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Artwork: Drake – Best I Ever Had

June 6th, 2009 | Chozen | 0 comments
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Best I Ever Had will be available on iTunes shortly along with the So Far Gone mixtape, Of course I know all of us already have it but that’s not the point. If it does well on iTunes despite the fact that it’s free it will prove that artists indeed don’t need a major record [...]

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New Boyz: More Than Your Average “Jerk”

June 1st, 2009 | Omar West | 18 comments
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The Song[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
While there is arguably nothing new under the sun, there are times when the recycled past takes on new relevance and meaning within a different context.  Enter the New Boyz and their revamping of “the Jerk,” a regional phenomena of the 90’s perpetuated by L.A. street [...]

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Jay-Z In Talks For A Deal With Warner?

May 28th, 2009 | Omar West | 1 comment
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Earlier this week, reports surfaced that Jay-Z was on his way to bringing his Roc Nation label, an imprint he created as part of his rumored $150 million deal with concert promoter Live Nation, to Warner Music Group. Now the New York’s Daily News has learned more about the possible partnership, this time involving an [...]

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Eminem’s Return To Rap With Relpase Debuts Number 1 With 608k Units Sold

May 27th, 2009 | Chozen | 15 comments
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Eminem’s newest album Relapse debuts number with 608,000 sold in its first week, it the biggest numbers so far this year, This is his 5th number one album and between his sex albums Em has sold over 34 million in the U.S., making him the biggest selling hip-hop act in the SoundScan era (1991-present). Method [...]

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HipHopMusicDotCom Presents: A-Game

April 17th, 2009 | Chozen | 4 comments
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Not since Drake (2 years ago) have I done a artist spotlight for the simple fact that there was nothing interesting coming out, but since I’m on my T Dot ish right now I came across another hip hop act out of the city of Toronto called A-Game. I heard something from them a few [...]

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T.I. Covers Vibe (Ain’t No Such Thing As A Secret Snitch)

March 3rd, 2009 | Chozen | 11 comments
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From Press Release
In an extensive report titled “Cell Therapy,” VIBE Senior Editor Benjamin Meadows-Ingram chronicles the superstar’s history-making legal battle and gut-wrenching journey since his 2007 arrest for attempting to collect three unregistered machine guns and two silencers following his BET Hip Hop Awards performance rehearsal.
After the announcement on March 27, 2008 of what many [...]

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Rapper Mike Jones Finds His “Voice” on April 14

February 9th, 2009 | Omar West | 4 comments
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Southern star to release most creative album to date
The wait is finally over! Mike Jones, Houston’s self-proclaimed ‘President,’ will release his second full album, The Voice, April 14, 2009 on Ice Age/Swishahouse/Asylum.
Featuring the smash singles “Cuddy Buddy,” “Drop & Gimme 50″ and “Next to You,” The Voice has been heavily anticipated by fans [...]

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Kanye’s “808s & Heartbreak” Goes Platinum (Beyonce 1.5 & Lil Wayne 2.8)

January 2nd, 2009 | Chozen | 7 comments
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So 5 weeks after Kanye West drops his fourth studio album, he hits the million dollar mark. I have to say that it’s definitely my least favorite Kanye album, but there is a few good tracks such as See You in My Nightmares ft Lil Wayne and Amazing featuring Young Jeezy.
On a side note T.I. [...]

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Lexilex WTF: Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear!

December 4th, 2008 | Lexilex | 5 comments
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They say image is everything. However, when you’re living in Atlanta, GA, image is more than a perception; it’s a lifestyle. Unfortunately, you have people faking it until they make it; even well known celebrities. I guess it’s true what they say when they say “All that glitters is not gold”.

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Kanye Sells 443k, While, “Theater Of The Mind,” Sells 212k

December 3rd, 2008 | Omar West | 20 comments
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Of course Knaye sales this time around would be allot lower than “Graduation”, what with the poor economy, no “50 Cent vs Kanye West” hype, not to mention the his auto-tune induced, 808’s which are really 909’s singer/rap album is a complete three sixty from his previous work which may have thrown his fans off [...]

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Donny Goines Unleashes New Album

November 25th, 2008 | Chozen | 1 comment
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New York, NY
Having achieved considerable notoriety with a vast collection of street albums and mixtapes, independent artist Donny Goines and Same Plate Management are proud to announce the release of Donny’s official debut, Minute After Midnight. The album which boasts Dame Grease as Executive Producer will be available through Amalgam (famed for projects from Joe [...]

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Louis Vuitton Puts A Stop To T.I.’s, “Louie Rag,” Video Being Released

October 20th, 2008 | Omar West | 13 comments
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We did it, and it came out hot,” Tip said of the video. “Louis [Vuitton] and Gucci started trippin’ about it. They were saying we were infringing, in one way or another. They weren’t happy about it. They didn’t want it to come out. But it’s hot, though.”
Source: MTV
Yet another brand that is not showing [...]

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Drake – Swagger Like Us Freestyle (Look Out For This Kid)

October 6th, 2008 | Chozen | 3 comments
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Yon may remember Drake from his joint Ransom with Lil Wayne on it that we posted about month ago, which he bodied by the way. Ransom was hard body and if you’ve been following this blog for a while then you might have caught some early joints form Drizzy like Replacement Girl featuring Trey Songs [...]

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Detroit’s Black Milk Officially Announces Release of Third Solo Album TRONIC

September 18th, 2008 | Omar West | 1 comment
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14-track Album Solidifies Prolific Producer and Emcee’s Standing As a Pioneer of Hip-Hop’s Future
(September 17, 2008) Brooklyn, NY- 25-year old Black Milk, the accomplished producer, MC, and vanguard of Detroit’s rising hip-hop scene will be releasing his third solo album TRONIC on October 28, 2008 through Fat Beats Records.
Produced entirely by Black Milk and featuring [...]

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Tupac Shakur Is Way Overrated (A Must Read!!!)

September 12th, 2008 | Omar West | 42 comments
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Now for those you who read the post we made a couple weeks ago about Blender magazine’s article about Tupac being one of the moist overrated rappers, you can consider this part 2 of that even though it was written 3 years ago over at ByronCrawford.com. Now keep in mind that this article is [...]

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Freddie Foxxx – “So Tough”

September 9th, 2008 | Chozen | 0 comments
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“We went from African kings to Martin Luther King / now they wanna make us all Rodney King”

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“So Tough” is the latest gem to be exhumed from Crazy Like A Foxxx, Bumpy Knuckles’ long awaited release. For fans that have waited the past fourteen years to hear this material, Freddie Foxxx delivers again. “So [...]

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eLZhi – “Save Ya” featuring T3 of Slum Village

September 5th, 2008 | Chozen | 0 comments
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“Infatuated with material things / You only see your feet in those shoes / Your ears in those rings / But, uh, you can come around on your best behavior / But sorry Love, I can’t save ya”

The Song:
The second single from eLZhi’s latest release, The Preface, comes as a warning to all the gold [...]

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Eyezon: From South Africa To The Bay To A People Like Us

September 4th, 2008 | Chozen | 0 comments
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Bay Area Rapper Set To Release His Deeply Personal and Poetic Sophomore Album

“Eyezon delivers his lyrics with a religious conviction, but is blessed with a great sense of timing. He has the ability to alter his rhyme schemes constantly, but without losing sight of the cadence of the mystery man’s beats.” – RapReviews.com
(September 4, 2008- [...]

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Drake ft. Lil Wayne – Ransom

September 4th, 2008 | Chozen | 30 comments
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First off let me just pat myself on the back for once again breaking another artist, I was definitely one of the first ones to put out music from Drake, it was about a year and a half ago we posted The City is Mine which no one up on at the time and every [...]

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Tupac is the Most Overrated Artist Ever

September 4th, 2008 | Omar West | 49 comments
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I don’t even know where to start after a headline like that, man those Tupac stans are going to loose their minds when they read this…
Reuters reports:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dead rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated [...]

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