Chinx Drugz and French Montana drop the first single off of the upcoming Cocaine Riot 2 project.
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Saigon caused quite a stir over the weekend when an interview he had with SOHH leaked. In the interview Sai disses Diddy, Rick Ross and Big Sean. In an attempt to clarify what he said during the conversation with the website, Sai just released a new vlog. He claims what he said was taken out of context and not meant to attack Ross specifically. He says he was talking about the direction of his new album and things he's going to be speaking out against, including rappers who glorify drug dealing.
Check out what he has to say below.
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Fifteen years ago today Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. was killed in a still unsolved murder in Los Angeles, California at the age of 24. This is not an article to dwell on his death, but rather to celebrate his life and the timeless music he was able to deliver with two classic albums.
The measure of great music is whether or not it can stand the test of time. "Ready to Die" and "Life After Death" are both albums that if you heard them for the first time in 2012 would blow you away. Biggie made songs for the streets that could also get radio play.
His incredible wordplay and voice set him apart from every other rapper then and now, which is why he is undeniably one of the best MC's that ever touched a mic.
Big also birthed the careers of Lil Cease and Lil Kim with Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s "Conspiracy" album. In addition, he is one of the main reasons why Bad Boy Records is still going strong today.
Let's pour a toast and look back at some of Biggie's most memorable moments.
Angie Matinez 1996 Interview with Notorious B.I.G.
"Freestyle" at 17 years old
"Who Shot Ya" Live In Chicago 1995
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"Hypnotize"
"One More Chance (Remix)"
"Big Poppa"
"Juicy"
"Ten Crack Commandments"
2Pac and Biggie Freestyle
"Get Money"
"Player's Anthem"
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Illuminati P is getting ready to drop his H.N.I.C. 3 mixtape on February 20th. He links up with French Montana for the first leak off of the project.
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Machine Gun Kelly saw both good times and bad while in Florida last week for a couple of concerts. He was arrested, then released for disorderly conduct in St. Petersburg, but not before he successfully performed there on Saturday and in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.
Mikey T The Movie Star caught up with the Cleveland rapper after his rowdy show at Club Revolution in Fort Lauderdale to talk about his Bad Boy Records deal and upcoming single.
"They gave me full creative control," MGK said if his Bad Boy deal. "I have creative control over everything on my project. It's worked out for me well. They let me grind and they don't hand me sh*t. I don't have a csilver spoon with that label, and that's what I asked for. Puff is a big brother to me. I signed for 2 [albums]."
MGK's "Wild Boy" single with Waka Flocka has been making some noise. He's getting ready to follow that up with the release a new single entitled "Rain."
"A song called Rain [is my next single]. I'm really excited about that song. It's a deep song," he said. "It's the opposite of Wild boy. A very revolutionary, rebellion type of message."
Check out the rest of the interview and wild concert footage below.
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Styles P links up with singer Avery Storm for the official video to "How I Fly" off of Styles' Master of Ceremonies album.
You can cop the disc now from iTunes
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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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French Montana and his Coke Boys team drop official visuals for "Red Light," one of the stand out songs off of his Coke Boys 2 mixtape. The track is produced by "Shot Callers" beat maker Harry Fraud.
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It's hard to believe Cassie hasn't released an album since her 2006 self titled debut. The singer appears ready to make a comeback starting with the release of a video for her new single "King of Hearts."
The video will drop on February 14. The song will hit iTunes on the same day the singer announced via Twitter.
Are you still checking for Cassie's music? While you contemplate that question check out the video teaser for "King of Hearts" below.
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It's hard to imagine Cassie has been in the business since 2004 and has only managed to drop one album, but that's about to change as the Bad Boy singer preps the 2012 release of her sophomore album.
Here's a sneak peek at her upcoming video "King of Hearts."
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The fall of former Bad Boy artists continues.
Amir Junaid Muhadith aka Loon has been arrested in Belgium on charges of heroin distribution. According to Parlemento, the former rapper was in Brussels to give a lecture. He was detained at the request of the United States under the Patriot Act, following a May 2011 indictment that alleges he “knowingly and intentionally” possessed with intent to distribute at least one kilogram of heroin in North Carolina between early 2006 and September 2008.
A copy of the indictment was posted on the website DDotOMen on Friday November 25.
Loon enjoyed musical success between 1999 and 2003. First as a part of Ma$e's Harlem World group before going solo. He was featured on Diddy's hit record "I Need A Girl Pt.1" in 2001. In 2003 he released his self titled debut album which featured the song "Down For Me."
Born Chauncey Lamont Hawkins, Loon converted to Islam in 2008 and legally changed his name.
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Youtube and American Express have teamed up for a new concert series titled "Unstaged." The series has already featured actrs like Coldplay, The Roots and John Legend. Now, it's Mary J. Blige's turn.
Check out her performance of "Feel Inside" featuring Nas off her album My Life II...The Journey Continues (Act 1).
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Today marks what would been the 39th birthday for a man who is arguably the best rapper of all time.
Christoper Wallace was known by many stage names: The Notorious B.I.G., Big Poppa, Biggie Smalls and The Black Frank White. Only 24 at the time of his untimely death, he recorded two classic albums, "Ready To Die" and "Life After Death", and outshined anyone he ever collaborated with.
Without Biggie there would be no Lil Kim or Lil Cease. Both of whom were introduced to the world via Biggie's group Junior M.A.F.I.A.
His unique delivery, voice and wordplay are still unmatched to this day.
So let's drink a toast today to Biggie and celebrate his legacy.
Notorious B.I.G. "Hypnotize"
Notorious B.I.G. "Juicy"
Notorious B.I.G. "One More Chance" Remix
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Lil Kim and her new crew I.R.S. descended upon Brooklyn for the video shoot to her Nicki Minaj diss "Black Friday."
Director Picture Perfect said they would also possibly be shooting for "Clap Clap", a new joint by the Queen Bee.
It will be interesting to see if Nicki decides to engage in this battle. Her debut album 'Pink Friday' was just certified platinum, so she may feel like an all out beef with Kim could slow her momentum.
Fans are tired of subliminal disses though, like the darts Nicki threw at Kim in "Roman's Revenge." We want to hear rappers name names.
Let's see who really is on top of the game for female rappers. We know Lil Kim is ready for beef anytime, anywhere... is Nicki?
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- A task force made up of local and federal law enforcement agencies is actively pursuing leads into the 1997 slaying of hip hop artist Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G., according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
According to one law enforcement source, the investigation into the 13-year-old unsolved case was "reinvigorated" months ago as a result of new information, but the source would not elaborate further because of the ongoing investigation that includes the Los Angeles Police Department, L.A. County District Attorney's Office and the FBI.
On March 9, 1997, Wallace, 24, was shot and killed while riding in a Suburban that was driving away from a music industry party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles police said a lone gunman in a Chevy Impala pulled alongside the Suburban and opened fire on Wallace, who was in the passenger seat. Witnesses described the suspect as being an African-American man wearing a suit and bow tie.
The main theory behind shooting was payback in a so-called rap war between East and West Coast hip hop artists and their record companies -- Bad Boy Entertainment in New York, which represented Wallace, and Death Row Records, headed by Marion "Suge" Knight, in Los Angeles.
Six months earlier in Las Vegas, a gunman opened fire on a car driven by Knight, killing one of his top artists Tupac Shakur. That murder remains unsolved also.
"East Coast was Biggie, West Coast was Tupac," Wallace's mother Voletta Wallace told a filmmaker in the 2002 documentary "Biggie and Tupac."
"Come on now, you're messing with lives here and that's exactly what happened. Two lives were lost as a result of what? Stupidity?" Voletta Wallace told the filmmaker.
Retired Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, who worked on the Wallace case, told CNN that he believes Knight was behind the murder, even though the Death Row Records' boss was serving time on a probation violation at the time.
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"Suge Knight ordered the hit," Poole said, adding that he believes it was arranged by Reggie Wright Jr., who headed security for Death Row Records.
Reggie Wright Jr. told CNN he had nothing to do with the murder, and Knight has repeatedly said he had nothing to do with the crime. Poole said he retired early from the LAPD, in part, because he was thwarted in following leads in the Wallace case involving police officers, some of whom worked off-duty for Death Row Records.
"I think I was getting too close to the truth," Poole said. "I think they feared that the truth would be a scandal."
One of the officers Poole said was involved is David Mack, a rogue policeman tied to the LAPD Rampart Scandal, who was sent to prison for robbing a bank in 1997, the same year Wallace was killed.
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Poole said Mack owned the same type of car driven by the gunman who shot Wallace, and Poole said a friend of Mack's resembles a police sketch of the shooter.
CNN was unable to reach Mack for comment, but when allegations of his involvement in Wallace' slaying originally surfaced more than a decade ago, his criminal defense attorney Donald Re called the claims ridiculous.
Poole also assisted Wallace's family in their wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department alleging a cover-up in the investigation.
Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks was the chief of police when Poole was investigating, and he told CNN the accusations about a police cover-up are "absurd."
"We would have never ignored a lead that could have helped us solve that murder," Parks said.
Perry Sanders, Voletta Wallace's attorney, told CNN the family's lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2002, was put on hold in April after Los Angeles police said turning over evidence from the case would interfere with a beefed up investigation.
Mack was released from federal prison on May 14.
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Adding a bizarre twist to an already strange story, former Bad Boy artist G-Dep is now saying he didn’t know the man he confessed to shooting 17 years ago had actually died.
In an interview with the New York Post, the troubled rapper seems to hint that he thought he would be walking out of the precinct after the confession.
“I was surprised, for some reason I didn’t think that he died. When they [police] told me I was like, ‘Oh I’m not going home after this,’” he said.
As if the police would have let him just go on his merry way after confessing to shooting a man three times during a botched robbery.
When the story first broke Dep’s lawyer, Michael Alperstein told the Post the rapper should not be presumed guilty.
“My client is presumed innocent, and the case is going to a grand jury,” the lawyer said.
Proving his innocence is going to be almost impossible, he knew details about the crime only the killer would know according to police.
After sitting in jail for several days, maybe the realization that he may never see the free world again is setting in on Dep. But he says he talked things over with his mother and girlfriend before going to the police station.
“I told my mom and my girlfriend that I wanted to confess and they both told me to leave it in the past. My girlfriend is pretty peeved,” the former chart topping rapper admitted. “I thought if I turned myself in it might give me closure, I’m just trying to get right with God. The only thing I regret is that I have to leave my kids.”
Dep has three children with Lyvonnia Crawford.
Bottom line is he killed John Henkel on the night of October 19, 1993, now he’ll most likely have to pay for it.
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