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T-Pain Talks Accident; Resumes Tour

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

Days after reportedly losing teeth in a golf cart accident, rapper/singer T-Pain set the record straight regarding the incident, with a return to the stage Sunday (March 29) as part of Lil Wayne’s I Am Music Tour.

 

In a video posted on VladTV.com, the entertainer is seen with his dancers performing his hit DJ Kahled collaboration “I’m So Hood.”

 

Following the performance and an urging to buy his latest album, Thr33 Ringz, T-Pain confirmed that that he was involved in the accident.

 

Media sources report the producer lost four teeth in the accident, which occurred Friday (March 27) and resulted in cuts and abrasions on T-Pain’s face.

 

“So check this out. There’s a lot of talk goin’ round about how T-Pain flipped over a damn golf cart. That’s f****n true,” T-Pain admitted to concertgoers at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California. “Ladies and gentleman I bust my a**. I would show you the marks but I do not want to pull my pants down right now.”

 

Because of the accident, T-Pain was unable to perform Friday at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California as one of the acts billed for the I Am Music tour.

 

In addition, the hitmaker missed a video shoot for the video to Lil Kim’s latest single “Download.”

 

Although reps for HP Pavilion and Lil Kim confirmed the accident, Sunday’s concert marked the first time T-Pain has spoken out about the incident.

 

“My a** is on fire right now. My s**t is hurtin’ so bad right now it’s crazy,” said the beatmaker, who confessed to having his teeth worked on moments after the accident. “My side hurt. My mouth hurt. I lost some teeth. I got that fixed the next day. Rich n***a teeth. Yes, I got that fixed the same day,” T-Pain said.

 

Despite coming out to perform, T-Pain acknowledged he may have fell short of fan expectations as he apologized for not being able to give his all to the show.

 

“If I was any less of a showman today than I usually am I am so sorry. I did not mean to Britney Spears y’all a**,” he stated. “I appreciate y’all comin out to see us. I’ma always keep it hood. No matter what man I’ma get on this stage. I don’t give a f### how many golf carts I flip over… I’ma always stay hard for y’all. I’ma always stay true. I’ma keep it real for my fans everyday and every night.”

Camp Lo: Caught On Tape

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: Features

When you hear the phrase caught on tape, many things come to mind. Dressing room hi jinx, botched gas station robberies, and dumb criminals come to mind.  In Stone and Rob: Caught on Tape, Camp Lo returns to the music scene caught in the midst of a Hip-Hop landscape that is probably more prepared for their original steez than it ever was. Here’s the problem: they are going left and hitting the road a bit harder than they used to.  Is this another case of bad timing, or is the Camp immune to these Romper Room tunes?AllHipHop.com: Stone And Rob, that’s a reference to

Stone and Robert from Cooley High, correct?

Camp

Lo:

[Laughter]…It’s ill that somebody just got it…just got the connection like

that.

AllHipHop.com:

So you’ve continued with your connection the Blaxploitation flicks like Cooley High with this new title.  What about that era do you connect with and

how does it inform your music?

Sonny

Cheeba: Probably how cats was talking, what they had on.  Cooley

High wasn’t corny either. The style, the slang, everything that cats do,

those flicks had in it.

AllHipHop.com:

This time around you got artists like Styles P and Pete Rock. A mini-departure

from your previous albums. Why the change?

Cheeba:  Pete Rock is not a 100% percent departure,

cause if you listen to Pete Roc and CL Smooth, if you listen to what they was

rapping over back in the days we were fans of that.

Geechi

Suede:  My

first allowance I ever got, that’s the first Hip-Hop record I ever bought in my

life was Mecca & The Soul Brother.

I got my allowance for sweeping the front porch and the hallway of my

grandmother’s house. First album ever

Cheeba:

And as far as Styles P is concerned, it’s not way to the left cause your man

still stay true to the art you know what I’m saying? We’re dealing with cats

that stay true.

 

AllHipHop.com:

Your first album was very slept on but ironically, when you look at present day

Hip-Hop you were probably about a decade ahead of your time. Were you too ahead

of the curve?

Cheeba:

You would rather be ahead instead of running with the crowd. At certain times

cats might say that being ahead of your time, you know, that s**t don’t really

translate.  But to me it translates.  Cause everything coming outside of the vein

is gonna be a little ahead of its time. Plus when people hear that, they know

that they can only get a certain style of music coming from them. You getting

mixed in with the pot and cats ain’t checking for you period.

Suede:

Well I appreciate that first and foremost, and second of all me and Cheeba

don’t think time with anything you know? 

Especially not fashion or music related. So I guess that where the

classic essence of what we do comes from. Time is not a factor in what we do.

AllHipHop.com:  I think a lot of these cats like say a Kanye

or a Mikkey Factz inform their style from the stuff that you did a while back. I

don’t really think it’s out of pocket to say that.

Suede:

Wow. See me and Cheeba are humble dudes so we don’t really…wow, I appreciate

you for saying that man. I guess we just gotta keep pushing that bar so that

the cats that don’t know who Camp Lo is know that, and those that do, keep

knowing. But I really appreciate you saying that.

AllHipHop.com:

The game is really different from when you initially released a record.  How do you feel about the theatrics

surrounding the music?

Cheeba:

It’s like how these TV shows like reality TV. You get your little quick fix you

laughing and you good for the day. So that translates over to the music.

Instead of it being straight good music you hearing who’s beefing with whom.  I don’t know how that started but I’m a fan of

the music, before a fan of the drama.

Suede:

My son he has a real good diverse taste. He loves the “Stanky Leg” but then he

love Wu. He love Nas, Hov whatever the case may be.  I like where he’s at with it. If the rest of

the world could be where he’s at with it where he can appreciate the “Stanky

Leg” but he appreciates Big Daddy Kane, too. I think that’s important that we

know it’s not just “Stanky Leg,” it ain’t just “Lookit Boy.”

If there was more diversity with s**t it would be a

good look.  You can only check them on

BET J or VH1 Soul.  Not everyone has

those channels. There aren’t a lot of outlets for that real creative stuff

anymore.

AllHipHop.com:

Tell us a bit about Stone And Rob: Caught

on Tape.

Suede:

We been wanting to do Stone & Rob. Stone & Rob is like an alter ego.

Cats always look at [Camp] Lo as martini music, you know? I mean we are always

gonna give you that martini, the sparkle, the Black connection, but there is a

Stone & Rob dimension to us because we are from the Bronx. We just wanted

to get people more in touch with that side of us; that we do have that

side. 

The die-hards know because they remember the “Krystal

Karrington’s” and the “Killing Them Softly’s” and all that, but we just felt

like it was time to bring Stone & Rob to the forefront because we had been

wanting to bring them out of the bag for a minute. That’s where we went with

this record right here. We kinda went Uptown with it.

AllHipHop.com:

Lightning Round. Superfly or Shaft?

Suede:

Shaft

Cheeba:

I’mma go with Superfly.

AllHipHop.com:

Creeper

(Dolomite) or Ned The Wino (Good Times)?

Camp

Lo (in unison): Ned The Wino!

AllHipHop.com:

Thelma (Good Times) or Foxy Brown(Pam Grier)?

Cheeba:

I’mma have to go Thelms. It might be neck and neck though.

Suede: I

can’t go Thelms, you gotta go Fox, yeah I’m going with Fox.

AllHipHop.com:

Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson?

Camp

Lo:

Ali all the way.

AllHipHop.com:

Jay-z or Nas?

Cheeba:

Your man Nas’ bars is better, but I partied more to Jay-z over the years.

Suede:

Oh Nas! I love Hov, don’t get me wrong, but Nas? I know more of his lyrics.

AllHipHop.com:

If Ski had given you the beats that he had earmarked for you on that first

album instead of putting them on Reasonable

Doubt, do you think Uptown Saturday

Night would have been held in the same esteem as Reasonable Doubt?

Suede:

Honestly, I dug “Feeling it” but I wasn’t crazy about it. So I don’t really

feel that we lost anything by that record not being on Uptown because I thought it was cool but I wasn’t back-flipping

over the s**t. I thought it actually made a better fit for his record than

ours. We didn’t have no singing joints on that first record, so I didn’t really

think it would have been a good fit.

And I feel like, in its own right, Uptown is held to the same esteem as Reasonable Doubt as far as just being some classic s### that came

out in a classic time. And it has a certain association with it based on the

producer and everything but nah I never felt no kinda way.  But he was trying to get “Luchini!” Now that

would have been some ol’ other s**t! That woulda been like…that’s fighting!

That’s war s**t right there. Something would have had to come back for that.

AllHipHop.com:

Any last words?

Suede: I

love AllHipHop. I always check you guys out so it’s always a pleasure to be a

part of this s**t.

Cheeba:

Me personally, as far as the [Camp] Lo go, you can always come to us to get

that fresh new boutique kind of music that you can’t get no place else. Keep

checking for that new music.

 

Hip-Hop Rumors: 50 Cent’s New Move On Rick Ross! Keri Hilson Sex Tape! T-Pain Talks Teeth!

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: Rumors

DISCLAIMER:

All

content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual

info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. Read on.MY DAILY TWO SENSE!

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CLICK HEREEE!!!!!!!!!!!By the way people, it is April FOOL’S Day so don’t be a fool and fall for somebody’s joke. I already got a good one about Rick Ross getting shot. Now that everybody has some form of access, we can pretty much expect for a lot of trash on the net.

SLANDER ON KERI’S NAME

You know, I think people are just looking to slander Keri Hilson at this point. Now, somebody emails me that there is a sex tape with Keri and they send this to me. They know my deep feelings for Keri and yet they send it to me anyway. There is a rumored sex tape with Keri Hilson and a “platinum rapper.” Well, she just has happened to be in videos or has songs with two well know platinum selling rappers. Do I think there is a sex tape of Keri and Lil Wayne or Kanye? No. I just think somebody is trying to mess with me!

STATEMENT REGARDING KEYSHIA COLE’S MOTHER – FRANKIE LONS

I told you that rumor was wrong! Frankie’s gonna live for ever! I love her!

“Imani Entertainment has received a huge amount of inquiries in regard to the rumor about Keyshia Cole’s biological mom, Frankie Lons, having recently passed in an automobile accident. The rumor has absolutely NO truth to it — Frankie has not been in any accident of any kind and is doing well at home in Atlanta. We want to thank all of Frankie’s fans for their concern.”

LIL WAYNE’S REAL SIDE PIECE?Check out what my girl Bianca said about the Lil Wayne show that escaped the cameras! Interesting!!!!!I had to write

you because I read your rumor about Keri and Weezy acting mad friendly

at his concert in LA.  I was there, 5th row and I definitely saw the

chemistry and originally thought what everyone else did…that they

were more than “friends”.  HOWEVER….that all changed when Wayne

performed prom queen with one of his Young Money artist, the lady who

wrote the song….Shanell (Shanell Woogett).  He kissed her on stage

after the song WITH tongue for a good 2-3 seconds (which is long for

kissing).  Left me speechless.  So either he is hitting both, hitting

neither and its all for show but I definitely believe that atleast

Shanell can speak first hand about “nothing being little on this

Wayne”.  I don’t have a pic, but a packed house can back me up. Keri

and Wayne seemed more for show.  Keri can pull off the flirtatious role

ie. Usher video and her recent video with Kanye.  A french kiss with

your artist….eeehhhhhh.  Just wanted to share that little tidbit. 

Keep up the juicy work! Thanks Bianca!

Here is the Young Money crew, having fun on the bus with Shanell being the leader of the happy joy! (Why does this rumor have Deja Vu on it!?)

T-PAIN’S BACK!

Man, I am hearing all sorts of stuff about T-Pain. One this is for sure, he’s back in effect. I am almost certain that T-Pain was able to get his teeth situation fixed in a a supremely speedy manner. My homey DJ DNA played at a a nightclub in Sacramento with T-Pain night before last and Pain was not hurt at all. The Floridian DJed and hour long set for the after-party. Wow. I didn’t even know Pain DJ’d.

If you have patience, watch this. T-Pain confirms the accident!

ILLSEED’S QUICKIES

Hurricane Chris is having a birthday party soon…but where is dude?!

There is a rumor that Akon and Sean Kingston are doing a song together.

JD and TAG Records is about to be a wrap! Rumor has it, lack of buzz and the economy are forcing it to fold.

KING magazine has closed its doors too. I have to hope that the issue with Joe Budden’s girl Tahiry still comes out.

Raekwon recently signed a deal with EMI, I heard.

Havoc has decided to leave Nature Sounds/Koch Records. Dude, he sold under 1,000 records his first week out. I would leave too!

I am not even going to entertain the damn Omarion Sex tape. SMH at that boy putting that mess on the net. They know they leaked it on purpose!

RANDOM QUOTES

Fat Joe speaks on the recession to Wild 101.1:

“The recession has affected the whole entire globe. Anyone telling you the recession ain’t real is a liar. So the recession is too real, it’s affecting everybody, you know, if people ain’t got money how can they go to your show? If people ain’t got money, how can they buy your record? Another way that it’s affecting me is a lot of my friends are being laid off. They’re coming to me like, ‘Joe I’m messed up, what can I do’ I try to help but I can’t help the whole world…It really upsets me to know that so many of my friends are doing so bad during these times as well.

Joe also commented on 50 Cent and the ongoing beef with Rick Ross:

“In hip-hop, where do we draw the line…Notice he hasn’t had a fight with nobody yet in every beef he’s had in the universe. Disrespecting DJ Khaled’s mom, that’s not hip-hop. I haven’t heard anybody that thought it was dope.”

FRENCH MONTANA TALKS ABOUT LIL CEASE, DIPSET AND MORE

SIGNS THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END

YO. I didn’t even want to run this yesterday, because the details of this were so crazy and so sad that it hurt to write. I am writing about it today, because we as a people are going to have to be more mindful of what we are about. I see a lot of degenerate activity and we’ve got to step up to the plate and turn things around. While it is not central to this story, this horror does completely involve an African America family in the suburbs. Anyway…Here is the report from CNN:

(CNN) — By the time the police officer kicked the door in, it was too late. Kerby Revelus was holding his 5-year-old sister, Bianca, and while the officer watched, he dragged a kitchen knife across her throat with such fury that he decapitated her.

Samantha Revelus, 17, had called 911 for help after her brother attacked his sisters with a knife.

Samantha Revelus, 17, had called 911 for help after her brother attacked his sisters with a knife.

“It’s hard to imagine that kind of horror,” said Milton, Massachusetts, Police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr.

Mere seconds passed before other officers arrived and rushed into the home in the tony Boston suburb of 25,000.

Police had received a 911 call from another Revelus sibling, 17-year-old Samantha. Suffering from several deep cuts in her upper body, she was losing strength.

“It was clear that she knew she was mortally wounded,” Wells said. Video Watch police chief discuss decapitation »

Samantha managed to explain that her 23-year-old brother had attacked his sisters with a knife, police said. When she was no longer able to keep talking, the injured teen handed her 9-year-old sister, Sarafina Revelus, the phone.

All the while, the kids’ grandmother was doing laundry in the basement, apparently unaware of the savagery upstairs, police said. Mother Regina Revelus was at work, and father Vronze Revelus was not at home.

As officers surrounded the home and rushed into every room, Kerby ran into a bedroom where Samantha was on the floor, dead. Sarafina was on the floor near her sister’s body, according to Wells.

Kerby Revelus then began attacking Sarafina with the knife, Wells said, prompting police open fire and kill him.

50 CENT’S NEXT WAVE IS HERE!

BROOK TALKS, CUPCAKES, KANYE & AMBER AND SEX

Do I need to say anything more? Shout out to Xilla!

SHOUT OUT TO KING

KING was good for the game. I liked how they repped with the name, as it made a statement for the brothers. And also, I liked that it gave a nice touch of class for the ladies.

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Keyshia Cole’s Mother Alive; Death Rumors False

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

Keyshia Cole’s mother is still alive, despite the negative assertions of internet rumors that have reported her sudden demise.

The gossip of mother Frankie Lons’ death has prompted a statement from Cole’s management company, Imani Entertainment.

“Imani Entertainment has received a huge amount of inquiries in regard to the rumor about Keyshia Cole’s biological mom, Frankie Lons, having recently passed in an automobile accident,” the company said in a statement. “The rumor has absolutely no truth to it — Frankie has not been in any accident of any kind and is doing well at home in Atlanta.”

Cole and company were gracious to those worried for Lons’ welfare.

“We want to thank all of Frankie’s fans for their concern.”

Lons is a co-star on Cole’s highly-touted BET reality show, “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is.” She has been a controversial, but adored figure on the show.

Bow Wow Kicks Off NCAA Final Four Tournament

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

Rapper Bow Wow will help kick off the NCAA’s Final Four weekend as part of the NCAA’s community driven Hoop City program.

 

Bow Wow will perform at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday (April 4), as part of the schedule of events for Hoop City, which allows fans to participate in basketball clinics, performances, prizes and more.

 

The rapper will sign autographs and giveaway copies of his new CD New Jack City II, which hit stores today (March 31).

 

Hoop City runs from April 3-6 and is sponsored by Coca-Cola and AT&T.

 

Tickets are free for children two and under, while adults must pay $8 dollars.

 

“Hoop City will be packed with fun and activities for all ages, providing NCAA basketball fans with an inside look at the Final Four and the various other NCAA sports,” said Greg Shaheen, NCAA senior vice president of basketball and business strategies. “Metro Detroiters and visitors can share in celebrating this historic basketball weekend even if they don’t have a ticket to the games.”

 

NCAA Hoop City will launch with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11:00 AM on Friday (April 3), followed by a celebrity basketball game featuring a who’s-who of Detroit media.

The X Fact(her) – Time For A Gangsta Green Thumb

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: Uncategorized

I haven’t been food shopping in over a month.

 

I should grown my own food, but don’t. Jay-z said “dig a

hole” and maybe I should. Fill it with some seeds, sprinkle with water and some

TLC. I’ll be feasting on next season’s dinner in no time.

 

Seriously, I would love to eat fresh, organic produce every

day. A while back I came across this documentary about eight UK adults picked

to live in the monkey section of a zoo and eat the exact same diet as monkeys—all

fresh and raw fruits and vegetables. One man never saw cauliflower before. In

the end they all lost weight, felt better, had improved some of their medical conditions

and vowed to each healthier. There is

even an American documentary out about the same sort of thing.

 

Don’t know about you, but I’m not trying to live in a cage

in order to eat right nor am I willing to go broke buying overpriced organic

produce. This leaves me with another option: urban farming. As part of 99problems.org, I’m always looking for

solutions to problems facing the urban community. Perhaps bringing farming to

the hood will end the on-going battle for quality supermarkets and fresh produce

in poor communities as well as educating people about the power of Mother

Earth.

 Urban Farming

 

Living in the big city means more concrete than grass. Where

would I plant my seeds? Martha Stewart broke down how to create your own compos

heap but I’m not trying to be labeled the funky neighbor hording banana peels

and potato skins in a box.

 

During my weekly

radio show, the topic of eating healthy was raised. This got me to

wondering: At what point in society did we transition from farming our own

foods to living off of processed foods, McDonald’s and High Fructose Corn

Syrup?

 

You’d have an easier time finding bin Laden than you would a

boxed/canned or bottled food that didn’t

have high fructose corn syrup in its list of ingredients. Fun Fact: the higher

up in the list of ingredients something is on the label, the more that product

contains it. (i.e. If you pick up a bottle of apple juice and apple juice is

the last thing on the list, put it down! Buy a bag of apples and juice them

yourself.)

 

Perhaps farming in the hood would catch on if it was

marketed right. Folks would house their mini-gardens on their window sills.

Dudes on the block would start selling 100% Columbian dirt. When a fella asks

if you’ve seen his hoe, he really means a hoe.

Seed packages would be sold in corner stores and 7 Elevens and endorsed by Hip

Hop celebs with great taglines:

 

Jay-Z Apple Seeds: One Jay-Z apple a day keeps the hate away

 

Lil Wayne Zucchini: It goes with everything, and makes bread

too!

 

Beyoncé Butternut Squash: So pretty, so yellow, so smooth

 

Notorious B.I.G. Eggplant: Black and ugly as ever…however good

for you.

 

I’ll rope up the ox and you grab the seeds

 

– CH

 

 

For the last seven

years, Chloé A. Hilliard has been a culture/entertainment

journalist, writing for the Village Voice, Essence, Vibe,

King, and The Source. In addition to writing The

X Fact(her), a hip hoppers humorous look at politics, she co-hosts I’m Sayin’ Radio, a

weekly talk show, and aspires to be a vegan. Learn more about her on chloehilliard.com.

 

AHH Stray News: Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi Hit UK

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

Lil Wayne will perform in London this summer for one night only at the Hammerstein Apollo and will be joined by Kid Cudi. The concert will take place on July 6, and will be the fourth time Lil Wayne has performed in London. Tickets for the event go on sale Friday April 3, and can be ordered through Ticketmaster. Ticket prices for the concert are £32.50. Wayne is currently touring the country as part of his “I Am Music” tour. Keri Hilson, T-Pain and Gym Class Heroes, are performers on the tour. The tour is scheduled to conclude today March 31, in Hoffman Estates, IL.

Kardinal Offishall Snags Juno Awards

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

Canadian emcee Kardinal Offishall was one of the big winners at Sunday’s (March 30) Juno Awards, winning both Single and Rap Recording of the Year.

 

The annual Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys, was founded in 1970 and celebrates the outstanding achievements of Canadian musicians.

 

Kardinal’s dancehall anthem “Dangerous” was a surprise upset winner this year, beating out stiff competition from Nickelback (“Gotta Be Somebody”), Celine Dion (“Taking Chances”), Michael Buble (“Lost”), and Divine Brown (“Lay It On the Line”).

 

As a group, Offishall’s competitors had previously won over 30 Juno Awards.

 

Produced by DJ Kemo, “Dangerous” featured Akon and hit Top 10 on Canada’s iTunes chart.

 

In the U.S., the single peaked at #5 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

 

The track went on to spawn 3 remixes, and powered Offishall’s fourth studio album Not 4 Sale to #1 on Canada’s R&B/Hip-Hop list and #8 on its overall album chart.

 

Sunday’s Juno Awards drew 4 million viewers, making it the highest rated broadcast that night.

 

Earlier this month, the in-demand Kardinal Offishall completed his first tour of Mumbai as part of VH1’s Hip-Hop Hustle concert series.