Harlem rapper Vado and The Breakfast Club’s resident cutie Angela Yee are reportedly an item! The two have been stepping out together a lot lately and although neither of them have confirmed the relationship, I hear they are certainly not trying to hide it. I think they make a cute couple; and hey, maybe, in turn, Vado will actually get some radio play in NYC…..at least on Power 105.1 anyway.
Sources are telling us EXCLUSIVELY that Kimbella isn’t the only Love & Hip Hop co-star that’s pregnant. We hear the sassy and business minded Yandy Smith is also pregnant. Yandy isJim Jones’ former manager and just joined the cast this season. She is reportedly pregnant by her long time boyfriend, the same boyfriend who handed Jim Jones a beat down in Harlem earlier this year for disrespecting his woman. I wonder if the pregnancy will be part of the story line next season and if we’ll get to meet her boyfriend. Either way, congratulations to Yandy and her boo.
Just for laughs, below is a video of Jim Jones catching a fade in Harlem from Junior Mafia. Watch Jimmy run like he stole something, just shameful!! This video got me thinking, no wonder Jim keeps Chrissy around, she’s his muscle!
(AllHipHop News) While the Beastie Boys will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, their long-time DJ feels that the Rock Hall of Fame is overlooking his role in the group’s success.
DJ Hurricane says the Rock Hall is snubbing DJ’s and hype men like himself and Flavor Flav, by not giving them their due recognition.
The DJ wants to bring to light the importance of supporting artists and their role in the success of their respective groups.
Despite the importance of the DJ and the hype man in a rapper’s live show and in the creation of music, many hip-hop fans often overlook their critical contributions.
According to DJ Hurricane, similar instances include DJ’s like DJ Spinderella (of Salt n’ Pepa) and Eric B (of Eric B and Rakim) and hype man Flavor Flav (of Public Enemy).
“That’s how it was back then. When you look at Jam Master Jay and Run DMC- Jay wasn’t under contract on the first 2 albums,” DJ Hurricane explained to AllHipHop.com in a statement.
According to Hurricane, in 1986 when the Beastie Boys were just gaining notoriety, they lost their original DJ amidst the Rasing Hell Tour, that featured Run D.M.C., LL Cool J and Whoodini.
The Beastie Boys went to Russell Simmons for help in finding a DJ, who in turn asked the late Jam Master Jay, who recommended DJ Hurricane.
Despite the “white rapper” stigma that DJ Hurricane says the Beastie Boys carried, DJ Hurricane went on to complete the rest of the tour and eventually became their permanent DJ.
DJ Hurricane would go on to tour with The Beastie Boys for the next 13 years, until 1999 when they officially parted ways.
Hurricane asserts that he wasn’t just a DJ for the Beastie Boys, but a more integral member, who received songwriting credit for the hit single, “Sure Shot.”
In a 1999 interview with The Beastie Boys, Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz acknowledged Hurricane’s role in creating the “Sure Shot” track.
“We woke him up maybe around two a.m. And from bed he came up with the chorus and did it over the phone,” Ad Rock said.
“Ten months out of the year- I was on the road,” recalled DJ Hurricane. “And when you pull up the archive- I’m there. All I want is recognition, not money. A trophy would be correct; like a team that wins a Super Bowl; everyone gets a ring.”
Former Bad Boy artist and platinum-selling singer Carl Thomas has just dropped the music video for the new single, “Don’t Kiss Me,” off his recently released album, Conquer.
In the video, featuring two verses from Snoop Dogg, the two gentlemen can be seen enjoying an evening in a lavish lounge while both Thomas and Snoop croon to the women they are interested in.
Thomas, who became a household name in the late 1990s and early 2000s, thanks to his affiliation and signing with Bad Boy Records, has released four albums in his 15-year career. His first album, Emotional, which included the hit record “I Wish,” was certified platinum back in 1999.
He later received a Grammy nomination in 2006 alongside Gerald Levert, Chaka Khan, and Yolanda Adams, for his contribution to the song “Everyday (Family Reunion),” off the official soundtrack to Tyler Perry’s#### film, Madea Family Reunion.
Thomas is now signed to Verve Music Group, a division of Universal Music, under which his latest album Conquer was released in December 2011.
Check out the Erik White-directed video for Carl Thomas’ “Don’t Kiss Me” featuring Snoop Dogg below:
Great Day, my Great People!
Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to planting seeds! If you ever surveyed truly successful people, I guarantee that most of them would have a similar story. They will tell you that they knew what they wanted, but how they got it just came. They will explain that most of their success was a result of having a desire, planting the seed, and allowing that seed to blossom. They will also say that they didn’t stop to watch the seed blossom, nor did they stop planting!
In order to gain any success in life, you must be willing to plant seeds of success. It is impossible to teach what you don’t know, improbable to lead where you won’t go, and not likely to reap what you don’t sow. Life will give you back what you put into it! If you want abundance, then begin to plant seeds of abundance! If you want happiness, begin to plant seeds of happiness. The problem always lies in people wanting one thing, but putting out the total opposite!
Stop sabotaging yourself! The HOW is none of your business! Concentrate on what you want, then do everything in your power to work towards it, and I guarantee the HOW will reveal itself! You truly reap what you sow! Begin today sowing Greatness! The World is Yours and Nothing can Stop You!!
-Ash’Cash
“The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.” -Robert Collier
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” -Earl Nightingale
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” -Unknown
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” -Henry David Thoreau
“Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.” -William Arthur Ward
“Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.” -Robert Collier
“The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer.” -Unknown
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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.
(AllHipHop News) The Slaughterhouse regime, which includes rappers Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I, and Royce Da 5’9″, have officially released the title for the group’s sophomore album, their first on Shady Records.
Slaughterhouse’s welcome to: Our House will hit store shelves on May 15, with a national tour to precede the album’s release.
The group will embark on the 43-date tour beginning on March 8 in Dallas, Texas and running through May 3, where the tour will wrap up in Boston, Texas.
Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz recently spoke to AllHipHop.com about the different artistic and recording processes between their first self-titled album and welcome to: Our House. Check out that exclusive clip here.
See a full list of Slaughterhouse tour dates below:
March 8, 2012—Southside (Dallas, TX)
March 9, 2012—House of Blues (Houston, TX)
March 10, 2012—Beauty Ballroom (Austin, TX)
March 11, 2012 – White Rabbit (San Antonio, TX)
March 16, 2012—House of Blues (Myrtle Beach, SC)
March 17, 2012—Beachem Theater (Orlando, FL)
March 18, 2012—Revolution (Miami, FL)
March 22, 2012—Masquerade (Atlanta, GA)
March 23, 2012—The Cannery (Nashville, TN)
March 24, 2012—The Fillmore (Charlotte, NC)
March 25, 2012—SoundStage (Baltimore, MD)
March 26, 2012—Wilbur Theatre (Boston, MA)
March 27, 2012—Trocadero Theatre (Philadelphia, PA)
March 28, 2012—9:30 Club (Washington D.C.)
March 29, 2012—Best Buy Theater (New York, NY)
March 31, 2012—Lava Lounge (Bowling Green, KY)
April 1, 2012—Metro (Chicago, IL)
April 2, 2012—Royal Oak Music Theatre (Detroit, MI)
April 5, 2012—The Clubhouse (Tempe, AZ)
April 6, 2012—Music Box (Los Angeles, CA)
April 7, 2012—The Regency Ballroom (San Francisco, CA)
April 8, 2012—Hard Rock Cafe (Las Vegas, NV)
April 9, 2012—The Galaxy (Santa Ana, CA)
April 10, 2012—Porters Pub (San Diego, CA)
April 11, 2012—Velvet Jones (Santa Barbara, CA)
April 14, 2012—Showbox at the Market (Seattle, WA)
April 16, 2012—Harry O’s (Salt Lake City, UT)
April 17, 2012 – Sunshine Theatre (Albuquerque, NM)
April 18, 2012—Bluebird (Denver, CO)
April 19, 2012—Fox Theatre (Boulder, CO)
April 20, 2012— TBD
April 21, 2012—Granada (Lawrence, KS)
April 22, 2012—Epic (Minneapolis, MN)
April 24, 2012—Rave (Milwaukee, WI)
April 25, 2012—Kalamazoo Theatre (Kalamazoo, WI)
April 26, 2012—The Vogue (Indianapolis, IN)
April 27, 2012— TBD
April 28, 2012—House of Blues (Cleveland, OH)
April 29, 2012—Omni (Toledo, OH)
April 30, 2012—Headliners (Louisville, KY)
May 1, 2012—Toad’s Place (New Haven, CT)
May 2, 2012—Lupos (Providence, RI)
May 3, 2012—Wilbur Theater (Boston, MA)
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