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Well I think the so-called beef started at the Nickelodeon Awards, they're probably trying to do something to boost Romeo's TV show ratings, lol...

Rapper Snoop Dogg has been arrested after a disturbance at Heathrow airport. The US star was detained by police when a row broke out after his 30-strong entourage were told they would not be able to board their flight. Initially they were refused entry to the British Airways first-class lounge at the airport's Terminal 1. Snoop's party is to then said to have moved to a duty-free shop where it is alleged they threw bottles of whisky on the floor and argued with staff. Police were (Advertisement) called and were escorting the group away from the scene when a further disturbance broke out, Scotland Yard said. Seven officers received minor injuries - mainly cuts and bruises - while one suffered a fracture to the hand. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: "The party was told that they would not be permitted to board their flight and officers then attempted to direct the group to baggage reclaim. "A number of the group became abusive and pushed officers." Six men aged in their 30s, including Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, 34, were arrested on charges of violent disorder and affray and held at two west London police stations. They had been due to board a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, before the row broke out. In 1993 Snoop Dogg was tried and acquitted for murder - the same year he found fame with debut album Doggystyle. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/27042006/14...rport-row.html

Nice to see Will as the G.O.A.T., I think I'm gonna vote for all those behind Eminem so he'll finish last :kekeke:

Skillz: Mad At All Of You Wednesday - April 26, 2006 Josephine Basch We all know Skillz ain’t mad no more. But outside of dropping the first half of his name, he’s been busy working behind the scene: ghostwriter, filmmaker, and label owner. Having made his mark on the underground in the mid 90’s via Rawkus Records, he went on to establish himself as the king of punchlines, synonymous with his slap-in-the-face-‘cause-you-done-****ed-up-homie “Year End Rap Ups.” Now with a new day on the horizon, Skillz sits down with HHDX to give us a sneak peak of what he has in store for his 2nd Round Knock Out… Tell me about your Big Kidz label and film company. The label is just an extension of me trying to help people that I think wouldn’t necessarily get a chance from where I’m from. The film division is more or less a new passion that I got. I don’t know what it is about film, but I think I got a bug for it like I had when I first started rapping, because it all pushes to story telling. I got a couple stories that I think I can tell. I think if you write songs that actually take people away from where they’re at, and they can visualize what you’re saying, then you’re already a writer. I got two scripts that I’ve written. So this summer I’ma try to shoot this little 20-25 minute movie. I’ve been buying film equipment and software. I’ve been shooting movies with my daughter. Just little things – and it’s kind of funny, ‘cause now she thinks she’s an actress. You were around during the heyday of Rawkus and you’ve seen a lot go down. How do you feel the game has changed? I guess now it’s cool to be ignorant. I don’t condone it, but it’s cool to not give a ****. And I ain’t mad because the music is gonna do what the people are doing. If the people are ignorant, then the music is gonna be ignorant. If the people are righteous and conscious of what’s going on, and “we ain’t gonna take this **** no more and we gonna stand up and make a change,” then that’s gonna be in the music. I’m not mad at the music they play, I’m just mad at the music they don’t play. If you give “Laffy Taffy” a shot - cool, but how come you wouldn’t give Little Brother the same shot? When you think about it, people get into a rhythm where they don’t want to hear **** from certain people. So it’s the yin and the yang man. If you’re going to show the messages, then show them. ‘Cause some of these ni--as have been through hardships, but they still don’t want to tell nobody about that… Like, ni--a you almost went to jail! That **** ain’t cool – don’t portray jail like it’s cool. Megan Good is not coming to give none of y’all ni--as some ass in jail… like ni--as actually think jail is cool – till they get there! Ni--as better come out here and start saying something. Especially y’all mother ****ers that just got off by a hair - and you still talking about how, “I’m on the block, I’m slingin’ them crills.” You just got off ni--a! You almost did not make it. Then when ni--as get locked up, everybody wanna free their boy. “Free James!” “Free Rodney!” Ni--a: Rodney ****ed up. Rodney knew what the **** he was doing. Rodney was out there with a 20-pack in his pocket. Rodney knew what the **** he was doing – why I got a shirt on saying “Free Rodney?” I should have a shirt on that says, “Rodney Should Have Known Better.” Be real! Come on man – kids walking around with “Stop Snitching” shirts on. Like ni--a, you seven years old, who the **** snitched on you? Your fourth grade teacher? Stop! So where do you see yourself in this equation then? I don’t ****ing know, yo. I just want to make music. And people like it, so… ni--as tell me, “you’re one record away from blowin’.” I’m like, “Am I? Did I already make that record and it just didn’t get the push?” Like, I understand the demographic of the music now. I understand if I really made a dumb ass record and it blew, my hardcore audience would flip… You can dumb down your flow, but that don’t mean they’re gonna accept it. I’d rather stick to who I am and if it happens, it happens, and if it don’t then it don’t. I ain’t chasing it. I know my bread and butter is my show. You won’t hear this on the radio, right behind Freeway or before Juelz Santana…I’m trying to invest more into my show, because I know that when you got a good show and you got a good record, you’re gonna be alright. Do you feel like ghostwriting allows you to express and touch on the other side of your personality? Right. It’s like almost becoming somebody else. I look at it as a challenge. I wanna act – I think acting is just an extension of what I do. ****, I’ve been acting like Mad Skillz for the past 10, 12 years. I’m not Mad Skillz 24 hours a day. So who is Mad Skillz? He a father, a writer, a regular mother ****ing dude. I got the same flaws; some of the same **** happens to me that happens to everybody else. That’s me – that’s Shaqwan Lewis. I’ll be like, “don’t try to separate me from you because I make music.” That’s bull****. I don’t make music 24 hours a day. You might catch me helping my daughter with her homework. You might catch me cooking, because I love to cook. You might even catch me watching some porn. Has being known as a battle MC helped or worked against you? I think ni--as really respect me as a songwriter, because most of my songs have punch lines in them. I mean I’ll be honest – my first album was all ****in’ battle raps with hooks thrown in there. I would write a song where the hook would be like, “yo, you look hot tonight.” And then the rap would be, “yo, what the **** is you lookin’ at?” My first album was 85% battle raps because I didn’t know… But I think through the Rawkus run and through ****in’ with Timbaland, I’m learning now that a good songwriter will be an alright rapper any day. Because I can rap ‘til the cows come home, but I gotta be able to make a song too. I think it has been a double-edged sword because when I write a song where ni--as be like, “that’s a hot ass song” they think I got lucky, like, “damn, Skillz stumbled onto magic.” Nah ni--a, I planned that ****. Being able to evoke emotions is only gonna build on other things. Like it still baffles me to this day how the **** I could make Shaquille O’Neal, who was in the middle of the playoffs, go into a vocal booth and say some raps about me. What did I do to get under his skin that much? I still have no idea what the **** that dumb-ass ni--a was thinking... I cannot imagine what it could be. I mean, look at how much money you make. You’re trying to win another ring. And you went and got in a booth? Come on man! But evoking emotion – I love to do that. Tell me about your Year End Rap Ups. When did that start? The first Rap Up came from a freestyle that I did on my Neptunes mixtape. So the Common song [“Come Close”] was hot and I did the Rap Up. I’d been watching all these year-end shows and I was like, “yo – someone should do that with hip hop.” So I did a Rap Up and **** took off. **** was bigger than me. 2002: **** was nuts. I performed that record ‘til August. I sat at home and MP3ed it to damn near every DJ in the country – individually. And the next thing I know, I’m on the road from a Rap Up. I’m on tour with mother ****ers that I ain’t even supposed to be on tour with because of a freestyle. Musiq Soulchild, Xzibit, 50 Cent when he first popped… It got to a point where, with 50 and them, in the middle of the tour, these ni--as was at the show. Like he had no reason to come to the venue early, but the last two weeks of the tour we lookin’ to the side of the stage and we see Banks and them. Next year comes around, I do another one – it ain’t as hot as the first one, ‘cause the year wasn’t that good. 2004 I did another one. I said I wasn’t gonna do one, but I did one anyway. It was ok, it got a couple chuckles here and there. But the one this year feels like the first one. It’s long as a mother ****er – it’s like seven minutes long. The beat is slow and the Rap Up ain’t one of them songs where you need to be rapping – you just need to say it so everybody can hear it and digest it. It’s the ultimate barbershop record. It’s like I found something that’s mine that people only want to hear from me. In hip hop that’s unheard of. I started wearing the Kobe jersey under my other jersey. When I took that shirt off and said, “damn Kobe/in high school you was the man Kobe/what the **** happened to you” they just went crazy. I was in Bolder, Colorado, two nights, sold out, and somebody sent me a Lakers jersey with the number 8 on it that had Bryant on the back and Colorado Penitentiary on the front, in the Lakers lettering. And I was rappin’ that **** and I turned my back and dropped my **** off so all they could see was Bryant number 8. And when I turned around – they went nuts. And it was all white people. Yo that **** is way bigger than me - dude offered me $2,500 for that jersey that night. Have you gotten any other reactions to things that you’ve written – in particular with the year end rap ups? That’s what’s crazy. Here’s the thing – I’ll tell you what it is: Ni--as don’t **** with you or feel like they gotta say nothing to you if you’re not on their level. Like ni--as are like, “ok, I hear your little song at the top of the year, whatever, then I don’t hear about it no more. Cool.” I guarantee you, if I was on 106 & Park ni--as would have a lot of **** to say! Put me on the cover of a magazine and let me say all of the **** I say… Flex said something, but he never followed through, and Jermaine Dupri had some words with me, but he never thought he would see me again. Jermaine Dupri said something to you? On the radio, he said some slick **** out his mouth. They were talking about the Shaquille O’Neal beef, and he said something like, “yeah, I heard his little record. But I wanna know, what else does he do? Does he do something else besides talk about ni--as?” Not knowing that the radio ni--a got my personal number, and was like, “well, I got his number, I can probably call him if you wanna holla at him.” And Jermaine called his bluff, like, “yeah – do that!” He called me at 7:30 in the morning, and ni--as emailed like, “yo Jermaine is on the radio talking **** about you.” I called the ****ing radio station, and this ni--a starts dancing around the question. “I mean I just asked a legitimate question. I asked what else do you do? I wasn’t trying to be funny when I said it.” He said whatever, but he never thought he’d see me again. Then I saw that ni--a at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors, he was behind me in line. Can you imagine how ****ed up that is? And I’m like, “yeah, I’m picking up some credentials for Skillz.” And he had this look on his face, like what the **** is this ni--a doing here? And you know me, I’m like, “yo what’s good playboy? What’s poppin’?” I’ma always be like that. I’m an asshole. I can be a dickhead. At the same time, that’s allowed you to be able to say whatever you want without repercussions. I mean, [knocks on wood] I ain’t saying ni--a ain’t gonna steal me coming out of mother ****in’ LAX. It just hasn’t happened yet. And I said it in 2002, ni--as better say something ‘cause I’m getting too ****ing cocky. And I’ve said some slick **** about Eminem, but he said some slick **** about somebody that I’m cool with, and I ain’t appreciate it. You know, “Mr. I don’t care if you dis me on a record that only comes out in Japan – if I hear it, I’m gonna address it.” He didn’t address me. I wonder why. I’m a ****ing problem. I’m sorry, but I’m a ****ing problem. That’s the last thing ni--as want: a mad Mad Skillz. You piss me off and I will do some Shaq **** to you. Like I made a whole mixtape against Shaq in like two days. I overdid it. That CD had 14 tracks on it. I had comedians on that. I had me coaching him in the booth. It’s the funniest **** ever. I sold like 20,000 of them ****ing mixtapes – thank you Shaq! There was this one skit where I was in the Staples Center shooting freethrows, and I was like, “yo, this **** ain’t hard dawg.” And I said on one of the songs, “yo dawg, I understand, if you see me, if you wanted to beat my ass. Because I would be that mad at myself too.”

If DMX releases the album this summer right around the time his reality series comes out his record sales'll be through the roof...

Well either way even if he does all these films or not, it's dissapointing that he's in line for all these films after saying in all interviews last year about how he was planning on touring and how he wanted to be more involved with music but then all we hear is him being involved with all these film projects, I mean come on now I'd like to hear some news of him doing a performance or a guest appearance in between, come on now he got a recording studio in his trailer on the road and at his house, it's not that hard to release some music for the fans in between, it's like you just don't go from saying how you're gonna be involved more with music and then sign up for all these films, wtf? :hmm:

I was chatting with somebody on the okayplayer board who has all the album sales and I asked him how much "Lost and Found" sold at this point and he told me that the total now is 686,086 copies for anyone still keeping score, basically it's at the same amount it was a few months ago when Frenetic was saying it's close to shipping platinum so is that enough for him to ship platinum?

It'd probably take everybody who bought "Lost and Found" to sign it, too bad not all of them have internet access....

BET gets real with Vince Young, DMX Tue Apr 25, 4:42 AM ET NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - BET is developing a reality series involving football player Vince Young and rapper DMX. ADVERTISEMENT The black-oriented cable channel unveiled its slate for the upcoming season during its "upfront" presentation for advertisers in New York Monday. "Next Level: Vince Young" follows the quarterback as he ventures into the pro game, while "DMX: Soul of a Man" will examine the troubled rapper's personal life. Other projects ready to roll this year include a late-night romance anthology series, an entertainment newsmagazine and a retrospective on black gangsters. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Yeah it's 'cause the fans are actually voting for it, it's not the bias media, I'm personally shocked about how few votes LL Cool J has gotten though....

I actually don't get what is this for, a magazine or something? It's nice to see that fans recognise what's up to consider Will one of the 4 greatest mcs though...

Hopefully this means he won't do it and he'll take the money :wiggle:

I don't think Will's ever done 6 movies before releasing an album, at this rate we won't get another album for the next 5 years and he'll never go on tour, I guess he's lost again, I'm not that excited about him doing all these films.... :shakehead:

Left Eye was a huge part of the reason why TLC is one of the greatest groups of all time, RIP...

Wow that's amazing, especially since his newborn girl was born recently, you figure he wouldn't have the energy to do that, lol, he seems to be a lil' strange though like a few have said but he's one of Will's best friends so he can't be that strange I guess, lol...

Will's actually in 4th place now....

This is old news man, there was a rumor about this last month like Da Brakes said, I'll believe it when I hear it 'cause if the track between Will and MJ never came out, I doubt that a track between MJ and 50'll come out if they ever even make one together, and I hope he gets Teddy Riley to produce the album again instead of Kanye West, Kanye's overrated and don't deserve to work with MJ, Teddy Riley and MJ got great chemistry together and they should keep it going....

thanks for mentioning that, well by that then there's actually a chance we might see them host again after all, shows u how much i pay attention to bet, lol

I doubt it, they usually get different hosts every year...

I didn't say that wearing jewlery is wrong, if I had some moremoney I'd probably get some nice jewels myselfbut I wouldn't go over board and buy chains worth as much as a house which might put me in debt later on,that's just ridiculous to me man and the point is since most of the rap fans are kids, I don't think they'd still prefer bling-bling rap songs over the songs with substance even if the conscious rap was pushed a lil' more, they just like something to dance to...

What's too long the long message I wrote or the long article I found? I could break it down into seperate posts if you'd like...

I think Chuck D recently produced a documentary on the history of The 'N' Word

Pacers stole Game 1 yesterday against the Nets so my pick is looking good, Haslem got suspended after Game One for the Heat against the Bulls since he threw his mouthpiece so it looks like the Bulls'll probably win Game 2 tonight, Ron Artest got suspended against the Spurs for Game 2 so it's not looking good for the Kings at the moment after that butt whooping in Game One as it is....

Well like I've said many times rappers don't raise kids, parents do, I mean if the parents did their jobs in the first place in teaching their kids when they grow up how to budget their money then I think that nobody would have to write a book about how to get your money right, it's real simple to me, you don't spend every dime, don't buy things you have no use for, like I wouldn't spend a million dollars to buy my wife an engagement ring that's stupid and if she don't like that then screw her, I don't want no golddigger, lol, I wouldn't buy no grillz, and I wouldn't spend money on a house I wouldn't live in, if I get millions of dollars I wanna still be the same way, just get what I need to survivesave some for a rainy day just in case emergency happens is what I learned, and give back if you can, it's all common sense, people just don't seem to have it, what can I say, if I ever get to have the type of money that Will makes I'd buy a network where they show the other of rap and they'd play hip-hop with a message, give groups like Dead Prez and Public Enemy a chance to shine, but of course one of those bling bling rappers would come along and start their own so what's the point right? :stickpoke: I agree with you though that these pop rappers doing bling bling songs is ridiculous, it shows a sign of immaturity really(ie Bow Wow in "Freshasimiz" video), but what I'm saying is that they don't represent everybody in hip-hop, there are mcs out there with a message, BET don't play them, that's what upsets me about Will, he complains about how they play all these bling bling songs and videos on his song Lost and Found but he got all this money. I mean come on now, he could do something about that if he wanted to really, I wonder if Chuck D was in his position financially would he do something about it instead, and since he got a lil' radio show online already, if he had Will's finances I'd be willing to bet he'd buy viacom, lol, Will'd get the ultimate respect in hip-hop if he bought a mainstream radio station like he said, what's holding him back man? Se Send that bitch Wendy Williams home and get some real DJs on the air that do less bull****ting and drop more hip-hop knowledge, it'd send a message to the entire hip-hop community, maybe instead of doing this book Russell Simmons could've thought about investing in a TV station or radio station himself, do it like Spike Lee, he got his own TV station in Spike TV, and 50 got the nerve to diss him, lol... TED: break up the paragraphs.. finish sentences with a full stop.. just makes it easier to read thats all

I'm trying to make up for not posting much lately, it's an interesting topic that I have a lot of thoughts on so I figure I'd share them :wiggle: