Beanie Sigel Talks I Go Off, Jay-Z & Memphis Bleek (Audio)

Beans called up Shade45 this afternoon to talk with DJ Whoo Kid about his recent collab with Curtis (and explains why the first verse was recylced), Jay-Z and the fake’ness in Memphis Bleek. Smh @ this broad gobbling Beans dick the whole time though. “Oh true. You right. Yes Beans. Oooh. I agree.”. Shouts to Adot on the rippage.

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Jay-Z - Encore x Roc Boys x Thank You Live (Audio x Video)

Here’s some footage of a portion of Hov’s interview with Jo Whiley (on Radio 1’s Live Lounge) as well as a cool performance of Roc Boys. Then as a bonus, you can download .mp3s of him getting down with Encore & Thank You. And since Meka started it… hit the jump for a sexy chica image.

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Chris Brown - Requests to Delay Assault Trial Denied

As we're all accustomed to the Brown/Rihanna situation which took place early this year. With pictures of the injuries Rihanna incurred due to the altercation surfacing across the net, irreparable damage has been done to Brown's career. In the latest in the trial, Brown's attorney (Mark Geragos) filed petition to delay the hearing was denied on the wednesday just past (June 17th). Brown and his attorney are due back in court this coming Monday, for the preliminary hearing. Where after its proceedings we will find out whether or not Brown is to stand trial over the assault.

Personally, regardless of his stardom or celebrity. A woman beater, is a woman beater. I hope he does time, an not no minimum security prison. He should do time just as anyone else who had done as such would. He'd wanna hope its not minimum security. He still gotta look over his shoulder for Jay-Z...

Book - The Men Behind Def Jam: The Radical Rise of Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin

Now I copped this book quite a while back while in Borders Book Store. Now trust me im not one to be much of a reader, but given at the time I had just begun a course on Music Industry Business. I figured i'd read up on none other than the two men who founded the urban music label that pioneered the Hip Hop Industry and further brought to light the elements of its culture.

Published November 2006, written By Alex Ogg. Who is also the author of The Hip Hop Years and a consultant for the channel 4 tv series of the same name. Ogg examines in this book, the unlikley partnership between black entrepreneur Russell 'Rush' Simmons and ex-punk Rick Rubin. The book tracks the history of both men from such times as Simmons early organising of parties at venues, such as the "Renaissance" in New York (His first party he ever threw was at this Queen's venue in the 1970's) and early show bookings for 'hip hop luminaries such as Lovebug Starski, DJ Hollywood and Grandwizard Theodore throughout the five borrows of New York' in the late 1970's. To Rubin's student dorm, where numerous demos built up over time. LL Cool J's tape finding also its way into this mix. Ending up in the hands of none other than Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, finding the tape in the amounting crates of demo's and bringing it to Rubin's attention.

The book also covers such artists and acts as Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, EPMD, Jay-Z, DMX, Redman, Method Man & Foxxy Brown. An also mentions such pivotal figures in Hip Hop such as DJ Kool Herc & Afrika Bambaataa. I would say this book is one of the most unbiased and revealing books on the rise of the label and the the two men at the center of it. Definitely worth the read, given the wealth of knowledge it holds on the rise of the men who rose Def Jam from a college dorm room to the cornerstone, of Hip Hop Record Labels.

As it says in the blurb "Here is an honest appraisal of the rival personalities, the quarrels, the successes and the failures of the spectacular Def Jam Adventure. An Ogg definitely delivers on such a statement.