Rap Radar

Pardon the turrible footage. Hey N.O.R.E. lay off the extra zoom! Anyways, Victor takes us through the streets of Lefrak City, Queens as he plugs his first single “Nutcracker” and his solo album, Super Thug. What What!

57th ave

Continuing his conversation with Sean C & LV, Ski Beatz says he wasn’t satisfied with the “Dead Presidents” beat until he threw in the Nas sample. Ski also reflects on creating “Streets Is Watching” and that Jay had him tease B.I.G. by playing the beat.

It’s so cold in the D! Here’s footage on the set from Eminem’s cover shoot for Recovery. From Detroit’s Hart Plaza, Em explains the concept behind his “glass box” album cover.

Man, B.o.B.’s getting more sneaker endorsements than your favorite athlete. This time around, he’s stepping with Adidas in their new ad campaign. The boys from Hollis would be proud.

Clifford gets his all-white-everything on and lets the OG publication into his home. Read all some about it here.

heads up: tgj

We made history with Fat Joe on Tuesday night. And we don’t stop. Wale will deliver a one-of-a kind show showcasing his new mixtape, More About Nothing. Tickets on sale tomorrow at Noon. Be there, you square.

Update: Cop tickets here.

For ESPN’s new season of 30 For 30, the network plans a documentary entitled One Night in Vegas, chronicling the friendship between Tupac Shakur and Mike Tyson. Directed by Reggie Bythewood, the doc will revolve around Tyson’s victory over Bruce Seldon on September 7, 1996. Pac was gunned down later that night. The full episode airs on the 14th anniversary of his death.

Two-thirds of G-Unit discuss with MTV Eminem’s success with Recovery. Yayo even goes on to call him the Godfather of Hip-Hop. Bambaataa ain’t gon like that. Ha!

“Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game,” Yayo said. “In a time like this, when records are not selling, he’s the only one that is selling. You know, Drake and all the other ones [did well], but Em did [close to] 800,000 his first week, and he’s #1 for the fifth week. It’s incredible. I think he has a faithful fan base of people who have been following him for years. They’re not going to stop following him and not stop listening to his music. Em said he didn’t like his last album as much as this one. You can hear the difference. I like both of the albums. ’3 a.m.’ is one of my joints. But Eminem has followers that’s gonna mess with him until the day he dies.”

We’re nearing the end of our More About Nothing preview so why not smooth things out a bit. No slackin’ on your mackin’, young pimpin’. 5 days to go. Acapella raps FTW!

Although Freddie Gibbs is set to drop his new EP Str8 Killa next Tuesday, he’s already working on his next project. He gave an entertaining interview with Complex and he revealed that he’s prepping his new album entitled, Baby Faced Killa.

Complex: Are you guys doing a full-length album?
Freddie Gibbs: ….That’s gonna be my major label project, Baby-Faced Killa.

Complex: So how far along into Baby-Faced Killa are you?
Freddie Gibbs: Shit, probably like three or four records. I did a new record called “Face Down” that’s gonna be on the Str8 Killa No Filla mixtape, too. I did a song with Jim Jonsin that came out real hot. The name of that song is “Let It Go.” I’m just getting it in with different niggas and turning out some hot shit. I’m probably gonna get back in there with Bun. I just got off the phone with Hi-Tek right before you called. We bout to do some shit. So that Baby-Faced Killa project is gonna be something to talk about. But the Str8 Killa gonna be better than all you niggas’ albums. I approach every project the same, like it’s a full-length album. Only reason Str8 Killa is an EP is because we just wanna sell it. And we couldn’t sell all the records that was on the mixtape.

Complex: Is Devil’s Palace gonna be major-label or is that more of a side project?
Freddie Gibbs: I don’t know. We’re thinking about that, too, how that’s gonna come out. That might come out easy. Me and Alchemist might wanna do it ourselves and get that out there real hard. But like I said, I’m working on this Baby-Faced Killa and the Devil’s Palace at the same time as Alchemist gives me beats. I’m pretty much gonna do that all-the-way Alchemist. There’s probably like eight to ten joints. And the newer records I’ve been doing, that’s probably gonna be for Baby-Faced Killa.

Complex: You met with Dame Dash while you were in New York. Is he gonna be involved at all with your situation?
Freddie Gibbs: We didn’t really get into talks with Dame on that level yet. But it’s just cool people that we’ve been working with. We just worked with Ski Beatz. He did a record that I’m probably gonna use for the Baby-Faced Killa project called “Illegal.” We’re just working man. I definitely would love the opportunity to work with Dame. We had a real good session at DD172, so you know it’s still building.