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Eminem and Jay-Z Concert Footage
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Eminem and Jay-Z tonight in Detroit Live !! 80,000 Tickets Sold
Thursday, September 2nd, 20102 of the All Time top 5 Rappers of All time doing 4 shows together. Whoa thats what up.
Jay-Z and Eminem. They’re certainly the biggest concerts Detroit has seen this year: a pair of tag-team evenings with Eminem and Jay-Z at Comerica Park.
A total of more than 80,000 fans will descend onto the stadium tonight and Friday for the hip-hop spectaculars, which some are calling the most important rap concerts in history.
For Eminem, whose 2005 show at Comerica Park preceded a rocky few years off the public radar, this week culminates a triumphant comeback that has propelled him back to the top of the charts. And for hometown fans, it’s a chance for the sort of larger-than-life party that Detroit knows how to do well.
Im sure this will be the Concert of the Year, they are doing 4 shows and all are sold out. Only these 2 could pack 80,000 into a Hip Hop show. All of young money Lil Wayne,Nicki and Drake could not come close to filling a stadium up.
Christian Hip Hop Group wants to take its Message to the Streets
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Lexington,Ky
Group 1 Crew wants to make music you can take to a party.
“We wanted to give Christian kids a record they can be proud of,” says Manwell Reyes, one-third of the Christian hip-hop trio that is playing Questapalooza for the second straight year. “They know it’s God. Everything we write is God. But at the same time, we want them to have the full confidence that they can play it in front of their friends and know that it’s legit. They don’t have to worry about anyone saying, ‘That sounds dated,’ or ‘That sounds whack.’”
As purveyors of urban music, Group 1 is something of a rarity in Christian pop music, a genre still mostly composed of adult contemporary music and rock acts.
Reyes says he thinks urban music gets a bad rap in the Christian market from gatekeepers such as church leaders and record company executives who can’t separate the style from negative images of sex and violence associated with mainstream hip-hop.
“Go to any church kid and look at their iPod, and I guarantee that some urban pop or hip-hop is going to be there,” says Reyes, whose bandmates are Blanca Reyes (no relation) and Pablo Villatoro. “Secular urban music is what’s prominent today. … The church is the only place that doesn’t acknowledge that it is.”
Reyes says it is a problem if the Christian market is not producing music that the kids want to hear.
Group 1 Crew has done fairly well in the Christian market. The act’s last album, Ordinary Dreamers, was named rap/hip-hop album of the year at the 2008 Dove Awards, Christian music’s top honors.
With the band’s new album, Outta Space Love, due Sept. 21, Reyes says the group is taking aim at the mainstream market.
“We’ve always felt called to the mainstream,” says Reyes, who promises that Sunday’s Questapalooza audience will hear quite a bit of the new album. “We feel like our music is for more than just the church. We feel like we should outreach to a mainstream world where other music really isn’t the best for kids to hear.
“Let’s not be content with just packing churches. Let’s go save some souls and grab some kids out of hell.”
Young Buck taking 50 Cent to Judge Judy
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Young Buck is planning to sue 50 Cent to get released from his contract with G-Unit Records.
His lawyer Lynda Jones sent a statement to Nashville’s The City Page saying that Buck, whose real name is David Darnell Brown, intends to pay off his bankruptcy and sue 50 Cent .
“Mr. Brown intends to reorganize his debts and pay off the IRS in a timely manner through Chapter 13. We hope to secure the return of his personal property quickly. He will also be filing a lawsuit in the next 30-60 days against his former manager, G Unit label and Mr. Curtis Jackson.
“There are a few procedural hurdles we need to address in handling these matters, but they will ironed out shortly. I will be associating attorneys Amy Everhart and Jennifer Lawson for the litigation. Both have excellent experience.”
Young Buck has been trying to get off the label and release a new album since 2007.
In a filing with Nashville’s U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Young Buck cited as a $5 million contingent his claim against Bruce Seckendorf, G Unit Inc., Curtis Jackson III and Michael Clervoix.
Ruff Ryders launch new Indy Label
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Ruff Ryders has relaunched its recording business as Ruff Ryders Indy and will officially launch its new roster of artists currently on the label.
The principles in the new label are CEO/President Joaquin “Waah” Dean, Director of Operations Dedra Tate and Directors of Marketing, Tenisha Rae and Alimah Samsid-Deen.
According to representatives from Double XXposure PR, the company that officially represents Ruff Ryders Indy, the label will be distributed by Fontana/Universal, with a focus on mentoring new and independent labels.
Ruff Ryders Indy will provide marketing, street promotion, radio promotion and product management, in addition to educational programs offered to label CEO’s to help build their brands.
As one of the founders of Ruff Ryders in 1988, Joaquin Dean helped introduce artists like DMX, Eve, Swizz Beatz, The Lox, Drag-On and others into pop culture, selling over 20 millions of records in the process.
Ruff Ryders Indy’s roster consists of Drag-On, Mook, Shella, Flashy and Lil Joaquin.
This week, the label will conduct a press day to reveal more details about their roster and the new label’s plans for the future.
50 Cent lets Young Buck out of his Contract
Monday, August 30th, 2010G-Unit member Young Buck has reportedly been released from contractual obligations to G-Unit Records according to inside sources.
While an official confirmation has yet to surface, reports have begun circulating online.
A source just told us that 50 Cent has let Young Buck out of his contract with G-Unit. In April 2008 50 Cent announced on Hot 97 that Young Buck was kicked out the group, but was still contractually signed to G-Unit. Since that time, Buck has been unable to release any commercial music. Buck is currently working his new single “My Campaign”, produced by Drumma Boy. It will be interesting what he does with his new position. If he can get singles reacting on the radio, he get into a good position.
Usher finally speaks on his Divorce
Sunday, August 29th, 2010Usher has broken silence on his failed marriage to R&B singer Tameka Foster and said the mother of his two sons could not fully see eye-to-eye with him.
Promising no ill will toward Foster, Usher was still appreciative for his time with her.
“I appreciate the relationship for what it was,” he says. “Even though it didn’t work out, I’m glad we got together. I love her as the mother of my children; we just couldn’t be married. We’re two different people — and we have two different goals. It just was never going to work out 100 percent. We had to put our issues aside and focus on raising [our sons]. There will never be another mother for my sons, and I’ll always be their father.
Young Jeezy gives school supplies to the kids
Friday, August 27th, 2010Two weeks ago while in the hood shooting the video for his latest street anthem “Jizzle”, Young Jeezy over heard some parents talking about how the kids were getting ready to go back to school yet still lacked supplies. As kids going without weighed heavy on Jeezy’s mind, he made it a point to take time out this week before the 1st week of school was over and make sure that they didn’t have to be without. He returned to give the kids book bags filled with notebooks, pens, pencil, calculators, compasses and rulers; you know tools to help build they future. He even bought cell phones for parents and giving kids and other parents some money to handle bills, as we all know that book bags are only a start. Its evident to see why the hood loves Jeezy and that Jeezy will always rep for the streets.
Kat Stacks and the Game’s Beef gets heated
Friday, August 27th, 2010This is the kind of Beef that is dragging Hip Hop into the gutter. Kat Stacks obviously slept with half the signed artists in Hip Hop then clowns them when she is done. It is a win win situation for her as her name gets bigger and bigger which will lead to money or a reality show somewhere down the line. She airs someone out every week and with the Game she really crossed the line. You dont talk about anybodies dead relatives that can get you in a plot right next to them.
The Game has once again aired out Kat Stacks, hurling disses at the self-proclaimed rap groupie via Twitter.
In his messages, Game blasts Stacks’ image and role as a mother.
“@ihatekatstacks B*TCH, wantin u 2 catch AIDS & die is probably the only thing me & @50cent got n common. Go swallow a teaspoon of rat poison,” Game tweeted Thursday (August 26).
“@ihatekatstacks B*tch you are a tour bus. “ya p*ssy smell like the exhaust, ya a**hole BLOWN like a tire & you can fit 30 n*ggas in you.”
“@ihatekatstacks all you do is fly around America suckin d*cks 4 FREE.”
“da bureau of child welfare got ya son & instead of fightin 4 him back, u suckin wee wee’s & tweetin. #deadBEATmommysomebody help this b*tch”
“& the sh!t u just said about my grandma RIP gone get u jumped by 6 buff midget b*tches. ah would tell u stay low, but thats where they’ll b”
“@ihatekatstacks One day you gone Internally Drown in all that cum in ya stomach. More kids in ya stomach then all the projects in New York.” (Game’s Twitter)
Stacks proceeded to defend herself and taunted Game with a handful of tweets.
“Your mom taught me how to suck d*ck & your dad taught me how to get money when a d*ck up my a** @thegame,” she tweeted yesterday.
“B*tch what are you talking my son is at home with me go f*ck your dead grandmother @thegame.”
“f*g with butterfly tatted on ur face claiming its for dead wh*re grandmother why did u cover it up then @thegame.
“i dont know whos face looks worse, urs or ur dead grandmother 6 feet under @thegame.” (Kat Stacks’ Twitter)
