Post by wolfmanjack on Aug 6, 2003 16:15:50 GMT -5
Hip-hop's pioneer DJ Grandmaster Flash speaks about how the MC has in recent years taken the crown away from DJ's in hip hop. "The DJ played an extremely important role for setting the atmosphere before the MCs would come on," he explained. "A lot of people in the media fail to realize that if they don't teach people where this comes from, they'll never know. It saddens me that kids who are into rock'n'roll know the Rolling Stones and Elvis. They know where rock'n'roll came from. But in hip-hop, the masses don't really know that in 1971, hip-hop was created by a DJ. If Herc didn't do that, we might not have this. There are only a handful of us who still have our prominence, like Jazzy Jeff, Kid Capri, Funk Master Flex, Qbert and myself. Maybe two handfuls that have real prominence, yet there are thousands of MCs who have prominence, and that saddens me."
Source: Billboard
Lil' Kim will star in the new movie, "National Lampoon's Bouncers," opposite Vivica A. Fox. The movie will start shooting before the end of the year in New York and was written and produced by Full Force, the songwriters and singing crew who also helped develop "House Party" and "House Party II."
Irv Gotti, EMI Music Publishing, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo received top honors at BMI's 2003 Urban Music Awards in Miami on Tuesday night. Additionally, "Hot in Herre," co-written by Charles L. Brown and Pharrell Williams, was named song of the year.
Apparrantly Snoop Dogg has reached out to the Neptunes to work on the highly anticipated 213 project with Nate Dogg & Warren G. "We've been in the laboratory doing real good music, so we should have a single for y'all maybe in about three weeks, maybe a month, Snoop said recently. "It's hot. ... The West Coast is back, believe it!"
"I'm just trying to put together the best record to represent 213, since we never came with a record before, nobody never really heard us as a group," Snoop said. "We're really getting each others' back on every record. It makes the job that much easier and more like team ball. I play team ball better anyways."Snoop has yet to title the 213 album, but he does have a name for his next solo album, Snoopafly, which he said will be executive produced by P. Diddy. "I've been looking forward to working with him, and he wants to work with me, so we just gonna make it happen and bridge the gap and put together a classic record," Snoop said. The veteran rappers from opposite coasts are planning to start the album in the fall. Snoop also hopes to make a movie of sorts relating to the material. "Doing it with Puff is gonna make it so big to where it's gonna have to have a movie and big budget," Snoop said. "I've been sitting on the title Snoopafly for like three years, but I never had the appropriate record, the appropriate concept. This would only be right if I had a movie to go behind it." Snoop is still tossing around ideas for his solo material, but fans might see a different side of the rapper, who performed at "mtvICON: Metallica" and covered Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" while touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "It's just something about rock that just brings out a certain type of energy in me that sometimes just needs to be released," he said. "You never know, I might go rock and roll for a minute."
Source: Mtv
Q-tip will be back on the scene with a Tribe Called Quest reunion, as well as his own new label : Abstract Artworks. The imprint is a deal with Dreamworks and the
rapper has signed two solo artists, Atoinique & Keon Bryce. Q-tip is also
finishing his next solo LP, "Open."
Ludacris new album 'Chicken & Beer' is set.
"All I can say is just expect the unexpected," the rapper said. "It's gonna be wild, of course the same wild Ludacris, but we taking it an extra step. Always reinventing myself."
Along with 50 CENT and DTP, Chicken & Beer will feature appearances by Snoop Dogg, Scarface and 8Ball and MJG. "Versatility, every kind of flow, every subject matter," Ludacris explained of the project. "It's one of those albums you can hear all the way through, and that's what's important to me, not that people skip around on it, but that they can listen from [track] one all the way to the end and that they love it." Album is expected to drop in October.
Source: Mtv
Xzibit will star along side Busta Rhymes in the film "Blood Money," and will also be featured on the soundtrack. Rumors spreading recently that Xzibit got jumped and had his tongue cut out are completely false. He did get into an altercation but is recovering very well. His career is not in jeopardy.
Source: AHH
"Suge" Knight was given 10 months in prison after a parole board found Thursday that he struck a Hollywood nightclub valet. Knight, who has been jailed since June 27, faced a maximum sentence of a year in prison. He has been credited for the time spent behind bars, said Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the Board of Prison Terms. The parole board heard compelling testimony during a closed hearing from the arresting officer and a witness before making its decision, Sessa said......."Some of the videotape and other photographs that were put up for his defense were so fuzzy and out of focus that you couldn't determine who was in the picture and who was not," Sessa said. Knight's attorney, Rose Kogeman, declined to comment after the hearing. Calls to Knight's publicist were not immediately returned. Mehdi Lazrak, 25, the alleged victim, said outside the hearing that Knight never struck him. "I never said I was hit by him," Lazrak said. "I don't know how police got that idea." Lazrak said that he was hit from behind on the back of the head. Abbey Shilleh, owner of the California Parking Services valet company, corroborated Lazrak's account, saying outside the hearing that Knight "definitely was not involved with the incident."
It was unclear if Lazrak or Shilleh testified during the closed hearing.- Source: KCal News
Source: Billboard
Lil' Kim will star in the new movie, "National Lampoon's Bouncers," opposite Vivica A. Fox. The movie will start shooting before the end of the year in New York and was written and produced by Full Force, the songwriters and singing crew who also helped develop "House Party" and "House Party II."
Irv Gotti, EMI Music Publishing, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo received top honors at BMI's 2003 Urban Music Awards in Miami on Tuesday night. Additionally, "Hot in Herre," co-written by Charles L. Brown and Pharrell Williams, was named song of the year.
Apparrantly Snoop Dogg has reached out to the Neptunes to work on the highly anticipated 213 project with Nate Dogg & Warren G. "We've been in the laboratory doing real good music, so we should have a single for y'all maybe in about three weeks, maybe a month, Snoop said recently. "It's hot. ... The West Coast is back, believe it!"
"I'm just trying to put together the best record to represent 213, since we never came with a record before, nobody never really heard us as a group," Snoop said. "We're really getting each others' back on every record. It makes the job that much easier and more like team ball. I play team ball better anyways."Snoop has yet to title the 213 album, but he does have a name for his next solo album, Snoopafly, which he said will be executive produced by P. Diddy. "I've been looking forward to working with him, and he wants to work with me, so we just gonna make it happen and bridge the gap and put together a classic record," Snoop said. The veteran rappers from opposite coasts are planning to start the album in the fall. Snoop also hopes to make a movie of sorts relating to the material. "Doing it with Puff is gonna make it so big to where it's gonna have to have a movie and big budget," Snoop said. "I've been sitting on the title Snoopafly for like three years, but I never had the appropriate record, the appropriate concept. This would only be right if I had a movie to go behind it." Snoop is still tossing around ideas for his solo material, but fans might see a different side of the rapper, who performed at "mtvICON: Metallica" and covered Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" while touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "It's just something about rock that just brings out a certain type of energy in me that sometimes just needs to be released," he said. "You never know, I might go rock and roll for a minute."
Source: Mtv
Q-tip will be back on the scene with a Tribe Called Quest reunion, as well as his own new label : Abstract Artworks. The imprint is a deal with Dreamworks and the
rapper has signed two solo artists, Atoinique & Keon Bryce. Q-tip is also
finishing his next solo LP, "Open."
Ludacris new album 'Chicken & Beer' is set.
"All I can say is just expect the unexpected," the rapper said. "It's gonna be wild, of course the same wild Ludacris, but we taking it an extra step. Always reinventing myself."
Along with 50 CENT and DTP, Chicken & Beer will feature appearances by Snoop Dogg, Scarface and 8Ball and MJG. "Versatility, every kind of flow, every subject matter," Ludacris explained of the project. "It's one of those albums you can hear all the way through, and that's what's important to me, not that people skip around on it, but that they can listen from [track] one all the way to the end and that they love it." Album is expected to drop in October.
Source: Mtv
Xzibit will star along side Busta Rhymes in the film "Blood Money," and will also be featured on the soundtrack. Rumors spreading recently that Xzibit got jumped and had his tongue cut out are completely false. He did get into an altercation but is recovering very well. His career is not in jeopardy.
Source: AHH
"Suge" Knight was given 10 months in prison after a parole board found Thursday that he struck a Hollywood nightclub valet. Knight, who has been jailed since June 27, faced a maximum sentence of a year in prison. He has been credited for the time spent behind bars, said Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the Board of Prison Terms. The parole board heard compelling testimony during a closed hearing from the arresting officer and a witness before making its decision, Sessa said......."Some of the videotape and other photographs that were put up for his defense were so fuzzy and out of focus that you couldn't determine who was in the picture and who was not," Sessa said. Knight's attorney, Rose Kogeman, declined to comment after the hearing. Calls to Knight's publicist were not immediately returned. Mehdi Lazrak, 25, the alleged victim, said outside the hearing that Knight never struck him. "I never said I was hit by him," Lazrak said. "I don't know how police got that idea." Lazrak said that he was hit from behind on the back of the head. Abbey Shilleh, owner of the California Parking Services valet company, corroborated Lazrak's account, saying outside the hearing that Knight "definitely was not involved with the incident."
It was unclear if Lazrak or Shilleh testified during the closed hearing.- Source: KCal News
