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Fabolous Stops By MTV News’ ‘RapFix Live’!

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Loso answers fans’ Twitter questions and (maybe) breaks down elements of his signature tending topics on Thursday. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Shaheem Reid Fabolous Photo: Jonathan Leibson/ WireImage Fabolous walks a fine line, maintaining his presence on the underground mixtape circuit and cultivating a mainstream persona with his album releases. His most recent project, There Is No Competition 2: The Grieving Music EP, stems from the similarly titled mixtape There Is No Competition 2: The Funeral Service. Both collections serve as a warm-up to Fab’s next album, Loso’s Way 2. According to the Def Jam rapper, if he had to choose another MC to take a turn on the mixtape scene, his choice would come down to two fellow New York lyricists. “A Nas mixtape would be crazy, a Hov one too,” he told MTV News. “We haven’t seen any of the icons do it [in a while]. I think somewhere, we need a place where Hov doesn’t have to talk corporate and Nas doesn’t have to get too deep on us. We need one of those. I just wanna hear Nas [rapping], ‘Splittin’ Phillies, sippin’ on Baileys with three Israelis.’ I don’t know if he’s still in that space,” Fab said, reciting one of the God MC’s memorable mixtape freestyles. “A lot of things have transpired since. And I wanna hear Hov talk his thing. He still talks his thing and Nas still talks his thing, but I wanna see them in their mixtape essence.” Fabolous will talk mixtapes and more on Thursday when he appears on MTV News’ “RapFix Live” live stream with Sway on MTV.com at 1 p.m. ET. So, wondering why Loso still releases mixtapes after all his success? Ready for the inside scoop on his next project? Want to ask Fabolous about his recent rift with Soulja Boy Tell’em ? Tweet questions to the Brooklyn MC at @MTVNews with #rapfixlive or upload video questions to him at Your.MTV.com and Sway may get them on-air. Fabolous follows past “RapFix Live” guests Rick Ross , Wiz Khalifa, Fat Joe and Lloyd Banks. What should we ask Fabolous? Share your questions in the comments! Related Artists Fabolous

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School Named After Al Gore and Rachel ‘DDT’ Carson Built on Toxic Soil

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A new school will be opening in Los Angeles next Monday that is named after Nobel Laureate Al Gore and Rachel Carson, the woman almost single-handedly responsible for DDT being banned in the ’70s. Even more delicious than the names associated with the new $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences is that it was built on land thought to be highly-contaminated with various chemicals which could pose a threat to students. As the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday: Critics say the campus’ location poses a long-term health risk to students and staff. School district officials insist that the Arlington Heights property is clean and safe. And they’ve pledged to check vapor monitors and groundwater wells to make sure. “Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public’s health from harm,” an environmental coalition wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Making sure the school is safe “would be an even better way to honor their contribution to society.” Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. All told, workers removed dirt from two 3,800-square-foot plots to a depth of 45 feet, space enough to hold a four-story building. The soil had contained more than a dozen underground storage tanks serving light industrial businesses. Additional contamination may have come from the underground tanks of an adjacent gas station. A barrier will stretch 45 feet down from ground level to limit future possible fuel leakage. An oil well operates across the street, but officials said they’ve found no associated risks. Like many local campuses, this school also sits above an oil field, but no oil field-related methane has been detected. Groundwater about 45 feet below the surface remains contaminated but also poses no risk, officials said. You really can’t make this stuff up. Of course, readers shouldn’t miss the irony of Carson and Gore’s names being placed on a school that could end up being hazardous to the health of attendees. After all, Carson has the blood of millions nay billions of malaria deaths on her hands as a result of her paranoid book “Silent Spring” leading to the ban of DDT many years ago. As for Gore, if he ever gets his way, and nations around the world adopt cap-and-trade programs to limit carbon dioxide emissions, millions will likely die as a result of being kept from modern forms of energy creation. As such, it’s quite fitting a school be named after these two radical environmentalists that could end up harming the very students that attend it.  On the other hand, one could make the case that if the toxic fumes don’t hurt these poor, unsuspecting young souls, the environmental nonsense they’re being taught certainly will. It’s like rain on your wedding day.

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Afrojack Talks His ‘Freaky’ Lady Gaga ‘Alejandro’ Remix

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Gaga’s people ‘were like, ‘we want that crazy Afrojack vibe,’ so I went really crazy.’ Dutch DJ/producer says. By Akshay Bhansali Afrojack Photo: MTV News “Lady Gaga, she’s a freak,” Dutch DJ/producer Afrojack told MTV News on Saturday, “so I thought, ‘Gotta make a freaky song!’ ” He’s referring to his remix of Lady Gaga’s most recent single and video, “Alejandro,” which is among a collection of remixes featured on Gaga’s recent Alejandro: The Remixes EP. In the electronic/dance music world, Nick van de Wall (a.k.a. Afrojack) is one of the genre’s rising stars: His mentor is crossover star David Guetta , and he has been instrumental in popularizing the “Holland House” — or as he calls it, “bleep” — sound. Interestingly, when Gaga’s camp put in their request for the remix, at first Afrojack thought it better to deliver a more pop-radio-friendly track. But as fans of Lady Gaga have come to know, she prides herself on keeping it real. Turns out Gaga wanted a dirty, more underground, Afrojack joint. “First I thought, ‘Let me just give them a soft mix,’ ” Afrojack recalled. “And they were like, ‘No — we want that crazy Afrojack vibe.’ And so I went really crazy. I was even in the studio like, ‘This is pretty damn hard.’ I sent it and they were like, ‘ F— yeah!’ ” Afrojack also told MTV News that he recently completed an official remix for Diddy/Dirty Money’s “Hello, Good Morning,” and that fans should expect some serious house. “It’s like really, really underground,” Afrojack said. “Even more than the ‘Alejandro’ remix — like even more back to the underground, purely for the house heads, because I know [Diddy] works with Felix Da Housecat. He’s really into that electro stuff, so I thought, ‘You know what? I’m gonna make him a really underground mix.’ ” Related Artists Afrojack Lady Gaga

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World Cup 2010 – Wavin Flag

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

World Cup 2010 – South Africa – Viva Africa!! ==== song by: Knaan – Wavin Flag By the underground, for the underground. This was made anonymously for the love of the sport and its ability to touch the whole world, if but for just a moment. Football, soccer, whatever – a rose by any other name would smell as sweet – no organization, no nation, no flag can overshadow its grace. It is all about our love for the Beautiful Game. Four years in the making, the tournament has officially started. May the best team win!

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Drake Reps H-Town ‘Till The Day I Die’ On Away From Home Tour

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Toronto MC brings out Houston rap luminaries Bun B, Lil Keke, Trae Tha Truth and others. By Cynithia Allen Drake (file) Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Drake did the Texas two-step this week, bringing his Away From Home Tour to Dallas on Wednesday, and the next day, to Houston, where he closed out his initial run of U.S. dates. The 23-year-old Toronto MC’s show was highly anticipated in H-Town, a city Drake gave props to on “November 18th,” off the Chopped N Screwed version of his So Far Gone mixtape. He opened Thursday night’s show at Houston’s Verizon Wireless Theater with his club banger “Over,” whipping the crowd into a frenzy. Drizzy told his fans that “only three things matter at this time: Number one, I’m Drizzy Drake. Two, I’m part of the hottest team in the game right now — Young Money/ Cash Money. Finally, I rep H-Town till the day I die.” The Grammy-nominated artist showed his respect for the City of Syrup with a performance of the aforementioned “November 18th,” which true Houstonians know was inspired by the Screwed Up Clique’s late-90s posse cut “June 18.” One of the Clique’s original members, Lil Keke, was on hand to deliver his verse from the ensemble track. And the Houston rap scene was amply represented at the concert: In addition to Keke, Drake brought out Houston luminaries Z-Ro, Trae Tha Truth and the Underground King himself, the timeless Bun B. Cash Money’s Birdman, who has made appearances on several dates of the tour, came through for “Money to Blow,” and then performed the Big Tymers hit “Still Fly.” The theater seemed to shake to the rafters as the excited crowd began reciting lyrics — “Gator boots with the pimped-out Gucci shoes.” The stage was then turned over to Young Money members Gudda Gudda and Lil Twist, who came out to assist on “Bed Rock.” The show continued with the lovemaking theme on “A Night Off,” which saw Drake bring out a microphone whose stand was covered in female undergarments. The ladies went berserk, throwing bras and panties at the dynamic MC, a practice that has become a ritual at every Away From Home show. In an interview Drake gave to CNN , he said he was attempting to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most bras thrown at a performer during a single show. When Drake chose a 27-year-old Houston fan to join him onstage, he warned her that anything could happen, including licking, sucking or kissing. No one seemed to be left disappointed at this show. And while he may not have been given the key to the City of Syrup, Drake proved he already has the town on lock. Are you planning to see Drake in Concert now that he’s added more dates to his tour? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists Drake

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Drake Talks About The Evolution Of Mixtapes

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘A mixtape can’t be the songs that don’t make your album,’ he tells Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with reporting by Sway Calloway Drake Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images State of the Streets: Drake Talks Mixtapes On Mondays, we usually bring you our main pick, but we had to start this week by saluting mixtapes. We’re proud that so many MCs are stepping their mixtape game up. The mixtape world is strong, potent and competitive right now. This year alone, we’ve seen Fabolous, Wiz Khalifa, Jim Jones and Asher Roth drop product off in the streets and the Internet. The next few weeks are going to be flooded with ferocity, with Young Jeezy, the Game, T.I. and Rick Ross, just to name a few, dropping soon. Long live the underground! We asked Drake — the guy with the biggest mixtape of the past few years, So Far Gone — what he thought about the state of mixtapes right now. He said everyone has to come with their best. “I think that when creating a mixtape, you have to approach it with a selfless mind-set,” Drake told us. “A mixtape can’t be the songs that don’t make your album, or songs that aren’t good enough to make your album make your mixtape — unless you’re that good. There aren’t that many people that are that good. I’m not that good. That mixtape [ So Far Gone ] is me working my hardest. It wasn’t ‘Oh, here are the songs I’m gonna give away to you ’cause I have better songs coming.’ A mixtape has become an album. “Before, I remember people used to be in the studio cutting songs, and they would be like, ‘Oh, that song is OK. I’ll just put it on my mixtape,’ ” he added. “Now a mixtape is an actual tool. It’s a format you need. You don’t necessarily need it, but it can be useful. Like with Fab and the other guys, I know they do a lot of rapping on other guys’ beats. It’s hard to tour like that, as incredible as it may be. Now Wayne, when the No Ceilings set comes on, it’s ridiculous. It’s hard to rap over other people’s songs and have it be timeless. With So Far Gone, when I did flip other people’s songs, half the time people didn’t know what song it was. I tried to pick stuff that was new or rare or just like an album cut. But yeah, man, if I use somebody else’s beat, I try to make a song out of it.” For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines or follow the Mixtape Daily team on Twitter: @shaheemreid and @mongosladenyc . Related Artists Drake

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Watch Stargate Universe Season 1 Episode 14 – Human Online Streaming Video Link

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

Watch Stargate Universe Season 1 Episode 14 – Human . The 14th episode of this 1st season that aired 04/23/10, Friday at 9:00 P.M. on SyFy. Watch the latest episode of our favorite new sci-fi show brought to us by SyFy. We have provided the links for you where you can watch it online streaming or download it for your collection, it is located at the beginning and at the end of this post, and right after this paragraph in color blue text/font, in bold letters. Watch Stargate Universe S1E14: Human Stargate Universe’s new episode entitled “Human” has Colonel Young being put on a difficult position when Doctor Rush didn’t comply to the orders to interface with the computer in Destiny. Meanwhile, Eli, Chloe, Greer with Lt. Scott goes exploring the underground ruins of a planet. Watch the full latest episode of Stargate Universe replay on line for free. Watch Stargate Universe S1 Continue reading →

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Young Jeezy ‘Knocked Out’ The ‘(Ha Ha) Slow Down’ Hook, Fat Joe Says

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘We was sitting there, vibing on the verses,’ Jeezy tells Mixtape Daily of making the Darkside track. By Shaheem Reid Fat Joe Photo: EMI The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive Young Jeezy was always going to be on Fat Joe’s The Darkside ; he just wasn’t always on deck for their club banger “(Ha Ha) Slow Down.” Jeezy had agreed to get on a record called “Dope Boys” for Joe, but when he got to the studio, DJ Khaled kept raving about the Scoop DeVille-produced “Slow Down.” The Snowman asked to hear it. “He played it for me one time,” Jeezy, said on the song’s video set in Harlem last week. “We was sitting there, vibing on the verses. I went in there and knocked out the hook.” “He knocked that hook out quick,” Joe marveled. “I told him we were using that ‘Slow down, son, you’re killin’ ’em,’ then he started with that ‘We came in this bi— tonight to murder things. And we gonna leave this bi— tonight a murder scene.’ ” “Two seconds,” Jeezy added his speed on the booth. “We in Harlem now. This is where it got us.” Joe’s video takes the viewer into the party. “The video is going down movie-style, if the hip-hop police let us,” Fat Joe said. “We in Harlem. We gonna touch that town. Me and Jeezy gonna have Puff surfin’ on the ‘hood of the Phantom Drop. That New York Diddy bop. Jeezy coming through with that A-Town stomp.” Speaking of Young, he said he’s going to remain just that, refuting online reports that he dropped the first word of his moniker. “Nah. I’m ‘Young,’ man,” he declared. “I’mma stay Young till I ain’t Young no more. I don’t know why they trying to make me old. But this is ‘Young Jizzle from the bottom of the map.’ This is the name they gave me. I gotta rock till it’s over with.” Young said his album Thug Motivation 103 is now slated for July, while Joe’s The Darkside is on schedule for June 29. Meanwhile, Jeezy’s Trap or Die 2: By Any Means Necessary mixtape is coming soon. Fat Joe is also contemplating a tape prior to his LP’s release. The Streets Is Talking: News And Notes From the Underground Just because they sing doesn’t mean that they don’t want to feed the streets and Net. Look out for a wave of mixtapes by R&B singers. Bobby V just released a tape with DJ Drama called 60 Mins. Dram also has one in the cooker with The-Dream named #lovesessions. Meanwhile, So So Def newbie Dondria is planning to follow up her Dondria Duets with a sequel in the near future; DJ Envy hosted the original. Queens’ Super Star Jay is in the lab with one of our all-time favorites, Faith Evans. Faith already dropped a freestyle to Snoop Dogg’s “I Wanna Rock” beat last week. We hear Trey Songz may be dropping another tape as well, and we know for sure former G-Unit princess Olivia has Under the Radar coming this weekend. Last but not least, sexy singer Shanell is stepping into the forefront with her recent release Shut Up and Listen. The girl can sing! For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines or follow the Mixtape Daily team on Twitter: @shaheemreid and @mongosladenyc . Related Videos Mixtape Daily: Asher Roth, Tity Boi

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Drake Gets Love From Jamaica During ‘Find Your Love’ Shoot

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Plus: Brisco tells Mixtape Daily there’s ‘no beef’ between him and Gucci Mane’s Brick Squad. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes Drake Photo: Sam Hendrick/MTV News The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive Cash Money/ Young Money, all one big family. The Birdman recently went out to Rochester Hills, Michigan, to be a surprise guest on Drake’s Away From Home Tour. Baby joined Drizzy for “4 My Town (Play Ball),” and after the show Drake shared some downtime with the multimillionaire CEO. Sitting in the Birdman’s tour-bus lounge, Drake told us about his recent trip to Jamaica where he shot the video for the Kanye West-produced “Find Your Love,” a track on the June 15 LP Thank Me Later. “We went to Kingston,” Drake said. “We went to this ‘hood. They call it the ‘gully’ side. It’s bad out there, real bad. They had ‘Young Money’ sprayed on the gates, ‘Drake and Wayne,’ ’cause I came to shoot the video out there. I’m talking about you drive by people’s homes, they had ‘Drake,’ ‘Young Money,’ ‘Drake, Welcome Here,’ ‘Drake We Love You’ — crazy sh–, man. It was so crazy. This dude was like, ‘Original Weezy tha God! You tha boss! Weezy tha God!’ It’s crazy. They love us, ’cause we show love out there.” It’s April 20 — you know what that means. Some people are celebrating green day, and we’re not talking about the rock band. In any event, check out these releases — some are celebrating today’s theme and some aren’t. Other Heat This Week

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Alley Boy Proves He’s ‘A Force To Be Reckoned With’ On Definition Tape

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| 2 Comments

Plus: Akon talks about his latest signing, Ya Boy, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes Alley Boy Photo: Atlantic This Week’s Main Pick Street King : Alley Boy, DJ Holiday and the Empire Holding It Down For : Zone Six in Atlanta Mixtape : Definition of F— Sh– Real Spit : “2010 is a new year,” DJ Holiday said. “I had to go get somebody more gutter, more street. I had to go to Zone Six. Have I ever let you down?” Alley Boy gets the prize for wildest mixtape title this year (see above). The rapper said he wants to keep street rap in the spotlight. “I put that title on the mixtape because I wanted something to stand out,” Alley said. (Mission accomplished.) “Just to be different. The topics I went in on, it’s a lot of things people would call negative. My whole image, it seems it’s so negative. I went there with it. I feel that those words definitely represent my attitude. It’s so watered down in Atlanta right now. I wanted to let folks know I’m a force to be reckoned with. I wanted a strong concept and strong title.” He also has a story behind his MC name: “I’m from Zone Six. Edgewood’s finest,” he said. “The way I came up in these hallways, these cuts, these alleys, it just fit me.” Alley has a slew of guest spots holding it down for the A as well. “I wanted to go in with my boy [Young] Dro,” he said. “We got a song called ‘Tall.’ Yung L.A., we had some controversy goin’ on. I wanted to show I reach out. I’m about the A. Princess from Crime Mob is on there. She goes stupid hard.” Waka Flocka Flame is also on the mixtape, as is Gucci Mane, who called in from jail on an interlude. Joints to Check For

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