(AllHipHop) R&B singers Tyrese, Ginuwine, and Tank drop the latest visual from their forthcoming collaborative album Three Kings. The video for “I Need” is directed by Benny Boom. The track is the follow-up single to “Sex Never Felt Better.”
(AllHipHop News) Are you interested in seeing a producer’s creative process? Thanks to Mass Appeal‘s “Rhythm Roulette” series, production heads can watch acclaimed Hip Hop beatmakers go from an obscure sample to a hot track.
In the latest edition, Ramon “Illmind” Ibanga puts on a blindfold and randomly chooses three vinyls that he has to use to create a beat from scratch on the spot. He ultimately settles with a Patti LaBelle tune, loads it into Pro Tools, and works his magic.
Illmind is one of underground Hip Hop’s top producers. He has crafted beats for KRS-ONE, Skyzoo, Little Brother, Sean Price, and Jared Evan.
TGI…Everyday! Welcome to the end of a Great week and still the beginning of the rest of your life! (Just in case you didn’t notice… Everyday is the beginning of the rest of your life). Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to Fixing up the world! Many people live through life not realizing that not only is it their right to be great but it is also their obligation! What makes the human species different from any other species is our ability to evolve and become greater than how we started! Without a selfish and selfless attention to yourself and being the best that you can possibly be, it will be impossible to move the world forward! Fixing the world starts with “fixing” you! I put fixing in quotations because the fixing doesn’t come from being broken, instead the fixing comes from maximize your full potential! How great you become or don’t become is a your decision. Just don’t let the fear of obstacles or failure stand in the way of that decision. As Vera Nazarian once said “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” Make the mountain your home and be Great!!! NOTHING CAN STOP YOU BUT YOU!!
-Ash’Cash
“Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.” -Steve Maraboli
“Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.” -Anthony Robbins
“The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost
“Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them.” -Abraham Verghese
“Your burden is your purpose. Without it, you cannot be.” -Solange nicole
“Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.” -Orrin Woodward
“Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.” -Steve Chandler
“If you didn’t plan on being amazing, why did you show up in the first place!!! Be Phenomenal or Be Forgetten!!!! -Eric Thomas
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(AllHipHop News) Any André 3000 fans that are hoping a new full solo album from the ATLien is actually coming in 2014 that can’t wait to experience something new from OutKast can check out the mash-up mixtape A Tribe Called Kast from Nappy DJ Needles. The 12-track project features the vocals of 3 Stacks and Big Boi over production from A Tribe Called Quest.
Listeners can hear blended songs by two of the greatest Hip Hop groups of all time. Titles include “So Fresh, So Clean, So Butter,” “We’ve Got The Jazzy Belle,” and “Da Enemy of Storytellin.”
(AllHipHop News) Rising new emcee Bishop Nehru just dropped his second official mixtape strictly FLOWz last month, and the 16-year-old is already on to the next one. For his upcoming project the New York native will be collaborating with masked Hip Hop veteran MF DOOM.
There are not many details about the project except that it will be released by Noizy Cricket!!/LEX Records Lex Records. The pair both performed at a show in London earlier this year. Bishop also rapped over the Doom-produced track “Elder Blossoms” off his Nehruvia mixtape.
(AllHipHop News) Schoolboy Q is clearly not a stan for his fellow Black Hippy members. Meaning, he can respect and appreciate their talents, but he can also admit when he feels like another rapper may have edge them out in a certain area. That is the case for the 2013 MTV Video Music Award category for Best Hip-Hop Video.
Fellow TDE emcee and collaborator on Schoolboy’s latest track “Collard Greens,” Kendrick Lamar, is up for the Best Hip Hop Video moonman for “Swimming Pools (Drank).” He is going against A$AP Rocky’s “F*ckin Problems,” Drake’s “Started From The Bottom,” J. Cole’s “Power Trip,” and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Can’t Hold Us.” According to Q, Macklemore should be walking away with the trophy that night.
“Of course I’m rooting for Kendrick, but Macklemore probably should win. I’m pretty sure Kendrick believes that too,” Schoolboy told MTV’s Rap Fix Live. “We appreciate good stuff, and that video was crazy. I appreciate what Macklemore did with that video. I liked it better than Kendrick’s.”
Schoolboy also explains the delay of his album Oxymoron. The Los Angeles rapper says he is just waiting on sample clearances to drop the project. He reveals that frequent musical partner A$AP Rocky will appear on a track called “Californication” that will be on the LP.
(AllHipHop News) Yesterday, Usher’s son Usher Raymond V was reported to be recovering and smiling from his pool accident on Tuesday (August 6th). Today (August 7th) the Associated Press is reporting that an Atlanta judge will field child custody arguments from Tameka Foster Raymond, Usher’s ex-wife.
Tameka Foster Raymond filed a request for this hearing following the pool accident, alleging poor supervision on Usher’s part. Usher’s aunt and housekeeper were supervising his son at the time of the incident and Tameka’s motion alleges Usher “continues to excessively travel, utilizes third-party caregivers to supervise the minor children rather than personally exercising parenting time and providing supervision for the minor children.”
(AllHipHop News) The always outspoken (and occasionally unclothed) Aubrey O’Day was on the DomNnate Radio Show and spoke . During “Celebrity Storytime” on the show the 29 year old singer spoke on Lindsay Lohan’s rudeness, Diddy’s control problems, Arsenio Hall, Chris Brown and more.
She says she met Chris Brown and has no gripe with him even after his 2009 assault of Rihanna:
“The personal obsession people have with him is unfortunate and his life journey is to progress and become better. Artistically I have nothing to say except kudos and respect to Chris Brown’s voice, dancing skills, talent as an artist with his paintings. He is an inspiring artist.”
O’Day also recalled a not-so pleasant first impression of Lindsay Lohan inside of a women’s bathroom:
“I met her in a bathroom one time and she was kind of rude and didn’t tip the woman.” She also went on to claim Lohan promised to take a photo with a fan and then backed out on the
Arsenio Hall and Aubrey O’Day were contestants and rivals on Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice show and the fued never ceased. Back in May, Hall recalled a story on The View of a time when Aubrey showed photos of all the Black men she had slept with. Aubrey’s feelings towards the former talk show host were concise:
“I don’t ever want talk to him. He’s gross.”
In regards to her Danity Kane career with Diddy, O’Day claims there’s “very little room for movement beyond his thoughts” with his artists and that conflicted with her and her former band members:
“What’s worse in his mind is that we were real artists that wanted a say in everything that we were creating and had a personal stake in everything we were making.”
For some reason, Rick Ross is introducing Reebok’s Big Bank Center! What the fluck? They are saying that Rozay is low-key still down with the sneaker company, even though they dropped in him last year over some lyrics perceived to be date rape raps. This video premiered on MMG’s official Youtube channel too.
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
Today marks the release of Stalley’s latest “Honest Cowboy”, which includes features from Scarface, Schoolboy Q, Joi Tiffany and Crystal Torres, as well as production by DJ Quik, Cardo, S1, Block Beattaz, Rashad, Soundtrakk and Terrace Martin.
(AllHipHop News) In today’s edition of People Do The Weirdest Things With Their Money, Snoop Lion’s Snoopify app’s $99.99 virtual joints have been purchased by 15 people.
The Snoopify app allows users to place virtual stickers on photographs and one of the stickers, called “Golden Jay”, is priced at $99.99.
The recent purchases of Snoop Lion’s Golden Jay have even caught the inventors of the app off guard. Snoop’s brand manager, Nick Adler told The Wall Street Journal he was “shocked” 15 people purchased the premium Golden Jay but reasoned it was because “this is a new world.”
Check out Snoop Lion give a tutorial on how to use his Snoopify app available for iOS and Android devices: