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Ciara just released her new self-titled album. It's the fifth disc for the singer. Today she made an appearance on Good Morning America to talk about the influence Michael Jackson has had on her career and to perform "I'm Out."
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The Los Angeles Leakers have teamed up with producer Cardo for a new project titled Mental States. The first leak off of the project is the track "Passenger Seat" featuring Snoop Dogg. The full project will be released in August.
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Lists of the best and worst artists of any genre of music are generally hard to make. There are obvious choices for either category, then there's the gray area where depending on what region of the country you're from could sway your opinion one way or another.
GQ has put a list together of the 25 worst rappers of all time. Most of them are dead on, but a couple may leave you scratching your head. Peep the list below.
25. Tom Green
Confession: We've never heard 2005's released-only-in-Canada CD Prepare For Impact. If he wanted it released outside of Canada, he shouldn't have titled a song "Don't Mess With A Man (After He Takes A Big Poo Poo)."
24. MC Skat Cat
A cartoon feline who rapped on Paula Abdul's 1989 hit "Opposites Attract," then "went solo," with voiceovers done by a Minneapolis radio deejay. As discriminating a judge as Abdul was on American Idol, as good a singer as Abdul was on "Opposites Attract"—that was the level of Skat Kat's rhyming.
23. Chingy
After Nelly brought St. Louis lingo to the masses, Chingy appeared in 2003 with a debut that made his STL roots obvious: "He's Herre," "Right Thurr," and "Wurrs My Cash." His commercial pizazz faded as his good-time topics (sex, money, having sex with girls who like his money) stayed the same, and he titled his fourth album Hate It or Love It, which turned out to be an easy choice. On the other hand, if you get a good laugh out of "That's me, Ching-a-ling, equipped with much ding-a-ling," you might object to his inclusion here.
22. Joaquin Phoenix
It was all a hoax, a meta-commentary on celebrity culture that played out like the worst RISD freshman project ever: in 2009, Phoenix announced his retirement from acting to start a "rap career," rhymed badly on a Vegas stage and then fell off of it, and went on David Letterman's show looking like a Hasidic version of pre-death Jim Morrison. A year later, he released his mockumentary I'm Still Here, which flopped, proving again that old saw: Jokes are better when they're funny.
21. Too $hort
Not even Too $hort will be surprised to see Too $hort's name on this list. "Serious hip-hop fans, they'll boldly say, 'Too $hort ain't the best, Too $hort ain't got the best lyrics,'" he admits. This pioneer of Bay Area hip-hop has had an unusually long career—even he's lost track of how many records he's done—most of it pedestrian. He has no interest in being "a rapper who rapped in metaphors, and said slick shit," he declares, which is kind of like a NASCAR driver saying he doesn't want to drive fast.
20. Will Smith
At this point, he'd duet with Frank the Pug if he thought it would sell a few extra movie tickets.
19. Pro athletes, post 1985
When the Chicago Bears made the (Grammy-nominated!) "Super Bowl Shuffle," it paved the way for other over-indulged jocks to rhyme at sub-amateur levels. Take the Lakers' Ron Artest, whose idea of gangsta was starting beef with silver-haired, bespectacled David Stern and Matt Lauer ("You look like a girl"). One jock we'll exempt: Shaq, for his "Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes" freestyle.
18. Soulja Boy
In "Pretty Boy Swag," Soulja Boy repeats the song title, with the same dead inflection, thirty-six times. By reducing hip-hop to chants, ringtone beats, and vapid boasting, he has inspired a notable generation gap: everyone over 25 seems to hate him, from LeBron James to Ice-T, who accused him of "single-handedly killing hip-hop." Because ganging up on somebody is always wrong, and because we're equally capable of killing hip-hop, we've written about half of a song for Soulja Boy: "Man I look pretty / Your mama's ass is shitty / Gonna buy a big watch and wear it 'round the city." The more times you say it, the better it sounds!
17. Weed carriers (St. Lunatics, Bravehearts, D-12)
Once rappers become stars, they have the leverage to drag friends along with them into prosperity. They also need someone to transport weed, a job that dates back at least to "Spanish Tony" Sanchez, who was Keith Richards' personal drug mule. "Weed carrier" (aka baggage handler, tree stasher, or weed wallet) is the unflattering term to describe rappers who perhaps might not have record deals if an influential friend hadn't demanded it: The Bravehearts, St. Lunatics, and D-12.
16. Brian Wilson
"Smart Girls" is not well known because it's from an album, aptly titled Sweet Insanity, which was never released, but the circa-1990 track is easily found on YouTube. "My name is Brian and I'm the man / I write hit songs with a wave of my hand," he begins. Then it gets worse, as samples from old Beach Boys songs fly in without warning. Wilson's rapping is on par with Biz Markie's singing.
15. Madonna
No matter how incessantly rappers brag, no one has ever before boasted of having three nannies...a gardener and a stylist. The self-mockery in 2003's "American Life" is banal, and the only other song we know that mentions soy lattes is "Drops of Jupiter" by Train. Both suck.
14. David Bowie and Mickey Rourke
On "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)," released in 1987, they conjoin their ardor for Burroughs and Bukowski in the worst possible way: Bowie raps about Trotsky and scabs; Rourke answers with some pap about Sinn Féin, Hitler, and fingers in blood. How did this even happen? Bowie had gone crazy because of the international success of "Let's Dance." Rourke had gone crazy because he was Mickey Rourke.
13. Master P
When people praise Master P, it's usually for his bootstrap entrepreneurship: he rose from one of New Orleans' most despairing housing projects into a self-described "ghetto Bill Gates," though unlike the man born Percy Miller, Gates never branched into sports management, films, clothes, or phone sex. Master P was notorious for ostentation, including 22-carat-gold panels on his bedroom ceiling. (His net worth was once estimated at $361 million; four years later, he filed for bankruptcy.). But songs are virtually interchangeable, he's often accused of jacking ideas from other rappers, his lyrical signature is a constipated grunt (Uhhhhhh!), and in a Fortune magazine profile, a competing rap executive described P's record label as the "McDonald's of hip-hop," though to be fair, he appeared to mean it as a compliment.
12. Prince
If you're a singer who knocks rappers for being tone-deaf, as Prince did in "Dead on It," it's best not to be a singer who's beat-deaf and raps in a stiff, elementary way, as Prince did in the early 1990s on "My Name Is Prince," "Days of Wild," and a few others. Actual couplet: My name is Prince, and I am funky / When it come to funk, I am a junkie. Okay, but when it comes to rap, you are a flunky.
11. Eazy E
He had some malevolently funny lines (I'm Eazy E, and I got bitches galore / You might have a lot of bitches, but I got much more), but they were usually written by Ice Cube, who said it took "days" for Eazy to clumsily record his snaps. ("I can't do this shit," Eazy complained when asked to rhyme.) A small man—Cube called him a half-pint bitch, and Snoop referred to him as Tattoo—with a voice pitched midway between Geddy Lee and Fran Drescher, he was a one-dimensional gasbag with the rhythmic grace of a dot-matrix printer.
10. The two guys in the Black Eyed Peas who aren't will.i.am
Will produces the songs. Fergie sings the hooks. You do...what exactly?
9. Pitbull
A Cuban-American Vanilla Ice who flacks for Dr Pepper and Bud Light—try mixing those two for a fun speedball!—Pitbull specializes in mind-numbing Eurodisco about hot girls and nightlife, with witless, winking reminders of his heritage: My tongue is bilingual, ready to play with that spot where you tingle.
8. Everyone from England, ever
With one exception: Mike Skinner of the Streets.
7. MC Hammer
When people remember you more for your pants than your lyrics, it's a bad sign.
6. Diddy
He's hit a trifecta: mocked on The Daily Show, on South Park, and in The Onion. Daddy/Diddy has a terrific ear for shameless hooks, and he knows the hustle, which is why he has money hangin' out the anus, to quote his most memorable lyric. But as a mumbly, indistinct rapper, he wouldn't be signed to any label he didn't own.
5. Kevin Federline
An ex–backup dancer for Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake, Federline made the usual boasts about his tax bracket and expensive cars—but his ex-wife, Britney Spears, actually owned everything except the goatee. Real gangstas don't get $20,000 a month in child support.
4. Vanilla Ice
History's first truly awful rapper—like Richard Nixon, he sullied an entire occupation with unprecedented terribleness. Unlike Nixon, he won't go away: He made a metal album, went on reality shows, and re-recorded "Ice Ice Baby" along with nine other "hip-hop classics." You should hear what he does to Public Enemy.
3. Chet Haze
Tom Hanks's son Chester—a Dollar Tree version of Justin Timberlake—hit the rap game in 2010 with a series of YouTube videos. In one, he raps about Glocks and bling, threatens to stab you with a ski pole in yuh peep hole and warns, Step to me, get beat down like Rodney King, which is an odd way for a white guy to express solidarity with black culture.
2. Spencer Pratt
"I don't have to have talent," this talentless yet conceited reality-TV addict once said, celebrating his appalling rap bow, "I'm a Celebrity." Pratt's flow is sick—he rhymes like he has Parkinson's. He called himself "the white Jay-Z," possibly because they both have opposable thumbs, and notably bragged on "I'm a Celebrity" that MTV made me president rich. The next year, he reportedly filed for bankruptcy.
1. Insane Clown Posse
The KISS-style makeup these two self-anointed "wicked clowns" wear is a tip-off—they live to sell peripheral products, from DVDs to comic books to PPV wrestling cameos, to the tune of millions of dollars annually. Like most d-bags, they're predictable: Ample use of the words fuck, psycho, and fuck attracts a devoted fan-clan, and their annual festival has also included, yep, Vanilla Ice.
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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Tyrin Turner for an exclusive interview!
Tyrin Turner remembers Dame Dash saying "Paid in Full" is better than "Menace II Society", landing his role "Menace II Society", Tupac almost being in the movie, Pac'sfight on set, black directors wanting to be the star, Jamie Foxx being his best friend, groupie sleeping with his retarded cousin & much more!
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During a recent trip to Vancouver, B.C., Fabolous chopped it up with the highly entertaining and informative Nardwuar the Human Serviette.
Nardwuar gifted the Brooklyn, New York emcee with a special edition of Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo's album Road to the Riches, talked to him about dining, the beautiful women of Seattle, Magic City strip club wings, Sue's Rendezvous, getting kicked out of school and Brooklyn rappers like AZ, Chubb Rock, Masta Ace and more.
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Bobby V drops an official music video for his new single "Back to Love." The song is off pf his forthcoming EP, Peach Moon. The track is available for purchase now on iTunes. Follow Bobby on Twitter @BobbyV.
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STAR talks Jamie Foxx cooning in the movie White House Down, Mos Def (Yasiin Bay) protesting Guantanamo Bay, Tyler Perry's film Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, classic NBA dunks and the Dame Dash vs. Jay Z tension.
Radio legend Troi Torain (STAR) always delivers hard-hitting objective truth. As a culture critic he is vicious, as a businessman he is relentless, as a luminary he is un-matched.
Considered radio pioneers by many, the Star & Buc Wild show has set precedents on the urban landscape and was recently inducted into News One's "Top 20 Black Radio Jockeys Of All Time."
Star & Buc Wild made the national stage on MTV (1999) but it was their radio show on New York's Hot 97 (2000 - 2003) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.
Star & Buc Wild's resume includes The Source magazine, MTV Networks, Hot 97, Power 104.1, Power 105.1, Pulse 87, Hip-Hop Weekly magazine, Vladtv, Thisis50, 100.3 The Beat and shot97.com and VH1 (Reality Television).
This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.
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Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose have officially tied the knot. The couple got married on Monday, July 8 in a private ceremony, a week after obtaining their marriage license in L.A.
It's the first marriage for both Amber and Wiz, real name Cameron Thomaz. The couple recently celebrated the birth of a son.
Amber shared the news of their nuptials on her Twitter account.
"Cam just sang "Cupid" to me & made me cry for the 30th time today.... Its the best day ever with my Family, Husband & baby boy," Amber wrote on the social networking site.
The couple are planning a formal wedding for later this year.
Congrats to Wiz and Amber!
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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Jerzee Monet for an exclusive interview!
Jerzee Monet talks about when she first met DMX, taking a break, her child & much more!
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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, the three women held against their will for a decade locked in a Cleveland, Ohio, home, posted a video on YouTube early this morning to offer thanks for the support they have received trying to rebuild their lives.
Each of the women appeared separately in the 3-minute, 33-second video, with Berry and Knight each making a brief statement, while DeJesus answered questions from someone off camera, followed by her father, Felix DeJesus, and then her mother, Nancy Ruiz.
Berry appears calm and happy in the video, which was filmed July 2. She smiles frequently, as she offers thanks not only for those who have helped her, but to those who have respected the three women's request for privacy.
Amanda Berry
"First and foremost, I want everyone to know how happy I am to be home with my family, my friends," she says. "It's been unbelievable. I want to thank everyone who has helped me and my family through this entire ordeal. Everyone who has been there to support us has been a blessing to have such an outpouring of love and kindness. I am getting stronger each day and having my privacy has helped immensely."
In response to a question of what she wants to say, DeJesus briefly answers that she would like to say thank you, before her father and then her mother speak at greater length.
Gina Dejesus
Ruiz reflected on the love and support of neighbors, such as those who played such a big role in helping the three young women finally escape their captivity.
"Parents in general that do have a loved one missing, please do me one big favor. Count on your neighbors. Don't be afraid to ask for the help because help is available," she said.
Knight, who appears last, expresses confidence for the future and talks about how her faith in God has helped her.
Michelle Knight
"I may have been through hell and back, but I am strong enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face and with my held high and my feet firmly on the ground," she says. "Walking hand-in-hand with my best friend, I will not let the situation define who I am. I will define the situation."
Kathy Joseph, an attorney for Knight, said in a statement about the video that the three young women wanted to "say thank you to people from Cleveland and across the world."
"People are recognizing them now as they go about in public, so they decided to put voices and faces to their heartfelt messages," Joseph said. "It was their decision to relay their thanks in this way to all of the many people who have offered support to them, for which they are extremely grateful."
James Wooley, attorney for Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, said the release of the video does not mean that the three women will begin making public appearances or granting interviews any time soon.
"It is important for everyone, especially the media, to understand that the three women still have a strong desire for privacy," Wooley said. "They do not want to talk about their ordeal with the media or anyone else. This cannot be stated strongly enough."
Ariel Castro, 52, the man accused of kidnapping the three women and keeping them inside his home, has pleaded not guilty to a 329-count indictment that includes charges of kidnapping and rape.
Ariel Castro
Castro, a former school bus driver, also is also accused of the aggravated murder of a fetus for allegedly forcibly causing an abortion in one of his victims that he is accused of impregnating, a charge that could potentially carry the death penalty.
Castro allegedly snatched Berry, DeJesus and Knight between 2002 and 2004 and imprisoned them, sometimes restrained by chains.
The women were freed on May 6 when Berry cried out for help from behind a closed screen door, getting the attention of neighbors.
"Help me. I'm Amanda Berry. I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years, and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now," she told a 911 dispatcher, as she escaped the home with her daughter.
Last week, a judge ruled Castro competent to stand trial and denied him access to the 6-year-old daughter he allegedly fathered with Amanda Berry.
Jury selection for Castro's trial is scheduled to begin on Aug. 5.
The women have had little comment to the media before today's video, but last week released statements through representatives saying that they want Castro's trial resolved quickly, according to The Associated Press.
"The longer this process lasts, the more painful it is for them," said attorney Kathy Joseph, representing Knight. "And the more sordid details of this horror that get disclosed in this process, the more painful it is for them."
"The simple, honest truth is they would like it to be over," said James Wooley, representing Berry and DeJesus. "They want this whole thing behind them. Any date set by which this may end is like light at the end of a tunnel."
In May, a letter released by attorneys for the three women on their behalf said that they were "happy and safe" as they recovered from their harrowing ordeal.
"The outpouring of public support has been nothing short of remarkable," the letter read. "To have complete strangers offer loving support in the form of money, goods and services, reaching out to help like a family member, is appreciated in ways that are impossible to put into words. Amanda, Gina and Michelle, who have asked for nothing, are frankly overwhelmed by it all."
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As most of you know, neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman is currently on trial for the murder of 17-year old Trayvon Martin. Many are speculating that Zimmerman will be found not guilty.
On this morning's episode of "The Realness," Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds debated the affect a not guilty verdict will have on America.
Peter thinks a not guilty verdict will set back progress we have made. Cipha disagreed, arguing that as a country we already feel terrible about many things that are going on.
What's is your opinion regarding the outcome of the case?
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MIDWEST SENSATION Mz. Nicky’s new single Entitled Female MC is
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The Wu Tang Clan were one of the featured performers at Quebec's Festival d'ete on Friday, July 5. The group opened their set with the classic song "Bring Da Ruckus" in front of a packed crowd of 40,000 fans at the Bell Stage on the Plains of Abraham. Peep the footage below.
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Kanye West drops his official music video for "Black Skinhead" off of his latest album, Yeezus.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. called in to Shade 45 to chop it up with DJ Whoo Kid on the WHOOLYWOOD SHUFFLE.
He discusses what a great businessman and artist 50 Cent is, his artist Earl Haze and Lil Wayne bringing him out to the ring for his next fight against super tough Mexican opponent Canelo Alvarez.
Floyd also says he thinks Kevin Durant is the best basketball player in the NBA.
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Wyclef Jean recently performed at B.B. King in New York City. The former Fugees member brought along a few special guests like Troy Ave, Waka Flocka Flame and more. Check that out below.
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Mario teams up with Young Money Princess Nicki Minaj for his hot new single "Somebody Else." Peep the official music video up top.
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20-year old Brazilian funk singer MC Daleste has been shot and killed during a performance.
Daleste, real name Daniel Pellegrine, was performing in the Brazilian city of Campinas in the São Paulo State, Saturday (July 6) when a gunman shot him in the stomach.
According to a Brazilian news source, Daleste was rushed to City Hospital Paulinia where he died on Sunday.
The incident was captured on video by someone in the audience. Since it's upload to YouTube it's been viewed over 4 million times.
There have been no arrests made in the case. The shooting occurs at the 1:05 mark in the clip below.
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Lauryn Hill has reported to a federal prison in Connecticut to begin her 3-month sentence for tax evasion.
According to TMZ, the former Fugees singer/rapper will be housed in general population at the the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury.
The Grammy Award-winning entertainer pleaded guilty in June 2012 to evading federal taxes on $1.8 million earned between 2005 and 2007. In May 2013, Hill was sentenced in a New Jersey federal court.
In addition to serving three months in prison, Hill must pay a $60,000 fine. After she is released from prison, she will be under parole supervision for a year, the first three months of which will be spent under home confinement.
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