All Blog Posts Tagged 'Music' (23)

SOHH Exclusive: Young Jeezy's Recession More Than Music, "We Spend Money In Bad Times On Dumb Sh*T"

With Young Jeezy’s new album, The Recession, hitting stores today, SOHH decided to catch up with various members of the hip-hop community to get their take on our nation’s declining economy and rising gas prices.

When it came time to start recording his third album, Def Jam rapper Young Jeezy wanted to attack a subject matter that everyone in America can relate to, the current economic recession.

“The economy is different, The world is… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on September 4, 2008 at 12:07pm — 5 Comments

Blender Magazine Calls Tupac The Most Overrated Person In Music

Dead rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender.

Shakur tops a tongue-in-cheek list that also includes “places, trends and other junk in rock,” Blender said in its upcoming October issue, due on newsstands next week.

But while Shakur was a decent rapper with “insane rock-star charisma,”… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on September 4, 2008 at 11:05am — 34 Comments

DEATH ROW UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP: Suge loses appeal; label auctioned to Global Music Group for $24 million.

*Global Music Group is the new owners of famed West coast-based rap label Death Row Records after former owner Marion "Suge" Knight lost his appeal Tuesday against a ruling that forced him to sell off the label's assets.

In May, a bankruptcy judge in California ordered the rap mogul to liquidate the label at an auction.

The sale was supposed to take place on Tuesday. Instead, Suge was in court trying to stop it from… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on June 26, 2008 at 8:18am — 8 Comments