Lil Scrappy, Warren G, Playaz Circle and Juvenile have Named Barack Obama Person Of The Decade.
“Oh, Obama,” Scrappy said . “Obama, yeah, ain’t nobody more impactful than Obama. F*ck all the other sh*t, f*ck your day dreams, you feel me? Like, that’s a dream come true. That’s an impact, I lost my breath when that sh*t happened.” (SOHH)
These days if you want to make a hit,you need a great hook.So no wonder rappers such as Ja Rule and 50 started to sing on there own tracks acting as singers.Fabolous made a comment in regards to them:
“I don’t got no problems with that,” Fab explained . “Some rappers sing, some rappers rap. It’s about melody I think. Certain people used to get mad at Ja Rule for singing — everybody was mad, you may say he’s not singing on key or whatever, but all these guys are singing and using auto-tune — I’ve never had a problem with it. It’s melody, melodic, a lot of the joints that are hit records have that form to them. 50 [Cent] used to say he was singing, it was different than Ja because of what he was singing about, but it’s still him singing his own hooks. Just because it’s not an R&B guy singing, it’s still singing. It’s the same thing.” (Real Talk NY)
Blackstreet’s Teddy Riley made a statement in regards to assulting his daughter.
“Due to recent events, I am compelled to respond in detail to accusations made against me, by my daughters,” Riley wrote in a statement. “I love my Daughters, but I will not allow my children to disrespect me in my home. Contrary to what I have been accused of, I would never beat my children. Perhaps, I should have been a stronger disciplinarian as they were growing up. I worked very hard so that my children would want for nothing. In hindsight, I see that it was a mistake to give them everything they wanted so that they could have the childhood I never had. Unfortunately, they have taken me, and the privileged life I have given them, completely for granted…However, my ‘children’ are no longer children, they are adults and I am trying to instill in them values and a work ethic of their own…I’ve been working since the age of 14, I bought my first car by myself. Nobody gave me a car. My kids don’t even remember their first car. I grew up with 6 of us in an apartment fighting over one bathroom. My kids have never had to share a bathroom, let alone a bedroom. I’m asking everyone to let this one go… I’m only being a good parent. I’m a great father and everyone who knows me, knows this is true.” (TMZ)
Music executive Kevin Liles recently tweeted about a close acquaintance of his going in the studio to do work after visiting family. Is he talking about T.I.? He did just get home so he would be visiting family and eager to get to recording. “My right hand went home to visit family & found his way to the studio. He said ‘why wait for 2010, get it in now’ Love the attitude!” (Global Grind)
T.I.’s not long been at the half way house and hes already booking studio time.Good for him.
“I just did a mixtape with Boosie, [it's called] Bad Azz Hurricane. I’m about to put that into the streets.I wanna get that out circulating while my dog is behind bars, free Boosie. Yeah, you know that’s my family,” Hurricane said about Boosie. “I call everyday to make sure everybody be good you know so when he comes home everything will be love. Everything will be there for my dog to get on the streets, 51/50, it’s a Louisiana thing right here. We family, we eat together, we get it on, we get it on!” (SOHH)
Looks like SOMEBODY’S jumping on the claim to fame train.
I don’t know how smart of Tion it was to bring out a track and tell the world that he is related to Chris Brown at a time when he’s down as a wife beater but any publicity is good publicity.