Jack Thriller says 40 Glocc will need Floyd Mayweather’s trainer to knock him out. He also tells him he can’t be a Crip until he says so. Oh my. Thriller tells Glocc that he going to beat the b*tch and the snitch out of him.
“If I was you, I wouldn’t even show up.”
Glocc and Thriller are scheduled to fight July 27th in Atlantic City for the first Hip Hop celebrity fight night. Last week 40 Glocc released a video of himself training with Jeff Mayweather, Floyd’s uncle. Who are you putting your money on?
It seemed like only yesterday Snootie Wild was living the Ghetto American dream. A serving four years in prison the Houston native strikes it big with the hit record Yayo and proceeds to sign to underground legend and fellow Memphis native Yo Gotti, tour around world while racing up the charts. And then, almost as suddenly as he came, Snootie was nowhere to be seen. Now with a new mixtape on deck, Snootie sits with AllHipHop’s @MrMecc to explain the wait and exactly what Ain’t No Stopping Me has to offer.
While in Harlem, iLL Chris links up with Leezy and Smoke DZA to shoot a visual for “Hell Up In Harlem”. Be on the lookout for iLL Chris’ new album ‘iLLest Chris’ dropping in July.
Hip-Hop as we know it, is filled with tons of rags-to-riches stories and glory from the ground up. But while most tales from the hood are filled with hits, few few artists are brave enough to discuss their misses. But after rising to fame on his own and being led astray by DJ Khaled, Miami native D-Shep sits with AllHipHop’s @MrMecc to run down the story of him never signing to We The Best but still proving that the one who falls and gets back up is stronger than the one that never fell.
Meek Mill has finally broken his silence about the rumored engagement between him and his bae, Nicki Minaj. The Dreamchasers general has graced the cover of The FADER magazine and in his cover story he said that though he and Minaj are “definitely real,” there won’t be any wedding bells anytime soon.
“It ain’t really time to get married yet,” said the MMG rep. “We’re still learning each other, feeling each other out.”
Engagement rumors began when the Young Money femcee posted a pic of a 15-carat heart-shaped diamond ring back in April. Even T.I, who tried to sign Meek to Grand Hustle at one point, thought the two were getting hitched. Meek recalled a time where he saw Tip in a restaurant and he congratulated him.
After the Philly spitter said he wasn’t engaged, Tip gave him some game.
“You never asked her, ‘Will you be my girlfriend?’ But she is your girlfriend,” T.I.told Meek. “You may not have asked her, ‘Will you marry me?’ But you are engaged… I’ve said my part, as long as you know what’s going on.”
We all make choices everyday that dictate the course of our lives. From the company we keep, the food we ingest, and the career paths we follow, our lives are the very culmination of our choices. Although some choices we make are of greater spiritual consequence than others, there’s no denying the pandemonium that occurs on both a global and personal level, as a result of war. On “Make a Choice,” which serves as the final visual installment taken from Saga‘s debut release, From Out of the Shadows, the Brooklyn native examines the choice that a citizen makes to enlist in the U.S. Army as a result of 9/11, and the difficulty in returning to civilian life that ensues. Directed by Fred Focus with a dual narrative that intersect’s the veteran’s story, with that of a fast food customer who’s life is cut short by his own choices, we learn that the decisions that we make that often benefit the larger whole, end up enabling corporate greed and government agenda, all while making ourselves the victim. Saga’s, From Out of the Shadows EP, which is produced primarily by, Marco Polo, is now available free download, courtesy of AudioMack.
Less than a month away from the release of “Petestrumentals 2,” Pete Rock shares a free download to the song “Heaven & Earth”. An introspective beat drawn up by the true master brings in a piano and strings driven melody while trademark percussion and rubbery baseline pushes through the background. It’s the type of joint that’ll catch you staring out the window at the city lost in thought – an emcee’s perfect canvas.
Pete Rock’s “Petestrumentals 2” is a 20-song instrumental opus from the legendary NYC producer, his follow up to his 2001 “Petestrumentals” album. Available for pre-order now on Bandcamp.
The video shows a man firing a gun over the top of a passing car. It is unclear who the gunman was targeting, but he appears to be using the car as a shield. He later gets into the car and it speeds away.
Juelz Santana wants to host a celebration of Chinx’s life. The Dipset rapper took to his Instagram to summon artists to come out and raise money that will donated to Chinx’s wife and children.
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Chinx’s management set up a GoFundMe account to receive donations to help pay for the funeral and fill their financial void now that the family’s main breadwinner is gone. French Montana recently said that he has taken care of the funeral expenses.
Chinx, born Lionel Pickens, will be laid to rest today (May 26) at the Greater Allen A.M.E Cathedral of New York in Queens. The 31-year-old was fatally shot on May 17th in the Jamaica section of Queens. No arrests have been made.
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Rumor has it that Common and director Ava DuVernay may be secretly dating. The two met on the set of Selma, and lately they have spotted together in Hollywood on several occasions. Common and DuVernay have been exhibiting date-like behavior such as holding hands and walking around a few spots in LA such as Cafe Gratitude. It looks like Common has been getting it in.
B.B King’s two daughters recently claimed that their father’s two closest aides poisoned him, causing his death last week. The lawyer for King’s estate, Brent Bryson, has responded to these claims saying that are “ridiculous,” according to the Associated Press.
Bryson told the AP that King received 24-hour care from medical professionals “up until the time that he peacefully passed away in his sleep.”
His two daughters, Patty King and Karen Williams, said that they believed that their father was murdered.
“I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administered foreign substances,” King and Williams told the Associated Press.
Williams and King said family was not allowed to see their father during his last days. When he died on May 14th, his personal assistant, Myron Johnson, and his business manager, LaVerne Toney, were the only ones by his side. King and Williams believe that they had something to do with their dad’s death.
“They’ve been making allegations all along. What’s new?” Toney said.
Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said an autopsy was performed Sunday (May 18) but there was no immediate evidence signaling murder. Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Steiber told The Press that there is no ongoing homicide investigation.
Spotify wants to make sure that Tidal never becomes real competition. They are taking it up a notch as they have made a deal with Starbucks! Who doesn’t love Starbucks?! Starbucks recently announced their latest deal with Spotify. The deal includes producing playlists for Starbucks stores, which in turn offers exposure for Spotify to over 7,000 domestic locations. This would leave Spotify a few steps ahead of Tidal. Spotify still has to get ready for the challenge of Apple Music.
The “5 star stunna” finally came up off the cash money. TMZ reports that Birdman paid $1,942,400.58 in back taxes after being hit with a tax lien in December of 2014 and then another in February of 2015. After refusing to pay up, the IRS threatened to take away his assets and property, leaving the Cash Money CEO no choice but to give in.
The house that Birdman built seems to slowly be falling apart though. Lil’ Wayne claims that he owes him millions in an advance that he was supposed to be paid after ThaCarter V was complete. Plus he refuses to release Weezy’s long-awaited album, creating bad blood between him and his “son.” Even Bow Wow jumped ship and reunited with his former mentor Jermaine Dupri.
Today marks the official musical return of Boosie Badazz as the Baton Rouge rhymer’s full length album Touch Down 2 Cause Hell hits stores nationwide. The 19-track LP is Boosie’s first since coming home from prison and his first under Atlantic Records.
While Touch Down serves as the reintroduction of Badazz, the album also features significant production work by the hit making team known as the Night Rydas. The collective’s leader, Kenoe, is responsible for four cuts on the project, and the Louisiana native also served as an A&R. Night Rydas producers Black Metaphor and Roc N Mane are listed in the album’s credits as well.
The general public may not be familiar with the names Kenoe, Black Metaphor, Roc N Mane – or their Night Rydas counterparts The Beat Bully, A Jayones, Snizzy, and Samuel AsH – but they have all been behind the boards for some of Hip Hop’s hottest tracks lately.
The squad’s collective résumé includes Nicki Minaj’s “Beez In The Trap” (Kenoe), The Game’s “Ali Bomaye” (Black Metaphor), Rick Ross’ “Stay Schemin” (Beat Bully), Lil Wayne’s “Nightmares of the Bottom” (Snizzy), and more. The most recent focus for Kenoe and Night Rydas Production has been Boosie’s Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, but the company is constantly cultivating the next round of hit records.
AllHipHop.com spoke with Kenoe about working with Badazz and what else the world can expect from his creative crew in the near future.
Can you give some background about Night Rydas?
Night Rydas originally was a crew from Louisiana. We were a couple of guys who were rapping together. When I decided not to pursue those types of dreams anymore and I was looking for a production company name, I just took that.
How did you first connect with Boosie?
I’ve known Boosie for a long time. I actually knew Boosie and his brother just from being around the way. Boosie used to play basketball with an AAU team, and I knew him from playing ball.
We were from different parts of town where people don’t like each other, but I would always see him through passing. We ended up with everybody having their own success in music, but we never really worked together.
But when he was locked up, his brother reached out to me and said, “When Boosie gets out I want to mess with you and your team, get a new sound, and do something different from what we always are accustomed to doing.”
When he told me that I started putting together tracks as well as hitting up my production team and letting the producers know the next big project we’re working on is Boosie.
The day before Boosie got out, his brother saw me and said, “We’re about to be working.” I said, “I’m ready to go.” I drove from Miami to New Orleans and met up with him. Right away we cut about 8 records in one night. That night we cut “Mercy,” the intro, and “Spoil You.” We did a lot of records.
As the A&R for the project what was the process for deciding which tracks would make the album?
It was a process, because when you start working on an album you have a couple of songs and ideas, and then you have a potential release date. Then when the release date doesn’t work out you gotta go back to the drawing board. In my position, I had a vision. I would present certain records and features to Boosie, and 95% of the time we were in agreeance with it.
But as far as the final tracklisting, it wasn’t my decision. It was the label’s decision on what the final tracklisting would be. The label might not like a record or a sample might not get cleared. It’s never the A&R or the creative people’s final decision on a tracklisting. You have a potential tracklisting and sequencing that you can steer what you may want it to be, but ultimately the label will have the final decision.
The “Black Heaven” track was an interesting pairing with Boosie and J. Cole. Their approaches to the song’s topic was interesting too. What were the conversations like between everyone when you were creating the theme around that song?
The theme came from when me and Boosie were in the studio by ourselves, and I played the beat for him because I thought it was a great beat. I told him, “We need something like this on the album.” At the time, I was looking for records we didn’t have or felt like we needed.
I’m telling him, “We need this.” When I would go see him, he would have a bunch of those club records that he did with his in-house producers. He already had that covered. The records he would traditionally do, he already had.
When I pulled the record up, he just rapped some stuff on it, and at the end of the first verse he said, “Black Heaven.” I said, “Damn, that’s it. Leave it like that. That’s gonna be the name of the song, and we’re gonna get somebody to make a hook for it.” We sent it to Keyshia Cole, and she laid the hook. Then Boosie laid another verse, and after that Cole did his thing. The rest was history.
I felt like it should have been the main single from the album. I was preaching that from day one. I kept saying, “This is the biggest record you got.” But the label wanted to go with Boosie’s traditional way of records he drops – the club records. The label was looking for another “Wipe Me Down.”
But what they don’t understand is you can’t go back and create another “Wipe Me Down.” But what you do is you give them something new, and that’s gonna open him up to a new fan base. Like I said, sometimes it’s out of the creative people’s control. As far as the vision, I think that record is special. I knew when we first did it that it was special, and if they got behind it it would be big.
With Touch Down being Boosie’s first album since his release from prison, there is a high level of anticipation for the project. Did you feel any sense of pressure for it to be an exceptional body of work?
Not at all. For me, it’s never pressure. It’s just about getting work done. I never even look at it like that. This is your job. It’s what you love doing. It’s what you’ve been doing all your life. So you just go in there and get records done.
From an artist’s perspective, I wouldn’t know that. But it didn’t seem like there was no pressure for Boosie. He was just rapping, and enjoying life. Enjoying being home and being able to feed his family. I didn’t see any pressure from him.
Between you, Black Metaphor, and Roc N Mane, the Night Rydas handled about a third of the production on the album.
Yeah and we had more records than that. But records end up not making it or get recycled. At one point, we had about ten on there. It was actually gonna be a double disc. It was records floating in and off that album. I even heard “Mercy” wasn’t gonna be on the album at one point. I was like, “This is crazy.”
With there being such limited space and you guys doing all these tracks, is there ever any friendly competition among you for placement?
Within my camp?
You know how some rap crews say when they’re recording they’re competing against each other in the studio to try and get the best verse. Is that ever the case among the producers? Like, “He just made a great track. Let me get back in the lab and try something else.”
Working with Boosie, that’s not the atmosphere. When I go over there to work with Boosie, we’re working – me and him. We know each other away from music, and even some of the people that’s around know we got a history.
It’s a certain level of respect where people are just honored to be around. Because where we’re from, we’ve become legendary for what we’ve accomplished in the music business. Being from Louisiana, there’s really nothing. You either make it in sports or music. Or you’re going to college and getting a degree, but most people end up working locally.
So when somebody who’s where we’re from has the amount of success that Boosie and I have, other people are inspired to have that same type of success. It’s an automatic respect thing. I’m more so dropping jewels on the producers. They’re asking me for advice, so it’s never no type of competition.
Your team has been responsible for producing some of the most recognizable Hip Hop tracks over the last few years. Do you feel Night Rydas are appreciated enough for your contributions?
I don’t think we are to be honest. We never do a lot of press. For the most part, I never cared about being famous. I tell that to any producer that’s signed to me.
Some of these producers that’s on Twitter and Instagram got like 100,000 followers and celebrities tweet them, but they’re broke and live with their moms. I would always tell my guys focus on getting money. The notoriety is good to have, but it’s not what you want to put your hat on. I think by us not emphasizing that type of thing, we don’t get recognized.
We had three to four records on Jeezy’s last album. We had three records on T.I.’s album. But we did no interviews about it. Beat Bully did Meek’s intro which was probably one of the biggest records in the club last year, and some people don’t even know who he is.
Speaking of Meek, Night Rydas are doing a couple of tracks for his next album?
Well, we were. Again, you don’t know until it comes out.
But you’ve been in the studio with him?
Yeah, we’ve been in there. We submitted beats to him just like we do every year. But like I said, until that final album comes out, we really don’t know what’s what.
What else do you guys have coming out in the near future?
I got a song deal with T.I., Grand Hustle. We’re always doing a lot of work together. Jeezy’s back in the lab, so that’s another project. 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne. Jayones produced [Wayne’s] “Gotti” record.
Whenever they decide to drop that [Tha Carter V] album, we got a few things with Wayne. We got a song deal with Cash Money, so we’re always working with them. That’s like family. We’re working on a few up-and-coming artists. We’re just submitting records and getting in with whoever wants to work with us.
This weekend it seems like Chris Brown was a little bit jealous that Tyson Beckford took a picture with his ex Karrueche. Brown jumped on Twitter and Instagram threatening Tyson with his “goons.” Beckford responded with a few funny posts, eventually inviting Chris to come to Vegas. Beckford took the time to post a video aimed at Chris Brown saying that real men don’t hit up other men on social media saying they are mad because another person took a picture with someone. In case you missed some of the madness, check it out below.
