06 Dec
”I Called Him A B*tch”
1:30PM ET November 17th, 2011
Contributor : Chris G.
A Rocky Williform Company
Field Mob’s Shawn J is claiming that Ludacris sent a subliminal shot at his group on Ludacris’ new mixtape “1.21 Gigawatts.” On the song “Say It To My Face,” Shawn feels Luda went after Field Mob. He also reveals that there are monetary disputes with the Atlanta superstar.
“I’m pretty sure for a fact he’s talking about me on ‘Say It to My Face.’ That bullsh*t. It’s crazy because I did that. This sh*t don’t hold no weight,” he said. “Gotta look at it like, when you’re an artist and doing TV or whatever, I’ve been sitting at home before watching BET and seen ‘So What’ ringtone come up on Jamster commercials. And then we weren’t getting them checks. So it left a sour taste in my mouth. And then it had a whole thing transpire with us anyways.”
“One minute, we were cool as f*ck. I pretty much understood that that’s how DTP rocks. They use you for whatever. When Luda ain’t got no hit songs, they godd**n milk you for your sh*t and then move onto the next project. That’s exactly what they did. I feel like he a f**k n***a. That’s how I feel. I know they whole system, I’ve been around. I’ve seen how other artists got treated just like that. Some real f*ck n***a sh*t. So I called him a b*tch, a b*tch a** n***a.”
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05 Dec
Special Retrospective Airing On MTV2
4:30PM ET November 17th, 2011
Contributor : Stephen Willis
A Rocky Williform Company
Beloved 80s-90s hip hop show “Yo! MTV Raps” will be returning in a new 30-minute special for MTV2. The show, “Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts,” will air on Sunday, December 4th at midnight. The program is a retrospective featuring former hosts Ed Lover, Dr. Dre, and Fab 5 Freddy, and artists like Busta Rhymes, Ice Cube, The Roots’ ?uestlove, Wiz Khalifa, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Fat Joe and DJ Premier.
“In this Classic Cuts special, people will go back to a seminal time in hip-hop which many have called the ‘Golden Era’ – resulting in records that are as meaningful today as they were back then,” Fab 5 Freddy said. “In order to appreciate how far hip-hop has come, you have to pay respect to the songs and artists that helped catapult the genre from a small community of fans to world domination.”
“It’s a great moment to be re-connected with Yo! and examine the music that had a role in introducing hip-hop to music lovers globally,” Ed Lover said.
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05 Dec
”What’s Wrong With Selling Goodness?”
4:30PM ET November 17th, 2011
Contributor : Chris G.
A Rocky Williform Company
Russell Simmons has voiced his support for Jay-Z and Rocawear’s new line of “Occupy All Streets” T-shirt. Critics blasted the fashion statement as an example of corporate greed trying to capitalize on a movement of the people. The Occupy Wall Street movement is passionately against corporate greed, hence the controversy.
But Simmons sees no conflict in Rocawear selling the shirts.
“What’s wrong with selling goodness? There’s nothing wrong with it,” Russell Simmons said. “Jay-Z didn’t make a T-shirt [that said] ‘F**k the Bums on the Street. He wrote a T-shirt ‘Occupy All Streets’ – I’m happy, it furthers the movement, it inspires the movement.”
“I’m going to get every corporation that wants to support us to get branding as part of the process,” Russell Sioms said. “No one’s against business. We’re against business having too much control over our government.”
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