Def Jam South had been looking to sign a white rapper for quite some time now, meeting with various rappers from different parts of the south.  Face decided it was Haystak that had what he wanted. 

  Now the journey begins, with widespread attention he will be getting from the media, many eyes and ears will waiting to see what he can deliver.

Eminem is not the only Detroit celeb making his acting debut in the semi-autobiographic film, 8 Mile. Eminem's rhyme partner, PROOF, the only member of hip-hop group D12 to appear in the film plays Lil' Tic. If you've seen the film, Lil’ Tic is the rapper who makes Rabbit (Eminem’s character), choke in the MC battle. While Proof plays MC extraordinaire, Mekhi Phifer portrays Proof's real life persona in the film, which took in $54.5 million in its first week making it the second best opening ever for an R-Rated film.

Fresh off the success of the 8 Mile film and soundtrack, PROOF has just completed a 6-song vinyl EP, Electric Coolaid - Acid Testing due out December 17, 2002. The EP which features MC Breed on the lead single, "One - Two" and Journalist and Mu on "Broken" will build momentum for his solo debut album titled, Searching 4 Jerry Garcia which features Eminem, D12 and Shady Record’s new artist, Obie Trice.

Proof aka Big Proof aka Derty Harry, an amazing freestyler and winner of Source Magazine's 1999 Freestyling Competition is one of Detroit's wildest wordsmith. Word got around about the new kid on the block and it was a matter of time before Proof, Detroit’s most notorious MC and host of the emcee battles at Maurice Malones’ Hip Hop Shop would meet the rapper who later become known to the world as Slim Shady. New to the local hip-hop scene, Proof pushed Eminem into the battles, creating the street buzz needed for Eminem to secure a record deal with Aftermath/Interscope Records. But Eminem would not travel the mile alone, the relationship developed at The Hip Hop Shop between Proof, Eminem, Kon Artis, Bizarre, Kuniva, and Swift laid the foundation for what became D12. Their multi-platinum album, Devil's Night, which spawned the controversial single "Purple Pills," was released on Eminem's Shady Records/Interscope imprint last year.

Searching 4 Jerry Garcia is scheduled to hit stores on February 18, 2003. It will be released through Proof's label, I.F. Records distributed by AMC - American Music Corp. The first 250,000 people to purchase the album, Searching 4 Jerry Garcia, will receive Electric Coolaid – Acid Testing as a bonus CD. The 6 track EP, Electric Coolaid - Acid Testing will be available only on vinyl and features six songs two sides: Side L – “Broken” featuring Journalist & Mu, “Derty Promo,” “One, Two” featuring MC Breed; Side SD - “Derty Harry,” and “X-Fam” featuring Marv 1, J –Hill, and Bareda, and “Places I’ve Been” featuring J-Hill.

Visit Proof's official site www.BigProof.com and related sites I.F. Records at www.wutIF.com www.D12world.com , and www.RapBasement.com.

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The INS(Immagration and Naturalization Services) has issued a ruling to deport Slick Rick back to his birth place of England. Rick's lawyers filed a motion to stay the deportation, but the judge has not issued a ruling as of yet. Which basically means he can be sent back home at anytime.

The Hip Hop Summit Action Network and John Conyers, have issued a plea to stop the INS deportation and at least grant Slick Rick a bond while the case is sitll being heard.

While on the set of the new Tupac video Thugz Mansion,Nas willing revealed to MTV that when he got the call to appear on Tupac's new Cd Better Dayz, he literally jumped at the chance, "That was something I've been waiting to do for a long time. It's a tremendous honor because I put Tupac beyond Shakespeare. Unfortunately his early demise didn't allow him to still be here and do more incredible things. The things he left are timeless. Just to be a part of that is an honor for me."

On the album Nas has one verse of the Acoustic version of Thugz Mansion. On the other hand, on Nas's upcomming cd God's Son,whic is due out December 17, Nas has two verses, while 2Pac only has one. Nas went on to say : "As soon as I heard it, I was with it, It was something I wanted to do with just a guitar playing, not really drums — something you could hear the words [on]. I was looking forward to doing something like that for my album, so when I heard [Tupac] doing it and the things he was saying, I was like, 'Damn!' It goes to show how he was one of the most incredible poets. It couldn't have been a better song at a better time. The concept of the song is somewhere to go where there's no problems. Everywhere we go, there's a problem. Everywhere I turn I'm hearing my name this way and that way. It's always an issue on all types of levels. Just being a human is hard. 'Thugz Mansion' is like exactly what the title says — it's heaven."

Thats right, rumors have it Mobb Deep,straight out of Queensbridge, may be joining Eminem's, Shady Records, in order to help Slim towards his war on rapper/Co-Owner of the Source Magazine, Benzino.

On another note, Mobb Deep had long been signed with Loud records but was not picked up when the label had been apparently absorbed by Universal. So stay tuned to rapbasement.com to see where this situation ends up leading to.

As one third of the infamous rap group The Lox. Jadakiss, (many of you might know him from the hit single with female talent J-Lo(Jenifer Lopez),"Jenny from the Block"),just incase you were wondering, as well as Styles P and Sheek, have been working ferociously, on the still Untitled, third LOX project. The album will of course, feature production from some of  the in-house Double R team, including Swizz Beatz, and will be released next year.

So what happens once the Yonkers native returns to New York? It's back into the studio to work on a follow-up to his 2001 solo album, Kiss Tha Game Goodbye. Which featured the hit singles "Knock Ya Self Out" and "Put Ya Hands Up". 

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First of...Eminem has been named Artist Of The Year for the year 2002 for Spin's magazine's "Year of Music" issue which should be out sometime January. So all you Eminem fans be on the look for that.