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Freeway Ricky Ross Talks Crips Bloods and Rapper Rick Ross
May 6th
In an in-depth interview with Sway & King Tech’s Wake Up Show, Freeway Ricky Ross spoke candidly about his life, including details on his long career as a drug kingpin, the relationship between Los Angeles Crips and Bloods, and of course, his issues with rapper Rick Ross, who he believes stole his name.
The former drug lord claimed that by his incarceration in 1996, $600 million had passed through his hands in some form, and that he’d sometimes make $3 million in one day. He explained that his nonchalant attitude towards the money was sometimes misconstrued as greed.
“Once [the money] starts coming, you’re not really doing anything but giving orders,” he told the radio show. “I didn’t see drugs, I didn’t see money. All I did was numbers and spend money…You pick up the phone and a guy says, ‘Hey man, I need 20 keys.’ So you figure okay I’m gonna make $200,000 off of that. [So I'd say to someone else], ‘Hey kid, go deliver these 20 keys to him.’”
He made clear that he takes full responsibility for his actions, but does not agree with the idea that his involvement in drug trafficking led to violence in his neighborhood. “[The courts] wanted to relate the drugs to the violence but that wasn’t the case. When we started selling drugs it was the first time you could see a Crip on a Blood’s block. And they’re getting along because they’re working. They’re trying to get money. And when you trying to get money you don’t want no violence. You don’t want the killing and the police coming around because that interrupts your cash flow.”
He also spoke to host King Tech about his disgruntlement with Miami rapper Rick Ross, although he admits that the self-proclaimed Teflon Don made savvy business decisions by using his name.
“As a business man it was a smart move. He caught a name that was already hot in the streets and somebody he thought was gone and buried…He probably thought that I was never gonna get out and he was banking that I would never get out and he snatched the name. And maybe it was out of respect but at the same time he hasn’t shown respect right now and today…when you wearin’ another man’s name are you really a man or are you living in a mask?”
He added, “I want my name back…Somewhere I heard him say that I should be happy that he used my name…How can I be happy when you took my car, and you’re driving around in my car and I’m walking?”
Freeway Rick Ross is currently working on a biopic based on his life.
Cant wait for his movie be released !
Rihanna talks about her father in Vouge Magazine
Mar 15th
In the April issue of Vogue, pop singer Rihanna discusses her broken relationship with her father
and how he totally betrayed her in the media after the whole Chris Brown beat down situation…
Rihanna states:
“It really makes me question what I have become to my father. Like, what do I even mean to him? It’s really strange. That’s the only word I can think of to describe it, because you grow up with your father, you know him, you are a part of him, for goodness’ sakes! And then he does something so bizarre that I can’t begin to wrap my mind around it. You hear the horror stories about people going behind people’s backs and doing strange things, but you always think, Not my family. My father would never do that to me.
“That was the first time. My dad went to the press and just told them a bunch of lies. Because he hadn’t talked to me after…that whole thing…. He never called to find out how I was doing, if I was alive, nothing. He just never called. He went straight to the press and got a check. And now he does it again.”
Serena Williams talks about her health scare
Mar 11th
Serena Williams has had to drop out of a few tennis matches because of her health. Initially it was because of glass fragments in her foot causing her to wear a cast and being on crutches. Those initial problems developed into much more serious health scares. Read Serena’s recount below on NBC’s The Today Show:
She recalled that on Feb. 18, “I had a lot of swelling in my leg, which really is a tell-tale sign of an embolism, and I could not breathe.” She just thought she “wasn’t fit,” but went to the emergency room.
Doctors at first,couldn’t find anything, she said. But then one ordered a CAT scan of her lungs. “That’s when they found several blood clots. They told me they had to check me in immediately or it wasn’t going to be a good result.”
A week later, she walked the red carpets at Oscar parties. “I had been through so much. I really was kind of low on energy,” she said, but wanted to “do something to get my spirits up. I wasn’t doing so well mentally. … I was feeling terrible.” So she went out. And wound up in the hospital the next day, Feb. 28, because of a large hematoma in her stomach. A hematoma is a gathering of blood underneath the skin, Lauer explained.
I’m so glad Serena is ok, blood clots are no joke =(
Lil Kim Talks about Nicki Minaj On Hot 97
Dec 18th
Lil Kim appeared on New York hip-hop station Hot 97 on Friday (December 17)
and told host Angie Martinez that she was affiliated with Cash Money at one point and recorded with Nicki.
“A lot of people might not know this, but me and [Cash Money co-CEO] Slim were very good friends,” Kim explained. “Very good friends for four or five years. My thing is this: I haven’t been doing music like that for a second and I looked at her buzz as a way in for me. I’m like,
‘OK, this is a good thing. This a way for me to kind of come back in.’ “
After they recorded, however, Kim said the feedback to her verses was better than her younger peer’s.
Then, she said, the subliminal shots toward her from Nicki Minaj began.
Kim, though, said she never had any reason to dislike the upstart.
“I saw her coming up,” she said. “I saw her coming in the game, like, ‘All you chicks that been in the game for 10 years, move over.
Y’all need to sit down.’ And this and that. I thought that was disrespectful.”
“I’m not looking for beef,” she said. “I’m not looking for someone to start a war with. That’s not me. That’s not what I do.”
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50 talks about Nicki Manja
Nov 25th
50 Cent decided to add his 2 cents about Nicki Minaj, he feels that she is the most skillful femcee in the game.
In an interview with MTV.com on the set of Jeremiah’s video “Down On Me”, 50 states:
She’s the only female around, period,” 50 said. “She has a lane that’s been closed that she just busted open on her own, and she’s an amazing talent. A lot of artists, I personally am not excited by, but her, particularly, she impressed me on that ‘Bottoms Up’ remix.”
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Nicki Minaj Talks about Lil Wayne’s Release
Nov 6th
Nicki Minaj stopped to speak to SkeeTV about Lil’ Wayne’s release and her new pink friday album.
Nicki Minaj stated that she excited to work with Lil’ Wayne in the studio and that the two
are already talking about few remixes on her upcoming album Pink Friday.
“I just can’t wait to hug him and hangout with him,” Nicki said in the interview. “We are definitely planning on going to the studio, we have talked about doing a few remixes actually off of the Pink Friday album, but knowing Wayne it will be a completely remixed album.”
Check out the interview
NeNe Leakes talks about her nose job
Oct 23rd
Source: people.com
NeNe Leakes admits she’s something of a perfectionist.
And now, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star is opening up in the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now, about the lengths to which she’s gone for perfection.
“I’m very comfortable and confident in myself. I just wanted a tune up,” says Leakes, 42, admitting that in April she got a nose job, smaller breast implants and a lift, as well as liposuction around her waist for contouring.
But Leakes says she didn’t want a total transformation. “I still wanted to look like NeNe, the black woman that I am,” she says, “but a better version.”
T.I. Talks Suicidal Jumper Off the Ledge
Oct 13th
source:tmz
It all went down earlier this afternoon — when cops responded to a 911 call about a man who was threatening to jump off a building in downtown Atlanta … the same building where Ryan Cameron’s Radio Show on V103 is based.
We’re told T.I. heard about the jumper on the radio — and called Ryan Cameron to see if there was anything he could do to help out with the situation.
Ryan Cameron tells us … he told T.I. to roll over to the building, where the rapper met with police and recorded a heartfelt video message which cops then played for the man on the roof.
We’re told after the man saw T.I.’s video he agreed to step off the ledge … and met T.I. in the lobby, where the two were able to talk things out.
Ryan Cameron also tells us that cops informed the radio station that they will not be pressing charges against the man.
Calls to T.I.’s reps have not been returned.
Nelly talks about old school hip hop vs new school
Sep 28th
Source: Allhiphop.com
Ten years have passed since Nelly signed a deal with Universal Motown, and it’s commonplace now to hear rappers like Drake, T-Pain, and many others blending singing with their spoken lyrics.
They’re younger, perhaps even wiser than he was about how to capitalize on the sound over the past few years, but Nelly gives them respect. He says he understands that all things change, and that Hip-Hop is a youth-driven culture. He recently invited AllHipHop.com to his Apple Bottom offices in New York and he talked candidly about some of the discord between the generations. He also changes the conversation to how we can improve relations.
Nelly to AllHipHop.com: One thing I think is that we as the beginning rap fans, and I’ll say those over 30,
we were some of the first fans. What we have to understand is what made us fans.
What made us fans was the rebellious music…
was not listening to what older people told us we should be listening to.
So now, why is it that when we became the older people, we forgot how hip-hop got started? We were rebelling. So when we go back and we try to tell people who are fans of certain people that we may not like, all that does is make them rebel, and it makes the s**t bigger. You see what I’m saying? As we get older, it gives us the right to contradict, and when we’re younger , we don’t have that right? No.
What we’ve got to understand is that hip-hop was made for the youth, by the youth. And it’s going to always be controlled by the youth. So we’ve got to understand that, and we’ve got to understand that it’s going to make mistakes. We have to allow it to make those mistakes. But you also have to give those same young people the respect, so that hopefully one day they can wake up, and we work with them and not against them.
A lot of people want to work against them, as opposed to working with them.
If you can get people to come in and work with them…if you can get Nelly and KRS-One to talk…whoa,
lo and behold, you got Nelly and KRS on a song. And that’s what it’s about. We gotta bridge that.
I think we s**t on the young people for liking something so much
that we look like haters to them, I don’t want to be a hater to my kid.
I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t want to be a hater to my son. I want my son to think he’s got the coolest muthaf**kin’ dad on the planet. Because I wished that when I was young. I wanted my dad to be cool…
like why couldn’t my dad have been more like Rev Run? You see Rev Run on TV and you’re like,
damn, he’s cool He likes hip-hop, he’s cool to everybody.
My dad used to s**t on rap. My uncles and them were like ‘that’s not real music,’
and they were talking about Run DMC and LL Cool J and Tupacs and Biggies,
you know what I’m saying? Which now, we try to get people to listen
to like ‘take it back to the old school.’ It’s crazy.
