Yukmouth, the smoked-out Oakland native and Luniz rapper, makes his return to AllHipHop.com with this new, dramatic feature. The last time we spoke to the Regime Boss, he was releasing his last album on Rap-A-Lot Records called Million Dollar Mouthpiece back in 2008. Since then he released The West Coast Don in 2009 on his own imprint Smoke-A-Lot Records and has now released his latest album, Free At Last. Aside from his musical projects, Yukmouth has also been in the media lately due to an unfortunate robbery at a Ralph’s Supermarket out in Woodland Hills, CA located in Los Angeles County suburb, the San Fernando Valley. News outlets and Police statements indicated that former Death Row boss Suge Knight was involved in the incident and Yukmouth was quick to state that was not true. Yukmouth talks about that situation in this new detail as well as new release Free At Last which is now in stores. AllHipHop.com: You are back with a new album in stores now called Free At Last. The obvious reason is about your freedom from the labels, but is there another meaning behind that title?Yukmouth: Yes. For this album I was free from jail. The last album, West Coast Don, I was locked up in the L.A. County Jail. I went in for driving without a license. I literally wrote that whole album in jail. Being free from jail allowed me to network and search for the beats to match the songs. That makes a difference and this is a totally different album for that reason. I’m free from record labels. Free from Rap-A-Lot. Free from Virgin Records. I’m able to do my own thing now. When you are under contract to a label, sometimes you are not free to carry out your own ideas. For that reason, I couldn’t do the Regime album and other projects that I wanted to do. Now that I’m free at last, I can f**kin’ do whatever the f**k I want to do. I’m doing the Thug Lords album – that’s me and C-Bo. I’m finally doing The Regime album after pushing it for 13 years. I’m able to spread my wings and fly away and that’s the basic meaning behind Free At Last. AllHipHop.com: I’ve always wondered why so many rappers get busted for driving without a license or having a suspended license. Yukmouth: My thing is this; motherf**kers like us don’t feel like standing in the DMV line for hella hours. We’ve got hella sh*t to do. We have our girls or family members get the cars in their names. We just drive the thing until we get pulled over. Then the car gets impounded for 30 days and we go the f**k to jail (laughs). If you get 10 of those, then they are going to give your a** some time, like they gave me. I had 10 tickets for driving without a license and they got tired of my a** and gave me time. I originally was sentenced to 7 months but I only served 3. It also has to do with luxury cars. I’m driving nothing but Benz’ and Range Rovers, so when the cops see a young black man driving those cars, they want to pull them over. They ask questions about where I got the car or where did I get the money for it. Then they find out that I have no license – it’s off to jail.

“Motherf**kers want me to buy it back. I

ain’t buying that chain back! You can have that motherf**ker. I’ll buy a

new chain before I buy that one back. It will have more diamonds…”-Yukmouth

AllHipHop.com: Did you finally just bite the bullet and stand in that DMV line for your license?Yukmouth: Yes! F**k that! I’m licensed the f**k out! They can’t tell me sh*t anymore. I’ve got my Cannabis Club license, my drivers license – all that sh*t. They can’t f**k with me now. I’m MC Hammer – 2 Legit 2 Quit! AllHipHop.com: Tell us about your L.A. County Jail experience. Yukmouth: I was on Celebrity Row which is where they put all of the celebrities that are locked up in County. They have to keep you away from the rest of the jail population or you can sue them. They automatically threw me in there. Celebrity Row was were O.J. Simpson was held. The Game was held there too. When I was there they had Lawrence Phillips, the football player, next to me. I happened to be in the same cell that held O.J. My homie Caffeine from the movie Menace II Society was locked up with me. We all talked cell to cell everyday, passing things down the fish-line. They call it fishing when you connect the thread to something. You rodeo swing that sh*t and throw that motherf**ker down the hall. Don’t think Celebrity Row was some corny sh*t. We weren’t up there with those pink gay n****s. We were up there with n****s who were in there for serious things. AllHipHop.com: The Game was locked up at the same time with you?Yukmouth: No. He was there like a month before me. He only did a week – so he came in and got the f**k out. It wasn’t a picnic in there. Celebrities got harassed too. Caffeine kept getting thrown in the hole. I heard Game got harassed too. The inmates that were there told me that they (jail guards) were f**king him up just because of who he was. You’ll go to take a shower and come back to find your cell tore up. AllHipHop.com: You’ve been in Los Angeles for a while now. What are your thoughts on the city?Yukmouth: L.A is cool. I came out here for the industry. I was 18 when we got our record deal as The Luniz and my focus was on the music and getting away from the hood. I was too involved in the streets. I turned a drug deal in to a record deal – literally. Virgin Records is based in Beverly Hills, so we were flying out every week and we just decided to move out there to avoid all of that. I’ve been networking ever since. I’ve got movies, a SAG card, p####’s – all types of sh*t. Things that I wouldn’t have been able to do in the Bay Area. The networking is outrageous out here. I was at Roscoe’s Chicken N Waffles and this dude was like, “You got the face! You got the face!” He did that little camera squared thing with his hands. Next thing you know I’m on flight to Phoenix, AZ dressed in some Zulu sh*t for $7,000. It’s just things like that – that happen out here and won’t happen out in the Bay Area. I also mix in with the rap scene out here too. On my new album you’ve got 211 from Inglewood, he’s a Blood. Roccett from Carson is on there too, he’s a Crip. Jay Rock who’s a Blood from Watts is on the album too. On my last album I had Glasses Malone. Crooked I is my ace. I f**k with all of the young n****s in the game that’s coming up in L.A and the OG’s too. I’ve done songs with MC Ren and MC Eiht – I get love out there.

“I saw the comments on your site with

people calling me a snitch. A snitch presses charges, goes to court and

testifies. I didn’t do none of that s**t!”-Yukmouth

AllHipHop.com: Looking back over your career, you seem to be a lightning rod for trouble with other rappers. Why is that?Yukmouth: A lot of it was due to loyalty. The Too-Short beef was out of loyalty to my record label because they had problems with his record label. The G-Unit beef was loyalty to Rap-A-Lot because  they had an allegiance with Murder Inc. and they felt we should get involved with their little beef. A lot of it was just being loyal to my crew and to my record label. I’m not a bully and I don’t attract beef – and that’s why I don’t have any right now. Everything in the past was either defense or being loyal to my crew. I don’t just wake up on the wrong side of the bed and say, “F**k this n***a.” That’s not my land. I don’t have to diss someone to make people listen to my album. AllHipHop.com: I know that you squashed your beef with The Game but I have to ask you about a member of Black Wall Street named Menace holding up your chain on his Twitter after your recent robbery. He stated that he wasn’t the one who took it but it did make some wonder if there were lingering issues between you and The Game.     Yukmouth: I’m break that whole sh*t down. Like I said, I don’t have any beef with G-Unit anymore or The Game. Lately n****s have probably seen me with 40 Glocc and he has an issue with that rapper you mentioned. They are beefing and doing what they do. Now me and 40 Glocc are cool but I’m not in Zoo-Life and he’s not in Regime. We see each other, we hang out, go in the studio – and that’s it. But I guess to antagonize 40 Glocc and even me for hanging out with him, he had that picture with a message  for 40 Glocc to come get the chain back. Some little b*tch a** sh*t trying to involve me in their beef in which I have nothing to do with. Whatever their beef is, it’s theirs. Now if The Game had said that, it would be different. But it was the n***a that had beef with 40 Glocc that knows that I get along with 40. I don’t have beef with The Game though – we’re good. AllHipHop.com: Did you ever get the chain back?Yukmouth: I’ll let the street sh*t stay in the street. AllHipHop.com: No problem. I was just curious if it was back in your possession. Yukmouth: Naw, naw, naw. (Pauses) I’ll put it out there. I could have gotten it back. I could’ve had it the next day. Motherf**kers want me to buy it back. I ain’t buying that chain back! You can have that motherf**ker. I’ll buy a new chain before I buy that one back. It will have more diamonds and I’ll make the price sign bigger. All this has done is make me turn it up more on n****s. Watch what my next jewelry set. Most artists buy their sh*t back but I don’t do that ransom sh*t. I’m a real street n***a and rap n***a. You’re not going to get me like that cashing out – f**k that! I’ll cash out at the jewelry store for another one before I do that sucker sh*t. AllHipHop.com: When I roll to Ralph’s Market, I’m in my sweats and slippers. I’ve been wondering why you were at that market with all of that jewelry?Yukmouth: Let me get this clear. I was coming from my video shoot. I was shooting for “The Hard Way” in Woodland Hills, CA at a Mansion. I’m coming down the street and I pulled over at Ralph’s to talk to somebody. That’s when the motherf**kers got up on me, jumped me and robbed me. I pulled up to Ralph’s to go holler at one of my people’s. I don’t go to f**kin’ Ralph s with $80,000 worth of jewelry. I was on my way to the next set of the video shoot so I had my outfit on. AllHipHop.com: Do you feel you were set up? The circumstances look a little fishy.  Yukmouth: No. I just think I was caught slippin’. I shouldn’t have pulled over to Ralph’s. That market is on the main street. You know how many people drive down Ventura Boulevard? N***s saw me, bust a U-Turn, came to the lot and did what they did. I never should’ve pulled over to stop. I just caught slippin’. A set up is someone calling you somewhere and then having someone there to get you. I was the one that pulled over. It happens to the best of us. You are from L.A so you know how things go down. These n***as touchdown at every B.E.T. Awards and event. N****s get robbed at restaurants, hotels, and broad daylight. This was my first incident and it wasn’t at gunpoint. A lot of n****s jumped me and they snatched my chain. Ask these rappers. I ain’t even going to say names. Ask the biggest producers and your favorite rappers how many times they’ve been robbed out here. That sh*t happened in a confrontation. I wasn’t at a hotel room or at Roscoe’s where n****s come in and rob me at gunpoint. For me to get jumped and having my chain snatched as opposed to n****s getting shot like Waka Flocka – I’m good. I got jumped but I came out looking like Mohammed Ali. I wasn’t looking like Lil B The Base God, Waka Flocka or none of them n****s. I shot a video 3 days later with no black eyes or anything – so I’m good.

AllHipHop.com: The police indicate that Suge Knight was involved and then you stated that he had nothing to do with the robbery. What is the truth?Yukmouth: I pulled over to talk to Suge. The police asked me what was I doing with $80,000 worth of jewelry on and I told them that I pulled over to talk to another mogul. This is my n***a Suge. They decide that they were going to put it on him. I’m like, “No! It was 11 n****s that pulled up and surrounded the both of us!” Suge got up on out and they got up on me! But since I said that I pulled over to talk to Suge, they decide that he was involved in it and they forgot about those 11 other n****s. They didn’t even pay attention to what the witnesses at Ralph’s said. They were the one’s who called the police. Let me make that clear because I did not call the police. There were people in the Ralph’s parking lot that saw everything go down. They called the Police and they rolled up in there hella fast. Police out here got TMZ on speed dial. AllHipHop.com: I appreciate you clearing that up. Yukmouth: I had too! I saw the comments on your site with people calling me a snitch. A snitch presses charges, goes to court and testifies. I didn’t do none of that sh*t! N****s need to watch what they say when it comes to me. I never did any of those things, so how am I a snitch? The cops want to go after Suge because he’s a big name and they want to make a name for themselves with a big story. They are trying to false accuse this man because they want him. They don’t give a f**k about the 11 n****s who surrounded me with their cars. All you hear is Suge, Suge, Suge. Man I was just talking to this n***a! Suge was about to get robbed too! AllHipHop.com: The last time we spoke to you in 2008, you told us how you were at odds with your Luniz partner Numskull. Has there been any progress since?Yukmouth: I don’t have any problems with Numskull. Whatever his problem is with me, it is what it is. That’s still my brother for life. He’s in jail right now so all we can do is pray for him and his family. When he gets out hopefully we can heal the wounds and do a Luniz reunion album. It’s on him. I’m always game. I created everything about the Luniz from the name, the logo and our rap names. Why would I ever quit that? I came up with the whole formula. It’s Luniz for life with me.  

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Foxy Brown, Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj are beefing and a battle is imminent! Well, not exactly. Lil Kim and Foxy Brown both emerged in the 90’s and were deemed the crème of their respective crops at that time, but in 2010, they both seemingly have grievances with the new kid, Nicki Minaj. Nicki has been compared to both of her predecessors at some point in time, but more recently she has been able to establish herself in her own right. She’s got millions of minions as proof.

While it is highly unlikely, we decided to stage a fake battle between the ladies by citing specific moments in each’s career. Check it and judge for yourself. Who would win a battle between Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj and Foxy Brown?

THEIR GULLIEST MOMENT

Puff Daddy, Lil’ Kim, B.I.G. and the LOX – “All About The Benjamins”

Kim killed the track, destroying it so much that they gave Biggie a totally new beat to spit over.

Foxy Brown (With LL Prodigy, Keith Murray, LL Cool J, Fat Joe) : “I Shot Ya?”

This is a classic posse cut anchored by Mr. Smith (LL Cool J), but right before the anchor came the co-anchor – Foxy Brown. In a setting like this, a female rapper could have gotten eaten like a Twinky, but not Fox. She literally bodied it with hardcore, calm and believable lyrics. Flow!

This was important for Nicki, because it was the first time she was seen in a hardcore freestyle scene on a wide scale. Also, Da Cypher was crazy with lyricists like Joe Budden, Buckshot and others and Nicki shined bright.

THE HITS!

Lil Kim has her share of hit records, but “No Time” is the chosen song, where she stood alone. Kim also exemplified the ill hood couture that would go on to be used by those in and outside of Hip-Hop.

Foxy’s first album hit the 3 million mark and part if it was due to the singles “I’ll Be” (featuring Jay-Z) and “Get Me Home” (featuring Blackstreet). Here they are.

Nicki doesn’t really have an album out, but he’s recently released “Massive Attack,” which has gotten mixed reviews. Fans love it and people on the fringes are iffy. A zillion hits on youtube speaks volumes.

THE “MEN” IN THEIR LIFE

Nicki’s got Drake, Lil Wayne and the whole Young Money as the support group.

Here is an old video from Nicki and Weezy “Higher Than A Kite.”

Now Foxy has had the privilege of being linked to two of the long-running kings of rap, Jay-Z and Nas. Don’t forget AZ.

Here is “Affirmative Action” with Nas and the Firm.

Here is Foxy with CNN on “Bang Bang,” where Foxy dissed both Lil Kim and Diddy. Quite a bit of drama came out as a result of this era and Kim ultimately did time in jail.

Lil Kim had the big man himself – Notorious B.I.G. They, along with Junior M.A.F.I.A. created the hit record “Get Money.”

Kim and Biggie played like they hated each other, but they loved each other…exemplified by this song, “Another.”

THEIR LOOKS!

All these ladies look great and serve as some real sugary eye candy. Enjoy!

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Lauryn Hill performed at the 32nd Annual Harmony Music Festival in Santa Rosa, California and wowed the audience with a performance that lasted a stunning 75 minutes. She spanned through her hits such as “Ex-Factor,” “Fu-Gee-La,” and “Doo Wop (That Thing).” Check out the vids below.

Since today (June 20th) is Father’s Day, AllHipHop.com reached out to a variety of rappers to discuss the importance of the holiday, which was founded in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane, Washington. Father’s Day is now celebrated by tens-of-millions of people, in 55 countries around the world.  “He’s worth more/than every star up in the sky/With that look of forgiveness, always in his eye/He worked so hard, but was gentle as a lamb/He gave up so much to make me what I am/ Let Me Be The Man My Daddy Was – The Chi-Lites Growing up, my father was always active in my life and my brothers and sisters. ALL of our lives!He spent his time working and some of his other time drinking, playing softball and listening to music. Like most African-American men of a certain generation, my father left the South and came North seeking a better life, after being educated and earning a degree in chemistry from Livingstone, University, a North Carolina. After settling in upstate New York, my mom and dad squeezed out my older sister, me and my younger brother, before packing up to live where I call home, Delaware U.S.A. I have been into Hip-Hop my entire life, and it was my father who drove me to get my first pair of snake skin, shell-toes in 1985 and to my first Hip-Hop concert, which featured Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay, around 1986.I feel lucky because I have inherited and benefited a lot from being around my father, including his intellect. I can speak to him like a friend and a brother, although I definitely know and respect my boundaries as his child. I have inherited his sense of humor, his laugh, “some” of his old habits 🙂 and even the mole on the left side of my nose.But I grew up with and around plenty of people who didn’t have fathers in their lives and most of them have grown up perfectly functional, due to a loving, extended family. Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon the Chef is a working example of this concept.“Growing up without a father in the home, I have always treasured the role I play in my children’s lives,” Raekwon told AllHipHop.com. “The greatest gifts I’m given by my children don’t come on June 20th, it’s when they wrap their arms around me and give me the ‘I Love You, Daddy,’ that I live for. This day reminds me of my accomplishments as a man. I encourage any man with children to take your role seriously. This year step your game up with your kids. They need to know that they can depend on you. They need to be able to look at your life as an example of how they should live their own.” But due to war, violence and oppression, communities around the world have had to learn that a father isn’t always a “male.” Sometimes the father figure is a grandmother, mother, sister or brother out of a necessity.“I respect all fathers who handle their responsibility to their children,” Trina told AllHipHop.com. “I’d also like to send out a special thank you to all the women that have to play father today as well.”For Houston rapper Paul Wall, his father has always been his #1 hero and inspiration. “He adopted me and showed me what it means to be a real man,” Paul Wall told AllHipHop.com. “I hope to honor him and walk in his footsteps, and hope that one day my son will have the same love and respect for me that I have for my father.”Tek, of Smif-N-Wessun makes sure that he plays a role in his son’s life each and every day, despite the his demanding job as a rapper who travels around the world on a regular basis. “Everyday I’m with my son, I can’t take time off when it gets crunch time,” Tek told AllHipHop.com. “I can’t pick a day in a month to love him any more or any less, it’s still the best feeling I ever experienced and it’s on the job training is priceless. I plan to spend the day as all other days. Wake up brush our teeth, shower get dressed so fresh while we listen to music. I’ll tell him I love him and do what we do, yadigg!”When we last interviewed Compton, California rapper Game, he was disappointed because of a travel commitment that cannot be broken would interrupt this year’s Father’s Day celebration.But he was quick to shoot down any notions that his children were neglected in any way shape or form, because of the quality time that he spends with them on the norm. “I ain’t gon’ be no where near my kids. So I’ma cry on my own time and I feel a tear coming on now (points to the tear tattoo on his face…,” Game told AllHipHop.com. “I’ll probably celebrate, but just talking to my kids and maybe have a drink and just enjoy that day. My kids do that most amazing stuff for me and I love them to death. And they love me. They love me everyday. I be having Father’s Day on regular days of the week.”According to Xzibit, being a parent is one of the most challenging tasks he faces on a day-to-day basis. After losing a child at birth in May of 2008, Xzibit was overjoyed earlier this week when his second son, Gatlyn, was born on Wednesday (June 16th). “They didn’t asked to be brought here so, MAN UP, and handle it,” Xzibit stated in an Father’s Day special he penned titled Fathers & Figures. “When you have children, love them, stay involved with them, teach them what you know. If you don’t know much, love them enough to make sure they get the education and opportunities you didn’t,” Xzibit told AllHipHop.com.Happy Father’s Day, from AllHipHop.com.

Fathers & Figures:It’s Father’s Day and I am spending it with my lady, my newborn son Gatlyn and my 15 year-old-son Tremayne. I have been blessed. I would also like to take this time to say that being a REAL father to your children is THE most important thing that you will ever do as a man. Any idiot with a d**k can get a woman pregnant. It’s the desire to see the success of your children, no matter what they decide to become, that makes you a father. It’s up to you to lead and live by example. There is no handbook on being a father. It’s not easy by any means and it takes a lot of work, but they didn’t asked to be brought here so, MAN UP, and handle it. When you have children, love them, stay involved with them, teach them what you know and if you don’t know much, love them enough to make sure they get the education and opportunities you didn’t. Show them you love them everyday regardless, whether happy, sad, rich or poor. It doesn’t take money to spend time. You may miss a few hangouts with the fellas, you may get dissed by people who don’t HAVE any children, but guess what….nothing in life is more rewarding and fulfilling then having raised a wonderful person inside and out and seeing them be a productive part of this world we live in and not a destructive part, because that’s the flip side. When you DONT take hold of the responsibility of being a father, don’t trip the street will do it for you and last time I checked, “The streets don’t love you back” (via @Youngde) Happy Fathers Day!!! The West Coast William Wallace with Weapons Worldwide!!!!!!!- Alvin “XZIBIT” Joiner