet at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards show in Los Angeles last night (February 12th). T-Raw speaks on attending the GRAMMYs this year, Baby speaks on the YMCMB nominations even though they never won an award, how Whitney Houston’s death impacted him and Mack speaks on Lil Wayne missing the rehearsals for his GRAMMY performance with Chris Brown and David Guetta. Sway also broke the news to them that Kanye West had already won 3 GRAMMY awards on the night, but they didn’t really have anything to say to that haha.

Yesterday afternoon (January 28th), Cory Gunz was arrested for gun possession in the Bronx, New York City. Check out what Cory‘s dad, Peter Gunz, told MTV this morning:

“The details are still sketchy, but I can confirm that he was arrested with a firearm yesterday in the Bronx,” Gunz told MTV News. “They caught him around 2p.m. in the afternoon with a loaded gun in his knapsack. It was definitely an illegal search.”

Gunz was unable to disclose full details on the incident just yet, but he explained the events leading up to his son’s arrest. “I spoke to the arresting officer, and so far, what I’m hearing from him is that they got a phone call at the station saying they should ‘look out,’ ” Gunz said. “According to the officer, they didn’t know he was Cory Gunz. They just saw a bunch of kids following him around.

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In the video above, Tyga, Young Jeezy and T.I. speak to MTV on set of the “Rack City (Remix)” video shoot in Atlanta about appearing on the record.

“I heard the record, loved it, seen it go crazy in the club. I couldn’t visualize it without a Young verse on there, so I just went ahead,” Jeezy told MTV News from the video set. “The homey hit me up for the video, and we in the A-Town, we in the city, we here, turnt up.”

Usually, pulling features from such big names is quite the chore, especially for newer artists like Tyga. But already, the “Rack City” remix features some pretty notable MCs, with the Snowman and Tip just the latest to jump onboard. “I didn’t think the song would be bigger than outside of L.A., because that’s like an L.A. sound,” Tyga said, “So to have two of the legends that I’m big fans of on the record is crazy.”

When talking about his decision to jump on the record, T.I. was as nonchalant as could be. “For me, I got reached out to. They told me to add my two cents in, so I did just that,” Tip said. “When they told me the video was coming, I picked out an outfit.”

As well as chilling with Quincy Jones, Drake performed live at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Saturday night. In the video above, Drizzy speaks about his recent trip to Africa and after the jump, you can view some photos of him arriving and performing at Sundance.

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We’ve seen photos from the “Rack City (Remix)” video shoot, now here is a video of Tyga, Fabolous and Wale speaking to MTV about the record.

“I’m just happy that I can be a part of a record that’s influencing and making so many young, ambitious dancers so much money,” Wale playfully told MTV News from the set of Tyga’s remix video in Miami. “I think it’s important that we continue to make songs like this, because it’s keeping the whole game of … ,” Wale started before completely losing his train of thought. “The cycle of the economy,” Loso chimed in. “It’s very beneficial to so many young women across the country,” Wale picked back up. “The strip clubs are stress relief. Welcome to Rack City!” Tyga just nodded in agreement. “Everything they said,” he added with a laugh.

In related news, hit the jump to watch some footage of T-Raw performing “Rack City” with Fabolous and Trey Songz at Fab‘s There Is No Competition 3 mixtape release party at Dream Nightclub in Miami a few nights ago!

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MTV recently chopped it up with Lil Twist about who he gets advice from when his Don’t Get It Twisted album got pushed back from 2011 to 2012.

“I talked to my mom mostly, and then Wayne,” Twist told Mixtape Daily about whom he sought advice from each time his Don’t Get It Twisted album got pushed back. “Wayne and Young Money president Mack Maine are like my brothers, and Drake also. Drake is always a good person to give advice. Drake went through everything as far as being a new artist and on the same label, seeing how everything went down,” he said of his Young Money labelmate. “So he was just letting me know what was going to go down, how I need to go about it and just how to overcome the stress that I was feeling coming out with this album.”

“It’s a project where I think visuals are called for, for a lot of those records,” he said. “So we’re working on definitely the ‘Take Care’ video, which we’re trying to get shot soon and a couple of other ones, too, off the album.”

Drake, who can now hoist another platinum plaque for Take Care, wouldn’t dish on the treatment or concept for the video, but he has high expectations for it. “I want to make it perfect — the best video I’ve done to date — so I’m just taking my time,” he said.

Via MTV