January 28, 2011
Fabolous Preps New Mixtape For February
After his hugely popular mixtape There Is Not Competition 2 last year, Fabo is readying another free offering for his fans set to drop sometime in February, 2011. As of now, the tentative title is The S.O.U.L. Tape since he’ll be rapping over soul sampled beats and will have no DJ drops. #Win.
As told to XXL“I’m almost done with it. I did the poll [on Twitter] to get people interactive with it and see what names they would come up with. I’m doing it over all old soul sampled beats, so I wanted to keep the world ‘soul’ within the title. A lot of people picked ‘Soul Survivor’ or really attached it to There Is No Competition because they are already familiar with that and that’s one of the mixtape monikers for me. But I wanted to keep it separate from There Is No Competition, even though that name is winning [in the poll]. I might actually go with the third option which is ‘The S.O.U.L. Tape.’ The first one that was winning was ‘Rest The Souls of the Competition.’ That’s kinda like playing into There Is No Competition 2 and the next one is ‘TINC 2.5: Soul Survivor.’ But I’m trying to steer away from that because that’s its own brand. I want to steer away from both of those and just call it ‘The S.O.U.L. Tape.’”“For a while there hasn’t been a tape without a DJ since like maybe Drake’s tape or Lil Wayne’s tape. Everybody usually has a DJ attached to it which is dope, I think it’s a dope thing for both the DJ and the artist. They usually blend the tapes well and it good for the music, but I think I want to do it without— just music. Its kinda one of those tapes that I want people to just sit through and listen and really hear the lyrics. DJs bring it back sometimes or they’re talking on top of it.”
January 27, 2011
In The Mix With DJ Steph Floss: 1.26.11 x Vlog Day 309 (The Prince Of The City)
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Photo Opp: Kanye West Stops By George Condo’s ‘Mental States’ Exhibit
Well the final has arrived via Interscope.. Turns out we posted the Dirty yesterday and it was the final version after all. Here’s the clean if you want it. Sidebar: I’m mad at the horrible thing they did with the audio just before Dre’s verse. The song hits Itunes Feb. 1.
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Rolling Papers hits stores March 29th.
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Mr. West hit George Condo’s “Mental States” Exhibit last night at the New Museum In NYC. Condo, who crafted Ye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album cover and Ye’s cover art for “Power” as well. While attending the exhibit, Jamie Miles of NYMag caught up with Ye while talking to Condo about the “Mental States” exhibit. Seems like Ye had alot/nothing to say…if that makes sense lol.
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January 25, 2011
Chamillionaire Speaks On Unreleased Pimp C Song
During his Ustream session the other day, Chamillionaire had revealed having legitimate access to an unreleased Pimp C song but not being able to release it together with Venom, under his departure contract with Universal Records. Cham now explains the situation in detail to The Source.
When it comes to the Pimp C song, that’s something that’s just magical for my fanbase. We’re not talking about Lady GaGa or Justin Bieber fans, I’m talking about people that watched me grow this whole way. And I wanted to keep that one thing for them. Just to keep it real with those people that have been with me this whole way. And I wanted Pimp C’s family to be able to make some money off of the record because his wife was the one who gave it to me. In negotiations I wanted that song when I was leaving and they told me they wanted to make a majority off the song, it was like a crazy number. I wouldn’t have made nothing and the family wouldn’t have made nothing, so I didn’t see why I would do it. So I just gave it back to his wife. I’d rather you go sell it to somebody else and make some money than this corporation making all this money off of this record. It didn’t make sense.
Go here to read the full article where he talks about Universal, major labels, Playlist Poison, new single ‘When Ya On‘ and more.
Mixtape: Game – ‘Purp & Patron’
The mixtape just released to LiveMixtapes. Can’t give you an opinion yet, but based off some of the recent leaks, it sounds promising. Hit the jump for the stream, tracklist, and download link.
Update: Apparently, this is the first disc. This one is just called Purp and the next disc will be called Patron. We will keep you posted.
Update 2: That was quick. The link for Patron can also be found after the jump.
50 Cent Calls Angie Martinez (Talks WSHH)
Earlier today, popular video website WorldstarHipHop went offline and soon after 50 took to Twitter to claim responsibility for the ’shut down’.
I don’t know why people underestimate me. I just shut down WORLDSTAR for future advertising contact thisis50.com suckers lol. I put worldstar to bed, you don’t believe try me I will shut your sh*t down. Lol. I predict 2 more web sites will shut down this week. Take a guess who they are. I’m sick of the hate I’m to strong. Me and @FloydMayweather don’t thing worldstar was good representation of black people as a hole. We will present better.
He later called Angie Martinez‘ show and spoke about WorldstarHipHop and his comments on Twitter:
And here’s WSHH’s proprietor Q talking to Angie:
After the jump, we also have some off air footage of 50 on the phone! Wow.
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In The Mix With DJ Steph Floss: 1.21.11
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Is Kanye West Releasing His Sixth Solo LP Too Soon?
Upon reading the news of the arrival of Ye’s newest creation, I thought this can’t be true. Maybe Ye’s just drunk of the Goose while watching the Bears, which he was, so the excitement sort of rushed his soul like he did that pale lil country gal during the VMA’s last year. But, he confirmed it with another Tweet saying his new album will hit this Summer. Hmm, tooooo soon Yeezy.
Let’s break down the time frame for Mr. West’s five previous projects, shall we? Ye’s first effort The College Drop Out dropped February 10, 2004 establishing Ye as a serious double threat in the game. I mean we knew he could rap, but not like what he displayed on his debut. Moving forward: Late Registration hits about 13 months (April 30, 2005) after the debut. Another masterpiece lyrically and production wise from the Chi-Town native. Yeezy ushered in singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion to further the already proficient sound of Kanye West which earned the rapper a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, but was also nominated for a slew of other Grammy Awards including Best Album of the Year.
16 months later (September 11, 2007), along comes Graduation, Kanye’s third solo LP, which in my opinion is Kanye’s best album to date. Receiving much critical praise, Ye outsold 50 Cent’s Curtis LP by 300,000 copies in their Battle of the Titans release day competition. A feat well deserved. 14 months down the line (November 24, 2008) Yeezy hits us with the somber composition 808′s & Heartbreaks, a project infused with the wallowing sounds of a broken heart, memories of his deceased mother and auto-tune, a device Yeezy still much uses today. The project wasn’t a favorite of mine. Well that’s not entirely true because when I’m reminiscing over a certain someone, I’ll throw it on. I digress. Forget I even said that. Damn it, LOVE! I hate you! Ok, I digress.
Almost two years later (November 24, 2010), Yeezy unleashes the powerful, subjective, potent and long winded effort My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, a project where Yeezy exposed himself to the CORE. Probably on the same level as 808′s but with more lyrically driven content and a harder and authentic sound. Whatever Ye’s been through over the past two years, he detailed it in Yeezy fashion. His love affair with Amber Rose, the boldness of interrupting Taylor Swift on that VMA stage and its affect on him mentally, not understanding his position in this industry let alone this universe and everything in between. Not to say we marvel at human destruction, but Ye’s downfall made for some GREAT music.
So now here we are….January 24th, 2011 and Ye’s already preparing another musical tale for our earbuds to get lost in. Let’s not forget the release of Watch The Throne which is scheduled to hit this March. God only KNOWS what to expect from that project. And if you follow my opinionated thoughts on this page and/or my Twitter account, you already know how I feel about the first offering from the LP. What will Ye’s story be this time? Where will he take us? Are we so use to Mr. West’s struggle with society that we’re not use to the positive Ye? Could it be we’ve grown accustom to this type of behavior?
Is it fair to tell Ye to disappear for 12 to 24 months to create a 12 track opus that we’ll play over and over and over or do we welcome this rush of excitement? I can’t imagine the creative playing field he has set up for Watch The Throne, so can you ponder the playground he’s going to run rampant on for the summer release?
Personally, let Watch The Throne do it’s damage. Don’t abandon that humongous effort that could be deemed as one of the greatest collaboration projects to hit our speakers. But again, who am I to cage creativity. Is it fair to tell me to not post for 12 hours because I killed niggas with one post? Damn sure isn’t. I’m going to continuously kill the competition no matter what anyone tells me. I mean experience is the best teacher so if anything Ye could only learn from this situation if it turns out negative. And if it doesn’t…..well let’s just hope it doesn’t.
What do you guys think? Too soon or right on time???
January 24, 2011
Mixtape: Oldies But Goodies Vol. 1 (Presented By Papa LowKey & LowKey)
Mixtape: Swiff D – LaDDers (Instrumentals)
Kanye West Announces New Album For Summer
It’s only been two months since the release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy but Kanye is in no mood to stop. He took to his Twitter to announce 3 things: the ‘All Of The Lights’ video will be coming out in a week, his Watch The Throne project with Jay-Z in March and his 7th studio album in the Summer. Go for the kill!
January 19, 2011
Nicki Minaj Says Replicating Lil Kim’s ‘Hardcore’ Cover Was Unnecessary
Minaj wrapped things up by showing appreciation for those that paved her way to become a successful female rapper in such a male dominated industry, but also took specific notes from the same individuals on what not to do. “I’m a businesswoman,” she proclaimed. “I don’t go onto the block and open up a Burger King if there’s a Burger King right next door. And you know, I won’t open a Burger King if I know the last one failed miserably on that block. I’ve done my research, I’ve paid attention, and now I’m ready for the game.”
The March/April issue of KING Magazine is on newsstands now!
Dr. Dre’s Rep Says ‘Detox’ Not Releasing April 20th
Diddy Covers The Source Magazine’s February/March 2011 Issue
Look who’s glowing on the cover of The Source Magazine’s February/March cover: DIDDY! Yep, Combat Jack and Team Source caught up with the mogul where he discussed a bevy of topics including his thoughts on Barack Obama which can be seen, below! Source: “What’s your assessment of President Obama thus far?”
Diddy: “I love the president like most of us. I just want the president to do better. There’s a difference between us voting for somebody and us believing in somebody. He’s the person that we believed in so I pray night and day that he understands how God ordained his presidency. I feel there was a promise made to God to look after people that was less fortunate, and [many] of those people are African-American…”
January 17, 2011
50 Cent Says New Album 80% Done
Fif updated his Twitter followers on the new album he has been working on with some hot producers. Remember, he has moved on from the Black Magic concept.
January 15, 2011
January 14, 2011
Eminem Set To Perform At The Grammys
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