Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

[DTX3]

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Yup, long wait but it will be worth it, Dre never disappoints. I just can't wait for something to leak, also has anyone heard how his new headphones are? i temped to get them but $300 seems too much.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I agree 100%.

Didn't even know Dre had new headphones. Anybody got pics of them?

[DTX3]

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Im on my cell but google Beats by Dre, Game promoted them(surprising) on the Dope Boys video.

[rockchisler]

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No pics of em but Best Buy is going to be selling them. Also the Dre Album release this year, is a interscope marketing person, they said they are gearing up for it so it better to hear it from them then a rapper saying its coming soon...

[DTX3]

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That's awesome, any legit track list out? on and there's pics of them, there's also a website.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Might have to pass due to that $350 price tag lol

Might have to stop through Best Buy one day and give em a listen.

Any word on what the first single is gonna be off Detox?

[ProfessaPackMan]

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http://www.sixshot.com/news/12229/

Joe Budden will be giving his fans a chance to watch him wrap up his long awaited sophomore album titled Padded Room.

Budden and his label, Amalgam Digital, will offer a live webcast of the rapper's final studio session for Padded Room on Thursday (August 21) from 4pm-7pm ET via Amalgam Digital TV.

Padded Room, which hits stores on October 28th, will be Budden's first official release in 5 years.

The first single off Padded Room is “Touch & Go” . Budden will be releasing a video for the song in September.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Santana has been embroiled in behind-the-scenes contractual turmoil with his onetime mentor Cam'ron.

He recently got out of his legal obligation to Cam's Diplomat Records. Cam actually broke the news to New York radio personality Miss Info, saying he'd sold Juelz's contract over to the label for a handsome price.

"I was upset about the part of me being 'sold for $2 million,' " Santana told MTV. "At times like this, nobody is trying to 'sell' me. I could have come out and said, 'Oh, yeah, Cam got bought out.' But I didn't go that route. They just gotta watch me move. We gonna make it hot."

Rest of the interview available here:
www.hiphopstan.com/index.php?module=newsDetail&id=575&idCategory=1

[DTX3]

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Yeah, 350 is a lot but i heard Dre took longer to get these done then Detox lol, so you ain't gettin anything ***. My bday is coming up, might treat myself to these

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Damn, even Jay got his own pair of headphones coming soon lol:

Hip-Hop mogul Jay-Z may be in a deal with Motorola, as a pair of "JayZ" headphones were recently approved by the FCC. According to CNet.com, the JayZ headphones allow the simultaneous use of a Bluetooth audio device and a cellphone. If you're listening to music and your phone rings, you can opt to transfer the call to your headphones and when you hang up, the music resumes. While there's no official confirmation of Jay-Z's involvement in the product, the mogul, who recently placed second of Forbes listing of the richest Hip-Hop artists, also had a deal with Nokia in 2004, which resulted in the production of the Black Phone.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Queensbridge MC Nas has been blessing his fans with his brand of thought provoking story telling for years. Now the rapper is issuing a challenge to his lyrical brethren to highlight more than just their "jet setting" lifestyles in their rhymes.

yoraps.com

[ProfessaPackMan]

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20 years later after a Classic is dropped

Published: Monday - August 18, 2008
Words by Ronnie Gamble

This month marks 20 years since N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton changed the landscape of mainstream hip-hop. After that album was released, hip-hop was changed forever, and even today, the genre is feeling the effects.

Ice Cube -- one of the group's original members, alongside Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella -- reflected on the classic album recently, via an interview with the LA Times, calling it one of his proudest moments.

"I'm proudest of the impact of the record," Cube told the paper. "The thing that people don't talk about, really, is that it opened artists up to being themselves in a lot of ways. They didn't have to try to figure out what to do or be to become stars, they could just be themselves. ... After N.W.A, you didn't have to put on the polish to be a star."

"They know every word," he added. "That music is still echoing, which nobody could have predicted. That's what I'm proudest of, the impact that we had. N.W.A changed the rules."

Despite all the success the Straight Outta Compton album resulted in for Ice Cube, he admits that, at the time, those thoughts didn't even cross him, or his group members' minds. To them, they were making music for their friends that would never be heard outside the hood.

According to Cube, the album's success was just as surprising to the 39-year-old hip-hop superstar as anyone else at the time.

"We were coming from a straight, pure place," he explained. "We thought our music was going to land on the shelves with the dirty comedy albums. The blues stuff. We never thought our music could possibly get above the underground. That wasn't part of the plan, believe me. Did we expect to get rich or turn the industry on its ear? We were doing music we thought our buddies up the street might like.

"When I was 16, if someone asked me what kind of career and life I wanted to have, I would have shortchanged myself. If I wrote it out then, it wouldn't have come close to the reality. There was no template then, no way to picture where hip-hop was going to go."

Still though, today, as he listens to the music he made as a teenager, he understands why people loved it. But if you ask him at what point in time he was in his prime, musically, he says it's yet to come.

"Looking back on things, you know, it's not the healthiest thing to do, right? Especially when you're only 39. I still feel like my best work is ahead of me. But going back and listening, I understand why people liked N.W.A. I understand why it changed things. I liked it too."

As you look around the crowded hip-hop community these days, the impact of N.W.A. is there in plain sight. Talking about one's troubled upbringings from their inner-city environments are pretty much a prerequisite for a rapper's album these days. And if a rapper doesn't have a hood certified background, it's an imaginary one. However, one thing is clear, N.W.A. helped usher in that type of music into the homes of everyone across America. Even 50 Cent and his G-Unit crew recently created their own version of the title track from the N.W.A. album -- there's being "Straight Outta Southside."

Ice Cube hasn't strayed far from the type of music he started on either. The legacy continues on Tuesday (August 19) with the release of his next solo album, Raw Footage, which is sure to bring the vintage Ice Cube everyone has grown to love.

[Flyboy]

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Rest of the interview available here:
www.hiphopstan.com/index.php?module=newsDetail&id=575&idCategory=1

*marks out for Santana*

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Mixtape Messiah 4 Tracklist

MIXTAPE MESSIAH 4 TRACKLIST
1. THE HORROR FLICK INTRO
2. GO HARD
3. FIRE DRILL
4. ROLL CALL RELOADED FEAT. EVERYBODY
5. THE REAL THANG
6. ALL AROUND THE WORLD
7. DO IT FOR H TOWN FEAT. SLIM THUG & TRAE
8. SKIT 1 (ROY WOOD JR)
9. INTERNET NERDS REVENGE
10. FIRE Featuring Famous
11. HERO
12. MY DREAM Feat AKON
13. BAY AREA SKIT
14. GOTTA BE PLAYA FEAT FAMOUS
15. NOT YOUR BABY
16. ANSWER MACHINE 3
17 THE GREATEST
18. SKIT 2 (ROY WOODS JR)
19. ON THE GRIND HOMIE
20. MY LIFE FEAT TRAE & SLIM THUG
21. MIDDLE FINGER UP

MIXTAPE MESSIAH 4 BONUS SONGS

1. WHAT THE BUSINESS IS
2. WHO HOTTER THAN ME FEAT. FAMOUS
3. LOVIN WHAT YA SEE
4. KILLA KYLEON-CADDILAC & BENZ FEAT. KOOPA
5. PUT ON FOR HOUSTON
6. SHE'S WATCHIN ME SKIT
7. I'D RATHER GET BREAD
8. FIRE DRILL SKILL
9. FLOW SO SICK -KILLA KYLEON
10. TOP DOWN MONEY UP
11. BLOCK ON SMASH
12. NEVER -KILLER MIKE
13. DIAMONDS EXPOSED BREAK
14. 2 REAL -LIL FLIP FEAT. CHAMILLIONAIRE
15. 2 MPH FEAT. BUN B PAUL WALL & CHAMILLIONAIRE
16. THIS ISN'T LIFE OUTRO

[ProfessaPackMan]

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With a dissatisfaction with the state of Hip Hop seemingly at an all time, another veteran emcee is weighing in on the game in the 21st century. In a recent interview with The Press Association, Method Man says that Hip Hop was better in the '90s—and backs up his allegation by citing several artists.

"The music was way more grounded than it is today. Today, you don't feel the movement. Back then, you felt the movement," he says.

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