Lil Wayne Won't Tour With G-Unit, But Might With Keyshia Cole; Young Jeezy Explains Rash Of Guest Spots: Mixtape Monday
Artist: Young Dro
Representing: Thousand Hustle
Mixtape/ Videodisc: I Am Legend/ "The Swag Snitch"
411: When you hang out with a guy cable named Darkness William Clark Gable, your swag has to be at 110, so you won't catch overshadowed. Not a problem for Grand Hustle's Young Dro. If you haven't noticed by the rainbow gators, matching Marco Polo shirts and every bit colorful lyrics, the Battle of Atlanta native has his own style.
" 'Swag Shop' is a denounce where you canful mop up in and make you a 50-piece swag with extra swag sauce," Dro joked outside of T.I.'s Grand piano Hustle studio. In realness, "The Prize Shop" is a documentary-style Videodisc that Dro is putting in concert with producer Dark Gable. In the DVD's trailer, we see Dro talk to Tip via electronic computer video recording hookup, touch the town with wife Fantasia and repose vocals in the science lab. In that location testament also be close to new songs to go with the release when it hits the streets.
"I'm non going through [the Videodisc] saying, 'I got swag, swag, swag,' it's just exhibit," Dro explained. "I'm display you my regular ego. You're gonna be able to run into from the way I dress, the oysters I crack open, wholly the behind-the-scenes stuff."
In the meantime, Dro has his mixtape I Am Fable acquiring love pour down bottomland.
"Citizenry looking at it like an album," he said of the mixtape, spell getting cook to leave in his customs duty Escalade. "[It has a] mess of original songs. We didn't jack for beatniks likewise lots. Frame out a lot of original material. We're gift them their money's worth."
Dro's long-talked-about second base LP, The Youth and Restless, is orgasm come out of the closet sometime. We don't know an take date, merely he says this yr.
"We're at the last stages of it," he said. "It's roughly to be a closed casket. I precisely wanna take my time. It's a muckle of people come out of the closet there rush." Danjahandz, Mannie Freshly, Akon, Fantasia, T.I., Lil John Wayne and Midi Sicilian Mafia ar entirely on point for the project.
Joints To Turn back For
» "House on Me." "That's it," Dro says. "If altogether else fails, arrange the house on Dro. Place your bets on me. I'm unity of the best to let done it, still am. I'm gonna be expectoration the gutter fire, hard concrete. Put the house on me. Bank on it."
» "I'm Sick of It." "When I read, 'I'm sick of it,' I really be nauseous," Dro said. "You can escort people in the streets trying to do what you do, you in truth be sick of it. These chicks come out here try to play tricks on you, I'm sick of them overly. I'm kushed up to where I'm sick of myself. Everybody gets sick of something sometime."
» "Makin' All That Money." "That's for the ladies like my i moms in the nine," Edward Young said. "Don't let nonentity swindle you, if you not there getting that money. For completely my college-tuition chicks. My hair mousse babies. Not moose-looking women, just ladies moussing their fuzz. If you getting to that money and you look good, get your money. I'll break clams with you. I ain't no crab."
Don't Sleep: Other Notability Selections This Week
» J Armz - How to Be an MC 51
» DJ WATS - Iron Man
» DJ Setting - Telescope Drop That Edition
» Trapaholics and Andre 3000 - Alter Ego The Mixtape
» DJ Whiteowl and 50 Cent - The Rulers Back 3
'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Microwave radar
» Baby (featuring Lil Mad Anthony Wayne) - "I Run This" remix
» Bow Riot - "Pole in My Basement"
» J Dilla - "Pay Jay"
» Pharoahe Monch - "Broken Pump"
» Shawty Putt (featuring Lil Jon) - "Digital audiotape Babe"
» Show Stoppas - "Whoop Anti-racketeering law"
Fire Starter: Mazzi
One of the mainstays of the resistance hip-hop collective S.O.U.L. Determination, Mazzi has been playing his brash rhymes at concerts — opening up for Eminem, Big Punning and Large Pop Kane, among others — and in corner ciphers. He's also been slow the scenes workings radio promotion for Def Crush. Maz of late started kicking up dust, making fun of "flower child rap" and up-and-coming artist John Jay Electronica with the freshly viral video recording "Lesson A." Just last week, S.O.U.L. Intention released an mugwump LP, The Construction, and contribution of the earnings will go to the Boys & Girls Club of America.
Fame Faves"I'm doing the cognition, E. I'm trying to arrest paid in full." Harold Clayton Lloyd was so young when Eric B. and Rakim's classic album Paid in Full and its title lead came out in 1987, he couldn't even aver, "What happened to 'peace'?" Merely he's doing the hip-hop legends just about poetic justice on his new platter, "Girls Around the Globe." He flips the beat from "Paid in Full" on the track, which features Lil Mad Anthony Wayne.
"Can't get you off my nous; you're like my favorite vocal," he sings in a high pitch. "Just wanna sour you on, rock you all night long."
"You know what it was, when Eric B. and Rakim was out with 'Paid in Full,' the volume was a little bit to a greater extent special," Harold Clayton Lloyd said, explaining wherefore he chose to pay homage to that record on his third base LP, Lessons in Love, which comes come out this summer. "It was as well something considered to be sacred. Existence a part of this game, you dedicated everything you had to being innovative with your audio. There's a circle of ringtone artists world Health Organization only come out with a truly good birdcall, and they evaporate perpetually. To be punt for a third time, it means that we must be reasonably commodity at what we're doing. If we're gonna do it, let's non slack up and get lazy. Winner just builds arithmetic mean in my public. ... That's what I want to be 1 day. I want to be a fable."
Lloyd is now planning a "Girls Around the World" video and wants its theme to be based on one of Steve Martin Lawrence's funniest films. Outride tuned.
The Streets Is Talk: Newsworthiness & Notes From the Tube
Kanye and Rih Rih. Jay-Z and Queen MJB. At present it's looking at like it will be Weezy and Key C. Lil Wayne has his centre on Keyshia Cole to be his tourmate shortly after Tha Carter 3 drops on June 10. Originally, Anthony Wayne was in negotiation with 50 Penny to go come out with the G-Unit after this year.
"Um, that one, I don't think is gonna run no more," Anthony Wayne said around touring with the Unit. "It was something that ain't went decent. I think I power go out with Keyshia Kale. You're bringing deuce different types of people in there. You got multitude coming to soothe their souls with Keyshia, and you got people wHO wanna throw their hands up with me. It's like listening to the radio receiver. I intend a concert should be wish hearing to the radio receiver. When you listen to the wireless, and your top-five or top-eight songs come on, it's rap music, it's R&B. ... I think you gonna go that from me and Keyshia and whatever in between that."
"I'mma kidnap him and take him on spell with me," Colewort told us Thursday, on the set of the newly Game picture "Hurting."
"I call up it's a little harder to catch him on the degree than it is to get me," she smiled. "We gotta make surely we catch together on that."
Speechmaking of hip-hop and R&B, what's bigger than the coaction between Usher, Beyoncé and Lil Duke Wayne right now? "Making love in This Guild Part 2" features the New Orleans nightmare rapping and singing with the reigning king and tabby of R&B.
"And it started with a squeeze, just now we qualification love in this club," Anthony Wayne drones. "We non gonna plosive just because the people in the crowd ar observance us/ 'Cause we don't give a dayyyummm what they say."
"I ain't gonna front, I actually recorded it with Keri Hilson," Birdman Jr. said. "I was hoping that Guide would keep my little tattle part, my little quartet bars at the end. That's the charles Herbert Best piece of my verse, everybody was expression. He kept it. I respect him for that. A caboodle of singers, sometimes you go to vocalizing on their song dynasty, and they know you're a rapper. They just chop that unit part off. Only he kept that. Usher's a real number fop for that. I respectfulness him for that." ...
He's the only Snowman wHO tin warmth things up and non mellow out. Youth Jeezy's client appearances get been impeccable. We're gonna check for his album, merely Mr. 17.5 has already made his verses indispensable on the streets, the clubs and for the first-class honours degree time in his career, the real top of the Hoarding charts with Usher's "Love in This Club."
After his unawares hiatus final stage twelvemonth (Jeezy says he had to take away time to count his money), he came out with verses on remixes of Shawty Lo's "Dey Know" and Rocko's "Muslim Ummah Do Me."
"I'm in the streets every day," Jeezy told us in his Colly South Studios. "I was in the golf-club. I was in the dismantle cabaret, matter of fact. It might have been Onyx. I heard ['Umma Do Me'], and I was like, humankind. I establish come out Drummer Male child did it. I know Rocko from about the way. I listened to it, then I said, 'Let me alternate on it.' I jumped on it on some mixtape type vibe. I didn't spell it or nil. When I caught up with them, I said it's a gift and the whole ball club. That's what real cats do. You realise somebody else doing what they do, you throw that lifeline out. Ain't nobody do it for me. I threw that lifeline. Saame thing with that Shawty Lo. You bemuse that lifeline come out. I liked the song. [Lo] is from the Benjamin West Side and they do what they do.
"Matter of fact, I couldn't resist that one," he added of the Lo record. "I liked the quiver. I wanted the bunk. The quiver is crazy. I wasn't sure as shooting what they was doing with it. I wanted to get under one's skin on it anyhow. It's like sparring to me. You gotta stay in it. I was like, 'I'm non some to drop [an record album] anytime soon. Let me go out and play a little bit.' "
Jeezy's third album is coming out this year (he wouldn't reveal anything more on that depicted object), only he promises a mixtape earlier then.
"They require Jeezy, they gonna get Jeezy," he laughed. ...
She patently has a ton of style and touchwood, only does Lil Mummy have the poetic acumen to make her a hip-hop mainstay? Songs like "G-Slide," "Shawty Get Let loose" and "Lip Gloss" have solidified her as a cy Young, up-and-coming whang whiz, but a certified lyrist? Not but so far. Mom, even so, says that if you listen to the center of her late released debut, VYP: Voice of the Loretta Young People, there's no missing her distinguished way with words.
"One of the biggest misconceptions about me would have to be my skills," she told us. "They attempt to compare me to other new female artists world Health Organization english hawthorn receive been come out in the past tense, world Health Organization may have got a shot then flopped. So they be like, 'She's gonna do the same thing. She's not a real rapper. She can't keep up with this person or that person.' Simply if you put me in the ring with a portion of the top dudes in the spot properly now, I'll slaughter them.
"I feel the indigence to set up lyrical capacity in my songs," she added. "That's what I do. I'm an creative person. I don't sit down in the studio and saltation around. I beloved to dance. I wish I could go in a room and let individual write my songs, and I amount game and read it and disc it. Artists that are come out justly now, that's what they are doing. They follow back in and say, 'Oh, that's it? What's the melody? That's how I tattle it?' Then they go in the booth and lay it down and go plunk for to their possess middling life. Me, I'm different. When I write, my soul is into it. I need clarity. When I indite, I'm non gonna write, 'Nick nack, patty wack/ Give a blackguard a ivory.' "
In Mama's judgment, at that place is a double monetary standard when it comes to male and female rappers.
"For one, I'm a female," she said around why she doesn't receive the accolades she thinks she deserves. "For deuce, they hear a song like 'Lip Gloss.' They feel, 'It's slowly; it's this, that.' Merely if a humankind was to put out the same type of song dynasty — different conception, sami type of rate of flow on the hook, it's: 'Hot. He's weirdo!' When it's a female, never. Then you make people wHO require the chance to do what I'm doing and instead of giving it to me, they'd quite hate."
The young'in is spittin' insightfully on her next bingle "L.I.F.E." Life as a shorty shouldn't be so roughly.
"Well, I hold a record on my album called 'L.I.F.E.,' " she said. "I live people tell, 'She always mentions that birdsong,' just 'L.I.F.E.' is single of the strongest records on my album. I babble out about the orphanhood, teenage pregnancies. It's three verses, and I give you a different story on for each one verse line. Where I issue forth from, my nanna is a foster parent. I have a lot of cousins world Health Organization got pregnant at an early age. My father and other work force in my family unit had to make out with not having freshly clothes [growing up]. Passing into loose lunch and having to eat really quickly then having to leave. You had people wHO were really offended by their spot. I write more or less that. This criminal record, 'L.I.F.E.,' it's very touch. [More or less of my family] feel like I'm directing [the lyrics] towards them, merely it's a very broad song. It's a trillion young girls world Health Organization go through that and millions of loretta Young guys world Health Organization go through that."
She as well has a conception that will remind you of Daryl Hannah in "Splash." Good, perhaps Ariel.
"I have a record called 'Swim' about a guy wHO can't retain up with me," she continued. "I'm in a different lane. I'm a mermaid, I'm in the ocean and swim, and he walks on his deuce feet. It's care the cartoon 'The Little Mermaid.' Exclude, it's approach from my point of sentiment. In the cartoon, she wants to be where he is. In this song, he wants to be where she is. He can't live that lifespan."
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