D12 and Gorillaz Join Up
D12 and cartoon band Gorillaz have joined forces to create a track which is yet to be named. A source told the Sun, “Damon was nervous, but it turned out brilliantly.”
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Jay-Z Chats on Yahoo on Wednesday
Yahoo! Music Artist of the Month Jay Z will chat on Yahoo on Wednesday, September 26th at 8pET/5pPT.
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Top Jay-Z Searches In August
The August results of searches on Goto.com for Jay-Z related terms are in and ‘Jay Z’ (’JayZ’ and ‘Jay-Z’ combined) got 35,060 searches. Not many must be away of the rapper’s first name as ‘Shawn Carter’ was only searched for 122 times. #2 on the list was ‘Jay Z lyric’ with 7,330 searches.
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Timbaland And Dr. Dre To Mix It Up?
MTV talked to Timbaland where the producer revealed he’s been talking to Dr. Dre about doing a “Dr. Dre/Timbaland album.” Timbaland says, “Dre has kept it under wraps, I kept it under wraps. He was going to get a couple of other [producers] like [Jermaine Dupri], but I really think it should be me and him. We’ve been talking about it for the last two months. We’ll pick artists we feel like we should do the beats for and put it out and promote it.”
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Ludacris Loves Loverboy Experience
Launch.com talked to Ludacris about his opportunity to work with Mariah Carey on her debut single from the Glitter album. On working with Carey, he admits, “It was good, you know, breaking bread with Mariah Carey also, and drinking Cristal in the studio with her and all that. I was having a lot of fun. She’s a real down-to-earth person. I really hope to work with her again.”
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Mos Def & Q-Tip Comment On Terrorist Attacks
360hiphop.com talked to several rappers including Q-Tip and Mos Def following the devastating terror attacks against the US September 11. Both Muslims, Mos Def said “What happened has nothing to do with Islam. This is the work of terrorists and Islam is not about that.”
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Krayzie Bone Speaks on New Album
Krayzie Bone talked to Allhiphop.com about his new album Thug on Da Line where he talked about how his sound has changed since his debut Creepin on ah Come Up in 1994. Bone says, “Man it’s ghetto, um it’s more, it’s perfected more you know what I’m
saying, it’s grown. I concentrated on production more on this album, make sure I have the right beats for the right rhymes.”
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Suge: More Tupac Shakur Music On the Way
Suge Knight tells Phatmag.com he still has eight albums of 2pac material yet to unleash revealing, “With all the Tupac stuff, we got all the different sides of him. The conscious ‘Pac, the thugged out ‘Pac and the more reflective, laid back ‘Pac.”
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Good Info on Fabolous
RapSheet.com has a great article about rapper Fabolous and his comments about people saying he has a sound similar to Ma$e where he admits, “I think the comparisons were made because anything new that you hear, you gonna relate it to something. Kind of like food, like, ‘Yo, this tastes like chicken’, or something like that. I think that it’s more of people not knowing me so they tried to relate me to something they did know. I think that once I really got established it just kind of died out.”
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Jay-Z Impresses At The Worcester Palladium
The Boston Herald’s Colneth Smiley Jr. reviewed Jay-Z’s show at the Worcester Palladium on Thursday saying, “The crowd was rocking at Thursday night’s concert by Jay-Z and the Roc-a-fella family at the Palladium, and the hustler-turned-rap star gave an ecstatic performance.”
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