(AllHipHop News) It has taken over 7 and a half years and dozens of musical transformation, Pharrell has delivered the world with a new body of work. Today (February 25th), Pharrell decided to let his new album G I R L stream for free on iTunes First Play.
The follow up to his 2006 debut In My Mind features guest appearances from Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys and others. The album is set to release worldwide for purchase next week (March 3rd).
Stream Pharrell’s new album here
(AllHipHop News) Schoolboy Q has no problems revealing his extensive history with drugs whether in song or in interviews while promoting his debut album Oxymoron. During a recent interview, Q revealed that while recording his collaboration with Macklemore, he had a horrifying experience with mushrooms.
While speaking with Grantland, Q explains how he “almost got hit by a car” while high on mushrooms during the recording process of Macklemore’s song “White Walls”:
That was the last time I ever done mushrooms. We just walked around the city and Mack warned me, ‘You in a weird spot at the hotel, it’s not a spot where people be hanging.’ I went out there, it just got creepy as hell. It was like the whole circus of everything. And me and the homeys got creeped out and ran back to the hotel. Some girls was following us. We almost got hit by a car.
The article also reveals that Q’s original tracklist for Oxymoron was altered after “Interscope demanded three singles before he could get the green light”. One thing he did not have to alter about his album is his four year old daughter’s language. Besides letting his daughter openly curse on a nationally distributed album, Q explains how his parenting techniques are rooted in not playing “that Santa Claus sh*t”:
And she gotta see it from the jump. I never played that Santa Claus s### with her. I take her to the store and say, ‘What you want?’ You can’t with none of this fairy-tale s###. I’m gonna give her the real s###. She know daddy smoke weed. She know I cuss. It’s 2014. Life is just too advanced now to be hiding s### from your kids. This is reality.
With today (February 25) release of his debut album Oxymoron came the Target exclusive track, “Californication” featuring A$AP Rocky. Check out the new song below:
(AllHipHop News) Fifty years ago after the man that would soon become Muhammed Ali “shocked the world” by winning the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston with a seventh round TKO. On its fiftieth anniversary, declassified documents reveal that the FBI had supported suspicion that the fight was fixed.
According to documents released to The Washington Times, the FBI launched an investigation into the allegation of Las Vegas gambler Ash Resnick fixing the first between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston. The FBI alleges Resnick had connections to the mafia and mobsters such as Meyer Lansky.
The FBI’s most intriguing piece of evidence is a memo of a Houston gambler named Barnett Magids describing two phone conversation he had with Resnick days before the fight. Days before the fight, Resnick informed Magids he believed Liston would knock out Ali in the second round, but cautioned Magids to “wait until just before the fight to place any bets because the odds may come down” according to the FBI memo. Resnick’s advice turned prophetic on the day of the fight:
At about noon on the day of the fight, [Magids] reached Resnick again by phone, and at this time, Resnick said for him to not make any bets, but just go watch the fight on pay TV and he would know why and that he could not talk further at that time.
The memo states that Resnick introduced Magids to Liston at the Thunderbird, a Las Vegas hotel believed to be controlled by organized crime groups in the 60s. The memo alleges that Resnick and Liston made $1 million each from Liston losing and Ali had no knowledge of, or involvement in the fix.
Resnick died in 1989 at the age of 72 from heart failure after suffering from cancer for years. Liston was found dead at home by his wife on January 5th, 1971 from a reported heroin overdose.
(AllHipHop News) DMX is lashing out at his estranged wife Tashera Simmons as the home she lives in has slipped steadfastly and deeper into foreclosure.
The home is still in DMX’s name, but his wife agreed to maintain the home after he moved out in 2005. He told TMZ that she should have moved out a long time ago.
“I told her she is living above her means, that you can’t still live on the same block as Martha Stewart and Chevy Chase, you gotta downgrade, but she refuses to do so because the house is in my name,” X says to TMZ. “She doesn’t give a f*** about my credit.”
The home entered into foreclosure in 2008 after the payments stopped.
Dark Man X claims that Tashera took $100,000 when he was in jail and didn’t use it to pay the mortgage. He claims he has no idea where the money went.
Check out this Target exclusive bonus track from Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron LP
(AllHipHop News) If there is anything there is anything a near 30 year music career gives you is a respected opinion on others in your field. LL Cool J used his to give Kanye West some direct advice on last night’s episode of The Arsenio Hall Show.
After praising newcomers such as Kid Ink, Schoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar on their recent efforts, the man Arsenio considers the Greatest of All Time had some critical comments about Kanye West’s recent rants and interviews. On his first appearance on the show in 25 years, LL said he liked Kanye West, “when he’s not complaining.” Then later remarking, “I love man, but stop complaining.”
Check out LL’s appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, including a funny story involving LL Cool J, Michael Jackson, a piano and an Indian shaman below:
Well, I got a tip from somebody. And it was crazy, because I had come to the conclusion that Young Thug was pretty much regarded as the first gay rapper. My sources in his camp are saying that HE’S NOT. Apparently, he ACTS gay because that is the Atlanta way. Apparently there is some “free thinking movement” in the A that is all the rage in the gay nation AND the straight nation there. So Young Thug is “passing” as gay even though he is truly not. I REPEAT – HE IS NOT GAY. I’m going to need that no more man to man “BAE” usage. LOL! But I’m no “hater.”
So, there you have it. Young Thug misses his chance at making history as another Black man in a hyper masculine field to come out as gay.
Last but not least, there is supposedly a movement to “out” Young Thug. Seem like there are those out there that definitely want to determine his sexuality and make it KNOW. I don’t think its the Pink Mafia either. I’m hearing its members of the BLACK COMMUNITY. I’m not sure what Black industry folk have to gain outing somebody. BUT…if its a WEBSITE…(hint hint) then that’s another story.
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
Illseed, Out.
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