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Ludacris just dropped off his long awaited Ludaversal album this week. Here's an official video for the album intro. Purchase it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ludaversal-deluxe/id974136463.
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RIZSELFMADE is in the lab putting the finishing touches on his forthcoming album entitled #DATMADELIFE2. Take a listen up top and download his first offering off of the project, "I Own the Night."
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(Reuters) - An accused New York City gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for a slew of violent crimes, including three murders, after being convicted in a trial in which prosecutors used his graphic rap lyrics against him.
Ronald "Ra Diggs" Herron, 33, was sentenced to 12 terms of life in prison plus 105 years by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, New York.
The sentencing came after a jury in June 2014 found Herron guilty of all 23 charges against him, from racketeering to drug trafficking to gang-related killings between 2001 and 2009.
Prosecutors at the trial used Herron's "gangsta rap" videos - in which he boasts about belonging to the infamous Bloods street gang, firing weapons and dealing drugs - to argue the lyrics documented his crimes.
Herron's lawyers argued that the lyrics were not autobiographical, but were commentary on crime, violence and drug wars in the inner city.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch in a statement Thursday said the life sentence would put an end to the "brutal, unrelenting violence" that Herron unleashed.
"Herron styled himself a rap artist, but the evidence proved that he was a murderous thug who sought power through violence, fear and intimidation," she said.
A lawyer for Herron did not respond to a request for comment.
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First single off Freekstile's "Khronicle."
(feat. Guylaire)
Produced by K-Quick
Directed by Llama & Freekstile
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Jack Thriller and Smack recently sat down with Vlad TV to talk about Azealia Banks' Playboy spread. Both thought it was a good move for her. Jack added a few extra comments although we're not 100% sure if it was the Effen Vodka talking for him, lol.
Check out what he had to say below.
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Jason Statham is one of Hollywood's go-to actors for roles that require a lot of fighting, action and fast car driving. His latest role as Deckard Shaw incorporates all of the above as he plays the bad guy role in Furious 7.
The 47-year old British actor recently sat down with HipHollywood to talk about the role and his fight scenes with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Vin Diesel.
Furious 7 opens nationwide on Friday, April 3.
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Amber Rose is through fronting. She wants Wiz Khalifa back in the worst way.
Rose filed for divorce from the Pittsburgh rapper in September 2014, citing irreconcilable differences. Since then she's been rumored to have been romantically involved with Nick Cannon and Nick Simmons. She also gave a very public twerking session to Chris Brown and posed for a few eye raising photos.
Now it looks all of that was an attempt to get her estranged husband's attention. The model dedicated her #ManCrushWednesday to Wiz with a social media message leaving no doubt that she wants her baby's father to come home.
My #ManCrushEveryday you know what it is.... We went wrong somewhere and even if we never ever get back together (Even tho I pray, dream and hope we do) he will forever be the love of my life. The media doesn't make it easy but fuck them we gotta live for reality and not society. We forever have a bond because we made a beautiful baby from our Love. Through all the ups and downs of our relationship my heart still beats for him every single day. I'm sick of putting on a front like I'm happy without him. I'm not. He makes me happy. He's the only one who can. Regardless of how our lives Turn out in the long run he will always be the skinny tatted up stoner that has my heart ❤️
Will the public plea work? Only time will tell.
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GARISSA, Kenya (Associated Press) — The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 147 people at a college in Kenya as they shouted "God is great" appeared to have planned extensively, even targeting a site where Christians had gone to pray, survivors said Friday.
Police on Friday were at the campus of Garissa University College, taking fingerprints from the bodies of the four assailants and of the students and security officials who died, for thorough identification purposes. The northeastern Kenyan town lacks the facilities to store all the bodies.
In Nairobi, Kenya's capital, family members were lining up at a morgue where about 20 bodies had already been airlifted from Garissa, victims of the worst attack in Kenya since the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy by al-Qaida which killed more than 200 people. Screaming and crying relatives of the victims were assisted by Kenyan Red Cross staffers, who tried to console them.
One of the first things that the al-Shabab gunmen did when they assaulted the campus early Thursday, survivor Helen Titus said, was to head for a lecture hall where Christians were in early morning prayer. Al-Shabab is a Somalia-based extremist group with ties to al-Qaida.
"They investigated our area. They knew everything," Helen Titus told The Associated Press at a hospital in Garissa where she was being treated for a bullet wound to the wrist. Officials said 79 people were wounded.
Titus, a 21-year-old English literature student, said she covered her face and hair with the blood of classmates and lay still at one point during al-Shabab's deadliest attack on Kenyan soil in hopes the Islamic extremist gunmen would think she was dead.
The gunmen also told students hiding in dormitories to come out, assuring them that they would not be killed, said Titus, who wore a patient's gown as she sat on a bench in the hospital yard.
"We just wondered whether to come out or not," she said. Many students did, whereupon the gunmen started shooting men, saying they would not kill "ladies," Titus said. But they also shot women and targeted Christians, said Titus, who is a Christian.
Esther Wanjiru said she was awake at the time of the attack. Asked if she lost anyone, she said: "My best friend."
Another survivor, Nina Kozel, said she was woken up by screaming and that many students escaped by sprinting to the fences and jumping over them. Some suffered bruises, she said. Many men were unable to escape, and hid in vain under beds and in closets in their rooms, according to Kozel.
"They were shot there and then," she said.
Those who surrendered were either selected for killing, or freed in some cases, apparently because they were Muslim, she said.
The killers shouted "God is great" in Arabic as they proceeded with the slaughter, she said.
Security forces stood guard Friday at the gate of the school. School slogans on the wall outside said "Oasis of Innovation" and "A World Class University of Technological Processes and Development."
At one point, a group approached the college gate and was blocked by soldiers. Several women began shrieking and collapsed in apparent grief in the dust for several minutes. A bystander said the son of one of the women had died in the attack.
A small group of male demonstrators walked down a main road in Garissa with signs that read "We are against the killing of innocent Kenyans!!!! We are tired!!" and "Enough is enough. No more killing!! We are with you, our fellow Kenyans."
"We feel very sorry for them and we condemn the attack," demonstrator Abdullahi Muktar said of the victims.
Some surviving students awaited evacuation to Nairobi by plane from a nearby airstrip.
The masked attackers — strapped with explosives and armed with AK-47s — singled out non-Muslim students and then gunned them down without mercy, survivors said. The gunmen took dozens of hostages in a dormitory as they battled troops and police before the operation ended after about 13 hours, witnesses said.
Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage said fighters the group was responsible for the attack. The al-Qaida-linked group has been blamed for a series of attacks in Kenya, including the siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in 2013 that killed 67 people, as well as other violence in the north. The group has vowed to retaliate against Kenya for sending troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight the militants staging cross-border attacks and kidnappings.
Somali President Said Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called for stronger collaboration between Somalia and Kenya to defeat al-Shabab.
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Odula reported from Nairobi, Kenya. Abdi Guled in Mogadishu, Somalia contributed to this report.
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With every move Azealia Banks makes you start to realize that she's the type of polarizing figure who is impossible to ignore.
Love or hate her it doesn't matter. Because when she talks about dating white men, black artists selling out, feuds with T.I. and Iggy Azalea, poses for Playboy or portrays a frozen Medusa in her new music video for "Ice Princess," Banks is maybe the most interesting/entertaining artist in the business.
She lands on the latest cover of Billboard. In her interview with the publication she talks about five things she really wants including slipping under the sheets with the President of America.
Five Things Azealia Banks Really Wants
1. She Wants Control of Her Life
"There was a point where I was questioning everything," Banks admits. "Am I brushing my teeth at the wrong time? Am I drinking too much? Smoking too much weed? What have I done?'" But that's changed now: "I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want."
2. She Wouldn't Mind Horizontally Hailing the Commander-In-Chief
The rapper admits she has a crush on Barack Obama. "He’s so fine. Those big-ass white teeth and ears hanging off his head? I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I want to fuck the president.'"
3. But She Really Wants to Meet a Meet a Nice Guy
While Banks says she's known to sleep with her female friends and bodyguards (“I love security guards. They’re these big meathead bald white guys with blue eyes"), she's looking for something more permanent: "I want a really smart man, who has a lot of silly jokes and stuff. I have to tone it down if I want to get that," she admits.
4. She Wants to Be Recognized in Her Lifetime
"Celebrities are celebrated, and I don’t think I’m celebrated,” Banks says. “But maybe one day. It would be nice. I just don’t want to be forgotten about while I’m still alive.”
5. She Wants to Write a Fable About Herself
And she's already deep into it. Banks says she listens to the audiobook of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance and then wakes up at 3 a.m. to drink red wine and work on her passion project: a book that will tell "the fable of Azealia Banks." She adds: "I work during witching hours, 3 a.m., 4 a.m., when the dead writers, the failed writers and the failed musicians who are dead are roaming around.”
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With his new project entitled The Robb Report available now on iTunes, 2Eleven a.k.a. Deuce is going full throttle with the promotion. Check out his official music video for the single, "Promise."
Purchase The Robb Report here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-robb-report/id974144261
"Promise" is available here: https://itunes.apple.com/album/promise-single/id972797660?l=sv&v0=9988&ign-mpt=uo%3D1
Follow 2Eleven on Twitter @2Eleven
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2 Chainz & A$AP Ferg - Keep It Real Volume 7:
It's time for the 7th edition of mixtape serie 'Keep it Real' ! Hope you're ready 'cause after few months of silence I'm back with a kind of hot mixtape....
Once again tracklist contains selection of dopest new rap singles + also 10 exclusive remixes produced by myself only for this online free release...
With:
Machine Gun Kelly, DJ Hoppa, Swizz, Hopsin, A$AP Rocky, Sway, Rich Homie Quan, Crime Mob, Nick James, Lupe Fiasco, Stalley, Ty Dollar Sign, Flatbush Zombies, Joey Badass, 2 Chainz, Currensy, Styles P, Prophit, Jay Electronica, Travis Porter, Ace Hood, A$AP Ferg, A$AP Nast, Wale, Kayne West, BoB, Trey Songz, Biggz, TBLA, Big Sean, Rick Ross, Roe, Waka Flocka, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, Triniad James, Jay Sean, IBN Ali, Marky Scorcha,...
Hope you'll enjoy the result ... Cheers and Salute from Belgium!
Direct download links:
http://www.datpiff.com/2-Chainz-AAP-Ferg-Keep-It-Real-Volume-7-mixtape.698472.html
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Simply, one of the best New Hip Hop videos to hit Youtube. 17yr old NeNe Ali and Intikana drops "This Is For You"
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Chris Brown decides to add his vocals to Beyonce's song entitled "Jealous." The original version appears on Beyonce's 2013 self titled album. Check out the remix up top.
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Amy Winehouse was a troubled but extremely talented singer and songwriter. It's been four years since her tragic death at the young age of 27.
Thanks to an upcoming documentary entitled Amy fan, will get a chance to glimpse inside her world.
Amy premieres in the U.K. on July 3rd.
Source: Rap-Up
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Troy Ave brings a member of his Brick Star Boyz family, Young Lito, to drop a freestyle for the Los Angeles Lakers. Check them out as they go in over over The Isley Brothers' "Footsteps in the Dark."
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Here's the fifth installment of Waka Flocka Flame's Salute Me or Shoot Me mixtape series
TRACKLIST
1.GUESS AGAIN
2.WHIP GAME
3.IM SORRY
4.DEM SKRAPZ ft FUTURE
5.ON EVERYTHING
6.GO CRAZY
7.OVA
8.ROTATION
9.LITTLE HOOD
10.8-0
11.SLIPPIN
12.WHAT I DO
13.JEWELRY GAME
14.AINT NO TELLIN
15.CHOPPAS
16.RICH NIGGA CHOPPERS
17.I C U
18.TARGET PRACTICE
19.MONSTER
20.LIGHTERS
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Many people know Eminem's history or at least parts of it, but the music icon has kept some secrets to himself until now.
During a recent conversation with Rap Genius, Mr Mathers, talks about his history with 50 Cent, Proof and Dr. Dre.
Eminem recalled his first studio session with Dr. Dre and the creation of "My Name Is," a song that was recorded in one take and launched him into superstardom:
Dre put on the Labi Siffre record, and I was just like “Hi! My name is!” That beat was talking to me. I was like, “Yo, this is it, this is my shot. If I don’t impress this guy, I’m going back home and I’m fucked.” I knew Dre wasn’t an easy person to please. I made sure that everything he had a beat for, I had a rhyme ready to go, or I came up with a rhyme on the spot.
“My Name Is” was the first thing that came out of my mouth that first day I was at Dre’s house. I don’t know if we released what I did the first day or if I re-did it, but it was basically the same. I didn’t understand punching, or believe in it. So I would just go from the top of the song all the way down. I was never flying in hooks. Everything was live, one take. If I got all the way to the fucking end, and messed up the last word, I’d be like “Run it back, let’s do it again.” I remember Dre was like “Yo, are you fucking crazy? Let’s just punch.” I didn’t like that concept because I wasn’t used to it. When we were recording here in Detroit, in the beginning, I was saving up my money to go in. We only had an hour, you know? I’m like “One take down, alright, let’s go to the next song. Fuck it.” That’s what I was used to.
Marshall explained where the name "Slim Shady" came from in an annotation on the song "Just Don't Give A Fuck":
Coming out with an alias was part of Proof’s whole idea. He said, “Let’s be in a group called D12, and there will be six of us, and we’ll each have an alias. We’ll each be two different people.” When I started rapping as Shady, as that character, it was a way for me to vent all my frustrations and just blame it on him. If anybody got mad about it, it was him that said it, you know what I’m saying? It was a way for me to be myself and say what I felt. I never wanted to go back to just rapping regular again.
In another annotation on the same song, Eminem explained that he started writing songs like "Just Don't Give A Fuck" because "people were saying that I sounded like AZ and Nas."
Em broke down a few lyrics from "Lose Yourself," clarifying whose sweater the vomit was on in the first verse:
The first verse is all about Jimmy Smith Jr. It’s me talking about Jimmy Smith Jr. — like, I’m not saying my sweater, I’m saying his. I’m trying to show you what his life is about.
On the original demo version of "Lose Yourself":
This is going to sound stupid, but I have no recollection of the demo version on “Shady XV.” I don’t know where I recorded it, I don’t even know when I recorded it. I did a lot of drugs, so my memory is all over the place.
On the decision to make "In Da Club" the first single off 50 Cent's Interscope debut:
We couldn’t decide on the first single from Get Rich. It was going to be either "If I Can’t" or “In Da Club.” We were torn, so me, 50, Paul, Chris Lighty, and Jimmy Iovine decided to flip a coin.
On Jay Z's "Renegade," Em explained his thought process when writing:
When I’m writing, I’m in the syllable game. I’m connecting 5-6-7-8 syllable phrases where every syllable rhymes. I get heavy into that. When I start rapping something, and I think of more syllables that connect with it, sometimes I want to just keep the scheme going forever.
I’ve done it before in songs, where the syllable scheme of the first verse ends up being the syllable scheme of the second verse, and the third verse — all the way down. I do it because the lines start connecting and making sense. Once I find something and lock in, it comes out pretty quick.
Head over to Rap Genius to read the entire interview
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Legendary OG of Hip-Hop, Afrika Bambaataa, recently sat down with VladTV and discussed the distinction between Hip-Hop's music and its culture, and how the world's voice has impacted popular American Hip-Hop.
First off, the Zulu Nation founder addressed Star's comment that Hip-Hop is a genre and not a culture, saying, "Hip-Hop as a music can take you anywhere, from space, to political, to silliness." He then clarifies, "So, Hip-Hop could go anywhere it wants to go as a music."
Speaking further on the topic, Bambaataa asserts, "There's definitely different laws and regulations dealing with it." After naming off the first four elements of Hip-Hop, he then expounds upon one element in particular, knowledge. Although he lists it as the the fifth element, Afrika considers it to be the most important, saying, "knowledge, is really the first element."
Soon the conversation segues into artist appreciation, and Bambaataa discloses that Cee-Lo Green, Missy Elliott, and Busta Rhymes are among his favorites because of their progressive minds which greatly impact their creativity. He contends, "Those are the artists that I respect to the fullest. They don't care what the industry say, or what somebody else say."
The full clip also includes his thoughts on newer artists like Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and J. Cole, plus his opinion on Iggy Azalea being a foreign emcee who's making such a huge impact in the culture.
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