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Rick Ross’ First Single From ‘Teflon Don’ Leaks
(AllHipHop News) Fans of Miami rapper Rick Ross were treated to a glimpse of his upcoming album Teflon Don tonight (January 21), as the debut single “Mafia Music II” was leaked to the Internet.
The new track features Ross rhyming over and beat produced by The Olympiks and features Chrisette Michele.
Teflon Don is Rick Ross’s follow-up album to his 2008 release Deeper Than Rap.
“And those that are from Miami that know that was Ross original rap name, Teflon Don. Trust me, we are making some crazy music man. We gonna make them anthems that have the club going crazy, producer DJ Khaled stated.
Deeper Than Rap sold 150,000 copies upon it’s release in April of 2009 and debuted at number one on Billboard’s Top 200 charts.
The album has moved over 350,00 copies to date and produced the hit single Magnificent featuring R&B crooner John Legend, which peaked at #5 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Tracks chart.
At the end of the song, Rick Ross thanks a number of criminals, including Meyer Lansky, Gambino heads Paul Castellano, Carlo Gambino and John Gotti, as well as Al Capone, Bumpy Johnson, Crips founder Tookie Williams and Bloods founder T. Rodgers.
Teflon Don is due in stores in 2010.
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NYOIL, Queen YoNasda, Head Up HipHop4Haiti National Fundraiser
(AllHipHop News) Queen YoNasda, granddaughter of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, has teamed with rapper NYOIL and a number of organizations to create Hip Hop 4 Haiti.
HH4H is a nationwide fundraising event that will take place January 30th in 10 major cities across the United States.
In New York, the HH4H event will be hosted by NYOIL at the National Black Theater in Harlem New York, from 5:00 PM-11:00 PM.
The national fundraising event is endorsed by Dr. Ron Daniels of the Institute of the Black World (I.B.W.) and all proceeds and relief collected from the event will go to its nationally recognized Haiti Relief Fund.
“Hip-Hop is a family we don’t always see eye to eye and we are always arguing, like most families; but don’t mistake that familiarity as breeding contempt, NYOIL told AllHipHop.com. Understand that we bicker fuss and fight because we are family and at our essence we have immense love for one another and what we are all a part of.
Now Haiti is about to see what that love that power can do when focused and applied towards a singular goal!” said NYOIL who is also the Ambassador to Hip-Hop for the I.B.W.
In addition to Queen YoNasda and NYOIL, the event is being presented by Brothers Care Inc., AllHipHop.com, HoodlifeMovement.com, DJ Green Lantern, Shock Ra Entertainment, New Image Alliance, the Institute of the Black World and P.E.M.G.
A suggested donation of $20 is encouraged, but “everyone who wants to help in any amount should feel welcome, this is a difficult time for all of us and everyone’s help is a blessing we cannot afford to dismiss,” said NYOIL.
“Our goal is to raise spirits and funds of at least $10,000, NYOIL continued. We are urging the entire community to come together and open their hearts and wallets for those who need our help. And of course this is Hip-Hop so we’re going in with both feet! Beats, Rhymes, B-Boys, DJ’s and plenty of Knowledge for self!!
The official list of performers and cities involved will be unveiled on Wednesday, January 27th and will include rappers, poets, dancers, singers and educators.
For more information or to participate in the event contact: NYOIL at [email protected] or [email protected] or visit: http://hiphop4haiti.ning.com and http://www.ibw21.org.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Beef with Royce Da 5’9″ & Shyne? Huh? Pretty Ricky Denies Fatherhood! Birdman’s No Devil Worshipper!
DISCLAIMER:
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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.THE DAILY TWO SENSE
Soooooooo…people don’t read? I didn’t say Birdman was a damn Satan worshipper! I said the opposite! He worships these streets and is a “general” in the street. Rumors are already messed up without you messing them up even more. These posts are literature…just read them. If you missed it earlier, I said:Well, my sources told me that it has no reference to the devil at
all. It probably refers to Baby being a 5-Star General in these mean
streets. And, we all know what the red is there for.BEEF BETWEEN SHYNE AND ROYCE DA 5′ 9″????
I suspect this Shyne is a fake one, but peep it:
This is the worst gossipy mess ever, but I want to touch on it. Diamond Baby Blue Smith of Pretty Ricky is allegedly the father of Tisha Campbell-Martins little sister Tiara. Hit the link to hear his response, courtesy of TT Torrez.. http://www.mediafire.com/?mzmwwndundh
ANDRE BERTO RESPONDS TO RUMOR
Remember the rumor I told you about Andre Berto being possibly paid to depart his fight with Shane Mosely? This is crazy! This all is too crazy! The earthquake made an opportunity for Floyd to have an opponent. Anyway, Berto’s rep hit me to make it clear that Haiti is No. 1 in his priorities . Here:WBC Welterweight World Champion Andre Berto will be traveling with his brother Cleveland to Haiti this afternoon with the charity, Medishare to provide aide to the people of Haiti. Family always has and always will come first for him.
GOOD! AllHipHop.com has an event coming up with people in NYC to raise money for Haiti too.
ILLSEED’S QUICKIES
Hey, did you read the dope story on Rosa Acosta? Read it! She’s also filming a reality show for TV. She’s hot.
Rihanna might wanna cut this one off fast. According to rumors, her new man Matt Kemp beat on his ex-girlfriend Felisha Terrell.
Quick question: do you think it is possible that the Haiti disaster wasn’t really an earthquake or that it could have been a man-made occurrence?
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted Thursday he is a Maury candidate. He fessed up that he’s the father of a child during an affair.WHY BRISCOE IS GOING CRAZY ON WAKA AND GUCCI MANE
Look for a song called “Heavy” for that is the reason Briscoe is going at the so hard.
You can see clear as day, I am not up on these artists. It is what it is.
SIGNS THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END
Man, you never know what people are doing behind closed doors. Former television star Bob Gamere was once a big time sportscaster. Now, he’s going to be big, butt in a different way. Mannnnnnn….this dude used to announce for the NY Yankees! He has been sentenced to five years in jail for peddling videos of children having sex with each other and adults on the internet. Straight up child P###! What a freak boy this dude is! YUCK! Here is the crazy part…he’s 71! He was sending this s### through AOL under the screen name GreatGamere. He wasn’t too smart either.
Here is GreatGamereRUMORS FROM JAZZY F.
What’s good AllHipHop. Its your boy Jazzy F. On the rumors check in.
Seem like Diddy want to come back to hip-hop. I am hearing the staff at bad boy know his album is gonna flop. He is supporting every rapper’s party these days. I guess this is to try and get the fans to get back on that bad boy ish again. By the way ladies and gents the real star of Danity Kane, Aubrey Oday is coming.
I know you guys remember Mona Lisa? The R&B singer from the 90s. I heard she is about to make a comeback. SWV is still in the studio working on a new album. Donnell Jones is even prepping for a comeback.
General Larry Platt from American Idol Pant on the ground just may be putting the song out officially. Lol
I heard Chris Brown cries a lot these days because his career just aint what it use to be. He isn’t in demand much since the fiasco I call Rihanna.
I’m out people catch Jazzy on TheSocietyOnline.biz or www.twitter.com/itsTHESOCIETY
Deuces!!!
WAKA, WE LOVE YOU!!!
They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!
-illseed
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WHAT: Rumors
WHERE: AllHipHop.com, MySpace.com/TheIllseed
HOW: Send your rumors and ill pics to illseed at [email protected].
Kimora Returns For Third Season Of ‘Life in the Fab Lane’
The Style Network as ordered seven one-hour episodes of Kimora Lee Simmons’ TV show Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane.
The third season of the show features Simmons as she raises her family, while simultaneously acting as CEO of Baby Phat, a company started with ex-husband/Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons.
The premiere episode features Kimora in the final stages of her pregnancy, in addition to the birth of her son and third child Kenzo Lee, whose father is actor Djimon Hounsou.
As she celebrates the birth of her new son, Kimora must also finish remodeling her Beverly Hills home within the month.
The second episode features Kimora making final preparations for Fashion Week in New York, while attempting to help her girls go back to school, which is conveniently located in 3,000 miles away, in Los Angeles.
Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane premieres Sunday, March 21 at 9:00 PM.
A stand alone special will kick off the new season titled Kimoras Home Movies: Baby Kenzos Birth.
The half-hour special debuts on Sunday, February 14 at 10:00 PM and features never before seen personal home videos documenting the birth of Kenzo Lee.
Former Bad Boy Producer Launches Artist Development Company
(AllHipHop News) Anthony Scoe Walker is set to utilize his near decade of experience as a Bad Boy producer and A&R to develop artists through the newly founded Temp Music Management.
With labels reticent to spending any money on new artist development, Walkers company looks to assist new artists on industry protocols such as image consulting, production, and how to submit materials to labels.
Walker cultivated his career after arriving in New York from his native Lake Charles, LA.
After meeting with Bad Boy A&R Conrad Dimanche, he sold his first production track to Loon, and then moved on to work with 702, Tamia, Eightball & MJG, and Dream.
His work led to him handling A&R duties for Suavehouses Rick Ross LP Rise to Power. In Mario Winans and Conrad Dimanche, Walker retained two mentors that encouraged his vision to help new artists make a way in the ever-changing music industry.
“During my time producing records for Bad Boy, artist Mario Winans took me under his wing and showed me a lot of what I know now, Walker stated to AllHipHop.com. Relationships that I have forged with people like him and Conrad have been of insurmountable value to me, and I feel like I owe it to the next generation of music makers to share the knowledge I’ve gained.”
Temp Music Management purports to offer clients an extended network of music executives, lawyers, and producers for consultations to empower the artist(s) for an eventual major label meeting.
Contacts include executives from Shady Records (Senior A&R Director Riggs Morales), Suavehouse (Tony Draper), and Def Jam (VP of A&R Lenny Santiago).
Interested artists can view the Temp Music Management website at www.tempmusicmanagement.com. The sites official launch will commence on February 7.
Hip-Hop Artist Cultural Exchange Program: A Historic Experience
Since January 15, Hip-Hop has undergone a groundbreaking experiencethe forging of a two-week alliance between a popular South African Hip-Hop artist (Hip-Hop Pantsula) and an acclaimed American Hip-Hop artist (Asheru), to draw strength, inspiration, and vision from respective struggles and cultures. The exchange runs through January 28.
Hip-Hop Pantsula (HHP), also known as Jabba, is an MTV Africa Video of the Year award-winning artist whose work transcends genres and fields. He describes his style of music as Motswako, a Setswana word meaning mixturethe sum of many parts. HHP has collaborated with Nas and shared same stage with artists like Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, and Keith Murray.
Asheru is a Peabody award-winning MC who many know for rapping the opening theme of The Boondocks; but hes also an educator, activist, and founder of Hip-Hop Educational Literacy Program ( H.E.L.P.), a pioneering literacy initiative incorporating Hip-Hop lyrics into curriculum to create culturally-relevant packages for inner-city and low-income kids.
The event is sponsored primarily by BloomBars (You Bloom. We Bloom.), a non-profit organization which utilizes art to transform lives and communities.
Legendrather Asherus accounthas it that John R. Chambers, founder of BloomBars, visited South Africa recently, and met with HHP, whose music he was familiar with. Chambers returned home and announced to Asheru: I met a guy over there who is just like you. You got to meet this Brother
Initially, a mere meeting of the minds was to take place and, perhaps, artistic collaboration between the two. But Chambers vision grew more expansive into a comprehensive two-week schedule to include intense traveling, performance, literacy activism, HIV/Aids awareness presentations, educational workshops, and morewith Asheru serving as guide and ambassador.
Asheru shared a telling experience from last Friday which gives some insight into why such an event is worth doing: We actually had dinner over at the [South African] ambassadors house last night. The ambassador has three young children, and all three of them knew who this guy was. [HHP] walking into their house was like Jay-Z walking into your house. They were going crazy. I couldnt believe it.
Life for Jabba for the next two weeks would include performing alongside the likes of KRS-One, Jean Grae, Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, Grand Puba, and Pharoahe Monch, meeting pioneers like Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc, and speaking to youth about literacy and education. He would also be touring art centers, hosting jam sessions, lecturing at colleges and universities, fundraising for HIV/Aids causes and victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti, and much morewith a film crew documenting each step through.
And many of the artists have been thrilled to take part. Pharoahe Monch heard about it, Rahzel (formerly of The Roots) heard about it, and instantly said, I want to be down. So, I just think its really dope thats he getting that reception, said Asheru, who described HHP in very complimentary terms: In his heart, hes a good brothervery, very humble.
It was about 12:40 PM when I spoke with HHP on Sunday. He had just woken up following a 4 a.m. jam session with his band and Asheru. He apologized for the slight delay, explaining he was now operating on different time zones and calendars.
We left S.A. just when the sun was going down, and the sun has been up for another 22 hours[its] just like another world, he joked.
The partnership with BloomBars is perfect because, in his origin town, rain is the most important element. Rain is as important as electricity to the [Western] world. And BloomBars is particularly invested in planting the right seeds to make the tree grow. But seed and rain alone are insufficient. A number of other factors must work in sync for a tree to sprout from seed stage and provide life to its surroundings. HHP uses this metaphor to explain how even the negative and misplaced feedback Hip-Hop often catches from unenlightened critics canand shouldbe used as natural fertilizers to bolster the germinating (artistic) process. We take negativity and turn it into something else, says HHP.
But hes thrilled to be involved in this experience which he recently described as a small step for me but a giant step for Africa. This border-crossing is significant because, when you come through, youre not just one person: youre representing those who came before you, youre representing those coming after you. You, yourself, are an ancestor. So, you have to always be connected. And its critical to dispel all the misconceptions about African Hip-Hop or, more accurately, Hip-Hop made in Africa. For genuine exchange to take place, HHP sees it important to educate people about where we come from first. In that sense, its a true cultural experiencewere learning something about this side and [presenting] an idea of whats going on over there.
Hip-Hop in South Africa and in other parts of Africa is indefinable, he explainsvery broad. Much of it arose from arms struggle and tribal wars, eventually taking flesh in forms of escapismways to push back and, if possible, blot out memories of a traumatic past. But artists gradually collected records and rhythms from different genres and different countries, and mashed it up to make one dope sound.
Unfortunately, not many overseas know of this history or how to engage it.
There are so many misconceptions, says HHP. Many believe Hip-Hop made in Africa is still in its indigenous format. While this may be true in part, Hip-Hop on the continent has also elevated to different levels.
And in an age when musicians are more famous than presidents, its critical that artists take seriously their responsibility to educate as much as they entertain; to gather as much misery surrounds them and make something meaningful out of it.
His expectations for the cultural exchange program are ambitious and almost utopian: Im hoping people would become open to each other. We were open to American music; we were open to English music for the longest time(even) when we didnt understand what they were saying. Im only starting to understand more, now that Ive become more fluent in Englishlike, wow, Biggie was saying that?
The more those in the Western world listen to Hip-Hop made in Africawhether understanding all the words or notthe more itll ring in their heads. Far from condescension, fans and artists need to consume it, because therell be a time when youll understand what we are saying.
This would bring into fruition the creation of a global Hip-Hop community that breaks down borders and barriers; that bypasses parochialism and provincialism; that transcends limits and languages.
As Asheru put it, we both grew up on Hip-Hopbut just in two different parts of the world.
For more info, visit: http://www.bloombars.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/BloomBars
Japanese Monks Use Hip-Hop To Recruit New Members
(AllHipHop News) A group of Monks in Japan are using Hip-Hop music to attract new followers to the Buddhist religion.
The Buddhist monks refer to their style of teaching as Buddhism 2010 in an article on CNN.
The new style of monks have dropped traditional Buddhist chants and have incorporated rap and Hip-Hop as a way to introduce new people to the faith.
“Getting the young people back to religion is key to Buddhism’s survival,” Kansho Mr. Happiness Tagai told CNN. “In Japan, it’s a religion in crisis.”
The monks are also putting a spin on traditional Buddhist temples to attract young people, by serving alcohol while they teach.
They reason that their followers talk at ease in a bar like setting, as opposed to the traditional temple, because they are disconnected with modern times.
According to Tagai, Monks new recruiting technique are paying off.
“Twice as many people, especially the young, are now visiting the temple,” Tagai said. “Other monks are even calling me up for advice.”
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