Here’s a quick recap of the top 10 most popular stories, tweets and random foolery from this week:

1. [Video] Atlanta Tastemakers Respond to the T.I. and Tiny Arrest [SFTA]
2. Facebook Ads For Musicians – Ultimate 1 Cent Click Guide [RockStars]
3. Janet Jackson considers Independent Record Deal [MR]
4. Apple’s Stealth Plan to Conquer the Media Industry [DF]
5. Miles Davis: The Muse Who Changed Him and the heady Brew that rewrote jazz [Guardian]
6. Kanye West Apologizes To Taylor Swift: “I Wish They Could Accept That I’ve Grown” [NB]
7. iTunes Ping Draws Fire From Facebook & Indie Music Community  [Hypebot]
8. Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2010 Black Weblog Awards [BWA]
9. [Free Download] The Foreign Exchange – Maybe She’ll Dream Of Me [FE]
10. Kelly Price Interview Pt 2. “Music & The Machine” [GFM]

Bonus: Where are they now? 5th Dimension [ST]

New single off his upcoming album, Intuition (12/16).

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As you can see, T.I. has been killin’ the charts. Gotta give respect, where respect is due & Paper Trail is a nice album. In our latest edition of “This is a samplin’ sport“, we take a quick look at the ‘swagga’ phenomenon. The track is built around M.I.A’s “Paper Planes”, which interestingly enough, also uses bits of “Straight to Hell”, (Combat Rock, Epic/1982) from The Clash. The audio isn’t the best, but see if you can catch it.

M.I.A. “Paper Planes“, (Diplo/M.I.A.), Kala, Universal/2007

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