Suge Knight Health has taken a turn for the worse according to TMZ Suge has passed out twice while behind bars and was taken to a hospital so that they could treat a possible blood clot in his lung. Sources say that Suge has been on blood thinners since he was shot but since his arrest he hasn’t been able to take them which could of lead to the blood clot.
Kendrick Lamar was quoted saying his new studio album could be “even more raw” then good kid, m.A.A.d city. He also added that he is keeping most of his producers in-house but has also worked with Dr. Dre. “If anything, aside from good kid, it’ll probably feel even more raw, because it’s a little more dirty with the live, dirty drums on it. It’s not something that’s contemporary with the MPC and you pressing different patterns and things like that, but we’ll see how it comes out…Everything’s really in-house. Of course Dre, but I really stick with four producers that I’ve been working with since day one. I don’t really go outside the box of that soundwave.”
Kanye West’s new kicks with Adidas are slated to drop in the third week of November. Originally thought to be coming in September the highly anticipated Yeezy III’s look is still undetermined but with Kanye behind it we can expect something of high quality and style.
As reported by TMZ Amber Rose has been dating Zack which is French Montanas Brother. “Amber keeps her distance when they’re in public, but we know she’s seeing Zack. They were out at a strip club and a nightclub in NYC over the weekend.”
“It’s too electronic right now. You know what I’m saying? That’s just my—From what I have heard or from what I could observe…I appreciate all art forms of music. All creations. Everything that people put they blood, sweat, and tears, they heart and soul into. I salute it and appreciate it. But as far as the way I came up, the art form that I grew to love it has gotten way too electronic now. And it’s too easy to make beats and say ‘Here, I’m a producer.’ So, I felt like we gonna get the instrumentation. Bring the music back. We gon’ try to infuse the way it used to be done with the way that it will be done tomorrow. The way UGK did with Ridin' Dirty. The way Jay did with The Blueprint. The way Snoop did withDoggystyle. The way OutKast did with Southernplayalistic.”
Dizzy Wright says Logic is one of the best rappers out there today:
“He has a lot of charisma, how he Raps fast and then breaks it down. He has a lot of confidence. He’s dope. His album is dope. It’s real Hip Hop. He’s breaking that shit down. His whole life story, everything and even what he’s influenced by in Hip Hop and what made him, him. And that shit is dope. More rappers just need to do that. Break their situation down and really not try to sound like everybody else. I think he dope for that. That’s my dawg, though.”
Chris Brown talks about his past drug uses and altercations with Drake and Rihanna. "I’m not ashamed to talk about it. A lot of our youth is doing it now, thinking it’s the cool thing to do. And I don’t knock anyone’s hustle, but I just feel for me it wasn’t conducive to me. I was falling asleep on video sets, cussing people out, crazy stuff.” He says during an interview. “Honestly I kind of just listen to the wrong— ‘OK, we need to do this PR strategy, and do this,' and I just wanted to be like, 'Fuck ya’ll' and that’s how I felt because it’s my personal life and I’m going through a troubled time.”
While rumors of Kylie Jenner and Tyga being a couple are constantly denied, this year for Halloween the two wore couple costumes. Kylie Jenner went as Tiffany, the bride of Chucky. While Tyga dressed as Chucky.
With Birdman continuing to take Young Thug under his wing even though he is not officially signed to YMCMB the two have recently done a photo shoot for Complex. But now the two are covering RESPECT magazine’s latest issue. The issue is to hit stands on November 2nd where you can read a full interview with the duo.
After finding out Katt Williams and Suge Knight have been charged and arrested for stealing a photographer’s camera Katt Williams speaks out talking with TMZ. According to Katt, the female photographer “was engaged inappropriately with a child” who was not supervised, in an alley. “I am as interested as you in finding out what the lady says her actual story was, I knew that she was engaged inappropriately with a child. Not with any adult. We’re talking about a five-year-old. Let’s be very clear…I’m saying for you to have caught the child when the child is by no adult and that’s when you—I’m saying that she wasn’t involved with any adult and there were at least nine there. And her actions was with the child. She was doing no photographs. She was recording. Her story is clearly she got in an altercation with me, but she didn’t…But she didn’t have the altercation with that person [Suge Knight] either.” Williams said. So Williams says that Suge and him did not steal the photogs camera but chased her down after she wouldn't delete the footage of the child.
Willow Smith has been posting new records on her Soundcloud lately. The 14-year old Willow Smith dropped “Cares” yesterday and today she dropped a three song ep with a feature from TDE’s own female singer SZA. You can download the EP, "3", for free on Google Play in the U.S. and it will be on online retailers on November 17th.
The two artists, T.I. and Jeezy, have been playing around with the idea of a joint idea for years now, but it now seems like it could be happening. At Power 105’s #Powerhouse event in NYC both of the artists were special guest on Thursday. While the two were backstage T.I. talked with MTV News about the possibility of a joint album. Since both have just finished up releasing their albums they have more than enough time to work together. “We've been talking about it for years, but we finally putting the execution part of it in the works. Usually, when we talking about it, either he’s working on finishing his album or I’m working on finishing mine. This is like one of the first times that we both putting our albums out around the same time. I’m done with my process, he’s done with his process, now we can collectively come together and do something together” T.I. explained. So very soon we could see a joint album between the two artists one that many have been waiting a long time for.
Noisey, today brought three previously unreleased handwritten poems from Tupac himself to light. The poems were written before Pacs rise into fame when he was just 17-years old. Released by Pacs first manager Leila Steinberg the three poems are titled “Things That Make Hearts Break,” “Cupid’s Smile II” and “A Love Unspoken.” These rare poems give us a glimpse into the rappers mind before he got heavily into the rap game.
Wiz Khalifa after years of being only thought of as the stoner rapper would like to be defined by other aspects of his music. In a recent interview Wiz opens up about this subject talking about what it is like to always be referred to as a “weed head” and how he wants to eventually get into movies without bring that image along with him. “I was just talking with one of my homies yesterday, I kind of want to break the stigma of everything I do is like a ‘stoner this’ or a ‘weed head’ that, which is cool, that’s what I built my marketing and my brand, but at the end of the day, everyone who is successful in film or in music gets high and they don’t look at them as the stoner. Once I get past that point I think I’ll make more movies so to people it doesn’t look forced or look like I’m trying to change lanes or change gears. It’ll just be people ready for me to do that anyway.” So don’t expect Wiz to quit smoking anytime soon but be ready for him to stop mentioning it so much.
Katt Williams and Suge Knight have both been charged with stealing a photographer’s camera. A press release stated “the two men are suspected of stealing the camera of an independent on Sept. 5 outside a studio in Beverly Hills.” The bail for Katt is set at $75,000 and the bail for Suge is one million. If they are convicted Williams can face up to seven years in custody and Suge can face 30 to life in state prison.
