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Thursday, 29 May 2003 |
Earlier this year, Snoop Dogg stated that he thought the west coast needed to get into the mixtape circuit. Well it looks like Snoop's Doggy Style Records have started following the trend.
Inspired by DJ Whoo Kid's Smoking Day 2, which featured Snoop narrating a collection of 50 Cent and Snoop rarities, the Long Beach rapper is launching his own mixtape series this summer. Snoop's first installment, Welcome 2 the Chuuch, Vol. 1, will unofficially roll out in the coming weeks with unreleased material from the rapper, Nate Dogg, Marvin Gaye, Warren G, Redman, Xzibit, Beanie Sigal, Daz, Bad Azz, Freeway, RBX and Soopafly, along with other Doggy Style Records artists. Fans can order the collection now at www.doggystylerecords.com.
The series, which will include three volumes, is one of many projects on Snoop's plate, along with a few movies, a third Eastsidaz album and a DVD of December's inaugural Snoop Bowl football game against the Inland Empire Police Department.
Snoop's priority, though, appears to be the long-awaited debut album from 213, a group he co-founded with Warren G and Nate Dogg before Dr. Dre's landmark The Chronic launched all of their careers. The all-star trio have set aside solo efforts to finish the album, due this fall.
Outside of music, Snoop has signed up to star in a remake of "Airplane!" and is currently filming his scenes as Huggy Bear in the new "Starsky & Hutch" movie.
"I'm bringing more of a player feel [to the character of Huggy Bear]," Snoop said Friday from the set. "You know, where he's like really an action player, his hair looks good, his nails look good, his outfits are sharp, he says all the right things, he knows it all. So I'm just bringing a little bit more of a 2003 player edge to it, but the movie is shot in the scene of '74 or '75, so it's still old-school, but I just had to put my flavor on the table to show that Huggy Bear could really be a player."
So far, the highlights have been a golf course scene, which marked Snoop's first time on the links, and just working alongside Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. "Those guys are professional and they've been doing it for a long time," the rapper said. |
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Wednesday, 28 May 2003 |
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The offices of Suge Knight's Death Row records were riddled with bullets Tuesday morning. The shots were fired around 2:30 a.m. at Death Row's office on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, and police said they don't have any suspects yet. A security guard in the lobby said he ducked when he heard the gunfire and did not see who was shooting at the building. Seven bullets shattered two glass doors and five tinted glass windows. No one was harmed. A spokesperson for the LAPD said they didn't have too many leads.
"We've got a lot of artists, like Crooked I, Eastwood and Kurupt, that are currently working on new albums," Knight said in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon. "And because of the hype and media attention associated with these two projects, there have been a lot of girls flocking to them at the studio and at the clubs. The crime was probably committed by a jealous boyfriend or a jealous husband." |
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Wednesday, 28 May 2003 |
Trick Daddy married his girlfriend, Amane Burnett, on Saturday at Hialeah Park
in Dade County, Florida. Before the nuptials, the rapper's friend and frequent collaborator
Trina threw Burnett a bachelorette party. |
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Wednesday, 28 May 2003 |
According to reports from AllHipHop, Ras Kass is no longer a fugitive from justice. In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 24th, John Austion aka Ras Kass was arrested and taken into custody by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department.
According to Ras' good friend and MC protégé Scipio, Ras Kass was arrested after the vehicle he was a passenger in was stopped by the police.
"From my understanding, (the driver) was driving kinda crazy and so they just got knocked like that," says Scipio. The reckless driving proved fatal to Ras' standing as a free man, as Scipio notes, "you can't do sh*t in Vegas, it was just the homie was drivin' way out. It's crucial when you're on the run from the law, any little thing as you can clearly see can happen to f*ck up the whole thing."
In town to do a show, Ras is now awaiting extradition back to Los Angeles were he will make his first court appearance sometime within the next week.
Any additional charges or possible bond for the legendary lyricist are currently not known.
According to Scipio, Ras Kass' incarceration will not slow the release of new material.
"We still gonna keep it movin', everything is gonna keep runnin'. You gon' think it's on some 'Pac sh*t, 'cause we got music, we gonna keep the n*gga alive."
Currently Ras Kass has two new full-length albums due for release, Ras Kass Presents...The Re-Up, a compilation style album featuring Scipio and others due to be released this summer on Empire Musicwerks/BMG, and, Catch Me If You Can, an all new solo release and DVD.
As for public perception of the Waterproof MC's stint as a fugitive, Scipio believes Ras has only done what he was forced to. "I believe if anybody was put in this situation they would react similar."
Ras status as a fugitive may have come to an end, but his status as a Priority Records recording artist remains unclear.
The label has not publicly released a statement regarding any of Ras Kass actions over the past few months, and Scipio for one believes they are directly responsible for all of this.
"Priority/Capitol didn't wanna drop this n*gga's sh*t, and if you're tryin' to hold somebody from eating, holdin' a n*gga back from feeding his family, but he gonna do his time like a man and hold his head, but they wouldn't let him get his paper straight before he had to turn himself in. If you see somebody at your record label in this much anguish, if you're a humane person, why wouldn't you let them go?"
Source: AllHipHop |
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Wednesday, 28 May 2003 |
A few weeks ago, Ja Rule told MTV that he was gonna take a break for the next six months. Well, that has only lasted for a two weeks.
Murder Inc.'s biggest star broke his silence over the weekend via the mixtape circuit with a freestyle called "The Wrap," which features Tupac's one-time Outlawz clique member Fatal Hussein.No, the title isn't paying homage to one of your favorite MTV shows — it's referring to what Rule perceives to be the status of his foes' careers.
While Ja's wrath is contained to just one freestyle verse, the Queens native manages to once again throw a few barbs at 50 Cent, Dr. Dre and Busta Rhymes over the instrumental for Mobb Deep's "The Learning (Burn)." Rule also addresses a physical altercation between members of the Inc. and D12's Proof at a Miami strip club a few weeks ago and the accusation that federal agents are investigating his record company for laundering drug money.
"Plus the feds want us bad for cleaning cash," raps Ja, who orders 50 to "pull your skirt down" toward the end of the record. "But what cash is we cleansing?" he continues. "It's all about the Benjamins, what?/ If it's dirty then we rinsing it off."
Earlier this month in Miami, Murder Inc.'s head honcho, Irv Gotti, told MTV News that Ja was taking a six-month hiatus, explaining that after releasing a solo album every year since 1999 and becoming a fixture on radio and video airwaves, the fans may have been getting a little tired of Rule and needed a break. Gotti also revealed plans for a Rule double LP sometime in 2004. There is no further word on the status of that project.
In addition to working with the Outlawz, Fatal Hussein rapped alongside Tupac on various projects including All Eyez on Me before dropping his solo debut, In the Line of Fire, in 1998 and going to jail in 1999. A free man for the past year and a half, Fatal is now signed to Rap-A-Lot Records and says that a joint venture of sorts is being brokered between Gotti and Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince to put out his next LP.
"We're doing this little deal with J. and Irv — they talking about a deal, I don't know how it's going down," Fatal said last month inside Black Child's Queens, New York, recording studio. "Before I got locked up in '99, Ja was my man. We used to hook up in the 'hood, I used to come to his shows. We've always been cool. When I came home we was speaking through a mutual friend. I knew all I had to do was see my dog and it was going to be back on."
Fatal also said that he was affronted when 50 Cent used Pac's vocals on "The Realest Killas," incorporating some of his former mentor's rhyme flows and lyrics on the "Hail Mary" freestyle.
"I feel it's a problem, playing with his lyrics like that," Fatal said of "The Realest Killas." "That needs to be addressed. I remember I heard it [and] they [were] trying to say that [Ja] is trying to sound like Pac when [50 is] dead on him. All you did was take 'Ambitionz Az a Ridah' and play it back, wrote a verse and took it to the lab and said 'I'mma be Pac now' and just try to say all this bullsh-- about Rule.
"I'm one of the Outlawz, so my opinion is going to be real critical," he continued. "That 'Hail Mary' was wack, total trash, no creativity. Why rap over certain stuff? You're not making it any doper. To me, it was a slap in the face to anybody that stood for something that Pac was holding down. It was a slap in the face to say you're repping Tupac. You're listening to his lyrics and putting his lyrics back on over his beats. You're not creating, you're biting. You didn't even know him. It's going to be some action taken. It's going to be some stuff coming out."
"The Wrap" can be found on Big Mike's Year of the Rookie Part 2 mixtape.
Listen to it here in MP3 (Right Click Save Target As) |
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Monday, 26 May 2003 |
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One would have thought Germaine Jackson's lyrics on the song "Draft Me'' from the album 'C' True Hollywood Stories were just a clever concept to speak his mind on the war America was facing.
It has been confirmed that Canibus recently graduated from Ft. Knox, Tennessee's U.S. Military Academy and is currently a cavalry scout / reconnaissance specialist in the army.
Canibus has not issued a comment on his decision.As far music goes he is planned to drop Rip The Jacker later on this year.
Source: SixShot
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Saturday, 24 May 2003 |
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A staff member at Murder Inc Records was shot after a masked assailant approached his vehicle, letting off a 9 mm round in each leg. Kris Murphy, an employee who works directly with rappers Cadillac Tah and Charli Baltimore;
Murphy was parked out in the front of his Jersey City, New Jersey home last week, when a single man armed with a 9 mm demanded his $18,000 chain. However, the 28-year-old Murder Inc employee said he denied the request and was consequently shot once through each of his legs. He said he believes it was a violent message from somebody who planned the assault. He believed they would have just taken his car or watch. |
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Saturday, 24 May 2003 |
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Reports say, the mother of rapper Dr. Dre was under investigation for allegedly firing a gun at a friend in her home, authorities said Thursday.
The friend was not injured but Verna Griffin, 54, was arrested and booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon, Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Tim Youngern said Thursday.
A motive for the alleged attack was not released.
The shooting occurred between 7 and 9 p.m. Monday at a home in an unincorporated area west of town, Youngern said.
The house belongs to Griffin's son, whose real name is Andre Young, but he doesn't live there.
Griffin wasn't at the home when deputies arrived but her car was found at a nearby gas station and a handgun was inside, sheriff's Capt. Tom Martin said.
On Tuesday, deputies accompanied the alleged victim, whose name was not released, to the home and found Griffin there.
She was arrested and later released on $50,000 bail, Youngern said.
Hidden Hills is about 15 miles northwest of Los Angeles. |
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Friday, 23 May 2003 |
On his upcoming album Chicken and Beer, due in September, Ludacris finally gets to speak his mind about Bill O'Reilly. The conservative pundit's criticism of the rapper last year cost Ludacris his endorsement deal with Pepsi, which in turn prompted a boycott of the soft drink by the hip-hop community.
"You're gonna have to wait and see," Ludacris teases about the lyrical barbs directed towards O'Reilly. "[But] the dude is a complete asshole."
For his fourth CD, and the follow-up to 2001's three-million-plus-selling Word of Mouf, Ludacris has drafted several unknown producers, including Ice Dre and DJ Nasty, to fulfill his party hip-hop vision. "If I keep getting hit songs with new guys it just shows that I'm the one who knows how to make the hit," he says. New tracks include the pro-pot-smoking "Too Much," and "Teamwork," an ode to menage a trois.
In other Ludacris news, he has contributed a pair of new songs to the 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack, including "Act a Fool," the soundtrack's first single, and "Pick Up the Phone," a collaboration with R. Kelly and Tyrese. The album is due May 27th.
Source: Rolling Stone |
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