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Tony Yayo threatens to set up The Game

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Tony Yayo has addressed Game’s recent talks of wanting a G-Unit reunion and revealed what deadly consequences there would be if they united.

Yayo threatened to “set-up” Game if he was ever given an opportunity to re-join the Unit.

“You know what I think would be cool if Game comes back,” Yayo asked XXL Mag staff during a live UStream broadcast. “I’d set him up and smoke him on the tour bus or something. Or throw him off the tour bus or run him over with the tour bus or poison his food, or, I don’t know, something. I want him to get back so I can set him up…I don’t see nobody I had beef with. We’re running around doing our thing and they’re running around doing nothing. I don’t want to be friends with Game. I don’t want to be friends with that guy. That guy’s bi-polar. He’s gonna say ‘F*ck G-Unit’ tomorrow. He’s crying one day saying, ‘Oh, hip-hop,’ then he said, ‘Oh, I want to be with the Unit,’ then he said, ‘I don’t want beef with n*ggas,’ then ‘F*ck Yayo.’ I don’t got time for that man.” (XXL Mag)

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50 Cent says he will not Beef anymore

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

50 Cent has decided to cease being painted as the “bad guy” in rap beefs and will stop entertaining artists with diss records. “A lot of times, earlier in my career, I was competing with artists because that was what I loved about hip-hop: The idea that battling someone was necessary to defend your spot and you had to take on all challengers so I did that constantly. No one thinks that way now and everyone looks at me like I’m the Broad Street Bully. The younger kids coming up missed that time frame, and even the conscious rap is gone too. The stuff that Common Sense and Talib Kweli and Mos Def were rhyming about. What was socially conscious and responsible about the music has been replaced by hipster kids in skinny jeans and mohawks looking like a bunch of homos.

COSIGN

Of course, that’s always been around, but it was usually confined to the Village. Artists have always had the opportunity to influence the culture, but now it’s the other way around: They’re trying to look like their audience to attract their audience. Now you can’t tell the difference between a Led Zeppelin fan and a hip-hop fan.”

Speaking in an interview with radio personality Tim Westwood, Fif said he never sparked rap beefs.

“I don’t have…issues with people until they say things that make me feel like they want a problem,” said the Queens rapper. “Point to one situation that I’ve been in, one altercation where I was competing with another artist that I’ve started…Ain’t that hip-hop? There’s always been battling. It’s always been a part of the culture. In the future, because I’ve been kind of captured as the actual bad guy on some level because they watch me compete and win and it feels like it was effortless, I will make a point to not even respond. I will just look and watch people when they say things.”

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Jacki-O Puts DJ Khaled on Blast

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Jacki-O has unveiled more about her issues with Miami’s DJ Khaled and claimed the radio personality is not shining light on local artists.

In addition to him not playing her music, Jacki believes Khaled is not representing for Miami.

“If you’re in the position to play that music, you need to go hard for your city. Since this is your city and you’re so hood, why you not repping your city? Why you repping people that you feel you have contractual ties to? That’s the only people your repping when it comes to local artists. Whenever it comes to something with any other artists your playing them, but when it comes to playing the artists from Miami, if you ain;t got no contractual ties to them, you ain’t playing them.

Well, that’s not considered “repping your city” because when you rep your city you rep every artist in Miami that’s actually making a name for themselves and doing something. If that music is being played in the clubs and you that artist out there grinding, play the music. I just don’t see him doing that. Not for me and not for a lot of artists, I just don’t see that love and it kind of sickens me when I see people calling out my city and you not even really from Miami. I’m not going to understand why you don’t have that passion that a DJ is supposed to have for your city. Honestly, you really don’t have that passion because if you did you would let the emotional foolishness go and really rep for the city.” Last May, Jacki said Khaled believes he has more control than an artist.

“Don’t hold beefs or grudges with people just because you’re friends with my ex-label-mates…that’s crazy! If you hear a record that’s poppin’ in the streets and it’s poppin’ in the clubs play it on the station! I have a problem when the DJ feel like he more powerful than the artist and I think that’s the stance that he takes when it come to this music and it’s just ridiculous, so I do have a problem with him. It’s not just me, but a lot of people do. Maybe they think it and don’t say it but I choose to say it because I feel like it’s an injustice and it’s not right and it’s not fair, so I’m callin’ Khaled out on it…”

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Young Buck Tells Fans If 50 wants a war then we gonna go to war

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Former G-Unit member Young Buck has publicly turned down recent talks of a reunion with 50 Cent’s camp and said he still has unfinished business with his ex-associate.

Speaking to fans at a concert over the weekend, Buck aired out his issues with 50.

“I just want to get this out real quick and make sure to let all my people out there know one thing, as far as the G-Unit reunion sh*t on me, I ain’t with that sh*t,” Buck told a crowd of concert fans. “We got too much unfinished business to happen, 50. I’m not with none of that sh*t — I just want to make sure we get that clear. I’m not with it my n*gga, you took a real n*gga through too much my n*gga. If you want war, we gonna go to war and we gonna do this sh*t in a real street way until one of us dies my n*gga. I’ll play that game with you. It’s only right, somebody’s gotta do this in a real way…Even if I lose my life in being a real n*gga, one thing y’all motherf*ckers know is that I was a real n*gga…When a n*gga playing with a n*gga’s life then you treat a n*gga with no emotions. You take a n*gga’s life. So either meet me in h*ll or heaven, f*ck you, f*ck G-Unit.”

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Yukmouth says I dont Believe beef until some real Sh*t Happens

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

West Coast rapper Yukmouth recently shared his thoughts on the rise in the number of rap beefs since 50 Cent’s 2002 dispute with Ja Rule.

From Yuk’s perspective, most rap beefs are fabricated and created just to gain a buzz.

“All that sh*t is for marketing,” Yuk said in an interview. “They taking a chapter out of 50 Cent’s book ’cause that’s how he blew up. Him and Ja Rule had a real beef from the streets and he came at a time for the gangsta sh*t but that don’t mean it will work for everybody.

50 had a machine behind him. Interscope and Dr. Dre are monster machines. He could have said anything and it would have worked but he came with heat and it took off. If you’re not 50 and don’t got that machine then don’t try it. Hip-hop came from competition and thinking they the best and that’s okay. If it’s real sh*t then handle it in the street and talk it out or box. That’s how real beef is handled. All that Twitter and FaceBook and UStream bang — actions speak louder than words. I don’t believe beef until some real sh*t happens. All that sh*t is publicity.”

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Suge Knight sueing Kanye West for 1 million

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Though the original lawsuit was brought in Los Angeles, a trial date has now been set for December 6 in Miami, for the case brought against rapper/producer Kanye West by former Death Row gangster Marion “Suge” Knight.

According to Knight’s claims, he was shot in the leg at a party at the popular Miami hot-spot, Shore Club, where Kanye was hosting an MTV Video Music Awards pre-party back in 2005. Six shots were reportedly fired, yet police were unable to find witnesses to the shooting in the packed nightclub, which included celebrities like Jessica Alba, the Black Eyed Peas and Paris Hilton. Knight is currently seeking over $1 million in damages to cover the medical bills required to mend his shattered femur and a lost diamond ring, and is suing both Kanye and the owners of the Shore club for “failing to provide adequate security” at the event.

“He’s an icon in the music industry. He walks in a room and he lights it up,” Knight’s attorney said. “He had an expectation of security there. How someone came with a gun into a very VIP party, that just doesn’t meet the smell test in life.”

Knight, who went from being one of the most feared, powerful figures in rap music, with a roster that included Dr. Dre and Tupac, has fallen on hard times lately. In addition to getting shot in Miami, the past five years haven’t been exactly lucky for Knight. He’s been met with bankruptcy, numerous arrests, assaults and a recent car accident claimed many of his teeth.

“Prior to the party, defendants knew that it was critical to screen guests, employees and others entering the party premises for weapons,” argued Knight’s attorney. If Knight wins, the majority of the damages will end up with his bankruptcy trustee and the IRS.

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