The Wu & J. Cole Cover The Source...

...for their annual "Green Issue" which drops March 23rd. Being a Wu-Tang fan, I think it goes without saying that I'm looking forward to the release of Wu-Massacre. Then there's the Roc Nation's golden child, J. Cole. I know I've said it before but the more I hear from Mr. Cole, the more excited I get about his debut album. Anywho, here's the latest from the Ville's very own...

J. Cole - Who's World Is This

This is off of that wacktacular XXL Freshman '10 mixtape.

J. Cole - Knock On Wood Freestyle

Mr. Cole goes in over Common's "Go".

Young Chris - Still The Hottest ft. J. Cole

This is off of Chris’ upcoming mixtape, The Network 2. "Get back to rap you niggas Twitter too much" (c) J. Cole

Joell Ortiz - Call Me Ft. Novel...

Damn, this shit brings back memories...

Download: Joell Ortiz - Call Me ft. Novel

Is it still like this for kids today? Probably not...I'm so glad I didn't grow up with MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and all this other bullshit. I mean really, nothing beats those "Do you like me?" notes from back in the day. I swear these kids are losing. I just don't think that 10 or 20 years from now kids are look back on certain aspects of their childhood with the same sense of nostalgia that the generations before have. What are they gonna reminiscence about? "Man, I remember when Keisha accepted my friend request" <--See, that just sounds stupid...or I'm just old. Oh well, all we are is dust in the wind...

"You'd just come to school on half days and all that,
just to see that little girl right there,
remember I just used to go home & think about her, youknowhatImean?
might hump the bed sometimes on her, youknowhatImean?
word, those days man, those were the good ol days right there G"

(c) Ghostface Killah - Child's Play

How Does It Feel...

...to get arrested for soliciting a $40 blowjob from an undercover cop posing as a prostitute? I have no clue...but the ladies' man D'Angelo does.

I'm sure you've heard he was arrested this past weekend after allegedly offering a woman $40 for oral sex. Supposedly he was riding through the West Village at about 2:30am in a Range Rover with $12,000 in cash when he spotted what he thought was a prostitute.

SMH, there's so many things wrong with this story. The only reason I posted this was because I wanted to point out how quickly things change. Not too long ago there were quite a few chicks that would've paid D'Angelo $40 to give him head, now look at him. I just don't get it...despite the fact he looks like the R&B version of The Soloist I would still think he'd be able to get "free" head. Hell I've never had a hit single, a Grammy or a video where I'm showing off my (non-existent) six pack while standing on a giant turntable covered in Crisco and I don't even have to pay for head...go figure.

Drake - Over...

Here's the much anticipated 1st single off of Drake's upcoming debut album, Thank Me Later...

Drake - Over (produced by Boi-1da)

New Young Jeezy, Usher, Little Brother, Fabolous....

Fabolous - All The Way Turnt Up Freestyle
I swear I've been dying to hear at least one more rapper spit over this beat. Off of Fab's upcoming mixtape with DJ Drama, There Is No Competition 2.

Usher - Venus vs Mars
Okay, so here's some career advice for you Mr. Raymond...
1.) Get back with Chili, cheat on her so she can dump you, then go record an album about the whole thing.
2.) Stop wearing leather capris.

Young Jeezy - Lose My Mind ft. Plies
Ahh yes, I can see it now...hood chicks throughout the USA will be in the clubs this summer rockin' their House of Dereon track suits, smelling like grape blunt paper and Hennessy while bussin' it wide open to this song.

Method Man, Ghostface Killah & Raekwon - Criminology 2.5
When I first heard these three were talking about doing an album, I thought it would take about as long as OB4CL2 took to come out. Well I was wrong...March 30th.

Little Brother - Curtain Call
This is off of LeftBack, LB's last album. *tear drop* It's just not fair...OJ Da Juiceman is still rapping but Little Brother is calling it quits. The end of days is upon us.

The 10 Freshmen of 2010 Cover XXL...

...for the April 2010 issue.

If you remember, last year XXL completely dropped the ball by excluding both Nicki Minaj and Drake off of their highly debated list of emerging emcees. So this year they asked both of the Young Money members to join the "Freshmen Class of 2010" and if you haven't noticed by looking at the cover above, they declined. I'm not sure who thought it would be a good idea to even ask them to appear on this list after snubbing them last year...probably the same person who was too slow to put them on it the first time around.

I think XXL shot themselves in the foot with this whole "10 Freshman" thing to begin with. By giving the Freshman class a specific number they've put themselves in a position where they have to try and fill 10 spots every year. As result, people like OJ Da Juiceman make the cut....



Yep, you heard it correctly. He just rhymed "basketball player" with "basketball player". Smfh....chances are that shit was ghostwritten.

Anywho, they should just call it "The Freshmen Class of (Whatever Year)" without including a specific number of artist. That way they can only include artists that are truly worthy of being featured, whether it's 3 or 10.

Head over to XXL to read about these up and coming artists, who with the exception of J. Cole, Nipsey Hu$$le and Big Sean probably won't be around this time next year.

Doza's PSA: KILLER Whales Can KILL You...

By now I'm sure you've heard about Dawn Brancheau, a veteran trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, being killed by 2 time convicted human murderer, Tilikum the Killer Whale last week. If not go here. Let me just say that I'm pretty sure someone is going to take this post the wrong way....*Kanye shrug*.


It's unfortunate that she lost her life and my prayers go out to her husband and her family. With that said, being a Killer Whale trainer has to have it's fair share of occupational hazards, death being among the many. I'm not trying to be insensitive, but the fact that the media keeps making this out to be some sort of unimaginable "accident" is bearing on the side of plain insanity. It's not like a pack of vicious Geese pecked this woman to death while she was leaving Walmart...nothing about what happened with Tilikum should be considered unnatural or come as a surprise. Yet, you have people making statements like...

"It's just hard to fathom that this has happened." - Mike Wald, a spokesman for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration office in Atlanta.

No it's not Mike...a Killer Whale killing anything seems pretty natural to me. You know what doesn't seem natural to me?

Swag Surfin' on a Killer Whale's back...

...askin' a Killer Whale to 'Signal The Plane' or 'Pon de' River'...

...or reenacting scenes from Dirty Dancing with a Killer Whale...
....all of that shit should be hard to fathom Mike. Leave it up to man and his "conquer all, I'm the superior species" attitude to think that the things above are okay.

Jack Hannah had the most logical response to this whole thing: "What happened is something that happens; it happens in our line of work....they are dangerous animals; they're wild animals."

The bottom line here is a wild animal, that we happen to call a Killer Whale, being kept in a big ass bathtub when it's used to swimming up to 100 miles a day in the open ocean, being "trained" to splash water on children so corporations like Sea World can make millions of dollars in profit, is bound to cause harm to people at some point. Whether the harm caused is intentional or accidental is irrelevant because the end result is the same.

The messed up part about this whole thing is that I don't think Tilikum killed her on purpose. He was probably just playing with her on some "Ha, ha, you're it" type of shit. But unfortunately if you're ever in a situation where a 12,300-pound Killer Whale decides to play "it' with you, death is pretty much inevitable. Leading to my point...

Killer Whales are too damn big and too damn dangerous to be held in captivity, let alone be turned into circus acts. Free Willy (No Luke). But what does SeaWorld do? Three days after their veteran trainer's death, they slap together a brief video montage of her and get back to business as usual.