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He's got just as much street cred as Harry Potter, but that isn't stopping Drake from becoming one of the biggest names in hip hop.
Unlike some of his rap peers, Drake didn't earn his stripes by selling drugs, has never been behind bars and doesn't wear gold teeth.
Instead, he grew up in a wealthy community in Toronto. He had a bar mitzvah as a child. And the closest he's come to being shot was when his character, Jimmy Brooks, was gunned down on the television show "Degrassi: The Next Generation."
Now Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, is about to blow up.
"I can't even believe it's happening," Drake, 23, said of his album release last week. "It's crazy. It's like the beginning of my journey, although I've come so far already."
Billboard.com predicted Drake would sell more than 400,000 copies of "Thank Me Later" in the first week alone, making it one of the top-selling debut albums of the year.
Drake was the top draw on Tuesday when more than 25,000 fans packed Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport for a free concert. The event, sponsored by Paper Magazine, was canceled before Drake even got off his tour bus after some in the crowd tossed chairs, bottles and flower pots. Two people were arrested, and seven were treated for minor injuries.
The young rapper said he was humbled so many people showed up.
Drake, who got the acting bug while in high school, made the transition from acting to hip hop by releasing a series of Internet albums known as mixtapes. It was his third mixtape, "So Far Gone," that created the most buzz with chart-topping hits "Best I Ever Had" and "Successful."
Without having released a conventional album, he garnered a Sprite endorsement, headlined Hot 97's Summer Jam concert and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Veteran hip-hop journalist Datwon Thomas isn't surprised by the Drake phenomenon.
"The thing that works for Drake is he has a clean-dude image, and he runs with [Lil] Wayne," said Thomas, editor of GlobalGrind.com. "Whatever street cred he needs, he has it."
Drake is signed to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, and he has collaborated with megastars Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
"The fact is he is multitalented vocally. He can rap, he can sing, he can write," Thomas said. "I would say that we're going to see him for a long time. I think he's going to have one of those Will Smith careers.
"Drake is way bigger than anyone thinks right now," he said.
But the "Find Your Love" rapper isn't worried about sales.
"I just want [the fans] to want another one," Drake told the Daily News. "I gotta put out a second one to get better, that's all."
Source: NY Daily News
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Kat Stacks is starting to resemble an human pinata.
The queen of internet drama got caught slipping again. This time by the aunt of Young Money artist Lil Twist who made her apologize for lying on the Young Money camp.
In Kat's previous video, she said these visuals would emerge. According to her she was set up by Yung L.A. and J. Futuristic.
This chick either needs to get full time security or just stop talking about people before she gets seriously hurt.
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Kat Stacks Forced To Apologize For Lying On Young Money
Kat Stacks Explaining Why She Apologized
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A 20-something rap phenom with an eye for the finer things, Drake is finding that when it comes to the ladies, not all of them share his champagne taste. In an exclusive outtake from the documentary "Drake: Better Than Good Enough," the Young Money MC visits New Orleans radio station Q93.3, where he spits a freestyle that goes in about everything from finances to females.
"Why has every woman never dined here before?/ Am I the only 23-year-old wine connoisseur?" Drizzy wonders, as the room erupts with rowdy howls co-signing the hip-hop star's rhyming skills.
The full-length doc depicts the months before Drake dropped his hotly anticipated debut, Thank Me Later. But the freestyle sequence showcases one of the qualities that has made Drake a breakout star: his charismatic, hyper-informed flow. The outtake also captures the heightened buzz that preceded his first major-label offering, as the radio DJ coaxes the star into giving "a preview" of the kinds of bars to come on Later.
Ready to flex his lyrical chops, the scene opens with Drizzy animatedly accepting the challenge. A focused Drake even refuses an instrumental ("No beat," the star insists), spitting a verse a cappella.
"Please make your long story shorter/ Time is of the essence for the king of second quarter/ Numbers do the talking/ I have nothing for reporters/ I just hope we make these flights and don't get held up at the border," Drake spits.
The verse demonstrates his trademark verbal agility ("Jumpin' to the top/ This my leap year"); his witty humor ("I got new girls / But none of they love is for certain/ And call old girls/ But none of they numbers are workin'); and his easy candor ("They ain't rootin' for me/ They ain't clappin' for me/ I'm only saying, can somebody just be happy for me?").
As the station dissolve into hollers of approval, Drake's Young Money associate Mack Maine tosses out a challenge to any rappers ready to step to the Toronto MC.
"I got a mil' on Drake!" Maine shouts gleefully. "Against any of y'all! — old school, new school, need to know this!"
By now nearly everyone has seen the video of Kat Stacks getting slapped out of a chair and pulled by her hair by a couple of goons in Atlanta.
The goons can be seen telling Kat to apologize to both Fabolous and Bow Wow. Fab came out several days later to deny any involvement in the incident now Bow Wow is doing the same.
He told XXL “Of course I had no involvement with it. It’s so far fetched for me. Come on, man, everybody knows I make records for girls."
Bow Wow has never had a thug image and he isn't trying to establish one now.
“I’m not an evil person, I don’t condone violence. That’s just the type of person I am. I just feel like, if anything, positivity is always the way out. So I think that maybe if she humbles herself a lil more and be positive and go about things differently, then hopefully she’ll be alright…but that’s not my style. I don’t put hits on people, I’m in the music business…if I wanted to fight, I’d be in the MMA.”
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Drake's highly anticipated debut album leaked in full earlier this week. Various songs had already made their way to the net so the Young Money camp had to see this coming.
Unfortunately, album leaks have become the norm these days. The best an artist can hope for is a leak two weeks or less before it's release date. So in this case consider Drizzy lucky as the album is scheduled to hit store shelves June 15.
Drake took the news in stride and took to Twitter to let fans know he's not sweating it too much.
The album has features Swizz Beatz, T.I., Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne.
As always we encourage fans to support the artists and reward their hard work by buying their music through retail outlets.
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Chris Brown's career is at a crossroads. The singer's last album, 2009's 'Graffiti' wasn't the commercial success he had hoped. And coming on the heels of his physical assault of then girlfriend Rihanna maybe that backlash from fans should have been expected.
Feeling like pop radio has abandoned him, the R&B star has gone in a totally different direction on his new mixtape 'Fan Of A Fan'. A collaborative effort with Young Money rapper Tyga.
A new video from the tape for the song "No Bullsh*t" is already stirring controversy and dividing some of his long time fans because of it's sometimes R-rated content.
The video shows Chris getting his "grown man" on with a young lady. With shots of him licking, kissing and doing other things that you usually don't see in a music video. Especially one from the usually more reserved Chris Brown.
As one fan, hupakoe05 wrote in the comment section of the video on youtube.
"it's one thing to grow up... it's another to sell out.... be different...you have to put out a ass-licking video cause everybody else is? smh"
Another fan, tashatambara had a completely different take on it
"Chris BREZZY IS THE SHIT... I LOVE HIM so much.. this song got me... Good video .. i love his dance steps.. every move and heart beat was so passionate... for all d negative comments on dis video, y'll shud appreciate hardwork and dont hate... cos Chris is Fly, and y'all probably not even by the terminal....."
Chris addresses his fans on Twitter about the video, writing, "just so u know.. all these videos r for you.. the fans. Ive never done it for the industry or approval of my peers(other artists) i do it for u... everyone else can just follow my lead".
Every artist with a teen fan base like a Chris Brown or a Miley Cyrus has to make a decision to either keep making bubbly pop songs or try to gain an adult audience.
Looks like Chris has made his decision, now he has to hope the fans will be ok with it.
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From a Jamaican Gully Town to Jamaica, Queens, Young Money's Drake and Lil Wayne have the mixtape circuit in a tizzy right now. Drake's Wayne-featured "Miss Me" — which we told you about months ago — is a must-have for mixtape DJs right now. It may be the biggest new song to hit the circuit in weeks.
Despite all the anticipation Drizzy has for his upcoming Thank Me Later LP (due June 15), the 23 year-old Canadian knows that he is not in any way filling Wayne's shoes. Drake will correct you if you say he's "holding it down" for Weezy during the New Orleans fireman's time in jail.
"You know what, man? I rap and I rap very confident. But in my actual head, I can never hold down Young Money because I'm not Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne is who we look up to. He's our mentor. I will definitely do everything to keep the brand going, keep Young Money on people's minds. But Lil Wayne is the only one — he's the epicenter of that all. I definitely don't wanna take on that responsibility. I just wanna put out this album, give the people this great music and have the people understand it's coming from Young Money. If you do enjoy it, then please, give all the credit to Young Money because that's who I represent. But as far as me being able to 'hold it down,' that's not even a conversation. Lil Wayne is Lil Wayne. He's my hero, my mentor and he's the reason I'm here. I do it in honor of him as opposed to filling the void."
"Miss Me" has appeared on the mixtape circuit in a variety of forms. First it was just a Drake verse and an alternate chorus, then it was the Drake verse, alternate chorus and a snippet of Wayne's verse. Finally, the mastered and complete version landed on the Internet and mixtapes this week.
"It's a pretty straightforward [song]," Drake told us when his Away From Home Tour kicked off several weeks ago. "It's a song about being away from what you love and hoping that when you're gone, doing you, somebody out there misses you. It goes for Wayne in his situation and it goes for me in my situation, 'cause I'm on the road for I don't how long right now."
Drake also talks about marrying Nicki Minaj on the track, while Weezy bounces off the walls on a myriad of subjects
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Chris Brown and Young Money's Tyga hooked up for a best of both worlds type mixtape titled 'Fan Of A Fan'.
The mixtape is excellent and if you don't have it, you should cop it soon.
This video is the lead track from the mixtape and also features a verse from Kevin McCall
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Chris Brown and Young Money's Tyga are hard at work on a new mixtape and judging from the tracks in this video they're going to have a hot one.
The tape is titled 'Fan Of A Fan' and will be the second mixtape of 2010 for Breezy following the February release of 'In My Zone'.
No release date for 'Fan Of A Fan', but expect it very soon.
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All the stans and barbies here it is the official video to Nicki Minaj ft. Sean Garrett "Massive Attack". Check the video out and let us know what you think. I for one think the video is dope but the song. Hated it!FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @ITSTHESOCIETY
TWITTER REPORT! You know sound something like that Missy Elliot remix intro. We all know Twitter has got the hip hop community in a frenzy and there is a lot going down on Twitter. You wanna know all the birdness going down on twitter. Jazzy got you covered so you already know what time it is. I'm GOIN IN!
Fabolous aka @MyFabolouslife aka #FABSTEETH whatever just ask @NickiMinaj about Fabs chip tooth! wait back to the point, Fabolous aka THE BEST TO EVER TWEET which is the throne he owns on Twitter sent out a tweet stating a girl rolled up on him in her whip with some dude and said, AYO Fab! You fell off on TWITTER! YUUUP! "TWITTER" is that serious folks. Fabolous sent a warning. "The Best to ever Tweet will be back as of Monday 3.22.10" and was that yesterday ok we will see if @MyFabolouLife is back and GOIN IN. He also decided to go in on a few twitter fronters for jacking his TT(Trending Topics). I could tell the whole story but I got my own twitter birdness going on @itsJazzyFBaby so check out the full TWITTER REPORT BELOW! I just hope Fab don't start *#twittersnitchin* and getting people locked up again. Everyone was in a frenzy! I think that was the same day #FABSTEETH became a trending topic like Lil Mama number sign.
The trending topic is #ListenBitch and once again the trending topics has started some mess. Soulja Boy sent out the tweet add Chris Brown @ChrisBrown and Bow Wow @BowWow followers up and they still don't add up to mine *SHOTS*. Bow Wow replies lets add bank accounts up and then Soulja Boy hit him with a low blow. Soulja Boy tweets lets add up the first week sales of our new albums*#SHOTS*. Chris replies with a snappy come back about how much his show performance is worth and typical Bow Wow does as he did when Fabolous made him a trending topic like Lil Mama number sign he deleted his tweets #C'monSon!
Fabolous your Mixtape TINC2 might be blazing hot in the streets and Soulja Boy and Bow Wow the two of you do your thing on those albums but for right now here are your TWITTER REPORTS! Your favorite celeb is no different from you and I.
Straight outta Brooklyn, with hard hitting beats and the ghetto bling bling of street laced lyrics, BABS Bunny born Lynese Wiley has hit the hip hop scene with a vengeance! BABS made her mark on the music industry with her former group Da Band and became a household name while openly living her life in front of millions during the hit MTV reality show, Making the Band 2. BABS was chosen as one of the six group members out the 40,000 people who tried out for the MTV Reality Show and also won a recording deal with Bad Boy Records. Babs is no longer with Bad Boy and has started a movement of her own. Check below for the exclusive interview with Jazzy F. Baby!
Jazzy F. Baby: Now most people know you and what went down in the past so we gone go into what has been happening since after the leave from bad boy that got u to the point your @ now. How is you relationship with bad boy and Diddy?
Babs: Well I still have love for bad boy and what they did for me. But I had 2 make moves cause I had bills 2 pay and the label wasn't payin them. I hope 2 work with Diddy some time soon. He's the best. Me and Diddy don't have beef at all. Well I don't have beef wit him n I'm sure he's not beefin wit me. Haven't talked 2 or seen him in 2 years
Jazzy F. Baby: What's Good Babs? I hear you been working with Kid Cudi, so how did that happen?
Babs: Kid Cudi is my good friend. Knew him b4 day and nite came out.
Jazzy F. Baby: I feel like the FEM movement didn't take off the way it should have. What are your thoughts on that?
Babs: The fem movement is still going on. But we hit a wall n had to slow down for a min. We had the world but we will b back. What up 2 lady luck, Rage and my manager Uneek
Jazzy F. Baby: Are there any female rappers you would like to work with.
Babs: I would love 2 work with Lil Kim but I have love for a lot a chicks in the game.
Jazzy F. Baby: How do you feel about Nicki Minaj rise to fame being a barbie?
Babs: Barbie is not my thing. I'm on the wave movement. But hey if she's getting paid then that's what's up. I wish her the best. I like 2 look at her lmao she's looks great!
Jazzy F. Baby: What's going on with Babs Bunny label situation?, Who are you signed with?
Babs: I'm not sign 2 any 1. I'm makin moves on my own. If the label won't give me a big check then I can't do it.
Jazzy F. Baby: How do you feel about the state of hip hop today.
Babs: Hip Hop right now is just ok 2 me and I'm hope it gets better. I'm so sick of the trash rappers with the hot beats.
Jazzy F. Baby: How did you prepare for this mixtape and what gave you the motivation while recording the tracks.
Babs: Sum of the stuff on wave music is new n sum I did a min ago. I just smoked out and did my thing.
Jazzy F. Baby: Are you and Da Band members still in contact with one another?
Babs: Yes I talk 2 every 1 in Da Band. That's my family for life and I love them all. Dylan, Fred, Chopper, E Ness and my sister Sara Stokes.
Jazzy F. Baby: What do we have to look forward to from Babs Bunny in the future?
Babs: My next step is to do movies, and to get my own cooking show on the food network.
Jazzy F. Baby: Thanks so much Babs for taking the time to interview with me. Let the people know how to get @ you.
Babs: Y'all can reach me on twitter @brooklynbabs or Facebook. Holla and show love or send hate I don't care as long as y'all holla. God bless
Check below for Babs Bunny latest mixtape Atomic Storm Entertainment Presents Babs Bunny Wave Music Hosted by Kid Cudi.
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Fabolous just dropped his long awaited, highly anticipated Gangsta Grillz mixtape with DJ Drama last night (March 4).
'There Is No Competetion 2: The Funeral' finds Loso in tip top lyrical shape. He gets help on the tape from his Street Family crew, Freck Billionaire, Paul Cain, Kobe & Red Cafe. As well as Nicki Minaj, Cam'Ron, Vado, Willie The Kid and La The Darkman.
Los sits down with RealTalkNY to discuss his inspiration for the tape and why it took so long for the tape to surface.
He also explains why Joe Budden didn't make the mixtape.
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Lil Wayne just announced that Cory Gunz has signed to Young Money.
This is a great addition to what is already a very strong list of artists on the label.
Cory with his spit fire rhymes and sick lyrics should be a top priority. While many fans await Drake's debut disc, Cory shouldn't be far behind.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lil Wayne has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper was taken away in handcuffs Tuesday to start serving his term immediately after his sentencing. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and admitted having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007.
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He paused momentarily before leaving and nodded to Cash Money execs Birdman and Slim, who were present in the courtroom. Just like that, Wayne was goneHe'll serve his sentence in city jails, not a state prison. He could be released in about eight months with good behavior.
Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter, has been one of rap's most prolific and profitable figures in recent years. His Tha Carter III was the best-selling album of 2008. His sentencing was postponed last month so he could undergo surgery on his bejeweled teeth.
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