Archive for February, 2010
Rick Ross & Birdman - "Pray 4 Me"
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Slim Thug - "Throwed"
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Rich Boy - "Mr. Jetson"
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010FBI Prepares Felony Charges For Kwame Kilpatrick
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The FBI is preparing to launch felony charges at ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick after they say they have evidence that he up to $100,000 in bribes while in office.
A contractor involved in a Detroit corruption investigation has admitted to giving the mayor $100,000 in bribes in 2002 while he served his term.
The Detroit Free Press reports that contractor Karl Kado says he paid Kilpatrick in four or five installments of about $20,000 each. He says at times he would deliver the money in envelopes to Kilpatrick's office or sometimes the mayor himself would come by to receive his payment.
Kado also says he paid close to $300,000 to Kwame's father, Bernard Kilpatrick in hopes he could get his son's support in business dealings for his store.
Both Kwame and his father are expected to be charged in the scandal.
Lil Wayne Joins Twitter Just Before Prison Bid
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Lil' Wayne has decided to officially join the Twitter club.
Just 7 days before checking in to serve his one year prison stint at New York's Rikers Island, Lil Wayne joined the uber popular social media website under the tweet name @LilTuneChi.
The Young Money CEO had been able to fight the urge to follow after countless celebs who feel the need to tweet their every move until Sunday (February 21) when the prison bound MC tweeted:
“im super new to this twitter sh*t but wudup tho !..........follow me biot¢h..........wudup mak......happy bday LO......8 days of freedom..ym”
Since his initial appearance on the site 16 hours ago (and one retweet from Trey Songz), Weezy has already jumped from 10 to almost 85,0000 followers.
The most recent tweet has Weezy showing off his softer side as he writes: (more...)
Woman Charged For Killing Newborn With Plastic Bag
Monday, February 22nd, 2010A Chicago woman is facing murder charges after police say she killed her newborn baby by wrapping it in a plastic bag and locking it in the closet.
Prosecutors believe 25-year-old Marisol Molina took 10 of the abortion pill Misoprostol Wednesday to induce labor.
After giving birth to the child, they say she ripped the umbilical cord with her hands before putting the infant in a robe and then a plastic bag in her closet.
Police were alerted to the crime after the woman's boyfriend took her to the hospital because she didn't feel well.
She initially denied being pregnant but confessed after doctors had to induce her placenta.
Molina admitted to the crime and directed officers to the closet where the child, a girl, was found dead.
The Medical Examiner's Office concluded that the child was alive at birth saying.
“The little girl had air in the lungs and stomach, which indicated the baby was born alive and had taken some breaths.”
The placenta showed that she was 7 to 9 months pregnant with the child.
Mosoprostol is not meant to be taken after 9 weeks of pregnancy.
SMH.....there are some sick, sick people in this world.
Black Lawmaker Pushes For Slavery Apology
Monday, February 22nd, 2010A Black lawmaker in Georgia is pushing for the resurrection of a state wide apology for the perils of slavery.
Representative Al Williams of Midway, Georgia says he will bring up the controversial resolution again after it died from lack of support in 2007.
His proposal comes after the NAACP sent a letter to Georgia governor Sonny Perdue in 2009 asking him to reconsider enacting the apology.
The Associated Press reports that some lawmakers oppose the apology because they feel it would mean admitting responsibility for the wrongs of others.
In 2008 the House of Representatives apologized nationally for the” injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow" segregation.”
Apologizing for something that still wreaks havoc on the Black community to this day?
Hey, I'm all for it.
Harvard Names Wyclef Jean “Artist Of The Year”
Monday, February 22nd, 2010After sparking wide spread relief efforts for his native country of Haiti, Wyclef Jean is receiving recognition.
Arguably the most prestigious University in the country, Harvard University, is announcing plans to honor Wycelf as their 2010 "Artist of The Year."
He'll hit the University's campus on Saturday, February 27 to accept a medal for the nod at the school's annual Cultural Rhythms Awards ceremony.
Clef will receive his award at (more...)
Snoop Dogg Owes Almost $600K to IRS; "More Malice"
Monday, February 22nd, 2010It seems that in the process of delivering so much Malice last year, rapper Snoop Dogg may have forgot to take care of some of his financial priorities as the IRS is coming after the Doggfather.
According to The Detroit News, the new debt dwarfs a tax lien that had been filed last year against Snoop.
Legally Cordozar Calvin Broadus, the rapper, along with his wife, were hit with a lien amounting to $598, 309 by the IRS with the Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds.
In regards to the matter at hand, Snoop Dogg's publicist (more...)
New Artist Spotlight: "Kollosus"
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
With the South dominating the rap game, young soldiers are looking to keep the movement strong with hard lyrics and a strong flow. One of the young ones in the game is Kollosus repping the streets of Atlanta and Jamacia.
With a resume of mixtapes and collaborations already under his belt, Kollosus hopes to be a household name in the near future, while becoming one of the premiere MCs of the South. HipHopWired.com recently chatted with Kollosus to get a little more insight about his past and how he expects to emerge in the future.
Hip-Hop Wired: I know you're pretty young, how did you get into the game and what was your first break?
Kollosus: I met Block two years ago at a talent showcase that the radio station had for "The Screen Test." Whoever won got to go on "The Screen Test." Block was a guest judge, he saw me do what I was doing and he sent four people to come get me after I got off stage and asked me to come in the studio the next day. We've been rolling since then. I got my situation with Capitol like four months ago, got that up and running, so just working, everything going good in my favor. Just taking advantage of my blessings.
Hip-Hop Wired: So where did you get your name from exactly?
Kollosus: I've been Kollosus since 10th grade since I started rapping, soon as I started rapping I said I wanted to be Kollosus. Colossus is a statue, it's one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The word Colossus actually means larger than life, it's spelled with a C, my real name is Kirk , and so I put a K on it so it's Kirk larger than life.
Hip-Hop Wired: Tell me a little bit about working with Block Ent. What's it like collaborating with people on Block ENT like Young Joc and Gorilla Zoe and everybody.
Kollosus: It's amazing, man. I don't want to call it fun and I don't want to call it work, it's what I choose to do man. I wake up every day and I love doing it. From meeting other artists, I don't want to say that I'm not star struck, but when I meet all these people I feel like it's somebody else that's in the same grind as me. They just real further ahead than me. When it comes to the music, I feel comfortable. I like vibing, I love it man.
Hip-Hop Wired: Do you feel like this was an overnight thing or do you feel like this was a long time coming?
Kollosus: Man I've been in and out of the studio recording and doing this since 2002. I was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and I moved when I was like 16 or 17, so I was already raised. I moved to Atlanta in 2001, my cousin put me on to southern music and I fell in love with it. I started pursuing it, going to the studio and performing at open mics since 2002. It's 2010, it's been eight years so I aint gonna say it's overnight. I really been working really hard for this every day for approximately eight years.
Hip-Hop Wired: So when you hear about the situation between Joc, Block and Diddy and money being mishandled and not getting what you're supposed to get, does it ever make you nervous about being with Block Entertainment or the industry period?
Kollosus: Not one bit, because if you got your situation, communication, and paperwork right, you'll be good. There are Managers and CEOs but it's on you to have your situation and everything right before you do whatever you do. So honestly, no man, it doesn't affect me at all. The communication I got with Block and Capitol I have never had no problems and I don't see nothing happening. Any promises that they made they kept up. Honestly man, you have your end right and you should be alright in my view.
Hip-Hop Wired: Tell me about your new album coming up and the single, "Breaking Bread."
Kollosus: I am, supposed to come out March, 2010. "Breaking Bread" is the single, produced by Jack Pot with Rico Love putting the hook together. Capitol told me it was crazy and I hopped on it. They loved the finished product so much they just went ahead and pushed the buttons and said we gonna run with this as the first single. So right now we pushing that and hopefully it should hit the radio and international radio sometime early January and we should be shooting the video around then as well. Just working, working, and working. Hopefully I can make some kind of crazy magic happen. I got like 3 or 4 months to make this magic happen so I got a lot of work to do.
Hip-Hop Wired: Anybody you collaborating with on the album?
Kollosus: Man I got features with Gucci, Jody Breeze, Gorilla Zoe, and Sean Kingston. I got a song with Jody Breeze, Wayne, B.O.B., and Jeezy. I got production from Drumma Boyy, Zaytoven, and everybody man. If they cool and if they working, I'm working with them.
Hip-Hop Wired: Where can we get info on your current projects and any other upcoming projects that you got coming out that you want the world to know about?
Kollosus: My MySpace, my Facebook and Twitter. Kollosus, just Google it, and everything they need going to come up.
Hip-Hop Wired: You got any other projects that you're working on or are you just focusing on your album right now.
Kollosus: We just dropped a major mixtape and it's nothing in the streets that's like it right now. DJ Scream & Kollosus, the title of the mixtape is "Kolossal Activity." We pushing real hard right now to get that buzzing crazy in the street. I'm just pushing that mixtape for now and the single. Just working, hitting a new city every day and either I'm in a new city or I'm in a studio.
Hip-Hop Wired: The South has been controlling Hip-Hop for the past few years now.
What do you feel that you're going to bring that's different from the southern rap that you hear from these trap rappers?
Kollosus: First of all, I'm not a southern rapper. I'm a southern reggae Hip-Hop artist. So my music by itself got its own lane even before I speak on it because of my background. I put the Reggae and Dance Hall influence in some of my music but I got straight Hip-Hop songs and straight reggae songs as well. I got reggae songs with Hip-Hop influences, I got Hip-Hop songs with Reggae influence, so really at the end of the day it's a whole new lane. It's not like I was this or somebody sound like me. No it's a whole new highway.
