Two fans were stabbed in a mosh pit during the Waka Flocka Flame show at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California yesterday (November 17), according to abc.com. The stabbing occurred around 9:30 pm.
One victim was a 19-year-old male who was stabbed in the shoulder and treated at the scene, as per abc.com. The other victim, a 22-year-old male, suffered wounds in his back and was transported to a local hospital. He is listed as being in stable condition.
Police believe the victims were randomly targeted and there is no information on the motive of the attack, as per abc.com. There have been no arrests thus far.
“It was a lot going on in that time frame,” said Ja. “You got the federal indictment. Here’s what it is, it was orchestrated very well. He was a part of the juggernauts at that moment. Eminem, Dre, they were very, very big in what they were doing as well. So, as we were big over on our side they were also big on their side. And as everything started to crumble for us as far as we didn’t have a label home anymore, ya understand? There was a lot of things that were falling apart for us. It was easy for him to get people to turn on. And there was things that were behind the scenes that y’all don’t see that also made us seem more irrelevant. Like we couldn’t go to awards shows.”
In 2010, Rule said that his feud with 50 Cent was “unfair.”
“Really, I feel that my situation was an unfair situation,” he said. “A very unique, very odd situation. Nobody ever seen anything like that in Hip Hop, you know? I laugh when I see people say shit like, ‘Yo, [50 Cent] killed Rule, but he didn’t kill [Rick] Ross.’ No disrespect to Ross, but he did 180-something [first week sales of Teflon Don]. I went platinum with R.U.L.E. after I made Blood In My Eye…I was a much bigger selling artist than just platinum so I guess that’s why people felt I took a hit. But the music industry was taking a hit at that time, too. You can’t really judge it or try to make an issue out of it, or an excuse. It just is what it is. To me it’s just one of the weirdest moments in Hip Hop. It’s to where the fans feel like they were duped almost like, ‘[50 Cent] shitted on this nigga for one thing and turned around and did the same thing.'”
L.A. emcee The Game is stepping up in a big way to help the victims of the Philippines typhoon. As part of his “The Robin Hood Project” Game partnered with actor/professional poker player Dan Bilzerian to donate $10,000 to assist with relief efforts.
The devastating storm that struck the Southeast Asian country has caused widespread damage. As of today 3,621 people are reported dead with 12,165 injured and 1,140 officially missing. Many citizens have been left homeless, sick, and starving.
“This hurts my heart knowing that many of those amongst the dead are little children,” wrote game on his Instagram page. “It is in these times where we as people of this world get the opportunity to unite with one another & give back, help aid, lend a hand, donate or just send prayers.”
Game started The Robin Hood Project as way to help people in need all around the world. His goal is to give away $1 million by Christmas of this year. Previous donations include $20,000 to Taylor Hammond, $10,000 to the family of Mia Chatman, and $10,000 to the family of Tiana Moreno.
Hip Hop mogul Jay Z received significant criticism over the last several weeks over his upcoming apparel collection selling exclusively at Barneys New York. The store was under fire for two alleged incidents of racial profiling which led to an online petition asking Jay to end his partnership with the high-end retailer.
After providing an initial statement saying that he was “waiting on facts” before he decided his next move in the situation, Jay issued another statement today announcing he plans to continue with the November 20th launch of his limited edition collection with Barneys.
In the past several weeks two separate investigations were launched as a result of the wrongful detention of Trayon Christian and Kayla Phillips. My team has been privy to the status of the Barneys third party consultant investigation. In continuing our research, we also contacted the New York State Attorney General’s office for the status of their investigation into both Barneys and Macy’s. Those findings are not yet available.
While I await the findings of the Attorney General’s Office, I have agreed to move forward with the launch of BNY SCC collection under the condition that I have a leadership role and seat on a council specifically convened to deal with the issue of racial profiling. I am in a unique position to use my voice to affect change to this disturbing issue. The easy position would have been to walk away and leave policy making to others hoping that someone addresses the problem. I will not leave the outcome to others. I will take this into my own hands with full power to recommend, review and revise policies and guidelines moving forward. I am choosing to take this head on.
As I previously stated, the collaboration with Barneys has always been about giving and The Shawn Carter Foundation. From this collection, the Foundation will receive not only 25% of sales, it will now receive the additional 75% of Barneys’ sales, totalling 100% of all sales from BNY SCC. Along with 100% of sales from the collaboration, the Foundation will receive an additional 10% of all retail sales from Barneys New York stores nationwide and Barneys.com on November 20th.
One of the most embarrassing moments in the history of the Los Angeles Times came in 2008 when the newspaper published an article titled “An Attack On Tupac Shakur Launched A Hip-Hop War.” The piece asserted that Sean “Diddy” Combs’ associates James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, Jacques “Haitian Jack” Agnant, and supposed friend James “Jimmy” Sabatino conspired to orchestrate the shooting of Tupac Shakur in 1994 as retribution for not signing with Bad Boy Records.
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At first the piece was heralded as exceptional journalism, but it turned out that it was all based on a lie. L.A. Times reporter Chuck Phillips centered much of his story on FBI documents allegedly forged by master con man Sabatino whose family is connected to the New York mafia. The fake docs claimed that Sabatino was present with Combs and The Notorious B.I.G. the night Pac was shot at the Quad Recording Studios in New York.
Phillips said Sabatino called him from prison and provided information about the incident that allegedly backed up research the reporter had already collected. Ultimately, it was discovered that the so-called FBI papers were typo-filled forgeries drafted on outdated typewriters. Phillip’s story was discredited and the L.A. Times was forced to retract the article.
Sabatino recently gave his first interview to the Miami New Times and asserted that he was never in contact with Phillips. He says it was Rosemond who orchestrated the fake FBI docs scheme. Sabatino has been honest about other elaborate hoaxes he has conducted including pretending to be the nephew of music executive Tommy Mottola in order to steal $60,000 worth of Mac computers.
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“This was the one con I didn’t do,” said Sabatino. He goes on to say Rosemond purposely set him up to appear as the source of Phillips’ bogus report.
Phillips later wrote an article for the Village Voice in 2012 revealing that Rosemond admitted involvement in the ’94 Pac shooting to federal prosecutors in an attempt to arrange a plea deal for a pending drug case. Rosemond was eventually sentenced to life in prison for a heading up the criminal enterprise known as “The Rosemond Organization.”
Rosemond’s former friend Dexter Isaac had also confessed to being involved in the Quad Studios ambush. Issac told AllHipHop in 2011 that Rosemond gave him $2500 and jewelry to conduct the hit on Pac. Henchman was also recently implicated in ordering the 2005 shooting of Pac’s former Death Row label head Suge Knight.
Issac was also a known source for Phillip’s L.A. Times 2Pac article. Another layer to the story comes in the fact that Issac and Sabatino were housed at the same Pennsylvania prison, and both inmates had access to typewriters while incarcerated.
Sabatino was released from prison this past summer after serving 14 years. He was arrested again recently for conning hotels in Miami and for possessing nude photos of a 17-year-old girl on his phone.
Rosemond is facing a separate charge for the murder of Lowell “Lodi Mack” Fletcher in 2009. That case is set to begin next week.
DMX and Swizz Beatz have been collaborating on new music slated to appear on DMX’s upcoming album, according to DMX’s publicist, Domenick Nati.
“Swizz and X are always working on a song,” Nati said in an exclusive statement to HipHopDX. “Swizz is producing several tracks on X’s album that he’s working on.”
No release date has been set for DMX’s upcoming album.
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A photograph of DMX and Swizz Beatz surfaced October 11 on Beatz’ Instagram page. The photograph is from approximately 6 months ago, says his publicist, who tweeted about this in April.
“I have a lot of big plans with X that I plan on putting in motion as a brother, as a responsibility, as fans,” Beatz said. “I’m mapping that out now and the world will soon know about that…DMX is one-of-one. I just hate to see what I’ve been seeing because I remember when people couldn’t follow up with him on stage, big name people…People still don’t understand X. My job is to get people to understand X for real. With reality shows, that stuff is edited. It’s real stuff but I just think people need to see another side of X.”
DMX and Swizz Beatz have collaborated together throughout their careers. Their collaborations include work on 1998’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, 1998’s It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot, 1999’s …And Then There Was X, 2001’s The Great Depression, 2003’s Grand Champ, 2006’s Year Of The Dog…Againand 2012’s Undisputed.
Jeezy says fans may receive an early Christmas gift if differences with Def Jam Records are not settled.
Jeezy posted several Twitter updates yesterday (November 12) regarding Def Jam Records.
Jeezy said that he’s been working on his new album for two years for his fans. Jeezy said people within Def Jam Records are “playing games.” The rapper also said that if the imprint does not “get this right,” his fans will receive an early Christmas gift.
Jeezy has released several albums via Def Jam Records, including 2005’s Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101, 2006’s The Inspiration, 2008’s The Recession and 2011’s TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition.
During a recent interview with Vlad TV, former The Source co-owner and “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star Benzinodetailed his feud with Detroit rapper Eminem.
According to Benzino, he wasn’t too pleased with the way in which he felt Eminem was used as an artist. The reality star went on to share his belief that Em was used to make Hip Hop more pop-friendly and to make the genre more acceptable for those outside of the black and Latino communities.
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“I just think when Eminem came, I don’t think he necessarily knew what the future had for him,” said Benzino. “Meaning the whole change from this thing called Hip Hop, which was a million dollar industry turned to a multi-billion dollar industry, I don’t think he really realized that he was being used as the leader of this new type of movement to make Hip Hop pop. But also make a lot of the companies and maybe a lot of white America not have to deal with some of black Hip Hop or Latino Hip Hop like it was because they would have Eminem.”
Benzino later spoke on the lyrical feud that resulted due to his beef with Eminem and admitted that there were a few aspects of the feud he would have changed. Specifically, his mentions of Eminem’s daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers and other members of the rapper’s family.
“Source was a platform to deal with these type of things,” said Benzino, in regards to using The Source as an outlet for his feud with Em. “It just wasn’t about music. It was about real issues…I just felt like that somebody had to say something. I know a lot of artists were trying to be politically correct at the time. My thing was like Hip Hop battling has been in Hip Hop since day one, so…I just felt like I had an issue to stand on. And I had my platform. And I felt like I wanted to go against him. I just felt like he had—it was a double standard in a lot of things he was doing that other rappers that weren’t white wasn’t able to benefit from. And looking at it in hindsight, I went hard. He went hard…At the end of the day it wasn’t really about lyrics, it just was about trying to get a message across…I definitely think some of the stuff I said about his daughter and family I would—If I could do it again, I would leave that out of it.”
Benzino prefaced his comments on Eminem with talk of his upbringing in Boston and the racism he says surrounded the city at that time.
“It’s not like I was racist,” he said. “I just understood racism. And being in Boston and how Boston basically—the Irish look out for their own, Italians look out for their own. And the black people and the Latino people were kinda shut out from everything in Boston. So, that’s always been in me…I was heavy into just equal rights for everybody. Like it doesn’t matter what color you are, everybody should be treated the same. And that’s just how I’ve always looked at it.”
The feud between Eminem and Benzino first sparked in the early 2000s shortly after Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP received a two-mic rating in the Benzino-owned The Source. As a result of the beef a number of diss tracks were released from both parties including Eminem’s “Nail In The Coffin” and Benzino’s “Die Another Day.”
During an interview with MTV’s “RapFix Live” last year, Benzino said he was wrong for his feud with Em and referred to the rapper as “a great lyricist.”
“I can say it now, I was wrong for it,” said Benzino. “Because at the end of the day, Em is a great lyricist and he should be able to express himself in hip-hop as anybody should.”
Most artists try to appeal to local crowds when they hit the road, but Atlanta MC Trindad James did the exact opposite on Tuesday night when he performed in Brooklyn, New York.
James took the stage at Converse’s Rubber Tracks studios and seemingly started off with good intentions, first praising Kendrick Lamar for pushing more than a million copies of his good kid, m.A.A.d city, then questioning the California rapper’s motives on Big Sean’s “Control” where he implied that he was the “king of New York.”
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“Now the n—a we been knew, now he coming and sayin’ sh– like he the ‘King of New York.’ What is that,” James asked the crowd shortly before his attempt to rile up the Big Apple crowd backfired.
Trinidad stood on stage and reminisced when NYC was at the forefront of hip-hop culture, pushing both musical and fashion trends. “I remember when New York ran this sh–, dawg, when Dipset was turned the f— up,” he said, receiving applause from the crowd.
“I remember when New York rap was the sh– and us ‘bamas,’ us from the South was like, ‘What the f—?’ And we just did our own thing, but now we run y’all musically. That’s crazy,” he said, much to the crowd’s shock.
In a video online, one concertgoer can be heard yelling “get the f— out of here” to the “All Gold Everything” spitter, while others in the crowd began to get antsy.
“I’m not trying to start nothin’, but if you wanna do somethin’ we can do somethin’, I don’t give a f—. I’m just being honest with you,” he said before stating that NY’s most popular rappers have adopted southern sounds. “Now, every n—a that’s really poppin’ out of New York, he might as well tell you he from Atlanta.”
Trinidad didn’t name anyone specifically, but Bronx, New York, rapper French Montana often gets criticized for southern-sounding hits like “Pop That,” “Ocho Cinco” and “Ain’t Worried About Nothin’.”
Concertgoers weren’t the only ones turned off by Trinidad’s comments: On Wednesday (November 13), NY rap rep Maino took to Twitter. “S/O to all the NY n—as who let this Rotten Teeth n—a @TrinidadJamesGG disrespect us lastnite #whathappened,” he wrote. “Heyy buddy @trinidadjamesGG I’ll be ur Huckleberry! Lol imma brush those teeth when I see u baby boy. U a street n—a rite? Lmao.”
“I didn’t disrespect. Bt if you wanna think i did. Do what you feel is best. Either way I lose no sleep for being real. NY doesn’t support Ny,”responded to the criticism via Twitter.
Tyrone releases the single and video for “Work Boots”; for the last quarter of 2013 music season. After the success of his last release the chart topper; “Paradise”, the artist dubbed, “The Working Class Hero” decided to show his diversity by releasing a song that moves in an entirely different direction. The hardcore beat with the chain gang chanting, drives the lyricist to a delivery that is unique and melodic. An ode to hard work, consistency and ethics, Tyrone lets the listener understand that he’s from the same circumstances as the; “coke”, “thug”, and “gangsta” rapper, but his willingness to make different choices changed the environment and outlook of the artist. “I ain’t never sold dope but I’m from the hood, ain’t never shot nobody but I definitely could, squares and straps wish a ni**a would, I keeps it ghetto and gangsta don’t get misunderstood..”. The piano riff welcomes the hook; “fresh to death, right down to my work boots”, and presents a bold approach to inner city living without using the tired product of my environment cliché.
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The song and video was produced entirely by Tyrone displaying his talents as a producer, artist and cinematographer. The video sets the artist in a construction worker setting, complete with tractors, earth movers, back hoes and mounds of dirt. The artist spits lyrics while on the job with pick axes swinging, shovels digging and dirt throwing. Tyrone’s last release “Paradise”; featuring Rich Tycoon & Lou Stylez peaked to #4 on Record Breakers and Rap Attack College / Indie Radio Charts. With “Work Boots”; The working class hero is shooting to end the year with the #1 spot.
Catch Tyrone as he sets his,“Work boots” to the streets as he joins west coast veteran T-Nutty on the “Sac It Up And Serve Tour”. The tour starts on the west coast on Nov 12th and will continue through November adding nationwide dates. Please visit www.tyronesmusic.com to download the song, see video and check tour dates.
The party raised money for charities supported by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, according to a representative for DiCaprio. During the night, DiCaprio auctioned off “two bottles of Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 1921, featured in ‘The Great Gatsby,’ and a one-of-a-kind handcrafted Roségold Mathusalem of Dom Pérignon.”
Other stars who celebrated DiCaprio’s birthday at a private dinner before the festivities included Martin Scorsese, Orlando Bloom, Alex Rodriquez, Derek Jeter, Tobey Maguire, Nicky Hilton and more.
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Drake is ready to show the world what him on his worstbehavior behaviour looks like exactly. After previewing the video at a recent tour stop in New Orleans, he unveils the full 10-minute plus video for Nothing Was The Same‘s “Worst Behaviour”on his October’s Very Own website.
The video was co-directed by Director X and Drake, shot in Memphis and Atlanta and includes cameos from Drake’s father Donnie Graham, Juicy J and Crunch Black of Three 6 Mafia. Near the end of the video an alternate version to Drake’s Jhene Aiko collaboration “From Time” was featured.
Azealia Banks and Kanye West definitely have two things in common. They are both performers, and they both are not afraid to hold their tongue. According to Banks their connection goes even deeper than that. In a recent interview with Elle magazine, the Harlem native shares her belief that she and Kanye best represent experimental art in Hip Hop.
“Kanye and I are like the same person but boy and girl. We’re pulling from the same cloud, the same inspiration,” said Banks. “We’re the two premier avant gardists in Hip Hop music. It’s just me and him. I think our consciousnesses are swirling around each other in some weird kind of way.”
Banks first made waves with her single “212″ in 2011. She has since released the EP1991 and mixtape Fantasea. Her debut studio album Broke with Expensive Taste was originally scheduled for release in 2012. It is now set to drop at the beginning of 2014.
Sha Money also posted an Instagram picture of Young Buck in the studio, with the following caption: “Quad to Quad From NYC to Nashville-Shadyville to Cashville me and my brother @buckshotz gonna always rock. We back in the kitchen cooking up. #Teamwork #Cashville”:
Q-Tip not only supports Kanye West but also fully believes he’s a new slave. After Kanye’s vocal support of wearing the confederate flag and selling confederate flag-themed merchandise on his Yeezus tour, Q-Tip voiced his disapproval.
On his personal Twitter account, the fellow G.O.O.D. Music attributed Kanye’s controversial wardrobe choice to a race-wide psychological brainwashing:
I love Kanye no shots but my people continue to suffer psychologically from hardships that happened under that banner
Kanye West explained to People Magazine that he taking ownership of the meaning of the Confederate flag and reimagining it:
You know the Confederate flag represented slavery in a way – that’s my abstract take on what I know about it. So I made the song ‘New Slaves.’ So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It’s my flag. Now what are you going to do?
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