Two things have become apparent about Rihanna. She loves tattoos and loves playing the role of bad girl.
Last September the singer was spotted on a hotel balcony in Brazil with what appeared to be "Thug Life" inked on her knuckles. It now looks like that was just sharpie ink as Riri hit up the Shamrock Social Club in Los Angeles on Tuesday and got the phrase made famous by late rapper Tupac Shakur tatted on her knuckles.
"All these b*tches screaming that 2pac back ♫ #THUGLIFE," she wrote on Twitter.
Rihanna in Brazil September 2011
Rihanna tweeted several more pics from the tattoo shop, including one with actor Danny Trejo. Check them out below.
Rihanna and Danny Trejo
Rihanna poses with Shamrock Social Club owner and tattoo artist Mark Mahoney
Ne-Yo is taking his talents from Def Jam and moving over to Motown it was announced Tuesday (January 24).
Ne-Yo will record for the label and scout for new talent in his new position of Senior VP of A&R according to Billboard.
"His track record of success at Def Jam will always be a benchmark," Universal Republic and Island Def Jam Motown chairman/CEO Barry Weiss said in a statement announcing the news. "But this move to Motown will provide new and inspiring challenges for Ne-Yo as both an artist and a key member of the new senior management team that is taking form at the label in 2012."
The singer/actor had previously released four albums on Def Jam. The last being 2010's Libra Scale.
His new disc, The Cracks in Mr. Perfect, will be released through his Compound Entertainment imprint and Motown later this year.
Ne-Yo said he's excited about the new opportunity.
"I'm honored that I¹ve been given such a prestigious title and trusted with such responsibility; terrified because I know that playing this role in the fashion of one of my career role models, Mr. Smokey Robinson -- these are big shoes to fill. But trust, I can handle it," he said.
Mac Miller is about to hit the road starting in March on "The Macadelic" world tour. The Pittsburgh mc will be playing 22 dates starting March 27 in Norfolk, Virginia. The trek will wind through Green Bay, Atlanta and Paris, France before winding down in Amsterdam on June 1st.
The Cool Kids and The Come Up are the tour's opening acts.
For more tour information and to purchase tickets visits Mac's official website.
The Macadelic Tour Dates:
03/27/12 Norfolk, VA Norfolk State University 03/28/12 Clemson, SC Clemson University
03/29/12 Radford, VA Radford University
03/31/12 Fairfax, VA George Mason University
04/01/12 Loretto, PA Saint Francis University
04/03/12 State College, PA Penn State University
04/04/12 Ypsilanti, MI Eastern Michigan University
04/05/12 Kalamazoo, MI Western Michigan University
04/10/12 Green Bay, WI University of Wisconsin Green Bay
04/11/12 St. Louis, MO St. Louis University
04/12/12 Bloomington, IN Indiana University
04/14/12 Dayton, OH Wright State University
04/16/12 Charlotte, NC University of North Carolina Charlotte
04/17/12 Atlanta, GA Georgia State University
04/20/12 Orlando, FL University of Central Florida
04/26/12 Baltimore, MD Towson University
04/27/12 Clarion, PA Clarion University
04/29/12 Oneonta, NY SUNY Oneonta
05/18/12 Asbury Park, NJ Bamboozle Festival
05/29/12 Brussels Ancienne Belgique
05/30/12 Paris Le Casino de Paris
06/01/12 Amsterdam Melkweg
We previewed the cover of Obie Trice's new album Bottom's Up several days ago. Now we have the official tracklist for you to peruse. Track No. 5 "Richard" immediately stands out. The song reunites Obie with his former Shady Records boss, Eminem.
Another noteworthy song is "Crazy" which features a verse from late Michigan rapper MC Breed.
The album will be released February 28.
Check out the full tracklist below courtesy of HHNM.
1. Bottoms Up (Intro) 2. Going No Where 3. Dear Lord 4. I Pretend 5. Richard (Feat. Eminem) 6. BME Up 7. Battle Cry (Feat. Adrian Reeza) 8. Secrets 9. Spill My Drink 10. Spend The Day (Feat. Dre Skidne) 11. Petty 12. My Time 13. Ups And Downs 14. Hell Yeah 15. Crazy (Feat. MC Breed) 16. LeBron On (Bonus Track)
Street King clothing could be in a store near you very soon.
Showing no signs of slowing down his incredible work ethic, 50 Cent announced via Twitter this morning that he will be starting a line of Street King clothing, an extension of the energy drink he launched last year.
50 also tweeted pictures of Money Team jackets in various colors.
Keep it locked here on Thisis50 for more information on Street King clothing as it becomes available.
With his new album The Nacirema Dream about to drop soon, Papoose releases visuals for "I'm Like That," as well as a teaser for "Alphabetical Slaughter Pt. 2."
French Montana hit up the Hot 97 show today to chop it up with Angie Martinez. He talked about the upcoming NY Giants "Shot Caller" remix, turning down a deal with G.O.O.D Music to sign with Bad Boy, meeting Rihanna and his appearance on the record "Stay Schemin" that took the Drake vs. Common beef up a notch.
Angie asked French about Drake's verse on "Stay Schemin" getting at Common and the Chicago rapper's immediate reply.
"With them you gotta look at it like it's hip hop, it's competition, it's good for the music," French said. "I think Drake wanna fight. He said he can't wait to run into him."
Lavish Boutique sponsored artist YD Starbound performs an exclusive freestyle to his version of "Faded" From Tyga's "Careless World" album. Starbounds version will debut on his his mix tape dropping Late March titled "LEXED OUT 2"!
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Self Made's Riz goes in on several big name artists in his new video for "Kiss The Ring." He takes issue with DJ Khaled for using "Kiss The Ring" as the title to his upcoming album even though Riz came up with the name first for his mixtape.
Shots are also fired at Wiz Khalifa and Rick Ross.
Cam Newton did it all this season for the NFL's Carolina Panthers. The quarterback set a rookie record with 4,051 passing yards and a QB record for rushing touchdowns with 14.
Cam enjoyed some well deserved down time on Friday (January 20) as he partied at Club Reign in Atlanta with Young Jeezy and the event's host, Common.
According to TMZ, the star player didn't even have a sip of alcohol. Instead the former Auburn Tiger drank bottled water all night.
The QB will be busy on the football field this Sunday (January 29) as he joins Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees in Honolulu, Hawaii as one of the quarterbacks on the NFC Pro Bowl team.
Check out the pics from the party below courtesy of TMZ.
With it's indictment of Megaupload and the arrest of it's founder Kim Schmitz last week the feds have sent dozens of other similar file sharing websites running for cover.
Megaupload founder Kim Schmitz, aka Kim Dotcom in a New Zealand court facing extradition charges to the U.S.
Uploaded.to, Filesonic, Fileserve, Filepost, UploadBox, UploadStation and many more have either shut down or banned all 3rd party downloads according to TorrentFreak.com.
Some companies have started deleting massive amounts of user files in an effort to keep the FBI at bay.
"It looks like the chilling effect has already started," Dennis Fisher, editor in chief of security blog Threatpost told USA Today. "Maybe one of the reasons the U.S. government is going after companies alleged to be hosting infringing content is to serve as a deterrent for others engaging in similar activity."
Uploaded.to has banned all U.S. IP addresses. When users try to access the site they are greeted by a blue screen that reads "service is not available in your country."
Two other popluar cyberlockers, Mediafire and Rapidshare are staying put, at least for now.
"RapidShare AG was founded in Switzerland and in fact, it was always located at the address given in the company details and was always run under real names without any anonymous intermediate businesses," RapidShare CEO Alexandra Zwingli told Ars Technica. "The radical measures against MegaUpload were apparently required since the situation there had been totally different."
Derek Labian, CEO of Texas-based Mediafire was critical of Megaupload when he spoke with Venturebeat.com.
“We don’t have a business built on copyright infringement.” Labain said. “Like many other cloud-based sharing services like Box.net and Dropbox, we’re a legitimate business targeting professionals. Megaupload was making a ridiculous amount of money with a ridiculously bad service,” Labian said. “We frankly don’t see ourselves in the same space.”
This is a very fast developing story. We'll keep an eye out to see which file sharing company blinks next.
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News coverage of Megaupload indictment and cyber attacks against government
More file sharing websites shut down or limit access to users
Kim Schmitz and other operator's of Megaupload appear in New Zealand court
1. Intro 2. Never Gon' Stop 3. Make That Money 4. Nino Brown 5. Need A Way Out (featuring Mista Raja) 6. Unstoppable 7. Gangstas Aint Dead (featuring Push Montana and Mouse) 8. Cream featuring (T.I and Meek Mills) 9. Let It Fly (featuring Roscoe Dash) 10. That Could Be Us (featuring Robbie Nova) 11. A Dream 12. Heart Stop 13. Heaven For A G 14. Messiah 15. Glad To Be Alive 16. Day After Tomorrow
With the NFC's Green Bay Packers out of the running for the Super Bowl this year, Birdman has switched conferences entirely and decided to try his luck with the AFC's New England Patriots.
Stunna successfully bet $1 million dollars on the Packers to win last season. He's upping the ante this year by putting down $5 million on the Patriots to beat the New York Giants.
According to Birdman, Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis is his nephew. Eliis ran for 68 yards and scored a touchdown in the Patriots win over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game to help his team advance to the big show.
Super Bowl 46 will be played on Sunday February 5 at 6PM EST on NBC.
Diddy will be bringing a new cable network to the airwaves by the end of 2012.
BroadcastingCable.com is reporting that the business mogul will be launching Revolt, a music-themed cable channel on December 12, 2012.
Programming on the new network will be geared toward African American audiences. In addition to music, the network will also cover some news-related stories.
Former MTV programming chief Andy Schuon is part of the project, according to the report.
Distribution will be provided by cable giant Comcast as part of its commitment to the FCC to help launch minority owned networks. Additional distribution is being provided by Time Warner. The new network will be able to reach 18 million households.
Boogz Boogetz drops official visuals for "Supreme Flow," a track that's featured on his mixtape Flyer Learning. Produced by Skream, the song features Bandana P aka Illuminati P aka 1/2 of the infamous Mobb Deep, Prodigy.
By now you have all heard 50 Cent's banger "Wait Until Tonight" off of his street album The Big 10. Some of you may not be as familiar with the record's producer, although you have definitely heard his music before.
West Coast producer Scoop DeVille is the man who crafted "Wait Until Tonight." He also produced Tony Yayo's "Haters," Snoop Dogg's "I Wanna Rock," Xzibit's "Hurt Locker" and many more.
Our good friends over at Hip Hop-N-More caught up with the producer to find out the inspiration behind "Wait Until Tonight" and "Haters."
HHNM: First off, thanks for taking out the time to speak with us. And secondly, congratulations on 50 Cent’s ‘Wait Until Tonight’. It’s another smash to your credit.
Scoop DeVille: Appreciate that sir. Definitely a great credit to have under the belt. Blessed.
HHNM: Let me start this interview by asking you how this beat came about. A lot of fans are interested to know. Tell us the creative process behind the making of it.
Scoop DeVille: Honesty, I created the idea when I was 17. I always liked that song (Bobby Womack ‘If You Think You’re Lonely Now’) growing up. It was always in the household and car rides with the fam. I went back to the idea recently and sure enough 50 was feeling the record. It’s truly impressive to me how something I been keeping in the beat vault is finally being heard in today’s music. I guess that’s staying ahead of time. Or having timeless pieces of art.
HHNM: Great. Since he has another mixtape coming out followed by the album, can we look forward to more work with him in the future? We heard 50 saying “Scoop got some heat” in an interview with DJ Whoo Kid last week on Shade 45.
Scoop DeVille: Yeah, absolutely! There’s a few records starting to surface and I always stay working so as long as they need records I’ll keep supplying.
HHNM: ‘Haters’ by Tony Yayo is another one of my favorite beats that you did this year but I feel it failed to meet its true potential. Why do you think that happened?
Scoop DeVille: That was definitely one of my favorites as well. Unfortunately, it didn’t take off the way I wanted but then again we weren’t trying to make a crazy #1 record. It’s a fun record for what it is and it got great exposure without radio or spending money on promo. Great record to have production wise. Hopefully, it will come back in the long run.
To read the rest of the interview head over to Hip Hop-N-More.
50 Cent "Wait Until Tonight"
Tony Yayo Feat. 50 Cent, Shawty Lo & Kidd Kidd - "Haters"
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