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Pras: Lauryn Hill Broke Down In Tears The First Time She Recorded “Ready Or Not”
(AllHipHop News) Whether a 21 year old Lauryn Hill was ready for an emotional outburst or not, those tears came. According to former bandmate Pras, Hill broke down in tears and eventually rejoined The Fugees after initially recording the hook for the hit “Ready or Not”.
During his interview with Billboard Pras revealed that The Fugees had disbanded before their 1996 career defining sophomore album The Score was finished being recorded. Her hook on “Ready or Not” was intended to be Hill’s final contribution as member of The Fugees, until emotions took over:
She calls me and says, ‘Listen, I’m going to come down to the studio and I’m going to lay down a reference for you guys, a hook. I give you permission to use my hook, my voice, but I don’t want to be a part of this group anymore.’ I said, ‘Fair enough. No problem.’ She said, ‘Make sure certain people are not around when I’m there.’ I said, ‘No problem.’ She’s laying the reference for ‘Ready Or Not’ and then she goes into the bridge and she’s crying. I see her crying. She stops and says, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ and leaves. A couple months later she re-joins the group.
The Fugees’ The Score went on to win the 1997 Gramm Award for Best Rap Album and sold over 17 million records woldwide. The group disbanded in 1997.
Access Granted: Da Mafia 6ix Talks Artistic Evolution, Materialism, & Lord Infamous
Videographer: Emazing Smith
An investment into loyalty over royalty has yielded an enduring legacy. Governed by a creed of universal commandments Da Mafia 6ix’s existence continues to thrive. A sincere portrayal of humble circumstances transformed their situation.
With over 20 years sewed into their craft the iconic group continues to create. This June, Da 6ix Commandents, their latest effort will be available.
This exclusive details everything from touring to sustained beliefs:
Group’s Artistic Evolution:
Well, the good part about it is [that] we’re still together as a group. After 24 years, we can still come out here and rock the crowd to songs that we did 20 years ago. So, I mean, a lot of people can’t really do that. So, that’s the best part about it. – DJ Paul
On Materialism:
It’s just about the music, man. You know, we don’t let it get over our heads. We do it for the fans. It’s about doing it for the fans first. As long as you do it for the fans first, and let all the fruits of the labor come after that, then you’ll be good. You can’t never let all your possessions and all the other sh*t get in the way. You got to focus on making good music. The fans are gonna be there and they will follow you. And that’s basically what it’s about. Don’t let the material sh*t get in your way. – DJ Paul
Remembering Lord Infamous:
Well, it just makes us want to do it harder; you know what I’m saying. He helped us put it all back together. He was a key part in the atmosphere to keep us all together. So, you know, we just to make sure we do it right just for him. He was one of the original members who started out with Three 6 Mafia. So, we gotta do it up under his guidelines and rules like he was still here. -DJ Paul
Angela Simmons, Miss Info, Tahiry and More Speak at NYU’s “Women on the Move” Panel
New York University’s Organization of Black Women hosted its 8th Annual “Women on the Move” panel in honor of Women’s month March 27th at the Kimmel Auditorium on NYU’s campus. Panelists included fashion designer – Angela Simmons, Journalist – Miss Info, Vice President of Def Jam Marketing – Akinah Rahmaan, Celebrity Fashion stylist and brand curator – Cleo Wade, and Vh1 reality star and club owner – Tahiry Jose with moderator Dee Vazquez and DJ – DJ Jazzy Joyce. The panel was created to inform, educate, and empower young women by collaborating with strong female industry leaders who’s focus was to give students’ incredible insight on how to brand themselves, create their own careers and become their own bosses.
While New York University students enjoyed an extensive interactive panel with the guest speakers, they also received surprising revelations and answers to misconceptions about women in the entertainment industry. One being educational background or lack there of. But Tahiry and Miss Info both surprised audience members with their degrees; Tahiry receiving a bachelor degree from John Jay School of Criminal Justice and Miss Info a graduate from Columbia University. Miss Info also revealed how hard it was being accepted as an Asian reporting on Hip Hop Culture in an African American dominated field in the beginning. Tahiry kept it real with the students and embraced her celebrity for looking good in a thong. But also explained the importance of maximizing opportunities given and creating a platform for a successful business; which she successfully has done from working as a bartender to now owning one of the hottest clubs in Harlem, NY, Suite 135.
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Angela Simmons shut down the presumption that opportunity is given to her and that her celebrity family financially supports her. Angela let the audience know her dad (Rev Run of Run DMC) and uncle (Russell Simmons) are there for advice. But her entrepreneurial ventures she’s created on her own and actually has to fight harder because of those presumptions. Akinah Rahmaan, who’s worked for ad agencies, was a music supervisor for a film company, to her position at the music label, lets students know its ok to start over and try new things at any age until you find your passion. Cleo Wade, who is known in the blogs for being Katy Perry’s best friend, is more that what you read. She’s also a very well known and established celebrity fashion stylist as well as fashion consultant for major brands like Alice and Olivia.
In the past, WOTM has had incredible speakers such as journalist and Political industry tycoon,Danyel Smith, author, NBC Talk Stoop’s Cat Greenleaf, and District 21 Council Member Julissa Ferreras (the first elected Latina council in the borough of Queens). To find out more about Women On The Move please visit www.womenonthemove.org
Epic Fail Of The Day: Man Finds Wife Is A Man After 19 Years Of Marriage!
How the hell does this happen?
After 19 years, a man discovers that his loving wife used to be a man. Apparently, they make these sorts of fools. Here’s how it went down.
A Belgian man is seeking to have his marriage annulled after discovering that his Indonesian wife of 19 years had been born a man. The man, only named as Jan, married Monica, his family’s former nanny in a previous marriage, in 1993 despite legal difficulties raised by the Belgian immigration authorities. But it was only in recent weeks that he discovered that his wife had originally been a man and had undergone a sex change.
“I feel I’ve been assaulted,” he said. “I brought her to Belgium. That was not easy. The Belgian courts had serious doubts about the authenticity of her birth and her identity papers, but eventually they accepted it anyway.“I thought she was an attractive woman, all woman. She had no male traits.” Jan, 64, said that he and his wife had decided not to have children because he had two by his previous marriage and she fooled him by pretending to m#########, using sanitary towels, “to conceal the truth”. “Even during sex, I never noticed anything,” he said.
For many years the couple lived a normal family life and Monica, 48, was like a “big sister” to his children until their marriage started to come under strain when she got a new full-time job.
Long story short, she started sleeping around with men and the homey found out. He lost it on her/him, according to the report. She/he confessed that she was once a boy. Through the miracle of science, she got an operation and turned into a fella. The man is now in counseling after the trauma. He’s not even allowed to toss his wife out of his own home according to Belgium law. I’m thinking she wants to be out for her own safety…but what do I know?
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
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#HeaterOfTheDay: Young Lace – “Stash Box” (Feat. Rich Homie Quan, Kirko Bangz & Cap-1) [P###. By TM88]
Yung Dred – Pull Up ft. Cap 1, Sy Ari Da Kid & Richie Wess [P###. By Metro Boomin]
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50 Cent Explains Why “G-Unit Had To Get Dropped”, Hip Hop Consumers Being “Fiends” + More (VIDEO)
(AllHipHop News) 50 Cent once said “depression is a luxury I can’t afford”, so he is well adept to making tough decisions. Today (March 31st), 50 Cent appeared on The Breakfast Club and spoke on why G-Unit had to be dropped, how Jay Z, Fabolous and Lloyd Banks are essentially the same persona and more.
When 50 left Interscope and transitioned from the major label to his new independent venture with Caroline/Capitol/UMG, he admits that certain changes had to be made because he has to incur new expenses. According to 50, Banks and Yayo outgrew their original contracts and became too financially liable to continue to be signed to Interscope:
They had to get dropped. G-Unit had to get dropped, because their contracts said that they would receive $750,000 a piece on their next records. Then you go ‘the deal is too good.’ SO Interscope goes ‘Nah, we got to let them go’. Why? ‘Because we can find…we can let the new guy come in that we did not give any money up front. Kendrick Lamar’s success is his success. The work that they did, groundwork is what sold his record, because the records didn’t work at radio until AFTER the record sold.
[ALSO CHECK OUT: 50 Cent: Young Buck, Lloyd Banks & Tony Yayo Are The Same Person To Me]
One of 50’s favorite talking topic over the past month has been his rival Jay Z. During the interview, he used Jay Z’s treatment of his new artists to help elucidate the reasoning for why he wished for Banks and Yayo to have been more productive independent of him:
The record company’s job is not to build your momentum. Look at Jay Z. When Jay Z sign a guy, you don’t see him around that person at all. Util that guy hot enough to function without Jay Z. Then he might use that momentum that the guy has to keep himself cool for a little bit then move away from him and go back to doing the Jay thing.
Recently boisterous radio host STAR revealed that Jay Z once sold him cocaine back in the 1980s, a past that Jay Z has attributed to his lucrative business acumen. 50 also implements parts of his drug dealing past with his recent promotion of new music for Animal Ambition:
I’m not giving the audience enough time to get high off of something else. Hip Hop consumers ARE fiends. They will cop from anyone who has something good. He don’t have to be a regular. He can be a Trinidad James come in ‘gold all in my grill.’
[ALSO CHECK OUT: 50 Cent: Eminem Is More Hood Than A Lot Of People
Check out 50 Cent talk wanting Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks to be Kanye West and Lil Wayne, outeslling Def Jam from 2003-2005, why Jimmy Iovine does not like him + more:
First Album Of Unreleased Michael Jackson Songs In Over Three Years To Be Released In May
(AllHipHop News) It is nearly impossible to remove the impact of a man who has sold 1 billion records across the world. Today (March 31st) Epic Records announced that it will be releasing Xscape, the first album featuring unreleased Michael Jackson songs in over three years.
Epic Records Chairman and CEO L.A. Reid executive produced Xscape and fans will be gifted with eight unreleased songs that were reworked. Timbaland was the lead producer of the album with Rodney Jerkins, Stargate, Jerome “Jroc” Harmon and John McClain also making contributions on production.
The title of the album is drawn from the title of one of the songs on the new disc that was originally written and produced by Michael Jackson himself along with Rodney Jerkins in the studio together. Jerkins “contemporized” his collaboration with Jackson, according to the press release. The song was originally leaked in 2002 and is rumored to have been recorded during the recording sessions for Jackson’s 2001 Invincible album.
This is the compilation of unreleased Michael Jackson songs since 2010’s Michael, the first album released after Jackson’s death in June 2009.
Xscape will be released in Standard as well as Deluxe editions. The deluxe edition will have the eight unreleased songs in their original form before they were “contemporized”. Both editions will be available for pre-order tomorrow (April 1st) on iTunes.
Xscape will be released to retailers on May 13th.
Check out the leaked version of Michael Jackson’s “Xscape” from 2002:
#FreshHeat: Trel Mack “Charizma”
Trel Mack releases new record as he prepares his “The Night before the Dawn” EP
Lanz Pierce “89 To Infinity”
Benzino Gives First Interview From Hospital After Being Shot (VIDEO)
(AllHipHop News) Reality television star Benzino gave his first interview since being shot over the weekend. NEHipHop caught up with Zino to discusses his health status, the death of his mother, Boston Hip Hop, The Source magazine, Hip Hop Weekly, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, and upcoming projects.
[ALSO READ: Benzino’s Nephew Was Arrested + Stevie J Visits Benzino In Hospital]
“Money brings the worse out of people,” says Benzino. “When I grew up it wasn’t like this. People had genuine love for each other. We live in age of social media now, and there’s no genuine love cause you really don’t know who you’re taking to half the time.”
“With my mom passing and with things that transpired, it’s definitely made me a little bit colder,” added Benzino. “But then there could be something that happens next week that makes my heart happy again.”
“Boston’s been hard on me. Not the people but the press, the police,” states Benzino. “People don’t understand really that Boston kind of depresses Hip Hop.”
“I would give props where props are do. The [Source] magazine is garbage. At first it was sad. Now it’s just funny,” said Zino. “People said what they want about Benzino and Dave about The Source, but some of the greatest magazines and issues came from us. Then when we left it’s down the toilet.”
“You ever went to the Hunger Games? That’s what Love & Hip Hop is,” suggests Zino. “It’s real. What they do is manipulate your reality… It’s your story. They just put you in positions to play your story out. It’s definitely not fake.”
[ALSO READ: Hip-Hop Rumors: Was Love & Hip-Hop Taping TV When Benzino Was Shot?]
Watch Benzino’s interview below.
50 Cent Ft. Trey Songz “Smoke” (Produced By Dr. Dre) (Radio Rip)
(AllHipHop News) 50 Cent links up with Trey Songz for the Dr. Dre produced track “Smoke.” The Animal Ambition song will be officially released tomorrow, but for now there’s a radio rip.
[ALSO READ: 50 Cent Releases New Video “Pilot”]
Nas: I Don’t See Enough Emcees Who Are Brave Enough To Address Social Issues (VIDEO)
(AllHipHop News) As an extension of the Kennedy Center’s One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide Festival taking place in Washington, D.C., Georgetown University hosted a “A Conversation with Nas and Michael Eric Dyson.”
[ALSO READ: “One Mic” Festival With Nas, Lauryn Hill & More Begins At The Kennedy Center]
During the 90-minute discussion moderated by Lehigh University professor James Peterson, Nas spoke on members of the culture not taking a greater responsibility to rap about topics that touch on social justice issues.
Nas said:
I don’t see enough emcees who are brave enough to be honest. I would like to see more of that. There’s a lot of good stuff, and there’s a lot of bad in rap. The socially conscious stuff can come off sometime as preachy, so a lot of people tend to stay away from it. It ain’t their bag. That’s not what they do. But still they kind of have some artistic responsibility to do more than what’s the latest trend.
There’s party music. There’s more intense music. There’s techno style rap. There’s a lot of different people experimenting with rap music, and that’s great. [When] I got in to, of course, it was different…
Imagine me trying to come in that rap game at 19 years old. It was impossible. I had to do something that mattered, or I would not have gotten that respect from [the rapper at the time]. If I didn’t get that respect from them it was over. But now it’s a lot easier.
A part of it about being easier that I like is there’s more poor kids making money, so I love that. I would like to see people remember it’s an art form because the better we all become we push each other to make the whole art form better. Then we won’t have to worry about who won the Grammy.
[ALSO READ: Russell Simmons Responds To Kid Cudi’s Comments About Hip Hop]
Watch “A Conversation with Nas and Michael Eric Dyson” below.
Sean Price Laughs Off Rappers Claiming “King Of New York”
(AllHipHop News) NYC rapper Papoose had a lot of people taking after he claimed that he is “The King Of New York” in an interview with The New York Daily News.
[ALSO READ: Papoose Says He’s Better Than Jay Z & Will Drop A Project Every Month]
One fellow rapper out of the Brooklyn, Sean Price, shared his thoughts on the KONY discussion, and the Boot Camp Clik member seems to find Pap’s royal declaration laughable.
Price posted his response on Twitter.
IM ABSOLUTELY COOL WIT MAINO SAYING HE THE KING OF BROOKLYN HIS STATS DONT LIE BUT SOME OF THESE OTHER DUDES CLAIMING KING IS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— TALCUM X (@SeanPrice) March 29, 2014
I POP S### ALL THE TIME BUT IM NOT DELUSIONAL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— TALCUM X (@SeanPrice) March 29, 2014
I DONT THINK IM THE KING I JUST DO MY THING PAUSE
— TALCUM X (@SeanPrice) March 29, 2014
[ALSO CHECK OUT: Sean Price – “Barbiturates” ft Labba, Rim & ILLA Ghee “Barbiturates” [P### J. Dilla]]
Fabolous Reveals When He’s Dropping Next Album
(AllHipHop News) Fabolous dropped the The S.O.U.L. Tape 3 mixtape at the end of 2013. Now the Brooklyn rapper says he is finishing up his next studio album Loso’s Way 2: Rise to Power and expects the project to be in stores before the Fall.
[ALSO CHECK OUT: Mixtape Download: Fabolous – The Soul Tape 3]
“Record labels has it processes, so you gotta work with that. I’m looking toward a summer release,” said Fab in an interview with RealTalkNY. “I wanted to tighten a couple of screws on the album. I put the mixtape out while I did that.”
Loso has already posted a video for TST3‘s “Young OG” and plans to release visuals for the track “Cuffin Season” in the near future.
[ALSO READ: Kap-G Ft. Fabolous “Cocaina Shawty” (P### by Pharrell)]
Watch Fabolous talk about his latest mixtape and his next LP in the video below.