Tyson Documentary Trailer

If you dont know Mike Tyson is one of my idols. Ive seen everything wrttien, photographed or filmed for him. This preview has me bugging. I can't wait to see it.

Peep the Nas song at the end. Sounds dope.

I Miss Blogging.

I've been so busy these past few weeks. Thankfully it's over soona and I can get back to daily blog posts.

And I've been listening to a lot of Mos latley.

KILLA!! Camborghini

The Halem Wolf.

Damn.

Is it sad im waiting for this more than anything else? smdh.

Damn! So much music today.

Finally a video.

Musiq Soulchild - "sobeautiful"

Sorry 50

Rauussss has the streets on lock.

And is making great music.

CRACK-Nas ft Marcia Ambrose from Floetry-If I Ruled The World 09

what? Damn. Nas did this shit justice. For real this man is GOAT to me.

*PUKES*

Really T.I? Everybody needs to stop trying to be 'Ye. Goes for Jay too. This look isn't for you.

Nas and Kelis headed for the D-WORD??

Swear to God I listened to Popular Thug on the way home from the game tonite.




The well placed source says:

“They fight all the time and both of them are mean to each other. I think it’s over this time. They’re splitting up.”

Wife-Beater Weekend

Here's a few pics of your boy C Breezy having a great time in Miami with his domestic abuse girlfriend. Great example for the youth guys!

Speaking of the DIPS.

Old but wheewwww..

Writer murders this.

Dear Cam..

Please release the full version of this. Damn Kay-Slay.

Im gonna email Duke Da God. Or U-Mad.

NEW R&B fire...Dream/Mariah-My Love

If you dont know im a huge DREAM fan. His first album is wavvvyyy. Anyway, after 'Rockin That Ish' he blesses with this little joint. I like DREAM because he rides that line between commerical/corny very well. Unlike, lets say T-Pain. He's right where he needs to be and he keeps putting out great music.

K-FED getting bread

My idol K-FED, with all the time he has on his hands to hang out, smoke weed, and eat hot-pockets, he's come up with a brilliant scheme to make his own ends:

Well, you gotta give the guy credit for trying to make his own money. Kevin Federline, best known as Britney Spears ex-hubby and two-time baby daddy, is reportedly in talks to start his own children’s clothing line.

According to WWD.com, K-Fed is in talks with Gerard Guez about a licensing deal. Federline made an overnight stop at the Project trade show in Las Vegas in the interest of research, stayed overnight at the Venetian and said he was looking around at the styles and was hoping to be inspired by what he saw.

“It’s a really tough business, I’m trying to take it seriously and make a quality product for kids but not have parents pay like $500 or something ridiculous for a pair of jeans,” he said. “You buy your kids a pair of True Religions, then they roll around in the dirt like kids do and a $200 pair of jeans is gone. With this economy, I’m looking to do something much more reasonable.”

Man, get your paper, Kevin. A hustler’s, hustler is what he is. Nice.

KILLA on that gully...

He aint on that Hollywood ish...

Really though like who else would make a song about the Midwest and then come here to shoot a real ass video for it?

Full length mink draggin in the snow=swagger at a hundred thousand trillion

Dudes on his grind. Putting out GREAT street records with and flooding these sites with videos to match.

+1 for CAM

Kanye cut his hurrr...

I liked the shag he had before though. Its whatever. New look for 'Ye.

Chris buying RiRi gifts and ish...

Embattled R&B star CHRIS BROWN lavished gifts on birthday girl RIHANNA in a bid to heal the rift between the pair, according to U.S. reports. The Umbrella singer put on a brave face and celebrated turning 21 with a low-key bash at a rented home in the Hollywood Hills less than two weeks after she was allegedly beaten by her pop star beau. Brown was charged by Los Angeles police with making criminal threats following the incident, which reportedly left Rihanna needing hospital treatment.

But, despite facing possible jail time over the alleged attack, Brown is desperate to try and win back his lover - buying the star a diamond bracelet and necklace before making an emotional phone call to ask for forgiveness, according to the New York Daily News. A source tells the publication, “Chris called Rihanna to wish her a happy birthday. “He’s absolutely trying to get back into her good graces. He knows he’s very much in the doghouse right now, and is doing everything he can to show her how sorry he is.”

And Rihanna is reportedly finding it difficult to turn her back on the relationship. The insider adds, “Rihanna so wanted Chris with her on her big day, but obviously realizes why they can’t be together right now. But it’s becoming more and more clear that she can’t be without him.” Rihanna spoke out about the incident for the first time at the weekend, thanking her fans for “the outpouring of support she has received during this difficult time”.

"I'd hit a woman like anyone else"

Here's your boy Devante Swing from Jodeci getting all outta pocket about Chrianna. First off, why was there paparazzi looking for him and why does this cat have security? Like homeboy is even relevant lmao. I didn't recgonize him without the sunglasses, black leather boots, herringbone necklace and a baseball bat.

I keep that white girl...

Really Lindsay lay off the coke. Not a good look. Heroin chic went out in '94. Aren't you worth like 50 millon dollars anyway? What are you so sad about? SMH.

Killa Cam is runnin this rap ish....

More heat from Cam'ron Giles. Tagged up a little in the beginning, but ive also included the ZS at the bottom. Radio rip is all thats available right now.

Peep shortys second verse..im so wavyyyyyy hahaha.



http://www.zshare.net/audio/5612713577178b91

The DREAM/Kanye-Walking On The Moon

This is alright. I really like Dream and feel the majority of stuff he does. Im sure this will be a hit cause of 'Ye. His verse is nice. Nice uptempo joint though. Cant wait for his album to leak already. LOVE/HATE is still my shit.

HaHa Cassie still got Ryan Leslie open

She must have that wet wet-Ryan sounding strung out!

New T Pain/Kanye-Flight School

Meh. Damn isn't auto tune dead yet? This isn't that hot to me.

KILLAAAA IS BACK!!!!

Damn. This shit is tuffffff

I love CAM no homo.

Intro then Cookin Up video.

Weaves save lives

Hahahaha.

Realize It's All Real

I know this is only 5 years old, so I wouldn't really consider this a 'throwback' but I heard it recently and somewhat forgot about it. I can remember the first time I saw the video and went right to my favorite hip hop message board. I was so excited of a new and DOPE hip hop group. Premo LACED them on this. Prolly one of my all-time favorite premo beats. Boards were buzzin, everyone thought they were going to be the saviors of this shit then their album came out and it was wack. It was just that feeling I got like 'wow', and I havent got it in a while. Like when I heard K-OS 'superstar', or when I heard 'The Listening' from Little Brother for the first time. When will I hear it again?

I'll enjoy these until it happens.

Hahaha. The WTF 'Snuggie' blanket

If you've never seen this, here's the original so you can understand the parody. I was lmao.

Original in all it's retardness:


Parody:

Swear I'm the only person in the world...

that doesn't like this song. I keep giving it a chance and it's not growing on me. I liked Jim Jones version better.

Rick Ross is running shit...

Damn. I liked his first album, but these last few tracks are having people forgetting about 50 Cent real quick.

Cigar Music (I Do It) - Rick Ross

Rick Ross - Mafia Music -

Kanye's verse to Maybach Music 2?

only acapella but shits nice. Real nice.


HIP HOP NEWS @ DEFSOUNDS.COM

Damn Chris Brown

Any chance of him saving his career is over.

These are bad. Real bad.

Kanye makes DETAILS cover

Spring fashion issue. Should be out soon.

Damnnnn Rausss dissing 50 in NYC!!!

I woulda had more respect if he woulda shot this shit in BX or QU or some shit, but still thats 49th st station, right in the middle of Manhattan. Mid town. G Unit offices are like right there. Cant believe dude is filming his diss record in 50s home state/city. Thats some cold shit.

+1 for Ross

Hi Haters

Damn im still amped up. I love the hate. I wanted a Tyson tattoo for a long time because he is one of my idols. I think im gonna get one. He inspires me.

Mike at 0:58 until the end>>>>
Me on Monday>>>>>

Big Ups To All My Haters...

Really. I have grown women who are professions trying to bring me down. It's amazing. 4:25 is how im feeling right now. 7 weeks left.

Puff's shit talking>>>>

K FED is the man. Take notes hustlers.

Everyday I want to be more like this guy.



BRITNEY SPEARS is reportedly paying ex hubby KEVIN FEDERLINE $5,000 a week – for his permission to take their kids on tour. The singer is desperate…… to be in constant contact with little SEAN PRESTON and JAYDEN JAMES when she hits the road, and is said to have agreed a deal with K-Fed – who has sole custody of the children. Kevin told TMZ.com: “I’m gonna take the kids on the road… they need to see their mother, right?” As well as making a huge wad of cash on the side, bloated rapper Kev will also have a seat on the tourbus when Britney sets off on her US tour in March. Fittingly, Britney plays happy families in the video for her new song If You Seek Amy. The pop babe dons a wig to star as a typical all-American mum in the promo. Meanwhile, her ex boyfriend ADNAN GHALIB is under investigation in the US after he allegedly struck a court worker with his car. The reported incident occurred when a process server turned up at his Encino apartment with legal papers ordering him to appear in the restraining order case. The alleged victim reportedly suffered cuts and bruises but refused treatment when cops arrived at the scene.

Drake is the truth...

Wow @ this. Drake goes so hard. I thought Wayne wouldn't be able to do much after he ripped it, but damn.

Drake in 09.

HaHa. My dude HELL RELL n/h

I'm so tired of the radio...

as well as all my cd's. I'm so over music right now. Nothing gets me excited anymore. Except old stuff anymore. Teddy P kills this. Get Famaliar.

HaHa. This kid reminds me of some of you BLOGGERS..

This shows anyone could be hiding behind these blog names. Cause I know a few bloggers that are nerdier than this kid in real life.

KAWS on CNN

Great clip.Seems like a real humble,down to earth cat..I know a couple folks who were there that night. Why dont I live in NYC? smh.

For real ROSS is going hard...

Dissin curtisssss.

wow.

5-0 or not, this goes hard.

Raaauuusssss-Mafia Music

Royce & Puff: Private Jet Edition

Ghostwriting gets you $ and hanging with Puff on his private jet.

Get Famaliar: French Montana & Max B

These cats are RUNNING NYC right now. Max B is the waviestttttt haha. this just dropped and its bananas. Google Max B. He makes really different music and has a huge following. Very similar to Dipsets popularity a few years ago.




Max B/French Montana-All I Wanna

Max B/French Montana-Battlefield

Max B/French Montana-Steak Sauce

This shit is dope...hottest shit in the city right now

Fat Joe/Wayne/Ron Brownz

Amazing- Musiq Soulchild-So Beautiful

Best R&B song ive heard in a lonngggg time. Damn this is dope. Had this on repeat all weekend.

So Beautiful - Musiq Soulchild

New Ryan Leslie...

Leaked last week and this shit is nice. So refreshing to hear. I remember when I was leaving Northland Mall last winter sometime and I heard 'Diamond Girl' and knew this cat was gonna come into his own as a star. Then 'Addicted' hit this summer, which still stays on rotation in my car. R&B needed this record. Couldn't find a working link, but cop when it drops.

Some new Puffy ish...with Royce and Budden

Nice to see Puff appreciates good talent. Hopefully this will lead to some well deserved success from these cats.

new KILLA! Cam that is...

Ehh..dont know if im feelin this beat. I prefer his harder stuff NO HOMO.

Weezy with Katie Couric

I dont know how I feel about this.

New Fab-Turn My Swag On freestyle-dissing us bloggers lmao

Quit Making Blogs, Try To Make Some Money

LUP E.N.D-New Lupe album postponed indefinatley

From Lupe's site..Damn fam. June? Wow.



Due to circumstances beyond my control...the album roll out has changed radically...LUPE.N.D. has been postponed indefinitely!!!
As a matter of fact consider it cancelled until further notice!!!
Sorry Guys & Gals!!!!...the rumor mill and ***** ass cowards are going to have a field day with this one!!!...I'll just keep quiet about the actual reasoning so everybody can put their very special two cents in...
OK..so what now???
Actually an album is still coming in June...Thats Right!!!...Drum Roll Please...
"THE GREAT AMERICAN RAP ALBUM"
Yeah thats the new title...
want the tracklist?
ok...
1. Song #1
2. Song #2
3. Song #3
4. Song #4
5. Song #5
6. Song #6
7. Song #7
8. Song #8
9. Song #9
10. Song #10
11. The Greatest Rap Song Ever Made
No B.S.
See ya'll in June and again in December and again next June...
LupE.N.D. right after that...when the liberation comes!!!...
also JAPANESE CARTOON "IN THE JAWS OF THE LORDS OF DEATH" drops the same day as "THE GREAT AMERICAN RAP ALBUM"...Matthew Santos this spring...oh yeah...FNF UP!!!
I hate the music business...but I love music...Grammy's Here We Come!!!

New Jay-Z "When The Money Goes"

Not really feeling this.

Aaliyah was the cause of Jay and Dame's break-up?

Damn...

This shits crazy.

Trying to stir up interest in his upcoming Roc-A-Fella documentary, reveals what everybody already knows that one of the reason’s behind the Dame Dash / Jay Z clash was Aaliyah. Choke tells Hip Hop Weekly, “Both Jay and Dame was involved with a certain R&B singer, who I’m not gonna say her name out of respect ’cause she ain’t around to defend herself, but I believe that was a part of the initial friction. I was seeing Jay with her back around 2000, then Dame… …was with her after. All you have to do is look at the movie they did, Death of a Dynasty. In the movie they were fighting over a model. In real life she was a model, but singing is what she was known for first.”

Damn Fab...get it together.

Fabolous went from “Nothin’ to Somethin’ ” on his last album, but at an Atlanta restaurant, his credit is back to nothing. The rapper showed up at the hot Eros World Tapas Bar on Saturday with an entourage of more than 20, a source said. They requested “the usual excess of champagne and alcohol, so the manager asked for a credit card to start a tab.” Unfortunately, Fabolous’ credit cards were all declined. “By the fifth credit card, the entourage member designated to take care of his tab goes outside,” our source said, “only to start a fight with the outside bouncer. He tripped and fell, hitting his head on the concrete and started bleeding. The manager called an ambulance. But as soon as the entourage member also saw the police, he began running away, blood oozing down his face.” Fabolous and his posse stayed and ordered champagne but paid cash.

Young Jeezy to appear with Bill O'Reilly

Young Jeezy ain’t never scared. As previously reported, the snowman struck back at Bill O’Reilly after the TV host called he and Jay-Z’s inaugural performance of the “My President” remix, “offensive.”

Though he harshly criticized Jeezy and poked fun at his name, O’Reilly did open the door for the rapper to appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” to explain his position. The Snowman said he’d gladly face the Fox TV personality.

“Damn right! I ain’t never ran, nah mean?” Jeezy told XXLMag.com. “At the end of the day, you’re dealing with cats who think that we as young black men don’t know what it is we do. We entrepreneurs, we came from nothing. If you gotta mispronounce my name to try to be funny and you got a Harvard or whatever education you got, then you’re really showing how ignorant you are.”

“If you didn’t hear what the **** I said, it’s all good, but you didn’t hear all these people crying in New Orleans,” he continued. “You ain’t know bout the [Oscar] Grant kid that got killed in Oakland, you ain’t speaking on that. You ain’t talking about these ladies out here killing these babies, you worried about what I said.”- Marvin Brandon

I think he will have some good things to say. Should be intersting. Dont know the date yet but will post as soon as I do.

And if your not all that famalir with FOX NEWS my man Nas did this justice. Prolly my favorite track on N.

Throwback for the Old Heads...

Heard this randomly the other day and its still dope. Memorized all the words in 5th grade. Peep the dancing and the overalls. Who remembers wearing overalls? With the one strap down? Dammnnn...thats some 1990 shit right there!!

BANGLADESH....killed this beat.

Yeah Yeah, this is Beyonce, and its supposed to be for girls. But this shit goes hard!! I was in this girls car the other night and she kept this shit on repeat the whole time. Beat is infectious. It knocks too. Im not mad at Beyonce. Or if I pull up to you at the light and see both you and your man nodding your head to this shit.

If you saw NOTORIOUS....

and looked stupid when all his classic shit came on cause you didn't know the words like I did..let me clue you in. SMH @ cats thinking they were songs just made for the movie. step your game up.

Mac's And Don's


Party & Bullshit-When he preformed at Howard, where Puff actually went to school


And all that shit he spit in the basement of that house was real too. Here's his demo in a few different parts.

Kanye Drama

While at Fashion Week in Paris, Kanye West debuted his Louis Vuitton sneakers. Not bad, of course I want every pair. But after “the two greatest days of his life” he ran into some more drama - yet again:




from his blog:

YOOOO WHY WON’T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!! I HAD THE TWO GREATEST DAYS OF MY LIFE AND WHEN I GET BACK FROM THE LOUIE SHOW I READ SOME SHIT CLAIMING I SAID I’M DOWN TO DO PORN AND SOME BISEXUAL PORN!!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE THE AVN WOULD POST FIRST PEOPLE BELIEVED THE TWITTER/STEVEN COLBERT THING, ROLLING STONE EVEN PRINTED IT!!!! NOW SOMEBODY HAS BEEN HACKING INTO MY MYSPACE AND SOMEBODY’S ACTUALLY HACKED INTO MY PERSONAL GMAIL ACCOUNT AND HAS BEEN EMAILING PEOPLE FROM IT… HEY WORLD I NO LONGER HAVE A GMAIL! I FOUND OUT I HAD TWELVE UNAUTHORIZED SKYPE ACCOUNTS UNDER MY NAME!!! THIS ALL IN THE PAST FOUR DAYS. WELCOME TO KANYE WEST WORLD! …. IT’S NOT OFFICIAL. I JUST GAVE THE PERFORMANCE OF MY LIFETIME FOR OUR NEW PRESIDENT … THEN I FLEW TO PARIS AND THEY DEBUTED MY NEW SHOES THAT I DESIGNED WITH LOUIE VUITTON WHICH WAS A DREAM COME TRUE. PLEASE I BEG YOU, GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET ME BE GREAT!!! WHO HAVE I HURT SO BAD THAT THEY WANT TO DESTROY ME? WHO HAVE I EVER SPOKE ABOUT SO NEGATIVELY? I JUST WAS SPEAKING WITH OUR NEW PRESIDENT TWO DAYS AGO… AND NOW THIS…. SIDEBAR… NEVER TAKE A PICTURE FROM MY OBAMA PERFORMANCE AND PUT IT NEXT TO A BS QUOTE LIKE THAT! THAT’S IN POOR TASTE! THAT UNDERMINES WHAT MY CONTRIBUTION TO THAT EVENT WAS AND SLAPS EVERYBODY WHO FELT UPLIFTED BY THAT PERFORMANCE IN THE FACE!

Damn! @ Marc's hair. Kanye x Marc Jacobs showing off the red joints, which I want the most.

Women: Wear this ish..Hellz Bellz

Hellz Bellz ladies. If you are into fashion, then you know what is up, if not let me introduce you to a line that is crazy. Beyonce, Cassie, and Teyana Taylor are customers/lovers of the line. It has caught on crazy with underground heads, and hipsters into serious urban fashion.

Personamagazine.net caught up with one of the founders.

Persona Magazine: Where did you grow up?

Laurie Alabaza: I grew up in south east San Diego.

PM: What are some of your early influences that you feel affected your design style?

LA: umm….well coming from San Diego I was definitely effected by the skate culture we have here but most of my inspiration came when I was in New York. I really took in a lot of the culture there and it really had an impact on me.

PM: Prior to Hellz Bellz where did you get your start designing?

LA: I started as a graphic designer for the ladies department of Triple 5 Soul, from there I moved on to become the art director at Rockawear……which I worked at for about 3 years prior to starting Bellz.

PM: What do you feel Hellz Bellz brings to the fashion market?

LA: Well what we did with Hellz is to design it very differently from what was in the street wear market at the time. A lot of the designs that were out there were designed by men. So many times you would get shirts that had flowers and overly cute designs that they felt women wanted. Really what women want is cool progressive designs so I feel that Bellz fits that void.

PM:What are some of your company’s goals for 2009?

LA: My goal for this year really isn’t different then last year which is to grow the brand slowly. Maybe we will add more accessories to the line and possibly a men’s line.

The girl came up through the ranks the right way, gotta respect that. Like she says, this line is not for church, this is to make a statement ladies. Some of the garments feature ladies flipping the bird, as well as cuss words.

Been gone for a minute...

but now im back with the jump off.

Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I started my internship and im gone all day, every day, so it's a lot harder to blog daily. Im going to try my best to update this as much as I can so keep looking! Until April 20th though I'm gonna be a busy cat. Trying to get mine.

Writing On The Wall

If you didn't know, I am a huge graf head. Been since I was a kid. Love to sketch, used to paint. Wayyy back in the day though. Not anymore. Got busted and that was it.Cant afford to anymore. Still nice with the paint can though. The SOURCE used to have this section called 'graf-flix' where they would display graff and thats what hooked me. Every saturday I'd sit in my room and draw what I saw in the pics. Became pretty good too. Im going to include some of my favorite artists every now and then with a BIO and some of their shit. Heads need to get famalir.

Gucci Native High Top

I have a black pair of Vans that are similar to this, which I love and get tons of compliments on. Obviously these are very influenced by Visvim, as Gucci produced a pair of brown suede ones last season that I searched forever to find, but couldn't. If somerset gets these, their mine. Fuck the price tag.



Part of Gucci’s 2009 spring assortment of footwear, the established fashion house takes another stab at things with another Native American-inspired high-top. Previous releases have followed a similar stylistic route to the one seen here with this recent style keeping things simple with an all-white leather upper. The skirt and use of beads are decidedly Visvim-esque, however the silhouette seems to be the most important aspect here with a tight streamlined design

Nick Cannon must be reading my blog.

And i cant believe he's hitting that.

This is better than most of his ignorant ass shit. But lose the scarf and he'd be good. I like the hat. I have a few. Perfect for winter. This young dumb broad said I looked like an 'old guy' last week when i was wearing mine. I was killing it.




On the other hand, look at Young Cheesy cleaning up well. Little gautty with the LV logos, but it works for him.

DMX interview from jail. Wow.

Kinda long but he speaks on some real shit. He made great music. Rode that fine line between commerical and street. Wish he would get his shit together.

source: smartenupnas

Dope shit...RES-Golden Boys written by Santi White.

Im tired of posting new music. And only hip hop, cause I listen to a lot of diffrent music.Imma try to start posting some more old shit, and this is another good one. this is before SANTI was SANTOGOLD. all you new music heads catch up. I was lucky to see her preform when Talib was here not too long ago.



If your not famaliar with RES do so. This shit is classic. Couldn't find a version that I could embed besides this one. Sorry.

DAMN! Jeezys crew CTE beats down DJ Drama at NOTORIOUS premiere.

AllHipHop.com has confirmed reports of a second altercation between DJ Drama’s Aphilliates and members of the CTE family. According to Aphilliates Music Group president La The Darkman, DJ Drama was assaulted by members of Young Jeezy’s entourage last night (January 12), yet walked away from the incident unscathed. “There was a little scuffle. At a movie screening,” La told AllHipHop.com, “A little thing that got handled. Fake thugs with low self esteem want to pick on the DJ’s. We definitely didn’t initiate this though. DJs don’t go looking for beef with fake gangstas.” The statement comes after several reports surfaced of a squirmish between the crews last night during a screening of Notorious in the posh Buckhead section of Atlanta. The fight comes two months after La himself clashed with members of CTE outside of Radio One’s Dirty Awards in November. Both he and CTE recording artist Roccett addressed the situation, explaining that the argument was a result of comments made by Young Jeezy during a video interview. The widely circulated clip shows Jeezy surprisingly speaking ill of Drama, with whom he found tremendous success on the Gangsta Grillz mixtape Trap or Die.

The collaboration was arguably Jeezy’s introduction to a national audience. When the interview first surfaced, DJ Drama responded saying that it had to be some misunderstanding or misinterpretation.

DJ Drama also confirmed the scuffle, while representatives for Young Jeezy informed AllHipHop.com that the rapper was in the recording studio when the incident took place.

Those corporate “thugs” do what their boss tells them to do. DJ Drama better watch his ass before he gets shot leaving one of these events. Gotta love how Drama sticks to the code, though. No matter how many times they beat him down. SMH

Jim Jones ft. Ryan Leslie-Precious

Of course you heard it here first...

some cats are saying its a hit. Im not really feeling it that much.

WOW. More new 50-"Heartless Monster'

dope.

Whew!!! More new 50.."Shut Your Bloodclot Mouth" produced by Premo

Released 10 hours ago. As usual you heard it here first. Who laces you?

Thats what I thought.

shits hard.

THE SOURCE 1995 Year In Review..

I found this on another blog and it really brought back memories. Every year the SOURCE, back when it was still the be all/end all for hip hop mags, used to do a yearly review. I remember buying this issue at Harmony House at Lakeside mall and then i went to Olga's and read it while I ate. Dont ask how I remeber that, I just do. I had it still but I threw away all my old magazines about 4 years ago, which I now realize was foolish. BTW I own all the albums below! This brings such great memories back of all the amazing and classic music that came out that year. Included below are some of my favorite songs from some of those albums. Yeah i've been doing this hip hop shit longer than you. God I miss hip hop.

While the rest of the hip-hop world reviews 2008 and ponders 2009, I’ve been steadily sifting through the hip-hop world of 1995 and 1996. Right off the bat, I want to know if you think 1995 was better than 1994 based on the albums released in those years. Whether you think ‘94 was better than ‘95 or vice versa, ‘95 was a great year and I still believe it was Wu-Tang’s year of supremacy. It was also a good year for Loud Records since they released both Mobb Deep’s The Infamous and Raekwon’s Only Built for Cuban Linx. The owner of the label, Steve Rifkind, must have kicked himself for not finding a way to sign ODB and Gza as well. 1995 also saw Tupac release his best album (Me Against the World) while locked up, then Suge bailed him out and flew him straight to California to record 20 albums worth of material. Good hip-hop music was not only being released from just about every area of the country (check the fat tape and list of albums below) but it was getting consistent nationwide exposure even with the cancellation of Yo! MTV Raps and the beginning craziness of the East Coast/West Coast beef. This definitely shows in the 1996 issues of The Source with only two artists from the East Coast gracing the cover (Nas and Mobb Deep) in the entire year. But enough of my blabbering, just let me know, what was the BEST ALBUM of 1995 in your opinion?

Obama is THAT dude...

ffwd to 1:00...listen at 1:05

"nah, we straight..nah, thats you man'

hahaha.

2 new 50 tracks...

You already know. Im not a big 50 fan, and i think his popularity has fell due to his terrible beat/single choices. I know the first one is a freestyle, but both sound nice.

50 goes in on this shit...I'll Hurt You



Heartless Monster

Kanye West x Louis Vuitton

Kanye recently confirmed he was designing a new Louis Vuitton shoe when a paparazzi member caught him coming out of a Louis Vuitton store. Now Kanye is giving everyone a sneak peak at one of six designs, he did for Louis Vuitton. I heard they ar rumored only to him though..we'll see.

Nice looking shoe. Clean...like a sperry topsider kind of...visvim-esqe look. These are pretty clean and hopefully they wont get ruined like the Ato's did by hypebeats buying them who dont know how to wear them.

Exclusive Ish...50 dissing Lil Wayne..official.

You know when this dropped my blackberry lit up like crazy..

Ask Wayne, he dont want it with 50...Noooooooo

Wanye/Pharrell-YES

Definatley feeling this. Wayne goes in.

'Ye gettin naked cause of fame

Kanye West has become a worldwide music icon by always telling us the naked truth as he sees it. In the February issue of Vibe — the only cover story he’s done to promote 808s & Heartbreak — the Grammy winner contemplates baring even more than that.

“I made a decision. I wanna make popular music, but I want less fans,” he told writer Sean Fennessey when asked if was comfortable with fame. “I want the freedom of having less fans. It’s like the freedom of having less money. If you have less money, you have less responsibility. It’s like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s Björk.’ But if I wanted to pose naked, people would draw all type of things into it. I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I’ll pose naked. I break every rule and mentality of hip-hop, of black culture, of American culture.”

Wow. just wow.

Sounds like some shit Ari would pull...

Here’s a rundown of what’s been going on with Jeremy Piven and the Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow. Last year, Piven was signed on to make his Broadway debut in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. After a few shows, Piven then decided he didn’t want to do it anymore and requested an early release due to exhaustion. His request was denied. In mid-December, Piven’s doctor wrote him a little note saying he couldn’t perform because he had “elevated levels of mercury” from eating too much fish. Piven is an avid sushi eater.

Backers of the show called BS and investigated Piven’s claim of mercury poisoning in an effort to “squeeze some money out of him.” Page Six says that Jeremy Piven has already been examined by another doctor, but Jeffrey Richards, the lead producer, would not reveal the results citing confidentiality. However, Jeffrey added ominously, “We’re in the process of discussing what our next step will be.”

Jeremy Piven should have come up with something better than mercury poisoning from too much sushi. That’s like saying I’m too tired to work because I’ve been making out with this model chick every night and I might have gotten mono or I might have herniated a disc from playing too much Wii.

I Aint from Africa im from Crenshaw Mafia...

FFWD to 2:47. basically me in school as a shorty.

Kat Williams got slapped up in Detroit..

NYE night Kat Williams was in a local Detroit night club doing an impromptu stand-up routine. Sooooo he starts going in on this one dude who was wearing a cowboy hat and matching boots. Spies in the house say the crowd was cracking up until Mr. Cowboy walked up to Kat and bitch slapped him across the face. They say Kat, who was without any sort of entourage, just sat in a corner smoking a cigarette and when someone approached him asking if he was alright, he answered, "Hell naw I ain't alright! Didn't you just see that nigga slap me!?"



The dude from Detroit who slapped Kat Williams spoke to Vibe Magazine and this is what he had to say about the night he put the smack down: “I was probably with like 16, 17 dudes, we were scattered out throughout the club. Basically we were just up in there having a good time.” Kat passed dude, who was wearing a cowboy hat and a pair of $5,000 alligator cowboy boots, as he headed to the stage. When Kat got on the mic and started to riff, things went south. “I wasn’t even paying attention,” dude said. “I was talking to someone else while he was doing it. And then he pointed at me. I walked over to a couple of friends of mine, and they told me, ‘He’s clowning you.’ So I walked over there and asked [Kat], ‘So what you say? I don’t play that joke shit.’ So he was like, ‘And what?’ And that's when dude laid hands on Kat. "He didn’t even admit what he said when I asked him. He was still on some comedy stuff after I slapped him, I swear. After I slapped him, he jumped back and he was still talking and it was some girls holding him back. It was actually some girls in the club grabbing bottles like they wanted to do something to me too, like trying to protect him. He stopped and actually grabbed a square and was trying to light his cigarette. It was on some comedy stuff to me. He was trying to get his square lit, he took like two puffs, and he tried to charge back at me. But at this time, the security was heading me towards the door.” The next day on Detroit’s radio station WJLB, Kat told radio host Dr. Darrius dude slapped him in an attempt to steal his jewelry, a fact dude denied. “We weren’t trying to get his jewelry. I wasn’t that drunk to not know what was going on. [Kat] told like 20 percent of the truth [on the radio]. I could understand if we were at a comedy club, or some shit like that, but we weren’t there for that. It was after-hours, niggas was drunk, feeling it, we wasn’t there for that. It wasn’t no comedy show we were at. He’s mad because my guy was looking more pimpish than him. I’d do it again if he say something like that. And if I meet him, and he don’t do nothing like that, he on some old friendly buddy-buddy shit, I’m buddy-buddy too. I don’t have no problem. But if he got a problem next time we see each other…”