Hey DMV, BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is coming to DC next week

Acclaimed actor Michael Rapaport goes behind the camera to document the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama of one of the most innovative and influential hip-hop bands of all time, A Tribe Called Quest. For twenty years the group produced jazz-infused music that drew new audiences to hip-hop. In spite of unparalleled success, the group fractured in 1998 under dramatic constraints and tumultuous pitfalls. Rapaport offers unprecedented insight into this seminal band in his remarkably honest and emotional portrait. — SS

Frannie Kelley from NPR Music will moderate a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Michael Rapaport and Phife Dawg

8:45 PM Tue, Jun 21 AFI Silver Theater 2

50 Cent Album Gets Put On Hold

50 cent went to twitter early this morning and let everybody know he’s about to push the button on Interscope. Check what he had to said below:
Ok I tried to be cool with my record company. I went to the meeting talk to everyone and sh*t feels like there moving in slow motion. I’m sorry to announce I will not be releasing a new album this year if we don’t get on the same page. I would rather not launch my album with out a plan the whole system is executing. I don’t know why they play with me they know how I get.
My whole career iv been doing sh*t and they have been playing catch up this is the last f*cking album THEY BETTER WAKE UP AND WORK. I’m on that DRE sh*t boy guess when my sh*t coming out WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT. LMAO. I worked really hard on this album I’m not gonna let it come out like some bullsh*t. There use to me just putting it out.

Sandman – Grains of Sand (Mixtape)

Tracklisting and download link after the jump.
1. This Life
2. High Volume
3. Give It To Me
4. I Say
5. Choosen Choices (Skit)
6. Confused
7. Amoroso
8. Relentless
9. No Sir
10. Beef II
11. Early
12. So Thurll
13. Where I’m From
14. That’s What M.U.A.H.
15. Rocken & Rollen
16. Gotta B Fresh
17. 4Ever
18. Take A Good Look
19. Roam (ft. Cookie Rabinowitz)
20. 1-2-1-2

Kanye Reacts To “Mama’s Boyfriend” Leak

The version of the Kanye West recording “Mama’s Boy” that arrived on blog sites earlier this week is entirely bogus and unsanctioned, and violates the artist’s creative intentions. As is often the unfortunate case, an unknown party or parties got a hold of Kanye West’s vocal track and added their own soundbed to it, effectively and falsely releasing it as a Kanye West track from the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy sessions. The result in no way resembles the final song Kanye West intended his fans to hear, and he is deeply disappointed that one of the most personal, meaningful and special songs he has ever written would reach people in this way. Needless to say, measures are being taken to identify and prosecute the persons responsible for leaking this material.