New Video: Freeway “Let You Know”

Thursday, May 24 2012 1:34 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Focus

Say cheese. Freeway makes his rounds around town and lets the camera take its course in his new visual. Off his upcoming Freedom Of Speech project with Karmaloop Music and Rocksmith.

Lupe Fiasco Calls Sway In The Morning

Thursday, May 24 2012 1:00 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, True Story


Guess things ain’t sweet after all. A disgruntled Lupe phoned Sway this morning and revealed the issue with Pete Rock hasn’t been resolved. He also says Pete wasn’t supposed to reveal their plans on working together. Hey, at least the sample was cleared, right? Sigh.


1982 (Statik Selektah & Termanology) 2012 Listening

Thursday, May 24 2012 12:33 PM EST | Posted by: Amaya | Posted in: Blog, Focus

Last night at Tammany Hall in NYC, 1982 also known as Statik Selektah & Termanology held a listening session for their new album, 2012 hosted by Bun B. In case you were not in attendance, EME Takeover got a recap of the night’s festivities. Show some support and cop the album here.

New Music: Terrace Martin Ft. Snoop Dogg & Teedra Moses “We Fly”

Thursday, May 24 2012 12:17 PM EST | Posted by: Amaya | Posted in: Blog, Music

Terrace Martin has been working on his new album, 3ChordFold which will be dropping on August 21st. To give us a taste of what to expect he gives us the first single from the project featuring Snoop & Teedra Moses. This is what you call a smooth track.


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Sugarhill Gang Honored By Library Of Congress

Thursday, May 24 2012 12:06 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, True Story

Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” is among the 25 recordings that have recently been inducted into the National Recording Registry. Other notable recordings making the list include Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and Prince’s “Purple Rain

24. “Rapper’s Delight,” Sugarhill Gang (1979)
The Sugarhill Gang’s infectious dance number from late 1979 might be said to have launched an entire genre. Although spoken word had been a component of recorded American popular music for decades, this trio’s rhythmic rhyming inspired many future MCs and rap artists. The album version of “Rapper’s Delight” is an epic 14 1/2 minute salvo of irreverent stories and creative wordplay. The song dates from hip-hop’s infancy. As such, it does not address subject matter that has given rap music both positive and negative notoriety, but the song’s inventive rhymes, complex counter-rhythms and brash boastfulness presage the tenets of hip hop. “Rapper’s Delight” also reflects an early instance of music sampling, drawing its bass line and other features from Chic’s 1979 hit “Good Times.” As a result of an out-of-court settlement for copyright infringement, songwriting credits for “Rapper’s Delight” include that song’s composers, Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards, as well as Sylvia Robinson and the Sugarhill Gang (Michael Wright, Guy O’Brien, and Henry Jackson).

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Allen Iverson Crosses Meek Mill

Thursday, May 24 2012 12:02 PM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Clutch

As the 76ers evened the Celtics series with last night’s 82-75 victory at home, former player AI’s attendance was also a highlight. During the game, Meek encountered Iverson for a flick. Philly stand up!

E-40 really never stops working and earlier today Big Von got the green light to premiere the remix to his new track now featuring a list of heavy hitters. In case you didn’t know, The Block Brochure in stores now.


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Kanye Debuts Cruel Summer Film

Thursday, May 24 2012 11:21 AM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Focus

Kanye premiered his short film, Cruel Summer during the Cannes Film Festival last night. The half hour flick was projected on 7 screens inside a white pyramid tent with guests including Jay-Z and a few of members of  G.O.O.D. Music. The film shot in Qatar, is now open to the public in Cannes until May 25.

The Guardian breaks down the story line:

Made in association with the Doha Film Institute, Cruel Summer stars West’s GOOD Music protege Kid Cudi as a bloke of bad stock. Dad was a car thief – Kid’s desperate not to follow in his footsteps, so instead he walks through a sparkly purple door into the middle of the desert. Men on horseback arrest him. He’s taken to a palace full of fruit. A blind girl plucks a giant guitar string. Cudi’s wrapped in bandages. A hawk flies. In, ultra, slow, motion. Cudi resolves to cure his love of her blindness. The cure for blindness is a remix of a song by Coldplay.

 During the screening, Kanye spoke on the film’s vision:

“It related to a post-Steve Jobs, post-Windows era, where we’re always on our BlackBerry in a ball game or at the movies. I was very particular about having the screens separate, where your mind puts the screens back together, the way you put memories together. I’m not the best director in the world, but I had an idea that I thought would be amazing to inspire people, like a dream of one day this being the way people watch movies. You know, [Quentin] Tarantino doing a movie like this or a horror movie like this, animation, 3-D … in this form that surrounds you. People want to go back and see it more and more because they missed something to their left or to their right, and it feels more like the experience of life.”

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New Video: Juicy J “Riley”

Thursday, May 24 2012 10:47 AM EST | Posted by: Big Homie | Posted in: Blog, Focus

Juicy J is still on his Blue Dream & Lean shit. In today’s clip, his early morning is interrupted by stray gunfire. Good thing he got Riley. Uh, too be continued?

Lil Wayne Calls Out Pusha T

Thursday, May 24 2012 10:04 AM EST | Posted by: B.Dot | Posted in: Blog, True Story

And so the drama begins (again). Apparently, Lil Wayne wasn’t too pleased with Pusha T’s subliminals on “Exodus 23:1“. Instead of stepping into the booth, he returned fire last night with the tweet above. Lord have mercy.