XXL reports that the homie Glasses Malone will be lobbying to Congress for Prisoner Rights in his state in a few weeks. He’s teaming up with lobbyist Matt Grey and the two will go before the senate to discuss prisoners getting rights like health care for instance. It’s a situation that hits G hard because [...]
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The long rumored Bad Meets Evil EP has officially been announced through RR. Set to drop under Interscope on June 14, the project will have production from DJ Khalil, Havoc, Mr. Porter, Bangladesh and more. No features as of right now but I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw T.I. on the final version of [...]
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Apparently a lot of Strange Music fans didn’t like the cover for Tech’s 11th solo album. So, in an attempt to explain his reasoning for why the cover looks like that, and why he branded himself, he spoke to the Twitter community and ended up telling us a long story. I edited it slightly from [...]
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Chamillionaire is gearing up to put out the long awaited Major Pain 1.5 on April 18 for free. He’s also putting out a few more projects soon after according to his statement below. Go to Cham’s site if you’d like to pre-order a hard copy like I just did. It’s limited though (only 1,000 copies), [...]
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Rick Ross is on a mission to build a powerful empire from the ground up, and so far that’s what he’s done. First it was Wale, then 2011 Freshman Meek Mill, now as of late last night, the newest acquisition to the Maybach Music empire is 2010′s Freshman Pill. From the looks of the moves [...]
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Words can’t describe how dope this record sounds like it will be. If you remember, this is one of the two artists Wayne said he wanted to work with while he was locked up. I wonder if Andre 3000 has talked to Mr. Carter yet. Complex got the scoop on Tech’s trip to work with Weezy. [...]
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Pusha is the man of the week since putting out “My God” (check out mastered version below) last week. However, it caused a little bitterness in Consequence for apparently stealing lines and flow. Complex caught up with him to get his opinion on that as well as how the record came about, Fear Of God’s [...]
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Big Sean put out his first single, “My Last,” with Chris Brown two days ago (clean versions get no love on SD). Def Jam announced that the album would be dropping next month. However, Sean is very unsure as he tells XXL. Hmm, I guess we’ll see next month. “That can’t be right, because I’m [...]
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Back to the majors Spitta goes. New Orleans’ own has inked a deal with Warner Bros Records. Not only did he get a deal, but he also got one for his imprint Jets International. Spitta is currently working on releasing EP entitled Covert Coup which will be fully produced by Alchemist. The EP is set [...]
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Malice chopped it up with HHH yesterday about his upcoming book. He says that a movie in the works for it as well as his second book titled Thirty Two (a reference to his Manager’s sentence). In the short audio clip, he briefly mentions a new Clipse album in the works. Niiice! The full interview [...]
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