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If you don’t believe me, watch his one-on-one with N.E.R.D, Jay-Z, Busta, Ice T, the list goes on.
Spotted: RR
Beaterator by Rockstar Games will be released on Sept 29th
Spotted: Broken Cool
The clip is dark and opens with Drake overlooking the city. He continues to peer out from the balcony of a building during his first verse until he meets with Trey. As the two exit the condo, Drake turns back to the doorman, and his mind flashes as he and the man switch roles. The mood of the video matches the song; “Best I Ever Had” turned out to be a misstep for the upstart MC when the over-the-top clip didn’t match what fans felt the song portrayed.
Spotted: 1515 Boys
“Bill O’Reilly, no I haven’t actually run in to him,” Chamillionaire said in an interview. “I don’t get him man, I understand, I think there’s a method to his madness and the crazy stuff that he says on Fox News. They always say a lot of crazy stuff but I think it’s a method behind their madness. They’re doing it and they know what they’re doing. But [when I made my 'Hip-Hop Police' music video] I felt it was only right. The time for someone to come up and speak on all that crazy stuff that was going on and now, we on to something different. Everyone knows the economy is messed up, instead of beating into people’s heads, it’s time to uplift and make people feel a little bit better about their situations ’cause everybody is doing bad right now.“
Spotted: HardKnock TV
We heard the album last night, son. Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II is a certified gem. That very last song on the LP, “Kiss the Ring,” is amazing. He’s has those mafia war stories, the sharp wordplay, Wu-Bangers and even some Dr. Dre G-Funk. What the Chef was unable to get was Nas. One of the main show-stealers from the original Only Built 4 Cuban Linx never gave Rae a verse for the new LP. So much for nostalgia.
“He committed to it,” Rae told Mixtape Daily. “I knew dude be busy. However it goes down, it’s cool with me. My thing is, I sacrificed to even ask because of the fans. But if dudes be too busy in their own minds, they don’t have to do it. Because Rae continues to do Rae anyway. Y’all came to see me. It’s the Rae show anyway.”
The Chef does have a couple of non-Wu-Tang castmembers — Beanie Sigel and The Lox’s Jadakiss and Styles P — participating on the CD. “I had to go back and deal with brothers I felt was really next to me, like a Sigel,” Chef said. “The way he came across, y’all gonna know he’s nothing to play with. He’s a vicious MC. When me and him get on a track, everybody gotta sit down. I got Kiss on the album. He’s like another one of me. I’m like him. We seen the same things. We share the same stories. I’m just a little older than Kiss, but we’re compatible. I wanted to keep it real Cuban, where people be like, ‘That’s how they talk.’ Jeezy would have been a good dude for the album, but maybe I’ll get him for [Cuban Linx III]. I wanted to keep it light on the features. I didn’t want everybody to [feel] like I’m looking too hard and leaning on features. I put Wu all over the joints because that’s how we made the first one.” According to Rae’s camp, he definitely has enough quality material to put out an Only Built 4 Cuban Linx III at the top of the year.
Spotted: NR via MTV Mixtape Daily
Shanell and Aubrey O’Day premiere their new single, “Party All The Time” at Power 106 in LA with DJ Felli Fel. We didn’t post Episode 1 of Ms. SnL’s Tour Diary so it can be found here.
Thurzday raps over what we know today as Lil Wayne’s “Dr. Carter” sample.
Thurzday (U-N-I) – Holy Thurzday
Props: Meka of TheDopeBoyz
From the MTV archives: The J to the Z of Jay-Z
“I went to every single record label, and they was like, ‘This guy is terrible. He’s nothing,’ ” Jay told MTV News prior to the release of The Blueprint in 2001. “I had to put [Reasonable Doubt] out myself, because nobody would sign me.”
That was back in 1996, when Roc-A-Fella records was born, not out of entrepreneurial expansion but, as Hova made clear, out of necessity. “I would press up singles and go to the record stores myself, collect $100, $200, come back, give them some more records,” he recalled. “It started like that.”
Via: MTV
