Lil’ Kim Raps With Britney Spears, Freestyles Over 50 Cent Track, Disses Remy Ma
50 Cent is working with LL, and i’m not talkin bout James Todd
Archive for November, 2007
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Nov
Daily Recap - 11/30/07
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Nov
Big Doe Rehab
Heard the new Ghost last night, it’s tight. Beats are banging, East Coast is Back!
Here’s some flix of his new video, Celebrate f/ Kid Capri:
Pics via VDB
From MTV:
Mannie Fresh’s sister, Angela Bryant, was shot and killed Wednesday night in her New Orleans home, according to local TV affiliate WWLTV. Police reportedly said the 42-year-old mother’s two young children were present but not physically harmed.
Authorities said Bryant, whose body was discovered early Thursday morning, was murdered between 10 p.m. and midnight, according to WWLTV. Her black 1998 Lexus LS 400 reportedly went missing after the murder.
Bryant’s husband, who had been out of town when his wife was killed, arrived at the house before noon and was distraught, according to the WWLTV report. The couple got married last month, and Bryant celebrated her birthday with family on Wednesday night, WWLTV said. Police reportedly did not elaborate on the conditions of the children, ages 2 and 7, but said they were safe and healthy.
“We are still working on the motive of this,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley told reporters. “We do have some limited information and limited information relative to leads at this time, but it’s still very early at this point.”
Police said they were not sure if Bryant knew the killer, but they did say that there was no sign of forced entry, according to WWLTV. Forensics swept through Bryant’s house on Thursday, and relatives and neighbors also went to the residence.
“We’ve not drawn any conclusions,” Assistant New Orleans Police Superintendent Marlon Defillo told WWLTV. “We’ve not made any elimination. As the day progresses, we hope to learn more, but it’s a work in progress.”
Mannie Fresh (real name: Byron O. Thomas) — a legendary producer who claims T.I.’s “Big Things Poppin’ ” as his latest hit — was reportedly on his way back to his native New Orleans from Texas.
C: Do you think that having so many songs out for free makes people not want to pick up the album?
LIL WAYNE: No, I think if that’s the case then you’re stupid because you read the whole play wrong. When you hear me on everybody’s beat, that’s my promotion, I am my promotion. I sat down with my team at Universal, and I had to let them know I don’t want a street team. I was like, “I don’t want you to have to tell a person to play Lil Wayne’s album or please can you spin this, I don’t want that, I want those motherfuckers calling y’all like, ‘where the fuck is that Lil Wayne album?’” I’m my best promotion, straight up, I get better on everything you hear, every song you hear you think it’s mine and some people be actually upset that it isn’t.C: Where’s the pain coming from these days?
LIL WAYNE: Me. If you blame something else for your pain then you’re an asshole. You are your pain, nigga. You can cut yourself right now. That don’t hurt because you are your pain. If it hurts you, then you done that, it’s a mind thing. You ever notice when you have a very stuffy nose or you have a cold and you eat something, you don’t taste nothing, you be like, “I can’t eat nothing, I can’t taste it, I’m hungry,” that’s because you don’t actually taste nothing, you know what I mean? You are you, you make everything around you. You make water, you make the sky, because it’s you, if you don’t want that to be water then it ain’t water, fuck. It’s you, so…ya dig?C: A lot of people, word on the streets including myself here, think that Kanye took you on that “Barry Bonds” joint…
LIL WAYNE: He took me?C: Yeah.
LIL WAYNE: I think he did too, meaning his verse was better. Yeah but I’m going to get him. ‘Ye killed me on that song. I was tight because I was like it could be way hotter than this. So when I heard his verse I was like “oh, we doing this again.” I done it twice, they got two different versions. I done one and I ain’t hear his verse and I done the other one after I heard his verse and even when I finished I said why don’t you let him be the man of song. Meaning that it was needed and what I’ve done nobody else can do it.
Akon might be gettin looooocked uuuuuuppp.
Another Toshi Q&A
Hip-Hop’s rap battleground, Monday Night Fight Klub (MNFK), is preparing for the next round of competition.
After helping raise the profile of artists like Remy Ma, Jin, .40 Cal and Serius Jones, releasing a DVD and airing its first season of battles on MTV2, New York’s famed Fight Klub is ready to continue its storied tradition.
MNFK’s creators have recently opened their search for up and coming MC’s looking to take their places as contestants for the show’s second season.
Interested contestants can upload their videos or mp3’s on Fight Klub’s Website or on YouTube for entry in the “60 Second Assassin” contest. Like previous Fight Klub events, the competitions will be taped to air on television on a later date.
Additionally, MNFK has also partnered with Music Nation in their search for a new anthem. Rappers seeking to create the new theme for Season 2 of the show should visit fightklub.com where they can download an original DJ Green Lantern-produced track. Contestants can then create and upload their finished MP3’s for contest submission. Along with having their song become the new theme, the winning artist will also have their own mixtape created by Green Lantern.
“The album, you want it to have an arc,” he continued, explaining his prowess. “You want it to have a beginning — Imma give this away so everyone can have great sequencing, because I wanna hear great sequenced albums as well. You want it to start, have a buildup. … Any great story, regardless of what it is — whether it’s music, movies, books, whatever — has these elements: It has a build; it builds up to something, a moment of tension or height. When it hits the height on [my] album, it’s ‘Roc Boys [(And the Winner Is ...)]‘ and ‘Success.’ It’s that moment when everything is great, then it lets you down smooth. Hopefully the last song you have is something that people walk away with, and can’t get it out of their mind.”
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Daily Recap - 11/29/07
“I have a song called ‘The Fear,’ ” he said. “The full title of the record is ‘The Fear of the Black Man’s D—.’ That’s some sh– you can get comedy [from], or you can get some seriousness from it when you talk about the barbaric castrations that happened in our past — which is very serious, nothing to laugh at.”
Nas also said that despite the serious name of his project — which has already set off a firestorm of controversy — the LP will be balanced, and he emphasized that he is not singling out any one race.
“It’s not an attack on white people at all,” he promised, regarding the record’s content. “It’s knowledge; it’s understanding for all people. It’s not an attack on any race.”
Nas clarified that he will be combating a myriad of racial slurs, not just the one after which he named his album.
“It’s about the attacks that have happened to blacks, whites, all ethnicities,” he continued. ” ‘Mick’ niggers, ‘guinea’ niggers, ‘kike’ niggers. I have a song called ‘You a Nigger Too.’ “
Read the whole MTV article
“I’m not married,” he insisted. “Never! Been! Married! Plus, that girl was 18! I don’t get down like that! Plus, if I was married, why would I keep it a secret?”
I guess there’s only room for one youngin in his heart…………..lil weezy.
Damn, I didn’t realize that Dame & Biggs owned the masters to RD without Jay. They’re putting it on sale online on iTunes and TuneCore
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Daily Recap - 11/28/07
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Nov
Jay Z On Collaborations
“The difference between ‘Black Republican’ and ‘Success’ is that ‘Success’ wasn’t supposed to be a collaboration,” Jay added. “He was just in the studio one day, and I was just playing him a bunch of records and he was vibing with the records, and when that came on he loved it so much, I was like, ‘Take it, do something.’ It just happened. Where as ‘Black Republican’ was more set up that we were gonna do a record.”
Read the whole MTV article (Part 3 of a 4 Part Series) where Jay discusses collaborations with Biggie, Nas, & Weezy
