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Ace & Vis speak to Jammer and Snakeyman on the phone live on 1Xtra about their beef, which started off on twitter as banter about Snakeyman’s card being declined, which then led to Jammer saying Snakeyman’s name on a track, in which Snakeyman put out the Bring Home the Bacon track.
J.Cole was supporting Drake on the Club Paradise tour on Friday, and stopped by to talk to Hot 97.5’s Bootleg Kev. We had heard the rumours before about a collaborative project between the two, but now J.Cole confirmed that the two are already 5 songs deep on a joint album.
“I just started working with Kendrick the other day,” revealed Cole in an interview with Hot 97.5’s . “We got it in, finally, again. [It’s gonna be an] album, man,” he clarified.
“We actually worked, bouncing ideas, which was great. The vibe was so good that it was like, man, that’s absolutely gonna happen,” he added.
“We got maybe four or five [songs] together.”
Listen to the full interview below
Michael Jackson is set to appear in a Pepsi advert as the late singer’s estate have made a huge deal with the soft drinks company. The promotion will feature some of his iconic dance poses. As well as the advert the singer silhouette is also expected to appear on one billion cans for a global campaign.
The cans of Michael Jackson Pepsi are part of their ‘Live For Now‘ campaign using pop culture to boost sales.
Nicki Minaj is also expected to appear in an advert as part of the campaign for Pepsi who are ranked as No.3 in the States for carbonated drinks.
Michael Jackson worked with Pepsi firstly back in 1983 appearing alongside the Jackson 5 in their first Pepsi campaign. In 1984 whilst shooting a commercial for the brand again in Los Angeles, his hair caught fire, burning his scalp, and leaving him with second degree burns. This incident was blamed for MJ’s addiction to painkillers.
Along with the commercial and campaign to put MJ on Pepsi cans, sees the 25th anniversary of the release of the album Bad. Pepsi, the Jackson Estate and Sony will be teaming up to releases mixes of tracks from the Bad album. It is rumoured that Skrillex and Diplo will be working on the remixes. The executors of Jackson’s estate said of the deal: “We are thrilled to bring Michael and Pepsi back together, as they were in 1988, to celebrate the 25th aniversary of the ‘Bad’ album and tour, and to put Michael on one billion Pepsi cans.”
New Jersey producer Just Blaze was interviewed by HardKnock.tv recently and said Jay Electronica’s move to London is why they haven’t been able to work together. He also talked about growing up listening to house music, and how he tried his hand at dance tracks in early 2000’s.
“I grew up on house just as much as I grew up on Hip Hop. So I was probably trying to reintroduce ‘Hip-house’ too early,” said Just Blaze after mentioning dance tracks he created for Rah Digga and Joe Budden. “But I mean it’s cool. It’s great because again that just opens the door for us to be able to play both at a party without it being a weird thing. Cause there was a certain point where if you played one at a party you wouldn’t play the other. It was either a Hip Hop party or a house party…I kinda feel like where music’s at right now you can play a little bit of everything.
A lot fans of the work Just Blaze and Jay Electronica have done together will be disappointed. Due to Jay Electronia’s move to London, it has been hard for them to work together.
“Jay moved out to London. Jay’s got a situation in London. He’s doing good out there. He’s happy out there,” Just Blaze explained to HardKnock.tv. “I personally, I can’t be out [in London]. My life is here in the U.S. We’ve gotten back in the studio, we’ve sat down, we’ve chopped it up, we’ve exchanged some ideas and what not but in terms of being heavily at work we’re not really.”
Birdman wants to sign the 16 year old artist Chief Keef to Cash Money so badly, he says he will do whatever it takes. With Kanye West remixing the song and Boy Better Know, it seems a lot of people are feeling the young Chicago rapper.
“I like him, he kinda reminds me of us,” said Birdman in an interview with MTV News”[He’s] out the streets, I think he’s swagged up and I’m definitely talking to his people and I’d like to see if we can make it pop, see if I can see if I can get him to be down with the team.”
He continued about his interest in Keef.
“That’s what I like, it’s a movement and he’s young, I think the game needs young blood all the time,” he said. “[We] need youngsters to keep it innovative, because they’re new and creative in their own way. I’m into the young world, that’s my thing. And I’ma do whatever it takes to make it happen.”
One of the UK’s most talented MC’s gives us the first episode of RivzLife, a day in the life series documenting what Rival gets up to, where we can see his love for music and biscuits. You can also watch the freestyle of when Rival went on DJ Cameo’s BBC Radio 1Xtra show.
I only saw this video yesterday of Akala expressing his thoughts on the music scene in the UK. He has some very interesting points that I agree with, so I thought I’d share this with you all.
Jennifer Hudson spoke at the murder trial testifying against the man who in 2008 killed her mother, brother and nephew.
William Balfour has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first degree murder. He is accused of shooting Jennifer’s mother in the living room, then Jason Hudson, her brother as he lay in bed, then leaving with Jennifer’s nephew Julian and shooting him in the head as he lay behind a front seat of a car.
Julia testified for two hours yesterday at the trial. Balfour who was her estranged husband became jealous after Julia went with Jennifer to Japan to promote her film Dreamgirls. Jennifer then took to the stand.
“We didn’t like the way he treated [Julia], and I didn’t like the way he treated my nephew,” explained Hudson.
“It was always me and my Tugga Bear. That’s what I called him,” said Hudson of her nephew Julian. Hudson reportedly had to choke back tears during her testimony.
Dr.Dre has killed the rumours of the Tupac Hologram tour, stating it was just for the Coachella festival, during a recent message thanking fans. Although he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of taking it on tour entirely.
“It was strictly for Coachella, get it right. I want to get rid of all the rumors out there. This was not done for a tour,” said Dre, who didn’t entirely rule out the possibility. “If a tour happens, we’ll see. This was done strictly for Coachella 2012, just for you.”
Dre has previously stated that he was in talks to take the hologram on tour. Many people praised the performance such as Nas, Kendrick Lamar and Common.
Former Death Row mogul Suge Knight has threatened to beat up Rick Ross when he sees him because Ross put out the song Tupac Back.
In an interview with US radio station 93.5 Suge Knight said he would “beat the dog shit out of Rick Ross” if their paths ever cross. He did state that he enjoys Ross’ music and he’s not bitter towards him, just he feels it was very disrespectful that the Maybach Music rapper would put out a track title Tupac Back when he has ties with Diddy who Suge feels was the one behind Pac’s death.
“I can’t sit up here and say I’m bitter to Rick Ross, ‘cus like anybody else, we don’t know Rick Ross,” Suge said. “That’s a guy who uses somebody else’s name. This guy comes from being a correctional officer. I don’t got nothing negative [against him] personally, I just feel like he do do good music, and you can’t take that from him. That boy got bars, he’s gonna write…at the same time, I feel like there’s a line you cross, and Rick Ross crossed that line. If you’re gonna be with guy [Diddy] who killed Tupac, you can’t go turn around and do a record [called] ‘Tupac Back’…Rick Ross is a grown ass nigga. I’ll beat the dog shit out of Rick Ross for manipulating these people out here.”
In the same interview he was asked about how he felt about people saying he was involved in the death of the Tupac Shakur.
“I got a [4.5] inch bullet in my head. Into my skull by grabbing Tupac, pulling him down. That’s really what happened,” said Knight in an audio clip obtained by TMZ. “Second of all, people know what happened at the end of the day.”
He went on to say how no one actually saw Tupac dead, and the man who cremeted him is now dead too. Suge beleives he is still alive and well somewhere.
“Maybe the question is Pac really not dead. Pac’s somewhere else,” Knight explained. “I mean it’s the truth if you really look at it…Nobody seen Tupac dead. The thing is this the person who supposedly cremated Tupac, his mother wanted done quickly, he passed. So this guy got about three million dollars personally from me, cash. And next thing I know I never heard from the guy or seen him again.”
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