(AllHipHop News) Welcome to a world where Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail exists and Timbaland openly talks about it.
Timbaland spoke candidly with Diddy’s RevoltTV about working on Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail album, his desire to do an album with Kanye and even spoke on Yeezus’ disparaging remarks about Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z’s “Suit & Tie”:
“When he made that little comment about ‘Suit & Tie’. I didnt get offended. I still love my man. That’s my man. He’s going through something. People always want to attack before they find out what’s wrong with the person.”
One of the most startling revelations is that a personal riff between Jay-Z and Timbaland existed and hindered their musical production.
“It was over petty stuff. It was more personal stuff and disagreements. It was not industry-related. It was personal and I was wrong.”
Check out the full interview below where he touches on his potential Grammy speech, his thoughts on Yeezus and more:
(AllHipHop News) Superproducer Timbaland sat down with Diddy’s new media company Revolt to discuss working on Jay-Z’s new album Magna Carta Holy Grail, repairing his relationship with Jay (which he admits was strained for a while), the #newrules marketing campaign, Kanye West’s “diss” of “Suit & Tie”, Yeezus, and more.
WHAT THE!? LOL! Jay-Z’s motto has always been “I will not lose,” but it seemed like he took a bit of an L when he was mysteriously denied a permit for the concert. The authorities or whatever decision makers that were said it was due to fear of terrorism and crap, but please. This is Jay-Z! The man that dropped Blueprint on 9/11!
Back on topic…PEEP!!!!
You know his other motto: “do what thou wilt.”
Now, as I write this, I got word that the show may be a fake. We’ll see how it develops.
In addition to being LL Cool J’s DJ on the Kings of the Mic Tour, DJ Z-Trip is one of Hip-Hop’s most respected on the wheels of steel. He is a pioneer of mash-ups and one of the first to introduce them to the masses (shout out to DJ P as well). Z-Trip has also received rave reviews for his sets at festivals and his recent 14-month run of sold out shows on Friday nights in Las Vegas at the Rain Nightclub inside The Palms Casino Resort.
Therefore,it is no surprise that Z-Trip was voted “America’s Best DJ” in 2009 in DJ Times by beating out over 100 others in its annual readers poll. Additionally, the Phoenix, AZ, native has made several contributions to the DJ Hero video game series and produced original material for, among others, Busta Rhymes and Beck. Plus, he has remixed material from Nirvana and Bob Marley, both of which received approval from those acts’ respective estates.
Before taking the stage with the G.O.A.T. in Michigan late last month, DJ Z-Trip spoke to AllHipHop.com and shed some light on how and why he is able to do what he does.
The tour is called the Kings of the Mic. But make no mistake, DJ Z-Trip is a king on the 1s and 2s as well!
AllHipHop.com: Tell us about your working relationship with LL Cool J prior to the Kings of the Mic Tour.
DJ Z-Trip: When LL and I hooked up, we were taking meetings with this person who had a TV show idea and he wanted me and LL to be a part of that. My manager had suggested that he come out and do a guest spot on the SXSW show that I was headlining. And he [LL] went for it, and we were only supposed to do one song, “Mama Said Knock You Out.” And I was like I can’t just go up there and do that one song. My fans would be p#####. His fans would be p#####. I was like, “We have to do ‘Rock the Bells.’” But I’m a purist in the in the sense of, as a DJ working with an emcee, I always had a hard time with emcees rapping over their own vocals.
I knew one didn’t exist on record [an instrumental of “Rock the Bells”]. And every time I saw [LL] doing it, he was rocking over his own vocals. So I was like, “ Oh S**t, he doesn’t really even have a copy of the ‘Rock the Bells’ instrumental for himself.” I then remade the instrumental. I have the drum machine and all the samples they use. I didn’t tell him and we went to rehearse. And the minute he goes to his first line, he didn’t hear himself and looked back at me.
He’s like, “Where’d you get this?” I was like, “I made it.” He came up to me afterwards and was like, “I like you work ethic.” So we did the SXSW show and he was excited and was like, “We gotta do more shows.” So his juices started getting flowing again into music and he was like literally, “Yo, we should do a tour of this.” So it’s kind of cool, I felt like the SXSW and Rock the Bells [festivals] was sort of the tipping point to getting LL fired up again.
AllHipHop.com: You’re obviously in great company on this tour with legendary rappers. What do you bring to the table, as a world-class DJ, that will get concert-goers excited?
DJ Z-Trip: It’s my knowledge of all these guys and their material. I’m a fan of all these guys. But then I tour and I do my own thing and have been doing my own thing for years doing Bonaroo, Coachella, whatever, all the different festivals. And making my own records, so I have a fan base of my own and I have my own thing that I’m bringing to this.
AllHipHop.com: And much respect to you for [your 2005 solo album] Shifting Gears by the way.
DJ Z-Trip: Thank you. Thank you for knowing that. My angle is like I’m a son of all this stuff, of all this Hip-Hop. And I’m really totally the caboose on this whole thing. I’m the youngest and the one that people might not identify with. But from the DJ’s perspective, I’m bringing that to the table in such a major way. And so is Maseo, DJ Lord, Crazy Toones, Chuck Chillout- those are the other DJs on the bill. But I came from a place where I’m out there touring as a DJ, so to bring that world and connect it to LL’s world, that was something I was very conscious about and really wanted to make happen. When he and I actually met and we started talking about doing this, I made it very clear like I don’t want to DJ for you, I want to DJ with you. And there’s a very big difference.
AllHipHop.com: One of my favorite things in your Crate Diggers episode is when you talk about getting records from sections of the record store that other DJs don’t go. Could you please elaborate on how some of your unusual finds have enhanced your shows?
DJ Z-Trip: It has allowed me to have a different musical diet. I can mess around with kids records or world music or spoken word s**t or rock. Rock has always been my thing because I grew up listening to it, but it’s just still so untapped in Hip-Hop. When people think of rock records, there’s like six or seven rock records in Hip-Hop that they think of and that’s it. And there’s so many.
And also, you have to take chances. In early Hip-Hop, starting with the greats like Grandmaster Flash or Jazzy Jay or Kool Herc or [Afrika] Bambaataa, these guys were taking records that were completely obscure and weird records and fusing them into the map of what they were doing and breaking artists like Kraftwerk. That’s total electronic music, but Hip-Hop didn’t know that s**t. They just heard it, and were like, “This is kinda cool.” Same rules apply now. If you’re not going out and grabbing weird s**t to put into your mix, you’re just going to sound like everybody else because, to me, you’re only as big as your musical library.
(AllHipHop News) In a strange twist, 50 Cent has been charged with domestic violence with a woman that has been deemed his child’s mother, when it has been widely know that he only has one kid.
This latest development emerges as a new report claims the multi-million dollar rapper allegedly kicked this woman Daphne Joy – and also trashed her California condo. 50 has publicly dated Joy and, reports say, has a 16-year-old son with her.
The rapper also stands accused of creating $7,100 in property damage in June 23 incident at the woman’s residence in Toluca Lake, CA, according to TMZ. He’a accused of breaking chandeliers, furniture, a TV and a lamp and ruining the woman’s bedroom closet.
The woman claims she had to hide in her bathroom the avoid 50 Cent. The police were subsequently called to the alleged scene of the crime.
50 Cent stands charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic violence and 4 counts of misdemeanor vandalism.
The rapper faces up to five years in jail and $46,000 in fines.
50 is due in court on July 22.
Whether or not 50 has another child remains in question. Publicly, he’s only had one son, Marquise Jackson, with Shaniqua Tompkins.
Burgeoning BX-born, Orlando transplant Ca$h Jackson connects with Q-Borough’s multi-platinum producer SPK for their free mixtape, Dat Free Cash. The seventeen track offering features guest appearances from N.O.R.E., Nutso, Smitty, Omniscient and Paulie Staxx Mixtape Download, Ca$H Jackson over SPK’s original production, as well as industry beats that feature the likes of A$ap Rocky, Wiz Khalifa, The Weeknd and Jeremih. Dat Free Cash is now available for free download
Rick Rubin is the man. He’s THAT DUDE! He’s that dude so much that Kanye West utilized his talents to pull together Yeezus and it was still bad. Imagine if Rick didn’t put his magic on it! Well, Rick Rubin has been prominently pushed and active in promoting Jay-Z’s new album MCHG, but now it has been revealed that he didn;t work on it! LOL! He’s actually been speaking on the album. It seems like the dream team consists of Timbaland, Pharrell and Swizzy! Rick was just in the room. Peep the scoop from XXL Mag:
“The point of me being in the commercials was that he was filming a documentary and he asked me-I imagine he’s just comfortable talking to me-to come listen to the songs with him and just talk about the songs. Just listen to it and talk about it, and that’s what we did. It was fun.” He went on to divulge what he initially thought of Magna Carta, saying, “I liked what I heard, but it was a little difficult-after just coming from the Kanye sessions-to listen to Jay’s album, because they’re so different. I was in a very alternative and progressive headspace, and Jay’s record is a more traditional hip-hop record.”
I know some people may be getting sick of Tim Dog, but HEY, I’m getting new information all the time. I’ll update ya. I’m starting to think that Tim Dog is either dead or hiding from everybody. And when I say everybody, I mean everybody. That includes his friends like Kool Keith of Ultra Magnetic. I’ve been told that investigations show that Keith and them have no idea where Tim is and if he’s alive. Also, they weren’t with him when he recorded that new song.
On to the next…FUTURE
So, it looks like Future may have a tough future if there is any truth to the rumors. Now, remember I told you there is a price for safety out there in the West Coast. Pay and you get that pass. Seems like the boy Future may need to pay his dues and fast.
“Sunday night in L.A., they almost got him at Greystone night club. The Crips ended up beating up dude’s security ‘Rasco,’ and the club helped Future to escape.
Future has to pay his hood taxes and he doesn’t want to. He can’t go to Chicago because they’re looking for him out there too.” SOURCE
ASAP…SLAP…
A$AP Rocky has been getting some flack for apparently slapping fire out of a fan that hit him on the top of his wig piece. Nothing formal has a been announced so I think he’ll be OK, but check the vid.
After the BET Awards, which was a raucous success for BET, Meagan Good took a bit of a hit in the public eye. The starlet took her sexiness to a whole new level at the show and the social media world pounced! See, Meagan is now married to Sony Pictures Executive and Seventh Day Adventist pastor Devon Franklin and she presented the Best Gospel Artist award at the show Sunday. Meagan explained her position without retreat. See the unedited reply to a twitter follower below.
… That’s the thing Girl- is that I don’t feel convicted about this at all .,my spirit is saddened that our people only know one way to think and process things.. I’m not any less holy because the dress I wore -I may not be who people think I should be -but I’m morphing into exactly who God wants me to be.. My excuse is never “I’m going to do me” and I don’t feel that I need to make an excuse or defend or what I wore .. I know I have a responsibility -and I’m working daily to fulfill the full potential of all God has created me to be.. A dialogue was started about my character, integrity, my walk with God and my Husband -simply based on a dress that I wore.., Of course I’m going to have a reaction to people saying negative things… It’s just sad.. Makes me sad not regretful.. My heart and spirit is always open to whatever my Father would want to share with me… And my spirit tells me to be exactly who I authentically am -because that’s what’s going to reach who I was authentically designed to touch.. people like me who are often misunderstood and told their cut of God’s promise -because they don’t look the role …when God doesn’t care about us “looking the role”..he is always cared about bringing us in -and us being whatever we need to be to bring Those left out in .. And it just makes me sad that us as Christians can’t see beyond our initial reaction and don’t seek God before the attack other brothers and sisters …and never think for one moment that: God knows what he’s doing and he uses everything for his glory .. and he has a plan for every specific situation.. I had intentions on anything .. Merely picked a dress I saw and loved … God knows my heart and that I didn’t do anything wrong .. And he will use even people’s thoughts to bring him glory.
Tru Hollywood continues since The Game and Charles Kelley known as the Champagne Boyz launched their Monday night lifestyle event called “DREAM.” With wall-to-wall influencers, celebrities, models and media this hot spot is sure to be a leader of Hollywood’s night life, stay tune. Check out pict of The Game, Milwaukee Buck’s Brandon Jennings, Model/Actress Rosa Acosta, Rapper Joe Moses, DJ Drama, J Star, DJ Don Cannon, Model/Dancer Tokyo (Kendrick Lamar’s leading lady “Sherane”), Yo Gotti, Grafh, Producer Detail.
Damn, I was looking at the TV and saw Ace Hood’s watched just go to pieces. And I thought, “Damn, that boy just got the set back of a lifetime!” Remember all the hate he used to get back in the day? With “Bugatti,” he’s back like a MF. But, on national TY…damn. Well, he explained what happened to LA Leakers.
“When you spend a certain amount on a watch, certain things aren’t supposed to happen. My jeweler, I had to fire my jeweler. He’s definitely going through it. I spent $60,000 on that watch, man. I was just as shocked as everybody else was when it did happen. It never happened to any of my other watches or anything. I looked up. I ain’t even know what it was. I figured it was my bracelet. It wasn’t no thing, though.”
Ace continued:
“I ain’t even look at the footage. … For it to happen right then in that moment, I was like, ‘You could have happened anywhere else. I just performed. I just ripped down the stage, everything. But you chose to let it be there.’ That’s how I know the Devil be working. He be working. But we good man.”
According to the NY Post, Jay-Z’s permit for his secret show has been mysteriously denied. It was approved and then later denied. The thing is, this denial isn’t confirmed, but it seems so. See below:
Jay-Z won’t be making a marquee appearance at the Ed Sullivan Theater after all.The city suddenly yanked approval for the mega-rapper’s planned concert Monday atop the Midtown marquee for the “Late Show with David Letterman,’’ sources said.“The mayor’s office approved it, and then just like that, it got denied,” one police source told The Post yesterday.Reps for Jay-Z, Letterman, the city and the NYPD had planned to meet at the “Late Show” offices yesterday to work out concert details.But the meeting was abruptly canceled — and everyone involved was told that the event was now a no-go, sources said.The police source speculated: “It’s because of the holiday weekend. They were concerned about fireworks and terrorism.”Another source suggested that the music gig was cancelled for the same reason given the last time Jay-Z and Letterman tried to plan the event in 2010 but were thwarted.Details about the performance were leaked to The Post beforehand, creating a logistical nightmare for cops given the hordes of fans such an event would draw.The mayor’s office refused to comment, as did Letterman’s people. Jay-Z’s rep didn’t respond to phone and e-mail messages.
