(AllHipHop News) Chicago rhymer Common is set to return to music with his 10th album. Com spoke with Revolt TV to announce that the No ID produced Nobody’s Smiling LP will be hitting stores in 2014. This will be the rapper/actor’s first studio project since 2011’s The Dreamer/The Believer.
“I gotta say 2014 is going to be one of my greatest times in music. I feel excited about the project that I’m working on,” says Common. “Originally I was making an EP, but we’ve just been making a lot of songs.”
The veteran emcee explains that the concept for his latest work is based on trying to end the ongoing violence consuming his hometown and inner cities across the world.
“‘Nobody’s Smiling’ was really a thought that came about because of all the violence that was going on in Chicago,” adds Com. “We were talking about the conditions of what’s happening when I said ‘Nobody’s Smiling,’ but it’s really a call to action.”
Common also gives props to the new crop of rising rappers from Chitown.
“The younger artists, they’re really bringing what Chicago is about, and they have brought something new to Hip Hop,” says Common.
(AllHipHop News) TDE is planning to drop several projects in 2014. One of the artists from the West Coast based label that is looking to release his next album this year is Ab-Soul. The self-described “Soul Brother Number 2” chatted with Bootleg Kev about his next collection of work as well as his statements about leaving Black Hippy and his rumored joint project with Danny Brown and A$AP Rocky.
“Ali is mixing it right now,” reveals Ab about his next album. “We just want to present it in a real cool way. I feel like everybody’s being creative with how they’re presenting their music.”
The Control System creator also addresses a possible collaborative project with Danny Brown, and A$AP Rocky. While the three emcees have yet to record in music together, Ab-Soul expresses his belief that the trio could make that come together.
“That’s some s**t we’re really f**king around with,” says Ab. “We all got a chance to vibe out, and we’re all similar in a lot of ways. The whole ‘druggies with hoes’ type of vibe, so that could definitely happen.”
Another part of the discussion centered around Ab’s threat to leave his supergroup Black Hippy after XXL magazine put the crew on its cover with the headline “Kendrick Lamar & Black Hippy” without listing the names of Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, and Schoolboy Q. Ab says his comments were actually directed at all media outlets, but he does specifically speak on the XXL tagline.
“I wouldn’t have been mad if they had his name super big, and they just put our names under his real small. I wouldn’t have even been mad at that. Then I’m looking at the cover, and this is definitely, absolutely no disrespect, and I see Chance The Rapper’s name,” states Ab-Soul.
(AllHipHop News) Time either heals all wounds or we’re living in a different time, because former G-Unit affiliate shared some disparaging remarks on the death of former rival, Mazaradi Fox.
Fox and Smurf’s rift dates back to 2009 and in a statement obtained by HipHopDX, Smurf admits to never meeting Fox in person but taking offense to some of his remarks:
Never met the old n*gga. Don’t know him, but he was disrespectin’ me and Domination over the ‘Net. That’s what sparked the feud. I take disrespect from no one and he spoke on my kids rydin’ 50 [Cent]’s dick, tryn’ to get a deal. Funny s### is he died on my birthday. Best gift of my life. Free Domination.
Prior to the statement, Fox voiced his disdain for Fox on his personal Twitter account even after news of his death had surfaced:
Hell nar f### that n#### rest in p### salute to u tho 100!
Word on the digital curb is that Mama Joyce is so fed up with Real Housewives of Atlanta Producers that she may not return to the show. She claims that they’ve used editing to make her look like a villain. She also claims that Kandi’s friend Carmon set the stage for the epic meltdown heard ’round the blogosphere.
If you’re familiar with the show then you remember the incident in the wedding shop where Mama Joyce and her Old Lady Gang nearly beat Carmon down. So yeah, Mama Joyce says it wasn’t her fault she acted like a 60-year-old hood rat and that it was caught on camera.
Sure...
There’s not all the editing in the world that can erase what you actually did. Plus, Kandi has admitted that her family drama has put her impeding wedding in jeopardy several times.
But I guess when it comes to people wilding out on reality TV, if all else fails, blame CGI and sorcery.
Leading a cultish existence, Deniro Farrar, transforms his thoughts into art. Never hesitating to spit legitimate lyrics, Farrar’s, growing musical family appreciates the unfaltering depth of an expanding perspective. A message, which originated in North Carolina, continues to resonate with a growing global audience. The MC’s natural gift, organic showmanship, and pure humanity helped to garner a recording deal from Warner Brothers and VICE records. The platform has been elevated; these are his words:
AllHipHop.com: On “Feel This” you say, “…I put my life in these beats so I live in these songs…” According to Qushawn Farrar, what is Hip-Hop, and ideally what would you like it to be?
Deniro Farrar: [chuckles] With the state that Hip-Hop is in right now—I wouldn’t even call it Hip-Hop. I feel like we’re living in a time where it’s no longer Hip-Hop. It’s transitioning to something totally different. There’s transition; some are for the better some are for the worse. It’s just transitioning with the times. I feel like things get better and things get worse. Now the whips are much cooler, but they’re not really made out of sh*t. There’s a positive and a negative to everything. I mean, it is what it is, you know what I’m saying.
I would like to be Rap. When you look up the word Rap in the dictionary you see a picture of me. It says, ‘Deniro Farrar: is Rap.’ To be honest, I would like to see it get back to the essence from which it came from. And that’s real music, you know, definitely.
AllHipHop.com: In your opinion, there’s a difference between the art and the culture?
Deniro Farrar: Yes, it’s totally different. There’s a difference between the art and the culture. The culture is just like transitioning with the times. The art is when people actually take their time to perfect something and not just give you anything. Technically, the culture of Rap music isn’t art. In a sense, getting a tattoo is part of our culture. It’s when people’s body tell a story trough their tattoos—that’s art. There’s a difference.
AllHipHop.com: How is the significance of the array of your life’s different situations propelling your art and your business decisions?
Deniro Farrar: I’m keeping good people around me—positive people—people who have been blessed.
AllHipHop.com: Has your circle changed since you’ve got on?
Deniro Farrar: I don’t got no new friends. You know what I’m saying, my last new friend is Annie [his current publicist]. No more new people are slipping through the cracks. Basically, I just structure the business the way it needs to be structured. There’s no nonsense; all the people are positive. From day one, they’ve been blessed. They’re just human. They’re not like other people; we’re just human.
AllHipHop.com: Given that your investment into your art has earned you both personal and professional success, how are you using this accomplishment to help empower those around you?
Deniro Farrar: Technically, at this point, I wouldn’t consider myself successful. In some people’s eyes I am, but I have such a long way to go. I feel like this is just the beginning. If anything I’m in the beginning stages of the success. You know, it inspires people around me. All the time, I get text messages from the people who came from the same struggle that I come from. To see me in New York doing a show like such—it gives people inspiration. It makes them feel like anything could happen. It’s a good feeling.
AllHipHop.com: If the first two verses of DESTINY.altered encapsulate your life’s story; how long did it take you to write it; what will the next project possess to further allow your supporters access into your world?
Deniro Farrar: Um, to be honest, I can’t even tell you what creative space I was in when I wrote that song. I don’t want to lie about it. The creative process and the writing process is different. A lot of songs, every word will come to me right then and there. Some songs takes days to write. I can’t say, that was so long ago. I don’t even know what creative space I was in at the time. When I write music I’m always in a different space. I can’t really pinpoint what space I was in more.
AllHipHop.com: What will your next project possess that will grant your supporters more access to you?
Deniro Farrar: Um, It will possess more me—just exposed in my insecurities and my vulnerabilities. I’m just going with my life story. That’s all I do on tracks anyway. It will get more in-depth into my life with the things that I’ve experienced since dropping [The] Patriarch II. It will go into my life with the deal and the signing [to VICE and Warner Bros. records] and my two sons, of course. My brother is still fighting his pending case. You know, coming up to New York and doing all these shows—getting all these good looks—it’s all going to be in the new project.
AllHipHop.com: How do you draw that boundary between your professional life and personal life?
Deniro Farrar: I want my story to be shared with the world. So, nothing is too personal for the world to know. I’m a human, you know what I’m saying, I’m blessed.
AllHipHop.com: Until the next time, what would you like to share with AllHipHop.com?
Deniro Farrar: I just want everybody to stay blessed. I want them to know that they’ve been blessed since birth. Follow the whole cult-Rap movement. It’s a real movement. I’m bringing real Rap back!
Dude, the South Bronx was like a war zone at that time and those older gods didn’t play! So, there is some crazy beef going on with some person I never heard of. The audio of this beef has played out on youtube in the most millennial way. Corny. But now that the audio is here, there are rumors. I am hearing that this audio is actually very old – somewhere in the area of 2005. So why is it coming out now? Clearly, KRS feels he was threatened in the audio and has to do what it takes to protect his home. But, I’m thinking this is somebody looking to exact revenge in the form of character assassination. They took a lot of time to create this video. Its compelling but not damning.
What do you think?
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
A Russian man who tried to rob a hair salon learned a major lesson about why life as a criminal isn’t the ideal path.
Viktor Jasinski, 32, admitted to police that he intended to rob a salon in Meshchovsk, Russia but things didn’t work out so well. The female shop owner, who had a black belt in karate, beat him down, tied him up with a hair dryer cable and then used him as a sex slave for three days.
She allegedly stripped him naked and, for the next three days, used him as a sex slave to ‘teach him a lesson’ – force feeding him Viagra to keep the lesson going.
The would-be robber was eventually released, with Zajak saying he had learned his lesson.
Jasinski went straight to the police and told them of his back-room ordeal, saying that he had been held hostage, handcuffed naked to a radiator, and fed nothing but Viagra.
Both have now been arrested.
When police arrived to question Zahjac, she said: ‘What a bastard. Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left.”
I’m all for criminals getting karma on the spot but this is ridiculous.
In today’s music industry where do-it-yourself is not merely a trendy buzzterm but a mantra for a paradigm shift, Alexander Dreamer’s debut album Dancing With The Devil embodies the DIY ideals. The 20 year old artist produced, wrote, recorded and engineered the entire Dancing With The Devil project and delivered a cohesive product that blends multiple genres into one alluring musical tapestry.
The album will be available for purchase tomorrow (January 7th) but is available to be downloaded and streamed for free. Check out Dancing With The Devil along with Dreamer’s music video for “Underneath The Gods[Fallen Kings]” below:
A Twitter account claiming to belong to Aja Metoyer, Dwyane Wade’s clandestine babymama, threw some shade at Gabrielle Union over the weekend but now the account claims that it’s not Metoyer.
This is the original series of tweets claiming to have had a 9-year relationship with Wade:
Those tweets have been deleted but not before they were captured. Why don’t people learn? Anyway, now this person claims that she isn’t Metoyer. Peep game:
Many rappers have spoken out about Doe B’s untimely passing, the latest being Young Scooter who has dedicated his latest track, “Letter 2 The Streets” to the late emcee.
The instrumental alternates between understated piano riffing to menacing synthesized strings, and finds ScooWop busting out some of his biggest melodies yet about halfway through.
