May 30 2012

Swizz Beatz Speaks On Dr. Dre, “Big Plans” For DMX & New Work With Nas

Swizz Beatz discusses several topics including Dr. Dre, new work with Nas and “big plans” for DMX.

During a recent interview, Swizz Beatz shared much about several topics. He discussed Dr. Dre’s influence and explained how he got to “vibe” with the Doctor recently. Beatz also discussed “big plans” for longtime collaborator DMX and new work with Nas.

“I was definitely floored to be around [Dr.] Dre, especially recently working with him on his album and us finally getting one-on-one time for a week and change to just vibe, vibe in the club, vibe outside of the studio and vibe at the crib and still see his threads that made him the greatest still be intact,” Swizzy told Bootleg Kev, before noting they worked together approximately two months ago.

After touching on that matter, the conversation turned to DMX and Swizz Beatz said he has big plans for his Double R partner.

“I have a lot of big plans with X that I plan on putting in motion as a brother, as a responsibility, as fans,” he said. “I’m mapping that out now and the world will soon know about that…DMX is one-of-one. I just hate to see what I’ve been seeing because I remember when people couldn’t follow up with him on stage, big name people…People still don’t understand X. My job is to get people to understand X for real. With reality shows, that stuff is edited. It’s real stuff but I just think people need to see another side of X.”

He also noted that he has new work with Nas, adding that the two will have a fun but gritty new video.

“We’ve got a couple of things we’re working on. We’re in the middle of working on the treatment for the video. It’s an unexpected track from me and Nas, literally having fun but still keeping it gritty.”

May 30 2012

Mary J. Blige Explains The Cause Of Charity Lawsuit

Mary J. Blige explains that the business team behind her charity dropped the ball, but that the issue has been solved.

News broke yesterday that TD Bank was suing Mary J. Blige and partner Steve Stoute’s charity organization The Mary J Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now for a $250,000 loan that it had failed to pay back in full. Now, in a recent interview with Hot 97′s Angie Martinez, Blige explains FFAWN’s money issues.

According to her, the businessmen behind FFAWN had slipped up and failed to pay off the debt, which would have resulted in a number of the college scholarships the group offers to women to be pulled. Blige said that the issue has since been remedied and that the organization has replaced its entire business team and ensured that none of the scholarship funding had been pulled.

“It happens that FFAWN [The Mary J Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now] has been mismanaged [financially],” she explained. “When I found out about all these issues and things concerning FFAWN, I immediately got on the phone with my lawyers and my advisors and tried to rectify this and fix this so none of those women [aided by the charity] would suffer that are going to college…my goal is to do exactly what I set out to do and my motives were true and upfront: I set out to empower, encourage and help women and because I got a second chance myself, I wanted to give them a second chance. But it turns out that the business part of it was not managed properly…the funding that needed to come in for everything, the business side [of the organization] dropped the ball and everyone was about to suffer.”

She added, “Right now as we speak, I’ve hired a team of people that are making sure that my business is taken as far as FFAWN is concerned. FFAWN is not shutting down, we are restructuring and we put a great team of people in place. I’m just proud to say that the grants, the scholarships that we set out to take care of will be taken care of.”

May 30 2012

50 Cent Says He Hasn’t Heard From Lloyd Banks In Nearly A Year

50 Cent speaks on his relationship with G-Unit’s Lloyd Banks, says he hasn’t talked to him in nine months.

Queens rapper 50 Cent revealed quite a bit of interesting news during his appearance on Power 106’s “Big Boy’s Neighborhood” when he revealed that he hasn’t talked to fellow G-Unit member Lloyd Banks in about nine months.

50 Cent explained that Banks sometimes has moments when he seems to go into seclusion and communicates with very few people.

“He goes through these things where he goes and there’s no communication and then he goes off and he does what he want,” said 50 Cent in the interview which was posted on HipHop-n-More.com. “And because I want them to be individuals and operate on they own away from me, I’m fine with it. I’ll tell his lawyers cause his lawyers tell me and I tell them to make sure that he does things. His way of dealing with things is not dealing with it.”

The rapper also revealed that this isn’t the first time Banks has sought seclusion, the first time was when his father passed away.

“This is the second time that this has happened. Banks tucked away for almost a year after his father passed,” 50 Cent explained.

When asked if he sees himself back on stage with Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks in the future, 50 Cent optimistically stated that “when the stars lineup it’ll be all good.”

Source: HipHopDx.com

May 29 2012

Lil Wayne & Drake Refuse To Pay $400,000 For Missed Club Appearance

Lil Wayne and Drake say they never knew about a club appearance that led to a lawsuit.

Lil Wayne and Drake are refusing to pay a $400,000 judgment to a company named Imperial Entertainment Group that sued them for missing a club appearance because they say they never knew about it.

According to TMZ, the Young Money rappers have banned together to fight the judgment, which totals $432,337.50. IEG claims that they originally booked the pair for an appearance in 2011 but they bailed on their committment.

Wayne and Drake say that they were never told about the appearance, never signed contracts and were never given papers to show up in court. They also state that IEG booked them through a third party that didn’t have the authority to do so.

The rappers are seeking to have the judgement dismissed.

May 29 2012

Sean Garrett Owes Over $700,000 In Taxes

Sean Garrett joins the growing group of artists who owe money to Uncle Sam.

Though Sean Garrett may have written hits for the likes of Ciara, Nicki Minaj, and countless others, he apparently hasn’t found a way to pay his taxes.

TMZ reports that Garrett owes the back taxes for the years 2006 and 2007, totaling $732,553.57.

The report further provides that BMI, which collects Garrett’s royalties, to garnish the singer/songwriter’s wages.

Garrett inked a deal with Roc Nation/Columbia in 2010, after it was widely reported that he was signing to Lil Wayne’s Young Money Records. Garrett had worked on Nicki Minaj’s “Massive Attack,” which was featured on the rapper’s debut album, Pink Friday.

Garrett has produced an astonishing 15 number one singles in his career

May 29 2012

Flavor Flav To Appear In Court For Unpaid Child Support

Three of Flavor Flav’s seven children have allegedly not been receiving the agreed-upon financial aid from their father.

Public Enemy member Flavor Flav is due in court next month (June 19) for unpaid child support. The 53 year-old rapper/reality television star owes a mother to three of his seven children over $110,000, reports TMZ.com. Angie Parker of Albany, New York claims that Flav has not paid his weekly payments of $837 in years. The entertainer may face jail-time if convicted.

Flav has yet to comment on the charges.

In the last 20 years, Flavor Flav has served time for assault, drug charges and driving with a supsended license.

Source: HipHopDx.com

May 28 2012

Nas Says He Was Supposed To Appear On Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill”

Nas also breaks down his sophomore album “It Was Written.”

Nas recently chopped it up with Complex.com following his recent cover story, breaking down his sophomore album It Was Written and giving anecdotes on every track from the project.

During his interview for the feature, Esco spoke on recording with Lauryn Hill for “If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)” and revealed that he was originally supposed to be on her classic debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

“I was supposed to be on the The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album but I was caught up with whatever and I never made it to the sessions. That’s one of my greatest regrets with music,” he said. “I was getting the calls to come rap on the album and something was always happening at the time when I got the call. Lisa Ellis of Sony always used to tell me, ‘Man you fucked up, you’re supposed to be on that album.’”

He said that his relationship with Hill, who is celebrating her 37th birthday today, was deeper than music.

“Me and Lauryn were musical peers, we were brother and sister. We looked out and did the thing. [The Fugees] were on tour in Europe so she took the Concorde from London and flew back. We shot the video in Times Square.”

Source: HipHopDx.com

May 28 2012

Justin Bieber Wanted For Assaulting Paparazzi

Who would’ve guessed Justin Bieber would ever get into a physical fight with the paparazzi? Well that’s exactly what is being alleged at this time, that Bieber got into a scrap with an annoying paparazzi that would not let Bieber and his girlfriend Selena Gomez drive off in their vehicle.

After doing some shopping with Gomez at an outdoor mall called The Commons in Calabasas, CA, where he lives, Justin and Selena apparently entered his vehicle to leave the mall and continue on with their day. That’s when an eager paparazzi member took advantage of the moment, and stood in front of Justin’s car to take some pictures, preventing him from leaving. According to witnesses Justin then exited his vehicle and asked the pap if he would step aside but when the pap refused, Justin became frustrated and a fight broke out between the two.

Multiple witnesses have stated that they saw the two engage in some sort of physical scuffle, which resulted in Bieber losing a shoe and his hat, and the pap down on the ground complaining of pain in his torso. Justin and Selena then drove off since their car wasn’t being blocked anymore. A lawyer who allegedly witnessed the fight approached the pap and advised him to call for an ambulance and file a police report because he believed that the pap could get a lot of money from this.

An ambulance arrived on the scene and the pap was taken to the hospital but released a short time after. Police are looking into the matter as a misdemeanor assault.

Since it’s being looked at as a misdemeanor Bieber won’t get into too much trouble for this, however he will have to fight hard to protect his pockets because the pap is certainly going to try and get some major bills off of this.

Do you think Bieber had the right to get physical, given the fact that the paparazzi was being annoying and refused to let him and Selena leave peacefully, thus instigating the entire conflict in the first place?

Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk