Photo via Ace Hood’s Instagram
Apparently Ace Hood’s baby mama is fed up! She says she was not going to let the rapper jump on Instagram and act like he is a father. Fellas take care of your kids! Rappers take care of your kids before you flex on the ‘gram! After his baby mama went in, he posted “the truth will be revealed.”
A driver in East St. Louis plowed into a crowd of young women squaring up for a fight, sending bodies tumbling across the hood of the sedan before she sped away, a stunning video showed.
http://youtu.be/fHi4Eo2pu8E
For the last 2 months Tone has kept his #ToneTuesdays series rolling and today is no different as he dips into his stash for a gem titled “Tru Grit.” Bringing along fellow wordsmiths Donny Goines & J The S gives us the makings of a tough lyrical battle.
Today NessaCary releases “Winner,” which serves as the tip of the iceberg as to just how talented the Midwest raptress truly is. Dubbed the #RapCruella (Deville), not only for her two-toned hair color but also her dual rap fusion involving both hip hop and R&B as well as rigid and delicate deliveries.
(AllHipHop News) Meek Mill has some rap fans online questioning if the Maybach Music Group member bit an idea from Detroit rapper Lil George. The 17-year-old rhymer released the track “Sauce” earlier this year, and some listeners feel Meek’s track “I Got The Juice” too closely resembles the hook from George’s single.
“Sauce” was uploaded to SoundCloud five months ago, and the video was added to YouTube in April. “I Got The Juice” appears on the Meek Mill album Dreams Worth More Than Money which was released on June 29.
George may not have made a major splash nationally, but “Sauce” has been building regionally. The song’s video has collected over 135,000 views on YouTube, and the self-proclaimed “Prince of BMB Records” has been featured on several Hip Hop websites including WSHH, Complex, HHS87, and AllHipHop.
So did Meek Mill lift his hook from Lil George? Listen to a mash-up of the respective hooks and the full songs below. Then take our poll.
(AllHipHop News) It appears the legal fight between Iggy Azalea and her ex-boyfriend Hefe Wine is over. According to TMZ, the former couple has reached an agreement over pending a lawsuit concerning the Australia native’s early music and an alleged sex tape.
Wine claimed he had legal rights to Iggy’s recordings and was attempting to release a project featuring some of her old tracks. The “Fancy” performer tried to block the music from being released on the grounds the songs were “stolen” from her computer.
Iggy and Wine also clashed over a supposed sex tape the two filmed together. P### company Vivid offered seven figures for the footage, and Wine even considered setting up his own website to host the tape.
The settlement between Wine and Iggy requires the Def Jam artist to pay her ex. The website reports Wine will be getting a “small check.”
Chella H keeps the streets talking in preperation for the release of her highly anticipated project “NO FILTER” set to drop this summer. “Fleek” features Soulja Boy, directed by Nick Brazinsky,song produced by DaRealHeatMaker, Chella H keeps the streets talking in preperation for the release. Watch blow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWbYfBACxs
Lyrical mastermind by way of Bed-Stuy and Brownsville, Brooklyn is Big Assas short for Big Assassin. Coming strong with deep lyrics and pure fire that will please many hip-hop fans, he brings you his new single “On Point (Porcupine)”.
Looking to make a huge mark in music in 2015 this new single is building anticipation for his new album coming soon “Quest for Fire”. Big Assas produced the song as well.
(AllHipHop News) California rapper Tyga was caught up in controversy this week when text messages he allegedly sent to a transgender actress leaked to the internet. The supposed phone exchange ignited rumors The Gold Album creator was cheating on his reported girlfriend Kylie Jenner.
Tyga’s team has since denied the nude pictures were sent to Mia Isabella, and the former p### star has released her own statement to VH1 about the issue. Isabella states:
It’s very sad that the idea of a man loving a trans person has to be considered a scandal when all people are equal – love always wins doesn’t it? I live in a world in my mind where everything is a fairy tale of love. Saddening to see small-minded thoughts travel so quickly like wildfire not knowing if its true or not.
It’s like wave crashing over me washing over me to see masses of humanity rise with pitch forks blindly following. Are we not all equal? Am I not an American with the right to love and live as I choose with whoever I choose? If a celebrated man loves a transgender woman or possibly did that’s news? It shouldn’t be news it should be normal for anyone and everyone to be allowed to love who they choose.
This person is not the man that I love but I have loved a few incredible and celebrated men in my life. I live my live in the open courageous and brave in my truth. I’ve been blessed to live in a time where my freedom has allowed me to create the woman I am today in my own image. If only everyone could be so brave. Unconditional love is godlike spreading hate simply a set back for humanity itself.
Tyga’s lawyer has said the N########## were authentic, but the release of the pictures is part of a conspiracy to shame the “Rack City” rhymer. Lee Hutton contends the real person Tyga sent the photos to purposely betrayed him by leaking them to a gossip website. The FBI is said to be looking into how the pics made it online.
This week’s offering on The Signal comes from Turls, who’s dropping the visuals for his track “My Plug.” The video premiered on Pigeons & Planes earlier Monday. Turls drops bars about robbing his plug (probably a bad move) with a long, drawn out, monotonous drawl that somehow works over the electronic-laced trap beat. Check it out above, and be on the lookout for Turls’ Destruction of A Heart project, dropping soon.
Orlando, FL native A-wun returns today with a brand new video for a self-produced record titled “Sirens.” This blazing new single and video is a follow-up to A-wun’s most recent release, which came in the form of “Break It Down” featuring Curtis Williams. The top notch single is another release off the upcoming project Sirens, Muses & Vices due out later this year. Expect new releases in the next several weeks from A-wun and be sure to get hip to the newcomer before it’s too late.
(AllHipHop News) Meek Mill could be having his best week ever. The MMG star’s new album Dreams Worth More Than Money is the best selling album in the country, and the Philadelphia representative is leading the way on another chart as well.
Billboard reports Meek knocked off Pop superstar Taylor Swift from the pinnacle of the Artist 100. The “All Eyes On You” performer skyrocketed from 72 to 1 on the chart, making him only the third rapper to reached number one after Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
The Artist 100 takes data from album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming, and social media fan interaction to rank national popularity among music acts. The rest of the top five includes Swift (2), The Weeknd (3), Maroon 5 (4), and Ed Sheeran (5).
Meek’s sophomore studio LP selling 215,000 copies played a big role in his rise on the Artist 100. 78% of his points on the chart were based on albums sales. His recent Twitter spat with Joe Budden garnered a lot of attention online and likely helped Meek score points in the “social media interaction” portion of the calculations.
Chris Webby and producer/rapper Sap are back at it today, with another new track “Vibe 2 It” off their forthcoming joint EP JAMO-NEAT. Pre-order it now on iTunes.
(AllHipHop News) Future may be wondering what did he do to become the center of attention this week. First his name came up in A$AP Rocky’s commentary about Atlanta rappers sounding the same, and now fellow ATL native OG Maco addressed the Dungeon Family affiliate in a series of tweets.
Maco went on an extended Twitter rant about weak-minded fans being negatively influenced by famous artists. The statements included the “U Guessed It” performer writing, “I love Future but also I understand Future has destroyed countless lives by making it cool to be a drug addict. 56 Xans isn’t cool.”
While Maco mentioned Future by name, most of the tweets seemed to be directed at the general public. He even admits to taking advantage of “idiots.” Maco adds, “I manipulated over 40 million minds and counting based on the exact same principles that I’m preaching. Who’s more qualified to say this?”
Read OG Maco’s tweets in the gallery below.
After dropping his “Beast Mode” & “56 Nights” mixtapes earlier this year, Future announces a new project titled ‘Dirty Sprite 2’ and his new song “Blow A Bag”. Produced by Southside, Sonny Digital & Metro Boomin. ‘DS2’ drops July 17th! Pre-order now on iTunes!
Also check out the trailer of Future’s upcoming documentary titled “Like I Never Left” below.
After receiving thousands of views online for “On Dek Ent’s The Album” which was released on DatPiff earlier this week, City Rominiecki returns with the official video for his single “Bring A Bag”. The money-getting anthem was produced by J Traxx and can be heard as a bonus track on the project below.
After releasing “Phenomenal” last week, Eminem drops new single “Kings Never Die” featuring Gwen Stefani from the soundtrack of upcoming movie “Southpaw”. Pre-order now on iTunes!
Adrian Younge is a well-renowned producer and composer who made a positive impression on listeners via the Black Dynamite soundtrack, Something about April, and his work with The Delfonics. So it’s no surprise that, because of his fascination with soul, he would get the opportunity to make his mark on hip-hop’s landscape too… And he did.
In addition to being sampled by DJ Premier (PRhyme) and Timbaland (Jay Z’s “Picasso Baby” and “Heaven”), Adrian produced 2013’s Twelve Reasons to Die starring Ghostface Killah. It was a concept album about how Ghostface as Tony Starks goes to war with an Italian crime family. The project received rave reviews, and left fans yearning for more. Thankfully, the dynamic duo reunited for Twelve Reasons to Die II which comes out today.
AllHipHop recently had the pleasure and privilege of speaking with Mr. Younge about, among other things, his working relationship with RZA, writing narratives for Ghostface, and creating the sequel to an amazing piece of work.
Not unlike the Wu-Tang Clan, Adrian Younge ain’t nothing ta f**k wit.
AllHipHop.com: As someone who has also scored movies, how did that experience benefit you in the process of producing beats for emcees to rap over?
Adrian Younge: To back up a little bit, anybody can score a movie if given the job. Whether they do a good job or not, we don’t know. But I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You’re now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective. When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it’s about evoking feeling. It’s great when you get both feelings and being out of their head. And that’s what I tried to do with this project.
AllHipHop.com: RZA has a real cinematic feel to his beats and then he transitioned into film scoring. Does it work the other way too?
Adrian Younge: Yeah, for sure. Working with RZA [too], I’d idolized him so much before I met him and became friends with him. And he mentored me. I still learn a lot from that dude. It’s crazy because I never ever would have expected I’d be in a situation where, with all the things we’re talking about knowing, he can come to my studio and I can be like, “that beat is sampled” or he can tell me what he did for this certain sound on 36 Chambers or Return to the 36 Chambers. It’s a special relationship that I have and I admire luminaries like RZA, Premo, and all those types of people.
AllHipHop.com: Between your two projects with Ghostface, your music was sampled by Timbaland and appeared on Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail, what type of impact has that had on your career?
Adrian Younge: What it really did was help open me up to an audience. It was a blessing, man. And it further inspired me to push and go harder and to try to get other people to be exposed to this musical movement I’m trying to make.
AllHipHop.com: Sequels sometimes make people skeptical, especially when the original is good. That’s obviously the case here with Twelve Reasons to Die being really dope. What’s your response to people whose inclination is to say, “Why tamper with a good thing?”
Adrian Younge: I’m one of those people, unless you’re going to try and make it better. And that’s what I’m actually trying to do. I’m trying to make a better product as opposed to making a new derivative version with the purpose of just selling records.
AllHipHop.com: What did you think you could improve on from the first album?
Adrian Younge: It’s one of those things where I make music for myself and hope other people like it. So, from that perspective, I don’t feel like I fell short. I feel like it was a natural progression from part one. I feel like I wanted to do was go in a darker, deeper direction. I feel it’s more captivating than the first and, the thing is, some people don’t want music like that. They just want music they can bob their head to. It’s a turn off, and so it might not make some people like it as much. And it’s funny because there are people that didn’t like the first Twelve Reasons to Die because they don’t like my production. So you never know. The only shortfall that people could find in part two is that it’s a deeper and darker album. If some one doesn’t want it to be deeper and darker, then it’s a shortfall.
AllHipHop.com: One of the biggest differences between the first and second album that I noticed is that Raekwon appears on multiple tracks. Did you feel any additional pressure making music that will likely be compared to Only Built 4 Cuban Linx?
Adrian Younge: Not at all. Because that’s already a classic. I try to make classics. I don’t try to make things that aren’t good. It’s always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I’m making because there are not a lot of people out there doing this kind of stuff. It just feels good to get the warm reception.
AllHipHop.com: Were you in the studio with Ghostface?
Adrian Younge: Stuff was sent back and forth, both times. But for both [albums], I’d write a whole script and send the script to him. Then from the script, I’d tell him what the narrative was and he’d go from there.
AllHipHop.com: That’s really cool. So you’d send him a beat and a narrative, then he’d write a rap to the beat based on the narrative you sent him?
Adrian Younge: Exactly.
AllHipHop.com: What is it that you hope to achieve with this project?
Adrian Younge: Nothing more than making an album where people enjoy it. It’s not like I’m making it to get a bunch of accolades and all that stuff. I want to make it so people can enjoy it. That people enjoy the music I make really means a lot to me and so that’s what I’m really looking for.
AllHipHop.com: 70’s soul music has obviously been very influential in your work. What do you think today’s music can learn from that era that will make it too stand the test of time?
Adrian Younge: To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot. A Tribe Called Quest is just as classic to me as Curtis Mayfield. When you get above the line, you’re above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line. And that’s my goal.
Mission accomplished. Get Twelve Reasons to Die II; available now!
There have been reports that internet sensation Tyrone Jones was shot three times in the chest after approaching Darnell Williams, a resident of Houston, asking to have a moment with his wife, basically implying engaging in a sexual act. Jones is known for his Youtube series that shows him approaching couples and demanding crude sexual acts. Allegedly eye witnesses say that Jones was asked to leave several times, but him and his crew refused to leave. This caused Williams to shoot Jones in the chest with a 9 millimeter gun. Williams is said to have reported the shooting to the police once Jones’ crew informed him that it was a prank. Although Jones is expected to recover, both men have been charged with separate crimes. Jones with trespassing, and Williams with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a felon. These pranksters go too far sometimes. They need to think about their safety instead of how many hits they will get online.
BWA representative Kevin Gates continues to drop music and expand his audience at a rapid pace, this time giving us a new cut he’s calling “Kno One”. After dropping his new EP, “Murder For Hire”, the Louisiana native shows no signs of slowing down. Produced by IKENNA FuNkEn and The Feathers, this one captures the sound we’ve come to know and love from Kevin, and at this point we wouldn’t expect anything less. Look for his new album “I Don’t Get Tired” to come our way sooner than later, with more releases in between.