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Gucci Mane sure is happy to be home. The Atlanta rapper was released from prison in May, and he's been working feverishly ever since. Not only is he crafting his upcoming album, The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted, but fans can look forward to seeing the Southern MC onscreen soon too.
Gucci recently teamed with Lil Wayne to shoot the video (albeit separately) for their collaboration "We Be Steady Mobbin'," from Young Money's compilation album. In exclusive footage from the set provided to MTV News by DJ Scoob Doo, who directed the clip, Gucci beams while texting Drake about a song the pair recorded together.
"Drake just hit me about the song we did," Gucci tells Scoob as he taps back a message to the Toronto lyricist. "We going in."
The "We Be Steady Mobbin' " video is set to premiere on the Fourth of July on MTV Jams. And behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the clip will be featured on DJ Scoob Doo's latest DVD, "Entourage: Fetti Holmes Edition." In addition to Gucci, Wayne and Drake, the project will also feature appearances by Birdman and Jadakiss.
In another scene from the DVD, Gucci is seen talking to Ciara about the visual he and Weezy completed; the two rappers weren't able to film any scenes together since Wayne began his jail sentence in New York just a week before Gucci was released.
"We shooting my part, but Wayne already shot his part before going to jail," Gucci Mane says to Ciara during a phone call.
Since his release, Gucci Mane has said he's embraced a straight-and-narrow path, vowing not to make the kinds of mistakes that nearly derailed his burgeoning career.
"I feel like I got a whole new beginning, like my career just started again," he said in May.
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Drake is definitely doing his own thing and it's working for him. Even though he's with the very big (as in numbers) Young Money crew. He doesn't travel with a large entourage. Matter of fact, I haven't seen any other Young Money artists with him in clips from his recent shows.
The Toronto rapper/singer hit up the stage Friday (July 16) at the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest and thrilled the crowd performing songs off his gold album 'Thank Me Later'.
Check the show out below.
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Drake Performs "Fancy" x "Paris Morton Music"
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Drake Performs "Fancy" x "Paris Morton Music"
Drake Performs "Show Me A Good Time"
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Countless artists entertain audiences at concerts by bringing someone from the crowd on stage to dance with, sing to or hug.
Drake does it just a bit different. He brings pretty females on stage and breaks their hearts by not kissing them, lol.
Drizzy brought a young lady to the stage at his Ottawa concert Friday (July 16). After a lot of hand waving and gesturing the Young Money mc bent down to kiss the obviously star struck fan on the lips only to jerk his head away at the last moment.
The girl looked pretty confused and a little embarrassed as Drake dismissed her back to her seat. But from what I've read she was only 16 years old and it's obvious Drake knew that.
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No question, one of the hottest rappers repping New York right now is Vado. Straight out of Harlem, he talks about how he became affiliated with Cam'Ron and the origin of the slang "slime".
"When I was locked up, I'd tell a n*gga like what up slime? He like 'you a funny n*gga'. N*ggas know it's all love though. I been meaning to explain to the world what "slime" is. Slime stand for Street Life Intelligence and Money Is Everything, bottom line. So I say sliiiiime, slimettes, slime screw, slime commitee."
It seems as if Vado just emerged from out of nowhere. His buzz has picked up speed since getting down with Cam'Ron's U.N. But Vado explains that he was grinding way before that, putting in work with Young Money artist, Jae Millz.
"Shout out to Jae Millz, that's like my brother, my slime partner. You know, regular sh*t, we grew up together. So I came in with him, he was doing his thing. Automatically he came to me, he was on mad cyphers killin' it. We was battling n*ggas on that sh*t. So that was kinda like my breakthrough as far as showing people I could spit."
"As far as my association with U.N./Dipset, it's just a big round table. Cam definitely broght me out at Summer Jam, he didn't have to do that. That n*gga believe in me and that's one thing he know talent. He let me do me in the booth. He don't tell me how to rap, format, nothing, he just let me go off."
Be on the lookout for Vado's 'Slime Flu' mixtape coming soon.
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G-Unit Capo Tony Yayo chops it up with Doggie Diamonds of Forbez DVD about beefs.
He explains why G-Unit was able to dead the beefs with D-Block & The Diplomats, but not Fat Joe .
Very interesting interview, peep it below.
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Rapper DRAKE has shown off his generous side - the kind-hearted star has donated $25,000 (£16,600) to help build a learning centre in Jamaica.
The Best I Ever Had hitmaker has teamed up with dancehall artist Mavado to aid the construction of a new unit in the Cassava Piece community.
Drake explains that he was moved to offer up the cash after shooting the video for single Find Your Love in the Caribbean country earlier this year (10).
He tells The Jamaica Star newspaper, "I had a great time when I was in Jamaica and the people of Cassava Piece showed me a lot of love. I just wanted to show back some love by helping out with Mavado's project on the Gullyside.
"It's a very positive move and something I am very happy to be a part of. Education is the key to life so to be able to assist in that process is very fulfilling."
Source: ContactMusic
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This is part two of Gloria Velez' interview with MajorMovesDVD. Peep part one HERE
Gloria is an actress/rapper/model who is fast becoming known for speaking her mind no matter who it offends.
Glo has been going in on Nicki Minaj nonstop for the last several months. After releasing a diss track titled "Roger That" accusing the Young Money femcee of being a gimmick. She added Drake to her list, calling him a b*tch for coming to Nicki's defense in her beef with Lil Kim.
Now Glo is speaking her mind about incarcerated rapper Remy Ma.
She tells CEO Money Joe that Remy "irrelevant". Seems the two had issues before Remy went to prison.
"She [Remy Ma] told Funk Flex she didn't like me. I mean come on how do you just not like somebody and want to fight them? Alright then we can do it, let's pop it off, alright b*tch. I'll be damed if I'll be afraid of anybody."
Glo also goes in on her ex, Joe Budden. Accusing the Slaughterhouse rapper of using women to keep his name relevant.
"He's using women to keep his name in the public eye all over the internet," Gloria tell Major Moves. "He's using these females, that have some type of name, that are doing something and that are pretty and these girls don't understand that he's using them. He used Tacera, Tacara [Tahiry] whatever that girl's name is that he was living with. He used her with her [big] butt, then he used Somaya [Reece] and now he's using Esther [Baxter].
She criticizes Nicki Minaj for being a fake bisexual, claiming the Queens rapper is just saying it to be like Lady Gaga because in reality she "really likes d*ck".
There's a lot more to the interview, so peep it below.
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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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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!"
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Rap vet Juvenile finds himself caught in controversy surrounding the album cover for his new album 'Beast Mode'.
The album cover look very similar to Drake's cover for his album 'Thank Me Later'. So much so it has fans questioning why Juve would jack it.
Juve shrugs it off saying all the controversy was news to him.
"I didn't see Drake's album cover," he says.
Take a look at both covers below and decide for yourself.
Juvenile addressing the issue of jacking Drake's album cover
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It's a benchmark in hip-hop that only three MCs have ever realized: selling 1 million album units during an opening release week.
Eminem achieved the feat — with his second and third albums, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show, respectively — and in 2008, 50 Cent sold 1.4 million copies of 2005's 'The Massacre' in four days after it was released early due to bootlegging. Lil Wayne joined the exclusive club as he pushed seven-digits worth of his sixth set, Tha Carter III, an act that cemented his ascent to super-stardom.
Kanye West came close with his third collection, Graduation, but stalled just short of the platinum plateau. No rapper has sold a million copies the first week on their debut album. 50 Cent came the closest in 2003 by selling more than 872,000 copies of Get Rich or Die Tryin'. What was even more impressive about 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is that it sold over 800,000 again in it's second week. To date the album has sold a staggering 13 million plus worldwide.
Now, on the verge of releasing his major label debut, Thank Me Later, many are wondering whether Drake — last year's mixtape wunderkind — can deliver on all of the hype to become only the third rapper to break the one-million mark in first week sales.
"I always said that his setup was so impeccable, so crazy, that I just thought he would get really close to 1 million," Vibe magazine editor-in-chief Jermaine Hall told MTV News. "The one thing he needed was that big record and I don't think he was able to get his 'Lollipop' out the gate," he said referring to Wayne's breakout Carter III single. "But still, I think the setup is incredible and I expect him to sell 500,000 to 600,000 the first week."
While "Find Your Love" is a favorite among Drake's fans, the Kanye West-produced single has yet to crack the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The melodic track followed Drake's first official single from Thank Me Later, the brooding "Over," an unconventional ode to the paranoia fame can bring; not an especially traditional pair of singles for an upstart rapper.
Also, Thank Me Later, while highly anticipated, is just the latest offering from Drake, who has released a string of records post-So Far Gone, from "Fear" to Forever." Add to that the fact that his album leaked online well ahead of its June 15 release date.
"Obviously, it's 2010, it's not 2003 anymore and the industry has changed a lot and I think everyone has sort of had to trim their expectations because of that," Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson said. "That's not something that reflects on Drake personally, it's just that it's hard to sell records. To look at some more recent examples of people who have sold more than 500,000 [in a week], Sade did that, Eminem, last year, did about 600,000. These are artists who were gone for a while that had big fan bases waiting for an album to come out. Drake is at a different place in his career."
The EW scribe also said he believed Drake would not cross the one-million mark, instead predicting sales of 300,000 to 400,000 copies of his debut.
XXL's Bonsu Thompson shared the same sentiments, predicting 400,000-plus sales; he noted Drake's achievements and emphasized the rapper's long-term potential, even as he drew the line below gold certification and well below platinum.
"I don't think Drake will do a million his first week," Thompson said. "First, you have to compare it to the rapper who did achieve that, that was Lil Wayne. You have to look at all the elements that contributed to him selling 1 million in the first week. I don't think [Drake] has that smash single. The girls like 'Find Your Love' and the guys dig 'Over,' but it's not like that smash crossover, where everyone is in a state of panic and we have to have this album right now."
Much like box office tallies, first-week sales in music make for splashy headlines, yet ultimately a blockbuster's health is measured not by the opening haul but by how strong the project fends off sharp dips and maintains a steady stream of revenue.
A true star's worth may lie in his ability to avoid the dreaded second-week dive. That's the theory the New York Times' Jon Caramanica subscribes to, noting Drake's own goal may not be realized via those first-week sales. Instead, he noted Drake's ambitious plans, outlining how the rapper's sales down the road may be a better indicator of the impact of his debut.
"I think the real question for Drake is what are his fifth-week numbers, what are his 10th-week numbers, what are his 20th-week numbers, if he still pops in July, in August, in September, then that's a win," Caramanica told MTV News. "Then it doesn't matter if he sells a million the first week. But if he's gonna last, that's the thing, that's a Kanye, that's a Wayne, that's a Jay. And I think ultimately, that's the guy he wants to be considered as. I don't think anyone should get bent out of shape. They should get bent out of shape if he only sells two [copies]."
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