The late great Dilla on the beat. Everybody went off, but those Rae and Ghost verses back to back are a serious problem.
Raekwon feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah & Method Man - House of Flying Daggers (Dirty)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Raekwon feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah & Method Man - House of Flying Daggers (Dirty)
5 Year Pass/What Happened 2 Tahiry? (JoeBuddenTV)
Before discussing with his girlfriend, Tahiry, about having a mistress, she explains that she was punched in the face after being disrespected by some guy. Maybe they both agreed on sharing this with the world, but I believe somethings are best kept private. Why exploit this for the sake of a couple hundred YouTube views?
Ghost Discusses New Generation on Stage
Yo man turn the bright lights - don’t ever put a bright light on me again b. Gimme colors b, I love colors. Take that white one off…
Ghost Talking To The Audience Last Night
Listen, cause I know how New York be, yall niggas be like The Apollo, yall niggas is a hard crowd to please b… don’t have me on stage looking fucking stupid b…
Katie Couric Says Michael Jackson Asked Her Out
First Diddy said he wanted to get at Beyonce and now this, let me find out he was getting in all these years. The moonwalk drops the panties!
Tony Yayo - Streets Keep Calling Me
Today, we bring you the debut of a new viral video by Tony Yayo called “Streets Keep Calling Me.” The clip features fellow Queens giant Cormega and is off Yayo’s Public Enemies mixtape.
“The Internet is everything for me,” Yayo said about putting out music and accompanying visuals on the Web. His videos, like the one for “Candy Man,” have been viewed millions of times on ThisIs50.com. “Fif is a smart dude. He has the power to see stuff ahead of time. So it’s like, I’m seeing how hard he’s going with the Internet — MTV.com and all these other dot-coms, that’s poppin’ right now. It’s the plateau to get yourself out. Before, artists had to pay to get the music out. This is my plateau right now, so I’m going hard.”
Public Enemies is Yayo’s third mixtape in just a few months. “The way we had it in ‘03, 04, I’ll never forget that the mixtapes made who we are,” Tony explained. “I feel like a whole new artist. I feel like I’m starting all over again. The mixtapes were crazy. I’m still in the ‘hood with it.
“It’s just everything you’re doing yourself,” he added about the difference between making his own mixtapes and working on G-Unit projects. “When you got perfectionists like Eminem, Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent and [Dr.] Dre in the studio, you learn a lot from them. I seen 50 say lines 20 times over. The same line. He learned that from Dre and Eminem. I feel the pressure of them still being there. I want the mixtapes to come out right, and I want 50 to be impressed, as well as Banks. It’s the same kinda feeling, just a little more pressure, ’cause you wanna make sure everything is good.”
Reflection Eternal Interview w/ KarmaloopTV
Karmaloop talks to Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek at Rock The Bells.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Big Boy’s Neighborhood Remixes ‘Day N Nite’
Remaking The Video - Kid Cudi- Day n Nite (Big Boy's Neighborhood) from qdeezy on Vimeo.
Hilarious... Dope!
Eminem - The Warning (Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon Diss)
Its kinda Sick!
Eminem - The Warning (Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon Diss)
Jeezy Throws DJ Drama Under The Bus
Just when you thought they buried the hatch, Jeezy takes a swipe at DJ Drama in the September 2009 issue of XXL.
Given all the history you made with Gangsta Grillz mixtapes, alot of people were caught off guard when you said "Fuck DJ Drama" onstage last year.
Drama just started acting like a bitch. Drama wanted to be Khaled, but he didn’t want to help nobody. He just changed, period. Look at his crew. The same niggas ain’t around him. You ain’t never been in no streets. I could never have no beef with a nigga like that. He’s a cornball. You made millions off my mixtapes, to the point where the fuckin’ feds scooped you up for bootlegging. I never even made the money he made off of Trap or Die or Tha Streetz Iz Watchin, because they were selling and distributing them and making money. I’m not hating. But we will never do a mixtape together. I didn’t charge that nigga for [contributing a verse to the song “5000 Ones,” on Drama’s official Atlantic Records debut]. But then when I need [a tape for one of my artists], and you want to charge me $20,000?... I’ll slap the shit out of Drama. He knows that. He wasn’t loyal. But me putting my hands on that man ain’t gonna make him respect what I’m saying. I’m just not gonna fuck with him anymore. I kept a lot of real niggas off his ass. There’s a lot of niggas mad at that nigga ‘cause he didn’t do what he was supposed to do. He shouldn’t take people’s money if he not gonna do what he say.
Drake Refused Kanye’s Offer To Remake ‘Best I Ever Had’ Video
Some fans liked it, some fans were scratching their heads after the debut of Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” video last month. Some in the blogosphere said the clip’s buxom female basketball team did nothing but cater to the male audience without matching the theme of the song; others just thought it wasn’t all that creative. And a couple of bloggers even went so far as to suggest that director Kanye West sabotaged Drake’s production. [Ha, the 1515 Boys read our comments.]
In fact, Drake told MTV News that West offered to shoot another video for the song, and he declined. He noted that receiving mixed reviews of his clip was a great lesson.
“That career move was very important to me,” he explained at the America’s Most Wanted Music Festival kickoff in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “We’ve done such a great job of building it all up. It’s kind of like people were getting this impression of me that I’m never gonna make a mistake. I’m not made of Teflon. I’m gonna do things for myself sometimes, as opposed to what people want me to do.”
Drake said the abundance of big-breasted women in the video didn’t put up any red flags that the video would offend anyone. He enjoyed the final cut of the video and thought it was right on point.
“If you listen to the song, I’m not saying the most graceful thing in the world. It’s not the most heartfelt song,” Drizzy continued. “I say some pretty wild things in regards to women in the actual song. When me and Kanye were in the studio working on a song for Big Sean, we were talking about it. We saw a comedic element to it. I felt that the climate in the world right now, everything in the world is so serious all the time, my life is serious, I just wanted to laugh, instead of taking myself too serious as the heartthrob and walking hand-in-hand into the movies and taking my shirt off. I felt it’s not that time for me yet. Or maybe never. I’m a very multifaceted person. One thing I told ‘Ye is, ‘I really want to act. I want to act in this video.’ ”
Kanye convinced him that the only way to be humorous was to go all the way with it and make it a full on funny video. “I guess one thing I didn’t consider is what the song personally means to a lot of women,” Drake said. “To those women, I apologize. I do apologize. My intention wasn’t to put anyone down. It was to make them laugh. I wanted people to see something visually different.”
Don’t worry, Drake, judging by your reception at Monday’s AMW show, the fans still love you.
Tech N9ne Interview w/ Jabari Pt. 1
Tech N9ne spoke to Jabari about selling over a million records independantly, why he works with so many artists…
Oakland Slang Rap Democracy 101
Pull up a chair young scrapper and listen closely how the Yay breaks this slang shit down. Yadadamean?!
Lil Wayne Introduces Young Money Crew
The Young Money album is slated for November 24, as is Lil Wayne’s Rebirth LP, according to a source in his camp.
No doubt about it, the New Orleans Fireman is loaded. Rap’s most popular mic king just kicked off Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival, and one of Weezy’s main goals on the tour is to make sure his Young Money artists get shine. While you know all about Drake (he’s a Fire Starter alum), Nicki Minaj and newest member Omarion, we thought we’d put you onto game about the rest of the clique.
“Gudda, he’s got this aggression about him,” Wayne told us about the artist who’s been with him the longest. Gudda Gudda has been riding with Wayne since he was a teenager on Cash Money.
“What people don’t know, Gudda started rapping several years ago,” Weezy added. “He started rapping because I said, ‘I like your look. You should rap.’ I wrote his first rap for him, and I never written another rap for him ever since that day I told him he should be a rapper.”
Representing the younger faction are Lil Twist, who’s on the tour riding his Segway scooter around, and Lil Chuckee, who uses his feet to cover ground backstage.
“His energy, he’s a pure entertainer,” Weezy said of Chuckee. Wayne is also a fan of Chuck’s swag. “I know that kid is gonna make it. It’s like in sports when you got that Kobe Bryant. You don’t know what to do with him, whether to play him the guard, center, small forward — you just know we’re gonna win with him.”
Rounding out the clique are mostly names you’ve heard of: Mack Maine, Tyga, Jae Millz, D. Woods’ sister Shanell (also known as SNL) and T-Streets.
“He’s more like my brother,” Wayne said of Streets. “He’s been with me since Gudda. He’s like my protector. Anybody wanna play games, T-Streets is right there. So I make sure T-Streets is on everything I do, always around.”
Joe Budden Interview w/ DDotOmen
We chopped it up about upcoming releases from him and his fellow slaughterhouse members, as well as the business aspect of the relationship between him and Tahiry. Joey also briefly spoke on the Nas vs Kelis issue, Wu Tang/Method Man situation etc. etc.
Big Boi Meets a Penguin
Whats cooler than bein cool? Ice cold! Big Boi, also known as Antwan Andre Patton, one-half of the Grammy Award-winning duo OutKast, found out first-hand this week as he spent some time inside SeaWorlds chilly Penguin Encounter.
Penguin Encounter is home to hundreds of penguins. The air inside is a chilly 30 degrees Fahrenheit and the water is an icy 45 degrees Fahrenheit. A total of 6,000 pounds of snow fall daily inside. Big Boi was in Orlando this week, vacationing with his family.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Lil Wayne on Rebirth vs. Young Money Label
MC says he’ll release rock/hip-hop LP once his Young Money label is in order.
Lil Wayne is in no rush to put out his Rebirth LP. The record’s release has been pushed back repeatedly, and no concrete date has been announced. Weezy says he’s been working on the LP, but he’s also been concentrating on getting his record company in order.
“Honestly, I’m just starting up this Young Money label and I’m trying to get my artists down right. Get everybody together,” Weezy told MTV News. “Once I got that together, then I could work back on me. I’m a very humble person. I know once I get to it, I’mma get to it. So like I was saying, it’s Young Money time, so making sure my artists get their just due.”
On Monday night, Wayne kicked off his latest tour, Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival. In addition to introducing his artists — from Drake to Nicki Minaj — throughout the show, Wayne carved out his own time with the audience. Weezy went from hip-hop to rock to pop during his set. He says the versatility of the music is indicative of what he’s offering on Rebirth.
“The Rebirth album is just me expressing myself without any boundaries. Without any margins, without any guidelines,” he said. “[I'm] trying to do something different. I told my record company, ‘Don’t tell me nothing about what I say. Don’t tell me nothing about what you hear. Just get behind me.’ That’s what Rebirth is.”
Wayne is on tour with the entire Young Money crew — as well as Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy Tell’em, Jeremih and Pleasure P — until September.
Young Jeezy Speaks On Michael Vick
He’s done with his incarceration for heading an illegal dogfighting operation, and on Monday, the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, said he would be eligible to play in official games after week six of the season, as long as Vick stays out of trouble.
Young Jeezy told MTV News he’s spoken to Vick and is happy to see the former Atlanta Falcon playing again.
“That’s my dude,” ATL native Jeezy told us on his tour bus during the Young Money Presents: America’s Most Wanted Music Festival launch in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “I just talked to Michael Vick. Welcome back. I’mma just be real. I’m not saying this to be funny. I know ‘em all, from Pacman Jones to Michael Vick. Sometimes keeping it real becomes keeping it dumb. It’s hard enough in that position that they in. You can’t keep a good dude down. He bounced back. We gonna wish him the best and tell him to stay out the strip club unless you’re rolling with me.”
Jeezy thinks that keeping Vick out until week six, almost halfway through the NFL regular season, is too harsh of a penalty.
“But you know what, I got dogs, so I feel the pet owners,”
The Next 48 Hours w/ Fabolous (Trailer #1)
This is a teaser from “The Next 48 Hours With Fabolous”, a 3 part web series which goes behind the scenes during the album release week of “Loso’s Way”. This clip features Fabolous leaving BET’s 106 & Park studio before a crowd of a screaming fans.
Diddy on It’s On With Alexa Chung
This is from two days ago, when Alexa Chung got on the Trending Topics.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
RZA's Eulogy At ODB's Funeral
Here's five year old footage of RZA giving the eulogy at Ol' Dirty Bastard's funeral.
Rik Cordero & Chrisette Michele Speak At SoundCtrl Panel In NYC
SoundCtrl is a monthly event featuring industry leaders and NYC based music and technology companies. The third event in the series, titled “Artist Disruptors”, took place at SOBs on 7/23 and featured artists who have used the internet in creative ways to further their careers. The panel was moderated by Daniel Weisman (Wale’s manager / Elitaste.com). Panel participants were Def Jam’s singer/songwriter Chrisette Michele, music video director Rik Cordero, and singer/songwriter Toby Lightman (formally signed to Atlantic Records). In the video above the panelists discuss some of their strategies, as well as their favorite blogs and online tools and how they have used them to their advantage.
Wale Interview w/ S.A.B. Radio Pts. 1-2
Topics of discussion include his Attention: Deficit Tour, early supporters, empowering the DMV area, “not enough people in the stands,” and Twitter.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Mr. Mecca ft. Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli, A Pinks & Torae - Over Here
MR. MECCA "OVER HERE" from Mr Mecca on Vimeo.
Here’s the latest video from Mr. Mecca of the Abandoned Nation team. You may notice that it pays tribute to the “Flava In Ya Ear” (Remix) video. Featuring cameos from Emilio Rojas, Esso, Iron Solomon, Poison Pen, Donny Goines, Nina B, Pack FM, Grafh, Sic Osyrus and pornstar Sara Jay.
Maino Interview w/ 247HH
247HH V2: Maino from MCM on Vimeo.
Maino talks about all of the “fags” in the industry, his tattoos and the need for New York to elevate new artists.
J.Cole Spits “On Top Of The World” for Angela Yee
Above, J.Cole spits the song “On Top Of The World” that he originally recorded with the hope of getting the beat onto Jay-Z’s American Gangster album.
KiD CuDi x Asher Roth - Live at Kube 93’s Summer Jam
Kid Cudi Live at Kube 93 Summer Jam from DP on Vimeo.
Jay Electronica - Dear Moleskine (prod. Just Blaze)
This shit sounds and looks amazing. Props to whoever shot it. You might recognize some scenes from Jay Electronica’s various Twitter display pictures in it. It was shot in Nepal, see another pic at FWMJ’s Rappers I Know.
So if I understand correctly from MTV News’ account of last night’s rehearsal is that Lil Wayne actually isn’t prepared and does not know one fucking word of any of the songs he has to play tonight. And although Drake has recovered from his ACL injury, he won’t be performing his full 30-minute set. This should be good.
The (Young Money Presents:) America’s Most Wanted Music Festival kicks off tonight in Scranton, PA. Check out all the tour dates here.
GLC & Bun B Ride With Church
GLC & Bun B ride through downtown Chicago in the pursuit of mackin’ & manifesting on their way to Playerville to shoot Clockin Lotsa Dollarz!
I Date You So Much Right Now (ItsTheReal)
I Date You So Much Right Now from jeff on Vimeo.
This week, we have some advice for the newly-divorced Kelis: When one door closes, a window opens… a $44,000 window. And we at ItsTheReal.com are waiting outside that window, in I Date You So Much Right Now.
Raekwon - OB4CL2 London Press Conference
Part 1 = Personal changes, OB4CL2 collaborations
Part 2 - Detox, sales expectations and OB4CL1 vs. OB4CL2
Part 3 - J Dilla, Busta friendship and Elton John
Part 4 - Wu-Tang’s dynamic on OB4CL2
Swizz Beatz x Drag-On - Ms. Drama Interviews
Swizz talks about bringing the Ruff Ryders together, Jadakiss being high maintenance, and why he’s not a fan of D.O.A. He also talks about falling back from a solo career and his new upcoming projects with Whitney Huston, Alejandro Sanz, Drake, and Lil Wayne.
Jadakiss Talks Verse Swaps
On DJ Clue’s Power 105.1 radio show, New York City, Jadakiss explains how he saved money on the album’s guest appearances by doing a lot of swaps. But then again thats easy for him to say as he’s one of the most requested rappers for a song feature.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Audio: Jay-Z Interview w/ Tim Westwood (Full)
Audio: Jay-Z Interview w/ Tim Westwood (Full/1hr15min) [zShare] | Mediafire
Max B Speaks on Game’s “I’m So Wavy”
Max B Crashes The Game's 'Wave'; Announces West Indian Social Club from HipHopStan.com on Vimeo.
“I didn’t hear no homage… shouts to the dicksucker.”
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Jay-Z Interview w/ DJ Semtex
JAY-Z | BREAKING DOWN THE BLUEPRINT [AUDIO] from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.
When asked about why he made a third “Blueprint” album, he said that he wanted to finish trilogy, like he did with the “In My Lifetime” series. As he’s said before, the first Blueprint was very much influenced by what he listened to growing up, but what he expanded on was the sound of the second one that wasn’t at all what people were expecting after having heard something like Blueprint. He tells Semtex Blueprint 2 was based on the sounds and influences of that moment, which is why he got artists like Lenny Kravitz and Sean Paul on there, to hold down both Rock and Reggae genres that were popping half a decade ago.
As for the albums features, he said that MGMT, Keed Coodie, Drake, Mr Hudson, Kanye West and Rihanna are on there for the moment, but all that can change by the time he has to hand it in. Production-wise, it sounds like the only beatmaker who’s secured a spot on there is Kanye because even Timbaland sounded uncertain. He said he spoke to Just Blaze last week, hopefully that’ll work out. Swizz Beats will possibly be on there and he said that he’s trying to work with Chase N Status of the UK. He’s been over there recording tracks too apparently (presumably working with Rihanna) and most recently to meet with Mike Kyser of Atlantic, and hand deliver the album.
He was asked about a possible “Takeover 2.0″ and he said that he often considers it but then he decides against it. Semtex also asks him about his “we need a board” comments and about about Kanye’s blog and the nature of the Internets right now. He asks him if he reads any of the blogs and Jay admits that he goes through all of them in “spurts,” mentioning visiting Kanye’s, NahRight and AllHipHop. [7:20]
The interview then segways into a discussion about how that’s always something people wonder about artists of his caliber. Especially Jay, considering all we know about him and computers is that he did an ad for HP, Billie Gates is his peer, he uses an Apple (like that traitor Pharrell) and e-mails pictures to YN. He says that he might want to start his own website, but that like everything else he gets into, he’d like for it to be done the right way. And for the right price, we can make your site tighter…
Sad Really… when asked about J. Cole & Wale joining Roc Nation, Jay-Z says that Mickey Factz isn’t on the team. Ouch.
Lastly, the last matter they discussed was Jay’s favorite track on BP3 and he says it’s a record called “Empire State of Mind.” For the moment (the interview was conducted on Wednesday) no one was featured on it but Jay said that can change. With all the fuckshit you-know-who is going through right now, and the half of whatever empire he’s gonna be left with, we’ll see how that works out…
Friday, July 24, 2009
Trife Diesel Interview w/ CDR
Shine talks to Trife Diesel about being Ghostface Killah’s protege, his new LP “Better Late Than Never”, how he feels about new artists in the industry, the possibility of another Theodore Unit LP, doing an LP with Ghostface & being featured on his projects, and his mixtape “The Project Pope”
Ace Hood feat. Ludacris - Born An O.G. (Behind The Scenes)
Born an OG Behind the Scenes from DTP TV on Vimeo.
No I.D. Speaks on Drake
No I.D. Speaks On Drake from zachwolfe.com/live on Vimeo.
While in the interview about the making of D.O.A. We got off topic and touched on a lot of relevant topics in hip hop. Young Money/Universal’s latest artist Drake came up and No I.D. gave his thoughts plus a few words of wisdom.
Diddy Interview w/ David Letterman
So apparently MJ showed up to one of Diddy’s parties and was looking for Beyonce. It’s not what you think.
Rhymefest Protests At Chicago’s City Hall
Rhymefest took to the steps of City Hall yesterday to protest with a rather large group in hopes to bring jobs to the black community on the Southside of Chicago. More specifically, a Walmart, that Alderman Howard Brookins is trying to build on 83rd & Chatham, that will bring close to 300 jobs to the area. ‘Fest in particular also hopes this will also bring fresh produce and food to this community, that does most of their grocery shopping at 7/11’s and BP stations.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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