ALLHIPHOP NEWS:Funding For Hip-Hop Museum In The Bronx Frozen Monday. 9.4.06 7:27 pm By Alexis Jeffries
Date: 9/4/2006 2:50 pm
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The Bloomberg administration has announced that it is immediately stopping the disbursement of funds to a Bronx, NY non-profit firm that was building a Hip-Hop museum, due to an unsatisfactory audit performance.
The Northeast Bronx Redevelopment Corp., which recently received a $4.5 million grant from the city council for construction of a multi-use building that would include the Hip-Hop museum, was barred from receiving $335,000 of a separate $355,000 grant approved in June because of the red-flagging of the group’s Vendex form.
"The money is frozen," a city official told the New York Post.
The Vendex form is a financial background questionnaire every city contractor is required to fill out prior to construction of new buildings.
The Northeast Bronx group had their Vendex form rejected after an audit of the company was completed last week, preventing them to receive any further contracts for building purposes.
Brad Maione, a spokesman for state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, said the last filing on record for the group was completed in 1997, and no other tax forms had been filed since then, almost a decade ago.
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Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: HIP HOP NEWS [t] Ludacris to release "Release Therapy" on September 26th Monday. 9.4.06 7:34 pm By: Leon Bailey
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Ludacris is back to take the music industry by storm with his newest solo album, Release Therapy, slated for release on September 26, 2006. Poised to be the song of the summer, the 1st single, "Money Maker," has scored the # 1 most added at radio with 54 adds and over 14 million in audience.
The video for Money Maker, directed by Melina, was just shot July 31st in Miami and made it's debut on MTV's "Making Of," on August 17th. The track features Pharrell, who also produced the track.
Release Therapy is Ludacris' most personal album to date. Dealing in topics ranging from politics to child abuse, the "release" portion of the disc will show another side of Ludacris to his fans. The "therapy" songs include cut loose tracks such as Gone Wild also produced by Pharrell.
"Music is therapeutic," commented Ludacris. "When I say Release Therapy, I just mean in what I do and speaking out. It is my Release Therapy, music, period. Every album I get more and more personal, start talking about issues that people would be surprised about or maybe didn't think I would say. I'm about to release."
Ludacris will soon be seen performing his newest single in support of Release Therapy, in a 30 minute special on the E! Network and on Late Night With David Letterman. Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: HIP HOP NEWS [t] Killer Mike to release street album “I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind” Monday. 9.4.06 7:41 pm By: Leon Bailey
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After releasing “The Killer” mixtape early 2005 with DJ Sense, Killer Mike is back with his the new street album “I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind,” scheduled to hit the streets mid-September. Killer Mike gives fans that have been waiting on a new album a two-disc cd with 22 tracks and 100 minutes of music, as well as introducing his Grind Time Rap Gang (S.L. Jones, Nario, Bigg Slim, Young Pill, and Da Bill Collector) to the industry. Featuring production from Smiff and Cash and Chaotic Beats, this album as well features the controversial tracks LISTEN NOW“That’s Life” and LISTEN NOW“Promise I Will Not Lose.”
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Disc 1
01. COMIN' HOME ATLANTA (produced by Smiff and Cash)
02. THE JUGGERNAUT (produced by Smiff and Cash)
03. FUCK U PAY ME (produced by Chaotic Beats)
04. THE NEXT BITCH (produced by Smiff and Cash)
05. H.N.I.C. FT. Rock D The Legend, S.L. JONES, and YounG Pill (produced by Smiff and Cash)
06. ONE MORE GRAM
07. I'MA SHINE FT. S.L. JONES and Da Bill Collector (produced by Chaotic Beats)
08. HOT 107.9 INTERVIEW
09. PROMISE I WILL NOT LOSE (produced by Smiff and Cash)
10. GAT TOTIN' FT. S.L. JONES and NaRio (produced Chaotic Beats)
11. G.T.R.G. FT. S.L. JONES, YounG Pill and NaRio (produced by Drum Major Music)
DISC 2
01. LISTEN NOWTHAT'S LIFE (produced by Smiff and Cash)
02. DUECES WILD (produced by Smiff & Cash)
03. WHAT DA BIZNESS IS FT. BiGG Slim, Da Bill Collector, and YounG Pill (produced by Chaotic Beats)
04. SAGS N FLAGS FT. S.L. JONES (produced by Chaotic Beats)
05. I. C. YAH FT. Da Bill Collector (produced by Chaotic Beats)
06. SHOOT 'EM UP FT. NaRio (produced by Smiff and Cash)
07. KILLERS (produced by B-Don)
08. PAY STYLE FT. Tha GrindTime Rap GanG (produced by Smiff and Cash)
09. GORILLA PIMPIN' featuring 8-Ball and MJG (produced by Mello)
10. YOU DON'T WANT THIS LIFE (produced by Chaotic Beats)
11. KRYPTONITE-Playa Poncho REMIX (Bonus Track) Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: HIP HOP NEWS [t] Three 6 Mafia Seek Dismissal Of Pittsburgh Lawsuit Monday. 9.4.06 8:32 pm September 04, 2006
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Academy Award-winning rap group Three 6 Mafia asked for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by man who claimed he
was severely beaten at a concert when fans followed lyrics of the song "Let's Start A Riot."
An attorney for the group filed a motion last week in Allegheny County Court saying there is no "genuine issue of material fact" to the complaint. The lyrics are protected under the First Amendment, the motion said.
Ramone Williams claimed in his lawsuit that he was beaten during a concert at a now-defunct Pittsburgh nightclub on Aug. 26, 2003.
Williams, who was 19 at the time, said he got into the club and became uneasy when the song began. Before it was over, Williams alleges, he was thrown to the floor, hit with a chair, stomped on and kicked in the face. His injuries included a fractured jaw.
Williams won a default judgment against the club. It closed, and its former operators did not answer the complaint.
Three 6 Mafia, of Memphis, Tenn., won an Oscar this year for the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from the film "Hustle & Flow."
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Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: HIP HOP NEWS [t] Ice Cube Blasts Modern Rap Monday. 9.4.06 9:00 pm By WENN
Sep 3, 2006
Veteran rapper Ice Cube has slammed the state of contemporary hip-hop, insisting most performers are only interested in the "bling" lifestyle.
The 37-year-old wishes more rappers would embrace political issues instead of material gain.
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He says, "Political rap has been pushed into the background, and rap has turned into bling party music.
"Groups like Public Enemy and Krs-One have no stage any more.
"I've been doing this 20 years - but rap is full of bravado now, and nobody wants to listen."
Willis Seeks Help For Panic Attacks
Former Busted singer Matt Willis has been visiting a counsellor to try and combat the panic attacks he has suffered since launching his solo career.
The British star admits he has been feeling the pressure since heading out on his own.
He says, "I get a bit dark sometimes. I get panic attacks and feel stressed about everything. I don't handle stress well, I can't concentrate.
"I feel very nervous and intimidated all the time. Everyone says I'm a cocky so-and-so but it's not until I'm onstage I can be everything I've ever wanted to be.
"I have a counsellor who I see when I get a bit stressed and need to chat. I'll ring him up and he'll tell me to go and see him."
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Date: 9/5/2006 5:20 pm
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Rapper Kevin "Young City" Barnes was released from Baltimore County Detention Center on $75,000 bail last week, after being arrested on armed robbery charges stemming from an incident in 2001.
One of the former stars of MTV's hit reality series Making The Band, Barnes was arrested July 31 in an Atlanta, GA. suburb, after being cited for speeding in Gwinnett County.
The rapper was held for several days before being extradited to Baltimore, MD, where he was originally charged with the robbery offenses.
Barnes was arrested as a result of several missed summons to appear in court to answer robbery charges he incurred in Sept. 2001. Barnes is facing seven counts of robbery, including two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon.
According to the rapper's attorney Paul Gardner of the Baltimore-based Gardner Law Group, Barnes actually robbed the two men at gunpoint with BB gun when he was a juvenile.
Barnes will appear in court Dec. 4 to answer the charges.
"We aren't worried at all," Gardner told AllHipHop.com. "I know the outcome of the trial will be acquittal."
In the meantime, the rapper is working on his latest album titled Fast Life.
"I did songs with Chingy, TI, Soulja Slim, Princess from Crime Mob," Young City told AllHipHop.com. "I didn't want to put just everybody on my album. So I got people grinding like me on the album.”
Young City said he was no longer an artist on Bad Boy Entertainment, the label that released Da Band's debut release Too Hot For TV.
"No bad talk about Bad Boy," Young City said diplomatically. "I was doing music I wasn't really feeling, so I'm free now."
The first single from the album will be titled "Shut It Down."
"Artists money for the suckers," Young City said. "I'm not a rookie anymore, I'm here now, I know how it go, so I'm waiting to shop it to people waiting."
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