The Arkansas prison where T.I. is serving his year long sentence is allowing visitation again. Visitation was shut down for two weeks at the Forrest City Federal Correctional Complex after a gastrointestinal virus scare. 158 inmates reported symptoms of the virus and one inmate (more...)
Archive for July, 2009
Visitation Reinstated at T.I.'s Prison
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Young Jeezy - "Consistent"
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Maino - "Back 2 Life"
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Lil Wayne - "Bullsh*t"
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Queen Latifah To Return To The Mic
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009After being out the rap game for nearly a decade, the female that stood tall and asked “Who you calling a bit*h?,” has returned.
Steeping onto the scene, Latifah ignited feminism in her rapping and released her first album “All Hail the Queen” in '89 which included the woman's anthem “Ladies First.”
Known for her rapping in the late 80's until 2000, Latifah made a shift in music from 2003 to 2007 and began to generally sing in soul and jazz music standards. In her transition to singing, she had released The Dana Owens Album and Trav'lin Light.
Queen Latifah, while at the 15th annual Essence Musical Festival in New Orleans, stated that she (more...)
South Carolina Serial Killer Belived To Be Dead
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009The town of Gaffney, South Carolina may be able to sleep more peacefully as investigators have indicated that the serial killer may have died.
This belief stems from a shootout that took place in North Carolina on Monday with police, according to a South Carolina state police official. Officers had been investigating a burglary complaint at a home in Gastonia which is 30 miles from where the murders initially began.
Mike and Terri Valentine were the couple that phoned in police when they were suspicious of a SUV that was in their neighborhood where people were already on edge from the events in Gaffney. Three people stepped out of the vehicle to enter a home and they believed that one matched the description of the serial killer.
When police arrived to the scene they were met by three people, two being the owners of the home that were accompanying the killer. In checking the background on the acquaintance, they found an outstanding warrant from a violated probation in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
When an attempt was made to serve the warrant, the suspect opened fire and the shootout ensued. Police say that only one officer was harmed from a shot to the leg, but has been released from a hospital since.
Being blamed for five deaths in the state, the weapon that was found on the suspect, through testing, was able to match the bullets of the gun that had been used in the killings that stretched all the way back to June 27, stated Reggie Lloyd, director of South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division.
The gun was found on 41-year-old Patrick Tracy Burris. Records were not able to provide any evidence of an address for Burris and his motive is still unknown. The weapon along with the vehicle made officers suspect him to be the man they have been hunting.
Burris' prior extensive crime sheet included larceny, forgery and breaking and entering that spanned from states across the Southeast. Notable states included Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Florida. In April, Burris was paroled from a prison in North Carolina after spending close to an eight year incarceration. His rap sheet was close to 25 pages.
The hunt, however, is still not over as Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton stated that investigators are now trying to trace back the killer's steps and see if his recent activities included killing other people in other areas.
Michael Jackson: Farewell To "The King Of Pop"
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009The memorial service for the biggest entertainer of all time takes place today. Michael Jackson's public memorial service will be held at The Staples Center at 10 a.m. PT. (1 p.m. ET). Only 8,750 fans were chosen to attend from the 1.6 million that registered online for free tickets. Each person received two tickets for a total of 17,500 fans in attendance. Only 11,000 of the seats are inside (more...)
Royce Da 5'9 Silences Slaughter House & Wu-Tang Beef
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Detroit rapper and member of the quartet known as Slaughterhouse, Royce Da 5'9 will be releasing The Revival EP through digital download today.
It will serve as a prelude to his upcoming album, Street Hop which should be hitting stores by September. The four track release contains material from his September release along with an unreleased Slaughterhouse joint.
In an interview with HipHopWired.com, the Detroit MC spoke on the reasoning behind (more...)
Steve McNair's Mistress Bought Gun Found At Scene
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Nashville police have revealed that the gun found at the murder scene of former Tennessee Titan quarterback Steve McNair was purchased by his mistress, Sahel Kazemi, just two days before the shooting.
Investigators believe Kazemi, 20, purchased the pistol from a private vendor, hours after she was busted for drunk driving with McNair in her SUV on Thursday night.
At the scene on the fourth of July, police found the weapon under Kazemi's body in a luxury condo in downtown Nashville, police believe the young woman committed murder-suicide
Busta Rhymes: Standing The Test Of Time
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Longetivity in Hip-Hop is pretty much unheard of unless you possess the true talent and heart of spitting. But 16 years and counting… That's approaching living icon status and is a very short list alongside the likes of LL Cool J and Ice-Cube. Recently releasing his eighth album, Back On My B.S., Busta Rhymes shares with Hip-Hop Wired what keeps his fire burning and never being comfortable sitting atop Hip-Hop Mount Rushmore.
HipHopWired: Your new album, Back On My B.S, what does this album mean to you at this point and time?
Busta Rhymes: It doesn't mean anything different from any other album. I love all of my albums a lot because they document moments in time for me. I guess this is the album that really is the first album in a long time that let me be able to control sh*t the way I'm used to controlling it. I'm feeling like I'm used to sitting behind a wheel and controlling my destiny again. This album documents this moment in time for me. I was at another situation for five years where I didn't feel like I was able to do sh*t the way I'm used to doing sh*t and now I'm doing sh*t the way I'm used to doing sh*t and it feels good.
HipHopWired: So your label situation wasn't the best for you in the past five years, you felt constrained in that particular paradigm?
Busta Rhymes: I felt stagnant. I didn't feel like I was able to move at the pace I'm used to moving at. Now I feel like I can move at the pace I'm used to moving at.
HipHopWired: That's a brilliant thing. So what was going through your mind when you were working on this project and what was the process like now that you were back to being able to have full control over the ship?
Busta Rhymes: It just felt like relief, that was really what it was though. This whole process it felt like relief. I'm able to do what I want. Feel how I want, express how I want, shape my album how I want, put together the thought process and thoroughly execute them by piecing my songs together the way I wanted to. I didn't really have to answer to nothing or nobody and that was just the thought that was in my head at the time. This sh*t is relieving. This sh*t is like fun again, naw mean?
HipHopWired: You've been through a lot of trials and tribulations in the past couple years or so. How are you able to get through those difficult times?
Busta Rhymes: The easiest thing was dealing with it directly and dealing with it while it was going on. I don't think I really had a choice to be perfectly honest with you but there really wasn't no bobbing and weaving, ducking and dodging the situation. Everything had to be addressed head on and I think that's the best way to deal with anything, just dealing with it. Whatever you get to when you cross them roads you deal with it whenever you reach them cross roads. All of them situations when I had to encounter them when they had to be encountered, they had to be dealt with whenever they had to be dealt with and that was pretty much it. I think a lot of that had to do with the support of my family. My family definitely rode through this sh*t regardless of what was going on. They never ever once fluctuated when it came to how they stood their ground for me. That was the best part of the whole sh*t.
HipHopWired: In performing, now a days how is it to be able to perform and have so many hits? I saw you out in Newark at the Metro PCS thing and you were just up there and they only did like 2 seconds of each song because you had so many hits. What's it like performing now after all these years?
Busta Rhymes: It's always been the best part of this whole sh*t for me. Being in the studio is my favorite but bringing the idea to the stage is even more so of a favorite for me. I just love to do what I do, to get on that stage and ride for the people at all times. I think that's the most powerful component to this whole sh*t, when you can get on that stage and make believers out of people that probably didn't believe initially.
HipHopWired: This is my next to last question. You've worked with some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop, R&B, even on the movie screen, having acting roles. Is there anything that you haven't accomplished that want to get done? Or have you pretty much got your bucket list done?
Busta Rhymes: Naw, there's a couple things that I wanna start doing. I've done a lot of things but I haven't done them at the level that I wanna do them. There's certain things that I definitely wanna take to a level that I haven't taken it to yet. I wanna start doing them movies for $10, $15 million dollars. Know what I'm saying? Standing next to mahfu**ing Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington and them type of people like Will Smith. I wanna do that. I wanna be able to put some records out, you know we all wanna sell 10 million scan an album. So whatever destiny has ahead, we'll see it when we get to it. In the meantime, I definitely feel like my blessings came ten times fold and they continue to come. You know as long as I can continue to do what I'm doing, at this point this sh*t is all for fun for me because I done did a whole lot and done did a whole lot in a number of ways and I continue to benefit, so it's a beautiful thing and I'm just gonna ride this sh*t out till the wheels fall off and at that point, I think I'mma screw em' back on and keep riding.
HipHopWired: Last question I have for you. This album, what do you have planned now? A tour? Lots more videos? What can we expect from Back On My B.S.?
Busta Rhymes: Well the album just came out so you gotta whole lot to look forward to. You gonna see more videos, we going on this Roc-a-fella tour, we gonna do this Back On My B.S tour too and we gonna really pop this sh*t off. I'm probably gonna be on the road for the rest of the year with this album because it's a whole lot of excitement coming from the momentum and the campaign of this project and the way people is embracing this whole sh*t. We gone have a great, great '09 with this
