This track is hard. Ross got one with this one.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Diddy - O Lets Do It Remix Verse
Courtesy of Onsmash
A clip of Diddy performing his verse outside of a club in Miami during Super Bowl week. Diddy has a little interlude before performance. Official remix video should be coming soon.
A clip of Diddy performing his verse outside of a club in Miami during Super Bowl week. Diddy has a little interlude before performance. Official remix video should be coming soon.
Lloyd Banks - Beamer, Benz, Bentley feat. Juelz Santana
New fire track from Lloyd Banks featuring Juelz Santana. This track is ugly.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Fat Joe - Ha Ha (Slow Down) feat. Young Jeezy
I like this track. Fat Joe drops a new Darkside album coming soon this Spring.
Jay-Z Reccommends Nicki Minaj
Courtesy of MTV
Nicki Minaj is definitely getting noticed in the music industry. But has Nick's fame reached all the way to the top? Well, none other than Jay-Z recommended her to Robin Thicke as a guest star on his single "Shakin' It 4 Daddy." Not only did the singer take Jigga's advice, but he also brought the sexy Queens MC with him on various performance dates, even appearing with her on "The Late Show With David Letterman."
"[I] cannot put into words how I felt when he told me that," Nicki said about the Jay co-sign. "[Robin] was like, 'By the way, let me tell you this great story.' "
As Thicke told MTV several weeks ago, Hov heard a rough version of the song and told him he should get the Young Money siren on the track.
"It was Jay's idea," Thicke said of the "Shakin' It 4 Daddy" collabo. "We were in the studio and I played him the whole album. He was like, 'You should get Nicki Minaj on that. She's got that voice. She's got that swag.' So I leaned over and was like, 'Somebody get Nicki Minaj on the phone! Jay-Z said so!' Next thing you know, we called Nicki. She was excited. But once we told her it was Jay-Z's idea to get her on the track, she started screaming on the phone. She was all excited. She's a super, super talent. I can't wait to do a video with Nicki. There's a power in her. It's not just that she's sexy and that's the only way she can get you to like her. She's got charm -- not just sex. Some women may use sex to get what they want; others have charm. She's got charm."
"I was like, 'What?' " Minaj told Mixtape Daily. "Obviously, Jay-Z ... Jay-Z is a person in hip-hop that you almost don't think he exist until you meet him. It's almost like he's bigger than a person. He's a mythical figure. That's a great way to describe it. I was like, 'Jay-Z knows me?' I didn't think he knew who I was, let alone recommend me for something. If he did know who I was, I didn't know if he liked my style or approved. It was weird. It was like getting that stamp of approval from the most popular jock in high school and being a freshman in high school and thinking no one knows you exist."
Jay had a front-row seat when Minaj and Thicke performed at the Sex Therapy album-release party in New York last year.
"He saw me perform it with Robin at Robin's party," Nicki remembered. "It was scary -- him and Beyoncé were there, literally a few feet away from us watching us perform in New York. They loved the performance. Beyoncé was so into it. I never saw her act like that. She was like, 'You killed it.' It was just a crazy experience -- that whole night, even being tied to somebody like Robin. I wouldn't expect him to want to make a record like 'Shakin' It 4 Daddy.' I'm just happy to be a part of the project and I'm glad it came from Jay. I don't think Robin really knew me. When Jay said that, he probably was like, 'Really?' and researched me. Then I think he saw me in the 'Five Star' video and got an idea of who I was. If it didn't come from Jay, he probably would have been like, 'Who? Never heard of her.'
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Waka Flocka - O Lets Do It Remix feat. Diddy, Rick Ross, Gucci Mane
Waka drops remix to his hood anthem "O Lets Do It" featuring verses from Diddy, Rick Ross, Gucci Mane.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Snoop Dogg - Cancun feat. Kurupt
Monday, February 1, 2010
Grammy Recap
Courtesy of XXL
Jay-Z and Eminem added to their legacy last night (January 31), both walking away with the top rap honors at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards.
The Brooklyn-bred legend took home three trophies—two for “Run This Town” (Best Rap Song and Best Rap Sung Collaboration) and one for “D.O.A.” (Best Rap Performance)—while Eminem racked up two golden gramaphones—Relapse won Best Rap Album and “Crack a Bottle” was selected as the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.
Eminem was among the artists included in the show’s grand finale. The Detroit lyricist first joined Lil Wayne and Blink 182’s Travis Barker for a rendition of the New Orleans MC’s song “Drop the World,” and later Drake was added into the fold as all four stars performed their hit “Forever.” Kanye West, who is also featured on the track, was absent from the event.
Other highlights included Jamie Foxx and T-Pain’s performance of their smash single “Blame It” and a futuristic medley by the Black Eyed Peas.
For a full list of last night’s winners fans can visit grammy.com
Naughty By Nature Preps New Album & Reality Show
Courtesy of AllHipHop
(AllHipHop News) Veteran New Jersey trio Naughty By Nature have mapped out a 2010 year that includes a new album and Treach-centered reality show.
The group’s last full length offering IIcons was released in 2002. Because of the layoff, Naughty has released two singles over the past six months to reintroduce themselves to their original fans and a new generation of potential listeners.
“We working on a brand new Naughty album now, it’s called Anthem 8,” Treach disclosed to AllHipHop.com in an exclusive interview. “It’ll be out before the summer we got 2 singles on iTunes, ‘Get to Know Me Better’ and ‘I Gotta Lotta.’ And we shopping a reality show called A Tribe Called Treach. We doing all that and got that in motion.”
Naughty By Nature is known for two of the biggest, seminal singles in Hip-Hop history with “O.P.P.,” and “Hip-Hop Hooray.”
Even with the music industry vastly different from their early to mid 90s popularity peak, the group has maintained themselves through constant touring, particularly on the international front.
“We tour all year round. We’re about to go to Australia with Busta Rhymes and Kid Cudi,” Treach revealed. “We keep it moving. Hip-Hop is a movement, we ain’t stingy and just doing it for Naughty, we doing it for all of Hip-Hop.”
Since the early 90’s, Treach has maintained steady film work. Now with TV booming again, the East Orange native is looking to take his talents to the small screen with his own spin on the reality TV genre.
“Mine is a docu-reality [show]. We see the majority of them and everybody is rich and famous. They shopping all day and going through drama and doing parties,” he explained. “Our thing is about the tribe; our group, production, management, movies, family life, [and] homies in the hood. If you leave the hood they say you forgot where you came from, if you stay you’re doing something you ain’t got no business… We all live in the outskirts no further than 10 minutes out…Their dreams are our dreams. We ain’t just made it and been like ‘we made it, y’all better get y’alls.’ We’re like, what can we do to help….Just like Flavor Unit pulled us out.”
Naughty’s close friend and fellow emcee Apache (Anthony Teaks) was laid to rest last week after passing suddenly from an undisclosed illness.
Both parties featured extensively on each other’s early albums (Apache Ain’t Shit, Naughty By Nature), and Vinnie detailed it was Apache who convinced Flavor Unit to give them a shot.
“Our big brother passed away, we just buried him,” he said. “He’s definitely a Hip-Hop legend and another Hip-Hop icon. He gave birth to Naughty By Nature. He told Flavor Unit ‘if y’all don’t sign naughty, I’m not messing with y’all.’”
At press time, Naughty By Nature’s Anthem 8 album does not have a set release date.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Preview Of Ludacris New Album - Battle Of The Sexes
Courtesy of LA Times
If “Battle of the Sexes,” the title of Ludacris’ upcoming album, had been rejected by Def Jam brass, “Ladies Love Luda” might have been an adequate substitute. After all, other than T.I., no other contemporary rapper inspires female ardor quite like Christopher Bridges, the Atlanta rapper who has racked up 17 million sales domestically since “What’s Your Fantasy” kick-started his career 10 years ago.
So it’s little surprise that on his seventh full-length collection, Ludacris abandons “Chicken-N-Beer” to stick to his bread and butter. Indeed, “Battle of the Sexes” makes little pretense about its intentions toward the bedroom and the dance floor, with smooth R&B, sugary pop hooks and guest spots from Lil Kim, Trina and Nicki Minaj.
Before an assemblage of 150 press and industry functionaries swilling free beer, wine and the requisite fried hors d’oeuvres Thursday night, Ludacris boasted that his latest album might yield six singles. Surely, that news was music to the ears of the beleaguered executives congregating in Capitol’s famed record-shaped tower amid sundry snarkiness about how this might be the only record release party of the year -- a knock at the scant rap release schedule. Even though a bottle of the Ludacris-sponsored Conjure cognac circulated through the room, no one mistook this for 1999.
Noting that the tracklisting was subject to change before its tentative March 16 release date, Bridges thanked the crowd for supporting him over the last decade and offered his latest battle footage.
1. “Hey Ho” ft. Lil Kim
Declaring it a sequel to his controversial “Ho,” Ludacris explained that “Hey Ho” addressed the societal double standard that allows promiscuous men to be considered “pimps and playas,” while women are branded “hos.” The topic might be well-worn, but Lil Kim snaps with some of her fiercest raps in years and Ludacris displays why his technical ability remains almost unparalleled. Blessed with an innate charisma and a booming sub-woofer baritone, he spits double-time raps that salvage the song’s trite premise.
2. "Tell Me a Secret" ft. Ne-Yo
Declaring “you’d never know [Swizz Beatz] made this,” Luda’s collaboration with Ne-Yo will surely earn droves of praise among the Bossip readership. For those raised on Ruff Ryders-era Swizz Beatz and even his more recent triumphs (Lil Wayne’s “Dr. Carter” and Jay-Z’s “On to the Next One,”) you might be better served digging up an old copy of “Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood.”
3. “My Chick Bad” ft. Nicki Minaj
The title doesn’t leave much to the imagination. This song is devoted to Ludacris telling the world, “my chick bad, my chick hood, my chick do stuff that your chick wish she could.” Nicki Minaj plays his “chick,” and raps well enough to make you believe the braggadoccio.
4. “Got a Man” ft. Flo Rida
I was uncharacteristically excited when Ludacris invoked Positive K’s “I Got a Man” as one of the inspirations for “Got a Man.” Then I heard it, and other than the hook (“I know you got a man, man, man, but tell me what your man, man, man gotta do with me?”), the two songs bear little resemblance. With a guest spot from Flo Rida and glucose-glutted production from Infinity, there is little doubt that this will own pop radio. Describing it as a “radio smash” intended for the pop dial and the likely third single (the second was being kept under wraps), “Got a Man” is ruthlessly efficacious and the aural equivalent to eating a pixie stick sandwich.
5. “Can’t Live With You, Can’t Live Without You” ft. Monica
Subtlety is not this album’s forte. Describing a song called “Can’t Live With You, Can’t Live Without You,” as a song about being in a relationship and thinking that “they can’t live with the person and they can’t live without them at the same damn time,” Monica coos in full-on “The Boy Is Mine” mode. To his credit, Luda is blessed with the innate affability of a great salesman -- he’s able to make lukewarm clichés seem ice-cold.
6. “How Low (Remix)”
Currently No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, Ludacris claimed that “How Low” has already sold 700,000 downloads. Perhaps his finest radio bid since 2003’s “Stand Up,” the album’s first single boasts bass heavy enough to bring condemned buildings to the ground and a melodic catchiness to ensure radio play through the summer, and strip club burn from here until eternity. He also announced “three or four remixes,” one with Ciara and Pitbull, one with Rick Ross and Twista, and another with Fabolous.
7. “Sex Room” ft. Trey Songz
Collaborating with the man who brought the world “LOL Smiley Face” might be a savvy business move, but artistically speaking, “Sex Room” is a shameless pander to the lowest common denominator. Ludacris describes his girl as having “lips as soft as cotton,” and being “the apple of his eye [but he’s] spoiled rotten.” There is something profoundly embarrassing about having to listen to a song called “Sex Room” in a room with other people. Perhaps I’m a prude, but I always assumed that most people just called the “sex room,” the bedroom, or the boudoir if they’re trying to be fancy.
Verdict: Ludacris very clearly set out to make an album with mass appeal among female urban radio fans, aged 13 to 34. Judging from the tracks heard, he fulfilled his goals. Whether you enjoy it depends on demographics.
-- Jeff Weiss
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