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B.G. to Represent Billionaire Mafia’s Legend Clothing Line

(AllHipHop News) New Orleans emcee B.G. is endorsing his first clothing line by signing on with the Las Vegas-based Billionaire Mafia clothing line.Established in 2007, the Billionaire line was founded by Lana Fuchs to reflect her love of urban art, music, and fashion.Initially, the line simply offered graffiti-themed tees and hoodies. Over the last 3 years, the clothing company has grown and been worn by celebrities such as rapper Busta Rhymes, media personality Big Tigger, and MMA fighter Rashad Evans.”If you’re in the game, then you got to be a power player,” Fuchs stated. “Billionaire Mafia is elegant, luxurious and sexy, but each individual gentleman can add his own swagger to it. I like to dress real men, who know what they want and go after it with a vengeance.”Since his first appearance as a teen with Lil Wayne on the early 90’s True Story EP, B.G. has remained a viable and respected artist in his city and the rest of the South. When asked what drew him to the Billionaire Legend’s line, B.G. explained that it reflected the street culture that he champions in his music.”This year I joined the Billionaire Mafia family, a hot clothing line for gangsters like me,” B.G. revealed. “Be on the lookout for me, B.G., coming to a hood near you rocking’ my Billionaire Mafia fits. Time to get back to the money, [that] Billionaire Mafia money. I look like money all day, everyday representing Billionaire Mafia.”B.G.’s last project was 2009’s Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood. This year, he is finalizing a collaboration LP with Lil Boosie.For more information on the Billionaire Mafia line, visit www.billionairemafia.com.

Luda Lands Major Role With 2010 Census

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop star Ludacris has become involved in the largest advertising campaign in U.S. government history as part of the government’s $300 million dollar effort to reach African-Americans for the 2010 census. Ludacris is being featured on the “Luda On The Block Tour” in cities with high concentrations of African-Americans. The rapper visited Dallas and New Orleans and will hit New York (4/5), Washington D.C. (4/6) and Atlanta (4/9) next month.The Grammy Award winning rapper will explain the importance of taking 10 minutes to fill out the 10 questions during the 2010 census. Ludacris believes being accurately counted will ensure various communities receive portions of a $400 billion annual allotment of federal support. “I look at our communities now and I see many empty lots, closed clinics, dilapidated schools and an overall breakdown of social services for the poor and elderly,” Ludacris said in a statement. “Today is a day for change. I plan to knock on doors in various neighborhoods around this country to try and dispel any myths about the Census. It’s important that we all stand up and be counted so we can help create potential financial opportunities for our dying communities.”Ludacris is also being featured in the radio/broadcast media advertisement in addition to a viral video campaign.

Raekwon Headlines 1st Russian Hip-Hop Summit

(AllHipHop News) Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon the Chef will headline Russia’s first Hip-Hop Summit late next month in Moscow. The summit will be held on April 25th at the Luzhniki Sports Complex. Organizers said the 1st Russian Hip-Hop Summit will be dedicated to the development of the Russian Hip-Hop industry and to develop, establish and maintain international relationships between artists around the globe. Also featured in the summit will be Queens, New York Hip-Hop group Onyx, as well as Russian Hip-Hop stars NoGGano and ?????, Basta, Vakhtang, ST, ???? and others. “The summit will show that our Hip-Hop is not lagging behind: we learned a lot over the past 15 years, and now Russian and American artists are able to perform on one stage, not yielding to each other,” a rep said in a statement. During the summit the top new comer of the year will be announced. The vote is being determined by the Russian Hip-Hop audience at www.hiphopsummit.ru.

Rah Digga: The Resurrection of “Dirty Harriet”

 Sitting in a moderately crowded martini bar in South Orange, New Jersey, Rah Digga joyfully sips her Jolly Rancher martini. As she enjoys her cocktail, she begins making casual conversation with a couple of women sitting a few bar stools down. She looks relaxed. She exudes a calming aura that makes those near ash though they have known her for years. The New Jersey native appears to be a regular customer who frequents, not one of the greatest female emcees to ever touch the mic.

When it comes to females in Hip-Hop, there are a very select few who can hold their own trying to survive in a male dominated industry. The majority of people expect females to be soft, exude sex appeal, brag about the designer labels they wear and how much money they are getting. Not Rah Digga. But then again, Rah Digga isn’t your average female emcee.

Ten years ago, Rah Digga came on the scene with a mission to prove that she could out rhyme even the best emcee, male or female. She made it clear that she wasn’t just about the party records. In fact, her true love for Hip-Hop consisted of her murdering the beat and penning rhymes that can make the hottest emcee double back into the studio to re-write verses.

It has been 10 years since Rah Digga dropped, but Dirty Harriet is back from the underground railroad of rap. “If you like the old Rah Digga, you’re gonna love the new Rah Digga!” Digga says. Continue.

AllHipHop.com: You’ve been away for quite a while. A lot people might be thinking what does Rah Digga have left to contribute to Hip Hop?

Rah Digga: Rah Digga is Hip Hop! One thing about me, from day one, I’ve always presented myself as someone who loves rhyming and who is an emcee first and foremost. I didn’t come to the game because of how I looked or how I dressed or how I did anything else except for how I rhymed. I think it’s just something that’s in me. It wasn’t something that was put together by a label. It wasn’t something somebody else invented. This is something I’ve been doing all my life. So whenever I’m allowed to do me, you’re always gonna get the best female emcee that ever did it.

“I just got tired of rapping for a buzz. It was getting corny to me. I had a second album getting ready to come out and then it didn’t. And then we got dropped from J Records.”

-Rah Digga

AllHipHop.com: What makes Rah Digga so raw?

Rah Digga: I’m real blunt with the truth. I’m one of those people who’s been studying Hip Hop practically from its own inception. I studied people like Rakim. I really learned to rhyme during a time when rhyming was raw. Rhyming was serious. Of course, there was always the different lanes and the different scope of artist. Some bring out the comical aspect, some bring out the colorful aspect, and then there’s some that are just raw. In the times of Mc Lyte and battling, that’s just what they did. And that’s when I learned how to rhyme and it’s always been something that’s stuck with me. I’m just a serious person. When I think of rhyming, I’m being analytical, I’m being philosophical. This is not just something I’m doing to make people sing along. You can pick the album apart for the rest of your life. I have lines with double and triple meanings and that’s what I consider fun when I’m rhyming. So, it comes off raw and serious. I’m such an educated person, so you’re not gonna get elementary rhymes.

AllHipHop.com: Did you go to college?

Rah Digga: Yes, I did. I did two years at NJIT (The New Jersey Institute of Technology). I was a wiz in Physics and Calculus. Math and Science were my strongest subjects. It was the lyrical stuff that ended making me pick up a career in it. Writing verses is almost mathematic for me. (Laughs)

AllHipHop.com: What caused the split between you and Flipmode?

Rah Digga: Personally, I just got tired of rapping for a buzz. It was getting corny to me. I had a second album getting ready to come out and then it didn’t. And then we got dropped from J [Records]. And then we spent like two years just being hot in the streets and doing mix tapes. So it just became real corny to me. So I stopped. I bought property in PA. I did the whole nature thing and just chilled.

AllHipHop.com: Do you think being on Flipmode overshadowed your raw talent?

Rah Digga: I don’t think they overshadowed me. I think I stood out being in Flipmode. Naturally, Busta was the captain of the ship. The label pretty much let us have our way but when they got serious about making their quota, they would sometimes push Flipmode to the side. Like, “Oh, we gotta do a Busta Rhymes album”. So a lot of times it was just circumstances out of our control. But that’s what happens sometimes when you’re signed to a label under a big artist.

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AllHipHop.com: How did leaving Flipmode affect you?

Rah Digga: It didn’t really affect me in any way. Especially with it being something that I wanted to do. It was just getting to the point where I felt it I needed to be honest with Busta and let him know I didn’t feel like doing this anymore.

AllHipHop.com: Are there any other producers on the album?

Rah Digga: This album right here, Nottz is the only producer on the album and I’ma tell you why. I ended up going down there and getting a couple of beats and then I started learning about a label they were forming called Raw Koncept. And he’s putting out his own album that he produced.

AllHipHop.com: He’s an artist too?

Rah Digga: He’s a producer first, but he does rhyme. He’s been producing for over a decade. He’s done records for Snoop and Kanye. He’s the producer that other producers go get. Kanye, when he did “Barry Bonds”, Nottz did that. He’s done Scarface. He’s done R. Kelly. He’s that dude. He’s worked with the rawest of the underground to the most popular of mainstream artists. And it just flowed so well. He’s a producer’s producer’s producer and I’m a rapper’s rapper. As an emcee, I feel like the things that I do even when I get “street” still have the potential to be mainstream. I’m not a mainstream artist. I still “too street” vs. that “mainstream artist”.

“This year, it’s Nicki Minaj. At one point it was Remy. At one point, it was Kim. To me, everybody just takes turns. I don’t look at one person and say this is it for Hip Hop.”

-Rah Digga

AllHipHop.com: There’s not a lot of female doing it in the industry right now. What are your thoughts on Nicki Minaj and where she’s taking Hip Hop right now?

Rah Digga: I think she’s just one facet of it. It’s unfortunate that with the females, it only gets to be one at a time. This year, it’s Nicki Minaj. At one point it was Remy. At one point, it was Kim. To me, everybody just takes turns. I don’t look at one person and say this is it for Hip Hop. I think everybody brings all kind of different things to Hip Hop. As soon as I come, everybody’s like “this is the real Hip Hop!” Whoever is poppin’ is where it’s poppin’. (Laughs)

AllHipHop.com: Do you ever think women in Hip Hop will get the respect they deserve?

Rah Digga: Um, I think it’s important for females to do as much together as we can. We always say we wanna do stuff. And we might do some songs here and there. But we’re not really coming together. And it doesn’t help that soon as one of us puts a song out the public turns it into a dis’ song towards the next chick. I think there are all sorts of lanes for everybody. As long as chicks continue to do there thing and stand they’re ground, they’ll be alright. With me, it just about rhyming.

AllHipHop.com: In your mind, what defines success? Records sales or fans?

Rah Digga: What is successful to me is when people say that I’m the illest female emcee they ever heard. I don’t care about being famous, I just like to make money. I like to do positive things, be a pillar of the community, and make money. To me, it’s not about being famous. People gotta understand that this is a creative thing. It’s many different schools of product. For me, it’s about lyrics. I don’t care what else is going on. I don’t care what you sold. If your verse is corny, I’m not buyin’ it. Does it make you think? Are people still going to be talking about you 20 years later, like how they talk about Mc Lyte, how they talk about Rakim, how they talk about KRS, Nas, Biggie?

AllHipHop.com: Do you think you’ll be more successful now that you’re with an independent label?

Rah Digga: I just put out a leak record over an M.O.P. beat and I got the world flocking like it’s my it’s my first single. I’m doing an interview right now with AllHipHop because I put out some freestyle over an M.O.P. beat. It’s a mixtape joint for crying out loud.

AllHipHop.com: Will they be still talking about Rah Digga?

Rah Digga: They still talking about me now. I ain’t had an album out in 10 years. 10 years later, people are still talking about me and blogging about me. And that was based off of “Dirty Harriet”.

AllHipHop.com: What criteria do you think an artist has to fit in order to be considered the best? Do you consider yourself the best or one of the best to ever do it?

Rah Digga: Rah Digga being the best of all time is always gonna be an opinion. That just happens to be my opinion. If that’s not how you feel, I ain’t gon’ be mad at you because it’s a matter of opinion. Me saying, my album is a classic, it means, five, ten years from now, you’re gonna be able to pop it in the CD player and still be able to decipher punch lines that went over your head when it first dropped. It’s not gonna sound like it was a trendy sound at that time. The album I’m putting out right now, it’s not a trendy sound at this time. It’s a sound where if you love lyricist and Hip Hop, just beats and rhymes, boom bap. This is a sound you’re gonna love yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It’s a way of living. I’ve got a lot of stuff that you’re gonna be able to sing to yourself, 10, 15 years from now.

AllHipHop.com: Who do you think is your biggest competition?

Rah Digga: I think my biggest competition is myself. I’m the only person that inspires me to want to write a better rhyme. I listen to other people for entertainment. I listen to my own music for inspiration. I compare myself to myself. I don’t compare myself with other people. I feel like I’m in my own lane. I’m from my own school. Nobody else is cut from the cloth that I’m cut from. You do your thing and I do mine and hopefully the roads don’t ever collide.

AllHipHop.com: On your MySpace page, you say, “I’m gonna save Hip Hop next year and then do a movie about it”. What makes you feel that way? Are you really going to make a movie about it? How do you plan on accomplishing that?

Rah Digga: I got my own camera, I know how to edit. After I put this album out, I just might put it on the screen. You know, it could be something. It could be nothing. I know I’m gonna resurrect it. I know my album goes crazy hard. The fans are gonna be like “Wow! I haven’t heard this in a long time.” I feel like other emcees and other artists are gonna hear my album and be like, “ok, I might need to get back in the lab”. That’s what I think. I’ve had the opportunity to be “Dirty Harriet” again. 10 years later at this stage, instead of trying to collaborate with a bunch of people or make a certain kind of sound. I’m “straight spittin’”. And it’s working for me. It sounds incredible.

AllHipHop.com: Who is your top five, dead or alive? Male or female?

Rah Digga: Kool G Rap. Eminem. It’s so crazy. I have different categories of top five. I think lyrically, since I first started, I always felt Kool G Rap was the dopest lyricist. I think Eminem is probably one of the best lyricists. Me. I’m one of my top five. Me, Eminem, Kool G Rap, I love Jay-Z. I love the fact the grown up and sophisticated Jay-Z. Mc Lyte, of course. To me, she showed me how to do it as a female. She’s such a pioneer, she’s such an icon.

AllHipHop.com: Do you ever plan on putting the mic down?

Rah Digga: Eventually! (Laughs) I definitely wanna go out with a bang. If this were to be the last album. It’s gonna be damn good. Sade came back her exact same self ten years later and she killed em’. I feel like as long as I can be myself, that just shows me I can be Dirty Harriet and still command that same success because all my fans grew with me and the new ones are gonna know what the hell a real emcee is supposed to sound like.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Amalgam Digital Stopping Slaughterhouse/Shady Deal? OJ Simpson Gay? illseeds New Comic!

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All content within

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and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have

whispered in our ear. Read on.

SEE SOMETHING? SAY

SOMETHING!!!!!

SAY IT AINT SO OJ!

They have to fully destroy you, huh? OJ is far from the smartest dude, but is this where he’s going? The National Enquirer is now reporting that OJ is running around the jail with the “girls” (trannies and the lot of them) of the yard. The report say “The Juice” gets the works from these doting individuals. They clean his drawls, socks, give him massages and other jailhouse luxuries. They treat him like a KING. Say it ain’t so, OJ!

Speaking of OJ…what happened to Da Juice Man? It seem like Waka replaced him!

IS AMALGAM DIGITAL STOPPING SLAUGHTERHOUSE FROM GOING TO SHADY?

Amalgam Digital. Joe Budden. Shady Records. Slaughterhouse. I am getting some pretty interesting intel that is telling me that Amalgam Digital is the real reason that Slaughterhouse cannot go an sign with Shady Records. Apparently, Joe Budden still owes them another album under his contract. He says that is not the case. So Amalgam is holding the whole Slaughterhouse/Shady Deal up. I’m not sure if there is some other level to this but that’s pretty much it. This is likely to find its way to court, but I don’t know. I think Shady will soon be uninterested, but that’s my opinion. I really want to see SH on Shady so we can see some variety in rap on the commercial level. Good luck.

The fans lose every time in this industry BS.

FEMALES ONLY

Lil Wayne’s homey Mack Maine is looking for an assistant.

Why does this just sound like sexual harassment case waiting to happen?

50 CENT STARTING UP…

MTV asked him a silly question and got an appropriate answer.

He said in a recent interview, “I would kiss Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Rihanna. I would marry Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Rihanna in Africa, I’d have 3 wives! And I would avoid wearing condoms and have really big families!”

ILLSEED’S QUICKIES

Reggie Bush really did wise up! He reportedly said Kim K isn’t “the right kind of girl” to spend his life with. He played her.

Lance Gross and Eva “Pigford” Marcille are no more. I didn’t care when they were together but I though I’d pass it along.

The Game recently added a tattoo in honor of DMX. That game is one loyal SOB.

Angela Simmons and Rob Kardashian got their nails done together the other day. Either they are dating or dude is gay.

Sooo..they are really trying to have Freaknic again this year? WOW. #fail.

In a recent tweetfest, Lauren London, Toya both agreed that Lil Wayne is a good father. Lauren London: AMEN RT @necolebitchie @antoniacarter they can say what they want about wayne but they can’t say he isn’t a damn good father

It would seem that Eminem is going to include a D12 song on the Relapse 2 album.

I have been informed that the rumors of a West Coast CIVIL War are greatly exaggerated. Hopefully, cooler heads prevailed.

SIGNS THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!

Part of the reason why America is so f**ked these days is that there’s a lack of quality education for people. Guess what Illinois is considering? They are looking to hook up a 4-day school week. The State of Illinois wants to help school districts save money, so the state House of Representatives recently approved a bill to set up 4-day school weeks. WOW. This is wack. WACK!!!!! But, for the kids, it could be wacker. They are still going to make up the time in the summer and longer school days. LMAO! I think it sucks, because teachers sometimes get a second job in the summer. This will clearly cut into their ability to make those monies. The Bill goes to the Illinois State Senate next.

WHAT’S UP GAGA?

At this recent Gaga show, she looked all crazy and out of it. The singer reportedly passed out three times on stage.

“I’d rather die on stage than walk off the stage because I was going to pass out. I said, ‘Lay down and sing those lyrics, you little [bleep],’ then you see at the end of ‘Bad Romance,’ I get up and hit that last eight count. It’s never happened to me before, I was just really tired.”

Is it really worth dying for?

ILLSEED’S NEW COMIC!

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They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about

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HOW: Send your rumors and ill pics to illseed at [email protected].

Epic Fail of The Day: Redneck Rapper

EPIC FAIL OF THE DAY: Redneck rapper BB Gunz!

GTFOH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look at this video and tell me what can WE do to help Hip-Hop and rid the world of this sort of rap? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YO! Dude used the Autotune on the Redneck rap! Here is he with a bud, who looks like the White Freeway. I’m not hating…I love these dudes. They gave me the biggest laugh since I started my career.

BB GUNZ AKA REDNECK RAPPER WITH AUTOTUNED HOOKS AND WHITE FREEWAY,

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LOVE YOU!!!

They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about

them then they should worry!

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More Details Revealed In Yukmouth/Suge Knight Alleged Robbery, Beating

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Yukmouth identified Suge Knight as one of the men who beat and robbed him of $92,000 in jewelry, before recanting the story.

According to the Associated Press, Detective Jeff Briscoe said that Yukmouth filed a police report saying Knight was among the 11 men that arrived at a San Fernando Valley, CA super market parking lot only to attack him over an unpaid debt.

Knight was originally identified, but Yukmouth retracted the statement.

Yukmouth, 35, has yet to recover the jewels and the police have yet to speak to Suge Knight, as they would like to.

Yukmouth recently announced a new album, Free At Last, which is expected to hit stores in May.