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Paul Wall Named President Of Texas Grammy Chapter

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: News
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(AllHipHop News) Houston rapper Paul Wall has been elected president of the Texas chapter of the Recording Academy, the organization responsible for The Grammy Awards.The Recording Academy is the organization responsible for organizing the annual Grammy Awards. The rapper previously held the title of Governor alongside notable Houston executives and artists like Mathew Knowles, saxophonist Joe Posada, renowned bass player Chuck Rainey and others. “I’ve been a Governor on the board of the Texas chapter for a long time. There’s a process on how you get nominated [for a Grammy] and it’s done by voting,” Paul Wall told AllHipHop.com. “A lot of people don’t know this and for me, I want to get our membership up in Texas.“Paul Wall, born Paul Slayton, has been nominated for a Grammy, but has yet to win one of the coveted awards. Even though he’s working on a new album titled, Heart of A Champion, Paul Wall said as President of the Texas Chapter of The Recording Academy, his chief aim was to boost the local membership. “There’s so much credible music here in all genres and its so vast,” Paul Wall told AllHipHop.com. “Everything is bigger in Texas but our membership, we are like #6 on the list out of [the] 12 chapters. At the very least, there could be more nominations for artists from Texas.”Paul Wall recently helped to mend a deep division within the Houston hip-hop community, by reuniting with former member Chamillionaire, at the behest specifically of the late Pimp C. of UGK and Atlanta rapper Killer Mike. The pair hit the stage last night in Austin, Texas at SXSW where they launched the “In Love With My Money Tour.” Exclusive footage is below: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

Waka Flocka: The Hate Me Now Interview

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: Features
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After the shooting, but before the black eye. After the arrest. After the comments about lyrics, but before he was fodder for TMZ. I sat down with Waka Flocka Flames. I wanted to meet this person. This is the one that everybody had been talking about, even though I personally had not heard much of his music at that time. My friend’s daughters from Alabama had heard it though. Credit them for making me more interested in this guy. Now my boy’s daughters are clamoring to intern for me because they want to meet Waka too. Interesting, this Waka Flocka Flame guy is. He’s got haters like a tenured, rich rapper, but the adoration of a segment of Hip-Hop that’s not so interested in lyrical prowess. Through it all, Waka seems content in the idea that hate trumps indifference any day.

AllHipHop.com: Well, first of all, good to meet you.  

Waka Flocka: Good to meet you too, likewise.  

AllHipHop.com: You’re definitely a big talk-of-the-town type of individual these days. First of all, the whole shooting thing put you on everybody’s radar beyond the underground scene. Can you talk about your progress beyond that? How you’ve come to this point, being so popular.  

Waka Flocka: I don’t even know. I just stayed in my mind, went hard, and s**t popped.  

AllHipHop.com: How would you describe your style of music?  

Waka Flocka: Hmm, different…Yeah, it’s different.  

AllHipHop.com: What’s your creative process? What do you put into it, as far as what you put down on paper, and eventually what gets to the people? 

Waka Flocka: I really just go off how I feel.  However I feel, that’s how I go. I never ever just create the concept. It’s hard to create the concept and run with it, because you keep your mind boxed in. So I really just, go with the flow.  

AllHipHop.com: How’d you get down with Gucci?  

Waka Flocka: Through the management. My manager, that’s my Momma, my real Momma. So I had met him. I got down cause I hung with him, felt him out, he’s a good person. So why not rock with him?  

AllHipHop.com: Okay, so you weren’t like friends from back in the day or nothing like that? 

Waka Flocka: Nah.  

AllHipHop.com: Okay so how long have you and Gucci known each other?  

Waka Flocka: It’s been some years, probably about 5 years.  

AllHipHop.com: Do you guys bounce off each other creatively? Are you in the studio together?  

Waka Flocka: Gucci bounce off Gucci. I don’t know how he makes that music. Homie can probably make about 12 songs in a day, and still want to go out and party. It’s in him. I don’t know what I feed off. I, sometimes, gotta be in the mood to rap. I’m never in the mood to rap everyday. I might be in the mood the next day to do some business. I’m more like a brainiac person. That’s why I be thinking about what I do.  

AllHipHop.com: You think too much?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, sometimes I over-think stuff.  

AllHipHop.com: You catch a lot of flack, how do you feel about that? 

Waka Flocka: I like it.  

AllHipHop.com: You do?  

Waka Flocka: I love it, if there ain’t none [no hate] you ain’t doing good. I don’t want folk patting me on my back, because it’ll make me feel comfortable mentally, and I don’t want to feel comfortable.  I want to feel like I’m disowned. Somehow they gotta love me. So the haters, they gotta catch up, I hope they catch up.  

AllHipHop.com: It’s funny because when I was with my best friend from Alabama, his daughters were talking about you the whole time. What’s interesting is that they’re teenagers, so I was getting a whole different perspective on your movement, and how people feel in general aside from a hate standpoint.  

Waka Flocka: See, I really rap for folk from my generation, because when people come out young, they always come out with the girly stuff, or the flashy “I’m rich” type stuff. Why ain’t nobody talking about the aggressive stuff? Folks aggressive where I’m at, but we hungry. I tried to go get the jobs, that don’t work. Them folks ain’t hiring…they ain’t doing nothing. They talking about some cutting taxes, give some job money! So I rap aggressive. AllHipHop.com: Is it true that you’re really from New York?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, I’m from Queens, Northside.  

AllHipHop.com: How long were you here?  

Waka Flocka: Until like fifth grade.  

AllHipHop.com: And you moved? Your mom moved you down there?  

Waka Flocka: Nah, I was getting into too much [trouble] in New York. I was moving too fast. They told me just move to Georgia to play basketball.  

AllHipHop.com: Did you excel in that?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, I just went down there to play basketball and that ended.  

AllHipHop.com: How’s having your Mom as your manager? 

Waka Flocka: That’s like my sister anyways. When I grew up she was like my Momma, my sister and my Daddy. So it’s just natural.  

AllHipHop.com: Okay, okay, alright. Everybody wants to know how you got your name from the people I talked to. Waka Flocka: My boy Gucci he said “Wacka Flacka Fling” like “Aye bruh these joints threw their shooters up”…some crazy s**t like that. And everybody probably thought he was saying “Wacka Flacka Flame,” so s** t I just went with it.  

AllHipHop.com: Do you feel like your style of rap, and what you rap about were a result of your conditions and your economic conditions?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, that’s how I feel. Like a person who is just sick and tired of just going through the hell they’re going through. I use music to relieve my anger, so I don’t physically contact a person. I’m always mad at somebody, because folk always do lying s### all the time. I rather go in the booth and expose your ass before I put my hands on you and do some damage into you. There’s a lot of people who feel like me. A lot of people mad right now, and folks still coming out with that “Yeah I’m in the club popping bottles!” Man, you don’t need to pop no bottles to get drunk honestly. You can take like two, three double shots and you in the zone…I’m more on reality talk.  Part 2 Coming Tomorrow

Mistah F.A.B. Gets ‘Gangsta’ With DJ Drama; Talks New LP

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(AllHipHop News) Popular Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B. is working on a new album and a brand new Gangsta Grilllz mixtape with DJ Drama. According to F.A.B., his latest mixtape and upcoming album will showcase his lyrical skills and his ability to weaves realistic stories into his rhymes.Mistah F.A.B. will touch upon a variety of topics on both projects, including the trials and tribulations he has faced over the past several years,Those include recent news that he is a father,  his mother has been diagnosed with cancer, and his brother receiving a life sentence in prison.“I been doing a lot of street tapes with all original music, showing my ability as an artist,” Mistah F.A.B. told AllHipHop.com, referring to his latest projects, Prince of The Coast and I Am The Bridge. “My latest material is introspective and retrospective music, heartfelt music to get it out to let people know I’m not just a party rapper,” Mistah F.A.B. told AllHipHop.com.According to Mistah F.A.B., the Gangsta Grillz mixtape with Atlanta’s DJ Drama is titled Reality Rap and features production by Dow Jones, one half of the production team Tha Bizness. Dow Jones has helped produced tracks like “My President is Black” by Young Jeezy,  “So Disrespectful“ by 50 Cent, “Every Girl in the World” by Lil Wayne and Drake and others. “It’s coming out in April. It’s a great stamp of approval and cosign for the people who may not be familiar with my ability as an artist. I’m about 90 % done my album and it’s a long time coming,” Mistah F.A.B. stated. I’m dealing with a lot of stuff in my life. I appreciate things a lot more. These are obstacles that life sometimes throws at you on the road of opportunity. So on that highway, there are things I have to drive past. But it’s making me a more mature and thoughtful artist. Mistah F.A.B.’s Gangsta Grillz: Reality Rap is due in the streets this April. A release date for his album was not available as of press time.

Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Set For July

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: News
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(AllHipHop News) Brooklyn Bodega, producers of the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF) have announced the 2010 event will take place this July.

Today (March 18), organizers announced that this year’s BHF event will span an entire week, featuring panels, films, theater and independent performances by national and international Hip-Hop talent.

According to West Jackson, the executive director of the BHF, this year’s event will return to the Brooklyn waterfront.

“We have been fortunate enough to host the Festival along the beautiful Brooklyn coast line since our second year [2006],” Jackson told AllHipHop.com. “When the word came down that our home, Empire Fulton Ferry State Park was being closed for renovation we began to work closely with Regina Meyer and the good people at The Brooklyn Bridge Development Corporation. I am excited that not only are we returning to the Tobacco Warehouse for our Main Day, July 10th but have also added Brooklyn Bridge Plaza and New Dock Street. This increased space will allow us to produce two separate stages as well as build a large marketplace for our vendors.”

The dates for the 2010 Brooklyn hip hop Festival are July 5th- 11th, 2010.

More details and performers will be announced over the coming months. A tentative schedule is listed below: (MON. 7/5) Show and Prove – Showcase of independent local, national and international talent. Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

· Bodega Education Initiative (TUES. 7/6) – Day of panel discussions and seminars.

· Hip-Hop Theater (WED. 7/7)

· Classic Hip-Hop Film Night (THURS. 7/8) – Screening of classic Hip-Hop film “Beat Street” as well as shorts from local filmmakers.

· Kickoff Party(FRI. 7/9) – Party to formally welcome Festival goers, past and current artists and community leaders.

· Performance Day (SAT. 7/10) – Culmination of the 2010 programming. Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, New Dock Street and The Tobacco Warehouse – DUMBO, Brooklyn.

· Family Day (SUN. 7/11) – Closing BHF event is a classically, Brooklyn Block party, which focuses on improving the lives of our youth.

Diddy In Talks To Purchase London Soccer Team

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(AllHipHop News) Sean “Diddy” Combs is aiming to branch out in the world of sports, with the purchase of The Crystal Palace soccer team.

According to U.K.’s Daily Mirror, Combs is planning to make a £360million bid for the South London Crystal Palace team, which went into bankruptcy January.

Representatives for Comb’s confirmed he has been looking into a number of teams to become involved with, but is interested in Crystal Palace, because of the name.

Combs joins fellow mogul Jay-Z in an attempt to gain a piece of the lucrative soccer market in Europe. In 2005, Jay-Z was looking to purchase a stake in London’s Arsenal Gunners as well as the Chelsea Football Club.

If the deal goes through, Combs will be the first U.S. Hip-Hop mogul to own a stake in a European soccer team.

EXCLUSIVE: Pharoahe Monch Joins Duck Down for New Album W.A.R

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(AllHipHop News) AllHipHop.com has confirmed that Pharoahe Monch’s upcoming third solo LP W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) has found a home with Duck Down Records. Originally, Monch announced last September that he would be leaving his previous label SRC to distribute W.A.R. through his own imprint, W.A.R. Media. At the time, he cited the overall decline of the music industry as reason to forego a major label deal. But with premier indie label Duck Down, Monch feels he has secured the distribution and creative control needed to make W.A.R. a success. As heard on his last LP Desire (2007), Monch explained he will continue exploring spiritual elements while maintaining the high level lyricism his fans have come to expect since his 1991 debut with Organized Konfusion. “I’m incredibly excited about my upcoming release W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) and my new partnership between my company W.A.R. Media, LLC, and Duck Down Music,” Monch told AllHipHop.com. “This album deals with conflicts and resolutions of the spirit, the soul, the government, and the industry among other things.” Regarding guest spots and production, Pharoahe Monch revealed a balanced mix of past collaborators and new affiliates. “Thus far it features Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, Jean Grae, Styles P, Phonte, Black Thought, with more to come,” he stated. “It also features production from M-Phazes, Marco Polo, Mike Low, Fatin, Lee Stone, Exile and others to be announced. I am working diligently to finish the work for a summer release and I am honored to join forces with the Duck Down family during their 15 year anniversary.” Tomorrow (March 19), fans in Austin, Texas can see Monch as a part of Duck Down’s 15 Year Anniversary Concert at the SXSW Showcase, located at The Scoot Inn on East 4th Street. Doors open at 8PM. Pharoahe Monch’s W.A.R. is targeted for a summer release. Listed below are his upcoming April tour dates with Slaughterhouse. April 3 Saint John, NB Evolution Nightclub April 4 St. John’s, NF Club One April 5 Halifax, NS Paragone Theatre April 7 Ottawa, ON Ritual Nightclub April 8 Toronto, ON Venue TBC April 9 Cornwall, ON Rangatangs Nightclub April 10 Montreal, QC Telus Theatre April 12 Thunder Bay, ON Roxys Nightclub April 13 Winnipeg, MB Pyramid Cabaret April 14 Saskatoon, SK Odeon Events Centre April 15 Calgary, AB The Whiskey Nightclub April 16 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room April 17 Lethbridge, AB Venue TBC April 18 Nelson, BC Spirit Bar April 21 Victoria, BC Element April 22 Vancouver, BC Venue TBC

Hip-Hop Rumors: West Coast Beef! Ice Cube, Jay Rock,Glasses Malone and MORE!

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

SEE SOMETHING? SAY SOMETHING!!!!!

THE WEST COAST’S CIVIL WAR?

I wonder what Ice Cube is actually doing. Surely, this is all a part of some promotion, right? But, when he found out about the “No Country For Old Men” rumors, he must have been livid. Here is the latest.

Jay Rock, who was just in the rumors yesterday, has balked back. Here is what he said via Twitter.

WATTS UP WIT ICE CUBE TALKIN KRAZY ABOUT NEW WEST N#####.IF HE GOT A PROB WIT 1 OF US HE SHUD SAY R NAME N STOP BN SCARED 2 CALL A N***A OUT

 

ON SOME REAL STUFF I AINT NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH CUBE OR NONE OF THE OG N#####. BUT IF HE SAY NEW WEST IM APART OF THAT

 

TO ME HE TALKIN BOUT ALL OF US IF HE DIDNT SAY A NAME. THATS HOW THE WEST GOT F##### UP IN THE FIRST PLACE

 

YALL KNOW AINT NO N***A STAMPED ME. I DONT NEED NO N***A. ALL I NEED IS A MIC MY HOOD MY FANS AND THIS BIG A$$ GUN

GLASSES MALONE TO DISS ICE CUBE?

Glasses Malone is one of the main people that was reportedly going to diss Cube. Then he didn’t Now, I am getting the ill rumor. Sources say that Glasses Malone is working on a new mixtape with DJ Nik Bean which will be a full out assault on Ice Cube. Of course, this is lyrical, but…I’m saying! Word is that Malone isn’t backing down although the other members that were a part of the original project aren’t planning any responses as of this moment. That means Bishop Lamont and Crooked I are chilling.

THE THIRD PART OF THE PIE

 

There is a third and interesting part of this pie of beef. W.C. who is Ice Cube’s closest friend is having a concert on April 17th with Mack 10 at The Key Club in West Hollywood. Why is this interesting? Well, Ice Cube and Mack 10 no longer get along so W.C.’s joint concert with Mack 10 is an interesting development. Also, it seems like Cube is taking his son on tour, which typically that would be W.C. Word is that Mack 10 isn’t thrilled about Cube telling him to kiss the ring!

JAY AND A WHITE STRIPE

I heard the rumor and before I could even get it out, its FACT. Fact: Jay-Z and White Stripes front man Jack White are working together. GQ.com eventually broke the story and this is what he said. “I just did a record with Jay-Z,” said White. “We did a song together a few weeks ago. It was incredible. I played him something that I’ve been kicking around for a while and he immediately came out with words for it. It’s unbelievable-sounding.” I don’t know how this will sound, but it better be DOPE!

ILLSEED’S QUICKIES!

What? I am not hearing the 50 Cent may be doing a song with Lady Gaga! I’m not sure I want to hear this one. Still, War Angel didn’t bring people to the yard! This may be the only way for Fiddy…I hate that term…Fiddy.

Is it possible that DJ Khaled is no longer the president of Def Jam? I’m hearing they have let him go. They need to put out another Ace Hood album!

Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian are over, according to Bossip.

I’m hearing Waka Flocka is temporarily out of jail.

There’s no real updates for Guru other than dude’s still in a coma. I mean, this is all speculative, but that’s where it is.

GLASSES, WE LOVE YOU!!!

They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about

them then they should worry!

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