Dre Weez - Fire Up (DiamonDollar / Public Service)

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Nicki Minaj Turned Off By Men W/Money "You Can't Run Game On A Rapper. I'm Always 10 Steps Ahead Of Them" Sees Herself As "Non-Pretty"

If you're planning on getting at Nicki Minaj you better have something else going for yourself besides money because that's a major "turn off" for the "Super Bass" rapper.


"I may be smiling in their face, but my antenna is up. When they're trying to show off their cash or their watch, it's an immediate turn-off," she told Cosmopolitan. "I'm around millionaires and athletes every day who think, 'All I need to do is get in a room with Nicki Minaj,' and they're gonna leave with my number. You can't run a game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of them."


So what exactly does the Harajuku Barbie like in a man?


"I do like a dope nose profile, one that's straight on the side. And I like full lips. I've never kissed someone who doesn't have full lips."


The Young Money superstar admits she doesn't view herself as pretty and that's just fine by her. She compares her looks to Lady Gaga's.


"We both do the awkward non-pretty thing. What we're saying - what I'm saying anyway - is that it's OK to be weird. Any maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say? I think it's an attitude we both share."

Young Jeezy Talks 'TM103,' Recording A Joint Album With T.I. & President Obama "I Think Obama Is In A Serious Situation Right Now"

Young Jeezy is preparing to make it snow this Christmas when he releases his long awaited TM103: Hustlerz Ambition album on December 20.


During a conference call yesterday, the Snowman revealed details about the project, working with T.I. and even gave his opinion on President Obama.


"The time is here," Jeezy said of TM103. "I'm not just dropping it because it's a deadline. It's time. I feel like the streets waited long enough, and they need their spokesperson -- their people's champ -- to come back, and talk to them and lead them. So this is not a thing about Def Jam and me trying to meet a quota. I know I said September 20 the first time, but it didn't feel right because there was nothing for me to say at the time. Now there's something for me to say, because the people are ready to be spoken to."


Production on the project will come from J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Lil C and Lil Lody, who produced Jeezy's new street single, ".38."


Although no official tracklisting for TM103 is available yet, one song that is almost sure to make the cut is the recently released "F.A.M.E." featuring T.I. The two Atlanta rappers are close friends and might possibly even record an album together according to Jeezy.

“My first option would be Tupac, but he’s no longer here. Rest in peace to him," he said. "Me and Tip actually were together and we [talked] about it. We've just hit the ground running and been doing so many records that I don't think it's impossible. And we've known each other [long] enough to put something like that together, and I definitely think that the city would need it, because it would be a good look. And it would be an amazing album release party, by the way."


The conversation then took a political turn as Jeezy talked about President Obama's current woes.


"I think Obama is in a serious situation right now," he says. "Because you can change a lot of things, but at the end of the day, we all need money to live, and I think that's everybody's problem... The sooner Obama can get some people some money and some jobs, him and Michelle [Obama] will be way better off. We're gonna ride for them like they ride for us, but we need money right now, man."

Information from Billboard was used in this article.

Drake - "Take Care" - November 15th (Trailer)

Drake has come a long way since his first mixtape, Room For Improvement back in '06.

Now he's ready to release his sophomore album, Take Care, with the "Headlines" single leading the path. Here is the video trailer of "Take Care" in stores Nov. 15th

Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator & Hodgy Beats Dive Into Crowd From 2nd Floor During NYC Show @ The Terminal [Video]

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Tyler, The Creator and Hodgy Beats turned their stage diving up a notch during last night's concert at The Terminal in NYC.


The two Odd Future members somehow made their way from the stage to the second floor of the venue before taking a leap of faith into the crowd.


Tyler has already broken his foot once back in June while stage diving at an L.A. show, but that obviously didn't scare him enough to prevent him from upping the ante last night.


"New York Was F*cking Legit As F*ck N*gga!!!!! SICKKK," Tyler wrote on Twitter after the show. "That F*cking 2nd Floor Jump Was Gnar."

Snoop Dogg Celebrates His 40th Birthday Onstage W/Bootsy Collins + Double G News Network: GGN Ep. 11 [2 Videos]

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Today is Snoop Dogg's 40th birthday.


The West Coast legend celebrated a couple of days ago by joining Bootsy Collins onstage during his 40th b-day bash. A classic moment for sure.


Happy Birthday Snoop!!


Also check out the latest episode of the Doggfather's Double G News Network, as he lists 10 movies to watch on a first date.


Peep the movie list below, then check out the videos.


Snoop Dogg aka Nemo Hoes' Movies To Watch On A 1st Date:
1) Penitentiary
2) The Mack
3) Claudine
4) Truck Turner
5) Cooley High
6) Cornbread, Earl & Me
7) The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
8) Let's Do It Again
9) Petey Wheatstraw
10) Dolemite

Snoop Dogg Parties for his 40th

Double G News Network: GGN Ep. 11 - Movies to Watch on a First Date

Method Man Talks To Complex About His 25 Most Essential Songs. Recalls Being High On Mushrooms In L.A. W/2Pac, RZA & GZA Writing Ol Dirty's 1st Album & More

When Method Man speaks it's always a good idea to pay close attention. The Wu Tang Clan rapper has seen it all in his 21 years in the business.

With four solo albums, five Wu Tang discs, two Blackout! projects with Redman and last year's Wu Massacre cd with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah under his belt, Johnny Blaze has quite a few stories to tell. Luckily for us he lets us in on more than a few little known secrets in a new interview withComplex, as he breaks down his "25 Most Essential Songs."
Here are just a few of the highlights:

* Wu Tang Clan was originally only supposed to have three members, Ol' Dirty B*stard, GZA and RZA.

* The first time he saw the "Method Man" video on tv he was dead broke, eating white rice with ketchup on Thanksgiving, thinking "this f*cking rap sh*t is weak."

* Raekwon and Ghostface Killah didn't like Notorious B.I.G.

* He was on angel dust when he recorded 'Tical'

* He recorded four different versions of "All I Need"

* Ol' Dirty B*stard's first album was written by RZA and GZA with the exception of "Brooklyn Zoo."

* True Master did a lot of the production on Only Built For Cuban Linx.

* He was high on mushrooms out in L.A. at a party during the height of the Biggie/2Pac beef and feeling uncomfortable. 'Pac approached him and let him know if there was anybody on the East Coast he would f*ck with it would be Wu Tang Clan.

* He lost interest halfway through recording "Extortion" with Mobb Deep because he was so high

There's a lot more to the interview. To read it in full head over to Complex.

Kanye West Announces New G.O.O.D Music Album To Drop Spring 2012

Kanye West and his G.O.O.D Music family are teaming up for a brand new album.


Yeezy made the announcement earlier today via Twitter.

The current G.O.O.D Music roster includes Common, Big Sean, Kid Cudi, Cyhi Da Prynce, Pusha Tand Mos Def.

We'll keep you posted as more information becomes available.

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Dwight Howard Talks To Esquire About Fatherhood And How “Women” Make It So Hard For Ballers To Spend Time With Their Kids

Oh so Royce gets gagged but this dude can just talk his yang freely?? Esquire talked to Dwight Howard about being a father and here’s what he had to say:

SR: I know it’s a subject you haven’t wanted to talk about publicly, but is fatherhood a part of your life?

DH: It’s very important. Hopefully me and my son’s mom will come to a better agreement for my son. When I do see him, we have the best time in the world. He acts just like me. He tries to run like me. He looks back and smiles like me. Fatherhood is great and it will get better. He’s young. He’s gonna need his father in his life. People say you don’t need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father’s Day and why it’s not celebrated like Mother’s Day.

SR: I’ve been around the NBA enough as a writer to see the women who would give anything just to get impregnated. And I’ve seen the men who didn’t care how many kids they had in how many different places, just as long as they had someone to f**k on the road. Pardon my French.
DH: I understand. With some of my teammates, they try so hard to be around their kid, and then the mother of their child makes it so hard. A lot of guys just say, “I’m not gonna deal with it.”

SR: It’s always the kids who pay the price.
DH: I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn’t have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren’t around. I was lucky to have mine around.

Wonder what his dad thinks about all the drama with Royce.

They also talked to him about his smile and his big shoulders…

SR: You’ve got a smile that other human beings respond to. It’s a beautiful smile, even during games.
DH: When I’m smiling and having fun, that’s when you should have a problem. If I’m out there frowning and looking mean, that’s when you know you’ve beat me — because I’m not having fun. I’ve been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten. He said, “Dwight, I remember I told you to stop smiling. I like when you smile. Keep doing it. I’m sorry for ever telling you not to smile.” I said, “Dad, look, I’m young. This is what brings me joy. This is my sanctuary. This is my church. This is where I show God that I’m thankful for life.” I’m going to show it when I play basketball, when I’m on the streets, when I’m having fun. When I’m anywhere, I’m going to show God that I’m thankful just for life. I’m living out my dream. This is what I want to do.

SR: Do you think the players’ union can hold it together?

DH: We’ve got to. We’ve got to stick together. I know, as much as I try to do for the game of basketball and be an ambassador for the NBA, I don’t want my money cut short. I work hard. Not just in games, but off the court, too. When the NBA asks me to do something, I’m there.

SR: You’re representing.

DH: That’s my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That’s really why I play basketball. That’s my whole purpose of playing basketball. I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

SR: That’s no small thing for a man to carry.
DH: It’s not. But that’s why God gave me big shoulders.

Do you believe this guy? Is Royce really stopping him from being a father or is he getting in his own way?

Chris Brown Talks Why He started Rapping

When Chris Brown hopped into this year's BET Cyphers, he showed how far he's come in the short amount of time that he's been rapping.


In a new interview with Fuse TV, Breezy breaks down why he decided to test his mic skills.


"I think it's more acceptable. It's kind of like in the 80's when everybody was trying out the rap thing," Chris said. "Everybody was doing it, but they were dancing and incorporating everything. You had MC Hammer and so many other people who used hip-hop and dance. That was kind of the essence of hip-hop, b-boying, the whole street art. Everything kind of incorporated into one."


Chris also said that fans these days are more accepting of artists trying new things.


"Kids these days, they don't have a one-track mind," Breezy explained. "They don't like just one thing... they like everything, so that makes them who they are. I think that's what it is with me. A lot of different genres--a lot of different things I bring to my music. That's why I wanna do rap. That's why I wanna do any other kind of song I can do. It's just one of those things that's more acceptable now."

Chris Brown on Fuse

T.I. Talks To Howard Stern About Getting Into A Fight In Prison.

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T.I. was a guest on Howard Stern's Sirius XM show today (October 18).


The Atlanta rapper was there to promote his new book, Power & Beauty, but somehow ended up in a conversation about a fight he had while in prison.


Tip also visited The View this morning as well.

Peep footage from both interviews down below.

T.I. Interview With Howard Stern

Lion King That Hoe

GQ Interview The Survivors: EMINEM

It's Friday afternoon in the suburbs of Detroit, and Marshall Mathers is sitting in an office at the back of his industrial-size recording studio, where he logs nine-to-five days every week like he's a working stiff. He looks as low-key as he does onstage—no fashion logos or excessive jewelry, just a gray T-shirt, camo shorts, a military-style cap, and a necklace with a diamond pyramid. He precisely lines up a bottle of water and a sixteen-ounce can of Red Bull.

The rapper better known as Eminem is 39 now. That he's funny shouldn't shock you—his raps have always been full of back-of-the-class barbs—but his deadpan delivery and the fact that he never cracks a smile means you can quickly find yourself missing the joke. That he's first and foremost a major hip-hop fan—one of the biggest rap nerds I've ever met—won't surprise you either. Music was his salvation. He is, after all, the whiteboy who twisted rap into his own image, thereby offering a lifeline to kids just like him. Turned out there were fucking millions of them. And there still are. His most recent album, Recovery, was the best-selling album of 2010 and arguably the strongest work of his career.

The current Mathers narrative revolves around his triumph over a nasty addiction to prescription meds. It's not a touchy subject: Within minutes, he introduces the topic, explaining how he used to drink and pop pills to get through his concerts. "I'm very much a creature of habit," he says, picking up his Red Bull. "If I'm used to waking up in the morning and having one of these, I could do it every morning for the next ten years straight until I find something else to move on to. So if I'm used to taking a Vicodin when I wake up in the morning because I'm hungover from drinking or taking pills..." He trails off. "The bigger the crowd, the bigger my habit got."

Mathers says you can trace the arc of his addiction by listening to his albums: He was more or less sober writing the white-trash party that was The Slim Shady LP (1999); he credits experimentation with drugs for taking his music to unexpected places on The Marshall Mathers LP (2000); with The Eminem Show (2002), he struck the perfect balance—a potent mix of punch-line raps and intensely biographical material. Then the balance tipped: His fourth album, Encore, was his weakest, and it took him two years to complete because of his addiction to pills. "Five or six songs leaked from the original version of Encore," he says. "So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. In my head I was pissed off: 'Oh well. Songs leaked. Fuck it. I'm just going to take a bunch of fucking pills and go in there and have a party with myself.' I'm sure the more pills I took, the goofier I got."

He's a little hazy about that time, when he was taking, by his own account, somewhere between sixty and ninety pills a day, including Valium, Vicodin, Ambien, and Seroquel (used to treat schizophrenia). "Ambien," he says, "ate a hole through my brain." He thinks he went to rehab in 2005, but don't hold him to that. Like I said, it's a little hazy.

Rehab was not a safe space for Eminem. "Look," he says, "every addict in rehab feels like everyone's staring at them. With me? Everyone was staring at me. I could never be comfortable. There were people there that treated me normal. Then there were a bunch of fucking idiots who aren't even concentrating on their own sobriety because they're so worried about mine. They're stealing my hats, my books—it was chaos. Everything was drama in there. And at the time, I didn't really want to get clean. Everybody else wanted me to. And anyone will tell you: If you're not ready, nothing is going to change you. Love, nothing."

He left rehab pissed off and heavily burdened with what he calls "woe is me"—and started popping pills again. It nearly killed him. "I came to in the hospital and I didn't know what the fuck happened," he says. "Tubes in me and shit, fuckin' needles in my arms. I didn't realize I had [overdosed]. I wanted my drugs—get me the fuck outta there! I think I was clean for two weeks. I was trying so hard—I was trying to do it for my kids—but I just wasn't ready."

What finally got him clean after a second relapse wasn't his kids or his coma or even hip-hop. This time he really thought he was going to die. "I had a feeling in my arm that was weird, man," he says. "Like, it really freaked me out. So I went to some people I trust and said, 'Look, I know I need help. I'm ready now.' I got a room in the same hospital where I overdosed, and I detoxed."

He came out that time and lost himself in the music again, the same way he had when he was 12, after years of bouncing from school to school. "I'm just this shy kid," he remembers, slipping into the glowering, rapid-fire intensity of his best rhymes. "And I get thrown into a classroom with more people I don't know, and I'm going into my shell and I'm worried about how my shoes are bummy as fuck and I'm wearing Salvation Army clothes, and these kids are behind me and they're making comments and whispering, and I don't really know that they're talking about my clothes but I feel like they are, and they're talking about my haircut. I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. You're thrown out there to the fucking wolves. Hence when N.W.A starts saying Fuck you to the police and to everybody—'Fuck you who doubted me'—holy shit, I want to say that."

Rappers aren't supposed to cop to having feelings, much less battling addictions or getting professional help, but if you own any of his self-hating, mommy-baiting, ex-wife-excoriating music, you know that Mathers built his career on saying things about himself that his peers simply wouldn't about themselves—like how the very thing that made him a music prodigy, and continues to push him, also made him a junkie.

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Soulja Boy Arrested For Drugs and Guns!

Soulja Boy was arrested early this morning for weed possession ... and law enforcement sources tell TMZ cops allegedly found a TON of weed and cash during the arrest.

The 21-year-old rapper -- real name DeAndre Cortez Way -- was popped early this morning by Temple Police Department officers in Temple, GA at 3:15 AM.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Soulja was in a car with 4 other men, which was originally pulled over for a traffic violation.

We're told ... during the stop, cops found a "substantial amount" of marijuana and cash inside the vehicle." Soulja and the 4 other men were all arrested. Soulja is still being held in Carrol County Jail.

Law enforcement sources tell us officers also found guns inside the car -- though it's unclear if any of the men had the proper licenses to be in possession of the firearms.

We're told an investigation is underway.

One source with knowledge of the situation tells us there was roughly $70,000 in cash and drugs in the car.

Story developing ...

Eminem & Lil Wayne Dubbed 'Gods Of Rock' By GQ Magazine. Join Keith Richards On Cover Of November Issue

Eminem and Lil Wayne have been dubbed Gods of Rock by GQ magazine. The two rap superstars join Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards on the cover of the November issue.


This special issue dubbed 'The Survivors' pays tribute to "The greatest living music masters. Through career lulls, prison terms, ugly addictions, and industry earthquakes."


Eminem talks to the magazine about his drug addiction and recovery.


"Five or six songs leaked from the original version of Encore," Em told GQ. "So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. In my head, I was pissed off: 'Oh well. Songs leaked. F*ck it. I'm just going to take a bunch of f*cking pills and go in there and have a party with myself.' I'm sure the more pills I took, the goofier I got."


After a five year hiatus, the Detroit rapper, now clean and sober, bounced back strong with the releases of 2009's Relapse and 2010's Recovery.


"I've realized that the way I am helps with the music. Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour," Em said in the magazine. "But sometimes it sucks, and I wish I was wired like a regular person and could go have a f*ckin' drink. But that's the biggest thing about addiction: When you realize that you cannot — for f*ck's sake, you can not — f*ck around with nothing ever again."


This special issue of GQ which is available October 25 will also come with a photo portfolio shot by photographer Mark Seliger.


Peep the full list of artists featured below.


Erykah Badu

Metallica and Lou Reed

Beck

My Morning Jacket

The Black Keys

New York Dolls

Jimmy Cliff

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Dungeon Family

Robert Plant

Brandon Flowers

Iggy Pop

Debbie Harry

Raekwon

PJ Harvey

Keith Richards

Lil Wayne

Alex Turner

Nick Lowe

TV on the Radio

Stephen Malkmus

Jack White

Eminem


Starting today (October 18) GQ.com will have special interviews with these artists.

DJ Premier Stopped Justin Bieber From Rapping In BET Cypher When It Was Revealed He Wanted Ludacris To Write His Lyrics "Write Your Own Rhymes" [Audio]

DJ Premier is always the man behind the turntables at the BET cyphers. He also has some input on the artists that appear.


The super producer recently revealed he had to put the brakes on one artist's would-be performance after it was revealed he wouldn't be writing his own lyrics.


"Justin Bieber asked if he could do the cypher and everybody was worried that might mess up the integrity of BET," Preem said. "I was like yo, as long as he got a dope rhyme, let him spit. But then we heard he wants Luda to write his rhyme. I was like oh no, no, no, no. If you ain't writing your own rhyme, you can't do it, so Justin, you gotta take a backseat. Write your own rhymes, honey."

Drake's "Take Care" Tells A Story

Drake's Take Care Tells A Story: Drizzy says the album cover shows "that kid that's just some how gone from his mom's basement in Toronto to becoming a king."

If Drake is feeling any pressure to top his previous successes he's not showing it. He's found a comfort zone in the world of glitz and glamour that he's now a part of.


That newly found comfort is on display on the cover of his sophomore album, Take Care.


Drizzy says the new album tells a story. One he started on the mixtape track "Houstonatlantavegas." in which he created a fictional world.


"It was a world that was very much real to me, but I created it in my mind," he said. "It was a world that, being a kid from Toronto, I used to look at from the outside and I used to be like, 'Man that looks crazy.' All those strip clubs and all those nightclubs and the drinks and the girls and the fame. I used to stare at this world through a glass window and, like, two to three years later, I've become a king in that world. So that's who is sitting on that album cover. The kid that's just gone from somehow being in his mom's basement to becoming a king And there is a lot of deep thought involved in that because you can go crazy doing this."

Shyne Reportedly Dropped From Def Jam

Rapper Shyne is no longer part of the Def Jam family according to producer Ken Lewis, who worked with him on what was supposed to be his comeback album.


"Well, I mixed 18 songs for the upcoming album and produced two, but he got dropped from Def Jam [Records], and I haven’t heard from him since," Lewis told HipHopDX. "Yeah, that may not be common knowledge. [Laughs] That might get me in trouble. His release date was splattered as May 17 all over the world, but the day came and went, and I never heard from Shyne again. I don’t really know what happened to him, I just know that as far as I’m concerned, I’m not a part of that record anymore."


Former Def Jam President L.A. Reid, inked Shyne to a deal that was reported to be between $1 million and $5 million dollars in February of 2010, just months after he was released from prison, but the record company never saw a return on their investment.


Shyne, who changed his birth name from Jamal Michael Barrow to Moshe Levi Ben-David to reflect his religious conversion to Judaism is now living in Israel.

Happy 39th Birthday To EMINEM!

Nobody can deny the pure fact that Detroit superstar rapper Eminem has commanded the attention of hip-hop fans ever since his quirky Dr.Dre-produced “Hi My Name Is” smash hit single way back in 1999.

Some 12 years later during the eve of the rapper’s 39th birthday, RapFix fans have been showering the Motor City bad boy with loving adoration on his big day – with fans offering glowing words to the veteran rapper, producer and Shady Records boss.

An excited fan Kirill said, “happy birthday eminem my life would be boring without you” while Eminem apparently inspired DrooD who added, “Happy Birthday !! You're amazing Eminem <3 Thx for giving me power to take up the mic and be a young entertainer.”

The Slim Shady birthday love fest continued with fan Jamal stating boldly, “Happy Birthday Best Rapper Alive!!! Straight up G.O.A.T.”

Supportive fan Rachael added, “Happy Birthday. Your fans love you so please keep being who you are.”

Em’s music has even lifted the spirits of his supporters with fan Michelle Pritchett saying, “Happy Birthday Marshall Bruce Mathers III.... You're still the best. When I'm down, listening to your music makes me feel better. YOU'RE THE GREATEST!!”

Even with plenty of mileage left to go in his career, as evidenced by his blistering BET “Shady 2.0 Cypher” outro verse, fans can’t seem to get enough of Slim Shady. Geraldine succinctly stated her feelings about the career of Mr. Marshall Mathers on Em’s RapFix birthday post.

“happy birthday Eminem ..best rapper to walk this earth !!!!!!!!!” she said.

And it appears Geraldine is not alone in her assessment.

Happy Birthday, Eminem from the RapFix & DiamonDollar Staff!!

BURBERRY

Drake on SNL (last night)

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Drake served as both an actor and musical guest yesterday on Saturday Night Live.



The Toronto MC performed two songs off his upcoming sophomore album, Take Care. After performing "Headlines" Drizzy brought out Nicki Minaj for "Make Me Proud."



Drake also participated in a couple of sketches. In one he sits down for a very strange interview with comedian Andy Samberg. In the other Drake plays a rapping wolf on the Weekend Update.

Adam Lamberg Interviews Drake

Drake Performs "Headlines" on SNL

Drake & Future "Two Teenagers" skit

Drake & Nicki Minaj perform "Make Me Proud"