Kind of heartbreaking, but during an interview with Rapzilla at SXSW, No Malice (once again) reasserted that Clipse fans will have to turn to their catalogue for music, because there’s no album in the future.
Part of me still thinks that they’re going to surprise us one day, Beyoncé-style.
…as can be heard from the mouth of manager Cortez Bryant. The good news is, he seems to hint at something coming within the week. We’ll see.
Future stopped by Angie Martinez’s show to talk about his new album Honest, his relationship with Ciara, working with DJ Khaled, his single with Kanye West and more.
WOW WOW WOW…LV was Big Pun’s DJ so those stories are madness. Sean C was an original member of the X-Men and Loud Records A&R. They produced most of American Gangster and they have a new dope album out now for free at seancandlv.com !! This is amazing! Better than I even hoped.
While on DJ Skee’s show, Waka Flocka revealed his top five strip clubs in his hometown of Atlanta. What’s your favorite?
In the episode we have none other than Ma Dukes, mother of the late great J Dilla. She’s joined by Brooklyn’s own Talib Kweli. We learn about J Dilla and his posthumous legacy, his impact on hip hop culture, The J Dilla Foundation and more.
We also find out about Talib’s new album, why Jean Grae doesn’t fuxs with him right now and why he doesn’t like doing interviews anymore. #DillaLives
Chicago emcee Vic Mensa was the next guest for Nardwuar’s interview series while he was in Austin, TX.
Before LOX hit the stage at the Metro PCS 5 Boro Takeover Tour at the Best Buy Theatre, Kiss, Sheek and Styles stopped by on Angie‘s show.
They spoke on ending their beef with 50, recent work, working with Mary J. Blige on an upcoming record and more.
Lady Gaga was recently on Sirius XM’s Hits 1 (above), where she spoke on her latest visual for the single ‘G.U.Y. (Girl Under You)’. Changing the time and the station, Akon was recently spoke on Shade45’s Sway In The Morning, where he got fairly candid about how he and Lady Gaga’s relationship ended (he claims that he simply cashed out at the point where he felt she had peaked). Check that interview out below.
From MTV, where you can read more on the story:
50 sat down with MTV News on March 17 at Eminem’s Shade 45 radio station, the same night he taped a SIRIUS XM Town Hall special with fans which will air on the station on March 31. Fif opened up about his issues with music executive Steve Stoute and the current state of his G-Unit rap group. Then, of course, there was his split from Interscope.
“Not that there wasn’t a whole lot of support, but just an actual fear factor created from the aura of respect that Jimmy[Iovine] has within the Interscope system,” Fif began to explain. “When you see Interscope turn into Beats Records, where everyone that you see is actually marketing Beats headphones — you don’t even see a music video without Beats headphones in it.”
The push to market Beats headphones may have been particularly off-putting for 50, who not only doesn’t have any stake in Beats, but actually owns a competing outfit. In 2011, three years after Beats was launched by Dr. Dre and Interscope chairman Iovine, the G-Unit general acquired a majority share in KonAudio and rebranded it as SMS Audio, which specializes in headphones, but also sells other electronics and accessories.
“So, when the only task from the actual video department is to make sure that I don’t put my headsets in the actual video — and then when we do see a rough cut, I see SMS Audio that I had on my hat is blurred out of the music video,” he said.
Last week, he confirmed to Forbes that the video in question was “My Life,” his collaboration with Eminem and Adam Levine, which was released in November 2012.
In the end, Fif may have won the battle, as the SMS logo on his hat is visible in the final cut, but the war took its toll.
“I’ve never had a record company at any point… decide to alter the artist’s clothing,” he said.
Gotta be about the money. During a recent visit to 106 & Park, former Atlanta star Yung Joc revealed that he will be joining the cast of Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta. In related news, he is apparently in a relationship with Karlie Redd.
The below audio shows Keyshia Cole going in on V-103’s Wanda Smith after she asked the singer if she felt she was “wifey material”. Post-breakup, the Bay Area-reppin’ Cole seems to have a much shorter fuse.
In a recent interview with Vlad TV, Sage The Gemini revealed that he and Joe Budden’s ex-girlfriend Kaylin Garcia were an item, and we titled it “Sage is smashin'”, or something like that….the problem is, the two haven’t even met in person yet. Dafuq?
During a recent interview with Wendy Williams, Tiny spoke on her rumored marital issues with T.I., her butt, boobs and nose (whether they were bought or real) and more. Check out the recap from the interview below.
Peep the exchange:
Wendy: Is that booty a natural booty or a bought booty?
Tiny: It’s a little bought [laughs].
Wendy: Thank you for being honest! Now, your boobs. Are those your natural boobs or bought boobs?
Tiny: No, they’re bought. I’ve always had a lot of boobs. But after three babies, they sag.
Wendy: And the nose. Is that a nose job?
Tiny: No. I thought about it but it’s my dad’s nose so I just feel like…ya know.
Wendy also asked Tiny about her and T.I.’s marital problems and pointed out that the reality star wasn’t wearing her wedding ring!
Tiny: We had a couple fights and we were arguing. We argue all the time though. But had this one big fallout about the Grammys and it just lingered on and it got bigger and we kinda just… but we’re still together. It’s no divorce. We’re normal. We go through the same thing that everybody go through.
Wendy: But you’re not wearing your wedding ring.
Tiny: No! If you see here, I jammed my finger so I can’t even fit it.
Wendy: Hmm, mmm.
Tiny: You see it?
Wendy: No, I don’t see it but I’ll go along with it!
Tiny: Look at this finger!
Wendy: Okay! I guess so!
Tiny: No! Forreal, forreal! It’s a big rock! I would like to wear it regardless…
Wendy:But you jammed your finger.
Above, the Kush God pushes his forthcoming Dream.ZONE.Achieve (as well as reveals an upcoming project with Killa Cam). Below, he performs ‘City Of Dreams’ and ‘Zone’.
YG returns to Hot 97 for what seems like the 10th time in a week, this time visiting the station’s morning show with Ebro and Cipha Sounds.
Luda becomes the next interview to be showcased by the human serviette. Nardwaur was clearly down SXSW working.
One of the greats of the modern era, World Cup winner Ronaldo became one of the most recognisable stars on the planet when he broke into the Brasilian national team at just 17 years of age. Exactly 20 years after his debut, the living legend spoke exclusively to RWD Football about as many things as were physically possible in the kind of time you get with an international icon.
Action Bronson tells us whether Guy Fieri, redheads, Snapchat, and more are overrated or underrated. – Pitchfork
ScHoolboy Q received a visit from Bootleg Kev during SXSW. During the visit, the West Coast emcee spoke on his new album Oxymoron topping the charts, his daughter, collaborating with Suga Free, drugs, meeting Kanye West and much more.
From MTV:
Lil Wayne landed in hot water last February when a line name-checking tragic civil rights figure Emmett Till on Future’s “Karate Chop (Remix)” raised eyebrows and drew complaints from Till’s family.
The verse featured the line: “Beat the p—y up like Emmett Till,” drawing a dark reference to the teen who was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman in 1955. Till was beaten beyond recognition, but his mother insisted that he have an open casket funeral, so the world could see and remember the brutality. Future’s label quickly removed the lyric and then remixed the song again in a version featuring Birdman, Rick Ross and French Montana, but no Weezy.
At the time, the rapper attempted to reach out to the Till family in an apologetic open letter , a gesture the family said at the time “[fell] short.” The controversy also lost Wayne an endorsement deal with Mountain Dew .
But a year later, does the lyric still sting?
MTV News recently sat down with civil rights icon and Congressman Rep. John Lewis to get his take on the incident. “I think when a star, a singer, uses the name of someone like an Emmett Till in music … a lot of young people grow up not even knowing anything about Emmett Till,” he said. “So maybe it would help people go and [say], ‘Who was Emmett Till?'”
In fact, Lewis said that if it hadn’t been for music the civil rights movement might have been like “a bird without wings.” Imagine not having songs like: “We Shall Not Be Moved,” Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddamn,” Curis Mayfield and the Impressions’ “People Get Ready” and Mahalia Jackson’s “We Shall Overcome.”
“You can communicate with music. It’s a powerful instrument, it’s a powerful tool,” said Lewis. “Not just for enjoyment, but it helps to inspire, to push you on. Sometimes when we’d get out of jail in Alabama, in Mississippi we’d go straight to a club and play some records.”
Lewis said during those celebratory post lock-up listening sessions, he and his fellow marchers would spin songs including Mayfield’s “Keep on Pushin'” or Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.”
“The songs motivated us, they inspired us, so music played a major role within the movement,” he said.
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby talk to Rachel Dilley, a mother-of-three who says she never dreamed she was at risk of HIV – because ‘only African people could get it’.
Oprah meets up with comedian and actor Kevin Hart on the heels of his box-office hits and recent NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year to discuss his skyrocketing career. Kevin discusses his comedic influences and how reaching his fans through social media was a vital part of his success as he made his way up in the industry. He also talks about raising his children with his ex-wife, the support his mother gave him when he was first starting out, and how he learned to forgive his father.