(AllHipHop News) Rap veteran Lil Kim is looking to return to the limelight in 2016. The Queen Bee has not released a full studio album since 2005’s The Naked Truth, but she is currently working on a new LP.
“I’m working on a new album for next year. I put up a post not too long ago, I was at my old record label. So maybe… hint, hint,” Kim told Hot 97.
Kim’s discography includes the platinum selling albums Hard Core, The Notorious K.I.M.,and La Bella Mafia. She dropped the mixtapes Black Friday in 2011 and Hard Core 2k14 in 2014.
The Brooklyn rapper also appeared on Puff Daddy’s recent mixtape MMM. The Lox member Sheek Louch revealed to AllHipHop.com that Puff is reuniting with his Bad Boy Family for a tour starting in February. Will Kim be joining the trek?
“I got a couple of tours I’m going to be a part of, so just watch and wait,” said Kim.
(AllHipHop News) Rap themed television projects are gaining favor in Hollywood at the moment. Empire is still must tweet TV, VH1 is premiering its Hip Hop movie The Breaks next month, and 50 Cent has signed on for a new Entourage type comedy series on Fox. 50’s longtime rival Ja Rule is set to get into the scripted TV business as well.
The Queens rapper already has a reality show on MTV called Follow The Rules, but Ja told VladTV he is now working on a drama series with Irv Gotti centered around the Murder Inc brand. The label was responsible for producing hit records from Ja, Ashanti, Lloyd, and others. The Inc also dealt with highly publicized beefs and legal drama during its run.
“Gotti’s out in LA putting the icing on that cake right now. Yeah, we’re doing a Murder Inc series,” said Ja .”We got good partners with us, and hopefully it will be coming to Showtime or something like that real soon. Next year sometime, hopefully we’ll get it up and running.”
Viewers can expect to see all the main figures associated with Murder Inc as characters on the show. Ja did not mention whether he will be starring as himself in the series, but he will serve as an executive producer. The platinum selling rhymer previously starred in the films The Fast and the Furious and I’m in Love with a Church Girl.
(AllHipHop News) Spike Lee’s controversial film Chi-Raq opened in theaters last week, but before the Chicago based movie even hit theaters there was a lot of criticism hurled at the satirical drama. Even Windy City Hip Hop artists such as Rhymefest, Chance The Rapper, and King Louie refuse to support the new Spike Joint.
Lee did a recent interview with Sway In The Morning to discuss Chi-Raq. The award winning director got emotional as he pushed back against critics that say he is exploiting the violence in Chicago.
Lee said:
For those haters who have not seen the film who felt that we were making fun of the murder on the streets of Chicago or we were making light of it – Let me ask everybody a question. Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew were murdered in Chicago. Why would Jennifer Hudson be in a film that ridiculed her murdered mother, brother, and nephew? Why is she being part of that?
He continued:
[At the end of the movie] these black women are holding up posters of their young children that were murdered in the streets. Why would they ridicule their children by being in a film that did that? So people talking that sh*t, they don’t know what the f*ck they’re talking about. This film, in no way, shape, or form, makes fun of anybody that got killed. This film was made to save lives, and all this other sh*t people are talking about is a distraction.
Besides Hudson, Chi-Raq also stars Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, La La Anthony, and Dave Chappelle. The Amazon Studios produced film grossed $1.2 million in its opening weekend.
(AllHipHop News) Every year after the Grammy Award nominations are revealed, the debate about which acts got snubbed always begins. This year’s list of nominees in the rap categories had some observers questioning why artists like Future, Lupe Fiasco, and Vince Staples were ignored.
Maybach Music Group’s Wale went to Twitter to express his own issues about his name being left out of the Grammy conversation. That led to a fan suggesting he and Kendrick Lamar should go on tour together. Wale responded by claiming Kendrick stopped taking his calls after the TDE emcee received his previous Grammy nominations.
K. Dot’s Black Hippy partner Jay Rock then jumped into the situation by calling out Wale for speaking on Kendrick publicly. The 90059 album creator referred to Wale’s feud with fellow MMG rapper Meek Mill by paraphrasing Meek’s claim that Wale is no longer in Maybach Music. Wale later returned to Twitter to add his intention was not to diss Kendrick.
(AllHipHop News) The nominations for the 58 Annual Grammy Awards were announced yesterday (December 7), and it came as a surprise to some people that Drake’s Meek Mill diss record “Back To Back’ earned a nod for “Best Rap Performance.” Social media users used that announcement as a reason to once again make fun of Meek for the way his feud with Drake played out.
It appears Meek is not feeling the idea of his rival being up for a trophy on Grammy night at his expense. The Dreamchaser posted a cryptic message on his Instagram page that seems to be addressing Drake’s nomination. He wrote, “They tipping the scales for them suckas to win.”
Meek then followed that post by adding a picture which featured him and Future. The Atlanta rhymer teamed up with Drake earlier this year for the joint project What A Time To Be Alive, but he later gave his own veiled response about WATTBA, saying in an interview “[the mixtape] never happened.”
Check out Meek Mill’s Instagram posts below and share if you think it was a message for Drake in the comment section.
The Drake/Meek Mill beef goes to a new height as Drake’s “Back To Back” has become the first diss song to receive a Grammy nomination.
The Grammys nominated the song as a contender in the Best Rap Performance category for the 58th annual award show.
There are a couple of other songs that have been nominated that which are technically diss records like LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” and Lauryn Hill’s “Lost Ones.”
Those songs were not quite as pointed as Drake’s which is why
Lil Boosie will undergo surgery today to address cancer that has had the rapper reeling.
On his Instagram account, he said, “To all my family, fans n supporters I really appreciate the love n concern that’s been giving to me since I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Tommorrow I go n for surgery n I need prayers for a great surgery n rehabilitation at the MdAnderson cancer center GodGotme.”
Fans of the rapper were extremely supportive and wished the Southern rapper well.
DJ Kayslay is a staple in Hip-Hop almost since it’s inception and is respected in various facets of the culture. He is a respected DJ, grafiti artist and current DJ on Shade 45 radio.
Follow him on his next journey as an independent film maker as the Hip-Hop veteran releases Straight Stuntin’: A Woman Scorned his first of many short films. Tune in here for more soon! Check the pics and video below:
With some knocking production from Spiffy Global out the gate, Johnny Cinco nonchalantly rides the bass heavy “Literally” with the help of new coming talent, 21 Savage. While we aren’t sure about the savage guy, we def know who Johnny Cinco is. Anyone else remember him beefing with Rich Homie Quan? We hope they work that out because Johnny is one song away from a breakout hit and it’d be cool if him and Rich Homie did song. Look for more from Cinco in 2016.
Its the holiday season, so you know the major radio stations are going to be doing their thing as far as big concerts. This one here is a big show for the NYC area put on by Hot97 and Busta Rhymes. Featured performances included Wu-Tang, Q-Tip, Diddy, Fetty Wap, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey and many more. As our favorite rappers of the 90’s get older, its nice to see them still getting some shine. Check the show below:
As the saga that is Rick Ross’ life continues, “the Bawse” has unloaded yet another dope album for fans of the Miami hustler turned international rap star. On the project, Ross maintains his impenetrable armor that has been tested over the years, and that is still respected in the streets.
At one point in Ross’ career, his background was questioned, but it seems as if listeners have ignored his past and embraced his winning pedigree over the years. Although he stays in headlines for beef with 50 Cent, drama with his fiancé Lira Galore, legal issues with the real Rick Ross and an ongoing internal MMG beef, Ross is a pillar in Hip-Hop that commands attention. In listening to just the first 5 songs of the album, Ross sets a precedence for this project that even Drake should pay attention to, because Ross is taking shots all through this project – if you pay attention. And, while his last projects Mastermind and Hood Billionaire seemed to be ones to keep the labels happy, this project is another tally in the “W” column for Ross and his MMG imprint – he took this one seriously.
Ross has grown up, and you can hear it in his lyrics, making songs for his mother, rapping lines about his future wife and even dropping lines about living a promethazine-free life after the medicine caused him seizures.
Throughout the process of recording this project Ross was incarcerated for three weeks and you can hear it in his raps. As Ross eluded to in interviews, his incarceration seemed to clarify and humble him. “There’s a lot of sh*t that I wrote and a lot of sh*t that I thought about. I came back out and scrapped a lot of music and I recorded some dope songs, but my first day home I recorded six records,” Ross told Billboard in November. You can hear Ross’ grandeur on the first few songs of the effort as Ross kicks off the project nicely with “Free Enterprise” featuring John Legend and “Smile Mama, Smile” featuring CeeLo Green, produced by Jake One.
“One of Us” produces another great collab with Nas and Rozay and “Silk Road” glares through the speakers like classic Ross music – refined, boss-like and timeless.
On track number six things take an unusual turn, as Ross titles the song “Dope Dick.” It’s not really a song that you can tell the homies to check out, but Ross does make a host of songs for females on the latter half of this project, so we will throw that “Dope Dick” song their way.After track six (I can’t even say the title), we get the EPIC “Crocodile Python” joint that seems like it will bang in Hip-Hop fans speakers for years to come. “Ghostwriter” seems to take shots at Drake if you really pay attention. Even though he has addressed Drake on “Color Money,” without saying names, lets not forget that Meek felt the need to diss Drake for not writing his own material. “Lyrics they recite these are words I own / Every album that I made I did it on my own” – Rick Ross – “Ghostwriter” “I had a lot of time to just sit by myself, so I had a lot more things I wanted to address. That’s what I did on this LP. I spoke on different things. One of them goes by the name of “Ghostwriter.” I finally wrote a record telling the way it feels for me to be a ghostwriter, and not only a ghostwriter, but one of the biggest in the rap game. Because of my own personal success I’ve always been able to keep that in the shadows. On this record, I just felt it was so current. It was needed,” Ross told Time Magazine.
Rick Ross’s “Black Market” Listening Party 2015
“Dreamchaser you f### with Meek you gotta f### with Coon, them my goons, DC carve it in my tomb.” – Rick Ross – “Black Opium” ft DJ PremierRoss makes it abundantly clear that he writes ALL of his own material and then some. Combine that with “Color Money,” jabs on “Foreclosures” and theres no denying that Ross is going after Drake on this project in multiple ways. How can a boss let something like that slide? You can’t diss the crew and not expect a reply. Not picking sides here, but at the end of the day, Meek signed to Ross and Drake ate him up, which in turn eats at Rozay’s pockets, and you know the boss it trying to eat. A reply was 100% needed and Drake got one.
“Color money got your b*tch out on a world tour / My lil’ homie made a million on his girl’s tour / We back to back and down to wack a n*ggas unborn / Miami n*ggas got ’em changin’ all they gun laws / So run Forrest, got some shooters and they down, too / I got more money than that p#### that you signed to.” – Rick Ross – “Color Money”
“Sorry” is a track that hypes up the drama of women in Ross’ life. It’s an issue that everyone can probably relate to in some way, especially Chris Brown on the hook who is seemingly singing to Karrueche Tran.
When you add in the DJ Premier production, a Future track for the turn up, “Money Dance” ft The Dream and “Very Best” ft Mary J Blidge, this is a well rounded effort. You gotta give it to Ross he’s put together some bangers, and while there are a few tracks we could do without (“Peace Sign”), overall its a slapper.“Foreclosures” will be a slept on record, but there are some gems on there, as well as “Carol City” that give clues on Ross and his game plan. You gotta read between the lines.
“I never took an L back when Meek fell, just drove the numbers all the way back up in retail.” – Rick Ross – “Foreclosures”Features and guest appearances include: John Legend, CeeLo Green,Nas, DJ Premier, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Future and The Dream, but really there’s not too many features as most of the features are on the hooks. This project was important, not only for Ross, but for MMG. Tally one for Ross and MMG. OVO the ball is in your court. Buy it here via iTunes: Rick Ross – Black Market8.5 /10 OverallLyrics: 8/10Production: 9/10Cohesiveness: 8/10Replay Value: 9/10Overall Rating: 8.5/10
Here’s a Hip Hop treat for the fans! Jadakiss jumps on the track with Grafh & Wiz Khalifa and makes it twice as dope. ind this cut off the #PainKillersReloaded album coming in the 1st quarter.
As a proud 305 representer—a Miami native, I pride myself on being from the same hood/school/city as Rick Ross, Gunplay, Trick Daddy, Trina and Flo Rida! (If I would’ve grown up in their era I would probably be a rapper, but being a blogger is what I do!) All’s been well with Miami hip-hop until recently.
Enter white gangsta rapper Phillip Katsabanis aka “Lil Phil” aka (his most recent metamorphosis) “Stitches.” (His last name has me in stitches! No gangsta rapper’s gov’ment name should Katsabanis! [Ain’t dat Greek?] That’s about as lame as Vanilla Ice’s real last name—Van Winkle—and he too claimed Miami with his fraudulent ass!)
The more I’m finding out about this white rapper “Stitches,” the more I’m starting to like Slim Jesus! F**k! What’s really good with some of these white rappers getting airtime today? Off the rip—I ain’t with no white rapper using the “N-WORD” and Stitches says “ni**a” better than most ni**as! He’s from a part of Miami called Kendall. Black folk from there, but it ain’t the hardest part of Miami by far. (Visit Overtown, Liberty City, Brownsville, Opa Locka and even my hood, Carol City) Stitches wants us to believe that he’s the realest, hardest and truest Miami representer, but I see through the make-up. Tatting one’s face with grotesqueness is just an attempt at being feared. Your face might be scary, but you ain’t scary! You might think you’re a ni**a, but you ain’t no ni**a! His video, “I Love My Ni**as.” Really, hip-hop? Have we accepted this s###? (Might be time foe me to check out of hip-hop…)
And don’t be acksin’ why blacks can say n***a and whites can’t! We can be hypocritical if we want! Much blood has been shed before we manipulated the word into a “term of endearment.”
Who told Stitches he could appropriate the word n***a into his vernacular? Tain’t no way I’m gonna believe that real Miami n***as think this is cool. He must be rolling with some Kendall wiggas or some of those fake-ass South Beach brothas. Real Miami N-Words don’t respect it and I don’t respect it!
Stitches don’ took on the “n***a persona” and fooled himself into thinking he can step to a real certified gangsta rapper like The Game. Oh, but straightway Stitches found out that he was barking up the wrong tree! One of Game’s people (Shout-out to Wack 100! You took that Taser like a G! I see you and I hope 40 Glocc seen’t that Pacoima Haymaker!) put that fool to sleep with a one-hitter-quitter—waylaid his ass into a South Beach R.E.M. sleep stage! After his nap (and on his way to jail) all he could say was he was “sucker punched.” How were you “sucker punched” when it was Stitches who was on some groupie/stalker ish for a reportedly two-hours, while The Game sipped Ciroc and goosed chicks in Liv’s V.I.P. section. You had two-hours to formulate your war strategy and still got caught slippin’? LOL. Nah white boy! I seen’t the video! You threw your dukes up first and walked up to The Game’s entourage. Did you really think you were just gonna walk by his first line of defense and touch him? Proof that you’re not a real gangster; a fade coming from any angle! Stitches was in his Porsche (rollin’ six deep) and the naggers he was with did nothing! On his Instagram Stitches said this of the goons riding with him, “And the n***a I was with didn’t do s###. They fired.” LOL. Yes! Stitches received some stitches that night—in his own city and summarily got the “Donkey of the Day” from Charlamange Tha God and a quick dissin’ from me.
Stitches is the quintessential “culture vulture” who glorifies everything that’s wrong with hip-hop aesthetics. He may talk like a n***a, but he ain’t no n***a and The Game pulled up his skirt and exposed his tiny phallus with one punch. Now go on away Lil Phil and leave my city ASAP! PS. Did I mention that your music sucks?
Khalil Amani, a Native of Miami Carol City is gay hip-hop’s “Straight Advocate.” He writes for Allhiphop.com, DJ Kay Slay’s Originators & Straight Stuntin Magazines. He’s been featured in L.A. Times, Spin Magazine, DaveyD.com, The Biography Channel. Author of six books, including the groundbreaking “Hip-Hop Homophobes…” (iuniverse.com ’07). Follow on IG @khalil_amani, Facebook, Twitter @khalilamani.
Slim Jesus is receiving more hate than support since his viral “Drill Time” video. Recently someone snatched his microphone out of his hand during a performance. The angered critic yelled,
“Support real Hip Hop, b*tch!”
Many have criticized Slim Jesus for his music direction and choices. Many feel he’s fake, and he doesn’t live the life he raps about. Slim cancelled two of his Canada shows because the police claim his shows incite violence. Hmmmm is it Slim’s lyrics that cause the violence or the fact that people can’t stand him?
Well here’s another case of someone saying an artist or producer stole their song. This time a rapper by the name of Brix The Chef claims 50 Cent stole his song. Sonny Digital, who made the beat quickly exposed him and said he is lying! Sonny Digital actually dropped a version of the song that featured 50 Cent a year ago. We guess Brix The Chef @BrixTheChef snitched on himself. Mmmmm oh my god stop f’n lying! We guess he wanted his 15 seconds…
Check out the latest picture of Gucci Mane in jail! The man has been in the belly of the beast for quite some time and now it appears this is a true image of what the looks like now. Based on the steady stream of music, I would think homie is free or something.
As you know Ayesha Curry caused quite a stir on social media when she shared her thoughts on today’s fashion trends leaving little to the imagination. She said today’s trend of barely wearing any clothes isn’t her style. She says she would rather keep the good stuff covered for the one that matters, Steph Curry. People will find something to complain about, so people wasted no time coming after her and accusing her of “s### shaming”. Some went as far as to try to find her in revealing clothes to suggest that she was a hypocrite. Many agreed with her. French Montana said he liked what she was saying, but he didn’t want to see any covered up girls once he hit Miami. What are your thoughts? Were Ayesha’s comments fair? After all it’s her opinion and prerogative.
