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STADIUM STATUS: 8-0 Atlanta Falcon Asante Samuels On Coach Andy Reid and His Top 5 D.O.A.

By: Steve Raze (@SteveRaze) Updated Category: Headlines
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The 8-0 Atlanta Falcons have shown the NFL another great series of Falcon football games this season. With the addition of 10-year veteran Asante Samuel, the Dirty Birds are dead set on a comeback.

AllHipHop.com got a chance to talk with the star cornerback on one of his well deserved off days. Tune in as Asante speaks on his team’s recent success, offers an inside peek at some of his football and Hip-Hop favorites, as well as a few details on his label and recent ventures as an independent record executive. Check out who Asante voted for early a few days ago (he picked a winner!), and get an insight on his music influences:

AllHipHop.com: Mr. Samuel, I know you’re enjoying a little time to rest. But it’s ELECTION TIME, and I’m allowed to ask! Did you vote? And, if so…

Asante Samuel: Yep, I already voted! I just sent in my vote today. Check out my tweets. (@pick_six22) The last tweet I sent will let you know who I voted for. Again! AllHipHop.com: [laughter] Good, we can retweet that. Congratulations on the 8-0 record! To what do you attribute your team’s run of success this season? Asante Samuel: I attribute that to veteran leadership, the will to win, workin’ hard, and really just belief in one another. We know what we have to do to make it, and possess the ability to make it happen together as a team. AllHipHop.com: So, you’re happy with your decision to make that move and sign with Atlanta? Asante Samuel: Yea definitely, definitely. You know, all good things have to come to an end one day; that’s just life. There’s a plan already set out there for me. I’m just following God’s steps. If one door closes, another one opens. That’s just how it goes. AllHipHop.com: You’re right. No sleep lost. But some say you’ve had an easy schedule, that the Falcons may go 9-0 before seeing any real competition. What do you say about that? Asante Samuel: I mean the losers have plenty to say. We work hard everyday, and a win is a win, so we’ll see about all that next week. AllHipHop.com: But I know that Eagles win was feeling right…. Asante Samuel: Oh yeah, for sure. You know that one was feelin’ real good! AllHipHop.com: So what’s the update with Andy Reid? Clearly you have no reason to be upset anymore, but last time you spoke on him… it was tense! Asante Samuel:: It’s all good, man, everything is cool. The situation is all good. I’m just moving on and moving forward. I ain’t really trippin’. Something transpired at the game, and I felt a certain way about it, so I expressed myself. And that was that. AllHipHop.com: If you felt you were wronged, then that has to be respected. So what do you have on your pregame playlist right now? Asante Samuel: Well, I’m an in-house guy, so I listen to a lot of music from the artists on our label; a lot of Young A.C. But definitely some Lil’ Wayne, Jeezy, T.I., Future. I support all those dudes. AllHipHop.com: With that being said, who are your Top Five Rappers Dead or Alive? Asante Samuel: In no particular order, I’m gonna go with ‘Pac, BIG, Trick Daddy, T.I., and Jeezy. AllHipHop.com: A pretty cool list. Who are your top five football players D.O.A.? Asante Samuel: Barry Sanders, Steve Young, Dick “Night Train” Lane, Ronnie Lott, and Marvin Harrison. AllHipHop.com: Definitely a good list! Sports and music have proven to be pretty synonymous, but what urged you to start your own label? Asante Samuel: Well,l I’ve always been into music even though I chose football. I had a lot of friends that were involved in the music industry. I had a friend who could sing really well, and my best friend already had a label started up called Deepside Entertainment that I started helping him out with. When he was incarcerated, I kept it going. He’s still in prison; he got 10 or 11 years. So, running the label began to be my way of giving back to the ‘hood, and creating jobs in a market where young people would just be on the streets, getting into trouble, and going to jail. As a young African American male who made it out of the ‘hood and found success, it’s my way of helping us all move from the bottom. AllHipHop.com: Well put!! Do you rap? Asante Samuel: [laughter] Nahhhhh, I don’t rap. They get me in the booth to talk a little bit, and I help out with all the music at the studio… But nah, I don’t rap. I manage every artist, every track comes to me first, every song, every video is run by me for input. So I’m hands-on involved with the artists on the label. I’m there at the studio all the time. Follow Asante Samuels on Twitter (@pick_six22), and catch his next game against this Sunday (November 11 at 1PM EST) against the New Orleans Saints.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Is $2 Million “Small Change?” Find Out Which Rapper Thinks So!

By: ginatorres27 Updated Category: MOBILE
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Last time I checked, $2 Million was a fortune, especially if you owe it to somebody else. Well, according to some people in Lil’ Wayne’s camp, 2 Milli is allegedly “small change” to Wezzy F. Baby. The rapper just lost a little over that amount in a lawsuit brought up against him by filmmaker, Quincy Jones III. If you all recall, Wayne allowed him to do a documentary on him, but then bashed the film and said it was defaming his character.

Related:Hip-Hop Rumors: Lil’ Wayne Threatens A Lawyer And More Bizarre Behavior On His Deposition Video

According to one of Lil’ Wayne’s boys, Weezy is not upset about losing the money, but believes that the judge and jury only ruled against him because he didn’t show up to court. Wayne feels like he was punished for being too sick to fly. According to TMZ, Wayne had a “medical emergency” and was ordered by his doctor not to fly, so he could not make his court date.

The judge was not trying to hear that excuse and awarded QD3 with $2,195,000 in lost revenue due to Wayne bad mouthing the indie movie.

Sidenote: Weezy was too sick to fly, but he allegedly drove from Louisiana to Miami to attend a Heat game. Talk about not having your priorities in order.

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Hip-Hop Rumors: Your New Reality Show Rap Star Is….GAME!!!

By: ginatorres27 Updated Category: MOBILE
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Rappers have been running to reality TV ever since Flav starred on the “Flavor Of Love”. Actually, they were on reality TV before then, on that VH1 show that had all the washed up celebrities..what was it? Oh yeah, “The Surreal Life”.

Anyway, as you guys have heard, hard-core rapper Game has a new show coming out called “Marrying The Game”. The super trailer was released online yesterday and this morning, I got an opportunity to look at it, and I must say that I believe Game may be the next big reality star!

The rapper comes across as very charismatic in the trailer, and it doesn’t seem like he’s holding anything back from the cameras. Check out the trailer for “Marrying The Game” below:

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His fiancée doesn’t look like she lets anything slide, and she seems to be good at putting him in his place when he’s not acting like Jayceon and behaving too much like his alter ego, Game. But doesn’t she look a little old for him? She kind of looks like his mom.

Oh well. I will definitely be watching this show, “Marrying The Game”, which premieres November 19 at 9:30 p.m. EST on VH1. Will you be watching?

Sidenote – Yesterday, The Game was in NYC, and he was doing his part and giving rides to NY’ers to their local polling stations. According to him, he gave free rides to over 60 people and also shelled out $10,000 to 500 stranded NY’ers. Of course, TMZ was there to get it all on camera. Check out the video below:

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