"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminshes fear." - Rosa Parks
"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man." - Huey Newton
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YOU WILL SEE NOTHING FUNNIER TODAY! M.O.P. MEETS ERNIE AND BERT:
WOW. DID WAYNE PAY PHIFE:
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WEEZY JACKIN REGGAE? INTERESTING:
Comparing the cords and melodies, you can hear the strong similarity to the Gully Creapa Riddim. The timing of the two respective releases shows that the riddim was released well before the lollipop instrumental. According to the riddim builder, he has contacted the Lil Wayne camp and an ammicable agreement is being worked on and is expected to provide positive opportunities for remixes between the two camps. So its possible to hear Lil Wayne on a tough dancehall riddim very soon!
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MALICE AT THE PALACE: PART 2, THE WNBA EDITION!
This keeps up, and the Palace is going to get a rep.
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The Los Angeles Sparks beat the Shock, 84-81, but folks were buzzing Tuesday night about the fight between the two teams with 4.6 seconds left which brought back memories of the Palace Brawl between the Pistons and the Pacers in 2004.
And after the fight — which began with the Shock’s Plenette Pierson and the Sparks’ Candace Parker battling for position — four people were ejected and two technical fouls were called.
“The game was getting out of hand physical-wise, and I warned (the ref) about that and she gave me a warning,” Shock coach Bill Laimbeer said. “But it started to escalate, and players are going to get emotional, and it happens sometimes.
“It’s unfortunate, but it happens.”
The Sparks’ Marie Ferdinand-Harris made two free throws, and Pierson and Parker began jostling for position on the second free throw.
The two were shoving each other when Parker landed on the floor. Pierson walked menacingly toward Parker, and the two started wrestling. Parker appeared to throw a punch.
Player and coaches from both benches ran onto the court, with Laimbeer, Shock assistant coach Rick Mahorn, and Sparks coach Michael Cooper restraining their players and trying to restore order.
After a few moments, it appeared things had calmed down, but the Sparks’ Lisa Leslie fell down while Mahorn was trying to restrain her. That prompted the Sparks’ DeLisha Milton-Jones to hit Mahorn in the back.
The final damage?
Parker, Pierson, Milton-Jones and Mahorn were ejected; the Shock’s Deanna Nolan and the Sparks’ Shannon Bobbit received technical fouls.
Mahorn’s ejection was a real surprise to the Shock.
“I was trying to protect the whole game, the integrity of the game,” he said. “The WNBA is very special to me because I have four daughters. I don’t even raise my hand to them, and I would never push a woman. This game, I love this game too much.”
Mahorn was also involved in the 2004 Pistons-Pacers brawl while working as a Detroit broadcaster, going into the crowd to try to pull Ron Artest away from fans.
Smith basically called Leslie’s actions a flop — trying to draw the attention of the officials.
As for as the main combatants, none of the Shock players involved were talking, and Smith was the only person who would comment on the fight.
“I didn’t really see what happened,” Smith said. “We were a little frustrated with a lot of ticky-tack stuff.
“That’s just this league. You go every night where people are battling. Everybody was just working hard. We wanted to win. They wanted to win. That’s just how it is.”
Members of the Sparks were more talkative. But they offered few details of what led to the fracas.
“I don’t even recall what happened — I’ll have to look at the tape,” Parker said. “I don’t really remember any of it.”
Milton-Jones said: “This isn’t what we want to happen. We are trying to demonstrate class and integrity and the good things about basketball. This was unfortunate, but sometimes these things happen in basketball. The league will look at all of this and decide what the proper action is.”
Besides likely suspensions, the Shock took another hit because of the fight.
Cheryl Ford suffered a sprained right knee while trying to restrain Pierson. She was wheeled off the court in a wheelchair.
As for the game, the Shock fell behind by 21 points but pulled to within one point several times in the closing minutes. A basket by Leslie in the paint with 17 seconds left gave the Sparks an 80-77 lead, and when Nolan missed a three-pointer with 10.2 seconds left, the game was pretty much over.
Parker led the Sparks (14-10) with 21 points, and Milton-Jones added 19. Smith led the Shock (16-9) with 20 points.
Contact VINCE ELLIS at 313-222-6479 or vellis@freepress.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/SPORTS04/807230421/1048/sports
THE WNBA IS OUTTA CONTROL!
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NAS SMOKES SO MUCH WEED, HE'LL PROBABLY FORGET HE SAID THIS BEFORE THE TOUR'S OVER, LOL... -NOT THAT I WANT HIM TO FORGET-, I'D RATHER HIM DO IT!!!:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/15...0718/id_0.jhtml
Nas Wants To Drop Albums Produced By Dr. Dre, DJ Premier On Same Day
Rapper also explains how the Game's 'Make the World Go Round' ended up on Untitled.
By Shaheem Reid
Certainly a dream scenario for some fans and the artists themselves. Another legendary MC has been thinking about pairing himself with one of the producers he's had combustible chemistry with throughout his career. On July 15, while performing in concert, Nas made a very public appeal to DJ Premier (who was not present) and said the people are waiting for them to make an entire album together.
Premo and Nas first collaborated on Illmatic, and ever since then, the legendary DJ/producer has given his lyrical friend classic tracks. But the two haven't worked together in quite some time — to the dismay of many. Nas is hoping to rectify that, and the Queensbridge great has another production king he'd like to collaborate with as well.
"I want to do an all-Dr. Dre album," he told MTV News. "A whole thing with Dre and a whole thing with Premier, and drop 'em on the same day. That's the real thing. All right, I said it. That's what I really wanna do.
"I'm doing my dream," he continued. "If you could, wouldn't you do it? What else would you do? Every time I do something, it's, 'Oh, he's doing it because this and that.' Since my first album, everybody has an explanation of why. What am I supposed to be doing here? So I wanna drop the Dre album and the Premier album on the same day. That's what I'm thinking."
Now before you go bombarding Nas and his two track-mastering friends with talk of these albums, Nas did say he was dreaming out loud and hasn't had any significant talk with Dre or Premo. But another producer recently caught Nas off-guard and ended up with a beat on Untitled.
"I ain't know," he said of the Game's production skills. The Los Angeles mic arsonist rhymes on "Make the World Go Round" and also produced the track. Cool & Dre also have production credits on the song.
"He just hit me with the track," Nas added. "I was like, 'Oh, that's what's up.' The record was Game's record, so he's like, 'Me, you, I'm going to see Chris Brown. Nas, we gon' make this movie, boom, boom, boom.' It was his record. I guess [it was going to be on] Game's album. It was gonna come out now, but he pushed his sh-- back, so he let me have his sh--. He's a smart n---a like that. I was like, 'What you doing with this record?' He gave it to me. He's got so many bangers [on his album], I guess."
One of the big bangers off of Untitled is the metaphorically supreme "Fried Chicken" with Busta Rhymes. Nas and Busta compare loving women to eating poultry and pork: "Fried chicken, fly vixen/ Give me heart disease/ But need you in my kitchen."
"When I was doing the album, I knew there was certain concepts I had to do," Nas explained. "There were obvious concepts, so many things to touch on, on an album that's supposed to be the N----- album. 'Fried Chicken' was just a no-brainer. So I did the first verse and had it. I knew everybody was busy. I couldn't think of anyone to get on it. I had hit up Common and I hit a few people. Everybody was trying to get back, and I had to turn it in, like, yesterday. Then it just dropped on me — boom! Who's got the science? Who knows all the science on all this sh--? The Godfather, Busta Rhymes. It was just perfect. I hit him [and] said, 'Please turn it around.' He was overseas. He knocked that sh-- out overseas, sent it to me. Done."
Nas is getting ready to head out on the road to headline the Rock the Bells Tour. A Tribe Called Quest and Talib Kweli are among the artists appearing on various dates on the tour.
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TOP 25 THINGS DISAPPEARING FROM AMERICA:
25. Pit Toilets
By the 2000 Census, the number of Americans who lacked indoor plumbing was down to 0.6%. Even though that's still an awful lot of Americans using an outhouse or pit toilet -- 670,000 households or 1.3 million people -- it's a huge improvement from 1950 when 27% of households (and over half of rural households) didn't have complete indoor plumbing.
24. Yellow Pages
This year will be pivotal for the global Yellow Pages industry. Much like newspapers, print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts, from Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), to local search engines and combination search/listing services like ReachLocal and Yodle. Factors like an acceleration of the print "fade rate" and the looming recession will contribute to the onslaught. One research firm predicts the falloff in usage of newspapers and print Yellow Pages could even reach 10% this year -- much higher than the 2%-3% fade rate seen in past years.
23. Classified Ads
The Internet has made so many things obsolete that newspaper classified ads might sound like just another trivial item on a long list. But this is one of those harbingers of the future that could signal the end of civilization as we know it. The argument is that if newspaper classifieds are replaced by free online listings at sites like Craigslist.org and Google Base, then newspapers are not far behind them.
22. Movie Rental Stores
While Netflix is looking up at the moment, Blockbuster keeps closing store locations by the hundreds. It still has about 6,000 left across the world, but those keep dwindling and the stock is down considerably in 2008, especially since the company gave up a quest of Circuit City. Movie Gallery, which owned the Hollywood Video brand, closed up shop earlier this year. Countless small video chains and mom-and-pop stores have given up the ghost already.
21. Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up connections have fallen from 40% in 2001 to 10% in 2008. The combination of an infrastructure to accommodate affordable high speed Internet connections and the disappearing home phone have all but pounded the final nail in the coffin of dial-up Internet access.
20. Phone Landlines
According to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, at the end of 2007, nearly one in six homes was cell-only and, of those homes that had landlines, one in eight only received calls on their cells.
19. Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs
Maryland's icon, the blue crab, has been fading away in Chesapeake Bay. Last year Maryland saw the lowest harvest (22 million pounds) since 1945. Just four decades ago the bay produced 96 million pounds.The population is down 70% since 1990, when they first did a formal count. There are only about 120 million crabs in the bay and they think they need 200 million for a sustainable population. Overfishing, pollution, invasive species and global warming get the blame.
18. VCRs
For the better part of three decades, the VCR was a best-seller and staple in every American household until being completely decimated by the DVD, and now the Digital Video Recorder (DVR). In fact, the only remnants of the VHS age at your local Wal-Mart or Radio Shack are blank VHS tapes these days. Pre-recorded VHS tapes are largely gone and VHS decks are practically nowhere to be found.
17. Ash Trees
In the late 1990s, a pretty, irridescent green species of beetle, now known as the emerald ash borer, hitched a ride to North America with ash wood products imported from eastern Asia. In less than a decade, its larvae have killed millions of trees in the midwest, and continue to spread. They've killed more than 30 million ash trees in southeastern Michigan alone, with tens of millions more lost in Ohio and Indiana. More than 7.5 billion ash trees are currently at risk.
16. Ham Radio
Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide) wireless communications with each other and are able to support their communities with emergency and disaster communications if necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory. However, proliferation of the Internet and its popularity among youth has caused the decline of amateur radio. In the past five years alone, the number of people holding active ham radio licenses has dropped by 50,000, even though Morse Code is no longer a requirement.
15. The Swimming Hole
Thanks to our litigious society, swimming holes are becoming a thing of the past. '20/20' reports that swimming hole owners, like Robert Every in High Falls, N.Y., are shutting them down out of worry that if someone gets hurt they'll sue. And that's exactly what happened in Seattle. The city of Bellingham was sued by Katie Hofstetter who was paralyzed in a fall at a popular swimming hole in Whatcom Falls Park. As injuries occur and lawsuits follow, expect more swimming holes to post "Keep out!" signs.
14. Answering Machines
The increasing disappearance of answering machines is directly tied to No. 20 our list -- the decline of landlines. According to USA Today, the number of homes that only use cell phones jumped 159% between 2004 and 2007. It has been particularly bad in New York; since 2000, landline usage has dropped 55%. It's logical that as cell phones rise, many of them replacing traditional landlines, that there will be fewer answering machines.
13. Cameras That Use Film
It doesn't require a statistician to prove the rapid disappearance of the film camera in America. Just look to companies like Nikon, the professional's choice for quality camera equipment. In 2006, it announced that it would stop making film cameras, pointing to the shrinking market -- only 3% of its sales in 2005, compared to 75% of sales from digital cameras and equipment.
12. Incandescent Bulbs
Before a few years ago, the standard 60-watt (or, yikes, 100-watt) bulb was the mainstay of every U.S. home. With the green movement and all-things-sustainable-energy crowd, the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb (CFL) is largely replacing the older, Edison-era incandescent bulb. The EPA reports that 2007 sales for Energy Star CFLs nearly doubled from 2006, and these sales accounted for approximately 20 percent of the U.S. light bulb market. And according to USA Today, a new energy bill plans to phase out incandescent bulbs in the next four to 12 years.
11. Stand-Alone Bowling Alleys
BowlingBalls.US claims there are still 60 million Americans who bowl at least once a year, but many are not bowling in stand-alone bowling alleys. Today most new bowling alleys are part of facilities for all types or recreation including laser tag, go-karts, bumper cars, video game arcades, climbing walls and glow miniature golf. Bowling lanes also have been added to many non-traditional venues such as adult communities, hotels and resorts, and gambling casinos.
10. The Milkman
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 1950, over half of the milk delivered was to the home in quart bottles, by 1963, it was about a third and by 2001, it represented only 0.4% percent. Nowadays most milk is sold through supermarkets in gallon jugs. The steady decline in home-delivered milk is blamed, of course, on the rise of the supermarket, better home refrigeration and longer-lasting milk. Although some milkmen still make the rounds in pockets of the U.S., they are certainly a dying breed.
9. Hand-Written Letters
In 2006, the Radicati Group estimated that, worldwide, 183 billion e-mails were sent each day. Two million each second. By November of 2007, an estimated 3.3 billion Earthlings owned cell phones, and 80% of the world's population had access to cell phone coverage. In 2004, half-a-trillion text messages were sent, and the number has no doubt increased exponentially since then. So where amongst this gorge of gabble is there room for the elegant, polite hand-written letter?
8. Wild Horses
It is estimated that 100 years ago, as many as two million horses were roaming free within the United States. In 2001, National Geographic News estimated that the wild horse population had decreased to about 50,000 head. Currently, the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory board states that there are 32,000 free roaming horses in ten Western states, with half of them residing in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management is seeking to reduce the total number of free range horses to 27,000, possibly by selective euthanasia.
7. Personal Checks
According to an American Bankers Assoc. report, a net 23% of consumers plan to decrease their use of checks over the next two years, while a net 14% plan to increase their use of PIN debit. Bill payment remains the last stronghold of paper-based payments -- for the time being. Checks continue to be the most commonly used bill payment method, with 71% of consumers paying at least one recurring bill per month by writing a check. However, on a bill-by-bill basis, checks account for only 49% of consumers' recurring bill payments (down from 72% in 2001 and 60% in 2003).
6. Drive-in Theaters
During the peak in 1958, there were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in this country, but in 2007 only 405 drive-ins were still operating. Exactly zero new drive-ins have been built since 2005. Only one reopened in 2005 and five reopened in 2006, so there isn't much of a movement toward reviving the closed ones.
5. Mumps & Measles
Despite what's been in the news lately, the measles and mumps actually, truly are disappearing from the United States. In 1964, 212,000 cases of mumps were reported in the U.S. By 1983, this figure had dropped to 3,000, thanks to a vigorous vaccination program. Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine, approximately half a million cases of measles were reported in the U.S. annually, resulting in 450 deaths. In 2005, only 66 cases were recorded.
4. Honey Bees
Perhaps nothing on our list of disappearing America is so dire; plummeting so enormously; and so necessary to the survival of our food supply as the honey bee. 'Colony Collapse Disorder,' or CCD, has spread throughout the U.S. and Europe over the past few years, wiping out 50% to 90% of the colonies of many beekeepers -- and along with it, their livelihood.
3. News Magazines and TV News
While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the last several decades, their audiences have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening news, the New York Times reported that all three network evening-news programs combined had only 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today is half that.
2. Analog TV
According to the Consumer Electronics Association, 85% of homes in the U.S. get their television programming through cable or satellite providers. For the remaining 15% -- or 13 million individuals -- who are using rabbit ears or a large outdoor antenna to get their local stations, change is in the air. If you are one of these people you'll need to get a new TV or a converter box in order to get the new stations which will only be broadcast in digital.
1. The Family Farm
Since the 1930s, the number of family farms has been declining rapidly. According to the USDA, 5.3 million farms dotted the nation in 1950, but this number had declined to 2.1 million by the 2003 farm census (data from the 2007 census hasn't yet been published). Ninety-one percent of the U.S. farms are small family farms.
www.walletpop.com/specials/top-25-things-vanishing-from-america
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ROCK THE BELLS BY WWW.ALLHIPHOP.COM
Toronto’s true Hip-Hop heads came out in droves to Arrow Hall on July 20th, where they were treated to an uneven, but largely enjoyable all day show. Earlier in the afternoon, the crowd was laced with short sets from Kidz In The Hall, Jay Electronica, Murs and The Pharcyde.
However, the vibe intensified when the heavy hitters of the bill began taking their turns rocking the heads in attendance. Mos Def turned out an energetic and lively set, touching largely on material from his latest album True Magic and Black On Both Sides. He sounded particularly crisp over “Unbelievable” and crowd favorite “Ms. Fat Booty”.
After a short break, the original microphone fiend Rakim took the stage to chorus of cheers as his DJ Kid Capri screamed at the crowd informing us that we were about to experience some “real f***ing Hip-Hop!”
Unfortunately, Rakim’s set was marred by sound problems. Kid Capri had a losing battle with the decks and he and Rakim had some choice words for the sound crew. Too bide time, Rakim dropped a nice a cappela freestyle which temporarily won the crowd over. He threatened to walk off stage at one point, but once Capri had the decks back under his control, he blew through the rest of his set with aggression, especially on the classic Eric B. and Rakim track “Paid In Full”.
Next up were Method Man and Redman. They took to the stage smoking you know what and tore through a hard rock version of their hit “Da Rockwilder”. They blew through their forty five minute set working the crowd into froth with the lighter-raising anthem “How High”.
After what seemed like an eternity, the pressure was finally released when Nas, walked on stage to the opening notes of “You Can’t Stop Us Now” off his latest disc Untitled. He launched into “N.*.*.*.*.*” and had the crowd in the palm of his hand from that moment on.
Backed by DJ Green Lantern, Nas moved with ease through some of his latest material (“Hero”, “Black President”) which ended up being overshadowed by his classics “Represent”, “If I Ruled The World” and “Hate Me Now”.
The reunited A Tribe Called Quest, were certainly going to have a tough act to follow after Nas’ memorable performance. Little did we know we’d only get to see A Tribe Called Tip? After a thirty minute plus wait, the restless and tired masses seemed puzzled when Q-Tip finally took the stage with Mos Def. The two were backed by a live band and ran through a set dedicated to the late J Dilla and some of Tip’s solo material.
Once Tip began dipping into the Tribe material minus the services of Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhommad, it was clear this wasn’t the Tribe that we had waited all day to see.
Fans began filing out of the now empty-looking venue wondering just what happened. If Phife and Ali were hiding out backstage, waiting to make their grand entrance, the thousands leaving never got to find out.
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TERENCE AND ROCSI = BET'S LAME ON-AIR DRAMA.
TERENCE PUNKS HER LIKE A PUNK.
SHE RUNS AWAY FOR A WEEK.
TERENCE APOLOGIZES.
THE END:
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RICK ROSS IS A HIP HOP COP, LOL!!!
EFF HIM! I COME FROM THE TIMES WHERE YOU GOT CALLED OUT FOR FAKING JACKS. AND SPEAKING OF FAKING JACKS, WHO DO WE GOT HERE?
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AND I LUV IT!!! HA HA HA
FAKE FUCKIN RAPPERS:
http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/07/22/candid-camera-raps-most-embarassing-exposures/
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THE GAME CAN'T BE FUCKIN' WITH FUNERALS LIKE THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rreIUjHULE
THE GAME'S LAX TRACK-BY-TRACK REVIEW. ARRGH! RAP IS OUTTA CONTROL:
http://www.pyroradio.com/index.cfm/act/news_details/id/159
Pyoradio.com was recently invited to Universal Records London office to hear The Game’s highly anticipated album third studio album L.A.X.
From hearing ‘Pain feat Keyshia Cole’, ‘Big Dreams’ and ‘Dope Boys’ I was definitely looking forward to the album and believe me the album didn’t disappoint! It’s definitely one for the car or at home, it’s hasn`t really got any club bangers apart from ‘Dope Boys’ and ‘Camera Phone’ but for me it‘s good to hear an album that sounds like an ALBUM instead of some carefully planned tracks compiled together. All in all I think this album could be in contention for Hip Hop album of the year. Production wise each track jells together nicely. Lyrically The Game smashes it as well and added with some controversy it`s gonna be a big one!
Below are my notes on each track. Please note this is not the final track list order.
1. L.A.X
Produced by JR Rotem
Big intro, he spits some BARS on this track talks about being gangster, very west coast bouncy production!
2. State Of Emergency feat Ice Cube
Produced by JR Rotem
Crazy beat again, very west coast, another big tune, the only thing I could have asked more for was a verse from Ice Cube - he was only on the chorus ‘California ain‘t a state it‘s an army‘(they didn’t play the whole track so he might have a verse at the end hopefully). Game has stepped his lyrics up even more so far on this album.
3. Dope Boys
Produced by 15 or Nothin’
I’m not gonna lie when I first heard this track I wasn’t impressed, but I think I must have gone mad cos this track is a BANGER! Most people would have heard this track already it’s got a very rocky feel with Travis Barker on the drums.
4. House Of Pain
Produced by Dj Toomp
This was one of the standouts for me, guitar rocky beat again. Game has definitely stepped up lyrically on this album. Another bouncy track with a load of quotables. Dj Toomp done his job with the beat!
5. Heaven
Produced by Jelly Roll
Another standout this track is serious, Game does some singing on the chorus. This could be a single for me a more introspective track than what’s been heard so far.
6. My Life feat: Lil Wayne
Produced by Cool & Dre
This is the next single, another introspective track. Talks about The Game’s struggles in his life. Very serious. Lil Wayne’s singing on the hook ‘Dear lord you took so many of my people but why havn’t you taken my life’. Beats serious as well very dark piano beat
7. Bullet Proof Diaries feat Raekwon
Produced by Jell Roll
Very funky westcoast beat. Another standout. Raekwon does his thing on this. The chorus reminds me of the Ruff Ryders ’World War 3’ track - ‘Where you from, New York’…………BIG TUNE
8. Cali Sunshine
Produce by Nottz
This track is ok, I think I might have to hear it again The Game`s talking about 50 getting robbed, Suge Knight getting punched up. For me Nottz is a serious producer but I wasn’t really feeling this track it might be a grower though.
9. Never Say Goodbye
Produced EP
Another highlight. At the start Biggie’s talking about his shock of hearing Eazy E death. Then it cut’s to the radio talking about the death of Biggie and Tupac. First verse The Game raps with Tupac’s flow and second verse he spits like Biggie, he SMASHES it! They faded out the track after the second chorus so I’m not sure if he does another verse.
10. Ye Heard feat Ludacris
Produced by Nottz
This track is SERIOUS! The beat is stupid, probably the best beat on the album for me. Very Funky bouncy beat. The Game does his thing lyrically, he talks about being looked over and being too gangster to win a grammy but Ludacris SMASHES IT, one of the verses of the year for me, too many quotable ‘So many flags I thought I was in Russia…….’
11. Gentlemans’ Affair feat Neyo
Produced by JR Rotem
To be honest I thought this was the weakest track for me, it’s got a mellowy summery vibe. It’ll probably do well on radio but I wasn’t really feeling it compared to the tracks I heard before.
12. Angel feat Common
Produced by Kanye West
When I saw the line-up for this I thought this track would be SERIOUS but at first it didn’t grab me, the beat didn’t sound like a Kanye West beat at all, it followed the west coast bouncy production of the rest of the tracks. Common and The Game done their thing lyrically and I think it was john Legend on the chorus. Everyone else in the room was feeling this track though to be fair, it’ll probably grow on me(still a big tune though I was just expecting a classic)
13. Camera Phone feat Neyo
Produced by Cool & Dre
This sounds like it could definitely be a single, I could imagine this being huge, double time beat.
14. Money
Produced by Cool & Dre
This one is definitely for the streets, similar vibe to Rick Ross ‘Push It’, talks about money. This will be BIG another highlight! I could imagine rappers freestyling over this beat on mixtapes for years!
15. Breaking Rules feat Busta Rhymes
Produced by Scott Storch
Minimalist beat, everyone in the room was feeling this track. Got a similar vibe to ‘Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See’. Good track
16. Letter To The King feat Nas
Produced by Hi-Tek
One of my favourite tracks. The track is an ode to Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. Very introspective, they both talk about when they were younger overlooking the struggle but now realising the power. The beat is crazy, Hi Tek does his job. Nas and The Game make great tracks together, they both have featured on each others current and previous albums and each track for me has been a standout!
Pain - they didn’t play Pain because everyone’s heard it all ready
Big Dreams - The people at Universal said this maybe a bonus track their not sure at the moment
L.A.X is in stores August 25th in the Uk. August 26th in US
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AND ON THAT NOTE, HOW ABOUT ANOTHER BARELY-BELIEVABLE CONVERSATION ABOUT 'DETOX'?
The six year wait for Detox may be coming to a close, as Dr. Dre has confirmed plans to release his highly anticipated third solo album by the end of the year.
After years of fine-tuning and direction changes, the legendary producer finally feels the project is ready for mass consumption.
“I’m just now, over the last couple months, starting to feel that it’s going to be right and it’s something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it,” Dr. Dre explained to USA Today. “In a perfect world, I’m shooting for a November or December release.”
Recording for the project began in 2003, and tentative dates were announced every single year afterward, only to see the album constantly pushed back due to Dre’s perfectionist demeanor.
Like its predecessors The Chronic (1992) and The Chronic 2001, many expect Detox to raise the bar for producers in Hip-Hop.
For Dre, it’s simply about making great music, and hopefully the accolades come.
“I’ve never set out to do that,” states Dre. “I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel and I don’t put it out until I’m totally happy with it. Then it does what it does...I’m going to put this record out, promote it, and then become a hermit,” Dre explains. “I’m going to stay in the studio and produce. All I want to do is sit in the studio with that person (a new artist) for a year and try to create another masterpiece.”
For guests, Dre has confirmed collaborations with Nas, Lil Wayne, and Jay-Z.
On the business end, Dre also disclosed a venture with Monster, a leader in audio/video accessories, called Beats by Dr. Dre. Dre, Interscope head Jimmy Iovine, and Monster have developed high definition powered isolation headphones available on Friday (July 25) exclusively at Best Buy and Apple stores for $349.95.
Iovine and Dre’s goal was to create a product that duplicated the clarity of recording studios.
For more information visit the official website www.beatsbydre.com.
Detox is tentatively scheduled for a November or December 2008 release.
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ACTUALLY, LET'S END WITH THE GOD'S SON:
With over 600,000 petition signatures in hand, Hip-Hop star Nas will accompany members of MoveOn..org and ColorOfChange.org as they demand FOX News “ends its pattern of racist attacks against Black Americans including presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.”
The protest is scheduled for 2pm tomorrow (July 23) at FOX headquarters in Manhattan.
The demonstration has been triggered by what many perceive as thinly veiled racial attacks by the network and its panelists against the Democrat White House hopefuls.
The groups cite a list of recent questionable occurrences: an on-screen message referenced Michelle Obama as “Obama’s baby mama,” a commentator confusing “Obama” with “Osama” and joking about both being assassinated, and the Barack-Michelle fist bump being referred to as a “terrorist fist jab.”
In February, the network drew additional criticism after Bill O’Reilly debated on calling a “lynching party” for Michelle Obama.
The signatures were collected online last month by ColorOfChange.org, a grassroots organization the focuses on issues pertinent to the Black community.
Last year, the organization successfully stopped the Congressional Black Caucus Institute from hosting a presidential debate on FOX, which was cancelled after the major presidential candidates failed to attend.
Nas drew the ire of Bill O’Reilly last year after the Queensbridge MC was selected by students to perform at a free Virginia Tech concert.
On air, O’Reilly denounced Nas as a violent artist, citing the songs “Made You Look,” “Got Yourself a Gun,” and “Shoot Em Up” as proof.
Nas responded officially on his new album Untitled with the track “Sly Fox,” which attacks the network’s political integrity and coverage of race.
Due to the attention garnered by the song and the accompanying underground video, MoveOn.org and ColorOfChange.org felt the prominent lyricist would be a strong public figure for the demonstration.
James Rucker, the director of ColorOfChange.org, feels FOX’s treatment of the Obama's points to a far bigger issue.
“When FOX talks about lynching the woman who may soon be our First Lady and then refers to this wife and mother as a ‘baby mama,’ they are maligning not only the Obamas, but Black women and Black people across this country,” Rucker explains. “We have over 600,000 signatures-more than half a million people, saying we won’t stand for FOX’s racism and hate-mongering.”
When asked to comment further on his reasons for joining the protest, Nas was brief. “FOX poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to calls it news,” he stated.
Nas new album Untitled was released on July 15.
In three days, the album sold over 113, 000 copies and is expected to debut at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200.
“Dre and I have been developing these headphones for awhile and in Monster we found a partner that could work with us to crystallize his vision and develop them to the quality he expects,” Iovine said. “Beats By Dr. Dre is yet another example of Interscope’s commitment with its artists in developing new avenues to experience music.”
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