Here's DJ Whoo Kid's highly entertaining interview with NEHipHop.
After sponsoring his show at Goodlife Bar in Boston last Saturday we had the chance to conduct an interview with DJ Whoo Kid that is without question the most honest, blunt in your face conversation we have captured to date.
In it he starts off talking about his events with Diddy and the hilarious "fountain of youth" Diddy has discovered. Next up Whoo Kid tells how he got Young Buck into the G-Unit reunion, how he'd like to get The Game back and announces upcoming solo work with each of the individual members. From there he goes on to explain how important he finds it to be diverse not only with the music he's involved with but also with the guest on his radio show - even going as far as to tell us never before heard trade secrets.
After explaining how he keeps his interviews interesting and gets starts to open up in a different way Whoo Kid tells why hip-hop is full of liars, how hip-hop is an illusion, how lying helped get him to where he is in his career and how he learned from Russell Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Jimmy Iovine. Before checking out Whoo Kid details his use of social media, how world travel taught him the ignorance of monogamy and the nick name Chaka Khan gave him. At 18 minutes this interview flies bad as it's incredibly entertaining. Enjoy!
The gang's all back for the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious movie franchise.
Paul Walker, Tyrese, Ludacris, Vin Diesel, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez all reprise their roles in the film which hits theaters on April 3rd.
Their new nemesis,Deckard Shaw, is played byJason Statham.
Plot: Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for the death of his brother.
Here's a three-minute extended trailer for what looks like another thrilling ride.
Continuing the global exploits in the unstoppable franchise built on speed, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of Fast & Furious 7. James Wan directs this chapter of the hugely successful series that also welcomes back favorites Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Elsa Pataky and Lucas Black. They are joined by international action stars new to the franchise including Jason Statham, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey and Kurt Russell. Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell return to produce the film written by Chris Morgan.
Tiara Thomas is quickly gaining a lot of attention for all the right reasons. Her silky smooth vocals are a welcome addition to the R&B game. Check out her new music video for "How It Is."
Produced by Qreamybeats & Directed by Shane Adams.
TIME Magazine has rolled out it's list ofThe Most Influential People On The Internet. Notable names includePresident Obama, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler Oakley, Shakira, J.K. Rowling, Kim KardashianandJimmy Fallon.
Jay Electronica doesn't drop new music as often as fans would like, but when he does it's always something meaningful. Here's a song entitled "Road to Perdition" featuring a Jay Z voice sample.
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Hot Boy Turk drops some "New Shit" to get the weekend kicked off on the right foot. This heater was produced by Jaye Neutron. Listen up top and sound off on it in the comment section below.
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) — When a man battles Darth Vader, Nazis and other evil-doers for work, what does he do for fun? Harrison Ford finds his answer in a pilot's license and the freedom to take to the skies.
But with adventure comes risk, just as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and other daring movie characters Ford brought to life realized. On Thursday, one of Hollywood's pre-eminent stars added a plane crash to an aviation record that includes both mishaps and service to others.
Ford, 72, who battled Hitler's henchmen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as dashing archaeologist Jones, was flying a World War II-era plane when it lost engine power shortly after takeoff from Santa Monica Municipal Airport near Los Angeles. He crash-landed on a golf course next to the airport.
Bystanders who feared the aircraft might explode or catch fire pulled the actor from the plane, and doctors who happened to be playing golf gave him initial help, Los Angeles fire officials said. An ambulance then took him to a hospital in fair to moderate condition.
"He had no other choice but to make an emergency landing, which he did safely," Ford spokeswoman Ina Treciokas said. "He was banged up and is in the hospital receiving medical care."
The injuries are not life-threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery, she said in a statement Thursday night. No one on the ground was hurt.
Ford took off at 2 p.m. Thursday. About 20 minutes later, he told the airport tower that he had engine failure and was making an immediate return, according to a recording posted by LiveATC.net.
The plane had been flying at about 3,000 feet and hit a tree on the way down, according to witnesses and officials.
Ford had a cut to his forehead and scraped arms, but it wasn't clear what internal injuries he may have received, Los Angeles Assistant Fire Chief Patrick Butler said.
"He wasn't a bloody mess. He was alert. He had good vitals," Butler said.
The plane, a yellow 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR with stars on its wings, had damage mostly confined to the front.
"I would say that this is an absolutely beautifully executed — what we would call — a forced or emergency landing, by an unbelievably well-trained pilot," said Christian Fry of the Santa Monica Airport Association.
Charlie Thomson, a flight instructor at the airport who saw Ford take off, said engine failure like Ford's does not make the plane harder to maneuver. "It just means you have to go down," he said.
Ford crashed on a fairway of Penmar golf course.
"Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left," said Jeff Kuprycz, who was golfing when he saw the plane taking off.
Kuprycz said there was no explosion when the plane plunged to the ground, "it just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it."
Among the first people to reach Ford was a spinal surgeon who had been golfing.
Sanjay Khurana told TV stations in Los Angeles that he found Ford slumped over in the cockpit but conscious.
Aside from worrying about Ford's injuries from the impact, he saw fuel leaking out and became concerned that the plane could explode. As he helped pull Ford from the wreckage, others threw dirt on the fuel.
The airport's single runway sits amid residential neighborhoods in the city of more than 90,000 on the Pacific Ocean. City leaders and many residents advocate closing the airport, citing noise and safety concerns. Other planes taking off or landing there have crashed into homes, and in September 2013 four people died when their small jet veered into a hangar and caught fire.
Ford, who plays the swashbuckling Solo in his fourth "Star Wars" movie set for release in December, is known to shun attention to his private life but has been publicly effusive about his love of flying.
After arriving in his own plane at a 2001 fundraising gala for Seattle's Museum of Flight, Ford said he was glad to help "engage kids in the romance and the mystery and the adventure of flying. ... I know what it means."
Ford got his pilot's license in the 1990s and has made headlines with his flying, though he had never been significantly injured. In 2001, he rescued a missing Boy Scout with his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Wyoming.
In 2000, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off a runway in Lincoln, Nebraska. He and his passenger were not injured.
He has also volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopters are busy battling blazes.
The actor, who is married to Calista Flockhart of "Ally McBeal" fame, has said his rescues "had nothing to do with heroism."
"It had to do with flying a helicopter. That's all," he said.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash in a process that could take up to a year before a final report. NTSB investigator Patrick Jones said the agency would look at "everything: weather, man, the machine."
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Associated Press writers Andrew Dalton, Robert Jablon, Justin Pritchard and Sandy Cohen in Los Angeles and Alina Hartounian in Phoenix contributed to this story.
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — President Barack Obama said the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to that police department, and he cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement.
Obama said improving civil rights and civil liberties with police is one of the areas that "requires collective action and mobilization" 50 years after pivotal civil rights marches brought change to the country. The president made his first remarks about this week's Justice Department report of racial bias in Ferguson, which found officers routinely discriminating against blacks by using excessive force.
"I don't think that is typical of what happens across the country, but it's not an isolated incident," Obama told The Joe Madison Radio Show on Sirius XM radio's Urban View channel. "I think that there are circumstances in which trust between communities and law enforcement have broken down, and individuals or entire departments may not have the training or the accountability to make sure that they're protecting and serving all people and not just some."
Obama's interview was to preview his trip Saturday to Selma, Alabama, where he plans to speak from the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where white police officers beat civil rights protesters on March 7, 1965. Obama last visited Selma in 2007, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination and spoke about the responsibility of those who came after the civil rights generation of the '60s to carry on the struggle.
It was a theme he reiterated ahead of his return visit.
In another interview with radio host Tom Joyner, Obama said that despite the progress in race relations over the past 50 years, the Justice Department findings about Ferguson show that civil rights "is an unfinished project."
"There is work to be done right now," he said.
On Friday, Obama was kicking off the weekend's 50th anniversary with a town hall meeting at South Carolina's Benedict College, a historically black college. The White House said Obama plans to speak about efforts young people made throughout history to expand opportunity.
Obama's visit to Columbia is his first trip to South Carolina as president. Obama has just two other states to reach his goal of traveling to all 50 in office — South Dakota and Utah.
The Top Goon Of Philly, Ar-Ab, is preparing to release the second installment of his Mud Musik mixtape series. Here's the first single off of it entitled "Say My Name."
Rita Ora, the famed British singer, who has been in the news recently over her outfits starting from her cleavage showing on an European talk show to the Oscars where she was dressed in a hot scantily clothe outfit with no panties to wearing the same pink latex outfit as Kim, Ora stays in the news and she hits the wire again but this time for a different reason.
The song is called "Ora" and is already receiving some online buzz on Soundcloud and Youtube, it starts off with a thumping bassline and chords before you hear the male voice come in going "I make her sing like Rita Ora/ Body shaped like Coca-Cola/ Booty softer than a sofa". At first, it has a similar energy and feel to O.T. Genasis hit song "CoCo" but is differentiated by a unique style/voice. It was made by Atlanta based rapper/producer called TKO Tamanji.
“It was not created as an ode to Rita Ora per sey,” TKO says. On his previous recordings, he admits, “I was doing everything I could to make music that had a lyrical punch with a southern flow and bounce. Musically speaking, I just got in a space where I said f***k it, and let things start to flow both lyrically and melodically.”
TKO has been writing and producing songs for a number of years, but kept them hidden away even though he had previous releases featuring producer Dun Deal & upcoming 2 chainz artist Cap-1. “At the time, I just didn't feel like a lot of these records where ready for mass consumption, I personally felt as an artist I needed more time to grow and let my skill build.”
However, the birth of this song inspired a major change in heart of TKO. This song came about during a session: “I was sitting in the studio with my producer Brick when he played this beat, and it was that feeling you get in the city when you just pulled the baddest b***h or at least you feeling the confidence to do so “. The result is a stunning candid, sensuous and precise…song about our generation, our love for the appeal of the bad b***h, the lust for life as seen from the vantage point of our age.
Producer Bricks recorded the song and a group of others together in his half completed studio, which is still under construction and probably that's what contributes to the song’s intimate, candid and passionate feel. TKO reflects on the experience: “I’d never worked so fast, so boldly, so excitedly in a studio. The result are songs that showcase how I feel with ease and grace, allow me to mess with new patterns, melodies and cadences. I'm used to working in fully established studios so this gave me a gritty, hungry and gotta get it type of feel which comes through in the tracks.”
The song, which was released on iTunes and other digital stores late last month, has inspired critical raves, lots of plays in a short time on Soundcloud (over 40k in a week), and spins from Djs at hot spots in the city of Atlanta and surroundig areas.
TKO will showcase material from his upcoming project and would continue to drop more material and singles as the movement grows. In the meantime go find out if there's any hype to it:
During 50 Cent's recent conversation with DJ Self he explains why he's become a fan of Troy Ave's music and talks about Chris Brown becoming a father.
"I've seen [that kind of situation before]. That's a stick up," 50 said about Chris Brown's situation. "Whenever you see it public without the man that is actually generating the interest [talking about it] then you know what that is. You know where that's coming from and it's not a positive place because it could be dealt with [privately]. Really what we're talking about is a car note. And you're traveling so you don't get to drive that car. That's what that is, child support."
Bobby Shmurda called back into Hot 97 from jail on Thursday, March 5, to finish a conversation that was abruptly cut off last week. Today he had his GS9 partner Rowdy Rebel there with him.
Both said they're not getting any support from Sony or Epic Records. Bobby clarified that the guy saying he's his uncle really isn't related to him and is a fraud, says he's been trying to get in touch with 50 Cent to manage him, has to get money from his mom for commissary because his GS9 affiliate Abillyon went ghost on him and more.
Promoting "Dark Sky Paradise", Big Sean Stopped by The Whoolywood Shuffle. He spoke on #IDFWU being a trending hashtag, his grandmother's influence on his life, and being left out of Illuminati rituals with 2 Chainz. We also tried to get out of him whether or not he's on Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album. See what he had to say. POW!
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