JAY-Z RUMORED TO BE GAY.

I don't know what to think with all this rumors that have been coming up about JAY-Z, and all this disses from ex associates of his; i don't think there is an old friend of his that has something positive to say about the dude. The guy is a great rapper; one of the greatest, if not the greatest, if we are looking at consistency, but when it comes to the other side, the business side, the SHAWN CARTER side, then it gets shady.

His former best friend, and ex partner of ROC-A-FELLA records, DAMON DASH has been taking jabs at him for a while; Dame even sponsored JIM JONES just so he could go after JAY-Z. He also backed CAMRON with information when he was going at Jay. I don't understand why this guy is hated so much. Is it that there is a side of him that we are not getting to see on t.v, or hear on radio? I mean, i think all this people can't all be jealous, at least some would be right about what they are saying.

When i heard BEANIE SIGEL had dropped a diss("not your average cat") towards jay, i could not believe it. Well i guess the only person that would stay loyal till the end is MEMPHIS BLEEK, because jay keep money in his pocket. I remember a line in the diss song beans made for jay where he goes "i can say things to make bey look at you different"; i wonder what sigel has on jay that would make bey, and all of us look at him different.

And all the countless rumors about him belonging to the ILLUMINATI cult, or some other form of UNDERWORLD society. I really was sidelining those rumors until i watched a video where this preacher/pastor goes in on jay and some of his lyrics, which he claimed where demonic, and made to lure people to the dark side. He even played a remix version of LUCIFER, a track on jay's BLACK ALBUM, where jay raps "murder jesus, 666". Now, that really scared me.

The latest rant now is that JAY-Z IS GAY, i don't know how true it is, but jay's former mentor, JAZ-O had that to say. Read below how trying to post that story on GLOBALGRIND, blog owned by RUSSEL SIMMONS, C.E.O of DEF-JAM, AND jay-z's long time friend, cost the person his job.

Whoa! MediaTakeOut – or MediaFakeOut as some call it – ran with a screaming headline, “Explosive Allegation: Jay Z’s Former Friend Suggests That [he] Engaged in Homosexual Acts!!!”

According to MediaTakeOut, which also posted a videotaped rant from the past pal, rapper Jaz O, “Jay’s former friend appears to be saying that Jay is involved in some kind of GAY SECRET SOCIETY.”

Because Gossip Cop doesn’t print expletives, we can’t really publish too much of what Jaz O said, but we will report that he also used the ever classy hand signal of sticking his right index finger into his rounded left hand, and noted Jay-Z’s “involved in that play.”

Additionally, Jaz O makes some sort of other nonsensical claim that Jay Z lets people “feel him up.”

Forget how outrageous the allegations are about the man who put a ring on it with Beyonce. We’re sure legal types will address that.

The question is why did MediaTakeOut even publish this story and post the video? Unfortunately, we don’t know because our request for a comment from MediaTakeOut went unanswered.

But we know exactly how Russell Simmons feels about it. Simmons, the legendary founder of Def Jam – the label that Jay Z ran – told Gossip Cop the story is “bad reporting. So stupid.” He added, “That’s ridiculous. Misery loves company,” and felt “it’s sad people writing sad stuff for short-term relief, but then that again promotes long-term sadness.”

Now, i want you to read what some people on that blog had to say(comment) about this:

Russell was going to expose Kimoria , so why he defending Jay wnen he was going to air out his kids mother . Dont understand none of this bulls*** , but I do know one thing , you better do your dirt by yourself because you never know when salt will be thrown in the game. Jay z isnt GOD, and I'm sure everyone isn't lieing !!!

IT DONT EVEN MATTER WHETHER JAY IS GAY OR NOT. NONE OF THIS WAS BROUGHT UP UNTIL NOW, WHICH IS A SHAME... IF BEANS AND THE REST OF THEM COULD NOT GET THEY sh*t RITE IT AINT JAYS FAULT. AND JAZ-O SHOULD GET A LIFE (PERIOD) HE SHOULD FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH HIS TIME. AND ASK HIMSELF WHY IS NOW THE TIME TO START SNITCHING AINT THAT AGAINST STREET CODE... I DONT KNOW IM JUST SAYING. AS FOR BEANS HE HAD HIS CHANCE HE DIDNT WANT IT HE WANTED TO BE IN JAIL MORE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE SO HE GOT WHAT HE WANTED (JAIL TIME FOR A YEAR AN A DAY) I DONT SEE THAT BEING JAY'S FAULT. AS FOR JAY'S FRIENDS.. HE'S WITH THEM AND THATS TY-TY AND BLEEK AND THATS ALL HE NEED, "NO BITCHASSNESS". BUT IF I WAS JAY I WOULD SUE JAZ-O AND WHOEVER ELSE FOR WHATEVER THEY HAVE(NOT THAT JAY NEED THEIR MONEY) BUT JUST TO SEND A MESSAGE AS HE DID WITH THAT JOBLESS PUNKASS CTHAGOD... THATS RITE JAY SUE THEM JEALOUS BITCHASS PUNKS FOR DEFIRMATION OF CHARACTER... I BET THEY'LL STOP TALKING OUT THEY ASS THEN... LOVE U JAY HOLD UR HEAD UR FANS KNOW WHATS REALLY GOOD.... THEY'RE HATERS CUZ U CRAZY RICH AND SO IS UR WIFE. BOOOOY THEY WISH THEY WAS IN UR SHOES FOR SO MANY REASONS

I'm with Jaz-o's side on this one, this n*gga be doin some funny ass sh*t! All these different n*ggas cant be wrong! It's like he was using the state property n*ggas to make it seem like he was hard,but he really a p*ssy-ASS BACK-STABBIN' FAKE b*tch-ASS n*gga!Whats in the dark will soon come to the light!

I bet some of what this n*gga is sayin is true. If you watched jay-z on Oprah, then you noticed that that n*gga had some suspect moments.

first of all, people will always try to come to the defense of the guy who's considered the "favorite" which Jay-Z is, but since when is it a crime to speak from your point of view? It makes no sense that Charlamange tha God has to lose his job all because he was bringing us the other side of the story from Beanie's perspective. That one move right there gave some validity to what Jaz-O is talking about when he says Jay-Z is a crab. And let's be clear - When black people on the street refer to someone as "gay", it doesn't necessarily mean he's calling him a literal homosexual. Jay-Z's record as a businessman is damn-near impecable, but the road to that success is paved in the blood, sweat, and work put in by people like Jaz-O, Beans, State Property, Dame, and all the others Jay-Z crossed out of the equation once he got in bed with his new friends. The truth behind the reasons for his success is the story they want to supress and anyone who speaks out against him gets this kind of treatment.

So what is your take on the whole matter?

'BORN TO USE MICS', A BOOK BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF NAS'S FIRST ALBUM, ILLMATIC, TO HIT SHELVES SOON.

When nas dropped his debut album, ILLMATIC, nobody had heard anything like what the 20 year old was spitting. The album quickly attained classic status, being termed as a masterpiece. That was 15 years ago, and that same man has not lost much of the lyrical ability he portrayed back then.

A set of writers, including MICHEAL ERIC DYSON, are set to releaes a book titled BORN TO USE MICS, based on the quality of the album, and the inspiration behind the album:


The best and brightest writers of the hip-hop generation reflect upon the era's landmark album: Nas's Illmatic. From the moment then nineteen-year-old Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album the hip-hop world was forever changed. Released in 1994, Illmatic, was hailed as a masterpiece and is one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history. In Born to Use Mics, Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai have brought together the brightest minds to reflect upon and engage one of the most incisive sets of songs ever laid down on wax. (Rap Radar)
Aside from Dyson and Daulatzai, the project also features nearly a dozen more writers.

Contributers include Adilifu Nama, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., James Peterson, Marc Lamont Hill, Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, Kyra Gaunt, Eddie S. Gladue, Jr., Imani Perry and more. (Amazon)

GAME'S R.E.D ALBUM GETS PUSHED BACK TO 2010

Rapper, GAME, has been keeping fans posted on news of his latest album in the works, R.E.D; he recently, just a few weeks ago talked about it getting a drop date of december 8, the same day fellow west-coast rapper, SNOOP, is scheduled to drop his latest album, MALLICE IN WONDERLAND, but word from him now is that the album is not dropping before feb 2010.

He has been keeping fans updated via twitter, and below are some of his tweets, courtesy, sohh.com:

"Last night at the 'AFTERMATH HEADQUARTERS' was Classic !," he wrote Wednesday (November 4) evening. "Me, Stat Quo & Dre got it in all night. R.E.D. album's new release is 2/16/10 If for some reason the date changes I will holla at y'all . had to push it back so that me & Dre can wrap it up the right way !!! Aftermath. Community Service is "GARBAGE" !!! R.E.D. gotta track from RZA last night that was amazing..... now all i gotta do is KILL IT !!! aight. headed to the headquarters to get it in.... 1 blood ! R.E.D." (Game's Twitter)
This is finally looking pretty good; and i would say it again, i wonder what 50 CENT has to say about this. I know 50 is still on interviews, saying negative stuff about game's career; it's just funny to me that game is working with DR DRE on his album, and 50 is still cool with dre. Anyway, that asides, i think this album is going to come out really good. I didn't even think he needed dre on it when i heard he was working with COOL N DRE on the majority of the tracks, and also with POLOW DA DON, but this new development with dre would just make the album FIRE!!!

I have always known that game is one talented dude, and just needed guidiance to get to greatness, i am happy that he is not making decisions solely by himself anymore. Let's see what comes out of all these.

A LOOK AT THE CHARTS

This week, ROC NATION boss, JAY-Z is still waxing strong on the charts. His blueprint3 album moved 40,000 copies this week. That is huge, concidering how long the album has been on the charts. This brings the album total sales to 1,200,000; at this rate the album might hit the 2 million copies mark. Good for him.


RICK ROSS'S group, TRIPPLE C'S album, CUSTOM CARS AND CYCLES, debuted on the charts this week, but i must say that the numbers are really dissapointing. 50 CENT predicted that they would not sell more than 10,000 copies, i predicted around 20k, their album sold just barely above 50's prediction, 12,000. I knew they would not move so much units, as they are not that popular. No one really knows any of the other members apart from rick ross.

Reakwon is still on the charts with his ONLY BUILT FOR CUBAN LINKS album; this week, he moves 3,000, bringing his total to 130,000. This is really low, concidering how good the album is. I guess it is not appealing to the new generation of rap listeners.

50 CENT PREDICTS A FLOP OF TRIPPLE C'S ALBUM

50 CENT has been running his mouth everyday for the last 4 weeks or so, saying one thing or the other about every rap artist trying to put in some work. Some of the things he says are true and useful, some, he says just out of envy. We all know he is about to drop a new album, his 4th album, and he is just trying to stay in the news.



He has been going back and forth with rick ross, since their summer beef started, but now, he is predicting that TRIPPLE C'S, the rap group that RICK ROSS put together, in which rick himself is a member, is going to flop when their album drops.

Below is what he had to say about it:



"[The public] is looking for the actual death blow to impact immediately," Fif said in an interview. "The death blow, when I hit you with it, you gotta wait six months later. It's dead. He's dead. When I threw the death blow to Fat Joe, it was [2008's] Elephant In The Sand and then six months later, new CD comes out and he sells 8,300 copies. Threw the death blow to Rick, boom, six months later, Triple C's CD come Tuesday, you gonna find what those numbers are and you're gonna fall out. You're gonna identify with the death blow. They can break ten [thousand copies] if they buy some. They can buy some. I don't know [all their names]. We know the police officer. We know the one that got knocked out. We know the kid from the Bronx. He's the tough one, right? The other guy, he wasn't sure if he wanted dreads or he wanted a flat top...People are developing this thing with me where they feel like I'm the bad guy, like I have bad intentions. It's not actually true, actually, I'd like to speak with the kids and tell them, 'Please, do not be this. Do not be like this.' [laughs] You understand?" (My Place)





I do not always believe when 50 says he is killing people's careers. Why wasn't he able to kill GAME'S career. I think it is just simple; he just jumps on people he already knows, through statistics, and how they are doing on radio, that is certain are not going to do so well, and he claims he brought them down. He is just as irrelevant as the people he claims he is bringing down, musically, but he just has more money to throw around and make things happen.



He predicted that they would not do more than 10k, i think he is wrong. Even though i know they would not do any huge numbers, clearly because they are not so popular as a group, i still believe they would move something between 20-40k.



50 be running his mouth all the time, lets see if his album would go platinum this time. I know he would talk less when he finds himself dead at 800k total sales for this album.

RAP IN NIGERIA HAS DEFINITELY TAKING A GOOD TURN.

Rap in Nigeria has definitely taking a good turn, you can not say that the scene is the same as it was about 10 years ago; we don’t even need to go that long, I can say that in the last 5 years, a lot of changes has taken place.

I can remember about 10 years ago, you could not have a rap song on radio without putting a little gimmick to it. That was when you had EDRIS ABDULKAREEM rocking the rap world with his group THE REMEDIES( consisting of two singers, and him), and he was giving NIGERIANS, the only form they would listen to for a couple of years, even though not everybody was feeling his style of mumbling words together(even if some of the words weren’t making sense), they had to make to with what was available.

Then about a year or so after his reign started, the TRYBES MEN (FREESYLE, L.D, and KABOOM), hit the scene with the international flavour of rap that a lot of people appreciated. This had a lot of people embracing them with warm arms. But the thing is that, although they were good, they still had to make party songs or include vernacular in their songs for radio acceptance, and mass appeal.

Then a couple of years went by, at around the early 2000’s, someone came in the game and made a change. The rapper, RUGGED MAN, hit the scene with a diss record hitting edris abdulkareem with verbal assaults. Taking shots at him for his wack style of rhyming/rapping, and all of a sudden, everybody realized that they had been listening to watered down verses all this long. And ruggedman took the crown of the king of rap in the country, and gave us his style, that people seem to like. He was a good rapper, and spat his rhymes in broken English. Now, he was good, but he still had to form a type of gimmick (spitting in broken English) for the masses to accept him wholeheartedly.

Around the same time, there were a lot of rappers from the north central part of the country doing the real hardcore rap. Rappers like “6 foot plus”, MODENINE, TERRY THE RAP MAN, O.D, PHEROCIOUS, just to mention a few. But all these rappers, that seem to be spitting the real rap were not getting enough airplay on radio, they kept doing there thing though. And with time, modenine became popular with his high use of intelligently woven rhymes mixed with metaphors and similes. His verses had some hard punch lines that always seem to get people’s attention. And, even though it was hardcore, his music still managed to get on radio and make him popular.

The years went by and there were not too many rappers on the scene, just a couple of old rappers trying to re-invent themselves. Ruggedman was still very prominent on the scene. Also, ELDEE and FREESTYLE of the” trybes men”did their thing, even though they had become rivals. All through this time, rap had still not gained the mass appeal it was meant to have. Other than rappers like RUFF, RUGGED AND RAW getting guest appearances on r&b songs, the rap game was still a no pay section of the music industry in the country. Except for a rapper like RUGGEDMAN who was making money from shows because of his controversial style at the time, no other rapper was really making money; I am talking about around 2003-2006.

Then around 2006/2007 a new wave of rappers hit the scene. Rappers that were delivering the undiluted foreign style of rap without having to add any form of vernacular to get acceptance; IKECHUKWU, NAETO C and M.I were the for-runners of this time. Ikechukwu and naeto c who were both on STORM RECORDS had lived must of their lives in the U.S, thus the explanation of the foreign accent and style in their rap.

Ikechukwu and naeto c hit up the scene, dropping singles after singles, plus catchy videos. After a while, more attention was given to the promotion of naeto c. With singles like “sitting on top”, “you know my P”, and “kini big deal”, naeto emerged as one of the biggest rap acts NIGERIA has ever produced. Although a lot questioned his lyrical prowess, but it was clear that this dude had the formula to make hits. His delivery for one was more of a spectacular than any other thing. I think the delivery covered up for any other faults he may have. Not saying he had noticeable flaws, and I am not going to say he was an impeccable lyricist either, but I guess rap is more than just lyrics.

Around the same time, M.I, who was more of a lyrical genius, had just hit up the scene. His first single, “crowd mentality”, was mad to address the way the music industry and every artist involved in it were not being creative and just following what the crowd liked. He challenged that odd, and still managed to make people dance to the song. When I heard the song, I knew that a rap messiah had been born. The song was very lyrical, yet very interesting to follow. The song rocked for a while, then it was like he disappeared to the lab to make more songs. And the following year he dropped his second single “blaze” which further solidified his ability to roc the mic. Then he dropped another single shortly after, “safe”, where he adopts American rapper, LIL WAYNE’S style, but what he did with it was phenomenal. He infused song titles, and common phrases that had been used in the most popular songs at the time into two highly lyrical verses, with his friend and co-artist, GINI, on the chorus. He got away with making a rap song so entertaining without loosing focus of the core roots of hip hop. It was a success and that made his debut album, “talk about it”,the most highly anticipated rap album ever to come out of Nigeria. Yes, quote me anywhere, he was that big.

I was listening to radio the other day, and was surprised when people were calling in to request for rap songs, what would not have been the case a couple of years ago. I think while they claim, in the U.S, that hip hop is dead, it is just getting better over here. I think hip hop just moved down to Nigeria. I think we gave hip hop “mouth to mouth”.

JAY-Z RESPONDS TO BEANIE SIGEL DISS TRACK

A couple of days ago, PHILLY rapper, and former ROCAFELLA records artist, BEANIE SIGEL dropped a diss record(ain't your average cat) aimed at his former boss, JAY-Z. On the record, he talks about how jay-z has not been there for him, and how jay had no more love for the people that helped build up his dynasty.

Jay-z has commented on that in a recent interview. Below is what jay had to say:

"He has a lot to complain about," Jay jokingly said during a press conference. "Not me. Well Beanie Sigel at the time, and you can look it up if you like, just to be honest, was driving two Bentleys, I don't know how. It's impossible to drive two cars at one time with his mama in the sticks and selling 800,000 records. I don't know what more you can do for somebody at that point. What people choose to do when they attain that type of success, you know, at some point you have to look in the mirror and look at yourself. Beanie Sigel had a record deal, a record label, and a clothing line. And never went platinum, ever. I don't know in the history of rap has anyone done so much with so little. I don't know what more you can do for a person at that point. But a record deal, that's normal. A record label and a clothing line, so, if that's not pushing a person, sh*t. Thank-you."

Wow, there isn't a need for jay to drop a reply diss record, this is enough. But it's so hard that it had to come to this; former friends exposing themselves to the public. It's just so sad. I don't know what beans would do after this. But let us not forget that beans said he didn't want money from jay, he just wanted to be let out of his contract, and also some brotherly love. I guess jay is not really with all the drama that people like beanie sigel bring along with them. As i said earlier, it's just so sad.