Ras Kass & The Game Get Have A Physical Confrontation

Ras Kass & The Game Get Into Physical Altercation:
Ras Kass RespondsThursday - September 14, 2006

Game and Ras Kass apparently were involved in a scuffle on Wednesday Night (September 13) at a nightclub in Hollywood, California.

While in town for the West Coast leg of his tour with Rakim and Kid Capri, Ras Kass enjoyed a night on the town, when he was confronted by Game and an entourage of about 30, according to Ras Kass."The n***** tried to jump me 30 to 2, yet I'm alive and chillin'," Ras Kass said in a statement. "My sweater is still white and all my jewelry intact. Game is a 'Change Of Heart,' stripping, fake-ass blood, who sold some records riding Dr Dre's shirt tails."

Ras says the incident left him unscathed and that he even confronted him outside the club afterwards."I guess he thought this would help him sell some more records. I was so unfazed by it all that I went up to his car afterwards and challenged him right there. Game is no match for me physically or lyrically," explained the rapper.Game was reportedly upset with lyrics recited by Ras Kass on a mixtape track released last year called "Caution."

On the track, Ras spits the lines, "Get a thousand tattoos and won't raise ya gun/ so when you get merked, I'ma raise ya son."
Many felt the bars spat by Ras Kass on the track were directed toward Game, although Ras Kass said in the past that they were not.

"The track 'Caution' that I wrote and recorded is not directed towards any artist. It's a general statement. If the shoe fits, find a matching skirt," Ras Kass said in a statement last year. "When I do diss somebody, I certainly wouldn’t bring their children into it."At press time, Ras said he has no intentions of going at Game lyrically. "He can sell records on his own dime," said the rapper.

50 Cent Arrestsed In New York For Erratic Driving

50 Cent Arrested In New York For Erratic Driving
50 Cent was arrested in New York, Friday (September 8), for erratic driving. According to reports, the rapper (real name: Curtis Jackson) was driving an uninsured Lamborghini through midtown Manhattan, when he was pulled over by an unmarked patrol car. He was asked to step out of the vehicle, but refused and made a call on his cell phone instead. He was cited on four different violations including making an unsafe lane change, driving with an expired permit, driving without insurance and driving without a vehicle registration.

The 10th Anniversary of Tupacs Death Saturday Sept 9th

"The 10th anniversary of Tupac's death is this Saturday (September 9), and the late rapper's mother and family were scheduled to travel to South Africa to spread his ashes, but the trip has been postponed. Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, postponed the family's trip until 2007 for personal reason. Instead, she will commemorate her son's death in Atlanta at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation. Afeni is inviting the public to the Peace Garden on Saturday (September 9) at 1:00 p.m., and asks that everyone bring a plant in memory of a loved one to place in the garden. A celebration and drum ceremony will follow the garden event."

Pleazure Entertainment Launches New Website

Long Time Nightclub Promotion Firm launches it's new Website
www.Pleazure-Entertainment.com This strong Denver based Marketing firm provides Upcoming artists and nightclubs the opportunity to work together to help bolster Brand recognition and sales. They specialize in Artist and Nightclub promotion campaigns & can provide the best Flyer Design, CD and PosterDesigns, Street Marketing & Web Marketing campaigns to help Artists gain recognition and help Nightclubs get the crowds they are looking for.

P Diddy Will Be Having Twins

Not only is P Diddy Expecting- But reports indicate He will be having twins with his significant other.

Technorati: Your Blogs

Technorati: Your Blogs

Radio Bums: A Force For Social Changes in The Hip Hop Community

Formed by DJ Chonz, The Radio Bums DJ Crew
has long been known in The Denver Colorado and Global communities as a group of highly talented DJ's and Musicians. This group of elite DJs have been holding down every avenue a DJ can cover and have been winning awards after awards in every field.

From Deejaying Arenas for Denver's elite Basketball team the Denver Nuggets to Making everyone's commute easier in both the morning and afternoon traffic jams, not to mention keeping the nightclubs hot and the mixtapes blazing. But the Radio Bums are more than just a DJ community, they are also a force making big changes in the global community as well.

Two of the huge projects the Radio Bums have taken on this year include:
Designing the official site of the Million man March Tenth Year Anniversary Website & Producing a song To Unite The Crips & Bloods to help bring an end or at least a calming down of Los Angeles' dangerous Gang Violence between Bloods & Crips. Similar to what the song "Were All in The Same Gang" helped do for at least a little while almost a decade ago.

Milion Man March- One Million More: Radio Bums has been busy designing the initial and ongoing graphics including the Flash integration of the Official site for the THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF THE MILLION MAN MARCH: www.millionsmoremovement.com. Please log on and register now to claim your part of History!

SAY IT LOUD! Produced by Radio Bums featuring: Sqeek Ru, RBX, Frost, Boo Ya Tribe, Kam, Shorty from the Lench mob, WC, Tank, and Mike Anthony. The song was recorded to bring unity to a desperate situation in the city of Los Angeles CA. The focuses on the uniting of Bloods and Crips, Black and Brown in Los Angeles.

For More Details check out www.RadioBums.com or www.RadioBums.net
Story By: Trent Williams of The Great Hip Hop Blogspot
With Contributions from DJ Emir Mixtapes

DJ Emir Santana Hip Hop Music Photo Albums

DJ Emir Santana Hip Hop Music Photo Albums
My boy DJ Emir (of The Next Level TV Show Denver) just keeps expanding his Internet Mixtape Empire. Here's a photo album site he put up for his Mixtape fans.

If You are like us and love this man's Hip Hop Mixtapes, his Deejaying and Stage presence and would like to check out some photos then this site is a good place to begin. Of course don't forget to also check back on his main page periodicaly for more of his Hip Hop Mixtapes - Trent W. of The Great Hip Hop Blog Spot

Hot Hip Hop Music Mixtapes on Myspace

Featured Myspace Music Profile:
www.myspace.com/mixedmixtapes

Influential Hip Hop Music Mixtape DJ featured in Myspace Music section.

Death of Death Row Records? Maybe- Maybe Not

Suge Knight Ordered to Hand Over Death Row Records:
A judge said on Thursday he would take control of Marion "Suge" Knight's assets, including his Death Row Records label, after finding the rap mogul had avoided paying a $107 million civil court judgment. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Sohigian said Knight, who co-founded Death Row with Dr. Dre in the early 1990s, could stave off the order if he fully disclosed his assets in a debtor's exam set for April 1.

Judge Sohigian said he would appoint a court officer to take over Knight's finances because he had failed to make good on a $107 million judgment won last March by Lydia Harris, who claimed he cheated her out of a 50 percent stake in the rap label."Because he had a long history of deceiving the court and avoiding payment, I asked the court to appoint a receiver to take over," Harris' attorney, Rex Julian Beaber, said. "If Knight cooperates in providing the information, he can ask the court to remove the receiver. But I don't think there's a chance in hell Knight is going to cooperate."A lawyer for Knight, Dermot Givens, said later the judge had not formally signed an order taking control of Suge's assets, and Givens expected to have it overturned by proving Knight and Harris had reached a settlement in the case."In May of 2005, she received a million dollars and rights to various music, and she signed a settlement agreement," Givens told Reuters. He said Harris was trying to back out of that settlement under pressure from her ex-husband, Michael, who would be entitled to share in the original $107 million judgment.The judge has not signed off on any settlement between Knight and Harris. Beaber and a lawyer for Michael Harris, Steven Goldberg, said there was no such agreement and Goldberg predicted Knight would ultimately lose control of his record label."I think it's a death nail for Death Row," Goldberg told reporters outside court.

Ghostface Killah- I Think Hip Hop Died in '96 - 97'

"I think hip-hop died somewhere in '96,
maybe '97 and it was just over with if you ask me.
Now, here we go in 2006, nine years later.
It's kind of finished a little bit.
We're lacking a lot of originality, creativity
and lot of DJs f----- it up."- Ghostface Killah

According to www.SOHH.com Ghostface Killah could care less for songs like D4L's Crappy Taffy- Oops I mean "Laffy Taffy" Which we here ourselves also despise. (with the exception of the remix which introduces lines from both Busta Rhymes and Twista which elevate the song to listenable- otherwise D4L's concept is whack and so is the delivery.)

Unfortunatly a lot of Rap Music Today is what we consider to be Fast Food Music. You don't have to think about it, You just take it in quickly, It makes you feel sick at times and though you complain about it you can't seem to stop buying more.

1992–'97 was the Golden Age of hip-hop in New York City and Across the country. Calibur songs and Albums of mention of that era (and a few from the prior years) include:
Black Sheep "Flavor of The Month"
Pete Rock & CL Smooth "T.R.O.Y. They Reminisce Over You"
Biggie's Albums
Wutang's Albums
Nas "Illmatic"
Mary J Blige Albums
and many more...

While there are a few artists out there that still have strong concepts, lyrical ability, lyrical depth and a strong cadence and flow, it seems overall the scene has shifted to where the public has allowed the no talent hacks to infiltrate the ranks and actually have created superstars out of artists that barely deserve to step into a studio.

As OC put it in his single "Times up"
"Non Conceptual, Non Exceptional,
Everybody's Either Crime Related or Sexual"

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RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes

RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes

By George Ziemann 10/14/03

There is something that I find incredibly mystifying about the entire chain of events from Napster to the present. This entire scenario has played out before.

Which makes it all the more curious why the RIAA is following it step by step. In today's news, we learn that the RIAA has now advanced to using strongarm, mob-style tactics by conducting warrantless search-and-seize missions against independent music stores who dare to sell music that the RIAA doesn't own.

On September 23, Berry's Music in Indianapolis, Indiana, was raided:

"According to proprietor Alan Berry, police confiscated $10,000 worth of mix discs by the likes of DJ World and DJ Paul Bunyan.

'The record labels want the independent record stores out of the business,' Berry says. 'They'd rather deal with Target, Best Buy, Circuit City -- it's consolidation, just like any other industry. The RIAA knows that mixes are an integral part of urban stores' culture and profit margin. By eliminating them, they can eliminate a lot of indie stores'."

City Music, also in Indianapolis, was raided on October 1, with manager Jerome Avery quoted as saying, "They came in and took anything that was on a recordable CD. The only DJ mixes I had were behind the counter for personal listening, and they confiscated them. How can it be illegal if the artist is making them for the street? They came without a notice - no warrant, no nothing. They're making up their own laws, if you ask me."

The City Music raid happened the day Universal's new prices went into effect - "more bad news for small, independent record stores. Universal's widely publicized $9.09 wholesale prices only apply to the largest retail chains, and only to stores that are willing to buy 30 copies of a disc at one time. Most smaller stores, though, deal with 'one-stop' sub-distributors that can fill orders for a disc or two quickly, and take a markup of their own. And many retailers are frustrated that customers have been coming in for weeks, asking where their $9 CDs are.

Eric Haight of Record World in Petoskey, Michigan, notes that a new Sting album before the price drop cost the store $12.69, with a suggested retail price of $18.98. Now it costs them $10.79, with a retail price of $12.98 - the profit margin has been slashed by almost two-thirds, and Universal will no longer help them out with advertising costs.

After watching the RIAA's public Dance of Death closely for only about a year, everything they do is so predictable that I'm beginning to wonder if they even have any control over their own destiny. For some inexplicable reason, they seem compelled to follow through until the final scene, perhaps unaware that there's been a rewrite in the ending over the last 90 years.

While suggested reading is the series I did earlier on Thomas Edison, here is a synopsis of how Edison's approach to running an entertainment industry so closely parallels what the RIAA is trying to do.

After all, the goal is the same -- to maintain a monopoly.

Step 1 -- Acquire the rights. All of them.

In Edison's case, patents were the prize possession. His realm was the movie industry. Edison, or those who worked for him, had basically invented the entire movie industry, along with all the pieces and parts that made it happen. The RIAA uses copyrights in the same manner by gathering all the industry's top players, thus creating a collective ownership base to wield the same power.

Step 2 -- Define the standards

Once you own all of the rights, you have to find a way to make competing prohibitively expensive. This requires defining the standard to include some proprietary part, method, equipment, etc. Edison's means of achieving this goal was with the film size and even the spacing of the little holes along the edges, still Kodak's standard.

For decades, the vinyl record served this purpose for the music industry. It was a capability that required special equipment, preventing your average person on the street from being able to replicate the product or compete with it. For this very reason, the electronics industry owns a great deal of the recording industry today. Sony is the best example.

Step 3 -- Dominate the market

The easiest way to dominate the market is by being the only game in town. The second easiest way is to get together with the top competitors and come up with a market strategy that everyone can play by. Both methods carry the likelihood of being looked at as anti-competitive, depending how the parties involved act. The public and the government will actually tolerate a benevolent monopoly for quite some time if no one complains about it. Major league baseball is a perfect example -- there's no such thing as an independent major league baseball team, at least not that I've ever heard of. Even if there are, they're certainly not going to make it into the World Series. The public doesn't complain because all the teams are apparently subject to the same rules. No team "wins" just because they have the richest owner.

And we know the players get paid.

So it has been with radio airplay, the preferred method of choice for selling music for decades. The hypothesis is that a person must hear a song several times in order to entice them to buy the record. Pretty simple. Very effective. The barrier to entry is very high, basically keeping competition limited to the major labels.

We now know that the players in this game are not being paid.

Step 4 -- Assume the creative community is expendable

Edison's mistake was that he felt that it did not matter who the performers were. It was the movie, the finished product, that was important, not the people in it. The general public was unfortunately not aware of this importance, preferring to follow their favorite stars. Edison underestimated the value of his performers and they abandoned him.

The recording industry has always been a bit more blatant in their cold-hearted willingness to discard performers. Edison simply was wrong in his assessment; the music industry is intentionally bent to minimize an artist's financial benefit, while constantly portraying themselves as acting in the best interests of the artists.

At least Edison was honest.

Step 5 -- Eliminate independent competition

In both cases, had Step Four not taken place, there would be no Step 5. As in the case of baseball, benevolent market domination can be tolerated by the public for extended periods of time.

The recording industry had a lock on the business until the advent of the CD, followed by the recordable CD. Expensive at first, but now significantly dwindled in price, the recordable CD and computerized audio mastering tools like Sonar, ProTools and Cakewalk have put professional audio capability into the hands of almost anyone.

The kid down the street now has the capability of making a CD that sounds as good as one from Warner Music. Whether he succeeds or not is another issue. The fact is that he's got the capability. If he puts a few mp3 files on the Internet, it's entirely possible that he can sell some CDs of his own music at a reasonable price. So, to make this scenario as difficult as possible to achieve, the industry has systematically painted recordable media, the Internet and mp3 files as contraband, its users as thieves and any artist not signed with a major label as illegitimate.

Add to this the strong-arm tactics now raised by the Village Voice, and the pattern of systematically elimination independent competition is almost identical to those methods used by the Motion Picture Patents Company 95 years ago.

Step 6 -- Alienate the public

Edison did his best to squash his competitors, but he never stooped so low as to try suing moviegoers for attending "unlicensed" movies. Step 6 is an RIAA original, I believe. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend why anyone ever thought this was a good idea on any level.

Now we see that they had intended to combat falling sales by a $4 price hike.

Step 7 -- Government intervention

The government allowed the Motion Picture Patents Company, which had been formed in December, 1908, to get away with their anti-competitive control over the industry for less than four years. The U.S. government brought an antitrust suit against the MPPC in 1912 and declared it illegal in 1915.

Considering that the government has a) been trying to diffuse the voice of the music industry for a half century, if not silence it altogether and b) four of the five major labels are foreign-owned, sooner or later someone at the top end of government is going to possess the lucidity to wonder why the government should even care what happens to the record industry.

The only real issue is how long we have to wait. Step 8 should be worth waiting for -- the same independent renaissance that filmmakers enjoyed in the 1920s and 30s when Edison's movie empire fell apart. But the indie filmmakers didn't even wait for the government. They simply walked away and started over.

Kind of like what's happening now.

©2002 George Ziemann
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Mixtapes: Record Label Friend or Foe?

Hip Hop Mixtapes: The Dilemna between free exposure and giving away music freely as a means of promotion has plagued the Music industry since the day Radio first started playing their songs freely on the air.

When looking for New Hip Hop Music fans often search out Hot Mixtapes
Because of this, Mixtapes offer music artists the opportunity to get tons of exposure they wouldn't find otherwise. Many of todays Hip Hop artists utilize mixtapes as a form of radio exposure for the streets.

Mixtapes give artists street credibility and expand their fanbase. they expose the artists to tons of otherwise unreachable listeners, transforming many into new Fans. The Record companies figured this out long ago, and send their latest music to many DJs in attempts to get "put on" in the Clubs on the Radio and on as many hot mixtapes as possible.

When radio first started playing songs on the air the record executives considered Radio to be a competitor, a threat that took away from record sales. Now they realize the viral effect constant listening has on their consumers and are more than willing to pay for airplay.
With Mixtapes emerging as a large marketing avenue, The industry is torn, many executives see mixtapes as a great marketing tool. Some executives however feel they are a potential threat to record sales. The dilemna is the same one plaguing the music industry when it comes to free music downloads. Does the exposure and promotion they generate bring in enough money to justify giving the music away?

Though mixtapes have been around for several decades and were partly responsible in creating and growing one of the music industries largest succesful genres, Hip Hop Music, Mixtapes and DJs still haven't gained the full respect from the music industry and have even recieved some recent backlash from the RIAA.

Radio Bums to launch Mixtape Website

The Official Launch of
radiobumsmixcds.com
Coming soon.



DJ Chonz of the Radio Bums released news of a new Official Radio Bums DJ Mixtape website launch. The mixtape website will feature Hip Hop and reggae Mixtapes by prominent members of The Radio Bums DJ Crew. DJ Chonz- a prominent Mixtape and Radio Mixshow DJ and radio personality for KS1075 Denver Radio started "The Bums" with humble beginings in his home office. Over the years he moved into a proffesional office space and has recruited and expanded the Radio Bums to include some of the top skilled and most influential DJs in The States.

All Radio Bums DJs feature a high degree of DJ skills and currently are holding down jobs for many hot nightclubs, Sporting events and Radio Stations. The DJs are syndicated over several radio stations across the country, Through Zeo Radio Mix Shows, Ks1075 Radio Denver, 95.7 mega Reggaton, The Next Level TV Show Denver and several other Media venues.

Amongst the other many distinctions Radio Bums DJs DJ Bedz and DJ Psycho are also official DJs of The Denver Nuggets Basketball Team, and mix it up for thousands of screaming basketball fans before and during every game.

Currently the Radio Bums consists of a 30 DJ deep Record Pool which also features about 10 official Radio Bums DJ's who represent the company on the radio, in major sporting and music events and in most major nightclubs. Radio Bums DJs have been very prominent in the Mixtape Scene making it a neccesity to make their mixtapes more readily available.

The Mixtape site should launch soon and will feature one spot where you can collect mixtapes by all the official Radio Bums DJs. Mixtapes will be available from the Reggaton Commision's DJ Psycho, Radio Bums leader and Vilator DJ's DJ Chonz, DJ Mantis, and of course Radio Bums and Shadyville DJ- DJ Bedz who along with DJ Petey have put out more quality Mixtapes than anyone can possibly hold in their arms.

Unlike Most Mixtape Sites These Mixtapes will Be Mixed!
The Radio Bums DJs take pride in their mixes and their mixtapes, so you can expect each mixtape to be completely mixed with skill and precision not found on many other mixtapes. With your new favorite music and special cameo exclusive tracks made specifically for the Radio Bums DJs by Superstar rap artists such as Mad Skillz.


We'll keep you posted when the site finally launches. Stay tuned it's gonna be hot.

Notorious BIG's Family Finally Recieves Judgement

Judge Florence Marie Cooper has ordered that $1.3 Million be paid by the City of Los Angeles to the late rappers family for legal expenses stemming from the family’s civil lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles that ended in a mistrial last July. The mistrial was declared because the judge, at that time, expressed concern that the Los Angeles Police Department had deliberately withheld evidence from the court.

The revelation that a police detective may have hid statements linking the killing of Notorious B.I.G. to former LAPD Officers David Mack and Rafael Perez. When U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared the mistrial in July she wrote “The detective, acting alone or in concert with others, made a decision to conceal from the plaintiffs in this case information which would have supported their contention that David Mack was responsible for the murder.“ The FBI had spent 18 months also investigating the possibility that a rogue Los Angeles police officer working with rap mogul and CEO of Death Row Records, Marion "Suge" Knight had orchestrated Notorious B.I.G.'s killing. They also had closed the case due to a lack of any evidence to support the family’s allegations; allegations fueled by theories based on disgruntled ex-police officer Russell Poole.

Civil Suit Will Be Re-filed
Biggie's family civil suit did not name Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, Mack, Perez or the alleged shooter, and none of them have ever been formally named suspects in the case or arrested in connection with the crime.

Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, whose Death Row Records was the label of late rap idol Tupac Shakur (2Pac), has always denied he had any participation in the killing of notorious B.I.G.

Tupac (2Pac) and Biggie were rivals and some say the assassination of Tupac is what is behind the murder of Notorious B.I.G.. The murders of Tupac Shakur (2pac) and Notorious B.I.G. have never been solved. The Family of Christopher Wallace originally sought $2 Million in this matter. The family has re-filed their civil wrongful death suit and it will be heard again later this year.

A Hot DJ To Tear up The Dance Club

Hot Nightclub DJ

Your nightclub is packed, but the people complain about the music every week, and little by little your numbers are declining. Perhaps it's not that bad but you just need a change of pace, something to hype the club up and create some buzz. Well Now you can have that crazy Mixtape turntable wizard DJ Emir of the Next Level TV Show come down to your event anywhere in the world! I've used him for a few of my events and have been amazed everytime.

Singer Akon ready to move into The Movie Business

Singer Akon To Start Producing Gangster Docu-Movies
Akon's Mega-hit single "Locked Up" helped him become a hot new breakout star in 2005. His subsequent hits and collaborations with Stylez-P, Young Jeezy and many others have kept him in the spotlight.


Akon's new music label Konvict Music has also done well recently with the successful addition of his own brother T-Pain (picture at left) with the mega-hit single I'm Sprung and the hit and album it subsequently sprung into the spotlight. But it seems there's a different spotlight Akon is now after...

Now, Akon is ready to lock up Hollywood with his newly formed entertainment company, Konvict Films. Akon mentioned "We'll be doing movies based on gangsters locked up in prison and presenting their whole life stories."Akon's first project will be the cautionary film Trouble, which he plans to shoot in 2006.

West Coast Customs Leaves 'Pimp My Ride'

West Coast Customs Leaves 'Pimp My Ride'
The company responsible for those amazing car makovers on the highly successful car customizing show "Pimp My Ride" is finally moving on. After a long run as one of the most successful television shows for MTV, West Coast Customs is moving to another channel and changing the format. WCC will be developing a new show on the Discovery Channel with the producers of "American Chopper" and "American Hot Rod." And instead of creating over-the-top designs like "Pimp My Ride," the show will be based around the work they do on a daily basis.
Although West Coast Customs is moving on, The popular MTV show"Pimp My Ride" is not being canceled. According to an MTV spokesperson, new episodes are scheduled to air Spring of 2006.

Hip Hop Music Top 100 List

Hip Hop Music Top 100 List
Great site for finding tons of Hip Hop websites from around the world. The site itself appears to be in Europe and gets many sites Hip Hop Music websites from that area of the world but also has many top notch United States Rap Music websites as well. Check it out whwnevr you are searching for new sites.
Note: The only thing I don't like about the site which I feel the owners should get rid of is the floating advertisment box which tends to block the view of the website until someone closes the advertisment, very annoying feature that's starting to pop up everywhere on the internet these days.