AllHipHop

homepage

A3C Festival Executive Director Announces 2016 Dates, New Speaking Series

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Organizers for the A3C Festival, have announced this year’s dates for one of Hip-Hop’s biggest annual events.

The 12th Annual A3C (All Three Coasts) Festival is slated for Wednesday October 5 through Sunday October 9 in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s festival and conference will be focused on music, technology and culture.

Like the past 11 A3C’s, there will be over 75 shows and multiple stages featuring thousands of nationally known and rising Hip-Hop artists. The conference portion of A3C is lining up hundreds of panelists who will take part in over 80 sessions, meet and greets and workshops.

A new speaking series will also debut this year featuring new influencers and a group of icons. Over the years, rappers as varied GZA, B.o.B, Big Boi, A$AP Ferg, Too $hort, De La Soul and hundreds of others have headlined stages and panels at A3C.

“The A3C Festival will continue to provide the best possible platform for artist discovery, while celebrating Hip-Hop’s trailblazers, influencers and milestones,” A3C Executive Director Mike Walbert told AllHipHop.com in a statement released today (March 21).

A limited number of passes are on sale now at an early bird rate of $99 and jump up to as high as $149. Conference passes are available for $119 at a discount until September 23, when the price will jump to $219.

Check out A3C’s official website for more details.

Roy Jones, Jr. Knocks Out Fan In $100k Match

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur)Category: Lifestyle

It must be hard leaving the limelight of competitive sports, because Roy Jones, Jr. simply won’t go. Now, after a recent knockout loss, most experts expected the former Best Pound-For-Pound fighter to retire, but he didn’t. Instead, Jones essentially beat up a fan for 100k in a strange bout. Why? Jones gave the man, who is apparently an MMA fighter, the opportunity to win $100k if he could beat the former champ. Needless to say, he didn’t last two rounds.

Jones, 47, suffered a devastating loss to Enzo Maccarinelli in December.

Lil Wayne Slashes Price on Miami Mansion Thanks To Flat Real Estate Market

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: Headlines

(AllHipHop News) The real estate market has gone flat and Lil Wayne is following suit, by dropping the sale price of his Miami mansion by a total of $4 million dollars.

Lil Wayne has cut the offering price several times since the home went up for sale in April of 2015 for $18 million. After dropping the price several times since, the house is now being offered at $14 million, nearly $4 million off the original asking price.

A lucky buyer will get a mansion with a glass elevator, a skatepark on the roof and a home that has a few million dollars worth of remodeling.

“The market is flat,” Ty Forkner, the listing agent told The Miami Herald. “Priced at under $1,000 a square foot, it’s a special deal.”

Lil Wayne originally put the mansion up for sale after police raided the property to collect $2 million in assets and artwork, to satisfy a judgement against him brought by Signature Group over an unpaid jet bill.

Over the past few years, fans began pranking Weezy by sending a SWAT team to the residence in response to a phony shots fired call, while a real prowler was caught on his property.

Since then, Lil Wayne has been fighting several lawsuits, including a $51 million beef with Cash Money, a $300,000 lawsuit with a former lawyer and ongoing issues with the IRS.

Disgruntled Drake Rapper Goes In On OVO

By: YourfavenightmareCategory: Rumors

Life is hard, kids. These rappers may love you. They may not love you. One thing is for sure, nobody can really help you if you don’t help yourself. Also, when the love is gone, you can be gone in a heartbeat. This dude Mo-G has seemingly fallen out with the OVO crew and will no longer be down with Drake. That’s got to hurt. But, I am not trying to joke on dude, because he was clearly down with Drake. I am hoping they can work it out somehow, because they seem to be pretty cool.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDLhBO9jfs_

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDLZj8yjfoM/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCb4zbTjfh2/

Image Source: Instagram
Click here for more discussion on this matter.

DJ Screams New Mixtape ‘Legend’ Features Music From Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz, Killer Mike, And Many Others

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: Music

Today, DJ Scream released a project that features the hottest rappers from Atlanta to LA. The new compilation album, titled Legend, includes exclusive music from Killer Mike, Migos, Gucci Mane, Kendrick Lamar, 2 tracks from 2 Chainz, along with many others. According to Complex, the MMG DJ will be releasing a new album sometime soon.

Check out “Legend” below.

Drake And Rihanna Visit A Cancer Patient In Miami

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) Drake has been making moves this weekend. Not only was the Toronto rap star in Austin last night to confirm that his highly anticipated album Views From The 6 would be dropping next month, but earlier this week the rapper went out of his way to make a cancer patient’s dream come true. According to Complex, following his featured performance of the hit single “Work” with Rihanna during her ANTI World Tour, the two stars paid a visit to see the young patient, named Megan, sometime after. Earlier today, clips of Drake and Rihanna with the patient started to surface.

Check out the clips below.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Kevin Kusensela (@kev2alks)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Kevin Kusensela (@kev2alks)

 

 

Jeezy Ready to Fight Fan?

By: YourfavenightmareCategory: Rumors

You can’t stand the Snow Man…but you went to his show and paid for a ticket? Somebody touched Jeezy in a way that he didn’t like and Jeezy let him know what’s up. Not much to see here, but people made it into something big.

Check Out PARTYNEXTDOOR’S New Single “Come And See Me” Feat. Drake

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: Music

Following their surprise OVO Concert at SXSW, the label’s member PARTYNEXTDOOR and founder Drake link up on a new track titled “Come And See Me.” Produced by Noah “40” Shebib, “Come and See Me” fits PND’s style by maintaining a relaxed and smooth tone while adding bass to the track. The artist is also supposed to be releasing his sophomore project P3 sometime soon, according to HYPETRAK.

Check out “Come and See Me” below.

Shots Were Fired Earlier This Morning At #SXSW

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) Earlier today, shots were reported being fired in downtown Austin on the last day of South By Southwest. According to USA Today, two suspects were apprehended by police after multiple gunshots were heard around 4 am on 6th street downtown. Kill TV’s Kristin Diaz live-tweeted the incident as a witness when it happened.

According to the report, the gunshots caused people to disperse. However, Austin Police later tweeted that a suspect was caught and the gun was soon recovered. Their has been no current description of the suspect as of yet.

 

Xzibit French Fries Funny Fan!

By: YourfavenightmareCategory: Rumors

Time makes people forget. X to the Z aka Xzibit is one real hombre, but it seems like some of his TV ventures have gotten people confused. One fan tried to get funny with the Cali King and got served her way. Oh…she mad.

Screen Shot 2016-03-20 at 3.41.59 PM

Screen Shot 2016-03-20 at 3.42.08 PM

Screen Shot 2016-03-20 at 3.42.19 PM

Funny or nah? I’ma say…funny.

Drake Confirms ‘Views From The 6’ Release Date

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) During his performance at the surprise OVO Takeover down at SXSW, Drake confirmed that his long awaited album Views From The 6 will be releasing next month. According to REVOLT, the rap star made the announcement after performing his Meek Mill diss track “Summer Sixteen.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDKh4IDwwMc/?taken-by=revolttv

Views From The 6, Drake’s fourth LP, has been in the works since his last project Nothing Was The Same released in 2013. However, the rapper has managed to keep fans waiting by releasing multiple hits, his mixtape If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late, and the collaboration project with Future What A Time To Be Alive. 

50 Cent and The Game Totally End Beef?

By: YourfavenightmareCategory: Rumors

I am not sure what is going on here, but if I didn’t know better, I would think this was the END of the beef with The Game and 50 Cent. This ha been one of the most bitter, long-running beefs in the history of Hip-Hop. Earlier this year, we saw The Game link with Lloyd Banks…that was a big step. Now, it looks like the brothers finally working it out. 50 Cent & The Game were in the same club the other day at PlayHouse Hollywood. Game’s manager Wack100 apparently talked to 50 before The Game arrived. He told 50 that everything is good. The Game then apparently ordered 30 bottles of 50’s Effen vodka. They didn’t shake hands or anything but this was a big step.

It seems like a 10-year plus beef is over. They may not be best friends, but at least we can say they are grown men about their ish now.

For more, click here!!!!

Metro Boomin Working On New Album?

By: YourfavenightmareCategory: Rumors

Metro Boomin in known as one of the dopest producers out these days. He keeps the streets LIT. Drake knows. Future knows. And many others. Well, the word on the streets is that Young Metro is working on is own album to heat up the streets. I am not sure if he’s rapping or if it will be a compilation situation. Nevertheless, dude is on fire. Hopefully he trusts us, because we don’t want no problems.

Well, we trust him.

By the way, Metro Boomin recently got beas

Young Thug Leaks New Single “Dope” Featuring Lil Uzi Vert

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: Music

After having a funeral procession with the official release date of Slime Season 3 written on a casket last night during SXSW, Young Thug may have possibly released a new song off the album. The track, titled “Dope”, also features rapper Lil Uzi Vert. Now official word on whether this song will be on the Slime Season 3 mixtape, but we get the feeling it won’t be the last time we hear from Thugga before its official release.

Check out “Dope” below.

https://soundcloud.com/daily-hits/dope

Tyler The Creator Opens Up About Lyrics About His Father (Sort Of)

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) Fans who follow Tyler, the Creator on Twitter knows very well what they’re getting their selves into. Whether the founder of Odd Future is bagging on angry singers or just tweeting ratchetness, Tyler has managed to have as much nonsense going on his Twitter timelines than controversy in his music. However, both topics seemed to collide today, after the rapper opened up about the lyrics in several of his songs pertaining to his father. When looking back on several songs from his previous projects like Wolf and Bastard, it’s very evident that the artist’s lack of time with his father had a huge influence on him. However, Tyler finally confirmed why he put the lyrics on his two albums in a way that only Tyler could do. According to Complex, Tyler tweeted his reasoning before soon deleting it moments later.

Tyler was also planning on releasing another project this year, but the rapper told fans that he may be going pop. However, he later stated that he was just joking, or was he?

pop 1_o4b7ot pop 2_o4b7pi pop 3_o4b7q2 pop 4_o4b7qk

 

ILoveMakonnen Releases ‘Drink More Water 6’

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: Music

Today, OVO Sound-signed member ILoveMakonnen has released a new addition to his Drink More Water series. Although the new project is lacking in features, the new 11-track album features tracks including the tribute to Gucci Mane, “Big Gucci”. The album is available for streaming on Spotify.

Check out Drink More Water 6 below

Freebandz DJ Esco Set To Take Over Vegas With New Residency

By: Jake CratesCategory: News

 (AllHipHop News) DJ Esco aka “The Coolest DJ in the World,”  is set to have is own exclusive 2016 DJ residency  in Las Vegas.

Starting on March 24th and running through May 12th, DJ Esco will be DJing every Thursday night at Drai’s a multi-level Vegas club.

The club is on the rooftop of Caesars Entertainment’s new 188-room boutique hotel The Cromwell, Drai’s Beachclub • Nightclub and seeks to take entertainment and nightlife to new heights – literally.

It happens to be the Strip’s only rooftop beach club and includes multiple pools shaded by towering palm trees, with a variety of cabanas and bungalows.

“The club goes wild every time DJ Esco performs at Drai’s,” said nightclub founder and owner, Victor Drai. “It’s our goal to provide partygoers with the best resident lineup on The Strip and there’s no doubt that he brings the energy and experience that everyone’s after in Las Vegas. We’re excited to welcome Esco for a 2016 residency and look forward to a year of legendary parties.”

The last time we covered DJ Esco he was rolling out footage for his vlog series with Metro Boomin, which ironically included a performance at Drai’s in Vegas.

The Freebandz artist/DJ has built up a huge following and took the Hip-Hop world by storm with his mixtapes and candid cameos in several of Future’s videos.

In addition to being a signed Freebandz artist/DJ, Esco also serves as the official DJ for Future, co-producing recent mixtapes like Purple Reign, 56 Nights, Beast Mode and more.

Tickets for the Thursday night party featuring DJ Esco are on sale now and available at DraisLV.com.

dj esco

A Tory Lanez Concert At SXSW Is Shut Down Due To Crowd Issues And Gun Allegations

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: Features

(AllHipHop News) While SXSW is a time where people enjoy the many festivities that occur throughout the week, sometimes things can get a bit ratchet in a bad way. Last night, the Austin Music Hall had to shut down after the venue was packed with an unruly crowd and possible gun allegations emerging. According to KXAN, local police stated that a group of people rushed the venue at 11 pm, attending the currently held Beer and Tacos event, which featured Tory Lanez as its headliner as well as Young Dolph, Dipset, and K Camp included in the lineup.

Police also received reports of someone possessing a firearm at the event. However, there were no confirmed shots fired, nor were there any arrests made.

The Week Ahead in Hip-Hop: March 21, 2016 – March 27, 2016

By: Shad2487Category: Features

As the saying goes, “You don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been.”  Here is a look at notable events that took place in Hip-Hop this week from years past.

If you’re having trouble viewing this Stackerdecks post: Click Here

//stackerdecks.com/js/embedit.js

Domo Genesis Premieres New Music w/ Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, and Tyler the Creator

By: Vance BrinkleyCategory: Music

(AllHipHop Music) It’s been a while since Domo Genesis released a full solo project to his fans. This year, the Odd Future rapper will be releasing his debut album GENESIS this year, and has released a possible single featuring a gang of big name talent. Genesis’ new single “Go (Gas)” not only features his OF founder Tyler, the Creator, but Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J also manages to add some flavor on the track as well.

Check out “Gas (Go)” Below