Rappers React to Robin Williams Death

Veteran actor, Robin Williams was found dead in his apartment Monday Afternoon (August 11); possible cause of death was Suicide. He was 63 years old. Robin Williams can be remembered from playing lead rules in such blockbuster movies such as Hook, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, and a host of other classics. Diddy,  Nicki Minaj, Prodigy, Redman, Chance The Rapper, Queen Latifah, and a host of rappers have commented on his death via Twitter...read them below.

Can't believe we lost a legend today. RIP Robin Williams- your legacy will live on forever.
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) August 11, 2014

Robin Williams RIP http://t.co/lguTu8kJSp
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) August 12, 2014

It's actually sinking in. I just tried to think of what movie to start with. You will be missed Robin.
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) August 11, 2014

Legend. Gone too soon. http://t.co/juPeFhQz5K
— Anaconda (@NICKIMINAJ) August 12, 2014

Def grew up with Robin Williams ALWAYS in my fav. movies and comedies. What a talent! Will miss him.
— Dr. Kreayshawn (@KREAYSHAWN) August 11, 2014

Mack Maine Speaks on Pusha T and Lil Wayne Beef

Okay, let me run it down real quick- Pusha T dropped a track (Exodus 23:1) about two weeks ago, and had some subliminal lines aimed at Drake. Lil Wayne saw it as offensive, and tweeted- "fuck pusha t and everybody who loves him"...a couple of days later, he released a full length diss song going at Pusha T called Ghoulish.

Now, Pusha's Exodus 23:1 is getting a lot of love cos he just released a video to it, and things are really looking good with him. But what the world is waiting for is a Lil Wayne diss. Mack Maine, Young Money president recently spoke on the issue-


It's not like [a YMCMB/G.O.O.D. Music beef]. I don't see it like that," explained Maine. "That's not what we in the game for. If it ever came to that, God forbid, that's a whole different story, but right now we're just tryin' to get paper, we're just tryin' to get money, man, and make good music. And that was a great song ['My Homies Still' with Big Sean] that was made before that situation happened, and I'm not 'bout to go into the studio and tell Wayne to take [Big Sean] off. Wayne not tryna take him off - he's good peeps, he's fam...he killed [the song]. I think that's big for him. We're always collabin' with people and he earned it, he earned his way. He's been handling his weight on different tracks, and it's his time."

Of Pusha and Wayne's tiff, however, Mack compared the situation to swatting a fly. He explained that Pusha put Weezy F. in a position where he had to respond with "Ghoulish," but that he hopes the feud is dead after this.

"In a nutshell, if a gnat or a fly keep flyin' around you, eventually you gonna swing and swat it and just get it out the way," he said. "Sometimes you swat it and the gnat dies; sometimes it just go away...you can keep flyin', just fly somewhere else, though. We chillin.'"

Men! Sorry to all the Wayne fans out there, but he is about to get ethered for real. After the disrespectful way Mack Maine just spoke about Pusha T, Pusha will surely come at the whole camp hard. Trust me, i know how this thing go. And i am totally behind Pusha t on this one. Lil Wayne might be a more successful rapper, but Pusha T would destroy him in a rap beef. You don't believe me? The next couple of days will prove it.

I really am not about negativity in hip hop, but i see this as a friendly sport. Rap beefs always bring out the best in the rappers involved, and is always very entertaining. I really wanted the beef between common and drake to go on longer than it did, but this one is going to go on long no doubt. Just remember i said it. It is going to turn into a G.O.O.D Music YMCMB war.

Nas Speaks on Marriage With Kelis

Nas has never really been the type to be let people into his private place, and that has always intrigued people. But when he went through his divorce with Kelis, the public got a fair share of his "business". Since he and ex-wife Kelis separated a couple of years back, he hasn't really spoken on the matter. But, he got with Complex Magazine for their June Cover, and he spilled the beans.

Read more below-


On when he knew his relationship with Kelis was over
There was a point where we were trying to hold onto a relationship that was finished. She was pregnant and in the studio while we were recording Distant Relatives, and he would move when the music would come on. That was a great feeling for me, just to have that feeling of family. It ended around the time the record was being done.

There were times when it didn’t bother me, and there were times when it bothered me a lot. There were times when I was thinking, ‘Damn. I had this shit all planned out, and now I’ve failed’. That was hard on me, because I don’t like to fail at anything. Accepting that I failed at this relationship—and it was public—messed me up. You ask yourself, ‘How could that person be so cold’? And I’m sure she felt the same way about me. It was ugly.





On whether he knew they weren’t going to make it as a couple
Yeah, but it was a problem I was attracted to. It was rock and roll. I saw Kelis as Courtney Love—but I also saw her as a mahogany queen. I saw us as a beautiful thing. I saw us as inspiration. People weren’t seeing hip-hop artists get married. A lot of people came at me crazy. But I think overall, we were inspiring people to love.


There was a lot that was thrown at her that she couldn’t handle. Like I was saying earlier, there’s a lot that I could tell my kids, but they’ve got to fish it out for themselves. Every night, she was in bed with Harvard. She was sleeping with Harvard. She had all the answers, but I needed something more from her, that she either wasn’t ready or didn’t know how to provide. Plus, she is younger than me and she hadn’t seen all the things I had seen. She was on her journey, I was on mine. In the beginning, I said, “There’s parts of this that might not work,” but there was a beautiful part of it, too. For the most part, I had a great time being married. It was amazing. She’s an amazing woman.



On  Kelis dissing him publicly
She did. Over Twitter [...] the response was not good. There were bad tweets. She was angry. She was lashing out at anyone—and anyone she would lash out at, people automatically thought she was talking about me. My daughter would be calling me, like, “Dad. I’m on my way to school, and they’re talking about you on the radio.” My daughter wanted to tweet back and sh-t, and I told her to take the high road. It was ugly.



On their relationship now
It’s a lot better.





On whether he gets to see his son
That side is not great yet, but it’s working toward being that way. She’s a new mom. I’m busy and she’s busy. From what I see, she’s being a good mom, and it’s working toward a great place. There was a time when I couldn’t see him at all. It was terrible when the divorce was fresh.





On whether he hated her at any point
No. I got to a point where I was like, “Did she always hate me?” and “Did she ever love me at all?” I’ve got to admit, I did feel like that. But she did love me.


[...] A lot of divorces are bad because a woman is just being vindictive. She’s not after the money, she just wants you to hurt the way she was hurt.





On the money he lost in the divorce
It’s f-cked up when money’s involved in divorce. And I don’t give a f-ck. I can’t take it with me, so someone can take the money. Anyone that I’m married to, if I give you my life, I give you my heart, I love you—my money is nothing. You can have it all. It’s just sad that when you’re dealing with love and life and marriage, that marriage is a contract. It’s a business deal. That messes people up.



On whether he ever sees himself getting married again
Not right now. I’m enjoying life and looking at each day like, “This is beautiful.” I’m having a good time. I’m not going to bring anybody in to mess that up. You come around looking like you’re going to mess this good time up, you’re out of here—fast. [Laughs.] I’m not sacrificing my happiness for nobody and their drama. No way.




On his new track titled ‘Daughter’ and how guilty he feels sometimes
This is the first time I’m dealing with a teenage daughter, and it blows me away. I don’t know that you’re ever prepared to be a parent. Once you become one, that’s your responsibility. It’s more like me talking to myself, about how I could have been there a lot more. I beat myself up for not being the best I could be. I would ask her: “Am I a cool dad?” or “Am I a good dad? Did I f-ck up?” And she would say, “Nah, you’re good.” That’s important to me because I started as a teen. I was around 19 when her mother was pregnant. My daughter means a lot to me. It’s just a record that came from the heart. (necolebitche.com)

Jadakiss Comments on Mase's Return to Hip Hop

Jadakiss recently spoke on Mase's current return to the hip hop music scene; saying that he hopes Mase is around for the long haul this time. Mase has tried to make a comeback twice already; once in 2004 with former Bad Boy Records boss, Puffy (Diddy), then in 2005 with G-Unit, then in 2009... all the comebacks he made, he was only around for a short while, before returning to his alternate life.



Read what Jada had to say below-

"Murda's my brother from another mother for life, but this game ain't to be played with or tampered with. If he gon' come back, he's got to come all the way back or stay over there at the pulpit," Jada said. "I love him, but he's got to let me know that he's dead serious -- he keep coming back for a short cup of coffee [and] then leaves. He's got to stay for breakfast if he's going to come back." (BET)




I think i totally agree with Jadakiss on this one; Mase needs to make up his mind whether he wants to become a rapper again, or he wants to continue being a preacher. He can't do the two. I know his heart is still in the music, but he is probably ashamed of what people would say about him if he goes back to that Murda Mase image from back in the day. Personally, i think Mase needs to remove the limits and just rap how he feels he wants to rap. I am not saying he should go ahead and start making songs about sleeping with this girl or that, but if there are things he wants to tell the world about, he should remove the limits and tell it the best way possible.


I know Mase has a chance to make a strong comeback, cos he still got it...he never lost it, but the limits he imposed on himself have been holding him back. He knows that himself, and told Funk Master Flex a couple of weeks ago that he is coming back all the way this time. By the way, before i forget, for people that don't know, Mase and Jadakiss were bought signed under Puff Daddy's (Diddy's) Bab Boy label back in the mid 90s.


Below is what Mase said about removing the limits this time around-

"Flex, let me tell you something before I go, though," Ma$e said, "I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it. That's what be making me stop. I don't want to do music in a box. Like everybody say what I can't do and he can't say this, but if you need me to come do something for you, I've gotta be able to come to that event. So I'm taking all the limitations off. They gonna have to pray for me. I regret not giving myself room for growth. That's what I regret. I went so hard left that I didn't really leave no room to be an individual, a human being. ... I still put God over music any day. I just didn't give myself room to grow. I went from one extreme to another extreme." (Hot 97)

Diggy Simmons Speaks on Low "Unexpected Arrival" First Week Sales

Young Rapster, Diggy Simmons's "Unexpected Arrival" debut album has completed one week in stores, and it did 21,400 copies in its first week. A lot of people are saying this are disappointing sales, but below is what he had to say-

"It's about growth. You look at a whole bunch of people. Look at Reasonable Doubt, when that first came out, that wasn't anything. And look at Jay now. You could look at Bruno [Mars] recently. When his Doo Wops &; Hooligans came out, like 50,000 first week and ended up going double plat. So it's about growth for me. I'm happy that the people who are listening to it are loving it. It's like having an impact on your life and making them want to aspire to be whatever it is they want to be. Because that's what Unexpected Arrival is about, it's about making your arrival in life special. No matter what people say or if they don't know what you're capable of. It starts with the belief in you before you try to go and look for other people's approval. I'm happy that it's doing that for people." (Karen Civil)


I think, judging by all he said, he has really been schooled by his dad and uncle. It's true; jay-z's Reasonable Doubt didn't do well in stores...i think the second album was even worse in sales. Jay might have been a "has-been" if he had given up after the second try...his third album was the beginning of his commercial success. People make first week sales a big deal. I will always sight an example to make people play less emphasis on first week sales. Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi and 50 Cent's  The Masacre dropped around the same time in 2005. Mariah did 444,000 first week...50 cent did 1.1million first week. But by the end of the year, Mariah ended up at 4.9 million sold...a couple of hundred thousand copies more than The Masacre.

Joell Ortiz Update Fans On New Slaughterhouse Album

If you love hip hop...if you love undiluted, pure hip hop, you would definitely love slaughterhouse (Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Roye Da 5'9 and Crooked I). They got signed with shady in 2011, and are about to drop their sophomore album- welcome to: OUR HOUSE. The last one was great, and i am sure tthis one would definitely be greater. In fact, i don't think i have heard a wack song from this crew. I think they are a phenomenal group cos all the individual members are unique, but their individual dopeness unites them.

Read what Joell Ortiz had to say about the slaughterhouse album below-

"We feel hip-hop is our house," Joell said in an interview about the title. "We feel like we're four of the dopest MCs on the planet and after this albums comes out, we feel everybody is gonna have to deal with it. You gonna have to deal with the fact that you might be listening to some dudes you can't be better than. That's the attitude we wanna have. When Ray LewisXXL Mag) and the Baltimore defense go out there, they say, 'you ain't scoring. That's it.' Nobody looks at them as cocky or crazy. But they just leave it on the field. We left it on this album. Y'all gonna love this album if you're a fan of hip-hop and lyrics." (

Below is information on the actual date the album is to be expected...

Slaughterhouse announced today the details of the group's new tour as well as confirmed that the title of their forthcoming Shady Records/Interscope album debut will be welcome to: OUR HOUSE. Executive produced by Eminem, welcome to: OUR HOUSE, to be released May 15, 2012, will be the second album from the creative collaboration of Crooked I, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9'. New music will be made available next week for fans to get their first taste of what promises to be one of the most anticipated and explosive albums of the year. (PR Newswire)

Commenting on what Joell Ortiz said above, i think i am riding with him all the way. If not anything else, I think they are the dopest rap group out. It's like i have a favorite every other week. It might be Crooked today, then Royce tomorrow. Then i watch the B.E.T Cypher, and i am like OMG! Joe budden killed it. And i have always loved the humor that Joell brings to the table.

Baby Comments On Common/Drake Beef- It's Drake 100%

Baby, Cash Money Records C.E.O has come forward to comment on the ongoing beef/battle between Common and Drake. It all started with Drake believing that Common's "sweet" track was aimed at him. He then started talking reckless about common at shows and on twitter. He took it one step further by dedicating a whole verse towards Common on Stay Schemin, a track on Rick Ross's newly released mixtape- Rich Forever. Baby, a.k.a Brian Williams says his label has never been about dising to up record sales-


“Drake the homie so we ride or die. Ain’t no second questions about that, but we never been a brand to make records and want to make money off of making records of other people that’s not what we about,” Birdman explained. “So to me however the young homie deal with it we behind him, we supporting him 100 percent with our life so that’s just what it is. Ain’t no other way. Drake the lil’ homie that’s blood, that’s family, and ain’t no siding with that. It’s Drake or nothing.”




Basically, what Baby is saying is that they have never been the ones to focus on making beef records for the purpose of getting attention, which then translate to more records being sold. But he can't say members of his team haven't focused on dissing other rappers one way or the other. Presentlly, Nicki Minaj is working on dropping her sophomore album in a couple of months, and it is no surprise that she just dropped a new single titled stupid hoe, which is directed at Lil Kim. She is also working on shooting the video of the track. By the way, the track is one of the most annoying song i have heard from her thus far. And, going back to the beefing history of Cash Money/Young Money, Nicki also dropped Roman's Revenge a few weeks before her Pink Friday album dropped in 2010. Roman's Revenge was another diss track towards Lil Kim.



Rewind back to a couple of days before Carter 4 dropped last year, and you also have a track with Lil Wayne going at Jay-Z leak. So, what are we talking about? Anyway, i would really love a full fledged Common/Drake battle, so i just hope Baby doesn't try to stop Drake from making another record aimed at Common. I think after that, he would get his real ass whooping. The only card he can pull at Common is the album sales card...but he can't front on the lyrical tip...he knows Common is not to be messed with. Let's just see how things turn out.