Nelly to Host Radio Show
Nelly will host a radio show in St. Louis on 104.1 WHHL FM while radio personality Staci Static is on maternity leave.
Jay - Z to release Memoirs
Jay-z to release Memoirs Decoded on November 12
"For the book, I was interviewed, people close to me were interviewed. So I was learning a lot of things I didn't know as a child," Jay-Z said to Rolling Stone in an interview.
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Young Buck Talks His Situation
Young Buck talks to Nashville Scene
Talks 50:
“His reaction, being so harsh, is to basically stall me out to a position where I lose everything, to where my numbers drop...[He wants] to pretty much destroy my life from a silent-sided way of doing things. That's his angle, and my contracts allow him to be able to do that."
People reaching out:
“The problem is, I go to be a feature on their hit record, and then they have to go to 50 Cent to clear me on the record, and he says, 'No.' And they're looking like, 'Well, damn' — cause if it wasn't for that I would probably be on every record that's out right now, cause everybody and their mama reaches out and gives me support.”
50 not meeting him halfway
“To this day 50 Cent has not been man enough to give me a conversation face-to-face or over the phone. I did everything a man could possibly do to try to grow some type of understanding. I come from the ghetto, from the streets. So taking a legal approach about things is not my way of doing business in the beginning. If we can do business without going that route I'm always down for it.”
Buck doing country music:
“There's something that country music can introduce to this Hip Hop world, and there is something that this Hip Hop world can introduce to country music. For a long time I was biased to a lot of things of that nature because I didn't listen to it. I'm basically growing up and turning into a better artist and I'm trying to expand my music.”
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Dame Dash interview with SOHH
Jay decided to sever business ties with his fellow founders; their stake in the company was sold back to Island Def Jam for a reported $10 million, while controlling interests in the remaining clothing, film, and alcohol ventures were sliced up. Jay signed a three-year contract to become president and CEO of Def Jam--a position he would leave in 2008 for Live Nation. He offered the rights to the name "Roc-a-Fella" to Dash and Biggs in exchange for the recording masters to Reasonable Doubt, but the pair wouldn't make the deal. "We all earned those masters," Dash says.This turn of events remains bewildering. "The people that I was helping, once they realized their dreams, they did what a criminal would do," Dash continues. "They stabbed you in the back. Think about the frustration of building a brand for years that should be taking care of your family, and then the person that was the closest to you saying, 'Nah, you can't have no parts of it,' and flushing it." (Village Voice)
Discusses Curren$y:
"[Curren$y] inspired me to dust off the chains. We brought 'em out for kicks, just 'cause we could. Then we was like, 'F--- it, let's put it out through Roc-A-Fella.' It was really more something he wanted to do. Basically, 'cause we havin' such a good time, and the opportunity's there, we was like, 'Why not?' ... Def Jam or Universal bought the brand. I think the 'beef' [with us and Jay-Z] was that Jay made it clear he didn't want me or Biggs to be a part of it. That's really where it was at. Now that he doesn't work for Def Jam anymore, he doesn't have the right to use the name. So there's no reason for us not to use it. It's there, and it's a brand that's not being used. So I was like, 'I'll take it.' It always meant something to me." (MTV)
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Lil Kim to be on Detox
In an interview with HipHopDx Lil Kim confirmed she's working on Dr.Dre's Detox along with a collaboration with Keri Hilson.
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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
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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"
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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
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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."
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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."
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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
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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.”