Lil' Wayne is scheduled to release his highly anticipated post prison album, "Tha Carter IV," on May 16th. Another track has hit the net and this time Weezy teamed up with Rick Ross and TalkOfTheTown411.com friend, Ayo The Producer.
Ayo has also produced tracks for Diddy, Yung Berg, Soulja Boy, Young Jeezy and more.
Check out Weezy's new single "If I Die" below:
BONUS TRACK:
Young Jeezy - Ballin' (Feat. Lil Wayne) Produced by: Lex Luger
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OUR LEAKED "YOUNG MONEY ALBUM RELEASE DATES" LIST WAS ONLY OFF BY A FEW DAYS...
Steelers fans are you ready???? Here's some pre- Super Bowl goodies to get you ready for the big game. This Sunday, February 6th, The Green Packers are taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers for Super Bowl XLV, 6:30pm ET on FOX.
UPDATE: If you don't know already, BET's "Top 10 Rappers of the 21st Century" did not have Jay-Z or Nas on there. In the video, some of the people who made that decision sit down and take the time out to explain their actions.
UHH OK... We still think Jay-Z made a huge impact to the 21st Century in Hip-Hop as well. Maybe that's just us?
Here is comment from one of our Twitter peeps:
JRPOLL87: if they can't have jigga they shouldn't have Wayne cuz he been out before '99 n where da Fu*k was fabolous?!??
What do you think about this top 10 list? Who would you put in yours?
ORIGINAL POST:
The special just aired last night, Friday October 15th on BET. Let's kill the suspense. Coming in at #1 on the list is hip hop icon, Eminem, who has sold more records than anyone on the list. Second is Lil' Wayne, currently incarcerated. In the third spot, Kanye West, the producer and rapper extraordinaire. Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent takes the fourth spot due to three platinum albums in the past decade and consistent hit making. Rounding out the Top 5 is rapper T.I.
Here's the complete BET Rappers Top 10:
1) Eminem 2) Lil' Wayne 3) Kanye West 4) 50 Cent 5) T.I. 6) Ludacris 7) Drake 8) Young Jeezy 9) Jadakiss 10) Rick Ross
Here we go again. It seems there is a "new" Hip-Hop Beef circulating between two of Def Jam's artists, Young Jeezy and Rick Ross.
Jeezy has a new song out called "Death Before Dishonor" which is a remix to Ricky Rozay's B.M.F (Blowing Money Fast). Well get this, the initials of the song and its opening chorus pay homage to Black Mafia Family and its incarcerated leader Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory. So supposedly rappers such as Bleu Davinci and Jeezy who were actually affiliated with the real BMF feel like Ross crossed the line.
Young Jeezy: BMF - Rick Ross Diss [VIDEO BELOW]
Jeezy dropped the song a few days ago and here is the part that has everyone going crazy. Death Before Dishonor" is featured on "Young Jeezy 1,000 Grams" mixtape.
"How you blowin' money fast? You don't know the crew / Are you part of the fam? Shit, I never knew / Y'all was supposed to make it hard, this is easy, hoe / "Pull up in that triple white," I think I'm Jeezy, hoe."
BUT.... Rick Ross said he just doesn't "get" the thought process behind the diss track.
"I haven't had a chance to talk to the homie,"
Ross said.
"I really don't know what the thought process was behind it. My record was called 'Blowin' Money Fast.' It confused me that if it was called 'The Real B.M.F.,' I would have called it 'The Black Mafia Family.' ... You know, you may have to ask him. Other than that, we still reppin', we still riding, and [my] record is getting love everywhere. So it's all good."
Here is Ross' interview discussing the track below: [VIDEO]
The question a lot of people are asking themselves at this point is, IS THIS REAL?? OR A DEF JAM PLOT TO SELL ALBUMS?
Ever since 50 Cent started syncing all of his album releases with a fresh batch of beefs, the world has soured on the genre's more obvious WWE-like machinations.
The acrimonious back-and-forth began when Ross released “"B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)," a nod to the infamous drug organization Black Mafia Family. Jeezy, who is actually associated with BMF and its now-imprisoned leader Big Meech, responded with “BMF (The Real Blowin' Money Fast),” featuring Meech himself on the phone from prison. And just to make sure his point was coming across, Jeezy followed up with “Death Before Dishonor,” a freestyle over Ross's original “BMF” beat dissin Ross.
So, is this real?
On the one hand, Jeezy and Ross are both on Def Jam and have collaborated in the past; also, Jeezy has an impending new album, Thug Motivation 103, to plug.
On the other, Jeezy has more than enough motivation not to like Ross: both are of a similar ilk — doughy, Southern rappers obsessed with cocaine — but while Jeezy was on the scene first, Ross has at this point arguably eclipsed him in popularity and general acclaim. Also, Jeezy invented shouting out BMF (on the remix to Ross's “Hustlin',” no less)
What do YOU think about the beef between Ross and Jeezy????
Billboard made a recent tally of 2010's top grossing shows thus far, and Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 tour took eight of the top 35 spots. Of the eight, Jiggaman's best-selling show closed out at #10 overall after it grossed $1,322,831.
To give some added perspective on how much an artist can make in two weeks of touring, Jay-Z's tour, which featured Jeezy and Trey Songz, grossed a total of $9,731,218 between March 11-24. Hov's recent deal with concert-giant Live Nation, who famously signed him to a "360 deal" worth a reported $150 million, and also organized his 2008 tour with Mary J. Blige, which grossed $34.5 million, is likely responsible for the rapper's high live performance profits.
"With everything else going on in his career, maybe he hadn't focused on tours as much as he could have,"
a Live Nation VP told Billboard.
"But we always knew he was an amazing live artist and the kind of artist we could work with to get to where we needed to be on the live side."
Jay's next day is his headlining gig at California's Coachella Festival, which takes place on April 16, before he heads out to Europe and Japan.
Trey Songz has been added to Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3" tour, an Atlantic Records representative confirms.
Joining Young Jeezy, who is also a supporting act, Songz will open the second leg of the stateside trek starting Feb. 20 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Songz is currently scheduled to perform all 23 dates, wrapping up March 27 at the Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas.
Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3" has moved 1.5 million units, and was released on Roc Nation with distribution from Atlantic Records.
CHECK OUT THE DATES BELOW...
February 20 - Bank Atlantic Center, Sunrise, FL
February 22 - Toyota Center, Houston, TX
February 23 - American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX
February 25 - New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, LA
February 27 - Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA
February 28 - Greensboro Coliseum Complex, Greensboro, NC
March 2 - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
March 3 - Verizon Center, Washington, DC
March 5 - Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT
March 6 - Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
March 7 - Scope Arena, Norfolk, VA
March 11 - TD Garden, Boston, MA
March 12 - Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
March 14 - The Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI
Rihanna will play on tour in U.K. arenas in May 2010.
The Live-Nation promoted tour will call at eight U.K. venues including the O2 Arena in London.
RiRi recently launched her new album, “Rated R” (SRP/Def Jam), in the U.K. with a Nov. 16 show at the O2 Academy Brixton featuring guest spots from Jay-Z and Young Jeezy.
Young Money’s resident all-star and now a Grammy nominated rapper, Drake, is leaking more details on his highly anticipated debut. As previously reported, Drake had the world up in arms waiting for him to release Thank Me Later on Valentine’s Day of 2010. Now unfortunately for stans of Young Money’s Young Angel, that alleged February 14 release date is no more.
In a brief interview with MTV News he told the network that the release date had been changed to March. Remaining skimp on details he shared saying, “Well I’m making great progress on it. I’m hoping for March now. It’s just pulling everybody together.”
Drake also mentioned that he had lineup of people he hoped to work with including the famed soul jazz band featuring vocalist Sade Adu, Sade. Moving back into the standard Hip-Hop references, he dished on upcoming features on the album with Jeezy, Kanye and of course, his brother Wayne. “I had a wish list for my managers of everybody I wanted involved that stem beyond hip-hop. I’m trying to pull it all together. I’m really trying to work with Sade, Lil Wayne will be on it. Young Jeezy, Jay-Z, Kanye will be doing work on it. It’s in the family.”
While on the set of her latest video, "Hard" featuring Young Jeezy, outside L.A. the other day, Rihanna wore her favorite Mickey Mouse ears helmet and unknowingly flashed one of her weapons.
ALLHIPHOP: A violent feud between rappers Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane came to an end tonight (December 3rd) on Atlanta radio station Hot 107.9, during DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz radio show.
Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane have had a feud the dates back to 2005, over the hit single “Icy,” which was supposed to be featured on Young Jeezy’s debut album Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101.
Instead, "Icy" appeared on Gucci’s independent 2005 release Back to the Trap House. The feud culminated with Gucci Mane murdering an affiliate of CTE in 2005. He was acquitted of the crime in 2006. “You know nobody can ever change this history we made, we made classics,” Young Jeezy said of his mended relationship with DJ Drama. “And besides that, we opened up a lane for a lot of these young cats to come into the game. I seen more trappin’ in in the industry now than I ever seen. I know we had a lot to do with this….I just want everyone to know, just by me and you sitting here talking, that’s what men do. Now it’s back to the money, it’s back to the business. I aint gonna lie, I was caught up in my feelings… We gotta make some more history and we gotta open some more doors for these people man.”
DJ Drama, who recorded several Gangsta Grillz mixtapes with Young Jeezy during his rise through Hip-Hop’s underground, became involved in the feud when he decided to release a Gangster Grillz mixtape with Gucci Mane in 2008.
Young Jeezy labeled the Philadelphia-bred, Atlanta-based DJ as a traitor and claimed that the DJ began to act shady after he became famous, a charge which DJ Drama denied.
As a result of his relationship with Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy and DJ Drama also had several altercations at various music industry functions, although, their situation never escalated to the level of the beef between Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane.
“On my end its like even through everything, we weren’t speaking a lot, there was stuff in there. Then I realized we can agree to disagree,” DJ Drama said. “We are letting you know it’s bigger than us. We do what we do for yall. We are about to get so much more money, we are about to make so many more outlets for revenue for the city, for everybody to eat.”
Young Jeezy’s feud with Gucci Mane was much more serious.
The feud over “Icy” saw Jeezy releasing diss records like "Stay Strapped," while Gucci released tracks like "Round One" and "Hurry."
In the aftermath of these records, the pairs feud quickly became violent in May 2005, when Gucci Mane and an associate were allegedly set up and ambushed by men five men, later identified as affiliates of Young Jeezy’s CTE record label.
Gucci and an associate were visiting a woman when the five men stormed the residence with guns and duck tape and pistol whipped the rapper and his associate.
Gucci Mane fired upon the men, striking one, before fleeing the scene.
Days later, a man identified as Henry Lee Clark III was found dead from a gunshot wound behind a local elementary school.
According to reports, Clark, aka Pookie Loc, was still wearing his CTE chain when police found his decomposing body.
Gucci Mane was eventually hit with a murder charge over the shooting but the charge was dropped in January 2006, when Gucci Main's lawyers proved that the rapper acted in self defense.
On the radio tonight, Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane ended their dispute peacefully, when Gucci phoned into the station from jail.
“I’m a 100% down with it [squashing the beef], you know I’m 10 toes forward. I’m with it and I think it’s a great idea and that’s what I’m fittin’ to do. I hope everybody is ready cause it’s back on,” Gucci Mane said to Young Jeezy.
“That’s what it is homie,” Young Jeezy replied. “What’s understood aint gotta be said man. We gonna do this for the city so you just hold your head up. Me and Drama gonna hold it down brah, and that’s what it is. 100.”
Ok so some people were very disappointed at the last BET Awards because of the whole Michael Jackson tribute. But it looks like BET has really redeemed themselves with this years BET Hip Hop Awards (Check out some behind the scenes pics) , which is set to air Oct. 27 . Young Jeezy and Jay-Z surprised the crowd and kicked off the show. Jeezy spoke on that, "Shouts out to the homie, man, he stopped through [Jay-Z.] He was on his way to another show. But that’s what we do. Real ones do real things. I just wanted to do something big for the city. Since the song is on both of our albums, we gonna shoot the video. It’s gonna be crazy. We said, ‘Let’s go ahead and break it in at the BET Awards.’ ”
Jeezy explained that the video is going to display some of their riches. “We just gonna go dumb,” he said. “Call Rick [Ross] up, everybody. [We'll have] cars, watches, blunts, money, just go dumb. Dumm-meeee! That’s what we need to do.”
Jeezy also said he wouldn’t mind doing some more shows with Jay-Z. “I’mma keep it all the way live, homie. At this point in my career, I’m like, whatever, I do this from the heart...Everything I do is real to me. If it’s some strings and orchestra with it, and we still talking about what we supposed to be talking about, I’m all for it.”
CHECK OUT YOUNG JEEZY PREMIERING HIS NEW SONG, "TRAP OR DIE 2" DURING THE BET HIP HOP AWARDS WEEKEND AT CLUB IN ATL.
Lil' Wayne is scheduled to release his highly anticipated post prison album, "Tha Carter IV," on May 16th. Another track has hit the net and this time Weezy teamed up with Rick Ross and TalkOfTheTown411.com friend, Ayo The Producer.
