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Post by **preacher** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:29 am

ca sunt un moderator cu bun simt si incerc sa ajut lumea.

RapX · Post by **RapX** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:12 pm

Pimp C gasit mort in camera de hotel
http://www.sunetesubsol.net/v5/index.ph ... &Itemid=74

Spice 1 intre viata si moarte
http://www.sunetesubsol.net/v5/index.ph ... &Itemid=74

Changed · Post by **Changed** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:23 pm

RIP Pimp C,alaturi de Bun B faceau un duo extraordinar ( UGK )...imi plac multe piese de-ale lor

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id. ... -c-tribute

Lil Flip ft. D-Red - Pimp C tribute

DFB · Post by **DFB** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:51 pm

Nominations for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards were announced today by the Recording Academy and for the Album of the Year category, alone, represents a diverse taste of musical styles. For hip-hop, rock, pop and jazz – the Academy held a press event at the Music Box in Hollywood and read the nominations that included Akon, Chester Bennington (of Linkin Park), Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, Jay-Z and Timbaland – just to name a few.

Kanye West leads the pack during a banner year with an incredible eight nominations (including the only Hip Hop entry for "Album of the Year"). Amy Winehouse garners six nominations while Jay-Z, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, and T-Pain each earn five nods. Akon, Ne-Yo and Rihanna received four each.

“This year’s nominations truly reflect a diverse and talented community of artists and creators who represent some of the most exceptional music of the year,” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy.

As hip-hop is being more in the mainstream with this year’s award show will the artist’s who represent and win show up for the occasion. HipHopDX.com echoes the similar statement made by Portnow:

“The Grammy Awards process once again has yielded a comprehensive group of excellent nominees and coupled with the fact that it's our milestone 50th year, this year's telecast promises music fans a spectacular show filled with stellar performances and unique 'Grammy Moments' for which Music's Biggest Night™ has come to be renowned.”

Below are a few of the categories of interest...

Nominees for Album Of The Year are:
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace -- Foo Fighters
These Days -- Vince Gill
River: The Joni Letters -- Herbie Hancock
Graduation -- Kanye West
Back To Black -- Amy Winehouse

Nominees for Record Of The Year are:
"Irreplaceable" -- Beyoncé
"The Pretender" -- Foo Fighters
"Umbrella" -- Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z
"What Goes Around...Comes Around" -- Justin Timberlake
"Rehab" -- Amy Winehouse

Nominees for Song Of The Year are:
"Before He Cheats" -- John Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)
"Hey There Delilah" -- Tom Higgenson, songwriter (Plain White T's)
"Like A Star" -- Corinne Bailey Rae, songwriter (Corinne Bailey Rae)
"Rehab" -- Amy Winehouse, songwriter (Amy Winehouse)
"Umbrella" -- Shawn Carter, Kuk Harrell, Terius "Dream" Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z)

Best Urban/Alternative Performance nods go to:
"Make A Baby" -- Vikter Duplaix
"That's The Way Of The World" -- Dwele
"Daydreamin'" -- Lupe Fiasco Featuring Jill Scott
"Fantasy" -- Meshell Ndegeocello
"Dream" -- Alice Smith

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration nods go to:
"I Wanna Love You" -- Akon Featuring Snoop Dogg
"Kiss, Kiss" -- Chris Brown & T-Pain
"Let It Go" -- Keyshia Cole Featuring Missy Elliott & Lil' Kim
"Umbrella" -- Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z
"Good Life" -- Kanye West Featuring T-Pain

Nominees for Best Rap Song are:
"Ayo Technology" -- N. Hills, Curtis Jackson, Timothy Mosley & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (50 Cent Featuring Justin Timberlake & Timbaland)
"Big Things Poppin' (Do It)" -- Clifford Harris & Byron Thomas, songwriters (T.I.)
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" -- A. Davis & Kanye West, songwriters (Kanye West)
"Crank That (Soulja Boy)" -- Soulja Boy Tell'Em, songwriter (Soulja Boy Tell'Em)
"Good Life" -- A. Davis, F. Najm & K. West, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring T-Pain)

For Best Rap Album, the nominees are:
Finding Forever -- Common
Kingdom Come -- Jay-Z
Hip Hop Is Dead -- Nas
T.I. vs T.I.P. -- T.I.
Graduation -- Kanye West

The Grammy Awards will be broadcasting live on February 10th, 2008 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

NCristian · Post by **NCristian** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:37 pm

ce tare kanye e nominalizat de 2 ori la best rap song

Shearer · Post by **Shearer** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:53 pm

albumu lu Common?
e jalnic

Meursault · Post by **Meursault** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:00 pm

awards || art

RapX · Post by **RapX** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:50 pm

in 2005 si 2006 kanye west a luat best rap song si best rap album, eu zic ca merita sa ia si in 2008.

awaky · Post by **awaky** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:42 pm

http://www.okayplayer.com/awards/vote.html

ce awards e asta ?

Post by **adapter** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:50 pm

It doesn't get much realer than P's videos. Grimy and often violent, Prodigy said he prefers the straight-to-YouTube approach to maintain creative freedom.

"My whole reason for doin' what I'm doin' is because I just want to be able to express myself to the fullest," he said, "without having to make changes for certain TV channels that don't want to play (a video) because it's too graphic for them or they don't understand where we comin' from. So instead of doin' that, I'd rather just do what I do without no constrictions, without having to conform. I can just be myself. Because I want the fans to see me, naturally."

http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/13231

Changed · Post by **Changed** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:40 pm

Hip Hop remains in a slump with no rap artists in the top 10 this week. The incomparable Alicia Keys, however, continues to hold down the #2 spot with As I Am selling over 292k copies this week. At this rate, Keys is slated to achieve double platinum status in approximately one more week.

Once again Billboard depicts some disheartening debuts this week. Bow Wow and Omarion, despite having the teen market on lock, failed to debut within the top 10. Face Off came in at #11 and sold 107k copies. Birdman's 5* Stunna debuted at #18 this week, selling 85,631 copies this week, while Mario's Go debuted at #21 with 76,870 sold. Wu-Tang Clan's controversial 8 Diagrams entered the charts this week at #25 selling 68,478 copies, as The Dream's first album, Love/Hate, rounds out the top 30 with just under 59k sold.

Beanie Sigel's Def Jam release, The Solution, debuts at a disappointing #37 this week with just over 49k sold. Gucci Mane's Back to the Traphouse debuted at #57 with just under 32k sold.

If the debuting numbers aren't enough to garner concern about the current state of Hip Hop music sales, check the 2nd week numbers for last week's debuting artists: Scarface's M.A.D.E. dropped from #17 to #76 (24.8k sold, 88k total), Wyclef's Carnival 2 dropped from #28 to #82 (22k sold, 69k total), DJ Drama's Gangsta Grillz fell from #26 to #91 (20k sold, 69k total), Ghostface's acclaimed Big Doe Rehab slipped from #41 all the way to #115 (15k sold, 51k total), 2Pac's Best Of: Part 1 fell from #65 to #126 (14k sold, 36k total), Styles P's Super Gangster fell from #52 to #148 (12k sold, 41k total), and 2Pac's Best of: Part 2 dropped from #77 to #158 (11k sold 30k total).

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Rank Artist Album This Week Total
2 Alicia Keys As I Am 292,273 1,876,245
11 Bow Wow & Omarion
Face Off
106,948
107,146
12 Chris Brown
Exclusive 106,457
788,371
18
Birdman
5* Stunna
85,631
85,871
21 Mario
Go!
76,870
77,109

Other Notables…
Rank Artist Album This Week Total
29
Soulja Boy
Souljaboytellem.com 59,186 517,672
40
Jay-Z
American Gangster 43,516
783,867
60
Kanye West
Graduation 31,049 1,793,593
99
50 Cent
Curtis 18,594 1,176,220
115
Ghostface Big Doe Rehab 14,986 50,657

With numbers like the aforementioned, the world will be watching to see if Mary J. Blige can pull in the astounding numbers she has grown accustomed to. All eyes will also be on Chingy, Disturbing tha Peace and Lupe Fiasco to see who can resurrect Hip Hop from its state of emergency.

source: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.6 ... g-12-16-07

Motel6Devil · Post by **Motel6Devil** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:39 pm

U-God Sues Wu Music
Published on 13 January, 2008

U-God Sues Wu MusicThe drama in the Wu-Tang Clan camp continues, as U-God is suing Wu Music Group, claiming the lable owes him over $170,000 in back royalties. The rapper filed the lawsuit on Tuesday the 8th of January in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. U-God claims he has not been paid advances due for the lastest Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diamgrams, since signing a deal in May 2007.

The rapper from the Hip-Hop collective, born Lamont Hawkins, is also suing Wu Music for income earned from the groups Rock The Bells tour, a publishing deal with BMG and proceeds from the sales of Wu-Tang merchandise.

"Defendant has failed and/or refused to pay certain monies currently due and owing to plaintiff, despite plaintiff’s repeated demands that it do so," the lawsuit reads.

U-God claims he is owed at least $50,000 from the Rock The Bells tour, $60,000 for the BMG publishing advance and around $40,000 for the Wu-Tang Clan album advance. The lawsuit also accuses Wu Music of intentionally breaching the contract with U-God willfully and intentionally, "without justification". As well as the $170,000, U-God is claiming 9% interest from the date of the lawsuit, which is the 8th of January, and all attorney fees. Other members of Wu-Tang Clan including Ghostface and Raekwon have also made allegations that they have not been properly compensated for their work within the group.

"I feel like I am being taken advantage of. Sometimes we didn’t even get a chance to see no paperwork, so we like hold up hold up, deliver that paperwork, and we agree to agree, or we agree to disagree," Raekwon told Miss Info in November of 2007. "It be seeming like motherfuckers be like ‘you don’t need to see no paperwork.’ I be like ‘What? You talkin‘ reckless to me B and that’s when the bullshit starts."

"A motherfucker may know you love them because you love them like that, and then the next thing you know, he use that as a weakness in your mind. It’s to the point where it’s like yo, you getting beat like a ho now, you might as well be pimpin’ me or something nigga. You aint paying me right and you aint keeping me fresh."

RZA replied to the comments during an interview with BBC Radio 1’s Tim Westwood. "It’s really all good, different directions. It was a disagreement. Everything is back all peace already. I aint never ever take no money from nobody and I don‘t owe nobody no money. Don‘t ever say that. I work hard and I pay all my bills."

Credits: Stuart Hallick

DMX Loses $1.5million Over Rape Claim
Published on 13 January, 2008

DMX Loses $1.5million Over Rape ClaimDMX has lost $1.5million to a Baltimore woman, after a default judgement. The rapper failed to show up in court and defend himself against a defamation of character lawsuit on the 10th of January. Monique Wayne sued Earl "DMX" Simmons, after X told Sister2Sister magazine that Wayne raped him, as he slept during a 2003 stay in a hotel room in Baltimore.

"She raped me," DMX claimed. "DNA says it is my child. I don’t know. If I did have sex with her, I would remember. It ain’t like she’s a pretty girl."

In October 2006, Wayne, 28, defender herself from the allegations made by DMX, and she filed a lawsuit in Prince George's County Circuit Court in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Wayne was seeking $6million in damages.

Monique Wayne's mother, sister, and a psychologist testified on her behalf yesterday. They all claimed DMX's allegations were false and slanderous. X must pay $1million in punitive damages and $518,000 in compensatory damages. Representatives for DMX were not available at press time.

Credits: Stuart Hallick

Wyclef Accused Of Copyright Infringement
Published on 11 January, 2008

Wyclef Accused Of Copyright InfringementThe Fugees rapper Wyclef Jean is now a subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit. The lawsuit is based on the song on Wyclef's sixth album Carnival 2: Memoirs of an Immigrant. Brooklyn rapper Blahz, real name Martell Ellis, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan US District Court. He is accusing Wyclef of sampling his groups Blahzay Blahzay's 1995 hit single "Danger" without permission.

Sony BMG have also been named in the lawsuit, in addition to Wyclef. The lawsuit seeks an undisclosed amount which sources claimed could be as high as $50million.

On the good side, Wyclef Jean kicks off the "Carnival House Tour" on the 14th of January in Providence, Rhode Island, in support of the album Carnival Volume II. The tour covers 21 cities before the end date of the 26th of February in Kitchener, Ontario. Representatives for Wyclef Jean were not available as of press time.

Credits: Stuart Hallick

sursa: http://www.hip-hopkings.com/index.php

RapX · Post by **RapX** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:35 pm

Nate Dogg a paralizat!

Nate Dogg, fost artist Death Row Records, are partea stanga a corpului paralizata dupa ce a suferit un preinfarct in perioada sarbatorilor. Acesta se afla momentan sub supraveghere intr-o clinica specializata.

mai mult: http://www.sunetesubsol.net/v5/index.ph ... &Itemid=73

sadclown · Post by **sadclown** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:37 pm

Banksy wall could fetch £200,000

The Banksy artwork was painted in daylight behind a screen
A businessman is hoping to make over £200,000 by selling a wall which was painted on by graffiti artist Banksy.
The graffiti, on the side of a media production firm's base on west London's Portobello Road, shows a painter finishing off the word "Banksy".

Company owner Luti Fagbenle covered it with plastic and put the wall on an internet auction site.

"I wanted to keep it, but maintaining it against the weather became a full time job," he said.

Scaffolding appeared one Sunday morning in September outside Mr Fagbenle post-production editing company, while the Portobello market was open.

The "engineers" refused to say what it was for. A few hours later the scaffolding was removed, revealing Banksy's work.

Banksy painted on and around the Israeli security wall last year
The reclusive artist has refused to comment on the sale, but a representative has confirmed it is genuine.

His work has grown in popularity. Brad Pitt and Christina Aguilera are among celebrity collectors.

Last year one of his works, Space Girl and Bird, sold for £288,000.

Bobby Read, art expert at specialist insurer Hiscox, said: "This sale confirms Banksy as a modern-day cross between Michelangelo and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

"2008 starts where 2007 left off with Banksy making headlines."

The eBay sale has received 67 bids so far, with the top bid at over £200,000.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7187123.stm

bboyspdy · Post by **bboyspdy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:36 pm

^ Citat de pe site-ul personal:

Aren't street art auctions a bit lame?
I don't agree with auction houses selling street art - its undemocratic, it glorifies greed and I never see any of the money.

What's with all the gallery shows?
None of the print and painting exhibitions in proper art galleries are anything to do with me, it's all stuff they bought previously. I only ever mount shows in warehouses or war zones or places full of live animals (I'm aware the pictures don't stand up on their own).