RIP Big L… Don’t miss out on the tribute this Friday Feb 13th @ COCO66… Doors open at 9pm…

According to LAPD…  an argument between two men outside Supperclub near Hollywood Blvd. and Las Palmas ended in gunshots, leaving one man dead after arriving at the hospital.

Police reportedly say that both men were affiliated with gangs. It’s unclear if either were ever inside the club, TMZ reports.  Authorities reportedly have a suspect in custody.

According to TMZ… Hip-hop artists in attendance at the pre-Grammy party included DJ Paul, Snoop Dogg, Schoolboy Q and Wiz Khalifa.

At this point… Chris Brown might want to become a cop… Brown’s car was searched by LAPD after a gun tip… The LAPD, acting on an anonymous tip that one of Brown’s passengers was carrying the weapon, searched his Lamborghini outside Sayer nightclub in Los Angeles, according to TMZ…  Brown was inside already, celebrating T.I.’s pre- grammy party… Cops detained Brown’s friend but no gun was found…

With Tha Carter V on the shelf… Weezy announces via Twitter  early Thursday morning, Feb. 5: “Free album. Free Weezy season. The Free Weezy Album #FWA.”

According to Billboard… The Free Weezy album announcement comes weeks after the release of his mixtape, Sorry 4 the Wait (Jan. 20) and ahead of the rumored DJ Drama-hosted mixtape, Dedication 6.

Stero featured London based rapper, Little Simz…. And at only 20 years old…. she has released 4 mixtapes and 3 EPs… She describes her music as experimental rap… Little Simz is highly inspired by Jay Z… Good choice… Simz told Stero that “My dreams have always been… BIG… I wanna be a humanitarian you know.. I wanna be an entrepreneur someday…. all these different things i just feel like music is gonna take me there”… Simz is on top of the new school hip hop in the UK and is certainly an artist to watch out for in 2015…
Thanks to Stero for this feature…

From “Whoa!” to “I Got A Story To Tell”… From “Wangsta” to “The Re-up” These dudes are synonymous with beats… Hip Hop beats… They should need no introduction… but a lot is lost in today’s Hip Hop… There’s no glamour and glitz here just some dope shit resonating through your speakers… Boom Bap…

I don’t know what to make of Young Thug… He would be so lucky to have a career like the one Jay Z has had…

According to Billboard… Young Thug stated “I’m pretty sure Jay Z don’t wanna rap right now.”

Thug believes that after a certain age, young people don’t listen to a rapper’s music: “If you’re 30, 40 years old, you’re not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain’t gonna be doing what he’s doing.”

It seems as if Thug won’t be buying a Jay Z album because of the difference in their age, despite his “sickest lyrics ever.”

Today is national committment day across the country… And Snoop is one of many proud papas…

Broadus is a 4-star wide receiver recruit and is listed as the No. 26 wide receiver in the class of 2015, according to 247Sports’ composite rankings.

ESPN quoted Snoop Dogg as forfeiting his allegiance to crosstown rival University of Southern California, saying, “I’m gonna back him up 1000% and throw out my USC drawers” and “I’m throwing all my USC stuff away, I’m all UCLA now.”

During an interview with Vlad TV… KRS-One… the Bronx, New York lyricist stated that being a part of America was never a goal for those in his generation.  According to Vlad TV… KRS then questioned why he has to currently travel to a country like Switzerland to make money as a Hip Hop artist.

According to KRS-One, Hip Hop is more accepted by the government in a place like Switzerland than it is in the United States.

KRS went on to explain… “Our parents were on their hands and knees begging to be a part of America,” KRS-One said. “We were never part of that, ever…Blacks and Latinos get it the worst. We get it the worst in America. But the white people in America too started looking. And just a sense of justice. Was just like ‘Wait a minute, why is it like this if it should be like this?’ And this is when Hip Hop exploded. With Public Enemy who was representing Minster Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. And their whole audience was white kids…You can tell that the government here [Switzerland] is lenient towards Hip Hop. Towards it elements. Breaking in the street, graffiti on the wall, people rapping. I can’t make money in America. Why am I here? It’s 2013, okay. Why is KRS in Switzerland and not in Ohio…The political leadership of Ohio don’t respect me.”

You can check out the rest on Vlad TV…