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#HeaterOfTheDay: Young Scooter [#BGA] “Letter 2 The Streets (Doe B Tribute)”
Many rappers have spoken out about Doe B’s untimely passing, the latest being Young Scooter who has dedicated his latest track, “Letter 2 The Streets” to the late emcee.
The instrumental alternates between understated piano riffing to menacing synthesized strings, and finds ScooWop busting out some of his biggest melodies yet about halfway through.
Peewee Longway “It Cost To Be Me”
#FreshHeat: Lyriciss “The Reflection (Shot You Down Freestyle)”
Naledge [#BGA] Ft. Bun B & DJ MoonDawg “63rd & Hayes”
Snoop Lion And Major Lazer Battle As Pokemon For “Get Away” Music Video (VIDEO)
(AllHipHop News) At this point, it may save a lot of time and confusion to just call him Calvin Broadus. The ever changing Snoop Lion has assumed a new form for his music video for “Get Away” featuring Major Lazer: a Pokemon.
Directed by Ashten “Whoopi” Winger and animated by Mykola Dosenko the video finds Snoop Lion and production team Major Lazer transformed into digital characters on a quest.
The song “Get Away” appears on Snoop Lion’s first reggae album, Reincarnated which has been nominated for Best Reggae Album at this year’s Grammy’s.
Check out the 16-bit video for Snoop Lion and Major Lazer’s “Get Away” below:
Calliko “Stoner Freestyle”
WTF News: Wife Stabs Husband With Ceramic Squirrel Over Beer
A South Carolina couple was in the middle of chaos while the rest of us were getting ready to ring in the new year. Police showed up to the home of Helen Ann Williams, 44, on December 30, at 12:20 a.m, where they found a 41-year-old man covered in blood from chest and facial lacerations, according to UPI.
The man told authorities that his wife got enraged when he returned home without beer because the store was closed, and used a ceramic squirrel to beat him over the head and stab him.
However, the wife had a different story. She claimed her husband fell and cut himself and that the blood she had on her hand and clothes had already been there.
Riiiight.
The police took her into custody and the man was treated at a hospital.
This had to be deeper than beer though. Seriously?
Will Smith Speaks On James Avery’s Death For First Time
(AllHipHop News) James Avery and Will Smith share no DNA, however since The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘s debut on September 10th, 1990, they have been inseparable from the national consciousness. Yesterday (January 5th), Will Smith spoke on Avery’s untimely death for the first time since the tragic incident.
On his personal Facebook page, Smith shared a photo of himself with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air co stars Alfofnso Ribiero, Karyn Parsons-Rockwell, Tatayana Ali and the late James Avery. Deeming the photo as “the last time we were together” Smith shared his thoughts on his former TV uncle:
Some of my greatest lessons in Acting, Living and being a respectable human being came through James Avery. Every young man needs an Uncle
Phil. Rest in Peace
Ribiero originally broke the news of Avery’s death on his personal Facebook account on New Year’s Day:
The world has lost a truly special man. I am very saddened to say that James Avery has passed. Even though he played my father on TV, he was a wonderful father figure to me in life. He will be deeply missed.
Check out Will Smith’s Facebook post about the death of James Avery below:
Daily Word – Hold Yourself Accountable!
Happy Monday my Warriors of Light! Welcome to week two of the best year of your life! Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to accountability! Being accountable is simply the fact or condition of taking responsibility… Who are we fooling? You know what you want out of life! You know what it’s going to take to get there…. Now is the time to hold yourself accountable! As Eleanor Roosevelt once said “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Effective immediately we need to stop letting ourselves off the hook! We have dreams and aspirations that are longing for our arrival! The time has come to fit into our greatness and become what our higher power has reserved for us! Your playing small does not benefit the world!! You have an obligation to not only become your best self but to leave the world better than how you found it! Take accountability and make your life great!
-Ash’Cash
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
-Steve Maraboli
“At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves – our success is a result of what we do.”
-Catherine Pulsifer
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.”
-Anita Septimus
“Remember that you are unique. If that has not been fulfilled, then something wonderful has been lost.”
-Martha Graham
“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.”
-Farrar
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Your job is not to do extraordinary things; But to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
-Bishop Gore
“Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.”
-W. R. Inge
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Ash’Cash is a Business Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Financial Expert and the author of Mind Right, Money Right: 10 Laws of Financial Freedom. For more information, please visit his website, www.IamAshCash.com
HipHop Rumors: Illseed’s Quickies – Some Junk!
Some junk…The rumors are a bit light at the moment, but there is a lot of junk floating around in cyber space.
WEIRD…
Some wack job carded LeBron James. Peep the report from Page Six:
He may be “King” of Miami, but LeBron James still isn’t safe from being carded in Orlando.
The 6-foot-8, 29-year-old NBA MVP was forced to produce his license like any other twentysomething at a hotel bar after the Orange Bowl Friday.
A writer for Bleacher Report*witnessed the incident and tweeted that the “bartender was serious.” James reportedly laughed off the unlikely carding.
That bartender needs to be slapped up! Lebron looks all of 38 and a half.
OJ IS DYING?
I know OJ Simpson is before the time of some people, but he’s a part of history. He’s also one of the dumbest MFs in the history of sports in that he quite possibly beat a murder and then got locked up on some other stuff years later. Now, he wants Obama’s help getting him out of the bing, because he claims he has cancer. And he might. Dude looks really bad these days, but I can’t see Obama doing a thing since OJ killed a white woman, he’s forever the scourge of America. He’d be up for a full pardon if he killed a Black male or female of color. Anyway, a 33 year sentence in a death sentence for the “Juice.” Just saying.
JAY Z GETS BACK WITH THE YOUNG GUNS!
A recent report suggested that Jay Z was in bad with the millennial nation. But, I don’t know how true that is. And, on top of that, you know how Jay can be. He’ll see something and counter it without commenting formally. I would not doubt that this is a response to the article that claims kids don’t know, trust or particularly like Jay.
This was actually dope though.
MELT DOWN…ELECTRIC BOOGIES!
Antoine Dodson is bugging out. I think he’s wrestling between being a father and gay. Or he’s looking for a reality show. I don’t know but the spill is real.
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
Illseed, Out.
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Jay Z’s Controversial Barneys Collection Surpasses $1 Million In Sales
(AllHipHop News) No good deed goes unrewarded , not matter how misguided the deed. Six weeks after Jay Z’s BNY SCC collection debuted to heavy criticism, the collection has reportedly surpassed $1 million in sales.
The partnership was originally designed to provide Jay Z’s charity the Shawn Carter Foundation 25% of all proceeds(with Barneys accumulating 75%). However, after numerous lawsuits against Barney’s regarding racial profiling in the weeks prior to BNY SCC’s November 20th debut, the deal was changed as to give the Shawn Carter Foundation 100% of the proceeds. In addition, the Foundation is also stipulated to receive 10% of all Barneys sales of the collection on the day of its debut.
[ALSO CHECK OUT: Jay Z Reportedly Begins Work On Barneys Advisory Council]
As a response to the media and public scrutiny over Barneys alleged racial profiling, Jay Z stated he would assume “a leadership role and seat on a council specifically convened to deal with the issue of racial profiling,” according to his statement on his website Life+Times on November 15th. He further addressed his stance on Barney’s racial profiling in his collaboration with Rick Ross, “Devil Is A Lie”:
You seen what I did to the stop and frisk
Brooklyn on the Barney’s like we own the b####
Give the money to the hood, now we all win
Got that Barney’s floor lookin like a VIM
Domi Young “Naughty”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvfmBPNU8E
Don Canova – Know Us (P###. By CashMoneyAp)
Hot new song from Heartless Records artist Don Canova – “Know Us”. 1st single from his upcoming debut album “Ble$$ The World”. Coming soon! Released by Heartless Records
Phe – Feeling Im On
Brickhouse Music Group unleashes the first new single for 2014 by Phe on January 6th 2014. The eagerly awaited single titled ‘Feelin I’m On’ is the follow up single to ‘White Lies’. Phe recorded the single written and produced by him in Blindside Studios in West Palm Beach, Florida. His incredible new sound will not disappoint.
Death Row Engineer Says 2Pac Was Up For “Star Wars” & Tha Realest Posed As Pac On Records
(AllHipHop News) Before Hip Hop icon Tupac Shakur was gunned down he was steadily building his career as an actor having already worked in films like Juice, Poetic Justice, and Above the Rim. Former Death Row chief engineer, Rick Clifford, is revealing that the 25-year-old rapper was apparently up for a role in George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels as well.
[ALSO READ: Producer Mike Dean Admits To Stealing Unreleased 2Pac Songs From Suge Knight]
“We always talked about his film career. He was telling me that he was supposed to read for George Lucas,” said Clifford. “They wanted him to be a Jedi. Samuel L. [Jackson] got Tupac’s part.”
Jackson starred as Jedi Knight Mace Windu in all of the second run of Star Wars episodes- The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. Stars Wars Episode I began filming in June of 1997.
Pac was shot on September 7, 1996 and passed away six days later on September 13. Shakur’s last film role was in 1997’s Gang Related. He also appeared in the movies Bullet and Gridlock’d that were both released after his death.
[ALSO READ: Nikki Giovanni Speaks On The Domination Of Black Music & The “Assassination” Of 2Pac]
Clifford also claims that Death Row rapper Tha Realest was used to imitate Pac on songs in order to keep releasing music under his name. He even accuses Treach of Naughty By Nature of purposely using Tha Realest to sound like Pac on one of his tracks.
“A lot of them Tupac songs that weren’t finished, they put Tha Realest on,” states Clifford. “That’s what fueled all these rumors that Tupac’s still alive.”
Listen to Rick Clifford’s interview with 2PacForumChannel below.
DMX Says Cops “Suck D**K” & Rap Currently “Sucks” (VIDEO)
(AllHipHop News) DMX gave a rare video interview to 359HIPHOP.COM where the Dark Man spoke on his recent arrests and the current state of Hip Hop. The rapper had several run ins with the law in South Carolina last year. He was taken into custody four times for various violations including driving without a license, DUI, and marijuana possession. According to X, those arrests are not going to stop him from driving.
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[ALSO READ: DMX Rep Issues Statement About Rapper’s Latest Arrest]
“Who the f**k gets locked up for driving without a license? Me, because I’m famous. Police suck d**k,” says DMX. “You want to pull me over and lock me up. Then do what you do, but I’ll be right back out doing the same f**king thing I was doing eight hours ago.”
The conversation then turned to the state of rap music at the moment, and X did not hold back in expressing that he is not feeling a lot of Hip Hop right now.
“The quality of rap f**king sucks right now. There are some nice rappers, there are some talented rappers out there, but for the more part n**as suck,” adds X. “Take it how you want to take it. Bring it. What?”
The multiplatinum selling emcee also chastises the interviewer for asking him about Eminem, speaks on his plans to become a pastor, and offers advice to young aspiring rappers.
“If you’re going to rap, do it because you love to do it and have a purpose,” suggests DMX.
[ALSO READ: Mac Miller: 2013 Will Be A “Special Time” In Hip Hop History]
Listen to DMX’s interview below.
KRS-One Threatens Protégé MC Funky J In Leaked Audio
(AllHipHop News) A private beef between KRS-One and his protégé MC Funky J has become public in a big way. Taped audio of the two men arguing over stolen property has leaked to the internet. The heated conversation apparently began when J left a note of KRS’ property telling the Hip Hop legend if he was involved in the theft of his van the situation would escalate.
[ALSO READ: Maino Confronts Trinidad James Over The Phone (Audio)]
“You crossed the line today,” KRS can be heard saying. “You put a threatening message on my front door. You know it’s on. You lucky I’m not even in Cali now. I’d be looking for your ass right now. You’d be face down on the ground J.”
After J alleges KRS is “shook” about the incident, The Teacha continues to threaten him.
“I ain’t shook about s**t. Shook? N***a I’ll blow your f**king mouth off,” KRS yells at J. “I love beating white boys. I love it.”
Before ending the convo KRS tells MC Funky J to be careful walking in Los Angeles.
[ALSO READ: Wale Threatens Complex Media For Not Being Included in Top 50 Albums List]
Listen to the audio below.
Tony Yayo Speaks On The Death Of Former G-Unit Member Mazaradi Fox
(AllHipHop News) “Rest in peace to Mazaradi Fox. South side all day,” shared G-Unit’s Tony Yayo on DJ Whoo Kid’s Shade 45 radio program. Fox was shot and killed on January 3. The 42-year-old rapper was signed to 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records at one point for about a year.
[ALSO READ: Former G-Unit Rapper Mazaradi Fox Killed, 50 Cent Offers Condolences]
In relation to the Fox’s shooting, Yayo also addressed America’s use of guns as compared to other countries. He points out his travels to Paris, France as an example of the difference between the U.S. and other nations when it comes to fire arm possession.
“It’s not a game out there. People not playing,” said Yayo. “They only got guns in America. When we go to Paris you know they ain’t got no guns over there.”
The “So Seductive” emcee also speaks on sneakerheads, upcoming projects from his camp, and yoga.
Listen to the interview in the video below.
Rapper Ceddy Bu Killed In Car Accident
(AllHipHop News) Louisiana rapper Ceddy Bu was killed in a car accident last week according to 107 Jamz. The entertainer lost his life when a vehicle he was riding in struck a telephone poll. Bu was not wearing a seatbelt at the time and died instantly. The driver, Wilbert Pryor, also was not wearing a seatbelt. He was taken to the hospital for minor injuries.
Bu (born Cedrick D. Smith) was originally from Baton Rouge, LA. He reportedly weighed in at 650 pounds earning him the nickname “The Rap Sumo.”
“With me, I am comfortable in my skin, like, hey it’s okay for your to be this size, it’s okay for you to be this way. People will accept you for who you are,” Bu told rollingout.com last year. “Because so many people have tore the people down and tell them ‘you need this’ and ‘you need that.’ And people tell me these things also. But I love me. If I don’t love me then who will?”
[ALSO READ: Waka Flocka’s Brother Kayo Redd Passed Away]
Watch Ceddy Bu’s video for “Mr. Big Stuff” below.