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Kanye West Joins Twitter
Kanye West was immediately active on Twitter after joining the micro blogging service on Wednesday, happy as his followers climbed above 200,000 by the time the day ended. Among the rapper’s 47 day one Tweets (@kanyewest):
The album is no longer called “Good Ass Job” I’m bouncing a couple of titles around now
Yo @jimmyfallon you been killin the suits man Good Job, thats the new movement
“I might walk in Nobu with no shoes” might be my favorite line on the new album
yeah…. we getting about 80 FOLLOWERS A SECOND no exaggeration!!!
awwwww man this is addictive I might get in trouble on here!!!!
Hold on… let me see if I can get a pic of this small ass jet!!!
man when you take BABYMAMAJETS there’s no stuartist
cool ain’t cool no more,it’s a new day education is the new motivation truth taste and beauty let’s raise our children better than us
2 Pistols Not Feeling Enough Respect From Tampa
2 Pistols wasn’t happy residents in Tampa, Florida on Thursday night for unclear reasons. The rapper from nearby Tarpon Springs told his Twitter followers (@2pistols) last night and today:
Tampa the city of disrespect tonight
I sold a million records respect it or check it
I gotta say I can’t fault tha whole city for the lack of respect last night for a few folks
I thought I’d done my share of putting on for the city clearly some mufu**ers went to sleep on me. Get my weight up with my hate and pay em back when I’m bigger
I did shoot a video last night at the homie @djchristion b day bash tho the sh** was a zoo a lot of love out there
Ludacris Tackles Men Vs. Women Theme In Latest Album
Ludacris spoke with LansingNoise.com about the thought process behind his latest album ‘Battle Of The Sexes’, which he says has been a groundbreaking effort in hip hop. “I don’t feel there’s been an album in rap or hip-hop where the theme is men vs. women,” Ludacris explained. “Usually when hearing songs, you hear mostly the male perspective, but it’s very rare when you get a whole album where you hear the female perspective or both. Men and women have been trying to understand each other since the beginning of time, and we still can’t seem to figure each other all the way out.” Read more.
Trina: Chose To Be The Greatest Version Of Yourself
Trina checked in with her Twitter followers on Wednesday (July 7), offering them some advice. The Miami rapper, who recently released her fifth album ‘ Amazin’, writes:
You were born with greatness within you DYING to be expressed. No more limits, nomore excuses… today and from this day forward – choose to BE the greatest version of yourself. Pretty soon your world will be a living reflection of WHO you’ve chosento become!
2 Pistols Remembers Slain Brother On His 39th Birthday
2 Pistols checked in with his Twitter followers today, discussing how it is the birthday his deceased older brother. The 27-year-old rapper writes:
2day is my oldest brother bday he would have been 39 if he didn’t get killed in prison back in 02 R.I.P “BIG BRO”
I BE DOING ALL MY SHOWS LIKE HE IN DA CROWD.. THIS RAP SH** WAS HIS DREAM REALLY NEVER WAS MINE I DO THIS SH** SO HE LIVES THRU ME
Royce Da 5′9″ Isn’t Moved By Lindsay Lohan’s Tears
Royce da 5′9″ weighed in on a couple topics in the news to his Twitter followers this morning, including what he thinks should happen in New York if LeBron James heads to the Knicks, and the tears that erupted from Lindsay Lohan after she learned she had received a 90 day jail sentence for a probation violation. The Detroit rapper writes:
GotDamn Lindsay… It’s 90 days not the electric chair calm down… Jeez
I was locked up with ni**a that went 90 days without showering. This broad crying over that lil sh**…If LeBron end up in NY, y’all ni**a better not have him waiting outside at the clubs n sh**.. Don’t make him wear a wristband neither..
And don’t be patting him down grabbing his balls all hard talking bout “what?! I’m doing ma job son”
Whatever team he chooses I hope the local drug dealers don’t send him bottles in the club and then talk sh** if he has a bad game after..
K’naan: Play My Music Loud With Headphones
K’naan did a six question Q&A with CMU, where the Somali-Canadian rapper was asked what he’d say to someone experiencing his music for the first time:
I would say play it loud, and I would prefer it if you listen to it through headphones, but if you can’t then play it in the car. I prefer the headphones because I think it’s nice that it should be in your head. When you use headphones you bring the music close to you, so you get to feel something more from that experience. When you are driving, because of the motion, it makes music more of an experience too.
Check out the other five questions at thecmuwebsite.com.
Mannie Fresh Ditches The Bling And Saves His Money
Mannie Fresh tells XXLMag.com he’s no longer rocking chains even though he was the guy who produced ‘Bling Bling’ for B.G. in 1999. “I’m a grown man,” he explained. “It’s like if you go to a club now everybody got on a chain and watch and look like a rapper. I’m not saying nothing’s wrong with that but I’m at a different place in my life. I’m looking at longevity and saving my money. I don’t want to be a VH1 special like that dude is flat broke walking around acting like he 18.”
College Basement Gigs Propel Chiddy Bang To EMI Deal
Chiddy Bang and his sidekick Xaphoon Jones spoke with OC Weekly about how their collaboration morphed from playing basement gigs at Philadelphia colleges to doing similar gigs in other states. “College kids would call us up and be, like, ‘Hey, my friends go to college in Maine. Will you play our basement for a hundred bucks, plus gas?’” Jones told Brandon Ferguson. Chiddy added, “Everything started stretching out to Maine and New Hampshire. That’s when we started thinking we had something.” That something turned into a record deal with EMI as the duo prep their debut studio album for release later this year. Read more.
Travie McCoy: ‘Need You’ Isn’t A Stab In Any Way At Katy Perry
Travie McCoy spoke with People.com about his first solo project ‘Lazarus’, out Tuesday (June 8), and a song off the CD called ‘Need You’. “Its about how tough it is to move on and explain to someone that you’re bruised and not really ready to pursue something,” McCoy explained, ading that moving on isn’t a reference to Gym Class Heroes, who he says have not broken up. Instead, it’s directed at ex-girlfriend Katy Perry. “But it’s not a stab in any way,” the 28-year-old said. “And I haven’t been sitting around for a year waiting for her to call me. She’s moved on and I’m doing my thing.” Read more and listen to the track here.
