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Ryan Leslie releases the sixth and seventh in a series of 10 videos making up the "LES IS MORE" visual album. The project will be released on October 22 in the U.S. and in Europe on October 26th.
Pre-order your copies now from iTunes in the U.S. and Amazon in Europe.
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Back in 2005, a Harvard freshman filling out a profile for an on-campus recruiting program listed Jay-Z as her business role-model.
Chanequa Campbell was promptly called into the Office of Career Services and told to name someone else.
"It's not appropriate. I don't think people will respond well to this," the career counselor told her.
Campbell, who grew up seven blocks from Jay-Z in Brooklyn and idolized the drug-dealer turned rapper turned entrepreneur, refused to name someone else. She argued with the career counselor awhile longer, finally offering as a small concession to use her role model's given name, Sean Carter.
Seven years later Campbell, who ended up getting kicked out of Harvard, still gets upset telling how Harvard didn't respect the businessman from her community.
If it wasn't clear back then, it's clear now that Jay-Z is a damn good business role model.
"I know his resume," Campbell told me. "He made most of his major respect—Wall Street respect—since '04."
But he was a businessman from the start.
"Hov [another nickname for Carter] started as an independent artist with Reasonable Doubt in 1996. Even though he wasn't going platinum, at the beginning he was making money because he owned his own label, he was his own business," Campbell said.
Then he got big. Fourteen Grammy's and over 50 million album sales were just the start. Jay-Z invested in all kinds of ventures—including the Brooklyn Nets, ad firm Translation, cosmetics company Carol's Daughter, Rocawear, and the newly revamped 40/40 Club—earning a networth around half a billion dollars.
Still he never changed who he was.
"To be successful and never change who he is, that's the important thing for me," says Campbell. "It's rare he's ever lost his cool. He never lets a situation bring himself out of character. He's someone who can articulate any position he has."
He's a good role model too.
"Most of Jay-Z's songs, if you understand his vernacular, he's telling you how to be cool, how to be good at life," Campbell says. "He's promoting things of content, things to aspire to. He mentions Warhol, he mentions Basquiat. He mentions people you've never heard of. He brings this light to our normal conversation."
Campbell repeats from memory a great Jay-Z quote from a couple of years ago. Here's what Jay-Z said after meeting Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov at the Four Seasons: "I'd been staying there for 10 years, and I always thought I was at the top level. But when I met Prokhorov, they took me up to this extra, extra room that I had never even heard of before. Now there's something else to shoot for. There's always an extra level you don't know about."
Jay-Z hangs out with Barack Obama and parties with Warren Buffett. He trails only Sean "Diddy" Combs on the Forbes' list of Future Hip-Hop Billionaires. If either makes the cut, he will join the short list of currently only five black billionaires in the word.
As Jay-Z says: "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."
So yeah, we think Harvard got it wrong. Meanwhile Campbell has bounced back from her legal troubles and is teaching in New York City. She's thinking about working at a think tank and is also writing a memoir.
"That's why I love Hov," Campbell says. "He's a prime example of how they can't hold the past against you."
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Ciara is ready to follow up her single, "Sorry" with a new track titled "Got Me Good." The r&b beauty hit up the California desert to film the music video for the song and she gave VH1 an all access behind the scenes look at the shoot.
Expect Cici's One Woman Armyalbum to drop later this year.
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Gucci Mane is seemingly ready to take on the world lately. After putting his beef with Young Jeezy back on the front burner with the diss records "Truth" and "Respect Me," he's now taking shots at Yung Joc and Jeezy's former manager Kenneth “Block” Russell.
“I got all eyes on me like Pac did/But I ain’t tryin’ to go broke like Joc did/I ain’t tryin’ to f*ck my deal up like Block did," Gucci raps in the song "F*ck the World" off of his new Trap God mixtape.
Joc was previously signed to Bad Boy South and had a hit record with "It's Going Down," which appeared on his 2006 album, New Joc City. But he hasn't released an album since 2007.
Block had a deal with Bad Boy South, but that went sour after the artists he signed didn't meet Diddy's standards according to AllHipHop.
This morning Gucci took to Twitter to send a warning Joc's way.
Joc says he has no idea why Gucci is coming at him.
Gucci's definitely on a rampage. Check out the video for "F*ck the World" below.
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Saturday Night Live had a little fun yesterday at President Obama and Mitt Romney's expense during a spoof of Tuesday's second presidential debate.
Romney and Obama got heated at each other throughout the debate as they fielded questions from the audience.
At one point Romney asked Obama what his salary was. Obama replied that is was $400,000.
"That's what I pay my cats," Romney said. "Now sit down before I hit you over the head with my paycheck."
Tom Hanks pops up near the end of the skit as an audience member with a question about Libya.
Check out the spoof below.
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Check out Papoose's latest single "Try You," produced by Ron Browz. The track will be featured on Pap's upcoming mixtape, Most Hated Alive.
Peep the artwork below.
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It's been a busy couple of days for Drake. After performing at Howard University's Yardfest in Washington, D.C. on Friday, the Toronto rapper made a stop in Atlanta on Saturday.
Drizzy was in in the mood to celebrate. He went back to school recently to earn his high school diploma and his 26th birthday is Wednesday October 24th.
"Let me tell you why I'm here. I came here from Toronto, well because it's my birthday on Wednesday. And second of all like a few days ago, for the last three months actually I went back to high school and a few days ago I graduated," he told the crowd. "I don't know where I'm going next. I might come to the 'A.' I might have to go to a university in the 'A' or some sh*t like that. That's what I really wanna do."
He later performed "HYFR," "No Lie" and "Pop That."
"HYFR"
"No Lie"
"Pop That"
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Bruno Mars held down double duty as both the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live yesterday. He performed "Locked Out of Heaven," the lead single off of his upcoming album, Unorthodox Jukebox.
He also debuted a new song "Young Wild Girls."
Unorthodox Jukebox will be released on December 11th.
"Locked Out of Heaven"
"Young Wild Girls"
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Kidd Kidd is next up to bat for the G-Unit 2.0 roster. Fellow Rida Gang member Precious Paris dropped her From Paris with Love mixtape back in February, now Kidd Kidd will follow that up with his own mixtape, Street Fameat the beginning of November.
Queen Bobbi caught with the New Orleans native recently at the 8th annual A3C (All 3 Coasts) Festival in Atlanta.
Check out her interview with him below via Mrsoldout.com.
Atlanta hosted its 8th annual A3C (All 3 Coasts) Festival Oct. 11-13. Fans and artists from around the country congregated to the Hip Hop Mecca to witness some of their favorite artists hit the stage and also network with some of the top shakers on the underground scene.
I had a chance to catch up with former Young Money, now G-Unit, rapper Kidd Kidd to talk about his upcoming mixtape Street Fame. The New Orleans bred MC, popular for the smash "Mrs Officer" with Lil Wayne, shared laughs about MySpace and broke down why his G-Unit partnership was fate.
Queen Bobbi: What brings you out to the a3c festival?
Kidd Kidd: I love the festivities, ya know what I mean, and the women too, and Atlanta. My partners Slow & Bucks shout outs to them.
You said that you were here for the women, of course. You’re from New Orleans right?
Of course man, downtown. 9th Ward, all day.
What’s the difference between New Orleans women and Atlanta Women?
Work! Atlanta women they get it in. New Orleans females be looking for you to pay their bills. In Atlanta a woman will pay your bills.
If I were a man, I would want somebody to pay my bills too! But I’m sure there’s nothing like a New Orleans woman, you must admit?
Oh no, they have beautiful women.
Are there any projects you’re out here promoting?
Yeah, I’m promoting my new singles, I’m dropping one called "New Warleans" featuring Juvenile, and I got another one called "Bend It Over" for the strip club. One for the streets, and one for the club.
How did you hook up with G-Unit and 50 Cent?
Fate. You know how people say; God has a plan for everybody. It really was fate because I was just grinding and it just so happen I got a call at 3 o clock in the morning and it was from 50. I don’t know how he got in touch with me, that’s why I say its fate. I never met him before, he was filming a movie in New Orleans, he liked my music and it was on from then.
When can we expect your album? Is it going to be your debut album on G- Unit?
The debut album is going to be dropping from G-Unit, but right now focusing on these mixtapes. I have the Street Fame mixtape coming out in the beginning of November, be on the lookout for that.
You mentioned that you have Juvenile on a song, what other features can we expect on Street Fame?
You can expect the G-Unit roster of course, I have my own team Rida Gang, expect them to be on the mixtape as well. I don’t want to do too many name drops unless it’s official because you can do songs with a people then when it’s time to put out the song, it’s something else. I got a couple of people in the works though that’s for sure. I got a joint on there with Jim Jones, that’s official so I can say that. Shout out to Jimmy.
You have a song with Jim Jones, did Chrissy ever pop up when you were in the studio?
Na, I never met Chrissy but she’s a G from what I see. [Laughs] Shout out to Chrissy.
Do you have any social media platforms, Twitter, Facebook where the fans can reach you?
Got to have that. Holla at me on Twitter @ItsKiddKidd.
Any Facebook?
I don’t be on Facebook anymore. Twitter and Instagram took over.
Do you have a Myspace, Kidd Kidd?
I had a MySpace, I haven’t logged into MySpace in so long, I don’t even remember my password to get on there if I was to try to get back on MySpace, [Laughs]
I think you have Queen Bobbi on your top 8; you just don’t want to tell anybody.
I think so too. [Laughs]
Well Kidd Kidd, Thank You so much.
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Two days before Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city album drops, Top Dawg Entertainment hits fans off with this very nice surprise. This track which features two of Kendrick's fellow Black Hippy members Ab-Soul and Jay Rock doesn't appear on m.A.A.d city's tracklist.
Bonus track maybe?
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Drake was a busy man yesterday. After performing with 2 Chainz at Howard University's Yardfest earlier in the day the Young Money rapper came out onstage with Future later that night at Stadium nightclub in Washington, D.C.
The two performed "Tony Montana" before Drizzy spit his "Pop That" verse.
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T.I. adds a verse and some ad-libs to Beyonce's "Dance For You." The song originally appeared as a bonus track on B's album, 4.
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The Wayans brothers have hilariously spoofed horror movies starting with the 2000 Keenen Ivory Wayans-directed Scary Movie.
Now Keenen's younger sibling Marlon Wayans will get in on the action by poking fun at the wildly successful Paranormal Activity movies when he releases A Haunted House.
The film co-stars Cedric The Entertainer, Nick Swasdon, Essence Atkins and David Koechner.
A Haunted House arrives in theaters on January 11, 2013. Check out the trailer below. Will you be in line to go see it when it comes out?
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Papoose blew many hip hop head's minds when he released "Alphabetical Slaughter" in 1999. In it he used every letter of the alphabet rhyming from a to z. Soon we'll get to hear part 2 of that classic.
This time the Brooklyn, New York rapper will flip the script by rhyming from z to a.
"Alphabetical Slaughter is a record where I flow from A to Z. I break down all 26 letters of the alphabet, but I don't do it just to do it, or just to say I'm doing it," he told Kevin W. Reese of Hartford's 93.7, back in January. "I challenge any artist to do it. They try it but they never do it the right way. If you look at Alphabetical Slaughter on a piece of paper it should be in alphabetical order. So when you're using 'A' words, it should be nothing but 'A' words in there. You can't say 'the' or none of that. It has to make perfect sense what you're saying. We need to see this in writing and really see that you're making sense and it's really in alphabetical order. That was Alphabetical Slaughter part 1. On my album The Nacirema Dream, which is coming out very soon, I did it from Z to A, where I'm using all totally different words. If I use any word that I used in part 1, come check me."
The song will be on his long awaited album, Nacirema Dream, which will be dropping soon. Check out the cover art for "Alphabetical Slaughter pt. 2" Pap released via Twitter yesterday up top and peep the original song/video and teaser of pt. 2 below.
Alphabetical Slaughter (Original)
"Alphabetical Slaughter pt. 2" (teaser)
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With her single "Girl on Fire" climbing up the Billboard charts, Alicia Keys decided the time was right to reveal the tracklist for her fifth studio album of the same name.
Alicia took to her Twitter account this morning to unveil the names of the 13 songs on the project. There are no features listed.
Check the list out below.
The album goes on sale November 27th. You can pre-order it now on iTunes.
*UPDATE* October 28th
The final tracklist has been revealed. Alicia only has two features on the album. Nicki Minaj lends her talents to the "Inferno" remix of "Girl on Fire" and Maxwell makes an appearance on "Fire We Make."
Final tracklist:
1. De Novo Adagio (Intro)
2. Brand New Me
3. When It’s All Over
4. Listen To Your Heart
5. New Day
6. Girl On Fire (Feat. Nicki Minaj)
7. Fire We Make (Feat. Maxwell)
8. Tears Always Win
9. Not Even The King
10. That’s When I Knew
11. Limitedless
12. One Thing
13. 101
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The 2012 Howard University Homecoming Yardfest kicked off Friday. The annual event showcases rap stars on their way to becoming superstars.
One of the performers yesterday was Atlanta's 2 Chainz. During his set he brought out Pusha T and Drake. When Drizzy hit the stage to assist Tity Boi with "No Lie" the crowd went wild and rushed the stage. Some minor injuries were reported, but the show carried on.
In addition to "No Lie," Drake also performed "Pop That," "HYFR" and "The Motto."
Pusha T came out to lend a hand on "Mercy" and "I Don't Like."
Meek Mill hit the stage later during the pouring rain, but the Philly emcee didn't let that slow him down. He brought out T.I. during his set.
Naughty By Nature, Beenie Man and Leah Labelle also performed in front of the crowd of 15,000.
2 Chainz and Pusha T "Mercy" x "I Don't Like"
2 Chainz & Drake "No Lie" (Crowd stampede), "Pop That" & "HYFR" & more. Meek Mill & T.I. perform in the rain. Beenie Man, Naughty By Nature and Leah Labelle also perform.
2 Chainz "Birthday Song"
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The beautiful and talented Alicia Keys stopped by 106 & Park yesterday. She talked about a variety of topics including the evolution of her new single "Girl on Fire."
"The evolution of Girl on Fire it really came from me always wanting to be able to declare that I'm a girl on fire," Alicia said. "Sometimes we don't always feel like that. Or sometimes things get difficult, but even in a world that's filled with catastrophe we are not backing down. And we got our head in the clouds."
Alicia discussed her experience at BET's 2012 Black Girls Rock event that was held October 13th at the Paradise Theater in New York. She performed and received a special honor that night. The show will air November 4th on BET.
"The energy in there was crazy. The performances were crazy. It's really about us honoring each other and our regality because we're just that hot."
The multiple Grammy Award winner also talked about how proud she is of her new album, Girl on Fire.
"This is by far the best album I ever did yet," she said. "I love this record. I love how it sounds. I love the feeling of it. I really feel like it's going to be a soundtrack to people's lives. The thing is it's called Girl on Fire, but I think it's really about the journey to becoming a girl on fire. So it's everything inside of there. You know sometimes when you're feeling insecure or when you're feeling fearful and you're not sure which way to go. When you're claiming your power - all of those things and the journey just continues. So when you hear this music I promise it's going to knock you on the floor."
Girl on Fire will be released on November 27th. You can pre-order your copy now on iTunes.
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Brick Squad Monopoly rapper Frenchie 1017 releases his new Concrete Jungle 2 mixtape, hosted by Trap-A-Holics, DJ Ace and DJ Smallz.
The project has features from Waka Flocka Flame, Fredo Santana, Trick Trick, Young 1000, Joffy, Styles P, Lil Reese, Yung Joey, Ice Burgandy and more.
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Footaction recently held their "Own the Night" contest which gave fans the opportunity to design a one of a kind shirt for J. Cole. Four lucky winners were awarded round trip airfare and accommodations to Los Angeles for the event, $500 cash, and a meet-and-greet with Cole.
The grand prize winner took home $5,000 and had the pleasure of seeing Cole rock their shirt at a private concert at the W Hotel in Hollywood to celebrate the event last night.
Here's some footage of Cole performing "Can't Get Enough," "In the Morning," "Nobody's Perfect" plus never before heard verses.
"In the Morning"
"Can't Get Enough"
"Can't Get Enough"
Cole performs never heard before verses
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