By now we have all seen the live freestyle performance by murda mook at the BET AWARDS. Just as his name states, Mook got on stage and murdered every rapper not named T.I. Whether they had a deal or not. Dropping bars calling out Drake to battle him and “putting his career in a wheelchair”, will we get to see a showdown with the hip hops version of Mayweather vs Pacquiao?
Amid all of the feuding with Snoop… and the eventual peace keeping tactics of T.I. (a mentor to Iggy and friend of Snoop)… the feud is over…
Iggy… however… is still piping hot… Black Widow ft. Rita Ora is #1 on Billboard’s hot rap songs… hot R&B/Hip Hop songs… and tops on R&B/Hip Hop digital songs… Big things to come from the Australian phenom…
Seems like Chief Keef will be making his own money his own way… again. Keef has been dropped according to several outlets. Keef took to Twitter to further explain:
Recently released from prison, Torrence Hatch, as they probably called him behind the walls… is changing his stage name… formerly known as Lil Boosie, he will now be known to the world as Boosie Badazz… image makeover?… not exactly… According to MTV news… he’s already been known by that moniker.
HIs upcoming album, Touchdown 2 Cause Hell, has been delayed a few times… but it’s coming… and the artist on it will forever be… Boosie Badazz…
The NFL makes a major move by placing a ban on Beats by Dre headphones… The recent ban is serious business… players wearing Beats during league related broadcast is an absolute no-no… see Colin Kaepernick’s $10,000 fine for wearing Beats in a post game press conference… well the reason… business… Welcome Bose to the NFL… they have become the exclusive provider of headsets for the NFL… This is nothing new for the NFL… see the Microsoft/NFL deal… like 400 mil to the NFL from Microsoft… yes the NFL are the true meaning of “pimps”… Now if they can only stop the their game announcers from calling the Microsoft product an iPad.
Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine reacted to the news of the ban… stating “What happened there, you have a tech company that’s culturally inept,” Iovine said. “There’s no one at the company that said, ‘If you ban these guys {Beats}, you’re going to look bad to the young people, and they’re going to look like superheroes even though they’re just pure capitalists—well they’re not pure capitalists, but they’re real capitalists and [they] sold that company to Apple—but you’re going to make them look like the underdog.”
Seems as if Iovine thinks this is not a good move for Bose… or just a great business deal for Beats…
This I found quite interesting… a radio station in Houston, TX deciding to change its format from all news to all Beyonce… but wait it gets even better… someone finally started thinking… hey, how long can I keep this radio station afloat with just Beyonce music… ok… my take would be… just add Destiny’s Child and Jay Z… well you would still be in trouble in say a month…
Well in comes the genius idea… according to Houston Press “A station ID gave way to an EKG flatline sound effect, then flipping-station static, then a montage that included Naughty By Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray,” Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg’s “Nothin’ But a G Thang,” Lil Keke’s “Southside,” and finally landed on the Geto Boys’ “Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me.” The next song after that was Ice Cube’s “Check Yo Self,” which of course samples Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message.”… well you get the rest… the end of the Beyonce era.
Radio One announced its new permanent format, Boom 92.1 FM, a Classic Hip Hop station. It is the first major market throwback Hip Hop station of its kind in the country. “We couldn’t be more excited about bringing Classic Hip Hop back to listeners who grew up on the lyrics, beats and rhythm of this genre of music,” said Terri Thomas, Operations Manager, Radio One of Texas. Radio One research supports that Houston has an appetite for Classic Hip Hop. Backspin now has competition… In Houston…
Stay tuned for features and original Hip Hop artists updates at www.boom92houston.com.
Released in 1994, Illmatic embodied hip hop… from the studios used to record… Chung King, D&D, Battery, and Unique in New York City… to the producers that brought you that real head nodding shit… Large Pro, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, L.E.S, and Premier…
When describing Illmatic what immediately comes to mind is lyrical… words that can take you to the exact place… moment in time… where Nas was…
“But just a nigga, walking with his finger on the trigger
Make enough figures until my pockets get bigger
I ain’t the type of brother made for you to start testin
Give me a Smith and Wessun I’ll have niggaz undressin”
In a new era of hip hop… where apparently… lyrical content doesn’t really matter… nor measure up to Illmatic… Nas can still drop it like 94… he chooses now to use his abilities to speak in a mature voice but still let the heads know that he is very capable of hitting that Illmatic button…
I’ma addict for sneakers, twenties of buddah and bitches with beepers
In the streets I can greet ya, about blunts I teach ya
Inhale deep like the words of my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times
Nothing’s equivalent, to the new york state of mind
Enjoy the documentary… cause 20 years later… we still speak Illmatic…
What first started in 2003 with the release of Beg for Mercy, G-Unit, through all of the self made controversies, is back. As of June, the group reunited and with a new member, Kidd Kidd. That name doesn’t seem hard enough for the Unit.
Later this year G-Unit will release the new EP, The Beast Is G-Unit. The crew has already recorded a ton of songs and six will be released for Beast.
I am interested in knowing how long this good G-Unit vibe will last. 50 is a very busy man. And remember he needs to stay on schedule with “Power” because I’m a fan and won’t accept a delay in production. Word Up!!!
Bishop T.D. Jakes is not happy with the song “Holy Ghost” using part of his sermon without his approval.
“Holy Ghost,” Jeezy’s song featuring Kendrick Lamar, begins with passionate words from Jakes – words that came from a February 2013 sermon called “Don’t Let the Chatter Stop You.” According to a post on T.D. Jakes Ministries’ Facebook page, the sermon was sampled in Jeezy’s rap song “without the knowledge or consent” of Jakes, who is the bishop at The Potter’s House.
It appears as if Jakes will take the necessary legal actions to stop the unauthorized use of his intellectual property. The Dallas Morning News could not find record of a lawsuit filed in federal court. Jakes’ spokesperson wouldn’t comment, saying they stay mum on legal matters.
Lamar’s spokesperson says he isn’t aware of a pending lawsuit. ”I don’t know anything about this,” Ray Alba said last week. We could not reach Def Jam, Jeezy’s label, for comment.
The video for the “Holy Ghost” remix has now been removed from YouTube; the song was also deleted from SoundCloud. It is available on World Star Hip Hop as of Monday morning.
This is a bit of a touchy subject. Its Hip Hop… no doubt… but its also a message being delivered… albeit Hip Hop.
Earlier this week, Rah Digga in an interview with ThisIs50 said that Iggy Azalea “isn’t hip-hop.”
“Iggy Azalea it’s like I can’t get into her,” she said. “Because it’s just not real to me. There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. Don’t come to America and try to convince me that you’re Gangsta Boo. Personally, I don’t consider her Hip Hop. I listen to her album. Everything that I hear on there is everything but that. And I feel like Hip Hop is Hip Hop.”
Azalea took to Twitter to respond. “I honestly don’t really mind if I’m described as rap or pop. My passion is purely making music and entertaining,” read Azalea’s tweet. “its definetly funny seeing ppl get so emotional over it all. What does it matter? music is music and many enjoy mine, no need to feel upset.”
Not sure I even understand this one.