Royce Rizzy teams up with Zaytoven and Cassius Jay for a new mixtape that he will be dropping December 2014. Earlier this year, Royce Rizzy inked a deal with SoSoDef/RCA Records. He dropped his Determination EP hosted by DJ Don Cannon & Jermaine Dupri earlier this fall. Now He’s bringing his new project “FAT FLY N####” hosted by DJ Smallz, DJ Lil Keem & DJ Grady. As you now Zaytoven is responsible for the signature sound of Gucci Mane, Migos, Young Jeezy and many other artists. Cassius Jay is the right hand man of Zaytoven, known recently for his production of August Alsina, Bankroll Fresh and PeeWee Longway. Rizzy is releasing his first offering from the tape titled “Watch Out”.
Hip-Hop has progressed leaps and bounds from its inception as a male dominated art form. From man, woman, and child, the game has been blessed with some incredible talent. From Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Jean Grae, to the burgeoning skills of Rapsody and Nitty Scott, MC, among others, the women of HIp-Hop have shown, and proved, in effort to break free from the industry’s stigma of what it takes to succeed. Bringing together a new wave of versed wordsmiths on the mic for a lethal trifecta, Queens producer, DJ JS-1 unites Dynasty, Eternia & Sara Kana to do their thing on “Give A Damn.” DJ JS-1’s latest compilation project, It Is What It Isn’t, is now on CD through Fat Beats and UGHH, and available for download via iTunes, and all major digital retailers. Pick up the 21-track opus, today.
Check out Namebrand’s new joint “No Limit” Produced by Seige Monstracity, The Great Tape 2 coming Nov 24th. Hosted by The LA Leakers on Livemixtapes.com and DJBooth.net
chief waKiL has production credits with Big Sean, Frank Ocean, Kelly Rowland, and more but today he presents us with his new single titled “LOVE.” After the success of his most recent project, the Kansas City artist continues to impress us.
Who knew Waka Flocka Flame had an interest in politics?
Last week on Election Day, the Atlanta native was spotted at a watch party for the elections at a Buckhead hotel. Surprisingly, Waka was there showing support to a Republican, GOP Senate candidate David Perdue.
It was reported that he showed Perdue love via Twitter back in July but later deleted his tweet after his fans felt some type of way. After Perdue secured his GOP nomination, Waka called him to congratulate him.
R&B veteran Tyrese has been working on his next studio album Black Rose for a while now. To prepare fans for its release he shared his first release off the upcoming double album. The star actor and singer croons over a feel good ’90s inspired track about his past relationship mistakes. “Black Ty” admits to making bad decisions in his romances, but really wants to be exclusive with his No. 1.
“Why would I want to start over when I got you at home / Tryin to get a million girls I’m just gonna end up alone,” he sings. Tyrese calls on Snoop Dogg to lay down a nice verse, and he even brings out his rap alter-ego Black Ty for an additional verse. His sixth album, Black Rose, is slated to hit stores next year, and he has claimed it will be his last solo album.
David Cash returns with a new track that comes backed with the sounds of his producer alter-ego, DC Beatz. After initially hitting us with a couple collaborative efforts, Cash takes an unaccompanied route and unveils a spacey, eerie sounding track titled “Alienation”. California C.A.S.H. will come loaded with features from Metro Boomin, Jay 305, Eric Bellinger, Young Thug, Scotty ATL, Alley Boy, and more.
Nice line right here. Talib Kweli rounds up Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T. and Kendra Ross for a new joint “Everywhere I Go“. This was featured on Talib’s new project “The Cathedral“, which dropped earlier today.
The last time August Alsina was in New York City, he ended up in a three-day coma after falling off of the stage during a performance at Irving Plaza. He is now back in NYC as the opening act for Usher’s UR Experience Tour and stopped by Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show to speak about the traumatic experience.
“It just happened,” said the 22-year-old. “After I fell off stage I was blank. My managers and everybody who was there was telling me I basically looked like I had some type of exorcism going on. Nobody in my family has ever had those type of problems.”
The “No Love” singer also spoke it feels to be touring with Usher.
“Its been dope. Just for me to come from doing my own tour and I was like damn man, I’m doing House of Blues and selling out and venues like that and I felt good about it. To now get on tour with Ush and be in an arena where it’s all these people and to actually be doing Madison Square Garden is a very very big deal.”
Watch below as he talks about his relationship with Nicki Minaj, why he shouldn’t shop with Usher and more.
G-Unit just released their EP The Beauty Of Independence physical copies, partnering with Best Buy for a deluxe, limited edition that will feature two bonus tracks. Along with “Ease Up” and the Ky Miller-produced “Big Body Benz”.
Check out “Big Body Benz”, a bonus cut from the deluxe edition of G-Unit’s “The Beauty Of Independence”.
Chance The Rapper is one of the few Chicago rappers that calls for peace in his hometown and over the weekend he was recognized for that. Chicago mayor Rahm Manuel presented the 21-year-old with the Outstanding Youth of the Year Award not only for his musical accomplishments but for his efforts to address gun violence through his #SaveChicago initiative and devotion to lowering the homicide rate in Chicago.
Chano showed his gratitude on his Instagram, saying it is the most important award he will ever win.
“It was this group of 100 Chicago teens that nominated and chose me as the recipient of the Outstanding Youth Award. The plaque is awarded to those who earned it based on youth leadership and an ear for the common issues that plague young Chicagoans. I consider it an honor to teach and a duty to learn, so I plan to wear this proudly and continue to lead the city in conjuction with the Evangel World Outreach Center and other organizations devoted to the next generation. I was ecstatic to see how pleased everyone was with my win, but let me clear to those who speculated. I was chosen by the children, the mayor was only in attendance. #LongLiveTheYoung.”
Chance is currently gearing up for the release of his free album with his band, The Social Experiment, due out in December.
Since he was released from Interscope Records, Chief Keef has decided to take his career into his own hands. Yesterday (Nov. 9), Sosa took to his YouTube page and uploaded three mixtapes and an EP, entitled Crashing Computers, UFOverload, Mansion Musick andB4 DaEP,
Sosa is flying solo on a with no features on any of the releases, not even the anticipated collaborations with Kanye West and A$AP Rocky. Lend your ear to his new crop of music below.
Frank Ocean is trying to make his stage name his real name but isn’t having the best luck. In March, the “Novacane” singer applied to change his birth name, Christopher Breaux, to Frank Ocean but his request was recently rejected.
TMZ reports that a LA judge denied the singer’s request because he has a poor driving record. In June, he got a ticket for driving with expired car insurance, in July he got pulled over for driving with his headlights off and in August he got caught going 31 miles over the speed limit. The Odd Future crooner also skipped the court dates associated with these tickets, which led to his license being suspended.
Frank can re-apply for the name change once his driving record is cleaned up.
If you remember a few months back, VH1 premiered a musical from K. Michelle, directed by everybody and they momma’s #MCM, Idris Elba.
K. Michelle recently sat down with Necole Bitchie and pretty much revealed that the relationship between she and the actor wasn’t strictly business and that he may be the inspiration behind her new album.
Baller Alert reports:
“The last time I was in love was recently and it was very secretive and quiet. And he had a baby that was about to be born. And yeah, that was very, I think I even wanna cry- that was very hurtful,” said K.
“He told me about the baby that was about to be born. But he also told me that…you know, we always wanna listen to men and we always want to make excuses for them in order not to pay attention and basically, I was like a glorified side-chick. And sometimes you don’t even know you’re the side-chick until you look back and say, ‘Damn b-tch, I was the side-chick, gotdamn.’ But he had a baby and he just wasn’t for the baby’s mother. And you know, he wasn’t about her. And he spent a lot of time with me for eight months. A lot of time with me, here in America, a lot of time was spent.”
When asked about Idris she replied, “I will always love him, and that’s all I am going to say.”
It sucks to be a side-chick and not know. K has to learn how to pick and choose…
50 Cent is partnering up with Century 21 but not to sell clothes.
In an effort to raise money for programs and services for families affected by 9/11, the store’s CEO Eddie Gindi is working with the non-profit organization Tuesday’s Children. Fif is collaborating with Gindi’s band, Men In My Head, to record a song and all profits from the track will benefit the charity. The song, which is titled “Century Love,” will be available for purchase exclusively in the store on Nov. 11th.
“As a native New Yorker there is no city more resilient than New York,” 50 said in a statement. “Tuesday’s Children is an incredible organization and I am honored to be involved with this initiative.”
Gindi said the G-Unit captain is the best candidate for the collaboration.
“We are living our core value to give back and to bring passion, we’re able to do this with the help of entrepreneur and A-list musician 50 Cent,” said Gindi. “This year’s song “Century Love” is about the resilience of New York City and who better to partner with than a true New Yorker, like 50 Cent, who was born in Queens and rose to the top of the music world with hard work and dedication. We are so thankful that he is able to help Tuesday’s Children’s cause.”
To celebrate their partnership, an in-store event will be held at the lower level of the flagship store in New York City on Nov. 11th. The Queens spitter will be there not only signing autographs but showing off his SMS Audio headphones and threads from a clothing line called Frigo RevolutionWear that he is investing in.
Bandman Kevo went from a Chicago rapper on the rise to a defendant in a federal case. Kevo (born Kevin Ford) and twenty-eight other suspects were accused of being involved in a scam that spread across two Midwest states. The 26-year-old creator of buzzing tracks like “Wonna Be” featuring King Louie and “Baller In Me (Remix)” featuring Chief Keef was charged for bank fraud conspiracy in a U.S. District Court in Indiana last month.
According to prosecutors Kevo took part in a “credit card cracking” scheme that cheated banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Authorities also claim Kevo had ties to the rap group known as the Rack Boyz that supposedly promoted the illegal acts in a song titled “For the Money.” Kevo is accused of promoting the bank scamming plan in his own social media posts as well.
With his next court appearance scheduled for the end of November, Kevo is already declaring his innocence. Not only is he denying he was involved in the grand arrangement, but he feels the case against him is a pointless fishing expedition on the part of the federal government.
AllHipHop.com spoke with Bandman Kevo by phone to discuss the charges against him, explore his belief the Federal Bureau of Investigation has followed him for years, and to give a response to those critics that have had a lot to say about him online.
At this point what are your thoughts on this situation?
A lot of people think the case is new, but they don’t understand that the case is three years old. It was basically a state case that they just recently made federal, because somebody mentioned my name. The case is not as big as what everybody thinks it is. It ain’t really too much of nothing. It’s a lot of stuff they just made up to try and have a case on me.
The only reason I think they even dropped it is because the case was almost beat in state, and they must have got scared and just dropped it. They still don’t have no hard evidence. They’re just saying, “witnesses said…” Basically, somebody got in a jam, and I got the most money to them so they must have mentioned my name. Who knows? But it ain’t like they got me doing this or got me doing that.
Before the charges were filed, were you aware you were under investigation?
Yeah, I knew. I knew from the state case that the FBI was following me from court. I told my lawyer that the FBI’s been following me. They see the career taking off, so they’re trying to slow it down. But they didn’t really do nothing but pick it up.
Do you think you have a good chance of beating the charge?
Yeah, I do. Everything that they have in the paperwork is mixed up. It ain’t even right. They’re just saying and doing anything to file a case.
Are you connected to the other people that were charged?
Nah, I don’t know a lot of them people at all. They were just saying that it was twenty-nine people that got arrested for the same thing. They didn’t say that we were in connection.
They tried to say that I was in a group called the Rack Boyz. It was all messed up. It was the Rack Boyz that involved two girls and other types of other dumb things. If you’re the FBI, you should be focusing on way better things than this. This is super weak.
What about the accusations that there was coded language in your music and videos?
The video that they’re talking about is a video that’s not even my video. So they’re saying anything to make their case sound good in court. They’re saying I was in a video [that was shot] in a club. The club planned the video shoot. I wasn’t in the video talking about doing illegal things.
Let’s say if you’re with some people, they have a camera person, and they do a song while that video [shoot] is going on. That’s basically what it was. They’re just saying what they think they see. None of my videos have anything to do with anything illegal. Especially no cards or nothing like that.
So you feel like because you were the biggest name they just threw you in there to prop up the case?
Trust me, I know for a fact. Plus, they don’t like me. When they were following me, I knew. Then I pulled over and waved at them. I called my lawyer and said, “These FBI people are following me.” They were watching the state case, hoping we got charged in that case. They seen it was finna get beat, so they dismissed it. Then waited a few years and brought it back up in federal. It’s still not put together to me.
Has this situation made you change anything about your life or how you move?
No. I don’t care about this situation like that. People are just now finding out. I been knew about it. I been knew they were watching. I know they’re probably still watching, but I’m not doing nothing, so it don’t matter if they’re watching. If that was the case, I wouldn’t even be talking to you right now if it was that bad.
What’s next for you?
Right now, the FBI was kind of jealous so they told the judge they don’t want me to be on social media. We’re going back to court to get my lawyer to fight it. They don’t want me on social media. They don’t want my manager or a third party [to represent me on social media]. They’re trying to slow everything down.
Is there anything else you wanted to add?
If you go on my Instagram, you’ll see I uploaded a lot of stuff like me with Lamborghinis and Ferraris, but people don’t want to see you doing good. But when they think you’re doing bad or about to do bad, that’s when all the negativity comes out. That’s when all the haters come out. They don’t even know what’s going on. They just say anything.
Most people say, “He’s gone. He’s this, he’s that.” They don’t even really know their laws. For one, this is a white-collar crime. I’m not selling no drugs. I don’t have no guns. Plus, I don’t got no felonies. I ain’t ever been locked up. People will say anything, because they don’t know.
Some dude on YouTube put out a video trying to say I was flipping money and trying to turn $200 to $2000. This dude is completely wrong. Some dude named DJ Akademiks. I don’t know who he is.
If you listen to the video on YouTube, he’s just saying what he thinks happened, what he thinks is going to happen, and what he thinks I was doing. They were trying to say that I was putting posts up to reel people in to make money. It’s all wrong.
They’re just going off the person who got caught. The person who got caught told on all twenty-nine people, including myself. They just got a story from him. He told, and he became “the witness.” That’s the only reason why [there’s a case]. It’s really no big deal.
For Holiday 2014, Stance introduces the second installment of the Santigold x Stance collaboration, the “High Points in History” Collection. It features three unique unisex designs: Big Daddy Kane, Egypt and Aliens and The Chase, each a distinctive facet of a kaleidoscopic collection with something for everyone.
Santigold on her inspiration for her sophomore collection of socks:
“Each sock has a fashionable theme from the past: Big Daddy Kane with his iconic Hip Hop flare; the top-hat and ascot sporting attire of the hunters on The Chase sock as they perch atop their beautiful horses; and the aliens who possibly helped create the mysterious mind-blowing legacy of beauty, decadence and technology of Ancient Egypt”
The second installment of the Santigold sock collection is available now at Stance.com & local retailers. Check out the promo trailer below.
Some series shade was thrown recently towards Minaj by a R&B vet.
Last week, Aretha Franklin hit Nicki with a low blow recently, revealing that the rapper is not one of her favorite people. E! Online reports:
“The Queen of Soul stopped by the Wall Street Journal last week to discuss her new album, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics.
While celebrating the disc’s success, the 72-year-old couldn’t help but sound off on a few younger divas in the industry. When Nicki Minaj’s name was brought up (around 3:53 mark), Franklin didn’t have many nice things to say. She simply replied, “Hmmm. I’m going to pass on that one.”
Lowkey this isn’t surprising, Aretha is the Queen of Shade….
