Well lookie what we have here! Lets not even play games. Ice Cube has revealed to us exclusively that he’s fully confirmed for a new movie in the “Friday” series. But, this time, he managed to get Chris Tucker on board to get everybody sky-high once again. Let me tell you – this is good news!
Now as far as the “everybody” else, I am not sure who that is, but I’m thinking everybody else may be overload for the movie. Too many laughs!
Houston’s J Prince Jr., son of Rap-A-Lot founder and CEO J Prince, is suing Drake’s management team for breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, in what totals 10 claims against Cortez Bryant and his business associates.
According to documents filed today in New York State Supreme Court, J Prince, Jr. stated that he deserves a cut of the profits earned for introducing Drake to Lil’ Wayne and Cortez Bryant’s management team, Aspire.
In the lawsuit, J Prince Jr. alleges that Bryant and Drake verbally agreed to pay J Prince Jr. a portion of the profits earned.
Prince claims that Bryant verbally agreed to, “use their experience, influence, and relationships to persuade Drake into entering an exclusive recording agreement and an exclusive management agreement with the two of them and Bryant, and was to use his influence to compel Lil’ Wayne to sign and promote Drake to and through Lil’ Wayne’s record company YME, once Drake signed the agreements.”
In addition, given J Prince, Sr’s relationship with Cash Money Records, the distributor of Young Money would “consult with them and take the lead on their business dealings with YME and CMR.”
The lawsuit also claims that on December 10, 2008, Bryant signed Drake to an exclusive management agreement with his company and defendant Roberson’s companies, Laurent and Three Kings, and that Bryant signed Drake to an exclusive recording agreement with his company, Aspire.
J Prince Jr. also claims that in or around April 2009, Bryant made J Prince aware of the signing and pledged to honor the original agreement.
Prince wants the court to appoint a receiver to stop Drake and team from renegotiating their contracts with Drake until they get paid the agreed upon amount. More news as details emerge.
(AllHipHop News) Tonight (July 26, 7:30p.m. EST) at Irving Plaza in New York City, Coors Lights’ second annual “Search For the Coldest MC” will come to a close when host Ice Cube and judges DJ Drama and DJ Khaled select one of four finalists to be crowned as the “Coldest MC.”
The remaining finalists won their respective regional heats in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Charlotte throughout the spring, with hopes of making it to New York to battle it out for the ultimate achievement.
”I’ve had the opportunity to grow my career into many areas, but Hip-Hop is where it all began for me,” said Ice Cube earlier this year.
“As a fresh and innovative brand, Coors Light is a natural fit with the Hip-Hop community, so I’m excited to partner with Coors Light to find the next Coldest MC in the country,” he added.
The grand finale event will come to a close with a live performance from Def Jam recording artist Fabolous, who is currently at work on his sixth studio album, Loso’s Way 2: Rise To Power, which is set for release later this year.
The event will be live streamed tonight (July 26) exclusively on OurStage.com beginning at 7:30 p.m. EST.
(AllHipHop News) Huntsville, Alabama-bred and Universal/Republic-signed rapper Jackie Chain recently spoke with AllHipHop.com about his upcoming work titled The Bruce Lean Chronicles Volume 1, which is set to release next week on July 31.
The Slumerican affiliate explained his diverse style of music, his recent change of labels from Universal Motown to Universal Republic, and his grind of performing shows across the country at varied locations for a wide spectrum of fans.
While his releases as of late have been more dance inspired, Jackie Chain says that this project is a return to the dirty south rhythms and melodies of his initial work.
“It’s just the last couple CDs that I put out, man, have been more club orientated and on some dance and some getting f*cked up sh*t,” Jackie Chain told AllHipHop.com. “Bruce Lean is really more of what I’ve been going through in my life, man. I’m just really back on that trap sh*t, man, and it’s me going back to my original roots and more of a street album, on that selling dope and pimpin’ h**s and that sh*t that we do in the South, man.”
With a steady work pace, Jackie has already started compiling The Bruce Lean Chronicles Vol 2, a project he says is more feature heavy.
“With the Bruce Lean Chronicles, I saved a lot of my features for the Chronicles 2, like, I got Bun B and Big K.R.I.T., but for my production on the Chronicles Vol. 1, I got production from MMG’s Beat Billionaire, I got production from Sonny Digital, Diplo and Burn One. So, I got so many different producers, and on my last one, I just used one producer for the whole CD. So I got street sh*t, as far as beats go; I got sh*t that people would have never thought they would hear me on, so I like the vibe that is on this CD.”
While some Hip-Hop fans may not be used to artists from Alabama and more remote parts of the South like Mississippi, these two states have turned out several of Hip-Hop’s top billed artists over the past decade, including but not limited to David Banner, Big K.R.I.T., Yelawolf, Tito Lopez, Joker and Jackie Chain himself.
“I didn’t really have anyone that went national in my area out of Alabama, so we had a lot of outside influence from, of course, Atlanta, Texas was a big influence, and Tennessee with Memphis and Nashville. So Huntsville sort of got a little bit of all the surrounding areas, and we grew up in an army base town so people from all the different areas brought all their influence,” Jackie explained.
“All these different styles came together – and I didn’t grow up around graffiti, and I didn’t grow up around subways like in New York; I didn’t see the same stuff that L.A. had with the ’64 Impalas with the rims and hydraulics. It was easier for me to relate to the Southern music, but when I heard UGK and when I heard 8Ball & MJG, I could relate – the Cutlasses, the ’73 ‘Lacs, ’73 Donks, the dudes out there with the jheri curls, and the ‘Bama pimps out there pimpin’ hoes.”
But despite Jackie’s upbringing of listening to the music from the “Dirty South,” he has embraced dance inspired styles of music, as it was those fans who were booking him and listening to his music from the beginning.
“I listen to so many different types of music – like rap is just one type of music I listen to. But, my first song that most people knew me by was ‘Rollin,'” which is a dance song, even though I’m talking about being in the club getting faded type sh*t,” Jackie noted. “I got booked at raves in Miami, raves in Austin, or L.A., like they didn’t wanna see my street sh*t, like they just wanted to hear my dance sh*t. But, man, I’m a hustler, so if I can get some money doing a show at a rave, a Hip-Hop show, or even a country show, I’m tryna get it, homie. I ain’t no spring chicken, know what I’m saying?” he noted.
It’s true Jackie isn’t new to the game, as he was signed to Universal Motown almost five years ago, and for that very reason, he is focused on putting out work regardless of the label’s financial support for his work.
“I’ve been signed to Univeral Motown since ’08, but at the end of last year, they disbarred the whole label, so I was fortunate enough to get moved over to Universal Republic, with Drake and Lil’ Wayne and Nicki and the whole Young Money camp, and Kid Cudi, and Pac D##. They moved us over, so with those caliber of artists, I felt blessed to not have been dropped and to be brought over to the Universal Republic Family,” Jackie said. “At the end of the day, I’m not waiting on nothing. All the videos I’ve put out, they ain’t never paid for na’a one video, even the Bun B video, I put my money into that. I got love for the label, but I ain’t waiting on nobody.”
Cris Cab has some very interesting relationships in the music industry. For the emerging talent to have worked with so many iconic players in such a short amount of time is almost unheard of, but it’s something that is well-deserved and far from a publicity stunt.
Who are these legends, you ask?
Well, for one, nine-time Grammy Award-nominated producer Pharrell Williams is Cris’ primary mentor, followed by “Uncle Wyclef,” who has been producing frequently for Cris as well over the past year.
Both Pharrell and Wyclef joined Cris on stage last week during his headlining show in New York City – one that had fans lined up around the block for hours before the doors even opened. Cris, who is signed to Mercury Records under Island Def Jam, is currently pushing his Echo Boom project and preparing to release a new full-length release later this year, spearheaded by the recent single “Good Girls” with Big Sean.
AllHipHop.com: Speak on your recent show in New York City, and what it meant to get those guys to come out and support you.
Cris Cab: It was a great night. We had a lot of label people come out as well, and coming to support the show. I brought out Pharrell, Wyclef, and Mavado, who are all great dudes and I work with all of them. Pharrell is really the first person I met in the music industry when I was about 14 or 15, and he’s always been like a big brother to me and a mentor, and he came through and showed love. And Wyclef, too, who I just met like five or six months ago. He’s already like a big brother to me as well; he came out and showed love and we got to do “No Woman No Cry” together which was awesome.
AllHipHop.com: Well, I think it’s safe to say that if there’s anyone in this industry to be your mentor, Pharrell is at the top of the list.
Cris Cab: Oh, for sure, man. He’s like Yoda.
AllHipHop.com: How exactly did that relationship begin?
Cris Cab: Well, we kind of met through a friend of a friend of a friend, one of those type of deals, and I brought him some of my music which I had been recording in my room at the time on like a 12-track recorder. And I came in with a CD and played him some songs, and he was loving it. I saw him bobbing his head, and he just told me, “I love the music, I love your style, but there’s some stuff you need to work on.” I was like 15, and he gave me X, Y, and Z, and really when he told me that, I took it to heart.
He told me that people think the music business is all fun and games, but it’s one of the hardest businesses to get into because there’s a lot of sacrifice, and there’s a lot of time you dedicate. You have to be in it 200 percent, or else it’s not going to sound good. I took all of that to heart, and in a year or two, I came back to him, and he was blown away and kind of took me under his wing. Then we started working together and recording together. He taught me about songwriting, song structure, and yeah, the rest is history.
AllHipHop.com: You have a very eclectic style and sound. If you don’t mind me asking, how would you classify our music?
Cris Cab: You know, to classify the genre, I don’t even know if there’s one classification of what I’m doing. I would describe it as a fusion of music. It’s a bunch of different genres; it’s Hip-Hop mixed with Reggae mixed with acoustic and soulful melodies on the vocal side. I listen to a lot of people like Marvin Gaye, who is one of my biggest inspirations and, of course, Bob Marley, who is the number one inspiration on the vocal side. So, it’s really just a fusion of music.
AllHipHop.com: How does it feel to be so warmly embraced by the Hip-Hop scene and some of the biggest names within it?
Cris Cab: It feels good to be embraced by Hip-Hop, but also by people who love Reggae and Pop. It’s good; I’m feeling a lot of love from all ends, and I don’t think I have one set demographic.
AllHipHop.com: I want to congratulate you as well, because your single “Good Girls” with Big Sean is doing it’s thing, and I know it’s available now on iTunes.
Cris Cab: Thank you so much.
AllHipHop.com: Tell me about how that collaboration came together, because I know it was originally out a while ago without Sean on it.
Cris Cab: Well, Big Sean is actually a friend of a promoter friend of mine in Miami, and he brought him down a bunch of times to do shows, and I got to meet him one time awhile ago when he came down here with Wiz Khalifa. So, I got to hang out with him, and he’s a really humble and super-nice dude, just really down to earth.
So one night after a show, he had he needed a place to record – it was actually the song with Kanye and Pusha T, “I Don’t Like”. Kanye had sent him that, and he needed a place to record it ASAP, so I had them come to the studio that I have in Miami.
When he came through, I actually needed a feature on one of my tracks, so we ended up talking for a bit and I played him a bunch of tracks. And he stopped me after “Good Girls” and said, “That one’s a hit!”…which was perfect, because I needed a feature on it since Wyclef had just re-produced it, so he heard it and jumped on it that night.
AllHipHop.com: So, you were part of the reason he got to record his verse on “I Don’t Like.”
Cris Cab: [Laughs]Yeah, man, it’s funny to hear it on the radio now, too, ‘cause I always say “Oh sh*t, he did that in our studio!”
AllHipHop.com: I know you’re from Miami, and on top of the recent show you had in New York, you’re performing soon in your hometown. What can the fans expect from Cris Cab’s homecoming show?
Cris Cab: Oh, it’s going to be great, man. I love playing back home, and it’s going to be the same thing. I’m going to have my friends come out, some special guests, my brothers and “uncles” coming out. We’re just going to put on a great show, man.
AllHipHop.com: So, getting back to the music, man, you’ve been putting out the singles, but I want to ask where this material is going to end up. What is the project you’re pushing now, and what’s the one that’s coming in the near future?
Cris Cab: Well, we’re actually getting ready to release some more music to the fans, ‘cause we recently put out a mixtape called Echo Boom, which was the last one, that dropped a few months back. Now we’re actually getting ready to drop some more stuff to keep the motion going and keep everybody involved, which should probably be coming in September.
AllHipHop.com: What can you tell me about your current label situation?
Cris Cab: Yeah, well, I’m signed to Mercury, and we actually just opened up my own label called CMG26.
AllHipHop.com: Congratulations on that. Tell me about that situation.
Cris Cab: Thank you, sir. It’s good, I mean, the label had been so supportive with everything we want to as far as getting out there and being proactive. They realize that I came from an online world, so my plans are to keep the online presence growing and strong. That’s probably why we’re going to release some more new music for the fans on the Internet pretty soon, to keep everybody involved.
AllHipHop.com: Where can the fans find you online?
“Fail,” an online urban comedy show for youth, will premiere its second season exclusively on AllHipHop.com in a partnership with Hip-Hop legend Christopher “Play” Martin of Kid-N-Play, and acclaimed producers, Vanessa Baden and James Bland. Watch the exclusive airing of “Fail” Episode #8 here on AllHipHop.com.
FAIL SHOW | Episode 9: 106 & Park
The gang wants to win tickets to a hip hop concert, but an overzealous parking enforcement officer stands in their way.
There is something that you don’t do: Jump On Stage At A Rap Show. You definitely don’t do it when its a bunch of thugs. And you DEFINITELY don’t do it at a Nicki Minaj show, where they employ the biggest most viscous men on Earth. Yeah, so in Milwaukee, somebody decided to do just that and he got just that. He got his corny butt beat down! Check it out.
By, the way, check out the latest craziness with Mobb Deep. Aw Man.
Ciara can’t catch a break, can she? First, there was a petition to try to stop her from making music, and then news broke that her ex-boyfriend, New York Knicks player Amare Stoudemire, proposed to his baby mama – the same woman who Ciara allegedly stole him from.
Now, a source inside Ciara’s camp has revealed that Ciara has an affinity for stalking men, and even stalked 50 Cent and Chris Brown. Check out what the source revealed to Urban Bell Mag below:
“Ciara is a beautiful girl, but she just has the worst luck with men. The reason she can’t really keep a man is because she has a nasty habit of stalking them! Most of the men she has dated will confirm that she calls way too much and falls in love too quickly. Even after she and 50 broke up, she still called him numerous times to tell him that she loved him. It annoyed 50 so bad, he had to threaten her with public embarrassment before she stopped making the frequent phone calls.
I bet people also don’t know that she caught feelings for Chris Brown while he was dating Rihanna. A couple of years ago in a nightclub, she basically stalked him the entire night. Chris started off being really cool about it, although he wasn’t interested, since he was dating Rihanna and Ciara doesn’t look like his type anyway, so he wasn’t willing to creep.
This is what basically started Rihanna and Ciara’s beef before the two eventually got into it on Twitter after Ciara shaded her on television. Everyone that was there that night still talks about how desperate Ciara looked trying to get at Chris in the club. Chris probably would have obliged if she was mixed or very light skin. He does have a type, and Ciara doesn’t fit it.”
Oh wow, so that’s what started the whole Ciara and Rihanna Twitter beef? Interesting. Imagine if 50 Cent had actually put Ciara on blast? That would have been a sight to see. Do you believe that Ciara is a stalker?
Damn Chingy! Dude was doing OK and they the Tranny Sidney Starr came along! And guess what? His career was over! Sike, Chingy was finished before she came along. But still, she poured a pound of salt in the wound when she said he was screwing…him. Or something. Whatever. She lied and said they had a relationship and they didn’t.
I don’t think people gave him the benefit of the doubt though. She destroyed his rep as a MAN. That’s just FOUL. I think she owes Chingy a fair one. Call that dude Damon the boxer.
She/he finally admitted that she lied about the whole affair. You can check out her admitting that she lied on tape here.
(AllHipHop News) Actress and singer Cymphonique Miller is planning an all-star bash this weekend in Hollywood, to celebrate turning 16-years-old.
Cymphonique is the daughter of Hip-Hop mogul Percy “Master P.” Miller and the sister of actor Romeo Miller. She is also forging her own path in entertainment industry, as the star of her own hit television series on Nickelodeon titled “How To Rock.”
A number of A-listers are invited to attend the celebration, including Willow and Jaden Smith, OMG Girls, Big Sean, Justin Bieber, Diggy Simmons, Mindless Behavior and others.
The teen actress will also take time to give back during her birthday celebration. Cymphonique will celebrate her birthday with children that are fighting cancer, from the City of Hope Foundation.
MTV and BET will be covering Cymphonique Miller’s celebration, which is slated to go down in Hollywood tomorrow (July 27).
Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to controlling your life! There are some people who want things to happen, then there are those who make them happen! There are people who wish things were different, then there are those who make them different! There are those who dream big dreams, then there are those who wake up and turn them into reality!! You have the power in all cases to be the latter!!
Stop sitting around waiting for your big break to happen! Wake up everyday with the determination to take out of life exactly what you deserve! You are the master of your fate and are in full control of everything that happens in your life!! The only thing that can stop you is YOU! Get out of your own way, and make great things happen!! Your best life is yours for the taking!!
-Ash’Cash
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.” -Susan Polis Schutz
“Life is like a piano… what you get out of it depends on how you play it.” -Unknown
“Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.” -Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Don’t sit around hoping somebody will give you a break. Get busy and do the work that will enable you to live life fully on your own terms.” -Ralph Marston
“Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin.” -Robert Collier
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” -Erica Jong
“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.” -Unknown
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” -Oprah Winfrey
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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) Swizz Beatz has commented on the legal situation involving Megaupload.com, a company that listed the superproducer as CEO before it was shut down for piracy in January.
Last week, the government revealed that they were officially looking into Swizz Beatz and his role as CEO of the company, as they attempt to bring a trial against Megaupload.com in the United States.
Several top executives at Megaupload.com were arrested on January 19, on charges of copyright infringement and racketeering.
Federal prosecutors claim Megaupload.com generated over $175 million in illegal proceeds from copyrighted works, costing the entertainment industry over $500 million in lost revenue.
“I’m a fan of music. I’m a fan of people that work hard. I would never be a part of anything that’s taking from an artist when I fight so hard to give so much to the artists,” Swizz Beatz said in an interview with AlLindstrom.com.
“I was giving the artists 90% of they s**t. Sometimes when something is so powerful and people can’t control it that type of attack happens,” Swizz Beatz reasoned. “You see that happen with multiple things in life. Things that are so powerful, they get shut down unexplainably.”
Swizz Beatz, born Kaseem Dean, may have a point.
Just last week, Megaupload.com’s billionaire founder, Kim DotCom, claimed that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden personally ordered the company’s shutdown.
Kim DotCom claimed that Vice President Biden met with the head of the Motion Picture Association of America over the issue of piracy.
“I do know from a credible source that it was Joe Biden, the best friend of former Senator and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) boss Chris Dodd, who ordered his former lawyer and now State Attorney Neil MacBride to take Mega down,” Kim DotCom told TorrentFreak.com in a separate interview.
Last week, Kim DotCom scored a victory in the case, when a New Zealand judge ruled that FBI warrants obtained to search his mansion in Auckland were illegal.
Swizz Beatz, who has worked with artists like Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, and Chris Brown and has won three Grammys, defended his character.
Although he is being associated with a file-sharing battle similar to those launched against past services like Napster, Audiogalaxy, LimeWire, and others, Swizz Beatz denied any wrong doing.
“I’m in the business of inspiring people. And I can’t be in the business of inspiring people if I’m so-called robbing my friends,” Swizz Beatz said. “And my friends know that, that’s why ain’t nobody speak out and say any clown s**t about me. They know my character and they know what it is.”
It looks like 50 Cent’s new boxing promotions venture, TMT (The Money Team), has gotten a few people annoyed. Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya voiced his frustrations on twitter over 50 Cent encroaching on his territory. You see, Floyd Mayweather is currently being repped by Golden Boy Promotions, De La Hoya’s company, but many insiders are sating that he will soon make the move over to TMT.
50 Cent caught wind of the tweets and proceeded to berate De La Hoya on twitter tweeting, “Baby girl,@oscardelahoya,baby girl you here me,stop hating STOP IT RIGH NOW,” and “@50cent is bout to be a movement in the #boxing game.”
De La Hoya responded with a supportive and almost hopeful response, “@50cent your a boxing promoter? good luck maybe we can work someday. #success #nextgeneration #GBB #TMT.”
To this, 50 Cent tried to clown his tweeting, “Great back pedal,can you swim backwards like that to girl?lol I except that as a apology.#GBB #TMT more success a head.”
50 Cent is one wild man! We will soon find out what Mayweather is going to do. He is set to be released from the Clark County Detention Center in L.A. on August 3rd.
(AllHipHop News) The Hip-Hop community has fallen in love with “Fela!” again.
The play, which is backed by Will Smith and Jay-Z, celebrates the life and times of legendary Fela Kuti, a Nigerian musician and composer, activist, and political rebel.
Busta Rhymes recently attended a show and met with member of the cast afterwards.
“The Fela play is unbelievable, mind blowing, and very informative and bone chilling. Most importantly, very entertaining, and I will be going to see it again before it leaves New York, ” Busta Rhymes told AllHipHop.com in a statement.
Other Hip-Hop artists have continued to extol the play which is on a limited run in New York until August 4. It initially ran on Broadway in 2009 and was met with rave reviews.
Other members of the Hip-Hop community have also visited the play. Questlove of The Roots continuously praises “Fela!” through his various social networks.
“I witnessed a miracle tonight,” wrote Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson after seeing “Fela!”
Others still are rumored to be working with the musicians of “Fela!” in a number of Hip-Hop album efforts.
For information, go here www.felaonbroadway.com/ and for tickets, go here. You can get a discount if you put FEDGM77 in the promo code.
