Clark Kent Speaks on How Jay Z and Biggie Met

I remember hearing a story back in the day that Jay Z and Biggie went to the same high school and had become close since then till they blew up on the hip hop scene. Even if they did attend school together, they probably weren't close, cos Jay Z was three years Biggie's senior. Back then, I believed this story, and I am sure a lot of rap music listeners also believe they were best of buddies because they made songs together, and did shows together. But after hearing Faith Evans say in recent interview that Jay Z and Biggie were not really close, I decided to do some research. I discovered that they always had a certain level of respect for each other, but never met till a mutual friend of their's, Clark Kent, introduced them at the recording session of Jay Z's Brooklyn's Finest song off Reasonable Doubt (1996), which featured Biggie.

Tech N9ne Gives Advice to Independent Artists

During his recent stop at Revolt TV, Tech N9ne gave advice to all the independent artists out there that want to attain success in their individual careers. You know apart from being known for his crazy mic skills and weird looks, another thing Tech is known for is his incredible success as an Independent artists. He has no major label backings, but has been able to build his career to a monumental level, and even cash out more than rappers on major labels. 

Below was his advice for up and coming independent rappers in the game.

“It starts with the music. People want to hear good music. After you do good music—after you do pure music—don’t do what everybody else is doing. Don’t get cloned. It’s the music first. Then it’s the shows. If you have a wonderful show, people will talk and they will return. That’s my story. They heard my music—beautiful. They saw my show—beautiful. And then the third thing: Connecting with the fans and doing meet and greets for the people that want to see you and talk to you and connect with you. We do those. Every tour we have meet and greets for the VIPs that want to meet me or give me presents. [Laughs]”  (Revolt TV)

Diddy Plans To Buy Fuse TV

I love it when black business moguls make big business deals. Diddy is in a bid to buy out music network, Fuse TV for $200 million. He launched his own music network, Revolt TV late last year, and is planning to leverage off the following Fuse already has to build his Network.

Sean Combs wants to light a fuse under his new cable network Revolt. The hip-hop mogul is said to have made a bid to buy Fuse, a music channel owned by Madison Square Garden Co. The bid comes after Combs launched his own music cable network Revolt TV last year. If Combs is successful in his efforts to acquire Fuse, he would most likely replace it with Revolt. Fuse is in over 70 million homes, while Revolt, which only launched last fall, is in a fraction of that. The rap star offered $200 million for Fuse, according to Bloomberg News. That is far less than the more than $300 million that New York-based MSG sought when it put the music cable channel up for a possible sale last year, a former Fuse executive said. (Los Angeles Times)






Let's wait and see how things turn out for Diddy. I love his tenacity in the business world...he keeps reinventing himself, and keeps looking for new ways to remain a success story. I love that.

Meek Mill Announces New Album

Just yesterday, I was saying to myself, 'Now that Rick Ross dropped a dope album, and Wale released his third album last year, what's up with Meek?' And it seemed Meek Mill heard my thoughts, as he just announced his sophomore album. The title of the album is "Dreams Worth More Than Money" and according to Meek Mill, it is set to drop this Summer.





He got on Diddy's Revolt TV to make the album announcement.

“I had to let ’em know right here on REVOLT, my new album, sophomore from Meek Milly,Dreams Worth More Than Money, this summer it’s going down...I had to let’em know, we like 80% done. Me and Diddy been cookin’, me and Rozay been cookin’, me and Kiss been cookin’, me and everybody been cookin’ and we just been getting it right. That’s how just how it’s going down, Dreams Worth More Than Money, this summer.”

Hmm! Let's see how that goes. His debut album, Dreams & Nightmares (2012) sold 165,000 copies first week, and capped out at about 360k sold.

Ice Cube Speaks on Kanye West's Successful Career

Diddy recently launched his TV network, Revolt TV, and he has been getting a lot of rappers to do interviews for it. Their latest is an interview with legendary rapper/actor, Ice Cube. Kanye West recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of his debut album, College Dropout on February 10th, and the interviewers used that opportunity to ask Cube what he felt about Kanye's success.




"I think he carved out his own niche in Hip Hop. I think the style that he started, which a lot of us called it backpack rappin', it was underground. Kanye kind of brought it, to me, to a level where it was just as respected as any kind of Rap. He brought it from the underground and made it - not mainstream-mainstream, but mainstream Rap where it could hold its own up against Gangsta Rap, up against the Native Tongues, up against whatever style you want to talk about. I just think Kanye was the start of that niche right there."

Yea, that's very true. And thanks to Damon Dash and Jay Z for giving Ye that stamp of approval, or maybe he wouldn't have been accepted as he was/is. He was very creative, but his whole style was very different from what was in the mainstream at the time. The way that Rocafella stamp of approval helped Kanye out, could be compared to how Dr. Dre's cosign helped Eminem's career.