The Madden Challenge: Bow Wow vs. The Game

The Madden Challenge: Bow Wow vs. The Game

Because trash talking is an important part of the game. 

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Grafh ft. Busta Rhymes & Prinz - Like Ohh Video

Grafh ft. Busta Rhymes & Prinz - Like Ohh Video-Hip Hop Videos/ Busta Rhymes

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50 Cent Tops Forbes Hip Hop Rich List

50 Cent Tops Forbes Hip Hop Rich List

Jay-Z comes in second; Diddy, third.

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Mobb Deep Sue Former Manager

Mobb Deep are reported to have filed a lawsuit against their former manager for releasing their recordings without permission.

Gossip website TMZ.com is reporting that Mobb Deep’s Havoc and Prodigy have filed a lawsuit claiming Norman "Purfek Storm" Bell released the two disc album "Infamous Archives" in 2007 without their permission and are seeking over $1 million in unpaid royalties.

The lawsuit also claims Bell, who managed Mobb Deep between May 2004 and November 2007, distributed their tracks on the Mobb Deep The Mix Tape Before 9/11 and Purfek Storm Mix Tape Volumes 1 & 3 mixtapes with intent to profit.

Mobb Deep are claiming Bell has committed copyright infringement, trademark counterfeiting, trademark infringement and trademark dilution.


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Illa J To Release Album Produced By Brother J Dilla

Delicious Vinyl Records, the label that helped late producer J Dilla get his start in the game, will be releasing an album from Dilla's brother Illa J [click to read] . The 21-year-old younger brother of the late producer has relocated to Los Angeles from Detroit after Dilla's death. Since the move, Illa J has used his brothers equipment to create a studio called Yancey Boys Studio. There, using unreleased beats from Dilla, Illa J has crafted an album of his brother's beats and his own signing and rapping.

"From '95 through '98 Jay Dee was my go-to guy for hot beats and remixes. He was always making beats, always. So there was a select amount of tracks that he composed for me during that time, only they never got used. When I finally met Illa J last year, I gave him a CD containing those unreleased beats," said Mike Ross, founder of Delicious Vinyl.

Illa J adds, "Dilla was 12 years older than me. So back in the day in Detroit, I was just a little kid, sitting on the stairs in our house, watching him make those first beats for Slum Village. So I always felt my brother's tracks and had an instinct for what I wanted to do over them."

To Ross, who released classic records from Young MC, Tone-Loc and Masta Ace, the Yancey family is simply musical. "Illa J can write, sing, play and rap. Not just a little bit of each - he's really the complete package! And anyone who loves Jay Dee's music is going to flip out when they hear what his younger brother's been laying down. For over a decade these beats have been waiting in the vault for this moment. It's like Jay Dee made these tracks with an extrasensory purpose, so that Illa J could make this album. There is no question that this is exactly what they were meant for. These beats belong to Illa J, they're his birthright, and I really believe Jay Dee would be proud of what his brother is doing."

The album has yet to be given a title or release date.
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Chuck Philips Accepts Buyout, Leaves L.A. Times

Chuck Philips [click to read], the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose story in the Los Angeles Times connecting Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond and Puff Daddy to Tupac's shooting at New York's Quad Studios was retracted earlier this year, is leaving the paper.

Philips is among the 150 editorial staff who are departing either through buyout or lay off, Kevin Roderick wrote on his LAObserved.com blog on Tuesday, adding that Philips requested and was given a buyout. An e-mail to Philips seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.

Philips was the author of a controversial, two-part article published in September 2002 that concluded Tupac was murdered by a member of Compton-based Southside Crips in retaliation for his stomping out of Crip Orlando Anderson in the lobby of MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The article quoted anonymous sources that claimed Notorious B.I.G. was in Vegas and colluded with the Crips to murder 'Pac.

Philips won the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's top award, in 1999 for his reporting on the entertainment industry. His departure leaves a void in the Times' coverage of Hip Hop, with only a handful of staff and freelance writers knowledgeable in the culture.

"Since the days of Cheo Coker, it's never been a place friendly to Hip Hop," a Times writer who asked to remain anonymous said. (Coker was a Times staff writer who went on to write Biggie's biography). "He left the paper over 10 years ago, and there's a lot of guys here now who are reaching in the dark – they don't know what they're doing."
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Killer Mike: "Pressure"

Killer Mike's latest video pulls no punches with an array of some of the most controversial and sickest moments in modern human history caught on camera. Check it out, but be forewarned, this video has plenty of moments you might want to turn away from.


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The Game's Family Values

Rap star The Game is currently being investigating, after he found himself in the middle of a family rivalry after allegedly promising to finance his cousin’s funeral, but didn’t.

According to TMZ, Game- real name Jayceon Taylor- offered to give $14,000 for a female cousin’s burial, her brother, Robert “Kirky” Kirkwood, said. But when it was time for the rapper to pay up, Kirky says Game changed his number and, in essence, disappeared. He then says the rapper showed up at the funeral unexpectedly last Saturday and spoke about family values.

Kirky went on to say that things got tense after services, when Game came up to him and punched him in the face. Kirky has filed a police report, and TMZ reports that police are currently involved in an “active investigation” of the rapper.

dead prez Next Album To Have No Label, Distribution

Following his dead prez partner stic.man's work with Nas, M-1 [click to read] says the group's new album - titled Information Age - will be released in November.

When HipHopDX caught up with M-1 at Los Angeles' Do Over Lounge Sunday, he was coy about the album's contents. "It's Let's Get Free 2009" he said, when asked about the album's direction, referring to the group's seminal debut on Loud Records that spawned the single "Hip-Hop."

M-1, who released Confidential on Sotti Records via Koch Distribution several years ago, said Information Age doesn't have a label or distributor yet. The emcee went on to state that neither was necessary or something the group required to release this album.

As far as production, he was also mum, but did add that production will come from outside as well as from stic.man..


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Video: Snoop Dogg - Gangbangin 101? (Feat. Game)

Here’s another animated video from Snoop’s Blue Carpet Treatment DVD.See also:Snoop Dogg - “Crazy” Animated Video

Killer Mike Talks Lil Wayne, Ice-T/Soulja Boy & More

Killer Mike paid a visit to WREK 91.1 FM studios in Atlanta this past Thursday, to chop it up with DJ Enchant'd on a wide array of topics. Mike goes in about his thoughts on the Ice-T/Soulja Boy beef, Lil Wayne's sales, his version of "A Milli", his controversial song with Ice Cube and more.

"I think that whole situation just proved that everybody can say something stupid. We all Black men: Soulja Boy, Ice-T, Kanye--everybody just said something stupid," Mike said. "I don't care that Ice-T is 50 and Soulja Boy is 17. I care that good music is recognized. 'Superman' is a great song. It will forever mark an era time that it was fun to dance, coming out of a dark place and thats great. 'Six in the Morning' is a great song. It will forever mark a time that our neighborhoods were being invaded...so I want Ice-T to be revered like Bo Jangles. I want Ice-T to be revered like Luther Vandross. I want him to be revered like Marvin Gaye. At the same time I want Soulja Boy to be accepted and loved the same way a white pop act would be. I want him to be respected for the genius to use the internet...I want all of our accomplishments to be duly noted."

On Lil Wayne's 1.3 Million records sold of The Carter III in its first two weeks:

"I tend not to think about other rappers...I'm not an employee anymore so I tend not to think on an employee level. Most rappers have record deals where they'll sell 3,4,5 million records and if they're lucky they'll bring home 1-2 million off of different revenue streams, and that's great. But if i sell a quarter million to a half million records, I equal and double and I own my masters. So I'm more interested in having a conversation about how to be an "EmCEO" than adoration or opinions on other artists. I'm not an artist anymore; it was fun being one though [laughs]."

Killer Mike also encouraged listeners to download to his indefinitely-shelved album, Ghetto Extraordinary, exclusively available on HipHopDX.com [click here read more about the project and download the audio].

I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind Pt.2, which Killer Mike claims is his "first classic album" is available starting today.

"The other albums were just practice for this one!" he declares.

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Kanye West Produces Something New For Louis Vuitton

The self-proclaimed "Louis Vuitton Don" may be living up to his title. The fashion forward Kanye West has revealed to Women’s Wear Daily that he’s teaming up with Louis Vuitton to do a shoe line. West announced the partnership with the LVMH-owned high-end brand at the Louis Vuitton Spring 2009 menswear show in Paris’ Jardins de Bagatelle.

The rapper/producer’s partnership with Louis Vuitton should come as no surprise to his fans. Earlier this year, West performed at the opening of an exhibit by artist Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum. Louis Vuitton has incorporated Murakami’s work in various accessories. The rapper also celebrated his 30th birthday party at the Louis Vuitton flagship store in New York City last year.

West, who has been in Paris for the city’s Fashion Week shows, has been working on the final touches of his new shoe line called Kanye for LV. The first half of the line will be for women and is due out Fall 2008.
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Immortal Technique's Revolutionary Campaign

Immortal Technique is such a very busy man these days. He just released his new album The 3rd World and now he is putting time in to expand his revolutionary gifts. Immortal just confirmed his plans to build a school, orphanage and clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan. In order to follow through with his plan he is partnering up with non-profit human rights organization Omeid International. The project that Immortal hopes to flourish is intended for children without families due to war and disease. The Institute will be named The Amin (literally translating to mean trustworthy in Arabic) Institute.

Here are some direct lines from Immortal Technique’s letter stating his pledge to the cause:

“The orphanage section will house 20 children at first, from toddlers to ages 10, while the clinic will service the impoverished community surrounding it.

- There will be caregivers there, widows, dedicated people that have witnessed the violence that has consumed the country since the Russian Invasion first hand.

- There will also be a school the serves the area and will teach K through 5 to the children with certified teachers from here and Afghanistan. And we will also have the children work with therapists and psychologists to aid their undiagnosed post traumatic disorder that in many cases rivals that of veteran infantry troops…”

Immortal Technique goes on to state that the problems at hand are not Middle Eastern nor Muslim problems solely but Human Rights issues in general. Due to this strong belief he has come together with people that have “a passionate desire for real change…people from all over the globe [that] have been activated and are in motion”.

Aside from his musical talents that we know so well, Immortal is ready to get this revolution up and running. Don’t forget to check out his new album and if you’d like to donate and read more about the cause visit the website at www.omeid.org.

Immortal Technique Beats RZA In Album Sales

>Independent hip-hop seems to be the only genre pushing units these days, well at least in the case of Immortal Technique. The Harlem MC and underground hip-hop giant had over 7,300 copies Soundscan certified in the album's first week, landing The 3rd World a number 9 spot on the Billboard Rap chart. His beat out his main competitor, RZA, who released Digi Snacks, in the same week. Immortal Technique also landed himself at the number 10 spot on the Top Independent Current Albums list, and the number 100 spot on the Top 200 Current Albums. If sales at UGHH.com are any indication, Tech's sales may pull off a "reverse Weezy" and actually keep sales momentum up through week 2.. Not bad for a "mixtape".

Obie Trice Leaves Shady Records

Obie Trice Leaves Shady Records After weeks of rumours Obie Trice has confirmed his departure from Eminem's Shady Records. Speaking to AllHipHop.com, Obie's manager Terry Wilson revealed the rapper has left Shady Records amicably to focus on his own Worldwide Hustle record label. "Obie and Shady were moving in different directions," said Wilson. "But he still has a great relationship with Shady Records. He has some big plans for his Worldwide Hustle...