Kanye recently did an interview where he said his single Heartless sounded "like something RZA would do". After thinking about it I realised, it was in fact, something RZA HAD done already.
Over at kevnottingham.com it's Kanye week, take a look. Heres a couple of highlights pre autotune.
OH NO YOU DIDN'T - CAM'RON (CDQ)Everyones entitled to their opinion, some opinions are better than others.
1. Intro Inst – Get Em Girls (Cam’Ron) 2. Michael Jordan on being Fly Inst – We Fly High (Jim Jones) 3. Jim Jones Story with Cipha Sounds Inst – Good Shit (Jim Jones) 4. Thoughts on Tha Carter III with Rosenberg Inst – Got Money (Lil Wayne) 5. Lil Wayne – Comfortable 6. Big Pun Stories with Cipha Sounds Inst – I’m not a Player (Big Pun) 7. Big Pun Story with Pete Rock Inst – Glamour Life (Big Pun) 8. Pete Rock ft. Big Pun – Verbal Murder II 9.Dj Khaled’s answerphone Inst – Out Here Grindin (Dj Khaled) 10. Cipha & Rosenberg’s thoughts on Cocaine Inst – 10 Crack Commandments (Biggie Smalls) 11. N.E.R.D. – Everybody Nose (remix) 12. Young Jeezy – Translator 13. Cop Story with Cipha Sounds Inst – Queens (C.N.N.) 14. Biggie Stories with Pete Rock Inst – Juicy (Biggie Smalls) 15. 9/11 Story with Cipha Sounds Inst – Ground Zero (Diplomats) 16. N.O.R.E. mixtape story with Cipha Sounds Inst – Calm Down (N.O.R.E., NaS, Tragedy) 17. N.O.R.E., NaS & Tragedy – Calm Down 18. Electoral conspiracy theories with Cipha Sounds Inst – One Never Knows (Alchemist) 19. Phone ‘conversation’ with Curtis and Cam’Ron Inst- Triple Up (Cam’Ron) 20. Bill O’Reilly Does it Live for the Outro 21. Young Jeezy & Kanye West – Put On
50 Minutes of Fire part 2
Busta Rhymes ft. Lil Wayne, Nas, Game, Big Daddy Kane, Spliff Star, & Reek - Don't Touch Me (Remix)
Busta, even though he has lost his fire still has a knack for dropping hot as fuck remixes, check Weezy's verse, and then hate!
Nas - N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave & The Master)
There wasn't an album but there is a song, check it out.
Young Jeezy f. Kanye West - Put On
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
NYGz f. Royce Da 5'9", Lady of Rage & Freddie Foxxx - Ya Dayz are numbered rmx)
Produced by Premier, this one for those of you who appreciate the 90's
Lil Wayne f. Kanye West - Lollipop (rmx)
I don't even like this tune but " it's a remix baby" and weezy does make kanye sound average even with the vocoder on full!
MTV over in America have just recently done the "Hottest MC in the game" for this year of 2008.
Now, all of us hip hop fans(over 25) do actually know that hip-hop ain't what it was in terms of content, lyrical ability, production and overall quality, still, recent years have thrown great talent out like the relentless Lil Wayne, who love him or hate him is in many people's mind the greatest rapper alive as well as the not so talented but equally amusing capo of the Dipset Jim Jones.
Anyway the list is out, voted and agreed by the MTV Hip-Hop (NO) Brain Trust and as you can imagine is a load of complete bullshit.
Ladies and gents it hurts me to say that the king of hissy fits is top of the list as the hottest mc in the game right now. Kanye West has had many a run in with MTV in recent years declaring 'Fuck MTV, Fuck em, I ain't ever coming back"
Perhaps in fear that the Ye would boycott the Mtv studios and awards this Brain trust of hip hop has declared this blatant mis justice.
'Hottest MCs In The Game'(MTV)
1 Kanye
2 Jay-Z
3 Weezy
4 Rick Ross
5 Snoop Dog
6 50 Cent
7 Lupe Fiasco
8 Young Jeezy
9 Andre 3000
10 T.I
I could go on and on about this list, my main problem besides Kanye is the fact that Jay-Z is second having put out two really shit albums as his last two outings compared to albums such as the Black album. Why is he so high up? Could it be the industry weight he pulls as a business man? If so, why is 50 so low? surely The G unit top boy pulls a great deal of power in the corporate world so surely he should be higher?
The Titay gravy Boss creeps in at 4. Then I'm left thinking are people saying that the Boss is 4th hottest Mc in the game right now????? This list is bogus! I mean only if they doing it on album releases this year and their relative sales numbers can this be even accepted or tolerated.
I'm a fan of the Boss but hottest Mc ? Number 4? Come on.
There's mc's out there right now that may not have a general release this side of the new year but are blatant hands down a lot better and hotter than some of the names on this list. A lot of names that are in our opinion just at the wrong order. Plus I know there's some Mc's like Nas, Juelz, Joe Budden, Royce 5'9 or even Killa Cam who ain't put nothing out yet this year or might not have had the commercial success as the like of the hugely pushed and marketed American Gangster but still have done enough to be at least considered for the top 10.
Also before I forget, Andre 3000??!?!?!? Get the fuck outta here man, is that a joke?!?!?!?
The worst thing is a non hip hop fan could see this and then go out and hear these artists in that order leaving them to think that yes hip -hop is dead.
Fuck MTV as Kanye would say them lot are full of shit no doubt.
This is a list according to all contributors here in the office, free from bias and free from fucking ass sucking scum bags with no integrity.
1- Lil Wayne
2-Lupe Fiasco
3- Young Jeezy
4-50 Cent
5- Styles P
6- Joell Ortiz
7-Juelz Santana
8- Flo Rida
9-Skyzoo
10-Kanye West
Votes counted and added. To be honest it looks different than I expected.
Rick Ross' listening party for his next album "Trilla" was held last night at the Patchwerk studios in Atlanta by Def Jam. The party was a bit eventful with some of the industry execs getting man handled by the police at the party.
Check out the full story here at Sandra Rose's website.
The Diplomats. After much publicized debate of who owns the actual name for the dipset and the logo for the diplomats, the good people over at Corporate takeover, have done some good journalism and found from the U.S patent office that Cam is the boy who owns the name and logo for the Diplomats gang, however it also came to light that Jim Jones ain't balling for nothing as he also has the right to use the name but not the logo as of 2006. Read full story here.
Also on the subject of the diplomats, When asked recently about why he is not releasing music Juelz finally spoke out and said he and Cam had to speak and sort this out. Sounds like the "A" man aint happy. Check out miss Info's Blog for this one , it has a lil audio snippet. Looks like Juelz has had enough.
NAS has a new leaked tune apparently called 'Purple' check out the mp3 here
According to some rumours there is also a collabo album from Nas and Jay z on the way as soon as Jiga sorts out his label issues, cos he ain't got one just yet. Its all hush hush.
Kanye Waste has got a new mixtape out called "glow n the dark" together with the good humble people over at N.E.R.D. This just promises to be down to earth doesn't it ladies and gents ?!?!?!?!? I Fucking hate Kanye's personality and to be honest I used to luv his music but now when i hear his voice i just think of him throwing tantrums and having a head the size of Europe, so i say fuck this guy!! But his music is not bad...lol
Download "Glow in the dark" here
Talib Kweli- New Freestyle mp3 here
Anthony Hamilton do you feel me remix feat ghostface killah.mp3 here
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