Kid Cudihas a long memory and it appears he doesn't let things slide.
The Cleveland rapper lashed out at Angie Martinez and DJ Enuff for a 2009 Hot 97 interview where the topic of him wearing skinny jeans came up. Cudi didn't like the line of questioning and finally spoke out publicly about it on Saturday, June 6, via his Twitter account.
"Look at these two fucks tryna play me back in the day. This was 2009. Angie Martinez and DJ Enuff. Fuckin clueless," Cudi wrote.
Angie and Cudder then had a brief exchange of words.
On August 25, 2009Chris Brownwas sentenced to five years probation and community service stemming from his assault ofRihannain February of the same year.
Today the 25-year old singer officially had his probation ended by a judge in a Los Angeles courtroom.
"IM OFF PROBATION!!!!!!!! Thank the Lord!!!!!!" Brown wrote on Twitter.
What's an award show without some Kanye West drama? The G.O.O.D. Music CEO nearly pulled a stunt similar to 2009 when he infamously stormed the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards and snatched Taylor Swift's mic to rant that Beyonce should have won the Best Female Video award instead of Swift.
At the 57th Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 8, Kanye was at it again. As Beck stood onstage to accept the award for Morning Phase winning Album of the Year, Yeezy got out of his seat, walked up to the stage and for a moment looked like he was going to grab the mic. Instead, he headed back to his seat without saying a word.
Watch Jay Z's reaction below.
Kanye wasn't nearly finished though. During E!’s Grammy after-show he vented about Beck winning over Beyonce's self-titled album.
“Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé,” he said, adding: “Y’all know what it meant when ‘Ye walked on the stage.”
Jamal "Gravy" Woolard is in trouble with the law after being arrested Saturday, June 7. The 38-year old rapper/actor was arrested at his Gwinnett County, Georgia home after police received a call from his stepson that he had assaulted his wife.
"Dad hit mom," the stepson told police.
According to TMZ, Gravy was taken into custody and charged with battery, cruelty to children, and simple assault.
Gravy is best known for portraying Biggie Smalls in the 2009 biopic, Notorious.
Macklemore had one day to enjoy his Grammy trophies before someone dug up an old tweet from 2009 where the rapper expressed his opinion that 9/11 was an inside. Specifically, he blamed former President George Bush for the tragedy that killed nearly 3000 people and shook America to it's core.
A 2005 track entitled "Bush Song" by the Seattle rapper has also emerged. It it Macklemore expressed similar beliefs.
"Where's Dick Cheney at? Probably off in Iraq finding some oil to tap, tell 'em I got up on that and y'all still think it was Bin Laden. When it was us and the Masons, plotting on oil profits," Macklemore raps.
The song is off of Macklemore's 2005 debut album The Language of My World. People are now questioning if the rapper is a 9/11 truther.
Twitter is fired up about the topic. Here's a sample of what people are saying.
Eminem recently spoke with Vibe about being left off of MTV's Hottest MC's of 2009 list, why he didn't release 'Relapse 2' and not looking at the song "Forever" as a competition between himself and the other rappers.
VIBE: How'd you feel about the response to "Forever"?
Eminem: The response was great. I didn’t really look it like I’m competing against these guys. I’m on a record with them, but I just wanted to make a good song. Certainly, the response helped, as far as me being able to feel good about myself again. It took me so long to just even be able to do that. I was pretty down for a few years. I went through some things and not just with addiction, some personal setbacks and I was down. Just being able to get back up again feels good. I think everything played a factor of where I’m at now.
On Recovery, you have this one line on “25 to Life” where you talk about taking control of your relationship with hip-hop. How have you done that?
What the whole song is saying is that I have a strange relationship with hip-hop because I love it so much. I go through this thing in my head a lot, which I’m sure every rapper does, where you give your life to this thing. You literally give everything that you got. I come to work some days wearing the same thing two days in a row—baggy sweats—just dedicating my life to this. And there are times that I feel like I get the respect that I deserve and there are times where I feel like I don’t.
Like when MTV excluded you from their Hottest MCs of 2009 list?
That hottest MC list that I was left off, it was one of those things that I was glad that I am at where I'm at. I’m glad I’m in this place now, because a few years ago I would've let it bother me more than it did. I took it not as a slap in the face but more so like, "Maybe I’m not on that list for a reason. Maybe I’m not doing the things that I need to be doing. Maybe I need to look at myself and step it up." I don’t know what I would have thought being in the mind state that I was in. I just felt like maybe I need to do better.
As a person, are you proud of yourself?
I handle things a lot differently now. I’m proud to be able to say that I’m an addict without any shame in it. I’m proud that I’m able to admit that I have a problem with a certain thing and I have to leave it alone and accept it. I’m proud that I’m strong enough to be able to walk away form those things.
When did you realize that? During rehab? Therapy?
I got some tools in rehab when I went in 2005. I got the tools that I need, I just didn’t use them. I got the information, the analysis—I don’t know if that’s the word—of my personality. What type of person I am, why I have this addictive behavior, why I need instant gratification from certain things, why I feel a certain way because my childhood was this way or that way. I got all of those tools, which made me understand why I had to leave that stuff alone. But I didn’t use it and that’s why I went back to it.
Why did you decide not to release the songs you'd planned for Relapse 2?
On a record like the new record, when I mention the third verse of “Talking to Myself,” I try to sum up the last two records in a nutshell. Mr. Porter, who produced “On Fire,” had this analogy of Encore and Relapse that stuck with me: “Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushing them out.” His view on Relapse was that I was flushing the drugs out my system and looking back at it, I probably was. My mind was coming back, my writing skills were coming back, so I was able to write again because I had writer’s block from the pills. I was backed up. I was writing so much and so quickly that I didn’t have a chance to stop and say, Are these good songs? Are they great songs? I was just going. I was like, 'I got so much material for three albums, but let’s narrow it down to two. Let’s put out Relapse 2 months later. That was the original plan. There are so many drug references on the last album; that’s just where my head was at. I came to life again and everything was like new. When they say 'in recovery' or 'in rehab', it’s like being born again when you get clean and sober. You start appreciating shit that you never thought you would appreciate, like, 'Wow, look at those trees. Look at nature.' Before, it didn’t matter. I just started appreciating things more. I got happy when I got sober, broke free from the chains—not to sound corny. I broke free from the chains of addiction and it was just like 'Ahh, I’m happy again. I’m not a prisoner.' I was just happy to be back.
LOS ANGELES — For 18 months, former Bay area transit officer Johannes Mehserle maintained a public silence about what led him to shoot unarmed Oscar Grant as he lay face down on an Oakland train platform.
More answers may come on Friday when Mehserle resumes testifying at his murder trial in a Los Angeles courtroom. His testimony marks the first time he's spoken publicly about the shooting early New Year's day 2009.
Mehserle, who is white, has pleaded not guilty to the 22-year-old black man. The trial was moved from Alameda County because of intense media coverage and racial tensions.
Friends and family of Oscar Grant
In a surprise move Thursday, Mehserle took the stand and told jurors that training he received didn't emphasize the possibility of mistaking his stun gun with his handgun.
But that's what his lawyer claims happened when Mehserle pulled out his .40-caliber handgun and shot Grant.
On questioning by defense lawyer Michael Rains, the brawny, 6-foot-4 Mehserle said he received Taser training in December 2008 and had only pulled it out once while on duty in the month before the shooting.
He said his former employer didn't put much weight on possible "confusion issues" where officers should place the Taser holster, only that the weapon wasn't to be put under their issued handgun.
"They left it up to us to figure it out," said Mehserle, who spoke in a calm, soft voice. "For me it wasn't that big of a deal."
Prosecutors say Mehserle intended to shoot Grant, and that Mehserle used his handgun because officers were losing control of the situation. Mehserle wore his stun gun on the front left side the night of the shooting, while his handgun was mounted on his right hip.
The trial adjourned late Thursday before Mehserle could give details about the shooting.
Former Bart cop Johannes Mehserle talking to his lawyer
Legal experts say while defendants in criminal trials rarely take the stand, his testimony could be compelling for jurors.
"They are going to want to get a sense of is he a good person, a thoughtful person," said Dr. Philip Anthony, a Los Angeles psychologist who is chief executive of the jury consulting firm DecisionQuest. "Most importantly, they want to hear what was running through his mind, his thought process when he fired that fatal shot."
On the stand, Mehserle did say when he arrived with his partner to the train station in response to a possible fight, that he could hear yelling and screaming from the platform above.
"I remember it being real loud," Mehserle said. "I didn't know if officers were involved in the fight or the crowd had turned on them. It didn't sound good."
He added he intercepted a few men who he said were approaching two fellow officers that had detained Grant and several friends against a concrete wall. He said the men, who turned out to be more of Grant's friends, were taunting the BART officers.
"I just instructed them to get back," Mehserle said.
He said he eventually looked at Grant and Jackie Bryson, who appeared to be upset. The other two officers, Tony Pirone and Marysol Domenici, had pulled their stun guns out and given the situation, Mehserle said he decided to do the same. Before Grant was shot, he snapped a photo of Mehserle pointing his Taser stun gun in his direction.
Mehserle said he wasn't sure what had transpired but tried to cool down Grant and Bryson.
"They were yelling '(expletive) that officer,' 'I'm going to sue,'" Mehserle recalled the two men saying of Pirone, who was described by some onlookers as the most aggressive and hostile toward Grant and his friends.
The shooting, and the events leading up to it, were captured on video by several bystanders.
Grant's uncle, Cephus "Bobby" Johnson said he believes Mehserle will try using his testimony to differentiate himself from Pirone.
"Now all of the sudden he's this huggable, passive, non-aggressive person who really believes in communication instead of exerting authority," Johnson said. "I'm not buying that."
Associated Press Writer Terry Collins contributed to this report.
Wanda Johnson, (R) hugs friend during demonstration outside Bart Station In Oakland
Unseen Footage Of Oscar Grant Killing
BART CopJohannes Mehserle Takes Stand In Murder Trial
The Bronx meets Houston in the latest music video from French Montana.
French lays down a dope hook and verse and of course Bun-B kills it as always.
This joint is from French's upcoming mixtape 'Mac Wit Da Cheese 2'
Make sure you check out the end of the video to see some of the last video footage of G. Baby who lost his life to senseless violence recently. Watch as he kicks it in the studio with Roscoe Dash, Frenchie from So Icey Entertainment and Montana.
French Montana is in no rush to put out his debut album. One of Akon's newest signees said he has enough money to continue serving up material through mixtapes, such as his latest, Mac Wit Da Cheese 2. His first album has to be classic, French said.
"My album is set for late summer," French said last week while shooting a video for his mixtape track "Bad Habits," with guest Bun B. "It's called Excuse My French. I'm just working. I wanna come with a masterpiece, man. I'm not no overnight rapper. I'm comfortable with where I'm at. My followers are my real followers. I ain't no phase. I'm here to stay. [The release] could be late summer, it could come out past then, as long as it's a masterpiece when we put it out. ... You gotta understand, that's what they gonna remember you for, your first album. Biggie's Ready to Die, UGK's first album — you wanna come with the same thing. The title gotta live up to the music."
Bun and French share a mutual respect for each other's grinds, Montana said.
"The video is called 'Bad Habits,' " Montana explained. "Everybody got a bad habit. I sent [the track] to Bun. Bun heard it, laid the verse in like five minutes. I sent it to him, he called me back in five minutes. I was like, 'Oh my God.' "
"I was in the lab, I was already in that zone," Bun added. "It was something that I felt made sense, that I felt represented his movement, repped my movement, and we spoke to people on a real level. That's one thing about UGK music. We can't be fabricating sh--. We kept it real with each other.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 14, 2010 at 11:30am
Atlanta rapper stat Quo has finally putting the finishing touches on his debut 'Statlanta'.
It's been a long journey for Stat. Since being released from Shady/Aftermath Records in 2008 after spending five frustrating years sitting on the bench, The dirty south mc finally has reason to celebrate.
He announced via his twitter account the good news on Tuesday (February 9).
"Mastering is done, Statlanta is 100% DONE!!! The credits will be turned in today and thats it. I will have my release date this week!!!"
Originally scheduled for a 2003 release, Statlanta will have production by Che Vicious, Hi-Tek, Key Kat Productions and Sha Money XL.
The album will be released through G-Unit producer Sha Money XL's Big Dream Ventures imprint.
For those that had not heard, Sha Money has signed a multi-million dollar film and distribution deal for Dream Big through Orchard, the world’s leading digital distributor of music. And will be releasing projects from Stat Quo, ex Lil Wayne affiliate Kidd Kidd and DJ Whoo Kid.
While we wait for the official release date of 'Statlanta', Stat tweeted we should be on the lookout for a new mixtape.
"Mixtape time!!! I got a few beats im ready to hop on....."
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