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Tricksta Feat. Supar Novar, Cyclonious, LATE, Streetz & Deeze ’Out Of Darkness’

(Wolftown Recordings)

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C.E.O of Cash Money Records’ Bryan “Birdman” Williams is reported to have purchased a new car for his collection, an $8.7 Million Maybech.
The rap founder, who has an estimated worth in excess of$100 million dollars, is well known for his fettish for expensive cars.

In August of 2010, Birdman  was seen sporting a red Bugatti Veyron estimated at around $2 million dollars.

Reports are suggesting that  the two-seater model was made as  a high-profile demonstrator commissioned by Fulda.

The Exelero model weighs in with a V12 twin turbo engine and can hit speeds of around 217 mph.

According to Birdman’s Twitter page , the car is in the process of being sprayed red .

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We finally got it !!! We bugged Stealf constantly until he gave in and gave us a copy of his upcoming album “I am Stealf” for its first EXCLUSIVE review.
There is alot to get through here so we are going to jump straight in and get down to business with this Album.

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Ok so our weekly quest to interrogate our favorite producer continues and we will jump straight in and ask Stealf what’s been cracking this week

“Been a SLLLOOOWWW week this week. The bank holidays don’t help. It’s nice to have the time off, but everyone’s doing stuff so getting things moving this week has been tough.”

However Stealf’s idea of slow isn’t as slow as some might think as there is a certain matter of “The Artful Dodgers” EP to complete and a certain “I am stealf” album to polish up,

“It’s still a case of mastering and seeing how it sounds. I’ve heard a few more tracks, and the sound is getting there, still not quite right, but much closer than last week. Still gotta put this feature track together, but that’s gonna take a bit of time too. It’s at that stage where it feels like it’s just stopped, not even going slowly, but stopped. Before, where I had a more hands on part, everything was a rush, but now I’m the one waiting to get masters and new mixdowns and seems to be long.” He explained

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TonyAs

‘Introducing TonyAs – The Mini EP’

Tracklisting:

01 – Back Into My Groove
02 – Lovin It
03 – Real Money (Radio Version)

Download Link:
Click HERE

TonyAs describes himself as an artist that has evolved over time, inspired by many and has now ultimately come into his own. The art started as a musician- Rapper turned Singer but TonyAs has also embraced his other passion- writing (as a song writing and feature writer). Formerly known as theSaint- TonyAs has taken it one step further opting to strip it bare, go back to basics, whereas theSaint was a straight talking hiphop artist, TonyAs the musician has embraced other influences and as well as rapping- also sings, adding another dimension to his works.

As a musician the style is charismatic, easy listening emotional type music, in his own words ‘he wants people listening to be able to feel what he’s saying- to empathise, whether having experienced it or witnessed the content of his verses’. Sound wise it’s fundamentally hiphop- though his evolution as an artist has lead to incorporations of Reggae, Soul, Funk and other such genres. Lyrics are still his forte if you like, and he prides himself on being a vivid and lyricist.

2011 promises to be an interesting year, the SexDrugsPoetry brand grows from strength to strength, there’s the music, the ‘Y Is It’ articles and videos that TonyAs himself produces. 2011 will see the release of his ‘Introducing TonyAs’ project. Singles to look out for ‘Back into my groove’, ‘Real money’ and ‘Loving it’.

For more information/contact/updates
www.sexdrugspoetry.com
www.soundcloud.com/tonyas
www.facebook.com/sexdrugspoetry
www.twitter.com/sexdrugspoetry
www.youtube.com/sexdrugspoetryvideos
Email: info@sexdrugspoetry.com

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To many this title stirs thoughts back to the 1999 Slim Shady lp, when Eminem and Royce Da 5’9 collaborated on a lyrical masterpiece which helped Eminem to lay his legendary footing.

But now this title can be seen as a highly anticipated  EP of which will see the pair re-unite. Although this EP has been explored before as Eminem and Royce were set to capitalize on the success of the ‘Slim Shady LP’, however the project was never released and a rift between Eminem and Royce laid the project to rest.

In a report from Allhiphop.com Eminem explains how the process came together again,
“Royce and I started hanging out again and inevitably that led us back into the studio,” Eminem stated “At first we were just seeing where it went without any real goal in mind, but the songs started to come together crazy, so here we are.”
After nearly 10 years after their first collaboration together, they have come back better than ever on this highly anticipated EP which will be in stores on June 14th.

The untitled EP will see production from D12′s Mr. Porter, Mobb Deep’s Havoc, Bangladesh, DJ Khalil and more.

“I’m excited to see this project come to fruition considering the long lapse in time between when we worked before and now,” Royce da 5’9 said “We had a blast doing it and we just hope everyone enjoys it while we’re working on the ‘Monster’ that will be the Slaughterhouse album.

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Need a beat ?  UK Producer Stealf is currently running his Easter Beats deal, giving you access to some banging beats at bank holiday prices. Get in touch with Stealf HERE to get your own piece of UK made creativity.

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Soulja Boy has revealed that poor communication with Interscope was solely to blame for his bad record sale figures and also claimed that had it not been for 50 Cent he would have ended his rap career.

Speaking with Complex Soulja Boy discussed the poor response to his third studio album ’The Deandre way’ and how having a poor relationship with Interscope directly resulted in poor sales figures for the album. Soulja Boy states  that he criticised the release date of the album as he wanted to release it in the July of 2010, it actually dropped in November, leaving too much time between the release of  his most successful single ”Pretty Boy Swag” and the actual album
“Honestly, I shut down for a week after my album dropped,” He explained to Complex. “I wasn’t talking to nobody, I wasn’t talking to management, and I wasn’t talking to the label. I wasn’t picking up nobody’s calls. I went like that for a week. I was in a state of confusion. I needed answers…the label only shipped like 18,000 copies [of the album]. So I wasn’t able to do gold first week or even 100k, none of that. They only put like 8,000 units in Best Buy. It was crazy.”

He stated that at the time he felt helpless because communication between himself and Interscope was of a poor standard, and that he felt the label just wasn’t listening to him. Soulja Boy claims that issues with producer  Mr Collipark, left him stranded in the business environment attached to the music industry, and that without Mr Collipark to help him negotiate with record executives he had no power to move in the directions he wanted to.

“When I first started it was Soulja Boy and Collipark. But after my label Stacks On Deck Money Gang Records was established and I started making all these different moves, I started to become a businessman. My label was taking off and I guess I was putting more time and energy into that, then to Collipark. He wasn’t feeling that and it just went left. He wanted me to be all for Collipark. So during the third album, I didn’t have him there to be able to tell the label to ship 500,000 the first week, or put the single on the radio, or we need this song. So I was basically out there by myself, just hoping the label will do the best they can.”

Soulja Boy went on to explain how he has 50 Cent to thank for keeping him in the business after he was ready to quit rapping.

“50 was like, ‘You’ve got to keep doing what you’re doing. You’re Soulja Boy, you’re here for a reason. Everybody’s not going platinum. Everybody didn’t do what you did. Everybody didn’t come in on the Internet. You’re the one that started the Internet. You’re the one that got me on the Internet. You’re the one that got us on blogs, on YouTube, and on Twitter.’ I was like, ‘Man, you know what? You’re right.’ He wasn’t doing nothing but speaking true knowledge to my head and it got me right back in the studio. So I ain’t going to never quit. I’m going to stay in this music industry. I’m going to stay making hits, and I’m going to do what I’ve got to do, and I thank 50. I really needed that at that time.”

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Ok so this week marks a month of our merciless harassment of UK production mastermind Stealf, and with the “I am Stealf” album creeping closer and a number of collaborations and production appearances thrown in for good measure, now is definitely not a time to start sleeping on a true UK Genius who we associate with the “Not if but when …” tag when foreseeing his involvement in the fabric of UK Hip Hop. Read on as the Stealf story gathers more momentum.

First on the agenda was Stealf’s continued involvement with “The Artful Dodgers” release from U.S Rapper Solomon, a project of which we have been following since our first diary session with Stealf,

“So far I’ve had a couple of tracks come back mixed and mastered. The mastering still needs some work though. The vocals sound really nice, but my beats have had all the dynamics sucked out of them. The drums are lacking the punch they had in the pre-master mixes and that’s really letting them down. I’ll see how the others come back sounding and if need be, I’ll have to go and remix the beats and give the drums a boost to compensate. Right now though it’s proving to be a bit of  a waiting game while the mastering engineer does his work.The track that features Sha Stimuli and Chaundon is still to be recorded, but once that’s done, all the production work is complete and it’s just a case of getting the mixing and mastering right”.

We have been getting a bit impatient lately about the upcoming album release “I am Stealf” and wanted to find out if there has been any progress in terms of  a solid release date or promotion for the upcoming offering and Stealf decided to pacify our impatience and had a few words for us on the upcoming release,

“The promo for the album won’t start untill we have set a release date, so all we’re doing at the moment is mentioning it on the social networks and letting people know it’s coming. Once the release date has been set, we can start to really push it” Stealf Stated. “The artwork is also next on the “To Do” list. As soon as that’s done we can get the promo artwork done too. It’s all coming together nicely, slowly, but nicely.”

Stealf also explained his thoughts and hopes for the upcoming release,

“I’m really looking forward to hearing what people think of this project. It’s something different. It’s got all the elements of old skool hip hop with a slight twist. The subject matter and the beats together make for a really interesting album and I’m looking forward to getting some feedback on this one.”

With an increasingly busy schedule emerging, we got an idea of what was on the Stealf Horizon,

“Once the Artful Dodgers release is out there, I’ve got an EP with Jackitdown Brown coming out, then I start work on an album with my artist Clas-Sick. That’s gonna be something for the hip hop heads. I’m also executive producing Parv’s debut album. We started work on that back in December and it’s had to be put on the back burner for a minute, but we’re back on that now too”.

Whilst on the topic we decided to catch up with what has been happening with Stealf’s  own artists,

“Parv’s also just dropped a video for his track Pot Of Gold which features Sir Mic and Miss Culley. This is a lil taste of what to expect from Parv, as well as the 2 tracks he has on my album.”

Before letting Stealf sign off we wanted to grab some final words about the upcoming album,

“I Am Stealf is still on target for May 23rd release. Like The Artful Dodgers LP, It’s still in mastering. It’s been mastered three times now and it’s really coming together. I’m exceptionally proud of this album. It really shows what some of the unsigned and underground talent can do when mixed with some big names and sonically it’s not like a hip hop album people whould’ve heard before, and especially from a UK hip hop artist too.”

For those that haven’t, check out the track list

1-Intro
2-New Song, New Vibe – Manny Moscow & Late
3-The Game’s At A Stand Still – Deeze, Konny Kon & Jadakiss
4-Where Is My Mind – Sir Mic
5-Interlude Beat one
6-Dreamer – Cyclonious
7-Underdog – Wordsmith, Kontact & Black Knight
8-End Of The Line – Suus
9-Mo Money – Jackitdown Brown
10-Interlude Beat Two
11-Crown Heights – Ruste Juxx
12-I’m getting Old – Dap C & Phil Ashmore
13-Rain Bring Pain – Nu JerZey Devil
14-Do It Live – Konny Kon
15-Interlude Beat Three
16-All On You – Parv
17-War – Deeze
18-Make It Out Alive – H.O.O.D. Fellaz
19-Stop Being Greedy – Parv & Joell Ortiz
20-Never Give Up – Capital R
21-Interlude Beat Four
22-Killer MC – Clas-Sick
23-Who Is She – Carolyn Yates & Jackitdown Brown
24-Respect Me – 40 Glocc, Bo Roc, Dap C & R H Bless
25-Can You Hear Me? (Instrumental Tribute)

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With today’s saturation of the UK Hip Hop Industry it’s rare that we can come across a talent that is just a raw gem waiting to be polished and shine bright for all in the industry to see, but with the emergence of a duo that are starting to get a foothold in todays industry, it is looking increasingly likely that something special is on the brink of happening.

Trey Mukwaya (Loop Genius) and Harrison Baker (Harri Bakes) met in 2005 – Trey originally from Uganda and Harrison from the southeast. After moving to the UK, Trey was well aware that music was his preferred direction. Similarly, Harrison craved a new creative outlet and sought this through the writing of songs. Their meeting was mobilised through a mutual desire to create. Trey, keen to learn the processes of production, occupied both college studios and sparse homemade affairs to hone his talents. He began to seek feedback from Harrison and this led to collaboratively recorded efforts between the pair. What started out as a hobby was beginning to move towards something more serious. In 2007, through a combined investment, The Bakery was funded. The Bakery would be the home to GCripes (GCBB – GCripes Bakery Boy), a home studio that housed all the equipment needed to produce, write, record, mix and master all records. GCBB use The Bakery to develop local artists as well as their own sound. 6 years after meeting Trey and Harrison seek to continue their progression and development, establishing a sound that achieves a sense of difference and limitlessness allowed through 100% creative control.

To interact with Loop G and Harri Bakes and check out their music click HERE

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