(AllHipHop News) One of the most exciting romances has come to an end, according to sources.
Nas and Nicki Minaj – also known as Nasika – have decided to go their separate ways and break up as a couple. The pair had been dating since last May or June and recently there were rumors than Nicki was with child.
A source close to the matter revealed the former couples current status, according to a source with TMZ.
“The rappers broke up a few weeks ago after the relationship ran out of steam. They’ve been dating since June 2017, but we’re told living in different cities was just too much.
Both superstars will be getting back to strictly biz, we’re told — Nas focusing on his record label and his chicken and waffles joint, Sweet Chick. Nicki’s also juggling multiple business ventures outside of music.”
Also, the source dispelled the notion that Nicki was pregnant.
(AllHipHop News) Mary J. Blige has added her name to the growing list of leading ladies who will be wearing black to the Golden Globes.
The R&B star, who is nominated for her role in “Mudbound,” has revealed she’ll be joining Gal Gadot, Meryl Streep, and Saoirse Ronan among the actresses taking part in a silent protest about Hollywood’s shocking sexual harassment and misconduct issues at Sunday’s gala.
Paying tribute to the hundreds of women who have spoken out about the abuse they have experienced, Blige told Billboard, “I stand with those women. I champion them.
“I am one of those women (victims), so, you know, I don’t want to go into detail about that and I haven’t, but I am.”
Blige insists the simple all-black protest at the Globes is important because “there’s so many women that don’t get a chance to speak in other industries that are not the film industry, the music industry”.
She adds, “It’s important for us to stand up for them so they can get a chance to speak.”
Fellow nominee Allison Janney believes the black dress protest will be “really powerful,” while “Lady Bird” star Ronan will be hitting the red carpet with a friend, who will also be wearing black for the big night.
The leading ladies behind Hollywood’s new Time’s Up movement are backing the black dress protest calling for women to ditch color and show their support for those who have been sexually harassed.
(AllHipHop Rumors) What happens when you introduce a celebrity, who’s embroiled in several scandals at once, to a blogger who has video evidence of your wrongdoing and gives no f*cks?
Fee, from the legendary Fameolous blog, almost learned her lesson the hard way.
She holds in her possession the alleged video evidence of Offset allegedly having “relations” without his fiancée, Cardi B.
Allegedly, Offset and Fee made an agreement that she would not post the video as long as he paid a fair amount of hush money. Or maybe Offset contacted her offering to pay her in general to keep it a secret.
Well, somewhere during the interaction, something went left.
Shortly after the meet, Fee took to her social media accounts to post a picture of a stack full of cash and keys. In the caption, she alluded to Offset attempting to snatch her up, kidnap style, and she was only able to get away because she had a push-to-start ignition.
Yes….Offset tried to nab her keys! She copped herself a new pair of keys and exposed Offset for his mafia-style ways. While there is no surveillance evidence of the altercation, it’s safe to say that her word must hold weight.
I doubt that she would post something of this magnitude if it were a lie…defamation lawsuits are nothing to play with.
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Isn’t it nice when a NY rapper sets the record straight and cuts out all gimmicky rap coming out these days? This visual comes from Queens rapper Shirt via Third Man Records (the independent, genre-free label out of Nashville, TN owned by Jack White). This tribute visual “Flight Home,” a socially conscious ode to the lush urban culture of Shirt’s hometown of Queens. “Flight Home” is produced by San Holo and shows the Third Man signee atop a huge cargo truck painted with Nike and Adidas logos riding through the streets during traffic.
The track comes from his upcoming album Pure Beauty inspired by the profound artwork of conceptual artist John Baldessari and will be Shirt’s first full length album to be released via Third Man Records. As the first rap artist signed to Third Man Records, Shirt will make his debut album release digitally on February 9th while the LP with an alternative cover featuring Baldessari’s artwork will available February 23rd with a companion limited edition containing bonus content and a Baldessari-inspired shirt. More details forthcoming.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Pop star Halsey who is currently dating the “No Limit” Oakland rapper G-Eazy was seen at a yacht party in Miami allegedly snorting what looks to be a suspicious substance according to Daily Mail.
Enjoying herself alongside her boyfriend and friends allegedly doing what most rock stars never want to admit they do- possibly hard dru……
There was no doubt in the eyes of fans that she was indeed snorting as suspicious substance as she was seen taking a miniature spoon, putting it up to her nose and take a big sniff.
As it’s no shock because most stars have been rumored to be apart of the snort gang; it’s just a little crazy to do it so openly.
A shady patriot of the party snapped the photo and instantly sent it out for the world to see. There were no photos of G-Eazy joining her in the festivities but we all know that saying “birds of a feather flock together.”
Hopefully Halsey learns from this and decides to be a little more discreet in her turn up.
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(AllHipHop News) Ciara has gone nearly naked for a series of provocative pictures taken by husband Russell Wilson.
The “Goodies” singer, who gave birth to her second child, her first with Russell, in April, showed off her incredible post-baby body in the images, which were taken in the pair’s bedroom.
In the shots, Ciara wore just a white shirt to protect her modesty, while also going make-up free and displaying her long braided hair.
One frame saw the 32-year-old posing with the shirt unbuttoned to the waist to show a hint of her cleavage and enviably flat stomach, while the other showed the singer wearing the shirt back to front and holding it to her chest as she knelt on the bed.
Ciara shared the images on her Instagram page, tagging in American footballer Russell as the photographer.
The pictures were received positively by Ciara’s fans, one of whom replied: “IN LOVE with this shoot and your hair!! Absolutely beautiful!! Keep on doing you girl”. Another added: “Being (a) mother don’t stop you from living your life, and being happy, healthy and beautiful in your skin.”
Ciara and Russell famously had a sex ban before they got married in England in July 2016, but have opened up about how they’ve been making up for lost time ever since.
The Chi-town rapper is out to expose Hip Hop star Cardi B for all of her old ways!
Yella took time to post a lot pictures and videos with Cardi B letting Offset know that “Bardi” was “his b-tch” first!
“We had yo b-tch first @offsetyrn@iamcardib interview out now on @zacktv1,” posted Yella.
This is fighting words. You know Migos is about that life, and so is Cardi.
Should Offset respond to Yella for disrespecting him and his fiancee? Do you think King Yella is trying to get publicity and clout off of fake beefing with them online?
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Fetty Wap is staying by his pregnant partner’s hospital bedside after her water broke three months early.
“Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood” reality show star Alexis Skyy was admitted to a medical center in Georgia early on Tuesday and she and Fetty are currently awaiting the premature birth of their daughter, their first child together.
Skyy has since shared video footage of the pair in her hospital room on social media, explaining she has been experiencing mild contractions but has yet to fully go into labor.
“My water did break, so I had to get rushed to the hospital and stuff…,” Skyy said. “They’re gonna have me in the hospital for a long time, so I’m just praying that everything’s OK and she’s fine.
“She’s gonna be a premie (premature baby), but she’s healthy, that’s all that matters to me.”
The clip also features the parents-to-be admitting they were both born early, while Skyy adds, “I’m OK. The goal is to keep her in me as long as possible.”
The little girl will be Skyy’s first kid, while Fetty, 26, is already a father-of-three from previous relationships, and is also said to have another on the way with a different woman.
The “Trap Queen” hitmaker, real name Willie Maxwell II, dated Skyy for several months before splitting in the spring of 2016, weeks after the rapper welcomed a daughter, named Khari, with video vixen Masika Kalysha, who also appears on “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.”
They have continued to date on and off ever since.
(AllHipHop Features) Grandmaster Flash has been a staple and icon in Hip-Hop for a long, long time. Now, AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur talks to the original OG – original geek of Hip-Hop – in an indepth conversation that spans The Bronx, Hip-Hop’s early days as well as the complicated, fragmented relationship with fellow founders Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc.
Grandmaster. Flash: But as I was coming up, this became a major focal point and starting point for me. It’s called 23 Park, right here on 166th Street and Tinton Avenue, which was really important to me and where I used to play, it’s this placed called the Parky House right there. Your man calls it Park and Recreations. No, it’s the f###### Parky House, man.
Two parks I used to play: 63 and Park, I would call it the mid-size park, and at 23 Park, which is probably the major place. I used to ask permission to run an extension cord out of the door of the Parky House, and we used to set up right here.
Chuck Creekmur: Okay.
Flash: And we used to play. So this was kind of my area for trying new music, like … And you gotta understand, hip hop at that time was based on what the DJ was playing, and he who was the holder of the hottest break was the man at the time. So sometimes it was Herc, and sometimes it was Bam, and sometimes it was Flash. So, when I had Bob James “Take Me to the Mardi Gras,” I was the man. When Herc had “Apache,” he was the man. And when Bam had “Trans-Europe Express” and “Indiscreet” and all these things, it was like he was the man. This thing called the Bronx, man, is where it all started.
Chuck Creekmur: What would you say your experience was like? Paint the picture for us. How many people were out here with you? 500, 200, 20?
Flash: I’d say somewhere around 1,000 people was here. G. We had some of the most dopest break dancers. We had some of the most incredible people that did that dance called “The Hustle.” You know? We had the most amazing graffiti artists because you got to understand, during this time period, talking to the beat of music did not exist yet. Not yet. I hadn’t perfected the quick mix theory yet.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: Where the body of music was a bed for a human being to speak on. I was still in the perfecting aspect of it during this period of time. For me, this was a testing ground for a pop break, a rock break, a jazz break, a blues break, a funk break, an R&B break, a disco break, an alternative break, a Caribbean break. This was testing period.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: While the Godfather was smashing it on the West Side of the Bronx, little Flash was over her doing a little something with my little wack ass system. You know, so pretty much.
Chuck Creekmur: In August (2017) Google paid homage to what was largely considered to be the birthdate of hip hop.
Flash: Right.
Chuck Creekmur: You responded in your way.
Flash: Sure.
Chuck Creekmur: With your open letter to Kool Herc.
Flash: Yes.
Chuck Creekmur: I had a lot of questions before your open letter, and I have questions after your open letter.
Flash: Sure.
Chuck Creekmur: So, let’s talk about the open letter. What prompted you to do that?
Flash: I think what happened was when I was asked to be a part of it, I applauded the fact that finally this platform as huge as Google wants to take this era and time that a lot of people don’t know about, and they’re going to send it out to billions of people.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: I was really wonderful about that. But what I wanted to make really clear is there’s technical aspect, and there’s advance in time and places, people, and things that need to be addressed during that period of time …
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: That I really wanted to address, and I wanted to make it clearer how things took place, and how it was done.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: I come from a place where I’m always respectful. There’s Grandmaster Flash the performer, but then there’s Joseph Saddler, the scientist. I wanted to make it absolutely clear that we need to make it clear how this thing broke down from a microscopic perspective, where a lot of times things are done in just a huge, brilliant picture, and it’s like, “Whoa. Wow.”
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: But then that tiny part of the painting right there wasn’t looked at.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: So, if we’re going to look at it from a painting’s perspective, we need to know what the reds represent, and what the blues represent, and what the turquoises represent, and what the yellows represent, so I was more or less going into the colors they’re depicting. Okay, this yellow is why this blue came into it that made it green.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: Because yellow and blue make green. Where the yellows were big during this announcement, and the blues were big during this background announcement. Nobody said, “Okay, so green.” Green wasn’t depicted. So, I had to express that there was someone thinking about this, and these yellows and these blues were experimented on, and they made green.
Chuck Creekmur: Okay.
Flash: So, when you’re looking at green, let’s look at yellow and blue. Oh … I look at Herc as an individual who took bastard music, music that main media didn’t care for, and brought that to the forefront. I look at Bam has having the most, deepest collection than the two of us together of this bastard music that the world didn’t want. I look at myself as coming up with a delivery system, how to deliver it. This is where I’m talking about the different colors that needed to be depicted. That’s where Joseph Saddler comes in.
When I talk about Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity is when I’m watching heads on the floor, I am absolutely making sure that what I’m playing, while the female and males heads is going up down, whether I’m playing pop or rock, as I go to the next song the heads are still going up and down. Then I talked about Benjamin Banneker. When I want you to stop because he is the inventor of the traffic light.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: When I want you to stop, I want you to stop at the same time. This is where my area is, where Herc was more or less into the major crowds, but I called the Law of Disarray, where things are not totally in line.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: Not making it no more, or no less than what I did, but just basically microscopically managing how the music was distributed to the heads in front of us.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: Who’s playing the major role? But at the same time, we played this music that mainstream America didn’t give a f### about. Herc did it first. We took breaks from pop, rock, jazz, blues, funk, disco, R&B, alternative, Caribbean, and once we found that piece, and I figured out a way to connect this according to the Theory of Relativity, which is matching it. This is hip hop for me.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: You understand what I’m saying? And when I wanted you to stop is when I’m using Benjamin Banneker. This is how Joseph Saddler thinks. I think like Erik von Braun, with the creator of the jet engine. The jet engine hasn’t changed in 40 plus years. When you look at a plane, and I’m on planes all the time, it’s still a gigantic fan that sucks in air, and the air that blows out the other end propels the engine. The Quick Mix Theory hasn’t changed in almost 40 years. It’s bigger, it’s faster, and then some kids do it in a way that I woudn’t fathom knowing how to do, but it’s the same way. So, this is how Joseph Saddler thinks.
2017 is what I call the cyclical year of the birth of hip hop. It’s because 2017 there are more young people, more kids that want to know what the 70s was doing than ever. So, we were talking about the 80s, and how they get credit, it’s just that the 80s was the cake finished. The 70s was the bakers at the time. So, now the 70s for me is so, “How was the cake made?” It’s the flour, the water, the eggs, the vanilla, the secret ingredients. Now, with the interest of the 70s, it’s really important that we as hip hoppers …
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: Whether here in the Bronx right now, or in Japan, or in Australia, like people need to know where this thing truly started. You need to know Kool Herc is, you need to know who Afrika Bambaataa is, you need to know who Grandmaster Flash is, and all out prodigies that come after. It’s really important.
Chuck Creekmur: Absolutely. You made the distinction between looping versus repeating. And that’s a major distinction for people that know hip hop.
Flash: I’m not trying to school the scholars like you. I’m trying to microscopically school the layman’s that might look at that and say, “I don’t see the difference.” So, if we were to quantify the professionals like yourself and myself, let’s just say they’re 30,000. There’s seven billion laymen. These are the people I need you to say, “Look at these moving pictures and tell me if you see the difference.”
This is how we can tell the difference between “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” by Vaughan Mason and Good Times. You put the two together, the notes are playing exactly, almost the same, but it’s two different records. .
You play “Mary Jane” by Rick James, and then you play “Keep Risin’ to the Top” by Keni Burke, they sound almost the same, but they come from the minds of two different people.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: These are the laymen that you really got to be careful because long after god takes me, I want these little kids to understand where this important thing came from. These three people.
Chuck Creekmur: Okay. Now, in the video, another little distinction you said, and this is not to focus on anything traumatic.
Flash: Right, right.
Chuck Creekmur: But you did say it, “There’s only two of us left.”
Flash: Right.
Chuck Creekmur: You know what I’m talking about?
Flash: Yeah.
Chuck Creekmur: What made you say that?
Flash: You know, as human beings we make mistakes. I’m getting a little teary eyed right now, and we do things that are not really right when it comes to people. Bam is accused of doing some things that are really horrific. Extremely horrific … I feel for the families that it happened to. I really, really, really, really, really feel for the families that this happened to, but he is one of the people that’s responsible for this.
Like this is why I said … Me and Herc, yo man, we don’t speak too much anymore. As a matter of fact, we don’t speak at all, and it’s sad. It’s because we should be speaking. When I talk to journalists, I will always give them one/third the story. Because I haven’t been sitting down and had a coffee with Herc. In decades!
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: Haven’t sat down with Bam and talked over a coffee or a tea.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: In decades.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: I so badly want to do that. When journalists ask me, how does this work? Or how does that, that, that? I’d rather give three/thirds, which equals a whole for every journalist that I speak to. I can only give my history.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: The other two parts is his story.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah. Right.
Flash: So, it makes it still to some degree incomplete. So, a horrific thing happened, so I say to Herc, it’s only two of us now, and I haven’t seen Bam in a long period of time.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: But bad things that took place are really horrific bad things, but … He is a third of the story.
Chuck Creekmur: But you still said, “Two left.”
Flash: It’s two left with just me and Herc.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: I’d love to be sitting down at a table …
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah, yeah.
Flash: Like this.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: And saying, “Herc, tell me who you are. Introduce yourself to me.” Because now this story, this period of time is so intensely interesting to so many people in the world.
Chuck Creekmur: Absolutely.
Flash: So, now I want to know, “I’ll tell you who Joseph Saddler is, you tell me who Clive Campbell is.”
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: Then let’s go into how we became who we are.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: When I was doing this, I was just in this for the moment. There was no plan like, “Yo, this technical thing that you’re going to do, and it’s going to become the thing that every DJ does.” I wasn’t thinking that way.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: I heard music a certain way, and I’m like, “It’s not taking place, let me use Joseph Saddler, the geek, to figure this out.” This is all that I can say.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah, but why aren’t you and Herc talking? I mean, there’s no beef, right? I mean, there’s no …
Flash: I don’t know. I don’t know why we’re not talking. I don’t know. It’s sad.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: Because sooner or later god will come calling.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: Then it will be one. Then god will come calling again, then it will be none. The way that a lot of media does today, yesterday’s not important.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: They move onto the next thing.
Chuck Creekmur: Absolutely.
Flash: So, I think for me, I looked at a lot of documentaries in this past year-and-a-half, and they can not be complete because you’re not hearing it from here, from Joseph Saddler.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: If Joseph Saddler, and Clive Campbell, and Bam, whose real name I don’t really, really know, was sitting here talking then you would hear an authentically, incredible, powerful, powerful, powerful, accurate story from the three people that physically did it. Until that point happens, all the documentaries will be inaccurate in one way or another.
Chuck Creekmur: I would love to sit down with Kool Herc, but it’s been difficult.
Flash: Okay.
Chuck Creekmur: It’s been a challenge.
Flash: Maybe before I leave planet Earth, this can happen. So, if there’s … Like there’s this slang term they use now, “The Big Three.”
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah, yeah, yeah. For basketball.
Flash: LeBron, and the people with the Golden State Warriors. Then there was Boston. If that’s the case, what does that make us?
Chuck Creekmur: The Big Three. Let me ask you this, are people jealous of Grandmaster Flash? I’ll just tell you my opinion is, I think they are.
Flash: What do you mean?
Chuck Creekmur: Okay, you want me to tell you what I know?
Flash: Yeah.
Chuck Creekmur: I know that a lot of us see you, you’re on tour all year, you’re in control of your brand, you have multi layers to your success and your career right at this point, and then honestly a lot of others are not in as such a good position.
Flash: Right.
Chuck Creekmur: Ultimately, that breeds envy. You’ve never felt that at all?
Flash: Like I told you earlier in the interview, it’s critically important that I go around the world and tell these people where this thing comes from. Now since I’m only one person, and I can only be in one place in one time, a lot of times people don’t see me, but when I find out about certain events, I make it a point to go to them. When I walk into a room and I see some of my old friends, it’s powerful love.
Chuck Creekmur: Right, okay.
Flash: It powerful, powerful love. Like I just came from doing an event that was in honor of DJs that passed away in the Bronx area, at Sal’s. Sal who used to own Disco Fever has a club called Club Evil. I was just there.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: Got all the love. It’s incredibly … It was incredible. This is what I say, I personally feel whether you are in music, machinery, medicine, or whatever it is that you do, it is your own personal responsibility to be up on the times, and make yourself visible to people because it’s all a people business.
Chuck Creekmur: Yes.
Flash: It’s extremely important. I’ve had some real rough times.
Chuck Creekmur: Yes.
Flash: I’ve been f##### over. I’ve had some people that were near and dear to me that I raised f### me over. I was on the ground at the lowest of my low. I went through a period of time where I was sniffing cocaine, smoking it, drinking, walked away from my turntables, almost lost my life, not once, but twice because of the overdose of cocaine. I’ve been through some real f##### up times. I watched my mother, my father, and my grandmother all die at the same time, in the same month.
Chuck Creekmur: Wow.
Flash: As I passed out this particular time from cocaine, I went into somewhat of a coma like. I had this intense conversation with god, and I begged if you could allow me to wake up one more time with the f###### over that I had, if you just allow me to wake up this one time, I will drop cocaine, I will forgive the people and the fellas that used to roll with me for f###### me over, and allow me to rebuild my career. The first person he got me with, and this was an 18 year walk, the first person they got me with was Blue who started doing bookings for me.
Chuck Creekmur: Okay.
Flash: There was this other person by the name of Greg Cannon. Greg Cannon was this white guy who done this interesting thing for a job. He says, “Flash, although there are these confusion on whose Grandmaster, and whose not, I’m going to introduce you to this new thing that’s happening, but here’s the key, you have to tell people what you’re thinking. You have to tell people how you’re feeling. You almost got to tell people what kind of cereal you ate this morning. You got to kind of ask people when you stubbed your toe.”
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: I’m like, “F*ck you, Greg. I’m not doing it. I’m a real private person.”
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: “I’m not telling people sh*t.” He said, “Flash, if you do this they will know the difference of Joseph Saddler/Grandmaster Flash, and the people that used to roll with you.”
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: “You will now become your own person.” I’m like, “Greg, f### you. I’m not doing it.” He says, “Flash, please.” Eventually he wore me down. He did this work for the Army, and this place where they used to sell electronics downtown called J&R Music World.
Flash: He said, “It’s called the internet.” I says, “It’s what?” He says, “Flash, just listen to me before you curse me out again.” He says, “There’s these places where you could put sentences on how you’re feeling today, and what you’re dealing, and I’m going to build this virtual house for you called a website.” I’m like, “What?”
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: “A what?” He says, “In this house, there’s going to be pictures of you, and things, and stories, and this and that, that, that, and I promise you if you feed this house … “
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: “And you feed this thing called the internet, people will find out who Joseph Saddler is.”
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: To this day, I kiss the ground that he walks on. Because when I was flat on my face and coked out of my mind, and lost everything that I loved, I had to figure out how I was going to do this.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: So, my sister, Penny, and Greg Cannon, and a woman I tell you that I loved that lived three blocks from here. Her name was Paula Jeffrey. These three people figured out a way for me to get up, and I’m getting a little teary eyed right now, and do what you did before these people joined you. “People will accept you.”
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: “But you have to keep feeding the machine. You got to keep putting things in this place called a website. You have to start putting these things, verbiage of what you did today. You trip and you was on the swings today, and you fell off them.”
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: “A fly flew in your mouth, and you had to spit it out. You have to tell people these things.” I’m like, “Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,” and I did this for the past 18 years. I’ve separated myself back to the place I was when I was alone before anybody joined me, and now I do this around the planet. God is wonderful.
Today I have a team, I run a business called Grandmaster Flash Enterprises, and like you said, the layers of people, I have 10 people. Two attorneys that protect my trademark.
I have an online specialist. I have my person, my PR, who’s Melissa, who is with me today. I have technicians that are in my recording studio. I also own a video studio. I have all these people around me that are connected in the way that I think that allow me to do what I do.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: Because I feel in my heart that I’m still needed.
Chuck Creekmur: You are.
Flash: Where I was in some situations where people said, “What you do don’t matter.”
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: “And you are not needed.”
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: I am doing Madison Square Garden as a DJ September 12th. Two days later, I fly to Brazil, and I’m playing in front of 20,000 people waiting for me, and I’m headlining.
Chuck Creekmur: Right.
Flash: Me, my two turntables, mixer, and a microphone. I have to tell you, Chuck, I come from a school of people that have the same knowledge that I have, and under all the adversity that I had, god put the right people with me and said, “I’m going to allow you to live again. Get up.” I call it the slow walk to the big tent. The reason why I call it the slow walk to the big tent is when I do these festivals, at first, they would put me in the little tent.
I’d look and I’m like, “Who’s playing in that tent?” So, here’s five years later, now I play in the big tent. I play in the big tent. I’m playing “Mardi Gras,” “Apache,” “Johnny the Fox,” “I Can’t Stop,” I’m playing breaks in the big tent in front of 20,000 people.
I’m taking what I did right here, and I’m bringing it over there.
Flash: God is absolutely wonderful.
Chuck Creekmur: That’s beautiful.
Flash: For me, I disagree with you saying that people are jealous of me because I’m taking what we all collectively did, and I’m playing with the big boys.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah.
Flash: With this little music that comes from this little town called the South Bronx.
Chuck Creekmur: Yeah. Well, I salute you, my brother. You’re a true king.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Chief Keef was under the influence of eight different drugs when he was arrested in Miami, Florida last spring, according to a new toxicology report.
The “Love Sosa” hitmaker was taken into custody for driving under the influence (DUI) by Florida police officers in April, after the cops allegedly witnessed him take part in a marijuana drug deal.
Keef, real name Keith Cozart, submitted his urine for testing after the arrest and toxicologists have confirmed he had eight drugs in his system at the time of his arrest.
The substances included morphine, codeine, promethazine, marijuana, hydrocodone, norcodeine, dihydrocodeine, and hydromorphone.
Cozart’s legal battle in Miami is the latest in a series of legal spats – the star is also in trouble with the law in South Dakota following an arrest for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
(AllHipHop News) 2017 was a great year for streaming services. According to industry data, the number of streams increased by 50.3% from 2016.
However, an “old” music format is still gaining traction from consumers. Billboard reports vinyl album sales hit 14.32 million units in 2017 which was a 9% rise from the previous twelve months.
This means sales for vinyl has climbed for the twelfth straight year. Commercial consumption of analog LPs represented 8.5% of all album sales last year (up 6.5%) and were 14% of all physical album sales (up 11%).
Rock was the leading genre in vinyl sales in 2017. Projects by The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, Amy Winehouse, Prince, Bob Marley, and Michael Jackson made the list of the Top 10 selling vinyl albums in the United States.
Hip Hop culture was, in part, built off vinyl records. Influential deejays such as DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and DJ Jazzy Jay helped pioneer the art form by using LPs for scratching, mixing, and finding the breaks on songs.
Vinyl Me, Please helped contribute to fans listening to Hip Hop albums on record players in 2017. The Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die was selected as the service’s “Record of the Month” for September, and the “Rap and Hip Hop” subscription offered Vinyl Me, Please member’s projects such as Noname’s Telefone.
(AllHipHop News) According to TMZ, Catrina Washington and Shauntay Harris are suing the event promotions company Live Nation and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The plaintiffs claim they were injured during a so-called stampede at a Future concert last May.
In the docs, Washington and Harris say fireworks were used during the performance, setting off a loud noise and causing a panic — which allegedly led to them getting stomped all over as people scattered in chaos. Some folks thought gunshots had gone off. For the record, the NYPD released a statement on this at the time. They said a loud metal-on-metal sound erupted when the stage was lowered too quickly at the end of the show — insisting that, coupled with the sound of gunshots in one of the outgoing songs, is what caused the scare.
Future is currently not named in the suit. TMZ sources suggest the Atlanta-raised rapper will become a defendant at a later date.
Fellow Atlanta performer Rome Fortune’s name apparently was included in Washington and Harris’ court documents even though the Jerome Raheem Fortune album creator was not at the venue that night. He is expected to be dropped from the lawsuit.
(AllHipHop News) Music streaming saw a 50.3% increase from 2016 to 2017, according to BuzzAngle Music data published by Variety. Some of Hip Hop’s biggest talents benefited from listeners’ 377 billion streams last year.
For the second year in a row, Drake was the most streamed artist of ’17. The OVO leader is the only act to cross the 6 billion streams mark in multiple years. His What A Time To Be Alive collaborator Future came in second with 4.2 billion streams.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” racked up 555.2 million plays to be the most streamed song. Half of the top 1,000 streamed songs were from Hip Hop (40%) and R&B (10%).
Hip Hop was the #1 genre in song consumption by making up 20.9% of the market. Rock’s 22.2% led the total album consumption tally which was followed by Hip Hop with 17.5%.
(AllHipHop News) Two weeks ago, Kendrick Lamar used the premiere of his “LOVE” music video to hint that he would be involved in a soundtrack connected to the forthcoming Black Panther movie. It has now become official that the Compton emcee will be involved in the creation of a project connected to the Marvel Studios production.
Lamar and TDE CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith are curating and producing Black Panther: The Album which will include music from and inspired by the Ryan Coogler-directed film. This is the first time in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that original recordings are being created specifically for the motion picture.
“I am honored to be working with such an incredible artist whose work has been so inspirational, and whose artistic themes align with those we explore in the film. I can’t wait for the world to hear what Kendrick and TDE have in store,” says Coogler.
“All The Stars” featuring Kendrick Lamar and SZA is set to be the album’s lead single. The track was produced by TDE regular Sounwave (“B-tch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” “Element”)
“Marvel Studios’ Black Panther is amazing, from its cast to its director,” states Lamar. “The magnitude of this film showcases a great marriage of art and culture. I’m truly honored to contribute my knowledge of producing sound and writing music alongside Ryan and Marvel’s vision.”
Tiffith adds, “Working on such a powerful movie is a great opportunity. We’re always working on new goals at TDE, so teaming up with Disney, Marvel Studios, and the Black Panther film makes perfect sense.”
Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, and more. The movie is scheduled to hit theaters on February 16.
It appears 2 Chainz took offense to being listed in the middle of the promotional artwork. The rap veteran’s name came after newer acts like Post Malone, Lil Uzi Vert, Russ, 6lack, and DRAM.
Chainz posted on Instagram:
Whoever did this flyer need to do it over!!! No capp!! I put in to much work to settle!! I ain’t goin for the buddy buddy Sh-t this year give me miness!!! #prettygirlsliketrapmusic platinum #4am platinum #gooddrank platinum #vibes platinum #bigamount platinum!! Numbers don’t lie and neither do I!!!!
The artist formerly known as Tity Boi first broke onto the music scene in the mid-2000s as a member of the Playaz Circle duo and the Disturbing Tha Peace label. He went on to release his debut solo album, Based On A T.R.U. Story, in 2012 via Def Jam.
Over the past year, 2 Chainz did collect platinum plaques for the singles “Good Drank,” “It’s A Vibe,” and “4 AM.” The Pretty Girls Like Trap Music album from 2017 is currently certified Gold by the RIAA.
(AllHipHop News) Kendrick Lamar is in a good position going into Grammy Night on January 28. He’s up for 7 awards, including Album Of The Year for DAMN.
The 2x Multi-Platinum album has already earned a prestigious honor from the Recording Industry Association of America. DAMN was named the RIAA’s Top Certified R&B/Hip Hop Album of 2017.
In addition, Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO Tour Llif3” and DJ Khaled’s “I’m The One” featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper, and Lil Wayne tied for the distinction of last year’s Top Certified R&B/Hip Hop Song. Both records reached 5x Multi-Platinum status.
Reputation by Taylor Swift was 2017’s overall Top Certified Album (3x Multi-Platinum). Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” with Daddy Yankee was awarded for Top Certified Song (8x Multi-Platinum).
(AllHipHop News) Grammy-winning singer Bruno Mars recruited Grammy-nominated rapper Cardi B for the remix to his “Finesse” song. The Atlantic Records duo also got together to film a video for the track off 24K Magic.
Mars directed the visuals which recreate scenes from the 1990s sketch comedy series In Living Color. Cardi raps during a homage to the Keenen Ivory Wayans-created show’s intro before Bruno performs a dance sequence à la The Fly Girls dance team.
“This video is dedicated to one [of] my favorite T.V shows of all time,” tweeted Bruno. “Shout out to the people over at Fox Studios and a very special thank you to [Keenen Ivory Wayans].”
The “Finesse (Remix)” music video was released close to midnight. It quickly began trending on YouTube and Twitter on Thursday morning.
