DJ Absolut unveils a new track "Untouchables" featuring Ace Hood, French Montana, Pusha T and Nathaniel.
DJ Absolut unveils a new track "Untouchables" featuring Ace Hood, French Montana, Pusha T and Nathaniel.
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Jim Jones and Pure put their own spin on Rihanna's song "Cockiness" from a male's point of view. The result is "CockNSpit."
Check it out below.
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New York will be well represented at the 54th annual Grammy Awards as Queens natives Nicki Minaj and LL Cool J will both play prominent roles.
LL will serve as the award show's first host in seven years. Nicki is nominated in four categories including Best New Artist. She will also perform on the Grammy stage for the first time.
The show will air Sunday February 12th at 8/7c on CBS.
Peep Nicki and LL's promo pics in support of the event up top and below.
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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with director J.Jesses Smith for an exclusive interview.
He talks about his working relationship with 50 Cent, Shooting all of the music videos off of the "Big 10", shooting "I Get Money", "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" and much more!
Odd Future's Frank Ocean released this new track "Voodoo" via his Tumblr page as a gift to his fans while they wait for his debut album which is due to drop later this year.
Franks also did fans a favor by including the lyrics. Check them out below.
darker times
they’re telling boulder heavy lies
looks like all we’ve got is each other
the truth is obsolete
remember when all i had was my mother
she didn’t compromise
she could recognize
voodoo
our daughters and our sons
are just candles in the sun
voodoo
don’t let him see divide
don’t you let her see divide
voodoo
she’s got the whole wide world in her juicy fruit
he’s got the whole wide world in his pants
he wrapped the whole wide world in a wedding band
then put the whole wide world on her hands
she’s got the whole wide world in her hands
he’s got the whole wide world in his hands.
A blogger has done a lot of researching and believes he's solved the mystery of the date Ice Cube rapped about in his song "It Was A Good Day."
Donovan Strain of the Murk Avenue blog used six clues that centered around the song's lyrics to come up with his conclusion.
From the lyrics, “went to short dogs house,they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Strain knew it had to be between "Yo MTV Raps" first air date of August 6, 1988 and the release date of "Good Day" as a single on February 23, 1993.
Ice Cube mentions the Los Angeles Lakers beating the Seattle Super Sonics in the song and the day being without smog. Strain found 12 dates between August 6, 1988 and February 23, 1993 where the Lakers beat the Sonics. He then narrowed those down to four days that didn't have smog.
“Got a beep from Kim, and she can f*ck all night," Cube rapped.
Beepers weren't available to the public until the 90's, leaving Strain with two possible dates, either January 18, 1991 or January 20, 1992. After finding out that Cube was busy filming the movie "Boyz in the Hood" from the middle of 1990 to early 1991, Strain found the date.
The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…
JANUARY 20 1992
So there it is.
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This is just a sample of what's to come when Mike Knox drops his Boston George 2 mixtape. The tape is being hosted by 50 Cent and DJ Kay Slay. It will be released in February.
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A$AP Rocky surprised the crowd last night at Toronto's Opera House by bringing out Drake during his show. The crowd went wild as Drizzy performed "Cameras" and "The Motto" off of his latest album Take Care.
A$AP and Drake will be hitting the road together later this year when the Young Money star launches his "Club Paradise Tour" in Miami on February 14. Kendrick Lamar will also take part in the tour which will play 17 U.S. dates before heading over to Europe for 18 additional dates, wrapping up in Nottingham, England on April 25th.
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The Brick Squad Monopoly camp drops a new video featuring fallen member Slim Dunkin.
"R.I.P." features Waka Flocka, Trouble and Alley Boy.
Rest in peace Dunk!
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T.I. seems to be everywhere these days. Hopping on remixes, appearing in videos and promoting his latest mixtape F*ck Da City Up.
Here's a GiftedTalents video teaser for Harry Potter featuring D.O.P.E. off of F.D.C.U.
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Josh Blaze drops a remix to Deadmau5's "Ghosts N Stuff." The high energy track has gotten a co-sign from Floyd Mayweather Jr. check it out up top.
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Nas was on the scene this week at the 16th annual X Games in Aspen. The Queens native handed out medals to some of the winners before he performed the song "Nasty."
Later that night Nas hit the stage at the Belly Up Club for a full concert.
Check out the video clip below.
Nas hands out medals, performs "Nasty" at the X games
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Big Fendi, the owner of Come Up DVD fires all kinds of shots in the trailer for the next volume in the series.
Doggie Diamonds of www.ForbezDVD.com interviews Big Fendi, to get the real story behind his conflicts with Nicki Minaj, Jordan Tower, Gravy, Diddy and more.
Fendi goes in on Nicki Minaj for never compensating him for helping to launch her career. If you search youtube, you will see that before Nicki Minaj changed her image into the Young Money pop star she is today, she was featured on several Come Up DVD music videos as a hardcore rapper. According to Fendi he introduced her to Waka Flocka's mother Deb Antney, who became her manager for a while.
"Everybody know this DVD right here started Nicki Minaj's whole career," says Fendi. "I changed her name, I changed her image. Me and Nicki Minaj was arguing because I wanted her to be the sex symbol, talk about p*ssy and get n*ggas open, and she told me I was disgracing her name. But she [now] still talks about p*ssy and a$$, a$$, a$$. So is she following my blueprint? I gave her to Debbie [Antney] on some management sh*t--Waka moms and sh*t went left after that. Nicki goes to Atlanta and becomes a new Nicki after that. Debbie started questioning me as far what I ever did for her. So now, Nicki hanging out with Debbie," Fendi continues. "I call Nicki to tell her about my birthday party coming up. Nicki started telling me I need to holla at Debbie. Nicki piggybacked off Debbie to get with Puff [Diddy]. Puff aint did no more. Debbie aint did no more."
After all he did for Nicki, Fendi said he was expecting some form of financial compensation, but never got any.
"She gave me credits on her album, woopty-fucking-doo. 'Shout out to Fendi for teaching me everything.' I read that...I was like 'OK, but where the f*ck is the money at?' I'm the reason why Nicki Minaj is with Young Money," Fendi claims. "I spoke to Tez, who's the President of Young Money right before Wayne came home [From Rikers Island]. He was like, 'Yo Fen when Wayne gets home we gonna straighten you out.' N*gga I aint heard from Tez since."
Fendi sh*ts on his former artist Gravy, the rapper who played Biggie Smalls in the movie "Notorious" as being an ungrateful fraud with a fake image.
"Gravy was my son. Like a n*gga that I took care of like mt little boy," Fendi said. "N*gga's jewelry was fake, I got him real jewelry. Anything negative that come out of Gravy mouth about me, n*gga need to smack him for that. Cuz he aint built like that."
Fendi also accuses director Jordan Tower of stealing his videos and featuring them on WorldStarHipHop as his own and says Diddy's Dirty Money group name belongs to him.
Fendi says he will end a lot of people's careers when he releases Come Up DVD Volume 23 on March 3rd.
Shouts to Doggie Diamonds and M. Reck of Forbez DVD and Big Fendi.
@forbezdvd @bigfendi @mreckgm, @doggiediamonds @comeupdvd
Check out some of Nicki Minaj's early Come Up DVD music videos below. You can see that she has changed quite a bit since then.
Big Fendi goes in on Nicki Minaj, Gravy & much more!
Nicki Minaj interview w/Fendi and freestyle [Come Up DVD]
Nicki Minaj "Warning" [Come Up DVD]
Nicki Minaj "Click Clack" [Come Up DVD]
Nicki Minaj- Whatchu Know Bout Me [Come Up DVD]
Nicki Minaj on Come Up DVD
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With his French Elo-Anthony mixtape on the way, Frenchie 1017 gives us a behind the scenes look at the recording process for "Brick Squad/Coke Boys" featuring Chinx Drugz.
Directed by M-Vision Films.
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Schoolboy Q continues to promote his new album Habits & Contradictions by dropping a new video for "Nightmare On Figg St."
The track was produced by A$AP Ty Beats.
Video directed by Jerome D. Hurd.
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Ke$ha drops the official video for her "Sleazy (Remix 2.0)." The song features Wiz Khalifa, Andre 3000, T.I., and Lil Wayne. Other than several shots of the rappers appearing on television screens near the end of the video, none of them make are actually in the video. Instead their parts are lip-synced by other people ranging from a drag queen to an old guy in a wheelchair.
It's definitely different. What do you think of the video and song?
Iggy Azalea has put rumors of her signing with Def Jam to rest by announcing she has inked a deal with Interscope Records.
"Interscope, if you were wondering. Get used to me + jimmy smashing shit, cause thats the plan," she wrote on Twitter, referencing Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine.
Iggy joins a star studded roster that includes 50 Cent, Eminem, Madonna and Lady Gaga over at Interscope.
A lot of fans first caught wind of the Australian rapper when she dropped the video for "Pu$$y," but the 21-year old has actually been rapping for eight years now as we mentioned in a story about her last October.
Her debut album entitled The New Classic is expected in June 2012.
Iggy Azalea interview with Thisis50 and Young Jack Thriller
Iggy Azalea "My World"
Iggy Azalea "The Last Song"
Iggy Azalea "Pu$$y"
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Drake is looking to get back into acting in a big way by portraying Barack Obama if possible.
The former star of Degrassi: The Next Generation was interviewed by VH1 while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah several days ago when he was asked about getting back into acting.
"I was inspired before I came out here," he said. "Now it's for sure."
Drake said that he's mostly offered roles of basketball players and rappers, but is looking for something with more substance.
"I've been reading scripts for a while. I wanna do something great," Drake told VH1's Janell Snowden. "I wanna do a movie specifically for my culture, the younger people who are still in tine with everything going on. I'm actually writing with my friends right now--the have a production company called Be Any Means Necessary. We're writing together trying to figure out the right movie."
According to Drake, the perfect role would be that of America's first African American President.
"I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him," Drake told VH1. "That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Anytime I see him on TV, I don't change the channel, I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions."
Sources: Rolling Stone and VH1
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Red Cafe drops another Hell's Kitchen visual.