Mobb Deep has really put their differences to the side and they are about to make a major announcement! It seems like they are totally back in business! Now, I don’t know everything that is going on but I do know this: they are going to make a huge announcement at the Magic Convention in Las Vegas, which is coming up next week!Since Magic is not about wizardry or anything, I’m going to assume it is a fashion line or something they are working on. I don’t know exactly, but we’ll see! I think its great they are really homies again and its not some shallow stunt to pay their light bill!
Since, we have not heard much from T-Pain since Jay-Z ethered him with “DOA.” But, he’s been slowly creeping back in. He’s recently dissed Future and now there are rumors that he and his wife are swingers! Just swinging around with other swingers!
Pain called into the TT Torrez Show to g-chat about rumors of he and his wife being SWINGERS, the baby he had with a reality TV star while still married, whether he’ll be starring in a new reality show and more!
“…Beat the p**** up, like Emmett Till”—Lil Wayne (w. Future), “Karate
Chop”, 2013.
Rapper Lil’ Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.) is embroiled in a controversy over lyrics referencing murder victim Emmett Till, whose death by lynching in 1955 served as a galvanizing agent for America’s civil rights activism.
The lyrics– specifically, a 16 bar verse– come from a remix that Wayne, 30, participated on with Epic/Sony recording artist Future, on the single “Karate Chop”.
Despite the fact that the single was never officially released (it was apparently leaked via the Internet) the public criticism has been so
vehement that Epic Records responded by indicating that the company is taking “great efforts” to remove it from public access. Surviving members of the Till family have publicly demanded an apology.
At least one prominent musician has publicly taken issue with the lyrics. “You can’t equate that to Emmett Till,” said Stevie Wonder. “You just cannot do that. … I think you got to have someone around you… even if they are the same age or older — is wiser to say, ‘Yo, that’s not happening.”
In 1955, Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago visiting family in the Mississippi Delta when a chance encounter with a passing white woman eventually led to Till’s kidnapping from the family home a few days later. He was eventually found dead, brutally beaten and his head misshapen. Two men put on trial for the murder were acquitted, and—protected by double jeopardy—infamously admitted to their own guilt in a later interview. In the years to follow, poems, songs, and an ongoing assortment of civil rights gatherings and demonstrations referenced Till as a martyr for the civil rights cause.
This is an ongoing problem in hip-hop and other urban-culture entertainment, where certain celebrities seem to be oblivious to history, and fan culture seems to be more and more accepting of an anything-goes creative aesthetic, even if it seems to fly in the face of common sense and heretofore basic standards of respect. When pushback occurs for anything offensive that is done or said, the party in question tends to claim a persecution complex, or that his “freedom of speech” trumps all, regardless of the inanity of what he is being scrutinized for. Even certain personalities have come to think of themselves as “social activists” by virtue of their celebrity status– despite never participating in any sort of public demonstration or protest, phone call campaign, letter-writing campaign, local government meetings, or really anything that might have a genuine context reflective of an involved citizen.
Buying holiday turkeys, winter coats or even computers for a classroom doesn’t make somebody MLK or Malcolm X. Being reckless in one’s travel habits and getting busted for possession-based gun and drug charges doesn’t make somebody H. Rap Brown or Huey Newton. In 1955 Jim Crow-era New Orleans (where Wayne is from), he could have easily met the same fate as an Emmett Till, whether in his teen years or now at age 30. Hip-hop’s younger generations have made ritual of giving props to “the homies that didn’t make it” via pouring liquor and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with photos of the recently deceased. If Wayne, Future and others were really cognizant of giving honor to the dead, they would not be so casual in engaging in throwaway punchlines that mock those whose bloodshed helped clear the way for the relative freedoms that are enjoyed now.
“Having that gang war / We want to know what you’re fighting for / Fighting over colors? / All that gang sh*t’s for dumb motherfu**ers.” – Tim Dog
Tim Dog is dead.
Before Biggie and Pac, where going at it in a war dubbed the East Coast/West Coast beef, there was Tim Dog. Now, I loved what NWA, Ice Cube, DJ Quik and those guys were doing, but, I have an eternal love for the underdog (which they were too in a different way). Maybe New York didn’t realize it at the time, but a lot of us “outsiders” shifted our eyeballs to other areas of the nation in the late 80s and early 90’s. Compton was one of those areas and we were captivated with the visuals coming through the speakers.
Tim wasn’t having it.
Tim Dog was brazen, brash and bold against some of the most talented and fearsome rappers in the game in 1991 with “F**k Compton.” But he spoke out when Dre beat up Dee Barnes, the video music host. The Ultra Magnetic affiliate talked out opposing something we East Coasters didn’t fully understand at the time – gangs. His debut album, Penicillin on Wax, was almost chiefly meant to discredit rappers from Compton and , to a lesser degree, the West Coast. He also did some outright silly stuff like dissing Kid-N-Play, cool and fun emcees. He also praised Public Enemy for no apparent reason. He apologized to Dr. Dre’s ex-girlfriend, singer Michel’le, for dissing her in “F**k Compton.” He made sure it was known he was cool with Ice Cube, Ice-T and kinda liked NWA’s MC Ren. LOL! He was all over the place sometimes. A rebel with many contradicting causes.
Fact: Tim Dog has an understated place in history. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg checked him (and inadvertently immortalized him) on “Dre Day.” A post-Ice Cube NWA sued him for using their music at on his second album ( a first at the time) so they wanted to get at him any way possible. Tiny Lister aka Deebo from “Friday” even threatened him when he moved out West. And he still bragged “I’m the illest n***a alive! Why you say? I dissed the West Coast and I moved to LA!” I can’t help but wonder if anybody is celebrating at the news of the Bronx rapper’s sudden demise.
I’m not partying. My jaw dropped last night after hearing Tim Dog (real name:Timothy Blair) was dead, from an apparent seizure.
For years, I had tried and tried and tried to interview Tim Dog. And I feel bad that I’ll never have that opportunity to do this now.
Some are going to ask why, considering I’ve been blessed to have interviewed most of the biggest names in the game through the years. Let me explain. Tim Dog was mysteriously elusive – defiantly elusive!
A few years ago, he had gotten a new record deal and it was clear that press had to be involved to re-introduce him to the game. Few people remembered “F**k Compton” or “I Get Wrecked” with KRS-One. The man refused to do any interviews until they dropped him from the label. Weird as all get out!
But, recently, he stood accused of defrauding a number of women out of thousands of dollars, a apparent attempt to fund a new album. In June, he was all the rage again for all the wrong reasons and an investigative piece by NBC’s “Dateline” dug deep. It was at this time that I started to email with Tim to get his side on record with AllHipHop. He hated the edit job and accused the network of misstating the facts. He was down to do the interview, but he just stop replying after confirming. But, just for the record, he felt terrible about the allegations against him and he had absolutely no trust left in the media. Such was Tim Dog.
On the very low, I was a huge Tim Dog fan. I can now liberate myself of that secret. He wasn’t the most talented dude, and paled to compare to those he opposed, on the real. But he had something most rappers lack…balls. Pardon the baseness of the word, but I don’t know any other way to say it. But, this man had the nerve to drop a 5-disc box set of his greatest hits. NWA, Snoop, or any of his adversaries haven’t even done that yet (even though they all could).
That’s Tim Dog. Incredibly audacious.
“First dog in the game. And the last. Believe me.” – Tim Dog
(AllHipHop News) The Chicago Police Department has announced that they are targeting the members of a gang called SUWU, in the aftermath of the murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton.
Hadiya Pendleton was the teenaged baton twirler who participated in Barack Obama’s most recent inauguration.
Pendleton was shot and killed on January 29, in Harsh Park, after being caught in the crossfire between two rival gangs.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago police are targeting the SUWU gang, whose members took their name from a Lil Wayne song.
Police acknowledge that the “Su Wu” saying was a greeting created by members of Los Angeles Bloods. But they also said that the Chicago gang used the saying as their name, yet had no relation to any other factions.
According to Chicago Police Department, the gang, which has about 40 members, took their name from Lil Wayne’s song “Promise.”
Two men have been arrested for the murder of Pendleton: Michael Ward and Kenneth Williams.
Police believe the SUWU gang was feuding with members of a gang called 4-6 Terror, since a member of that gang had shot Williams earlier in July.
Michael Ward, 18, is charged with being the trigger man in Hadiya Pendelton’s murder, while Williams, 20, allegedly acted as the getaway driver.
The Chicago police have vowed to target every member of the SUWU gang in the aftermath of her murder.
The department will launch a strategy called “group accountability,” which will allow officers to target every member of the gang for minor infractions, to violent offenses.
Illseed, Out.
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Rapper Lil’ Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.) is embroiled in a controversy over lyrics referencing murder victim Emmett Till, whose death by lynching in 1955 served as a galvanizing agent for America’s civil rights activism.
