(AllHipHop News) After the world watched 2 Chainz encounter gunmen on security cameras during a June 12th robbery in Bay Area of California, now some of those stolen items have made their way to the internet.
An Instagram photo from user “Lilg04” showcases 2 Chainz’s (born Tauheed Epps) stolen driver’s license and bank card.
The rapper has not commented on the matter at press time, but a hip-hop web site that posted the info has reportedly raised the ire of 2Chainz camp.
(AllHipHop News) Will.i.am has filed a lawsuit against Pharrell Williams over the N.E.R.D. singer’s creative brand “i am OTHER” citing copyright infringement.
According to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone, the Black Eyed Peas frontman claims he owns the the “I AM” phrase and Pharrell’s logo is “confusingly similar.”
But in actuality the main gripe over Pharrell’s i am OTHER is that Will.i.am thinks another company bearing the “i am” will take business away from his numerous businesses which bear his Will.i.am name. Especially if that business, such as Pharrell’s will be in direct competition with his in certain areas such as clothing,
“The registration of the mark . . . is likely to dilute the I AM mark and the WILL.I.AM mark.”
Pharrell issued a statement in response which, more or less , is him saying “n*gga please” in his most politically correct manner:
“I am disappointed that Will, a fellow artist, would file a case against me. “I am someone who likes to talk things out and, in fact, I attempted to do just that on many occasions. I am surprised in how this is being handled and I am confident that Will’s trademark claims will ultimately be found to be as meritless and ridiculous as I do.”
Check below for a picture of clothing from Pharrell’s i am OTHER. Think Will.i.am has merit to what he’s claiming?
(AllHipHop News) Jay-Z’s “#NewRules” campaign may be going from online and street marketing to live performance in Times Square. The New York Post reports the Roc Nation boss is planning to give a concert on top of the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee on July 8th for the Late Show With David Letterman.
Post’s sources say Jay is still seeking approval from Mayor Bloomberg’s office, but the performance is likely to be sanctioned and is expected to be a major event.
“If he gets permission from the mayor’s office, it’s going to be off the hook,” said a law enforcement official. “They’ll have to shut down Broadway around the Letterman building. They’ll have to have a strong police presence. It’s going to be chaos with so many fans.”
Another source added, “This would be a great event for New York City.”
Jay-Z has taken a more unorthodox approach for the roll-out of his 12th solo album Magna Carta Holy Grail. His street team revealed the tracklisting for the project by passing out flyers on the streets of Brooklyn, and he partnered with Samsung to give away 1 million copies of the LP to Galaxy users who download the “Magna Carta” app.
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(AllHipHop News) Wale just dropped his third studio album The Gifted this week. The Maybach Music Group emcee sat down with Billboard to provide insight and inspirations for each track off the album. The DMV native discusses working with Stokley Williams of Mint Condition to create a sound he calls “The New Black Soul,” how this go round he focused more on the musicality of the LP rather than his lyrics, society’s obsession with rumors over the truth, his Go-Go music influence, and more.
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Watch Wale’s “Track-By-Track” breakdown below.
(AllHipHop News) It is going on nearly one year since Frank Ocean released his Grammy winning album Channel Orange, and the Odd Future member is already sharing some new unheard tracks live in concert. While performing in Munich last night Ocean gave the crowd tunes from his previous projects and a few fresh songs he has been working on.
There have been reports that Ocean is preparing the follow-up to Channel Orange. He told BBC Radio 1 in February that he has recorded 10-11 songs for his sophomore LP. He has also revealed that the new album is being inspired by The Beatles and the Beach Boys.
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Watch videos of Frank Ocean performing his new songs below.
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(AllHipHop News) Chicago rapper MarVo is suing veteran emcee Ludacris over the song “Sex Room” according to a report by TMZ. MarVo, who also goes by Marvelous, M-Eleven and Crack VoCaine, claims that he was the original creator of the song and Ludacris stole his concept.
MarVo says he made the song with a producer named Kajun in 2009, and then Kajun sold the song to Ludacris without his knowledge. Luda’s version of “Sex Room” appeared on his 2010 album Battle of the Sexes and featured Trey Songz.
MarVo is now asking for compensation from Ludacris.
MarVo has been one of the rising underground artists in Chicago for several years. He has appeared on tracks with Young Berg and Future. In 2010 he was featured in Hip Hop Weekly as one of “The Next To Blow” from Chi-town. That article actually mentions that MarVo co-wrote “Sex Room.”
(AllHipHop News) It was a great week for Hip Hop are as far as sales go. Kanye West’s Yeezus, J. Cole’s Born Sinner, and Mac Miller’s Watching Movies with the Sound Off each surpassed over 100,000 units in sales for their debut week.
Hits Daily Double is reporting that Yeezus led the pack with 328,800 units sold. Not far behind was Born Sinner with 297,922 copies, and WMWTSO rounded out the top 3 with 101,795.
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This will be Kanye’s 6th number one album. That ties him with Eminem and Nas for the second most number one albums by a rap artist. Kanye’s Watch The Throne collaborator, Jay-Z, holds the record for the rapper with the most #1’s all time with 12.
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There is a good chance a Hip Hop artist could take the top spot on the album chart for the next 2 weeks as well. Maybach Music Group’s Wale just released his third album The Gifted yesterday, and the following week Jay-Z will drop Magna Carta Holy Grail, his first solo LP in four years.
(AllHipHop News) Less than a week after 18-year-old rapper Lil Snupe was killed, police now have a suspect in custody for the crime. MTV is reporting that the Winnfield, Louisiana Police Department charged Tony Holden, 36, with 1st degree murder, armed robbery and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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Holden is accused of murdering Snupe on June 20th after an argument over a video game. He turned himself in to authorities yesterday without incident.
Lil Snupe, whose real name is Addarren Ross, was signed to Meek Mill’s Dream Chasers label.
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(AllHipHop Exclusive) Here’s part 2 of AllHipHop.com’s exclusive interview with Louisiana rapper Turk. The original member of Cash Money’s supergroup The Hot Boys talks in detail about who he has been recording music with, which rappers he would like to work with, upcoming business deals, and his idea for uniting Hip Hop.
AllHipHop.com: On your Blame It On The System mixtape you have tracks with both Wayne and Juvenile. Do you have plans to record more tracks with either of them?
Turk: I did a song with Juvie and Young Jeezy called “Pay The Rent.” Me and Juvie did like four songs. Me and Wayne we putting some stuff together. I did some stuff with Mystikal, Gudda Gudda. I’m working with underground artists. A lot of these artists that’s in the game today they not working with underground artists, but I am. I’m working with the big stars and the little stars. Anybody that’s got something going on, I support it.
[ALSO CHECK OUT: Turk Ft. Mannie Fresh & Juvenile “Man In My City”]
Right now you’re an independent artist. Do you ever see yourself signing with a major label?
Right now, my management, Mizay Management, we in the process of getting some distribution. Quiet as kept, things are working out. They looking at me. They seeing my movement. I came out pushing. I dropped two mixtapes in the eight months since I’ve been home. I’m just staying focused and ducking all the b#######. I just stay focused on Turk.
You just got out [of prison] last year. How has the industry changed since you went in?
I think that everybody in the industry just got a different way of doing things and telling they story. I respect everybody’s craft. I like Chief Keef. I like Grand Hustle’s movement. I like YMCMB. I like G.O.O.D. Music. I Like Jay-Z. I like Maybach Music. I like variety. God likes variety. He made us all different. That’s just how the world is. Nothing gonna stay the same. Everything gonna change, but at the end of the day it’s music, and it’s universal.
Speaking of different styles of music, have you heard Kanye’s new album [Yeezus]?
I haven’t heard it yet, but I know it’s gonna be stupid. Kanye always got something up his sleeve. I salute that brother because with the critics and everything he go forward. He proves them wrong every time. They love him, and they hate him at the same time, so I salute that brother.
You were talking about music changing and people doing their own thing. You have a lot of Hip Hop heads that kind of feel like there is a certain part of Hip Hop that’s being lost, especially with a lot of the younger generation of rappers. What’s your take on what the younger emcees are doing musically?
I mean that’s they lifestyle. When I came in the game with Cash Money we were rapping about shining and flossing and blinging. Doing things that we were living at the time, so you can’t knock these young dudes that’s out here young and thuggin’. I feel like these young n##### taking over right now. I salute them. I support them. The OG’s, I respect them too, but they gotta get out that egotism. They gotta just get with the program and accept it for what it is like I’m doing.
Are there any young artists out now that you haven’t worked with yet that you’d liked to do some music with?
I just tweeted out that I needed to holla at Chief Keef. I want to get something on and popping with that guy. I look at the struggle of where he come from. He started from nothing, and he made a name for himself. I like his music. I look it at on MTV Jams, and I say look at this young n####, they loving him. Lil Durk, all these young n##### out here doing they thing. I salute them.
I got my young n##### the YNTO (YungNikkaTAkinOVa). They branched off in Atlanta. They branched off in Memphis. They branched off in New Orleans. They moving. It’s they world. I’m just in it.
When are we going to get some new music from your camp? Any mixtapes coming up?
We about to drop the Ynt presents YNTO. They coming up next in July. We gonna drop it probably like the last weekend in July. We just got a whole of stuff going on. I got my book coming out The Autothugography of Turk. Louisianimalz Vol 1 in stores now. I reached out to my whole state. Nobody ever did that. I’d showed love to all the guys making moves in my state.
I just want to reach out around the world so we can do something like a “We Are The World” type album where everybody get together. They put they state together, and we all come together. Make this s### big. That’s my vision, and I believe that it can be done. We gotta stop hatin’. We gotta stop tearing down each other. The OG’s gotta speak out, and salute these young n#####, because they could be doing some other s###. They could be in them penitentiaries like I just come from. They trying do something with they life, so I respect that.
You dropped two mixtapes this year. Do you have any other projects on the way?
I got the Re’Flamed, my album. Like I said, we in negotiation with the distribution. Bout to get a major distribution behind me. I been shooting a couple of videos featuring a couple of artists – Bo Deal, Wooh Da Kid, the whole Brick Squad Monopoly. I’m f###### with them tough. Gloss Da Boss, I’m bout to shoot the video with her in Atlanta. I just did something with Kuntry King. The whole Hustle Gang. I’m f###### with them. YMCMB. Everybody showing love. A lot of people f###### with me now, and I’m real humble with it.
[ALSO CHECK OUT: Gloss da Boss – “How Ya Do That” feat.Turk]
You seem to be at a point now where you feel like it’s time that Hip Hop in general comes together.
That’s what we gotta do. Y’all too. Y’all gotta help us come together too. It’s a lot of money out there. It ain’t no reason that this person should to tear this person down. I did a lot of reading when I was locked up, and if people come together we better in numbers. That’s my whole thing. I gotta promote that. I stand for unity. It ain’t no Bloods, Crips, GD’s, Vice Lords with me. I’m neutral. I speak for all those guys. I salute all those guys. I respect all those guys.
I got a real n#### movement. I’m a make a n#### be real, because that’s in all of us. We come from that. Especially just being down. Just being Black. We come from that. It don’t take [much for] a person to stand on what he believes and move forward. When God wanted something good, he said it and it was done. That’s where I am at with it. My faith is strong. I believe strong. That’s just the way it’s gonna be, and I ain’t gonna change for nothing or nobody.
[ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: Turk Speaks About Recent Lil Wayne Comments And His Issues With The Media]
To download Turk’s Blame It On The System or Louisianimalz Vol 1 mixtapes visit datpiff.com
Watch Turk’s video “Reckless” below.
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(AllHipHop News) Universal Records, T.I. and Kanye West are the targets of a new lawsuit by Bloodstone, an R&B/Funk/Rock band that does not approve of hip-hop music.
In a new lawsuit, the 3-person group stated their claim.
“Plaintiffs do not approve of their song being sampled in a hip hop or rap song.”
“Bloodstone did not know that UMG had granted the license to TI and Kanye West until late 2011/early 2012. Since that time Bloodstone has sought to find out who granted the license to TI without any authority, and recently learned it was Ume [Universal Music Enterprises]. Plaintiffs do not approve of their song being sampled in a hip hop or rap song.”
“On belief, in 2003, in exchange for consideration, Defendant granted the hip-hop artists known as TI and Kanye West a license to sample ‘I’m Just Doing My Job’ without notifying any of the members of Bloodstone and without paying any compensation to Bloodstone. The Bloodstone sound recording of ‘I’m Just Doing My Job’ was used by TI and Kanye West in the song ‘Doin My Job’ in its entirety and has sold millions of copies.
The group seeks an injunction on the songs and punitive damages.
(AllHipHop News) Yo Gotti is the newest rapper to get down with T.I.s enduring brand Grand Hustle.
The ATL-based collective currently consists of Trae Tha Truth, Chip, 8Ball & MJG, and Travis Scott, among others.
The news was broken by VLAD TV in a viral video.
See below.
President Obama: “I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision today” and that the gutting of the Voting Rights Act “upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent.”
The Voting Rights Act, first signed into law in 1965, was a keystone victory of the civil rights movement. African-American citizens withstood beatings, fire hoses and dogs to see the law passed. Some even gave their lives.
And for decades since, the law has protected the right to vote for millions of America’s citizens — regardless of faith, color or creed.
Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court strikes down the power to enforce this important law. This is more than a disappointment—it’s an injustice.
The Hip-Hop community has an obligation to respond to this. Hip-hop was born out of the struggle against inequality, poverty, violence and discrimination. It is a genre that reflects those inequalities in order to overcome them and change them.
Millions of young people listen and act based off what artists, DJs, bloggers and On-Air personalities say. You have the power to help them retain their rights to vote and to fight for the millions of people who will lose the right to vote.
Last year, right-wing law-makers made a dramatic effort to limit voting access. They tried passing restrictive voter ID laws, cutting back early-voting hours, and eliminating same-day voter registration. Citizens with every right to vote were turned away from the polls after waiting hours in line to vote.
The Voting Rights Act was invoked to stop these attacks on the right of the people to vote in 2012. Without it, everything would be different today.
Our nation should be expanding voting access, not restricting it. The decision handed down by the Supreme Court today means that it is now up to us, the people, the hip-hop community, to protect our right to vote.
Tell your audience you’re p##### off about this decision. Talk about how important voting is and how the threat of voter discrimination is very real. Send email blasts, make a PSA, light up social media, and make on-air announcements.
You can start by getting people to Washington, DC for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. In 1965, Dr. King and civil rights leaders led 300,000 to March on Washington, and this historic event is part of the reason the Voting Rights Acts passed 50 years ago. On Saturday, August 24, 2013, the NAACP and other civil rights groups can recreate the momentum with your help.
And we need more than marches. We need to be in our communities educating, registering, engaging, and building our people up with the tools and knowledge they need.
Where’s your hustle, are you up for the challenge? The time is always right to do what’s right. Our young people look to you for leadership beyond lyrics.
Marvin Bing is the Northeast Regional Director of the National NAACP. You can follow him on twitter and Instagram @MarvinBing
(AllHipHop News) Chris Brown cannot seem the catch a break, but he’s caught a charge of hit-n-run after a minor accident with a woman.
Chris Brown has been charged with a pair of criminal charges where he hit a Mercedes Benz, but authorities say he didn’t abide by the law in the matter. Brown stopped and exchanged some information with the other motorist, but apparently failed turn over his driver’s license and gave her incorrect insurance information.
Brown addressed the matter this morning.
“It’s not a hit and run if u get out the car, exchange information (who has NO DAMAGE to either cars). This is really ridiculous,” he tweeted.
According to TMZ, The City Attorney slapped Chris with leaving the scene without exchanging proper information and charged driving without a valid license.
Each charge could get the singer up to six months in jail.
Lastly, should this result in a probation violation, the singer could face four years in jail.
On a concert bill that includes LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, and De La Soul, the significance of the Kings Of The Mic Tour could easily be discussed at great lengths for a long while.
Need proof? The title of this article simply poses one question, but the body of it gets three strong answers to it from three individuals who are actually on the stage in front of thousands of fans at every stop of the tour.
AllHipHop.com spoke to DJ Z-Trip (LL Cool J’s DJ), WC (West Coast rapper and Ice Cube’s hype man), and Crazy Toones (Ice Cube’s DJ). And after reading their arguments for importance, it will be easy to understand why the rappers on this tour that have been rapping for decades not only continue to be relevant, but are still deserving of royal status just like the concert title says.
DJ Z-Trip: It’s [important on] many levels. Right now, I think the state of Hip-Hop musically is…we’re in a very weird place. I mean we’re pushing boundaries on certain levels, but I think content-wise, I think what people are rapping about, there’s not a lot of relevance. It’s become a bit too much like people talking about how many chicks they’re f***ing, people talking about how many riches they got, how many people they killed, what ever the f***. I mean rap has been doing that s**t for years anyway, but on this kind of tour you’re dealing with people who actually put words together. They craft their words together. I don’t think there’s a lot of crafting going on with a lot of rappers. There still are plenty out there, but, by and large, I think what’s coming through to the average Hip-Hop listener is not really super intelligent. And so a tour like this rallying behind LL, PE, De La, [and] Cube is allowing people to see that there’s still people out there doing it and that [these] voices still need and want to be heard.
I look at people like De La and when you watch them-this is how a performance should be and they start it off. That opens up the whole door to the whole tour. You go through everybody and you get to me and LL at the end. We’re doing real DJ/emcee s**t back and forth. It’s not like I’m just pushing some buttons and he’s rapping. We have all these dynamics and really took our time to make it a show. And that to me is why I think it’s so relevant. Hip-Hop has always been about the performance, I’ve felt. And I don’t see a lot of Hip-Hop acts in this day and age come out and actually put on a show. They just rap over their song and that s**t is kind of boring to me.
WC: Because that’s where it started- with a lot of the cats that’s on the tour. [They] kicked off a lot in the direction of where things are going. I don’t want to say that’s where it needs to end because it’s not ending for us; we’re still here. But at the same time too, it needs to be recognized years later with new generations of rappers coming out. You got cats like LL Cool J who is one of the first to kick it off on the Hip-Hop scene coming up under the greats like Run-D.M.C. and stuff like that. He was a young phenom that came out and did it and it’s good for people to see that and recognize that and remember that he’s the one that brought it into the forefront with the lyrics and battling and s**t like that. You got Public Enemy on the righteous tip, so called conscious rap. They were one of the first groups that came out and captivated the whole world and made everybody feel good to stand up for their rights. It’s good for everybody to see that. You got Ice Cube who came out with “gangsta rap.” You got a lot of cats out there now trying to be tough with their lyrics and be dope dealers and gang bangers and stuff like that. And you see the bandannas and all that s**t and everything. It’s good for [people] to see that. Also too, you got De La Soul who came from that abstract age. It’s good for people to see them. And what’s good about this tour right here is that there’s a lot of people coming out that’s not “old-school.” You’ve got a lot of youngsters coming out and seeing it. And once they come out and see the package together, they walk away appreciating not just the artists, but Hip-Hop [as a whole] even more so. It’s a great show man.
Crazy Toones: This tour is so important to Hip-Hop because it’s everybody that’s been in the game from like after Melle Mel and them came, so we came around ’85, ’86. It’s showing you that it takes more than just sitting at home and being in front of your computer on the Internet, making a song, and just throwing it out [there]. It’s a whole package with Hip-Hop because if you don’t know how to perform or do a show, you’re really nothing. It’s dope because De La Soul, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, and Public Enemy, everybody has been doing it for so long, everybody knows that when we get up there it’s really a job. You can’t just get up there thinking, “I got a song out, and I’m just singing my record” with your hands in your pockets. You’ve got to bring a real show. When you come to the Kings Of The Mic Tour, you’re gonna see why it’s called the Kings Of The Mic Tour. Everybody knows what to do.
Have you seen the Kings Of The Mic Tour yet? What did you think of the show?
Hip-Hop Rumors: Nicki Minaj / Iggy Azalea Beef?
LOL! I’m telling you man! Twitter is going to get a whole bunch of you MFs if you dig hard enough. As for me, I stand by what I say! MOST TIMES!
Anyway, Iggy said something about Nicki Minaj back in 2010 and it has come back to haunt her in a major way.
PEEP!!!!
They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry! -illseed.
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“This ain’t nothing to relate to“-The Weeknd
The Weeknd returns with the first visuals for his new single “Kiss Land” off his upcoming untitled album.
Distorted visuals, sedated looking Weeknd and half naked mostly naked women fondling each other? This has become The Weeknd’s signature style.
This is an entirely different version of “Kiss Land” from the one that was previewed back in May.
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Check out the video below:
