Although I consider myself a pretty big fan of hip hop, my knowledge of the genre pales in comparison to others. Jay, Em, and Ye are my favs, which by indie rock standards is like saying I dig Godsmack, Disturbed, and Justin Bieber. Mind you, I'm referencing only the artists' respective popularity and not their actual talents, because if there's one genre that has been able to keep the most talented in the forefront, it's hip hop. It may be that hip hop, more than most genres, has always remained true to its roots and while marketability is important, so [...]
Concertgoers declared last night's Eminem and Jay-Z Home And Home Motor City kick-off date the best show ever, while MTV News noted, "Detroit hasn't screamed this loud at a baseball park since Kirk Gibson was hitting home runs in the 1984 World Series." It was a night that saw Marshall Mathers stage a triumphant hometown gig at Comerica Park that boasted guests like Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, D12, Drake and Trick Trick, plus a "Magic" -al opening set from B.o.B. During the evening, 50 Cent stepped on the stage [...]
Need a reason to justify throwing down $90 a ticket for Jay-Z and Eminem 's joint headlining performances in NYC later this month? Well... B.o.B. opened (just hours before he dropped a video with Rivers ) and just 30 minutes later he was followed by Jay-Z, who then launched into a prototypical Jay-Z set, complete with Memphis Bleek and Young Jeezy guest appearances and performances of "Empire State of Mind" and "99 Problems". Then, Eminem came on and, well, shit got really real, because Drake played "Forever" with him, 50 Cent made a cameo, [...]
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2009 was a year of economic hardship for most of us. The global economy contracted; credit was crunched; newspapers predicted the demise of modern society and national banking systems as we knew them (they kind of got it right too - poor old Iceland ). After sailing well past the half way point of 2010, things don't seem to be quite so dire as they were last year, economically speaking. We're still not out of the woods though, as educated boffins with horn-rimmed glasses and bad smoking jackets continue to float the prospect of a [...]
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Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, Rock Band has let you recreate the songs of rock bands and pop acts from across the span of popular music with you playing the part of guitar god or vocal vixen. Whether you were making little girls scream as The Beatles or eagerly awaiting your chance to throw on guyliner as Green Day , the video game concept has thrilled millions with a faux musician experience. Now that experience gets expanded as Def Jam Records and 4mm Games, which is made up of the founders of [...]
A new single and a new label home could be just the ticket for Atlanta's milk carton MC
He can hear your heart beat. See the sweat trickle down your trembling face an area code away. Smell the fear that exhausts out of that puny heart valve of yours. He cares not of the previous possession of the materials that come at his disposal. He is a microphone murderer. An auxiliary assassin. He is Royce Da 5293 and he harbors a "Psycho Flow." If you're competition, do you think you can keep up? The Bar Exam 3 hits the [...]
It's been a long yet lucrative road to the release of Before I Self Destruct , 50 Cent's much documented final record on his Interscope contract. Possibly the genre's last mega-star before Hip-Hop was regressed by the digital age, 50 saw endless mounds of success through business ventures, movies and of course, platinum plaques. Although less notably, popular opinion reads that the caliber of his albums have slipped considerably since his towering debut, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' . Especially when factoring the runaway success of the lead single "In Da Club"-a phenom 50 [...]
Since we all secretly await any news with "Eminem" and "release date" in the tagline, I thought it'd only be right to share that Relapse: Refill drops December 22nd. No, untangle your panties, it's not a new album. Instead, Interscope decided to re-release Relapse double-disc style, with seven new songs of psychosomatic insanity to spoil your holiday cheer. Not bad. To me, it sounds like Jimmy I. canned any chance of Slim's spilt-personality slipping into Relapse 2 , by putting those specifically saved leftovers from Relapse [...]
In the music world, Dr. Dre must have the highest influence-per-album ratio this side of the Sex Pistols. He dropped The Chronic in 1992, 2001 in 1999 and Detox in…well, don’t hold your breath. The man can be forgiven for turning his third album into hip-hop’s Chinese Democracy though. After all, it takes time to produce practically every hip-hop hit of the past twenty years. Dr. Dre
Looking back over my record collection from the late 90’s and early noughties often gives me a bad case of buyer’s remorse. I hate to think how much money I spent on questionable 12”s from the independent hip hop boom that spread like wildfire at that time. Seriously, how many versions of ‘ High Drama ’ by Mike Zoot can one man buy? A lot, apparently. One of the groups that I’ve never regretted shelling out my cash for is Self Scientific (I was going to write ‘shelling out my cream’, but that sounds slightly masturbatory). The duo [...]
Oh, Fifty. You got your life so right and your bars so wrong. We haven't heard you spit anything but cheap shots in months years, but now you're trying to claim insane daisy-chained double-time rhymes like this ? Really ? I know you could sell fur coats to people at PETA, but I ain't talking about a bad bag when I say this one's a stretch. We all know B Rabbit's loco ass wrote those straitjacket sixteens in this Before I Self Destruct drip and you didn't. We're [...]
Partners in crime 50 and Em are back at it with the Doc on the beat. Those 3 are like the Hip Hop Dream Team when you put together on a track. Also got a solo 50 joint from his upcoming "Before I Self Destruct" album where hes calling a lot of shots at a lot of big names. You know, the usual 50 shenanigans. Download: 50 Cent feat. Eminem - "Psycho" (Produced By Dr. Dre) / Mediafire Download: 50 Cent - "So Disrespectful" / Mediafire
We go through the same ball n' chain routine everytime a rapper is set to release a new album. "It's better than I've ever been" they say. "It's a classic" they boast. Knowing damn well the recording process was about as sporadic as their last consecutive string of hits. Now that 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct has a definite another tentative release date of November 17th, it's time to let the hyperbole's roll: This record could potentially be the one to top Get Rich or Die Tryin’ [...]
New joint from 50 Cent produced by Dr. Dre. This will be on DJ Kay Slay's upcoming album Download: DJ Kay Slay ft. 50 Cent – Dreaming
Last time you got the Trickin' Fiddy . This round it's the Murda Murda Curtis. By now you should know it's either/or so take it or squeeze it. At least this time, you get to hear another beat Dre deemed unacceptable for Detox . It's found a happy home on Kay Slay's next compilation album More Than A DJ so the studio session wasn't in vain. Download - 50 Cent - "Dreamin'" (Produced By Dr. Dre) (Dirty/CDQ) Previously Posted [...]
Cut from DJ Kay Slay's "More Than Just A DJ" album coming Oct 27th. DJ Kay Slay (Ft. 50 Cent) - Dreamin' (Prod. by Dr. Dre) (NOTAGS) (CDQ) (DIRTY) http://www.zshare.net/audio/65 975543d0acb016/ Posted in Music Tagged: 50 Cent, dj kay slay, dr. dre, hiphop, Music, Rap
Cut from DJ Kay Slay's "More Than Just A DJ" coming Oct 27th 50 Cent - Dreamin (Prod. by Dr. Dre) (CDQ) http://www.zshare.net/audio/65 939726e7fefef7/ shouts out to @Xalence Posted in Music Tagged: 50 Cent, dj kay slay, dr. dre, Hip Hop, Music, Rap
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