Trilla's Hopeful For Big Hit

Birmingham's very own Trilla Jermaine Trilloski has gone mainstream with this latest club banger, "Who Are Ya". Trilla's single comes out on 17th May so support that. WHO ARE YA?

Dr. Dre's First Single From His Detox Album?

After months of product placement with his Beats By Dre headphone line and spots in ads by Dr. Pepper and HP, it looks as though Dr. Dre's Detox album may be getting its first single this week.

According to the Twitter account of E! News' Michael Yo, the legendary producer will be hooking up with one of Hip Hop's premier artists for his first single: "Look for it this week New Jay Z and Dr Dre!!!" tweeted Yo.
Michael Yo later added that Interscope Records was "buzzing" about the as-of-now unnamed song. According to YouHeardThatNew.com, the track has been described as "up-tempo," and is indeed intended as Detox's first single.

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T.I. Probation Ends

Atlanta rapper T.I. has almost completed a one-year prison sentence for attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers in 2007.

The rapper will be released from house arrest and will begin three years of federal probation, his attorney’s revealed.

Now that he is off of house arrest, T.I. must observe a strict curfew for the next 23 days.

The rapper must be in the house by 11.PM, unless he has a show, in which case he will be allowed to stay out until 1:00 AM.

“He’s been working,” T.I.‘s lawyer Steve Sadow told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He intends to continue working, which includes being in the [recording] studio and performing concerts."

T.I. was also fined $100,000 and he already completed 1,000 hours of community service prior to spending his time in prison.

T.I. has reportedly contributed a new verse to a track titled “Winner” featuring Jamie Foxx and Justin Timberlake.

The song is taken from Foxx’s new untitled album which is due in stores in June.

T.I. also premiered his own comeback track earlier in the month titled “I’m Back.”

The song is taken from an album T.I. is reportedly scheduled to release this August.

Suge Knight Wanted for Robbing Yukmouth

Police are seeking Hip-Hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight for allegedly beating and robbing Luniz group member Yukmouth.
According to TMZ.com, police were called to Ralph’s supermarket in the San Fernando Valley. Knight and an entourage of 10 men apparently accosted Yukmouth around 10:00 PM last night. They then allegedly stole $92,000 worth of jewelry from the Oakland rapper, for those who cnt remember he is best known for the hit “I Got 5 On It" with The Luniz.

The Luniz - I Got 5 On It

 

Taio Cruz Teams Up With Ke$ha for new single

 Taio Cruz has taken America by storm as his debut US single 'Break Your Heart' has vaulted to # 1 on the US iTunes chart today. This is an astonishing achievement for the multi-talented artist/writer/super producer as the single is his first release in the United States.
The success of 'Break Your Heart' follows hard on the heels of the recent US success of Island /Cash Money’s Jay Sean, whose single 'Down' topped the US Billboard chart in October 2009. 'Break Your Heart', which was recently nominated for a Brit Award, entered the UK singles chart at no. 1 where it remained for 3 weeks.
Now Taio sets his sights on the UK chart once more with the release of his brand new single 'Dirty Picture' featuring the red-hot miss Tik Tok herself Ke$ha. Ever the keen talent scout Taio invited Ke$ha onto the track long before she broke through in the US, and the resulting presciently titled song has been one of the most cherry-picked on Cruz’s acclaimed second album 'Rokstarr'. The pair have just shot a suitably (in)appropriate video for the track.

A remix of 'Dirty Picture' featuring DRAKE, the hottest rapper in the US right now, will be available shortly.

Nicki Minaj Talks Skipping Out On XXL's Freshmen '10

Nicki Minaj recently revealed to MTV.com the reason she and fellow Young Money artist Drake decided not to participate in XXL magazine's Freshmen 2010 issue, which highlights up-and-coming talent in the rap game.

"Drake and I, we love XXL," said Minaj on the set of her video for the song "Massive Attack."

"We just shot for XXL. With all due respect, we felt like we kinda had graduated from the freshman class. We felt that XXL missed the mark when they didn't put us on the cover prior to that. They have to pay for that. They can't say, 'Hey, get on the next one.' But we love XXL. That's like a Hip Hop classic. So we said, 'Can we have something just a little bit more catered to us, so that we feel like we have still grown as artists, so we're not at all disrespecting the magazine?' They were cool with that."

Minaj insists that she and Drake were cordial about the request, and that the magazine took no issue with it.

As such, the Freshmen 2010 group consisted of OJ Da Juiceman, Nipsey Hussle, Jay Rock, Pill, Donnis, Fashawn, J. Cole, Wiz Khalifa, Freddie Gibbs and Big Sean

Waka Flocka Flame Arrested

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Waka Flocka Flame was reportedly arrested on Tuesday (March 16) for a probation violation. 
According to the Macon-Telegraph, the rapper, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in a robbery attempt just months ago, is being held in the Houston County Jail.
Flocka, real name Juaquin James Malphurs, received probation for possession of a sawed-off shotgun. In addition, one of his recent concerts ended in violence, leaving eight men shot, but not in life-threatening condition.
Currently, his single, "O Let's Do It," is at No. 80 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Snoop Dogg To Perform At Glastonbury Festival

                                                                                                                                   

It’s been less than a week since Snoop Dogg won his battle to enter the UK and the rapper is already being courted for one of the country’s biggest and oldest festivals. 

Michael Eavis, organizer of the Glastonbury Festival, revealed that he is working hard to bring Snoop Dogg to the festival this year.

According to Eavis, his daughter Emily is a huge fan of Snoop Dogg.

Emily was also responsible for booking Jay-Z into a headlining act in 2008, a move which drew criticism from a few artists, most notably Oasis front man Noel Gallagher.

"She's a bright girl and she is very keen on Snoop Dogg doing the show, so we want him,” Eavis told the UK’s Sun newspaper. "Her real claim to fame is booking Jay-Z. She came up with the idea, so I phoned his manager. At the end of a 40-minute chat he said Jay-Z would do the show, and the rest is history."

Snoop Dogg was banned from the UK in 2006, after his entourage became involved in a brawl with airport security, when they were denied access to a first class area of the airport.

The rapper, who was also banned from Australia, won his appeal to enter the UK last week after several appeals during a four-year court battle to re-enter the country. 

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CHRIS BROWN BEGS FANS FOR SUPPORT

Chris Brown is begging fans for support. In a message sent to fans through SayNow, the young singer explained that radio stations are not "being that supportive" of his new work, including singles off his latest album, Graffiti. In turn, Brown is asking fans for help, adding that he cannot "be an underground mixtape artist."

"I ain’t never really did this but right now I need all of my fans help," he said in his statement. "A lot of radio stations aren’t playing my records. They are not being that supportive and I wouldn’t expect them to. It’s on the fans and what you guys do in your power to bring me back. That’s all I need is you guys and nothing else will do that except for the fans."

JIM JONES IS TO BECOME A TEACHER

Diplomats rapper Jim Jones announced that he will be trading in the mic for the textbooks, taking over as a music instructor. Jones, who is expected teach at a New York City high school, told Rap Radar he is excited about the opportunity. "It's definitely going to be fun. I [will] have to go home the weekend before and write out my lessons," he continued, "This will be the funnest class you can go to and shit but you gonna learn a lot."

The Dipset member is expected to teach for just eight weeks and is currently waiting for the green light. "Right now they're actually going back and forth with the Board of Education to see what goes on and shit. I fully don't know the whole logistics of everything."

Lloyd Signs With Interscope Records

Yesterday, MTV reported that singer Lloyd has inked a deal with Interscope Records. Formerly an artist signed to Irv Gotti's Murder Inc., Lloyd spent most of his career at Universal Motown, where of recent, he began a strong association with Lil Wayne's Young Money label.

Most notably, Lloyd had a heavy hand in 2009 hit "Bedrock" with the members of Young Money. "I love the way Interscope gets down. I love the way Jimmy [Iovine, label head] gets down. I've always had a good working relationship with Polow [da Don, producer]. Having that creative partner is something I wanted to have, since the very beginning, to have that one creative partner," Lloyd told MTV.

The singer said he expects to release his first Interscope album this year, and said that his decision not to sign with Young Money had a lot to do with the fact that he would remain at Universal Motown.

LUDACRIS ENDS FEUD WITH BILL O'REILLY

Atlanta rapper Ludacris and Fox TV talking head Bill O’Reilly ended their feud at recent event they both attended.

Ludacris confronted The O’Reilly Factor host when he noticed O’Reilly’s name on a guest list for the event.

"The first thing I said to him was, 'I want to meet the guy who has had so much to say about me, but knows absolutely nothing about me'," Ludacris told RadarOnline.com. "I identified that I wanted to speak to him when I saw his name on the guest list. I looked at what table he was on, and I walked my a** straight to that table.”

Ludacris said that O’Reilly wasn’t expecting to see him and that when he saw the rapper approaching, the look on his face was “priceless.”

The rapper explained that he had conversation with O’Reilly, who has frequently attacked Hip-Hop lyrics.

In 2002, O’Reilly helped get Ludacris dumped as a spokesman for Pepsi, after he ordered his viewers to boycott the soft drink maker for hiring the rapper.

"The conversation we had was confidential, however, let's just say it was a good conversation and good came out of it,” Ludacris told RadarOnline.

The pair even teamed up for a charity event recently, but it was kept a secret.

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RIHANNA'S RUDE BOY REGGAE REMIX

This remix featuring Agent Sasco AKA Assassin is smashing up the airwaves. TO DI WORLD!

DMX ARRESTED ... again!

DMX's penchant for getting in trouble with the law continues, as the superstar rapper was once again arrested.

According to TMZ.com, the Yonkers rapper was arrested yesterday (March 9) in Arizona for violating the terms of his probation by using illegal drugs over the past nine months.

Lil Wayne Begins Prison Sentence

RAPPER LIL WAYNE was taken off in handcuffs yesterday to start a 12-month jail sentence in New York - after admitting having a loaded 40-calibre semi-automatic gun on his tour bus.

The 27-year-old Grammy Award-winning star, born DWAYNE CARTER, could be released in eight months with good behaviour.

His lawyer will ask for him to be kept in "protective custody" for his own "safety and health"

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Tinie Tempah bags his first UK Number 1

The Urban Architects Would like to congratulate Tinie Tempah on reaching the number 1 stop in the UK singles chart with the smash hit 'Pass Out'.

Tinie Tempah beat off competition from the likes of Rihanna, Jason Derulo and Ellie Goulding in the race for number 1.

Snoop Dogg wins legal fight against ban from Britain
- But UK Border Agency could yet appeal
Friday, 5th March 2010

SNOOP DOGG has scored a victory over the British immigration authorities, paving the way for the hip-hop star to tour the UK.

Orginally banned from Britain in 2007 after his entourage got into a fight at Heathrow airport, Snoop Dogg has since been involved in a ding-dong legal battle with Immigration.

In the latest round, judges ruled that officials were wrong to slap the ban on Snoop Dogg and he has now been handed the chance to apply for a visa.

But that's not the end of it as those officials could yet appeal.

"We are studying the determination carefully and will take a decision on whether to appeal," said a spokesperson for the UK Border Agency

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