G-Unit emcee Kidd Kidd is back with a viral video for his street banger "I'm a G (Bury Me a G)." This is off of his forthcoming Street Fame mixtape. The video was directed by everyone's favorite guy behind the lens, Eif Rivera.
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Jay-Z unveils the official music video for his dynamic collaboration with Justin Timberlake, Holy Grail. The song is off of Hov's new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. The album is available now for purchase on iTunes.
British singer Jessie J returns to the music scene with her sophomore album titled Alive. She has recruited Becky G, Big Sean, Brandy and Dizzee Rascal for features on the 13-track project, which will be released on September 23rd in the U.K.
Check out the album cover and full tracklisting up top and below.
Alive Tracklisting:
1. “It’s My Party”
2. “Thunder”
3. “Square One”
4. “Sexy Lady”
5. “Harder We Fall”
6. “Breather”
7. “I Miss Her”
8. “Daydreamin”
9. “Excuse My Rude” feat. Becky G
10. “Wild” feat. Big Sean and Dizzee Rascal
11. “Gold”
12. “Conquer the World” feat. Brandy
13. “Alive”
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2 Chainz has seen the highs and lows that life has to offer. From peddling drugs on the block to achieving mainstream success in music after years grinding in the game.
He recently sat down at his B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time album listening party In Atlanta with NiteCap with Peter Bailey for an in depth conversation. He discusses recording with Fergie, recent conflict with the police in Oklahoma City, words of wisdom from 50 Cent, escaping the streets, staying humble and more.
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Tech N9ne continues to promote his Something Else album by releasing an official music video for his new single Love 2 Dislike Me featuring Liz Suwandi and Tyler Lyon. Something Else is available now on iTunes.
Kendrick Lamar called into Hot 97 this morning to discuss his controversial "Control" verse with Peter Rosenberg. He said that he is trying to uplift the culture and wants not part of an East Coast vs. West Coast beef. He gave props to Joell Ortiz and Joe Budden for their responses, but thinks Los had the best reply. He found Papoose's response to be comical.
K. Dot added that he hasn't heard from any of the rappers he named in the song, has love for New York because he had his first sold out show there, thinks Maino made a lot of good points in his interview about the subject and more.
Kendrick Lamar Talks to Rosenberg In Depth about "Control"
Los - Control (Freestyle) Kendrick Lamar Response
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STAR talks Miley Cyrus gone crazy at the VMA's, 2 Chainz cooning, the legalization of marijuana in America, concern for Lamar Odom's possible drug addiction, YouTube's new copyright restrictions, Anthony Hamilton's arrest, Judge Joe Brown caught on camera drunk and Snoop Dogg talking reckless in NY again.
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 radio pioneers by many, the Star & Buc Wild show 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 (2000 - 2003) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.
Star & Buc Wild'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 and shot97.com and VH1 (Reality Television).
This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.
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While the responses have poured in to Kendrick Lamar's "king of New York" line in his verse on Big Sean's song, "Control," the Compton rapper has remained silent, until now.
No doubt K. Dot has heard some of the disses aimed at him from other rappers and knows quite a few New York City artists are upset, but in a conversation with Big Boy's Neighborhood he says some people misinterpreted what he meant.
"I didn’t know there would be so much speculation, I just want to rap," Kendrick said during his conversation with Big Boy. "I think it’s a case of maybe I should dumb down my lyrics just a little bit. The irony of that line is that the people who actually understood it and got it were the actual kings of New York, you know, me sitting down with them this past week, and them understanding, it’s not actually about being the king of whatever coast, it’s about leaving a mark as great as Biggie, as great as Pac.”
After hearing Kendrick's explanation do you think the responses should stop?
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Lil Scrappy ran afoul of the law again Tuesday (August 27). The Love & Hip Hop star was arrested at a gas station after getting into a fight with a man he said disrespected his girlfriend, according to TMZ.
An off duty cop happened to be outside the station when someone called 911 about a brawl around 2:30 AM. The officer was able to separate Scrappy and the other man, identified as Kenny Rogers.
Both men were arrested for disorderly conduct and taken to a nearby police station. The rapper was released the same day.
"He was calling my girlfriend names and then put his hands on me. So I had to lay them paws on him," Scrappy told TMZ.
The rapper's lawyer, Mawuli Mel Davis, says there is video proof that his client was acting in self defense.
Scrappy, who is already on on probation stemming from a 2008 felony marijuana and gun possession case, went to jail in March after an arrest warrant was issued when he refused to submit a new urine test following a dispute over the first one. When he went back to court in May, he tested positive for marijuana.
He subsequently checked into rehab for an addiction to weed.
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Via Washington Post - Written by Steve Hendrix, David Nakamura and Ashley Halsey
A half-century to the day that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his clarion call for justice from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, tens of thousands reconvened near that spot Wednesday to hear from one of his symbolic heirs, amid hope and frustration about the current state of race relations in America.
President Obama, accompanied by the first lady and two former Democratic presidents, walked down the stone steps past a cast iron bell from a Birmingham, Ala., church where a bombing killed four black girls in September 1963.
Taking the lectern, the nation’s first African American president paid homage to King’s legacy, saying that “because they kept marching, America changed.” But Obama warned that the struggle for equality is not yet complete, adding that “the arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.”
“To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency,” Obama said. He cited as setbacks the Supreme Court’s decision in June to strike key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the high rates of African American incarceration.
At a time of slow economic recovery, Obama emphasized that while his own presence in the White House symbolized how far the nation has moved on racial tolerance, such victories threatened to obscure the other major goal of the 1963 rally: economic justice.
The nation’s unemployment rate for African Americans remains far higher than for other racial groups, and Obama, concerned by a growing income gap, has pressed Congress to invest in infrastructure, education and research at a time when Republicans are championing deep budget cuts to rein in the deficit.
Seeking, perhaps, to help revive his flagging domestic policy agenda ahead of a September budget fight, the president said the country faced a critical choice, as it did in 1963, between stalemate and progress.
“We can continue down our current path in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations,” Obama said, “where politics is a zero-sum game, where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie. That’s one path.”
Or, he continued, “we can have the courage to change.The March on Washington teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history, that we are masters of our fate. But it also teaches us that the promise of this nation will only be kept when we work together. We’ll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place 50 years ago.”
It was a day of remembrance and unity, but the absence of any Republican speakers among the dozens of politicians and activists who addressed the crowd was notable at a time of deep partisan divide in Washington.
Several GOP officials, including House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), said they had been invited but had declined after participating in a congressional ceremony marking the anniversary leading up to the march.
At 3 p.m., the time King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” address five decades ago, descendents of King rang the bell, and church bells across the nation chimed three times. A gospel singer began to sing, as Obama, forgoing an umbrella despite a persistent drizzle, prepared to make his address in the shadow of his famous forebear.
Before Obama’s appearance, the panoply of speakers traced how much progress the United States has made over five decades.
“This moment in history is a long time coming, but the change has come,” said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the last living speaker from the 1963 rally.
But, as other speakers did, Lewis, who marched along with King and other civil rights leaders, warned that the progress should not be mistaken for full equality at a time when African Americans face higher unemployment rates.
“We’ve come a great distance in this country in the 50 years, but we still have a great distance to go before we fulfill the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.,” Lewis said.
Former president Jimmy Carter, after praising the legacy of King, whom he called perhaps the nation’s most important leader, recited a list of ongoing challenges: the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that struck down key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, high unemployment in the black community, lenient gun- control laws and a lack of voting rights in the District of Columbia.
“I think we know how Dr. King would have decried” those problems, Carter said.
Former president Bill Clinton was even more forceful about what he views as the misplaced priorities of the country.
“A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon,” Clinton said. But he added that the public should not complain about the political gridlock in Washington.
“We don’t face beatings and lynchings and shootings because of our political beliefs anymore,” he said. “Martin Luther King Jr. did not live and die to hear people complain about political gridlock. It’s time to stop complaining and start putting our shoulders together against the stubborn gates holding America back.”
Some celebrants set off on the actual path of the 250,000 who marched on Aug. 28, 1963, retracing the footfalls that helped begin a cultural earthquake and eventually shook apart the bulwarks of legal discrimination against African Americans. There were long lines at the security checkpoints, and some people were treated for heated-related conditions by medical personnel.
Umbrellas and ponchos took the place of mid-century fedoras and skinny ties. But some still talked of recapturing the mood of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, an event that has been described as a day of euphoria amid the chaos and clashes of the 1960s. And they spoke of reclaiming the unfinished business of the movement at a time when African Americans still lag far behind whites on economic and educational attainment.
“Fifty years ago we had to convince the president to let us come. Today, the president is coming to us,” exulted Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s non-voting member of Congress, as the crowd grew around her. Back in 1963, she was one of the young staffers organizing the march.
For marcher Tara Childs, the number of black faces she sees in unemployment offices tells her King’s dream is far from realized.
“The issues they were marching for in 1963 were economic,” said Childs, 35, co-chair of Young and Powerful, a national group of young professionals, as she headed toward the Mall. “When I see the footage, I am moved, because I feel we are still combating the same issues. The unemployment rate is still . . . disproportionately high among African Americans.”
Others were ready to celebrate five decades of racial progress that means many young people are more familiar with sharing playgrounds, classrooms and bedrooms with members of other races than with the segregation and resistance to change of King’s era.
For David Figari, the moment seemed perfect to cement his own relations across racial lines. On the steps of the Georgetown University Law Center, just before setting out on a 1.7-mile march to the Lincoln Memorial, Figari, who is white, asked Jessica Jones, who is black, to marry him. They are both 25-year-olds from Tampa.
He knelt on the steps in front of his girlfriend and held out a ring. She said yes, and their fellow marchers exploded in cheers.
Figari had planned to propose in November, when the couple would be on a ski trip together. But he changed his plans when they decided to join the commemoration of the 1963 march.
“I figured this would be a little more deep,” he said. “I think our relationship brings the whole idea of the march to fruition.”
At an interfaith service Wednesday morning at Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest Washington, faith leaders reprised King’s message in the context of their own traditions, from Sikh to Southern Baptist.
“Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that,” said Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America. Magid recalled how he leaned on King’s memory in the period of violence against Muslims after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “It brought tears to my eyes. His message of diversity is that God created all people. That we can walk together on the path of peace”
Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963
President Obama Speech at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington, Pays Tribute to MLK
Forest Whitaker Emotional Speech at 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
Bill Russell Speaks at March on Washington 50th Anniversary Celebration
Jamie Foxx: Next Generation Needs to Continue Fight for Equality
Oprah Winfrey March on Washington Speech: Winfrey Asks Washington "How Will the Dream Live On?"
Kid President March on Washington Speech: Young Star Tells Crowd to 'Keep Dreaming'
Jimmy Carter: Martin Luther King Jr. fought for all people
Bill Clinton speaks at 50th anniversary of March on Washington
Photos: Washington Post
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Big K.R.I.T. released a snippet of this song "Just Last Week" featuring Future on his mixtape King Remembered in Time. Here's the fully CD quality version for you to check out and download. Enjoy!
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Taylor Gang rapper Juicy J and Bay Area emcee Mistah Fab will be the guests on today's edition of MTV's RapFix Live. Expect the unexpected when Juicy is in the house. As always, Sway Calloway, will conduct the interviews.
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Jack Thriller sat down for part two of his hilarious interview with Off Top Radio. The G-Unit comedian explains how he got the nickname "Honey Bun," why he was lit up during his Thisis50 interview with Jodeci, meeting Jamie Foxx and expresses a desire to have the female host "toss his salad."
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Detroit emcee Danny Brown drops off a new music video for "ODB." The track will appear on his forthcoming album, Old, which will be released on September 30th.
Directed, Edited & Scrawled by RUFFMERCY / ruffmercy.com / @rffmrcy
DOP - TIM CRAWLEY / @timctv
Produced by EVA GREENE for RUFF, RUGGED & RAW
Filmed at THEKLA, BRISTOL, UK / http://theklabristol.co.uk
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Ace Hood releases the official music video for his collaboration with Meek Mill, "Before the Rollie." The track is off of Ace's Trials & Tribulations album. It's available now on iTunes. Peep the video below.
Singer/actress Ariana Grande will release her debut album, Truly Yours, on September 3rd. Here's a new song off of the project titled "You'll Never Know."
"I've been working on my album for three years and I am so excited to finally share it with everyone now," Grande told Rolling Stone. "'You'll Never Know" is a special song and I hope you love it as much as I do."
You can pre-order Truly Yours now on iTunes.
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Star appreciates Drake's musical talent. During a sit down with Vlad TV, the controversial talk show host praised the YMCMB emcee.
"Drizzy Drake, the Lionel Richie of Hip Hop. I'm very proud of him," Star said. "He reps the light skinned n*ggas. Great music ... awesome f*cking music. I like the music. I respect his drive. I thought he was just going to be a flash in the pan. But clearly he has lasted the test of time."
Star wasn't so kind in his assessment of J. Cole and Frank Ocean.
"There's a lot of cats that have come up since Drake's arrival that are talented," he continued. "You got this f*cking idiot J. Cole. He's making some noise. You got the batty boy Frank Ocean in the game."
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Goodie Mob's new album, Age Against the Machine, was released Tuesday (August 27). Cee Lo Green, T-Mo, Big Gipp and Khujo stopped by Sirius XM's Hip Hop Nation to promote the project and perform their classic song "Soul Food" and "I'm Set" off of the new CD.
"Soul Food"
"I'm Set"
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Outkast emcee Big Boi sat down with Montreality recently to chop it up about a wide variety of subjects.
The Atlanta native talks about his favorite video game, his respect for Slick Rick, the realest sh*t he ever wrote, fatherhood, message to the youth, Idlewild being ahead of it's time, recovering from his recent knee injury and more.
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Kanye West has linked up with a surprising guest for his forthcoming "Black Skinhead" remix. The New York Post reports that the Louis Vuitton Don will be collaborating with Miley Cyrus on the track, which will be featured on a remix EP the rapper will release later this year.
Instead of hitting up the VMA after-parties, West and Cyrus headed straight to the studio following the award show on Sunday (August 25) to work on the song. The original version appears on Kanye's album, Yeezus.
How do you think this collaboration will turn out?
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