It's really good to hear new music from The Lox. Styles-P, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch have teamed up with Swizz Beatz for "Grand Wizard."
Funkmaster Flex on the premiere
It's really good to hear new music from The Lox. Styles-P, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch have teamed up with Swizz Beatz for "Grand Wizard."
Funkmaster Flex on the premiere
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Snoop Dogg took over ESPN today making an appearance on First Take to talk with Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith about the Los Angeles Lakers squad and their new additions of Dwight Howard and Steve Nash. Snoop predicts the Lakers will be in the championship.
Snoop also popped up on Sportscenter to talk about the EA Sports FIFA 13 game and the controversial ending to Monday night's Green Bay Packers/Seattle Seahawks football game.
Snoop Dogg on ESPN's First Take
Snoop Dogg talks EA Sports FIFA 13 game and the Green Bay Packers/Seattle Seahawks controversy from Monday Night
Snoop takes penalty kicks on Sportscenter
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Plies releases the official music video for "See Nann Nigga." The Lil Lody-produced track is off of Plies' mixtape On Trial.
You can pick up the On Trial mixtape for free from Datpiff.
French Montana nabs the cover of issue No. 82 of Fader. It's a special issue for French because it gives the 27-year old the opportunity to travel back to his home country of Morocco since he left at the age of 13.
French reunites with family he hasn't seen in years and discusses plans to one day own property where he grew up and plant permanent roots there.
Check out the cover story below.
Outside Casablanca’s Mohammad V airport, there are dusty palm trees and low bushes prickly with violet flowers. Vapor from the nearby Atlantic Ocean spreads out in a haze across the sky, diffusing the morning sun to a glare. It’s Ramadan, and the city is asleep. French Montana, wearing sweatpants and slippers, a tattoo that reads “Pray For Me” on his neck, scuffs the parking lot pavement. “I was gonna come down and kiss the ground,” he says apologetically. “But it’s too dirty.” Instead, he climbs in the back of a black van, and heads for the city he used to call home.
Born Karim Kharbouch, French Montana spent his first 13 years on a sprawling family estate just outside Casablanca. He left with his mother, father Abdela and little brother Zack for the South Bronx when he was 13 and, until today, has never been back. The young Karim learned English in the streets and in the Bronx high schools—Lehman, then Roosevelt—that he attended before dropping out. His father lasted two years in New York before returning to Casablanca. His mother was on welfare. Whatever other money they had came from Karim, and he did what he could to provide, legally and illegally, risking not just jail but deportation. Today he’ll show you the twin scars on the back of his head where the bullet that nearly killed him entered and exited. “You do dirt to people and people try to do dirt to you,” he says philosophically, and that’s about as specific about that day as he’s willing to get.
Karim Kharbouch became French Montana sometime around 2002, when he and a friend noticed the growing market for street DVDs and began making their own. They knew plenty of former and current drug dealers and a handful of rappers, so they enlisted, he says, “whoever was legendary” to star in a series of DVDs they decided to call Cocaine City. French Montana made sure to get on camera too. “By the fourth volume, everybody knew who I was,” he says. That may or may not have been true then, but it’s pretty close to true now. Today, French Montana has a joint deal with Diddy’s Bad Boy Records and Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group and a debut album, tentatively titled Excuse My French, due out this fall.
There are artists who come along from time to time that seem to embody a moment, and in 2012, French Montana is one of them. He is a New York rapper with a vaguely Southern cadence, a man of a few simple words from a city that continues to idolize complexity, even as the genre as a whole has long since turned towards unhinged ad-libs and non-sequitur boasts. There is a kind of blunt efficiency to what he does: rap reduced to exclamation points and full-stop periods. He makes up for what he lacks in finesse with a keen sense of timing and purpose. His slurry, amiable voice is a rap radio constant—that’s his sleepy drawl on the hook of Rick Ross’s “Stay Schemin’,” on last year’s Lords of the Underground-checking “Shot Caller,” on the lilting, menacing Waka Flocka Flame collaboration “Choppa Choppa Down.” “Pop That,” Excuse My French’s antic strip club anthem featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross, recently landed in the Top 40. French’s 2012 has been charmed: his recent habit of wearing colorful Versace scarves as headgear led to an invitation from GQ to come style the magazine’s editors; “fanute”—an inadvertent slang term he slurred into existence on his “Stay Schemin’” verse—was subject to an exegesis in The New York Times Magazine. He’s in that fleeting zone where just by doing things they become news.
Coming into Casablanca, the road is fast and empty and lined on both sides by a pale, straw-colored landscape. We speed through gendarme checkpoints, uniformed guards waving us on. Ahead of us the city comes into focus, thousands of low, white buildings stretching flatly in the haze. French Montana looks out the window, taking it all in. He’s grinning.
What he mostly remembers about Morocco is leaving it. What-ever his father had in mind when he moved his family to New York didn’t work out. “He had a lick over there,” French says, meaning a plan, a hustle. “But that lick went wrong. He was trying bring us back [to Morocco] with him, but my mother wouldn’t let him. She was like, I’m not letting them go back over there, ain’t no opportunity over there. So he went back, and she stayed with us.” When he returned to Casablanca, Abdela left behind a newborn son, his third, and little else.
French has not told his father he’s coming to Morocco, though he plans to see him. He has, however, told most of his mother’s side of the family, and they are eager to reunite. Muhammad, French’s mother’s brother, arrives in the lobby of our hotel, the Royal Mansour Meridien—a quiet oasis of marble floors, gold trim and colonial splendor near the water—moments after we do. Muhammad is a tanned, fit 62-year-old, a cheerful, boisterous man with a pinky ring like a paperweight, olive-green dress pants and sandals. In the hotel lobby, he wraps his arm around his nephew, and for a moment French Montana—who generally maintains the friendly but distant vibe of a rapper whose daily life consists of one long performance—looks like a child. “We’re going to do a great tour of all the things he’s lost in the 16 years since he left Morocco,” his uncle says, winking. And with that we are off, piling into the backseat of his black Mercedes sedan and flying down La Corniche, the beachfront section of the city, Muhammad pointing out landmarks as we go.
French has brought his youngest brother, Ayoub, here to meet his father for the first time, and his manager, Gaby Acevedo, a charismatic giant of a man. They’re trailing in a second car behind us, so they can’t hear the increasingly fantastic and profane monologue Muhammad launches into as we drive, a torrent of words about Jimi Hendrix, money, family, alcohol and his fading but apparently still formidable sexual prowess. We pass the startlingly graceful 700-foot minaret of the Hassan II Mosque and the sprawling, leafy palace of the king of Saudi Arabia. “I remember coming down this hill!” French says excitedly, with a kind of relief on his face. “If it would have went any longer,” he says of his absence, “I wouldn’t have known how to act coming back.”
We detour away from the coast when we reach the city’s newly built Morocco Mall, the largest in Africa, which houses several football fields-worth of Bellagio-style fountains, high-end retail and a million-liter aquarium that people pay to climb into and, in full view of their fellow shoppers, swim with sharks. “We have too many rich people in Morocco,” says Muhammad, apologetically.
French is hoping to become one of them, he explains, as we continue south along the coast. He’s looking to buy property here, a move toward remedying his long absence. “Most of my family is here,” he says. “I feel like this is a place I will definitely be back and forth from.” Muhammad has brought us to the city’s border, where the buildings run out and the ground turns to weeds and rocky fields. He wants to show his nephew a development out here—private, and by the water. “All this land has been sold,” Muhammad says, gesturing at the empty landscape. I ask where all the money comes from. “God opened the sky,” Muhammad replies.
Soon we emerge onto a surreal expanse of newly built homes, pale mansions in the middle of nowhere. French looks out the window, apparently trying to picture himself in one of these desolate houses, in this place that was just rocks and rubble when he was here last.
To read the rest of this cover story head over to Fader.
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Kendrick Lamar stopped by the Shade 45 studios to chop it up with Tony Touch and special co-host Cedric The Entertainer while promoting his upcoming album Good Kid m.A.A.d City.
K. Dot took time out to spit a real nice freestyle. Check that out below.
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Roc Nation's Rita Ora filmed the music video for her new single "Shine Ya Light" in her hometown of Pristina, Kosovo.
Check out this quick video teaser below.
As promised Freddie "Gangsta" Gibbs drops his highly anticipated Gangsta Grillz mixtape Baby Face Killa. The project boasts features from Slick Pulla, Young Jeezy, Z-Ro, YG, Jay Rock, Jadakiss, Dom Kennedy, Krayzie Bone and more.
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Frank Ocean switches things up on this new track "Blue Whale." The Odd Future singer shows off his rapping skills on the track he released on his Tumblr page.
What do you think of Frank's rapping?
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Ciara is making the promotional rounds getting the word out about her upcoming album One Woman Army. Her most recent stop was by L.A. radio stations Power 106's Big Boy Neighborhood.
Big Boy asked the singer who she would save if she were on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Her choices were Bow Wow or 50 Cent, the other person would drown.
"Boo Boo, I would pull up Fif," she said.
Cici also addressed some of the things Chelsea Handler has said in the past regarding her and 50.
Ciara says she would save 50 Cent over Bow Wow
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Ciara invited Big Boy up to her hotel room
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When Lil Wayne's rap career is a wrap he might consider going into comedy because this has to be the funniest deposition in history.
Weezy is suing Quincy Jones III over a documentary about him. TMZ obtained the footage of him being grilled on the stand by Qunicy's lawyer, Pete Ross from the law firm of Browne George Ross about his various run in with the law, but Lil Wayne claims to not remember anything.
Wayne also claimed he couldn't remember winning the Best Rap Album of the Year for Tha Carter III in 2008. Instead he kept saying "I don't know" before Ross could finish the question.
At one point Wayne appears to threaten Ross.
"You know [the judge] can't save you in the real world." Wayne said.
This is clearly a case of not one single f*** being given by the Young Money boss.
Watch the comedy below.
Lil Wayne Deposition (Pt. 1) -- Short on Memory... but HILARIOUS!
Lil Wayne Deposition (Pt. 2) -- I Don't Recall!
Lil Wayne Deposition (Pt. 3) -- Alleged Threats
Lil Wayne's crazy deposition video (Pt. 4)
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Wiz Khalifa releases the official tracklist for his upcoming album O.N.I.F.C. (Only N*gga In First Class). The album is slated to drop on December 4.
Notable features include Cam'Ron, 2 Chainz, Pharrell, Juicy J and The Weeknd.
Tracklist
1. Intro
2. Paperbond
3. Bluffin’
4. Let It Go
5. The Bluff (feat. Cam’ron)
6. Work Hard, Play Hard
7. Got Everything (feat. Courtney Noelle)
8. Fall Asleep
9. Time
10. It’s Nothin (feat. 2 Chainz)
11. Rise Above (feat. Pharrell)
12. Initiation
13. Up In It
14. No Limit
15. The Plan (feat. Juicy J)
16. Remember You (feat. The Weeknd)
17. Medicated
New video from queens rapper Ru Spits. Follow on twitter & instagram @ruspits and download his latest mixtape on www.ruspitsmusic.com
Militia Gang Young Hash latest video " No Pictures" Off the new mixtape Trappin N Rappin set to drop later this year
Via Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – A judge has ordered a further review of Chris Brown's community service and travel to determine whether the R&B singer has violated the terms of his probation for the 2009 beating of then-girlfriend Rihanna.
Brown appeared in court Monday for the first time in more than a year, and Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg tried to sort through Brown's probation record and the impact of a positive marijuana result during a random drug screening. Schnegg said community service logs from Brown's home state of Virginia were "somewhat cryptic" and additional review was needed to determine whether he had complied with his probation.
A spreadsheet sent by the Richmond, Va., police chief indicated Brown had completed 1,402 hours of community service, ranging from trash pickup, washing cars, painting and tending to stables.
She said Brown produced a medicinal marijuana prescription from California and that she had never ordered him not to use drugs, so the positive drug test may not have a major impact on his probation.
She warned Brown that while his marijuana use may be legal, he needed to be mindful of his public image and his sway with young fans.
"You are not an average person who can sit in their living room and do what you want to do," Schnegg said, noting that Brown's mother was sitting in the courtroom. "You are not only in the public eye, but you are on probation."
Brown was sentenced to five years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to felony assault for his February 2009 attack on Rihanna. Before Monday, he had received positive reports from probation officials and praise from Schnegg. The judge ordered Brown to return to court Nov. 1 for another update.
Virginia officials also reported that Brown may have traveled to Paris without permission, but Schnegg said she has approved most of the singer's travel and would have to review that claim further.
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Track Listing
Track 1 Dj Orator Speaks
Track 2 Jeremih “Feel The Base”
Track 3 Young Skoop “Been There”
Track 4 Cartie “Milly Vanilly”
Track 5 Travis Porter “She Won’t Let Me Go”
Track 6 Young Skoop ft. Cartie & Ty $ “Deez Heauxes”
Track 7 Bryan J “Werkin”
Track 8 Rihanna “Skin”
Track 9 Justin Bieber “Out Of Town Girl”
Track 10 Diggy “4 Letter Word”
Track 11 Dj Orator Speaks “Intermission”
Track 12 Cartie “The Streets Love Me”
Track 13 Young Skoop & AL G “Major League Pimps”
Track 14 Chantel “Nothing On Me”
Track 15 Young Skoop, “Red Cup”
Track 16 Travis Porter “Ain’t My Fault
Track 17 Diggy “MSG”
Track 18 Young Skoop feat. AL G & The Coolimac “Link Up”
Track 19 Chantel “Sending My Love”
Track 20 DJ Orator Speaks “Outro”
Track 21 Soundz “Bonus Interview”
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A$AP Rocky's LongLiveA$AP Tour kicked off this past Friday (September 21) at Lupos in Providence, Rhode Island. The opening acts on the tour are Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q.
Schoolboy set the tone for the turned up crowd when he performed "Party," and BlowHipHopTV was in the building to capture the action.
Check out Schoolboy's hyped performance and the rest of the tour itinerary below.
LongLiveA$AP Tour Dates
09/25 Norfolk, VA – Norva Theater
09/26 Silver Springs, MD – The Fillmore
09/28 Boston, MA – House of Blues
09/29 Springfield, MA – Massmutual Center
10/03 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
10/04 Cincinnati, OH – Bogarts
10/05 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
10/06 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
10/07 Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection
10/09 Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theater
10/11 Chicago, IL – Congress
10/12 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
10/13 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10/14 Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
10/15 Denver, CO – Ogden Theater
10/17 Salt Lake City, UT – Complex – Rockwell
10/19 Pullman, WA – Washington State U
10/20 Vancouver, BC – The Vogue
10/21 Seattle, WA – Showbox Sodu
10/22 Portland, OR – Roseland Ballroom
10/26 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
10/28 San Diego, CA – House of Blues
10/29 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
10/30 Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theater
10/31 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
11/02 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
11/03 Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/04 Houston, TX – Verizon
11/06 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
11/08 Miami, FL – Fillmore Miami
11/09 Orlando, FL – Beachium
11/10 Tampa, FL – The Ritz
11/11 Tallahassee, FL – Potbelly’s
11/13 Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
11/14 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
11/15 Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
11/16 Richmond, VA – National
11/18 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
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Ludacris hooks up with Kelly Rowland for a nice track that sounds like a potential hit. "Representin" is off of Luda's upcoming album Ludaversal.
Produced by Jim Jonsin and Rico Love