Jadakiss of The Lox stopped by Hot 97's Ebro in the Morning to promote his new album titled "Top Five Dead Or Alive."
He says he truly believes he deserves that respect, names his top 5, excluding himself (Nas, Jay Z, 2Pac, Styles P and The Notorious B.I.G), Billboard's list, explains why the album was the delayed, getting up to speed in the new social media age, talks Def Jam, the indie movement, working with Diddy again on "MMM," being on the Bad Boy Reunion tour, new album from The Lox and more.
Missy Elliot recently released “WTF (Where They From).” The single marks the official return of an artist the game has sorely missed over the last decade.
The 44-year old Virginia native covers the latest issue of Billboard. In her interview with the publication she explains that she has been working since the release of her 2005 album, "The Cookbook."
Writing and producing for other artists has kept her busy. She also has a vault full of her own unreleased songs.
“If I wanted to do The Missing Files of Missy Elliott, I have probably six albums just sitting there,” she said, before explaining her hiatus. “People hadn’t realized that I haven’t just been an artist, I’ve been a writer and a producer for other artists. When you’re writing that much, your brain is like a computer. You have refresh it.”
The artist born, Melissa Arnette Elliott, says she's now ready to tour and plans on releasing a new album next year.
“I’ve done mad shows, but my last amazing tour was me, Beyoncé and Alicia [Keys, in 2004]. I’d love to do one with B.” And when will the album be out? “I want to say 2016 but I don’t want to give a time. Nowadays you say a time, they’ll stone you.”
Five rappers have made it onto Billboard's'Greatest Of All Time Hot 100 Artists' list. Based on the number of hits they have compiled, the artists should come as no surprise.
How it works:
These all-time rankings are based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 (from its launch on Aug. 4, 1958 through Oct. 10, 2015) and Billboard 200 (from Aug. 17, 1963 — when we combined our two leading pop album album charts for stereo and mono releases into one all-encompassing weekly chart — through Oct. 10, 2015). Titles are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at lower rungs earning the least. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted differently to account for chart turnover rates over various periods. Artists are ranked based on the combined point totals, as outlined above, of all their Hot 100 or Billboard 200 chart entries.
Take a look at the rappers who made the list below.
50 Cent has a gift for hip hop fans as the holiday season begins. The music mogul just announced via Instagram that his highly anticipated project, "The Kanan Tape," EP will arrive on Thanksgiving Day, November 26th.
"Now you know, the KANAN TAPE WILL BE OUT EVERY WHERE THANKSGIVING DAY!!!!" he wrote.
D12 has been with Eminem since the beginning of his career, which they spoke about during an exclusive interview with VladTV. The Detroit emcees shared stories about being in the studio while Em recorded his first project, "Infinite," and Kuniva spoke specifically about working on track, "Open Mic."
Speaking more about the album, the guys of D12 spoke about its poor reception, and Bizarre revealed that Eminem spoke about retiring if he didn't place well at the Rap Olympics. The Detroit spitter ended up getting second place at the contest, and after Eminem called Bizarre with the news that he caught the attention of Dr. Dre, the D12 emcee told us that he quit his job.
D12 would later go on to work with Dr. Dre, whom the group said treated them like his own artists, which you can hear more about in the clip below.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 19, 2015 at 12:30pm
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While out and about promoting his new album, "The Incredible True Story,"Logic stopped by Los Angeles radio station Power 106 to spit a sick freestyle on "The Cruz Show" and perform "Fade Away."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 19, 2015 at 11:30am
Admitted pedophile Jared Fogle is in an Indianapolis courtroom today awaiting sentencing. The former Subway spokesman pleaded guilty to child pornography and sex charges.
In a bizarre attempt to have his sentenced reduced, his lawyers brought forth a sexual behavior expert, who testified that Fogle has an eating disorder, which was cured when he lost 245 lbs while on a diet of Subway sandwiches. However, once he lost the weight he developed compulsive hypersexuality disorder, according to TMZ.
Reuters reports that12 victims of child pornography were discovered in Fogle's home state of Indiana, along with two teenage victims of child prostitution in New York.
Federal prosecutors have requested that Fogle spend 12-and-a-half years in prison and be under lifetime supervision.
Once out of prison, he would be required to register as a sex offender in any state where he worked or lived.
**UPDATE**
Judge Tanya Walton Pratt has handed down a sentence of 15 years and eight months in prison for Jared Fogle. He could have been hit with a 50-year bid.
"The level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogle is extreme," Pratt said, according to the Associated Press.
Pratt Fogle recommended that Fogle receive sex offender treatment in prison. He'll serve his time if a federal prison in Littleton, Colorado, that specializes in such treatment. Fogle also has to submit to a lifetime of post-prison supervision and pay a $175,000 fine.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 19, 2015 at 10:00am
Producer/rapper Mannie Fresh is preparing to release a new EP titled "We Got This" on December 4th. Check out his new collaboration with Juvenile, "Energized." Let us know what you think by sounding off in the comment section below.
Win or lose, Ronda Rousey, was planning on taking some much needed time off after UFC 193. It's now mandatory. The organization has suspended her for six months for medical reasons.
After being knocked out in the second round by Holly Holm, Rousey was immediately taken to the hospital. UFC President Dana White said she would be having plastic surgery to repair her split lip.
It's now obvious that her injuries were more serious, although the UFC has not revealed the extent of them.
The former bantamweight champion is not allowed to fight on her own time for 60 days, can have no contact for 45 days and is prohibited from an official fight for 180 days (or earlier if cleared by a negative head CT scan).
Jose Aldo
UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo told MMAFighting.com that he believes Rousey's fighting career is over.
"I think it’s really hard for her to return to fighting," Aldo said. "Her career has taken a different direction. If I’m making a lot of money doing movies or something else, I’d go that direction too. Am I going to mess my face up getting punched in the face? You’re crazy [laughs]. In my opinion, I don’t think (she fights again). If she comes back, of course she can (win the title). She was always a fighter, but if I were her, I wouldn’t come back.
"I see this as Gina’s situation," said Aldo, comparing Rousey’s loss to Cris Cyborg’s win over Gina Carano at Strikeforce. "Gina was a great fighter and went her way to become an actress after she lost to Cyborg, and she’s getting more attention than if she was still fighting. No diet, not getting punched in the face, nothing."
"I think the legacy Ronda leaves behind is that she changed women’s MMA," Aldo said. "She put it where no one ever imagined, where even Dana White said it would never be, and it is now. That’s her legacy. She has done a lot for women’s sport."
Gina Carano (left) and Cris Cyborg
Do you think we'll see Rousey in the Octagon again?
Austin, TX, November 12, 2015: Dino drops a sexy collaboration in the form of “11:59” featuring the daughter of MC Sha-Rock (the first female rapper/MC of the hip-hop culture) Princess Tia and Mysterious Entertainment R&B recording artist Marquee. The single alongside the music video, raises the bar for independent artists and labels while leveling the overall playing field between indies and majors. The soulful, sexy single by Dino is a modern refreshment in today’s hip hop genre and showcases the untapped talent of independent artists.
Atlanta rapper and VH1 "Love and Hip Hop Atlanta" cast member Lil Scrappy, sits down with DJ Smallz and discusses the possibility of the legalization of medical marijuana in Georgia, what marijuana does for him, reflects back on his rehab for it, stopping cold turkey, and reveals the dumbest thing he has done under the influence of the leafy green.
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — The suicide bomber exploded as truckers were tucking into dinner at the bustling marketplace where vendors urged them to buy sugar cane. At least 34 people were killed and another 80 wounded in Yola, a town packed with refugees from Nigeria's Islamic uprising, emergency officials said Wednesday.
Later Wednesday, two more suicide bombers killed at least 15 people in the northern city of Kano and injured 53, according to police. Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency said more than 100 were wounded.
The blasts were the latest by Boko Haram, Nigeria's home-grown extremists whose 6-year insurgency has killed 20,000 and forced 2.3 million to flee their homes.
Boko Haram was named Wednesday as the world's most deadly extremist group in the Global Terrorism Index. Deaths attributed to Boko Haram increased by 317 percent in 2014 to 6,644 compared to 6,073 blamed on the Islamic State group. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to IS in March and calls itself that group's West Africa Province.
Wednesday's explosions came as President Muhammadu Buhari pressed his campaign against Nigeria's endemic corruption, blamed for hampering the fight against the insurgents. Buhari accused his predecessor's national security adviser of stealing billions of dollars meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram, when soldiers had just a few bullets and the Islamic extremists were rampaging across northeast Nigeria.
Critics long have blamed corruption for the military's failures, asking how the insurgents can be better armed than Nigerian soldiers despite an annual defense budget of more than $5 billion, supplemented last year by a loan of $1 billion.
Buhari ordered the arrests of several former high-ranking officials allegedly linked to fraudulent and fictitious arms contracts totaling $5.4 billion, one of his advisers, Femi Adesina, said in a statement.
"Thousands of needless Nigerian deaths would have been avoided" if the money had been properly spent, Adesina said.
The unending violence has torn apart Nigeria's northeast. In the city of Yola, hit by a suicide bombing for the third time in as many months, relatives searching for missing loved ones converged on the two main hospitals.
"I couldn't find them at the hospital so I had to come to the mortuary," said a distraught Musa Adamu. He said his brother, Kamal, was selling sugar cane to truckers and his uncle had gone to look for him.
Adamu found both their bodies in the morgue.
Eight children were among the dead, said Yola Specialist Hospital director Dr. Bala Sa'id.
Many Nigerians welcomed the order for the arrest of Sambo Dasuki, the former national security adviser accused of diverting billions that should have equipped the army.
Sambo Dasuki
"Beyond corruption, Dasuki should be charged for high treason: Men, women and children died because their armed forces could not defend them," one angry Nigerian, D. Olusegun, tweeted.
Buhari ordered the arrest of Dasuki, a key adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan from 2012, and other unnamed high-ranking officials mentioned in an interim report by a committee investigating arms procurement since 2007 that Buhari ordered after he took office in May.
Dasuki is accused of awarding "phantom contracts" to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets and munitions worth $2.9 billion that never were supplied, Adesina said. Buhari fired him in July.
In a statement, Dasuki said the allegations were "laughable" and that "I am not a thief or treasury looter as being portrayed."
He said he has a November 2015 memo from the then chief of air staff acknowledging receipt of the jets and helicopters.
An October memo confirmed receipt of 250 kilograms of bombs and accessories costing $2.89 million with freight costs of $1.2 million, Dasuki said.
"It is not for me to go and find out whether the equipment was delivered or not. I am not the one keeping the inventories," he said.
Dasuki insisted the presidential committee had never asked him to give evidence, though Nigeria's intelligence agency, the State Security Service, has said that Dasuki refused to answer the committee's questions.
Security agents said that was why they have been besieging Dasuki's home in Abuja, the capital, despite a Federal High Court order allowing him to travel abroad for medical care. The court had allowed Dasuki bail after he pleaded innocent to other charges of money-laundering, involving more than $423,000 found in cash, and illegal possession of arms seized at two of his homes.
Dasuki said he was proud that in the final months under his watch Nigeria's military ousted Boko Haram from its self-declared Islamic caliphate.
That offensive came as Jonathan faced elections. In the year before, soldiers fled before the extremists, allowing them to seize control of a large swath of northeast Nigeria. Soldiers told The Associated Press they were going into battle without food and armed with just 30 bullets each.
Dasuki, 60, had usurped the role of the Ministry of Defense in procuring weapons. A retired army lieutenant-colonel, Dasuki participated in every coup in Nigeria since the 1980s.
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Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria. Associated Press writer Ibrahim Garba contributed to this report from Kano, Nigeria.
Rotimi releases the music video for "Situation," song off of Royal Wednesday, his first mixtape available for free download now: http://rotimimusic.com
Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are not, and will probably never be friends. Sure, they have done business together with Floyd fighting for Oscar's Golden Boy Promotions over the years, but that was mostly because of GBP's former chief executive, Richard Schaefer.
When Schaefer resigned in June of 2014, there was no longer a buffer between De La Hoya and Mayweather, who severed business ties shortly afterwards.
Maybe De La Hoya is still angry about the parting of ways or never got over the fact that he lost a spit decision to Mayweather when they fought on May 5, 2007. Whatever the reason, he decided to reignite their feud in a newPlayboy interview.
He said, among other things that "the fight game will be a better one without" Mayweather in it. Read an excerpt from the interview below.
Let’s face it: You were boring. Just take a look at your most recent performance, your last hurrah in the ring, a 12-round decision against Andre Berto. How to describe it? A bust? A disaster? A snooze fest? An affair so one-sided that on one judge’s card Berto didn’t win a single round? Everyone in boxing knew Berto didn’t have a chance. I think more people watched Family Guy reruns that night than tuned in to that pay-per-view bout. But I didn’t mind shelling out $75 for the HD broadcast. In fact it’s been a great investment. When my kids have trouble falling asleep, I don’t have to read to them anymore. I just play them your Berto fight. They don’t make it past round three.
Another reason boxing is better off without you: You were afraid. Afraid of taking chances. Afraid of risk. A perfect example is your greatest “triumph,” the long-awaited record-breaking fight between you and Manny Pacquiao. Nearly 4.5 million buys! More than $400 million in revenue! Headlines worldwide! How can that be bad for boxing? Because you lied. You promised action and entertainment and a battle for the ages, and you delivered none of the above. The problem is, that’s precisely how you want it. You should have fought Pacquiao five years ago, not five months ago. That, however, would have been too dangerous. Too risky. You’ve made a career out of being cautious. You won’t get in the ring unless you have an edge. Sure, you fought some big names. But they were past their prime. Hell, even when we fought in 2007—and I barely lost a split decision—I was at the tail end of my career. Then later you took on Mexican megastar Saúl “Canelo” -Álvarez, but he was too young and had to drop too much weight.
I think he's jealous -- jealous. The thing is this, I mean, you see Richard Schaefer is gone. Richard Schaefer built Golden Boy. Honestly, who wants to do business with Oscar De La Hoya? I really care about a fighter's well-being. I'm just saying if Miguel Cotto was my fighter, if Canelo was my fighter, they'd be a lot bigger than they are now.
Mayweather even brought up his rival's cocaine addiction and cross dressing past.
I'm just saying how can Oscar even speak on something when he didn't even show up? He didn't show up at the Canelo fight. What are we talking about? Drugs, lies and adultery. And dressing in drag. Me, as a fighter, I'm just saying, if I was a young fighter coming up, a guy that's lying, a guy that's on drugs, a guy that we don't know if he's going to show up, he's not 100 percent, I've only got to say one thing -- he couldn't be my promoter. If I was a young fighter coming up, I would not want Oscar De La Hoya as my promoter. Me, as a fighter, I couldn't trust him.
Silkk The Shocker had a great run in the mid-90's to early 2000's, as part of his brother, Master P's, No Limit Records family.
Despite his success, the 40-year old New Orleans artist has sometimes ended up on "Worst Rappers" lists.
During a sit down with VladTV he was asked about the subject and was ready with a quick response.
"The worst rapper stuff...I do see that, but I'm confused on who gave them a chart," Silkk said. "Look, I sold a lot of records. I sold more records than a lot of rappers. I don't know what can say I'm the worst, but it's an opinion. But see, the people making opinions I just want them to come out and say who they are so we can kinda compare notes. Like, 'How many records you sold?'"
Silkk's sixth solo album, "Incredible," is due out soon.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 18, 2015 at 11:05am
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Chicago rapper Lil Herb a.k.a. G Herbo gives HNHH the green light to premiere his new music video for "Some Otha Sh*t." Check out the visuals below and let us know what you think in the comment section.
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