This past weekend, French Montana celebrated his birthday at the Hennessy V.S event at South Beach hotspot Prestige Sundays at Bamboo. Montana spent the evening popping Hennessy bottles with Rick Ross, R&B star Miguel and controversial NFL player, Pacman Jones. French was in a great mood, smiling all night long and rapping along to several of his songs. DJ Camillo kept the crowd dancing while the Hennessy girls paraded around the club with Hennessy luminous bottles shining bright.
(AllHipHop News) The Harlem that Jim Jones and Chrissy Lampkin grew up on in the 80’s and 90’s is no longer the same. In a recent interview with TheGrio, the pair discussed the gentrification of Harlem, missed business opportunities and more.
According to New York City census data, the population of non-Hispanic white residents of West Harlem increased by over 405% between 2000 and 2010 while the population non-Hispanic Black residents decreased by over 13%. Jim reasons that gentrification can be good for an area if it also takes into account helping those that were originally residents of Harlem with employment.
The Diplomats rapper also explains how the lack of information on financial literacy at a young age was conducive to him and many Black residents of Harlem from prospering:
When we were younger, if that hustle mentality and that business mind were a little bit more adept and we had a little more structure we would’ve known those same buildings we made millions out of we would’ve brought those a long time ago. There would be no gentrification right now, there would be a bunch of Black people owning all the top Brownstones for pennies on the dollar.
This rumor is one of epic proportions. Why? There is a man out there purporting to be a ghostwriter for The Game. Yes, The Game. Now, we know Game as one of the dopest rappers around and one of the dudes that kept the West alive when it was in a slump. Now, this mystery rapper is claiming that he wrote on The Documentary, but never got paid for “Dreams.” The artist is not coming forward just yet, but is rumored to looking into his options. But, here is the crazy thing. Other than 50 Cent, nobody has claimed that The Game ever used a ghostwriter to my knowledge until now. What do you think? BS? The Truth? Insanity or so so real that your mind is blown?
No comment from The Game yet…because this is exclusively being released now.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Yo Gotti spoke with AllHipHop.com about his new recording process during the New York preview of his upcoming album I Am.
A number of rappers turned up to support Yo Gotti, including A-Mafia, Chinx, Mysonne, rap moguls L.A. Reid and Sylvia Rhone and Epic Records’ A&R, Sha Money XL.
Sha Money, who cut his teeth with 50 Cent’s G-Unit empire, also held a spot at Island Def Jam as Vice President of A&R, before accepting his current role as Executive Vice President of Urban A&R at Epic Records in May.
Sha Money, born Michael Clervoix, could be changing the negative perception that some artists have of an A&R person, according to Yo Gotti. Sha Money worked directly with the Memphis-based rapper for his Epic Records debut, I Am, which is due in stores on November 19.
“Working with Sha Money, I got a whole different picture on what an A&R is,” Yo Gotti explained. “It’s another teammate who will help you put it [an album] together, from sending me records and sending me beats that I would have never heard. It’s like another set of eyes, hands and ears that help you reach out to the people quicker and faster and have different inputs on the album.”
The first single from I Am produced the hit single “Act Rite” featuring CTE/Def Jam artist Young Jeezy and Compton-based rapper YG.
“The ‘Act Rite’ record I recorded out in LA. I went to Atlanta and played some records for Jeezy and let him hear it,” Yo Gotti revealed to AllHipHop.com. “He jumped on it and we put YG on it. shout out to the Bay area. We shot the video, no treatment or nothing. just popped up with the cameras live like that and captured the culture.”
Check out the exclusive interview with Yo Gotti below:
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(AllHipHop Features) In one of the most memorable scenes in Francis Ford Coppola’s masterful crime drama The Godfather the heads of the five New York families came together to broker an end to the city’s warring factions. Much in the same way, two New York Hip Hop dons decided to unite to, as they put it, help Hip Hop out of its current troubled state.
The “Father of Mafioso Rap” Kool G Rap and the “Father of Death Rap” Necro, collectively known as The Godfathers, are set to release their first collaborative project Once Upon A Crime on November 19th. AllHipHop caught up with the master of multisyllabic rhymes and the former death metal rocker to get the horror movie character/actors, gangster-themed motion pictures, and Hip Hop albums from a duo that make their list of the Top 5 of all time.
What are your Top 5 Horror movie characters of all time?
Kool GRap: Jack Nicholson, Robert England, Linda Blair, and you gotta throw Vincent Price in there because he’s one of the originals. He was the Bruce Lee of his genre. And Anthony Perkins.
Necro: Ralphus from Blood Sucking Freaks. Frank Zito from Maniac. The main star from Dark Vengeance. That dude was live. The dude from Saw, and the dude from Witchmaster. He’s a scumbag. Obviously we could pick a million people. We could pick Leatherface. We could pick Robert England. G Rap picked them all classic, and I picked them all underground.
What are your Top 5 gangster movies of all time?
Necro: I think me and G are going to agree on most of this.
Kool G Rap: Goodfellas, The Godfather, Casino, Once Upon A Time In America, and…
Necro: Mobsters?
Kool G Rap: Mobsters. Absolutely. You know which one we keep leaving out? Bugsy. Bugsy was crazy.
Necro: Scarface.
Kool G Rap: That’s gangster. Yeah, absolutely. And anybody sleeping on this English movie called Rise of the Foot Soldier, that s**t is bananas, and it’s about a true story.
Excluding yourselves, what are your Top 5 Hip Hop albums by a duo?
Necro: I would have to go with [Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s] Road To The Riches/Wanted Dead Or Alive. Here’s the thing I’m partial to G Rap so Live and Let Die. I like Main Source’s Breaking Atoms. I like Gangstarr’s Step In The Arena. Let the Rhythm Hit ’Em by Eric B. & Rakim. We could leave it at that or I could keep going.
Kool G Rap: I would have to say [Eric B. & Rakim’s] Paid In Full. Mobb Deep’s first album [The Infamous]. M.O.P.’s Till The Death.
Necro: What about Run-D.M.C.?
Kool G Rap: Run-D.M.C. for sure. Raising Hell, Tougher than Leather, take your pick. Them dudes always came with the crazy, official hits. I would definitely have to have Run-D.M.C. on there.
The Godfathers’ Once Upon A Crime is available for pre-order at www.necroproduct.com.
Check out Once Upon ACrime’scover art/tracklist and the song “Trigga 4 Hire” below.
1.) Teflon Dons
2.) The City
3.) High Tension
4.) Punched Dead In The Face (Skit)
5.) Black Medicine
6.) Omerta
7.) The Pain
8.) Hustler
9.) We’ll Kill You
10.) Crook Catastrophe & The Gunblast Kid
11.) Unsub
12.) I Hate You (Skit)
13.) Gangsta
14.) Trigga 4 Hire
15.) American Sickos
16.) Wolf Eyes
17.) Heart Attack
18.) Once Upon A Crime
It has been quite some time since we’ve heard the name Foxy Brown in a positive light. However, insiders are stating to me that Foxy Brown is done with all the weave scandals and all the foolishness. I heard she has completed a new album and is all set to release it to the world. I’m not sure what she will be talking about, but I am hearing it will have a much more mature tone, potentially spiritual.
Troy Ave aka Harry Powder has been one of the shining lights of the NYC rap scene. He’s proven it with witty lyrics, a smooth flow and collabos that signed major artist look to have on their project. Troy Ave’s long awaited debut album New York City, featuring Wu-Tang legend Raekwon, Tony Yayo, Prodigy, N.O.R.E., Pusha T, Harry Fraud, and many more.
(AllHipHop News) The veil is being removed over a friendship the general public had no reason to believe was dysfunctional. According to a statement from Turk, he is on the outs with Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Birdman and Mannie Fresh among others, over lack of support.
In the statement exclusively obtained by AllHipHop.com, Turk claims the Cash Money/Young Money bosses (including Roland “Slim” Williams) and Mannie Fresh did not provide any financial or tangible support on burial of his brother, Ronald Smith in 2010.
His father, Tab Virgil Sr recently passed on October 30th from an apparent homicide. Aside from support, Turk alleges he doesn’t even have an open line of communication with the men he’s worked with since 1996 and known longer:
I been calling texting you n*ggas and ain’t receive no call bacc…I’m through trying to make you nig*as look real. When my lil brother got killed I had to bury him out of my attorney fee$ money and now it happend again with my daddy and I have bury him by myself with no help from you so called FRIENDS.
Turk did state in an interview with XXL last year that Wayne sent him money while he was incarcerated.
Turk, whose real name is Tab Virgil Jr, is scheduling a “Homegoing Service” for his father at Lion Of Judah International Ministries in New Orleans this Thursday (November 7th). The viewing will be at 10 A.M. until the time of the funeral service.
AllHipHop.com reached out to Turk’s management, but they declined to comment on the issue.
Check out a picture and video recording of Turk’s allegations against his former comrades:
Kanye West is known for…being a topic of controversy. Well, here we go again. So, Kanye has made headlines for selling his new gear at his shows, but he’s tour isn’t really going as planned so he’s got all this extra Confederate gear. He took a shirt and a jacket and wore it to Barney’s. And somebody took a picture of it.
Some are saying this is simply media w###### 101, but others are saying that Kanye is subtly telling Barney’s what he thinks of them, all the while walking out with nothing in silent protest!
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
DMX has been…”living in the world” for quite some time. He’s had kids out of his marriage, he’s had trysts and all sorts of other antics like the situation with his son. We love X, make no mistake about it. BUT, his wife Tashera Simmons has another point of view and she’s pulling no punches from here on. I have a source that is telling me that she had a book release party last night with almost all Black women! I heard it was actual kind of tense…for some reason. I think there was this air of revenge on DMX! I don’t know that for sure. Nevertheless, Tashera just released “You Think You Know, But You Have No Idea” and I am hearing it goes in on X. BUT, its from a real perspective, which includes domestic violence, verbal abuse and the whole situation with her son. I have to admit, I have not read it yet. I heard things were so tense last night, there was a fight over the one brother that was there! OK, maybe there was more than one, but there was reportedly a scuffle that was broken up. I heard there was a lot of tension there on.
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
Dennis Hof, owner of the famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in Carson City, Nev., wants to give Justin Bieber a chance to become an “apprentice pimp” and his business partner. Hof claims that his intentions are to keep Bieber safe because he fears that the 19-year-old singer may have contracted a disease considering that he was recently spotted outside of a Brazilian Brothel, where he allegedly spent three hours before attempting to sneak out with two women in tow.
“He’s going downhil and we want to help him,” Hof said. “I know he’s from Canada, but his fan base is here, so I’d like him to buy American.”
He thinks the singer’s involvement in the Bunny Ranch could make legal prostitution more mainstream and even has a slogan ready: “Be a Belieber in safe sex.”
“It’s a personality-driven business. We want the young demographic he represents,” he said. “We are creating a special Bieber suite that includes posters, and all his albums on the CD player. Plus, all the visitors can take the bedsheet with them.”
It might seem that Beiber’s mostly female demographic isn’t likely to show much interest in visiting a brothel — even one endorsed by the singer — Hof disagrees.
“This isn’t your dad’s Bunny Ranch,” he said. “Ten to 12 percent of our business is from females.”
Bieber’s camp hasn’t publicly commented on his alleged Brazilian brothel visits, and it’s highly doubtful they will comment publicly about Hof’s business proposition.
That’s OK with Hof, who said discretion is a key component to his occupation.
“We have celebrities and politicians in and out of here on a weekly basis, and you don’t hear about any of them being spotted by paparazzi,” he said. “We have private and discreet entrances for them, and we never have to wrap any of them in bed sheets.”
If you didn’t know about Dennis Hof from the Bunny Ranch HBO show, just know that he’s a shrewd business man and extremely good at pimping. Careful Biebs.
