See Ya in 2008!
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"Fuck Def Jam" - DMX
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Rashad ft. TI & Young Dro - Tell um What they wanna hear (music video)
I've had this song for a year and a half...comedy
Twista ft. Luther Vandross - For One Night
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6058769a6fa7ad/Kool G Rap ft. Haylie Duff - On the Rise (prod. DJ Premiere)
New York Times' Interesting Article on Hip Hop Sales
UNTIL a few weeks ago it seemed like one of the few happy stories to emerge from an otherwise difficult year in hip-hop. UGK, the Port Arthur, Tex., duo that influenced a generation of Southern rappers, returned after a five-year hiatus. They came back bearing a sublime single, “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You).” And they came back bearing a great double album, “Underground Kingz” (Jive/Zomba), which made its debut atop Billboard’s album chart.Then, on Dec. 4, the news arrived: Pimp C — the duo’s flamboyant half, a slick drawler and an even slicker producer — had been found dead in his hotel room. His bereaved musical partner, Bun B, gave a handful of eloquent interviews, trying to explain what he had lost, what fans had lost.
“I appreciate the concern,” he told Vibe. “But I wouldn’t ask anyone to stop their life, because Pimp would’ve wanted us all to keep grinding.”
If you’re looking for a two-word motto for hip-hop in 2007, you could do worse than that: “Keep grinding.” This was the year when the gleaming hip-hop machine — the one that minted a long string of big-name stars, from Snoop Dogg to OutKast — finally broke down, leaving rappers no alternative but to work harder, and for fewer rewards. Newcomers arrived with big singles and bigger hopes, only to fall off the charts after selling a few hundred thousand copies, if that. Hip-pop hybrids dominated the radio, but rappers themselves seemed like underground figures, for the first time in nearly two decades.
Sales are down all over, but hip-hop has been hit particularly hard. Rap sales fell 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and that trend seems to be continuing. It’s the inevitable aftermath, perhaps, of the genre’s vertiginous rise in the 1990s, during which a series of breakout stars — Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G. — figured out that they could sell millions without shaving off their rough edges. By 1997 the ubiquity of Puff Daddy helped cement hip-hop’s new image: the rapper as tycoon. Like all pop-music trends, like all economic booms, this one couldn’t last.
Read the rest of the article here
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The highly anticipated remix album of Jay-Z's LP American Gangster released on 12/28/2007! Remixed by
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New Audio
Sean Kingston Audio Confirming that he IS playing BIG in the upcoming Notorious BIG filmREQUESTS (MORE ADDED 12/31)
3 comments:
Please could you post up
nas-streets disciple
and saigon-warnig shots,
you would be my hero as the old links have expired
cheers
Yo,
Thx for putting the "R." album. Disc 1 is showing up as disc 2. Thx.
Happy New Year
KC
aye yo Jd the Bishop Mixtape won't show up on my comp is it zipped somewhere ??
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