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Hip-Hop Rumors: Donald Sterling's Girl Was Magic Don Juan's Hoe?

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur) Updated Category: Rumors
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YOOOOOOOO! This may be the craziest week in news since the last crazy week (think Mimi). V. Stiviano, the woman that brought Donald Sterling down, is actually sad that her former boyfriend is banned from the NBA for life. This is funny, but what’s funnier is the rumor that SHE used to be one of Magic Don Juan’s prostitute.

The Bishop is a well known P-I-M-P. But people are saying that he used to put on the Stiviano stroll. I don’t know how true it is, but, if so, she learned from the best. She sure pimped Donald Sterling for mad money.

Peep the pic:

Oh, the other side, I heard Bishop Magic Don Juan is about to be married and has turned a new leaf on pimping.

“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.

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YG's 'My Krazy Life Tour' Rocks NYC

By: Niki Gatewood (@THE_NikiG) Updated Category: Features
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Recently, YG’s ‘My Krazy Life Tour’ rocked New York City’s, Irving Plaza. The capacity crowd demonstrated how much the Big Apple appreciates the West!

Washington D.C.’s, Fat Trel,accepted the challenge of opening the show. Gripping the mic, the MMG signee demanded, “Y’all f*ck with Maybach Music?” The rhetorical question was emphatically answered by the crowd’s zealous response. Bolstered by loyal supporters, natural showmanship, and ingrained confidence, Trel’s performance demanded respect. Crowd favorites like “Shhh,” “She Fell In Love,” and “Respect With This Tech,” all satisfied the eager crowd.

“NYC, are y’all ready to party,” the question, more of a challenge, was swiftly answered with the infectious intro to “Rack City.” Manipulating the 1’s & 2’s, DJ Mustard, commenced his set with some of his globally recognizable production.

Speaking through his music, Jeezy’s “R.I.P.,” demonstrated Mustard’s ability to kill the game and the crowd. Mustard, “the newest member of Roc Nation,” took time to reflect upon inspiration like Mannie Fresh and Juvenile. Classics like “Back Dat Ass Up,” “Stay Fly,” and “Give It To Me” demonstrated some of his creative influences.

“Paranoid,” “Loyal,” and “Show Me,” were all echoed word-for-word by the invigorated audience. Always one to share the spotlight, Mustard brought out Pushaz Ink’s, RJ; he exuded endless energy.

After an extended intermission, the stage was transformed to 400 W. Spruce Street. A standard nondescript crack-house oppressed the stage. Jumping off the “porch” YG’s appearance enlivened the crowd. Dressed in the classic coke-white t-shirt, Dickie’s shorts, tall tube socks, Dodger’s fitted and black milkshakes—his outfit a reflection of his inherent community. A designer belt and an opulent watch spoke to his economic ascent.

YG’s music evokes nostalgic appreciation of Southern Cali’s Golden Era with today’s innovation of the Left. “BPT,” “I’m From Bompton,” “Bicken Back Being Bool,” “I Just Wanna Party,” “B*tch You Broke,” “My N*gga,” and “Toot It And Boot It” delivered memorial moments.

The natural infusion of skits, live instrumentation, and incorporating other MC’s, like both Chinx and The LOX helped to create enduring memories. Treat yourself make sure to witness YG’s, ‘My Krazy Life Tour.‘

 

 

Mo' Money, Mo' Progress: Why Hip Hop Should Buy The Los Angeles Clippers

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Features
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Yesterday (April 29th), NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling from the NBA for life and stated he will ask all the owners to vote  him out. So, with a $575 million NBA team soon to be up for grabs, there is only one group that should purchase such a luxurious asset:

Hip Hop.

The Top 5 Hip Hop artists with the highest net worth are P. Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, Brian “Birdman” Williams and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson with a combined networth of $2.05 billion, Jay Z and Birdman have to be automatically stricken out as they both have sports agencies (Roc Nation and Cash Money Sports, respectively) and  thusly can not have a stake in an NBA team (hence why Jay Z sold his Brooklyn Nets share). Without their combined $680 million, that total net worth of our potential buyers drops to $1.37 billion, well above the $1 billion sale price the Clippers are rumored to be tagged for. However, net worth simply means how much all of the assets they own are worth, not necessarily how much money is in their bank account, so the purchase would be trickier.

Magic Johnson and his $500 million net worth did not purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.15 billion by himself in 2012. He, like our group of hip hop oligarchs cash kings would more than likely do, partnered with Guggenheim Group, a wealth management company which had over $200 billion in assets under their management at the time of the sale. Let us assume Diddy, Dre and 50 Cent decided to gather their funds together and acquire a financier. That group would be a coalition of the wealthiest current and former Black record label excutives, businesspeople and entertainers such as Russell Simmons, Oprah, Floyd Mayweather(whom has expressed serious interest), Rick Ross (whom is always interested) and anyone with a big enough wallet and clear enough vision.

We have our finances in order and now the fundamental question needs to be answered before Hip Hop can make history: Why would and should Hip Hop purchase the Los Angeles Clippers?

Already Have Established Business Infrastructures To Help Elevate Clippers’ Brand

Imagine Dr. Dre’s Beats by Dre being in charge of Staples Center’s sound system. Or take Diddy, who helped increase Ciroc’s revenue by 131% since handling the company’s branding and marketing in 2007. With his newly created Diageo and Combs Wine & Spirits, a 50-50 split partnership with the world’s largest spirits company, Staples Center could experience a exponential growth in revenue from the liquors priced between $120 and $1000+. Both men have proven to take their respective brands (Beats by Dre and Ciroc) and monetize their expansive reach. Hip Hop would turn Staples Center into a money printing factory and according to Forbes, $298 million of the Clippers reported $575 million value derives from their arena and simply being in Los Angeles (Market):

Courtesy of Forbes
Courtesy of Forbes

Diddy, the wealthiest Hip Hop artist with the highest estimated net worth ($700 million) has the most valuable infrastructure: Revolt TV and its relationship with Comcast/Time Warner Cable. According to Forbes, “Clippers games on Fox Sports Prime Ticket surged 55% last year and commanded the fifth biggest audiences in the NBA.” Clippers are obviously a huge TV attraction, however after the Donald Sterling controversy, Fox Sports replaced the Clippers’ billboards outside of Staples Center with Anaheim Angles ads, even though the Angels play 35 miles away. Time Warner Cable and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ SportsNet LA channel debuted two months ago, is the only channel with the vast majority Dodgers games and has been struggling to gain subscriptions because 1. their cost is too high for cablers other than Time Warner Cable to pick it up and 2. most people in California do not have Time Warner Cable. With the Clippers’ contract with Fox Sports expiring after the 2015-16 season, Hip Hop purchasing the Clippers’ games could lead to an easier transition for the Clippers from Fox Sports to SportsNet LA with Diddy’s REVOLT TV acting as a catalyst and hub for exclusive content for the coveted 18-35 age demographic.

But then again, Rick Ross and his superior culinary business acumen could be the key to Hip Hop acquiring the Los Angeles Clippers:

Already have relationships with the players

Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Lebron James.

No, those are not just the three best players of the last 5 years. Those are also the three best active players in the NBA that have recorded and released audio (and some video) of them rapping. The old adage that every rapper wants to be an NBA player and vice versa is not only true but is beginning to manifest in business deals. Besides rapping lyrics from Jay Z’s artists, Kevin Durant is also repped by Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports and will become a free agent after June 2016.

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Beyond simply a business relationship, Hip Hop artists have always had closer relationship with athletes than a Russian billionaire who wants to buy a glorified trophy for his mantel in the form of an NBA team. Chris Paul texted Kendrick Lamar after his “Control” verse dropped. Lil Wayne and Birdman partied with the Dallas Mavericks in Miami after they beat the Heat. Kobe Bryant even returned to Hip Hop..briefly and indirectly a few years ago, thanks to Kanye West:

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The players are where the 1. money and 2. the fans come from and Hip Hop has been inextricable with them for the past 20 years. Worse comes to worst, if the players ever boycott, half of the team owners could be used as replacement players within a moment’s notice:

Regains Hip Hop’s Identity and Make Money While Doing It

Donald Sterling is a billionaire who is preparing to wage a legal battle against the NBA if 3/4 of the NBA owners vote him out and force him to make $1 billion for the sale of the Clippers. Why would a rich man fight the chance to sizably increase his wealth? A month before Sterling was forever banished out of the Garden of Spalding by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Silver stated that advertisements on NBA jerseys during games were “inevitable” in the next five years.

CHA-CHING!

When you factor in Live Nation’s plans to live stream a concert every day for an entire year (with Staples Center as a constant tour stop for the biggest artists), Sterling is set to miss out on an economic boom in the NBA never before seen.

But more importantly, it would show millions of African Americans the power of a unified front and help the Clippers cultivate their African American fanbase.

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The above chart is an estimated racial distribution among NBA teams’ fanbases from ESPN’s Nate Silver based on a variety of measuring factors. With African Americans making up roughly 8% of Los Angeles’  population and White Americans making up 50.3%, their relatively close percentage shares of Clippers’ fanbase indicates that the Clippers have the deepest resonance with Black people, one that can be expounded by Hip Hop.

During Hip Hop’s ascension from the counterculture darling into the mainstream powerhouse in the late 90s/early 00s, the culture’s identity was leased to a number of corporations in the name of commercial expansion. The Hip Hop artists with enough wealth to cause significant societal change attained such wealth  by representing larger entities. Look at Rick Ross. An artist with a reported net worth of $35 million (not $92 million) lost a multimillion dollar endorsement deal over a poorly worded lyric about intoxicated sex. The days of the biggest artists making united stands on controversial issues in a public (and commercial) manner (a la “1990’s” Self Destruction”) may be over  due to appeasing endorsers, but what if the homogenizing dominance could be used to create a symbol of progress?

Purchasing the Los Angeles Clippers could help Hip Hop stake claim into a former neo-plantation once owned by the new symbol for racism of the hour and turn it into, at the very least, a demonstration of Hip Hop’s former power policing the Black culture.

We turned n*gger into n*gga. Why not?!

Master P's Custom Versace Birthday Cake

By: Steve Raze (@SteveRaze) Updated Category: Lifestyle
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Master P aka “Versace Slim”, CEO of No Limit Forever Records, celebrated his Birthday April 29th with a one of a kind Versace Custom handmade Birthday Cake.  This exclusive hand-crafted stitched detailed icing designs were perfectly molded on the edible masterpiece.

No detail spared, from the Versace gold and diamond medallion to the Gold and Diamond Versace Ring, to the off the wall Iced out diamond encrusted Versace Medallion Center piece.  To top it all off the designer of the cake includes the Versace Box that is signature to the Versace Brand, this cake makes history because it is all edible and it is a True Masterpiece. 

Take a look at this edible masterpiece.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Kanye West Releasing A Spoken Word Album?

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur) Updated Category: Headlines
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Kanye West may just be the genius he things he is, because he’s about to drop an album of spoken word. there is no exact word on what that means with respect to his next rap album. According to contactmusic.com, the Yeez-meister will drop this album and it will be an all vinyl affair. This means, you have to have a record player to listen. I’m sure there will be some sort of digital release as well but, who knows. Apparently, the album will be a collection of thoughts, delving into politics, his opinions, soon-to-be wife Kim Kardashian and current affairs.

Will you get this album?

Kanye has done poetry in the past. Here’s a couple appearances on Def Poetry back in the day.

“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.

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Strange Bedfellows: Donald Sterling and the NAACP

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur) Updated Category: Uncategorized
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[Editor’s Note: The NAACP has stated that Donald Sterling will no longer be honored in a ceremony from their California chapter on May 15th.]

Sometimes we need a strong hood analogy to drive our point home, so let me give you one! Guys! Remember that chick down the street who was (how should I say this?)—aesthetically challenged—beautiful on the inside—a “two-bagger” (one bag over your face and a bag over her face [in case your bag tore] during sex ‘cause she was so ugly!)—just tore-up-from-the-neck-up—body like a stallion and face like a go-rilla?

Oh you loved to tap dat ass in the wee hours! She was one of your bestest jump-offs and when your friends confronted you about her you threw her under the bus to save face. You called her everything nasty—and then one day it got back to her how bad you had spoken ill of her. You weren’t gettin’ that p####### no more! You hurt her something fierce! Tore a hole right through her dying heart! She was in-love with you and you only wanted sex to satisfy your freaky libido.

This is the saga of Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling. A super-rich billionaire m### who’s been screwing black athletes up the keister (without KY Jelly I might add!) and today all of his black athletic lovers have found out that he never cared anything about them, save how much money would be generated through them.


But let me get this out the way! I give no f#### about the chick that “set him up,” “secretly recorded him” and “put him on blast.” (And yes! TMZ got s### right for a change!) The only people who care about that are people who wanna make excuses for his language and move the conversation from racism to scandalous chicks (as if that’s more newsworthy for public discourse). This guy verbally murdered black people and you’re talking about how malicious this chick was? Get ya mind right!

But alas! This blog isn’t about Donald Sterling per se. It’s about strange bedfellows—the N.A.A.C.P. and their relationship with Donald Sterling. From all accounts, the NAACP knew of Donald’s past scrape-ups with discrimination—from a top team exec accusing him of running a “plantation”—to being accused of not renting to black folk in Beverly Hills—right on down to 11-time NBA All-Star Elgin Baylor having to take his ass to court for treating him like a “token Negro.” According to Baylor, Donald Sterling wanted a “Southern Plantation style structure” for his team and wanted “poor black boys from the south and a white head coach.”

Enter the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People aka NAACP. Off the rip, let me give you a ghetto Wikipedia historic overview of this longstanding organization that has done great works for Negroes, Coloreds, Blacks, Afro-Americans, African-Americans (what will they call us next?). The organization was founded in 1909 by a bunch of liberal white people after the race riots of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois after several blacks were hanged. The organization’s highest award, the “Spingarn Medal” was named after one of its Jewish founders—Joel Spingarn. Echoing W.E.B. Dubois’s Niagara Movement, which he founded in 1905 and fought for colored folks 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment rights, the NAACP would grow into the most well-known grassroots organization for the total liberation of colored people. (As a side note, if you don’t know who W.E.B. Dubois was, go read his book, “The Souls of Black Folk.” Dubois was Harvard’s first black graduate one of America’s most prolific scholars who waged intellectual war with Booker T. Washington over the direction which colored America should take. Google “Talented 10th.”)


N.A.A.C.P.—even though I’m old enough to remember being called “colored” (by white people, being the Southern boy that I was) that organization’s name always rubbed me the wrong way! Like, what is a “colored?” What kind of nationality is that? Is there a “colored” land? Are there a people who speak “coloredese?” Why would they, after umpteen years, still carry that god-forsaken cooneristic name?

So here they are today, just weeks away from awarding this racist piece of horse-dung the NAACP’s Humanitarian Award—with full knowledge of Sterling’s past racist policies in sports and real estate. How could they do it? Strange Bedfellows, I tell you! Dare I say the NAACP sold its soul to mammon—filthy lucre—that dolla dolla bill ya’ll! Perhaps it’s time to change the “C” from colored to COON? I mean, right about now, the NAACP lookin’ hella crazy! Yes. They rescinded the award, but only ‘cause the Jew-boy’s teenie weenie phallus has been exposed. The NAACP lookin’ like they took Satan up on the riches of this world in exchange for worshiping the god of this world—money.

Would the Jews except Hitler’s money? Would the Jewish watch-dog groups, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Jewish Defense League (JDL) still wanna caudle a known anti-Semite? Hell-to-the-naw! But listen to this Negro, Leon Jenkins, head of the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP as he still seeks to eat the crumbs from his master’s table; “God teaches us to forgive, and the way I look at it, after a sustained period of proof to the African American community that those words don’t reflect his heart, I think there’s room for forgiveness. I wouldn’t be a Christian if I said there wasn’t… We are negotiating with him about giving more moneys to African American students at UCLA, and so we are in preliminary discussions.”

The f*ck does God gotta do with this? This issue isn’t about forgiveness! And what would make this colored Negro man think that an 80 year old man wants to change his views on black people? The black/Mexican p#### couldn’t change him! The NAACP is supposed to be a civic organization! I swear fo’ gawd, weez some spiritual/religious coons to a fault! And look where Jenkins’s head is—fixed on da money! I’ll say this in my “In Living Color” voice, “I know Miss Jenkins got somethin’ to say about this, but she ain’t one to gossip!”

Yes! The Jews helped create the NAACP and it looks like some Jews got these Negroes in their back pockets, front pockets and in the cracks and crevices and recesses of their nut-sacks. I say, “Go on and give Sterling your sham of an award!” Don’t play appalled now! Both y’all strange Bedfellows! All I know is somebody owes the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan an apology!

Khalil Amani is a blogger for AllHipHop. He also writes for DJ Kay Slay’s Originators Magazine & Straight Stuntin Magazine. He is the author of six books, including the ground-breaking book, “Hip-Hop Homophobes…” iuniverse.com 07). Amani is gay hip-hop’s self-proclaimed straight advocate. Visit The Coonerific One athttp://www.khalilamani.ning.com Follow on Facebook/Twitter @khalilamani. Instagram @khalil_amani, Youtube @ yahweh 12 Kh*********@***oo.com

Lil Wayne's Manager: Kobe Bryant Did Not Tweet Out Tha Carter V Album Cover

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) In the past month, most of the news surrounding Tha Carter V have been denouncing rumors of its impending arrival. Today (April 29th), Lil Wayne’s manager, Cortez Bryant took to his personal Twitter account to squash all the rumors regarding the album cover.

[ALSO CHECK OUT: Kobe Bryant Possibly Revealed Cover For Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V On Twitter]

Last night, Kobe Bryant released a picture on his personal Twitter account that was rumored to being the cover of Lil Wayne’s final album Tha Carter V. After Lil Wayne’s official Facebook account confirmed it as the album cover, Cortez Bryant cleared that up:

A month ago, Bryant refuted claims that the album would be released on May 5th after Drake announced it would be on stage at a concert.

Donald Sterling: The Los Angeles Clippers Are "Not For Sale" (VIDEO)

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Either NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was lying during the press conference or Donald Sterling is simply haughty. Ealier today, Fox Sports’ reporter Jim Gray revealed what Sterling informed him of prior to Adam Silver’s press conference.

[ALSO CHECK OUT: NBA Bans Los Angeles Clippers’ Owner From NBA For Life]

While Silver stated that Sterling’s representatives were informed of the punishment before the press conference, Gray says that Sterling informed him that he had not yet been informed of the punishment. The phone conversation between Gray and Sterling occurred prior to the press conference and Sterling made his intentions with the Clippers very clear:

He said he really did not want to comment on the record, but the team is NOT for sale. And he will not be selling the team.

[ALSO CHECK OUT: Magic Johnson Reportedly Wants To Buy The LA Clippers From Donald Sterling]

Silver handed down a Banned For Life sentence towards Sterling and stated the process to begin voting him out of ownership would commence immediately. Under the NBA bylaws, an NBA owner can only be voted out of ownership if 3/4 of the NBA owners vote in its favor.

[ALSO CHECK OUT: President Obama, Magic Johnson & Michael Jordan Address LA Clippers’ Owner’s Alleged Comments (VIDEOS)]

Check out Jim Gray explain his conversation with Donald Sterling