When Jay-Z linked up with legendary producer Rick Rubin for his rap/rock mash-up "99 Problems" in 2004, he couldn't have known that Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love, would attempt to sing it years later. Had he known he probably would have advised her against it.
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Love decided to sing the song while at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last week.
"It's so genius, it either sucks, or it's genius. I don't know," Love said before launching into a 3-minute version of the song.
There are a lot of rock artists that have done great jobs covering rap tunes in the past, but this wasn't one of those times.
Juicy J has found a successful formula and there is no reason to change it at this point. The Taylor Gang rapper drops an official video for "She Dancin," a track that is sure to keep the strip clubs jumping.
Prodigy is getting ready to release a new album titled Albert Eintein. The project will be produced entirely by longtime infamous Mobb Deep collaborator The Alchemist. Check out the first leak off of the project "Give Em Hell."
Nitty Scott, MC returns with a new freestyle over the Flatbush Zombies and A$AP Mob's "Bath Salt" instrumental. Nitty will be releasing a music video the track soon. You can check out the trailer for that below.
Harlem's new generation keeps flourishing. Lil SnS puts his production and lyrical skills on full display with his debut mixtape, Son of the Future. The father and son tandem go hard for NYC with some southern Swag.
As we previously reported, Frank Ocean and Chris Brown got into a fight last night in Los Angeles. While Breezy has not responded or tweeted about the incident, Frank has.
Power 105.1 radio personality Charlamagne Tha God gave Frank the "Donkey of the Day" award today after reports surfaced that Frank actually initiated the fight.
Charlamagne said the only reason Frank sent out that tweet was to get people on his side and he knew the LBGT community and media would use this incident to attack Chris for being homophobic, leading to protests.
Listen to the rest of what Charlamagne had to say below.
Police in Fort Lauderdale are currently investigating a shooting that led to a Rolls Royce crashing into an apartment building this morning.
NBC Miami is reporting that rapper Rick Ross was identified by witnesses as being an occupant in the vehicle, but police are not releasing the names of the people in the car because they fear for their lives.
The Rolls Royce was traveling eastbound on Las Olas when another vehicle opened fire on it, police said. When the diriver of the Rolls tried to get away it crashed into the building at 311 Southeast 15th Avenue. Neither Ross or the female in the car were injured, although dozens of shots were fired according to TMZ. Several buildings in the area were struck by bullets.
Ross was reportedly leaving Club Liv at the time of the shooting.
Police are still looking for the gunman or gunmen. No other details have been released.
50 Cent and Eminem have always had good chemistry when they collaborate musically. Fif sat down with Fuse to talk about the recording process with Em for "Champions" and "My Life" off of his upcoming album, Street King Immortal.
"We actually recorded it in Detroit," 50 said of the song "Champions." "It's one of the songs Em was set on this record. Because he heard it and was like 'this is for me and 50.' He wrote his verse on the actual record. And I came in and he played it and I was like 'OK, this is cool. Let me think how I actually wanna approach the record.' Then I go to the other studio to record it it. And I asked the engineer, I had to hear it again. Because he made some mentions and I didn't want to make the same mentions. Some of the people that he has a lot of respect for in music culture were in that song and I didn't want to repeat that."
50 goes on to talk about Em's verse on "My Life" and why it was longer than expected.
50 Cent and Rick Ross simply don't like each other, so it's no surprise that the G-Unit mogul had a quick response to reports that Ross' Rolls Royce was shot at this morning in Fort Lauderdale.
Fif responded on Twitter by saying the incident doesn't look legitimate.
50 added a pic of the vehicle to further illustrate his point.
J. Dilla a.k.a. Jay Dee was one of the best producers of our time. He lost his life way too soon after succumbing to the blood disease Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in 2006 at the age of 32.
However, because of his tireless work ethic we continue to get new music from the Detroit beat maker.
On February 5, a special 10" is being released titled Music From the Lost Scrolls Vol. 1. The project is being put together by friend and confidant Frank Nitt from Frank and Dank.
Hip Hop's fascination with MDMA continues as Tyga drops his new single dedicated to the drug "Molly." The track features Wiz Khalifa and is expected to end up on Tyga's upcoming album, Hotel California.
Adult film actress Kelly Divine has been in the industry since 2007. She's seen her fair share of both the good and bad side of being a porn star.
In this recent chat with Vlad TV she talks about why males are more important in the business than females, guys who can't handle the pressure of filming scenes, why she won't date co-workers, HIV in the industry, and Mr. Marcus hiding his results after testing positive for syphilis.
"Mr. Marcus did a dumb thing, but in his defense I don't think he gave it to anyone," Kelly said. "When you get tested for syphilis, like the standard test. If you've ever had in your life it's gonna come up positive. They have to do another test to see if it's active or if it was like something old. What I was told by the people at the testing place, who weren't supposed to tell me this because they're not supposed to tell people's business. They told me that he got it. He was at his regular doctor. Tested positive, was medicated. He didn't work for a week because he wasn't supposed to because of the medication. [He] went to our testing place and didn't tell them about this. [He] came up positive. He actually didn't have it anymore, but it was coming it positive because they have to do that secondary test. And instead of communicating, he just fugazied his test which was the dumbest thing he could have ever did. It's disrespectful. He didn't know he wasn't spreading it. He didn't care...which sucks."
Pusha T is gearing up to release his highly anticipated Wrath of Caine mixtape tomorrow. Today he decides to cut loose the Boogz Da Beast-produced banger "Only You Can Tell It" featuring Wale viaBillboard.
Last week, Pusha talked to Miss Info about collaborating with Wale on "Only You Can Tell It" when previewing a snippet of the song. "It's really good because we're both from the DMV area," he said. "He's known for his poetry and him just getting real deep, so me and him just collaborated on a record. It's just like, it's near and dear to me cause he's from the area."
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