(AllHipHop News) Rapper Wyclef Jean will perform “The Star Spangled Banner” during a tribute performance to Jimi Hendrix at SummerStage in New York. The SummerStage Gala titled “The Music of Jimi Hendrix” will take place at Rumsey Playfield next week, where Bebel Gilberto, G. Love & Special Sauce, Amel Larrieux, Living Colour, and The Roots will also perform.
The highly anticipated show featuring songs from Hendrix’s legendary catalog is being produced by Michael Dorf, who is known for producing similar events at Carnegie Hall. Seated concert tickets start at $50 for the concert, which takes place on June 5.
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will take place this February in Los Angeles, organizers announced today (May 31). The annual music awards ceremony will take place at The Staples Center on February 10, and will air live on CBS from 8:00-11:30PM EST.
Organizers also announced that “The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night,” will air live on CBS on December 5. Last year’s “Grammy Nominations” concert was produced and hosted by veteran rapper LL Cool J.
Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky has revealed that he has two new albums in the works. During an interview with MTV News, A$AP Rocky ran down the list of features on the A$AP Mob LP, which will feature Raekwon, Jim Jones, Flatbush Zombies, and others. “We got Nast on there, we got Ferg on there, we got Twelvy on there, we got me on there,” Rocky told Sway about the members of A$AP Mob who also appear. Additionally, A$AP Rocky is working on his highly-anticipated solo debut Long.Live.A$AP.
For the last year and a half, West Coast producer DJ Mustard has been killing the clubs and the radio waves with a sound that the streets of Los Angeles have named “Ratchet Music.” Having produced hits for the likes of Tyga and Y.G., DJ Mustard has become one of the most sought out new producers with artists looking for his heavy bassline and snap sound.
All in all, Ratchet Music is simplistic and even a reworking of previous musical trends, but there’s no denying its popularity, especially with the females. AllHipHop.com caught up with the young rising California producer to talk about his sound and style:
AllHipHop.com: What made you decide to roll with DJ Mustard as your moniker?
DJ Mustard: Dijon is my first name. One day, my cousin was playing with a Mustard bottle, and he started calling me Mustard. It’s stuck with me ever since.
AllHipHop.com: No other name before that?
DJ Mustard: I’ve always been Mustard.
AllHipHop.com: I’m looking at a picture of you right now and you’ve got a huge gold and diamond Heinz Mustard bottle as a chain. Is that “Rack City” money right there?
DJ Mustard: [laughs] Almost.
AllHipHop.com: How long have you been making beats?
DJ Mustard: Probably like two and a half years.
AllHipHop.com: Say what? You’re still new to this then.
DJ Mustard: Yeah, I’m real new.
AllHipHop.com: There are dudes who have been making beats for years, and they haven’t been on the radio yet.
DJ Mustard: I just take it as a blessing. I’ve been DJ’ing since I was a child. My uncle let me DJ at a family party when I was like 11 years old. It was all older music, but I was familiar with it because of previous parties. After that, I started to frequently DJ more as I got older. As for beats, I watched a lot of my producer homies, and then I was able to grasp on to it. I just kept trying and trying, and then one day, I finally got it. That process took me like a year.
AllHipHop.com: What led you to create the style of music that you are known for?
DJ Mustard: Los Angeles wasn’t known for dancing and having a good time. For years, the music had been gang oriented. I just wanted to make music for people to have fun to and to bring the party back to L.A. I want people to have fun and not to worry about fighting. I do this for the crowd.
AllHipHop.com: You’ve worked heavily with Y.G. How long have you two known each other?
DJ Mustard: For about six years.
AllHipHop.com: Did you know that he was going to one day become a young rap star?
DJ Mustard: Kind of. When I first started working with him, he had a lot of haters. He still does somewhat, but there were a lot more back then. Now here on the West Coast scene, people are a little more happy. There’s less hating going on between the artists. We aren’t doing this to be violent. We are doing this to bring the West Coast back to the spotlight.
AllHipHop.com: I can imagine the resistance that you felt at first with your music, because a lot of West Coast rap fans probably felt that you weren’t being true to the West sound.
DJ Mustard: I felt some of that hate, but it never bothered me. I knew that it was going to catch on, and that people were going to roll with it. If the streets roll with you, then you don’t ever have to worry about anybody else.
AllHipHop.com: You use snaps in a lot of your beats, and they’ve been around forever, but your snaps are super crisp with an echo sound.
DJ Mustard: For a lot of my beats, I use the same snap and the same 808s. I hardly ever use anything different. Those two things together just make people want to dance. You can’t resist it. It’s ear candy, and when you hear it, you want to dance. These things have been around like you said, but when you present it in a different way, it rejuvenates everything.
AllHipHop.com: I’ve seen people criticize the “Rack City” song, but the beat has received a lot of praise.
DJ Mustard: It started off as a fast beat. I was in the studio just making a beat for YG, and I never thought that it would become what it became. Tyga was looking for beats, and I didn’t know what to send him. I ended up sending him the “Rack City” beat and he had the song done in less than two days. I mixed it the following day and we put it. The song took off from there.
AllHipHop.com: I love the bassline for that track.
DJ Mustard: I listen to a lot of country and western, so that’s an inspiration sometimes. I also love that old school sound like the way that DJ Battlecat makes his beats. I want to try to capture all of that but in a new way.
AllHipHop.com: The style has been called, “Ratchet Music.”
DJ Mustard: “Ratchet” can mean a good thing or a bad thing. The way that I see it as far as the music is concerned, it’s people having fun. You can go to a turned up party, and that can be “Ratchet.”
AllHipHop.com: You’ve made hits for YG and Tyga. Who else have you produced for?
DJ Mustard: I just did tracks for Red Cafe, Bow Wow, and Meek Mill. There’s a lot of other artists, too. The phone’s been ringing a lot. People want stuff that sounds like “Rack City”, but I also do other type of beats. I can make R&B and serious tracks – not just the club bangers. Every time I send an artist those type of tracks, they tell me that they want the stuff that I make for Tyga and YG. I can’t get my other stuff out, because everybody wants the party music.
AllHipHop.com: You throw a lot of those “Heys” in your party tracks.
DJ Mustard: I do that for every beat. That’s like my signature. That just makes a party crowd want to really “go.”
AllHipHop.com: Sounds like you’ve got some producers following your footsteps. I’ve heard a few songs that I absolutely thought was your doing, but it turned out to be someone else.
DJ Mustard: You’ve got to roll with the punches. I’m glad that I’m setting a trend, though. I remember a couple of months ago, I heard that one dude said that he’d never do a beat like DJ Mustard. Next thing you know, he comes out with a similar style record. I don’t care, though. If you’re going to follow my style, that’s cool. I want all of Los Angeles to be happy and successful. I’m not a hater. If you do something that the people like, I’ll like it, too.
AllHipHop.com: Do you have any personal projects in the works?
DJ Mustard: I do, but I was talking to YG recently because summer is coming up, and we should do a Ratchet mixtape together. I plan on doing one for myself, but I really want to focus on YG. I know that I can do a tape anytime. The last mixtape that [YG] dropped, showed a different side of him. I feel that it also showed that he can rap as opposed to just making dance songs. But this mixtape that I want him to do with him, I want it to be Ratchet. He’s already done four songs for it. We’ll see how it goes.
AllHipHop.com: When you get around to your project, are you going to continue with the Ratchet sound or try to showcase those other sounding beats that you mentioned earlier?
DJ Mustard: I’m doing this for the Ratchets [laughs]. Seriously, though, I’m going to wait until I’m a bit more established, and then I’ll bring out the other stuff – kind of like how Lex Luger did. In the meantime, look out for that mixtape with myself and YG.
Happy Thursday, my speakers of truth and despisers of lies!
Welcome to a new day, a new beginning, and a new opportunity to do it better! Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to watching what you say! Opinions are like Facebook pages…. Everyone has them! To believe what people say, and hold it as truth, may be the biggest disservice one can do to themselves! In the same breath, using your own words against yourself is like cutting off your face to spite your nose!!
Words have power! What you say to yourself can make the difference between success and
failure!! Make sure you are encouraging yourself to be better each day! Don’t be so hard on yourself, and know that whatever you say is what it is!! Become your own self-fulfilling prophecy!! The amount of success you achieve is purely up to you!! Do the impossible then do it
twice!! Because….. NOTHING CAN STOP YOU!!
-Ash’Cash
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” -George Bernard Shaw
“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” -James Arthur Baldwin
“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” -Anatole France
“What others say of you matters little; it’s what you say about yourself that matters the most.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“As soon as you can say what you think, and not what others have thought for you, you are on your way to being remarkable.” -James Matthew Barrie
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” -Dr. Seuss
“You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It’s your life.” -Ethan Embry
“It’s none of your business what people say about you.” -Madonna
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you’?”
-William Arthur Ward
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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.
In 2007, Atlanta-based R&B crooner Ray Lavender released one of the year’s most popular singles “Girl Got A Girlfriend”, and even featured a remix with Red Cafe and Fabolous. A second single was released; however, an album never materialized, even though he was signed to Akon’s Kon Live Music imprint.
Now, Lavender is back with his latest effort, “We Love”, a more slowed-down track since his last, uptempo,”Tequila”.
(AllHipHopNews) DMX is set to hit the road for a 14-date summer promo tour in support of his seventh studio album, Undisputed, beginning on June 2.
The first leg of “The Weigh In Tour,” which is being presented by Seven Arts and Bloodline, will kick off in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and will continue to hit such cities as Detroit, New York City, Honolulu, and Orlando.
DMX’s rep, Domenick Nati, said of the tour, “It tour puts another piece of DMX’s career back in the puzzle. X is an artist, personality, and actor, but most of all he’s a performer and that’s what this tour will give him the chance to do.”
The entire “The Weigh In Tour” is said to feature 30-40 dates with more cities to be announced soon.
X released a new project, The Weigh In EPwhich the tour is named after, two weeks ago to hold fans over until his new album, Undisputed, drops later this summer.
Check out a full list of cities and dates for the “The Weigh In Tour” below:
June 2 – Minneapolis, MN – Epic Event Center
June 8 – Albany, NY – Northern Lights
June 9 – Detroit, MI – Date With Nas
June 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre Of Living Arts
June 14 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva
June 15 – Raleigh, NC – Starbar
June 16 – Jamaica, NY – Amazura
June 21 – Hyannis, MA – Pufferbelliess
June 22 – Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall
June 24 – Allentown, PA – Croc Rock
June 30 – Honolulu, Hawaii – Blaisdell Hall
July 6 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live
July 8 – Orlando, FL – Firestone
July 10 – Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall
Tickets for the “The Weigh In Tour” can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com
After releasing his latest effort, This Is How I Feel, just two weeks ago, Tank has returned with a video for “Compliments”, featuring T.I. & Kris Stephens.
So far, Tank has released two previous singles from his fifth studio album – “Lonely” featuring Chris Brown and “Next Breath”.
The star power is there, but does the video “compliment” the song?
Tank’s This Is How I Feel is available in stores and online now.
(AllHipHop News) The ninth day of testimony in the cocaine trial of James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond continued on May 30, with testimony from a former associate, who set the Hip-Hop mogul up for DEA agents.
Winston Harris, 49, was considered an inside member of the Rosemond Organization, which prosecutors claim dealt tens-of-millions of dollars worth of cocaine annually in the New York area.
Winston Harris was arrested 2010 for his role in the organization, which included purchasing narcotics, arranging shipments and loaning hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in drug proceeds to members.
Harris, who admitted he was flat broke, eventually reached an agreement with the government.
James Rosemond
Harris agreed to wear a video wire in his baseball cap, which allowed agents to monitor a drug transaction between himself, another individual named Jason Williams and James Rosemond.
A portion of the video was played in court, along with audio recorded by another confidential informant working for the government.
Harris also admitted that he made firearm purchases for Rosemond, who allegedly instructed him to drop the guns off in Queens, New York, to a man named Rodney “Torae” Johnson.
Rodney Johnson and Brian Mcleod are charged with the murder of Lowell “Lodi Mac” Fletcher, who was convicted of striking Rosemond’s young son during an altercation with Tony Yayo from G-Unit.
DEA case agent Steven Miller then took the stand and testified that he led the investigation for the agency, since 2008.
Miller said the investigation into the Rosemond Organization started in 2008, with the arrest of a man named Aaron Ferguson.
Ferguson was arrested in 2008, but it wasn’t until a year later that agents would get a breakthrough, with the arrest of a suspect named Muhammad “Teff” Stewart.
Muhammad “Teff” Stewart
Stewart, who hails from Staten island, was arrested in 2009 and began cooperating immediately.
When DEA agents arrested him he was carrying $77,000 in cash and a 9mm pistol.
Before an agreement was even signed, Stewart agreed to call Rosemond and another suspect in the case, Henry “Black” Butler, while agents listened in.
By that time, Stewart was in full cooperation with the government and began recording calls between himself and his former cronies.
The DEA testified that they were going to send Stewart to a Floyd Mayweather fight in May of 2010, in hopes of gathering information on Rosemond, but the plan fell through.
Stewart also went to Los Angeles with agents to make a controlled purchase of cocaine, but he was unsuccessful in his attempt.
On July 3, 2010, DEA agents took pictures of members of the drug gang gathered at a wake for Rosemond’s mother.
Henry “Black” Butler
Like all the previous witnesses, both Winston Harris and Muhammad Stewart have agreements with the government.
Harris admitted that he met with prosecutors 11 times and under the terms of this deal, he will face no charges and will not have to forfeit any drug proceeds.
In regards to the guns, on cross-examination, Rosemond’s attorney Gerald Shargel made Harris admit that it was another conspirator, Khalil Abdullah, who paid for the firearms.
James Rosemond’s publicist Sibrena Stowe de Fernandez said that she believed the government had not connected her client to the conspiracy.
“The government still hasn’t proved Jimmy is guilty. The only thing they’ve proven so far is that Muhammad ‘Teff’ Stewart from Staten island wore a wire to record his conversation with Jimmy. And that Winston Harris wore a hidden camera in his baseball cap to meet Jason Williams,” Rosemond’s publicist Sibrena Stowe de Fernandez told AllHipHop.com.
“What is very clear is that Harris will receive no sentence for his cooperation and maybe deported to Kingston, Jamaica,” de Fernandez continued. “And that Stuart, Butler and Abdullah may be rewarded for their testimony. Seems like these guys are employed by the federal government and Jimmy has been set up by snakes and liars.”
At the height of his career, James Rosemond represented a number of influential artists, including Game, Mario Winans, Mike Tyson, Gucci Mane, Trillville, Brandy, Salt-N-Pepa, Akon and others.
When he was alive, rapper Tupac Shakur accused James Rosemond of setting up an ambush that led to the rapper being shot at the Quad Studios in New York City.
James Rosemond has always denied those allegations and said they helped tarnished his reputation in the music industry, since Pac sold so many records.
For Philadelphia native Young De a.k.a. Demrick Shelton, Philly To Cali was more than just the title of a debut project of his former group, Tangled Thoughts. It was a move that would prove to take his career to heights he had always dreamed of. On the advice of his favorite rapper and mentor, Kurupt, Young De left his roots in Philly and moved out West, where he has worked alongside a Who’s-Who of West Coast legends, including Kurupt, B-Real of Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and more.
With the co-sign of celebrated air personality DJ Skee, Young De released his debut mixtape titled Audio Hustlaz Vol. 1, which B-Real contributed to as a producer and co-executive producer (with Damizza), and was heavily featured on several tracks. It was presented by DJ Skee and hosted by Kurupt. The follow-up to his Audio Hustlaz Vol. 1 mixtape was the Homeland Security mixtape, a collaboration with Shady/Interscope artist Ca$his, hosted by DJ Whoo Kid with collaborations with B-Real, Royce Da 5’9, and Crooked I, among others.
Since then, he has infiltrated the Internet with fire and traveled around the world carrying the Hip-Hop baton for the next generation of MCs. Currently working on his debut project with producer Jim Jonsin, Young De is definitely up next.
AllHipHop.com: You’ve been spending a lot of time out of the country. Tell me what’s been going on with you this past year.
Young De: Yes, I’ve been doing a lot of touring with Xzibit. We spent two months in Europe and one month in Australia. I’ve been doing a lot of music also. This past year, I dropped a few projects. One was a project with DJ Fingaz and On Smash, and I shot some videos with Matt Alonzo formerly of Skee TV. I also dropped an EP with Scoop Deville called Never Look Back, and that did its thing on the Internet, and I did three videos for that.
I shot almost all my visuals with Matt; he and I have a long standing relationship. We have about 12 videos together, and this year was coo,l because me and Xzibit had a music licensing deal with this company that I helped him with, and they got a hold of two of our songs and said they were better than stuff that normally gets placed on television as background music. So they put some money into it; we shot some videos and put them on MTV as singles, so that was cool that we had some songs in rotation. Also, I dropped a new mixtape called Heads Up and released a video off of it titled “Burn Out”, produced by Jim Jonsin, and I’m currently in the studio working with X on his record and working with Jim Jonsin on my album – so this year has been crazy.
AllHipHop.com: Tell me about your situation with Jim Jonsin. How did that come about?
Young De: That came about from working on the Cypress Hill record about a year and a half ago. I got called into the studio by B-Real to give some input on some of the songs, so I came into the Record Plant recording studio, and there’s Jim Jonsin who was doing the session. And he has all the people from Capitol, Cypress Hill, and all the people from Rebel Rock all in there working, so we spent three days over there working on records and building a rapport, and he gave me his contact and said when he’s out in L.A., we’re gonna work. He started sending me music, and he put me in with his producer called Finatik N Zac, two kids from Australia. And from there, we just started making records, and I just actually released a video called “She’s a Freak”, also directed by Matt and produced by Danny Morris and Jim Jonsin.
AllHipHop.com: So are you signed to Jim?
Young De: Well, I’m down here in Ft. Lauderdale working on some songs and putting together my album, so I’m definitely repping Rebel Rock.
AllHipHop.com: Who’s on your project so far?
Young De: We’re still in the beginning stages, and it’s crazy, because this is the first time in all the time that I’ve been doing stuff that I’ve actually been working on my own record. I’ve always pushed my own stuff to the back. It’s always been on my mind to do an album, but I never went around telling people I was working on one, because it was never the right situation. Now that it is, I’m just taking my time so that it truly reflects who I am.
AllHipHop.com: If you had to describe Young De, who is he?
Young De: I would just say Young De a.k.a. Demrick because I like to put out my real name, ya know, because I feel like the perspective that I’m telling my story from is that there is a story that hasn’t been told and it’s mine. So I’m just giving people the perspective of all the stuff that I’ve gone through, everything I’m seeing and the way I came up not really having much and just going for it.
Hustling my whole life, it’s been a goal that I’ve been working for, so it’s about putting music out that makes people feel like they can do that same exact thing. All the trials and tribulations, all the sh*t that some might go through; I put that into my music. I represent just enjoying it, so I think that the point I’m at with it is really telling it from point of view.
AllHipHop.com: How long have you been out on the West Coast?
Young De: Six years. I’m all in now; I’m all the way Cali now. Palm trees and everything. I had always said this West Coast living turned my Timbs into Chucks, and Xzibit said this West Coast living turned my Chucks into bucks!
AllHipHop.com: What keeps you going and focused?
Young De: When I came to Cali, I had to make the decision that this was how I was gonna get it, and no matter what happened I went forward and I was fortunate to have the support. I’ve had B-Real who came and worked with me, and I’ve always had a place, and even if I didn’t have a place to live, I always had a studio I could go to. So, for real it always was a good look for me, like right now being at Parkland Playhouse Studios, which is an amazing facility, looking at all these plaques on the wall and all this platinum all around me, how can I not be motivated? I have a place set up, I have a studio, I have plenty of music and someone here to help me with ideas. How can I not be motivated?
AllHipHop.com: Where does Young De fit in the landscape of Hip-Hop?
Young De: I feel like Hip-Hop is swinging back in my direction. Swinging back into making real music and having fun with it, and getting your point across, too, so that’s good. It’s flying somewhere between the Wiz Khalifas, the Big Seans , The Drakes, the J. Coles, all that kinda stuff that has the ability to tell stories with their sh*t, because I’m all about that. You know, I wanna have fun and of course, I want to talk to the ladies, too! I feel like I fit right in, so that’s how I can work someone like Runway Star who produced “Teach me how to Dougie”, and then work with Scoop Deville. It’s all great music, and it’s all a little different at the same time, because Scoop makes like commercial Hip-Hop, and I can get with him and do some throwback Fam-lay sh*t.
AllHipHop.com: Speaking of Runway Star, it’s commendable that you work with a female producer. How do you feel about working with new producers versus established, and what attracted you to Runway Star?
Young De: I think Star and Nigel (The Makerz) are just on some cutting edge s### with their production. Nigel is very musical, and Star knows how to make the drums knock and keep it fresh. At first, it was strange because I’ve met female DJs, but I never met a female who produced and had some records like that, so I was intrigued to see it go down. I was like, ‘Is this real, or is it someone else back there hitting those buttons?’ But I got in there, and she’s like, “Hey, we’re gonna sample this into “Reasons”, and I wanna play around with these drop loops, and she started banging it out, and next thing you know, we just started going in, and that’s how I judge. If I can write songs to your music, I don’t care how big you are, because I’m gonna go into it with the same mentality every single time and just try to create material that is gonna work and that represents me and the producer I’m working with.
AllHipHop.com: Who haven’t you worked with that you would like to work with?
Young De: I want to work with a lot of people; I’m just getting started. I have the Cypress Hills and the Xzibits and the Jim Jonsins and things of that nature, but it’s time to start reaching out. I recently hooked up with the homie Asher Roth, and we’re gonna bang out a record, so it’s just about meeting people and creating.
AllHipHop.com: What do you want people to say about you and your music at the end of the day?
Young De: I just want my music to speak to anyone out there who is trying to do something. If you want the blueprint, I’m living it right now. In my videos, if you go back and watch 12 videos ago and see my transition and growth up until now, it’s like I’m growing up in front of my fan base, and they’re watching me grow and get better. If you want to see somebody pushing through this game and making it happen, just check me out.
(AllHipHop News) It’s no secret that Kanye West loves to be fashionably relevant. From setting clothing trends worldwide, to partaking in Fashion Week events in Paris, France, West has embraced the fashion world with open arms.
His “kicks” game is apparently no exception, as Nike revealed the intricate design for his Air Yeezy II shoes, seeking to blend classic Nike court breakthroughs with the performance and aesthetic demand of West himself.
The shoes feature skived anaconda-textured, leather quarter panels, complimented with a debossed Vac-Tech Nike Swoosh.
The molded rear is sculpted with a reptilian inspired spike, while an engineered strap with scaled down spikes was developed to offer a greater sense of symmetry and lock down.
Nike sought to celebrate the iconic Nike cross-training silhouettes, with the addition of the molded forefoot strap.
Inspiration for the shoe came from the late 1980s basketball shoes and the original Nike Air Yeezy, and is built on the Nike Air Tech Challenge II tennis shoe outsole.
The foot-hugging tongue and plush collar were made with comfortable and breathability in mind, while both parties sought to make the shoe slimmer than the original by tailoring it to West’s foot, while lowering the collar.
Kanye and Nike’s obsessive approach to materials resulted in a luxurious mix of leather, rugged ballistic nylon, and soft nubuck.
The shoes are completed with hieroglyphics that spells out ‘YZY’ on the forefoot strap.
Each screw on lace aglet is obelisk shaped, and the anaconda texture is echoed on the eyelets and leather lace toggle that carries the Roman numeral ‘II.’
The Nike Air Yeezy II in the Platinum and Black editions will release June 9 at select global retailers in limited numbers.
Remember Cheri Dennis? Of course you do. Formerly one (of many) very talented Bad Boy Records artists that just never seemed to get the push they deserved. In 2008, Cheri released her debut album In And Out of Love, with its Ryan Leslie-produced leading single, “I Love You”, featuring Yung Joc and Jim Jones, and then sort of faded to black.
Well – that’s behind her now. Cheri Coke (her new name) and Melo X just released her latest work, “The Garden of Eden”, a song that will appear on her upcoming project, X/Coke.
Slightly a different twist from what we’re used to hearing from Cheri, it’s perfect for R&B lovers who have swayed to the likes of newbies such as Frank Ocean and The Weeknd.
It’s not the same, though. Cheri’s coined it: “Nu Wave Trill Sex.”
Check out some behind-the-scenes footage of Cheri & Melo X working the new music:
X/COKE will be available for free download on Tuesday, June 19.
The highly anticipated show featuring songs from Hendrix’s legendary catalog is being produced by Michael Dorf, who is known for producing similar events at Carnegie Hall. Seated concert tickets start at $50 for the concert, which takes place on June 5.
Organizers also announced that “The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night,” will air live on CBS on December 5. Last year’s “Grammy Nominations” concert was produced and hosted by veteran rapper LL Cool J.
