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Ice T recently spoke on the sad state of rap music and he’s putting all the blame on Soulja Boy. He says “Fuck Soulja Boy! Eat a dick! This ni–a single handedly killed Hip Hop. That shit is such garbage man. We came all the way from Rakim, we came all the way from Das EFX, we came all the way from motherfuckers flowing like Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube, and you come with that Superman shit? That shit is garbage. Hurricane (Chris) take them fucking beads out of your hair ni–a! Man up. You ni–as is making me feel real fucking mad about this shit.” Soulja Boy has since responded to Ice T via YouTube in which all he can come up with was how old Ice T was. Lame!

Here is Lil’ Mama new song titled “Shawty Get Loose” featuring T-Pain. Lil’ Mama will be releasing her debut album entitled “Voice of the Young People” in 2008.

When you get successful, people all of sudden either want to be your friend and get some freebies bought with your hard-earned money or they want to sue you for it.

While a lot of celebrities get sued for something when they get rich with baseless accusations, I can’t say the same for Soulja Boy who just got sued with a very tough case ahead of him. The rapper with the most obnoxious song of the year is being sued for trademark infringement by a musician named Souljah Boy.

A rep for the guy with an H says “I am writing on behalf of the law firm of Alexander, Odunze & Kang LLP to give you a heads up re: the attached complaint, which was filed in federal court this afternoon on behalf of Willie Lyons p/k/a Souljah Boy. By way of background (and as you may already know), Mr. Lyons, known in commerce as Souljah Boy for over twelve years, is suing artist Soulja Boy (birth name: DeAndre Way), his record label, attorney & manager in connection with his blatant infringement of Mr. Lyons’ trademark.”

Soulja may have to pay up.

R Kelly did it again. He might deny it, his label might deny it, but we all know it’s true. R Kelly can’t stand a double tour with a person that threatens to become to tour star. He must be the only one to get all the attention, otherwise…he continues touring alone.
It’s not the first time when a double concert tour needs to be ended. Some years ago, R Kelly parted the tour he was taking with Jay Z.
The Double Up tour he is on had as a performer along his side a young rap singer, called Ne-Yo. It seems that the 24 year old was getting too much attention, and Kelley probably got offended.

Rap star 50 Cent said that if he didn’t beat Kanye West in terms of record sales when their new releases came head to head, he would retire. Well, Kanye beat him and there’s still no retirement announcement from 50.

It seems that 50 found a way around his retirement saying to Gatecrasher that his album “was No. 1 internationally the week it came out. It was the No. 1 European album!” Apart from teaching us how to go back on our word, 50 also teaches us a good geography lesson.

But if you want to get technical, he does have a point. He did beat Kanye to the top spot on the album and singles chart in Europe.

Rapper 50 Cent has recently shot the music video for his upcoming single entitled “I’ll Still Kill” with R&B singer Akon.
Looks OK.

New Common single titled “I Want You”. This is the fourth single from the rapper’s latest studio album titled “Findin’ Forever” released in July.

He may have been busted for making his bodyguard buy guns for him when he’s a convicted felon who’s not allowed to buy firearms but that doesn’t mean T.I. can’t have some good news given to him.

T.I. won two awards out of nine nominations at the BET Hip Hop Awards last weekend. The southern rapper didn’t walk the red carpet but he was in attendance for the show in one way or the other. News of his arrest got around which had some people talking. Rapper KRS-One said, “I’m saddened any time I hear of a hip-hopper being locked up or somehow being stunted in his life or his growth. I hope he wasn’t into nothing crazy.”

Common won CD of the year along with T.I. and he decided to dedicate his win to him saying “I salute my guy T.I., who also won, wherever he is.”

Several days have passed since the 2007 MTV VMAs but Kanye West is still bitter. And he’s not letting anyone leave without them knowing about it. Not even Justin Timberlake fans.

Kanye made a surprise appearance at the Emmy’s right before heading over to Justin’s show at the Staples Center in LA. He was even wearing the same suit. He also joined Justin on stage and rocked out an amazing rendition of ‘Stronger’. Kanye then busted out with the freestyle when he told the crowd “Hey yo, MTV — I can’t trust ‘em.”

He may be a whiner but the guy can perform.

50 Cent has canceled two major international music events, citing “unforeseen and unanticipated” circumstances. The rapper – who vowed to retire if rival Kanye West beat him in the album charts, last week – has pulled out of performing at the MOBOs and the Vodafone Live Music Awards in London. Well Kanye West has already beaten him in the latest UK charts and that’s why he cannot bare the pain of having to eat him own words and has now become a subject of public mockery that’s for sure and he knows it well that there are good chances that if he appears at the awards ceremony and other place so soon after getting beaten the media and paparazzi would all be asking him the one question he cannot answer – ‘will you be retiring now’. This question could drive him mad and he doesn’t have the guts to retire or do anything remotely close to retiring. We all know he is a a**ho*e with a big out that knows to praise himself and nothing else.

Eve showed up to and performed at the Herbal Essences’ Great Escape to the MTV Video Music Awards party at the Palms on Friday night. That happened to be the last night that she had to wear her SCRAM anklet which prevents her from having too much fun and committing another DUI.

On Saturday, the female rapper took of the ankle monitoring bracelet that has been on her for the last 45 days. Eve is finally free!

Now maybe she can drink that champagne that was given to her at the MAC Cosmetics event from New York Fashion week. Cheers!

Hey I kinda thought these rap singers always liked to be associated with some or the other controversy whether it was being involved at taking a swipe at fellow rappers and musicians or being name the prime accused in a drug possessing deal (buying or selling). The rapper has slammed internet reports that suggest that he was seen buying drugs. Diddy was left fuming after an amateur video clip of 41-seconds appeared online featuring him in the party, prompting viewers to suggest that the footage available looked like him being involved in a drug deal. Well firstly in his defense I’d say that until proven guilty there should be no terminology used to say he’s some kinda of drug users or dealer, that later word is a grave use of words by me but if the video is a genuine one then Diddy could soon be in big time trouble. On the contrary if the video is a fake and doctored one then the police better investigate the matter and find who’s behind the conspiracy to defame the rap mogul.

Rapper The Game disappointed fans when he failed to turn up at a hip-hop concert in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday. The Dreams hitmaker was scheduled to join Akon, Naughty By Nature and Sisqo at the Roc Tha Block gig in the city’s Vector Arena. He might have forgotten to wear his inner wear material and these guys usually don’t wear it anyways so the thought if he made it to the venue he could be dragged of the stage and his clothes would be ripped by the audience for already being so late. The next time he visits New Zealand the ticket holders should be there at the arrival lounge and ask for their money back right there at the Airport itself.

Although a jury last week convicted Jose Padilla of supporting terrorism, rapper-actor Mos Def thinks that Padilla may not have gotten the due process the criminal justice system promises.

“We all know the history of insufficient evidence or testimony under duress — at the very least, legal circumstances that demand some sort of reinvestigation, a new consideration for facts, and just the truth — basically saying these people are not the criminals they’re being made out to be,” he told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday.

“(It’s) the climate that we live in, people’s rights and liberties being taken advantage of — the whole situation with Jose Padilla,” he said. “Basically the state being able to just charge any individual with anything and prosecute them on the basis of that.”

Mos Def is hoping to draw attention to what he sees as inequities in the United States’ criminal justice system this weekend with the 10th annual “Black August” benefit concert at The Nokia Theater in New York City. Other performers include socially minded rappers such as Talib Kweli and Dead Prez, and rapper Saigon.

Organized by The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, “Black August” was organized to create awareness about the cases of people that the organization believes has been unfairly convicted, such as Assata Shakur, whose image is included on the concert flyer.

Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army, escaped prison in 1979 after being convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper and lives in Cuba as a fugitive.

“It’s so interesting how people are doing all this international philanthropic work, but this is real philanthropy — freeing innocent people, clearing their name or calling this system into account for how it responds to the truth. These people are telling the truth,” said Mos Def.

Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was convicted along with two defendants of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas. The three were accused of being part of a North American support cell that provided supplies, money and recruits to groups of Islamic extremists. The defense contended they were trying to help persecuted Muslims in war zones with relief and humanitarian aid.

Kanye West’s rival 50 Cent recently lost his cool this week. He was reportedly furious at the fact that a new video of his was leaked to the web. What’s worse? He thinks that the leak was an inside job at Interscope.

The video ‘Follow My Lead’ was intended to drop in October and it features a collaboration with Robin Thicke.

When 50 found out about the leak, he freaked out and supposedly told Interscope execs that he refused to do promo work for his new album and then went on a destructive rampage. He has now refused to contact anyone from the label and Interscope is now doing damage control while rescheduling 50’s public appearances.

Yep, he’s going to retire.

Here’s the remix of “Tambourine”, the song from the upcoming album of rapper Eve, “Here I Am” due out on September 18th.

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Here’s a remix of the latest single of rapper Fabolous titled “Make Me Better”.

Rap’s critics have been complaining for years, only to watch the music become even more profane – and more popular. But now it seems as if Don Imus may be accomplishing what a generation of detractors could not. Four months after outrage over Imus’ sexist and racial comments led to intense scrutiny of rap’s negative imagery, and as the genre’s sales continue to plummet, some artists are publicly abandoning offensive language. This where I think that some Muslim country’s that ban use of foul language in the lyrics of music videos do the right thing when they ban stuff that’s obscene. If we allow the seeds to grow then one day we will be fighting to cut the bad crop we sowed.
Thank god that I am not a big fan of these guys and I do not have hear these guys scream all that shit into my ears every morning I leave for work. More so the drop in sales of the CD’s of these artist have been the most driving force for them to realize that we do not except them in this form. The platinum-seller Chamillionaire recently announced that his new album, ”Ultimate Victory,” would be cuss- and N-word free.

Rap rivals Kanye West and 50 Cent will go head to head on September 11th when their albums are released simultaneously. Last month, West decided to release his third album Graduation early, on August 21st, to avoid a sales war with 50 Cent’s new disc Curtis. After originally planning to release Curtis in June, 50 Cent delayed the album until September 4th, then last week it was postponed again until September 11th. And now West has decided to release Graduation on the same day, according to a representative from his record label Def Jam. Where’s the love, what about the fans that love 50&kanye? Did they stop and think that all there fans are not rich? And they cannot afford to buy 2 albums at the same time, there is enough money to go around, they just need to spread it out a lil bit! Please don’t put us in that position to have to choose between the 2, it is not fair!

When he was starting out in the rap business, Brother Ali quickly learned how much skin color matters.

“I started sitting down for interviews and journalists would say, ‘Are you black or white?’” recalled Ali, who is albino. “I’d ask them, ‘What do you think?’”

For the record, Ali is Caucasian. But his lack of skin color made it easier to create ambiguity and avoid the label of white rapper — a tempting proposition for a man who grew up feeling accepted by black kids and mistreated by his white classmates.

“It’s not like black kids didn’t make fun of me, but it was different,” said Ali, 29, who was born Jason Newman. “It wasn’t done in a way to exclude me. It wasn’t done in a way to make me feel like not even a human being, not even a person.”

It was through friendships with black people, first in Detroit and later Minneapolis, that Ali found the two outlets that have helped defuse his outsider rage — hip-hop and Islam. That, in turn, has helped him create music that’s reaching an ever-widening audience: Rolling Stone magazine recently praised his “super-agile flow” and proclaimed that his new album, “The Undisputed Truth,” should “go down as one of ’07’s best rap records.”

But Ali said it’s not about making hit songs. His rhymes are his release, a way to process a rough childhood and reach out to listeners who’ve suffered in their own ways.

“What I’m saying is real from my heart, and so if it connects for somebody else, that’s a real connection we have no matter who we are,” Ali said. “What I’m saying is real to me, so if it means something to you then what we have is a real thing.”

“I’ve always been a big kid, a chubby kid,” said Ali, who is also legally blind, a condition common to albinos. “I had this long white hair, and I didn’t really have the greatest clothes. I just looked strange.”

But Ali discovered early on a love for performing and dancing, which he was never afraid to showcase at school assemblies and events. It was a way, he said, to call attention to himself for something other than his unusual appearance, and he was a good enough performer that it helped him find friends who were similarly interested in break-dancing and hip-hop.