(AllHipHop News) Today marks the tenth anniversary of one of the greatest rap albums of all time, Jay Z’s The Black Album and contributors to this are now speaking on the making of the album. Just Blaze sat down and explained the creation process for “Interlude”, the airy, spaced out intro to The Black Album.
In the interview, Blaze reveals that it was actually his voice, altered, that appears on The Black Album and not a sample.
Check out Just Blaze speak on “Interlude” below:
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(AllHipHop News) Tek of Smif-N-Wessun also goes by the moniker Smokey La due to his former infatuation with marijuana and of course he had a plethora of friends who shared his fixation. At Cipha Sounds’ Take It Personal last week (November 15th), the Boot Camp Clik member tells the story of what happened when he got locked in a weed dealer’s shop in Brooklyn.
During Tek’s speech, he also gives a map of a few of the areas he and B.I.G. used to go to get marijuana:
African Black: 105th St
Bodybag: 125th St
Butterfly: Underhill Ave
The UCB improvisers took that story and created a sketch centered around a hilarious example of a group of people attempting to signal a weed dealer.
Tomorrow’s (November 15th), Cipha Sounds’ Take It Personal show will have special guest and Hip Hop legend Peter Gunz. Tickets are on sale here.
Check out Tek explain what happens when you are locked in a weed spot with the late great Notorious B.I.G.:
Mariah Carey ain’t playing with it comes to her disdain for Nicki Minaj. Mariah recently did an interview where she spoke on the experience at American Idol with the rapper with the heavenly butt. But, that didn’t matter, because Mrs. Cannon compared coming to work with Nick Rock to going to see Satan every day. Wow. The quote and video are below.
“Honestly, I hated it.”
“I thought it was going to be a three-person panel. They gave me a nice dangling monetary moment, and I was just like, ‘Okay. Randy Jackson will be there; I’ve known him forever. He used to play bass for me. Like, this isn’t a big deal. This will be nothing.’ But it wasn’t that. It was like going to work every day in hell with Satan.”
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(AllHipHop News) Eminem waited three years to release the follow-up to 2010’s Recovery album. In today’s music market a break that long can be career suicide, but fortunately Em’s die-hard fan base stayed with him and helped the “Rap God” performer push his The Marshall Mathers LP 2 to the second biggest first week sales of the year.
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Speaking with France’s NRJ radio Em explained that part of the reason for the long gap between solo projects was simply due to his own laziness.
“It’s basically because I’m lazy that it took so long. Now that the album is done, I’m finally going to shower,” said Em.
While the Detroit emcee claims lethargy was to blame for his break, he also notes that he was actually pretty busy over the last few years focusing on his Shady Records roster.
“I did the Recovery album then I started working on some side projects for Shady Records,” said Slim. “I did some producing on a Yelawolf album and the Slaughterhouse album. I did a collaboration album with Royce tha ’59 called ‘Bad Meets Evil’. In the middle of all that I was recording for this album.”
Since Recovery dropped Shady Records released Bad Meet Evil’s Hell: The Sequel, Yelawolf’s Radioactive, and Slaughterhouse’s Welcome to: Our House. The label’s latest project, MMLP2, pushed 792,000 units in its opening week debuting at number one on the charts.
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Check out Eminem’s performing “Rap God” at the YouTube Music Awards below.
via NME
(AllHipHop News) Drake has always made it clear that he rides for his hometown of Toronto, but the Young Money rapper also has ties to Memphis. The Tennessee city is where the Nothing Was The Same creator spent time as a kid visiting his extended family, so he decided to shoot the video for the single “Worst Behavior” in his dad’s hometown.
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Drake spoke with Vibe recently about setting his visuals in The River City and reveals he had hesitations about returning to one of his early stopping grounds. It was his close family connections there that were actually a concern for him.
“If anybody knows anything about the South and how it is, it’s tough to go around people who could use your help and you can’t help everybody,” said Drake. “It’s like a guilt or a burden that comes over me, so I hadn’t gone to Memphis in a long time.”
The experience of filming the 10-minute video in Memphis with members of his family has encouraged Drake to return to the town in the future.
“Instead of running from it, I just embraced it and shot this incredible, beautiful video with my beautiful family and helped out as many people as I could while I was there,” said Drake. “Now I can’t wait to go back.”
Watch Drake’s “Worst Behavior” below.