50 Cent and Freeway perform live in Atlantic City while Jay-Z does it big pimpin styles at the Rock Werchter. Yung Berg does a radio interview where he says he will punch our Brisco the next time he sees him.
On the news of possibly being dumped by his label Interscope, Busta Bust dropped two new tracks including one with Lil Wayne and Ludacris. Bow Wow got help from Soulja Boy while Ja Rule comes back with 2 new songs. Lil Wayne also helped out NORE plus Chamillionaire covered Weezys track, putting his own spin on it, called “Chamilli.”
Ice Cube has been making lots of headlines lately, most recently by appearing in Killer Mike's new video "Pressure" [watch here]. Now Cube has set the date for his new album Raw Footage. Hitting stores on August 19th, the album will be pushed by it's controversial single "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" [watch here]. Young Jeezy, The Game, WC, and Musiq Soulchild will be featured on the album plus Scarface and Nas will be on the remix for "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It." Handling production for the album will be Maestro (best known for his work with Lil Wayne), Da Beatsmith, and others.
The albums first official single "Do Ya Thang," [watch here] was recently sent out to the media outlets including radio. Ice Cube will hit the road soon to promote his album, click here for tour dates.
Although Eminem hasn't been around too much, that doesn't mean he's safe from the public. Recently a man filed a lawsuit against the rapper for an incident that took place in a bathroom of a strip club in Eminem's home town of Detroit. The man, Miad Jarbou, says that Eminem pushed on July 13th in 2006 at the club called Cheetah's ON The Strip. No charges were filed but the man is seeking more than $25,000 in damages.
In related news, we recently told the story behind the new hit movie called Wanted. Paul Rosenberg explained that the movie was based on a comic book and the writer pitched the movie saying he had Eminem attached to be in the movie, yet the rapper knew nothing about it. [read more here]
RUMOR: A lot of talk is going around about Busta Rhymes getting into a fight with Interscope's head honcho Jimmy Iovine. Recently Busta submitted tracks to the label he's signed to, Interscope/Aftermath, and the word that is going around is that Mr. Iovine isn't impressed, and Busta of course got defensive.
What will Dr. Dre due? If Busta likes the tracks he is making for his new album, and the head of the label doesn't, what will happen? Only time will tell. The latest word is that Busta Rhyme's new album Blessed, won't be released.
