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Artist Z-Verse has been making major noise around the country, especially coming off the #TourForTheFans tour with iconic Lupe Fiasco, Billy Blue and The Boy Illinois.
“The Antidote” is meant for people to begin the discussion of controversial issues such as police brutality, global warming and societal problems our communities embark on. This project is to serve as a solution guide, with answers to our problems through Z-Verse’s perspective. “Instead of making music that expresses that hurt in an angry or violent way”, Z-Verse sets out to explain, “we are trying to literally spread love to defeat the pain, we rather give people a solution, rather than see them wallow in disappointment and despair.” Most production on “The Antidote” project were done by Xcel Beatz, The Gift and Z-Verse himself.
Listen to "The Antidote" here!!!
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Last October Eminem's ex-wife, Kim Mathers, was driving her black Escalade on a road in Macomb, Michigan when it ran into a ditch, hit a light pole and flipped over. She was trapped inside the vehicle and had to be pulled out by paramedics.
She admitted to them that prior to the accident she had drank a fifth of Malibu Rum. It seemed like an open and shut DUI, but the case started raising red flags when the records were sealed by the court.
On Wednesday, March 4, Kim called into Detroit morning show "Mojo in the Morning" to say that she wasn't receiving preferential treatment. According to her, the records had been sealed because the accident was actually a suicide attempt and the records contained medical information, including a psychiatric evaluation.
"You guys of all people should know that our family has never gotten preferential treatment in any court case that we've had. It's been all over the news ... anything that we've ever done has been public," Kim said. "The reason that I'm upset is because all of those tapes, the recordings from that accident were not played."
"I have been clean for ten years," she continued. "There are things that go on is people's lives and just because people think that we have money, that it makes us happy. But you lose friends -- you lose family. You have no one to trust to even speak to about personal business and it's hard. I sat at then end of a road where I knew no one else but myself would get hurt. Yes, I drank, I took pills and I hit the gas and aimed for a pole. What wasn't played in those interviews is I apologized immensely. I didn't even expect to make it through that. I told them I tried to do this on purpose and i'm so sorry. I never lied to [first responders]. I told them everything that I did. That's why those records were sealed. There was medical information in there. It had nothing to do with the rest of the case."
Kim requested that the records be unsealed.
TMZ reports that Eminem has been helping Kim get past this ordeal. She is also receiving professional counseling.
We wish Kim and her family nothing but the best and hope for a positive outcome.
You can listen to 911 calls a view dash cam footage from the accident below.
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Kid Red drops off an official music video for "Bounce" featuring Quavo, Takeoff and Offset, together known as Migos and singer Chris Brown. Peep the visuals up top.
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Ace Hood is feeling like a "1st Round Draft Pick" in the National Football League in his latest release. The track was produced by Smash David. Give it a listen up top.
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Wiz Khalifa had a great time at the Met Gala in New York City on Monday, May 2. The Taylor Gang boss said it was "cool" and full of "hot chicks," but cut an interview short when asked about the blue contacts Kanye West was wearing.
"Don't ask me about that guy," Wiz told a reporter before bailing.
West dissed Wiz and Amber Rose's 3-year old son, Sebastian, during a Twitter rant back in January. Although he later apologized it seems like Wiz still isn't having it.
West's blue eyes did draw several comments from Twitter users.
There's too much history behind black people and blue eyes lol. So I'm really struggling with Kanye's look
— دنيس (@dennyboo0101) May 3, 2016
*goes to nearest bookstore and buys 10 copies of THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison*
— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) May 3, 2016
*throws them at Kanye* pic.twitter.com/4nZXx3uars
Why this bul Kanye look like Viscera from Wrestling lol pic.twitter.com/CY3oYlPWbp
— Polo Bear YOLA Flare (@thtchnwht) May 3, 2016
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With his "Freddy vs Jason" project with Jadakiss on the way, Funeral Fabolous, cuts loose a solo freestyle over the instrumental to "Desiigner's smash hit single titled ":Panda."
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Rolling Stone pays tribute to late music icon Prince with it's latest cover, shot by Richard Avedon/© The Richard Avedon Foundation. The issue hits newsstands on Friday, May 6.
Check out an excerpt from the cover story below.
Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7th, 1958, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis. From the beginning, he carried the hopes and burdens of his father's dreams. John Nelson led a group called the Prince Rogers Trio, though his day job was at Honeywell, a manufacturer of everything from thermostats to airplane parts. "I named my son Prince because I wanted him to do everything I wanted to do," John once said. His mother, Mattie Shaw, was a vocalist who brought to mind the wounded grit of Billie Holiday. She had sung with John's trio, but let it go after they married – the couple already had five children from previous relationships. Mattie was 17 years younger than John, and their personalities differed. "My mom's the wild side of me," Prince told Rolling Stone in 1985. "She's like that all the time. My dad's real serene; it takes the music to get him going." Wildness and serenity would be one of many contradictions he embodied throughout his life.
Music came to him young. "He could hear music even from a very early age," his mother told the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1984. "When he was three or four, we'd go to the department store and he'd jump on ... any type of instrument there was. Mostly the piano and organ. I'd have to hunt for him, and that's where he'd be – in the music department." When he was no more than five, his mother took him to see his father perform. It was a burlesque show. As the dancers did their thing, the theater vibrated with screams and excitement. "From then on, I think I wanted to be a musician," Prince later said. Eros and music were fused, the power of the combination imprinted on his mind. It would never leave.
Both of his parents were strict Seventh-day Adventists; Prince would say later that the most he got out of religion was "the experience of the choir." He told Chris Rock on MTV in 1997 that the church's message "was based in fear," but he took much from his Adventist Bible study: The church focuses strongly on the Book of Revelation, and the imminent apocalypse that will precede the return of Christ. Prince would begin his breakthrough album,1999, with a song that turned the apocalypse into a celebration. And his greatest album took its name from the Adventist magazine Signs of the Times.
When Prince was about eight, his parents separated. He'd later remember constant arguments, with his father's music career as a fric tion point. His father "felt hurt that he never got his break, because of having the wife and kids and stuff," Prince said. "I think music is what broke [my mother] and my father up." John moved from their home in North Minneapolis into an apartment downtown. He left behind his piano, and this is when Prince gravitated to the instrument in earnest. "I had one piano lesson and two guitar lessons as a kid," he told the Star Tribune. "I was a poor student, because when a teacher would be trying to teach me how to play junky stuff, I would start playing my own songs." By the time he'd reached high school, he had already mastered keyboards, guitar, bass and drums.
Not long after the divorce, his mother remarried, and Prince moved in with his father. Their reunion didn't last long. When Prince was 13, his father kicked him out, perhaps because of a dalliance with a girl. Years later, Prince remembered calling him from a pay phone, begging to come back, and being refused. "I sat crying at that phone booth for two hours," he told Rolling Stone in 1985. "That was the last time I cried."
He moved in with his Aunt Olivia, but his domestic exiles created longing and anger that played out in his career: He would build a community in his music and his band, but then cut off band members whenever he felt it necessary; he would most often record albums by himself. He was the only one he could count on. "What if everybody around me split?" he said toRolling Stone in 1990. "Then I'd be left with only me, and I'd have to fend for me. That's why I have to protect me."
He was shy and quiet in public, but a cutup with his friends. At school, he was a disinterested student. Music and sports were his passions. James Harris III (later known as Jimmy Jam) met him in a junior-high music class. "As soon as the teacher left the room, we just started jamming," says Jimmy Jam. "His keyboard runs were amazing – things I couldn't dream of doing, and I thought of myself as a pretty good keyboard player." Prince made the basketball team in junior high and freshman year of high school, despite being not much more than five feet tall. "He was a great basketball player," says Jimmy Jam. "He would come up the court and girls would be screaming. He had a huge Afro, and if you had an Afro in those days, it was definitely a premium."
His first band came at 14, named Phoenix, then Soul Explosion. Prince played guitar, his friend André Simon Anderson (later known as André Cymone) played bass. When his aunt tired of the band's noise, Prince ended up living at André's house. Soul Explosion would rehearse in the basement. "We used to have a philosophy that when everybody else is eating turkey dinner and watching football games and doing all that kind of stuff, we need to practice," says Cymone. "We're going to be superstars, and if we're going to be superstars, we have to practice." There was a 10 p.m. curfew on music, but Prince eventually moved from André's room down to the basement, where he could turn down his guitar and play until 4 a.m. These nocturnal music-making habits would stay with him the rest of his life.
By 16, he was writing his own songs. The group became Grand Central (with Morris Day on drums), then Champagne. A demo session brought Prince to the attention of Chris Moon, who ran a local studio. When the rest of the band went across the street during a lunch break, Prince stayed behind. "I look out of the control room into the studio, and he's playing the drums," says Moon. "Then I see him wander over and play a bit of piano. And then he stops playing that and picks up the bass." Moon wanted someone who could add music to some lyrics he'd been working on. He proposed a partnership, and eventually gave Prince keys to the place. It took him about six months to master the studio well enough to run sessions for his one-man-band adventures.
Moon played a demo tape for Owen Husney, a Minneapolis promoter. "Most artists, their sound would be derivative," Husney says. "This didn't have that. He was attempting to create something new. And when I heard that vulnerable little falsetto voice, it was like, 'I want to protect this person.'" He signed on as manager and raised $50,000 so that Prince had new instruments and a place to live. Then he created an elaborate press kit to market his new artist.
Warners offered a three-album deal and signed a 19-year-old Prince in 1977. The label wanted Prince to collaborate with Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire. "The ink wasn't dry on the Warner Bros. contract, and he said, 'Nobody is producing my album,'" Husney says. A session was arranged so that Prince could prove to the label that he didn't need help in the studio. "He put down a guitar track and got it right," Lenny Waronker, then head of A&R for the label, remembered. "Then he put down the drums – wow. You could just tell – the guitar was locked in, the timing was good, you could tell it was easy for him."
To Read the full story written by Joe Levy head over to Rolling Stone.
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Boxer Adrien Broner was the latest guest on Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club.
AB says he's voting for Donald Trump, talks about why his relationship with Floyd Mayweather Jr has become strained, says he'll beat Money May in the ring, speaks on Marcos Maidana fight, regrets dissing Jay Z, but would still turn down Roc Nation's $40 million offer, Bob Arum, believing he can beat Terence Crawford, wanting to leave his hometown of Cincinnati before he kills someone and much more.
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Alicia Keys is back with a catchy new song titled "In Common." Give it a listen up top.
"In Common" Available Now! Get it on:
Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/iAKCommon?IQid=yt
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/sAKCommon?IQid=yt
Amazon Music: http://smarturl.it/azAKCommon?IQid=yt
Google Play: http://smarturl.it/gAKCommon?IQid=yt
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50 Cent stopped by Community Spirits in Indianapolis over the weekend to promote Effen Vodka. While in town he chopped it up with Keisha Nicole of radio station 96.3.
The business mogul dispelled rumors that he has a third son, talks about his aggressive social media approach, artists today not having to work as hard to get their content out to the public, Desiigner, relationship with Floyd Mayweather Jr., "respek" on his name and Prince's death.
Listen to the interview up top and check out video and photos from 50's visit to Naptown below.
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Afeni Shakur was fiercely protective of her son, Tupac Shakur's, music, likeness and earnings following his death in 1996, and assured that would still be the case after her passing.
The former Black Panther Party member set up a trust protecting Tupac's valuable music catalog. Income generated will only go to specific family members and select charities. Former head of Warner Bros. Records, Tom Whalley, has been named executor.
A rep for the estate told TMZ that the "paperwork is flawless," meaning the estate will be protected during ongoing divorce proceedings in North Carolina from Afeni's husband of 12 years, Gust Davis.
Davis had previously asked the court for half of the income Afeni received from the estate, for the remainder of his life.
As we previously reported, Afeni died Monday May 2, after suffering what is believed to a heart attack at her Sausalto, California home. She was 69-years old.
She is survived by her sister, Gloria, and a daughter, Sekyiwa Shakur ... Tupac's half sister.
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JonnyEastCoast is not your average MC. He likes to look at every situation as a positive one. When it comes to writing, producing, and mastering the songs he is a perfectionist. Never skipping a step always looking for the smallest detail. He is a kind hearted father, brother, and friend. He always puts everyone's needs ahead of his own. JonnyEastCoast is the type of guy flow to a beat or just study and write one never backing down from a challenge to battle. He started writing and producing music at a young age. He started to fall victim to drugs and crime as a teen. Only to lead to harder prescription drugs and alcohol. Eventually leading to selling drugs and robbery to pay for and fund such a fast life style. Not to long after he would end up in state prison for a 5 year sentence. In the prison is where he studies his rhymes and rhythm to come to the streets with an understanding of the hip hop seen and the music production. When JonnyEastCoast was released on April 2014. He came to the streets with nothing and no one so he turned back to hustling and low level dealing. When he realized he could head back to prison he took full advantage of the rhyme book and focused his time and energy into hip hop. Now a couple years later he is on his rise to stardom. Chewing rappers up and spitting them out. So him and his brother started a record company from the ground up. Chipping away at the industry door. Now he has platforms on all the major sites. While never loosing site of why he is doing this to create more rehabs and programs. Also create more recreational programs for our youth to grow up in. So be sure to check out Jonny EastCoast on all of your favorite sites (I'm sure he's there). And support him by listening and sharing so we can one day be in a position to do great. Thanks, Jonny EastCoast
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The one and only Big T kicks off his Tuesday freestyle series by dropping bars over the instrumental to Drake's song, "Pop Style." Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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Lil Duval and Michael Blackson stopped by Snoop Dogg's GGN News recently to talk about their new movie "Meet the Blacks." The interview goes in a few hilarious directions. Check it out below.
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Young Gifted
STILL
Young Gifted have been around for quite long and have produced dozens of hit songs in their more than 25 years appearance on the hip hop music scene. Yet, all their beats and sounds seem to have been launched just yesterday. Young Gifted are always ready to test the limits of the hip-hop genre in the most creative ways.
In their new single titled “STILL” the group explores into the mindset of the streets and the cipher language of the hood through its code phrase “play to keep.”
This legendary group originates from New Brunswick, New Jersey. Even though they carry in their blood the sounds and images of their born place and the experiences of the challenging life there, their songs speak to a much wider audience mostly on the east coast, but also elsewhere, in US and abroad. “STILL” is not to be an exception.
Early in the year, they launched: Blood Type, Get”Em. and Cash Flow. All three singles were on the playlist of top mix shows in the country and were hailed by the group’s fanatic followers.
Of course, Young Gifted are true representatives of hardcore rap music, no doubt about that. However, they often bring together tunes, rhythms and wording of the early days and Gangsta rap, with influences of the new school and the second wave, along with a modern contemporary tone, in their own completely original style. Because of this, their music could form a subcategory in hip hop on its own right, without this statement being much of an exaggeration.
Young Gifted has been featured on numerous magazines, including Hip Hop Weekly and XXL, and was also profiled byInflexWeTrust.com, MTV.com/artists and TheSource.com. Songs of Young Gifted can be found online, some of them free to download and share.
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Philadelphia rapper and the boss of the Original Block Hustlaz, Ar-Ab, teams up with Kevin Gates for his new single titled "How I Do It." It will be available on iTunes May 6. Pre-order it now https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1105289867?ls=1&app=itunes
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