Grammy Award winner Nate Walka has been busy of late, teaming up with UK pop star Alesha Dixon on her new album, due out this summer.
Check out her freestyle in the studio here and hit me back with your thoughts. We are curious to know what you think? Do you think she’s got what it takes to rival some of the rappers out here in the States? Let me know people!!!
It was New Year’s Day that Henry County police responded to the home of Demetrius Lee Stewart known to the musical community as Shawty Redd for a shooting involving former associate Damon Martin.
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Ray Liotta team up for director Mario Van Peebles’ upcoming indie drama “Things Fall Apart.”
According to Variety, the story follows a star football running back (50 Cent) that faces a personal tragedy as well as his own mortality while in his senior year in college. Liotta plays a doctor.
NOT GUILTY
The jury has just returned a not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Aubrey Louis Berry. Hip Hop Enquirer will be bringing you exclusive interviews with the attorneys, one of the jurors, and the man acquitted of the shooting death of rapper Dolla.
***We are reporting live inside the courtroom so stay tuned for latest developments and testimony from witnesses ***
Howard K. Price & Aubrey Louis Berry moments before the jury delivered the verdict
Prosecutor Robert Grace told the jury today in Department 102 that the murder of Roderick Anthony Burton II was a callous, calculated shooting by a man who then calmly ordered a valet to get his car and drove around the body of rapper Dolla referring to Aubrey Louis Berry.
We have just received word that there is a hot and steamy sex tape purporting to be of rapper Nicki Minaj. According to our source the tape is of a younger Ninaj with two other women which was allegedly taped when she was in her early twenties.
We are told the person who has the tape in their possession is looking to get seven figures for it and has already received offers to debut the tape on a popular porn site. Scandalous! Let’s just say if the tape is as hot as rapper Eve’s was with former boyfriend Stevie J. then Nicki Minaj is definitely on her way to bigger things. Remember Eve went on to do several movies and also had a popular television show.
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A high placed industry executive contacted us one day and stated that they wanted me to listen to this 21-year-old recording artist who they believed was the next biggest superstar. I was a bit reluctant at first because I hear this all the time from new artists and their management so I just told them “send me their EPK” and I will listen to it when I had the time. We don’t usually get excited about an artist the way she was carrying on about this young lady so I had to really sit down and see what all the hype was about. Sure enough their depiction of this incredibly talented young lady was a understatement. Her sound was fresh and really fun to listen to and definitely the type of music I could see my teenage daughters playing in their stereos.
Realizing that she had to keep her momentum flowing she sang the first five pages of the dictionary and uploaded it to YouTube. She then wrote an anonymous letter to the editor of YouTube and said “Hey there’s this girl and she is really cool and her name is Prescilla Renee and she is singing the dictionary and you should check her out and add it to the front page of YouTube.” Well the next day when she woke up she boasts that she had over a million messages in her mailbox from people telling her she was featured on YouTube. From that little stunt her myspace and YouTube pages skyrocketed with high numbers for over a month until one day she received an email from Rico Collins inquiring whether she had management or not and at some point he flew her to Atlanta to meet with Kenny Cole who she began writing songs with and someone she became very close to like a brother.
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Leading the way with BET nominations this year is, unsurprisingly, Jay Z. The rap star exceeds all other artists with five nominations: Best Male Hip Hop artist, Best Collaboration (with Alicia Keys for “New York State of Mind“), Best Video (both for “Empire State of Mind” and “Run this Town”), and Viewer’s Choice for “Empire State of Mind.” On the other hand, many fans of the songstress Monica has been airing their disappointment that she was not nominated for the top spot. There are many who believe the singer and BET reality star should have been an easy shoe in to compete with the likes of the other nominees rather than be nominated for the Viewer’s Choice Award.
One person who we always felt was deserving of an award for her constant grind and relentless determination is Atlanta’s own Rasheeda as she is in the Best Female Hip Hop category.
Artists with four nominations include Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Trey Songz and Melanie Fiona.
The BET Awards, now in its tenth year, will feature performances from Trey Songz, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Diddy-Dirty Money.
Queen Latifah will host the 2010 BET Awards, which air Sunday, June 27 live at 8:00 PM.
Below are the nominees in each category:
Best Female R&B Artist
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige
Melanie Fiona
Alicia Keys
Rihanna
Best Male R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Raheem DeVaughn
Maxwell
Trey Songz
Usher
Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
Ester Dean
Lil’ Kim
Nicki Minaj
Rasheeda
Trina
Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
B.o.B
Drake
Fabolous
Jay-Z
Ludacris
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Melanie Fiona
Nicki Minaj
Wale
Young Money
Best Gospel
The Anointed Pace Sisters
Kirk Franklin Presents Artists United For Haiti
Tamela Mann
Marvin Sapp
Vickie Winans
Best Group
Black Eyed Peas
Clipse
Diddy-Dirty Money
New Boyz
Young Money
Best Collaboration
Beyoncé f/ Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B f/ Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Drake & Trey Songz – “Successful”
Drake f/ Lil Wayne, Kanye West & Eminem – “Forever”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Trey Songz f/ Fabolous – “Say Aah”
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Gil Green
Anthony Mandler
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams
Video of the Year
Beyoncé f/ Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B f/ Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Melanie Fiona – “It Kills Me”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West – “Run This Town”
Viewer’s Choice
Beyoncé – “Sweet Dreams”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Monica – “Everything to Me”
Rihanna f/ Young Jeezy – “Hard”
Trey Songz f/ Fabolous – “Say Aah”
Young Money (Lil Wayne, Gudda Gudda, Nicki Minaj, Jae Millz, Drake, Tyga) f/ Lloyd – “Bedrock”
Best International Act
Kojo Antwi (Ghana)
Chipmunk (UK)
Dizzee Rascal (UK)
Estelle (UK)
Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) (South Africa)
K’NAAN (Somalia)
M.I. (Nigeria)
P-Square (Nigeria)
Corinne Bailey Rae (UK)
Sade (UK)
Centric Award
Melanie Fiona
Maxwell
Chrisette Michele
Monica
Sade
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Brooklyn federal prosecutors arrested a 13-year police detective on civil rights charges that he allegedly coerced three women to have sex with him in exchange for leniency.
If this video footage is not a clear depiction of civil rights violation by the police then nothing is. After the alleged suspect was arrested and handcuffed by two Philadelphia police officers, one of them punches suspect in the face while calling him a “p*ssy” and then dare the person recording the footage to put it on the internet.
Waka Flocka Flame recently appeared on The Monique show to discuss his music and how he ended up with the name. “ It was Gucci Mane who gave me Flocka Flame”. Its always good to see a hard working rapper get his shine on a mainstream talk show like Monique’s. Peep the video below:
A Bay area producer has accused The Dream and Mariah Carey, two of the most recognized names in music of hijacking his song and he has filed suit in federal court to get some justice. After listening to both songs there appears to be a similarity however there are many factors that could have played into this happening.
According to the lawsuit, plaintiffs Preston Marshall and Demario Driver present a fairly standard-order Music Industry Bigwig Rips Off The Little Guy story (though most lawsuits don’t have “aka Symba” next to the plaintiff’s name, as is the case with Driver).
Here’s the story in one breath: Farmer and Symba cut the song “Are You The One” in Farmer’s Oakland recording studio in 2008. Future co-defendant Jeff Huffman of Real Content Media liked the song, and said he would like to get big-name people to co-produce it. Farmer claims that after he e-mailed Huffman various versions of the song, the marketer suddenly stopped returning his messages. Then Farmer heard Carey and The Dream singing “My Love” on Dream’s “Love vs. Money” album. The plaintiffs claim this is their song – and they want at least $450,000.
The suit claims the songs “contain identical melodic coding and the same harmonic protocols that are readily discernible to the human ear”. In other words, they sound alike. A lot! In addition to Huffman and Carey, the suit names The Dream (real name: Terius Youngdell Nash), Island Def Jam Music Group, and others.
According to the lawsuit, when Farmer asked Huffman “Why did you steal my song?” the response he was given was “We can work this out.” Apparently not.
Finally, in an almost certainly unrelated note, Carey is not a stranger to San Francisco District Court. There is a 2008 case in which one Mariah Carey filed an “injunction prohibiting harassment” against Fifty Cent – listed as Cent, Fifty in court records. It was denied. And Carey’s home address is listed as 1001 Polk – the Episcopal Community Services transitional shelter – so we don’t think these are the Mariah Carey and Fifty Cent here.
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Our own HHE’s Dennis Byron was on the set at yesterday’s taping of Gucci Mane’s “Anti Social” video when two male individuals were apparently assaulted by several others who coincidentally were in the immediate vicinity of the shoot. Warning: Images below are very graphic.
Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane has hit the ground running with his career after being released from a Fulton County jail on a probation violation. His first stop was a private dinner at the Atlanta Georgia Terrace attended by a who’s who’ of hip hop royalty and next he ends up in a Bankhead community in southeast Atlanta low income apartment community shooting his first video after being released with label mate Waka Flocka Flame called ” Everybody’s Looking. Check out all the photos below:
She is already topping the music charts in the UK and this summer Jamaican born beauty Alizé Levy is set to perform at a host of events around the United States as she kicks off her US tour. HHE spoke exclusively with her recently as she tells us she is looking very much to expand her musical career in the United States and will be looking forward to working with some top notch producers to give her that heat that will continue to satisfy her fans.
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