Excitement was in the air at the exclusive Tracklib studio session recently held at Erick Sermon’s Def Squad studios in Ronkonkama, Long Island about two hours outside of NYC. Legendary music executive and founder of Tommy Boy Records, Tom Silverman, joined Erick Sermon and super producer Rockwilder to introduce Tracklib, a game changing new online service that makes it easy and affordable for artists and producers to clear samples legally.

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“Tracklib has so many dope songs that you never heard before. Even though theres about fifty-thousand songs on there now, I’ve been doing this for thirty-years, the first twenty samples on there I never heard before,” said Erick Sermon who spoke to a room full of journalists who were able to get early access to the platform that will be available for everyone later this year.

“Some people would say the fifth pillar of Hip hop is sampling because where would Hip hop be without sampling,” said Tom Silverman. “I don’t know if there would be Hip hop without sampling.”

“As well as sampling on Tracklib, I definitely want to be one of the people who contribute to Tracklib as far as having my own original content.” said Rockwilder.

Tracklib has also garnered the support of legendary Hip-Hop producers, Statik Selektah, Prince Paul, Mr. Green, Hank Shocklee and QuestLove, who have gained early access to the platform.

“Now you’re able to afford the sample at a really cool price, get it cleared right in front of you and then its yours,” said Erick Sermon.

Musicians and producers can log onto the site to request access at www.Tracklib.com  For more information, please visit us https://www.facebook.com/tracklib and https://twitter.com/tracklib

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LHHATL Star Faces Time in Jail

It looks like Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Stevie J will be facing time in prison for non-payment of child support. According to TMZ, Stevie will have to turn himself into authorities on April 10. The LHHATL star is facing federal time for owing more than $1.3 MILLION in back child support.

Most child support cases are usually handled in state court. But in Stevie’s case the amount he owes, the length of time he was in arrears, and the people involved are in different states all make it a federal case.

Back in February of last year, TMZ broke the story that  Stevie pled guilty for failure to pay child support. He accepted full responsibility and had been ordered to fork over $1,304,835.86. He was also placed on probation for 3 years.

Federal prosecutors have pushed for Stevie to do jail time since 2017 and it looks like they are finally getting their wish.

Does locking Stevie Jordan inside of jail serve his children’s best interest? What were the circumstances surrounding him getting in these arrears? Jordan is an accomplished music producer as well as television reality star so why haven’t the people who have could aid in his defense not stepped and loaned him the money? If he hasn’t paid it’s obvious he doesn’t have it. If a gofundme is ever needed for a celebrity, this is the time.

Chi-town Brethren Ro$$ Mac and The Boy Illinois got their cat-calling skills on fleek for Ro$$’s new single, “Ayo.” Produced by Grammy-nominated Soundz, and Kwame Ozbourne and premiered by the good folks at Fakeshore Drive, the song came about after Illi attended one of Ro$$’s infamous DRILL parties and the two stayed connected. A chance encounter at Lupe’s 1st & 15th Studio provided an opportunity to collab and “Ayo” was born. Both artists had the opportunity to test the song live in their home town this past Wednesday at another of Ro$$’s DRILL events at Bassline and the response was overwhelmingly positive. SXSW attendees will get to see that go down themselves at rooftop lounge extraordinaire, Austin Summit, on Thursday, March 15th, during Ro$$’s DRILLBySW showcase. More to come on that later. Stay tuned for news and get familiar below. 

Socials: @ImRossMac  @TheBoyIllinois

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Jordan Peele Takes Home the Gold

Actor/Director Jordan Peele makes Oscar history by becoming the first African American to win an Oscar for a screenplay. His 2017 horror film “Get Out” won the Academy Award for  best original screenplay.

“Get Out” beat out Greta Gerwig for “Lady Bird,” Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for “The Shape of Water,” Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for “The Big Sick,” and Martin McDonagh for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

In his acceptance speech Peele revealed that he stopped writing the film 20 times.

“I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible,” Peele said in his acceptance speech. “But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie, people would hear it and people would see it. “To everybody who went and saw this movie, everybody who bought a ticket, who told somebody to buy a ticket — thank

In the film ‘Get Out’ Peele portrays a story about  a young black man, portrayed by Daniel Kaluuya, who has to deal with an array of strange behavior and supernatural horror at the family home of his white girlfriend.

“Get Out”  grossed over $250 million in box office numbers. The screenplay has been widely praised for providing a nuanced view of racism in contemporary America.

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Woo! The Migos Offset, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin new video for their hit single “Ric Flair Drip” is doing numbers. The video featuring retired WWE icon Ric Flair has reached over 3 million views in only 3 days.

Rap star Offset has honored Ric Flair before with the use of the wrestler’s signature “Woo,” in his songs and with his a piece of his flashy jewelry that depicts the WWE legend but the single “Ric Flair Drip” definitely takes the trophy with this one.

Offset starts the video in all black while putting his jewelry on he goes off on the track.

“Going to the jeweler, but the AP, yeah
Slide on the water like a jet-ski, yeah
I’m tryna fuck you and your bestie, yeah
Chopper with the scope so do not test me, yea
Ric Flair drip, go “Woo” on a bitch
Fifty-seven ninety, split the coupe on my wrist
Multi-million dollar, I’m a fool with the hits.”

The first visual of Flair himself, he’s being driven up to a mansion by Offset in a rockstar jacket. Metro Boomin is captured in the next shot playing a piano in front of a mansion with a beautiful a vixen on top. Offset and Flair pull up to the mansion in a foreign and then the three begin to turn up in front of a huge mansion doing the Ric Flair stunt while flashing their watches and gaudy jewelry.

The scene then skips to inside the mansion where fellow Migos members Quavo and Takeoff is making an appearance playing dice and throwing some money around.

For this video Offset remade WWE star custom with Ric Flair wrestling name Nature Boy printed on the back. Flair then ends the video with a hype rant.

“Hey this is for all my — kiss stealing, wheelin’ dealin’, limousine ridin’, jet flyin’, drippin’, son of a guns.”

This video is a must see there is no doubt this single will go platinum and this video will win an award. Watch the “Ric Flair Drip” Below:

Born in Virginia but residing primarily in Lexington, KY for most of his life, rapper Big Zo has been slowly changing the face of Hip-Hop in Lexington for years. Now he’s back with a big new single, “Social Media Circus” as he delivers a visual that looks to highlight some of the stereotypes on social media in a unique way, offering his critique on the era of social media that we live in today.

In the Lance Meaux directed visual, Big Zo schools a group of young students, as the rapper proves he’s not scared to do what it takes to deliver his art and stand out from the crowd, literally dressing like a clown. For the visual Lance Meaux shot scenes in 5K with multiple Red Cameras using white and green screen work to draw from visuals filmed at a local school.

“The first single is called Social Media Circus,” Big Zo said. “It highlights stereotypes on social media and in a unique way challenges people to stop clowning around on the internet and spend time making real change in their lives.”

For the song Big Zo was able to link up with St Louis producer Demolish who has landed placements with Tech N9ne and E-40 to name a few, adding more depth to this already intriguing piece of content.

While many people might not think of Lexington, KY as the epicenter of Hip-Hop music, Big Zo has played his role in developing the Hip-Hop scene in Kentucky after he’s operated one of the longest standing studios in town.

To date his studio has recorded artists like Cassidy, Young Buck, Freeway, Bando Jones, Nappy Roots, Crime Mob, Project Pat, Verse Simmons, Bambi and more,

“Lexington doesn’t just thrive off of one industry. The music scene is in it’s infancy phase and on the hip hop scene I am a pioneer. My studio, Fyre Entertainment LLC, is the longest standing and most successful Hip-Hop studio that this city has every seen,” Big Zo says with pride.

As the Spring and Summer approach, Big Zo has plans to tour after getting several paid gigs over the last few years at Lexi-Fest, The Black Gold Festival and the Lexington Music Awards show within Kentucky. 2018 will be a monumental year for Big Zo as he looks to expand beyond the borders of Kentucky touring and working with more artists who have similar goals.

As he puts the finishes touches on his highly anticipated #ScottSZN project, Sean Scott unloads the official visual for “Bizerk.” The HD-clip finds the Hell’s Kitchen emcee bigging up Cash Money Records legacy act Hot Boy Turk, while turning up in the club with his crew. Directed by DJ Swanqo & Matt Odell, the video follows the release of the HonorRoll recording artist’s well-received rendition of Noreaga’s Swizz Beatz-produced posse cut “Banned From TV” titled “Been Waiting.”

Watch the small screen interpretation of the radio-ready cut below and purchase the song via iTunes here.

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