New heat from Ghostdini, Skyzoo, Q-Tip and P decides do go all request in the second hour.
11:00-11:33
Ghostface Killah f/ Shareefa – Not Your Average Girl *Real Freq Certified*
Skyzoo – Metal Hearts (Prod. 9th Wonder)
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From the album of the same name dropping October 20th! So that’s Royce Da 5′9, The Roots, and I believe The Clipse are also dropping on October 20th! This Roots hardly ever disappoint, so this should be an instant purchase.
I bet you thought groupies were somehow going to be involved in this. Nope… but Kanye is! I got you covered with a groupies story after the jump though, which involves Lil’ Wayne and groupies shooting at his tour bus. All praises due to CityOnMyBack via 247HH. Read the rest of this entry »
New joint from The Gambling Man to get you prepared for his upcoming mixtape. He also promises a new slew of the “Gambling Stories” episodes featuring the likes of Big Boi of Outkast, KRS-One, Spliff Star, and many more!
A little freestyle action from Royce to get you geared up for “Street Hop”, which drops on October 20th and features guest appearances from Busta Rhymes, Phonte of Little Brother, Bun B, Joell Ortiz, & more! Production from DJ Premier, Nottz, Streetrunner, DJ Green Lantern, & more! Definitely been waiting for this album for a minute!
“HipHopCanada: I wanted to start by talking about your newest mixtape. It’s titled We On Some Rich Kidd Shit Vol. 3: “From the Bottom of the Can!” Where did that come from? When did this project start taking shape in your mind?
Rich Kidd: From the Bottom Of the Can comes from . . . My manager Courtney has a saying where he likes to say we’re coming from the bottom, to the top of the Can . . . as in from the bottom of Canada. So I hit the Internet for some inspiration going through some shit and I came across some old Coca Cola ads and I went ahead and tied these two loose concepts together. Just to see if people would get it. I just like to do creative things. Shit people won’t get right away. I want people to call me back 20 minutes later saying: “What the fuck?!” I don’t want to do regular covers and artwork. I don’t want to sit in front of a green-screen holding an AK-47 with money flowing out of my pockets. I don’t do all that.
HipHopCanada: There are lots of mixtapes out. Even at your release party I left with a few mixtapes that were being passed around. What do you think separates yours from the pack?
Rich Kidd: One is that it’s all on me I don’t have a DJ . . . all original shit, no dubs or freestyles. You know, I never really wanted to call it a mixtape. I called the first one a mixtape and then the second one was a compilation album and this one is just . . . We On Some Rich Kidd Shit Volume 3. I never really wanted to put the mixtape label on it to be really honest. It kind of is like a mix album but given that those tunes were released on different albums and at different times throughout the year I kind of classified it as a mixtape . . . but . . . really, people can call it whatever they want. They were calling it a street album the other night on OTA live. Some dudes call it a mixtape, other dudes are calling it an EP. I was like: ” EP!? I thought EP’s had less than 10 songs . . . so?” It’s whatever people want to call it. There are three of them out there and maybe later in the Fall I might put them all together in a set, Collector’s Edition with DVD and some behind the scenes footage.
HipHopCanada: There are long line of MC/Producers out there who are known as much for their rapping as they are for their productions, and we can go down the list, Pete Rock, Diamond D, Saukrates, Kanye, K-Os. Where are you more comfortable behind the boards producing or as an MC behind the mic?
Rich Kidd: I don’t know. I feel equally comfortable doing both. MCing is something I’ve been doing for a while . . . before the beats were even on my plate. I started MCing and freestyling and then I needed something to spit on instead of industry beats. So I started making beats and got good at it but . . . I feel so much more comfortable on stage than I do in the booth. It’s so much easier on the stage, you can miss a word or two catch your breath but you’re interacting with the audience instead of simply interacting with a mic. You know what I mean? Youv’e got to make ‘em feel a certain way, you’ve got to make ‘em move and that’s always a challenge for me. To get on stage and make people move with me, make them feel what I’m doing on stage. I’ve always taken that as a challenge.
With the beats it’s the same thing. At first it wasn’t a competition thing or trying to find out how far I could get with the beats. I just did it to do it. Now you`ve keep up with the times if you want to make money with it. Really . . . I don’t mess with that style. I’m still doing the beats I like to do, but sometimes I`ve got to cater to whoever’s going to be spitting on the beats or singing on them. But I feel equally comfortable with both.
HipHopCanada: Just to go back to the whole Busta Rhymes incident with “Undescribable” and I know you’ve been asked to address this a few times in the last few months. But that incident do you see it more as a curse or a blessing?
Rich Kidd: Everything can be a blessing if you take it that way. I see it as a blessing, I try to always look at things as an optimist. Busta didn’t actually steal it, he was actually just featured on the track. Billy Danze recorded the track and Busta leaked it. The track was never supposed to be released. Looking at it now, I never really had a beat stolen. It was put out at the wrong time. Leaks happen all the time because labels feel like they can give an artist a little buzz before the project drops. Which was exactly the case with Busta. It was a blessing really because of that a lot of different people were able to hear my stuff. When I was at Rock The Bells I was talking to people who were asking about my resume and when I mentioned that track they would say: “Oh you did that? You did that!?”
Really and truly I can’t depend on these guys to bust me. That’s why I I included these tracks on the mixtape but I put my own joints to work as well, to let people know that the production’s heavy and the rapping is heavy. I’m not trying to jump on coattails.
HipHopCanada: How did the beat get out there?
Rich Kidd: Billy Danze got the beat CD through G-Unit, really liked one beat in particular and recorded “Undescribable”. He had a verse open and called Busta. He and Busta recorded the verse back to back and then Busta took the joint with him. So they didn’t even know who the producer was. I ended up getting a hold of Billy Danze through MySpace later on.
My man Big Pops, who’s a next producer from Northern Profit when he first heard the joint called me and said: “This beat sounds like you! You have to hear this beat it sounds like something you’d make”. He had never heard the beat before. I heard the beat and was like yeah it’s mine, cause it has no samples. So I hit up Billy Danze on MySpace and he said “Call me”. We talked for a bit, he explained to me what happened with the joint and we just came to an understanding where like we’ll make some more joints together and build an EP and get some shit popping.”
Spotted at CityOnMyBack via HipHopCanada. If you still haven’t heard this mixtape album, you’re only a couple of clicks from changing that. It’ll be our secret. For the full interview, hit up HipHopCanada!
Rich Kidd: From the Bottom Of the Can comes from . . . My manager Courtney has a saying where he likes to say we’re coming from the bottom, to the top of the Can . . . as in from the bottom of Canada. So I hit the Internet for some inspiration going through some shit and I came across some old Coca Cola ads and I went ahead and tied these two loose concepts together. Just to see if people would get it. I just like to do creative things. Shit people won’t get right away. I want people to call me back 20 minutes later saying: “What the fuck?!” I don’t want to do regular covers and artwork. I don’t want to sit in front of a green-screen holding an AK-47 with money flowing out of my pockets. I don’t do all that.
HipHopCanada: There are lots of mixtapes out. Even at your release party I left with a few mixtapes that were being passed around. What do you think separates yours from the pack?
Rich Kidd: One is that it’s all on me I don’t have a DJ . . . all original shit, no dubs or freestyles. You know, I never really wanted to call it a mixtape. I called the first one a mixtape and then the second one was a compilation album and this one is just . . . We On Some Rich Kidd Shit Volume 3. I never really wanted to put the mixtape label on it to be really honest. It kind of is like a mix album but given that those tunes were released on different albums and at different times throughout the year I kind of classified it as a mixtape . . . but . . . really, people can call it whatever they want. They were calling it a street album the other night on OTA live. Some dudes call it a mixtape, other dudes are calling it an EP. I was like: ” EP!? I thought EP’s had less than 10 songs . . . so?” It’s whatever people want to call it. There are three of them out there and maybe later in the Fall I might put them all together in a set, Collector’s Edition with DVD and some behind the scenes footage.
HipHopCanada: There are long line of MC/Producers out there who are known as much for their rapping as they are for their productions, and we can go down the list, Pete Rock, Diamond D, Saukrates, Kanye, K-Os. Where are you more comfortable behind the boards producing or as an MC behind the mic?
Rich Kidd: I don’t know. I feel equally comfortable doing both. MCing is something I’ve been doing for a while . . . before the beats were even on my plate. I started MCing and freestyling and then I needed something to spit on instead of industry beats. So I started making beats and got good at it but . . . I feel so much more comfortable on stage than I do in the booth. It’s so much easier on the stage, you can miss a word or two catch your breath but you’re interacting with the audience instead of simply interacting with a mic. You know what I mean? You`ve got to make ‘em feel a certain way, you`ve got to make ‘em move and that’s always a challenge for me. To get on stage and make people move with me, make them feel what I’m doing on stage. I’ve always taken that as a challenge.
With the beats it’s the same thing. At first it wasn’t a competition thing or trying to find out how far I could get with the beats. I just did it to do it. Now you`ve keep up with the times if you want to make money with it. Really . . . I don’t mess with that style. I’m still doing the beats I like to do, but sometimes I`ve got to cater to whoever’s going to be spitting on the beats or singing on them. But I feel equally comfortable with both.
HipHopCanada: Just to go back to the whole Busta Rhymes incident with “Undescribable” and I know you’ve been asked to adresss this a few times in the last few months. But that incident do you see it more as a curse or a blessing?
Rich Kidd: Everything can be a blessing if you take it that way. I see it as a blessing, I try to always look at things as an optimist. Busta didn’t actually steal it, he was actually just featured on the track. Billy Danze recorded the track and Busta leaked it. The track was never supposed to be released. Looking at it now, I never really had a beat stolen. It was put out at the wrong time. Leaks happen all the time because labels feel like they can give an artist a little buzz before the project drops. Which was exactly the case with Busta. It was a blessing really because of that a lot of different people were able to hear my stuff. When I was at Rock The Bells I was talking to people who were asking about my resume and when I mentioned that track they would say: “Oh you did that? You did that!?”
Really and truly I can’t depend on these guys to bust me. That’s why I I included these tracks on the mixtape but I put my own joints to work as well, to let people know that the production’s heavy and the rapping is heavy. I’m not trying to jump on coattails.
HipHopCanada: How did the beat get out there?
Rich Kidd: Billy Danze got the beat CD through G-Unit, really liked one beat in particular and recorded “Undescrible”. He had a verse open and called Busta. He and Busta recorded the verse back to back and then Busta took the joint with him. So they didn’t even know who the producer was. I ended up getting a hold of Billy Danze through MySpace later on.
My man Big Pops, who’s a next producer from Northern Profit when he first heard the joint called me and said: “This beat sounds like you! You have to hear this beat it sounds like something you’d make”. He had never heard the beat before. I heard the beat and was like yeah it’s mine, cause it has no samples. So I hit up Billy Danze on MySpace and he said :”Call me”. We talked for a bit, he explained to me what happened with the joint and we just came to an understanding where like we’ll make some more joints together and build an EP and get some shit popping.
Hype Williams strikes again! First single from Consequence’s upcoming album, “ConsTV”. I hope this single does well for Cons, he’s been doing it for a minute! Real talk, all that hair-swinging in the beginning almost made me nauseous though.
Skyzoo spits a dope freestyle on DJ Green Lantern’s Invasion Radio by using the titles of the tracks from his debut album “The Salvation”, which is in stores today! I know I’ll be copping it, suggest you do the same. Spotted @ 2DopeBoyz via ThatsHipHop.com.
Another banger from Cormega’s “Born & Raised” LP, dropping October 20th! This time Large Professor is behind the boards and he supplies a heaterock! Big shouts to the homie Skratch Bastid for the linkage!
Cormega – Journey (Prod. Large Professor)
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