Beats, Rhymes, Life

Today is a slow day, literally nothing has hit my proverbial desk that entitles a sole post. Here are some stories floating around that almost made the cut.

1. Philadelphia Eagles star wide receiver Desean Jackson raps on stage with Freeway in Lancaster, PA

Rappers want to be ballers, ballers want to be rappers. Desean Jackson has dabbled with rap before, having been featured on a Gillie Da Kid track with fellow Philly pro Lou Williams of the Sixers. Guess they rap better than Freeway can ball, just a healthy hypothesis.

2. Black Star rock the Bonnaroo house [Picture thread]

Black Star duo Talib Kweli & Mos Def aka Yasmin Bey reportedly put down a classic show at Bonnaroo this year. Check out a series of dope pictures from that set via G4Mikey. Man, do they look ancient.

3. Two different beefs were highlighted at the BET Awards red carpet interviews. Machine Gun Kelly commented on his bubbling feud with Yelawolf and A$AP Rocky went in on his former producer slash homie SpaceGhostPurrp. 

Memorable quote from A$AP: “F him, f— him, straight up. He’s one of those cats, like a lot of guys just hang around me, try to build hype, and when they dip off, start throwing dirt on the young on the blood”

Memorable quote from MGK: ”I love him, man. You gotta respect your elders, and he’s an old man so I gotta give it up, I respect all grandpas around the world doin’ it big. Salute.”

4. The usually flamboyantly braggadocio 2 Chainz reveals overly simple album art for the upcoming Based On A T.R.U. Story. 

 The album is due for an August 14th release, rumored to have collaborations with Kanye West, Drake, Rick Ross, Ludacris, and your momma.

5. Coachella may be leaving Indio, threatens city that 2013 will be last show.

I’ve never gone, but people who have seem to be pretty torn up about this. I doubt it will leave California and may in fact move closer to Los Angeles which would be selfishly sweet. Check the Times for the story.

No Room For Halfway Crooks On Twitter

Recently posted on Havoc’s Instagram page – TheRealHavoc

Mobb Deep dropped Black Cocaine last year and promised their fans a follow up early 2012. Scrap that, Havoc has spent the last 24 hours absolutely going in on Prodigy over Twitter.  Havoc keeps referencing a meeting Prodigy was supposed to attend, and is also absolutely convinced that Prodigy has fallen for Rihanna, claiming that the hardened rapper is actually under the impression that he has the inside track on marrying the uber-pop starlet. Either way, for a couple of OG’s who pretty much defined street worthy thuggery for a generation of listeners, the fact that this is taking place on Twitter is tomfoolery. For those of you who think Havoc may have been hacked, he clarified that he wasn’t and also opened up today’s twitter day with ” good morning gay p”. Congratulations guys, you just got nominated for lamest hip hop anecdote of the year. On a side note, these guys love their Instagram, both of them are using that application like it’s going out of style, which it is by the way.

Don’t piss off Havoc, he may just tweet your ass to death.

Jamaican Peace Accords

What’s beef? Beef’s when your mama can’t go out into the streets. Beef is when you make your enemies start your Jeep. Beef is when you roll no less than thirty deep. Beef is when I see you, guaranteed to be an I-C-U.

Well in the dancehall genre, beef is what pumps up fan bases, and inspires many dancehall DJ’s to put out their most motivated material. How big is beef to dancehall? Well the beef between Mavado and Vybz Kartel is so big that it took the Jamaican government to hold peace talks between the two embattled stars in the House of Parliament in Kingston, Jamaica. Apparently the beef between the two camps have led to bloodshed in the streets of countless Jamaican communities. That’s no joke ting! Imagine Obama having to negotiate some trifling shit between T.I. and Lil Flip or Saigon and Joe Budden! Not a chance. Here’s to Jamaican jerk chicken and beef, clearly there’s none finer on this planet.

Scope a myriad of Dancehall beef after the jump.

New Beef: The Game is too wavy for Jay-Z

Jay- Z is too lethal and The Game is too emotional for this beef not to end up bloody, proverbially at the very least. Peep The Game’s latest diss track “I’m So Wavy“. This beef should last a while, but keep your steak knives handy just in case Jigga goes for the jugular.

Jay-Z Freestyle: Dissin Game or Just Lame?

On a day where everyone and their favorite rapper was tweeting about their emotional breakdown to the Michael Jackson Memorial, I’m glad that a story about beef was floating on the net. This footage (link below) taken at a recent Jigga gig shows the Best Rapper Ever doing his damn freestyle thing. Poking shots at Dame, Jimmy, and The Game is nothing new to Jay-Z so it is somewhat puzzling to see Game’s reaction. The Game was touring France at the time he heard the “diss” and immediately dropped his crafty response “Fuck Jay-Z.“

How absurdly tired is this beef thing in hip hop getting? This clash between a legend and a rapper who idolizes that legend will rightfully exist as a mere blip on the rap radar. Seriously though, how pathetic are those French rap concert goers nutting their pants to The Game defecating (in a bad way) on the mic? What do you call 5000 French hip hop heads on the bottom of the ocean?

On another meaty note, Media Takeout is reporting that Jay-Z and Kanye are “beefing” after a recent spat backstage at a concert in the UK.

Jay-Z Freestyle, “I Ain’t Talking About Game” | SOHH TV

Mariah Gets “Dragged” Into a Bad Idea

Being in the artist management business ourselves we understand that it is sometimes necessary to permit artists to take risks. But WTF was Mariah’s team thinking with her shoot for her upcoming video for “Obsessed”? Mariah will be dressed in “man-drag” in the video with full costume and makeup (facial hair and everything). The only people associated with this video that should be lauded are the make up team, or as I wish to refer to them as, the ”Spank Bank Killers”. The SPK do a great job of transforming Mimi the sex goddess into a poor mans Eminem. And the resemblance to the platinum blonde lyricist does not appear to be a coincidence. Recent beef between Carey’s hubby Nick Cannon and Eminem has led to more than enough motivation for Mariah to drop a so-called diss track. There have also been suggestions that the lyrical content within th track is also directly taking aim at Eminem, though Monsiuer Cannon denies that notion vehemently. Perhaps her idea of firing her manager Benny Medina last year and picking up Maroon Ent. representation is coming back to bite her in her man butt. Eh, whatever, I’m sick of this story already, peep the rest of the pics and find yourself an air sickness bag and a new spank bank queen.

MPFREE: Mariah Carey – Obsessed

Clifford Vs. Joe

As far as I can remember, the last time Method Man was in any sort of altercation was in the film The Show, Raekwon was yelling at him for talking too much. Apparently Iron Lung feels Budden has been trying to steal his style since he first hopped onto Def Jam.

??? At first glance I want to say this beef is dumb. I mean, what is the point of a near forty-year old Method Man going after one of the most prominent DIY rappers around? On the other hand, why not. Diss tracks have been some of the most resounding chromosomes in rap music’s blood stream. Aside from the typical you’re gay and I fuck your wife cliches, I’m always intrigued to hear cool ways people find to hurt each others feelings. Pump it up and bring the pain!

Cop or Con? In Jamaica you can’t be both!

So you know how Rick Ross admitted/was exposed regarding his gig as a corrections officer? Yeah, Beenie heard about that, and provided the Jamaican perspective on the matter. Simply put in Rasta terms, if you going to mash it up in Jamaica you can’t be a Bandulu and a Beast, that would be pure fuckery.

Transcript of Beenie Man’s take on Rick Ross working with da police!!!

“No, Jamaica don’t do police,” Beenie explained. “You can be a cop if you want [but not an artist.] If you’re a police artist, I don’t know if that’s going to work out. You’re a cop and an artist? That don’t work out in Jamaica. You got cop artists, but they do that talent show sh*t. They don’t come out on the street because n*ggas in Jamaica, once they find out you’re a cop and you’re on-stage, that means you’re vulnerable. And you know what I mean, there gonna be battles, stones, oranges, apples, all that sh*t. When I say orange and apple, you understand it’s an M-16, AK-47, if you want me to get serious. Because then you’re vulnerable. You’re a cop on stage. No police in the business. If you gonna be in the business, you gotta re-sign the business because police is in the killing business. The innocent killing business. And then the innocence is in the crowd and they’re gonna try to kill you back because that’s how it goes, eye for an eye,tooth for a tooth.”

Pimp C lives on cuz it’s “UGK 4 LIFE”

Bun B speaks on Pimp C, UGK’s future, and the album “UGK 4 LIFE” dropping tomorrow everywhere…

On another Pimp C note, why is Weezy using a deceased gangsta to stand up to Fitty? First rule in the hood, your ghetto pass has to be certified by a living being.  See what I mean right here…

UGK: UGK 4 Life Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Still On The Grind featuring Raheem DeVaughn
3. Everybody Wanna Ball
4. Feelin’ You
5. The Pimp & The Bun featuring Ron Isley
6. She Luv It
7. 7th Street Interlude
8. Swishas & Erb featuring Sleepy Brown
9. Purse Come First featuring Big Gipp
10. Harry A**hole featuring Lil Boosie & Webbie
11. Used To Be featuring E-40, B Legit, 8 Ball & MJG
12. Steal Your Mind featuring Too $hort & Snoop Dogg
13. Texas Ave. Interlude
14. Hard As Hell featuring Akon
15. Da Game Been Good To Me
16. Outro 

Half Naked Rick Ross apologizes to gay community

Harvey Milk is rolling around in his grave….

I’m so confused!!! What the fuck are you doing? Why are you in the bathroom? Why do we have to see your upper torso without a pancho on it? If you and Curly were sexing it, who would be quarterback? Receiver?

TwitterSLAM 2009

Don’t be fooled by the soft aesthetic of Twitter’s baby-blues or the images of fluttering birds gently mingling with baby whales–Twitter is quickly becoming a barbaric arena where you come for the updates but stay for the decapitations. Wale and DJ Semtex may have been the first two notables to swap barbs, but several other high-end beefs have sprung up of late. Here’s the card for:

Lily Allen VS. Perez Hilton

When Hilton suggested that he should be featured in Allen’s next video, she had apparently not forgotten about the collective gallons of sperm which have been drawn oozing from her mouth and responded, “oh, I’m sorry, we’ve already cast the jealous and bitter old queen role…”

John McCain VS. Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer

McCain, for some reason, thought a public dialogue on Twitter would be an ideal setting to question some of the Oregon rep’s spending.

Ashton Kutcher VS. Perez Hilton

I mean, fighting on Twitter is pussy, but this one was really wussy.

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50 Cent tells Pimpin Curly to air out Rick Ross’s dirty laundry. XXXXL boxers and all!

Today 50 Cent takes his beef with Rick Ross to a new low. He will be releasing footage of Rick Ross’s ex getting down in Ross’s crib (apparently while he was gone) in t minus 10 hours or so (there’s an actual countdown). Pretty sure that 50 gave this job to Pimpin Curly because even he must be somewhat disgusted with where this beef has gone.

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Crooked Response to incarcerated Prodigy

Recently Ped commented on the letter that Prodigy wrote from his jail cell outlining some of his frustrations. You can read that letter here. Yesterday Crooked I took to the very non-street certified arena of the blog world and responded to P. And you can read that crud here. The unwritten rule of maintaining respect at all costs is a rather distinct and indispensible phenomenon in hip-hop. “No disrespect” is as analogous to rap as it is to gangster flicks. The old hood wives tale that if you step on a dudes kicks, you get handled, is a sassy but veritable reference to the importance of disrespect on the street. It seems rather untimely that this beef is to emerge whilst many mourn the 12th year of Big Poppa’s passing. Even more discouraging is the substance that is blatantly lacking from this quarrel. Mind this pun, but, where’s the beef?  A couple noteworthy citations from Crooked’s response include his reference to a freestyle he did over Mobb Deep’s “Get Away” which he goes on to claim his “one of my favorite Mobb Deep songs.” I also find his P.S. amusing, a simple but effective, “Do some push ups.” What’s lamest of all is the fact that this “beef” so far has taken place through written word, but not lyrical song. That’s a shame, because P can flow, and Crooked I can write rhymes, but both these fools are incongruous when it comes to emotion manifested via cuneiform. Ah, well what can you do. This is so-called news, and we just report it. 

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