Brooklyn’s Own RRose RRome is back at it again with a lyrical teaser preluding his anticipated debut release, Take This Serious, hosted by Hot 97’s DJ Absolut. RRome continues to wow critics with his street wise slang just as he did on his premier single, “What’s The Word?” with Uncle Murda. Also, check for his “Like That” track that he put together with D-Block/LOX general Sheek Louch.
(AllHipHop News) June 2015 will mark the 20th anniversary of The Black Eyed Peas and according to Will.I.Am, their storied history involves more than simply releasing music. During a recent interview with CNN, Will.i.Am discusses the recent $3 billion sale of Beats by Dre, helping start iTunes and more.
Will.I.Am has teamed up with artist Yuri Suzuki to create an exhibit for the Digital Revolution show at London’s Barbican Centre that will showcase machines While explaining the magnitude of Apple purchasing Beats by Dre for $3 billion, Will.I.Am points out a key difference between the Head of Samsung Gregory Lee (President and CEO of Samsung USA) and Dr. Dre:
It used to be somebody from the mountains came down and said ‘Here is your new technology’ that you never knew. He could be walking down the street and you never knew. I don’t know what the head of Samsung looks like. But, for some reason they gives me the stuff to talk to the world with. But Dr. Dre is different. You know him. You listen to his music. Now he brought you headphones.
The Black Eyed Keys will celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2015 and . In 2004, The Black Eyed Keys’ “Hey Mama” was featured in the original television commercial advertisement for Apple’s iPod, a fact Will.i.Am has not forgotten:
Ten years ago, The Black Eyed Peas launched iTunes and iPod with Apple . I remember the conversation saying, “What’s an iPod and what’s iTunes.
Check out Will.i.Am’s interview below:
(AllHipHop News) A battle between the two rappers who have made some of the most During a recent interview, Common admits that his 2011 beef with Drake started over Common’s ex-girlfriend Serena Williams.
Back in August 2011, rumors of Drake and Serena Williams dating began circulating after Drake sent out a tweet stating “@serenawilliams I cannot wait to put it on you and make you sweat……….during our match this weekend.” According to Common, the rumors of Drake’s relationship with his ex and concomitant publicizing of it rubbed Common the wrong way and three months later he released the inflammatory song “Sweet”:
I think that was, for me, an emotional thing. I was feeling like..at that time, I think ti was the “Drake/Serena situation” I didn’t know what was going on with that. I didn’t know if he was throwing things, shots or anything. This is my ex and we kind of going our separate. Unfortunately, the war might have been over a girl, even if at the time I never said that.
Common claims that the two squashed the beef on amicable terms. However, in a 2013 interview with XXL, Drake claimed to be the victor in the beef due to Common’s reaction to Drake’s “Stay Scheming” verse:
For you to delve into my mom and my dad’s a b#### and all that, you’re just reaching for impact moments but the bars aren’t really good, so it didn’t hit me. I never sat back and analyzed that, either. I only heard it once, and thought, ‘I think I came away with the W on that one
Check out Common address beef with Drake with VLADTV here.
(AllHipHop News) Solange has been relatively quiet since her infamous elevator fight with Jay Z During an interview with Lucky magazine, Solange addresses the fight, speaks on how injuries and pregnancies led to her backup dancing for Destiny’s Child and releasing her debut album in 2003 and more.
During the interview, Solange simply refers to her fight with her brother-in-law Jay Z as “that thing”. While she does not address her motivation for the assault she does reassure that her family is in a good place:
What’s important is that my family and I are all good. What we had to say collectively was in the statement that we put out, and we all feel at peace with that.
Later in the interview it is revealed that Solange became a background dancer with Destiny’s Child in 1999 at the age of 13 after one of the original dancers became pregnant and dropped out. Solange’s own physical limitations from an injury she sustained two years later would force her to bow out as well. During her convalescence, she began writing lyrics and eventually decided to embark on her own musical journey, a decision she was not necessarily looking forward to tell her parents:
I was nervous to talk to my parents. Part of my mom was like, ‘Please be normal and get a regular job,’ because she had gone through so much with my sister. She knew how strong-willed I was and how the industry was probably not going to be the most supportive thing for a 15-year-old girl.
Solange signed with Columbia Records and released her debut album Solo Star on January 21st, 2003, less than six months before Beyonce’s solo debut album Dangerously In Love was released on Columbia as well.
Read the full interview here.
Metta World Peace returns this week with a song touching on growing up and his family life, “Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad”. Metta discusses his own upbringing relating to the song below. Produced by Cozmo Beats and Q Made The Beat.
(AllHipHop News) Talent is bred to be showcased and for the ninth annual Lincoln Park Music Festival, AllHipHop will be providing that. On the Lincoln Park Music Festival’s Hip Hop Day (July 27th), AllHipHop will bring selected Breeding Ground artists to the main stage to perform.
The Lincoln Park Music Festival, co-produced by Jersey natives Redman and Do It All from Lord of the Underground, will give a few chosen Breeding Ground artists 10-minute sets to tracks ONLY. Selected artists are responsible for transportation to the event and lodging.
The selected artist will be announced on the final Lincoln Park Music Festival lineup. The Breeding Ground showcase will take place between 2:30 P.M. and 4 P.M. on July 27th.
Check out Redman speak on How High 2 Kickstarter and more EXCLUSIVELY with AllHipHop at last year’s Lincoln Park Music Festival below:
Azealia Banks fans may have had enough of all her bulls***.
The rapper was scheduled to perform at the Tromøy Music Festival in Norway, but cancelled at the last minute because well…no one showed up.
May be fans in Norway want to hear music and not her beefing with just about everyone in the industry.
(AllHipHop News) What type of 4th of July party would you expect from a man who still wears a huge clock around his neck? This past Friday (July 4th), Flavor Flav had over 100 pounds of fireworks confiscated by Las Vegas police officers.
According to his neighbors of the 7800 block of Via Ventura Court on the south side of the Las Vegas Valley, Flav had multiple pallets of fireworks stacked 4 feet high and Flav claims he set most of them off to avoid police involvement. However, around 8 P.M. police responded to his neighbor’s complaints about the firework display, confiscated over 100 pounds of fireworks and gave two fireworks-related citations.
Flav has been holding firework displays during his annual Fourth of July parties since 2009 and was stopped by police last year when he planned to set off $8,000 worth of fireworks. Finisterre Homeowners Association board member Harold Ewing claims the police suggested the neighbors petition the district attorney’s office to get involved in regulating Flav’s behavior.
Flav stated to Las Vegas Review-Journal that he will move the party to another location next year.
DJ Diesel is HERE. (Insert Shaq Face!)
Shaq is now a celebrity DJ and I am hearing that all the “real” DJs are heated! I’ve gotten several emails from spin masters that are feeling a way that Shaq-Fu is now eating in a whole different manner. I say, “Let Shaq do Shaq.” He’s been a part of the culture for a long time. He hasn’t always been good with his Hip-Hop talents, but he’s been there in his honest form regardless. Now, we need to hear how he DJ’s!
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Remember when Shaq was a rapper? LOL!
He got a bit better by the time he got up with Wu:
Redman bodied this one back in the day…oh and Shaq was on it too.
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Ok, so maybe Jay and Ye aren’t as close as they were, but is it because of Yeezy’s choice of who he decided to wife up?
OK! Magazine claims sources are saying that hip-hop’s favorite couple is fed up with having any ties with the newlyweds.
“An insider tells OK! that Jay Z and Beyonce have ceased all contact with pal Kanye West and his bride Kim Kardashian, who had spent the last two years pushing to get closer to the stars.
“When the rappers were on tour, Beyonce was forced to sit with Kim at shows and hang with her after, and she put up with it through gritted teeth,” says the source.
Now the newlyweds have even been spending more time at their New York apartment, just two blocks away from Jay and Beyonce’s home there, in a bid to get North to Bond with Blue Ivy. However, the insider says the superstars are fed up with being associated with the Kardashian brand.
“Bey and Jay feel like they’ve been dragged through the mud with all the drama surrounding their absence at the Kimye wedding,” says the source, adding that Jay has actually been moving away from his former BFF for some time. “Jay made it clear to Kanye that he doesn’t approve of the choices hes making in his personal life and it will end in disaster for his career.””
Waka Flocka recently wed his girlfriend Tammy Rivera, and while they’re still currently in the honeymoon stage, a stripper has come forth with some serious allegations.
MediaTakeout reported that a Miami stripper posted pics of the rapper sprawled out a** naked and she’s also threatening to leak video of she and Waka engaging in…activity.
Waka didn’t take kindly to the threats and went HAM in a post via Instagram as well.
And of course he was met with rebuttal.
We wonder when she’s going to actually leak the tape, “sense” she’s so mad…
FINALLY! We get insight on why the elevator beatdown took place….SIKE.
PageSix reports:
“In an interview with Lucky Magazine, Beyoncé’s singer sister glosses over her infamous elevator beatdown of brother-in-law Jay Z, calling the shocking showdown “that thing.”
“What’s important is that my family and I are all good,” said Solange, who got dolled up in ’60s chic for the mag’s August issue. “What we had to say collectively was in the statement that we put out, and we all feel at peace with that.””
Sighs. From the looks of things we’ll never get any answers, at least not the ones we want. If only the tape had audio…#inaperfectworld.
Sighs. Its sad when people just cant get enough of trying to stay relevant.
Karrine “Superhead” Steffans took to her Instagram a few days back and showed off her love for Soulja Boy and also showed the two riding around in one of his cars.
These two stay on again off again, let’s see how long these time around lasts.
(AllHipHop News) If you’re wondering What Would Jesus Do on stage, in a movie and/or on TV, it will more than likely be a Tyler Perry Production. Recently, Tyler Perry was awarded the trademark for “What Would Jesus Do” after a four year legal battle with reality TV star Kimberly Kearney.
According to documentation with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Kearney claims to have first applied for the trademark for “What Would Jesus Do”. Kearney claims Perry stole her idea and only attempted to trademark “What Would Jesus Do” after meeting with her about the idea:
Not many months after sharing this program and soliciting [Perry] for financial support of this program, [Perry] filed to register this mark; consequently, eventually resulting in this cancellation proceeding.
Perry registered the mark back in May 2008, months after Kearney had filed the mark for a reality TV series. Perry’s mark was registered for a TV series, live concert and a movie.
Even though Kearney provided evidence of starting a web page to gather auditions for the show, Perry’s request for her trademark being abandoned was granted after Kearney failed to admit certain allegations. According to documents related to the case, Perry’s attorneys requested Kearney admit that she did not intend to make a television show, did not take meetings for such a show and did not produce a show under the name “What Would Jesus Do”. Since Kearney “did not timely answer [Perry]’s Requests for Admission, the facts included are deemed admitted and are ‘conclusively established” according to the administrative judges presiding over the trademark case.
Kimberly Kearney appeared in the 2008 VH1 reality show I Want to Work for Diddy.
(AllHipHop News) Ja Rule on Hot 97 speaking about feud with 50 Cent ; 2003 on repeat. While promoting his new book, Unruly, Ja Rule spoke on his past feud with 50 Cent, addressed 50’s current beef with Slowbucks and more on Hot 97’s Ebro In The Morning.
Back in mid-June of this year, 50 Cent claimed to be the victim of false accusations of being a bully, because “All [the public] hears is the shot, they don’t see the person get slapped before it gets to that point.” Ja Rule references 50 Cent’s interview with Power 106 FM’s Big Boy’s Neighborhood back in mid-June
Now when I say in the book, that he insinuated to the FEDS and to the authorities that Murda Inc and whoever had something to do with him being shot, people say ‘Ja’s crazy.’ I’m not crazy. I’m telling you what homeboy did.
Ja Rule later claims to not admire anything about 50 Cent and claims only his debut album Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ was good. While those feelings remain true, Ja did state to understanding 50 Cent’s side in his feud with Slowbucks:
I’m not at all condoning anything that 50 does, because me and him don’t rock like that. But, I understand his plight with [Slowbucks]. With the whole his son…putting his son on Instagram. You don’t play with the kids. When it gets down to the kids, it becomes a different issue. Sh*t happens, it’s Hip-Hop.
Check out the full interview below:
(AllHipHop News) Talk about a new Kanye West album being in the works has been ongoing for months, and according to a few people present at a London club, the G.O.O.D. Music emcee finally shared some of his new music.
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West was in London to headline the Wireless Festival. During his time in the city he jumped behind the booth at a late night venue and reportedly played 20 new tracks for the private party. A few local residents were able to hear the music and mentioned the experience on Twitter and Instagram.
The tracks were referred to as “dark,” “hellish,” and “ground-shaking” by local DJ Jason Powell. There is no confirmation that the music Kanye supposedly presented is from an upcoming project, but those descriptions are similar to the ones other sources have used to describe Kanye’s next album. One told Billboard Ye’s latest album tracks are “a mixture of soul samples and tamed ‘Yeezus’-esque darkness.”
Producer and Kanye collaborator Evian Christ stated Ye was asking for tracks with a sound “a bit like Otis Redding, a bit like Mobb Deep” for his Yeezus follow-up. Rsonist of The Heatmakerz told AllHipHop.com the production team sold a track to Kanye last year that was “like an ‘Otis’ [off of Watch The Throne] type of feel – ‘Otis’ on steroids.”
[ALSO READ: Kanye West’s Next Album Reportedly Will Be “Soulful” & “Dark”]
Check out the social media posts from people reportedly in attendance at the club with Kanye below.
RT @Lakersfan20001 @UKJasonPowell howd the song sound >> he played about 20 new tracks. All hard! We reckon its research for his new album
— Jason Powell (@UKJasonPowell) July 6, 2014
“@T_H_E_18: @UKJasonPowell Describe to us the sound using three non-generic words.” ‘Dark’, ‘hellish’ and ‘groundshaking!’
— Jason Powell (@UKJasonPowell) July 6, 2014
Mad night DJn last night then having pleasure in having @kanyewest play all his new stuff he working on for 3 hours straight… V Kool night
— ZAY LONDON (@ZAYLONDON) July 6, 2014
WAS BLESSED TO HEAR KANYE WEST’S NEW MUSIC PLAYED BY HIMSELF AT A PRIVATE LOCATION LASTNIGHT.
— BrandonSales (@LUXURYBSALES) July 6, 2014
(AllHipHop News) Rich Homie Quan felt the need to slap one of the concert goers at his show over the weekend. During a performance in Racine, Wisconsin the Atlanta native became angry after apparently someone tried to pull themselves on stage by his arm.
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Quan then bent down and hit the person in the face. He discussed the situation on Twitter.
This is not the first time concerts involving the “Type Of Way” rapper have involved violence. In March two people were killed outside his New Orleans show. There have also been shootings at Quan events in Ohio and Missouri over the last year.
Rich Homie Quan is scheduled to join Wiz Khalifa’s “Under The Influence Of Music” Tour. That trek is set to begin July 24th in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
[ALSO READ: Wiz Khalifa Announces “Under The Influence Of Music Tour” With Jeezy, Tyga & More]
Watch footage from the Rich Homie Quan concert below.
(AllHipHop News) Hot 97’s Cipha Sounds has been a mainstay on New York City morning airwaves for years. The veteran DJ is now looking to move out of that time slot for another gig.
During the recent Juan Epstein podcast, Cipha expressed his interest in taking over the 3 pm period on Hot. That time became vacant after Angie Martinez took a position at Power 105.
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“I’m not coming back to mornings,” said Cipha.
The Morning Show co-host has been filling in during the afternoon. He mentions that he is “auditioning” for the permanent position, but other potential female hosts have been interviewed as well.
With Ciph potentially leaving the morning spot, names for the new show have been discussed at the station. Peter Rosenberg revealed interim program director Jay Dixon is considering renaming it “Ebro In The Morning with Rosenberg.”
Both Rosenberg and Cipha also discuss how the new boss at the station allegedly did know that Cipha was a personality at Hot and was unaware of his connections with established artists. They do think Ciph has a good chance of being Martinez’s fulltime replacement.
[ALSO READ: The Breakfast Club Announces Angie Martinez Joining Power 105]
Cipha also shares that he was presented with a job offer from Power twice in the past. According to Ciph, the first proposal would have started him in the afternoon at 105 and then he would transition to the channel’s morning show. This was prior to the creation of the current Breakfast Club lineup for Power.
He also claims he was offered double his salary from Power. There are now reports that Angie Martinez’s salary was doubled to joined the rival channel.
“How could I ever leave Hot 97? What would Angie and Flex think of me if I left Hot?” Cipha said explaining why he stayed at the station. “I’d be a f**king embarrassment… Angie’s like ‘Yo, I’m out. When Angie left I was like, ‘This f**king b***h.'”
Cipha explains the sarcastic “b***h” comment was just his reaction for him passing on a position at Power because he thought Angie would be upset, but she was the one who jumped on the chance to make the move.
[ALSO READ: Hot 97′s Funk Flex Puts Power’s DJ Envy On Blast For “Snitching”; Envy Responds]
Listen to the Juan Epstein podcast below.