Chicago’s Lil’ Mouse is known for his viral hit, Get Smoked which was later remixed by Lil’ Wayne who dropped a verse on the track. In the first part of this addition of Sway in the Morning, Lil’ Mouse talks about being homeschooled, offers from major labels and groups like Cash Money Records and also fills citizens in on his rap conglomerate, Hella Bandz.
During the above A&R-style session on Sway In The Morning, Prodigy revealed that Mobb Deep have a collaboration feature on The LOX’s next album.
Elliott Wilson has another CRWN series this week with Rick Ross. Rick Ross spoke on Mastermind, Trayvon Martin, inspirations and much more. Part 2 is below.
50 Cent talks about his upcoming show ‘Power’, which is a STARZ original series that he is executive producing.
Rick Ross stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning to talk about his relationship with Diddy, how he got the audio/instrumental for the B.I.G.-inspired ‘Nobody’, ending his beef with Jeezy, 50 Cent’s recent Instagram post, his new mansion in Georgia and more.
Below, Prince performs a medley for the viewers. Above is the interview:
Prince sat down to answer questions from his fans in Arsenio’s audience. They asked him about his pet peeves and chores he does around the house. You won’t believe the things people to do Prince and what he’ll make you for breakfast–it’s not pancakes.
This clip must’ve been chopped up, because KiD CuDi was there to promote his new album Satellite Flight and seemed to have ended up explaining to sit-in host Gabourey Sidibe how his breakthrough single ‘Day & Night’ (from his debut album Man On The Moon was created.
One of my favorite interviews with one of the original Roc boys. Sauce talks growing up in the Marcy projects sandbox with childhood friend Jay Z, how Jay influenced him to start rapping. How he ghost wrote the Grammy winning “I’ll Be Missing You” for Diddy. He also gets personal about his struggle with weight loss, his issues with Jaz-O, how he was managed by Big Daddy Kane and why he stopped effin with Dame Dash. I also talk about why Steve Stoute might not be fuxin with me too tough.
Rick Ross keeps his promo campaign going for the new album Mastermind with a stop (alongside Khaled & French Montana) at Bow Wow’s house.
Ashanti joined The Breakfast Club to discuss her new album BraveHeart, former relationship with Nelly, history with Murder Inc, G-Unit feud, changing people’s perception, handling negative comments, stalker situation, mother/manager, and more. – Team Yee
DJ Scream talks to STASHED about keeping his ear to the streets and what let Fat Trel and Tracy T to Maybach Music Group.
Rick Ross revealed last night in an interview with DJ Envy on Hip-Hop Nation that he has another record with Jeezy that will appear on Jeezy’s next album.
Pharrell called into Hot 97 to speak with Angie Martinez on his new album G I R L. He also spoke on the album coming out the same day as Rick Ross’ Mastermind, his hat, the Oscars, his wife and much more. Positive guy (why wouldn’t he be?).
Jada Pinkett-Smith was a recent guest on Arsenio for some reason (while she does have a movie in the works, that’s not for a while….she just came on the show and talk life, I suppose), and during the interview was fairly candid on her relationship with Hip-Hop icon 2Pac:
Pac was probably one of the first male figures that I had in my life that saw the beauty and the talent and my intelligence, separated from sex. That’s something that a child, a young girl usually gets from her father. I didn’t have that. Pac was the first one… that… it wasn’t about sex. It was about, ‘You? You’re a beautiful woman. You’re talented. You’re strong. I respect you and you are MY girl! You’re gonna sit right here and I’m gonna protect you! I’mma make sure, if nothing else, you get what you need!’ And that’s what our relationship was like. We kind of did that for each other.
She also spoke on meeting her husband for the first time:
When I was 19, I auditioned to play one of his girlfriends on Fresh Prince and they told me I was too short. But then, many years later, once I started a film career and everything, Mr. Smith decided he wanted to come and ask me to play his girlfriend again. And I had to tell him ‘no’ again. Thank goodness because I think if I had done it, we would not be married today. Because you have to meet people when you’re ready and neither one of us were ready at that time.
Check out more in the interview clips below.
In the land of gimmicks, it only made creative sense for Angie Martinez to propose the board/puzzle game Mastermind to Rick Ross, who’s new album Mastermind is out now.
Jake One shows us how he created the soundbed for one of the better tracks from Drake’s latest album Nothing Was The Same.
Mike Epps stops by The No Judgment Zone to promote his new movie Repentance. The actor also talks about accepting dark drama roles, and explains why the “Last Friday” movie might not happen. He also discussed the success of Kevin Hart, real acting & more. – Global Grind
August Alsina sat down with Rap-Up to promote his debut album (Testimony, out April 15th); during the interview, he revealed that he has beef with Trey Songz.
“I don’t really fuck with Trey right now. We don’t get along right now,” says August. “We ain’t on the same page. He did some other shit and we just don’t rock.”
In the first installment of ScHoolboy Q’s CRWN interview with Elliott Wilson, the L.A. emcee speaks on his name’s origin, the TDE imprint, Hip-Hop today and more. Part 2 added below.
Hood Affairs talks with Southside and TM88 and 808 Mafia about the music industry and then the two play some new beats (watch for the DJ Spinz cameo.)
Mya stops by the No Judgment Zone to talk about cheating, jealousy, dating in the industry and more. She also says she doesn’t want to be anyone main girl.
In addition to her recent interview with HipHopMorning, Kat Stacks also sat down with 24HHH and spoke on leaving WorldStarHipHop, some of her tattoos, (more on) Fabolous’s brother Mr. Ruggs and how she came up with her new name “The Game Goddess”.
Kat Stacks sat down with HipHopMorning and spoke about her past, her relationship with Worldstar Q, and the story behind Fabolous’ brother.
J-Lo recently did an interview in Dubai (below) to promote her involvement in this Summer’s World Cup (which goes down in Brazil), and — among other things — revealed that she has a duet with none other than Maxwell in the bag. It’s safe to say that she will be shedding that Pop image for more of that ‘Jenny from the block’ vibe on her upcoming album.
