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M. Reck of Forbez DVD is making really big moves with his Step Ur Bars Up Showcase. Brooklyn's lyrical beast Papoose made an appearance at the latest event. He took shots at Kendrick Lamar and performed his "Control" response aimed at the Black Hippy member.
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Check out the latest music video from Bow Wow a.k.a. Mr. BET for "You Trippin."
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Twista releases another visual for a song off of his Back to the Basics EP. This one is for "Beast." The video was directed by Nick Brazinsky. Song produced by DJ Tight Mike.
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Philadelphia emcee on the rise Santos links up with Meek Mill's cousin Omelly for this new certified street banger entitled "Ina Dat."
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50 Cent's career has taken him to every part of the globe. During that time he has had the opportunity to meet with many remarkable people. One of his fondest and most impactful memories is of his 2008 meeting with the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
"For me that was a wonderful experience," the G-Unit CEO, told MTV. "When I met him he was real quiet. I didn't know what I expected. I'd seen photographs before and all that, but I was excited. I got up that morning like, 'Yo, they say I might be able to meet him.' I'd read things prior to that about him. Now you see how adversity could define you. When you see someone that willed their way through probably the toughest situations in the world. There's nothing tougher than that."
50 recalled visiting Robben Island and seeing the prison cell Mandela had to live in for 18 of his 27 years in prison, after being convicted in 1962 of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the South African government. During that time Mandela only had a straw mat to sleep on.
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"Even the cell was like 6 x 6 feet. The other cells would feel like a luxury suite compared to that," 50 said. "Your feet would be at the door. They would have him out working, breaking rocks. It would create this white sand. The dust from that over the 27 years that he spent in the penitentiary had started doing a little damage to his eyes. To endure that type of discomfort... even the stories about his wife at the time, it's a horror film."
Visiting museums and talking to people who had experienced what it was like to live through apartheid made a lasting impression on 50.
"The learning process. We went to museums. We got a chance to go back step by step throughout history and different people that were around, that first hand experienced things during that time period. The things they would tell you off the air would intensify things," he continued. "When a person turns away from a picture and tells you something that personally happened to them during that time frame. It seems so far away from what we call hard times in low income environments within the U.S. It makes you look at your choices, like maybe you made them under the wrong thoughts. Because it felt like we didn't have anything or we were under the worst scenario ever. Then you see something that's more intense than that. It'll make you feel different."
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, who became one of the world's most beloved statesmen and a colossus of the 20th century when he emerged from 27 years in prison to negotiate an end to white minority rule in South Africa, has died. He was 95.
South African President Jacob Zuma made the announcement at a news conference late Thursday, saying "we've lost our greatest son."
His death closed the final chapter in South Africa's struggle to cast off apartheid, leaving the world with indelible memories of a man of astonishing grace and good humor. Rock concerts celebrated his birthday. Hollywood stars glorified him on screen. And his regal bearing, graying hair and raspy voice made him instantly recognizable across the globe.
As South Africa's first black president, the ex-boxer, lawyer and prisoner No. 46664 paved the way to racial reconciliation with well-chosen gestures of forgiveness. He lunched with the prosecutor who sent him to jail, sang the apartheid-era Afrikaans anthem at his inauguration, and traveled hundreds of miles to have tea with the widow of Hendrik Verwoerd, the prime minister at the time he was imprisoned.
His most memorable gesture came when he strode onto the field before the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg. When he came on the field in South African colors to congratulate the victorious South African team, he brought the overwhelmingly white crowd of 63,000 to its feet, chanting "Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!"
For he had marched headlong into a bastion of white Afrikanerdom — the temple of South African rugby — and made its followers feel they belonged in the new South Africa.
At the same time, Mandela was himself uneasy with the idea of being an icon and he did not escape criticism as an individual and a politician, though much of it was muted by his status as a unassailable symbol of decency and principle. As president, he failed to craft a lasting formula for overcoming South Africa's biggest post-apartheid problems, including one of the world's widest gaps between rich and poor. In his writings, he pondered the heavy cost to his family of his decision to devote himself to the struggle against apartheid.
He had been convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for leading a campaign of sabotage against the government, and sent to the notorious Robben Island prison. It was forbidden to quote him or publish his photo, yet he and other jailed members of his banned African National Congress were able to smuggle out messages of guidance to the anti-apartheid crusade.
As time passed — the "long, lonely, wasted years," as he termed them — international awareness of apartheid grew more acute. By the time Mandela turned 70 he was the world's most famous political prisoner. Such were his mental reserves, though, that he turned down conditional offers of freedom from his apartheid jailers and even found a way to benefit from confinement.
"People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety," Mandela says in one of the many quotations displayed at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. "You learn to look into yourself."
Thousands died, were tortured and were imprisoned in the decades-long struggle against apartheid, so that when Mandela emerged from prison in 1990, smiling and waving to the crowds, the image became an international icon of freedom to rival the fall of the Berlin Wall.
South Africa's white rulers had portrayed Mandela as the spearhead of a communist revolution and insisted that black majority rule would usher in the chaos and bloodshed that had beset many other African countries as they shook off colonial rule.
Yet since apartheid ended, South Africa has held four parliamentary elections and elected three presidents, always peacefully, setting an example on a continent where democracy is still new and fragile. Its democracy has flaws, and the African National Congress has struggled to deliver on promises. It is a front runner ahead of 2014 elections, but corruption scandals and other missteps have undercut some of the promise of earlier years.
"We have confounded the prophets of doom and achieved a bloodless revolution. We have restored the dignity of every South African," Mandela said shortly before stepping down as president in 1999 at age 80.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born July 18, 1918, the son of a tribal chief in Transkei, one of the future "Bantustans," independent republics set up by the apartheid regime to cement the separation of whites and blacks.
Mandela's royal upbringing gave him a dignified bearing that became his hallmark. Many South Africans of all races would later call him by his clan name, Madiba, as a token of affection and respect.
Growing up at a time when virtually all of Africa was under European colonial rule, Mandela attended Methodist schools before being admitted to the black University of Fort Hare in 1938. He was expelled two years later for his role in a student strike.
He moved to Johannesburg and worked as a policeman at a gold mine, boxed as an amateur heavyweight and studied law.
His first wife, nurse Evelyn Mase, bore him four children. A daughter died in infancy, a son was killed in a car crash in 1970 and another son died of AIDS in 2005. The couple divorced in 1957 and Evelyn died in 2004.
Mandela began his rise through the anti-apartheid movement in 1944, when he helped form the ANC Youth League.
He organized a campaign in 1952 to encourage defiance of laws that segregated schools, marriage, housing and job opportunities. The government retaliated by barring him from attending gatherings and leaving Johannesburg, the first of many "banning" orders he was to endure.
After a two-day nationwide strike was crushed by police, he and a small group of ANC colleagues decided on military action and Mandela pushed to form the movement's guerrilla wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, or Spear of the Nation.
He was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' hard labor for leaving the country illegally and inciting blacks to strike.
A year later, police uncovered the ANC's underground headquarters on a farm near Johannesburg and seized documents outlining plans for a guerrilla campaign. At a time when African colonies were one by one becoming independent states, Mandela and seven co-defendants were sentenced to life in prison.
"I do not deny that I planned sabotage," he told the court. "I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by whites."
The ANC's armed wing was later involved in a series of high-profile bombings that killed civilians, and many in the white minority viewed the imprisoned Mandela as a terrorist. Up until 2008, when President George W. Bush rescinded the order, he could not visit the U.S. without a waiver from the secretary of state certifying he was not a terrorist.
From the late 1960s South Africa gradually became an international pariah, expelled from the U.N., banned from the Olympics. In 1973 Mandela refused a government offer of release on condition he agree to confine himself to his native Transkei. In 1982 he and other top ANC inmates were moved off Robben Island to a mainland prison. Three years later Mandela was again offered freedom, and again he refused unless segregation laws were scrapped and the government negotiated with the ANC.
In 1989, F.W. de Klerk became president. This Afrikaner recognized the end was near for white-ruled South Africa. Mandela, for his part, continued, even in his last weeks in prison, to advocate nationalizing banks, mines and monopoly industries — a stance that frightened the white business community.
But talks were already underway, with Mandela being spirited out of prison to meet a white Cabinet minister.
On Feb. 11, 1990, inmate No. 46664, who had once been refused permission to leave prison for his mother's funeral, went free and walked hand-in-hand with Winnie, his wife. Blacks across the country erupted in joy — as did many whites.
Mandela took charge of the ANC, shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with de Klerk and was elected president by a landslide in South Africa's first all-race election the following year.
At his inauguration, he stood hand on heart, saluted by white generals as he sang along to two anthems: the apartheid-era Afrikaans "Die Stem," ("The Voice") and the African "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" ("Lord Bless Africa").
To black South Africans expecting a speedy new deal, Mandela pleaded for patience. The millions denied proper housing, schools and health care under apartheid had expected the revolution to deliver quick fixes, but Mandela recognized he had to embrace free market policies to keep white-dominated big business on his side and attract foreign investment.
For all his saintly image, Mandela had an autocratic streak. When black journalists mildly criticized his government, he painted them as stooges of the whites who owned the media. Whites with complaints were dismissed as pining for their old privileges.
He denounced Bush as a warmonger and the U.S. having "committed unspeakable atrocities in the world." When asked about his closeness to Fidel Castro and Moammar Gadhafi despite human rights violations in the countries they ruled, Mandela explained that he wouldn't forsake supporters of the anti-apartheid struggle.
With his fellow Nobelist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, he set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which allowed human rights offenders of all races to admit their crimes publicly in return for lenient treatment. It proved to be a kind of national therapy that would become a model for other countries emerging from prolonged strife.
He increasingly left the governing to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, who took over when Mandela's term ended in June 1999 and he declined to seek another — a rarity among African presidents.
"I must step down while there are one or two people who admire me," Mandela joked at the time. When he retired, he said he was going to stand on a street with a sign that said: "Unemployed, no job. New wife and large family to support."
His marriage to Winnie had fallen apart after his release and he was now married to Graca Machel, the widowed former first lady of neighboring Mozambique.
He is survived by Machel; his daughter Makaziwe by his first marriage, and daughters Zindzi and Zenani by his second.
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R. Kelly recruits Too Short and Nipsey Hussle for this West Coast remix of his single "My Story." The original version featuring 2 Chainz appears on Kelly's forthcoming Black Panties album, which will be released on December 10. Pre-order it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/black-panties-deluxe-version/id742663988.
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Kanye West has found himself right in the middle of another controversy. In an interview with New York radio station Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club on November 26, the rapper compared the lack of power President Obama and African Americans have to what he perceives as just the opposite for the Jewish community.
“Man, let me tell you something about George Bush and oil money and Obama and no money,” West said. “People want to say Obama can’t make these moves or he’s not executing. That’s because he ain’t got those connections. Black people don’t have the same level of connections as Jewish people. Black people don’t have the same connection as oil people."
The Anti-Defimation League was quick to condemn West's comments as being anti-Semitic and have demanded an apology.
“If the comments are true as reported, this is classic anti-Semitism,” the ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman, said in a statement. “There it goes again, the age-old canard that Jews are all-powerful and control the levers of power in government. As a celebrity with a wide following, Kanye West should know better. We hope that he will take responsibility for his words, understand why they are so offensive, and apologize to those he has offended.”
This situation has been simmering for several days now and will most likely only get worse for Kanye. Should he issue an immediate apology or stand by his words and deal with whatever consequences come his way? Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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Talib Kweli travels to Brazil to film an official music video for "Favela Love" featuring Seu Jorge. The song is off of Talib's Prisoner of Conscious album, available now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/prisoner-conscious-deluxe/id715978721.
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STAR talks producer Jazze Pha hugged up with a transsexual, Gucci Mane now facing 20-years on gun charges, the Best Man Holiday movie review and getting tuned-up in the 7th grade.
Radio legend Troi Torain (STAR) always delivers hard-hitting objective truth. As a culture critic he is vicious, as a businessman he is relentless, as a luminary he is un-matched.
Considered a radio pioneer by many, STAR has set precedents on the urban landscape and was recently inducted into News One's "Top 20 Black Radio Jockeys Of All Time."
STAR & BUC WILD made the national stage on MTV (1999) but it was their radio show on New York's Hot 97 and Power 105 (2000 - 2006) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.
Torain's resume includes The Source magazine, MTV Networks, Hot 97, Power 104.1, Power 105.1, Pulse 87, Hip-Hop Weekly magazine, Vladtv, Thisis50, 100.3 The Beat, shot97.com and VH1 (The Gossip Game).
This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.
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Reggie Noble a.k.a. Redman is ready to serve up the appetizer before the full course meal. The New Jersey emcee released a video today previewing tracks off of his forthcoming Muddy Waters 2 mixtape.
The tape will be followed up by an EP of the same name before the Muddy Waters 2 album drops.
Fans interested in purchasing a hard copy of the mixtape can do so on Red's website www.RedmansWorld.com. When you pre-order the project you will receive it a week before it hits the internet. A limited edition Muddy Waters 2 mixtape t-shirt will also be thrown in.
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Panama releases an official music video for his song "Money, Power, Respect." The track is taken from his latest mixtape, The Panama Canal. Download it now for free from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Panama-The-Panama-Canal-mixtape.527862.html.
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Kino Beats is one of the fastest rising producers in hip hop currently. He's recently crafted beats for Young Jeezy, SBOE, Slicc Pulla, Juelz Santana, Wiz Khalifa and more.
The Kingston, Jamaica born, Norfolk, Virginia raised artist linked up with Childish Major to produce Jeezy's "Talk That" off of CTE World's Boss Ya Life Up Gang compilation.
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In this exclusive video Kino speaks on how he got the placement, the experience of working with Childish and what he brought to the record. Kino also recreates the track in the studio
Jeezy has reportedly shot a music video for the track. Be on the lookout for that to hit soon.
Kino Beats recreates "Talk That" beat and speaks on collaborating with Childish Major
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Snoop Dogg and Dâm-Funk have combined their considerable talents to form the group 7 Days of Funk and record an album of the same name.
The two recently sat down with BBC to talk about how the name came about, why it's important to release the project now, Stones Throw Records being the perfect label to release it and more.
The album will be released on December 10. You can pre-order it now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/7-days-of-funk/id732475559.
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Atlanta and Florida link up as Young Scooter calls on Plies for the remix to his song "Fake Gold." Be on the lookout for Scooter's Street Lottery 2 mixtape dropping January 2014.
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Bobby V brings that classic clap your hands and stomp your feet feeling that so much of today's R&B music is missing on his new song "Who Am I to Change." This will appear on Bobby's upcoming EP, Peach Moon, dropping on December 10.
R&B superstar Bobby V's newest musical endeavor is best described with three words: Vibes, Moods, and Moments. 'Peach Moon' combines the vibes of a Motown inspired jam session, the unpredictable moods of love and the defining moments that shape our everyday lives. Backed by a full band and showcasing his love for playing the piano, 'Peach Moon' sets the stage for Bobby's most honest and most inspired project to date.
Attitude teams up with Timbaland and Twista for "Stunt." Check out the story of how the three linked up for this banger below.
“…Well we recorded the song at Larrabee studios in LA . I think at the Time Tim and Twista were trying to do a situation together and he came out to LA while I was there we actually did like 4 or 5 songs all produced by Timbo. We were staying at the same hotel to so we got a chance to smoke a lot of loud hang out and and get work done. Me and Tim actually had already had our verses to the song when twists heard It he rolled up one and wrote one the hardest verses ever and he didn’t punch one line. He did it in 1 take.”
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R. Kelly stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday (December 4) to promote his forthcoming album entitled Black Panties.
The singer performed a medley of songs from the project, including "Genius," "You Deserve Better," and "My Story" featuring special guest 2 Chainz.
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Sway Calloway welcomed Saigon, Peter Gunz, Lil Bibby, B.o.B and more to MTV RapFix Live on Wednesday (December 4). The group of emcees closed out the show with a freestyle session while DJ Whoo Kid manned the turntables.
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STAR talks supporting fast food workers who want more pay, WWE champ John Cena losing to Michael Strahan in arm-wrestling and the death of actor Paul Walker from The Fast & Furious.
Radio legend Troi Torain (STAR) always delivers hard-hitting objective truth. As a culture critic he is vicious, as a businessman he is relentless, as a luminary he is un-matched.
Considered a radio pioneer by many, STAR has set precedents on the urban landscape and was recently inducted into News One's "Top 20 Black Radio Jockeys Of All Time."
STAR & BUC WILD made the national stage on MTV (1999) but it was their radio show on New York's Hot 97 and Power 105 (2000 - 2006) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.
Torain's resume includes The Source magazine, MTV Networks, Hot 97, Power 104.1, Power 105.1, Pulse 87, Hip-Hop Weekly magazine, Vladtv, Thisis50, 100.3 The Beat, shot97.com and VH1 (The Gossip Game).
This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.
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