Fat Trel’s upcoming mixtape hits the net tomorrow, but before then take a look at the tracklisting for the project. You can expect features from Wale, Sluttyboyz, Black Cobain, YG Red Cafe and more. Production is handled on the project from Young Chop, DJ Mustard, JGramm Beats, Harry Fraud, Cardo and more. Check out the tracklisting below.
From Complex:
Weslyn “Mama Wes” Monroe, the mother of the late Pimp C, is believed to have passed away this morning. The news has come out thanks to a picture taken by Pimp C’s partner in UGK, Bun B, who added the following caption in tribute:
“Thanks to everyone that has sent prayers and condolences. She was a great woman. Nurture us from boys to men and made us strong enough to handle this industry. She was the one that kept us going when we didn’t wanna go anymore. She was the backbone of UGK, the definition of loyalty, the personification of unconditional love and the essence of what being Trill really meant. She’s finally reunited with her son. God bless you both. RIP Mama Wes. You gave everything to make us Underground Kings.”
Monroe has reportedly been battling a serious illness and has spent the last few days in a Port Arthur hospital. Meanwhile, this coming December will mark the sixth year since Pimp C died in a Los Angeles hotel room.
According to the LA Times:
“The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office on Friday declined to file felony assault and attempted robbery charges against the singer and referred the issue to the L.A. city attorney to see if the incident warranted a misdemeanor charge.”
Watch the original footage here.
Fake Shore Drive posted this Chicago Reader exposé on the people behind A bootleg version of Chance The Rapper’s Acid Rap mixtape that made it onto the Billboard Charts.
Fortunately the Acid Rap bootleg includes another piece of information—a UPC bar code, which contains a six-digit manufacturer-identification number. Using a UPC search available through GS1, I traced the Acid Rap bar code back to Music District Inc., a tiny label based in Houston.
According to Music District’s site, there are only a few artists on its roster, including a rapper named Twank (aka Twank Star), whose first Music District album, Twank Is Coming!, isavailable to download from CD Baby. The six-digit manufacturer ID included in the bar code on the CD Baby page for Twank Is Coming! matches the one on the back of MTC’s Acid Rapbootleg. That same manufacturer ID has been used for other MTC bootlegs sold through Barnes & Noble and eBay, including Gucci Mane’s I’m Up and a Lil Boosie compilation calledThe History of Boosie.
Music District owner and CEO Suaran Marshall says the unlicensed releases are none of his doing, and that this isn’t the first time bootleggers have used his label’s bar codes. “I’m pretty sure I know who’s behind it,” he says. “The company is going to be 1-Stop.” Music District’s relationship with 1-Stop hasn’t been entirely antagonistic, though…
From USA Today:
An attorney for Thicke and collaborators Williams and Clifford Harris Jr (aka T.I.) filed a lawsuit Thursday, asking a federal judge to determine that their song Blurred Lines does not copy elements from two older songs from Marvin Gaye and Funkadelic (George Clinton).
This comes after Marvin Gaye’s family and Bridgeport Records’ alleged claims against the singers that the song sounds remarkably similar to Gaye’s Got To Give Up, demanding financial compensation for copyright infringement.
“Gaye defendants are claiming ownership of an entire genre, as opposed to a specific work,” the suit alleges.
Funkadelic, the George Clinton-led band that led the ’70s funk movement, has also allegedly claimed similarity between Thicke’s hit and Sexy Ways.
A copy of the suit obtained by The Hollywood Reporter reads:
“Plaintiffs, who have the utmost respect for and admiration of Marvin Gaye, Funkadelic and their musical legacies, reluctantly file this action in the face of multiple adverse claims from alleged successors in interest to those artists. Defendants continue to insist that plaintiffs’ massively successful composition, ‘Blurred Lines,’ copies ‘their’ compositions.”
Yep, Future is apparently making some struggle bars for the Biebster himself. Look out for the collab soon, I suppose.
BONUS: He also recently posted a picture of his hangin’ with Roc Boys JAY Z and Kevin Hart (below).
PRINCE'S 3RD TWEET: DID EYE ADD 2 MUCH PEPPER? pic.twitter.com/3jfe3rb41g
— PRINCE 3RDEYEGIRL (@3rdeyegirl) August 14, 2013
I’m not gonna sit here and copy Tweets left and right, but yes, Prince & his 3rd Eye Girl have arrived on the social network. We’ve already received a gem as a result: the below track, titled ‘Groovy Potential’. Let’s hope for more exclusives and the old man (or whoever runs his account) continues to learn how to navigate Twitter.
From Rolling Stone:
The Voice returns on September 23rd, and original coaches Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera are reuniting with fellow panelists Blake Shelton and Adam Levine. After sitting the fourth season out – with Shakira and Usher filling in – Green and Aguilera linked back up with the team as part of the Television Critics Association press tour this past weekend.
“I needed a moment to step away,” Aguilera said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Thank God for Shakira. She did a beautiful job.” Green said it was surreal to see Usher filling in for him. “It was awkward and intriguing at the same time,” Green said. “It was a bit of an out-of-body experience.”
Vlad reports (which pics below):
Rappers wearing skirts is nothing new — Kanye West has been spotted in a black leather one on multiple occasions, as has A$AP Rocky. However, the skirts worn by those emcees at least came down to the knee.
Trinidad James recently posed with Tiana and Stephanie from ‘Bad Girls Club 11′ while wearing what appears to be a jean skirt that only drops to mid-thigh. The picture has gone viral on Instagram and Twitter, with many people baffled by the Trinidadian rapper’s bold choice of attire.
Yesterday, Kat Stacks tweeted out that she was getting surgery on a certain part of her body and later tweeted out the final product (which you can check out below).
Rolling Stone has reported in their Fall Music Preview List that Drake’s upcoming third album, which is set to arrive September 17th, will have features from Jay Z, Lil Wayne and G.O.O.D. Music producer Hudson Mohawke. I can’t wait for this album to drop next month.
Dizzy Wright’s The Golden Age drops August 19th. The tracklisting is below.
TMZ reports:
The guy behind the smash hit “Adorn” and “#Beautiful” with Mariah Carey — was arrested for driving drunk in L.A. early this morning … TMZ has learned.
Law enforcement sources tell us … California Highway Patrol officers initially flagged the 27-year-old singer’s 2013 BMW X6 for speeding and tinted windows next to an L.A. freeway around 2:15 AM.
During the stop, officers noticed the singer reeked of booze … and performed various field sobriety tests, which he bombed.
Miguel — full name Miguel Jontel Pimentel — also took a breathalyzer and blew a .10 and .11 … which is over the .08 legal limit in CA.
Miguel was then arrested for DUI and hauled to a nearby station where he was booked … and released a few hours later on $5,000 bail.
According to his booking sheet, Miguel is 5’7″ and 140 pounds.
He’s scheduled to appear in court in September.
So far, no word from Miguel’s camp.
Earlier this Summer, rumors hit the net of Top Dawg Entertainment planning on signing a new artist…today, they formally announced their new artist SZA. Her next project Z is expect to drop this Fall.
TMZ has snapped the first pictures of Kim and Kanye with their newborn baby daughter North West…kinda. The happy family were seen leaving a medical clinic in L.A. yesterday, although a nanny was carrying North West in a car seat covered by a blanket.
Kanye West was at the Dodgers game last night and he was booed when his image appeared on the Jumbotron; he later relocated to another part of the stadium.
Kanye West was just shown on the jumbotron at Dodger Stadium and booed.
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) August 15, 2013
Robert Horry is at the Dodgers game and gets a loud ovation. Sorry, Kanye.
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) August 15, 2013
Robin Thicke is at the Dodgers game too and gets a loud ovation.
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) August 15, 2013
In addition to this cover and this cover, we also get to see the ‘Get Lucky‘ crew gracing VIBE’s Juice issue. Dope.
This Tweet was said by Black Twitter (I’m trying to get used to that term) to be in response to Kendrick Lamar’s verse and the shitstorm that followed. I don’t know, but the below letter is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen:
Kanye West’s new album Yeezus has officially been certified Gold with 500K in sales. If you haven’t done so, pick up the album now.
According To TMZ:
“Bachelor” star Gia Allemand — who appeared on Season 14 of the show — is dead, a family member tells TMZ.
As we reported, the 29-year-old model had been hospitalized in New Orleans since Monday following what her family called a serious emergency medical event. The details surrounding the event are unclear, but it was announced that Allemand had been placed on life support.
Allemand’s mother and longtime boyfriend NBA player Ryan Anderson — of the New Orleans Pelicans — were at her side when she died.
Season 14 winner Vienna Girardi tells us, “Gia was a beautiful girl and an unbelievable friend. I’m shocked and can’t believe what happened to her. She seemed so happy, but never know the demons people are fighting inside. I will never forget her and will miss my friend forever.”
Drake is set to appear on XXL‘s 150th issue set to hit newsstands on August 20th, but in a interview with XXL he talked about his late 2011/early 2012 beef with Common. Drake had this to say in an except from the issue below.
You did strike back at Common after he dissed you last year.
Obviously, the whole tension with that whole camp has been brewing for a long time, and that was the first time someone had called me out personally. I reacted in a very poised way. First of all, I made sure it would run in the club because that’s more painful than anything. As opposed to just being on a blog, I wanted to be on a record that you would have to stand around and hear every night for a few months. That was my whole strategy going into that. Instead of sounding hurt and malicious, I wanted to sound fun, get my shit off. Like I said, if it happens again, not that I want it, not that I welcome it, but I’m ready. I really enjoy writing bars, man. I’m not nervous about anybody saying anything to me.It seemed like you won, but his last line was good.
The Canada Dry line? That was epic. I liked it. It wasn’t a good line necessarily, but it was funny.Did he step over the line when he scorned you for being biracial?
For you to delve into my mom and my dad’s a bitch and all that, you’re just reaching for impact moments but the bars aren’t really good so it didn’t hit me. I never sat back and analyzed that either. I only heard it once, and thought, “I think I came away with the W on that one.”
Mac Miller will appear on the upcoming Fall and 87th issue of FADER. Before it hits the newsstands, you can read the cover story here.
From Gigwise:
Lindsay Lohan’s father has branded Kendrick Lamar ‘a moron’ for attacking his daughter in the lyrics to controversial verse to Big Sean’s ‘Control’.
The offending Lohan line reads: “Mollies’ll prolly turn these n*ggass to f*ckin’ Lindsay Lohan. A bunch of rich ass white girls lookin’ for parties/ Playin with Barbies, wreck the Porsche before you give ‘em the car key.”
Speaking to Radar Online, Michael Lohan reacted to diss by saying: “He’s an idiot,” adding he’s “senseless. What can you say to a moron? I don’t know who this guy is. I ‘ve never heard of him. That says enough about what his opinion is.”
He contined: “He wishes he was in as good of a place as Lindsay.”
@kendricklamar it’s okay to be cocky and sure, but we all need somebody to lean on. Let’s just call it mentoring.
— Phil Jackson (@PhilJackson11) August 13, 2013
Yep. Everybody and their mama is jumping in on the current Kendrick craze, especially the folks that were name-checked in the song. Above is a Tweet from Mr. Phil Jackson himself. Get you a mentor, K-Dot.
