Jim Jones and Trav are the latest MC's to take a stab at the "No Church in the Wild" instrumental. The New York duo flip it into a song about the drug game.
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While fans wait on the new Slaughterhouse album, Welcome To: Our House to drop on May 15, Joe Budden is doing his best to keep them occupied. Budden follows up his "No Church in the Wild" freestyle with "Stay Schemin."
The Slaughterhouse crew hits the road for a 43-city tour starting March 8 in Dallas. By that point we should have the group's first single from the new album.
Jay-Z is worth $420 million dollars according to Forbes. No doubt he's worked hard for it. The question is, when you're that wealthy do you have an obligation to give back to those less fortunate? Or at the very least break off a chunk of cash for your own charity?
Those are questions Jay-Z is probably thinking about today after The Daily published a report claiming the superstar rapper made $63 million dollars in 2010, but only gave $6,431 to his own charity. The Daily came up with those numbers by examining tax records for the Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund.
Hov's wife, Beyonce, reportedly made $87 million dollars that same year, but did not donate any money at all to the Foundation.
According to the report, the average American gives about 3.5 percent of their income to charity. Jay-Z gave about 0.01 percent of his estimated income to his own charity in 2010.
The Foundation was established in 2003 by Jay and his mother, Gloria Carter. According to it's mission statement "Shawn Carter Scholars are studying at nearly 100 institutions of higher learning throughout the nation." Scholarships awarded help students with "the costs of books and lab fees, food, travel and other self-care expenses." But where exactly is the money to fund these endeavors coming from if Jay-Z is contributing so little?
Hov's representative, Jana Fleishman, told The Daily that the rapper contributes in other ways.
“Jay, along with his family, provided office support, overhead support, [mother] Mrs. Gloria Carter’s 100% effort and time, computers, FedEx expenses, accounting, and treasury function support. This was at no cost to the charity,” Fleishman said.
The Daily noted that tax records show the charity only had to pay $1,209 for office expenses, $1,401 for telephone, and $4,696 in other expenses in 2010.
Fleishman also said that in 2011 Jay-Z helped raise $1.25 million for the charity at its Carnival at Pier 54 event. The Daily couldn't verify those numbers because tax records for 2011 are not yet available.
To be fair to Hov he is playing two Carnegie Hall concerts for free (the first was last night, the second is tonight). Proceeds are being spit between the United Way of New York City and The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation, but it's not known exactly how much money that will translate into for the foundation.
To read the rest of the report head over to The Daily.
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Slaughterhouse album coming very soon!
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Common displays the skills that show why he's going to be a problem for Drake in their war of words. The veteran Chicago rhyme spitta was in Atlanta recently for a Q and A session with fans when he was asked to freestyle.
With music from his hit record "The Light" as the backdrop, Common did his thing coming off the top of the dome encorporating words that are written on cards being held up the event's host. Of course the rhyme wouldn't have been complete without him dropping a Canada Dry line.
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French Montana hit up the Hot 97 show today to chop it up with Angie Martinez. He talked about the upcoming NY Giants "Shot Caller" remix, turning down a deal with G.O.O.D Music to sign with Bad Boy, meeting Rihanna and his appearance on the record "Stay Schemin" that took the Drake vs. Common beef up a notch.
Angie asked French about Drake's verse on "Stay Schemin" getting at Common and the Chicago rapper's immediate reply.
"With them you gotta look at it like it's hip hop, it's competition, it's good for the music," French said. "I think Drake wanna fight. He said he can't wait to run into him."
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The WZRD cover art has been floating around for a while. Now we get the official tracklist for the debut alternative rock album from Kid Cudi and producer Dot Da Genius. The disc is scheduled for release February 28th.
WZRD Tracklisting:
1. “The Arrival”
2. “High Off Life”
3. “The Dream Time Machine”
4. “Love Hard”
5. “Live & Learn”
6. “Brake”
7. “Teleport 2 Me, Jamie” feat. Desire
8. “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”
9. “Efflictim”
10. “The Upper Room”
Source: Kid Cudi's tumblr
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CTE is definitely in the building in the latest music video from 2Eleven and Freddie Gibbs. The two Young Jeezy protege's give Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" a Corporate Thugz makeover in this clip directed by The Razor.
The song is featured on 2Eleven's upcoming mixtape Product Of The Block 2, which will be dropping very soon!
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Big Sean drops new visuals for a song that will appear on the 23-year old's debut cd 'Finally Famous: The Album' which hits stores June 28.
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Pusha T back with a new video for "Alone In Vegas" off of his mixtape 'Fear Of God'
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Kanye West took the stage yesterday (May 21) at the 10th edition of the "Festival Mawazine: Rhythms Of The World" in Morocco.
Yeezy played a 45 minute set in front of an estimated crowd of 100,000 people.
The 8-day festival held in the Moroccan capital of Rabat features a wide variety of exhibitions, performances, dance, workshops and concerts.
Other notable artists who will perform include "Earth, Wind & Fire", Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones and Shakira.
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Think you can judge a book by it's cover? Or ever wonder what people are listening to as you pass them in the street?
A guy takes his camera out into the heart of New York City and asks random people what they're jamming to. Some of the answers may surprise you.
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G.O.O.D Music recording artist, Big Sean has built a nice buzz for himself.
The good streak will probably continue as he drops the Chris Brown assisted party jam "My Last."
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Rihanna is back with a new video for a song off of her 'Loud' album.
This one is trippy and sure to get people talking, but that's exactly the idea.
Reporters with balls-and-gags in their mouths, walking a guy on a leash who urinates on a fire hydrant? It's all part of Rihanna's sadomasochistic sexual fantasies in this video.
Check it out below.
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Forget all the talk about Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose... we're off that.
Amber looks like she's got her eyes on the oh so sexy video vixen Rosa Acosta.
The two arrived at Beso Restaurant in West Hollywood last night in separate vehicles, but left together only after locking lips in front of the cameras.
Now listen all you doubters, don't ruin my fantasy. If I choose to believe these two beautiful women are getting it on between the sheets, then let me enjoy that fantasy.
Yeah I know Amber Rose is filming a new reality show called 'Behind Her Shades', and of course this is great publicity.
But dammit that was real, wasn't it?
Make a sex tape ladies so we know it's official.
Video Of Rosa Acosta and Amber Rose Arriving At Beso's, Kissing, The Leaving Together
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End of the year lists are always a mixed bag. It’s generally somebody telling you who they think is the best singer, best actor, or who made the best album or movie.
But, today the fans will have their say and vote for who the “Top Producer Of 2010” is.
First we’ll take a look at the men behind the boards who had the biggest impact for the year, then vote to decide the top choice.
Alex Da Kid
This UK producer put his stamp on several of the biggest hits in 2010. Including “Love The Way You Lie” by Eminem, B.o.B’s “Airplanes” and Nicki Minaj’s “Massive Attack”
Lex Luger
Lex literally had speakers going hammer from coast to coast. Dude banged out Waka Flocka’s “Hard In The Paint”, Officer Ross’ “B.M.F”, Fabolous’ “Lights Out (I Don’t See Nobody)”
Boi 1da
This kid is becoming a mainstay on top of the charts. With songs by Eminem “Not Afraid”, Drake’s “Over”, Bun B’s “Put It Down” and Soulja Boy’s “Speakers Going Hammer”
Swizz Beatz
Of course you can never exclude Swizz Beatz from this category. He’s one of the hardest working men in the business. Swizzy was behind the boards on several hits this year. Drake’s “Fancy”, “On To The Next One” by Jay-Z and “Gucci Time” by Gucci Mane.
Kanye West
The Louis Vuitton Don has been widely praised for his work on his album ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.’ Stand out tracks include “Power” co-produced by S1, “Runaway”, “Monster” and “All Of The Lights”
J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League
The Tampa, Florida trio was very busy this year producing for artists all over the country. Standout tracks included Bun B’s “Trillionaire”, Lloyd Banks’ “I Don’t Deserve You”, Officer Ross’ “Aston Martin Music” and Lil Wayne’s “Knockout”
Cardiak
Big things are probably on the horizon for this producer after his steller work on Lloyd Banks’ ‘The Hunger For More 2’ album, as well as his work with Meek Mill and Mike Knox. Bangers include “Start It Up”, Take Em To War” and “Unexplainable”. All by Lloyd Banks.
Drumma Boy
One of the south’s premier producers. Drumma Boy did his thing in 2010. Standouts include “Lose My Mind” Young Jeezy, “Life Goes On” 8-Ball & MJG and a large part of the production work on Gucci Mane’s ‘Burr Print’ mixtapes.
DJ Khalil
People are starting to recognize just how good Khalil is. ½ of the group Self Scientific, he is also part of Dr Dre’s production team. Standout 2010 tracks include “Kush” Dr Dre, “Def Jammable” Redman, “Talking 2 Myself” and “Won’t Back Down” Eminem
Ok, there are your contenders, now place your votes!
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Ciara’s fourth solo cd, ‘Basic Instinct’ dropped yesterday.
The singer /model dropped by Atlanta’s V-103 radio station to talk about the album, her love life, fans, 50 Cent and her “Who Can Get It” list.
Actually, her “Who Can Get It” list was not really a list, since Kanye West is the only person she mentioned.
DJ Greg Street kept Ciara laughing throughout their interview. It’s a good one so check it out below
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Kendrick Lamar is a name you should get familiar with because you will be hearing a lot from him in the upcoming months.
Ashley Outrageous caught up with the West Coast rhyme spitter recently. Due to scheduling conflicts (she’s on the East Coast), the two had to chop it up via iChat.
As a lot of you probably have heard, Dr Dre mentioned recently that he really wanted to work with Kendrick. Soon after a picture surfaced of the two of them in the studio. What you had not heard or read until now, is confirmation of what they actually worked on together.
“We’re basically just trying to finish up this Detox album, putting the last finishing touches on that. It’s a privilege and honor for him to even bring me out on the last end. Because I know for a fact that I’m on the back end of the last touches of the album, it should be a go,” Kendrick said.
Now that the “Kush” single and video have been released, we’re closer to getting the ‘Detox’ album than ever. So you know Dre sees something special in Kendrick.
Others are taking notice of him as well.
The Compton rapper just wrapped up recording sessions with Roc Nation’s J. Cole.
“That’s a good dude, he reached out and I’ve always been a fan of his music. We got in the studio and made some magic happen. All I can tell you is that it might be more than one or two songs,” Kendrick said, hinting at a possible mixtape or EP with Cole.
One thing Kendrick made clear during the interview is that he is not a typical rapper. Despite living in an area known for a lot of gang activity, he’s never been in a gang himself, and he doesn’t smoke the sticky icky.
“My whole thing is I don’t want to base my stuff on a stereotype, or typical L.A. artist based around the gang culture. That’s something we’re all familiar with, but there’s other elements and the way [certain] people were raised was different.,” he said “There’s so much negative energy around Compton, California, you don’t ever see no positive light. So when I do my music and people hear that it’s somewhat of a positive light, they embrace it.”
Check the rest of the interview out below as Kendrick talks about possibly becoming a part of XXL’s 2011 Freshman class and his group Black Hippy.
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