(AllHipHop News) How often do you hear about a professional basketball player feuding with a radio personality? That is currently happening as New Yorks Knicks player Iman Shumpert and The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God exchange verbal shots.
The bickering began when Shumpert released a track dissing Charlamagne and co-host DJ Envy. After mentioning the Shumpert song on Twitter, Charlamagne has also done an interview with TMZ Sports about the matter.
“I think Iman Shumpert just needs to be somewhere focusing on his offense and defense, and not be so defensive and take so much offense when I criticize his rap skills,” said Charlamagne.
When asked if he had ever spoken on Shumpert on his show, Charlamagne stated he did not recall publicly bashing the Illinois native’s rapping ability. He did reveal that he privately relayed that message to Shumpert’s girlfriend singer Teyana Taylor.
Charlamagne then addressed Shumpert’s claim that The Breakfast Club was harming his brand and released the diss track in order to defend it.
“If you’re talking about rap, Iman Shumpert, you have no brand,” Charlamagne responded. “Nobody knows Iman Shumpert as a rapper. I don’t understand how me saying you’re wack as a rapper is detrimental to your brand as an NBA player.”
The star of Guy Code and Charlamagne & Friends then added he wished people would lock Shumpert out of recording studios during the NBA season so that the guard/forward can focus on basketball.
(AllHipHop News) Once again Math Hoffa is involved in a physical altercation, but this time the situation was set up to ignite the battle rapper. The Brooklyn representative’s latest scuffle took place during a rap battle for DennisCeeTV. The YouTube channel is known for filming pranks which often end up turning violent. When Dennis Chuyeshkov began spitting rhymes about performing oral sex on his opponent, Math grabbed him by the neck.
“What’s wrong with the kid?” asked Math before choking Dennis. “Why you playing with me?”
“It’s a joke!” Dennis began yelling. “It’s a prank. That’s the point of the video.”
Math infamously punched Serious Jones at SMACK/URL’s Summer Madness 3 event in 2013. Then earlier this year he was on the receiving end of a blow from Dizaster at King Of The Dot’s Battle of Los Angeles. Math addressed his reaction to the prank on Twitter.
(AllHipHop News) Maryland rapper Logic had been riding high off the generally good reviews for his debut studio album Under Pressure, but the Def Jam recording artist was hit with some face-to-face criticism by Power 106’s Vick One. Before the two began a scheduled interview, Vick expressed his thoughts about Logic’s LP.
“Your album was out, and everybody’s giving it critical acclaim… I just wanted to be honest though. My opinion – it was kind of ‘whatever,'” Vick told Logic. “This is me just like [as an] OG Hip Hop fan – [the album’s] a little bit overrated bro, a little bit like you’re sounding like a bunch of other people.”
Logic responded by stating his sound is reflective of him being inspired by other artists. Vick then suggested the 24-year-old stop rapping about “struggle s**t” and focus on talking about sex and drugs.
“Are you serious?” Logic asked.
Someone later cut into the conversation and urged Vick to talk about the album. The video ends with Logic explaining that he wants to present a positive message with his music.
(AllHipHop News) A Tribe Called Quest is considered one of the greatest rap groups in history. One of the ATCQ members has now publicly endorsed a group from this generation as one to watch. Q-Tip took to Twitter to offer praise to Atlanta’s Migos. The Abstract even compared the trio to Southern rap icons Geto Boys and UGK.
Quavo, Takeoff , and Offset of Migos released their latest mixtape Rich N***a Timeline this week. The project follows the previous tape No Label 2 which featured the Top 10 rap song “Fight Night.”
(AllHipHop News) New Jersey’s Joe Budden released the first EP of his career this week. Some Love Lostis a 7-track prelude to the Slaughterhouse member’s next full length album All Love Lost. Budden sat down with AllHipHop.com to discuss his EP. The former reality show star also touches on the status of his relationship with Kaylin Garcia and how she influenced the project.
Young Scooter has been making noise in the streets and on the Hip Hop scene for a while now. 9 mixtapes deep into the game, the count music star is gearing up for an upcoming tour as well. Young Scooter states that he feels his latest mixtape, 80s Baby, is his best mixtape to date, as he says that anyone can relate to the music. According to him the mixtape is not the best because of the features, but he feels it’s his best work because of the range of topics it covers. Young Scooter also stated that he feels he is in his own lane with his sound, style, and unique adlibs. The rapper also revealed that before his much anticipated album, he will release another mixtape titled Jug Season.
AllHipHop caught up with Young Scooter to discuss his growth, sound, The Freebandz and Black Migos Movement, “Count Music” vs “Trap Music” his forthcoming album and much more. Check out the video below.
After push backs, delays and being dropped from her label, Azealia Banks has finally released her highly anticipated debut album “Broke With Expensive Taste” today……SURPRISE STYLE!!
Download now from iTunes, tracklist & stream below.
“BROKE WITH EXPENSIVE TASTE”
1. Idle Delilah
2. Gimme A Chance
3. Desperado
4. JFK feat. Theophilus London
5. 212 feat. Lazy Jay
6. Wallace
7. Heavy Metal and Reflective
8. BBD
9. Ice Princess
10. Yung Rapunxel
11. Soda
12. Chasing Time
13. Luxury
14. Nude Beach A-Go-Go
15. Miss Amor
16. Miss Camaraderie
DJ Kool Herc and The Bronx gave birth to Hip-Hop, so that respect and recognition is mandatory. But rap reaches people from all walks of life, and so it’s foolish to think its potential to kick down doors and influence others is limited to areas only like where it started. Hip-Hop shouldn’t be contained like that; it’s far too great a force to be reckoned with.
Take, for instance, Lazarus. He’s a practicing physician who raps professionally. And it is no gimmick. He is as committed to telling his story about being a doctor as 50 Cent is to telling his about life as a former drug dealer. Additionally, another thing that makes Laz so compelling (in addition to major co-signs from Chuck D, Nas, Sway, and Russell Simmons for his rhyme talents) is that he never traded in one grind for another either. The Detroit native honed both skills by attending Wayne State University and battling at St. Andrews Hall at the same time; now he is in a position to reap the rewards for all his tremendous efforts.
In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com, Lazarus and D12’s Bizarre take a break from recording to chop it up with us and discuss their longtime connection, the Motor City, breast implants, and their upcoming song, “Open Heart Surgery.”
The record is unlike anything rap fans have heard before, and the following clip explains why.
Patty Crash began life in Iceland before moving over to the states with her mother, the transition was not easy for Patty Crash as she was kicked out of school and sent back to Iceland only to come back to the USA just a few short years later. Patty Crash has an interesting story when it comes to her entrance into the music industry, in 2004 Crash was at a Root’s concert in Baltimore and she ended up being a spectator to on the tour bus with Black Thought. Root’s frontman Black Thought gave her a call the next day and the next thing you know she was in Philly and her vocals ended up appearing on various Roots’ records, along with Tyga and Gym Class Heroes as well.
Following her brief success she ended up signing a major label deal and was on the high road to being the next huge pop star. That’s when everything went downhill for Patty Crash, the label she had signed to merged with another label and like most artist she got lost in the shuffle and ultimately her album was never put out and Crash was left wondering what her next move would be. To make matters even worse Rich Nichols the manager of The Roots’ and mentor to Crash was diagnosed with Leukemia and ultimately died a few months later.
Feeling lost and and depressed Crash was just going to quit music all together, she went into hibernation and was not heard from on the music scene for nearly 2 years. That was until Logic gave her a call and she was on the next thing smoking to California to sit down with his camp. After the meeting Patty Crash realized that she wanted to make music she loved, music with feeling, not music that the label wanted her to make.
So that brings us to the present day and a brand new Patty Crash has emerged. We are proud to present the latest visual from the talented artist titled ‘New Life’ which is properly named considering her re-emergence onto the music scene. Filled with a jazzy style beat and filtered with a hip-hop feel Patty Crash gives you all her emotions and feelings through her raspy style voice making for great mood music. This is the first of what will ve a track by track release leading up to her new album “Born To Fall”.
The Kang makes his way back to the music with a new joint titled “Handling My Business“. Produced by Kenoe. If you guys think this sounds familiar it’s because Jeezy used the same beat for his “Enough” single. In other news, TIP and Jeezy has announced they will be dropping a joint project soon.
Veteran New Jersey lyricist Sam Scarfo is preparing for the November 25 release of 5 Million Stories Vol. 1 & 2, a collaborative effort with producer Ski Beatz on Infamous Records. This is the first single “911”, which features Prodigy of Mobb Deep.
5 Million Stories Vol. 1 & 2 will also feature Smoke DZA, Rick Gonzales, and Con-Air on new original tracks.
Over the last several years, the two distinct genres of Hip Hop and Electronic Dance Music have intersected in various musical forms. Steve Aoki has been one of the leading artists to forge that alliance between the two styles. The Grammy-nominated producer/DJ put his EDM spin on records by rap stars like Drake, Kid Cudi, and Snoop Dogg, and his debut studio album Wonderland featured appearances by Cudi, Lil Jon, and Chiddy Bang.
Aoki continued exploring his compatibility with Hip Hop on his latest project Neon Future I. The California native connected with Waka Flocka Flame for the party anthem “Rage The Night Away,” tapped Machine Gun Kelly for the red-pill promoting ” Free the Madness,” and teamed with Kid Ink for the Top 10 Dance hit “Delirious (Boneless).” The album also features collaborations with will.i.am, Fall Out Boy, and Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele as well as other EDM acts Chris Lake, Tujamo, Afrojack, and Flux Pavilion.
The entire collection comes together to provide a symphonic vision of the club life that awaits the world in the coming decades. Aoki furthered the futuristic theme by book-ending the album with dialogue from authors Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey. Kurzweil is a noted futurist and proponent of artificial intelligence. Grey wrote 2007’s Ending Aging – a book that argues aging as a cause for death can be eliminated in this generation’s lifetime.
AllHipHop.com spoke with Steve Aoki about Neon Future I, the second installment of the LP, his early Hip Hop influences, and what the future holds.
What inspired Neon Future I?
Neon Future is inspired from a lot of different authors, writers, and mainly futurists that introduced me to looking into more of a utopian way. As a kid I was obsessed with science fiction. Now there are real trajectories that are shooting toward a world that sounds like science fiction, that’s becoming more real science. That’s why I have Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey opening and closing the album to give it that context.
Do you consider yourself a futurist?
Yeah, I do. When I think of futurists, I think of scientists. I’m an avid science enthusiast, but I’m by no means a scientist. But I am a proponent for the positive future.
On the album, you have rappers Waka Flocka, MGK, and Kid Ink. How did you first get introduced to Hip Hop?
Before I even got into punk and hardcore, I was living in Newport Beach in Southern California listening to rap music. It was the complete opposite of my surroundings. I memorized all of Eazy-E’s lyrics on Eazy-Duz-It. I was a huge N.W.A fan, and this was when I was like 13, 14. My intro in Hip Hop was really West Coast rap culture.
Besides rappers, you also have a lot of artists from different genres on the album. When you’re putting your project together do you have a particular process when deciding which artists to put on certain tracks?
With Neon Future, I wrote the bulk of the ideas that became the songs all in the same time frame. To keep it diverse and keep the direction wide open, when I think about going into producing a song, I think about different artists I want to work with.
So I have a huge plate of different people I want to work with, and then among those people I try to fit them in with the song. Sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes it does. Sometimes the musical process has to change.
Like the song I did with MGK, I wrote a song specifically for him, but it just didn’t vibe with him. It took us like five studio sessions to nail down “Free The Madness” – to the point where we just started it from scratch together.
The song I did with Waka Flocka, we were on the road for two months. So our teams really bonded. It’s a good definition of two of our worlds colliding on one song. And Kid Ink, that’s a whole different story. “Boneless,” as the instrumental to “Delirious,” was already a really popular electronic song. I wanted to cross over to radio. Kid Ink was a perfect fit for breaking into American radio.
This album was your most successful one on the charts.
Yeah, as far as radio charts, it’s my biggest record I’ve ever had in America. Actually creating a song for radio really makes the difference. I never did that before. Even with my song with Iggy Azalea – “Beatdown” – I never arranged or treated it as a radio record, so it’s not like it reached the potential it could have gotten on radio.
This was definitely the first time I said, “You know what? I want to evolve as an artist. I want to keep growing and see where this can take me.” I never thought about it before “Delirious” to be honest.
Now that you’ve been able to do that, what has been the impact for you personally and professionally?
It just makes me think outside the box of what I used to think as far as producing music. I produced music almost entirely just for my fans. The people that come to the shows, that are already electronic dance music connoisseurs. But now I’d love to reach a broader audience but still keep the core happy. That’s the new balance.
A lot of today’s music listeners seem to be more open to be fans of different types of music. What do you think has attributed to this generation’s willingness to embrace all different types of music?
This generation’s access to music has completely changed. It’s no longer coming from just two sources which were radio and television. Now it’s the internet. Kids are well aware of Odd Future and at the same time well aware of acts like The Bloody Beetroots or Boys Noize. These artists don’t necessarily need the two big institutions. Now it’s not so difficult to find alternatives.
I saw an interview where you said part two of Neon Future is more emotional and deeper. Can you describe the themes or concepts you covered on that project?
Just to give you an idea, there’s a lot of new names on there. I did a new song with Linkin Park which really emphasized that darker element to the album. The song with Snoop Dogg is something totally different than I’ve ever produced before. There are a couple of curveballs to what people might think of as a Steve Aoki production.
I have this song with a new artist named Walk Off The Earth that I think is really going to raise a lot of eyebrows in a good way. There’s a lot of exploring and experimenting with new sounds, new genres, and new arrangements with Neon Future II.
I’m actually more excited about getting that out there. Neon Future I is more obvious. Some of the songs are a bit hedonistic, and Neon Future II does not have as much of that going on.
You talked about how Neon Future I ends with a track featuring Ending Aging author Aubrey de Grey. If you had the chance to live forever, but you were told you could never make music or perform again, would you do it?
[Laughs]. That would never really happen. I’m trying to imagine a world like that, because possibly we will no longer be in sentient bodies. We’ll be like consciousness that’s roaming interwoven in some space that doesn’t need bodies. So you’re not performing anymore.
Of course, now the way I think of that world is kind of absurd. Who’d want to live in that world? But maybe when you get to that world, you’ll look back and say, “Who’d want to live in these bodies?” So, I’ll accept it when it comes.
JE Heartbreak II is the 8th studio album from the iconic R&B group Jagged Edge. Following its peak position at #1 on the iTunes, Google Play and Amazon R&B charts, Jagged Edge’s eighth studio album “JE Heartbreak II” is now the #1 R&B album in the country. Following the 1st hit single from JE Heartbreak II “HOPE,” the group’s 2nd single, “Getting Over You” Feat. Styles P. was premiered last week by the world famous DJ Clue on Power 105.1 in NYC.
“Jagged Edge is one of the longest standing R&B groups in the business with a history of consistency when it comes to delivering hit records,” says Larry Mestel, CEO of Primary Wave. “I am pleased to be a part of this success for the group and to celebrate this moment with my friends and colleagues Jermaine Dupri of So So Def and Michael Mauldin of Mauldin Brand Agency.”
Veteran producers Bryan Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri brought back the same magic they created with the original J.E. Heartbreak album. In the weeks leading up to the release, the veteran group embarked on an extensive marketing and publicity campaign which included exclusive features on Spotify, Shazam and “Pandora Premieres,” where the album garnered over 700,000 streams – the second highest premiere since the program’s inception.
Jagged Edge will visit the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show on Friday November 7th at 8:30am to discuss “JE Heartbreak II” with Mr. Harvey and his 7 million listeners.
Congrats J.E. this is great news for the R&B Genre.
If you haven’t checked out our recent interview with Jagged Edge yet, check it out below!
(AllHipHop News) Going by the storyline of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, at one point singer/actor Ray J was extremely close with his assistant Morgan Hardman, but that does not seem to be the case any longer. Morgan and LHHH cast mate/Ray’s ex-girlfriend Teairra Mari appeared on The Breakfast Club, and a large part of the conversation centered around the celebrity concierge bashing Ray.
First, Morgan accused Ray of beating her in front of her child. She then claimed Ray sent his present girlfriend Princess Love to attack her at the taping of the reunion show in New York City. Later in the discussion, Morgan claimed Ray has repeatedly put his hands on Princess and other woman as well.
“[Ray’s] a b***h ass n***a who’s not about that life,” said Morgan. “His homeboys may be, he’s not.”
She goes on to explain that her issues with her former boss also stemmed from him involving her 11-year-old son in the situation. Morgan claimed that “Uncle Ray” had her son banned from the basketball league that the reality show star sponsors.
When asked why she chose not to report the alleged attack to the police, Morgan stated she was not a “snitch,” but she still may consider speaking to the authorities. She also claims to have audio confirming the supposed attack by Ray J took place.
Yung Berg was arrested after taping the LHHH reunion special after he choked his now girlfriend and fellow cast-mate Masika out. Rumors have been running ramped over what caused the attack, but TMZ claims they know why.
“According to sources close to Yung’s GF, Masika Tucker … after a booze-filled night at the “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood” reunion show in NYC, Berg went to pay his bill, but the card was over the limit.
Yung stormed out, went to his hotel and Masika followed. She told him she paid the bill and schooled him for leaving her … and he reacted by grabbing her by the neck, throwing her on the bed and pulling her out of the room by her hair.
Yung then allegedly continued his assault by choking her out.
TMZ broke the story … Yung was arrested for “obstruction of breathing.””
Word is Masika is sticking by her man saying its totally out of his character, blaming it on the alcohol…riggghhhttt…
R&B Star Jeremih talked AHH for a little about his forthcoming album Late Nights. We were backstage at Philadelphia’s Power 99 FM radio Power House 2014 Concert.
“Late Nights the mixtape is the only mixtape i put out and alot of my non fans became fans so I wanted to keep that brand going.”.
When asked if the albums “no sleep” concept was related to his real life of doing his best/the most work without getting alot of rest he says
“I dont really sleep anyway. Im in my real comfort zone at night..im up when everyone else is sleep and its motivation to get it more.”.
Jeremih will be on the Set It Off tour with French Montana starting December. Late Nights album is due out soon.
(AllHipHop News) When Nicki Minaj dropped the video for her single “Anaconda,” the Internet was on fire over the sexually charged images presented in the clip. Some people took issue with the rapper “exploiting” her body. While others commended Nicki for what they saw as a Black woman reclaiming her sexuality.
The artist herself spoke about the backlash hurled at “Anaconda” in a new interview with V Magazine. The leader of the Barbz focused most of her own criticism on the media’s reaction to her video.
Nicki said:
If a man did the same video with sexy women in it, no one would care. You’re talking about newspeople who don’t even know anything about hip-hop culture. It’s so disrespectful for them to even comment on something they have no idea about. They don’t say anything when they’re watching the Victoria’s Secret show and seeing boobs and thongs all day. Why? Shame on them. Shame on them for commenting on “Anaconda” and not commenting on the rest of the oversexualized business we’re a part of.
This is the second time Minaj was selected to do a cover story for V. She was also featured in a 2010 article when the Young Money artist was on the cusp of breaking out as a music superstar with her debut album Pink Friday. Nicki’s third LP The Pinkprint is scheduled for release on December 15.
In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com, Lazarus and D12’s Bizarre take a break from recording to chop it up with us and discuss their longtime connection, the Motor City, breast implants, and their upcoming song, “Open Heart Surgery.”