Video: 50 Cent f/ Kidd Kidd – ‘Ni**as Be Schemin”
50 Cent drops the video for “Ni**as Be Schemin’” off his most current mixtape The Massive ten. On Might 22, he will release his initial Gangsta Grillz mixtape The Lost Tape, hosted by DJ Drama.
The G-Unit rapper was not too long ago hospitalized and had to cancel his promo activities. “Do not do a @djdrama gangsta grillz this is all I get,” he tweeted along with a photo of him in the hospital with stuffed animals. “Ain’t this a b*tch. I give 15 tracks you give me this.”
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Video: Nicki Minaj f/ Chris Brown – ‘Right By My Side’
Hip-hop queen Nicki Minaj finds herself a king in the romantic video for “Right By My Side,” the newest single off her sophomore album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. The Harajuku Barbie heats up the screen with Nas, who plays her boyfriend. Chris Brown also cozies up to Nicki in the Benny Boom-directed clip.
“Its FuckTastic & Raw #noPauzNeeded,” Nicki told her Barbz.
View their on-display chemistry beneath.
Exclusive video: Los Lobos’ watershed 1992 ‘Kiko’ album returns
Los Lobos is revisiting its watershed 1992 album “Kiko” in a 20th anniversary reissue, adding to the unique studio album with previously unreleased early and alternate takes of several songs. Simultaneously, a document of the band’s 2006 efficiency of “Kiko” in its entirety will be released separately on CD, DVD and Blu-ray, with both “Kiko” tasks coming Aug. 21.
“Kiko” was hailed in 1992 as a new artistic pinnacle for the broadly lauded East L.A. group and appeared on several critics’ yearly Best ten lists. It was the No. 1 option in The Times’ consensus Prime 10 among its staff writers and regular contributors, and made the Prime 10 of Village Voice magazine’s yearly poll of some 300 pop music critics.
“ ‘Kiko’ is the band’s masterpiece — a startling leap forward in sonic attain and depth of vision,” Mike Boehm wrote in reviewing the album for The Occasions two decades ago. “ ‘Kiko’ is a extended, troubled dream of an album that holds the temporal and the spiritual in a single gaze: It exhibits us a suffering humanity an angel’s breath eliminated from an overarching realm of spirits, magic and hallucination.”
“Kiko Live” has in no way been released or broadcast, and consists of interviews with the band members and others about the generating of the album. In 2006, Los Lobos did a series of live performances focusing on it in its entirety. Above is exclusive video of the group’s overall performance of “Kiko and the Lavendar Moon.”
The CD also consists of three tracks the band recorded reside at Capitol Records in Hollywood for a “Hollywood Property Celebration with Los Lobos” special that aired in 1992 on Nationwide Public Radio. The album reissue and the “Kiko Live” DVD/Blu-ray are currently being released by the Shout! Factory reissue specialty label.
LACMA’s next big project: L.A. hip-hop
Murs had a revelation even though waiting in line to see the Louvre Museum in Paris. A longtime staple of L.A.’s underground hip-hop scene, Murs had a day off even though on tour in Paris final year. Spotted by museum employees, Murs and his wife have been pulled from the line and informed to bypass the crowds.
“Some followers came up to me and gave us some cost-free passes,” said Murs, who was born Nick Carter. “That is when it hit me that we’re old sufficient to be concerned with the arts. I have followers who perform at the Louvre? That’s crazy.”
Not, maybe, as crazy as collaborating with a similarly planet-renowned art institution.
This week, Murs and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will launch a 6-month exploration of L.A.’s hip-hop culture with the series By means of the Mic. On Thursday night, Murs’ very own group 3 Melancholy Gypsys will stage its first overall performance in about 5 years monthly concerts will adhere to, every presented in front of the 200 vintage lamp posts that make up the museum’s “Urban Light” installation on Wilshire Boulevard. The target, mentioned Murs, is for “the Los Angeles hip-hop scene to get some validation as art and not just gangsta rap or pop music.”
“Even in the past, in traveling to New York, my friends feel a lot of the gangsta rap is just created up,” Murs said. “They feel it really is a solution and they believe it is not true hip-hop. They think it’s entertaining, like everything else in this city. We’re acknowledged here for entertainment, but not necessarily known for our art scene and our hip-hop scene. I aim to modify that.”
New Music: T.I. – ‘Like That’
T.I. caters to his audience on “Like That,” a new record off his upcoming album Problems Man, which premiered moments ago on “The Angie Martinez Show.” “They want that super gutter ignorant/ That new ghetto belligerent/ Authentic grip flippin’, dope boy trap ni**a shit,” raps Tip on the Trap banger, created by Lil C and Mars. Get your rags in the air.
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Mindless Behavior Announces ‘#1 Girl’ Tour
Girls, get ready to drop your minds this summer time. Mindless Behavior has announced their largest headlining U.S. tour to date, “The #1 Girl Tour.”
Immediately after wrapping their European tour, Prodigy, Princeton, Ray Ray, and Roc Royal will head back on the road starting July 5 in Richmond, Virginia. They will play shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and D.C, with far more to be announced. Lil Twist and Jacob Latimore will join them as supporting acts, with Kayla Brianna on decide on dates.
“After our tour in Europe, we are excited to come back residence to our U.S. supporters,” stated Ray Ray. “This tour will be our most significant and best yet. We can not wait for all of our Mindless fans to see all of the surprises we have in store!”
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Jay-Z rips anti-gay marriage movement as ‘discrimination’
Vice President Joe Biden produced headlines — and inspired a couple of jokes — when he credited sitcom “Will & Grace” with educating the American populace on gay rights. Now it is Jay-Z’s turn to make headlines.
This week, the hip-hop star-entrepreneur and longtime supporter of Barack Obama echoed the president’s sentiments on the subject of gay marriage. Denouncing gay rights “is no various than discriminating against blacks,” Jay-Z informed CNN. “It is discrimination, plain and basic.”
Jay-Z is a single of the most strong figures in a genre that over the last decade has been shedding its perceived anti-gay tendencies, a dialogue that went mainstream immediately after the union of Eminem and Elton John at the 2001 Grammy awards. To be fair, Jay-Z himself utilized an anti-gay slur far more than as soon as in his early performs, but he left no space for misinterpretation this week when he stated that the refusal to let gay couples to wed is “holding the country back.”
Jay-Z could prove to be a effective ally. For a single, his “Empire State of Thoughts” has positioned him as a present day-day Frank Sinatra, and his daughter with Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, is treated like American royalty. But more critical, American voters stay divided on the concern, and ballot box polling has shown that gay marriage is a specifically contentious issue amongst African Americans. The Times recently reported that in “2008 more than 9 in 10 black voters in California backed Obama, then overwhelmingly voted for Proposition 8, the profitable ballot measure to overturn the state Supreme Court’s determination permitting identical-sex marriage.”
Jay-Z has been making the media rounds to go over the two-day Created in America festival he’ll be hosting Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia. No doubt by then, much more artists will have weighed in with their thoughts on the upcoming election, but a single topic won’t be up for debate at the event.