By now most have you have probably heard about Tyga's tour bus getting shot up Tuesday morning in Omaha, Nebraska, leaving 2 members of his crew including rapper Honey Cocaine wounded. (If not read here).
Charlamagne Tha God of The Breakfast Club hits Tyga with the "Donkey of the Day" award for basically escalating the situation to the point where it got out of hand.
Charlamagne says Tyga really didn't want beef or he would have jumped in the crowd and went after the person who threw something at the stage like 50 Cent, Jim Jones and A$AP Mob have done in the past. Instead Tyga just ranted at the audience and threatened to handle things after the show.
"First of all Tyga you aint about that life," Charlamagne says. "Let's dissect this waffle colored war cry down. Tyga was shook to death."
Charlamagne then plays clips of Tyga's rant, then breaks down what he thinks the YMCMB rapper really meant to say.
A Fulton County grand jury indicted 29-year old Vinson Hardimon aka Young Vito on Tuesday for the murder of Waka Flocka associate Slim Dunkin.
Dunkin, born Mario Hamiltion, was killed during a fight with Vito at an Atlanta recording studio on Dec. 16, 2011. Vito shot Dunkin in the chest and fled the scene.
Dunkin was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he was later declared dead. He was only 24-years old at the time.
Vito was on the run for ten days before turning himself in.
As promised Bobby Ray delivered his official video for "So Good" this morning. The song is off of B.o.B's upcoming album Strange Clouds, which is due out May 1st via Grand Hustle/Atlantic Records.
Here is the official album sampler released by Cash Money Records for Nicki Minaj's album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, which drops April 3rd.
Tracklist:
1. Roman Holiday (Produced by Blackout) 4:06 2. Come On A Cone (Produced by Hit-Boy) 3:05 3. I Am Your Leader Feat. Cam’ron & Rick Ross (Produced by Hit-Boy) 3:34 4. Beez In The Trap Feat. 2 Chainz 4:28 5. HOV Lane 3:13 6. Roman Reloaded Feat. Lil Wayne (Produced by Rico Beats) 3:17 7. Champion Feat. NAS, Drake & Young Jeezy 4:56 8. Right By My Side Feat. Chris Brown 4:25 9. Sex In the Lounge Feat. Lil Wayne & Bobby V 3:28 10. Starships (Produced by RedOne) 3:30 11. Pound The Alarm 3:26 12. Whip It 3:16 13. Automatic 3:18 14. Beautiful Sinner (Produced by Alex Da Kid) 3:47 15. Marilyn Monroe (Produced by JR Rotem) 3:16 16. Young Forever (Produced by Dr. Luke) 3:07 17. Fire Burns 3:00 18. Gun Shot Feat. Beenie Man (Produced by Kane Beatz) 4:40 19. Stupid Hoe (Produced by Diamond Kuts) 3:16
Deluxe Edition
20. Turn Me On (Produced by David Guetta) 21. Va Va Voom (Produced by Kool Kojak, Cirkut, Dr. Luke) 3:00 22. Masquerade (Produced by Dr. Luke)
Ice Cube hasn't hung up the mic just yet, so this isn't exactly a passing of the torch, but his son OMG (Oh My Goodness) is ready to make a name for himself.
Peep OMG's first video "House Party" from his debut project Jackin' For Beats: The Mixtape.
Check out the official cover for Future's debut album Pluto. The 2012 XXL Freshman will be releasing the disc on April 17th.
Features on the album include Snoop Dogg, T.I., Drake, R. Kelly and Ludacris.
Tracklisting:
1. The Future Is Now: ft. Big Rube 2. Parachute ft. R.Kelly 3. Straight Up 4. Astronaut Chick 5. Magic (Remix) ft. T.I. 6. I’m Trippin ft. Juicy J 7. Truth Gonna Hurt You 8. Neva End 9. Tony Montana ft. Drake 10. Permanent Scar 11. Same Damn Time 12. Long Live The Pimp ft. Trae The Truth 13. Homicide ft. Snoop Dogg 14. Turn On The Lights 15. You Deserve It
Ryan Leslie comes through with a smooth and polished video for "5 Minute Freshen Up," which we got a preview of previously when he was in the studio putting it together.
This is the fourth in a series of 10 videos making up the "LES IS MORE" visual album.
Ice Cube appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday [March 20]. The veteran rapper/actor talked with Jimmy about having the number one movie in the country with 21 Jump Street, NWA, the music careers of hos sons OMG and Dough Boy and being the best rapper ever.
After releasing his first highly anticipated Solo Mixtape , Wicked collaborates with K. Story (@OfficialKStory) to put together a deep hit single focused on sending out a message about not taking life for granted, and realizing that everything could be gone the next day.
Linking up with Director/Engineer Prestige Madison, of Madson Records/Films was also key in putting this video together. All scenes were shot in Rochester New York & All material directed and edited by Prestige Madison (@dagreatprestige) .
Nardwuar the Human Serviette caught up with A$AP Rocky and the A$AP Mob while in Austin last week for the South By Southwest Music Festival.
All Nardwuar interviews are entertaining, and this one is no different. He finds out little known facts about his guests and basically blows their minds.
Yesterday we premiered Genasis' "Cashin' Out" freestyle and already the G-Unit rapper has official visuals directed by Angelo Deprater to go along with it.
Be on the lookout for Genasis' Black Belt mixtape coming sooner than you think.
The-Dream is the man behind tons of huge pop hits like Rihanna's "Umbrella," Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," and J. Holiday's "Bed" to name a few. Because he is a songwriter and also a performer it's his job to take note of trends within the music industry. One trend that he's noticed that he finds kind of alarming is the lack of soul music coming from black entertainer's these days in the U.S.
"It's called rhythm and blues; they just took the blues out of it for so long. What's crazy is that blacks can't do soul records any more." he told the UK's Guardian. "We love Adele singing it, but Beyoncé singing it? No, the tempo's too slow, gimme the club hit. Now the blacks in America are responsible for the pop records, and everybody else is singing soulful records. It's weird to me. We're pigeonholed over there."
Take a minute to think about it. Is he right? Or is he exaggerating a bit too much?
Strong Arm Steady (Mitchy Slick, Krondon & Phil Da Agony) have teamed up with producer Statik Selektah for a new album entitled Stereotype. This is the first single from the project.
This Concept Came together because of my love for the IPhone and the Instagram App , a Group called the Vaccines did something similar for there song " Wet Suit " There video which was festival based Sparked me to do this with my visual team I.R.S thanks to our devoted Fans We Consider Family who helped with gathering The Instagram Photo's we bring you a Montage of All things Classic - Enjoy - KRNDN
Canadian beauty Melanie Fiona graces the cover of the March issue of Vibe Vixen. In a candid interview with VV's Niki McGloster, the two-time Grammy winning singer discusses her new album The MF Life, the lowest point in her career, starting out out in the "internet era" and more.
VIBE VIXEN: Tell me what should fans expect from The MF Life outside of the love and heartbreak. MELANIE: Fans should expect and can expect a really, really strong, really well produced album. You know, I really really do think I worked with the best of the best personally. I think that every producer and artist I got featured on this album really brings something special to this album that I don’t think anyone else has on their album, and it’s a power, it’s a strength, it’s an energy; it’s a very strong body of work I believe. I believe that the songs people have heard and the things that have been released, when they get the album, they’ll be pleasantly surprised. That’s not necessarily the bread and butter of the album. There’s really great hidden gems on this album, and I just think that it’s a really strong album that gives appeal to both men and women, which I think is a tough thing to do. I’m a girl’s girl, but I also appreciate music that speaks to men. I listen to a lot of hip-hop ‘cause of my brother, so it just kinda comes out of me.
With your recent Grammy wins, do you feel more validated now, more solidified in your career? Hell yeah, absolutely. I don’t put too much pressure or weight on myself for the win, for the nomination, but it’s a great feeling. It truly is an amazing feeling to know you have the respect of the Academy and your peers in this community of artist and industry. It’s a real boost of confidence for me because I don’t really let it get to my head. When I started The MF Life, I had a real low in my confidence level because I came off such a high on the first album, and it was such a new experience. I realized people were checking for me, they were looking for me, and I really had to boost my own confidence in writing and getting in the studio and getting creative because I almost felt like I couldn’t do it again. What if I’m not as good the second time as I was the first time? And to know I’ve achieved these kinds of things in such a short career is really a great thing, so now when I know people are checking for me, they’re gonna see [the Grammy awards] and that means something. It’s such a huge validation for me to say I’ve been a part of Grammy music history and to be on a collaboration with such a cool ass dude like Cee-Lo Green. It’s a great feeling for me, and it really does give me the inspiration to continue to really outdo myself.
After your first record, during that low period, what were your thoughts and doubts? It got pretty low for me. I started to have a lot of emotional turmoil with my mental state of mind and my body ’cause I was exhausted. People don’t really understand what an artist really has to go through. It’s such an intense schedule; one day I’m in L.A., the next day I’m in Switzerland, the next day I’m in Italy and the next day I’m back in L.A. Mind you, I’m performing in that time in between, I’m meeting people, I’m talking and, you know, I’m on a different schedule. I came back off of the Alicia Keys tour, and I just hit the wall. Like, straight-up, I hit the wall. I crashed; I said to my team, ‘I’m no good to anyone right now. I need to recover,’ and it really affected my confidence level in my approach to my job, my mind when it came to everything around me. I started to victimize myself in a way and it’s because when your body is not healthy, it really does produce negative emotions and energy.
You were angry. Oh, I was angry. I started to feel like I couldn’t trust anything around me. I started to feel like I was in the dark about a lot of things, and I really wasn’t. It was just my state of mind from working so hard. That’s the hardest I’ve ever gone to promote an album, to be on tour, to try to manage a personal/professional life. It was insane to have people know me and to demand some sort of attention from or require attention from me. It was something I had to build a muscle to, and I had to take a step back. I really changed my entire diet. I went to see doctors, and I really just said that I need to get control of my life again because I really feel like I’m losing control of myself and I did. And I started to get back to the things that balanced me out again. That’s really where the concept of The MF Life came [from], the balance of life.
When was this, when you started to recuperate from all the craziness? It was really a couple months after. Truthfully, I just needed a time to just not do anything, sleep and exercise and get my dietary regimen back in the right places. It was a slow creep back into the process ’cause I had already started doing songs before the Alicia Keys tour overseas. When I came back from Europe, it was when I had lost weight, I was skinny, it was so weird.
All that pressure can break a person, but it is nice to see that you did recover from that dark place. Well I’ll tell you this, it’s not everybody has a team like I have a team, a label and a management team that care and respect me as a person, not as a product because some teams would have been like, Suck it up. Then, you end up [on] drugs and try to commit suicide and it’s not a good thing. People forget that artists are not products; we are people first, so there’s just a certain expectation that you see with artists now that are just like go, go, go all the time. That’s not realistic. There’s turmoil going on behind those scenes ’cause you just can’t. As a human, you really have to take the time. Beyoncé’s a perfect testament to it when she was like, I took the time off to figure out how to be a wife and to cook and to clean. Whether it’s two months or two years, at some point, every person, every artist is gonna take that moment and be like, ‘Yo, I need to slow it down to figure out who I am outside of this.’
And I’m glad that you mentioned that. With all the deaths, recently Whitney Houston, you have to look at fame and really dissect it. How much pressure are we putting on these people, you know? On a lighter note, you mentioned that new acts have it a little bit easier than when you came into the game. Elaborate on that. It’s crazy. I think that nothing happens before its time and everything happens right on time. Personally, when I did my record deal, it was 2008, and it was that weird place. The internet was taking on this huge presence, and it was a very weird place where you almost felt like you couldn’t win, but we did. We had to work so hard. My team and I worked so, so much harder than artists now. [They are] like, ‘Hey, I’m a superstar. I’m gonna make a YouTube video, and it’s gonna get eight gazillion views, and I’m gonna be famous, and I’m gonna end up on every TV show!’ Meanwhile, I’m busting my ass just to get spoken about on radio and television. I appreciate the process I went through to be honest, and I actually feel bad for the people who don’t have to go through that process because they get hit with a harder blow when it doesn’t work. I think that they create the one-hit wonder phenomenon rather than the career artist.
That 15 minutes… Get your 15 minutes. I’ll get some Grammys. I’ll be working on those in the meantime.
What’s interesting is that while you’ve been collecting Grammys, your heart has been breaking. Will your heart ever fully heal? You know, my heart has broken and healed and mended for the last 10 years of my life. I feel like there’s nothing that heals a broken heart except for time really. And your heart breaks all the time. People tend to only associate hearts breaking with someone but things happen all the time. Disappointment can break your heart all the time–disappointment in yourself, your friends or family and like things around you all the time. I definitely think there’s a point when it shifts your energy, and for me, I just know that even when I’m in love, I still write about heartbreak and that’s an emotion that I draw on and I know people need to hear about that. I think that there’s strength in owning that [hurt] and sharing that and saying like, Yeah this is who I am and this is where I’m at. And I think that why people love the music. I will always do my best to keep that truth in my music, whether it’s the happy things people are going through, the sad things people need to hear about, the sexy things people need to hear about. There’s a song called “Break Down These Walls.” The song is about being a strong partner for your partner and helping them to break down their walls of insecurity because you know love shouldn’t be that way. And there’s another song, “Bones,” which is super, super sexy. I’m so obsessed with you, I wanna be mixed up in you, I wanna have your bones; It’s almost really dark and twisted, but it’s sexy as hell because that’s love and that’s the intensity! It’s important that I feel that my audience gets a good balance of both; however, they always tend to want those heartbreak songs.
Tell me the story of your first heartbreak. The first cut is the deepest. I had a boyfriend when I was 16; he was a jerk, but I loved him. It was when I was recording the first album, and it was right after I got off the Kanye West [Glow In The Dark] tour in 2008. I was absolutely devastated because that was like the first crazy-stupid love I’ve ever been in in my quote-unquote adult life. I actually made the decision to end it because I decided that I had gone back and forth enough. I had decided I was not going to allow this person to really break my heart, pick it back up, treat it like shit, pick it back up and just do this rollercoaster with me. That really took me outside of the character of my true self and who I wanted to be as a woman and what type of love I wanted to experience. I had to go through it; I had to go through the lying and the cheating and everything really. I figured out all those things that I really didn’t want to see after [the breakup] ’cause if I was in it while it happened, I would’ve been like, Peace! But I was so blinded by it that when it hit me, my heart was devastated. Right after I had gotten off the Kanye West tour, when I had experienced and achieved something so grand in my life, I took a look at my life and said, I’m trying to go up and this is the one thing that’s weighing me down. And I cut it. I cut it off clean. I mean like, Do not talk about me, don’t ever call me again, we have nothing to discuss, you are not the person for me and we don’t need to be friends. That hurt because this was five years of my life. I was young. But I experienced a lot, [and] I grew a lot from that relationship. When I got off the tour actually, I tattooed this purple heart on my left wrist and that is my center of strength to remind myself that I’m always stronger than I think. Every time there was a moment where I got emotional and I wanted to call him, I’d look at this tattoo and give myself ten seconds. I’d count to ten, take a deep breath and say, Remember why you did this, remember how you got here and remember what your focus is. Sure enough it stopped me every time from calling him back.
Wow, and you haven’t talked to him since? No. We speak now like occasionally. I promise you I didn’t speak to him or see him for three years after we broke up.
As far as your current heartbreak, are you in a place where you’re swearing off men for awhile? I’m on a Melcation [Laughs]. I am like all about me right now. What am I going to do with my life, and what are the things that are gonna make me happy and fulfilled? There are some guys that can be around that, and be like, ‘Yo, I totally love you and I support you’ and then there are other guys who are like, ‘Ugh, you want too much! You’re too independent.’ And it’s like no, no, no, that’s definitely not it. It’s just the right guy who’s gonna fit perfectly into what it is that I’m doing; it’s just a balance. But no, I’m not swearing off men. I just don’t want men around for the sake of having men around. Too often, we make that mistake of keeping men around for the comfort, you know, just that dependency. I think is where the problem lies. And when you get away from that and just really be like, I’m cool, you can get a man in your life on a random Thursday or a random Saturday and it just adds something to your week rather than being dependent on it.
To read more of this interview head over to Vibe Vixen
Now that they have made the cover of XXL's 2012 Freshman Class, it's time to show and prove. Hopsin, Roscoe Dash, Machine Gun Kelly, Future and Danny Brown hop on a Katapullt produced track and try to outshine each other.
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