Young C Talks New Album

April 28th

If you didn’t get the hint from records like “Ocean’s Seven” and “Live in Effect,” State Property have officially reunited. Young Chris of the Young Gunz told us all it took was for everybody to sit down together and air out their differences like grown men.

“We had good conversations,” said Chris, who just released a duet with Beanie Sigel called “Rush.” “It’s all good. I always kept my same relationship with everybody. I never had no problem with nobody. We been together for a little minute now. Dropping records, releasing records on the streets, getting the streets back, letting ‘em know we still here. Shout-out to Beans. Everybody is good, though. Everybody is doing their thing.”

While Beanie is serving out a small bid for parole violations (he should be home this summer), the rest of the Prop are continuing to work in his absence. Chris is on schedule to drop his long-talked-about solo LP, Now or Never, this year. The youngster maintained that it wasn’t difficult making the transition from group member to soloist.

“I been working on the album since the end of ‘05,” he said. “Jay-Z came to me and said, ‘Next, your solo album.’ So ever since then, I been working on it. Every time I go in the studio, it’s three verses and a hook. This has been three years now. I got it down pat now. I feel good. I’m going into it this year. I won’t say it was hard. If you look at the timing, it took a little time, but it wasn’t hard.”

Chris has been working with producers Dre & Vidal, Lil Wayne (“our song is called ‘Welcome to Paradise’ — welcome to our life behind the rap”) and has a song with The-Dream that might be the first single.

There’s also a mixtape with DJ Omega and Ahmir called Campaign for Change. That project is the follow-up to previous solo releases The New Crack, Politically Incorrect and Young Chris-Mas.

Lebron – Z

April 28th

I was planning to write a little response to Mr. James in my c-box who seems to think I have some obligation to him, but now that I’m writing this post I don’t care enough for it. I just wanna let you know this; first I know I aint big, I’m a small hiphop and RnB blog that started just two months ago, and second, that thanks to me having more going on in my life than this blog, there’ll always be days that I just can’t post. If that means you won’t visit this blog anymore, so be it.
With that said, I have to announce that tomorrow I’m leaving ya’ll again for a short trip that I’ll have to take for my work. I hadn’t planned this and if it was up to me I wouldn’t go but it’s not and it’s just two days and I’ll be back Wednesday night or by Thursday morning. If I don’t have access to a computer during the trip Thursday will be the day I’ll start posting again and the day from which this blog will be back to normal. I hope ya’ll can understand and continue to support this small blog.

DeShawn Stevenson may have made the biggest mistake of his carreer last month by calling MPV-candidate Lebron James overrated. When LeBron was asked for a response he said that answering him is “like rap icon Jay-Z responding to a one-hit wonder like Soulja Boy.” Next thing you know Hova drops in with a freestyle over Too $hort’s Blow the Whistle, dissing DeShawn.

Jay Z – Blow The Whistle NO DJ

showing he got LeBron’s back. Today DC rapper Proverb has decided to step into this beef and take a stab at Jay-Z on the behalf of DC & Deshawn Stevenson over Jay-Z’s PSA track. This ain’t over.

Proverb – PSA Jay-Z diss

For those who haven’t been following this,can read more about this in this article in the Washington Post.

What do you think? Should’ve Hov stayed out of this? Why react to a relatively unknown not rapping basketballplayer that LeBron compared to the Soulja Boy of the game, but let Joey get away with ‘Talk To Em’?

Ryan Leslie showing his talent by creating Addiction from scratch

Ryan Leslie playing Lollipop live

Karina Pasian – ‘First Love’ album EPK

Solange shooting video for ‘I Decided’

Consequence, Nelly and Murphy Lee Rap City Freestyle

Ace feat. Rick Ross & T-Pain – Cashflow

Hot Dollar – I Love The Streetz

Five new Curren$y tracks off his upcoming mixtape ‘Welcome To The Winnerscircle’. Shouts to C-Mob.
Curren$y – Another Story To Tell
Curren$y – All My Life
Curren$y- The Only Thing
Curren$y- The World Is Yours
Curren$y – Who Styled Ya

Two Cassidy NODJ tracks, shouts to Splash.
Cassidy – All In The Hood
Cassidy – Come On Baby

LL Cool J Ft. Jim Jones, Method Man, KRS-One & Lil Kim – The Five Boroughs
Kidz In The Hall Ft. Bun B & Pusha T & The Cool Kids – Riding Down The Block Remix
Busta Rhymes – Where My Money At(cdq)

Red Cafe – Long Live Sean Bell(Shouts to Splash)
Lil’Kim – Rider Pt.2 freestyle

Nas – War Is Necessary

April 25th New Nas and Busta tracks from the GTA4 soundtrack.

Nas – War Is Necessary (full)
Busta Rhymes – Where My Money At Shouts to Illroots.

Bonus that has nothing to do with the Nas song: Lil’ Mama – On Fire(Bonus)

Def Jam Going Strong

Rihanna – Take A Bow

‘You look so dumb right now’
I said world premiere in my last post, turned out everybody was posting it 10sec later. Mine is better quality though, but it’s all good. I’ll hit ya with another video before I leave, new Rihanna video of her single ‘Take A Bow’. I’m out.

Thats A World Premiere

April 25th

Ne-Yo – Closer

I haven’t posted anything today, got some other things to do, so this may be the last post of the day. With that in mind, why not do something big. This right here is the WORLD PREMIERE off the video off Ne-Yo’s new single ‘Closer’. “Closer,” written by Ne-Yo and produced by Stargate, is the first single from Ne-Yo’s upcoming third album, YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN, set to arrive in stores June 24th. It is the follow-up to Because Of You (released May 2007), which received this year’s Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and In My Own Words (February 2006) — both of which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.

Come With Me

April 24th
Normally I’m posting 3/4 songs whenever a new album comes out that I want to give some promotion. With Bobby Valentino’s new album ‘Come With Me’ I’m just posting two, since there’s only five songs and one instrumental on the album. The album was due to release on April 29th, but thanks to the early release you can get the album now here on Itunes.

Bobby Valentino – What’s Going On (CDQ)
Bobby Valentino – Another Life(CDQ)

Dave Young – Drinking Smoking

April 24th

Dave Young has been a songwriter in the industry for a while now, dating back to the early solo albums of Dave Hollister. Mary J. Blige signed him to her record label “Matriarch Records” and now he’s getting ready to release an album off his own. The track is called ‘Smoking Drinking’ and features 50cent. I know I’m a little late with this one, just never got to post it. If you haven’t checked it already, make sure you do now.

Dave Young Ft. 50cent – Drinking Smoking

His Myspace: Dave Young

Lil Wayne Scores First Hot 100 Chart-Topper

April 24th
Rapper Lil Wayne scores his first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with “Lollipop,” which jumps from No. 2 with the help of 183,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Lil Wayne has made 20 appearances on the Hot 100 since 1999, the majority of which have been via collaborations. As a lead artist, his previous best showing was with “Go D.J.,” which peaked at No. 14 in November 2004.

The rapper’s highly anticipated new album, “Tha Carter III,” has shifted released dates on numerous occasions and is now expected June 10 via Universal.

“Lollipop” flips spots with Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love,” which falls from No. 1 despite being the fastest growing track at radio. Jordin Sparks’ “No Air” featuring Chris Brown holds at No. 3, while Usher’s “Love in This Club” featuring Young Jeezy and Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body” hold at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively.

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Karina Pasian – Baby Baby

April 24th
Every time this 16 year old Def Jam signed artist releases a new song, she convinces me even more of the great talent that she has. Today she released ‘Baby Baby’ featuring Lil’ Mama off her upcoming album ‘First Love’ that’ll drop June 3rd. The video off her first single ‘16 @ War’ will drop next week. For a preview of the album you can click here and for some more songs you should check my previous post.

Karina Pasian Ft. Lil’ Mama – Baby Baby

Official Site: MeetKarina.net

Previous: Artist Spotlight : Karina Pasian

The Roots – Rising Up

April 24th
The Grammy-award winning group from Philadelphia is back with their new album ‘Rising Down’ following 2006’s Game Theory. I haven’t listened to the whole album yet but so far it’s hot. The album features guest appearances from Common, Wale to Peedi crack and some production by Dice Raw. ‘Rising Down’ is coming April 29th and you can pre-order it here. Album cover + complete tracklist after the click.
More…

1. The Pow Wow
2. Rising Down (w/ Mos Def & Styles P)
3. Get Busy (w/ Dice Raw & Peedi Crakk)
4. 75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)
5. Time Up
6. Criminal (w/ Saigon & Truck North)
7. I Will Not Apologize (w/ P.O.R.N. & Dice Raw)
8. I Can’t Help It (w/ Malik B & P.O.R.N.)
9. Singing Man (w/ Truck North & P.O.R.N.)
10. Up There (Unwritten) (w/ Mercedes Martinez)
11. Lost Desire (w/ Talib Kweli & Malik B)
12. The Show (w/ Common)
13. Rising Up (w/ Chrisette Michelle & Wale)
14. Birthday Girl (w/ Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy)

The Roots Ft. Mercedez Mar – Unwritten
The Roots Ft. Saigon, Truck- Criminal
The Roots Ft. Malik- I Can’t Help It
The Roots Ft. Common- The Show