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Devin the Dude has a new album out, came out on April 20th, 2010.  We all know what kind of music it’s gonna a be.  Some straight up sit back-relax-as you blaze one with your girl type music.  And as usually he delivers with some funky beats and smoothed out rhymes with his Chicago accent.  Devin the Dude is one of the best rappers to come out of Chicago in a while.  Not your normal gangsta rapper that seems to be in abundance from that area, but a chill and having fun while smoking type music.  Most of you haven’t heard of him since he’s not your pop-rapper that gets played on the radio 20 times a day.  Room 420 is almost a perfect album with almost every track a stand out track.  But most of all the stand out tracks are We Get High, Pick My Brain, I Gotta Ho and All You Need.  This album is a must have for all the smokers and playas out there in the Hip Hop world.  We’ll give this album a 88% out of 100.  Check a preview of a few of the songs off the album below from his Myspace page.

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Common is coming back after a very well put together album in 2007, Universal Mind Control.  Not the best album of the year but still a decent album.  But Common isn’t supposed to be known for putting out decent material.  Now in 2010 he’s working with Kanye West and No ID.  Talk about keeping it real, Common’s been working with No ID since before he was signed or even famous.  Working with two producers from his hometown Chicago, sounds like it’s going to be a banger.  Chicago artists have been putting out some good music lately by signed and unsigned artists.  The album is currently being worked on the album is entitled The Believer.  Although there’s no official release date Common said he is hoping to have the release by fall of 2010.  Common describes the album as “soulful Hip Hop.”  Well thanks for that bit of information, Common’s been making soulful Hip Hop for years now.  “It’s ‘good’ music,” he said. “The themes are street music and elevation, things that I feel like I always embody when I rap. But here there’s new situations, new solutions.”  I hear that we are looking forward to hearing some new Common music with some No ID beats behind it.  Check back for the album review a few weeks before the album comes out.

Scarface is coming out with a new album on May 11th, MP3 release May 4th called Dopeman Music.  A promotion through Amazon.com he’s giving away a free sample of this album in a 3:30 minute megamix.  The joint is mad blaze and it gives the album a good preview, there’s some dope beats and good Scarface-flowing rhymes on here.  Make sure that you download it because I’m sure it’s not going to still be here after the album is released.  In an interview on MTV, ‘Face stated that he is not only a musician but a pioneer and needed to change the way he delivered his music.  Here’s a link to download the song, it’s blaze.  DOWNLOAD

Chicago is basically bringing in martial law by bringing in the National Guard to help curb the violence.  If you read an earlier post regarding Chicago violence that I wrote, you will get an understanding of what the Chicago community is going through (41-people-shot-in-50-hours-in-chicago).  Chicago must stop the violence, they’re not calling it martial law, but it sure sounds like it to me.  Maybe martial law without the curfew.  Sad world we’re living in.

Afeni Shakur was arrested in North Carolina for drug possession on April 16th, 2010.  Afeni Shakur famed mother of Tupac and Ex-Black Panther member was charged with felony possession of Marijuana, simple possession of a controlled substance and maintaining a vehicle, dwelling or place for a controlled substance in Lumberton, NC.  Her fight with drug use was mentioned by Tupac in the song Dear Mama.  When I first heard about this, I thought is was going to be some serious drug that she was caught with.  It was just marijuana, even though the charges sound serious, she’ll most likely get a misdemeanor charge.  Afeni is currently out on $10,000 bond and is due back in court on May 10th.  Seems the police don’t have anything better to do in NC then to arrest old ladies for marijuana possession.  I guess they should send them out to Chicago to help with the violence problem then.

B.o.B aka Bobby Ray, rapper out of Atlanta who has created quite a buzz in the past year or so is finally coming out with his long-awaited debut album.  B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray is the title, release date of 4.27.2010.  The album was orignally supposed to come out in May but due to his commercial success the date was pushed up.  In the past several years the south has put out a lot of music, some good a lot of garbage though.  Lately the south movement has been getting a bit tiring, the record labels have been making a mockery of the music and making a lot of clones.  Now here’s B.o.B. with a refreshing twist to the monotony of it all.  This album has a lot of REAL music on it, not just beats and rhymes.  He uses not your normal guest appearances, Bruno Mars, Lupe Fiasco, Hayley Williams of Paramore, T.I., Playboy Tre, Janelle Monae, Rivers Cuomo, Ricco Barrino and Eminem.  What?!?  That doesn’t sound like your normal guests on a Hip Hop record.  Well this is no normal Hip Hop record, sounds more like a mix of Rock, Hip Hop, Soul and Pop.  The music isn’t belligerent, not a lot of cursing and no drug dealing going on.  Wow, haven’t heard a Hip Hop album like that in a long time.  Like I said it’s refreshing to hear some happy music for a change with some good messages.  I wouldn’t mind letting my kids listen to this album.  There’s plenty of melodies and harmonies on the album, very impressed.  The only downfall of the album is it’s a bit tiring because it seems on some of the tracks he’s trying to hard to sound different and mix the genres up too much, but for the most it part it works and very well.  Did I mention the man can sing?!?  Stand out tracks 5th Dimension, Airplanes, Nothing On You and Past My Shades.  You can no doubt tell that he used to listen to Andre 3000 a lot back in his day.  All in all the album gets a nice 82% no doubt for originality!  Preview the music from his new album below…..

The long and ongoing wrongful death lawsuit has been dismissed against the City of Los Angeles.  A lawyer for the Biggie estate, Bradley C. Gage claims the dismissal of this case can prompt arrests in the ’97 shooting of Biggie Smalls.  The case was dismissed on April 5th, 2010 after the Biggie’s estate and the city said the case can be opened at a later date.  The wrongful death lawsuit included allegations that the LAPD had something to do with the murder of Mr Smalls.  Biggie, who’s birth name was Christopher Wallace, was 24 when he died and at the pinnacle of his career when he was gunned down in March 1997 after returning from a party.  The lawsuit first filed in 2002, was declared a mistrial in 2005 after the city was found to withhold evidence of LAPD documents.  Family members say that this case isn’t about money it’s about finding out the truth behind his murder.  I don’t know but it seems like if it was someone else the killer would’ve been tracked down, found, arrested and tried already.  Like KRS 1 said, if you wanna get away with murder, kill a rapper.

Guru from Gang Starr fame, died from cancer related issues.  About a month ago Guru had a heart attack and had open heart surgery.  He has been battling cancer for a while and lost the fight today.  Our condolences go out to his family, he was a big part of our Hip Hop family and will be missed.  His longtime collaborator and friend MC Solar made this statement, “The world has lost one of the best MCs and hip-hop icons of all-time — my loyal best friend, partner, and brother, Guru,” Solar said. “Guru has been battling cancer for well over a year and has lost his battle! This is a matter that Guru wanted private until he could beat it, but tragically, this did not happen. The cancer took him. Now the world has lost a great man and a true genius.”  He will be missed!

Nas and Damian Marley are coming out with an album Distant Relatives, along with the album was to be a tour.  The tour had to be canceled because of the Volcano that erupted in Iceland pretty much messing things up all across Europe.   They were supposed to perform in London on April 21st, but have to cancel because of the air conditions.  The volcano has been dormant for over 200 years.  Eye witnesses say they saw eruptions as high as 100 meters.  Usher was also supposed to do a promotional tour in the UK to promote his new song OMG, but had to cancel also.  Hoping that the air clears up over Europe soon.

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By now everyone knows who Kat Stacks is, the new Hip Hop groupie who sleeps with all the rappers and then tells all of their business on website and books.  Sounds like a new Superhead for 2010.  So here she is on Shade 45 radio live on the air talking to a caller on the phone and it turns out that the caller is really Nelly whom Kat was saying she was with for a while sleeping around when he comes to FLA.  But this turns ugly because Nelly was straight up calling her a liar and Kat was calling Nelly a liar, it turns out hard to tell who’s lying because they both sound like their lying.  Especially Nelly because he was going in on her so hard.  Why in the world would an entertainer sleep with this gal when they know she’s going to come out and tell all.  Kat is fine, but not that fine.  She’s just so proud of herself for sleeping with several celebrities, seems happy to be a rappers jump off.  But check out the interview with Nelly and Kat going off on each other on the radio.

David Ortiz from the Boston Red Sox has a club in the Dominican Republic called the 40/40 club.  Everyone knows Jay Z has clubs in NY, Atlantic City and Las Vegas named the 40/40 Club.   The lawsuit claims that Ortiz cannot claim ignorance to the name because he’s been a guest at the 40/40 Club before,  Jay Z is suing for $5 million.  This lawsuit shouldn’t hold water because first of all 40/40 club is originally used for baseball players who hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in one season.  So should Major League Baseball sue Jay Z for using the 40/40 Club as a name too.  It just doesn’t make sense, Jay Z has been known for his business sense but this is taking it a bit too far.  What the heck is Ortiz using the name 40/40 Club for his business any way, he never stole 40 bases in his life?!?

Emimen announced he wasn’t going to drop the album Relapse 2 this year.  Instead he’s changing the name of the album to Recovery.  Eminem explains what brought the change on.

“I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year.”  But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel  to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album.  The music  on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.”

Yeah that makes sense, the album is supposed to drop on June 22nd.  Confirmed producers so far, Just Blaze, Boi-1da, Jim Jonsin and DJ Khalil.  Hope this album is better than Relapse from last year, I didn’t think that was very good and it didn’t make a lot of noise in the industry.  Is Em’s hype dead for good, I guess we’ll see in June.

We talked about Styles P’s new album coming in may entitled Ghost Dub Dime, now check out the new video That Street life featuring Tyler Woods.  To read about the Styles P Ghost Dub Dime on HipHope.com click here.