Too Short was charged with battery after an incident at a club
Friday
Thursday
9th Wonder Snoop Dogg Murs All Being Sued
Jazz legend Michael Henderson is suing Snoop Dogg, 9th Wonder, and Murs for sampling his songs without permission. Court Documents
Tuesday
They Did Ol' Dirty Bastard Grimey
John Legend & The Roots CD
John Legend & The Roots CD to be titled "Wake Up"
1. "Compared to What"2. "Hard Times"3. "Little Ghetto Boy"4. "Wake Up Everybody" (featuring Common and Melanie Fiona)5. "Our Generation"6. "Love the Way It Should Be"7. "Hang On in There"8. "I Can't Write Left Handed"9. "Wholy Holy"10. "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free"11. "Shine"
Monday
50 Says Enough is Enough
"Enough is enough, Biggie's name should never have become Diddy's Black Card. Just check out his latest video 'The Ghost of Christopher Wallace.' Let Diddy know to let B.I.G. rest in peace."
"When was the last time Diddy really was 'biggin up his brother,' not biggin up his bank?"
50 Cent also started a petition called . R.I.P. B.I.G. Stop @iamdiddy
Sunday
Khia To Retire?
She did an interview with Vibe and talks retirement amongst other things
"I'm kind of bored with hip-hop. I've done everything that I really wanted to do. I'm not really getting into the hip-hop stuff because it's more about the drama than it is about the talent," she tellsVIBE about going in a new direction musically. "It's more about the look and the images and all of that instead of about the art and I'm not really into that. I'm trying to do something bigger and better."
Mystikal Album To Have Big Collabs
Mystikal is working on his next album and he's already recruited Busta Rhymes, Pharrell, and Lil Wayne
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Ron Artest to get Reality Show
Ron Artest to get reality show after signing a deal with E1 entertainment. When it will air and the station it will air on is unknown still
Monday
Wednesday
Eminem Talks to Vibe
"That 'Hottest MC'-
list that I was left off, it was one of those things that I was glad that I am at where I'm at. I'm glad I'm in this place now, because a few years ago I would've let it bother me more than it did. I took it not as a slap in the face but more so like, 'Maybe I'm not on that list for a reason. Maybe I'm not doing the things that I need to be doing. Maybe I need to look at myself and step it up.' I don't know what I would have thought being in the mind state that I was in. I just felt like maybe I need to do better."
Canceling Relapse 2 - "
On a record like the new record, when I mention the third verse of 'Talking to Myself,' I try to sum up the last two records in a nutshell," he said. "Mr. Porter, who produced 'On Fire,' had this analogy of Encore and Relapsethat stuck with me: 'Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushing them out.' His view on Relapse was that I was flushing the drugs out my system and looking back at it, I probably was. My mind was coming back, my writing skills were coming back, so I was able to write again because I had writer's block from the pills. I was backed up. I was writing so much and so quickly that I didn't have a chance to stop and say, Are these good songs? Are they great songs? I was just going. I was like, 'I got so much material for three albums, but let's narrow it down to two. Let's put out Relapse 2months later. That was the original plan.
"There are so many drug references on the last album; that's just where my head was at," he continued. "I came to life again and everything was like new. When they say 'in recovery' or 'in rehab', it's like being born again when you get clean and sober. You start appreciating sh-- that you never thought you would appreciate, like, 'Wow, look at those trees. Look at nature.' Before, it didn't matter. I just started appreciating things more. I got happy when I got sober, broke free from the chains — not to sound corny. I broke free from the chains of addiction and it was just like 'Ahh, I'm happy again. I'm not a prisoner.' I was just happy to be back."
Tuesday
Playboy Enterprise VS Drake
Drake is being sued for a sample he used in a in a song on So Far Gone. Playboy Enterprise is accusing Drake of copyright infringement for using a sample from the 1975 song Fallin' in Love.
Monday
Saturday
50 Cent Talks Diddy
"He's not an artist. An artist would be someone who wrote actually something on a record,"
And then went on to say
"What made hip-hop exciting to me was each person's individual experience and how you learn to enjoy them as an individual. When that's not there because they're just being an executive, like 'I don't write rhymes, I write cheques', that's not hip-hop."
Rick Ross Teflon Don Tracklist
1. I’m Not A Star (Produced By J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
2. Free Mason (Feat. Jay-Z) (Produced By The Inkredibles)
3. Tears Of Joy (Feat. Cee-Lo)
4. Maybach Music III (Feat. T.I., Jadakiss & Erykah Badu) (Produced By J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
5. Live Fast, Die Young (Feat. Kanye West)
6. Super High (Feat. Ne-Yo) Clark Kent & The Remedy)
7. No. 1 (Feat. Trey Songz & Diddy)
8. MC Hammer (Feat. Gucci Mane) (Produced By Lex Luger)
9. B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast) (Feat. Styles P) (Produced By Lex Luger)
10. Aston Martin Music (Feat. Drake & Chrisette Michele) (Produced By J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
11. All The Money In The World (Feat. Raphael Saadiq) (Produced By The Olympicks)
Posted on Datpiff
Friday
Thursday
Bun B to Teach at Rice University
Bun B to teach a Hip Hop class at Rice University in the fall. Registering for the class however just to get a record deal is a waste. Bun said "If they're coming into the course specifically to give me a demo...that's a wrap on the first day,"
Friday
Drake Interview Talks Wayne, Record Sales, and More
Drake tells Mtv about advice given him from Lil Wayne:
“To him, there’s a whole world moving out there that he hasn’t seen for so long. He was just like, he told me something I never thought I’d hear him say, which was, ‘You’re the ultimate artist. You’re better than me. You don’t have the tattoos, you don’t cause any trouble. People like you.’ He was like, basically, ‘Look at me and look at you.’ He was like, ‘Man, listen. You know what I think you’re about to do? You’re about to do two million.You’re about to do two million the first week. Whatever, man, whatever you do, do not get no tattoos never in your life. They gonna think you got it because you came around me.’ He said the same thing to me [during the Rikers visit]: ‘Don’t change yourself, please. You got it. I’ve never met a young dude that has it figured out, but you got it. Don’t mess it up. Just be you. Sing! Rap! Be you. Don’t stop smiling.’ That’s what he said.”
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