Pusha T is not playing. The Virginia native is the president of G.O.O.D. Music and now he has released King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude. The long awaited album from the coke rap don is proving why he is one of Hip-Hop’s elite. The album includes heavies like Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, The-Dream, and Jill Scott. Give it a spin and post a review in the comments.
Sheek is a gorilla aka he’s a beast. After years in the game as a formative member of The LOX, Sheek has probably seen some of the wildest nights that that Hip-Hop has ever seen. Can you imagine partying with Biggie and Diddy back in the day? Either way, the homie has an album, Silverback Gorilla 2 that released earlier this month on (Dec 4th).
It’s his first album via Tommy Boy Entertainment (Ghostface Killah, Method Man) and it features the grit and grime that Sheek and Lox fans know and love featuring verses from friends and touring cohorts Jadakiss, Styles P, Ghostface Killah, Fabolous, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, A$AP Ferg and Raheem DeVaughn among others.
In addition to recent performances at the 2015 BET Awards in honor of Bad Boy’s 20th Anniversary, Radio City Music Hall with The LOX & Hot 97 Summer Jam, Sheek just finished up a European tour with The LOX and is currently prepping for more dates this winter with Ghostface and Diddy for the Bad Boy Family Tour (with three dates already confirmed).
If there’s anyone that is potentially on the way to being a crazy person, it’s Detroit heavyweight rapper Bizarre from D-12. His raps are off the wall and his personality is unmatched – you just really don’t know what he’s going to do or say. In the video, Bizarre aptly loses his mind as he’s filmed hooked up to a bed going crazy rapping in a cloud of smoke. He just might be as crazy as he wants everyone to think that he is! Check the visual below, its been a while since his days with Eminem, but he still knows how to entertain!
Recently Click 4ulla Stars artist OhBoyPrince signed a deal with Atlantic Records, the home of Trey Songz, B.O.B, Missy Elliott, Wiz Khalifa and Flo-Rida. But whats crazy about the deal is that the rapper is a former member of the GS Boyz who had the hit song the “Stanky Legg.” Now, the seasoned Dallas rapper has grown tremendously, building a network over 70,000+ fans on IG and Twitter that actually participate on social media doing dances to his music.
OhBoyPrince is currently working his newest single “Astronaut” ft. J. Spec. The song is moving on the Internet and social media with fans making their own videos to the song for the “Astronaut Challenge.”
“It’s crazy seeing how the fans grew with me from the GS Boyz with the hit single “Stanky Legg” until now. I have never stopped working on my music and I had been waiting for the opportunity to come again to be signed with another major label. Atlantic Records has given me the opportunity and we’re taking off!” OhBoyPrince said.
Check the visual below and let us know what you think!
A judge ruled that Meek Mill violated his probation and now the Philly rapper is looking at more jail time.
The rapper is set to be sentenced February 5, 2016 because he was unable to keep the court abreast of his travels.
Nicki Minaj and others pleaded on Meek’s behalf and promised to keep him in line Thursday to no avail. According to USA Today, “Mill offered emotional testimony…about his rudderless childhood in gritty North Philadelphia.”
Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley had already let Meek off without jail time in a 2009 drug and gun case, and was not amenable to hearing it this time. had heard it all before.
“How many times am I supposed to give him a second chance?” she said. The judge also suggested that probation may no longer be the solution anymore, alluding to jail time.
“The chance you gave me definitely changed my life and changed my family’s life,” Mill testified. “If you didn’t give me a chance, I probably wouldn’t be at this place I’m at now.”
Nicki Minaj attempted to paint a picture of Meek as a man working towards a higher self.
“He doesn’t have a lot of structure. He can be irresponsible. Since I’ve come in his life, I think I’ve been working on that a little bit. … He’s just getting accustomed to being an adult,” Nicki Minaj said last week.
Meek cannot perform or work before his February 5 sentencing, not even in his native Philadelphia.
In court, Meek tried to appeal to the judge.
300 Ent is probably one of the most stacked labels these days as far as young up-and-coming talent. The widely popular label has quickly picked up several big acts including but not limited to Young Thug, Migos, Johnny Cinco, Rich The Kid, Fetty Wap, Kirko Bangz and of course the focus of this post Eric Bellinger. The young Cali crooner is making big moves on tour across the country after the success of his ‘Cuffin Season’ series. Peep the 3rd leg of the tour as Eric inspires other musicians to get out on the road to make it happen.
2015 was an epic year for K Camp. Rolling out feature after feature, show after show and track after track, K Camp was highly active this past year. The only way to get there was playing chess not checkers as you will see in this visual that Camp drops to close out the year. Check it out below:
AllHipHop’s Tim Sanchez caught up with Ice as he blew some heads off in “Call of Duty.” In this new two-part exclusive, Ice-T talks everything from fatherhood, terrorism in today’s world, politics, the ever changing music business and his future business plans.
The winds of change have been pretty gusty in 2015 and few people know this as much as Ice-T. The Hip-Hop icon and his wife Coco welcomed their newborn daughter Baby Chanel Nicole into the world. Yes, at the age of 57, the original gangster Ice-T is tackling the role of dad once 24 years after the birth of Lil Ice, his last child. This time, he said Coco shoulders the majority of the burden. “I don’t change diapers,” Ice tells AllHipHop. “I can and know how to do it and I’ve actually changed a lot of them in my day. The present situation doesn’t call for it because my wife is around.” The gangster rap pioneer more than willing to re-enter the world of fatherhood.
Change. Ice-T has continued to evolve, taking on a talk show and podcast host duties to his already busy world of acting and music recording. He even created a huge two-city music festival to go along with his documentary “The Art of Rap.” True heads know that Iceberg is more than just an entertainer. He’s always had an affinity for the politics and community. And he does not mince words.
AllHipHop: There was a terrorist attack in Paris a few weeks ago and now we just recently experienced one here at home in San Bernardino, CA. What are your thoughts on it?
Ice-T: I don’t think any place is safe considering the situation that the United States has itself in. There are people who are unhappy with us and at any time, a small group cell can decide to take action. We have ISIS now and before that it was the Taliban, and in the future, there will probably be more groups with their own ideologies that think our country is evil and that we need to be done away with. It’s unfortunate, but I think that’s the future our kids are going to have to grow up in. There is no real way to prevent it. Every time it happens, people yell “guns” but there’s 270 million guns on the streets already. You can make them all illegal tomorrow, but there’s still going to be 270 million guns out there. To me, that’s not the answer.
The United States likes to try to fix problems that we’ve allowed to fester for hundreds of years. Then you get someone like Donald Trump who doesn’t want to allow Muslims into the country and do mass deportations, and that’s the worst thing that you can do because that will cause more people to hate us.
AllHipHop: Since you mentioned Donald Trump, what are your thoughts on him?
Ice-T: I think the man can run a good hotel. He’s a businessman in that sense, but he made his money in hotels and golf courses, that doesn’t mean he knows how to put a tire on a car or cook spaghetti. Just because you’re intelligent in one facet of life doesn’t mean that you can run the country. The other guy, Ben Carson, is a genius as a surgeon, but that doesn’t make him qualified to run the country either. The people of this nation are, I hate to say it, dumb – in that anyone who can out-do them in anything is deemed smarter. To run the country you have to be a special type of person. You need to know how to talk to our enemies, and move with strategy. People hate President Obama, but he’s a cool motherf**ker, talking real smooth in the cut. He’s ill! Nobody knew he was going after Bin Laden and Saddam like that. Trump, on the other hand, will loudly declare war on a motherf*cker and say some wild sh*t. You’ve got to be more calm use some strategy as a leader. Dude just talks too crazy, and you know it’s easy for anybody to say that they can wipe out ISIS. And then he talks about killing family members, just crazy sh*t. Even if that was your plan, you can’t just say it. I’m like, “What the f*ck is wrong with this dude?”
AllHipHop: Isn’t it weird how he could say dumb stuff like that yet attain higher poll numbers each time?
Ice-T: It’s wild how he can say stuff like that. Like I tell people, “I’m crazy but I’m not stupid.” I say crazy s**t, but I know what I’m doing. You’ll have to search hard to find me saying some dumb sh*t. Some people don’t think before they speak. I’ll tell you what the problem with the United States is. The people that support the likes of Trump, the radicals, they are the ones that show up when it’s time to vote. The people that he’s reaching are active whereas those that oppose him are more laidback when it comes to voting.
I voted for Barack Obama because I liked him and I believe that he had an agenda. I know that when he got into office that he really couldn’t go through with it because you really don’t run sh*t as the President – and he got a wake-up call. This time around, I’m probably going to vote just to help defeat Trump. I really think he’ll get us all killed. The Commander-In-Chief is a powerful position, I was in the military, so I know. To be able to send troops out is some heavy sh*t. Trump scares me in that aspect.
AllHipHop: Have you settled on a candidate yet?
Ice-T: I’m a Hillary fan because of her husband – I like Bill Clinton. Someone mentioned Bernie Sanders to me the other day and I got him confused with Ben Carson for some reason. I don’t know anything about Bernie though – I haven’t really investigated yet.
AllHipHop: Bernie seems to be the guy that the Hip-Hop crowd is leaning towards. He just got an endorsement from Killer Mike.
Ice-T: I f*ck with Killer Mike – I like him. He’s an intellectual. But you know, politics has always been confusing to me. I’ve made it to the age that I am and over the years it seems like whoever was President never made a difference in my life. I’m more concerned about war and foreign situations that can easily be a United States situation, especially with the wrong person in charge. F*ck taxes, I’m worried about bombs. People are worried about how much they’ll have to pay in taxes with a certain President in charge but what good is that if we’ve got missiles being launched at us?
AllHipHop: I had a discussion the other day where I told someone that we will make more enemies if we shut off our borders.
Ice-T: You can shut off the borders and make guns illegal, but you still got everything that’s inside the country already. You’ve got Muslims in the United States that aren’t radicalized. How are you going to treat them? You’ve got millions of Mexicans in the country already. You’re going to have to go running up in businesses to snatch motherf*ckers. You really think that’s going to go smoothly? But hey, like I said, we’ve allowed this country to get dirty for 400 years and now they want to try to clean it up. Good luck.
AllHipHop: 2016 is going to be an interesting year for sure.
Ice-T: Hey, I was telling Coco that yesterday. I told her that this upcoming year is going to be very f**king interesting. I’m just going to try to stay in my crib and watch TV and monitor it from my bunker.
AllHipHop.com: Congratulations on the birth of your new daughter Chanel. She’s beautiful.
Ice-T: Thank you, she’s sitting right here with me watching me play video games and blowing up s**t.
AllHipHop: That’s awesome. She’s going to be a gamer just like her daddy, huh?
Ice-T : You know, kids adapt to their environment. If you have music playing in the house, they just vibe into it. Lil Ice grew up in a recording studio, but this one here, she’s just chillin’ – she sleeps right through it.
AllHipHop: It’s been a while since you’ve had a baby in your life. How has the adjustment been?
Ice-T: It’s not a real adjustment for myself since Coco takes care of the kid. She slid right out into the family, we brought her home, and the dog took a couple of sniffs and was like, “Ok. It’s got a face, nose and eyes. It must be a little person.”
Coco is on top of everything. When the baby cries at night, she wakes up. I can sleep through a shoot-out so much hasn’t changed for me. The only thing that’s a challenge is when it’s time to go somewhere because we’ve got the two dogs and now the baby – it’s turning into the Griswold’s from Family Vacation.
AllHipHop: So no diaper changing or bottle feeding?
Ice-T: I don’t change diapers. I can and know how to do it and I’ve actually changed a lot of them in my day. The present situation doesn’t call for it because my wife is around. Bottle feeding is easy because Coco will load them up and one of us will feed it to the baby.
AllHipHop: Did Coco have an easy or difficult labor?
Ice-T: It wasn’t difficult. What happened was this, Coco had a doctor’s visit and he informed us that since she had reached full term already, they could induce labor and do it all in a controlled environment. We checked in to the hospital the following Friday and they did a small inducing procedure and she woke up the next morning with a feeling that the baby was ready. The doctor’s gave her brief breathing and pushing instructions and by the time we reached he third push – out popped the baby.
AllHipHop: I bet some women are reading this right now wishing they had it that easy.
Ice-T: I think every woman has their own particular journey when it comes to pregnancy. The worst thing you can do is listen to what other women went through because it’s not going to be the same. Coco was very fortunate and the doctor told us that a lot of it had to do with her fitness. It was a dream pregnancy, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t happen for anybody else. I’ve noticed that women come with these horror stories and make it seem like it’s going to be the end of the world.
AllHipHop: That’s a blessing for you because I had a friend whose wife turned in to the exorcist during labor and cursed him out.
Ice-T: They have epidurals for difficult pregnancies but I guess some women refuse them. I don’t know if they get a medal or a prize for doing it the hard way – that’s on them. They offered Coco one when she first started to get a little inconvenienced and said yes. I left the room and by the time I came back, she was chillin’ like she was ready to have some champagne. But the women that want to do it naturally, I guess they get a prize or something for doing it the difficult way – I don’t understand it.
AllHipHop: The baby has been pretty quiet since we’ve been on the phone. Is she always like this?
Ice-T: She’s a very quiet baby, as all of my kids have been low-key. I’m a low-key individual so I guess it runs in the family – we’re all pretty chill. I think if kids are in loud households where there’s screaming and yelling, they’ll pick on it as they tend to mimic their environment. Coco and I are kind of like yuppies in the sense that we do everything organized. We prepare so that we can eliminate surprises. That’s just how we run our household.
Coming soon, Part 2 of this exclusive conversation with the legendary (and extremely busy) Ice-T.
With his upcoming The Abstract With On Vacation dropping Christmas Day, Busta Rhymes and Conglomerate members J Doe & O.T. Genasis join in for “God Plan”. Produced by Jahlil Beats.
Listen below.
When Breezy gets a phone call from Scott Disick about an “emergency friend call” Chris is forced to help out his friend in need at a party. When he get to the party cameos gallore start popping up as French Montana, A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg and the whole A$AP Mob appear ready to take on some guy breaking up the party. This is a mini-movie comedy def worth several replays.
Everyone remembers their first time – from the first love to the first time they had a drink, to the first time they saw something, whatever the experience we all have firsts. Check out French’s new joint as he goes in on the concept with Diddy. French Montana‘s album Mac & Cheese: The Album drops tomorrow.
With one of the biggest influencers of 2015 on her side, Bia sits down with Jen and talks about working with Pharrell. While Bia explains work with the “Happy” singer, she also goes into a story about getting in a terrible motorcycle accident, almost losing her leg! She’s ok though, check it out as she performs her new single ‘Bobby Brown.’
Photos provided by The Ravenel Agency
Tony Durant, along with his mother Wanda Pratt, partnered with AutismOklahoma.org and hosted their 3rd Annual Durant Family Toy Drive yesterday at LifeChurch, located at 9001 Broadway Extension, OKC. The mission of the Durant Family Christmas Toy Drive is to assist the Oklahoma City community, by providing a tangible sign of love to children who would not otherwise receive a gift during the Christmas season.
“We want every kid to leave with a toy, and a smile,”
said Tony Durant.
Children from birth to 16 years who would not normally receive a present for the holidays were welcomed to come to the event to get a present, take pictures with Santa, and enjoy holiday activities. AutismOklahoma.org is a non-profit organization that believes that every person with autism is unique and important.
“We were very excited to be a co-sponsor of the Durant Family Toy Drive, and to connect with the community and share the joy of Christmas,”
said Melinda Lauffenburger, Executive Director.
Check out more photos from the event.
It’s finally here and starting today until 12pm ET on December 24th you can win it with just an easy RT of this article with the #AHHEmpireHBA hashtag.
Because it is what we do, in a special holiday collaboration with the folks at Empire and the fashion house Hood By Air, AHH will be giving three lucky readers a chance via twitter to win three Hood By Air Empire themed goody bags bursting with fashion and home items from Hood By Air with a retail value of $395.
A sneak peak of some of the deluxe grip on offer:
All in all, not a bad way to ring in the holidays and the New Year for three lucky twitter followers.
As the saying goes, if you want to win you’ve got to play, and the playing is easy. To enter all you’ve got to do is RT this article with the lovely hashtag #AHHEmpireHBA. The twitter game starts now and ends promptly at midnight eastern standard time Dec 24, 2015, so do your tweeting early and don’t miss your chance to come up with that Cookie.
What a year it has been for Young Dolph. The Memphis rapper peppered 2015 with three new projects; High Class Street Music 5 (The Plug Best Friend), 16 Zips, and most recently, Shittin On The Industry. Dolph has also released a slew of visuals and he’s back again with another one as he tackles the Drumma Boy-produced single “What I Gotta Do.”
When speaking with The FADER about his choice to pair a video with “What I Gotta Do,” the Paper Route Empire rapper said, “I chose to shoot a video to this song because it’s one of my favorites,” going on to add that, “I listen to this song for motivation.”
Watch below.
Photo via Kat Stack’s Instagram
Wait a minute!!! What part of the game is this? It’s one thing to accuse someone of biting your style, but it’s another thing when what you are known for is being an industry h**. Just when the game thought Superhead, Kat Stacks, and others like them were too much, reality television brought us the one and only Cardi B. Even Drake has been keeping his eye on Cardi’s social media! Kat Stacks claims that Cardi B wants to be her so bad. Kat even says Cardi isn’t a real h*e, and that she is actually is one because she has prostitution charges in Atlantic City, New York, and Florida. If you had to pick your daily dose of ignorance, would you pick Cardi B or Kat Stacks?
Photo via Kevin Gates Instagram
Now this is interesting! Lil’ Scrappy says when he looks at Kevin Gates he sees a black Eminem. He says it’s because both rappers do what they want to do and talk how they want to talk. Now Eminem is often revered and referred to as one of the greatest rappers to do it; Kevin Gates isn’t even looked at in this manner for today’s artist. For Lil’ Scrappy’s reasoning alone, is this a fair comparison? Is this accurate? Should Kevin Gates even be mentioned in the same sentence as Eminem. We also know everyone isn’t an Eminem fan, so does Em get too much credit?
Photo via Dej Loaf’s Instagram
It looks like Lil’ Durk is doing record number streams with his mixtape ‘300 Days 300 Nights’ that recently dropped. Durk had 1 million listens in just 6 hours. He posted a screenshot of a conversation between him and My Mixtapez which confirmed that he is indeed doing crazy numbers. Durk posted that he’s the GOAT as the My Mixtapez rep told him he may have surpassed Lil’ Wayne. Is Durk the new GOAT? You need way more than just streams to be the GOAT! Is Lil’ Durk even that great of a rapper? Let us know your thoughts?
Sometimes when you look at our current moguls, you forget how they got to where they are today. I was following Master P around at The Plaza in NYC as FOX 5 breaks down their set after their hour long interview. As I looked on and heard Master P respond to a question as “the first Hip-Hop artist to sign a sports player.” If you forgot, Master P’s No Limit Sports signed University of Texas, Ricky Williams, to NFL’s New Orleans Saints in 1998. I remember that deal, and I was couldn’t believe that Hip-Hop jumped into the NFL, that was a major deal.
This got me thinking. Master P had a lot of “firsts” in the Hip-Hop gene of music. Who was doing the cult classic hood movies like P with I’m Bout It. Not only did he star in the flick, he directed, produced and Executive Produced the film. That has to be a Hip-Hop first. So I get to thinking some more, what more “firsts” did P achieve? Record deal, TV Shows (currently first to have the biggest ratings in Reelz Network history), movies, clothing, Billboard charts and that’s just a start.
Well, Master and his No Limit co owner Boz, run down this and many more “first” from a Hip-Hop mogul and legend.I think you’ll be pretty amazed at what Master P has contributed to our culture.
Photo via Kim Kardashian’s Instagram
While Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are celebrating the newest addition to their Kardashian & West empire, Saint West, the couple may have received some bad news. Allegedly doctors are telling them they need to think twice about having another child since Kim’s first two pregnancies were so high risk. Kim K previously opened up about having placenta accreta where the placenta grows too deeply into her uterus. TMZ claims a source told them two babies is enough for the couple. Who knows; maybe they will adopt later on.