(AllHipHop News)When Drake heard Kendrick Lamar say he wanted to lyrically murder him, he didn’t feel no ill will but dismissed Kendrick’s goal.
In his recent cover story for Billboard, the Toronto MC spoke about his reaction to hearing Kendrick Lamar’s competitive threat:
It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me. That’s all it was. I know good and well that Kendrick’s not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic.
Drake also says he was so unphased by the verse that rocked the industry that after first hearing it he “went about my day, went and got dinner and kept it moving.”
Drake’s full cover story can be read in the latest issue of Billboard Magazine out now.
(AllHipHop News) DMX was a former self-professed champion of beat boxing when he decided to begin writing rhymes. In a recent interview, Dark Man X spit the first verse he ever wrote.
Delivered with the rough vocal inflections that popularize most of DMX’s greatest songs, the 15 year veteran’s first verse is distinctly different in lyrical content than the songs that made him famous.
“First album should be like a fetus/Instead, flow is like I stole the cheat sheets from Jesus”
Former artist fo Jay Z’s Carter Faculty, Baltimore native D. King blesses the world with his new track, “Define Myself”. Over some looped smooth horns and crisp drums, King takes the listener through his “life in The Wire” and who D. King is.
The song will appear on his upcoming EP So Crazy, hosted by Combat Jack. D. King can be followed on Twitter @dking730 .
(AllHipHop News) If you have been practicing your twerk routine in the mirror after Juicy J announced his $50,000 scholarship contest for best twerker, it is time to show and prove. Twerk philanthropist Juicy J recently revealed in a new WorldStarHipHop video the details on his Twerk For Scholarship contest.
In the video, the Stay Trippy rapper explains the details and suggests a song for “inspiration”:
I want to see a video [of] you telling me or showing me why you deserve this money,” Juicy J says. “I’ll be picking the winner myself out of the Top 10 videos. Listen to ‘Scholarship’ featuring A$AP Rocky off of my album Stay Trippy to get some inspiration.
(AllHipHop News) Legendary director Ron Howard and Showtime will be releasing his documentary of the making of Jay-Z’s Made In America concert on October 11th.
The documentary will deliver a psuedo “backstage pass” to the event with interviews with the performers on their sets and how they made it in America. This year’s performers include Nine Inch Nails, Beyonce, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore and a plethora of others.
This is not the first time Jay Z has worked with Showtime on video content of music performances. Back in 2003, Jay Z live broadcasted his Feb. 22 concert in Memphis, Tennessee.
Ron Howard will premiere the documentary on Sept. 7 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Check out Jay Z’s live performance of “U Don’t Know(Remix)” with then Roc-A-Fella artists M.O.P. at the Showtime broadcasted concert:
I am hearing that Snoop Dogg has some majorly p##### off fans in Portland. It seems that Snoop Lion had a show in Portland a few days ago. That sounds about right. But numerous fans were p##### off that Snoop showed up to the venue like 3 hours late. A DJ tried to hold down the opening set, but things got hectic when the crowd started booing. Then they got really heated and started throwing bottles at the stage. Snoop DID show up, but he only did a 30 minute set. To be fair to Snoop, I heard this was like only the second time he has screwed up a show in Portland, but last time it was the same thing too. Maybe Snoop isn’t feeling Portland, or maybe he’s feeling their bud a little too much when he gets there. I heard the promoter is considering legal action, cause Snoop was supposed to be on at like 10pm and didn’t get on the stage til 1.
2CHAINZ CREW CARRIES THE CONSTITUTION WITH THEM!
2Chainz got busted in Oklahoma City in a scenario that seems like it could be in the sequel to CB4. So the affidavit was just released and here’s what happened. Some cops pulled the bus over for bad tail lights. When they attempted to get on the bus, the cop said he could actually see a plume of smoke drifting around the bus. Damn they didn’t even stop chiefin when the cops stopped them. Anyway, the bus driver refused to open the door. The funny part is, a guy in 2Chainz entourage held up a copy of the Constitution and shook his fingers at the cops. They ended up towing the whole bus with everyone on it and they found some weed on it. They also found some other narcotics, which means 2Chainz could be facing more charges. Isn’t the Constitution written on hemp paper? Maybe they were gonna smoke that next LOL!
Future and Ciara are balling out of control. The power couple hit the VMA’s in a private helicopter, then turned around and had the nerve to buy the newest car Bentley had made. The two dropped over $400k in total to scoop up the Bentley Continental Flying Spur. I am trying not to hate on Future, since he’s doing it so big right now. But he better be careful. Don’t forget he has two babby momma’s claiming that they need more money for child support for Future’s kids. Anyway, check out the Bentley.
Has Hov inked a new deal with Facebook or something? They are rolling out their new embed function on their posts. So Jay just dropped his video “Holy Grail” with Justin Timberlake using Facebook. Check it out.
(AllHipHop News) Incarceration is filled with idle time which people used to read books, write songs and generally get themselves together. Brother MC’s, Gregory and Jeffrey Qaiyum decided to fill the time of prisoners across the world with a modern Hip Hop remake of a 400 year old play.
The performance, “Othello: The Remix” is a retelling of Shakespeare’s classic poem of betrayal and regret “Othello”. The Qaiyum brothers’, renditions includes a new plot which centers around MC Othello releasing average rapper Cassio’s next album which infuriates upcoming vengeful rapper Iago.
The brothers have performed their renditions in England, South Korea and recently for 450 inmates at Chicago’s Cook County Jail.
Jeffery reasons with the Associated Press that while the original Othello may be centuries old, the underlying message of the epochal play can still resonate with the inmates:
(It) really comes down to choices and repercussions and often times, poor choices. I can’t imagine that some people in there are not going to feel that.
The brothers have remixed other Shakespeare plays for performances named “The Bomb-itty of Errors” and “Funk It Up About Nothin.'” They currently are working on offering a Hip Hop translation for every Shakespeare prose as well as for Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.
The two men are apart of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
