Fans came to see 50 Cent in NY, NJ and Queens for his 'Formula 50' book signings.
Purchase you copy of the book herehttp://www.amazon.com/Formula-50-Workout-Nutrition-Transform/dp/1583335021
Songs used in the video:
1. 50 Cent feat. Snoop Dogg & Young Jeezy - "Major Distribution"http://youtu.be/WDM4Xdnb9w4
2. 50 Cent - My Life ft. Eminem, Adam Levinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN4fNaUAMbA
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While at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month, 50 Cent sat down with Parmy Olson of Forbes to discuss his SMS Audio headphone brand and why his company is unique.
"A lot of the actual artists that you see with other audio companies are there with basic license agreements. Meaning they receive an advance in exchange for utilizing their likeness in association to the actual brand," 50 said. "Probably if they attended CES they were hear for about an hour. This is my third time attending CES. The first time I was here I just had a 3D rendering of what I wanted the style of the headset to look like. The second time I attended I acquired KonoAudio. They were already a profitable company. And acquiring that is what allowed me to make my vision for SMS Audio real."
50 said SMS Audio has exceeded his expectations so far with it's early success.
"This is like my first album. This actual company is like my first record," 50 explained. "I intended for it to be successful, I worked for it to be successful. I didn't anticipate it being successful as fast as it actually is. In a year's time we've been able to launch in 46 countries. We've made the projections for the year."
50 goes on to talk about the sound quality of the headsets, his input on their design and why he offers the headsets in various colors.
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Niykee Heaton is starting to make a name for herself on YouTube with her acoustic covers of popular rap songs. So far she has posted songs by Drake, Ca$h Out, Trinidad James, Future, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Juicy J, DJ Drama and more.
Her cover of Chief Keef's "Love Sosa" is approaching 1 million views.
Her latest cover is of Keef's song "Hate Being Sober." Check it out below and let us know if you think she is onto something or should just move on.
"Hate Being Sober"
"Bands A Make Her Dance"
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Bay Area DJ Big Von is back with the second volume of his I Luv Dem Strippers mix series.
Songs in the mix include:
KARATE CHOP - FUTURE
POUR IT UP - RIHANNA
VAL VENIS - KING L
BITCHES LOVE ME - LIL WAYNE, FUTURE,DRAKE
TRILL - KIRKO BANGZ
ITCHIN - FUTURE
MY HOES DO DRUGS - KING L, JUICY J, PUSHA T
DO YOU - MIGUEL
LOVE SOSA - CHIEF KEEF
US - RICK ROSS, DRAKE , LIL REESE
PYRAMIDS - FRANK OCEAN
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Tyga was the featured performer at the 2013 AVN Awards held on January 19 at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
The YMCMB star hit the stage and it wasn't long before he was surrounded by porn starlets. It definitely looked like T-Raww had a good time.
In addition to performing, Tyga's adult film Rack City XXX: The Movie, which he produced and directed, was up for three awards in the categories of Best Wall-to-Wall Release, Best Music Soundtrack and Best Oral Sex Scene.
Unfortunately, the film didn't take home any trophies, but Tyga may be back with a new smut flick next year.
Check out pics from his performance below courtesy of Driven By Boredom.
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Guests on The Ellen DeGeneres Show have to always be on the lookout because she likes to spring surprises on them. It happened to Steve Harvey in 2011 when Ellen scared the hell out of him. Yesterday it was Cedric The Entertainer's turn.
Ced was telling a funny story about being scared of raccoons and a confrontation he had with them in his front yard when someone dressed in a giant raccoon costume walks up from behind and spooks him.
Peep the funny clip below.
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Cassie doesn't release music as often as her fans would her too, but she decides to hop on Trinidad James' "All Gold Everything" instrumental and give it a female's touch. Trina and Lola Monroe drop verses on this remix as well.
Grand Hustle emcee Iggy Azalea keeps her name ringing by releasing a a new track titled "Whatchu Lookin At." The Aussie import is getting ready to drop her debut album The New Classic soon.
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Red Cafe continues to promote his American Psycho mixtape. The Bad Boy Records artist delivers an official music video for "Fully Loaded" featuring Trey Songz and Fabolous.
Stevie J presents Fly Dantoni's new mixtape Franklins & Loudpacks. The project has features from Stevie, Verse Simmonds and Big Zak.
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Karrueche Tran will forever be linked to Chris Brown. She dated the singer for two years. Now that they have broken up, Tran is looking to put her life back together and move past the relationship.
The 24-year old aspiring model recently landed on the cover of Rolling Out's latest issue. She poses topless, wearing just a bikini bottom.
In an interview with the publication she says she has put the Chris Brown/Rihanna drama behind her.
"He knows he's wrong, but things still happened the way it did," she says of the break up with Chris. "That's on him. That's his actions, not mine."
Check out the rest of the interview below and Karrueche's photo shoot with DeWayne Rogers below.
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Marsha Ambrosius drops off new visuals for her single "Cold War." The song is the lead single off of her upcoming sophomore album Friends & Lovers.
The clip stars Michael K. Williams and Felicia "Snoop" Pearson.
You can purchase "Cold War" now on iTunes and Amazon.
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Cold Summers Entertainment CEO Lil Eto releases the full official music video for "Loaded" featuring Pop, Southside Sparks and B Mac.
Directed by Khelo Suave
Produced by 585th.
To book Lil Eto email csdgmusicgroup@gmail.com
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As Justin Timberlake and super producer Timbaland log countless hours of studio time preparing JT's upcoming album The 20/20 Experience, Justin decides to release an official lyric video for the project's lead single "Suit & Tie" featuring Jay-Z.
Rappers have engaged in verbal warfare on wax ever since the art form was created. Whether they rant about rivals, their record labels or about the amount of money they have, hip hop has provided the perfect platform.
With that in mind, Complex has put together their list of the 25 best rants in rap history and it's no surprise that 50 Cent is all over it.
Lets check out the list as written by INSANUL AHMED, EDWIN ORTIZ and ERNEST BAKER.
Year: 2006
Best Line: "But, matter of fact, while you over here is you a waitress or something? 'Cause the sh*t you got on make you look like a waitress."
Album: Hard to Kill
Obviously, Gucci Mane was popping Molly and sweating way before Trinidad James made it all trendy. Here, La Flare sets the bar for how to speak to restaurant and nightclub staff in hilarious fashion.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (4:05):
Year: 2005
Best Line: "Niggas, bitches, bitch ass niggas. Dyke ass hoes, black a$$, bright a$$ hoes. F*g hags and scalawags."
Album: Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
When it comes to the dance floor, Mannie Fresh is an equal opportunity promoter. He invites everyone to cheer the arrival of Young Jeezy.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (0:05):
Year: 2005
Best Line: "Tell that n*gga Puffy I said get out the mirror for a second, let me talk to him. Puffy own the nigga motherfu*kin' publishing."
Album: G-Unit vs. D-Block Vol. 2: Battle for the Crown
50 has an extensive history of beefing but the best part of his diss songs aren't always the rapping, sometimes it's just the rants. Case in point: On his verse from "I Run New York" he barely disses Jada, and instead airs out Jada's dirty laundry and says he doesn't own his publishing during an end-of-song tirade. This rant actually lead to an even better one: After being exposed, Jada and Styles took their case to Hot 97 to get the public to rally around them and get Diddy to give up their publishing which lead to an unforgettable shouting match live on the air.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:05):
Year: 2009
Best Line: "It's like I just singlehandedly annihiliated, you know, every rap b*tch in the building."
Album: Beam Me Up Scotty
If Nicki dropped this song today, we'd all assume it was a Mariah Carey diss. But trust, Nicki been dissing nameless females since way before it was good for American Idol's ratings.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (2:50):
Year: 1997
Best Line: "B*tch only f*ck with you 'cause you had a good a$$ job, n*gga. Nerd."
Album: Life After Death
Damn, Short Dawg. Why you gotta make it hard for us 9-to-5 players?
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:48):
Year: 1993
Best Line: "Peace to all the gods and the Earths. Word is bond. Wu-Tang slang. Choppin' heads. It ain't safe no more."
Album: Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
The most hype song on 36 Chambers ends with RZA shouting out neighborhoods all over the nation in glorious fashion. This is when the rap world realized just how deep rooted the clan's influence was, and they've been relevant ever since.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (2:17):
Year: 1996
Best Line: "What make that even more f*cked up, I'm watching the Million Man March and I see the same b*tch on the Million Man March that was in the homeboy Warren G video."
Album: All Eyez on Me
Snoop didn't contribute a verse to this record, but still popped up for a memorable rant about this one girl who keeps showing up in videos. We'd love to feel Snoop's pain, but obviously seeing the same hoe everywhere you go is a #SnoopDoggProblem.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:34):
Year: 2003
Best Line: "You fat cupcake eating motherf*cker."
Album: The Future Is Now
The most entertaining part about this rant is 50's exuberance at the mere idea that he'd be even remotely be scared of Ja Rule, Murder, Inc, or their fake a$$ order of protection. 50 didn't release mixtapes titled No Mercy, No Fear for no reason.
Listen To The Full Rant Below:
Year: 2008
Best Line: "Mr. Al Sharpton, here's why I don't respect you, and nobody like you. See, you're the type that gets off on getting on other people. That's not good. No homo."
Album: Tha Carter III
After a series of delays (and leaks), Tha Carter III catapulted Lil Wayne from young gun to superstar. He closed the album by tackling a handful of serious subjects, which caught many by surprise. Weezy highlighted the flaws within our legal system as well as the negative effects of gentrification over a wailing Nina Simone sample. Then took Al Sharpton to task. It's arguably Lil Wayne's most candid moment on wax.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (2:50):
Year: 1999
Best Line: "People talk about hip-hop like it's some giant living in the hillside, coming down to visit the townspeople."
Album: Black on Both Sides
Very few rappers can channel the intellectual spirit that Mos Def (excuse us, Yasiin Bey) possesses on the mic, and his debut solo album Black on Both Sides provided a rich source of insight that people equate him with to this day. On the album-opening "Fear Not of Man," Mos is in pursuit for social truth, and it's a monologue that is as powerful as it is entertaining.
Listen To The Full Rant Below:
Year: 1999
Best Line: "You never seen a n*gga like me, ever in your life, and that's what you can't understand."
Album: I Am...
When discussing "Hate Me Now" with Rolling Stone in 2007, Nas explained, "I just wanted [Puff] to talk some of his shit on there." And talk shit he did, with words of vengeance and spite from the Bad Boy mogul creating a hostile environment that still feels palpable to this day. As opposed to his usual lengthy monologues, Puff Daddy instead took sporadic shots throughout the record.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (0:30):
Year: 2003
Best Line: "As for that lame, man. Nasir—I ain't even gonna say your last name 'cause that's mine—I catch you, you know what it is."
Album: Diplomatic Immunity
Jim Jones isn't necessarily known for his lyrical prowess, but charisma? That's a different story. Creating a career off a single record and phrase, the Capo of Dipset knows what to say and when to say it. In that regard, his improvised inclusion on Cam'ron's celebrated Diplomatic Immunity cut was paramount, as he accentuated his Harlem persona while also sending shots at Nas.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:03):
Year: 1999
Best Line: Half-rapping a$$ motherf*ckers. You think it's a game? You think it's a f*cking game?!?!?!"
Album: ...And Then There Was X
Nothing gets you more pumped up (and a little terrified) than some motivational speaking from Earl Simmons. On this street classic, DMX was out for blood, and his aggressive opening was a perfect lead-in for the ferocious lyricism that came afterward. The rant may clock in as one of the shortest on the list, but DMX didn't need much time to get his point across.
Listen To The Full Rant Below:
Year: 2004
Best Line: "They still weren't looking at me like a rapper. And I'm sure Dame figured like, 'Man, if he do a whole album, if his raps is wack at least we can throw Cam on every song and save the album.'"
Album: The College Dropout
"Last Call" is a perfect example of the candid yet cerebral individual that we've come to know and love. The heart of this track is a nine-minute monologue of shout outs and stories, and it's amazing to hear the Chicago rapper put his career on full display without a filter. Like Dame says, "Oh shit! It's not even wack!"
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:55):
Year: 1997
Best Line: "We gon' keep doing our motherf*ckin' thing from now 'til the year 3000, b*tches. You can't breathe, you can't sleep, you can't eat without thinking about us."
Album: Life After Death
Biggie does some of his best rapping ever on this track, and even then, Puffy still shines. This is a prime example of why he's the king of talking shit.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (0:52):
Year: 2000
Best Line: "We all drive Bentleys on dubs. I'm trying to put platinum eyebrows on these hoes. I just bought me a platinum football field, n*gga."
Album: I Got That Work
You can't call yourself the "#1 Stunna" unless your stunt game is on stupid. And a good portion of what Birdman says on here is pretty stupid. Why the fuck would you buy a platinum football field? WORST INVESTMENT EVER.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:40):
Year: 2002
Best Line: "F*ck your little magazine, too. I don't need your little f*ckin' magazine. I got XXL's number anyway, and y'all can't stand 'cause they getting bigger than y'all."
Album: N/A
Despite being a rapper and being worth millions of dollars, Eminem rarely brags about his wealth. So to hear him rag on Benzino for being broke was beyond hilarious. Despite once being regarded as the premier hip-hop publication, this rant sealed The Source's fate.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:50):
Year: 2000
Best Line: "Y'all non-snorters, non-smokers, non-sippers, get the f*ck up out of here, b*tch."
Album: When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1
These guys are pioneers of hard drug use in hip-hop, so it's only fitting that they open the record that popularized promethazine codeine with some truly epic ranting.
Listen To The Full Rant Below:
Year: 2007
Best Line: "N*ggas think Jimmy Iovine's my boss. N*gga, f*ck Jimmy Iovine, n*gga. I'm from 134th Street, n*gga. I ain't got no motherf*cking boss."
Album: N/A
During his 2007 campaign to promote his third studio album Curtis, 50 Cent didn't sound as comfortable going in as he did with his first two releases. Maybe it's because he was in a sales race with Kanye West, and pressure to outperform the Chicago MC took a toll on him. Or maybe he was upset with his label's direction on the new project. Whatever the case, 50 voiced his displeasure with Interscope on the G-Unit street cut "Southside." Yapping over a slick Ski Beatz backdrop originally done for Pacewon, Ferrari F50 was sounding extra disrespectful as he berated Jimmy Iovine like he was an intern. As appealing as "Southside" was, we strongly urge other Interscope signees to refrain from similar activity.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (1:47):
Year: 2006
Best Line: "You talking 'bout you a 80's baby. You 37 years old, you was born in 1968. And I open the Daily News, how's the King of New York rocking sandals with jeans? Open toe sandals with chancletas with jeans on. How's the King of New York rocking sandals with jeans and he 42 years old."
Album: Killa Season
Cam'ron was none too pleased when Jay-Z and Dame Dash parted ways and broke up the Roc-A-Fella dynasty, nor the fact that just a few years earlier Hov blocked him from securing a deal as Vice President of the label. A culmination of this and other personal issues between the two camps became the genesis of the infamous diss record "You Gotta Love It." From beginning to end, the eight-minute track is brimming full of Killa Cam quotables, with references to Fraggle Rock and Ma$e turning this into an open mic at Caroline's.
Listen To The Full Rant Below:
Year: 2001
Best Line: "N*ggas been hating me since I been 9, shining with suede motherf*ckin' Ballys on and silks. I'ma always be this young don. Don't be like the n*ggas on the other side, hating me 'cause I'm beautiful."
Album: Stillmatic
Nas battling Jay-Z was one thing, but he really gave it to Prodigy, Nature, and Cormega the worst because he literally sonned the shit out them. By the end of this rant, the bridge was definitely over.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:55):
Year: 1997
Best Line: "You probably hop on my dick right there, right in front of ya b*tch. Ask me some stupid sh*t like, 'Yo, yo dog. What's the difference between a 4.0 and a 4.6?' Like 30 to 40 grand c*cksucker, beat it."
Album: In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
Jay-Z is a lot of things, but he isn't always all that funny. But hearing him clown a nameless imaginary player at the end of this record is Hov at his comedic finest. Do them shits even got leathers?
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:24):
Year: 1997
Best Line: "Now, we don't give a f*ck. We just absolutely don't give a f*ck because there ain't no motherf*ckin' love here. There ain't no love here. You know, we just gon' keep doing what we do. We gon' keep f*cking you up. And I'ma keep stompin' your motherf*ckin' head in you f*cking b*tch."
Album: Life After Death
Biggie never namedrops you know who on Life After Death, but a good portion of the album is clearly about his beef with Death Row. Although many felt this record was about Pac, and some lyrics can definitely be taken that way, Puff's line, "We're not talking about no other rappers, we're talking about you motherfucker," is almost certainly about Suge Knight.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (2:00):
Year: 1992
Best Line: "All the sucka a$$ n*ggas can eat a fat d*ck. Eazy-E, Eazy-E, Eazy-E can eat a big fat d*ck. Tim Dog can eat a big fat d*ck. Luke can eat a fat d*ck."
Album: The Chronic
When rappers were entangled in beef back in the '90s, they were also more inclined to identify their target without nibbling around the subject with veiled shots (cc: Drake, Pusha T). Snoop Dogg held nothing back on "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" as he name-checked Eazy-E, Tim Dog and Luke without breaking a sweat.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:45):
Year: 1996
Best Line: "F*ck Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a motherf*ckin' crew."
Album: N/A
This entire rant is the definition of vitriol, and in some ways, even better than the actual rapping on the song. Pac talks himself into a rage and fires off at every enemy rapper. The rant totally put Prodigy's personal health in the streets and officially switched the focus of the beef from Biggie to Bad Boy and the East Coast as a whole.
Listen To The Full Rant Below (3:30):
What do you think of Complex's list? Are there any rap rants you would add or take off the list?
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Young Pretty delivers his new mixtape, Won't Drop The Ball. The project has features from Fat Trel, Boogz Boogetz, Prodigy, Fly Ty, Yung Joey, Nyemiah Supreme, Olivia Gilmore, Gangsta Lou, TOPADALYNE and more.
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Gunplay's MMG chain is currently on a G-Unit world tour. It made it's latest appearance in 50 Cent's new "Major Distribution" music video featuring Snoop Dogg and Young Jeezy.
The folks over at Fuse review the video and take a look at some of the not so subtle jabs at Rick Ross, the gold plated stroller, the gangster chicks with guns and the babe wearing body paint.
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Leaders of the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council (aka Rastafari Millennium Council) have sent a 7-page demand letter to Snoop.Dogg.
The group wants the rapper to pay them "financial and moral support" they claim he committed, issue a public apology and stop using the name "Lion" according to TMZ.
In the documents they claim to have made it clear to Snoop that "smoking weed and loving Bob Marley and reggae music is not what defines the Rastafari Indigenous Culture!"
The group says they will sue Snoop if he does not agree to their demands.
Bunny Wailer
Bunny Wailer, an original member of Bob Marley and the Wailers is also upset with The Doggfather.
Wailer claims Snoop has engaged in "outright fraudulent use of Rastafari Community's personalities and symbolism." He says Snoop failed to meet "contractual, moral and verbal commitments" in regards to his documentary "Reincarnated."
Snoop traveled to Jamaica last year to record his first reggae album, also titled "Reincarnated." The documentary details the Long Beach rapper's journey as he is "embraced by the Jamaican people, is positively impacted by Rastafarian culture, and becomes reincarnated as Snoop Lion," according to the documentary trailer.
Snoop issued a statement last July, describing the name change as a spiritual awakening. "I wanted to bury Snoop Dogg and become Snoop Lion, but I didn't know that until I went to the temple and received the name Snoop Lion from the Nyabingi priest,” said Snoop. “From that moment on, I started to understand why I was there and was able to create something magical in this ['Reincarnated'] project ... something I haven't done before in my career.”
Watch the "Reincarnated" documentary trailer below.
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Murder Mook may never be able to live down the photo of him smoking an e-cigarette from in between someone's toes. The Ruff Ryder emcee made a video recently trying to explain that it was his girl's foot and they were just joking around, but a couple of his fellow battle rappers aren't buying it.
The first person to bring the pic to light was Serius Jones, when he retweeted it on Twitter.
Now Math Hoffa is clowning Mook as well.
"I don't wanna battle you n*gga," Math told VladTV, in response to a question about the pic. "Because in a battle n*ggas talk mad close. And every now and then a little bit of spit might get on somebody and the things you do with your mouth disgust me. I wanna be 10 feet away from you at all times. Any time you're around me don't even talk in my direction because I can tell you do some dirty sh*t with your mouth,"
Math said he cannot begin to comprehend what Mook is doing in the pic and thinks it's actually Mook's fellow Dot Mob member T-Rex's foot.
"That's strange. You're smoking an electric cigarette off of T-Rex's foot. Why would you post that up?" Hoffa said. "And then when n*ggas call you on it like 'yo that's Rex's foot.' 'Nah, that's my girl.' No it's not n*gga look at that foot. If that's you girl's foot I don't wanna see her back. F*ck her face. I don't wanna see her back."
Will Mook ever be able to battle rap again? At this point his career in that arena is looking shaky.
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