Rap Sheet: The Roc Is On the Rocks?
- Split decisions: Hip Hop chatty-mouth website, Mediatakeout, scored an interview with Jay-Z hater, Peedi Crack. He claims that the Roc-A-Fella founder dispatched A&R’s to let loose the bad news that most of the artists on the label were getting dropped. Says Crack, “I put the Camel Face shit out as a reaction to Jay Z dropping everybody from Rocafella recently … He set up a meeting to have a one on one talk with all of us … As opposed to having the one-on-one meeting he sent an A and R from Def Jam to break the news .. which was a ho move to me.”
- Exclusives: In semi-related news, Dame Dash is unleashing a mini-series on his BlockSavvy website that details the the beginnings of Roc-A-Fella Records. The ten part mini-series features the likes of Jay Z, Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Young Gunnaz, Oschino, Sparks, and the camel hunter himself: Peedi Crack. Unfortunately you gotta join up to watch it.
- History: Here’s an interesting timeline of the rise and fall of A Tribe Called Quest.
- Happy belated: Rick Ross celebrated his 31st birthday in Miami this past Monday. Jay Z, Scott Storch, Sean Kingston, Trick Daddy, DJ Khaled, and other Hip Hop luminaries partied it up in the VIP and popped bottles with the Boss.
- Self righteous: Singer Kelly Rowland defends Kanye’s
honorego, “People may see him go on stage and act cocky and arrogant but he’s just honest, like: ‘I’m good and I know I’m good.’ “What’s wrong with that I wouldn’t have (West’s song) Stronger as my ringtone if he wasn’t. In fact more artists should have a bit more of Kanye’s self-belief. I know I’d like to have a piece of that.”
- Star Wars: Speaking of ‘Ye, he channels C-3PO for ‘Glow in the Dark’ Tour flyer.
