Honestly, I don’t know, but I sure do hope so! Beanie Sigel just dropped a track called “The Reunion” that features all of State Property. Freeway, Peedi Crack, Young Chris & Omillio Sparks all appear on the new single off of Beanie’s upcoming album, This Time. Take a listen to the track below:
Word on the street is that Nicki Minaj was allegedly scammed out of $100,000 by a shady video producer from Trinidad. According to Radar Online, Nicki was reportedly ripped off by film producer, Ellis Briggs, who was hired to help produce her music video for “Pound The Alarm.”
The star allegedly filed a police report along with London Alley Entertainment, the production company that shot the music video. According to local reports, the man owns a video production company and allegedly took the cash without delivering on any services, creating a “logistical nightmare” for everyone involved.
Briggs, the music producer who is accused of the scheme, has denied any wrongdoing, counter-claiming that Minaj’s production company actually owes him $19,000 for services and fees fulfilled, and that the negative press has compromised his ability to get work.
That ish cray! Take a listen to “Pound The Alarm” below:
L.A. rapper Kendrick Lamar was on Chicago’s “Morning Riot” morning show and spoke about everything from his “good friendship” with Lady Gaga to working with Dr. Dre. Kendrick also revealed a very interesting connection to the legendary Tupac Shakur.
The rapper was first inspired to rap when he witnessed Dr. Dre and Tupac shooting the “California Love” music video way back in 1995 – when he was only 7 years old. Check out what he said about the chance opportunity below:
I was in Compton and they were shooting the first version of it. They stopped right in front of the middle of the street. My pops had seen them and came back to the house and got me. My father went to the house to get me and put me on his shoulders to watch them shoot.”
Kendrick says he was inspired to do music ever since that chance encounter with the West Coast legends. You can check out the full interview below. Kendrick talks about his Tupac connection at the 2:28 mark:
(AllHipHop News) Rap star Kanye West is getting business in order as he prepares his new album.
Kanye West has inked a new deal with Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Kanye West was previously repped by William Morris Endeavor (WME).
His move to CAA comes six months after Cara Lewis left William Morris, to work for CAA.
Shortly after Lewis’ departure from William Morris, it was reported that rap star Eminem would be the first major artist to defect to CAA with the powerful agent.
Kanye, who has sold over 19 million records, had parted ways with WME several months before Lewis’ departure to CAA.
What in tarnation? The Game has called off his dag-on wedding! I don’t understand! Just a few days ago, there were sources claiming that he was about to do a reality show based on him getting married to whoever-her-name -is. So, suddenly there is this image being distributed about the internet! I’m very confused. Maybe Game wasn’t sure that marriage would help his career? I don’t know, because marriage is all the rage in the adult Hip-Hop nation. LOL! More on this as it comes about.
I think Game will work it out. Hell, they may be filming the drama just to make for a better reality show!
The love fest between 50 Cent and Soulja Boy is heating up fast. After revealing that 50 Cent was going to help bring his “Juice” movie remake to life, Soulja has now revealed that he and 50 Cent are going to work on a joint album together. Check out his tweet below:
Do you think 50 Cent and Soulja Boy’s “Father/Son” collaborative effort is going to compare to Lil’ Wayne and Birdman’s Like Father Like Son album? Do you even want to hear a 50 Cent and Soulja Boy joint album? Speak on it!
(AllHipHop News) BG, a rapper that helped build Cash Money Records, was sentenced to 14 years for possessing a firearm, conspiring to obstruct justice and other charges.
BG, born Christopher Dorsey, was sentenced on Wednesday in New Orleans by U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan.
Judge Berrigan also gave BG three years of supervised release at the end of his jail term.
The 28-year-old rapper pleaded guilty in December to the charges, which stem from a 2009 arrest.
BG, a felon, was convicted on three other felonious charges from 1998 to 1998.
Jerod Fedison and Demounde Pollard were also sentenced to prison time for their role in the case.
BG was a marquee artist with Cash Money Records and coined the term “bling bling,” which represented excessive jewelry.
(AllHipHop News) Independent Kansas City, Missouri bred rapper Tech N9ne recently announced that his single “Caribou Lou” earned Gold certification this week.
The Rune Rask & Troo.L.S. produced track, has now sold 501,503 copies according to SoundScan, and is featured on Tech N9ne’s 2006 Everready (The Religion) album.
“It’s a wonderful accomplishment to have a Gold record,” Tech N9ne says. “My fans are the reason this happened, and I can’t thank them enough. To know that they love my music and continue to support what I create is truly a beautiful thing.”
The Strange Music co-owner was also recently named one of Billboard Magazine’s Top Urban Power Players of 2012, an honor he shares with Cash Money Records, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Magic Johnson, among others.
This year Tech N9ne made history with the “Hostile Takeover 2012 Tour,” which included 90 shows in 99 days, making it the longest consecutive tour in rap history.
To date, Tech N9ne has also sold nearly two million albums independently and was No. 95 on Pollstar’s 2012 Mid-Year ranking of the Top 100 Worldwide Tours in terms of ticket sales, making him one of three rappers on the entire list, behind only Drake and Pitbull.
(AllHipHop News) The Odd Future camp has announced details for their upcoming 22-date North American tour, as well as revealed dates for a number of the collective’s upcoming releases.
Although no venues have been named, the “Camp Flog Gnaw” tour will kick off August 31 in Norfolk, Virginia and will continue to hit cities such as Baltimore, Philadelphia for the Made In America Festival, Portland, Chicago and Vancouver before coming to a close during the group’s Odd Future Carnival on September 30 in Los Angeles, California.
Regarding upcoming releases from Odd Future, the first will come in the form of Domo Genesis’ No Idols mixtape which is being entirely produced by The Alchemist and features the likes of Earl Sweatshirt, Action Bronson and more. Following No Idols, MellowHype, which consist of members Hodgy Beats and Leftbrain, will release their third album Numbers on October 2.
One week after Numbers drops, Odd Future’s newest signees Trash Talk will release 119 followed by Tyler, the Creator’s second studio album Wolf sometime in November.
Check out a full list of cities for the tour below:
08-31 Norfolk, VA – TBA
09-01 Philadelphia, PA – Made in America Festival
09-02 Baltimore, MD – TBA
09-04 Huntington, NY – TBA
09-05 Portland, ME – TBA
09-07 Providence, RI – TBA
09-08 Wallingford, CT – TBA
09-09 Buffalo, NY – TBA
09-11 Cleveland, OH – TBA
09-12 Columbus, OH – TBA
09-14 Saint Louis, MO – TBA
09-15 Milwaukee, WI – TBA
09-16 Chicago, IL – TBA
09-18 Columbia, MO – TBA
09-19 Lawrence, KS – TBA
09-21 Boulder, CO – TBA
09-22 Boulder, CO – TBA
09-25 Vancouver, British Columbia – TBA
09-26 Portland, OR – TBA
09-28 Santa Cruz, CA – TBA
09-29 Ventura, CA – TBA
09-30 Los Angeles, CA – Odd Future Carnival
For tickets to the “Camp Flog Gnaw Tour” visit OddFuture.com.
(AllHipHop News) Today (July 18), MTV RapFix Live has a special show in store for its viewers as they welcome Curren$y and Love & Hip Hop Atlanta reality tv star and producer Stevie J onto their couch with host Sway Calloway.
MTV RapFix Live airs today (July 18) at 4PM. Open the media player by clicking the link below or view on rapfix.mtv.com.
(AllHipHop News) After hosting a record-breaking event and making almost $48 million from sales of over 158,000 tickets this past April, the founders of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have announce their first ever Coachella Cruise.
The Coachella Cruise will set sail from Ft. Lauderdale and head to both the Bahamas and Jamaica this December.
In addition to Killer Mike and El-P, a number of acts from a wide range of genres have been announced as well acts such as Sleigh Bells, Yeasayer, !!!, Hot Chip, James Murphy and many more.
The first of the two consecutive cruises will hit the water on December 16 for three-days and will depart from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
The second cruise will take off on December 19 for four days, destination, Jamaica.
According to LA Times, tickets for the Coachella Cruise go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m. and will be available “for inside staterooms starting at $500 per person for four or $750 per person for two.
The highest price currently showing on the festival’s website is $1,500 per person for two sharing a stateroom with a veranda.
For more information and a full lineup of performers visit Coachella.com.
I don’t get it, but it seems like Chris Brown and Rihanna are getting back together OR they hate each other. Weird that these two are either hooking up or hating again. The first rumor is that RiRi and CB linked up last weekend and they got together for an hour-long dinner. Apparently, this was the result of several texts and whatever. Well, that was whatever. More recently it has seemed like Rihanna as been taking some subtle shots at CB on her twitter and Instagram accounts. I can’t call it and it certainly doesn’t make a lot of sense. But, when have these two made a lot of sense? REMY MA CLEANS UP RUMORS OF HER DEATH!
Remy Ma checked in with Hot 97 on the rumors of her death and a bunch of other things, including when she may be home.
The heiress to the Carter fortune, Blue Ivy Carter, has been kept under wraps (literally) since she was born in January. With the exception of a few photos released by Beyonce and Jay-Z when she was born, the world has been left wondering what future Queen of music looks like.
Well, wonder no more. A savvy shopper was able to catch a cell phone pic of Blue Ivy Carter in her mother’s arms in New York City today. Check out the photo below:
The seven-month-old looks to have her father Jay-Z’s mouth and her mother’s eyes. Let’s just hope she has their talent as well. Coming from that gene pool, the little one is sure to have a bright future. Shoot, she already holds the record for the youngest person to be featured on a Billboard top charting song.
Check out another pic of King B with her little bundle of joy.
Nas took it back to the essence of Hip-Hop last night for his performance at NYC’s Tammany Hall. Flying high off of his Tuesday release for his new album, Life Is Good, Nas, who was dressed in a black “New York” t-shirt, bounced around the stage like a man who didn’t have a care in the world. The half industry/half true Nas fans, endured a line around the block and waited three hours for the god emcee to hit the stage, but once he did he never looked back.
Nas diddy-bopped on the stage and went through some of his radio single hits, mixed in with album cuts that only a true Nas fan would know – and the place was filled with true Nas fans, who rapped along to every line that came out of his mouth.
The atmosphere in Tammany Hall was similar to those block parties you snuck into when back you were 12 and 13 years old. The ones you had no business being at, but still remember to this day because you had the time of your life while you were there. Every square inch of the place of packed with Nas representers.
Keeping the throwback theme in tact, Nas started off his set with “Live at the BBQ.” “How many original Nas fans do we have in the building tonight?” Nas screamed to the crowd. The crowd erupted and Nas took the opportunity to go directly into one of his classics, “The World Is Yours”. Soon after, Nas was joined on stage by his younger brother Jungle and five “hype men,” who actually served their purpose and hyped up the crowd even more.
Nas was almost through performing “NY State Of Mind” when his old “Firm” group member AZ hopped on the stage to perform “Life’s A B*tch.” The crowd swayed back and forth, almost in unison, and rapped along as if they were performing along with the two on stage. After the track, AZ turned his back to the audience and was set to leave the stage when Nas called him back. “I can’t let you leave just yet A. Green—play that joint.”
The two went on to put on a spectacle of a show together that had everyone in the place wondering why The Firm never lived up to its true potential. Nas and AZ performed “Phone Tap,” “Affirmative Action,” and for the first time ever together, “Mo Money, Murder.”
Nas, who was slightly sweating now due to his high energy mini-set with AZ, proclaimed “Life is Good,” and with that, the beat to “Daughters” dropped. Nas expressed how much he and his daughter loved the record, then proceeded to say, “Her mother hates it, though. I don’t know… she’s f*cking crazy.”
The rest of the show was dedicated to all new material from his album Life Is Good. Nas plowed through “Queens Story,” “Accident Murderers,” and “Loco-Motive.” He was later joined on stage by rapper/producer Swizz Beatz for his sure to be hit single, “Summer On Smash”.
Nas ended the show with “Bye Baby”, an “ode” to his ex-wife, Kelis.
The rapper’s smile at the end of his long and energetic set seemed to tell a tale of triumph and accomplishment. One can only believe that Nas walked out of Tammany Hall last night truly believing, that “Life Is Good.”
Check out some footage from the show below, courtesy of GWizMusik:
(AllHipHop News) Atlanta rapper, and G-Unit South representer Shawty Lo recently caught up with AllHipHop.com about his newest mixtape Million Dollar Man, the prelude to his Still Got Units album set to be released early next year.
The first single on the project, titled “MVP”, features Gucci Mane and Rocko, while the project also features songs from 50 Cent, 2 Chainz, Gorilla Zoe, Alley Boy, Jim Jones, Cash Out, Lola Monroe, and several others.
“The fans are loving the mixtape, I really want to drop a video for each song on the mixtape, I want to show you what I can do, and ‘Million Dollar Man’ [MDM] does that. MDM is setting up for my album ‘Still Got Units’ for the first quarter in the year coming up,” Shawty Lo explained to AllHipHop.com. “MDM, you know Lebron had won the MVP, and Heat won the championship, so I put a record together with me, Gucci, and Rocko, and after the first few hours of its release it was on over one hundred websites.”
Shawty Lo also explained that he was been busy setting up the G-Unit South imprint, established under 50 Cent’s G-Unit umbrella of companies.
“Everything is going well. I just been working hard, man. I know that people been wondering what’s going on, but I just had to bury the seed and you finna see everything going on with us right now,” Shawty Lo explained of his work with G-Unit.
“50 is great, he’s product, genius. I love working for 50. To start off, when I got my deal, I had like several deals on the table, and I had like a seven-hour meeting with 50. I knew that’s where I wanted to be. My deal was a large deal; it was a $10 million deal, but the money is to help me build my brand, to sign artists, the label, the south branch of G-Unit. You know, if an artist comes out with a single down here [Atlanta], it may take several months to make its way up to New York or California, so basically I am right here right now. So, they can get to me, and we can make sure that things move quickly,” Shawty Lo said.
Shawty Lo also has a host of artists and producers that he is looking to sign under the G-Unit South imprint that are from across the south.
“I got artists from my Super Star CJ, Stuntman, the first lady of D4L named Jai Jai, Jurari from Alabama, and I got a lot of hot producers that I’m looking to sign.”
But amidst the robust and growing lineup of the G-Unit imprint, there have also been rumors swirling in the past few months about a beef amongst its members, 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, and Lloyd Banks, a beef that Shawty Lo vehemently denies.
“You know I don’t like to talk about personal issues in the family, man; everything is solid. If we have issues, it usually gets swept under the rug, and I don’t really feel like we have issues; every family goes through things sometimes, and that’s how it be,” Shawty Lo explained about the recent rumors of beef amongst G-Unit members.
Check out Shawty Lo’s most recent video from the Million Dollar Man project below.
