A Week In Hip Hop
Well where better to get things started than the emergence from his cave of everyone's favourite rapper - Mr Andre 3stacks. Andre graced the hip hop loving world with not one but two interviews in the past week thanks to the upcoming Jimi Hendrix film. Yup, Andre 3000 is doing the press rounds. Here's the New York Times interview in which Andre is pretty open and honest while here's a nifty little interview/finish the sentence thing with Esquire Magazine. In both, Andre's offers a few insights in to that turban wrapped brain of his and there's plenty of advice to take from them.
The next installment of the A$AP doco...
It's been happening for a few weeks now but if you've been hibernating - G Unit is back. It was kinda weird because the return of G Unit came about just after 50 Cent had basically called out Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo for not really doing anything. Then all of a sudden their back together, which when you add in my idea that the 50 Cent and Game beef was fabricated, it's not too hard to come to the conclusion that 50 had planned this all along. He's a smart guy ... maybe that's why Chelsea Handler wet herself as her ex lover and G Unit performed on Chelsea Lately....
I'm guessing we've all seen the 'Hot N' (do I say it? do I use **? I dunno I'll just go with N) video from Bobby Shmurda? Well someone chopped it with some Michael Jackson in this ironic Vine...
The ever wise Immortal Technique offered some solid thoughts on not only Bobby Shmurda but thoughts that can be applied to any young artists....