Akon ft. Eminem – Smack That My first impression: awful.
Fabolous – Monkey Business "Hov and Nas in November"
Method Man – Fall Out The gentlemen over at Spine Magazine also have a couple of new Meth joints.
Proof – Take Back The Land (allegedly his final song)
The Philly P.D. says Beanie needs more people. Beanie says that in 9 months when he’s off federal probation he’ll tell the story of what really happened the night he got shot.
Fat Joe plays Denzel (!?) in his new video No Drama.
Lonny Baxter, formerly of the Charlotte Bobcats caught letting off shots near the White House.
15 bucks for the new Marbury’s
As the details of Weezy’s little run in with the long arm of the law begin to emerge, I think it’s safe to say that this was a clear case of rapper profiling, or "smoking a pound of weed while black," if you will. MTV got their hands on a copy of his arrest report and here are some of the details:
According to Carter’s arrest report, the rapper was staying at the Twelve Hotel in Atlanta’s Atlantic Station when a hotel employee entered Carter’s room to inspect a problem with the room’s security systems. The employee said he noticed a gallon-size bag of what he believed to be marijuana; he also told police he smelled a "heavy odor of marijuana." The hotel’s manager was summoned to the room and also claimed he smelled marijuana. Carter told both men to vacate his room, shut the door and fastened the security latch. Police were called shortly thereafter.
What is the world coming to when an almost platinum-by-like-a-hundred-copies rapper can’t even leave a gallon bag of weed lying around in plain view without catching heat? So what he had enough Xanax and Vicodin to medicate the whole 9th Ward? This guy is an artist, and a busy one at that. It can’t be easy touring the country with Juelz and Chris Brown, keeping Trina fitted in Bape and Birdman Jr. medallions and trying to knock out a psychology degree, all while fighting off allegations from an alleged ghostwriter. Cut the poor kid a break.
Smoke cush all day and pop painkillers/Fuck who don’t understand it, this what the game did us - Weezy F. Baby (Please say the Baby)
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Weezy arrested in Atlanta on drug charges.
EPMD is about to get back to business
Soundtrack of my life: André 3000
Diddy’s 11 million dollar necklace swiped in Ibiza.
Yet another Obie feature 2nd Rounds on Me is in stores today.
This is atrocious, but was probably so worth it.
Rick Ross is expected to do somewhere around 200k once all is said and done. So, is that a flop or what? I can’t keep up anymore, and the rules change every week.
I was thinking that, if Jimmy flipped it on us and actually said something worthwhile when he opened his mouth, he’d probably reach a ton of people, just on the strength of the attention he attracts. Since that’s probably not happening anytime soon, we can still laugh at gems like this:
AllHipHop.com: Tru Life is the dude on Roc…
Jim Jones: Who?
AllHipHop.com: Tru Life. He’s from the Lower East Side. He got that record out “The New New York.”
Jim Jones: Who own Roc-La-Familia? Juan? F**k Juan! Put that on there: “F**k Juan!” F**king Mexican ass n***a. I’ll put a cocktail in 40/40, n***a. F**k outta here. F**k Juan, n***a. I get at bosses, n***a, I don’t get at soldiers.
AllHipHop.com: But isn’t it true you challenged [Tru Life] to a fistfight for money?
Jim Jones: [calmly] Yeah, but he ain’t really never holla back. Feel me? I don’t know if he ain’t have the money or… but, you know, that’s here nor there. Smell me? I deal with bosses, so if it’s Roc-a-Fella, it’s f**k Jay-Z! And if it’s Roc-la-Familia, it’s f**k Juan.
The ‘Juan’ Jimmy is referring to is Juan Perez aka O.G. Juan, co-owner of 40/40, President of Roc-La-Familia, and fellow Harlemite. I mean, whatever, but if Jimmy plans on blowing up 40/40, I just hope he’s gonna be able to suggest a comparable wing spot.
Here’s the video for Talib Kweli’s new single, Listen. It’s a decent song, I definitely don’t see it taking off like Get By, but the I thought the video was pretty well done.
Since the shooting death of his bodyguard Israel Ramirez, Busta has gone out of his way to shout out his slain friend every chance he gets. He frequently mentions him during his stage sets, and he made a heartfelt dedication to him at the beginning of his Touch It Remix video. At the end of the day though, the rapper still refuses to talk to police about the string of events that lead to Ramirez’s shooting on the set of that same video back in February. The New York Post recently spoke to Ramirez’s sister about his lack of cooperation, and she told them she feels like Busta is capitalizing off the whole situation.
"He doesn’t give two diddlies about my brother. At this point, I honestly believe Busta is using my brother’s death as a publicity stunt – and I’m angry" – Sonia Rodriguez, sister of Israel Ramirez.
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