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By Richard Watson
C-Murder got life for second degree murder, with his sister lamenting Barack Obama’s lack of intervention. Through a spokesperson, the President said, “Ehh … I’ve always been more of a Silkk The Shocker fan.”
Continuing the current vogue for golden era tandems, Masta Ace and Edo G unveiled the first fruits of their A&E project, while in other hook-up news, Ghost, Rae and Meth are cooking up an album together. Apparently, they’re limiting it to just 12 cuts, which gives them a good excuse if RZA volunteers any of those guitar beats they all hate. In the meantime, Meth indulged his love of crowd-surfing as he and a Tom Daley-esque Redman took it to the people live at the House of Blues in Las Vegas.
Spoofs and homages were all the rage as Common and Christopher Mintz-Plasse did Training Day to chucklesome effect and the ever-perky Amanda Diva remade the classic 1990 credits for In Living Color. However, the Ruff Ryders camp went one better by hilariously recreating their own circa 2000 mix of motorbikes, growling and Bontempi beats. What? It’s a serious reunion project? Oh.
Eminem said goodbye to Shady soldier Bobby Creekwater and buddy Dr Dre said hello to a deal that will see his Beats by Dr Dre software installed in a series of Hewlett Packard laptops. The software allows aspiring producers to create one-and-a-half tracks a year and comes with a free team of beat-makers who won’t demand a credit.
A teaser of Jigga’s ‘We Run This Town’ video dropped, and it emerged that Def Jam will edge their former head honcho into stores with ‘The Blueprint Collection’, comprising the two previous ‘Blueprint’ albums and, generously, a space in which to stash the new, non-Def Jam one. It’s rumoured that Jive will follow suit by releasing its ‘Papoose Collection’ in the form of an empty box.
Finally, in the long-awaited album stakes Rakim revealed a batch of new details about ‘The Seventh Seal’, including a much-debated cameo from Akon and less contentious guest spots from Jadakiss, Styles P and Busta Rhymes.
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Actually just laughed out loud at the Dre bit and Papoose bit!
Would also have loved to see the C-Murder trial:
“So Mr. Miller, you’re a rapper. What’s your rap name?”
“errr – C-Murder”
“Ah… you’re being charged with murder, and your alias is ‘Murder’ – you do know that doesn’t help your case?”
haha, yeah mate, try telling the judge your innocent when your calling yourself ‘murder’… no brains, some yank rappers!
What do you expect when you call yourself C-Murder? Come on, the guy’s just an idiot – hiphop will be better without him on the ’streets’.
Looking forward to that Rakim and the return of real hiphop – bring it on, get the jokers out of the scene.
other rappers with guilty as charged names:
guilty simpson
mack 10
pimp c
murder inc
the murderers
From Conan O’Brien’s show:
“The prosecution has delivered the closing arguments in the murder trial of the rapper named C-Murder. Yeah, apparently the prosecutor asked C-Murder to state his name, then said, ‘The prosecution rests.’ It’s right there for you at the C-Murder trial.”
Why would anyone call themselves C-Murder? Don’t care for his music; don’t care for his personal life.