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Guru (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal)
Rapper Guru passed away one year ago today after battling cancer.
Fans will forever remember Guru for his slick wordplay and monotone voice.
He and Gang Starr partner DJ Premier made so many sick joints it's impossible to name all of the gems. But if you're new to the "chain and the star" you have to check out joints like "Rite Where U Stand" ft Jadakiss, "Mass Appeal" and "Take It Personal."
R.I.P. Guru
Gang Starr - Rite Where U Stand Ft Jadakiss
Gang Starr - Take It Personal
Gang Starr - Mass Appeal
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1. The One & Only (Produced By Alchemist)
2. Go Off (Produced By Sid Roams)
3. Black Devil (Produced By Sid Roams)
4. Twilight (Feat. Havoc) (Produced By Sid Roams)
5. For One Night Only (Produced By Alchemist)
6. Strong (Produced By King Benny)
7. Told Ya'll (Produced By Sid Roams) (Bonus)
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Fellow XXL Freshmen, Lil B and Freddie Gibbs aren't seeing eye to eye on Lil B's next artistic endeavor.
As we reported over the weekend, Lil B told the crowd at Coachella he was naming his next album 'I'm Gay.' Since then reaction from other rappers and the media has been swift and sometimes harsh.
“[The] Lil B sh*t was funny at first but now I feel like it’s just a bunch of white people laughing at a nigga, like a minstrel show. Sh*t is wack. I ain’t dissin’ gays, if you gay that’s yo biz," Freddie Gibbs told XXL.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is monitoring the situation to make sure Lil B isn't just using the opportunity for publicity.
“As a lyricist, Lil B knows that words matter,” a spokesperson for GLAAD told XXL. “Slurs have the power to fuel intolerance. We hope that Lil B’s album title is not just a gimmick, and is really a sincere attempt to be an ally. He has the platform and the voice. We hope he uses it in a positive way."
Rapper Killer Mike can kind of see where Lil B is coming from, but only to an extent.
“He’s a happy guy, Gay means happy. It makes perfect sense to me. It’s a provocative, bold thing to me. That’s what B does," Killer said. It’s not as shocking to me. From a social element . . . this just feels like knocking down walls and stereotypes, embracing controversy and flipping it. Bravo to him for being the next Madonna. I also don’t think Lil B could ever make some of the music that I make. If he’s rapping about (gay) lifestyle the whole album, no I probably wouldn’t want to hear it. If he’s rapping on some hip-hop shit and it’s a weird ass, weird Lil B album . . . I’d probably buy it like i I did his last (album) and have a little laugh."
Lil B "I'm A Fag I'm A Lesbian" Based Freestyle
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Chris Brown has struck gold. After only three weeks in stores, the R&B heartthrob’s latest album has reached a new milestone.
F.A.M.E., Brown’s fourth album, debuted at No. 1 with 271,000 copies sold. It has since earned gold certification from the R.I.A.A., meaning it shipped 500,000 units. In addition, the lead single “Look at Me Now” featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes holds down the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard Rhythmic and Urban Mainstream charts.
In celebration of his latest feat, Breezy is pushing his Michael Jackson- and SWV-sampled single “She Ain’t You,” which was the most added track at Urban Mainstream and will impact Rhythmic radio this week.
Breezy is currently touring Australia with stops including Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth, performing material from his gold-certified disc.
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Pusha T is getting over any trepidation he had before the release of his Fear of God mixtape. On June 21, the younger member of heralded Virginia rap duo the Clipse will release Fear of God 2: Let Us Pray, an EP version of his tape.
The eight-track EP is set to feature bonus material, surprise guests and is being released in a partnership between G.O.O.D. Music and Re-Up Gang via Decon Records. Push A Ton first announced the news on Monday via Twitter as he dropped the video for the Hitboy-produced "My God."
Fear of God is Pusha T's first solo venture and he told MTV News about the set's objectives before its release.
"I came up with the title because that's what I intend to evoke out of the competition, lyrically, the fear of God," Pusha told us. "At the same time, when I started the mixtape and realized that my brother wasn't there with me the whole way, I sort of felt the fear of God myself."
Malice, the other side of the Clipse equation, is not part of the G.O.O.D. Music roster but has been busy promoting his just-published book, "Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind and Naked."
However, Pusha confirmed that a new Clipse album will be forthcoming, but only after his solo offerings have dropped as well as a new Re-Up Gang mixtape titled Long Live the Cane. The time was just right for a Pusha solo project. "I think everything is about timing," Pusha said.
"We've always been trying to stay true to what the Clipse wanted, then we also had the Re-Up Gang projects that we always been working on as far as the mixtapes and the streets and Ab-Liva. I just think it's time now."
Clipse and Re-Up Gang fans need not worry about Pusha softening up his style now that he's asserting himself as a soloist and in league with Kanye West and company. "G.O.O.D. Music and Kanye in particular, he definitely wants me to be me and that's what I bring to the G.O.O.D. Music fold," Pusha said. "Everybody on G.O.O.D Music has their own specific lane and mine is definitely going to be street hip-hop to the core."
Pusha has already started preparing his proper solo debut album, due sometime in the fall. "We got five joints, Kanye West-produced, amazing, amazing records," Pusha said. "Only thing we don't have is the title yet."
Source:MTV
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Peggy Scott Adams married into a family business that is quite different from most. Her funeral home in Compton, California that gives a person's family, friends and even sometimes complete strangers a chance to view their bodies quickly, without even having to get out of their car.
The Adams Mortuary was reportedly inspired by a couple of funeral homes in the south that offer the same drive thru service.
"It's a unique feature that sets us aside from other funeral parlors," Scott Adams told the L.A. Times. "You can come by after work, you don't need to deal with parking, you can sign the book outside and the family knows that you paid your respects - It's a convenience thing."
The funeral home is popular among gang members because of it's easy accessibility and bullet proof glass casing.
"It's a ministry for me to be able to help people at one of the most traumatic times of their life," Scott Adams says.
Would you be ok with a deceased loved one being viewed in this way?
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Yaris Sanchez looks better than ever in her new Dynasty Series photo shoot.
The 21-year old Dominican babe wants fans to "Stuff The Ballot" for her in King Magazine's Web Girl of the Year competition.
Check her out below.
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In a raw and straight forward interview with Complex, P reveals the shocking accusation that Capone of Capone-N-Noreaga snitched on Havoc's brother, Killer Black back in the day, why he squashed his beef with Nas and more.
Most of the interview centered around Prodigy's new book 'My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy.'
Here are a couple of excerpts:
You also speak on Capone taking the stand to testify against Havoc’s brother, Killer Black. That’s the kind of thing that would end most rappers’ careers. How did this not come out sooner?
People were upset, but that was just one of those things that just never came out. It just never happened. I can’t tell you why.
Are you and Capone still cool?
I mean, yeah, when we was younger, but after that shit with Hav’s brother I was just like, “Come on man.” In a hood like that, you have to see people everyday. You’re going to see niggas like, “What’s up? Oh, alright, what’s up son?” But in the back of your mind you’re going to be like, “Damn, this nigga really did that shit.” That’s crazy. I didn’t even want to believe it. None of us wanted to believe it, but that’s what really happened though. We like Capone, and he just did that.
When Havoc was talking about producing “Last Dayz” in the book and he was telling you to get on it, I was surprised that your reaction was that Biggie was corny.
A lot of people was feeling him, I just wasn’t feeling him. Another thing is that, I used to take things real personal. I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young. I was on some other shit dun.
I wasn’t fucking with nobody else but Mobb Deep. I had tunnel-vision, straight up. I ain’t see nothing but Mobb Deep. I ain’t hear nothing but Mobb Deep. And niggas can’t fuck with Mobb Deep. That was my opinion, how I was thinking, and my life. Mobb Deep, fuck everybody else. So when I used to hear certain shit that Biggie used to say, he used to take some of my lines from my lyrics, and use them. That used to piss me off, because I was like, “Damn, this nigga just bit my shit.”
Like what lines?
Like “Niggas bleed just like us,” that’s my shit, and certain other things. But at that time it would piss me off, but now when I look back at it, it’s a compliment. He wasn’t trying to steal. He was basically kind of like a fan. And now I realize because I feel the same way about him. And I feel the same way about certain other rappers too. Just had a different mentality back then. It was little things like that.
To read the rest of the interview click HERE.
Check out the tracklist for P's new EP 'The Elseworth Bumpy Johnson EP' which will be released tomorrow for free on Complex.com.
1. The One & Only (Produced By Sid Roams)
2. Go Off (Produced By Sid Roams)
3. Black Devil (Produced By Sid Roams)
4. Twilight (Feat. Havoc) (Produced By Sid Roams)
5. For One Night Only (Produced By Alchemist)
6. Strong (Produced By King Benny)
7. Told Ya'll (Produced By Sid Roams) (Bonus)
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The new song is titled "This is Dedicated To You" according to The Boombox.
Warren watched Nate's struggle to come back physically from the strokes, and raps about that in the song.
"Life is such a trip, I know the world is full of madness/ Relearning how to walk and talk again, I can't imagine."
The track will be released digitally soon.
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The choice to have Kanye West close the three day Coachella Festival was not a popular one among the festivals' traditional audience. But Kanye proved any naysayers wrong by closing things out in style.
Check out the full performance below.
Kanye West Coachella Set Pt. 1 of 2
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Having gone through a really rough patch both on and off the field recently for dog fighting, Michael Vick has climbed back into many fans good graces.
The Philadelphia Eagles QB talked with the Wall Street Journal about coming out of prison a better man, what choices he would change in his life, mentoring younger players and advice for Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen.
On Chris Brown : “Just put your faith in God. Don’t worry about what people say about you. Words will never hurt you. The things that people can say out of their mouth can cut you deep. And sometimes a tongue can be sharper than a knife. But at the same time, you should never allow that to push you over the edge. You should have more self-control. You control your own destiny. You’re still admired by so many people.”
On Charlie Sheen: "Charlie Sheen's going to be Charlie Sheen. He's gonna be successful whatever he do, and Chris Brown too."
In anticipation of his first project since returning to the world, The Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson EP, Complex caught up with P to discuss his autobiography and all of the Mobb Deep history contained in it’s pages. Topics include: him and Hav being free agents, their next album and deal, the 70 songs they’ve layed down since he came home, his history and recent reconciliation with Nas, putting Cam’ron onto pink (how dare you question his trendsetting?!), Capone of CNN supposedly testifying against Hav’s brother Killer Black, throwing N.O.R.E. a beatdown (seriously, I gotta read this book), bumping into Jay-Z at Justin’s and later agreeing that the beef was just about the music, his run-in with Saigon, how he thought Biggie and Wu-Tang were type corny when he first heard them, Hav not visting him until a year and a half into his bid, the Mr. Cee incident, how he feels about the new class of MCs in the game and his thoughts on Rick Ross and the comparisons to Big.
On Big:
When Havoc was talking about producing “Last Dayz” in the book and he was telling you to get on it, I was surprised that your reaction was that Biggie was corny.
A lot of people was feeling him, I just wasn’t feeling him. Another thing is that, I used to take things real personal. I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young. I was on some other shit dun.
I wasn’t fucking with nobody else but Mobb Deep. I had tunnel-vision, straight up. I ain’t see nothing but Mobb Deep. I ain’t hear nothing but Mobb Deep. And niggas can’t fuck with Mobb Deep. That was my opinion, how I was thinking, and my life. Mobb Deep, fuck everybody else. So when I used to hear certain shit that Biggie used to say, he used to take some of my lines from my lyrics, and use them. That used to piss me off, because I was like, “Damn, this nigga just bit my shit.”
Like what lines?
Like “Niggas bleed just like us,” that’s my shit, and certain other things. But at that time it would piss me off, but now when I look back at it, it’s a compliment. He wasn’t trying to steal. He was basically kind of like a fan. And now I realize because I feel the same way about him. And I feel the same way about certain other rappers too. Just had a different mentality back then. It was little things like that.
Read the full interview here. The Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson EP drops tomorrow (via Complex) as does P’s autobiography, My Infamous Life.
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50 Cent will be releasing the first single for his 5th studio album this week.
Fif made the announcement via his Twitter page.
The G-Unit boss revealed last week that he is also writing a new movie that will be packaged with the album.
It's about to be a hot summer!
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50 cent has also No details known he wanted, where we only ever know that he will be released this week his first single from his new Album
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Queens legend, Cormega visited earthquake ravaged Haiti recently, and what he saw was a lot of people still in need of help. With all of the millions that have been generated through donations, Mega said the country looks as if it hasn't received a dime.
"They deserve honorable people helping them, instead of all this f*ckery that's going on." Cormega says in an interview with Mikey T The Movie Star.
Mega said that some people will be surprised at the work actor Sean Penn is putting in behind the scenes.
"I gained a lot of respect for certain people while I was out there, and I lost a lot of respect for some," Mega said. "The person that surprised me the most is Sean Penn. "Here you have an "A" list actor, he was out there while I was and he was in those tents helping those people."
Entertainers like Shakira, Wyclef Jean and George Clooney have also been huge contributors in helping Haiti get back on it's feet. While some in he media accuse certain celebrities of capitalizing on tragedies like the one in Haiti for personal gain, Cormega said Penn was he real deal.
"I've seen a story in the media where they said he was trying to do it for attention - that's a lie, he was out there when there was no media attention," Mega insists.
The biggest shock for Cormega and those who have visited the country recently is the lack of progress being made in rebuilding the country.
"I thought, and a lot of people in America thought Haiti was straight. Like all of the money that was generated. We thought 'oh they made such and such millions they're straight.' Bet when I went out there a lot of people were saying it's like the money never came ... and it shows."
(AllHipHop News) Representatives for Eminem and a variety of rappers and R&B acts have denied reports that they will participate in a show that was billed as supporting Haiti.
Reps for Eminem, Fabolous and Justin Timberlake claim the "Celebrities for Haiti Legends Weekend" was supposed to take place at the Punta Cana Hard Rock Hotel in the Dominican Republic.
The only issue is, none of the acts on the bill have been booked to perform during the show, which has infuriated the artists' managers and booking agents.
According to the New York Post, in addition to the aforementioned artists, reps for acts such as Jon Bon Jovi and Marc Anthony are considering legal action agains the promoters of the event, which was supposed to take place April 29th.
Reps for the artists fear that the organizers of the charity event are using the stars' names to pocket donations.
Source:AllHipHop
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Nothing like a little time on the beach to brighten your day.
Serena Williams, who recently recovered from surgery to have a blood clot "the size of a grapefruit" removed from her lungs two months ago, was spotted on the beach in Miami with friends recently.
The 29-year old 13-time Grand Slam tennis singles champion just returned to training last week, but looks good after having so much time off.
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Lil B has shown in the past his bizarre sense of humor when it comes to his sexuality.
Last year he made the controversial tweet that if Kanye West didn't respond to him on twitter he was going to "f*ck him in the ass." Now he's announced he will be naming his new album 'I'm Gay.'
"I'm gonna do the most controversial thing in hip-hop," Lil B told the Coachella crowd in Indio, California this weekend. "Ya'll heard it first. And I'mma just show you that words don't mean sh*t. I'mma make an album called 'I'm Gay,' right?" he continued. "Now I'mma tell you why I'm the first person to do it in hip-hop and why you're the first people to know my reasons," the rapper explained. "I'm just gonna tell you. So many people be worried about what people mean and definitions of words and sh*t... Now I like women, I love women, you feel me. But within yourselves, no matter what you do, it doesn't matter, it's like live life. You've only got one life to live. Be happy."
What do yall think of 'I'm Gay' as the title of an album? Is Lil B going overboard or just being a comedian?
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