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VIDEO: Malik Yoba fired from “Empire” and he’s not happy about it
All is not well in the life of actor Malik Yoba. After getting the opportunity of a lifetime to appear on what might be the hottest show release in the last decade, Yoba has been given the
As you may notice in the
But TMZ is also
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#OHGAWD: The True Cost Of Dre Beats Headphones Revealed - You Won't Believe This!
Dr. Dre is filthy rich, his headphones are marked up by 2,000%!
According to estimates done by headphone experts, "the cost of making a headset is as low as $14", the New York Times reports .
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#SXSW #PERFORMER: @iAmZuse on Saturday, March 21 9:00PM @ Vulcan Gas Company!!!
In the early stages of his life, he was home schooled and taught by his grandmother, a retired teacher, who introduced him to various aspects of Jamaica’s culture and the arts. He later attended two prominent high schools,
His earliest exposure to music came by way of his mothers' record collection, which consists of a wide genre of music including Reggae, R&B, Calypso, Jazz and Soca. He grew up listening to the politically charged protest songs of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, the soul of Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and the pain of
As a youngster, ZUSE participated in
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#FreeMaxB: Why the Streets Love Max B via @ComplexMusic @ComplexMag
“Max leave the streets? Please, they don’t need that.”
I used to hate Max B once upon a time. I was one of those “that’s not real hip-hop blah blah blah blah.” I didn’t think he was a good rapper, and arguably, he isn’t. I’m willing to admit that. It doesn’t matter, though, because I love him now. I started fucking with Wavy Crockett around the time of his incarceration. That saying “you don't know what you've got till it's gone” applies here. I felt like such an uppity lame when I first heard “I Never Wanna Go Back.”
The pain in his
Max was more about a feeling. He was the East Coast’s Nate Dogg, a ghetto harmonizer with an ability to pen incredible hooks. Blasphemous? Whatever. The streets have and always will love the Boss Don Biggavel. It really doesn’t matter how you feel about it. He represented the struggle. We love to floss because we never had shit growing up. For better or worse, we looked up to these tragic figures. There’s something poetic about watching someone who lived a life of crime ascend to great heights.
Max was one of us. And he was a game changer. He rode a beat like the Silver Surfer and then would float right into charismatic raps about his waviness. Like Roc Marciano once said: “In my opinion, he was the street version of what Drake is—the fans can have Drake, but the streets have Max.”He was the East Coast’s Nate Dogg, a ghetto harmonizer with an ability to pen incredible hooks. Blasphemous? Whatever.
What makes him a star and hood legend is his personality. Not only was he flashy, he was witty. He invented the wave. His interviews were the best; Max was always good for a quote. Case in point? This Fader interview by Felipe Delerme (Part 1 and Part 2), in which he just lets Max ramble on about $2,000 wave packages, Grand Cru, and snacks for Beanie Sigel. Max was built for the Hollywood lifestyle. The time he and French tried to
Lines like "'Every 10 years niggas like you pop up, you a blast from the past/Your music feel good like waking up, scratching your ass'" are still as funny now as they were when he first released “De La Soul.” He and Pete Rock made Jim Jones’ “G’s Up” a classic record, and if you still want to front on the wave,
The Silver Surfer was the bad guy you felt good rooting for. Even now with all the details of his case
Until then, all the streets can do is keep the wave alive by playing his music and reminding people that he’s a legend. Free Da Wave.
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Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ Album Will Be Available to the Public in 88 Years!!!
Wu-Tang Clan’s final album, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, has found an online auction home at Paddle8 and new details are beginning to emerge. According to a new special micro-website, Once Upon A Time will
have 31 new songs recorded over six years and produced by Cilvaringz
and The RZA. The album will feature Cher, Redman, Carice Van Houten and
players from FC Barcelona’s soccer team amongst others. There is only
one copy of the album available and all backups and digital files have
been destroyed.
On that same website, RZA and Cilvaringz did a Q+A
with information about the project and it’s release. In the interview,
the producers revealed that whoever wins the auction will have the right
to release the album to the public after 88 years. Why 88 years? RZA
explains:
Anyone who knows the Wu-Tang Clan knows
that we often apply numerology, mathematics and symbolism to the things
we do. There were 8 original members of the Clan when we made Protect
Ya Neck and M.E.T.H.O.D Man. The individual numbers of this year also
add up to the number 8. The broker of this work carries the number 8 in
its name. The number 8 on its side is a symbol of infinity, as it was
used on our album ‘Wu-Tang Forever’. You can call it mathematical
coincidence, but it’s always had great symbolic significance for us. For
us it also addresses the issue of music’s longevity in a time of mass
production and short attention spans. Nothing about this record revolves
around short-term gains, but rather around the legacy of the music and
the statement we’re making.
For those interested in how the project
sounds, RZA also gave insight, saying that the album has a throwback,
’90s Wu feel to it:
Musically, this album takes the
listener on a journey back to the chambers we were going through in the
90s. Not so much lyrically as musically as brothers are living a
different reality to then. But this record was produced in that fashion,
it sounds different from anything that’s out today. It was about
tracing and reliving certain origins. If you listen to the intro of
‘Clan In The Front’ on the 36 Chambers album, you’ll hear me shout out
the entire original Wu-Tang movement. We rolled real deep back then and I
invited some of those brothers on a few skits and tracks. It made the
period concept of the recordings more authentic.
For those who live in New York, RZA and Cilvaringz will be appearing at MoMA PS1 for a listening session and a conversation between the two producers and longtime music journalist Sasha Frere-Jones.
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