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T.I. is going all in for his new group D.O.P.E. After introducing them on DJ Drama's radio show last week he hops on their new song/video "Harry Potter."
The Hit Boy produced track appears on D.O.P.E.'s new self titled mixtape, which is now available on LiveMixtapes.
"Tire marks tire marks , finish line with the fire marks/ when the relay starts ma run away slave--master" - Iggy Azalea "D.R.U.G.S."
The line above has put Iggy Azalea in a position to have to defend herself after she was called out on it by another African American female rapper Azealia Banks.
As we have previously documented, the feud between the two started when Iggy was placed on the cover of the 2012 XXL Freshman cover. Banks immediately responded to it by lashing out at XXL and Iggy via Twitter.
"Iggy Azalea on the XXL freshman list is all wrong," Azealia wrote on February 28. "How can you endorse a white woman who called herself a "runaway slave master"? Sorry guys. But I'm pro black girl. I'm not anti white girl, but I'm also not here for any1 outside of my culture trying to trivialize very serious aspects of it. In any capacity. *kanye shrug*."
Since then the conflict has grown to include T,I,, who is executive producing Iggy's debut album and is also her mentor at Grand Hustle.
Today Iggy addressed the lyric by writing a letter that was posted on the website MissJia.com. Read it below:
Dear world,
Im writing you today to address a lyric I said a few months ago in one of my songs that I feel has been used to unfairly slander my character and paint me as a racist person.
Kendrick Lamar is one of my favorite artists and I loved his song ‘Look Out for Detox’ so much I decided to do my own version of it last year. The lyrics I wrote follow the original version closely; One lyric in particular has offended a lot of people and for that, I apologize.
The artist’s lyric was:
“when the relay starts I’m a runway slave”
My lyric was:
“when the relay starts I’m a runaway slave…Master, sh*tting on the past gotta spit it like a pastor
This is a metaphoric take on an originally literal lyric, and I was never trying to say I am a slave owner.
The intent was to say was that past histories have been mastered, or overcome, and that you may feel my
line was ‘shitting on the past,’ just as many feel pastors shit on the bible or biblical history…although they mean no ill and just have their own take, hence the lyric ‘gotta spit it like a pastor.’
In all fairness, it was a tacky and careless thing to say and if you are offended, I am sorry. Sometimes we get so caught up in our art and creating or trying to push boundaries, we don’t stop to think how others may be hurt by it. In this situation, I am guilty of doing that and I regret not thinking things through more.
I don’t hate any race of people, and it pains me to wake up to other young people being misled to believe I do. I am for unity and equality. People should get a fair shot at whatever they want to do no matter what color they are; rap and hip hop as a culture is not exempt from this.
It is unfair to say other races who also grew up listening to rap don’t get a place too. We have a place and the Azaleans and myself are evidence of that fact. All people have a voice and equal right to use it.
In your lifetime you will say a lot of things you will wish you hadn’t too. I have to have my poor choice of words live with me forever on the internet. Please know that I have grown from this and hope to have your continued support in life and my mission of bridging the gap.
As one of my lovely azaleans said last week: we are the prototype and far beyond the stereotype.
Love always,
Iggamonster.
The song's video is posted below. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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To own a major sports franchise takes big bucks. Forbes just rolled out their list of the owners that make their competitors look like they have "baby money."
Last week, Forbes released its annual list of the world’s billionaires, citing over 1,100 people who get to enjoy some of life’s great toys, from yachts and private jets to plush vacation homes.
The toy of choice for some: sports. If you’re a fan, being a billionaire means you can do even better than prime seats, valet parking and wait service. You can buy the team. In fact, if you’re Paul Allen, the original No. 2 guy at Microsoft worth $14.2 billion, you don’t even have to choose between the Pacific Northwest’s NBA and NFL franchises. You can have both.
Here's a look at the top ten richest owners in sports
Worth: $3.8 billion
Forbes Rank: 290
Team: Tottenham Hotspur Currency trader is opening a multi-building medical center near Orlando, Fla. this year.
9. Micky Arison
Worth: $ 4.7 billion
Forbes Rank: 223
Team: Miami Heat LeBron and D-Wade just came up short in their quest to deliver Arison an NBA title last season, but they’re looking even stronger this year.
8. Richard DeVos
Worth: $5 billion
Forbes Rank: 205
Team: Orlando Magic Amway founder may not have superstar Dwight Howard to help sell out his new arena.
7. Silvio Berlusconi
Worth: $5.9 billion
Forbes Rank: 169
Team: AC Milan The former Italian prime minister skated on corruption charges, but still faces allegations of tax fraud and sex with a minor.
6.Philip Anschutz
Worth: $7 billion
Forbes Rank: 133
Team: Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings Anschutz’s sports empire includes the MLS along with areans like the Staples Center in Los Angeles and O2 Arena in London.
5. Roman Abramovich
Worth: $12.1 billion
Forbes Rank: 68
Team: Chelsea Russian steel and mining giant just sacked Andre Villas-Boas as Chelsea manager, leading to criticism in the UK from those leery of “foreign owners.”
4. Mikhail Prokhorov
Worth: $13.2 billion
Forbes Rank: 58
Team: New Jersey Nets It’s on to Brooklyn in the fall for the metals tycoon, who garnered 8% of the vote in this year’s Russian presidential election.
3. Paul Allen
Worth: $14.2 billion
Forbes Rank: 48
Team: Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers Would you rather own a franchise in the NBA or the NFL? When you’re the original No. 2 guy at Microsoft, why not both?
2. Rinat Akhmetov
Worth: $16 billion
Forbes Rank: 39
Team: FC Shakhtar Donesk Ukranian businessman founded System Capital Management, a mining and steel company with some $23 billion in assets. His soccer club took the UEFA Cup in 2009, the first Ukrainian team to do so.
1. Mukesh Ambani
Worth: $22.3 billion
Forbes Rank: 19
Team: Mumbai Indians (Cricket) Chairman of oil & gas conglomerate Reliance Industries ranks as Asia’s second-wealthiest man. Reliance is a big sponsor or Cricket, India’s most popular sport. Ambani is a Cricket fanatic who reportedly once spent over a million dollars for boxes at the ICC World Cup final.
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Waka Flocka drops visuals for "Baby Let Me See You Do It." The Southside On produced track is off of Waka's mixtape DuFlocka Rant Vol.1: 10 Toes Down and features Wooh Da Kid and the late Slim Dunkin.
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Fans who can't make it to Austin, Texas to see 50 Cent perform at the South by Southwest Festival are in luck because Fuse TV will be streaming the concert live.
As we previously reported, 50 will be performing his 8x platinum album Get Rich Or Die Tryin' in it's entirety for the first time live.
In addition Shady 2.0 will be well represented as both Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse are also set to perform.
The show starts at 7PM Central on Friday March 16th.
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John Legend teams up up Ludacris for "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)."
The song is off of the Think Like a Man soundtrack.
Check it out below.
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Royce Da 5'9 was recently in Canada for a solo tour. While there he sat down with Montreality for an interview.
Among the topics covered were the upcoming Slaughterhouse album, 'Welcome To: OUR HOUSE', the type of student he was at school, jobs he's had as a teenager growing up, what he spent his 1st big paycheck on, the key to success, what he would call his book if he were to write one, a memorable tour story with Eminem. artists he'd like to collaborate with and more.
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Comedians Billy Sorrells and Spoken Reasons team up to prank call an unsuspecting father to tell him about how his daughter is getting smashed. What happens next is comedy gold.
Peep the hilarious video below.
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Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina is obviously going through a tough time since the loss of her mother several weeks ago. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey which aired Sunday [March 11] the 19-year old says she can still feel her mom's presence in her home.
"Throughout the house lights turn on and off and I'm like, 'Mom what are you doing?'" she told Oprah. "I can still sit there and laugh with her. I can still sit there and talk to her."
Oprah responded by simply saying: "wow."
Watch the clip below.
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The Notorious B.I.G.'s death hit the entire hip-hop community hard. Family, friends and fans mourned when Biggie died March 9, 1997. His children lost a father, his mother lost a son and the rap world lost one of the all-time greats.
Big's friends and collaborators were affected too. In a 1998 interview with MTV News, Jay-Z talked about how Biggie's tragic death weighed on him and ultimately changed the course of his sophomore album, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1.
"A lot of different songs were influenced by what was happening. 'City Is Mine,' the first verse, you could just hear it. I think two hooks on there came from songs that he had previously recorded," Jay said of the LP that he dropped eight months after his friend passed away
Vol. 1's "City Is Mine" served as a letter to the deceased. On the song's first verse, Jay raps, "What the deal, playboy? Just rest your soul." From there, Jay vows that "a world with amnesia" wouldn't forget Biggie's name, and then he proceeded to take Big's reins as the rap king of New York.
Though there were some bright moments on Jay's first Def Jam release, songs like the Kraftwerk-sampling "(Always Be My) Sunshine" were few and far between. Jay's experience in the studio was different from when he crafted his 1996 debut, when he had B.I.G. to help push his artistic boundaries.
"The album to me — this album wasn't fun to me like Reasonable Doubt,because it was like, it seemed really slow to me, and I didn't set out to do that, just looking back now and listening to it now," he said somberly in the 1998 interview.
Big wasn't physically in the studio; Jay revealed that the only song the Brooklyn Don got to hear and give feedback on from Vol. 1 was the dark and brooding "Streets Is Watching." Still, Big was well-represented on the album. Aside from "City Is Mine," Big got a special shout-out on "Friend or Foe '98," when Hov famously offered to throw some ice up to heaven for "the nicest MC." Jay also recycled Biggie's rhymes on the hooks to "Face Off" and "Real N*ggaz." The Sauce Money-assisted "Face Off" borrowed its chorus from Biggie's intro ad libs on his 1997 album cut "Nasty Boy," and "Real N*ggaz" got its hook from a freestyle B.I.G. did over a string of Dr. Dre instrumentals before he passed. Then there was the melancholy "Lucky Me," on which Jay briefly speculated on his own death and questioned if fame was all that it was cracked up to be. "There's a lot of emotions on the album, and that was definitely influenced by what was goin' on and what had happened," Jay-Z said.
On Wednesday's "RapFix Live," Lil' Kim spoke on the Notorious One's relationship with Jigga. "He and Jay-Z just had this adorable friendship — it was the cutest," she said. "They were so competitive with each other, but it was such a friendly competitiveness, and I loved it, because that's how it's supposed to be when you like somebody."
When B.I.G. passed, that friendly competition was lost. "I don't have anyone to bounce off of, you understand? We bounced off each other like, 'Oh that was crazy; I gotta make something crazier.' When you don't have that, you don't have that gauge," Jay said. "It's just hard to adjust; you have to find other ways to motivate yourself."
Hov seems to have adjusted just fine. When Biggie died in 1997, Jay only had one album under his belt and was on his way to releasing his second. Now, 15 years later, Jay has built a career that is unmatched with 11 solo albums and a number of collaborative releases with R. Kelly, Linkin Park and Kanye West. But back in 1998, Jay could only use one word to describe Big's legacy: "Unparalleled. There'll never be another person to come along to fill that void."
Source: MTV
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Some of the biggest names in the business will take part in this year's Openair Frauenfeld in Switzerland.
The three day event takes place from July 6-8. Check out the full lineup below.
50 Cent
Drake
Nas
Sean Paul
Rick Ross
Wiz Khalifa
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)
J. Cole
Beginner
Sido
Mac Miller,
Tinie Tempah
Jedi Mind Tricks
Max Herre and friends
Samy Deluxe
K.IZ
Marsimoto
Yelawolf
A$AP Rocky
Royce 5'9
Dilated Peoples
Phenomden
Steff la Cheffe
Liricas Analas
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Prince Pi
Raf 3.0
Kollegah & Favorite
Lo Leduc & feat. Pacôme
Dabu Fantastic
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Mystikal is officially back with his first video with Cash Money.
"Original" is a warm up single for the rapper's first album in eleven years which is tentatively titled Under The Bills.
Birdman and Lil Wayne lend a hand on this one.
UFC President Dana White needs to do something quick or risk losing one of the most popular fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is adamant that he will only fight one more time for the organization, then he will leave for what he hopes are greener pastures. And by greener, I mean more money. The problem for Jackson is that the UFC has a stranglehold on the sport.
The UFC's parent company Zuffa, LLC has bought out World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC), Pride Fighting Chamionships, Strikeforce and World Fighting Alliance (WFA). What that means is if you plan of fighting in mixed martial arts you will either fight for the UFC or starve.
In the past week Rampage has twice stated he's done fighting for the UFC after his next bout.
"I feel sorry for my next opponent, no matter who or what it is," Jackson wrote via Twitter several days ago. "I will fight whoever they put in front of me — I always have — but it will be my last fight in the UFC. I have other things on my mind. I didn't say I would be done fighting; I just said I'm not fighting for the UFC (u fight cheap)."
According to Yahoo Sports Jackson was paid $325,000 for UFC 96 in 2009. A win against Keith Jardine. Since that time he has fought five more times in the Octagon with only two wins. One of those losses was a championship fight against Jon "Bones" Jones.
It's being reported that the UFC has asked Rampage to take a pay cut because he is losing audience "appeal" which is probably what set him off.
Rampage's record now stands at 32-10. At 33-year's old his options are limited, but despite being told he has lost his "appeal" fans still like to see him fight because he goes for the knockout every time. But his temper may get the best of him. Check out his most recent Twitter rant below.
If this keeps up we may not be seeing much more of Rampage in the Octagon.
What do you MMA fans think of this situation?
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Forget anything you have seen all season because Gerald Green put himself at the top of the list for dunks in the NBA last night.
The 6'8 guard from the New Jersey Nets caught an alley oop and threw it down with windmill action like it was a dunk contest.
The Nets still lost the game to the Houston Rockets, but Green's dunk won't be forgotten anytime soon.
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The Odd Future crew are out on the road in support of their upcoming project OF Tape Vol 2. Here's some footage of the crew as they touch down in Tempe, Arizona on March 9th for a show and to meet fans and sign autographs at their pop up store.
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Two Philly heavy spitters Gille Da Kid and Beanie Sigel link up for "Blow My High." The track is off of Gillie and DJ Drama's Gangsta Grillz mixtape King of Philly, available now.
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