MTV2 Presents: Lil Wayne Unplugged (Full Video)
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13th Jun2011
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15th Mar2011
Random Requests: Kanye x Lil Wayne x Pusha T x J. Cole x Jadakiss x Drake
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Kanye_West_ft._Lil_Wayne,_Big_Sean_&_Drake_-_All_Of_The_Lights_(Remix).mp3
DJ_Khaled_ft._Ludacris,_T-Pain,_Busta_Rhymes,_Mavado,_Twista,_Birdman,_Ace_Hood,_Fat_Joe,_Jadakiss,_Bun_B,_Game_&_Waka_Flocka_-_Welcome_To_My_Hood_(Remix)
Note: Khaled is rapping again, hide your ears, protect your brains
Fat_Joe_-_Massacre_on_Madison_(with_Vado)
Note: Reference track
19th Dec2010
Jay Electronica’s Interview w/Elliott Wilson (RESPECT Magazine)
Do This My Way
NOLA’s Jay Electronica wants to be successful. But on his own terms. And, in his most candid interview to date, in his own words.
As Told To Elliott Wilson
By the time you read this: Jay Electronica may have, at long last, landed a record deal. Or not. It’s hard to predict the future of the enigmatic MC who electrified the rap world from the end of ’09 to early 2010 with a song called “Exhibit C.” Produced by Just Blaze, who broke the record while guest-hosting Tony Touch’s Shade 45 Sirius show, the soulful sonic boom ushered in the rise of this NOLA brother with the Nas flow—captivatingly complex lyrics and vivid storytelling.
After being wooed by the record industry’s biggest execs for a year Elect is still, at press time, a free agent. But recent dealings with Mr. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter may be changing that. In his modest Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn apartment, the man born Timothy Thedford spoke for over three hours about his almost Forrest Gump-like journey through this thing called life. Aiming to do justice to his jam-packed existence, RESPECT. hosts Electronica unfiltered. Here’s a toast to a true original.
“My light is brilliant.”
“Exhibit C” magnified everything. Everybody was coming at one time. I’m the kind of person where if I get to a point where I can’t make this decision then I’m gonna stand still. I don’t care. I’ll stand still for two years, 20 years. I’m 34 years old. I’m still learning myself, but I know myself a little bit, so I stand still. People was telling me, “Oh, you buggin’, this is the time.”
By the time March [2010] came, it was crazy. I coulda signed any kinda deal at that time. I coulda took these publishing companies to the cleaners. I met anybody you can think of. Like, I’m gonna entertain what you sayin’, but we already have a fundamental disagreement in the way that we view the music business and the treatment of people, period. I need to feel like I’m talking to my grandmother. I need to feel like I’m talking to my sister or my mama to feel comfortable. If I’m not at that comfort level then I’m completely uncomfortable.
27th Nov2010
Drake Live From Radio City Music Hall
I’m posting this solely for the purpose of laughing at Birdman…lol
24th Nov2010
Young Jeezy To Serve Dinner To Needy In Atlanta
Rapper Young Jeezy and his non-profit Streetz Dreamz Foundation will hand out turkeys to churches and schools in Atlanta on Thanksgiving Day.
Jeezy will team with the The National Light House Foundation to celebrate the 40th Annual Hosea Feed The Hungry and Homeless dinner event.
The staff of Young Jeezy’s CTE will be preparing food and serving Thanksgiving Day dinner at Tuner Field beginning at 10:00 AM.
AllHipHop.com has confirmed that Young Jeezy will be personally serving food to those in need as well.
During the event, volunteers will offer home delivery of dinners to the elderly and shut-ins, free legal aid clinics, haircuts, toys, books, medical screenings and more.
15th Oct2010
Erykah Badu (@FatBellyBella) Calls Modern R&B/Hip-Hop “Pop Techno Cornball @ss Music”
How y’all gone stand by and let our music turn into pop techno cornball ass music. We don’t own our music no more. Come to think of it, did we EVER own it? when I say own our music , I’m not talkin bout the artist I’m talkin bout the people … let me be quiet. I wanna hear from the young people? easy for me to complain about this techno-pop cause i have a taste for something else. but how do u feel? These rappers ought to be shame of they damn selves, I’m talkin bout the mc’ s rappin over this pop techno music. I believe in pimpin the system buy got DAMN! not like this. #pop-technosongs. I like the idea of no distinction in race when it comes 2 music, but SOULkeepers, U dont give up the boom bip and the hump 4 the payday. I love house and techno as a side dish .But now it’s served as the main course AND that’s ALL u gone get. like chittlins in the back house. I love music PERIOD. just not ready to say goodbye to the boom bip and the hump .. kinda painful for my generation to see. just strange 2me. Yes, no1 wants 2B poor again. artist have2 sacrifice integrity of the music sometimes 2 make ends meet. this is understood.but gotDAMN now. if you’ve never tasted good p*ssy your satisfied with ass hole. (that’s terrible ain’t it .) lol
- Erykah Badu
#IAgree
13th Oct2010
Shyne Wants Off Def Jam: “I’m Trying To Get With Cash Money”
I cannot say I didnt see this coming… I also cannot say that I overstand why he would even consider going to slave for Baby as opposed to slaving for Def Jam…a slave is a slave is a slave…He isnt signed to them, but he’s in a contract so…wait, whats the difference again?
*kanye shrug*
Says Shyne:
“They gotta care about [what we've done] the way Jimmy Iovine cares about that, the way Lyor Cohen cares about that,” Shyne added. “I’m definitely not gonna scrap everything I recorded. I put in so much, I’ve come so far. From the first record I did when I got out to the new records I’ve done while going to all these different countries, I ain’t scrapping nothing. I paid for that. I’m not signed to Def Jam anyway, I just need to find another distributor. I might just have Cash Money do everything. Who knows? That’s the beauty about being in the business for yourself. You can decide where you want to go and what you want to do.”
I’m definitely trying to get with Cash Money but the Def Jam thing is a question mark right now. I’ve been fixing to get up out of there for a while now because [Island Def Jam CEO] L.A. Reid don’t care about hip-hop. The people up there, they don’t know what they’re doing. When you don’t have a strong leader, where you gonna go? They don’t care about hip-hop music. You give them a hip-hop record with an R&B singer, you “might” have a chance. They don’t care. You got The Roots, Ghostface, Nas, probably the best hip-hop roster you could imagine and they do nothing. L.A. Reid doesn’t want nothing to do with
15th Sep2010
DJ Scoob Doo Presents Entourage: Fetti Holmes Edition (Video)
The DVD features Lil Wayne, Drake, Birdman, Gucci Mane, Jadakiss, Nicki Minaj, Vado and more.
05th May2010
How Bangladesh Really Feels About Lil Wayne
I don’t fuck with him… and you can print that.
This guy just seems to be full of interesting press bits. When VIBE asked him if he’d be reuniting with Lil Wayne on Carter 4, Bangladesh revealed that he had yet to be paid for his work on Carter 3:
“It’s [Wayne and Baby's] responsibility to pay [me] because all the money from album sales goes to Cash Money. I get checks from Sony for Beyoncé, checks from different labels for different artists, it just comes to you. You don’t have to call them, sue them and all that junk. This is what you’re owed.”
He continues, “I don’t really give a fuck about [Wayne]. I can’t give a fuck about somebody that don’t give a fuck about my situation, I have kids. In the hood, people get killed for ten dollars. I couldn’t imagine owing someone hundreds of thousands of dollars and just walking around in front of them. I’m so confident in myself, that I don’t need Lil Wayne. There’s gonna be so many opportunities. I can create a Lil Wayne.”
He went on to say what’s on everyone’s minds.
“This is why Mannie Fresh don’t fuck with [Cash Money] because he never got any royalty money. That’s why Baby can go around flaunting this cash, because that’s everyone else’s money… It’s not even Wayne’s fault. Wayne is not getting money. He is given money, he’s not getting money. If Baby gets a million dollars he’ll buy Wayne a Phantom, but that’s in Cash Money’s name. That 14-bedroom mansion isn’t Wayne shit,” he says. “That’s why he have his own company, because he was trying to leave Cash Money and the only thing that would keep him there was [if they] gave him his own thing. But Baby still controls that. All those Young Money artists don’t even know that they not getting royalty money.”
This isn’t the first time this month we’ve heard about producers seeking out their royalties for Carter 3:
And the beat goes on. According to the New York Post, fellow Carter III producer, Jim Jonsin—responsible for Wayne’s infectious lead single, “Lollipop”—filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Wayne on April 20 for missing royalty payments. In May 2009, Dallas production duo Play-n-Skillz also mentioned to a local radio station that they were yet to reap any monetary benefits from their work on Wayne’s third single featuring, T-Pain, “Got Money.”
So Jim Jonsin asked for 500K and Bangladesh wants another half a mil, and these two guys basically made Carter 3 what it was with “Lollipop” and “A Millie.” Baby doesn’t seem to be paying the people that helped him get all that money, yet he found the time to make corny internet videos like this and this over the weekend.
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19th Feb2010
Wooha:News reports question if Birdman’s Bronald Oil & Gas Co. is legit
Birdman x Bronald Oil & Gas. Ever since Birdman went public with the launch of his Bronald Oil & Gas Company last month, financial and business reporters have been very curious as to the legitimacy of Birdman’s claims. There is no doubt that he and his brother could afford to get into the oil biz, but is Bronald Oil & Gas a real operating company or just a bragging point to one up other rappers? Bloomberg is the most recent news service to try and get a little more info on the company and unfortunately their results were the same as others.
“As for what Bronald is doing in the oil and natural-gas business, the Williams brothers declined through their publicist, Kia Selby, to comment. Selby said she was unable to provide information about the oil company. Bronald doesn’t have a listed telephone number. Numbers for residences in New Orleans and Florida that are linked to Bronald in state records don’t take incoming calls,” according to Blomberg.
15th Feb2010
Birdman Covers Ozone Magazine/Disses R. Kelly
Ozone [via RR] put up their next issue’s cover story.
Birdman answers questions about about his ‘Browner Oil’ oil company, the oil rig tat on the side of his head (see after the jump,) Drake writing for Lil Wayne rumors, and R. Kelly:
Probably the worst investment I did was fuckin’ with R. Kelly. That was a waste of my time. I could’ve made money if I wasn’t fuckin’ with that clown-ass nigga.
In case you forgot, (thank your brain if you did,) back in 2003, R. Kelly had the brilliant idea to team up with Birdman for—wait for it—Best Of Both Worlds II. Luckily for us, they shelved it.
That probably explains why Lil Wayne dissed R. Kelly twice in April ‘07.
Once on Drought 3’s ‘Reppin’ Time Freestyle’ (“Just shot a video with R. Kelly but no homo though/ really didn’t wanna do it but I fuck with TS and Fat Joe-jo though.”)
And then again on I Can’t Feel My Face’s ‘Bad Side’ (“And I believe that I can fly/ not like R. Kelly, he a damn lie.”)
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14th Feb2010
WTF?: Birdman Owns An Oil Company…….& A Platinum football field?
You can read more about the platinum football field here
An oil well tattooed on the shaved head of Bryan “Birdman” Williams and a Web site for a company called Bronald Oil & Gas LLC indicate that two men known for their gushers in rap music are getting into the energy business.
Williams and his brother Ronald “Slim” Williams founded Cash Money Records, the music label behind such artists as Lil’ Wayne. Their foray into energy with Bronald, a name that blends Bryan and Ronald, prompted Houston investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. to quip that this may be a sign of the end of an oil-market rally.
