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Here's another track off of Gucci Mane and Young Thug's forthcoming collaborative project entitled Young Thugga Mane LaFlare, out on April 1. Take a listen to "Bricks Like a Project."
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Ty Dolla $ign continued to promote his Beach House EP by making an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform "Paranoid."
The EP is available now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beach-house/id784263204.
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Drake's Would You Like A Tour pulled into Birmingham, England on Friday, March 21. The Canadian rapper surprised the fans at the National Indoor Arena by debuting a new song entitled "Call On Me."
Check it out below.
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Out of nowhere comes the new album from Ghostface Killah and Sheek Louch, together known as Wu Block. Features on Wu Block 2 include Cappadonna, GZA, Masta Killa, Styles P, Solomon Childs, Killah Priest and Jadakiss.
The project will be released on May 20.
Wu Block 2 Tracklist:
1. Cappa Wu Block (feat Cappadonna)
2. Wu Block Biznez (feat Ghostface Killah & Sheek Louch)
3. Can’t Be Lookin 4 Me (feat The Lox)
4. Big Money (feat Ghostface Killah & Sheek Louch)
5. Guns On Em (feat Sheek Louch)
6. Ain’t Coming From Class (feat Solomon Childs & Sheek Louch)
7. Wanted Dead Or Alive (feat Cappadonna & Solomon Childs)
8. Put Ya Hands Up (feat Ghostface Killah & Sheek Louch)
9. South Beach (feat Ghostface Killah & Sheek Louch)
10. Die Tonight (feat Sheek Louch & Styles P)
11. Aura (feat Killah Priest, Masta Killa & Ghostface Killah)
12. Drivin’ Round (Remix) (feat Sheek Louch, Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa & GZA)
13. Do U Like It (feat Ghostface Killah & Sheek Louch)
14. Come Get Some (feat Ghostface Killah & Sheek Louch)
15. Throw It Up (feat Sheek Louch)
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Que links up with Lizzle and Trey Songz for "Too Much." This is off of Que's forthcoming debut album, Who Is Que, which will be released on March 25. You can pre-order the project now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/who-is-que.-ep/id841062573.
De La Soul will be releasing a mixtape entitled "Smell The Da.I.S.Y." (Da Inner Soul of Yancy) on March 26. The entire project is produced by the late, great J. Dilla. It will be available for free at www.wearedelasoul.com.
Take a listen to "Vocabulary Spills" off of it.
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50 Cent recently sat down with Revolt TV to discuss becoming an independent artist and explains why the transition is an easy one for him.
"The idea of becoming independent, it had already been there for a while," 50 said. "The first song off of every project that I've launched, I've launched myself. Wanksta took off before you heard In Da Club. But I had to release work, put out mixtapes and release the music. It's the same format that they're using right now 'cause they've been following my model since."
The music icon will drop his forthcoming album Animal Ambition on June 3. A new song and music video from the project will be released every Tuesday leading up to it.
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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Black students are more likely to be suspended from U.S. public schools — even as tiny preschoolers.
The racial disparities in American education, from access to high-level classes and experienced teachers to discipline, were highlighted in a report released Friday by the Education Department's civil rights arm.
The suspensions — and disparities — begin at the earliest grades.
Black children represent about 18 percent of children in preschool programs in schools, but they make up almost half of the preschoolers suspended more than once, the report said. Six percent of the nation's districts with preschools reported suspending at least one preschool child.
Advocates long have said get-tough suspension and arrest policies in schools have contributed to a "school-to-prison" pipeline that snags minority students, but much of the emphasis has been on middle school and high school policies. This was the first time the department reported data on preschool discipline.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration issued guidance encouraging schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline policies that send students to court instead of the principal's office. But even before the announcement, school districts have been adjusting policies that disproportionately affect minority students.
Overall, the data show that black students of all ages are suspended and expelled at a rate that's three times higher than that of white children. Even as boys receive more than two-thirds of suspensions, black girls are suspended at higher rates than girls of any other race or most boys.
The data doesn't explain why the disparities exist or why the students were suspended.
"It is clear that the United States has a great distance to go to meet our goal of providing opportunities for every student to succeed," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks as Attorney General Eric Holder, left, looks on
"This critical report shows that racial disparities in school discipline policies are not only well documented among older students, but actually begin during preschool," Attorney General Eric Holder said. "Every data point represents a life impacted and a future potentially diverted or derailed. This administration is moving aggressively to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in order to ensure that all of our young people have equal educational opportunities."
Nationally, 1 million children were served in public preschool programs, with about 60 percent of districts offering preschool during the 2011-2012 school year, according to the data. The data show nearly 5,000 preschoolers were suspended once. At least 2,500 were suspended more than once.
Hispanic children made up nearly one-third of all preschoolers, but they made up 25 percent of the preschoolers suspended once and 20 percent of preschoolers suspended more than once.
Reggie Felton, interim associate executive director at the National School Boards Association, called the rates "unacceptable." He said there's more training going on to ensure teachers are aware of the importance of keeping students in school.
Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies for the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, said the findings are disturbing because the suspended preschoolers are unlikely to be presenting a danger, such as a teenager bringing a gun to school.
"Almost none of these kids are kids that wouldn't be better off with some support from educators," Losen said. "Just kicking them out of school is denying them access to educational opportunity at such a young age. Then, as they come in for kindergarten, they are just that much less prepared."
Losen said it's appropriate to discipline a 4-year-old, but a more appropriate response might be moving them to a different educational setting with additional services.
"Most preschool kids want to be in school," Losen said. "Kids just don't understand why they can't go to school."
Kimbrelle Lewis, principal of Raleigh-Bartlett Meadows Elementary School in Memphis, said she's never suspended a child in her school's preschool program and would only consider it in an "extreme circumstance." She said her district provides behavior specialists and other services to children with discipline problems so strategies can be worked out with teachers and parents if preschoolers need additional support.
If there are racial disparities among preschoolers disciplined, "I do think it's something to look at. I think it's a conversation to have," said Lewis, who served on a committee with the National Association of Elementary School Principals looking at issues affecting younger school children.
Dennis Van Roekel, the president of the National Education Association teachers' union, said in a statement that the findings show that "too many children don't have equitable access to experienced and fully licensed teachers."
"The inequities detailed in this report have been caused, at least in part, by policies that disregard the professionalism of teaching and create a revolving door of under-prepared and under-supported novices who leave before they've reached the levels of mastery required to truly make a difference," Van Roekel said.
Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of the Advancement Project, a think tank that specializes in social issues affecting minority communities, said the findings didn't surprise her.
Judith Browne Dianis
"I think most people would be shocked that those numbers would be true in preschool, because we think of 4- and 5-year-olds as being innocent," she said. "But we do know that schools are using zero tolerance policies for our youngest also, that while we think our children need a head start, schools are kicking them out instead."
Written by Kimberly Hefling and Jesse J. Holland
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Waka Flocka drops off his new mixtape entitled Re-Up. The Brick Squad Monopoly boss gets features from Young Scooter, Too Short, Chaz Gotti, Gepetto, Macon Hamilton, Giggs, Young Thug and Judo.
Re-Up Tracklist:
1.F*ck N*gga
2.Cook Jug Feat Young Scooter Prod By 808 Mafia
3.Lottery
4.Ain t No Problems Feat Young Thug Judo
5.How I m Rockin Prod By London On The Track
6.Off The Chain Feat Chaz Gotti
7.Word To The Wise Prod By Metro Boomin
8.Real N*gga Love Feat Too Short
9.Ghetto Child Feat Gepetto
10.Work It Like A Pro Feat Giggs
11.Knowledge God Feat Macon Hamilton
Memphis Bleek is back with The Movement II mixtape. The 14-track project has features from Sean Price, Peedi Crakk, Gina Lee, Rob Kelly and Denrico Copeland
Thisis50 attended the CIAA celebrity basketball game recently in NC.
Kidd Kidd, Jim Jones, SlowBucks & others came through to support the kids for Payton's Promise & the kids!
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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with DJ Kast One for an exclusive interview!
DJ Kast One speaks on when he first started DJing, Summer Jam & much more!
Follow @DJKastOne @jackthriller @thisis50
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Exclusive (2014) OBH Blog With Newz Darklo Mullaz and more shot by @P_obh
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Lil Debbie has parted ways with the White Girl Mob and is looking to establish herself with the release of her forthcoming EP entitled California Sweetheart.
She sat down with HipHopDX to chop it up about her career, being blacklisted, Miley Cyrus stealing her style, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, ghostwriting and more.
On ghostwriting
I'm never going to sit in front of a camera and be like 'I write every single word on my verses' because I don't. I hate every white female artist that is sitting there fronting that they do write their own sh*t. But so may people do it. Some of people's favorite songs that are on the radio right now are ghostwritten. I don't see what's wrong with it. I mean, I don't even wanna say it, but some of Beyonce's... Nicki Minaj, most of her stuff is purely hers, but I've heard from a couple of people that some of her stuff, like the tune, the way the flow is, sh*t like that might be written. I might be wrong, who knows.
On being blacklisted and Miley Cyrus stealing her identity
I feel like I've been blacklisted within the industry. I'm just gonna say this right now. Miley Cyrus has reached out to multiple white female rappers that I've been involved with and that I've reach out to, and people completely ignore me. I think that goes along with identity theft... It f*cking sucks. I would have rather been Miley Cyrus' friend and would have been girly-girly with her, than to feel the way I feel towards her. I don't wanna feel like she stole my f*cking sh*t from me. I don't wanna feel like that, but when I see her converse with all these other female rappers I get butt hurt about it.
On Iggy Azalea
I reached out to Iggy Azalea before she blew up and the b*tch acted like she was too good for me, and that sucks.
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Ray Jr. teams up with his EST family: Machine Gun Kelly, Tezo, and Dubo, to release his latest single "Like Whoa", produced by Da Kitchen. This single will appear on the upcoming EST album and the upcoming The Good Guys EP.
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Complex caught up with 50 Cent earlier this week at Sirius XM's "Town Hall." The G-Unit Records CEO was very candid as he discussed Steve Stoute, Nas Vs. Jay Z, The Lox, Fat Joe and Ja Rule.
On the collaboration with Styles P
It feels really good. It feels like he belongs there. Usually I know when something's really good when it comes on because I wish it was mine. So when he responded [to hearing the song] and said 'Yo, I like that' it was in his veins. And it wasn't a commercial record 'cause Styles ain't that kind of artist.
On why he had a conflicts in the past with Fat Joe and The Lox
My issues with Fat Joe and my issues with The Lox, these things came with my Ja Rule issue. It came from them trying to help him. I can't let you help him while I'm destroying him. When you destroy, you destroy completely. It's one of the 48 laws of power.
On the last industry foe he needs to deal with
I only got one out there I need to get rid of. I'll get rid of him, trust me,it ain't ever over. You watch an artist have momentum and then you kind of let him run out of gas, and you solve it.
On the Jay Z vs. Nas beef
If you would ask someone who listens to lyrics who won between Nas and Jay Z they would say 'Nas ate that boy alive.' But if we looked at Nas and we looked at Jay Z at this point right now we'd see something that reflects something different. It what kind of win are you looking for.
On the misconception that he's a bully and Complex asking him about his conflict with Steve Stoute, but not posing the same question to the record executive during their interview with him.
Why wouldn't you ask him, 'What did 50 say to you?' It just felt like when he came in he was suited up and it didn't feel appropriate. [My clothing] made you ask me that. If I came in a suit you probably wouldn't ask me. In presentation they'll expect me to push the envelope to move the story further. You don't ask him because he's getting into shallow water. He's getting closer to actually getting his ass whooped. Once you start saying things and I actually have to come to you. Who's fault is it? The journalist pushes and pulls, pushes and pulls. And at points asks the question. You didn't force [the artist] to say it. He said it himself, right? But it sets him up. It's set him up to go down that actual lane and some of them are not smart enough not to. They call me the bully... I'm responding to something that he said. If I smack fire out of him in front of Madison Square Garden, where you see skin damn near come off the side of his head. Does anyone say good for him? Or do they go, 'Oh man, why 50 do that? He bullied him, you saw how he did that?' I don't understand it. I don't understand how you're the bully for responding to someone else attacking you.
50 Cent on Beef in 2014: 'I Only Got One Artist I Got To Get Rid Of, It Ain't Never Over'
50 Cent speaks on Steve Stoute conflict
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The Taylor Gang family gets in on the "OG Bobby Johnson" remix craze as Wiz Khalifa and Chevy Woods drop an official music video for their rendition of the popular song by Que.
The clip was directed by David Camarena.
D'Angelo fans have waited fourteen years for the follow up to his sophomore album, Voodoo. That project is reportedly in the works, but at the moment there is no release date.
However, the R&B singer will be re-releasing his rare EP, Live at the Jazz Cafe, on March 25. It will include five previously unreleased songs that did not make it onto the original EP, which was previously available only in Japan. All of the songs were recorded during D'Angelo's September 14, 1995 show in London.
Three of those can be heard today. They include "Jonz in My Bonz," "Sweet Sticky Thing" (Ohio Players cover) and "I'm Glad You're Mine" (Al Green cover).
Take a listen up top and below.
Live at the Jazz Café, London: The Complete Show Tracklist:
1. Introduction
2. Fencewalk (Mandrill cover)
3. Sweet Sticky Thing (Ohio Players cover)
4. Jonz in My Bones
5. Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine
6. Sh*t, Damn, Motherf*cker
7. Cruisin’ (Smokey Robinson cover)
8. I’m Glad You’re Mine (Al Green cover)
9. Lady
10. Announcement
Encore:
11. Can’t Hide Love
12. Brown Sugar
"Sweet Sticky Thing"
"Jonz in My Bonz"
Sources: Billboard and Rolling Stone
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YG and DJ Mustard stopped by Hot 97 on Thursday to chop it up with Funkmaster Flex. YG used the occasion to spit some freestyle bars before he left. His new album, My Krazy Life, is available now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/my-krazy-life/id825377216.
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