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Hip-Hop Rumors: Somaya Reece Writing a Book Series With Jackie Christie

By: Friday Foster Updated Category: Rumors
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Somaya Reece seemingly fell off the radar after her departure from Love & Hip-Hop but she says she’s been busy working and attempting to rebrand herself. The folks over at The Jasmine Brand caught up with the ex-reality star/rapper who says she’s working on a series of books and that Jackie Christie from Basketball Wives LA will help her. Mmmkay…

Anyway here are some thoughts from Somaya:

“I really beasted hard for my dreams and the thing is that some people respected it, some people made fun of it. Those people who respected it, respected that I wasn’t sleeping around to get on – I really was like – I don’t care, I got to be home, this is my dream and I’m going to pursue it and that’s what I got to do. So that’s what I did. And I’m so hungry, I’m always hungry and I always believe that you’ve got to be a student first in order to be a boss so I’m constantly trying to find new avenues – I’m currently writing some books.”

She added:

“Jackie Christie, which is a friend of mine, she’s helping mentor me with my book. She’s published many successful books and people want to hate on her but she’s a boss! She has credits so you can undermine her however you want but it’s the reality and I’m really just looking forward to just doing it. And I just took all the negative and turned it into a positive and I always will, so…”

Somaya didn’t specify what those books would be about but she clear on one thing, and that is, she doesn’t miss her days on Love & Hip-Hop.

 

EXCLUSIVE: B Real Gives AllHipHop The Goods On Cypress Hill Reunion Album

By: timsanchez818 Updated Category: Features
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B Real stopped by the Soul Assassins Radio Show located at Backside Records in Burbank, CA on Thursday (Oct. 10) to discuss his upcoming Serial Killers project with Xzibit and Demrick (Young De) which is set to drop at the end of this month. The Cypress Hill frontman also revealed that he’s back in the studio with his longtime band-mates and they are working on a new reunion album spearheaded by DJ Muggs.

In this exclusive video by AllHipHop.com, B Real states that right now the album is “dark and raw” and even described it as being in “the darkest corner of The Temple of Boom.” Soul Assassins Radio airs on Mondays from 7pm to 9pm on Sirius/XM’s Shade 45 channel.

Watch the interview below!

Jimmy Kimmel Speaks On His Beef-Ending Interview With Kanye West

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) On Wednesday (October 9th), Kanye West appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and addressed their differences which stemmed from Kimmel’s satire of Kanye West’s interview with Zane Lowe.

In an Q&A with Grantland, Kimmel admits to having a better understanding of Kanye’s “frustration”:

 I think [Kanye] said it best. I think he said that he reads and sees a lot of things that frustrate him, and the difference is that in this case he was able to call me, whereas he isn’t able to call TMZ or whatever it is that bothers him.

jKimmel admitted to not viewed the Zane Lowe interview in full before his reenactment with child actors and actually did not see the full interview until the day before Kanye’s appearance on the show, When he did view the entire interview, Kimmel says he could understand Kanye’s view point on certain topics but did not invalidate the criticism they received:

I saw that he was very serious, and he felt like he’d made some good points — I’m sure that’s debatable, depending on your point of view. He then felt like I’d diminished it by making a joke out of it.

One poignant moment in the interview comes when the interviewer, Grantland staff writer Alex Pappademas mentioned that Kimmel has done similar parodies of artists such as Lady Gaga and then asked if Kimmel understood it was different because of Kanye’s race:

I don’t think the fact that he’s black has anything to do with it. In fact, I didn’t know he was black until you brought that up. I just think it’s about somebody who jokes around and somebody who doesn’t. Kanye’s not a jester. He’s speaking seriously, and I guess it wounded him somehow.

The interview with Kanye West helped increase the ratings of The Jimmy Kimmel Show Live! as it received a 1.2 rating in 1.2 rating in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 age group demographic in comparison to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno‘s 0.7 rating and The Late Show with David Letterman’s 0.5 rating. This fact has not gone unnoticed by Kimmel:

The lesson is, if you get yourself in a situation like this you will get huge ratings on your television show.