Houston spitter Paul Wall links up with super producer Statik Selektah for a new EP titled "Give Thanks." Features include B-Real,CJ Fly, Benny The Butcher, Nems, Haile Supreme, Termanology and Mia Jae.
[02:47] 01. What It Do (Sean P Energy) [02:13] 02. Mind Blowin feat. B-Real [02:22] 03. Stop Me feat. CJ Fly [02:26] 04. OverCame feat. Benny the Butcher [03:56] 05. Part of the Game feat. Nems & Haile Supreme [03:37] 06. Are You Willin? feat. Termanology & Mia Jae [03:43] 07. Sea the Shore feat. Haile Supreme
LA Based Singer & Songwriter Elise 5000 is back with another collaboration that features some interesting & familiar names. "Not Rachet" with a self explanatory meaning gives a hard Hiphop element with a touch of R&B to top it off produced by grammy nominated music producer James Worthy. The song releases June 26, 2015 everywhere!
2 Chainz shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. With the ink on his record deal with Def Jam barely dry the Atlanta rapper hit up Houston's Warehouse Live Thursday [March 1] for a sold out show.
Other artists on the bill included Propain, Paul Wall, Lil Keke, Z-Ro, Michael "5000" Watts and more.
Another member of the archaeological team, Katerina Semradova, said that colleagues had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.
She added that Siberian shamans, or witch doctors, were also buried in this way but with richer funeral accessories appropriate to their elevated position in society.
‘This later discovery was neither of those. We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic.
An estimated 100,000 fish have died in the northwest of Arkansas, the same state where up to 5000 dead birds recently fell from the sky.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said it suspected disease was to blame for the death of the drum fish, which floated in the water and lined the banks of a 30-kilometre stretch of the Arkansas River near Ozark, about 200km northwest of Little Rock, CNN reported on Sunday.
Ozark is about 200km west of the town of Beebe, where game wardens were trying to find out why up to 5000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight on New Year's Eve, CNN said.
Keith Stephens from the game and fish commission said fish kills occurred every year but the size of the latest one was unusual, and suggested some sort of disease was to blame.
"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," he told CNN.
"If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish."
A tugboat operator discovered the dead fish on Friday night, and fisheries officials collected some of the dying animals to conduct tests.
Meanwhile, game and fish commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the blackbirds found in Beebe showed physical trauma, and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail", the Associated Press reported.
The AP said more than 1000 birds fell from the sky but CNN put the number at up to 5000.
The commission said that New Year's Eve revellers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.
The commission said on Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11.30pm local time the previous night.
The birds fell over a two-kilometre area, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.
For a hot minute, Houston rapper Mike Jones was everywhere. Dude was gimmicky, repeating his name throughout songs and giving out his real cell number. But people overlooked that because he had a bonafied hit early on with "Still Tippin", a collaboration with Slim Thug and Pall Wall.
At that time, Mike was with Michal "5000" Watts at Swishahouse where he dropped the album 'Who Is Mike Jones?'. Seeing an opportunity to grab a bigger piece of the pie, Mike formed Ice Age Entertainment and dropped the mostly ignored album 'The Voice'.
In addition to waning popularity, Mike was running into trouble with other rappers locally in Houston. At the 2008 Ozone Awards, held in Houston, he got punched in the nose by Trae The Truth for referring to himself as the "President Of Houston", even though he never repped the city according to Trae.
Ozone caught up with Pall Wall recently and asked him just what the hell happened to Mike.
Seems, Mike wasn't one of Paul's favorite people and he let that be known.
"Ever since he left Swishahouse I haven’t really kept track of him. I really didn’t know him too well before he came to Swishahouse. I’d say he dug his own grave. He lied to a lot of people, he turned his back on a lot of people, and he burned a lot of bridges. I don’t want to kick a dog while he’s down and I don’t wanna just talk shit about him, but I think a lot of people were happy when [Trae] punched him and knocked him out. But at the same time, a lot of people were mad at Trae too. It’s not like Mike Jones is the gangsta of the year, so in my opinion, you don’t really get points for beating up Mike Jones. Some people say it was a publicity stunt on Trae’s part, but I disagree with that totally because I know Trae and he doesn’t really do publicity stunts like that. If Trae feels disrespected, he’s going to address it. I think that’s what happened. If somebody disrespects you, [punching them] is not always the answer, but it’s definitely sometimes the answer. So I don’t feel like Trae was wrong in any form or fashion. Trae doesn’t do publicity stunts. But like I said, Mike Jones burned his bridge with a lot of people, so he probably had a knock out coming from somewhere at some time anyway. I’m positive of that."
Well, Damn!!
Mike Jones after getting clocked by Trae The Truth at 2008 Ozone Awards
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The Houston rap duo of Paul Wall aka 'The People's Champ' and Chamillionaire 'The Mixtape Messiah' have put in a long 11 year grind to reach the place they're at in their careers.
The two friends from high school formed the group, The Color Changin' Click and began to grow a large southern audience through their mixtapes and album 'Get Ya Mind Correct'.
The friendship soured at one point and the two parted ways only to come back together recently.
Paul and Cham sat down with Hard Knock TV and talked about coming up in the game, being a mixed race group
"Major labels would get excited about something like that [a mixed race rap group] cause they'd see some kind of gimmick," Cham says. "But that's what makes us authentic because it was more natural. A lot of people didn't even know Paul was white at first. They used to hear the freestyles and didn't know."
Paul said that a lot of people mistook him for being hispanic or Louisiana Creole in the beginning.
Like with any other group, Paul and Cham had to fight to get that initial respect.
"I think at the time [the beginning] maybe it might have been like there were a whole bunch of people already established and we were just the two new guys. So looking at us they were like 'what is this coming into this new situation?' Cham explains. "Then as time progressed we started to earn our respect."
Paul did remember one time when race was an issue early in their careers..
"We used to do a lot of shows in Pensacola, Roy Jones Jr [boxer] had a club, 'Star 69'. We were first coming up we did a show there, the show was sold out," Paul tells Hard Knock. "I went to the bar to get something to drink and I overheard someone next to me say 'when Paul Wall coming on stage?' And I just leaned over and said 'yeah wassup man I'm bout to go on in about 20 minutes. And he's looking at me like I was crazy. He was like 'why you talking to me?' 'Nah you just said Paul Wall and I'm Paul Wall' and he was just puzzled like 'nah nah'. Then later on after the show he came up and was just laughing and i said 'what's up?'. He said 'mam I'm just torn between two worlds cause I hate white people with a passion, I hate crackers, but you're my favorite rapper so I don't know if I should love you or hate you. Damn I just gotta love you cause I love your music'".
Paul Wall's new cd 'Heart Of A Champion' is in stores now so go cop that.
Houston rapper Chamillionaire had a huge hit a couple of years back with "Ridin Dirty." Since then he hasn't fared so well.
TMZ cameras recently caught up with him to ask about his mansion in Houston that was recently foreclosed on.
"Let me give you the short business answer. I bought a house in Houston and I decided to let that house go because the house ended up being worth nothing when the market went down," he said. "I paid like close to $2 million for that house and I decided to let it go, give it back to the bank. It wasn't a situation where they came and took it from me. I felt like I didn't want to pay that much for a house that I'm never at."
Cham said he's making money touring so money is definitely not the issue. It was strictly a business decision.
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