Archive for June, 2010

Drake “You Know, You Know” Freestyle

Saturday, June 26 2010 2:39 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Focus

Another deleted scene from the Drake doc where he spits TML‘s leftover’s lyrics on New Orleans’ Q93.3. You still think it should’ve made the album? So true.

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Snoop Dogg Returns To The U.K.

Saturday, June 26 2010 2:33 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Live Show

Eat your heart out, Hov. Now that Tha Dogg’s allowed back across the pond, he got to hold things down on the hip-hop front at this year’s Glastonbury festival. The good folks at Soul Culture got more footage to check out. Let’s pretend we were there.

DJ Khaled Raps Again (Def Jam’s Pre-BET Awards Party)

Saturday, June 26 2010 2:29 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Focus

You can’t stop this guy. Before introducing The-Dream at the big Def Jam party in LA last night, Khaled had to spit a few brief bars from the “All I Do Is Win (Remix)”. Exclusive Access has more of the festivities below which include performances by Big Sean, Jeremih, and Big Boi. Party on, party on, all night, niggas.

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Playboy Files Lawsuit Against Drake

Saturday, June 26 2010 2:15 PM EST | Posted by: B.Dot | Posted in: Blog, True Story

YN called it early and now, Playboy’s coming for 700%. Apparently, Heff’s former label Playboy Records owns the rights to Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds’ “Fallin’ In Love” which is sampled in the beginning of Drake’s “Best I Ever Had”. As a result, an infringement suit was filed against the rapper and Universal Music Group. According to Playboy:

[They] knew or should have reasonably known, that the sound recording was protected by copyright…” and that “each Defendant continues to infringe upon Plaintiff’s rights in and to the copyrighted sound recording.”

Court documents after the jump.

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Gucci Mane “Wasted” At ASCAP Awards

Saturday, June 26 2010 8:45 AM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Focus

My new favorite performer got a chance to recite track 16 off The State Vs. Radric Davis for a gang of music industry folks. Nice sweater, La Flare. Brrr!

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New Music: Young Jeezy x Big Meech “The Real BMF”

Saturday, June 26 2010 8:27 AM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Music, Top 5 Posts

“All a nigga want for Christmas is another year”.

Mr. Jenkins told ya before and he’ll tell you again. He knows Big Meech—the real Big Meech—and he got him to appear on his new song which incidentally bears a title very similar to Rick Ross’ current banger. Hmm.

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UPDATE: Jizzle’s connect weighs in.

Eminem Presents Dr. Dre With ASCAP Award

Saturday, June 26 2010 8:13 AM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, Focus

Eminem presented Dr.Dre with an ASCAP Founding Fathers Award last night at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. It’s still a Shady/Aftermath thing, you bastards.

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Dr. Dre Speaks On “Under Pressure” & Detox

Saturday, June 26 2010 7:59 AM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, True Story

“Tryin’ to give everybody what they’ve been waitin’ for and make sure they’re not disappointed”.

We all read his statement but last night on the red carpet of the ASCAP awards in LA, Devi Dev got a chance to talk to Dr. Dre face-to-face. Doc basically says the leak won’t stop him and he’s still hard at work on Detox which he hopes to have out by the end of Fall. Hold ya breath!

Eminem x The Roots “Won’t Back Down” On Fallon

Saturday, June 26 2010 7:47 AM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Live Show

This guy is everywhere, huh? With The Roots’ assistance, Em performed Recovery‘s track number four on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night. Please pardon the NBC censors. Beep, beep, you bums.

Sidebar: Recovery‘s New Sales Projection?

Jay-Z & Eminem On David Letterman

Saturday, June 26 2010 7:45 AM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Live Show

We brought you the first look as well as some extras previously, but last night Shawn and Marshall’s Late Show With David Letterman episode finally aired. Above, Jay and Em perform “Renegade” and after the jump, solo performances, Hov’s interview and Eminem’s Top Ten.

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