JADAKISS TO WORK WITH 50 CENT.

With jadakiss's album, "the last kiss" dropping next week, april 7th, i don't know if this would help increase his sales, or reduce it. He is openly saying that 50cent called him up, and we could be getting a future g-unit, d-block collaboration(d-block consist of jada, styles, sheek louch, bully, and various underground rappers they are recruiting). He and 50 cent had a highly publicized beef in 2005, which came about when 50 spat some disrespectful lines at him on his "piggy bank" record.
This is what jada has to say about the whole situation. He also makes some remarks on the ungoing fued between 50 and rick ross.


"You gotta give Rob E Rob the credit, he got me and big homie on the phone," Jada explained. "It wasn't no real beef anyway. That was just one of his musical tools on that Massacre album to make sure he did those numbers outta the gate, he had to come holla at the kid. I made a lot of money too from shows and what not, but it was good for a minute. I'm sure in the future you will see Jada and 50, Lox and G-Unit. Anything that can make money as long as it's beneficial for both parties and it's good for the hood, we'll do it."


He's not lyrical," Jadakiss said of 50 in a March 2005 interview. "He makes good songs but he's not a better lyricist than me. Put all the money, the units, put everything behind us, plus the good old-fashioned lyrics and an instrumental, and I'll wear him out. You know that. The whole world knows that. I know and I'm humble."

"Picture 'Kiss not come out swingin'/It's like going to see 50 at a show and he don't come out singin'/Yeah, you got a felony, but you ain't a predicate/Never the King of New York, you live in Connecticut/You don't be in the hood, you be in the woods/F*ckin with me, is where you really gon' be for good/I hold the 4-5 myself, and hop out the Range on 1-4-5 myself/This is a true fact/Since when has it become cool to get shot and not shoot back."

Don't count Ross out," Jada said in an interview. "When I was going through it with 50, I'm glad he didn't have ThisIs50.com 'cause that's like a crazy outlet. He don't even gotta do no music, he can just do wild skits and put new stuff on there and new paperwork and everything and that's drawing in so much traffic and attention that it's almost like slaughter...We should try to keep it at the music as much as possible. It's good that he put wild skits and funny cartoons and stuff on the site...but the most theraputic for hip-hop is them to keep dropping songs. That'll keep the violence out of it. That'll make the people want it more."

JARULE SAYS HE TAKES SIDES WITH ROSS IN THE 50/ROSS BEEF.

Jarule has been on the lopw lately, since all the controversy irv had been connected with keneth "supreme" griffin, where 50 cent testified against them, saying they had something to do with his shooting in 2000.
Jarule is back, read what he say in this interview with sohh.com


"Yeah, it's f*cking hilarious," he said regarding 50 and Ross. "I'm sittin' back getting a good laugh and sh*t. But yo, check me on that 'Mafia Music' remix. Holla back. Ross, you know how we do, n*gga...X was cool. We used to run around and do everything together...He's locked up right now, I haven't spoken to him recently, but you know, I ain't got no beef with X. Me and X was real n*ggas. I don't think it's beef because X is not like that.


"New album coming real soon, I ain't gonna give nobody no dates," Ja said in an interview. "None of that 'We pushin' it back, we pushin' it back' so I ain't giving y'all no motherf*cking date. It's coming real soon. We finishing it up. It's f*cking crazy. Y'all n*ggas get ready. We gonna have a good time this year...[I got a] new jewelry line coming real soon.


"I didn't start this," Rule said in a previous interview. "I'm an artist who really went out there to make my records while asking myself, 'What can I do to elevate myself and do music?' People started making more records that had more feeling. All the artists came into it making records with feeling about different aspects of life beside the criminal aspect. And this is where the whole hatred really started for him and trickled down. I guess when he got his record deal, he felt the need to call my name and disrespect what I am doing, which is crazy"

T.I ON HIS WAY TO JAIL.

T.I, the self acclaimed king of the south is on the way to jail. Read the report gotten from hiphopdx.com.


Rapper T.I. was officially sentenced in Atlanta court today (March 27) to one year and one day in prison and was ordered to pay a $100,300 fine on weapons charges.
"I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to others," said T.I. at his sentencing, according to CNN.com.
"In my life, I have been placed in the worst-case scenario and had to make the best of it," he said. "Most often, things I have learned have been from trial and error. I knew no way to protect myself than to arm myself."
The rapper was also sentenced to some property forfeiture, supervised release for three years following his prison sentence, 365 days of home confinement and 1,500 hours of community service. To date, T.I. has completed 305 days of home confinement and 1,030 hours of service. He could possibly be released from prison in as little as 10 months because of a plea deal he received. The plea deal will allow T.I. to qualify for credits that will reduce his sentence.
In addition, he must also "undergo DNA testing and drug counseling, cannot own firearms and must submit to reasonable searches and a financial audit."
T.I. was arrested in October 2007 in an Atlanta parking lot mere hours before he was set to headline the BET Hip Hop Awards. His arrest came as the result of a federal sting operation after his bodyguard (at that point working as an informant) delivered three machine guns and two silencers to him.
The rapper, who was not allowed to own any weapons due to a 1998 felony drug charge conviction, was arrested.

T.I. will be taken into custody no earlier than May 19, and his CNN interiew is available in HipHopDX's Video

BILLBOARD TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS (27/03/09)

10. PROJECT PAT- REAL RECOGNISE REAL.

9. YOUNG JEEZY- RECESSION.

8. CAPPONE-N-NOREAGA- CHANNEL 10. (4,100)

7. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND. (5,965)

6. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

5. PLIES- DAREALIST.

4. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3 (11,584)

3. T.I- PAPER TRAIL. (20,700)

2. TWIZTID- WICKED. (23,000)

1. GORILLA ZOE- DON'T FEED THE ANIMALS. (31,257)


T.I has finally been knocked off the top of the top spot of the billboard top ten rap albums chart, after several weeks of reign at that spot. The new number one is bad boy records rap artist, gorilla zoe. Coincidentally, today, 27th of march, is the day t.i heads off to serve his jail sentence. His album paper trail has done very good so far, and we wish him all the best. The album is at a total sales of 1,816, 700, almost double platinum.
Elswhere on the charts, we see cappone n noreaga entering the charts with their new collaborative effort, channel 10 which sold a lousy 4,100 copies.

RAP CATEGORY IN THE UPCOMING HIPHOP WORLD AWARDS.

The rap category in the upcoming hip hop world awards comprises of four album nominations, and i can tell you it is not going to be an easy pick. The four rap albums nominated for album of the year are, "lord of ajasa's" "second turning to the left", modenine's "paradigm shift", m.i's "talk about it", and naeto c's "you know my p" album. I have personally listened to this four albums, and i can say they are all classic material.
All the four artist killed it in their on zone, or accomplished what they had in mind when they set out to make the album, perfectly. Naeto c is the swagger rapper, with songs you can bump in your car(good production all through the album). Lord of ajasa brought that yoruba mixed with english rap style, and i can say he killed it with the stories he has on the album, and catchy choruses(i actually thought i was going to get bored listening to the album, but i did not skip one song.). M.I, Mr Incredible, came with the lyrically proficiency all through the album mixed with a lot of whitty rhymes. You would wonder how he manages to cook up so much lyrics in such a short verse. And each song has that high point where you would want to shout WHAT!!! Last, but definately not the list, Modenine, the lyrical messiah of rap in Nigeria. You would know this guy had fallen in love with words early in life. It's like he has a dicionary in his head. Mr lyrically, KRS ONE of our Generation, the metephorical genius. The album achieves what i felt he had lacked on his previous albums, he had interesting topic matters, and he utilized his lyrically ability better than ever.
The awards are not untill May, so we still have some time to analyze this albums untill then. So i am going to review the four albums one after the other starting with naeto c's album. That would probably be tomorrow.

WHY DO NIGERIAN RAPPERS ALWAYS TRY TO SOUND FOREIGN.

We are Nigerians, we are Africans, even if english is our lingua franca, it does not mean you have to sound like the americans. You hear rappers talking with a foreign tone when they are being interviewed, but when you check them on their own, probably with their people, they sound so different. Why must you want to be like another people. Why can't you be proud of where you are from, and let people differentiate you from the rest of the world. Instead, you hear our rappers saying nigger in their rap, or talking about using guns, tell me, how many of them carry guns around. And you here them saying things like "ya mean", and stuff like that. They talk about drinks they can not afford, or have not seen. Drinks like "ace of spades", "crystal", "hypnotic" just to mention a few.
I am not saying you have to rap in broken english, or rap in your native language, but at least give the audience stories of what is really going on around you. When an american rapper is talking about 64 chevy's, and impala's, and gang banging, it's because that is what they are going through and what they see and are cars they drive in the hood. That is what they are exposed to at that very point in time. American rapper, "jadakiss" said in his rap, "why ain't you a thug by choice". What he was trying to say was that the gangsta rappers rap about the situation, or the environment they were put in. They are put in housing projects that house thousands of people, with bad facilities, and don't get to get good jobs. So to live well, they are forced to live a life of crime. That is what jadakisss was trying to say. If they had a choice, they would live a better life.
So what is the case with the nigerian rapper. I really want to know.

THE WHITE MAN'S GAINS FROM RAP MUSIC.

Isn't it ironic how the white community keep blaiming all the violence in the society on black music, when they make the must gains from the industry. Not to even add that rock is a more demoralizing genre of music than rap and the the music style is dominated by whites.
What i mean by the title i gave this post is that, if you check out the people that stand to gain from every black artist/rapper that comes up, it's the white man. And the black man keeps on handing their had earned money over to the white man. Whether they know it or ignorant about it, they are still like slaves working for the white man, but with a little freedom. I mean a little freedom, cos once they cross the line, the white man finds a way to throw them in jail.
Isn't it funny that the everything the black man uses the money he makes from the music business to buy, profits the white man 100% of the time. The black rapper gets an advance of about $200,000 dollars, and what does he do, he goes out and gets a big ass car, like a range rover, or a cadilac, even if he is still living with his mom, and who gains from this, the car company. Who owns the car company? The white man. Or he goes and buys and buys jewels from someone like jacob arabo, who makes money from that? Certainly not the black man.
He never thinks of something on the long run, he just wants to feel good and have all what he does not have now. He spends on crystal, hennessy, all sorts of expensive drinks, that he should not be buying right now, cos he does not have any money put down for investing in the rainy day.
Then the worst part of the story is that the black rapper, after decades of being in the music industry still allows the black man rule him, and get his money when it comes to getting money from record sales. If you check it, all the major labels that your favorite artist like 50 cent, t.i, rick ross, and the likes are on are all owned by white men. Jive records, intescope records, just to mention a few are owned by white men, and they hand down peanuts to the artist under their labels, and they get the mighty share. Imagine artist on major labels get as low as 35cents on one cd sale. That is 35cents out of a cd sale of 16 dollar. How pitiful is that.
And yet they keep condeming the rappers. When nas wanted to drop his nigger album last year, they put so much pressure on him, that he had to change the title. Accusing him of promoting violence, but they give movie directors that make movies like "kill bill" and "grind house" oscars, and celebrate them.
The black race needs to wake up!!