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Waka Flocka To Drop “Triple F Life” On June 12, Hits Road With Drake For “Club Paradise Tour”
(AllHipHop News) Warner Bros. Records and Brick Squad Monopoly have revealed a June 12 release date for Waka Flocka’s sophomore album, Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family.
Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family currently has two singles in rotation on radio – “Round Of Applause” featuring Drake, which was released last summer, and the Trey Songz-assisted “I Don’t Really Care.”
The latter is currently the #1 most-added song on radio, and there are plans to shoot a video for the single on April 10.
Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family is set to include features and appearances from B.O.B., Tyga, Drake, Trey Songz, Ludacris, and more. In addition, Waka Flocka has just been added to the lineup for Drake’s second U.S. run of his “Club Paradise Tour” where the Atlanta rapper will travel to 27 cities over the course of two months and perform with J. Cole, 2 Chainz, and French Montana.
Waka’s first Warner Bros. release, Flockaveli, was touted as “the most anarchic rap album of 2010” by The Washington Post, and “one of the most bracing and unforgiving Hip-Hop releases in recent memory” by The New York Times.
Flockaveli produced four hit singles including the triple platinum cut “No Hands” which featured Roscoe Dash and Wale, “Oh Lets Do It,” “Grove St. Party” and “ Hard In Da Paint.” To date, the album has sold over 300,000 copies.
Tickets and dates for the “Club Paradeise Tour” can be found at LiveNation.com. Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family is scheduled for a June 12 release.
Trouble Ft. Gucci Mane “Hustle Ambition”
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Alternative Pick: Miguel “Arch N Point”
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J NiCS Ft. Aleon Craft “Wired Up”
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Trina Ft. Kid Cadet and Vinny Venditto “Outer Space”
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VIDEO: Dee-1 Surprises Two Fans Who Missed His Harvard Show
Dire-hard Dee-1 fans Eric and Chris drove a few hours to see Dee-1 perform at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts recently.
Unfortunately, according to Dee-1’s camp, the fan-tastic duo read the concert flyer wrong and arrived several hours after the show had already ended. Being the good guy that he is, the rapper/activist didn’t send them home disappointed. Watch the video below!
Check for Dee-1’s The Focus Tape in the coming months. Follow him on Twitter (@DEE1MUSIC).
Tommy Ruffin “Revolution”
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Chino XL Ft. Horseshoe GANG “Buried In Vocabulary”
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J Hood “Carmen”
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Referee “White Boy Wasted”
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Brooklyn Bodega Announces 4th “Show & Prove Competition” For This Year’s Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
(AllHipHop News) Brooklyn Bodega, the producers behind the 8th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, have announced this year’s “Show & Prove Competition” where up-and-coming MCs can compete for the opportunity to perform at this year’s festival.
The “Show & Prove” competition takes place over the course of three months and consists of three preliminary contests to be held on April 12, May 10, and June 14. The three preliminary contest winners will compete for an opening slot during the festival’s “Performance Day.”
Wes Jackson, executive director of the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival had the following to say about the competition: “We conceived Show & Prove as a way for up-and-coming MCs to play New York’s biggest stage. Show & Prove is in many ways the heart and soul of The Festival. Amidst the hype and buzz, pure talent, professionalism, and artistic integrity are given an avenue to shine. Show & Prove has helped give a platform to a number of talented artists. I am excited to see what this year will bring.”
According to Brooklyn Bodega, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is “New York City’s largest Hip-Hop cultural event. The Festival showcases the positive aspects of Hip-Hop culture by highlighting Hip-Hop’s legacy as an agent of artistic progression, community building and social change. 2012 events will continue to reflect the full range of Hip-Hop culture, which spans music, film, academics, grassroots empowerment and more.”
Since its inception, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival has featured such headliners as Brand Nubian, KRS-One, Q-Tip, De La Soul, Pharoahe Monch, Ghostface Killah, and Big Daddy Kane.
For more information, visit BrooklynBodega.com.
Bella Nae “Gucc iGucci Prada”
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R&B Singer Tank Admits: “I’m So Underrated!” [Video]
Tank is on a roll. Not too long ago, he released his visual for the first single off of his new album “Next Breath”. Now, he’s hitting us with a visual for a track from his mixtape, Diary of a Mad Man.
Check the Mike Ho-directed visual below:
Tank’s fifth album, This Is How I Feel, is due on May 8.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Is Lil’ B Making A Huge Announcement About His Sexuality?
Rapper Lil’ B made headline’s last June when he named his album “I’m Gay”. The rapper explained the album title by saying the following below:
“I’m not literally a homosexual, but I’m happy…I did it to also embrace the homosexual community also, but some motherFawkers was like, I copped out, ‘Ah B, you should’ve stuck with the ‘I’m Gay’ title.’ I’m not totally gay, but I am gay. Salute.”
Well, we hear that the self proclaimed “princess” has allegedly had a change of heart and will be making an “earth shattering” announcement in two weeks that will speak to his true sexuality. The reported announcement will be made at a special discussion at NYU taking place in two weeks, where Lil’ B will allegedly be coming out of the closet as a bisexual man.
Lil’ B just released a new single entitled “Ima Eat Her A$$”. Check out his “swag” in the video below. Enough said.
EXCLUSIVE: Immortal Technique on How to Conduct Yourself Around Police (or Gun-Toting, Self-Appointed Neighborhood Watchman)
The news headlines are packed to capacity with ongoing stories about the death of 17-year-old Florida teen Trayvon Martin. The angles are spinning on the troubling story of his February 26 murder at the hands of George Zimmerman faster than the public can keep up with. But two things about the story are certain – a young man is gone, and there is a growing racial divide in America.
The Hip-Hop world has used its voice vigilantly in the past to raise awareness about the ills going on within our communities, and the Trayvon Martin case is no different. Jasiri X, Plies, and Mistah F.A.B. have all dropped tribute tracks in the past two weeks to spread the word about what they see as an injustice with Zimmerman having not been arrested. Still, there aren’t oodles of rappers willing to put their necks or lyrics on the line in the name of justice for the deceased young man from the infamous hoodie incident.
Immortal Technique is different. But then again, he always has been.
The rapper/activist from Harlem spends his life mostly on the road, touring and leading charitable movements in places that most of us would never dare venture to. His outspoken perspectives – created in part by his family’s international background, a stint in prison, and trips to war-torn Afghanistan and beyond – are the stuff of rap legend.
AllHipHop.com sat down with Immortal Technique yesterday in New York City to get his special take on the story that has us all up in arms. Watch the video and share your thoughts on why Trayvon Martin wasn’t just a Black boy:
Trust us. You should come back for more of our interview with Immortal Technique in the coming days. He’s got a “revolutionary” documentary on the way!
Boxing Legend Don King Contextualizes Trayvon With History
One could say Don King has seen it all, been through it all as Mobb Deep once said. The famed boxing promoter has more than made his mark in history and lived through it just the same. A controversial figure, King has been accused of everything from having mob ties to financial infidelities. But, he’s also an outspoken political force that has never minced his words. His perspective is that of an 80-year-old that has toiled to the highest mountains of success yet still has passionate, pointy opinions about the murder of one 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
“He (Trayvon) is the victim of 400 years of thinking that Black people don’t count. Even if, the guy walking down the street is being profiled, but whatever happened, the police would have arrested the guy. Even if it was self-defense, he would have been acquitted through the (legal) process. This guy ain’t been arrested yet. A man shot a man down in the is day and age – 2012 – killed the boy, and nobody has done nothing about it…not even a reprimand. And they are going to take his word at the scene and say it was self defense. What was Trayvon going to shoot him with? His whistle? He’s eyeballs? Reckless eyeballing? But, you can’t take that light when you say reckless eyeballing, because in the books it says reckless eyeballing – that’s when a black man looked at a white woman. It was interpreted as lewd or lustful. That’s reckless eyeballing, punishable by death. You can’t say what (Trayvon) was doing, but that’s that old, antiquated thinking and falsification of teaching of superiority and inferiority. Manhood is what the whole struggle is about. They could not treat a man like they treated (Trayvon). There is a victimization in associating us with negative conditions. Therefore, you don’t like the conditions, you don’t like the Black man. The color line, that is the problem…the institution called slavery. That was the method of keeping you from getting your rights and to be able to justify it legally and religiously. Revenge ain’t going to get it. Non-Violence is the way to go, (but) only if you are teaching. People are mentally enslaved and they are not looking for a parole.”
-As told to Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur
Digital bonus: Jasiri X’s “A Song For Trayvon,” recorded March 25, 2012 at a rally with Kevin Powell
VIDEO: Wale Performs “Slight Work” and “Rack City” at SXSW 2012
The South By Southwest (SXSW) coverage just keeps coming! Maybach Music Group’s Wale performs “Slight Work” and “Rack City” live at The Warner Sound captured by Nikon during SXSW 2012. Check the video below:
Drumma Boy To Release “Welcome II My City, Volume 2” Mixtape
(AllHipHop News) Memphis hit-maker, Drumma Boy, is set to release the sequel to his 2009 Welcome II My City mixtape on March 30.
The 16-track project features guests such as Three Six Mafia’s Juicy J and DJ Paul, Gangsta Boo, Beanie Sigel, 8Ball & MJG, Junior Reid, and more.
Established artists aren’t the only ones receiving the spotlight on this mixtape as Drumma Boy showcases newer talents like Future, Allie Baby, and seven-year-old rapper, Lil Peanut.
Drumma Boy also brings West Coast producer Mars (Game, T.I., Chris Brown) aboard for the “Where We Come From” track, which also features reggae dancehall legend, Junior Reid.
In addition, Drumma Boy will be performing at the 9th Annual Southern Entertainment Awards where he and his Drum Squad crew are nominated in several categories.
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Hip-Hop Rumors: Trayvon Martin and the Master P Connection
By now, we’ve all heard about the tragic death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida at the hands of an overzeaolus neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman. More and more details about the case are emerging. Some good, bad, and some controversial about the character of the young man, as well as the intent of Zimmerman.
The Twitter handle to Trayvon’s now deactivated twitter account was @NO_LIMIT_NI**A, a phrase that rapper/actor and business man Master P made famous, as well as the partial name of his record label. One has to wonder, did Trayvon aspire to be a businessman like Master P? Did he have dreams of reaching his full potential, and did he believe that there was truly “no limit” to what he could achieve? These things we will never know.
In support of Trayvon, Hip-Hop has taken the initiative to speak out about his death and the injustice it feels he is receiving. Several artists have commented about the tragedy and even written songs speaking on the incident.
Below are three songs inspired by the Trayvon Martin murder, made by Plies, Mistah F.A.B and Jasiri X.
2. Mistah F.A.B. – “God Don’t Love Me (RIP Trayvon Martin)”
Key lyrics: “The whole world wanna talk about Kony / But ain’t nobody speakin’ on the lil’ homie”
3. Jasiri X – “Trayvon”
Key lyrics: “Trayvon never gave his cousin his skittles / Missed the All-Star Game didn’t see another dribble”
Will Master P put a tribute song together as well? I hope so. The more we can do to shine a light on the case, the better.