While in New York last week, Cleveland’s own Ray Jr stopped by Sway In The Morning to be a part of the Friday Fire Cypher, which also included fellow artists Rich The Kid, Bizzy Crook, Slim Dollars, Sevn Thomas, and Prezident Jeff.
During his brief conversation with Sway. Ray Jr discusses everything Cleveland related including his leader status in the streets. Not only does Ray detail the heavy presence of his music throughout the clubs in the 216, but he also speaks on LeBron James’ move to and from their hometown, as well as holding food drives and giving back to the community, among other things.
Women need to respect each other and stand up for one another! Amber rose has words of wisdom for this crowd. While hosting at Club Medusa last night in Dallas,TX— Amber Rose decided to break out with a motivational speech.
Augusta, GA rap duo, TK N Cash, buzzing with their Columbia Records single “Mind Right”, sit down with DJ Smallz and reflect back on performing on the “Scream Tour” for two years, their experience, how they were chosen to perform on it, how to rock an audience of that caliber, and moms of the daughters in the crowd that hollered at them.
After a few delays, Bigg Mike aka King Biggie (out of Central Florida) finally releases his new Yung Christopher Wallace mixtape featuring appearances by Woop, Peewee Longway, Lil Lody, Chill Will, Bloodraw, Kidd Kidd & more. The tape is hosted by DJ Rell & presented by Dirty Glove Bastard.
Commas produced by Let That Boy Cook is a club infused track laced with heavy 808’s, melodic strings, and a percussion line that’s guaranteed to make you head move. Although the underlining topic is of coarse money based, Chris Goesin makes sure to still give the lyrical listener’s something to grasp onto with a few witty punchlines and metaphors.
Fab and French team up for the “Ball Drop” video featuring a throwback theme to New Years Eve…1989 -1990. Crazy how Fab has been with the whole 90’s theme over the past few months – this video takes it to the max.
KidCali decides to hop on OVO’s very own Drake’s “10 Bands” beat produced by “Boi-1da and throw a MDMG Remix in. With a mix of Drake’s style mixed with KidCali, Cali gives you another BANGER to rock out to
Bad Lucc’s new song Get Em featuring Problem and Jay Rock with production by Macado. The song is a free release to promote Problem and Bad Lucc’s Diamond Lane America album releasing later this year. This song will not be featured on the album.
MoBo The Great burst onto the scene in Chicago five years ago in the most unique way possible: by being pulled onstage by hip hop legend, Jay Z himself during his Blueprint 3 tour in 2010 to spit a verse in front of her hometown. In January of 2014, she made history by repeating the once-in-a-lifetime feat, once again joining Jay onstage to spit her bars to a packed United Center audience.
Since then, she has gone about working to establish herself amongst a scene that is at the forefront of contemporary hip-hop. The 20-year-old artist has been creating a buzz over the past couple months in the lead up to the release of her debut project, “FuckThePublic”, otherwise known as “FTP”, which features Drill Queen, Katie Got Bandz and Grammy nominated singer BJ The Chicago Kid wanting to keep the project “as Chicago as possible”. With Complex, Noisey and Vibe premieres under her belt and an in-print Source Magazine interview, Mobo is an outlier in the trap-heavy world of Chicago hip-hop and eschews tracks about violence for wordplay that deals with the thirst for more and the intricacies of day-to-day life. It’s music that is at once relatable and interesting, with bars to keep the whole thing moving throughout.
The video is shot by Closed Sessions, most notable for being the home label to rising Chicago star, Alex Wiley and is produced by longtime friend and collaborator OGWebbie who is also most notable for producing Big Sean’s stand out track, “All Your Fault” featuring Kanye West and Travis Scott on his new album. The video is a rich, fresh and drum heavy affair that puts MoBo’s flows, swag and charisma on display for the world to see.
T.I. drops a banger today about his struggles of strating off in the projects. Dope track produced by Mars of 1500 or Nothin! Tip is still in rare form, take a listen and let us know what you think.
Kevin Gates and OG Boobie Black go off on “Her”, produced by Millz. This song will be featured on Digital Trapstars upcoming mixtape Screens On Lock 2.
Catch Lungs proves his song writing ability once again on his latest release “Muddy”. With catchy + aggressive lyrics, Catch showcases his artistic & creative side while still incorporating his lyrical skill. “Pourin’ up in pyrex / hopin’ I don’t die next…”. Teaming With rising up and comer DJ YRS Jerzy only makes things better and the names continue to spread. This week which starts off “Respect The Hustle Tour” And “LSD Tour” which you will hear new music from the two up and comers.
Jay IDK personifies the IDK (Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge) in his name with his latest musical effort “The Plug (King Trappy III)”. The DMV emcee presents his alter ego “King Trappy” over production by Lo-Fi. The HXLY TRiBE members are working on Jay’s next full project SubTrap.
South Florida representative Denzel Curry is back with “Envy Me” – the second single off 32 Zel. Curry is planning to drop the 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms double EP May 26.
(AllHipHop News) Last month Common joined Eminem and members of Three 6 Mafia as the only rappers to ever win an Academy Award. The actor/Hip Hop star visited The Breakfast Club to talk about his “Best Original Song” Oscar win for “Glory.”
“We were feeling confident, but until they say your name you just don’t know. They were talking about some of the other nominees, and its different people voting,” said Com. “I ain’t going to lie. I was nervous, but I was still like, ‘Okay man, we can do this.'”
Besides making history with the track from Selma, Common also blew up social media on Oscar night for what seemed like a snub towards Oprah Winfrey. Common appeared to avoid the Oprah’s high-five as he walked to the stage to accept his award.
“I thought she was giving a high-five to John [Legend], so I was saving myself. I didn’t want to get caught out there,” said Com laughing. “That’s my girl. She’s cool.”
Another female celebrity’s association with Common’s victory made waves as well. A photo posted by former girlfriend Serena Williams with Com’s newly won Academy Award had some thinking the two were back together. Common was asked about his current relationship with the tennis champion.
“That’s my girl. I give her love all the time. I saw her at the party, and I’m going to give her that respect. She can hold the Oscar,” said Common.
The Chicago native also discussed wanting to work with Jay Z, his history with Empire‘s Taraji P. Henson, possibly playing The Green Lantern, future projects, wanting to win the EGOT, and more.
(AllHipHop News) French Montana is one of the over two dozen people that contributed to the creation of Kanye West’s latest single “All Day.” The Bronx native is credited as a producer for the track along with Kanye, Diddy, Mike Dean, Travis Scott, Velous, and others. French spoke with Power 106 about his recent collaboration with Ye.
“We were in the studio just working, and I was going through a bunch of stuff on my computer. He heard that joint, and we did it right there on the spot – the hook and everything,” explained Montana. “Shout out to Velous. He’s the one that actually put the whole beat together.”
(AllHipHop News) Wu-Tang Clan members Method Man and RZA had different opinions on the group’s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin album. RZA wants to make the project exclusive, auction it off to the highest bidder, and keep it from commercial use for 88 years. Meth has expressed he thought waiting nearly nine decades for the public to hear the music was “stupid.”
During a sit down with Hot 97’s Ebro In The Morning, Meth spoke about his issues with the roll out of Upon A Time and his lack of involvement with the project.
“I was misinformed first of all. Even though I still think 88 years is a little ludicrous, but that’s not for me to say. I don’t like [the album’s producer] Cilvaringz by the way,” said Meth. “For me to get that information second-hand from somebody interviewing me, I thought was insulting, because it’s always going to be room for misinterpretation.”
Method Man claims he found out about the 88 years stipulation during an interview with XXL. He later criticized the publication and its online news editor Miranda Johnson.
Meth continued denouncing XXL during his Hot 97 interview. He called the site “tacky” and “tasteless” for posting his quote about the Wu album without publishing the entire interview. However, Method did take responsibility for not communicating with RZA.
“My only fault in this was speaking before I spoke to my brother,” Meth added. “His fault in this was not speaking to me at all about what was going on with that album. So if a question like this was posed, I would know how to handle it.”
The Tical rapper later stated that he is very protective of Wu-Tang and does not like to see any gimmicks or negative press associated with the crew. He called out Cilvaringz to address the situation.
“I can say whatever I want to say about RZA, but I don’t like other people doing it… I read some of the comments, and it’s like [Cilvaringz] you better step up and take the blame for that,” said Method Man. “It’s not RZA’s fault. I’m putting that out there right now. I don’t think RZA even knew about that 88 years until later on, and he climbed on board with it.”
(AllHipHop News) Apparently, California emcee Game is in the mood to publicly chastise a few people. After first calling 40 Glocc a snitch, the “Hate It Or Love It” performer also had words for this week Safaree Samuels (aka S.B.).
While speaking with DJ Kayslay’s Street Sweeper Radio show, Game took time to send a message to Nicki Minaj’s ex-boyfriend who was recently videotaped being confronted by several men in Brooklyn.
“Anybody see that n***a Safaree get ran off 43rd?” Game asked the hosts. The Documentary 2 album creator expressed he had met Safaree before and felt he was a stand-up person but took issue with S.B. not fighting in that situation.
Game added, “Tell that n***a to go back over there and shoot his f**king video and f**k a n***a up.”
