Currently working on her new project “Diary of Salma Slims”, Salma drops off her new song with Nyemiah Supreme & Translee titled “Cloud 9”. She has been in the studio lately with heavyweight producers such as Cassius Jay & Zaytoven. Check her out live at this years SXSW!
Tyson’s former best friend and manager has written a tell all bio, Taming the Beast: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson, where he touches on a number of subjects including one incident where Tyson allegedly knocked down supermodel Naomi Campbell in a bathroom:
Page Six shared an excerpt from the book:
The pair met at a Russell Simmons party and as Holloway tells it, hit it off immediately.
“I was there to keep Mike out of trouble, doing my usual babysitting job, and when I looked over, he was talking to this girl,” Holloway writes.
“I had to rub my eyes. I mean, the most exciting thing at that time was Naomi Campbell. She was wild and vivacious, with these legs that went on for days.
“I’m stuck holding their drinks ‘cause Mike says he gotta use the restroom. Next thing I know, Naomi’s following him in there. Holy s–t. Guests are walking up. ‘Bathroom’s taken,’ I’m telling them.
“Minutes go by and it’s getting uncomfortable. I finally crack open the door, ‘C’mon Mike.’ I see Naomi. She’s up on the toilet, heels and long legs spread, skirt hiked up, and Mike’s pumping away.”
Word is there’s more stories like this featured in the book. Its available now in stores…*heads over to Amazon*
Rick Ross and Young Jeezy join Young Dolph on the official remix of “Preach”. Produced by Zaytoven.
Ashanti proves she may be the bigger person in the “beef” between she and Foxy Brown.
Foxy got upset a few days back when the R&B singer snapped a pic posted up with Brown’e ex-boo thang Spragga Benz.
Since then Foxy has thrown shade left and right while everyone sat back and waited for Ashanti to respond.
Well looks like the only clap back we’ll get to see from the former Princess of Murder Inc. is a few emojis sent Foxy’s way.
Photo: RhymeswithSnitch
Philly rap legend, Cool C was set to be executed on Thursday, January 8, but he been granted a stay of execution.
Cool C, an artist from rap’s Golden Era, was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder in the killing of Police Officer Lauretha Vaird. Vaird’s slaying marked the first time a female Black police officer was killed in the line of duty.
Authorities allege that Cool C, nee Christopher Roney, and others attempted in vain to rob a bank. Roney shot Vaird as she responded to the crime at a PNC Bank in Philadelphia.
This is the second time the rapper has gotten a stay of execution. This most recent stay was bestowed upon C from Judge L. Felipe Restrepo.
Cool C, now 45, is most remembered for his 1989 hit “Glamorous Life.” He has maintained his innocence from the onset of this dramatic situation.
Project Pat and his Memphis protégé Big Trill have released the final single, “Calico,” for their collaborative mixtape dropping soon. The duo have been consistently dropping singles such as “Eatin” with Chinx, “Gettin’ It” with Chevy Woods, and “Kangaroo” featuring Trae Tha Truth.
“Calico” features G-Unit’s Young Buck providing the ad-libs and covers the third verse. Project Pat is on the first verse, with Big Trill covering the second. Securing Buck for “Calico” was a must for the state of Tennessee, as Memphis is home to both Trill and Pat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYr5WJijaKY
Today, New York emcee, L.atasha A.lcindor premiered “Bee. Em (Black Magic)” on Noisey. The video touches on issues of cultural appropriation and the profound lack of respect for black lives and culture across the board.
The video is part of L.atasha A.lcondor’s “Fantastic Planet, Flow of the Unconscious” Series which she describes as a sonic and visual walk into her album. It’s a viewing of herself, the world, and beyond. Every two weeks she will be injecting the planet with new music, new videos or new footage of her life and its making.
Shitro hits us with the first release “A Lotta Ni**az” from his upcoming EP “Nasty Dealer” executive produced by Paris-based “Yeezus producer” Brodinski of Bromance Records. Taking influence from his Slauson roots and his new-age approach on production selection Shitro will be delivering the most unique and entertaining tape of 2015.
Emanny is well on his way to becoming one of R&B’s rising stars. As he continues to push his album Songs About Her 2, which he released back in October, the crooner offers up a new video for “Perfect”, a tale of finding and keeping true love. This serves as the fourth visual from the 2014 release and was directed by Rad Casiano.
Emanny’s Songs About HER 2 is available on iTunes now.
Rapper Little Shawn rose to fame in the early 90s when he released his debut album The Voice In The Mirror with the lead singles “I Made Love” and “Don Perignon,” which featured the Notorious B.I.G. The New York native was supposed to record with the late Tupac Shakur in 1994 but while on his way to Quad Studios, Pac was robbed and shot five times.
In 1998, Little Shawn began a seven-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and after his release in 2004, he changed his name to Shawn Pen and decided to become an author. He recently released a book entitled The Black Church, which the late Chris Lighty was shopping around for a book deal before his death.
With the release of this book, Pen, who was almost signed by 50 Cent, says that he hopes to make a successful transition into the world of novels and film.
“Having an extensive background in the music industry, I just felt like it was time for a mature transition, sort of like Shakim [Compere] and [Queen] Latifah,” he told AllHipHop. “Today film is being overshadowed by the resurgence of television [shows like] Power, The Wire and Boardwalk. I started as a ghostwriter and books are just an extension of me being a writer. I’d like [to] write the book and script and act like Tyrese and Will Smith would read, study & bring to life on camera.”
Read an excerpt of The Black Church below and purchase a copy here. If you’re not familiar with Shawn Pen, watch his video for his 1992 hit single “I Made Love (4 Da Vert 1st Time)” below.
Trevor Dean was a street dude, for real. But while in prison he found the Lord, and he started a church in his community when he came home, The Black Church. He’s gone straight, completely. Nowadays, his life is primarily focused on God, his church and his First Lady Rebecca. Unfortunately for him, a parishioner’s bad decision puts Trevor’s old friend Rudy in the middle of a problem that can potentially threaten Trevor’s church and his life. Now, Trevor must help his friend figure things out or risk his church…and his life out of the game.
After surprising his longtime girlfriend with a mile-high marriage proposal, Ludacris had more surprises in store. The Atlanta spitter took his new fiancee, Eudoxie Mbouguiengue, to dinner at a Georgia restaurant after the proposal and when they got home, he reportedly had a wedding dress, that was picked by his mother, laid out for her.
The two got married on the spot during a private ceremony at their home.
“Why wait? Did the thing before 2015. #mrandmrsbridges,” Luda proudly wrote under a wedding photo posted on Instagram.
The newlywed couple, who have been together since 2009, then took off to Costa Rica for their honeymoon.
Rick Ross has taken being a Miami Heat fan to another level. He won’t be court side at every home game, like Spike Lee at the New York Knicks games, or becoming the teams’s global ambassador like Drake did for the Toronto Raptors. Nah. Rozay has gotten the Miami Heat logo tattooed on his face.
The MMG general reportedly visited a New Jersey tattoo shop and got the Miami Heat trademark along with six other tats, including Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers logo, etched into his face.
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Miami native, Supa, also known as Supa Mario, possesses an abundance of talents.
Teaming up with Mike Bless for “She Wanna Go,” the rapper emerges on the, Evil G beat. He fluidly coerces sixteens and sounds which earns the heater of the day.
For the troops stationed overseas during the holidays, being thousands of miles away from your family on New Year’s Eve is hard, so Beyonce and Jay Z thought they would try to brighten their day. They surprised the U.S troops stationed in Kuwait and Afghanistan with a screening of their On the Run concert special that aired on HBO.
Beyonce also had a special message for the troops.
“I just want to say a big thank you to our troops for everything you do to keep our country safe,” she said during the USO countdown to 2015 . “We all sleep better at night knowing that you guys are protecting us, and we’re filled with gratitude.”
Watch her message below (2:15).
After remaining silent during much of the fiasco, Phylicia Rashad has broken her silence about the sexual assault allegations against her former TV husband Bill Cosby.
In a recent interview, Rashad expressed concern for what these allegations were doing to the 77-year-old comedian’s legacy.
“Forget these women,” Rashad told Showbiz 411. “What you’re seeing is the destruction of a legacy and I think it’s orchestrated. I don’t know why or who’s doing it, but it’s the legacy. And it’s a legacy that is so important to the culture.”
When asked how she felt about Beverly Johnson and Janice Dickinson claims of being drugged by Cosby, she responded with a dismissive “Oh please.”
The former Mrs. Huxtable also defended Cosby’s wife Camille, saying that she “is a tough woman, a smart woman” and that “she’s no pushover.” Rashad said she firmly believes that Mrs. Cosby has not been turning the other cheek while her husband violated woman for the past 50 years.
She also implied that someone other than the two dozen women who accused Cosby of rape are trying to keep him off of television. “And it’s worked. All his contracts have been cancelled.”
Due to these allegations, TV Land has taken The Cosby Show off of the air, NBC pulled the plug on a sitcom they were working on with Cosby and Netflix postponed the launch of one of his stand-up specials. Rashad questioned why someone would want to destroy the legacy of not only Cosby but The Cosby Show.
“This show represented America to the outside world. This was the American family. And now you’re seeing it being destroyed. Why?”
Bill Cosby’s wife, daughter and TV daughter Keisha Knight-Pulliam have come to his defense, but Cobsy himself has yet to issue a statement.
(AllHipHop News) Back in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s the melding of rap and rock reached new mainstream heights when acts like Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, and Korn dominated the charts and MTV’s TRL countdown. One of the top artists of that cross-genre movement now looks back on the rap-rock era in a negative light.
Kid Rock’s 1998 diamond-certified Devil Without A Cause was one of the leading albums for rap-rock’s rise to crossover success. The Detroit native recently spoke with The Guardian about the sub-genre he helped popularize.
Rock said:
Rap-rock was what people wanted at the time, and they still love those songs at shows. But it turned into a lot of bulls**t and it turned out to be pretty gay… If someone says you can’t say “gay” like that you tell them to go f**k themselves. You’re not going to get anything politically correct out of me.
The turn of the century version of rapping mixed with rock was not the first time the two musical styles were combined. Perhaps the most famous early example of rap-rock is Run-DMC collaborating with Aerosmith for the remake of “Walk This Way” in 1986.
Other groups like the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Body Count, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Cypress Hill have blended elements of rap and rock together in their music as well.
(AllHipHop News) R&B singers Tinashe and FKA twigs may not break the internet à la Kim Kardashian’s fully naked spread in Paper, but both ladies are sure to grab some attention for their new cover photos in V Magazine.
The singer-songwriters were two of the featured artists for V’s “The New Sound Of Soul” issue; they were joined by Sam Smith and Jessie Ware. Each performer was given individual covers, but Tinashe and twigs dropped their tops for their respective photos.
Tinashe burst onto the music scene in 2014 with her platinum-selling hit single “2 On.” She released her debut studio album Aquarius to critical acclaim.
FKA twigs also dazzled music critics with her debut album LP1. The English songstress’ project was included on numerous publications “Best Albums Of 2014” lists including being ranked #1 by Time.
Watch the videos for Tinashe’s “2 On” featuring Schoolboy Q and FKA twigs’ “Two Weeks” below.
The fourth floor of 320 West 37th Street is is a Hip-Hop landmark. D&D Studios. For close to a quarter of a century, some of the best Hip-Hop music ever made was recorded there. Sadly though, due to new building ownership, the studio recently closed. And according to reports, by today, January 7, DJ Premier (who has the most storied history there dating back to 1991) will have completed moving everything out in order to relocate to Kaufman Astoria Studios in Long Island City, Queens.
So much classic music was recorded here that it would be impractical to try and rank all or any of the records. Instead, AllHipHop.com has decided to pay homage to D&D by putting together a collection of a few stories about D&D that makes the studio itself and the people in it as memorable as the songs recorded there.
“R.E.A.L.I.T.Y.” Captures the Sounds of Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan: A then intern at D&D, at the request of The Blastmaster himself, went out into the streets and yelled, “These are the streets. S**t is real out here. This ain’t no f***ing joke!” The final cut captures the intern’s voice and the street sounds. It gets no realer than that.
Jeru the Damaja and DJ Premier Record “Come Clean”: DJ Premier’s catalog of hits is seemingly endless, but one record that definitely changed the course of his career was Jeru the Damaja’s classic “Come Clean.” The precedent had been set. The authenticity of a Premier beat had to be as uncompromising as the graffiti on the wall. Studios like D&D hardly exist anymore, and the same can be said for the top tier quality of music that they helped create.
Nas Spits the First Verse of “N.Y. State of Mind” in One Take: When doing press for the 15th anniversary of Illmatic in ’09, DJ Premier recalled Nas recording part of one of the album’s most memorable cuts on the first try. “He did the whole first verse in one take, and I remember when he finished the first verse, he stopped and said, ‘Does that sound cool?’ And we were all like, “Oh my God!” It was like, I don’t even care what else you write.”
Biggie Gets Oral Sex Before Laying the Vocals to “Unbelievable”: The Notorious B.I.G. had two women with their heads between his legs in the lounge for Studio B at D&D Studios when Premier fine tuned the beat for their first of three classic collaborations. Not long after, on that same night, Biggie stepped in the booth with no paper and spit, “… Bastards duckin’ when Big be buckin’ / Chickenheads be cluckin’ in my back room f***in’ / It ain’t nothin’.”
Foxy Brown Goes From School to D&D Studios with Jay Z: In 1995, Jay Z picked a then 15-year-old Foxy Brown up from school after she completed a day of ninth grade and took her to record what would become track 9 on his Reasonable Doubt album, “Ain’t No N***a.” DJ Funkmaster Flex and the song’s appearance on The Nutty Professor Soundtrack helped make the record a smash. The rest is history.
Biggie Finishes Life After Death: The last song recorded for The Notorious B.I.G.’s sophomore album was the DJ Premier-produced “Ten Crack Commandments.” After he finished the verse, B.I.G. yelled, “Preme, it’s over! It’s over! I’m the greatest. I did it!”
Gang Starr Goes Gold with Moment of Truth: In an interview about Gang Starr’s discography, DJ Premier identified Moment of Truth as “the most emotional album” he and Guru (R.I.P.) put out together. At the time, Guru was facing a gun charge and DJ Premier’s accountant and friend had recently passed away. All those feelings and then some found their way in to the booth and onto the duo’s fifth album. Premo also said that Guru used to say, “All I want is a gold album.” And they got one with Moment of Truth.
September 12, 2001: Just one day after the tragic events of 9/11, there is a bomb threat made on The Empire State Building. The already dark mood coupled with another potential disaster gets everyone out of D&D Studios immediately.
DJ Premier Buys D&D Studios: Back in ’03, Douglas Grama and David Lotwin (the D’s in D&D) sold the studio to DJ Premier. He renamed it “HeadQCourterz” in honor of his friend Kenneth “HeadQCourterz” Walker who was fatally shot in the fall of 2002.
The Legacy of Gang Starr Lives On: On a wooden wall in D&D, Guru’s lyrics were up there on display – written on yellow notepad paper. According to Premo, they were rhymes to some of the last songs they did together. Because of all that those words represent, those raps won’t be demolished with other parts of the building. The paper with lyrics is going to be made into a table in the new studio.
What’s your favorite record to come out of D&D? Please share your thoughts in the comments section!
(AllHipHop News) Drake will have a busy festival season in 2015. After it was announced the Young Money performer will headline Coachella this year, it has now been revealed Drake will also be one of the top acts at the Governors Ball Music Festival in NYC.
Other Hip Hop representatives scheduled to appear at Randall’s Island Park on June 5-7 include Los Angeles native Flying Lotus, the DMV’s Logic, and Bishop Nehru of New York. Artists from other genres including Rock, EDM, and alternative will be on hand as well.
Tickets for Governors Ball Music Festival 2015 go on sale January 9th at 12 pm EST. For more information visit govball.com.
Watch the Governors Ball 2015 line-up announcement video below.
(AllHipHop News) Big K.R.I.T. has always stood tall for his home state of Mississippi, despite the racial stereotypes often associated with Southern culture. The rapper/producer stopped by Ebro In The Morning to discuss his new album Cadillactica, but he also took time to defend the Deep South that he knows.
“Normally the first thing they talk about when they talk about Mississippi is the racism, and everything else is just ignored as far as our background with Blues and Jazz,” said Krit. “It’s not what you see on television. Until you go down there you really won’t understand the gravity of my music or who I am as a person, and why I’m so adamant about – it’s positive, we’re educated, there’s a lot of constructive things going on.”
The show’s host Ebro then claimed that southern bigots are just “hiding it” now. Krit responded by pointing out that there are people with prejudice thoughts beyond the Southern states.
“Racism is hiding everywhere. Nobody expected Donald Sterling to pop off. It don’t matter where you’re at,” added Krit. “It’s everywhere. It’s not just in the Deep South.”
The conversation later turned to Krit’s involvement with Hot 97. The station’s Deanii Digital confronted the emcee about appearing on a rival station before coming to Hot even though she claims Hot was more supportive of Krit.
He answered by saying he had scheduling conflicts and by referring to what he saw as a lack of support for his track “Mt. Olympus.” The song was a response to Kendrick Lamar’s highly publicized “Control” verse.
“When it comes to schedules, and I’m in the midst of a tour, they say ‘We need you to do all of this here’ – I’m literally in the mindset, ‘Okay, boom, boom, boom… then I’m gonna go do this show,'” Krit stated. “Then I dropped a record called ‘Mt Olympus.’ Nobody talked about that record [on Hot 97] if I’m not mistaken. Then when it came time for other artists to come up, that I know might have heard that record, that record wasn’t posed. I get asked about rappers all the time – most of them I have real relationships with – but people never ask those rappers about me.”
Watch Big K.R.I.T.’s interview below.