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Jumat, 27 Februari 2009

JADAKISS COMMENTS ON BILLY O'REILLY.

One-third member of the lox, jadakiss, has an album dropping soon, and he has some words for mr o'reilly, the hip-hop hater. In 2004, jada dropped the single "why", which was barned from airing on some radio stations, and some parts of the song were editted when the video would show on t.v. No other than mr o'reilly was behind that. The track had a line directed at the then president of u.s.a, George Bush. The line, "why did bush knock down the towers", made the song very controversial.

These are some of jada's words.

"Yeah, you know, that just mean I was hot when that [song] came out. [O'Reilly] be trying to protect his ass with Bush, but Bush is outta here now. So he could do all the trying to save him he want, that White House is occupied by the Obama's right now. So leave us alone, Bill."

"That's a great look, Kiss said. "You know [O'Reilly's] gonna come with some left right wing bullsh*t [on his show], but you gotta have some stuff prepared for him too. As long as they ain't editing it out and there ain't no funny money camera tricks and you get to express yourself as he is, I'd go on there with a suit, my specks on and I'll tear Bill O'Reilly's ass up. You can't be ignorant. They look at us as ignorant, which they shouldn't because we're successful just as any other entrepreneur or anybody doing any other craft. Some people only come across as ignorant, so it's only right to look at them as ignorant. But from a song? You just hating."

Kamis, 26 Februari 2009

BILLBOARD TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS. (26/02/09)

10. THE LONELY ISLAND- INCREDIBAD.

9. LL COOL J- EXIT 13.

8. NELLY- BRASS KNUCKLES.

7. NOTORIOUS SOUNDTRACK.

6. YOUNG JEEZY- THE RECESSION.(8,575)

5. SOULJA BOY- ISOULHABOYTELLEM.

4. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND.

3. PLIES- DAREALIST.

2. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3.(17,660)

1. T.I- PAPER TRAIL.(29,286)

Selasa, 24 Februari 2009

RICK ROSS VOWS TO OUTSELL 50 CENT.

The 50cent rick ross beef has been going on for a couple of weeks and a lot of diss tracks, and cartoons have been dropped back to back within a short period. With the two artist dropping albums in a couple of weeks, that would sure help keep them relevant. But ricky has words for 50, as he says he would outsell 50.
That claim might not be impossible as 50 has seen a drop in sells of previous albums lately. He, 50 cent, said it himself in an interview that he was really dissapointed at his last album sales. Curtis sold just 1.2 million total in the us, opposed to "get rich or die trying" and "massacre" that both sold over 5 million copies individually. And also concidering the fact that the last g-unit album only managed to sell 200,000 copies total, that is what "trilla" ricky's last album sold in its first week, then we can say ross can make some claims.
Talking of what ross was really talking about when he made that statement during an interview by "mtv", he meant if 50 cents album "get rich or die trying" sold 10 million copies worlwide, then he would sell 12 million copies. Those were his words. I can ride with him if he says he would outsell 50 with their individual efforts that are dropping soon, but outselling get rich or die trying is highly impossible.
"Get or die trying" was a hungry 50 cent spitting his life out, and with backing of eminem and dr dre, he could not have gone wrong.
I wish rick ross the best in his career, and thank 50 for giving him a little promotion with this beef issue.

Sabtu, 21 Februari 2009

RE-VISITNG THE BIGGIE AND TUPAC BEEF.

I saw the "notorious" movie yesterday, and it brought back some memories of the 90's, and i just decided to write on what really went down with the tupac and biggie beef. The greatest beef of all time, that lead to the death of two great rappers.
The beef started off with the shooting and robbing of tupac at the quad studio in 1995. Apparently tupac was meant to record a song with an artist who was under the management of "jimmy henchman". Big and puffy were also using a studio in the building, and he saw "lil cease", biggies associate, at the window before going into the building. So when he was robbed and shot, he just assumed that he was set up by biggie. People should know that they had no problems prior to that event, so i only wonder what made tupac think that a fellow artist would want him robbed, or worse dead.
Tupac was short 5 times during the incidence, among some places he was hit were, the scrotum, the arm, and a bullet grazed his head. he still managed to make it up the building, where he saw puff and accused him of setting him up. I read an interview of "jimmy henchmen" a couple of years ago in the source magazine where henchman claims he believed tupacs gun shot wounds were self inflicted. He said he believes pac was reaching for his gun and accidentally let off shots. Henchman was one of the other people tupac accused of setting him up.
Weeks after the shooting, tupac was found guilty of a rape charge he had been charged off, and was off to jail, but before then, he had been making a lot of noise that biggie was either directly involved in the shooting or knew something about it, since he and his entourage were all in the building when it happened.
Tupac spent a couple of months in jail before suge knight, founder of death row records, bailed him out and signed him to his label. Then the war continued. Tupac went into the studio to record a diss track called "hit em up", where he samples the beat of the junior mafia track "get money". In the song, he disses biggie and the whole bad boy record label, as a clique and as a record label. The song went on to be loved by all west coast fans of tupac, and the war was on.
Biggie never really replied pac, but people claimed he replied with a track called "who shot you", which biggie said he had recorded prior to the genesis of the beef.
The beef went on on wax, and it started a whole coastal beef. The east and westcoast beef.
Tupac got shot in september of 1996, by an unknown person, drive-by style. Four shots hit him, and he died a couple of days later. He was shot in Las Vegas.
Biggie was killed, the same way pac was killed, drive-by style, in california on march 9 1997.
Now what i want i want to point out of this whole saga is my own conclusion on the shootings. Tupac was a very political individual, and he talked against anything, or anybody who he did not like, openly. We have to face the fact that he had a lot of enemies. He even got into a fight with a known crip member a couple of minutes before he was shot. Now, we can not say big or puff organised for him to be killed in las vegas, i do not see those two as people that would have interest in that.
The governemnt could have organised for him to be killed, or one of his enemies.
As for biggie, i have to conclude that tupac fans killed bigge.
Any gang banger, or hustler, or rap lover in the west, most especially california could have organised the biggie hit. Biggie should have been advised against making the "going back to cali" track. Where he talks about going back to have fun in cali. How can he , just months after the west coast legend, tupac was killed, make a song about going back to california and being untouchable. I believed he caused his death. Tupac fans were still mourning the death of their hero, and you come up with a song that depicts you as the winner, the last man standing in the whole beef, what is that suppose to mean. Then, biggie now made the biggest mistake of physically going back to california, and rocking in their clubs.
The whole dispute could have been settled if the two had sat down to talk about there differences, but that was not the case, and it ended the lives of two gifted rap artist.

Kamis, 19 Februari 2009

BILLBOARD TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS.

10. COMMON- UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL.

9. SCARFACE- EMERITUS.

8. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

7. THE LONELY ISLAND- INCREDIBAD.

6. YOUNG JEEZY- THE RECESSION.

5. NOTORIOUS SONDTRACK.

4. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND.

3. PLIES- DAREALIST.

2. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3. (27,000)

1. T.I- PAPER TRAIL. (33,300)

Rabu, 18 Februari 2009

A LOOK AT THE CHARTS THIS WEEK.

There is really no new rap album out this week, just old albums moving up and down the charts. Lil wayne has finally gone tripple platinum, that means he has sold 3,000,000 copies of his carter 3 album, and that is in the u.s alone.
Akon is moving slowly, not as successfull with this album as his last two albums, but he is slowly moving the numbers. He has almost gone gold.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
18
T.I.
Paper Trail
33,332
1,694,521

29
Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III
26,963
3,012,110

78
Young Jeezy
The Recession 9,970
775,473

83
Notorious
Original Soundtrack
9,388
107,590

NAS AND DAMIAN MARLEY WALKING ON AN ALBUM TOGETHER.

Nas and damian marley(son of legendry reggae singer bob marley) worked on a track together in 2005, called road to zion. The song was featured on damian marley's "welcome to jamrock"(2005) album and the streets was loving the collaboration. Now, they working on a full lenght album, sorth of like the best of both worlds collabo between jay-z and r-kelly in 2002.

Here are some words from nas himself.

As he told MTV news at the Grammy Awards show about the album, "[Damian and I are] tryin' to build some schools in Africa with this one, and trying to build empowerment. We're tryin' to show love and stuff with this album. So, the record's… all about really the 'hood and Africa also as well. That's coming out real soon."

"I been celebrating life ya'll,” he continued. “Also I want you all to know that the Nas and Damian Marley album is coming in the next few months. It's something we have been secretly working on. Tour this summer too!”

Nas is also expecting a baby boy from his wife kelis very soon. He previously had a child, a girl, from a relationship he had about 15 years ago. The relationship with the mother of the baby ended almost immediately after the baby was born. But nas always shown his daughter love, mentioning her name, "destiny", in a lot of his songs.

These are some words from nas concerning the child he and is wife are expecting.

“Personally, life is good,” he wrote on the site. “I'm sure that y'all heard K is expecting. The Internet seems to be more excited than I am. It's crazy! I got too much to think about, and I didn't wanna leave all my fans out the loop. But I wanted to let ya'll know from me personally that I'm having my first SON!!!!!”

Minggu, 15 Februari 2009

BILLBOARD TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS.

10. THE GAME- LAX.

9. COMMON- UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL.

8. SCARFACE- THE EMERITUS.

7. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

6. YOUNG JEEZY- THE RECESSION.

5. NOTORIOUS- SOUNDTRACK.

4. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND.

3. PLIES- DAREALIST.

2. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3.

1. T.I- PAPER TRAIL..

Selasa, 10 Februari 2009

THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE RUGGEDMAN AND MODENINE BEEF, AND THE JAY-Z AND NAS BEEF.

In 2001, jay-z and nas, the greatest rappers of that time, had a beef, a lyrical battle for supremacy. And one can say they were both worthy opponents of each other. In the Nigerian rap/hip hop scene, there has been a lot of arguement that has been going on for years on who is a better emcee, modenine or ruggedman. There has also been a lot of subliminal lines thrown from both rappers at themselves. But recently, the beef has become public. I want to point out some similarities between these two beef situations. I am not going to say who is more of nas, or who is more of jay-z in the beef, i am just going to point out some striking similarities between the beefs.
In the middle of 2001, jay-z first perfomed the first version of "take over" which was originally directed at moob deep(duo rappers from queens new york.), but at the end of the track he had one line for nas, "ask nas, he don't want it with hov". In the rugged man and modenine beef, mode did a track with banky w, which he throws some subliminal lines at rugged, saying, "if i diss a baba, i aint talking ethiopia".That was directed at rugged, because everybody knows his alias is ruggedy baba.
Then going back to the jay-z and nas beef, nas replies jay-z within weeks with the diss track called "stillmatic, where he uses one of rakims beats and raps, "h to izzo, m to the izzo, for shizzle you rap version of sisquo". Then in the nigerian scene, rugged drops a diss track called banging where he features lord of ajasa throwing lines at mode.
Back to the jay-z nas issue, after jay hears the stillmatic track, he goes and completes take over with a verse at nas, accusing nas of falling off after illnmatic, and he includes it in his new album, then, called blueprint. When people heard the track, they all concluded that nas could not come back from this, and that jay had ended his career. Blueprint dropped in sept, and it took nas till december before he replied with ether and the rest is history. Back to the nigerian scene, mode dropped death blow part 1, and everybody has concluded that rugged's carrer is over, but remember that he is planning to drop his album very soon, so lets wait and see what rugged has in stock for us

Minggu, 08 Februari 2009

billboard top ten rap albums. (09/02/09)

10. DJ DA JUICE MAN- THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRAP.

9. COMMON- UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL.

8. SCARFACE- EMERITUS.

7. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELEM.

6. YOUNG JEEZY- THE RECESSION.

5. PLIES- DA REALIST.(11,900)

4. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND.(12,300)

3. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3.(15,600)

2. NOTORIOUS SOUNDTRACK.(15,700)

1. T.I- PAPER TRAIL.(20,6000)

Kamis, 05 Februari 2009

EVE TO RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM LATER THIS YEAR.

Eve, the former ruff ryderz first lady, has been going through some record label issues that has left her out of the public eye for a sometime She was meant to drop her 4th album, "here i am" in 2007, but due to some circumstances beyond her control, it had to be puched back.
She is now set to drop the album, but with a new title.

THIS IS WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY.

"Unfortunately I am caught up in a whole music label situation," Eve told the New York Post. "The album is finally going to come out this spring or summer. But with all the time that passed, we went back in and reworked the whole thing. I am truly, truly sitting on some amazing music. Nobody's been waiting longer than me to get this monkey off my back!

"I had to get in there and put in some upbeat music that I wasn't depressed about…It won't be called 'Here I Am' anymore,"

THE GAME SPEAKS ON THE RICK ROSS AND 50 CENT BEEF.

The game has a little to say to ross concerning the beef with 50. Maybe some tactics to use, or what to watch out for, as he has been in the same position before.
Here are the words of rapper, the game.

"For the first time in like four years, man...I'm kinda lowkey riding with 50 on this one," Game joked. "This is like the first time in four years, I'm siding with dude. It's crazy. I don't know what's gonna come of it. Ross, call me homie; reach out to my folks so I can get you out of this mess, man."

"He took his baby's mama shopping," Game said. "She's trying on fur coats with the Stevie Wonder jam in the background! Rick Ross, holla at your boy man. That boy 50 is eatin' you boy!"

LORD OF AJASA AND OTHER NIGERIAN RAPPERS COMPLAIN ABOUT MUSIC PIRATES.

About two nights ago on local news, it was viewed as lord of ajasa and a couple of other nigerian artist like "nigga raw", "too-shortz", and "charlie boy" had a peaceful demostration against the music pirates in ngeria.
Incase you did not know, pirates run the music business in nigeria, and they are running it to the gorund. They call the shorts, and say howmuch artist should be paid for their works. Pirates/marketers like "t-joe", "iyke d-don" "obaino", "ahbu", and the likes. They view the popularity of your songs, and the air-play you gain, and also your past works, before they conclude on what to pay you, and then they make all the profit, as the payment is must time one time settlemnets.
Lord of ajasa particularly had a problem with his deal with "T-Joe", saying he is still yet to be paid his 2,500,000 royalties from t-joe.
Too-shortz also spoke on the matter of piracy and asked his fellow artist to come out and fight the pirates as one.saying that, even if they did not have any problem with pirates now, they might have in the future, and it would be better to fight them as one.
Charlie boy also complained about this same marketer,saying that he gave his master disc to the individual since middle last year, and is still yet to get any payment from him.

SOME RAP NOMINATIONS AT THE 51ST ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS (2009).

Field 7 — Rap

Category 31

Best Rap Solo Performance
(For a solo Rap performance. Singles or Tracks only.) Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)...
Jay-Z
Track from: American Gangster
[Roc-A-Fella]

A Milli
Lil Wayne
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]

Paris, Tokyo
Lupe Fiasco
Track from: The Cool
[1st & 15th/Atlantic]

N.i.*.*.e.r. (The Slave And The Master)
Nas
Track from: Untitled
[Def Jam]

Sexual Eruption
Snoop Dogg
Track from: Ego Trippin
[Geffen]

Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group
(For duo, group or collaborative performances of Rap only. Singles or Tracks only.) Royal Flush
Big Boi Featuring Raekwon And Andre 3000
[LaFace]

Swagga Like Us
Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne
[Roc-A-Fella/Grand Hustle/Atlantic]

Mr. Carter
Lil Wayne Featuring Jay-Z
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]

Wish You Would
Ludacris Featuring T.I.
[DTP]

PUT ON
Young Jeezy Featuring Kanye West
[Def Jam]

Category 33

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
(For a Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.) American Boy
Estelle Featuring Kanye West
Track from: Shine
[Homeschool/Atlantic]

Low
Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain
Track from: Mail On Sunday
[Poe Boy/Atlantic]

Green Light
John Legend & Andre 3000
[Columbia/G.O.O.D. Music]

Got Money
Lil Wayne Featuring T-Pain
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]

Superstar
Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos
Track from: The Cool
[1st & 15th/Atlantic]

gory 34

Best Rap Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) Lollipop
D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer & R. Zamor, songwriters (Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major)
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown; Publishers: Young Money Publishing/Warner-Chappell Music, Herbalicious Music/Blackfountain Music/EMI-April Music, JimiPub Music/EMI Blackwood, Three Nails And A Crown Publishing, Roynet Music]

Low
Tramar Dillard, M. Humphrey, Faheem Najm, Korey Roberson & Howard Simmons, songwriters (Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain)
Track from: Mail On Sunday
[Poe Boy/Atlantic; Publishers: E-Class Publishing/Sony-ATV Music Publishing/Universal Music Z Songs/Top Quality Publishing/NappyPub Music/Zomba Songs]

Sexual Eruption
Calvin Broadus, S. Lovejoy & D. Stewart, songwriters (Snoop Dogg)
Track from: Ego Trippin
[Geffen; Publishers: My Own Chit Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music, Shawty Redd Songs/EMI April Music, Pimpin Tha Pen]

Superstar
Lupe Fiasco & Soundtrakk, songwriters (Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos)
Track from: The Cool
[1st & 15th/Atlantic; Publishers: Hey Lu Chill Music (Heavy As Heaven/Universal Music), 1st & 15th Publishing (Mr. Lopez Music/Universal Music Publishing)]

Swagga Like Us
Jeff Bhaskev, D. Carter, S. Carter, Clifford Harris, Plain Pat & Kanye West, songwriters (M. Arulpragasam, N. Headon, M. Jones, J. Mellor, T. Pentz & P. Simonon, songwriters) (Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne)
[Roc-A-Fella/Grand Hustle/Atlantic; Publishers: Crown Club Pub./Warner-Tamerlane/Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood/Carter Boys Music/EMI April/Young Money Pub./Warner-Tamerlane/Hollertronix/Domino Publishing/Universal Z Tunes/Univ. Polygram Int'l]

Category 35

Best Rap Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) American Gangster
Jay-Z
[Roc-A-Fella]

Tha Carter III
Lil Wayne
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]

The Cool
Lupe Fiasco
[1st & 15th/Atlantic]

Nas
Nas
[Def Jam]

Paper Trail
T.I.
[Grand Hustle/Atlantic]

MORE ON 50 CENT AND RICK ROSS BEEF.

It all started not more than 3 weeks ago, and it has escalated to the point where you would think that the beef had been on for more than a year.
5o Cent felt insulted with some lines about his baby mama on rick ross's new single' "mafia music", so he does a diss track titled "try me", within a week, where he takes shots at ross. Ross then comes by to say that he would not take that as a reply, that the track was so weak to be a diss reply from 50. He further added that he would give 50 cent 48 hours to come up with something more concrete than what he had.
I guess that is where he made a mistake, because 50 did come up with something more solid in 48 hours, more like he had already planned on doing that or 50 is really all out for this war. 50 cent went in search for ross's baby moma, and he had her on camera talking about how rick ross was a corrections officer. 50 cent went on to take tia(ross's baby moma) on ashopping spree with some of her firneds.

After the video was released, both emcees called into flunk master flex show on radio to make comments on the beef.

This is what ross had to say.

"You had your people contact my baby mama…you gotta understand she has never made more than $300 a week in her life," Rick Ross explained to HOT97's Miss Info. "Would I stand between her making a few dollars with this monkey? Of course not"

"We not gonna let "Curly" distract us from the fact 'Mafia Music' ended his career," Rick Ross continued. "The man has not charted a #1 record in Lord knows how long. He makes Dr. Dre look like a [fool]. I got Cool & Dre. Eminem is a genius. The worst move he could've done is be affiliated with such a monkey. He's [50 Cent] a parody of Hip Hop. I'm speaking from the streets"
And this is what 50 had to say.

"He told me I got 48 hours to come up with something better than what I just came with," 50 Cent said referring to Rick Ross' challenge. "I came with something better."
I guess we would have to wait and see where this one goes. 50 would definately go to any length with this beef, concidering his history with beefs. He has beefed with almost everybody in the rap game, nas, jadakiss, jarule, jow budden, styles p, master p, the game, young buck, camron, t.i, fat joe...are just some of the few rappers 50 has had beefs with in the past. But the thing with this beef is that both rappers need it to stay relevant before their individual albums drop later this year.
50 cent was meant to drop his 4th album under shady/aftermath records last year, december 9th to be precised, but had to change the date to later this year because he wasn't getting the kind of buzz he expects. He has been on the low lately in the public eye, not to add that his last g-unit album sold only over 200,000 in total.
Ross on the other hand, could do with a little boost in albums sales. His last album, "trilla" sold just over 600,000 copies. He can do with a little publicity to move more numbers. He is planning on dropping his new album titled "deeper than rap" on april 7th.