A Redding, Calif. man admitted to stealing a truck on Thursday morning so that he could make his court date for an unrelated stolen vehicle case, reports KRCRTV.
It started when a 69-year-old man reported his 1989 Ford Ranger stolen. Eventually, Michael Heller, 21, the suspected thief was found driving the truck. Police said Heller admitted that he stole the truck because he needed a ride to court for an unrelated stolen vehicle case.
Heller was arrested for vehicle theft and possession of a stolen vehicle.
This is odd. But, the word on the street is that Yo Gotti and LA Reid are involved in some beef, which is really rooted in business. I didn’t know this, but Yo Gotti has a label called CMG Records. And LA Reid runs Epic Records, which distributes Yo Gotti’s label. I’m assuming Yo Gotti is the main act on CMG. Well, for whatever reason HSK is reporting that there aren’t enough sales for Epic to continue to push CMG out to the people. This relationship just started earlier this year! This is what the source says: “Gotti should have stayed Indy because it’s hard for a major label like Epic Records to brand him. CMG record sales are weak and L.A. Reid is going to drop him.”
Yo Gotti was just on Arsenio. He’ll be fine.
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
With Drake’s verse just impacting the other day, Mike WiLL Made-It decided to debut the second remix to Future’s street banger “Sh!t.” The producer connects with fellow ATLiens Pastor Troy, Jeezy, and T.I. for this new take. This will appear on Mike Will’s upcoming #MikeWiLLBeenTrill mixtape, which will be dropping next Monday, December 23rd. Give it a listen!
(AllHipHop News) Rap music’s resident marijuana aficionados Method Man and Redman are taking their brand of high time Hip Hop to the beach next summer. The creators of Blackout! and Blackout! 2 are headlining the annual Fresh Island Festival 2014.
The third edition of the event will return to Zrće Beach on Croatia’s Island of Pag. Previous acts to perform at the Fresh Island Festival include Nas, KRS-One, Snoop Dogg, A$AP Rocky, Eve, and Iggy Azalea.
The Fresh Island Festival 2014 will take place July 23rd-25th. Meth and Red’s set is scheduled for Thursday, July 24th. Early bird tickets are now available here.
(AllHipHop News) Grand Hustle rapperTrae Tha Truth and cartoonist Jay Sugarman have signed on with WTF Studios to produce ten episodes of their animated series Trae. The new internet program will be similar to The Adventures of Trae Tha Truth that began running on YouTube in 2008. The digital shorts featured cameos from Sway Calloway, Angela Yee, and Mystikal with individual episodes topping over 200,000 views.
“We are very excited to have Trae Tha Truth on WTF?! It’s funny, real, edgy and it reeks of ‘I don’t give a F’, and neither do we,” says WTF Studios co-founder Marlon Wayans. “I think Trae Tha Truth’s audience will follow it to WhatTheFunny and expand from there.”
WhatTheFunny.com was launched by Wayans and Funny or Die co-founder Randy Adams as a comedic site tailored toward African-American, Latino and Asian markets. Trae will be the site’s first animated series. Other content presently on the site include parodies of Beyoncé’s “Grown Woman” and “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Veteran actor Omar Epps serves as an executive producer for Trae. He was the person who introduced the original Adventures of Trae Tha Truth to Wayans.
“Trae Tha Truth’s animated series has the brand of humor which is a perfect fit for Marlon Wayans’ WhatTheFunny digital network,” says Epps. “With Trae’s core demographic being die-hard fans, I’m excited for him to expand his audience through WhatTheFunny’s expansive platform.”
(AllHipHop News) Crunk is back thanks to Mike Will Made It. The producer recruited T.I., Jeezy, and Pastor Troy for the “#ATLHoe” remix to “Sh!t.” The King of The South, the Snowman, and the “We Ready” rapper represent the Dirty South to the fullest on the latest version of Future’s single.
Mike Will is prepping to release his next mixtape #MikeWiLLBeenTriLL on December 23rd. Previously, Drake and Juicy J jumped on a remix of “Sh!t” that hit the net earlier this week.
Keeping it real, I don’t know much of anything about this Angel Haze person. But, that’s the point…I kinda do now. The rapper chick from uptown tried to leak her album on SoundCloud yesterday. And before you could say “I got mine,” her label Universal snatched it off the internet. Good for them. You can’t let these sla…, I mean artists, get away with bucking the system. I mean, they took it off so fast that there’s not even a leak coming up in google. The shut down happened so swiftly, that rumors started to swirl that this was just a publicity stunt to get us talking about the December 30 release date of Dirty Gold, her debut album. HEY! Did I just fall for the okey doke? I think I did. Anyway, I’m not mad. She’s talented and deserves to be heard just like anybody else. And, Beyonce stans…everybody ain’t trying to be Beyonce! Just because somebody leaks an album, they are not trying to be like Mrs. Carter, or Female Jesus or whatever you call B, b.
Here is what Haze said on Twitter:
“My labels didn’t think that I would do it, but I did. It’s hard to put at risk everything I’ve spent this year working on but I had to. For both me and you guys. No one should ever be afforded the opportunity to f**k with your dreams. REGARDLESS OF WHO THEY ARE. They do not own you or your faith or your future and because of what you guys helped me show them. My labels have agreed to release Dirty Gold December 30th. Uk & US. (Rest of the world, we are coming for you as well). Thank you all. Night.”
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Check out Angel Haze’s “A Tribe Called Red”
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
(AllHipHop News) With seven nominations under his belt, Kendrick Lamar is one of the leading artists for the 56th annual Grammy Awards. K. Dot was certain to be in attendance at the show, but he announced that he will also be hitting the stage at “Music’s Biggest Night.” The TDE rapper shared the news on Twitter.
Kendrick’s major label debut good kid, m.A.A.d. city is up for the Best Rap Album and Album of the Year Grammys. His track “Swimming Pools (Drank)” was nominated for Best Rap Performance and “Now or Never” was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The Black Hippy member also received a nomination for Best New Artist, and got two other noms as a guest feature on Miguel’s “How Many Drinks?” and A$AP Rocky’s “F***in’ Problems.”
(AllHipHop News) After Kanye West stated in an interview how he believes Jews have better connections than Black people, the Anti-Defamation League said the comment was anti-semitic and called for Kanye to apologize. Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam recently defended the rapper and told him not to apologize for things that he said. Now, Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97 has added his views on the matter, and the morning show host feels Farrakhan is the wrong person to stand up for Kanye in this situation.
After saying he agrees with the minister that Ye does not need to offer amends to the Jewish community and pointing out he is certain that Kanye is not an anti-semite, Rosenberg then makes an analogy between Farrakhan and Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman.
“Do you want, if you say something anti-semitic, is the first choice a person to defend you – to prove that you’re not anti-semitic – would you want that person to be Louis Farrakhan?” asked Rosenberg. “That would be like if a cop was arrested for police brutality and George Zimmerman decided to release a video to be like ‘Naw, fam. He’s good’.”
After co-host Cipher Sounds compares Farrakhan’s defense of Kanye to the cops who beat Rodney King making a YouTube video, Rosenberg goes on to say he has love for Minister Farrakhan but he should have stayed out of the issues between Kanye and the Anti-Defamation League.
The segment ends with program director Ebro Darden pretending to speak with Farrakhan on the phone. The fake minister purposely says ant-semitic comments before the skit ends.
Lil E From ChattTown also Known as Chattanooga, TN, drops his very anticipated mixtape “Passionate Poetry” since his last tape that did over 50k Plus views on livemixtapes when he took it over wit DJ Young Shawn. The support from his surrounding has been outstanding with Tennessee on his back Lil E is Determined to represent strongly for his City and State!
(AllHipHop News) They may not have landed in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame this time around, but N.W.A. just landed a writer for its Ice Cube produced movie, “Straight Outta Compton.”
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the planned Universal Pictures movie will be written by Jonathan Herman, who has written several movies for the company as of late.
The N.W.A. movie follows the lives of Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, MC Ren and Arabian Prince (who was only a part of the group for a brief time) during their rise to fame in the 1980’s.
Veteran video and film-maker F. Gary Gray is still reported to be attached to the project as the film’s Director.
It hasn’t even been a week since Khloe Kardashian filed for divorce from Lamar Odom and rumors have surfaced about both parties moving on. Khloe has been spotted galavanting with Matt Kemp and now Radar Online is saying that Lamar Odom is getting closer to his ex, Liza Morales.
“Lamar has been talking to Liza in the last few weeks, and she has been a tremendous source of strength for him,” a source close to Odom told Radar. “Khloe was always insanely jealous of Liza and that is why Lamar distanced himself. He now recognizes that was a mistake.”
Odom will be spending the holidays in New York with Morales and their two children.
They do have a long history so it wouldn’t be a surprise if they got that old thang back.
From beat-boxing to Grand Wizzard Theodore developing scratching, it became clear early on that Hip-Hop music was being created by unconventional means. With Hip-Hop continually reinventing sounds from samples and various DJ techniques, it was inevitable that production would evolve to the point where beats could be made by incorporating entirely non-musical elements.
Rap is a form of poetry and so the beat is there to accentuate the words. But, in some cases, a dope instrumental can hold its own even underneath the most spectacular sixteen. This is a list that AllHipHop.com put together in order to give props to some soundscapes that not only are fantastic, but also were created using things that wouldn’t immediately be found in a band room or on a drum machine.
These are 10 of the best beats to use non-musical elements. Now, in the words of Grand Wizzard Theodore, “Say turn it up.”
10). “Knock Yourself Out”
Producers: The Neptunes
Artists: Jadakiss feat. Pharrell
The “oohs” and “aahs” of females are often reserved for sex skits in rap. However, The Neptunes challenged the status quo by incorporating those right into a beat. And while some Hip-Hop songs are over the top with sexual content and others are trying too hard to show off. This one combines those two things successfully. “You can get real freaky start poppin’ yourself / And my watch got so many rocks, when you look at the time / It’s sorta like you watchin yourself, uhh / Front if you want, I puff a few blunts / And take a cruise in a Porsche wit the trunk in the front.”
9).“Nas is Like”
Producer: DJ Premier
Artist: Nas
Sampling is interesting, and not just as a way to see how something is reinvented. It’s fascinating just to see what is sampled sometimes too. While certain R&B and funk breaks and loops have been sampled over and over, Premo did a complete 180 for that here. He not only sampled a country and rock songwriter (Don Robertson), but just used chirping bird noises from one of his recordings to loop into another instrumental. The end result was a classic Nas and DJ Premier collaboration.
8). “Heat”
Producer: Dr. Dre
Artist: 50 Cent
50’s hustling past and story about being shot have been told time and time again, and while “Many Men (Wish Death)” off Get Rich or Die Tryin’ discusses the issue thematically, musically, it is addressed very creatively with “Heat.” Using gun shots as snares, the track is straight up hardcore Hip-Hop. Combine all that with the song’s tough lyrics and ad-libs, it is proof that 50 Cent is the real deal. What up gangsta?
7). “Stan”
Producer: The 45 King
Artists: Eminem feat. Dido
Not only is this record about a deranged fan a brilliant piece of work from a songwriting standpoint, it is extraordinary in terms of production as well. In addition to the Dido sample, the way that instrumental incorporates the sound of writing as Stan and Em pen letters is amazing. But such genius shouldn’t be too surprising from The 45 King since he was the one who also came out of left field and sampled Annie for Jay’s “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” two years earlier.
6). “Come Clean”
Producer: DJ Premier
Artist: Jeru the Damaja
Not unlike “Nas is Like” above, this classic East Coast cut also finds DJ Premier, one of rap’s best producers ever, sampling obscurity and turning it into something outstanding. With a bass line that sounds like dripping water (via a Shelley Mane sample), “Come Clean” is an instrumental that is both simple and sophisticated. It is one of Premo’s most memorable tracks, but Jeru holds his own too with raw delivery.
5). “Front 2 Back”
Producer: Rockwilder
Artist: Xzibit
While it was Xzibit’s follow-up single “X” that received the majority of attention in the promotion of Restless, the beat alone from this first one still makes it one of the highlights from X’s third album. Atop a Rockwilder instrumental, Mr. X to the Z kicks stellar rhymes as usual. But considering the beat is constructed around the sound of hydraulics, it displays X’s creativity with cars even before he was helping people pimp their rides.
4).“Thug Luv”
Producer: DJ U-Neek
Artists: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony feat. 2Pac
This song is amazing for so many reasons in addition to it just being dope. It was an olive branch between Ruthless Records and Death Row Records after years of beef, Pac wrote his verse in less than two minutes, Afeni Shakur gave permission for Pac’s verse to be used over the track after his passing, and the record helped push the Art of War album to quadruple platinum status. In a nutshell, the gun c### and blast in the beat are very fitting for the track’s intensity and relevance.
3). “Priorities”
Producer: Seven
Artists: Tech N9ne feat. Angel Davenport and Game
The only negative thing about this song is that it’s too short. It makes sense that it is, but the fact that they are rapping to footsteps is really cool and it leaves the listener wanting more. And not just wanting more in terms of rapping over that type of beat either, but also great Hip-Hop with substance in the lyrics too.
2). “Legend of the Fall Offs”
Producer: Dr. Dre
Artist: Busta Rhymes
As has been demonstrated many times over the years, rappers don’t retire. They just die or fall off. Keeping that in mind, Busta Rhymes wrote a song about the latter for the closer to his Aftermath release. The song is especially potent because the music loops the sound of a hole being dug and the record ends with someone being buried alive. It’s a metaphor for so many in Hip-Hop. But, more importantly though, it’s a true testament to the few that haven’t- Busta Rhymes included.
1). “Are You That Somebody?”
Producer: Timbaland
Artist: Aaliyah
The Budweiser-frog sound in Ginuwine’s “Pony” was already nuts, but when Tim Mosley put that baby on the beat to Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” for the Dr. Dolittle soundtrack, it took the game to a whole new level. It solidified Timbaland’s position as one of music’s top-tier producers and increased the rising star power of Aaliyah. The soundtrack made more of an impact than the film that it was inspired by which is saying a lot since Dr. Dolittle starred Eddie Murphy and grossed over 140 million dollars in the United States alone.
What do you think of these beats? Share your thoughts in the comments section!
Walking while looking down at your phone is just as bad as texting and driving.
A Taiwanese tourist visiting Melbourne had to be rescued after accidentally walking off St. Kilda’s pier while checking her Facebook page on her phone. The woman, who fell into Port Phillip Bay, got rescued by a speedboat about 20 minutes later, reports the Daily Mirror.
She was found floating on her back and revealed that she did so because she couldn’t swim. She’s safe now, and she still has the phone because she held on to it the whole time (maybe she sat it in a bag of rice to dry the water up).
Australian authorities called on people to pay more attention to their surroundings, especially when it comes to checking social media on their phones.
