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Lil Wayne Performing @ Power 105's Powerhouse

I liked seeing the full band that he says hes gonna employ for his new tour, and segueing from "Milli" into N.E.R.D.'s "Everyone Nose" was pretty cool. Rock Star indeed. Gotta love the Whitney Houston outro too.



Here's the first live performance I've seen of "Mr. Carter". Unfortunately, Jay-Z isn't performing it with him, even though they were in the same building.....There's a couple different stories floating around ranging from Wayne was too fucked up for Jays set so he didn't let him come out all the way to Wayne once again refused to go through security checks so he was late. Either way, I'm still hoping we get to see that moment at some point.

Ludacris' Theater of the Mind cover/tracklist

01. Call Up the Homies (Co-starring The Game & Willy NorthPole) (Produced By Clinton Sparks)
02. Do the Right Thing (Co-starring Common & Spike Lee) (Produced By 9th Wonder)
03. Everybody Hates Chris (Co-starring Chris Rock) (Produced By Don Cannon)
04. I Do It for Hip-Hop (Co-starring Nas & Jay-Z) (Produced By ???)
05. Last of a Dying Breed (Co-starring Lil Wayne) (Produced By Kids With Machine Gunz)
06. Let’s Stay Together (Produced By DJ Paul & Juicy J)
07. MVP (Produced By DJ Premier)
08. One More Drink (Co-starring T-Pain) (Produced By Trackmasters)
09. Southern Gangsters (Co-starring Playaz Circle & Rick Ross) (Produced By ???)
10. Undisputed (Co-starring Floyd Mayweather Jr.) (Produced By Don Cannon)
11. What Them Girls Like (Co-starring Chris Brown & Sean Garrett) (Produced By Darkchild)
12. Wish You Would (Co-starring T.I.) (Produced By DJ Toomp)
13. Nasty Girl (Co-starring Plies & Swizz Beatz) (Produced By Swizz Beatz)


via nahright, this is looking crazy. There is supposed rumor that the Jay and Nas track is produced by (!) DJ Premier, whens the last time you heard either of those two on a Primo track? Below is the track with Wayne, and yes, it kicks ass.


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Universal Mind Control cover/tracklist

1. Announcement feat. Pharrell
2. Punch Drunk Love feat. Kanye West
3. Make My Day feat. Cee-Lo Green
4. Sex for Sugar
5. Universal Mind Control feat. Pharrell
6. Gladiator
7. Changes
8. Inhale
9. What a World
10. Everywhere

Release Date: Dec. 9, same as 50's "Before I Self Destruct"?

As if you can't tell from the singles, this album has more of an electric feel. Common will release his next album with production handled entirely by Kanye West and Ye's mentor No I.D., due in '09.

808s & Heartbreak possible cover/tracklist

1. Welcome to Heartbreak
2. Heartless
3. Love Lockdown
4. Robocop
5. Anyway
6. Streetlights
7. Say You Will
8. Real Bad News
9. Amazin feat. Young Jeezy
10. Tell Everybody That You Know feat. Lil Wayne
11. Coldest Winter

Expected Release Date: November 25, same as Ludacris?

Kanye West- Coldest Winter

Supposedly the last song on Kanye's upcoming 808's & Heartbreak. I may be in the minority here but i love pretty much everything I've heard so far. I'm especially digging the tribal drums used on every track, juxtaposed with the synth overload I think It's gonna give the album a very cool feel. For the blatant haters and/or if your just not feeling it, he's releasing his next hip-hop oriented album in June of next year. An unfinished version of another track, Robocop, is on line now too. It sounds like how people would imagine Prince sounding in the future in the 1980's, if that makes any sense.

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Loaded Lux

loaded. hes comin.

Cory Gunz

the future.......he'll eat anyone and if he shits its the only way they comin back out.

It's Charles Hamilton Mixtape

Here it is, the 4th mixtape from Sonic in the "Hamiltonization Process" via 2dopeboyz. It might be his best one so far, most consistent anyways. It's just as good as "Outside Looking" with DJ Green Lantern. Who could hate on that cover art either? Most creative aping of Illmatic I've ever seen.

Jay-Z Interview w/ Tim Westwood

Gotta love his response to the Fat Joe diss: "Yeah that's an old freestyle" *blank stare*

First single off of Detox?

Is it really coming? It's been so anticipated it's gone past the point of anticipation into irrelevancy and straight back to mythic status; 1999 feels like a loooong time ago. Here's a video of Bishop Lamont overseas premiering what is supposedly the first single off the long awaited (to put it lightly) album.

Dre has appearance been taking piano lessons from Burt Bacharach, and I can't believe I just typed that, but it's Dr. Fucking Dre if he thinks he needs to learn a thing or two more about song composition I'm sure he knows what he's doing. Everyone from Jay-Z to Lil Wayne has appearantly written for this thing, and it could be anything from a "hip-hop opera" to a full fledged gangster rap masterpiece, who knows at this point. Expect appearances from Jay-Z, Nas, Lil Wayne, Eminem, 50 Cent, Snoop and the rest of the usual suspects. It'd be cool to get the game on there but thats just not gonna happen.

Who knows if we'll get a CDQ soon or if this isn't even the first single or even on the album; is all I do know is that if Detox isn't an instant certified classic there are gonna be a lot of angry hip-hop fans.

M.I.A. feat. Jay-Z- Boyz (Remix)

Here's the way too late remix for M.I.A.'s first single off of last year's still great Kala.

50 Cent- Get Up

The first song we've heard from the "Before I Self Destruct" sessions. I like it, although I'm not surprised whatsoever that its not "game changing" like Fiddy said his new album would be.

Mook Vs. Hot

Young hot awoke a sleeping giant on the battle scence in his feeble efforts to win 25 stacks! Mook cleverly told the story of how young hot got into his mix, then broke down hots first round before he had a chance to spit it (listen to the first round and you'll see how this quickly put hot into a 6 foot grave to climb out of). Young Hots first round simply reiterated everything mook said, his one dimensional raps just werent good enough to sway the crowd back into his favor. mook came strong once again in his second round, while young hots raps rapidly declined. hot looked uneasy and unsure of his raps as he tried hard to look for a punch line that could deliver against mook. the last round mook put hot to bed with rat poison cause he never got up for his last round. young hots eyes were too big for his stomach thinkin he could eat murda with half ass raps and minimal energy.

maybe next time when murda mook battles cassidy on the world series of hip hop it will be exactly that, a battle.


rex vs. tech 9 review up soon..

50 droppin knowledge

Motivational speaker of the year.

Video: Kanye West- Love Lockdown

This has to be the first time a rapper has premiered his video on the Ellen Degeneres show. Probably a good movie on Kanye's part though, get those lonely housewife numbers. The video is high art meets African safari, take that as you will.

T.I.- Paper Trail

It's been a ridiculous year for Clifford Harris, to say the least. He "lost my daughter and my partner in the same year" and proceeded to get himself entangled in a possible one year jail sentence for illegal purchase of firearms. The impending sentence seems to just keep getting pushed back, it makes me wonder if it was all just one giant promotional tool. Would anybody really be surprised? The gangster image of hip-hop officially started it's death clock when 50 Cent's career started going down the drain. Whether he regains his throne with "Before I Self Destruct" is irrelevant: He will have to rap about something other than shooting people or getting shot to get the now too-hip-for-school teenage crowd to care. His three biggest current competitors all share the same track with him; the triumphant and indie savvy "Swagga Like Us". Lil Wayne is far and away the most popular rapper of the moment and he's so weird and talented that he can easily shed away the gangster image at will. Kanye never had it or wanted it, and thats seemed to work out just fine for him. Jay-Z can pretty much do whatever the fuck he wants, and at this point he's the only rapper to achieve so much and still rap like he has something to rap about; and he does, when he's on. It's thrilling to hear him just delve into a world none of us, including most of his peers, will ever know anything about.

So where does that leave T.I.? Pop superstardom? I think so, and I think he does too. Whether it be the near lack of gangster posturing or the duets with Rihanna and Usher, he seems to recognize that if he is going to keep his momentum he's gonna have to set his sights higher than D-Boy status. If it was all a ploy, it was a miracle of a stunt. If not, even better. He has the leverage to count on peoples sympathy for the hustler gone legit, something Jay perfected twelve years ago. He is in talks to have a reality show documenting his day to day life, which now i guess involves court ordered inspirational speeches to young kids etc. He either can't or doesn't want the full on gangster image anymore, so he's finally getting to what he's always been best at: making massive hits and pretty consistent albums.

Paper trail starts off with the aptly titled 56 Barz; so you see, he still enjoys rapping. Throughout the album he will continue to rap his ass off with Ludacris (whome he thankfully ended their lame fuede with) circling around the great chorus by B.O.B. on "On Top of the World". He proceeds to destroy Shawty Lo's career with "What's Up, What's Happenin", please the girl crowd with Rihanna and bank in on "Lollipop's" success with "Whatever You Like", another pop masterstroke from Jim Jonsin. He lays his famous swagger on thick throughout, check out the Swizz Beatz assisted "Swing Your Rag", "I'm Illy" and "Ready for Whatever." He even manages to find a fresh perspective on the played out notion that being famous is harder than it looks on "My Life, Your Entertainment" with a great chorus from Usher. He's appearing as all things to all listeners, and looking at the soundscan numbers he's not doing a bad job at all. Last time I checked half a million in your first week is the closest any rapper has came to Lil Wayne's ridiculous success with Tha Carter III earlier this year.

I'm sure T.I. would be mad at any review of his latest that didn't mention it's title. Paper Trail. He's writing his lyrics down again. Great, Jay and Wayne don't, Biggie didn't, Pac did. Whatever. It doesn't matter. If there is a noticable difference you can only tell it in the sentimental tracks, which may possibly be the best on the CD. His seemingly off the cuff swag and flow never required written lyrics; but when he sets his mind to conveying the emotions of one of music's biggest starts the results are startling. "No Matter What", with it's ridiculously ill Danja beat, finds T.I. at the height of his lyrical prowess. "You Ain't Missin Nothin" has Drumma Boy employing synths, keys, guitar and a lonely saxaphone to back up what may be Tip at his most vulnerable. It, along with the disc's final track, a duet with a recently absent Justin Timberlake, make a hell of a closer. It's a far cry from My Love pt. 2. It's called "Dead and Gone", and it gives the listener T.I.'s famous double time flow, along with a killer chorus by Timberlake before it develops into full on epic mode.

"I turn my head to the east, i dont see nobody by my side, i turn my head to the west, still nobody by my side, so i turn my head to the north, swallow tha pill that makes it alright, my homies dead and gone, but i think i'm gon' be alright." Hes going all out confessional on this one, but he still wants to have a good time. I don't see any problems for a very, very long time.

Murs- Lookin Fly

This shit is getting mixed responses but from someone who just recently became fan of Murs I'm liking it. I think they should of found someone more adapt at sampling than Will. I. Am. to cut up the infamous "Green Hornet" theme but whatever. Its just kinda cut and paste, the potential for so much more is there.

Common feat. Pharrell "Universal Mind Control"

I like this. Good fresh look for Common.

Saigon working on sophmore album....

...even though his debut, The Greatest Story Never Told hasn't even been released yet. I guess this pretty much confirms it will never see the light of day, at least not in retail for anyway. That's a shame considering Just Blaze was behind it 100% and all the singles he relaeased where fire...and he shot a video. The "C'mon Baby Remix" with Jay-Z was ridiculous. Anyway he explains the whole situation a little better via myspace.

Akon feat. Lil Wayne- I'm So Paid

I'm assuming the first single off of Akon's new album, tentatively due the same days as Kanye's new CD, but I have a feeling that is gonna get pushed up even more. He supposedly just finished it. As for this track, I'm feeling it, I'm sure it'll be a big hit. Akon and Weezy are all autotuned up, but they both kill it. Is Akon dissing G-Unit? I'm really not trying to reach it just kinda jumped out at me, decide for yourself. So far the "confirmed" guests for Akon's "Freedom" are Wayne, T-Pain and (!) Michael fucking Jackson. Take that with a grain of salt, but what if?

Best 4th Quarter Ever?

The Blueprint 3, Dec. 2. 50 Cent's "Before I Self Destruct", Dec. 9. Kanye West's "808's & Heartbreak", November 25. Those are just the big names. T.I.'s awesome new CD just dropped, and Jeezy's The Recession was a great dose of pretty much what we expected. My favorite Michigan artist of the moment, Black Milk, is dropping his sophmore ephort "Tronic" on October 28. Peep this, titled The Matrix with Sean Price and Pharoe Monch, with additional scratching by none other than Primo, you already know what it is. Ludacris's "Theater of the Mind" just got pushed back but it will be out before Christmas. Lil Wayne will have Dedication 3 out during this whole mix too, Asher Roth could have his disc out before the end of the year as well. His first single "I Love College" sample's Weezer's "Say It Ain't So" which alredy guarantees magic. It's good, if your into that frat rap kind of thing. Murs' entrance into the big leagues "Murs for President" is amazing, review up soon.

And now for the big news. Eminem and Dr. Dre may release King Mathers and Detox respectively before the end of the year. This won't happen and everyone knows it but thats been the rumor lately. Word has it that Detox's first single may be released in November. 50 Cent also confirmed a track featuring Eminem produced by Dr. Dre titled "Norman Bates Hotel" for his new LP. 50, Em and Dre on the same track for the first time on how long? And it references Psycho! If this all goes down like its supposed to I'm just gonna lock myself to my laptop for the next couple months and die happy.

Wayne's World....Weezy talks Carter IV, Dedication 3

With Tha Carter III pushing the three million sold, Wayne is (unsurprisingly) back in the studio hard at work on Tha Carter IV. We can only assume that it will be released next year after his super group debut album with T-Pain. More importantly for the moment though is confirmation that the long anticipated next iteration in the DJ Drama hosted "Dedication" series will be released before the years end. The aptly titled Dedication 3 will supposedly showcase his ever growing Young Money roster of artists. No comment there, except that I hope we hear alot of Glasses Malone, that Haters song is straight fire. He shows potential outside of just Lil Wayne guest appearances. Anyways, a week after the release of Dedication 3 Wayne is gonna put it on his website for free (as if you were gonna get it any other way) along with 20 extra songs. Go figure.

In other Wayne related news, his ESPN blog is extremely entertaining and oddly inciteful. The Hype Williams (!) directed Mrs. Officer video is also on the way....

PICK AND ROLL.....LIL WAYNE JUELZ SANTANA

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is it coming??? i cant feel my face dropping would be a good look for juelz at this point, hes been too quiet (musically) since cam sold that contract to def jam (cant even be mad at king jaffey jo for clearin a quick 2 mil out the deal)
...back to the track....nothing too special from juelz or wayne lyrically but with two copy/pasted bangers for the two to go in on i guess you could say they dropped another heatrock! its wayne as usual basic metaphors but as always so catchy, i think i heard about 10 possible facebook status' ...we'll see