Grind Time Rap Gang member SL Jones has the "Paper Cuts" from counting all his money.

Peep his new video directed by Motion Family below. Off the Little Rock, Arkansas rapper's Don Cannon hosted project The Number 23.

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Soon after the announcementthat Officer Johannes Mehserle would be released after serving 11 months of a two-year sentence for killing Oscar Grant, Killer Mike released a new video on the atrocities of our justice system.

On the track "Burn", Mike speaks on the situation directly saying,

"They say the cop wrote a letter apologizing to Oscar/Guess they say I'm wrong cause I still say drop em/Police in the ghetto they is killing n*ggas daily/ but when we get to bustin' back, they say that we crazy..."

His album Pl3dge is in stores now.

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Grind Time Rap Gang's in the building as SL Jones drops a visual to his track "NWA" off his new mixtape The Number 23.

Hosted by Don Cannon, (Peep Hip-Hop Wired's Exclusive Interview With Cannon) the projectalso features Jonesy spitting bars with his GTRG brother Pill and Killer Mike

as well as hitting the streets with Waka Flocka Flame, Trae Tha Truth, along with production from Lex Luger, Shawty Redd, Don Cannon, and more.

Peep the mixtape here and stay tuned to Hip-Hop Wired for our upcoming interview with SL Jones.

In addition to dropping his PL3DGE album April 19, ATL emcee Killer Mike is prepping for a new tour with his fellow Grand Hustle cohort Young Dro.

The southern rap lyricists wil be joined with openers Pac Div and Dee-1 for what they hope will be a series of sold-out shows kicking off Apri 1^st presented by Lessons Learned.

The tour begins in Vancouver, Canada with current routing taking them through Corvallis, OR, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA, Albuquerque, NM, Cleveland, OH, Boston, MA and Carrborro, NC - more dates are being added daily.

Young Dro, who recently released his "The Equestrian" mixtape, is gearing up for a June release of his album, "P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once)."

He is also set to drop a mixtape entitled "DJ Dro featuring Young Dro ~ I Co-Sign Myself" on March 17th via Livemixtapes.com.

The set will have the benefit of a string of recently-shot videos pushing awareness, including "Polo Down" and "Cool."

Killer Mike's magnum opus, "PL3DGE", set to drop April 19th (Grind Time Official/Grand Hustle/Tree Leaf/SMC Recordings), assisted by his "Ready, Set, Go ft. T.I." single, a recent episode of MTV's "Made" and several showcases at this year's SXSW, including The Fader Fort and headlining AllHipHop.com's "Breeding Ground" event.

Pac Div are pushing their recent Don Cannon-hosted mixtape, "Mania", which has enjoyed almost 11,000 streams since it's March 7th debut on DatPiff.com.

The Southern Cali natives are looking forward to spending the next few months on the road touring, leading up to the release of their album, "Grown Kidz Syndrome."

Videos from this effort should start popping up as early as next week.

Dee-1's "I Hope They Hear Me: Vol. 2", mixtape debuted on DJBooth.net on March 1st, with support from two videos on MTV2/MTV Jams.

Dee-1 will take a brief break from the tour to perform on Murs' Paid Dues Festival, April 2nd in San Bernadino, CA.

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Killer Mike - PL3DGE

Killer Kill from the Ville recently hosted a listening session in Atlanta and played selections from his highly anticipated album PL3DGE.

The project, which is being released through Grind Time Official/ Grand Hustle / Tree Leaf / SMC Recordings, will feature productions from the likes of NO ID, The Bizness, DJ Speedy, Raz, Zone and newcomers Sweatbox.

In addition, PL3DGE, finds TI, Young Jeezy, Gucci Mane, Twista & Rock D The Legend supplying assists on the album buy make no mistake, THIS IS MIKE BIGGA all day as he chin-checks Oprah, Bill Cosby and President Obama while Bishop Eddie Long also feels Mike's vengence in his quest to entertain and uplift Black America at the same time.

Peep The footage below as he goes in on several tracks like "Ric Flair," "The American Dream" and "My Mercedes.

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PL3DGE hits stores and itunes on April 19th.  Grind Time Rap Gang... Bang !!! Bang!!! Bang!!!

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Cali rapper, Murs and Guerilla Union announced the acts scheduled to perform at the sixth annual Paid Dues Festival on Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California.

Bun B, Black Star, Immortal Technique, Dead Prez, Asher Roth & Nottz are some of the names gracing one of the Paid Dues stages.

On another stage, the based God, Lil B, Bay area-veteran, E-40, former XXL magazine freshman, Nipsey Hussle and Murs himself will headline.

This year, a "Grind Time Now" stage has been added to the festivities. Not only will fans get to see Slaughterhouse, Chino XL and Blu & Fashawn go in but battle rappers such as Dizaster and Dirtbag Dan are on the bill.

For those unfamiliar with Grind Time, it is a league famous for putting rappers against each other in a timed, battle arena. This Paid Dues show is looking to surpass its predecessors.

Known for bringing together some of the best underground and mainstream hip-hop acts for a full day of live performances, Murs and Guerilla Union have successfully pulled off great showcases of talent for the last five years.

2010's festival included Raekwon, Jay Electronica, Tha Dogg Pound and hip-hop legend, Ice Cube to name a few.

Cop tickets here http://paidduesfestival.com/tickets/

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Titled 1140: The Overdose, Pill picks up some assistance from DJ Drama for the Gangsta Grillz production featuring 26 tracks of heat.

In a recent interview with Hip-Hop Wired, Pill gave some details on the Overdose promising to deliver it by the end of this month and assuring fans that he'd continue to make moves. He also talked about his upcoming film "Jack Boys."

Check out our interview with Pill below.

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The new kings of gangsta rap Freddie Gibbs and Pill just connected on this one. The revolution will not be televised. Peep the track and let us know what you think.

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"What I call it is a bunch of ni**as trying to show off to other rappers how much more money they got than them.

So it's like Ok, so you got more money than him, so what? What you talking about though? You ain't talking 'bout sh*t."

Atlanta's "Gangsta" Pill is a rare blend of the streets and consciousness in Hip-Hop.  Something that's long been missing from the music. After flooding the Internet and the streets with mixtapes over the past few years and riding shotgun with Killer Mike as a Grind Time Rap Gang affiliate, the majors finally came calling.

With Asylum finally winning out, the street poet came through and kicked it with Hip-Hop Wired about his new label situation and the importance of staying real to yourself and pushing fictionalized gangsta fairy tales to the side.  A voice for the common man on the come-up now speaks.

HipHopWired:  Heard you just got signed, can you speak on that?

Pill: Yeah, just did a deal with Asylum.  I  got that sh*t taken care of so I can now bust these folks in the mothafu^#in' mouth (laughing).

HipHopWired:  When's  the album looking to drop?

Pill: There ain't no definite time yet but sometime around the summertime.   I really want to let the people determine that because I don't want to spit nothing on them that's more than they can handle right now.   That's why I give them a tape every blue moon and let that ride.   Because I want people to gravitate towards the music personally and get to know me as a person and as an artist and I don't want to do it and such a short period of time.  So when I do something,  I make sure I spend time on it and give them good quality on it.  And with my first album I want to spend  as much time on it as  I possibly can.  That's very important because  it's my first album ever.   I might throw an EP together and might do another tape  and once I build up enough demand that's when I'll give them the album.  When they say they want the album, that's when I'll give it to them.

HipHopWired:  One thing about Asylum and many incubator labels is they let the artist remain who they are and don't try to water you down and change you, is that one of the main reasons that you signed with them?

Pill: That was one of the main reasons.  Because  I expressed how much I wanted to retain creative control and put as much effort into  making my music as successful as possible.  Most times, most artists go to a label and allow themselves to just become puppets.  Then they eventually fall off.  I think Asylum understand the music  and they understand the direction I'm  trying to go.  From communicating over the past couple of months, I know they get the picture.

They don't want to be like now move out the way and let us do what we need to do.  They gonna be like let us move as a squad.  Ya'll do what ya'll do and we gonna do what we do, but we gonna move together as one, ya feel me.   They have had a stronghold on  urban music period.  Especially radio.  You don't see one Asylum artist that they have put out not on the radio.  You hear Gucci everywhere. New Boyz everywhere.  You hear their music and see it everywhere and that's good.  It's good marketing and good marketing builds a good brand  and that's what I need.

HipHopWired:  What made them sign you? Any particular song or mixtape they were feeling?

Pill: I dropped 4180:  The Prescription mixtape  last February and I let that ride.  People gravitated towards that and I  did a lot of free shows.  So then I started getting request to do videos and people were liking "Trap Going Ham."   So I did the  video and after about 45 minutes of the video being up on the Internet, Asylum called. They jumped in early before anybody.  They just was with it and understood the music.  They was saying they like this sh*t.  We ain't heard nothing like this.

HipHopWired:  I feel what they were saying because in my personal opinion I consider you a new era of Tupac because you got the streets all day while you're saying something that's elevating the mind of the young in the same process.

Pill: I appreciate that Blue.  That's a big compliment man and  people been saying that.  And just to hear that lets  me know I'm doing something right because as a new artist and you getting compared to arguably  the greatest rapper of all time to do it.  So that put  the pressure on me, but I'm like nah but I'm just gonna continue to do what I do.  [They see the comparisons] because  its real sh*t  and I would disappoint my family and my hood if I didn't tell it like it was.

It's my mission to tell these people what the f%&k is going on for real  and not for play play.  They [other rappers] like to glorify the cars and clothes and hoes, which is cool and there's a time for everything... But  that ain't all it is.

There's more to Atlanta than that, period... and more to life than that.  There s a lot of people out here who got it f&%ed up and need somebody to lift them up and need someone to tell them it's gonna be aiight  or describe what they going through and someone they can relate to because everybody  ain't rich.

HipHopWired:  Yeah and the way most rappers tell it, it's almost a sin to work a regular job and come up and better to act like you descended from money and throw it in people's face.

Pill: I know people I fantasized  about growing up as a kid listening to them having all the cars, jewelry, money and clothes  but it was just a fantasy  for me and I couldn't relate to it.  And at that point people put you on a pedestal as far as flexing.  What I call it is a bunch of ni**as  trying to show off to other rappers how much more money they got than them.  So it's like Ok, so you got more money than him, so what? What you talking about though? You ain't talking 'bout sh*t.

If your sh*t  can't be played outside the club then you just a club rapper.  Ni**as ain't riding to that hyped up a*s sh*t.   I got hyped up stuff too now with high energy  but I also got stuff that people can reminisce  and say damn man,  I remember when my apartments was like that too.  Or  my hood was like that or I remember them days when we didn't have sh*t in the refrigerator when I was going through that too.  I try to put out that type of sh*t where people can say damn I thought I was the only one who went through that sh*t.

Because  when I heard Tupac's records, I used to think like damn... I thought I  was the only one who had it f%&ked up.   Mama on drugs, no daddy, project living, I ain't have sh*t.  I was like damn I thought he was rapping about me.  Is we brothers or some sh*t.  How this ni**a momma on crack and my momma on crack and he ain't got no daddy and I ain't got no daddy.  So when I heard sh*t like that, naturally I wanted to do the same thing.  It's real.

HipHopWired:  That's true.  I'm glad you got the deal too because more people need to hear you.  You can definitely touch people and maybe your music can give people another way of thinking and slow down.  With this high murder rate and tragedies that's going on in Black communities across America like Chicago, somebody has to break the monotony and start saying something.  You're a breath of fresh air.

Pill: I just try to maintain that level of street mixed with intelligence because  there's way more to it than what it looks like on TV.  That sh*t is just entertainment and that's all.  I can still listen to Scarface's The Fix... he touched my soul with that and it was classic.  I've always been a fan of Scarface because  you can hear it in his voice and feel that sh*t.  He went all those years talking about what he talking about but he maintained the street level.  Like he said, all that money he got and he still talking blow.  There ain't been a damn song where he ain't talking about blow and I admire him for that because  he stuck to what he stuck to.  I admire rappers and people who keep it real.  Kanye is one of the realest rappers I ever met.  He's not talking about killing nobody or trying to prove that he's gangsta in any type of way.

HipHopWired:  I feel ya because my personal opinion is the definition of real is keeping it real with yourself.  To me Will Smith was one of the realest rappers ever in Hip-Hop because he stuck to his lane.

Pill: Exactly! He was one of the realest.  That's why he is what he is.  He didn't try to fabricate any sh%t.  He just said, "Hey man, parents just don't understand."   He rapped about good sh*t and how his life was.  He wasn't rapping about a pistol.  He rapped about what he could relate to and what other people could relate to as well. Some rappers get it f&^ked up thinking they ain't gonna like me if I'm soft or ain't been shot.  Ni**as get it twisted.

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