(AllHipHop News) Rhymesayers has teamed up with AllHipHop.com to bring you the exclusive premiere of Brother Ali’s new single, “Stop The Press”, off of his upcoming album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color.
AllHipHop.com caught up with Brother Ali last month and spoke to him about the upcoming album and his theory on having “heart block” rather than writer’s block.
Listen to the new Jake One-produced single below. Brother Ali’s Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color album hits stores on August 21.
Greeting and Salutations! Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to self-pity, ungratefulness, complaints, pessimism, and ego!
Disclaimer: The following views are not necessarily those of the mediocre, but of those who understand the secret to being successful in life! What I’m about to say may seem harsh, but it is a truth that needs to be said…. GET OVER YOURSELF!!
Walking around as if life has done something wrong to you will get you nowhere! Acting as if your life is the worst life possible is the most ungrateful thing that you can possible do! Stop acting as if all hope is gone, and that you’re not in the best position to win!
Did you want it to be easy? Do you want your dreams to be handed to you on a silver platter? Oh, I get it… You don’t want to put in any work? Stop Complaining and get rid of your ego!!! You are the most fortunate person on this earth, and instead of saying thank you, you are beating yourself up and wishing that life was different!
Know that the way life is right now is exactly the way it’s suppose to be! You are going through what you’re going through because it is part of your process!! It is your initiation phase for all the great things that are about to happen!! Stop taking it for granted and say thank you! I can give you a million other people who aren’t as fortunate as you. Your life is great right now!! Change your perspective and get over your hump….. Sincerely yours….
-Ash’Cash
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” -Helen Keller
“Accept fate, and move on. Don’t yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.” -Unknown
“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.” -Will Rogers
“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. ‘Nothing’ is the worst thing that can happen to us!” -Richard Bach
“Things don’t go wrong so you can become bitter and give up. They happen so you can be all that you were intended to be.” -Samuel Johnson
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not bad… it looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults, even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.” -Henry David Thoreau
“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” -Will Rogers
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have now was the thing you once hoped for.” -Epicurus
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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.
Editor’s Note: “Feel Rich” is our partnership with QD3, the talented son of music legend Quincy Jones. “Feel Rich” is all about creating a healthy lifestyle for Hip-Hop culture – both the artists and the fans. Enjoy!
We’re all busy, and Crystal Wall, wife of rapper Paul Wall and mother of two, gets that! Check out her tips for quick and healthy snacks to keep you and your kids happy!
Eating well doesn’t have to cost a lot (or take a lot of time). Check out this list of 10 cheap, healthy, easy-to-fix foods you can keep around the house:
Frozen vegetables
If you can’t get fresh vegetables, frozen vegetables are the next best choice. They last for months in the freezer, and still have a lot of vitamins and minerals. All vegetables are good for you, but spinach is one of the best. Just make sure you choose the kind that comes without any added cheese or sauce. If you can’t find frozen vegetables, freeze-dried vegetables are pretty good, too.
Brown rice
Brown rice is actually white rice, with all the really good-for-you parts still attached. Going brown gets you more B vitamins, iron, fiber, and minerals like manganese and phosphorus. Brown rice also has essential fatty acids. Those are good fats that you can only get by eating certain foods.
Beans
Beans have lots of minerals, including iron, and a ton of fiber and protein. They fill you up and give you energy. There are lots of different kinds of beans, so just try different types until you find a kind you like. Always get dried beans if you can. They’re cheaper than canned beans, and they have less salt.
Whole-Wheat bread
Most bread is white because it’s made with refined flour. In other words, all the really good-for-you parts are missing. Those parts are what turn whole wheat bread brown. Switching from white bread to whole wheat bread gives you more than twice as many vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
Spaghetti
“Normal” spaghetti is like white bread: All the good-for-you parts have been refined away. But if you can find whole wheat spaghetti, you get back that missing fiber and minerals.
Spaghetti Sauce
You need some sauce for those whole-wheat noodles, don’t you? Some canned spaghetti sauces have lots of added salt. But if you choose a jarred, low-sodium sauce, you’ll get lots of vitamins C and A, fiber, some B vitamins, and minerals like copper, folate, manganese, and potassium.
Oatmeal
Oatmeal may not be street, but it’s still the type of breakfast that keeps you shuffling all day long. Oats have tons of trace minerals, plus a lot of fiber, magnesium, and zinc. You can add extra stuff like yogurt and dried or fresh fruit, so your oatmeal never gets boring.
Yogurt
A serving of yogurt has lots of calcium in it. Yogurt also contains iodine, phosphorus, vitamins B2 and B12, potassium, and a lot of protein. Some kinds of yogurt also come with something called friendly bacteria. That may sound nasty, but it’s actually good. Your intestines need that kind of bacteria to work right.
Eggs
Eggs last a long time in the refrigerator. They’re easy to get, and have plenty of B vitamins and minerals. Eggs are also a cheap, super-healthy way to get your protein in.
Oranges
Oranges keep for a long time, and are one of the cheapest fruits to buy fresh. They have a lot of vitamin C, fiber, folate, potassium, and vitamin B1. Look for oranges that are firm and feel heavy for their size. If you can’t find good fresh fruit, frozen fruit and dried fruit are also good for you.
(AllHipHop News) Houston, Texas-based rapper Riff Raff has signed a record deal with Diplo’s record label, Mad Decent!.
Riff Raff joins artists like Bonde do Role, Bosco Delrey, Po Po, Dillon Francis and Rusko as artists on Mad Decent!.
Over the past several years, Riff Raff has collaborated with a number of artists, including Soulja Boy, Chief Keef, Action Bronson, Andy Milonakis, Kid Sister and others.
Riff Raff and Mad Decent! CEO Diplo will host a signing party for the rapper on June 19 in Los Angeles.
Riff Raff rose to fame as a rapper/contestant on the Fonzworth Bentley-hosted VH1 reality series “From G’s To Gents.”
Riff Raff is currently in the studio working on his 2013 debut for Mad Decent!
After touring the world, releasing platinum selling music, and joining the Bystorm family (management for J-Cole also), Kardinal has joined forces with legendary producer Nottz Raw (Notorious B.I.G., Dr.Dre, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Scarface etc) to create A.M.T.R.I.M (stands for Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself). Complete with 15 tracks, this FREE album features many up and comers (including Nikki Grier (Pam Grier’s niece) and Shi Wisdom (co-wrote with Drake for Rita Ora). There are also candid appearances from Bun B, Green Lantern, Boi 1da, Pete Rock and many others.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Jibbs is plotting his return back to the Hip-Hop industry, with a new mix tape and album.
The St. Louis-bred rap star, best known for his hit single “Chain Hang Low,” is planning an upcoming free album titled Back 2 The AmericanDream.
According to reps for Jibbs, the album will be released mid-summer 2012 and will feature the rapper contributing “a new perspective to Hip-Hop music.”
Last weekend Jibbs hosted an event with “Salute with Hoops,” a charitable
organization celebrating America’s fallen heroes, in addition to celebrating the birthday of James “Lil Henchman” Rosemond Jr. with Teyana Taylor, Zab Zudah and others.
Check out some footage of Jibbs at the “Salute with Hoops” event below:
(AllHipHop News) The NY Post is reporting that Jay-Z, who is already a minority investor in the Brooklyn Nets and their new home, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, has been named director of the Barclays Arena firm.
Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, who recently helped design and debut the new logo and line of apparel and gear for the Brooklyn Nets, is now listed as director for the company that runs the Barclays Center, Brooklyn Arena LLC.
“The new title emerged in papers filed by arena developer Forest City Ratner Cos. in its bid to secure a liquor license for the future home of the Brooklyn Nets,” according to the Post. “As one of seven directors, the rapper and music mogul will attend board meetings and help direct arena senior staff on daily operations, Barclays Center officials confirmed today.”
The Post states that “Jay-Z is listed as an arena director along with Forest City CEO Bruce Ratner, David Berliner, Mary Anne Gilmartin, Christophe Charlier, Irina Pavlova, and David Carlock. Pavlova is Nets majority owner Mikhail Prokhorov’s right-hand woman in the United States and president of his Onexim Sports and Entertainment Holding USA, Inc. The Russian oligarch Prokhorov owns 80 percent of the Nets and also has a 45 percent share in the arena.”
(AllHipHop News) Following the release of his new mixtape, Gangland, last week, Taylor Gang general Chevy Woods is already setting his sights on the his crew’s future music releases and upcoming tours.
With Gangland, Chevy originally set out to create a more “edgy, street sound,” and in his opinion that’s exactly what he has provided his fans with.
“Yeah, I think I did,” he told AllHipHop.com. “Especially because I sat down and went through the beats that I wanted to create that sound. So I would take beats that people sent me or that people told me I should rap over and really went for the sound of – not nobody else sound – just a sound of the street and where I come from and what like to listen to.”
Since its release, Gangland has already amassed almost 500,00 views and close to 200,000 downloads on DatPiff.com. In terms of what’s next for Chevy Woods, a Taylor Gang compilation album, Wiz’s sophomore Atlantic Records release, O.N.I.F.C., on August 28, and two high-profile tours: The Smoker’s Club and Under the Influence of Music Tour.
Regarding the constantly in-the-works Taylor Gang compilation project, Chevy said, “While Gangland was getting recorded, everybody was working on their own projects, and we were working on that [compilation], too, so we never slow down on that. We’re always recording new songs for that.”
He continued, “I don’t even know how we’re going to come to the table and figure out which songs to put out. There’s just a ton of music and some songs won’t make the cut, but yeah, the Taylor Gang compilation is going to be crazy! There’s not going to be no features or anything. It’s just a block of music from us, and everybody is going to love it – especially those that have been around us. It’s for the fans, it’s what they want.
“If the project is ready to go, and we all feel like it’s ready to go then it’ll go,” Chevy told us regarding the compilations release. “We’re not just going to throw anything out there but we all ran through the things that we wanted to do and being that he’s [Wiz] the Captain of the whole gang, we won’t just put it out to put it out.”
In regards to his own solo album, Chevy told AllHipHop.com, “I’m going to keep doing mixtapes, but we’re in the process of working on the album, too, so you know people should be looking out for that. I’m not saying that it’s right around the corner but we’re working on it. Just a lot of shows and being in people’s faces is what I expect to be doing for the next, at least year or two.”
(AllHipHop News) With the recent release of his first single “100” featuring Pusha T, Jadakiss and 2 Chainz, Grammy Award-winning producer Bangladesh has announced the title of his debut album and details on some of the collaborations that fans can expect when Flowers & Candy is released.
Bangladesh announced the Flowers & Candy title during a video blog he filmed in London and stated that the album, which currently doesn’t have a release date, would be coming soon.
Bangladesh spoke on some of the other collaborations to expect from Flowers & Candy. “I got a song with Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar and Snoop [Dogg] that’s just so crazy. I just can’t be on that one,” he told AllHipHop.com.
In addition to providing the sounds for Flowers & Candy, Bangladesh also plans to rap on the album, which fans were given a preview of on “100.” “I’m rapping on it, I’m making beats, I’m doing everything on there,” Bangladesh told AllHipHop.com. “I’m not rapping all over the album, but there are some songs I’m on and there’s some songs that I just don’t belong on so I didn’t get on them.”
On the Kendrick and Ice Cube collaborations, Bangladesh continued, “It’s a West Coast theme, and it’s stupid! Kendrick killed it, Ice Cube killed it! When you hear the album, you’re gonna be like, ‘Damn, that’s Cube; he came hard!’ And that’s what to expect from this album; your favorite artist or artists that you didn’t think could spit are busting and really going in because they hear the beat and the beat influences them to go in, cause I never heard some of the artists rapping as good as they are on this.”
In addition to his upcoming work on Brandy’s sixth studio album, Two Eleven, Bangladesh recently produced tracks for Fra East Movement, E-40 and revealed that some of his work will end up on a record from Pusha T’s currently untitled major label solo debut that features Lil Jon on the hook.
Flowers & Candy is expected to be released later this year.
(AllHipHop News) Three 6 Mafia members Juicy J and DJ Paul are being sued over a concert in which they failed to appear.
Micah S. Carver filed a lawsuit against Juicy J, DJ Paul, Lord Infamous, and their company Tear Da Club Up Tours LLC.
The lawsuit, which was filed on June 8, claims that the pair were booked for an April 2011 show in Orlando, Florida, but never made the date.
The lawsuit claims that Three 6 Mafia ditched the Orlando performance, in order to “attend another activity and appear on VH1 subsequent to executing the agreement,” Carver claims in the lawsuit.
To make matters worse, Three 6 Mafia never returned a $9,000 advance for the performance, which was to take place at a venue named Firestone Live.
Carver is suing for a total of $50,000, for economic loss, out-of-pocket expenses and loss of income and revenue.
What the hell? Kanye West is reportedly looking to do something crazier than he’s ever done and we know he’s pushed art to the limits in rap. Well, I’m hearing that Ye is looking to do pornographic versions of his rap videos. Basically, they will take a song or video that he’s already done and make a version of it like a p-flick. Weird, right? Well, this seems to be the case. Sources say Kim Kardashian is losing her mind over it and possibly going insane. Well, insane may not be the word, but she’s definitely not happy about it. But, I must reason that Kanye is probably just looking to resolve inside his head that Ray-J tape that Kim made. It has to be on his mind. So, I say: Go forth and prosper, Yeeezy!
MMG artist Meek Mill has decided to finally speak to the press about the bottle melee between Chris Brown and Drake, and is placing the blame at the females in their entourages versus the two stars themselves. Check out what he said below:
“Things just happen in the club. I seen girls in there throwing bottles, all types of sh*t. All types of people. I never seen Chris Brown or Drake throw a bottle and I was there.”
“Chris and Drake, them two was there, but it’s other people that be around that take sh*t to the next level.”
Meek was reportedly one of the main instigators in the fight, but when asked if he threw a bottle, Meek replied, “F*ck no.”
Meek Mill claimed that he spoke with Chris Brown on the phone directly after the brawl, and both sides agreed they had no problem with the other.
“Chris Brown be in clubs. He be around situations like this. Things get out of hand … that don’t mean it’s out of hand with me and him or whoever, not even him and Drake.”
So many sides to this story, my head is spinning. Do you believe Meek’s recollection of the incident? Could it had been a woman who split open Big Pat’s head like that, or a woman who clocked Breezy with a bottle in the chin?
Cash Money head honcho, Birdman, has spoken out against the OKC Thunder arena for treating Lil’ Wayne “like sh*t”. Baby feels that the OKC Thunder need to pay for the way they treated his son, Weezy. Check out what he told MTV News in a recent interview below:
“OKC gotta pay for their disrespect that they did with my son — that never would be honored,” he said.
Baby, who regularly attends Heat games, makes it clear that his issue isn’t with the people of Oklahoma City or the team’s individual players.
“The arena, just the arena because I love the people of OKC — it’s the arena and how they been disrespectful,” he said.
“F— them, I have no respect for them and the way they just disrespected another black man who tryin’ to come to their arena that happens to be my son. It’s Miami Heat all day every day anyway, but that’s just how I feel personally.”
We all know Baby is always going to ride for Lil’ Wayne, but how exactly does he expect the OKC Thunder “to pay” for not accommodating Weezy?
