Did you know there was a Nicki before the Nicki? Nicki D is in the history books as the first female rapper signed to Def Jam records. Around the 6:30 mark she talks about how she almost had to beat down Foxy Brown. Nicki D is a legend at this point so she’s letting it all go. She also comments on how Foxy was also scared of Queen Latifah around the time she was playing Cleo
Here are a couple Nicki D songs.
“Lettin Off Steam”
You’d think that after releasing their anticipated projects Seen It All and Paperwork, ATL rappers TI and Jeezy would take a break right? Nope, and that’s thanks to announcement from both emcees about working on a collaborative LP with one another. TI and Jeezy spoke to MTV News about the project, with T.I. claiming that they’ve already had six-seven records already made. Let’s hope to see some actual tracks with each other. Check out TI and Jeezy’s interview with MTV News regarding the collaborative album.
I don’t get it. These people want their lives to play out like a soap opera, I’m convinced. The last few days/weeks (time is meaningless in this line of work), Safaree Samuels – aka the rapper dude dating Nicki Minaj – apparently is no longer dating Nicki. They were together for about 10-14 years (time!). But recently they have reportedly broken up. Maybe it was a ploy to get press, but the dude removed most of his Nicki tats. That’s a drastic move if things are going well with somebody, right? Safaree recently commented on all the chatter telling people to “give it a rest. He also stated that he heard a song from Nicki months ago, inferring he and she are still cool in some capacity. Lastly, he has been tweeting about her new stuff quite a bit. I don’t know. Who cares and best of luck. He is a lucky dude though for even being able to be with Nicki. He’s trying to establish himself as an artist on the solo side.
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If you’ve been sleeping on Jaden Smith’s music, that needs to end right about now. The young rapper/actor has been releasing music consistently, and has also told sources that he had 2-3 albums ready to be released via twitter. His latest track “Jetskis” is a smooth track with Jaden smooth lyrics.
TeeFlii drops the remix to his hit song “24 Hours” getting the assist from Ty Dolla $ign and Bobby Shmurda. The remix secures both East and West Coast club spin and puts a exclamation on TeeFlii’s great run with this song.
One of Connecticut’s most promising MCs Franc Grams connects with the King of the Streets Trae Tha Truth for “Deadly Sins.” Produced by Lando Beats, “Deadly SIns” is the leading single off Franc’s second, full length project of the year #ThePremonition expected early December.
Our own DJ Hustle is on turn tables giving you The Foundation Of Hip Hop Volume #9. DJ Hustle is blending and mixing with hottest new in hip hop on AllHipHop.com. Listen to DJ Hustle as he is slapping the hits from the streets. Weekly mixes will be posted for your weekly enjoyment. Let DJ Hustle know what you want to hear in the mix @AllHipHopcom or @DJHustle.
This mix includes tracks from AV, Jamie Foxx, Mally Mall, We Are Toonz & Jay-Z.
Zed Zilla hosts the new TrapsNTrunks and we picked up one of our favorites from the project featuring none other than Yo Gotti and newcomer Lil STL. track here via Live Mixtapes.
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Kanye West. He put life in Young Thug’s body, For that, I can never forgive him, because of those leather skirts years ago. Young Thug is probably the most frightening aspect to Hip-Hop right now. For a genre that once prided itself on lyrics, I can’t comprehend what dude is saying.
Somewhere Andre 3000 is culpable in this too.
I need Iggy Azalea to slow down. Do a song with Rapsody. Go left and show us you’re not a vulture!
Where is Macklemore…his silence is driving me paranoid. Come out, come out…whereever you are.
Scary is a star as big as Nicki Minaj still getting her pink wig pushed back in the 4th quarter.
We gonna have to make up a new name for what these MFers are doing. It ain’t Hip-Hop anymore.
And why are they so soft? Why are rappers more boys than men even though once-upon-a-time the so-called boys were men. LL Cool J at 17 is more of a grown man than rappers in their their 30’s.
These BET Cyphers may have to be stopped if these schmucks don’t step up those bars.
But, on the other side. Why can’t the old heads get it together? Redman’s Muddy Waters 2 is taking a day longer than forever.
Wu Tang. Did that album drop yet?
Ludacris is doper than anybody on the radio, but will “Fast & Furious” become the hallmark of his present-day career.
Where are all the truly scary people in Hip-Hop? Where are the Freddie Foxxx’s, the Treach’s, Suge’s, the Ice Cube’s, the Just Ice’s…the rapper’s that were intimidating! OK, maybe not Suge.
Furthermore, where are the political/street rappers that were a frightful delight to Amerikkka like Immortal Technique, NWA, the Geto Boys and Public Enemy?
Katt Williams is more gangsta than these rappers. Keep it real.
What is most scary nowadays is that the fans are the ones driving it all. It ain’t the media, the radio or the rappers, however wack they may be. The people are truly keeping the rap game scary for anybody that’s truly into Hip-Hop.
Earlier this week, Katt Williams and former Death Row CEO Suge Knight were hauled off to jail together over allegedly trying to steal a female photographer’s camera in Beverly Hills back in September.
Katt Williams has since been released and TMZ caught up with him to get to the bottom of what really happened. The Friday After Next star said he first approached the photog because he was concerned about a child nearby.
“I knew that she was engaged inappropriately with a child,” said the 41-year-old. ” Not with any adult. We’re talking about a five-year-old… She was doing no photographs. She was recording. Her story is clearly she got in an altercation with me, but she didn’t.”
Williams also claims that Suge Knight did not have an altercation with her either.
Since Knight and Williams have lengthy rap sheets, this arrest could lead to both men doing some serious time in prison. Knight faces 30 years while Katt could do up to seven years.
Detroit’s own Gueringer The 13th follows up his Dej Loaf assisted “Girls Love To Party” with the Sango produced “My Side Of Town”. Keep an eye out for “Clifford” coming soon.
For the latest installment of Elliott Wilson’s CRWN series he chopped it up with T.I. During their sit-down the King of Atlanta spoke on how he made his latest release, Paperwork, stand out from his previous eight albums.
“Whenever I listen to everything that’s going on, that tells me exactly what not to do. Whenever I hear this is what everyone else is doing, this is the lane they’re going down I make a conscious effort to go the opposite direction. I can sprinkle little elements of it in here and there.”
The Grand Hustle boss also talked about his relationship with Pharrell Williams and why he repsects his artistry so much.
“His ability to reinvent himself, his ability to color outside the lines and to diversify himself as a producer with working with all types of artists from Pusha T to Snoop Dogg to Daft Punk to Robin Thicke to Miley Cyrus to T.I. He’s been on the charts with everybody of all genres. ”
Detroit’s very own DJ Dez & DJ Butter bring us their project A Piece of the Action from Crazy Noise Productions. This song is “Heavy Hittaz” and features Detroit “Concreature” Boldy James and West Coast legend Kurupt. DJ Dez and DJ Butter are hip-hop purists and they unite as they pay tribute to their roots and add a certain new flavor and creative “spin” on the project. Listen to their fusion of modern Detroit paired with a classic vinyl records-feel here and def check the project on Soundcloud an iTunes.
Oh snap…this ain’t gonna end well. Yung Berg is seemingly doing the damn thing. He’s on Love and Hip-Hop Los Angeles. He’s writing and whatnot and has a new lease on rap life. The crazy this is…the boy got a kid. It looks like Bergie is in arrears on his child support to the tune of $86,000+! You can’t be walking about free world as you owe your child all that money! I know there’s two sides to the story so many he’s been putting a few bucks here and there and it hasn’t been credited to his debt! I hope he saved those receipts!
Anyway, while this bubbles, the boy Berg is all on the internet looking crazy!
Damn, Berg…listed with all the other alleged losers.
Kanye had a run-in with a paparazzo again, but no blows were thrown. In fact, Yeezus embraced them.
In a video posted by TMZ, Ye’ complimented a young paparazzo’s fashion sense. While sitting in a cab on a New York City street, he pointed out the young man and snapped some pics of his sweater, which is from the D9 Reserve clothing line.
K. Michelle prides herself on being a singer that holds nothing back and because of that fans never know what to expect with the fiery singer. In an interview with Idolator, the Love and Hip Hop star shocked us all when she revealed that she has a song called “Drake Would Love Me” on her upcoming album, Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?
“The song is about how girls see a photo of Drake or a video and think ‘he would love me if we met’,” she said.
The “VSOP” songstress said she let Drizzy himself hear it and he gave it his stamp of approval. The full tracklisting for her album will be available on Nov. 3rd.
Chris Brown paid a visit to the Ebro in the Morning show on Hot 97 for the first time and nothing was off limits.
Chris’ drug use has been said to have gotten a little out of control during his career and he had no problem confirming just that.
” I was off the syrup, the xanax,” said the 25-year-old. “That’s the hood cocktail right there and I’m not ashamed to talk about it. A lot of our youth is doing it now, thinking it’s the cool thing to do. I don’t knock anyone’s hustle but I just feel for me it wasn’t conducive to me. I was falling asleep on video sets, cussing people out, crazy stuff.”
Breezy also touched on how and he Drake called a truce, which actually came about after Drake’s camp contacted Chris’ management about doing the ESPY spoof.
“They were kind of hesitant because they didn’t know what our temperature would be with each other.” Chris said he was all for it and was happy to make peace. “Let’s just do something funny and make light of the situation. It shows growth and maturity. ”
Watch the interview clips below to see him discuss Karrueche, how his dancing skills compare to Usher and much more.
Power 105 had its second year of a great Powerhouse, at the Barclays Center. Its wasn’t hard to have a great show when you have J. Cole, Kid Ink, T.I., Childish Gambino, French Montana, Remy Ma, Migos, Ne-Yo, Bobby Shmurda, Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Tinashe, Young Jeezy, andBrooklyn’s own Jay Z perform.
Watch our recap with Valerie Lora on the eve of this powerful concert as we interviews: Migos, Ne-Yo, Kid Ink, French Montana and other.
French Montana stopped by Sway in the Morning and set the record straight on a few things.
The “Pop That” rapper didn’t dish too many details on his new album, but said Mac and Cheese 4 is coming soon. He says the label is currently clearing samples and the release date is December 16th, for now.
He couldn’t visit Sway and not talk about his bae, Khloe Kardashian. When asked about the rumors regarding their breakup, he said he wanted to keep their relationship out of the public eye but did let it be known that she’s his main one.
“Khloe my baby,” said the Bronx native. “We got a special relationship. We’re always have that relationship… We talk damn near everyday.”
Sway also asked about Gucci Mane’s comments about French and Nicki Minaj not giving him enough credit for helping to jump start their careers. French says he was more cool with Waka than Gucci and always gives credit where credit’s due.
“I spoke to [Gucci Mane] probably three times. I give credit to Debra Atney. She gets all the credit in the world. When I got the deal I went and gave her a cut. I was stand up with everything I did. I was never disloyal to nobody.”
Watch the convo below to see how French likes working with Kanye, why he has a song called Gucci Mane and more.
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