Machine Gun Kelly and DMX have recently formed both a friendship and working relationship. Mikey T The Movie Star recently caught up with MGK to talk about what fans can expect to hear from their collaborations.
"That's my idol," MGK said. "I'm on DMX's first single. That's like big bro. He got a joint on my album. That's the man, shout out to him."
MGK was asked how he felt about exposing Dark Man X to a whole new generation of hip hop fans.
"All these people are f*cking jabronis, 'Jay-Z is the best rapper alive, Lil Wayne is the best rapper alive' ass motherf*ckers. I f*ck with them don't get me wrong. I'm just saying there are other people--you don't have to say what everyone else says and be like, 'the underground kid that nobody knows is the best rapper alive,'" MGK said. "I just feel like X is unpredictable. You never know what he's going to do. He has a f*cking priceless story. All I'm saying is be different. Dare to be different you b*tches."
A couple of weeks ago Birdman tweeted that he was willing to bet anyone $5 million dollars on the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl against the New York Giants.
Stunna said he felt confident because his nephew was Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis. A day after the Patriots lost Birdman tweeted nobody would take him up on his bet even though Vibe reported this morning that Sportsbook Brand Manager Dave Mason of BetOnline.com tried to reach out to the Cash Money boss prior to the game to make the bet.
“If Birdman is prepared to put his money where his mouth is, we are prepared to accept his $5 million wager on either the point spread or the money line of Super Bowl XLVI," said Mason.
Of course we now know the Patriots lost the game 21-17.
Less than an hour ago Birdman sent out a tweet claiming that nobody would step up to the plate to accept his offer.
Do you think Stunna is being honest or just doesn't want to admit losing such a large sum of money?
It looks like Janet Jackson's "n*pplegate" is happening all over again.
When M.I.A. threw up a middle finger during her performance with Madonna at halftime of Super Bowl 46, she managed to steal Madge's shine and stir up lots of trouble.
Both the NFL and NBC issued apologies for not blurring the middle finger.
“The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show,” NBC spokesman Christopher McCloskey said. “Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers.”
The NFL also blamed NBC's delay system for not catching the obscene gesture in time.
“The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans,” NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy said. He also added that M.I.A. didn't display the middle finger during rehearsals, so they had no idea she would do it during the live event.
The Parents Television Council isn't buying the apologies from the NFL and NBC. They blame both organizations for hiring acts who have based their careers "on shock, profanity and titillation."
Tim Winter of the PTC released the following statement:
“NBC fumbled and the NFL lied because a performer known as M.I.A. felt it necessary to flip off millions of families. It is unfortunate that a spectacular sporting event was overshadowed once again by broadcasting the selfish acts of a desperate performer.
“Last week the NFL formally told the PTC – and the American public – that the Super Bowl halftime show would be ‘appropriate.’ Most families would agree that the middle finger aimed directly at them is not appropriate, especially during the most-watched television event of the year.
“The mechanism NBC had in place to catch this type of material completely failed, and the network cannot say it was caught off guard. It has been eight years since the Janet Jackson striptease, and both NBC and the NFL knew full well what might happen. They chose a lineup full of performers who have based their careers on shock, profanity and titillation. Instead of preventing indecent material, they enabled it. M.I.A. used a middle finger shamelessly to bring controversial attention to herself, while effectively telling an audience filled with children, ‘F– you.’
“A simple apology rings hollow after yet another slap in the face to families, especially when NBC has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that it should be allowed to air all manner of indecent material at any time of day, even when children are watching.
“Either the NFL and NBC will take immediate steps to hold those accountable for this offensive material in front of a hundred million Americans, or they will feebly sit back and do nothing. The nation – and the PTC – is watching.”
The Super Bowl was watched by an estimated 110 million viewers. It's a family event and the NFL has gone to great lengths to hire acts they consider to be safe ever since Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in 2004.
M.I.A. throwing up the middle finger during Super Bowl performance
Gisele Bundchen was in no mood to hear trash talking from New York Giants fans after her husband Tom Brady's New England Patriots team lost to them in the Super Bowl yesterday.
Bundchen was leaving her luxury suite at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis following the 21-17 loss when a fan yelled at her.
“Eli rules!” the fan exclaimed, referring to Giants quarterback Eli Manning. “Eli owns your husband!”
Bundchen didn't reply directly to the fan, but told a friend walking with her the Patriots receivers were to blame for the loss.
“You (have) to catch the ball when you’re supposed to catch the ball,” she said. “My husband cannot (bleeping) throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.”
Bundchen had to be referring to wide receiver Wes Welker and tight end Aaron Hernadez, both of whom dropped key fourth quarter passes.
After the game Welker seemed to agree with Bundchen.
"It's a play I never drop. Most critical situation and I let the team down," he said. "It comes to the biggest moment of my life and I don't come up with it. It's discouraging."
Wes Welker's critical fourth quarter dropped pass
Giselle Bundchen blames Patriots receivers for loss
Bow Wow has run into some legal trouble in Tennessee that might require he spent a couple of days in jail before it's all cleared up.
TMZ is reporting that the rapper failed to pay a $100,000 tour bus bill from 2009 to a Tennessee company. The company then filed a lawsuit in Georgia where the rapper lives to get the judgement enforced.
He was ordered to show documents regarding the lawsuit. After he failed to do so the tour bus company filed a motion to have the rapper held in contempt.
In October 2011 a Georgia judge granted the motion and ordered the rapper be arrested and held until he produces the documents. According to the report Bow Wow still hasn't responded and will have to keep looking over his shoulder until he does.
Jim Jones and Trav are the latest MC's to take a stab at the "No Church in the Wild" instrumental. The New York duo flip it into a song about the drug game.
50 Cent took over the Bud Light Hotel last night as the headliner of their concert that also featured Lil Jon and Pitbull.
50 was joined onstage at various time throughout his performance by Floyd Mayweather Jr., Tony Yayo, Kidd Kidd, Precious Paris and Governor.
The concert was streamed live by omg Yahoo which was great for fans who would get to see G-Unit perform for the very first time live. The problem with the streaming event was that after showing all of Lil Jon's DJ set and Pitbull's hour plus long performance, Yahoo's stream stopped about 15 minutes into 50's set. There was nothing that suggested that due to time constraints the streaming would be stopped early. But at around 12 AM CST fans were left angry and scratching their heads as a message suddenly appeared saying the event was over.
The concert continued on and we have pics and a brief video clip from the show below
Yahoo caught up with 50 Cent backstage at the Bud Light Hotel in Indianapolis during Super Bowl weekend. They asked him about his proposed $1 million dollar bet with Birdman and some of the outrageous things people say to him on Twitter.
One request by a fan recently was if the New York Giants lose to the New England Patriots, 50 would have to show a nude picture of himself. The young lady said that if they won she would post her breasts and face on the social networking site.
50 said even though he likes to chatter back and forth with fans he has no intentions of considering something like that.
"This is what happens on my Twitter. When people say really crazy things I say 'OK.' I don't say anything else I just say 'OK' so my fans can see the crazy things people say to me," 50 said. "You know because they don't pay attention to what they are saying, they only pay attention to my response. So when I say OK to it they say' '50 said he'll bet to do this.'"
One bet 50 said he would consider is a $1 million dollar bet with Birdman on the Super Bowl if Stunna gives him the three point the Patriots are favored to win by.
"I would do the deal," 50 told Yahoo. "And if I did I'ma take the three points. I aint gonna sit there and play with him. If i lose by two I want my money."
Twenty-one-year-old Chris ‘Trippz’ Michaud can be best described by the heavy hitters as unexpected. Trippz combines raw talent with hypnotic melodies provided by production duo The Young Boyz. Influences include Tycho, Kid Cudi, etc.
Amber Rose is obviously serious about getting her singing career off the ground. Wiz Khalifa's girl releases her second song in as many months. "Loaded" is an uptempo club track.
As part of the week's Super Bowl festivities the NFLPA threw a party and J. Cole was one of the featured performers. Watch as the Grammy nominated artist performs "Dollar and a Dream III" off of his debut album Cole World: A Sideline Story.
50 Cent is in Indianapolis for the super bowl and he brought the crew with him. During his stop at radio station Hot 96.3, Governor, Kidd Kidd, Paris and Tony Yayo were all in the building.
50 talked about his recent $500,000 bet on the New York Giants which he won when they beat the San Franciso 49ers.
"That was on one of those nights. I lost a few times before I made that bet. I was trying to get back. I'ma tell you the truth," he said laughing.
He also spoke about Birdman being willing to bet $5 million dollars on the New England Patriots to win the championship.
"Well he said he got $5 million for anyone that [wants to bet]. That's just showing how much he believes they're gonna win that's all," 50 said.
DJ Wrekk 1 then moved onto the rest of the crew to see what projects were coming up.
Paris said her mixtape is dropping on Valentine's Day. Tony Yayo is in the lab working on his next project and Kidd Kidd revealed that the music video for "Shooting Guns" off of The Big 10 mixtape is on the way.
50 ended the show by talking about why he set up Street King and SMS Audio as outlets to feed children in need based on the purchase of each item.
Exactly nine years ago today—on February 4th, 2003—approximately 400,000 people made their way to a record shop (Apple’s iTunes Music Store wouldn’t open its digital doors for another two months) and laid down their hard-earned ducats for 50 Cent’s major label debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
By the end of that week, the Jamaica, Queens native would move over 872,000 units, entering at the top of the Billboard Albums chart. By the end of 2003, the RIAA reported six million sales of the album that earned five Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album. It was kind of like a big deal.
This was due in large part to the fact that 50 Cent himself had become such a huge deal. Nearly a decade after the deaths of two of hip hop’s biggest and best, 50 was presented as a hybrid of Biggie and Pac. Like the Notorious one, he started selling drugs at a young age on the streets of NYC. He took to rapping, seeing it as a way to turn his misery into monetary gain. The late, great Jam Master Jay taught him how to count bars, craft choruses, and make a song.
Like Tupac Amaru, 50 had no qualms about saying exactly what was on his mind regardless of who it might offend. An early hit was the beef-baiting “How to Rob” which, as the title suggests, had 50 detailing how he would relieve famous rappers—Jay-Z, DMX, Puffy and others—of their belongings. Also like Pac he was marked for death.
In 2000, as he sat in the back seat of a car in front of his grandmother’s house, he was shot nine times at close range. His story was mythical and marketable, and it ushered in a new hyper-gangster era of rap, where just talking about past wars wasn’t enough. You had to have the battle scars the prove it. As Jimmy told Nucky in the first season ofBoardwalk Empire, it was no longer enough to be a “halfway gangster”.
The rest of the legend is well known: Soon after his witty and brazen independent album Guess Who’s Back? fell into Eminem’s hands, Fif was signed to a $1 million deal with Shady/Aftermath. This process of making yourself hot in the streets with self-produced mixtapes that led to major label deals would become the blueprint that all new rappers would follow.
Get Rich or Die Tryin’, was the perfect storm. Like many other rap classics, it was created in a blur—seven songs in five days with Dr. Dre producing four, Eminem doing two, and the rest handled by a variety of relatively known but highly effective beatsmiths. The impeccable production served as the perfect backdrop for 50’s harrowing hood tales. Like 50’s flow, the production was region-less. There was no boom-bap or carefully chopped soul samples put on a dusty loop.
It sounded like no other New York rap album—or any other rap album for that matter. When 50 calmly says, “God’s on your side? Shit, I’m a-ight with that, ‘cause we gon’ reload them clips and come right back,” on “Heat,” before matter-of-factly adding, “Don’t think you safe ‘cause you moved out the hood, ‘cause your momma’s still around, dog, and that ain’t good,” the gunshot snares and funeral-service organs, make it all seem like a movie. Only it wasn’t.
The most remarkable thing about Get Rich was the light 50 shined on himself and his hood. He wasn’t rapping from the viewpoint of an observer; he was the protagonist of each tale. His rhymes, drenched in anger and anguish, were ones that dudes still clawing their way out of the gutter could relate to. Just as he had years earlier on “Ghetto Quran,” 50 gave the listeners access to a world most people only read about or saw on the nightly news.
If “Many Men (Wish Death)” had been made by any other rapper, the words, “Homo shot me, three weeks later he got shot down / Now it’s clear I’m here for a real reason, ‘cause he got hit like i got hit, but he ain’t fucking breathing,” would be taken as nothing more than clever storytelling. But on Get Rich everything was taken at face value. Fifty’s currency was realness, and he had it by the boatload.
But there was another side to 50 Cent. A side that that fully understood the mechanics of selling records. 50 wasn’t as unhinged as DMX. He was incredibly focused and measured in his savagery, making him sound even rawer than Jay-Z or Nas, something more akin to Kool G-Rap. Even with his unapologetic lyrics, the songs were tailor-made for radio with sticky choruses and polished production.
The album’s breakout Dr. Dre-produced single, “In Da Club.” was a juggernaut of a record that stayed at the top of theBillboard charts for nine weeks. It transcended rap and became a pop staple. When Ice Cube and Ludacris took Oprah to task for not supporting hip hop, the talk show queen called up Power 105.1 to clear the air, saying that she occasionally listened to “In Da Club” on her iPod.
Even after ridiculing Ja Rule for his thug-love music, 50 wasn’t above dabbling in love and hip hop himself with the album’s third single, the Nate Dogg-assisted “21 Questions”. It was as if Fif did these songs just to show that he could; to show that he could do anything he pleased.
Music, like all things, is cyclical. Trends and tastes ebb and flow. But certain records stand out as landmarks. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ marked the end of slick, flashy ladies-man rappers and cleared a space for new voices like Young Jeezy who saw rapping as a way to turn their misery into monetary gain. But what was once novel eventually becomes commonplace. Looking to replicate 50’s success, copycat killers began popping up pushing unbelievable stories in an attempt to out-gangster one another. After 50's debut, crack rap hit a wall. It was a time for a change, which Kanye and Young Money would soon provide. But for that moment nine years ago, before blogs became tastemakers and the streets made hits, 50 Cent was the only thing that mattered.
Floyd Mayweather Jr's fight with Miguel Cotto won't happen until May 5th, but leave it to Money May and 50 Cent to take advantage of America's biggest sporting event, the Super Bowl to start promoting it.
Floyd and 50 rolled into the packed downtown streets of Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Super Bowl is being held late last night (February 3) in a tour bus with Floyd's name, picture and Twitter handle painted on it's sides according to ThePostGame.com.
The bus would stop at times so 50 and Floyd could interact with fans and sign autographs, which would bring traffic to a standstill.
"Every time it stopped, the traffic would immediately begin to back up because cars couldn’t get around," said Indy resident Gregg Kiesler. "For the most part Mayweather stayed well inside, but a couple of times he leaned out and spoke with the fans. It didn’t take long for the cars to be backed up in every direction and there were times when the roads were packed in every direction and no one could move."
At one point it looked like Floyd was going to toss money into the crowd when he walked to the front of the bus with a huge wad of paper.
"If he goes and does that (throws the money) then we would have to do something about it," one police officer said. "It could create a riot. Already we asked them to move over to the side or to move on at a sensible pace and they pretty much told us to (expletive)."
No money was thrown as Floyd and 50 kept it moving, entertaining fans and hyping the upcoming fight along the way.
It was definitely great publicity for Floyd's fight with Cotto. Mayweather will be moving up from his usual fighting weight of 147 pounds as a welterweight to fight at the junior middleweight limit of 154.
At stake is Cotto's junior middleweight title belt.
"Miguel Cotto is a world-class fighter who can never be taken for granted and continues to prove he is one of the best in boxing," said Mayweather told ESPN earlier in the week. "It will be a challenge for me to compete with him at this weight, but this is the type of test I thrive on and gives me the motivation to train even harder. I have no doubt in my mind that my title belt collection will increase once again and Cotto's reign as champion will come to an end on May 5."
Floyd is 42-0 with 26 knockouts. Cotto is 37-2 with 30 knockouts.
The fight will be held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on May 5th.
Check out some footage of Floyd's tour bus from last night captured by Martin Rogers of World Football Daily below.
Nipsey Hussle and Blanco have teamed up for a collaborative album entitled Raw that is being produced entirely by Cooking Soul. The first single "L.A. Confidential" features YG.
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