Life, BHS & Vlogs

Here’s a video of Stat Quo and Busta Rhymes working in the studio. Bussa Buss goes off on his different nicknames and they joke around a bit. Kinda funny. Stat Quo’s album is in stores May 4th. The name of it is Statlanta.

Max B was granted an appeal yesterday for his guilty conviction of a robbery gone bad which resulted in fatality. Max has new legal representation according to his manager Jolie O’Shay. The 2006 robbery, which occurred at a Fort Lee, New Jersey hotel, also involved his then girlfriend, Gina Conway, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role. His stepbrother Kelvin Leerdamn received life in prison with an additional 35 years.

Max is serving a 75 year sentence for his role in the robbery gone bad. Before being sentenced, he was signed to a three year deal with Amalgam Digital in 2008 and was also affiliated with the Diplomats and co-wrote several songs which included “We Fly High” by Jim Jones. If you missed our previous story on this, click here.

This eleven minute video portrays how the media literally destroyed DMX and his career. Don’t get it twisted; X played a part in that. But the media went too far and exposed too much. X goes off in a prayer-like way  fixated on the industry. The video starts off with a snippet from “Lord Give Me a Sign”. Fire back with your thoughts. Some of the shit in this is righteously fucked. I feel for you Mr. Simmonds.

This isn’t your typical Memphis Bleek track. He seems kind of soft in “Still Ill”. It’s a montage style video. First track off his upcoming The Process album due in stores this summer.

Swizz Beatz goes on the record with The Wizard NYC and Hip Hop News 24/7 and discusses his divorce with R&B singer Mashonda. After getting married in 2004, they decided to call it quits and Swizz finally speaks out regarding the situation at hand. They have a three year old son together named Kasseem.

Earl Simmonds or better known as DMX was arrested yet again in Arizona. X was arrested on violations of probation. He was in Arizona on a fundraiser for a Gospel Rap Church. TMZ caught the explosion in court after the judge left.

Guru’s nephew has gone the YouTube route to publicly voice his concerns regarding Solar who apparently is forbidding the family from seeing Guru and is in total control of the man’s affairs. Sounds like some shady shit.

This is coming from Joell Ortiz’s upcoming documentary DVD and it’s footage from the day before and after he signed to Dr. Dre’s Aftermath. Ortiz talks about the deal and the delay.

Check out this behind the scenes video for the making of the beat for the Lil Wayne and Eminem collab “Drop The World,” produced by Chase N. Chase and Hit-Boy. Sorry the rappers don’t appear in this video, but the official video clip will be out soon…

Juelz Santana celebrated his 27th birthday last night at M2. A fight broke out when someone tried to get into the VIP area. Notice Maino thick in the middle of things.

I can’t wait for this one, TICAL! Method Man is set to drop a new album called Crystal Meth after his joint record with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah.

Backstage at the Sprite Step Off Tour Drake says he went back and studied Nas’s and Andre 3000’s raps before recording his upcoming Thank Me Later album.

Jay-Z took out the Best International Male award at the Brit Awards.

Snoop Dogg teamed up with Darth Vader, Adidas and the Star Wars crew to launch to Adidas Star Wars Classics Collection in New York.

Last Tuesday on Toca Tuesdays’ tribute to Big Pun, Just Blaze shared how the late rapper helped start his career.

This week they will have a tribute to Big L and we’ll bring that to you soon…