A man who answered a Craigslist ad for baseball cards wound up with an even greater find when he also got his hands on unreleased material from Tupac Shakur. Turns out the seller's father had worked with the rapper for years.
The items include unreleased songs and several notebooks full of lyrics, notes and ideas for a "Point Tha Finga" music video. The song is from 2Pac's 1993 "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." album. Official visuals were never shot.
TMZ reports that the items will be sold at auction by Moments in Time. The "Point the Finga" notes are expected to fetch a minimum of $35,000.
However, there could be one major stumbling block. The Shakur family does not want the items sold. Afeni Shakur is very protective of her son's intellectual property and may attempt to prevent the sale.
Katt Williamsjust released a video detailing his version of eventsfrom the fight he was involved in at aBeanie Sigelconcert in Philadelphia on Sunday, March 6.
He admits that he took a couple of L's, but insists he dished out a few himself and wasn't robbed as some reports have suggested.
"Ain't no nigga popped me in my motherfucking mouth 'cause I'm talking just as reckless as I was at the show." he says in the video. "Now let's get to the important part. If you did rob that nigga, I'm gonna suggest to you that you missed maybe a $75K-$85K rollie. If you did rob me ... I will let you know that nigga walked in the club with 2 chains and walked out that bitch with 2 chains. I ain't gon' say all I took was W's in that club tonight. I ain't gon' say satan ain't land a few L's on a nigga. [But] every nigga I hit lost a piece of jewelry"
Title: The FAMM REUNION Artist: Southpaw Sosay and Shotty Balboa Hosted by Dj Frank White Label: 4th and 20 Music Group Production: The Gift Factory
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DJ Necterr recalls a few years back DJing Fader Fort with The Games artist Marcus Black. Just years later he is coming into his own shoes and booking his own shows in Austin Texas. With the current release of the new single "On The Way" with Tory Lanez and Tasman Holloway his buzz is truly growing. Just half a year ago DJ Necterr wasn't on any ones radar. Now half a year later he has a major part in one of the hottest songs in the country. This "On The Way" single is getting played on multiple radio stations and currently being played on every media out let there is. With this recent success, "what is next," we ask? He tells us, "he took a break from the night life to prepare for Austin Texas." The biggest week in music and DJ Necterr plans to shine a light with his new single. He tells us, "him self and Tasman Holloway are really here to prove a point and show the world they have next." Is DJ Necterr and Tasman Holloway the black version of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis? One Djs one raps!!! With the buzz their current single is receiving with the help of Toronto rapper Tory Lanez we will soon see. DJ Necterr gives us a list of shows he claims are big for him in the city of Austin. He talks Nerve Djs and how the come up of this dj coalition is coming and how they are a great dj crew to work with. Any artist knows its important to befriend Djs and what better showcase to DJ then a NerveDjs event. He also talks several other events that are likely to be successful with a ton of media and bloggers across the country. We look forward to seeing what this DJs live show is all about.
DJ Necterr live in Austin Texas March 14th through the 21st.
Rochester and Philadelphia connect as Rigz of Da Cloth recruits Original Block Hustlaz (OBH) recording artist Dark Lo for a new heater titled "Philly Streets." Check out the official visuals.
Remember R&B Songstress SaraStokes From The Hit TV Show "Making The Band" & Group "Da Band"? She Has Released Her New Single "Sneak Peek" Which Features Babs Who Was Also Seen On The MTB TV Series. She Teamed Up With James A Worthy To Produce This Monster Hit As Her Comeback. It Is Now Available On iTunes & Via Youtube.
Something doesn't seem right with Katt Williams at the moment. He was in the news last week for alleged altercations in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Gainesville, Georgia.
On Sunday, March 6, the 44-year old comedian and actor showed up at a Beanie Sigel and Jahlil Beats' concert at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia.
Williams, real nameMicah Sierra Williams, was onstage during most of the show behaving erratically. He gyrated wildly to music, did push ups, grabbed the mic and rapped incoherently and then attacked a man.
He paid dearly for that last act because he ended up getting stomped out. It's unclear if he was being provoked because the loud music made it impossible to hear if words were being exchanged.
Williams has vehemently denied the use of hard drugs in the past. He claims that his blood is tested every 3 months and has never come back positive for any substance other than weed.
At this point we're not sure what is going on with him. Watch the madness from last night below.
This Southern Californian is all hustle. gerard., overlooked and underrated, has flown under the radar for years writing and producing for some of your favorite new artists. From LA to NYC and back again, gerard. has chased a dream all over the country. From sleeping on floors to couches, from working in cubicles to getting it on the streets, gerard. Represents a universal grind.
Reflective of a never-ending road to success, gerard. debuts his self-produced anthem, "GRIZZY." In an ever changing game with no rules, gerard. is the rabbit with a gun. underdog twitter.com/reallygerard soundcloud.com/gerardwashere gerardwashere@gmail.com
Future was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live yesterday. He used the occasion to perform "Low Life" featuring The Weeknd and "March Madness." Check it out below.
(YAHOO SPORTS) LAS VEGAS – From his traditional perch at the side of the Octagon on Saturday night, UFC president Dana White could only watch as piles of millions burned in front of him.
Holly Holm … choked out. Conor McGregor … choked out. A pair of the sport’s biggest and most bankable stars suffering stunning upsets, turning UFC 196 into a carnage of commerce. Suddenly a year of easy-to-make mega-fights became more complicated, from the uncertainty of Holly Holm-Ronda Rousey rematch, to McGregor headlining July’s historic UFC 200.
“In 16 years in this business, the one thing you don’t do is plan anything out,” White said after. “Because you don’t know.”
White wasn’t in tears. He was stoic and professional and part of that is because over that slow grind of taking an outlaw organization into a billion-dollar global sports brand, he’s always focused on the long game, not the short-term buck. This is part of the deal.
Make no mistake: the UFC crapped out Saturday night in Vegas. The results were nothing the bottom line wanted; this despite an $8.1 million gate and what White was claiming would be a huge pay-per-view number.
That payout will be a nice salve, but the wound is still there. The UFC was on the verge of what would likely have been its biggest year ever. It may still get there. It just isn’t simple.
That’s the fight game though. Nothing ever is.
If you’re not tied to the UFC’s bottom line though, then this was actually a night to celebrate the sport and what its premier promotion is about.
UFC 196 was a testament to being daring, giving fans what they want, and throwing caution to the wind rather than protect and posture for future profits. It was about building trust with fans. It was everything boxing too often fails to be. It was everything that so many other MMA promotions never stick with.
White probably could have sat Holm until Rousey was ready for a rematch. Holm stunned mixed martial arts in November by knocking Rousey out. When Rousey recovered from that beating and was back from filming a couple movies, then the rematch was projecting as the biggest bout in MMA history, two million buys or more. September looked perfect.
Instead, Holm pushed to be sent back out there to defend her bantamweight title, and in doing so she faced a tough Miesha Tate. Holm led going into the fifth round and controlled it until the final two minutes, when a desperate Tate took Holm down, cinched a choke under her chin and survived a wild flip to eventually put Holm, who refused to tap out, to sleep.
“I guess in my mind, I wanted to fight,” Holm said of why she wouldn’t quit. “[I was thinking] ‘I’m going to get out of this, I’m going to get out of this.’ It went too far.”
She regrets letting up and letting Tate in. She doesn't regret taking the fight that likely cost her plenty.White said Tate will defend her belt against Rousey next. Rousey has already defeated Tate twice. The Rousey-Holm rematch is now on the back burner, a huge payday hanging in the balance, especially if Tate beats Rousey this time. Who knows when Holm gets another crack.
“Everyone said, ‘Why are you taking this fight? You should wait for the rematch,” Holm said, explaining her thinking. “You know what, I’m in this [business] to fight.”
Then there was McGregor, the relentlessly trash-talking Irishman who’s turned himself into an international sensation. After capturing the featherweight (145 pound) belt in December, he boldly cast a course where he’d move up to 155 pounds and take the lightweight title from Rafael dos Anjos. But two weeks ago, dos Anjos came up with an injured foot.
Rather than back out all together or bring in some tomato can, McGregor agreed to be paired up with Nate Diaz, who wasn’t just taller and longer but due to a lack of a training camp needed the fight to be held at 170 pounds. That meant McGregor was going up 25 pounds in two and a half months, plus fighting a guy who regardless of weight is known for his profound ability to take a punch.
McGregor talked his way into being a heavy betting favorite, but across the first round realized that the huge shots that normally felled a featherweight were bloodying Diaz but not burying him. He’d bit off more than he could chew.
“[Featherweights] crumble under those shots,” McGregor said. “Nate took them very well. It must take more than one, more than two, more than three [punches] to put the heavier man away.”
By the middle of round two, McGregor was out of energy from trying to knock Diaz out. He resorted to throwing single haymakers rather than combos. Eventually Diaz, through a face of crimson, found his timing and found McGregor with a huge left. The Irishman buckled, Diaz slapped his gloves together and a whole new fight was underway. About a minute later, McGregor was tapping out due to a lack of oxygen.
“It’s a bitter, bitter pill to swallow,” McGregor said.
McGregor said he will now return to 145 pounds and defend his title. It’ll still be big. It could’ve been bigger. George St. Pierre, the retired welterweight great, had flown in from Quebec for UFC 196 in a rare public appearance. White said he isn’t even sure St. Pierre wants to unretire, so this definitely wasn’t a gimmick to start the hype for a GSP-McGregor monster fight. Fine, but we know these things do tend to happen.
That isn’t happening now. If Diaz can lay waste to McGregor, then GSP wouldn’t be fair. It'd be a massacre. It would have made a big, big buck finding that out though.
“I took a shot,” McGregor said. “I went at it. I will never shy away from a challenge. I will never shy away from a defeat. I took the fight and it didn’t pay off. This is the fight business.”
More specifically, this is the UFC business. This is the business of having a money train like McGregor take on an outrageous challenge and risk his perfect UFC record, risk his aura of invincibility, risk the vision of him sprawled out on his back in the middle of the cage, overcome with exhaustion and emotion. It wasn't holding Holly Holm back, even if the greatest payday yet loomed.
“Tonight was one of those night, this is what this thing was built to be,” White said, trying to drape it in pride. “It was everything we talked about it was supposed to be. It was awesome.”
It was awesome. Costly, but spectacularly awesome.
TrapHouse Digital's Own Pop-A-lot drops off his latest tape which features Ty Dolla $ign, Skippa Da Flippa, Fat Trel, Kevin Gates, Hollywood Mickey along with production from 808 Mafia, Zaytoven, Stunt N Dozier, Beat G33kz, P.K and more.
1 Pop-A-Lot - Ten Crucifixes (Prod P.K)
2 Pimp V Feat Streetz Major & Pop-A-Lot - Hillary [Prod Downtown Musik]
3 Pop-A-Lot feat Skippa Da Flippa & Hollywood Mickey - Water Whippin Chickens [Prod @KashOnDaTrak]
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