Eve is tantalizing our musical tastebuds with a teaser of her new joint with super producer Swizz Beatz. The track is called “Mama In The Kitchen” and will be featured on her upcoming album. Eve tweeted the video to her Twitter followers and @’ed Snoop Dogg, who is most likely featured on the track along with the following message:
“I’m COMIN SOON! COUNTDOWN! MAMA IN THE KITCHEN @therealswizz @SnoopDogg check the quick Klip”.
Eve also chatted about “Mama In The Kitchen” last year when she caught up with BBC Radio 1Xtra overseas:
“I did another record called ‘Mama’s in the Kitchen’ with Swizz that is ridiculous. In the next couple of weeks, I’ma let this burn for a minute and then I’m going to drop that record…I’m busy. I got like five more records to do and then I’m done with the record.”
Check out Eve and Swizz teasing “Mama In The Kitchen” below:
(AllHipHop News) Fans around the world will now have the chance to hear new, previously unheard material by J.Dilla, thanks to a record store owner in Detroit, who discovered hundreds lost tapes and other material created by the producer.
Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey is now in possession of hundreds of tapes created and produced by her son J. Dilla, who died of February 10, 2006 from Lupus.
The treasure trove of J.Dilla material was found by Jeff Bubeck, who owns the Royal Oak-based record store UHF.
Bubeck was cleaning out an abandoned storage unit storage he took control of, when he found over 7,000-8,000 records, notebooks, notes and other handwritten artifacts by J.Dilla.
In an exclusive Q&A with AllHipHop.com, Ms. Yancey revealed that Bubeck declined offers from around the world to sell J.Dilla’s material and returned a box of original beat tapes, letters and other items.
“It was overwhelming to see this handwriting again and to see how he marked his records, with his silver marker,” Ms. Yancey told AllHipHop.com. “That was his favorite color, the silver marker.
According to Ms. Yancey, J. Dilla, born James Dewitt Yancey, left to record in California, but before he left, he wanted to sell over 20,000 albums from his collection.
Jonathan Taylor, who is the business manager for The J.Dilla Foundation, said that the producer’s collection simply became scattered after his death.
“He chose which ones [records] he wanted,” Taylor told AllHipHop.com. “He took the ones he wanted and those that were left, were from eight years ago.”
Ms. Yancey and Jonathan Taylor wanted to express their gratitude to Jeff Bubeck for returning the material and not thinking about a turning a profit off of the valuable material that he discovered.
“He is my hero. He truly is,” Ms. Yancey told AllHipHop.com of Bubeck. “It was really good to be with him and to see him and to see the type of person he was. He just broke down, because he’s a remarkable father and understood.”
Check back tomorrow for a full Q&A with Ms. Yancey and Jonathan Taylor of the J.Dilla Foundation.
With a lineup that boasts performers like Ghostface and Raekwon, Lupe Fiasco, Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T., Action Bronson, Atmosphere, and over 30 others, it would be an understatement to say that this year’s Soundset 2012 festival is “just another concert.”
The biggest Hip-Hop festival in the Midwest is less than a month away, and the good folks at Rhymesayers Entertainment have provided us with a video that shows off “30 Reasons to Go to Soundset 2012!” Check out just a few of the 30 Reasons below:
Five-year Soundset anniversary
Meet and greets with your favorite artists all day
It’s more than music. It’s family values. It’s life inspiring. From their desire to want to find the right kind of love, to teaching us how to enjoy a night of romantic activity, R&B groups have always held us down. It was all about crooning.
We’ve seen our fair share of influential R&B groups – from the early days of the Jackson 5, to DeBarge, to Jodeci, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Guy, New Edition, Boyz II Men, and the ’90s era with Shai, H-Town, Soul 4 Real, Blackstreet, Dru Hill, 112, Jagged Edge, and a host of others. As we neared the 2000s, more groups appeared, but this generation didn’t seem to fare as well as their predecessors. And, many a good group flew under the radar.
After a recent conversation with Slim from 112, wer’e left thinking that it seems like R&B groups just can’t seem to stay together, forever. Someone has to go solo. Someone isn’t happy with management. Someone came up on the short end of the money stick.
Here’s our list of five R&B Groups we wish would’ve stayed around just a little bit longer:
RUFF ENDZ
Who can forget the two dudes who proclaimed “No more shopping sprees!”? Nicknames? Davinch and Chi. In 2000, they released their debut album, Love Crimes. Their most popular single, “No More”, appeared on this album, peaking at # 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group released their final album in 2010, appropriately titled, The Final Chapter. Drat. They could actually harmonize.
IDEAL
They released just one album, but their hit single “Get Gone” had us relating to the story – which encouraged us to move on from those that have caused ruckus within our life. The eponymous album reached gold status. Sheesh! What happened to them?
NO QUESTION
The summer of 1999. That’s when a little-known Philadelphia-bred R&B quartet, No Question, came on the scene. Comprised of Damon Core, Dante Massey, Tommy Blackwell, and Nicholas Johnson, they released their biggest hit to date, “I Don’t Care”. The song stressed the importance of trusting your gut instinct, and ignoring what the outsiders say, when it comes to who you have love for. The group toured with such acts as Jay-Z and Destiny’s Child. Again. What happened to them?
PROPHET JONES
Once touted as “the 21st Century Jodeci” by University Records president, Haqq Islam, the guy who signed them, this quartet found their single “Lifetime” at #1 on BET’s 106th & Park. A year before, Jagged Edge released their most successful song to date “Let’s Get Married”, and I’m so sure we needed another group to follow up. Prophet Jones was that group. After this single, however, we never heard much from Prophet Jones afterwards. While Jagged Edge marched on for a little longer.
ATL
With R. Kelly & Jazze Pha producing your debut album, is it even possible to lose? The youngest of this list, ATL is a group straight out of the dirty-dirty, Atlanta, Georgia. In 2003, Will, Tré, L-Rock and Danger came on the scene with The ATL Project, which spawned two singles “Calling All Girls” and “Make It Up With Love”. The album, however, was released internationally, but never released in the U.S.
A NEW DAY (26?)
The “boy band” art form, however, has not totally died out. Groups like Day 26, Hamilton Park (pictured at top), and even the little guys, Mindless Behavior, are prying open the doors of R&B to give us that feeling of “Group Goodness” we all love. Check out a current hit below from Day 26 – “Have You Made Love Lately?” (Well, have you?)
Do you have an R&B group you’d like to see get back together for one more album?
Sources close to Kid Cudi are spilling the beans that the rapper allegedly bedded Bad Boy artist Cassie. According to the source, Diddy found out about the alleged hookup, and now Cudi is said to be living in fear for his life. Cudi is allegedly completely paranoid and believes that Diddy is plotting to get revenge on him.
We hear that the “affair” happened a few months ago. Cassie had befriended Cudi and leaned on him a lot as she was going through her personal issues with Diddy. Cudi has allegedly been “spitting game” at Cassie for a while and took advantage of her while she was in a vulnerable state.
Sources say that while Diddy was allegedly initially very upset, the affair seems to have brought Diddy and Cassie closer.
Earlier this week, Cudi claimed his Twitter hacked after these messages appeared:
The surce also says Cudi left clues about the affair in his latest song, “Dennis, Hook Me Up With Some More Of That Whiskey!”, which dropped last week. Listen to the song below:
“They 100% had sex,” the source tells Bossip. “And that’s where the lines “Ni**az really want me dead, HATE Not my fault Im intriguing’ are from. Diddy wanting him dead when he found out.”
(AllHipHop News) Miami rapper/producer/personality DJ Khaled was forced to cancel a concert in Orlando, Florida, after his tour bus blew up.
DJ Khaled was supposed to perform at the 2012 Grad Bash last night (April 27), but could not make the show.
Khaled tweeted photos of his tour bus, which caught fire and exploded on the side of the highway.
“I’m sry I couldn’t make it 2 grad bash it was out my control my tour bus caught on fire & blew up!” DJ Khaled tweeted. “The gd thing me & my team is ok!”
DJ Khaled actually owned the vehicle in question, having purchased it in late 2010, after paying too much to rent buses for his tours.
“I was sick of renting tour buses, because that s**t is expensive,” DJ Khaled said in an interview in late 2010. “What I did was bought me a new tour bus. We going to be on the road a lot, we going to be in them clubs a lot and we going to be in them stadiums a lot. We’re going to be everywhere. This is the way we got to travel, so I wanted to do it right.”
Luckily all occupants escaped the fire unharmed.
Check out the customized bus before it went up in flames.
Ludacris’ former artist, rapper Shawnna, is on the comeback trail, and the industry heads are going crazy over her new material.
We hear that Shawnna, who is readying her new mixtape, SHE’S ALIVE, which is slated to be released on May 24, is currently looking over several serious offers from TVT/Gracie, which is run by super-producer Bangladesh and Bricksquad.
Shawnna was one of the illest out there, and was the first female ever signed to Def Jam! Over the weekend, she performed alongside Rick Ross, Meek Mill, and Wale in Detroit. So could this mean a MMG deal is on the table as well? It’s certainly possible.
AllHipHop.com contributor, Raven The Blazin Eurasian, checks back in with an exclusive interview with longtime New York rap duo, Smif N Wessun. At an unprecedented time period in the Rap industry, where the so-called “Old School” might be rendered irrelevant, rappers like Smif N Wessun are proving that multi-generational Hip-Hop has no age limit.
In this in-studio interview, Raven and Smif N Wessun discuss why some rappers “suck” and are like toddlers. They talk about the influence of EPMD, Public Enemy, and Das EFX on their music, as well as why you won’t ever hear about Smif N Wessun beefin’ with other rap groups, and why they will never break up. Steele of Smif N Wessun also talks about why jail is not something that they feel is a product of listening to Hip-Hop.
Chill and learn something from the masters, kiddies! Watch the video:
“Raven The Blazin Eurasian” is an AllHipHop.com contributor. Check out more of her interviews HERE, and follow her on Twitter (@BlazinEurasian).
We hear that the L.E.P. Bogus Boys were banned from performing as part of A$AP Rocky’s upcoming “BEEN TRILL” concert at the Chicago House of Blues on May 3. But it wasn’t A$AP Rocky who banned the rap group…it was actually the Chicago Police Department who issued the banning due to the violent nature of their lyrics. What the?!
The Chicago Police Department sent an e-mail and threatened to shut down the whole concert if the L.E.P. Bogus Boys perform. But, the truth is that the Bogus Boys have no history of violence at any of their shows, and are advocates of always coming and going peacefully.
