With over 20,000+ downloads the first week alone. It held the #1 spot on the datpiff.com hottest mixtapes of the week for five consecutive days. Now Tayyib is back with some incredible visuals for: “Do Itâ€
Ever since the release of Prodigy’s autobiography, My Infamous Life, things have been rocky between him and C-N-N. In the book prodigy accused Capone of snitching and Noreaga of shooting somebody. Prodigy went to twitter yesterday to clear things up between them.
I dont know why ppl r sayin I beat @noreaga up….ha! Thats not what my book says and that not what happened. Read b4 u speak. I never said we “WON†or “LOST†in that confrontation either. Shit happened and I told the story. Thats what autobio’s r about. Real life.
N.O.R.E. then responded with the tweets below. Capone, you’re turn.
Last week, EW’s Music Mix announced that Late Night With Jimmy Fallon would spend this week paying tribute to Marley, with each of the week’s musical guests performing a classic cut by the reggae legend. Ziggy Marley, Chris Cornell, Jennifer Hudson, Jakob Dylan and Lenny Kravitz were already signed on for the salute (which kicks off tonight with Ziggy), and now the show has announced that Keith Richards and Lauryn Hill will both be joining in the fun.
Hill, who has had five children with Marley’s son Rohan, will be the musical guest on Thursday night’s show (May 12), when she is scheduled to perform a pair of songs in an extremely rare television appearance.
Not really a person who focuses on the day of passing, but I spotted a nice write-up on it, so shoutout to Sandra Rose:
Jamaican singer/songwriter Bob Marley passed away 30 years ago today from complications of malignant melanoma (cancer) of the big toe. He was 38.
Marley, an avid soccer player when he wasn’t touring, injured his toe playing soccer at the start of his European tour. Marley continued with his tour even though he was diagnosed with acral lentiginous melanoma.
Marley’s album Uprising was released in May 1980. One of the singles, “Redemption Songâ€, is believed to be Marley’s way of coming to terms with his mortality. Marley never really took his cancer diagnosis as a death sentence. He believed in the powers of ganja (marijuana) and he smoked it religiously.
After playing two sold-out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Marley’s took ill as the cancer metastasized (spread) throughout his body.
Against the advice of his doctors, Marley flew to the Bavarian clinic of Josef Issels, where he received a controversial type of cancer therapy partly based on avoidance of certain foods, drinks, and other substances.
After the experimental therapy (and smoking copious amounts of ganja) failed to heal him, Marley flew to Miami, Florida (considered his second home) where he sought aggressive, traditional cancer treatment to save his life.
But it was too late.
On the morning of May 11, 1981, Marley died of multiple organ failure at Miami’s Cedars of Lebanon hospital (now called University of Miami hospital). The cancer that started in his big toe had spread to his lungs and brain.
Marley’s last words to his oldest son, Ziggy Marley, was “Money can’t buy life.â€
Looking at Music 3.0, the third in a series of exhibitions exploring the influence of music on contemporary art practices, focuses on New York in the 1980s and 1990s. In this dynamic period, imaginative forms of street art spread across the five boroughs, articulating the counter-culture tenor of the times. As the city transitioned from bankruptcy to solvency, graffiti, media, and performance artists took advantage of low rents and collaborated on ad hoc works shown in alternative spaces and underground clubs. Appropriation, also known as remixing, thrived. Approximately 70 works from a wide range of artists and musicians will be on view, including works by the Beastie Boys, Kathleen Hanna and Le Tigre, Keith Haring, Christian Marclay, Steven Parrino, Run DMC, and Joanie 4 Jackie, a video chain letter founded by Miranda July.
Mexican newspaper Vanguardia featured Tony Yayo in Sunday’s edition for naming the project after Chapo and using his image on the cover. El Chapo is online now.
The photograph of the fugitive leader of the Sinaloa cartel when it was introduced in the federal prison in Almoloya de Juárez (now known as the Altiplano) is the album cover of the new New York rapper Tony Yayo, a member of G-Unit, one of the most influential hip-hop groups headed by Curtis James Jackson III, known as 50 Cent.
The album cover, which this week was released in the online music store iTunes, contains a visual effect whereby the face of El Chapo Guzman becomes the Tony Yayo, who wears a black jacket, and cap New York Yankees.
Tracklisting, stream and download link after the jump.
Hailing from Northern Virginia, KidMusiq is the next big thing to blow. With a growing fan base of over 30,000 twitter followers and half a million YouTube views, he has finally released the highly anticipated Classic 93. Classic 93 serves as an introduction to KidMusiq….with songs like ‘Steez’, ‘Just A Fan’ and ‘The ‘Secret’, he proves he is just as versatile as he is marketable. KidMusiq is someone you want to watch out for.
B.o.B previously released a diss track at the OFWGKTA leader, but Bruno Mars is taking a cooler approach.
On “Yonkers,” Tyler threatens to “stab Bruno Mars in his goddamn esophagus.†Turns out, he isn’t the only one trying to stop Bruno’s movement.
“[Tyler] has to wait in line if he wants to stab me,” he told Spin.com. “[Tyler’s] definitely not the first guy that’s said something like that to me and he’s not going to be the last.”
The issue hits stands May 31st, check out an excerpt from the feature below.
What’s the difference between this relationship with Wiz and your last with Kanye?
The thing of it is…how can I say this without sounding crazy or mean? I’m sorry. No need to apologize, the floor is yours.
There’s no comparison in personalities. You know when people say how do you go from Kanye to Wiz Khalifa, that’s a downgrade. But the only question I can ask them is: have you ever dated Kanye? Because I have, and believe me, I did not downgrade at all. Not in any aspect, at all.
Kanye West performed Tuesday night at the MoMA’s Party in the Garden benefit. Moving forward, every Kanye West show should conclude with a rant. In November, at the intimate concert he played at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the release of his latest album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,†he closed the night with 10 or so minutes of wounded tongue lashings and self lacerations.
It’s likely that the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden had never seen such twisted pain. It was filled with a crowd of more than 1,000 – largely, men in expensive suits, and women in more expensive dresses – and some of its more delicate pieces were roped off, for their own safety. A smattering of famous faces worked the room: Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Aziz Ansari in a slim suit, cutting through the crowd at warp speed, trailed by a similarly outfitted entourage.
When he arrived on stage, Mr. West was almost certainly the most underdressed person in the room, in a gray hooded sweatshirt, white t-shirt, light blue jeans and black sneakers. And he began the night defiantly, with a harsh cover of Stevie Wonder’s “They Won’t Go When I Go.†Sung awkwardly but purposefully, it set the tone for the rest of the night. Freed from the emotional restrictions of a major arena show, where joy has to abound, or at least appear with some frequency, he took the opportunity to stew here, emphasizing the more abrasive and gruffer sides of his catalog: “Hell of a Life,†“Can’t Tell Me Nothing,†the melancholy “Flashing Lights.†(In this context, the grotesque “Monster†qualified as exultant.)
Even “Good Life,†the rare unambiguously joyous song in Mr. West’s catalog, was extended past its joyous core, dragged into an extended version where timpani-like rumblings gave it an air of impending tragedy. He did something similar on the paranoiac “Run This Town,†where he altered the melodic structure of the verses, turning them even colder and more percussive.
But then something surprising happened: he didn’t dwell. Instead, he brought out a surprise guest, Jay-Z, one of the few people who it seems can lift Mr. West’s mood. Together they performed the riotous “H·A·M,†a song that feels disjointed on record, but had just the right amount of mayhem for this moment. Then Jay-Z performed “Empire State of Mind,†typically a limp anthem, but here a palliative. Mr. West, unburdened, rapped along and smiled.
Steph Lova bumped into original Terror Squad member CUBAN LINK!!! He was reppin’ BIG PUN as always & had plenty of interesting things to say about the people behind recent efforts to change 163rd & Rodgers place to “BIG PUN PLACE” Log on today to www.BIGPUNPLACE.com & sign the petition
Kanye held a benefit concert last night at the Museum of Modern Art’s annual Party in the Garden. Near the close of his set, he brought out Jay-Z NOW Thats A fundraser
