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Knockout Nation: Malignaggi Robbed? Jones-Hopkins Confrontation! Williams-Pavlik Off?! d**k Tiger

Diaz Wins Controversial Decision Over Malignaggi

Hometown fighter Juan Diaz (35-2, 17 KOs) won a competitive albeit controversial decision on Saturday (August 22) against a fired up Paulie Malignaggi (26-3, 5 KOs).

 

With neither man having knockout power, both fighters had to perfectly execute their gameplans. For Diaz, it was a fight of continuous pressure and letting loose quick, combination hooks on the inside. For Malignaggi, the Brooklynite had to dance, and keep the nicknamed “Baby Bull” at bay with the jab while occasionally firing the straight right.

 

In the first round, Paulie was nearly flawless in constantly snapping back Diaz’s head with his jab. With his legs fresh, Paulie didn’t stay inside long and kept his opponent’s offense to a minimum. Still, Malignaggi suffered an early cut over his left eye.

 

But in the second, Diaz adjusted and began to punish Paulie on the inside to the body. Malignaggi’s inside game is weak, and he could do little but try to roll with the punches when Diaz would begin his assaults. In a reversal of the first, Malignaggi was able to cut Diaz over his left eye.

 

 

The middle rounds were nip and tuck, with neither fighter letting the other get more than a round of control. When Paulie boxed and kept moving, he kept Diaz off balance and unable to get set to throw punches.

 

When Diaz cornered him or Malignaggi attempted to rest, Diaz ripped him with hook combinations. Additionally, when Malignaggi got lazy and left his jab out there, Diaz would rattle him with a counter hook.

 

From the eighth through the eleventh, Malignaggi appeared to take control by regaining his legs and working the jab. Diaz kept coming forward, but his legs were slower and Malignaggi was able to stifle his offense with a hard, sturdy jab.  Diaz’s issues were mounting, as an accidental headbutt now opened up a second cut over Diaz’s left eye.

In the final round, Diaz went into high gear and pressured Malignaggi. This time, Diaz was able to get inside and score hooks to the body and head. Malignaggi was still working the jab, but he was less accurate than Diaz who landed the cleaner, harder punches.

 

Scorecards for the bout read a shocking 118-110, 116-112, and 115-113 all for Diaz.

 

Malignaggi was understandably furious, and conducted a memorable post-fight interview and press conference.

 

 

 

 

 

On the undercard, middleweight prospect Danny Jacobs (18-0, 15 KOs) won a clear decision over veteran Ishe Smith (21-4, 9 KOs). And Robert Guerrero (25-1-1, 17 KOs) took a tough decision over Malcolm Klassen (25-5-2, 15 KOs) to win the IBF super featherweight title.

 

Roy Jones and Hopkins Face Off on the Radio

The 10 year battle of words between Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones added another chapter when both legends called into Calvin Murphy’s Houston sports radio show.

 

Originally, Bernard Hopkins was the guest. However, a fired up Roy Jones called in after Hopkins made several comments about Jones being washed up and facing subpar competition.

 

“I won’t do 60-40 (split in your favor) but I will do this, 60% to the winner and 40% to the loser,” Jones countered to Hopkins.

 

“Now see I would be playing myself if I did that,” Hopkins explained. “Because I’m the guy that has the gun and he’s the rabbit. I don’t need Roy to signify my career…I can live with beating Tarver, and an undefeated Glen Johnson who were both Roy Jones’ worst nightmare. I don’t have to play second to anyone anymore.”

 

“As DMX said he’s been eating long enough, stop being greedy. I’ve just started to eat the last 3-4 years and ain’t nobody equal with me. Everyone knows where my heart is, I’ll fight anybody. I’m fighting these young killers and beating them up easy. If Roy Jones is willing to take 40% to prove he still has his legacy and he’s the man, then we can get this thing done before the year is out. If not, then why keep having this soap opera and this damn reality show? It’s crazy!”

 

Roy Jones fired back that his legacy is already superior to Hopkins since he holds a win over the former middleweight champion.

 

“I’m not interested in going up in legacy in beating Bernard Hopkins. I already have a W by his name on my record,” Jones argued. “As far as bowing down and taking 40%, that’s just an ego play to make me the lesser man. I believe I can win the fight even if he and De La Hoya pick the judges because he can’t make a dollar without De La Hoya saying so.”

 

It was an interesting debate, because Hopkins is definitely the bigger draw now and has been facing the greater competition. For Roy to ask for “a winner take all” contract is almost a slap in the face to Bernard for all the work he’s done over the last few years while Jones was rebuilding his career.

 

But you would think there has to be a compromise somewhere, right?

 

The whole debate can be listened to here. It starts at 6:41 mark of Part 3. Whose argument do you agree with? Should Bernard go for winner take all, or should Roy take the 40-60% split?

 

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Pavlik-Williams In Jeopardy Over Injury

Just last week, news hit media outlets that Kelly Pavlik and Paul Williams had come to terms to face each other on October 3 in Atlantic City.

 

Not even a full 24 hours later, the media was hit with more news that bout was now rescheduled to November 21, due to Pavlik suffering from a hand infection.

 

Amazingly, Williams promoter Dan Goossen found this out from a reporter, and remains non-committal since he’s promoting an anticipated Showtime card with his client Andre Ward and Mikkel Kessler.

 

Because that fight is a part of the Super-middleweight tournament, it makes zero business sense for him to split his audience and promote the Williams-Pavlik fight on the same night.

 

“I would be very interested in finding out who he’s fighting [on Nov. 21],” Goossen told Yahoo Sports. “We’ve just learned of Pavlik’s decision to cancel the press conference and thus the fight, and we’ll evaluate where we go from here.”

 

Pavlik’s injury is reportedly on the knuckle of his left hand above his middle finger. His promoter Top Rank isn’t happy with the news either, as Pavlik allegedly just informed them last Monday, and had not seen a physician for treatment of the infection.

 

More information will be given as it becomes available, but as of today Paul Williams has not signed off on the proposed November 21 date.

 

Throwback Fight of the Week: Dick Tiger vs. Gene Fullmer III (August 8, 1963)

Coming into his rubbermatch with rugged brawler Gene Fullmer, middleweight champion Dick Tiger was p#####.

 

Six months earlier, Fullmer was given a dubious draw over 15 rounds in a fight that Tiger was sure he had won comfortably. Experts offered varying opinions, but most agreed that Tiger had taken his foot of the gas and appeared to sit on his early lead. This incensed Tiger, who vowed to his Nigerian countrymen that he would KO Fullmer and leave no doubts as to who was the best middleweight in the world.

 

The bout was held at Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, Nigeria, making Tiger the overwhelming favorite. Fullmer, who lost by decision to Tiger in 1962, was coming to the end of a 12 year career that saw him post brutal battles and wins over Hall of Famers Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basilio, and Joey Giardello. But in Tiger, Fullmer had met a fighter that surpassed him in physical strength and could not be bullied on the inside.

 

From the opening minute of the rubbermatch, Tiger stalked Fullmer and sought to make in a contest of punching power on the inside. Fullmer was forced to give ground, and as a come-forward mauler did not have the skill to box effectively on the backfoot. In the 2nd round, Tiger laid a frightful beating and seemed on the verge of securing an early stoppage.

 

But Fuller hung tough, and remained upright despite several short hooks snapping his head back and knocking him across the ring.

 

Tiger had no respect for Fullmer’s punches, and didn’t even bother setting up his attacks with a jab. The Nigerian champ simply waded in and rained down thudding hooks to the body and head of Fullmer, who was now slowing down considerably by the 5th and languishing on the inside.

 

By the 7th, Fullmer’s was cut above his right eye, bleeding from a possible broken nose, and had no snap on his punches courtesy of Tiger’s relentless body attack. Especially lethal was Tiger’s counter left hook, which found a home on Fullmer’s face whenever the challenger mounted any offense.

 

In the corner, Fullmer could not see out of his badly cut eye, and his manager Merv Jensen requested the bout be stopped, awarding Tiger the stoppage victory.

 

The loss would prove to be Gene Fuller’s last bout, and he retired with a record of 55-6-3, 24 KOs.

 

Dick Tiger would hold the middleweight crown until losing the titles to Hall of Famer Emile Griffith in 1966. He would win the light-heavyweight crown before retiring in 1970 with a record of 60-19-3, 27 KOs.

 

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50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct Pushed Back To Nov.

Rapper 50 Cent recently revealed that his highly anticipated album Before I Self Destruct has officially been pushed back again, this time until November.

 

50 Cent made the announcement during an interview backstage at the Coke Live Festival, in Cracow, Poland last night (August 22).

 

The last confirmed release date for the album had been September 29 and prior to that, September 11.

 

50, who has recorded and the re-recorded BISD, also revealed that a companion movie will come with the rapper’s fourth major studio album.

 

“I was limited [with] time on my other projects, And this one, just because the system was in a state of confusion with things changing – the music business itself changed,” 50 Cent said. “And it was definitely a time where I felt like I was ready and it wasn’t a possibility for me to release the record at that point. And then the Eminem train came running down the track and I had to get out the way to let Eminem’s record [Relapse] go out. Because he had been off for two years, it made good sense for to let him go out first.”

 

The film version of BISD marks the rapper’s directorial debut and is based off of the songs contained on the album.

 

“It will be within the album packaging, so when you buy the record you will get the film that I wrote,” 50 Cent revealed.

 

50 is also working on a new untitled album that will be a radical departure from his previous releases.

 

“[I’m] working on a new project, is so far what they’ve heard from me in the past. It’s different things we are doing that they’ll be surprised to hear. What creatively, I came up with.”

 

According to 50 Cent, Before I Self Destruct will land in stores the first week of November, which would make the release date Tuesday, November 3.

 

The album features production by Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Polow Da Don, Ty Fyffe and others.

 

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Rick Ross In Kingston To Debut Magazeen

Carol City, Florida rap star Rick Ross recently landed in Kingston, Jamaica, where he will introduce his new Jamaican artist Magazeen to the dancehall community.

 

Magazeen is the only dancehall act signed to Ross’ Maybach Music Group (MMG) and his music is a fusion of dancehall, Hip-Hop , R&B and pop music.

 

While they are on the island, the pair will shoot three video for the songs “Psalms 27,” “Sevens Eleven” and “Real Jamaicans.”

 

“I’m here to show Jamaica new Maybach Music star Magazeen and what he can do,” Ross said. “And we’re going to take advantage of being here to get the real Jamaican flavor for our videos to show the world.”

 

Magazeen, who can be heard on the track “Yatch Club” from Ross’ album Deeper Than Rap, which landed at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 charts upon its release in April.

 

“I’m coming like a loaded clip with my music,” Magazeen stated. “I’m happy to be coming home to Jamaica. I love my people and it’s great to be back to experience the vibes as I’m working on taking our music to the international level and to all corners of the globe.”

 

Tonight (August 22), Rick Ross and Magazeen will hit the stage at Beenie Man’s annual “Summer Sizzle” birthday bash.

Snoop Teams With Tommy the Clown To Launch C.L.O.U.T.

Snoop Dogg has announced a partnership with entertainer Tommy the Clown to created a new organization called C.L.O.U.T. Foundation (Changing Lives One Youth at a Time).

 

The new foundation’s goal is to provide creative and social outlets for at risk teens, in an attempt to steer them away from drugs and gangs.

 

“As a youth I had one teacher who really pushed me to be the best and gave me an outlet to really feel like I could be somebody – and I became successful partly because of his belief in me,” Snoop Dogg told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “I want to give that to the kids so they know there is more to life than the street hustle or crime. I have been friends with Tommy the Clown for years and see what he has done for so many people; this partnership is very important to me.”

 

The first event organized by C.L.O.U.T. will be a monthly “Battle Night,” where teens from the Los Angeles area can go to showcase their poetry, dance, song, comedy or drama.

 

Tommy the Clown, known for his Krump style of dancing, has performed at countless music industry related events and has entertained for superstars like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer and others.

 

“I am honored to partner with Snoop and establish an opportunity for the kids in our community,” Tommy the Clown stated. “When you have clout, you have strong influence. I believe the clout both Snoop and I have will help influence these kids to make some positive decisions about their future.”

 

Tommy the Clown is currently preparing for a national workshop tour that will teach children and adults how to master Krumping.

Paul Wall Off To Southeast Asia To Support Military

Houston rapper Paul Wall took time to speak to AllHipHop.com today (August 21) about his motivations to participate in his third USO tour, as he prepared to embark on a nearly day-long journey.

 

Paul Wall, and Florida-based DJ Smallz, departed Washington, DC on a mission to show their support for US troops deployed in Southwest Asia.

 

The trip, which was announced earlier this week, has been a year in the making, revealed Paul Wall, who previously visited Kuwait and Iraq on separate USO tours.

 

“This was actually something that Smallz has been wanting to do,” Paul Wall told AllHipHop.com. “We’ve been going back and forth, trying to find the right time to go. But you know, we’ll get last minute shows and things like that. We finally decided to just pick a date.”

 

The decision to return to the Middle East region was also personal for Wall.

 

“My grandfather was a Lieutenant Colonel in the military and I grew up in a very small family,” shared the 28-year-old father of two. “He was all I knew for a long time. And then I have a lot of friends who were in the military, I lost a couple friends in Iraq. And then I heard a statistic that 80% of the military in the Middle East is either from Texas or stationed in Texas.

 

“So, going over there, it was just an amazing feeling,” he continued, “[To see] 5,000 troops with their assault riffles on their backs, they got their bulletproof vests on and everything, and their just going crazy, holding up Texas flags.”

 

During his visit to Iraq, Wall was accompanied by two friends, a far cry from the group of 12 he travelled with to Kuwait, as part of a Hip-Hop comedy tour organized by actor/comedian Jamie Kennedy. The smaller entourage allowed for the opportunity to explore Iraq and to forge a much more personal bond with the troops.

 

During the visit, Wall befriended two soldiers deployed from Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, about three hours from Houston; both about his age and had been married for approximately the same amount of time.

 

While he was in Iraq, Wall saw one of his new friends, who happens to have a son about the same age as Wall’s own son. His friend received news that, despite having served his full deployment, he would be remaining in Iraq for an additional six months due to a stop loss.

 

“I was there a week and I was already going crazy missing my son,” Paul Wall recalled. “I could only imagine what he was going through. Feeling that and seeing it just made me wanna do my duty and go over there even more to perform.”

 

Once he makes it back to the States, Paul Wall will be back to work, continuing his recent recording schedule, which finds him in the studio working on several collaborations and laying the foundation for his third major label release.

 

But his primary focus, he says, will be on the continued success of Expensive Taste, the clothing line he launched with close friends Travis Barker and Skinhead Rob. The clothing label was born almost out of frustration, after Paul Wall’s contractual obligations to Atlantic Records prevented the trio from pursuing a recording contract as a group also named Expensive Taste.

 

“We actually started the line as t-shirt to sell as merchandise to our fans,” explained Paul Wall. “We took the logo Mr. Cartoon had created for our group, and put them on shirts to promote the music. And it got real popular. So we took it one step further and said, “F**k it, since Atlantic won’t let us do the group, we’ll just make it a clothing line.”

 

Immediately following Wall’s return to the States, Expensive Taste will launch its latest collection at the Magic Fashion Tradeshow in Las Vegas August 31 – September 2.

BREEDING GROUND: K.Dot

K. Dot: Reality Rap

Coming from a city with a storied rap history can be a lot of pressure for a new artist, no pressure for Compton MC, K.Dot.  For K.Dot, it’s not all about the glamour and glitz its more about making real music that the people will feel.  Since the age of 15, K.Dot has been attacking the mixtape scene with his music and appearances on street DVDs, and with no sign of letting up he continues to grind it out.

AllHipHop.com spoke with the West Coast star on the rise, and spoke about the various things going on in his career, his life in Compton, and how come artists aren’t being really real with the people who listen to their music.  K. Dot is speaking on behalf of a new generation

 

AllHipHop.com: Coming from a city with a storied Hip- Hop legacy, how does it feel to uphold the city’s legacy being a newcomer?

K.Dot: Oh Yeah! It’s always a big responsibility especially coming from behind those legends. I feel like I got to carry the throne and carry that type of reality music that they’ve brung to the table and keep that legacy going.  Because I feel that there’s no one really out there that’s putting it down like that on what we started the root, as “gangsta rap” not actually like that, but real, real music.

AllHipHop.com: Who were your influences?

K.Dot: When I first started writing, DMX’s first album, It’s Dark and Hell is Hot. When I first heard that I was in middle school, I started penning right then and there, but, ultimately at the very first beginning when I started stuntin’ into music my household always played Tupac, always  played Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. So, I was musically influenced from an early age by the west coast, you know, I could remember saying to myself I want to rap just like Tupac looking in the mirror talking to myself.

AllHipHop.com: Being that you were influenced by the West Coast, how was it that an East Coast album triggered the pen to start writing?

K.Dot: It was raw!  That music wasn’t out at the time, at the time we had the commercial stages of Hip- Hop. But DMX brought it back and started speaking from the streets and the stuff we go through, and that wasn’t captured at the time. It was refreshing, new, it was energetic, and it was what I liked, man. It reminded me of ‘Pac, he came right after he died. So it was a big influence on me.

AllHipHop.com: You had a mixtape called Y.H.N.I.C. that started a movement out west. Were their any other artists that you looked to as inspiration for the music, that helped with the development of it?

K.Dot: If you got to study from somewhere might as well study from the best. I collectively bought a lot of CDs from Snoop, Dre, to Jay-Z’s first album Reasonable Doubt, Nas, to Big. I went to sleep with their music in my head playing over and over again. The talents already there, I just need to perfect my craft, and see what these cats are doing that I’m not doing, lyrically. I’m a perfectionist of the game, I studied that, then I put my own lil’ spin on it from what I know.

AllHipHop.com:  They were all very good lyricists that were able to connect their stories with the listening audience. Were you using a lot of your own  life experience in your music?

K.Dot: I got to.  The way I’m a do it is from a different perspective, I’m from Compton, its violent, gangs and want not. But my story that hasn’t been told is coming from another angle. It’s coming from a dude sitting on the curb and watching all this going on, similar, to Nas looking through his project window and writing what’s going on.  I’m coming from that perspective; instead of ultimately just going straight in for the kill and shoot everybody down. I’m breaking down the reasons why we do this, where it comes from,  and the youth in the streets, and the circumstances that bring us to this point.

 

AllHipHop.com: At 15, you appeared on a street DVD called How the West Was One, that appearance helped boost you from Compton to the outer lying areas of L.A., is that when you linked with Top Dawg Entertainment?

K.Dot: To make a long story short, I put out that first mixtape Y.H.N.I.C., had that bubbling in the streets. It just so happens to catch the ear of Top Dawg, the man that runs the label,  he invited me to the studio told me to hop in the booth, freestyle for an hour, literally, did that and it was magic from there. He seen the potential and we’ve been rocking since then.

AllHipHop.com: You had a follow up to that mixtape called Training Day that was well received by a lot people. What would you say was the catalyst for all the positive feedback especially for the ones who didn’t get the memo before?

K.Dot: It was the consistency, that’s what it was all about. The more I put out the more people took notice to the lyrics are getting better and the talent was improving. I feel that if you have consistency the sky’s the limit.

AllHipHop.com: How’d you meet up with Jay Rock, was it through the management company?

K.Dot: Let me put it this way, Compton and Watts is five minutes away exact. I went to Centennial High and being that are hoods are close we had the same mutual friends.  I seen him all the time and always said, “What up!” it just so happened he messed with the same person that was interested in my mixtape, when I went over to the studio he was right in the booth at the same time. We clicked from that moment on. And it’s been moving since.

AllHipHop.com: Your mixtape that’s out now is called C4, the beginning of the mixtape you have Lil’ Wayne co-signing you on your intro. Also, you have a quote from Jay-Z saying, “Wow, I haven’t heard anybody coming from over there sound like this…”, and The Game also chimed by saying, “K.Dot is a MONSTA”. With all those high praises from well established artists how does that make you feel as new up and coming to hear that being said about you?

K.Dot: It’s a great feeling when anybody respects your craft, man, that actually has a bar code and selling so many records; it gives you more motivation to keep doing what you’re doing.

AllHipHop.com: How did the concept for the C4 mixtape come about?

K.Dot: We were in the studio, and someone said let’s do a mixtape of someone’s whole album it’s never been done. Instead of just grabbing the hottest tracks on a CD and calling it a mixtape; but finding the hottest album at the time and doing the whole joint actually taking the whole flow and flipping it your way. We’d thought it be funny, and after a couple of songs go by it actually started to come out dope, That’s the whole concept of  it for all the bloggers saying that I sound like Wayne or want not.

AllHipHop.com: Any album in the works?

K.Dot:  Of course, I’m about 200 songs deep right now, no exaggerations. I’m doing one thing at a time. I’m focused on music right now, and can’t have no distractions I’ll venture off later once I start from the ground with this music and become successful at it that’s when I’ll move on to other ventures.

AllHipHop.com: You doing any shows or touring?

K.Dot: Yeah, just started a tour with Game, just came back from Portland, Eugene. We just came back today  we’re gonna start back on the 6th on a 30 day tour. Shout out to Game, Jay Rock, and Nipsey Hussle I’m touring with them too.

AllHipHop.com: Anything else you want the readers to know about you? I ask this because you know people don’t really allow themselves to appear human to others, share their feelings and such.

K.Dot: I feel that rappers nowadays they get caught up in the image that they get disconnected from the people that they get disconnected from the people, where they  want to be a superstar, but, they are not putting the real into their music.  I’m not talking about real as in ducking bullets, shooting shots, how hard I came up, and want not. I’m talking about real people stories, you know, I have a song called the “The First Time I Got My Ass Whooped.” What rapper is bold enough to speak on that, talk about the first time someone got the best of them. So, that’s the type of feeling I’m trying to bring in the game, that I feel hasn’t been touched on from an artist coming from Compton that’s the ironic part about it, feel me. That its all real stuff that I haven’t even touched on that I know people are gonna speak on it about and it’s gonna be entertaining for them to show their feelings. I’m speaking for my whole youth, man. I got people from both sides of the fence Crips and Bloods and I’m speaking for them. And they’d love to hear me talk about this.

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Kelis Requests More Financial Support from Nas

After receiving a judgment last month ordering Nas to pay over $44,000 in monthly child and spousal support, singer Kelis is now requesting an increase totaling over $400,000.

 

According to court documents filed by Kelis Rogers lawyer Laura Wasser, her client is entitled to more income since Nas allegedly grosses $244,826.00 per month.

 

In comparison, Wasser states that Kelis only generates 13,744.00 per month and is dependent on Nas to maintain her current lifestyle.

 

Kelis is asking for $17,225.00 a month in child support, $72,728.00 in spousal support, retro child support of $29,522.00, and retro spousal support of $281,571.

 

If the courts approve, Kelis will receive a total of $401,076.00 in addition to the $44,000 plus judgment decreed last month.

 

The July judgment will be reviewed in September, at which time a judge will make a final decision on what Nas will pay in child support, and how long he will required to maintain spousal support for his ex-wife.

 

The star couple divorced in April, with Kelis citing irreconcilable differences.

 

Both parties have kept the matter private, with Nas simply asserting he was a good husband and his happiness at the successful birth of his first son, Knight.

 

At press time, neither Nas nor Kelis could be reached for comment on the latest court proceedings.

Ace Hood’s iRoasting On Twitter

I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

 

My boy DJ Neptune hit me up on Instant Messenger last week and asked me if I saw what “they” were doing to rapper Ace Hood on social network Twitter. I told him no, but that I would check it out as soon as I was near a computer.

 

Once I got there, I bore witness to one of the most vicious, meanest and Inexplicably humorous mob movements in social networking history.

 

Enter: #uknowuacehoodwhen

 

A brief education. On Twitter, when you use the “#” sign and a word it automatically registers the term in the Twitter search. If the topic is popular, it will start “trending” on the site for all to see. Once something starts trending, its popularity starts to swell even more and more people join into the fray. When Michael Jackson died, “#RIP MJ” was a popular trending topic.

 

Well, #uknowuacehoodwhen spread like a wildfire after a 30 day drought in California for poor Ace Hood. The young rapper has released a pair of albums within a 12-month time span, is solid lyrically and has heavy hitters like DJ Khaled backing him. With Def Jam as his recording home, you would think he would be safe from such taunts. Not.

 

Here is a random sampling of some of the funnier jokes by micro-bloggers on Twitter.

 

#uknowuacehood when @iamdiddy wouldn’t steal your publishing

 

#uknowuacehood when on ur song Dj Khalid says “we pretty good” instead of “we the best”

 

#uknowuacehood when DefJam take u to court for downloading a Ace Hood album & “you’ve been punished enough”

 

#uknowuacehood when you’re not on any of the remixes to your song…

 

#uknowuacehood when the next rhyme you write is gona be a suicide note

 

I have to admit, I was laughing out loud at my computer, but also amazed at this hybrid of humor and hate. The Hip-Hop Twitter community quickly adopted an e-mob mentality and commenced to iRoasting (copyright Chuck Creekmur) one of its own like he was Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly. But, iRoast him, they did!

 

But why? I had to ask a few people for this one.

 

But who and how? After a bit of research, I quickly realized that this all started with some guys very familiar in the New York area. The comedy sketch team of itsthereal.com took another trending topic, #uknowuhoodwhen, and flipped it to #uknowuacehoodhwhen and the “internets” ran wild with it. Twitter has a very robust, yet simple search which will allow you to search for these trending topics very easily. I search for “Chuck Norris” all the time. Those are the funniest. Anyway, I contacted the guys of itsthereal.com and Jeff answered a few simple questions explaining how this all came about.

 

AllHipHop.com: What made you start it as a trending topic or did it start some other way like one of your videos?

 

Jeff: This won’t surprise anyone: not much thought went into #uknowuacehood. Very spur-of-the-moment; there was no master plan. All morning, people were tagging their tweets with #uknowuhood hashtags, and I just did a simple word substitution. I made a couple of quick jokes about how only Ace Hood knew who Ace Hood was, thinking nothing of it. It took off immediately, surprising no one more than Eric and myself. But no, I didn’t have any intentions of getting onto the Trending Topics board. I always thought that was reserved for talking about the Jonas Brothers, Twilight, and Things That Are Not Ace Hood.

 

AllHipHop.com: What was the original intent? Did you think it would spiral into THIS mean-spirited, but funning roasting?

 

Jeff: I thought we’d get a couple of retweets, a bunch of LOLs, but didn’t expect it to pick up the way that it did. The whole joke was that nobody knew who Ace Hood was, and so when it spread further out, then the joke turned in on itself because all of these people were making fun of Ace Hood simply because they didn’t know who he was. (Can’t decide if it’s meta, or ironic? Either way, sort-of funny.)

 

As for mean-spirited, I felt pretty bad after 3 hours of people making fun of Ace Hood, because it was just a pile-on by these anonymous commenters. At least with Eric and myself, our faces are out there – – you know who we are. (Actually, you probably don’t. But at least we give you that option!) Thankfully, Ace Hood took it all in stride, putting out a tweet about how appreciative he was to get so much attention. I mean, we did get his name out in one day, more than Def Jam did in two years.

 

AllHipHop.com: What, if anything, does this tell you about social networking and the new community bourgeoning around places like twitter?

 

Jeff: Hmm…I don’t know that #uknowuacehood means anything, really. Nothing changed – even though Ace Hood’s MySpace plays went up for the day – but it was a nice distraction, wasn’t it? The most interesting thing to me was how quickly people jumped onto a trend simply because it was being discussed. No one knew who Ace Hood was, and yet they jumped on the bandwagon. I guess that’s the most intriguing thing about the Twitter community: they just want to be a part of something.

 

Thanks, Jeff! Moving on and closing out, this seems to be a trend that will not stop anytime soon.

 

At least Ace Hood thought it was funny. He said the following  his Twitter: “thank you for makin ace hood a trending topic i appreciate it from the bottom ruthless in stores now lmao ha ha thank u really.”

 

A far less-humorous version of this trend popped up after Bow Wow announced, via Twitter, that he had signed to Cash Money. Suddenly, #justgotsignedtocashmoney was all the rage. Everybody from “Drake’s Knee” to Master P to Gary Coleman and other “signed” to Cash Money.

 

Certainly, it was all in fun, but it also was a glaring statement that the veil is permanently lifted on celebrities.

The street is officially two-way and the people will have their say so – at the expense of stars.

 

I don’t know what’s going on in Ace Hood’s mind these days, but I hope he wasn’t on Twitter those couple of days. They were brutal. Still, for the fun, I had to search to see what came up when I searched for #uknowuacehood.

 

I got the following.

 

#uknowuacehood when you can’t get #signedtoyoungmoney.

 

It just doesn’t stop.

 Chuck Creekmur is the founder of AllHipHop.com, a cultural critic, public speaker and yet to be turned into a trending topic.  Sometimes, he can be found at www.twitter.com/chuckcreekmur.

Juelz Santana Hosts Third Annual Celebrity Weekend

Harlem rhymesayer Juelz Santana is offering two days of memories and fun with his third annual Juelz Santana and Friends celebrity weekend.

 

According to the rap star, the Juelz Santana and Friends weekend is the perfect way to say goodbye to a summer of shorts, sun and daily adventures with friends.

 

“Everyone come out and have fun,” Santana said about the Skull Gang Record co-hosted event. “The summer is almost over and as you all know, our summer didn’t have a lot of sunny days. So, we’ve got to go out with a bang and do it big.”

 

The rapper, along with members of his Skull Gang crew, will be on hand throughout the event as Santana kicks things off today (August 21) by hosting a grown and sexy party at 10 p.m. at Space Odyssey in Englewood, New Jersey.

 

DJ Self will provide music at the party, which will be followed by the Santana’s Town BBQ on Saturday (August 22).

 

The gathering starts at 2 p.m. at the Alpine Boat Basin located in Alpine, New Jersey with music from DJ Envy.

 

Santana’s weekend of fun is the latest endeavor from the rapper, who has made business moves in recent years with the creation of his E1 Entertainment-distributed label, Skull Gang Records.

 

Musically, the rapper is currently gearing up for the winter release of his long-awaited third solo album, Born to Lose, Built to Win.

 

The release is the follow-up to Santana’s 2006 opus, What The Game’s Been Missing. The effort sold more than 1 million copies and spawned the hits “There It Go (The Whistle Song),” “Mic Check,” “Oh Yes” and “Clockwork.”

 

Celebrities participating in the Santana and Friends weekend include rappers Fabolous and Jadakiss, NBA player Wilson Chandler, Tocarra, Rosa Acosta, Angie Martinez and Jordan Hill of the NY Knicks.

 

The star-filled weekend will wrap up Sunday (Aug. 23) with a bus trip to Great Adventure.

Scorpio – Legend2Legend Part 2: Herc, Prince, Rick James

In Part 2 of AllHipHop.com’s Legend2Legend interview with Scorpio of The Furious 5, the rapper digs deep into the origins of Hip-Hop, their “beef” with Bronx legend Kool Herc and their relationship and influence on guys like Prince and Rick James.

 

AllHipHop.com: There was a lot of Jamaican influence in the early days, because the ska dj’s were doing that [toasting, breaks] in the 60’s.

 

Scorpio: But Kool Herc was Jamaican so that’s where his thing came from. Grandmaster Flash was the first actual DJ on planet earth to take turntables and cut on beat. Before, Herc, when he used to play a record and then go to the next record, it sounded crazy, different speeds, like “G#######!” just drop the needle anywhere you’d be like, “Oh, s**t. What is happening?” (laughs) but with Flash he was the first one to start cutting in the Bronx, everything on beat, you could dance and he could go from record to record, you never have to stop dancing. On beat. And with him doing that allowed us to start our rhythm, rhyming. Like the first rhymes was simple stuff like “yes yes y’all, to the beat y’all, the beat beat y’all, and you don’t stop, its on and on and on and on, like hot butter on say what the popcorn,” while he cuts on beat. So that was the original seed of Hip-Hop.

 

Whenever you hear they rhymes patterns and skills today, that’s what it started from, on beat, on time, on rhythm. And that was the Furious Five, nobody on planet earth, no legend, no Herc, no Afrika Bambaataa, nobody would ever deny that… – Scorpio of the Furious 5

 

AllHipHop.com: Did you ever work with Herc back then?

 

Scorpio: Never. He hated us. He was the King of the Bronx at one point. I can remember going into his thing [where] he used to play in a spot called the PAL, we used to be a break crew called the D Squad and he know we was slowly trying to get into music, and Herc would see Flash and say on the mic “I like to welcome the D**k Squad in the house y’all!” He used to straight diss us. He would take all the bass out and say: “This is the way Grandmaster Flash sound” and it be all tweeters and then say: “and this is the Herculoids” and put all the bass back in, it’d be like “boom boom booom.” He used to diss us crazy. We didn’t speak. At all. He hated us.

 

 

AllHipHop.com: I heard it was when Herc got stabbed that he kinda went off the scene for a while.

 

Scorpio: When he got stabbed, Herc was a big strong dude. What happened was somebody tried to steal his chain or some s**t but he didn’t go off the scene. When he recovered he was still around. That wasn’t why we came up, we came up because we had the most talented emcees and the most talented DJ on planet earth. Our group was so unique compared to all the other groups, even the groups back then like the Cold Crush, we were so far ahead of them because of the style of routines and the realism of our raps.

 

 

AllHipHop.com: How did your distinctive fashion come about?

 

Scorpio: We always dressed alike, even from back in the Bronx when we started rhyming. We all had Lee suits we would iron with a bunch of starch. We didn’t come out individually, we always looked uniform. We was the criteria for rap for most of the other groups in the Bronx, the Cold Crush, Fantastic 5, the Funky 4, they all followed suit, because we was truly the leaders of it. And that’s not coming from an arrogant space, that’s just from a reality space. I had a lot to do with that because as far as the Furious Five I was the most fashionable one as far as like my style. I used to go to Harlem and buy all my clothes from a spot called AJ Lester. We was playing with groups like Parliament, Rick James, Prince, Zapp and Roger, and these cats was tight, it was theatrical, it was a show. At that time there was a little punk rock going around and we were running with Rick James and them.

 

 

AllHipHop.com: Did you know the record “Scorpio” was going to be such a huge hit when you recorded it?

 

Scorpio: Of course not. With “Scorpio” all we wanted was a song on the level of Planet Rock. So we did it but we had no idea how huge it was. I remember we did a show with Rick James and he was all fired up and couldn’t go on. He was doing his thing. We used to make a lot of money with Rick because promoters would be like, “Yo, we can’t find Rick! Can y’all go back out to the crowd? We will give you another $10,000.” So sometimes we would make triple the money, because you wouldn’t ever know when Rick would come out. So they asked to come back out, and we had already played all the records, I remember it was at Dallas Arena, 18,000 people there, and Rick’s not there and we didn’t know what to do so it was just like lets put on Scorpio and the crowd went crazy.

 

By the time Run and them came out it was full blown, like OK this is Hip-Hop, but they stripped it down. They still wore the leather, but without the spikes and studs, and they wore sneakers. But the leather, that was our era and that was us. That wasn’t Prince. That wasn’t Rick. That was us.-Scorpio of the Furious 5

 

AllHipHop.com: What were you all doing with Rick James?

 

Scorpio: Everything. He was like my father in this industry. I did it all with Rick. That was my dude, we was freaks, man, we was straight freaks. You gotta understand we came up in the zone there wasn’t all them diseases out there at the time it was a lot safer.

 

AllHipHop.com: Whats the most naked girls you seen in a room at one time?

 

Scorpio: Its not that many… Maybe 10.

 

 

AllHipHop.com: Laughing

 

Scorpio: That’s not very much, it was just the ambiance of the time. When we were doing Hip-Hop on tour it was really a revolution. It wasn’t no violence or anything, but everywhere we went people didn’t know what it was. We would go places and people would be like where the f**k is the band? What seems so natural, to get on stage with just the turntables and the mic, yo, we fought for that. By the time Run and them came out it was full blown, like OK this is Hip-Hop, but they stripped it down. They still wore the leather, but without the spikes and studs, and they wore sneakers. But the leather, that was our era and that was us. That wasn’t Prince. That wasn’t Rick. That was us.

 

Fans in the United Kingdom be sure to check out Scorpio, The Furious 5 and Kurtis Blow on the Legends2Legend Tour this September. Click here for more info.

 

Damn Plax…This Has to Hurt…

Earlier today, former New York Giant, Plaxico Burress, pleaded guilty to weapons charges which will land him in jail for a minimum of 20 months and two years of supervised release (plea agreement). It was best that he took this route because if this case went to trial, he faced a minimum of 3 ½ years in prison if convicted.

Damn Plax, you just celebrating a Superbowl championship ten months before the incident at the Latin Quarter nightclub in ’08. Plax, you just inked a 35 million dollar contract months before this incident. Plax, you fought so hard to achieve any success you’ve obtained, and now, this?

People would say you had your reasons for walking into the club that night with a loaded weapon. You have a family to take care of that can’t afford for the breadwinner not to make it back home. Maybe you felt that you owed it to your teammates, especially Eli Manning who couldn’t throw a party without you, let alone a completed pass for the rest of the season.

One week prior to the incident, your Giants teammate, David Tyree was said to have been robbed at gunpoint by his driver. So you had your reasons.

But damn Plax, these are the very reasons why you shouldn’t have been strapped that night. The judiciary system could care less about why you’ve acted in such a way. And almost a day after you were charged, Mayor Bloomberg saw an opportunity to separate you from your stardom, while placing you up on a cracked pedestal as an example to others. It’s sad to say it but you gave him the example to speak upon. If others would take heed to it is another story.

Sentencing begins on September 22, 2009. Damn, didn’t another NFL star get released this spring? Damn Plax, in the great words of Ludacris when rapping was his full-time job, “Do your time homey; don’t let your time do you.”

Will “Deshair™” Foskey is a journalist/blogger from New Jersey. His blog “The Race to Nowhere” was launched this past June to rave reviews.