Meek Mill sits down with The Warner Sound's Shaheem Reid to decode track No. 2 "In God We Trust" off of his upcoming Dreams and Nightmares album.
"It's just about surviving in the streets - in God we trust for the love of the money," Meek says. "I seen a lot of young guys go to war. It was even times we was in positions where it was at war with the guys because they wanted to do something to us. If anybody wanted to do something to us we wanted to do something to them. And it might have been over one of the smallest money transactions that had nothing do with me, probably one of my friends. You gotta survive and participate in it. I just wanted to give them that one street joint nobody really giving out no more."
Lil Wayne will be releasing his I Am Not a Human Being II album just in time for Christmas on December 11th. It's the Young Money rapper's tenth solo studio album and he's calling on some big guns to handle the production.
During a recent sit down with MTV, Weezy ran down the list of beat makers on the project.
"Production on the album — I got people like Juicy J, Cool & Dre, David Banner on down to... I mean there's so many, shoot - StreetRunner, 'Ye," Wayne said. "It's crazy, actually I don't want to give too much up, but Yeezy got a big hand in the album, you'll see."
The last album Kanye produced on for Wayne was 2008's Tha Carter III when was behind the boards on "Let the Beat Build" and "Comfortable."
While Lil Boosie continues to serve out his prison sentence his mother, Connie Hatch, holds him down by starring in this new music video for "Mama Know Love."
Now, feast your eyes on the trailer to Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr.'s highly anticipated threequel to the smash superhero franchise.
And boy, does he have his work cut out for him this time, as he squares off against super-terrorist Mandarin, played with menacing aplomb by Ben Kingsley.
Ready for some a$$-kickin'? Right this way, please.
Prepare to Speak Mandarin: Kingsley makes his grand appearance as the super-villain while sporting some pretty nifty threads, to boot! (We're digging that cowl—matches the scowl.) "Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher," he snarls in a voice-over. "Lesson No. 1: heroes—there is no such thing." He certainly makes good on that promise by promptly blowing up Tony Stark's sleek cliffside pad.
Iron Man Threesome! Ladylove Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) certainly gets cozy in bed with Tony. But wait—what's going on here?! And who's the other dude in the Iron Man suit? Pepper herself looks equally shocked upon seeing their strange bedfellow as she's violently rustled out of her slumber by a very unwelcome guest as Tony lies next to her.
The Doc Is In: Welcome to your first look at Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian, a renowned geneticist who, according to comic-book lore, invents a powerful serum that grants superhuman abilities to its subjects. Killian's presence in the movie has reinforced fanboys' theories that the film's plot would indeed be based on the comic book's famous Extremisstoryline, and—judging from this nanosecond glimpse of Pearce—we'd say the actor certainly delivers some steely-cool villainy.
Don Cheadle Returns as War Machine: Tony's fellow armored ally is back. Good thing, because Iron Man's gonna need it: When Mandarin unleashes his assault on Tony's pad, we see a bevy of Iron Man suits go kablooey as everything erupts into a spectacular explosion of metal. Cue the operatic music!
A Changed (Iron) Man: Tony seems to have undergone a transformation, and it's more than just an upgrade to his suit. "Nothing's been the same since New York," he says, alluding to last summer's The Avengers. "You experience things, and then they're over." Indeed, at one point Tony commands parts of his armor to magically fly across the room and snap onto his hand. All these whopping changes—and mayhem!—leave our our cocky billionaire hero humbled, as we see him desperately dragging his Iron Man suit in the snow at the end of the trailer. Is he headed for a superhero freeze-out? Find out when the movie hits theaters on May 3, 2013.
Maino brought his Black Flag Mafia crew by Power 105.1 this morning to chop it up with The Breakfast Club.
He discusses a possible reality show, the reason he started the Black Flag Mafia, the state of New York Hip Hop, problems getting his record played, the drama at the BET Hip Hop Awards, becoming more mature and more.
Pittsburgh emcee Mac Miller appears in the latest episode of MTV's This Is How I Made It.
Mac talks about his upbringing and his early desire to be a performer. At 15 years old he knew he would be a rapper. He used Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to build a following hoping to land a record deal.
"There was just no kinda way that was going to happen. I couldn't figure out how to [get signed]," Mac says. "That's when I took to like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to try and build a following. So, I always just wanted to flood the Internet with material and content and character and personality. I wanted people to know who I was to know what I was about — kind of let people into my life a little bit."
Mac released his Blue Slide Park album in 2011. It debuted at No. 1 on Billboard with sales of 144,000, making it the first indie album to debut at No. 1 since Tha Dogg Pound did it in 1995 with Dogg Food.
The "Best Day Ever" rapper said that when he toured Europe following the release of that album and sold out every show he knew he had made it.
In addition to performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday, Wu Tang Clan members participated in a game of Bubble Soccer along with Jimmy and actor Gerard Butler.
The four of them dressed in huge plastic bubbles and tried to score points by kicking a soccer ball in the other team's elevator.
The Wu Tang Clan came together yesterday on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for a rare performance.
With The Roots band backing them up, RZA, Cappadonna, Masta Killa, U-God and Ghostface Killah performed "Six Directions of Boxing" off of the soundtrack to RZA's upcoming directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists.
T.I. finally releases the official music video for "Ball." The Lil Wayne assisted clip was filmed in New Orleans. Looks like they had a great time shooting the visuals that features a party atmosphere with plenty of barbecue, dancing and women.
Tip's long awaited Trouble Man album is expected later this year.
Top Dawg Entertainment artist Kendrick Lamar was the musical guest yesterday on the Conan O'Brien show. The Compton native performed the T-Minus-produced hit "Swimming Pools (Drank)" off of his just released album, good kid, m.A.A.d city.
Kidd Kidd is next up to bat to G-Unit 2.0. Fellow Rida Gang member Precious Paris made her presence felt when she dropped her From Paris with Love mixtape earlier this year. Now Kidd Kidd will be releasing his Street Fame mixtape in November.
The first single off of the tape features former Hot Boys rapper Juvenile.
The incredible rap duo of 50 Cent and Eminem are getting ready to deliver the goods again. 50 took to Twitter today to announce that he and Slim are shooting a big video for his upcoming Street King Immortal album.
Shortly after 50's Tweet, super producer Just BlazeTweeted that if it's the song that he thinks it is, it's a banger.
During a recent interview in Paris, France, 50 mentioned that he had played some songs from Street King Immortal for Interscope executives and they really liked what they heard.
"When I played the record it made it clear to [Interscope] that the highest probability they have of selling records is with me, because it was right," said the G-Unit boss.
He specifically mentioned a song titled "My Life."
"My Life and a few other joints I played. And they really were excited about them," explained 50 of Interscope's reaction to the new material. "My Life is a song that was originally recorded for Detox."
Could "My Life" possibly be the single he and Eminem are shooting a video for? We'll know soon enough.
During that same interview the "I Get Money" hit maker provided some insight into the concept of Street King Immortal.
"There's points on it where I'm more vulnerable than I was on my other projects," 50 said. "It's worked in the past with Hate It or Love It. That type of lyrical content. I wrote the record that I felt like was more me."
What's you favorite 50 Cent and Eminem collaboration to date? Do you expect this new song to top it?
Ron Browz A.K.A. Ether Boy is back with the self produced track "Swervin." Be on the lookout for Ron's upcoming album, Etherboy: Browz Reloaded, coming in 2013.
The soundtrack to Wu Tang Clan leader RZA's directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists hit stores today. To mark the occasion RZA releases the official music video for his collaboration with The Black Keys, "Baddest Man Alive."
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