Is it me or does Iggy stay in the news battling MC’s… first it was Snoop posting the pic “Iggy no makeup”…
Now it’s Eminem…
“If I let you run alongside the Humvee. Unless you’re Nicki [Minaj], grab you by the wrist, let’s ski,” Eminem raps.
“So what’s it gon’ be? Put that s**t away Iggy. You don’t wanna blow that rape whistle on me. Scream! I love it. ‘Fore I get lost with the gettin’ off.”
Iggy clearly bothered by the rap responded on Twitter…
Believe it or not… Faith Evans is a busy woman… and apparently she’s going to continue the trend into 2015 with a duet album featuring the late Notorious B.I.G… Most would probably wonder where the lyrics will come from since B.I.G. has been deceased for so long…
During an interview with HipHollywood Faith explained what we could look forward to in 2015…. “I’m also about to start working on a very very special musical project with me and Big,” Faith explained to HipHollywood. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing for many many years, So I finally got all my ducks in a row to try to make it happen.”
I’m sure fans will be interested in keeping a close eye on this project…
“106 & Park” will end its 14 year broadcast stint at BET. The show will move online and the final broadcast will air on December 19, 2014.
BET released the following official statement:
“America’s #1 music variety show on cable television, “106 & PARK,” will host its final daily on-air show on December 19, 2014, concluding its impressive 14 year run. The “106 & PARK” brand remains strong and will continue to produce various specials throughout the year including its annual New Year’s Eve show, “106 & PARTY,” along with live event experiences at the BET Awards and BET Experience. In 2015, “106 & PARK” looks forward to continuing its reign as the hottest hangout on one of the coolest digital platforms, BET.com.”
How can you go wrong with this… #FridayFavorites
It’s been a long time since “Paper Thin”… Good to see Lyte’s still at it…
According to Billboard Rap Albums chart… T.I. is on top for three weeks now…
Azealia Banks debuts at #2
This I have to say is the first I remember a Southern artist rocking with up North artist on a New York style track (Erick Sermon)… 4,3,2,1 hit it on all angles… A Hip Hop Collabo… This series is about styles and lyrics… You know the stuff Hip Hop was made of… Method Man/ DMX/ LL Cool J/ Master P/ Canibus/ and Redman make a special song… unique in its own right… Put these dudes in a blender and just like that… 4,3,2,1… the song is created… The styles are so different and the lyrical content come from some of the craziest minds Hip Hop has ever seen… And for the record… LL is way up there in Hip Hop supremacy… 4,3,2,1 is from LL Cool J’s seventh album Phenomenon… I did say… Way up there in Hip Hop Supremacy!!!…
4,3,2,1 was also historic for marking the beginning of the feud between LL and Canibus… This Collabo is one for the ages… So… they do a track together… and it leads to the end of a career… Canibus why’d you do it?…
“Now let’s get back to this mic on my arm / If it ever left my side, it’d transform into a time bomb / You don’t wanna borrow that, you wanna idolize / And you don’t wanna make me mad, n***a, you wanna socialize.”
Nicki Minaj is surrounded in controversy with the release of the “Only” video… The song features Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown.
Well… the video definetly got the attention of the Anti-Defamation League… According to Rolling Stone… the organization’s director, Abraham H. Foxman – a Holocaust survivor – called it “a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism.”
Foxman continued… “It is troubling that no one among Minaj’s group of producers, publicists and managers raised a red flag about the use of such imagery before ushering the video into public release.”… “This video is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialization of the history of that era. The abuse of Nazi imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all those who can recall the sacrifices Americans and many others had to make as a result of Hitler’s Nazi juggernaut.”
The animated video shows a horde of soldiers all with red armbands assembling around long, red banners displaying a Young Money logo that have been compared by some to a swastika.
Minaj took to twitter… “The artist who made the video for ‘Only’ was influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called Metalocalypse and [the non–Cartoon Network-affiliated movie and graphic novel] Sin City,” she wrote. “Both the producer and person in charge of overseeing the lyric video (one of my best friends and videographer: A. Loucas), happen to be Jewish. I didn’t come up with the concept, but I’m very sorry and take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I’d never condone Nazism in my art.”
Let’s see where this one goes…
Big Bank Hank aka Imp the Dimp of The Sugar Hill Gang has passed away leaving the music world to mourn his death. Sugar Hill in the late 70’s changed the course of Hip Hop with “Rappers Delight”. The Hip Hop pioneer will be missed.
The night of November 11th in D.C will be memorable… The Concert For Valor… a first of its kind event.. will bring artist, celebrities and millions of Americans together to honor the courage and sacrifice of Veterans, active duty service members and their families.
The line up includes… Eminem/ Rihanna/ Jennifer Hudson/ Bruce Springsteen/ The Black Keys/ Carrie Underwood/ Dave Grohl/ Metallica/ Jessie J/ & Zac Brown Band
My understanding is that HBO will show the concert for free even without a subscription….