Big Stan "Rock That -Ish Homie" (Audio)

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Ok, when I heard this I had to put you on. Hot...It's a track by Big Stan called "Rock That -Ish Homie". Try not to break yo' vertebrae in the headpiece..

"Rock That -Ish Homie" (click to listen)

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Friday, July 13, 2007   MUSIC |  VIDEOS |  INTERVIEWS  | NEW ARTIST  | HOME

Kidz In The Hall "Broke Diaries" produced by Just Blaze (Audio)

Posted at 7/13/2007 05:39:00 PM

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For all the broke people in the house today, stand up. Yo, hip hop duo Kidz in the Hall just released a bangin' mixtape called the Amazing Race. It's produced by NO I.D & Just Blaze. I was lucky enough to have a track from the album sent to me called "Broke Diaries" I'd like u to check it out and then tell me what you think? Enjoy, oh and to find out more info on the group or that mixtape, hit the Kidz up on their official page.

"Broke Diaries" (click to listen)

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Thursday, July 12, 2007   MUSIC |  VIDEOS |  INTERVIEWS  | NEW ARTIST  | HOME

Queen Princess Interviews The Alliance!

Posted at 7/12/2007 07:19:00 PM

Hey what can I say cuz I'm outta catchy hooks. Fee what I'm sayin? On the real, Queen P's has really been puttin' it down on the interview tip and even with all that, she still grindin'. That's a big what's up. Last month she caught up with group, The Alliance from AT'ill shawty...These cats are interesting bunch, and have a lot to say...

Queen Princess: Hey what’s up y’all.

Skinny: How are you doing?

Queen Princess: I’m doing good, what’s going on with you guys today?

Skinny: Oh we just in NYC, chillin getting it.

Queen Princess: Y’all are a long way from home huh?

Skinny: Yeah, where you at?

Queen Princess: I’m in Minneapolis, it’s my home.

Blackout: Oh I got some bustdowns in Minnesota (both laugh).

Queen Princess: Yeah we know what those are out here.

Skinny: You’re from the Midwest?

Queen Princess: Yep and y’all are from Atlanta, so would you say being from the south contributed to launching your careers?

Ty-Cutta: I would say being talented contributes to launching our careers I mean it doesn’t matter where you’re from it’s where you’re at.

Queen Princess: How did y’all all get together to form the Alliance?

Blackout: I can speak for myself, Skinny and TY, we were doing a lot of underground shows like open mics and different places like that and our manager just basically brought us together and just made it happen. We’re not an actual group, we’re individual artists, it’s actually just a movement.

Bliss: I came up doing open mics too, but I actually met them on the stage they were doing a show and I gave their manager my name where I would be. He checked out my swag to see what I could bring to the table and every since I’ve been with them.

Queen Princess: Okay, so all of ya’ll are tatted up I’ve heard.

Bliss: Yep all of us.

Queen Princess: Do any of you have any tattoo in particular that holds a special meaning?

Skinny: I got the marijuana plant you know what I’m saying, with hundred dollar bills surrounding it and it’s burning all up. The weed and the money come and go you know what I’m saying? Already.

Bliss: I have a bird on my back meaning free and meaning happiness.

Ty-Cutta: I have a music note with my initials on it. The music note........you know music is my life so that’s what that means.

Blackout: I got some Chinese letters that say shit out of luck. It’s probably one of the most important tattoos I have because it wasn’t done at a tattoo parlor, I got it done the old Indian way.

Queen Princess: Oh you got out the old needle and ink.

Blackout and Skinny: Yeeeaaaah.

Blackout: What about your tattoos?

Queen Princess: I don’t have any, I’m not tatted up.

Bliss: What!! (both laugh).

Blackout: You scared?

Queen Princess: Naw, I want some Chinese letters but I haven’t gotten them yet.

Blackout: Watch out for those Chinese letters ‘cause you might end up getting something that says wild sour dog or something (both laugh).

Skinny: Or it might say skinny.

Blackout: Yeah and you’re thinking it’s saying love, peace and respect.

Queen Princess: I know I saw a couple of them that were supposed to mean the same thing, but had completely different symbols so…I don’t know what’s going on.

Blackout: Definitely look them up before you get them.

Skinny: You should get skinny tattooed on you in Chinese letters.

Queen Princess: I know I was thinking about that.

Blackout: I can tell in your voice (laughs).

Queen Princess: Anyway, y’all are representing NCE (Nothin Comz Eazy) records so what are some of the struggles that y’all had to deal with?

Blackout: As far as me man I was homeless. I was locked up several times so just everyday life, but when you step into a situation as powerful and as big as music of course you got a lot of people who are going to hate on you and try to find ways to make it seem like what you’re doing isn’t as important as the next person. We deal with that all the time, just like when people categorize us to crunk music and snap music. I mean if you listen to the album, tattoo doesn’t even sound like it belongs on the album you know what I mean. We’re artists, we know the game and what it takes and what you have to do. We know how to make a hit song, we know how to make a commercial song, we also know how to make a song about the streets or whatever.

Skinny: Basically to make a long story short, if you don’t want to live life through everyday struggles, then stay down 'til you come up.

Bliss: For me just everyday life, everyday struggles, going from job to job, money situations was the struggle for me. Getting myself heard and put out there like that. That was the main struggle for me.

Ty-Cutta: The struggle for me really was not being heard.

Queen Princess: That’s understandable, but ya’ll are in NYC now about to do a show, what is it that you like best about performing?

Skinny: The energy and excitement, records being fresh out the studio and having people sing it with us.

Blackout: Controlling our crowd.

Queen Princess: What do y’all do in preparation, like what do you do to get hyped up before you go on stage?

Blackout: First of all prayer. You gotta get the prayer in.

Bliss: One of the main things we do is prayer but other than that it’s just natural.

Skinny: Get a little shot of goose then I be ready.

Blackout: Yeah get that shot of goose before prayer.

Queen Princess: What are you guys listening to these days?

Blackout: To be honest with you I don’t listen to nothing. I don’t really listen to nothing just because I don’t want to be influenced or have to follow after nobody. I think when you listen to beats too much or you listen to a certain artist too much you start to sound like them. It starts to get repetitive that’s why we got so many repetitive artists out here. When you sit there and come up with your own ideas……I mean you get inputs from other artists, but me personally I don’t really listen to anybody but I respect everybody’s work.

Skinny: Jeezy, Boosie, you know, the whole Trill family, I like them boys so that’s what’s in my CD player right now.

Ty-Cutta: I’m feelin' that Boosie right now.

Bliss: Me, I keep some Lil Kim in my CD player, but I’m on that Boosie Trill family right now.

Skinny: I mean since everybody said Boosie I might as well say it even though I don’t know a damn word he raps, but I listen to Boosie too.

Queen Princess: I now y’all constantly stay busy, but what type of things do you do when you just want to be normal people for a minute?

Skinny: I like to kick it with my homeboys and go to the club. We go to the clubs a lot like to do shows and everything, but I like to go with them homies who I used to go to the club with back in the day before this occurred. I like to just be with my peoples and kick it in the club how we used to do it back in the day.

Bliss: I like really being by myself, alone. I really like just singing in the mirror to everybody’s songs (both laugh). I just be in the mirror singing.

Queen Princess: I feel you, everybody does that from time to time.

Ty-Cutta: I like to just chill out. I go to the crib and just chill in the down time that I get you know what I’m saying? Watch TV, hang out and just chill that’s all I really do.

Blackout: I pretty much try to do nothing but just to relax to be honest. We’re always in the club, always drinking and doing that stuff so I want to just chill.

Skinny: I stay geeked up, you feel me? I stay in the club trippin’.

Queen Princess: Hey, it is what it is. So would y’all say that one of you guys tend to take on the leadership role in the group?

Bliss: Yeah we all really take on our own leadership role.

Skinny: Yes, they all try to do they thing, but I have to be the civilized one and let everybody know that they can’t do that sometimes. You gotta lay low, sometimes you gotta fall back. You know how it is when you have a big brother and people older than you.

Blackout: So basically I’m just going to lie and say Skinny’s the leader.

Bliss: We all try to do our own thing because we all are solo artists so we really try all to be leaders.

Queen Princess: You guys say you’re solo artists who have come together to form the Alliance, the movement so what’s the movement all about?

Skinny: It’s a clique

Bliss: It’s a clique, a unit coming together as one to put ourselves out there as The Alliance.

Ty-Cutta: Basically we thought that it would be better for us to be as a group instead of solo artists.

Queen Princess: Do you have any idea what the next single’s going to be?

All: “Goin’ Digital”

Blackout: Basically it’s a song focused on…….like I know you want to get your bank rolls and you’re account big you’re going to go digital. You want them rims you’re going to go digital so basically it’s doing whatever your aspirations are to the fullest.

Queen Princess: What’s the album all about?

Ty-Cutta: I mean it’s just good music. We touch on different topics and talk about different stuff. We have stuff on there for dancehalls…….

Blackout: It’s like we’re putting all of our different artist sides together and you just make one album, that’s what the album is. We got something on there that the east coast can relate to hard and you could even go overseas, down south also. It’s basically diversity with all-stars not just from rap period, but from different places.

Queen Princess: What are your hopes after the album is released?

Ty-Cutta: To go platinum.

Bliss: Hopefully go platinum and do it big. We want everybody to feel where we’re coming from and respect us as artists.

Ty-Cutta: We want the album to touch as many people as possible, you know what I’m saying?

Blackout: We want to make sure that since we got the chance, we want to take advantage of it.

Queen Princess: Do you guys have anything else that you want to say to add?

Skinny: Yeah August, go get the album Goin’ Digital, you know, it’s going to be a digital summer.

Bliss: Also go to that myspace. For all the fans that wanted to bring something to the table, that want us to reach on a topic or something, hit us on the myspace.com/theallianceatl.

Blackout: We also have “Tattoo (Remix)” with Gucci Mane, Foxx, Juvenile, and Webbie’s on there also. We also got the texts, you can text and get the ringtone. Text to alliance 71777. And we also have a tattoo contest that we’re doing. You can go to www.showallianceyourtatts.com. You can submit your tattoos and if we like your tattoo, we fly you out to LA to SA Studios and you get tatted up by Carlitos.

Queen Princess: Okay, well thank you all for the interview. Y’all are the coolest group of people I’ve interviewed so far.

Blackout: We appreciate that, you’re cool yourself.

Skinny: Yeah you’re a cool lady that interviewed us, you gotta get that Skinny tattoo.

Queen Princess: Yeah I’m going to get that Skinny.

Skinny: Don’t give me no excuse (laughs).

Queen Princess: Aight then y’all be easy.

Get it right, yo much respect to the Alliance massive...big ups! Yo, remember to go cop that album "Goin' Digital" scheduled for a release of 7.24. Holla!

Got questions or comments for the Queen Princess, email her at this link.

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Hezekiah's bringing da Rawkus...

Posted at 7/12/2007 06:29:00 PM

Citing country music, Quincy Jones and Kool G Rap as influences, Hezekiah was undeniably born to be different. Alas, music is second nature to Hezekiah, as he was raised in a musical family just outside of Philadelphia and got his chops at an early age, soaking up his parents predilection for Blues (Otis Redding and Bo Diddley) and belting out God's greatest hits at his family's church; and before long Hezekiah was singing in his Uncle's band, the Funk Disciples (who dropped some super hard-to-find wax in the mid-70’s).

But it was getting up with the Legendary Roots Crew in '93 that spurred him to get down to business. Hezekiah then began to work his way up through the ranks of the Philly’s ever-strong and flourishing Hiphop scene with his on point wordplay, superior songwriting, and lovely production skills—working with the likes of Musiq Soulchild, Bilal, The Jazzyfatnastees and Bahamadia.

In 2005 Hezekiah's debut album Hurry Up & Wait (a title dedicated to the woes of the independent artist), was released to critical praises by Vibe, Trace, XLR8R, Allhiphop.com, Pitchforkmedia.com, okayplayer.com and also included on Itunes “Best Of 2005” list among many others) on New York's Soulspazm Records. Put together in full-on Hiphop hermit mode, as he produced the record locked up in his home studio and penned all of its lyrics lost amongst crowds in the chaos of Philly. What resulted was a collection of luxurious, smoked out Hiphop beats and minimal synth Funk produced by the man himself (with notable exceptions coming from Illmind); with Hezekiah flowing beautifully atop it every second of the way.

In addition, he's the driving force behind the influential Beat Society and at the request of Dawn Thompson (sister of The Roots musical mastermind ?uestlove) was tapped to co-produce the music for a Showtime original series entitled Street Time.

Now the Philly based Beat Society member renowned for his live performances (Hezekiah will be exclusively touring throughout 2007 and is currently opening up for Mos Def) returns with his sophomore LP, I Predict A Riot, which will be released on 9-18-07 courtesy of Rawkus/Soulspazm Records. Featuring guest appearances from a who’s who list of Philly’s finest; Hezekiah’s I Predict A Riot includes collaborations with Freeway, Bilal, Jaguar Wright and Chief Kamachi among others. While Hezekiah continues to flex his chops behind the boards and he handles the majority of the production, I Predict A Riot, also includes production from Oddisee. Hezekiah laments "I'm not a conscious rapper; I just have something to say. I’m a nerd, a freak, a geek, but I’m dangerous. This is the start of something new.” Born to be different---indeed!

Hezekiah’s riot begins on September 18th, 2007!!

You can view the incredible EPK for Hezekiah’s I Predict A Riot here: http://www.laskarmusic.com/artists/hezekiah/

Tracklisting and credits for Hezekiah’s I Predict A Riot:
1. The Beginning f/Muhsinah, (produced by Oddisee)
2. Wild & Wreckless, (produced by Hezekiah and Rick Tate)
3. If One Falls f/Eleon (produced by Hezekiah)
4. That Filling f/Freeway (produced by Hezekiah)
5. Looking Up f/Bilal (produced by Anthony Accurate)
6. Single Now (produced by Hezekiah)
7. Let’s Get Involved f/Jamal (produced by Hezekiah)
8. Bombs Over Here (produced by Vegan Pork Grind)
9. Definition of A Bitch (Lude)
10. I See Yaw f/ Jaguar Wright (produced by Hezekiah and Fred Kenny)
11. I.P.A.R. (Lude)
12. Moments in Sometime f/Aaron Livingston (produced by Hezekiah and
Aaron Livingston)
13. I Predict A Riot f/Keziah & E. Shon Burgundy (produced by Hezekiah
14. Freak (Lude)
15. Gotta Love It f/Tarentz Moreese (produced by Hezekiah)
16. Ghetto People f/Richard Raw, Chief Kamachi & State Store (produced by
Hezekiah)
17. Afro Lude (produced by Hezekiah and Tony Whitfield)
18. Muhsinah Outro

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UGK "Undergroundz King" Album Official Tracklist

Posted at 7/12/2007 06:14:00 PM

UGK's long awaited double album UGK (Underground Kingz) is dropping 8/7/07 and it's stacked with featured artists from Outkast to Dizzee Rascal to Talib Kweli to Big Daddy Kane and more. Check out the track listing below!











DISC 1:
1. Swishas And Dosha
2. Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) featuring OutKast
3. Chrome Plated Woman
4. Life Is 2009 featuring Too $hort
5. The Game Belongs To Me
6. Like That (Remix)
7. Gravy
8. Underground Kingz
9. Grind Hard featuring Young T.O.E. and DJ B-Do
10. Take Tha Hood Back featuring Slim Thug, Vicious and Middle Fingaz
11. Quit Hatin' The South featuring Charlie Wilson and Willie D
12. Heaven
13. Trill N****** Don't Die featuring Z-Ro


DISC 2:
1. How Long Can It Last featuring Charlie Wilson
2. Still Ridin' Dirty featuring Scarface
3. Stop-N-Go featuring Jazze Pha
4. Cocaine featuring Rick Ross
5. Two Type Of B****** featuring Dizzee Rascal and Pimpin' Ken
6. Real Women featuring Talib Kweli and Raheem DeVaughn
Candy
7. Tell Me How Ya Feel
8. Shattered Dreams
9. Like That
10. Next Up featuring Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap

http://www.the-ugks.com/

Bonus Track: Int'l Players Anthem featuring Three 6 Mafia (Chopped & Screwed)
Bonus Track: Int'l Players Anthem featuring Three 6 Mafia

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Watch the Rush Hour 3 Official Trailer!! (Video)

Posted at 7/12/2007 11:49:00 AM

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Before you see this video plastered in a million places over the next few days, be the first to watch the official trailer of Rush Hour 3 starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. The movie is going to be released on August 10th. Oh, to find out the movie storyline (see below).

Windows Media: Video

Quicktime: Video

Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh And Max Von Sydow

Chris Tucker returns to the big screen after a six-year absence as he reunites with the all-star team of co-star Jackie Chan, director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Red Dragon), and screenwriter, Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour 2, Catch Me If You Can) to deliver the third installment of the blockbuster Rush Hour franchise. Arriving in theaters on August 10, 2007, Rush Hour 3 sees the beloved action comedy duo of Tucker and Chan reprising their roles as LAPD Detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee respectively. This time around, the two must travel to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads. Based on Characters created by Ross La Manna, Rush Hour 3 is being produced by Arthur Sarkissian, Roger Birnbaum (Memoirs of a Geisha), Jay Stern, Jonathan Glickman (The Pacifier) and Andrew Z. Davis.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007   MUSIC |  VIDEOS |  INTERVIEWS  | NEW ARTIST  | HOME

"Breaking Necks and such..." Exclusive Interview: Flo Dirt Vs. Big Shug!

Posted at 7/11/2007 06:32:00 PM

For all you beat minors and snap majors, check out for this next boot to yo' fzace. Flo Diggy sat down just recently sat down in extensive interview with Gang Starr Foundation representa...Big Shug. Well, just so you know currently Shug is about to drop his solo debut, with productions by world famous DJ Premier by the way, on July 17th called Street Champ. Cool hugh! Yo, check out this latest edition of "10 Shots With Flo Dirt"...

Big Shug: All right, what’s happenin’?

Flo Dirt: Hey man. I appreciate the time, Big Shug.

Big Shug: No doubt, man.

Flo Dirt: 1. Tell me about what’s going on with the Gang Starr Foundation and how it’s changed over the years.

Big Shug: Basically, the Gang Starr Foundation itself is me and Premier right now, as far as musically. We still got some of the team members that we always behind the scenes but basically that’s what it is. Things have changed of course, because Dap and Group Home is not around, Jeru isn’t around and even Guru is not around so it’s been a change in that. But as an emcee and as an artist, I continue to grow and I still represent it to the fullest. Nahmean? I was the one who created the original version of Gang Starr. I guess things go 360 as they say. I’m taking the fruit from a tree I planted years ago.

Flo Dirt: 2. What’s your relationship like with Premo, knowing he’s arguably the dopest producer ever?

Big Shug: Me and Premier is like tight. We boys. We got a radio show together. We do a lot together. Of course we still do music but we’re more than just that. We’re friends. Our relationship is tight. It’s solid.

Flo Dirt: 3. You had the “Who’s Hard” joint with Premo at the helm, (“Counter Punch” was my shit, by the way!!) and help from Alchemist too. You’ve always had dope production and consistently hard rhymes. What’s the strategy for “Street Champ”? Same formula?

Big Shug: It’s always the same, the only difference is that everything on Street Champ is current. There were a few joints on “Who’s Hard” that were 8-10 years old and “Counter Punch” being one of ‘em. Therefore, of course, I exhibited growth as an emcee as you should. So on Street Champ you got still hard rhymes for the most part. Then you got some smooth shit too. Then you got a total singing joint on there called “Lost.” So it’s more than a few singing hooks. I’ve always sung and rapped. It’s more Big Shug all the way on the Street Champ album.

Flo Dirt: 4. Take me back to the early 90’s and the “Hard to Earn” days. What was that like for you and were you on the road with Gang Starr? What was your most memorable moment from that era?

Big Shug: I was always on the road with dudes. The memorable times were probably when I first ever went on tour. Everything was always great but when I first w