Chester French - Jacques Jams, Vol. 1: Endurance...

So...Who the hell is Chester French?

Chester French is a band made up of two members, Max and D.A., both Harvard grads. The band, who named themselves after sculptor Daniel Chester French (who designed the statue at the Lincoln Memorial), sparked a bidding war between Kanye and Pharrell before landing on Star Trak records about 2 years ago. Their sound is kind of retro influenced pop rock.....Clinton Sparks described it as "putting The Beatles and Outkast together." This mixtape will allow those who haven't been exposed to the sound of Chester French an opportunity to "get familiar". There's a wide range of guest appearances including Diddy, Pharrell, Jermaine Dupri, Wale, Bun B, Talib Kweli, Mickey Factz, Cassie, Solange, Janelle Monae, N.O.R.E., Kardinal Offishall, Pusha-T of The Clipse, Common, Lady GaGa, Ben Lyons and The Mad Rapper.

Shout out to Reese (www.100styles.com ...get familiar) and D Grizzle for tweeting/talking about these guys...I would probably still be sleeping on them if they hadn't.

Download link and tracklist after the jump...

Btw the full name of the mixtape is...

Chester French & Clinton Sparks Present: Jacques Jams, Vol. 1: Endurance - Get Familiar with Chester French

They just released their debut album, Love the Future...so if you're feeling their mixtape go cop the album.

This Only Promotes The Stereotype...

Sooooo...Popeyes had a special last Wednesday for Earth Day, 8 pieces of chicken for $4.99. Many locations ran out of chicken....all hell broke loose as a result.


Memorable Quotes:
"We can't feed our kids?....because yall didn't order enough chicken..."
"It's very disappointing, I wanted some chicken today."
"They should've had a stockpile of chicken for this day."
"They should've had a tractor trailer out back....with extra chicken....on ice."
"I was trying to feed my family tonight. I can't get that bucket in now."

*sigh*

Thanks a lot ABC. Why would you as a Black person sit up there and do an interview for this?

Side Note: The real question is wtf does Popeye's chicken have to do with Earth Day?

Look What You've Done...

Beyoncé's thriller Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction Obsessed, came in at #1 at the box office, raking in an estimated $28.5 million over the weekend. It reportedly brought in $11 million its opening night.

*sigh* Why Beyoncé fans? Why?

You know what this means right? More Sasha Fierce movies are on the way. Look, Beyoncé can definitely sing, I'm not denying that. She can definitely make hits...I even find myself nodding to half of her songs when they come on, and that Diva beat was sick as hell. (Did I just type that? Must go back and erase)...but the woman can not act.

C'mon...everybody knows this movie was destined for a straight to TV/DVD release. All they had to do was replace Idris with Leon and that would've been it. Do you know what the name of this movie was before they changed it to Obsessed?

The original title was...

Oh No She Didn't

.....if that shit doesn't scream BET Blackbuster movie, then I don't know what does. Unfortunately, I'm not making this up, just go to the 'Additional Details' section of IMDB.

She Came Back For You...

No...that's not Jackie Chan, or the woman from Memoirs of a Geisha, it's Lil' Kim.

Question: Does Lil Kim have any friends? I mean at least one real friend? Because if she did she wouldn't be walking around like this.

Hey ladies, just imagine it's Friday night and you and your girls are getting ready to go out. Everybody's meeting up at your place and your best friend shows up looking like this.

Let me guess...your reaction would be somewhere between...

"Hey bitch, go wash your face."

and

"Hey bitch, go wash your face before we go."

More pics...

The Foreign Exchange - Take Off The Blues/Valediction...

...featuring Darien Brockington.

In the words of Clinton Sparks, "Get Familiar".....ASAP.

This is off of the The Foreign Exchange's latest release Leave It All Behind. Btw for those of you who have no idea who the hell Foreign Exhange is, it's a group made up of Phonte (of Little Brother) and Dutch producer Nicolay.

Sorry no Pretty Ricky over this way, they're Patrón....this is Don Julio...a lot smoother.

New Fabolous, Elzhi, Lil' Wayne & Drake...

Fabolous Ft. The-Dream - Throw It In The Bag
Is it me or is The-Dream the new R. Kelly minus the urine?

Fabolous Ft. Jeremih - It's My Time
Don't know who Jerimih is? He's the one who made that greazy ass song "Birthday Sex".

Lil Wayne & Drake - I’m Goin’ In
Short, sweet and straight to the point.

Elzhi - Deep (prod. by Black Milk)
Stop sleeping on Elzhi and Black Milk.

Random Quote: Hulk Hogan...

Hulk Hogan recently talked to Rolling Stone about his divorce to Linda Bollea, whom he has been married to for 24 years. He also discussed his feelings regarding her relationship with her boyfriend, Charlie Hill, and how he can relate to America's favorite Bronco drivin', isotona wearing, knife wielding, NFL hall-of-famer...

“I could have turned everything into a crime scene, like OJ, cutting everybody’s throat."

"You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can’t go to anymore, you’re driving through downtown Clearwater [Florida] and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, and you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife....I totally understand OJ. I get it.”

A Few Things...

1.) He better pray to whoever he believes in, that Linda and her boyfriend never go missing and/or are found brutally murdered. Can you say prime suspect? The only thing the prosecutor will have to do is bring this interview up and he'll be putting on exhibition matches in the confines of prison....red underwear and all.


2.) Do you know how he found out that his wife was divorcing him? No, it wasn't thru a phone call or text, that would've been great. A newspaper reporter asked him about the divorce. He didn't know what the reporter was talking about, so the reporter informed him that his wife had filed for a divorce. His response:

"Holy smokes....wow, you just knocked the bottom out of me."

How shitty is that? Everybody knew his wife was divorcing him before he did. That's the kind of information you should know before anybody else, let alone the general public. That's like somebody walking up to you and being like...

"Hey man, how are you handling that Chlamydia?"

...and you have no idea what they're talking about...that is until you go get tested.


3.) He's a very strong guy emotionally, considering the fact that he hasn't touched Linda and Charlie. I mean that's pretty fucked up...his wife left him for one of his daughter's former high school classmates. No seriously, the guy went to school with his daughter. Think about it, 15 years ago this kid was probably walking around wearing Hulkamania Fruit of Looms and calling everybody "Brother". Now he's driving Mr. Hogan's Escalade around town and giving his wife back shots in his 20,000 sq. ft. mansion.


4.) Fuck O.J. Simpson.

I was in high school when the whole O.J. murder trial was going on. I remember when he got aquitted...Black people everywhere where jumping around like slavery had just been abolished.

For what? It wasn't a victory for anybody. Especially not Black people. O.J. didn't give a shit about you then and he doesn't give a shit about you now. I'm not 100% sure if he did it....I'm only about 99.9% sure, but he got off anyway because he was rich and able to acquire the representation of the brilliant Johnny Cochran (R.I.P.) and his defense team.

And what did O.J. "If I Did It, Here's How It Happened book writing ass" Simpson do years down the line?

Get locked up.

Karma...course correction...

Kanye's Louis Vuitton Ad Campaign...

Look at Amber getting her model on. She's definitely benefiting from this relationship...traveling around the world, modeling and who knows what's next. I'm not mad at her...in the words of the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates....

"We just using what we got to get what we want."

...oh wait, that was that wack ass stripper from The Player's Club. Anywho, more pics after the jump....

Btw Kanye's Black Louis Vuitton Jasper's > Kanye's Black Air Yeezy's

Clipse Ft. Kanye West - Kinda Like A Big Deal...

Dope x Dope + Dope =
Clipse Ft. Kanye West - Kinda Like A Big Deal

Mr. Pro Sports Heckler Guy...

This past weekend was pretty amazing for sports fans across ChicaGo. The Bulls beat Boston, the Cubs beat the Cardinals, the White Sox beat the Rays and the Blackhawks beat the Flames.

If your team got their ass kicked by one of those teams......that's life, get over it.

I know...when you were a kid, more often than not parents, teachers and coaches touted the mantra "everyone's a winner". Well, we're all adults now and we know that's bullshit.....for every winner there's a loser. Unfortunately, life is just like sports in a lot of ways....mainly because there tends to be a lot more losers than winners.

Luckily in life there aren't angry and disgruntle fans there to defame, embarrass, disrespect and curse you out when you're losing. But it's another story when it comes to sports....

Bud Light's Real Men of Genius - Mr. Pro Sports Heckler Guy

People Who Made More Money...

...than me & you last year were recently profiled in Parade magazine's annual "What People Earn" issue. The people they profiled were pretty random...

Beyoncé - $80 million
If she keeps on acting instead of singing this number will decrease significantly. ..

The trailer for Obsessed looks terrible (at least the scenes with Mrs. Fierce). I swear I've shitted turds with better acting skills than Sasha Fierce. Okay, not so much...but watching her act is like going to watch a 2nd grade play. It's terrible, kids are fuckin up lines left and right, they sound like they're reading their lines right off a piece of paper for the first time and they make it blatantly obvious when the script instructs them to "act" sad, angry or happy. Despite all of that, everyone claps and cheers when its over because they're just kids....and with time they may get better.

Well, Sasha's not a kid....she's 27. She's not in the 2nd grade. I'm not clapping. I'm not cheering...and with time she won't get better.


Will Ferrell - $31 million
He deserves every penny...this man is hilarious. Old School, Anchorman, Semi-Pro, Step Brothers....me and my brothers quote his movies religiously...it's like damn cult. Shout out to Jay, D, Tense, Reese & Red.


Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger - $100,000
Name doesn't ring a bell? Well, as much as I love G.I. Joes, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is a Real American Hero. He's the pilot that safely landed a fuckin Airbus A320 on the Hudson River in New York and did it better than 90% of the drivers in the America parallel park.

Btw, this was the first time in about 50 years that a major aircraft crash-landed in the water and every passenger on board made it out alive.


Jennifer Aniston - $27 million
How?!?!?...WTF did she do last year besides make Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt voodoo dolls? Oh, she made the movie Marley & Me. Again...wtf did she do last year?


Tina Fey - $4.6 million
This is an obvious sign that the planets aren't aligned. Tina Fey is 10x > Jennifer Aniston on any given day, yet Jen made more money than her.


Tyler Perry - $125 million
I'm not a big fan of his movies....okay, I'm not a fan of his movies at all. But I respect the brother because he's the epitome of making something out of nothing. He overcame abuse, saved up $12,000 to put on his first play and even after dropping out of high school at 16, he was smart enough to just get a distribution deal with Lionsgate Entertainment so he retains full ownership of his movies.


Rob "Nino Brown" Blagojevich - $177,400 (legally)
He still got it 4 cheap...if you're looking for beige and green and the diesel....or just a Senate seat. Blago's theme song in 4, 3, 2,......


Sarah Palin - $125,000
*Sigh* Why?
She can see Russia from her house in Alaska and she thinks the Earth was created 6,000 yrs ago and both, men and dinosaurs, coexisted. For those of you who don't see anything wrong with that timeline let me educate you...

The Earth and the other planets in our solar system were formed about 4.54 billion years ago. Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago. The genus which humans are part of is estimated to be about 2.5 million years old, while modern humans are believed to have evolved between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago.

This is just disrespectful to Dinosaurs....and I like Dinosaurs. If I ever meet Sarah Palin I'm gonna punch her in the throat like I'm Liam Neeson in Taken.


Tiger Woods - $110 million
Tiger's a beast on the course but damn, he barely played last year. He spent most of the year rehabbing from knee surgery. You try spending 3/4 of the year off of work for knee surgery recovery and see what your income looks like.

Tiger's endorsement deals > FMLA


Michael Bloomberg - $1
Yeah you read it right....a dollar for the whole year of 2008 to be Mayor of New York city. Imagine going to your current job everyday and only making one dollar a year. You can't even fathom it can you?

Why?

It's probably because you don't like your job enough to just get paid one dollar a year...or it could be because you don't have a net worth of around $20 Billion. It's probably both.

Ever heard of Bloomberg L.P.? It's a financial software, news and data company and it's big, really big. Ummm...it's no coincidence that the company's name is the same as his.

New Drake, Rick Ross, KiD CuDi, Teairra Marie...

Drake - Funkmaster Flex Freestyle (4/16/09) via illroots
Decent...he goes in over "You, Me, Him & Her" and "Incarcerated Scarfaces"

Rick Ross - Valley of Death
"Keep it Trilla, nigga never had a gun and badge..." Damn it Ross! We've been through this already.

KiD CuDi - Higher (Imagine "Freestyle") via illroots
I don't get it...he raps like he just took Prozac, Ritalin and 6 shots of Don Julio.

Teairra Marie Ft. Kanye West - Diamonds
...only because I like to post songs in groups of four...this makes four.

Street Art by Edgar Mueller...

ICE AGE

My bawse emailed this to me and I thought it was pretty dope. I could be late, but this looks like something that Marcus Troy Kanye has probably posted on his site. Oh well, it's my first time seeing it...kind of makes me want to get back into drawing/art.

Edgar Müller - a Master of 3d Pavement Art - needed 5 days to the complete this huge picture. Together with up to five assistant he painted all day long from sun rise to set. The enormous illusion is reached by applying the anamorphic technique to a huge pavement painting. Around 250 square meter large this picture is part of Edgar's newest project. He paints over urban areas to give them a different look and thereby challenge the audience's perception.

Check out LAVABURST after the jump...

LAVABURST

Residential buildings and a couple of business are strung together. The look falls to an apparently quite normal street of a German, medium-sized town. But an apocalyptic scene offers itself to the observer. The floor has burst and lava flow into a raging sea there where cars ran once and the people followed their weekday. Nothing is like it once was. The superior elemental force forces its way. Appearances are deceptive. If one looks of the right point of view, Mueller's three-dimensional painting becomes the perfect illusion.

Go to www.metanamorph.com to see more pics of Edgar's work.

Eminem Covers XXL...

(click pics to enlarge)

In the June issue of XXL Eminem talks about Proof's death, drug addiction (surprise!), the current state of hip-hop and more specifically Lil' Wayne and T.I....

“I stayed up on the music, and obviously I watch TV and saw what was going on. And without naming any names, it just felt like hip-hop was going downhill. And it seemed like kinda fast. You know, in them three years, it was like everybody just cares about the hook and the beat; nobody really cares about substance. But with this new T.I. album, with this new Lil Wayne album of recent, it seems like things are looking a lot better now. You can appreciate Lil Wayne using different words to rhyme and actually rhyming words that you know. Or T.I., where you hear shit and you’re like Whoa, ah, I wish I would have thought of that! You know what I mean? Or you hear all the compound-syllable rhyming and all that. It just seems like now the craft is getting cared about more.”

Is it me or does it sound like he was trying really hard to find something good to say about Lil' Wayne?..."using different words to rhyme and actually rhyming words that you know." Really? A rapper that uses different words to rhyme and words that you know? That's some groundbreaking shit right there...rap is truly evolving as we speak.

Question: Does Em really like Wayne's music or is he just mentioning him because he's what's "hot" right now? I wish Em was as critical about other rappers as he is about other celebrities. He says he felt hip-hop was going downhill but he doesn't wanna name anybody in reference to that. Why not? He doesn't have any problems calling out the names of movie and pop stars for things that have absolutely nothing to do with the desecration of his beloved art form, hip-hop.

Ivy League - Everywhere...

...directed by Da Visionaryz.

It's OFFICIAL!!!...Ivy League Muh-Fucka!!! (c) Kane.

If you're not familiar with "The League" do yourself a favor and head over to www.ivyleagueil.com.

"Everywhere", the single can be purchased on iTunes, Rhapsody, and Amazon.

Throwback: Al B. Sure! - Off On Your Own (Girl)...

Ahh yes...the invasion of the yellow brothers. This was around the time where if you were light skinned, had "good hair", a hi-top fade and could do the running man, you had an 85% chance of getting a record deal as an R&B singer.

What's funny is that...


...this song was hot shit back then despite the fact that Al really couldn't sing or dance, this song was over-saturated with unnecessary random squeaks and laughs, and he had 3 eyebrows. A lot of people call it a uni brow by default, but a uni brow is when both eyebrows connect to make one continuous "brow". Mr. Sure clearly had a brow for his left eye, his right eye and a separate brow for his nose...3 eyebrows. Well I guess the middle one would technically be a nose brow...is there a name for that? Hmm...tribrow? Okay back to the song...

Al B. Sure - Get Off On Your Own (Girl)

Throughout this song he just randomly says shit like "oooh", "hee", "woo", "haha" and around the 2:27 mark he just goes into a "hee, hee, woo, haha" frenzy.

As if the "ooh hees" weren't enough, Al's former flame pisses him off to the point where he completely loses his cool...

"What's up with that? You got me on hold? What, you think you dope on a rope?....Nope!!! What, I'm suppose to sweat you? You suppose to just run all over me? Zero!!! On the strength..."

Did you really have to go there Al? You cold Al, you cold...now, any of you ladies wanna play Al after hearing that verbal ass whooping?

Didn't think so.

...and then there was the video.

So what's Al up to nowadays?

He's currently a DJ on Los Angeles radio station HOT 92.3 (KHHT) playing old school and R&B, on weekdays from 10am - 1pm. Mr. Sure is also rumored to have a new album, Honey I'm Home, which is supposed to be released sometime in 2009 (keep your fingers crossed).

Oh, btw does anybody remember his version of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly"? Yeah he remade it...it was pretty bad.

Update: Apparently Al B. wasn't too involved in his son Quincy's upbringing....so Quincy decided to write Mr. Sure a public letter. Click Here to read it.

Cassie Is...

...a very talented singer with the voice of an angel either bored and desperately seeking attention or she lost a bet.

It's probably both, I'm sure early in her career she made a bet with someone. She probably bet whoever that she'd have a very long and lucrative career as a singer and her voice would be compared to the likes of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston.

Sooo, we know how that turned out....

But hey, she's still fine even with half of her damn head shaved off. Who am I kidding? She could have a damn Soul Glo curl and I'd still smash.

Eminem's Predictable Return...

I'm sure by now you know that Em's video for "We Made You", the 1st single off of Relapse, was released last week. The Internet went nuts and the video was posted everywhere...you couldn't have missed it if you tried to.

Well, after I saw/heard it I decided that I wasn't in a hurry to post it. Matter of fact, I didn't even finish watching the video.

Why?...

His 1st single isn't anything out of the norm and it's exactly what you would expect from Eminem...and that's the problem.

The single and the video used the safe, cookie cutter, run of the mill formula that Em has been using for his 1st singles since "The Real Slim Shady". The crazy, insulting, pop celebrity ridden, jingle just isn't entertaining anymore. Not to mention that this song, in comparison to his other 1st singles, is pretty bad. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Em's music and I'm sure that his album is gonna be amazing, but I feel like he's gotten wayyy too comfortable with this "formula". At this point you have to wonder...

"How hard is it for Eminem to write a song where he makes fun of random pop stars and celebrities?"

Em is too talented to stick to a formula. Anybody who's ever listened to an Em album in its entirety, knows the type of material that this man is capable of writing. Some people might say "if it ain't broke don't fix it...that's what he does"...well, what if every artist just did the same thing. Just imagine how lame it would be if every time your favorite rapper dropped an album, the 1st single was based on a standard formula. I relegate that type of behavior to one hit wonders with no talent; those who are trying to recreate/emulate their initial success. When a talented artist releases a single for their upcoming album, the last thing that it should do is remind you of the 1st single off of their previous album. Just take a look at the artists below and the 1st official singles off of their albums...as you read them think about the first time you heard those singles and what your initial thoughts were...

Biggie
Juicy, Hypnotize

Kanye
Through The Wire, Gold Digger, Can't Tell Me Nothin', Love Lockdown

Outkast
Player's Ball, Elevators (Me & You), Rosa Parks, B.O.B., Hey Ya & The Way You Move

T.I.
I'm Serious, 24's, Bring Em' Out, What You Know, Big Shit Poppin', Whatever You Like

Jay-Z
Dead Presidents, Sunshine, Do It Again (Put Ya Hands Up), H-to-the-Izzo, Excuse Me Miss, Change Clothes, Show Me What You Got, Blue Magic

Lil' Wayne
The Block Is Hot, Get Off The Corner, Way of Life, Go DJ, Fireman, Lollipop

Whatever you may have thought, I'm sure it wasn't "aw here we go again...," I know I didn't feel like that the first time I heard those singles. But that's exactly how I felt when I heard "We Made You". Em's been off of the music scene for quite some time and I felt like this was his opportunity to reintroduce himself and break away from that formula that he's become accustomed to...oh well, so much for that.

Em, 50 and Dre might wanna sit down and re-evaluate their game plan regarding their approach to music. 50 who's busy being Pimpin' Curly, has yet to release a hit single and keeps pushing his album back as a result. I could be wrong, but Em's 1st single has failed to generate any excitement towards the release of Relaspe. Then there's Dre's Detox which at this point, seems like it'll come out right around the time Dre is eligible to receive Social Security benefits.

Just in case you missed it...

RoboRoss - Maybach Music II

Ft. T-Pain, Kanye West & Lil' Wayne.
This is alright....I still like the first version with Jay better.

RoboRoss Ft. T-Pain, Kanye & Lil' Wayne - Maybach Music II

The main reason I'm posting this is because despite the fact that I think RoboRoss has the imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien, he's actually putting out music. I'm sure you know about the whole 50 vs Ross beef by now. While 50 is making new age black exploitation youtube videos, Ross is moving on along and doing what rappers do....make rap music.

50 can come out with all of the Pimpin' Curly videos he wants, take Ross' baby mama shopping a 1,000 times and post pics of Ross at his CO graduation ceremony, but if he fails to release any hits and his album does worse than Ross'....he Loses. Bawse.

While Ross is in the studio, this is what 50 is doing...

Keyshia Cole & Tahiry Cover KING...

The upcoming June issue of KING will be its last...I don't think anyone is really surprised. I used to buy KING, along with XXL, all the time. Then I discovered this mystical device called a laptop and I hooked it up to this phenomenal source of information called the internet...and I haven't bought a lot of shit since.

Oh well, as you might of noticed my favorite hood chick, Keyshia Cole, graces cover 1 of 2. Man, you just gotta love a chick that rocks a weave ponytail that's as long as her legs. She's hot, but what's up with that awkward ass pose? I'm really tryin' to figure out what the hell the photographer said to make her pose like that...

"Okay....look fierce...but keep your mouth open...like you're slow and about to drool on yourself....perfect...now imagine you just hurt your back movin' furniture..."

It's not your fault Keyshia, I still love you. Oh, the other chick is Tahiry. You know, Joe Budden's girlfriend? You know, the guy from the awesome group Slaughterhouse? He just dropped an album, Padded Room.....I liked it. Still not ringin' a bell....nevermind. Well Joe was nice enough to release a video snippet of her XXL photo shoot, check it out after the jump...

Young Money - Every Girl...

*NSFW Language*

I was expecting a little more than this considering the fact that it took them forever to release this video.

Just in case you don't have it already...
Young Money (Lil' Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda & Mac Maine) - Every Girl

Random Quote: Bryan 'Baby' Williams...

Baby recently talked to VIBE about Lil' Wayne's upcoming album Rebirth and Wayne's status in music...

“He can rap, he can sing, he’s just an artist...I don’t think no one will ever be greater [than Wayne] because we're lovers I don’t think no one puts in the time or the quality. If someone do come along, can you imagine what he’ll have to do? He got to put out on thousand mixtapes, do a thousand records [and] sell 100 million records. 2Pac, Jay-Z and Biggie didn’t get to the shit Wayne’s done.”

You know I have a few things to say about this.


1.) First things first...2Pac and Biggie didn't get to do a lot of shit, including "the shit Wayne's done," because they were murdered while they were still in their prime.

2.) 100 million records?! I hope he was joking. Just so you know Michael Jackson's Thriller is the only album that's sold over a 100 million albums worldwide. Yep, that's just Thriller alone...that number doesn't include any of his other albums. The album behind that, Back In Black by AC/DC, doesn't even come close with 45 million albums sold worldwide.

3.) So what's the highest selling rap/hip-hop album ever? Technically it's the Love Below/Speakerboxx which sold an estimated 11 million albums. I personally don't count that because it was a double CD and 1 sale counts as 2. So what's the highest selling rap album behind it...Ready To Die with 10 million albums sold. Btw here's a little food for thought, Biggie only recorded 2 albums before being murdered and is considered one of the greatest and most influential rap artist of all time. If Wayne was murdered after Lights Out was released where would he rank in rap history? Exactly...he wouldn't.

UPDATE: I stand corrected on the highest selling rap/hip-hop album ever...check the comments.


4.) Pay homage and thank Jay-Z. Wayne said that Jay was a major influence on him and part of the reason he changed his style. If it wasn't for Jay's influence, Wayne would still be saying "wobblely" every 5 seconds, which would make him about as relevant as the rest of the Hot Boys right now. If that was the case you'd be at home right now broke as hell, playing co-op games with on Xbox Live.

5.) You're a grown ass man who calls himself "Baby," your opinion on any and everything is irrelevant.

6.) You call Wayne your "son"....he's 27yrs old and your 40yrs old. You both admittedly kiss each other on the mouth. I think your opinion is biased.

Go to VIBE to read the entire interview.

UPDATE: In response to the comment "I smell hate in the air"...


Free speaking to Baby: "So when you kiss a girl..."

Interrupted by Lil' Wayne: "Hey, I'm the only one he kiss."

Baby: "That's how I roll."

Hey Anonymous, I don't make this shit up....Game. Blouses. [(c)Dave Chappelle as Prince]

New Busta Rhymes, Rapper Big Pooh, Jadakiss, Crooked I...

Busta Rhymes Ft. OJ Da Juiceman & Gucci Man - Make The Trap Say Aye
Hip-hop Chevy ridin' D boys rejoice everywhere.

Busta Rhymes Ft. Lil' Wayne & Jadakiss - Conglomerate
Decent...

Rapper Big Pooh - Rear View Mirror (prod. 9th Wonder)
I still haven't listened to his album, but I'll get around to it.

Jadakiss Ft. Raekwon & Ghostface - Cartel Gathering

My fav track off of The Last Kiss...I'm tryin' to like Jada's album, but I don't think it's gonna happen. Kiss My Ass the mixtape > The Last Kiss the album.

Crooked I - Jackin' For Beats 2009
He didn't go in like I thought he would, but it was okay. Cube's version is pretty hard to top though.

Project Mayhem - Lo Sweatas...

For the people that don't know, I'm from Chicago. With that said I will promote local Chicago artists...if I like them. I actually fux with this.

Btw for any and everything regarding hip-hop/rap music in Chicago, go to www.fakeshoredrive.com

Which reminds me...Jay, what's the deal with The League's video for "Everywhere"?

Random Pics: Run D.M.C....

...was inducted into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame over the weekend. Eminem inducted them at the 24th Annual Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Public Hall in Celeveland, Ohio on Saturday.

I don't why I thought they had already been inducted. Video of the induction after the jump.

Kourtney Kardashian Should've Covered Maxim...

...instead they threw some wack chick from Watchmen on the cover. Although she isn't on the cover she's still in the magazine. For those of you who don't know who Kourtney is (because you have really awesome lives and don't keep up with half of the bullshit that I do), she's Kim Kardashian's older sister.

A lot of guys think that she looks better than Kim...what do I think? It really doesn't matter, I'd take either one. I'm actually aspiring to be a male groupie to a lot of famous women, Kardashian's included. Ya know, go to all the hot parties, have them pour champagne on me while I do the wop in VIP, take me back to their hotel room, have their way with me and kick me out in the morning. Maybe even give me a shout out in one of their R&B songs (call me Keri)...

More pics of Kourtney after the jump.

Go to Maxim.com to see more photos and read her Q&A.

Kanye's Shoes = Theo's Gordon Gartrelle Shirt...

"No 14-year-old boy should have a $95 shirt unless he's on stage with his 4 brothers" - Bill Cosby

You can go ahead and apply the same logic to Kanye's highly anticipated Nike Air Yeezy's and Louis Voutton sneakers. The Air Yeezys drop tomorrow and will retail for $215 and I'm sure by now you've heard about the pricing for the LV sneakers which drop sometime in June, and cost between $840 to $1,140. Now as far as his LV sneakers, I wouldn't expect them to cost $100...they're Louis Voutton. Now the Air Yeezy's are a totally different story, these are Nikes...$215?? Seriously?

At those prices, these shoes are gonna be some of the most bootlegged shoes in Louis Voutton and Nike's history.

But back to the Air Yeezy's, I know a lot of you are like "that's not that expensive...Kanye designed them...he be at fashion shows...I like his music...." Yeah, yeah, whatever, here's how I look at it...

Michael Jordan...you might've heard of him. He played basketball. Here are some of his stats:

• 2 Olympic Gold Medals


• 6 NBA Championships


• NCAA National Championship: 1982


• 5 NBA MVP Awards


• 6 NBA Finals MVP Awards


• 10x NBA Leading Scorer


• 10x All-NBA First Team


• All-NBA Second Team: 1984/85


• 14x NBA All-Star Game


• 3x NBA All-Star Game MVP


• 9x NBA All-Defensive Team


• NBA Defensive Player of the Year: 1987/88


• NBA Rookie of the Year: 1984/85


• 2x NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner


• ACC Freshman of the Year: 1982


• ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year: 1984


• USBWA College Player of the Year: 1984


• Naismith College Player of the Year: 1984


• John R. Wooden Award: 1984


• Adolph Rupp Trophy: 1984


• Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year: 1991


• Ranked #1 by SLAM Magazine's Top 75 Players of All-Time


• Ranked #1 by ESPN Sportscentury's Top 100 Athletes of the 20th century

Not bad huh? With that said, there's only been one pair of Jordans that retailed for $200 or more upon their initial nationwide release...The Air Jordan 17. So how did that turn out?...

"The Air Jordan 17 came with a Jumpman embossed metal carrying case...in the lid of the carrying case a CD-rom could be found."

"When you decide to add a metal case and a CD something tells you the production cost must rise quite a bit. This also seemed to be the case as the Air Jordan 17 had a retail price at $200. Retailers everywhere had problems convincing people that $200 for a pair of shoes was worth it and many retailers cut prices down to $160 which was the retail price of the Air Jordan 16."

via NiceKicks.com

So I guess my question is, has Ye' done for music what Jordan did for basketball?...

Btw, I know Theo got to keep the shirt...but, he was a 14yr old with no fiscal responsibilty whose father was a doctor and his mother was a lawyer. If that's your current situation, I only have one question...when you go to purchase your LV shoes could you pick me up a size 13 or 14 (not sure how LV shoes run)?

Lil' Wayne Covers Rolling Stone...

In the upcoming April issue of Rolling Stone Weezy F. talks about his rock star lifestyle, his upcoming rock album and no longer wanting to just be the "Greatest Rapper Alive"...

"Honestly? I don't want to be the best rapper in the world...if I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. But I want to be the best. Period. Now. My favorite rapper hasn't done what I'm doing."

Wayne goes on to explain how his life got to a point where he couldn't even rap about it. He described one particular night when he slept with multiple women and thought in the morning, "This is who I am now."

"The rock sh-- just comes from what my life is now. I've grown into this person...I woke up one morning and had three or four women in my bed where I not only didn't know their last names, I didn't know the beginning letter of their first names. All I know is, they're the most beautiful women in the world, and I was in my own place, in whatever city I as in. And I could have thrown a dart at the map, and I'd probably have a place there too. I knew my driver was waiting downstairs for me. When my nose finally cleared from all the weed I had smoked, I smelled food in the kitchen and I knew it was my chef. Then I look on my phone and see a message and know it's from a popular woman everyone knows. And when I went in the studio that night, I couldn't just rap, 'Yeah, n---a ... .' "

If you would've told me back in the day that a member of the Hot Boys, let alone Lil' Wayne, would even be mentioned with regards to being the "Greatest Rapper Alive" or in "Top 5 Rappers" I would've thought you were freebasing...or just from New Orleans.

Btw...he's still not in my Top 5, dead or alive.

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Drake > Wayne

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