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[Masa]

Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams Mixtape

New York, NY (November 5, 2007) – Loud.com and the Wu-Tang Clan are whetting appetites for the Wu’s upcoming release with the "8 Diagrams" Mixtape and official mixtape widget. The legendary Wu-Tang Clan will release their latest album "8 Diagrams" on December 11th, 2007 through Loud/SRC Records. The "8 Diagrams" mixtape is available for FREE download exclusively through Loud.com. It features 29 tracks of new and unreleased Wu-Tang material. You can stream the full mixtape using the Loud.com "8 Diagrams" widget, which we’ve enabled you to ***** into any MySpace or blog (feel free to pass along to other fans and friends). Or, if you’d prefer to download it for yourself, you can click this link and download the full mixtape for free from Loud.com.

01 - Intro (Featuring Method Man)
02 - Watch Your Mouf (Wu-Tang Exclusive)
03 - State of Grace (Raekwon Exclusive)
04 - Break that Break (Unreleased)
05 - Wu Banga 101 Remix (Unreleased)
06 - My Corner (Raekwon Exclusive)
07 - Stick Me 4 My Riches (Wu-Tang Exclusive)
08 - Thug World (Wu-Tang Exclusive)
09 - Maxine Remix (Unreleased)
10 - King Toast Queen (Unreleased)
11 - Strawberries & Cream Remix
12 - Weak Spot (Wu-Tang Exclusive)
13 - Intoxicated (Featuring Macy Gray) (ODB Exclusive)
14 - Crooklyn Dodgers (Ghostface Exclusive)
15 - The W Remix (Unreleased)
16 - Real Nillaz
17 - Ghost Is Back
18 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (ODB Featuring Macy Gray)
19 - Violent Skit
20 - Life Changes (Wu-Tang Exclusive)
21 - Treez (Unreleased)
22 - The Abduction
23 - John 3:16
24 - Good
25 - Da Destroyer (Raekwon Freestyle)
26 - Iron God Chamber
27 - 4:20
28 - Wise (Unreleased)
29 - Presidential MC
DOWNLOAD

Jay-Z - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is) video
http://videos.onsmash.com/v/lpfbTekxRAM2HP6L

Lupe Fiasco - Superstar video
http://videos.onsmash.com/v/latNi2CmvwS9FZt7

Yeah i know, i'm missing out on Reasonable Doubt.

*pimpslaps Mocha*

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1ve73n

[cool_kickin_dude]

once again Masa, you are MY MAN! *starts d/l'ing*

"Wu-Tang again?" "Oh yeah, again and again!" (from Protect Ya Neck)

[daigong]

Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams Mixtape

New York, NY (November 5, 2007) – Loud.com and the Wu-Tang Clan are whetting appetites for the Wu’s upcoming release with the "8 Diagrams" Mixtape and official mixtape widget. The legendary Wu-Tang Clan will release their latest album "8 Diagrams" on December 11th, 2007 through Loud/SRC Records. The "8 Diagrams" mixtape is available for FREE download exclusively through Loud.com. It features 29 tracks of new and unreleased Wu-Tang material. You can stream the full mixtape using the Loud.com "8 Diagrams" widget, which we’ve enabled you to ***** into any MySpace or blog (feel free to pass along to other fans and friends). Or, if you’d prefer to download it for yourself, you can click this link and download the full mixtape for free from Loud.com.

Props homie! 8 DIAGRAMS IS GONNA BE HOT!

WHOA fuckers crashed the Loud site 

* daigong pimpslaps Masa*

Here's some alternate links I found:
http://www.twitter.com/?d=NO2PWV0F
http://www.zshare.net/download/471862419b8f47/

I too listened to Jigga's new disc and Fuck. Surprised my ass off. Prolly the most listenable in long while, prolly since Black Album. Here he is on Letterman (incl. interview)
[youtube=425,350]N3Tp4PuU5_c[/youtube]

the roc boys in the building tonight
look at how i'm chillen im killing this ice
you dont even gotta bring your purses out
we the dope boys of the year drinks is on the house WE IN THE HOUSE!!

Ignorant Shit & American Gangster. I gots 2 update the HiPtionary now

I copped this DVD. Anyone seen it before? Can't believe it's been 3 years already. I'm gonna try to rip and post it for y'all in honor of Dirt McGirt.

[MochaNutz]

Saigon - Come On Baby
FINALLY, looks like he's droppin' on Dec 4.  I loved this song when i first heard it.  Video is budget, but whatever.  It's SAIGON

http://videovault.morrisvideos.com/videos/saigon_come_on_baby_feat_swizz_beatz

Come On baby Remix feat. Jay-Z
http://www.zshare.net/audio/47256662229695/

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First Ghost, now Rae.
Raekwon speaks out on RZA and making the album
http://realtalkny.rawkus.com/2007/11/topic/topic/videos/video-raekwon-talks-about-the-new-wu-tang-album-problems-with-rza/

[Masa]

Tracklist:
01. At the Cabana Skit [performed by Ghostface Killah and Rhythm Roots Allstars]
02. Toney Sigel a.k.a the Barrel Brothers [ft. Beanie Sigel and Styles P]
03. Yolanda's House [ft. Raekwon and Method Man]
04. We Celebrate [ft. Kid Capri]
05. Walk Around
06. Yapp City [ft. Trife Da God and Sun God]
07. White Linen Affair (Toney Awards) [ft. Shawn Wigs]
08. Supa GFK
09. Rec-Room Therapy [ft. Raekwon and U-God]
10. The Prayer [performed by Ox]
11. I'll Die for You
12. Paisley Darts [ft. Raekwon, Sun God, Trife Da God, Method Man, and Cappadonna]
13. Shakey Dog Starring Lolita [ft. Raekwon]
14. ! [performed by Ghostface Killah and Rhythm Roots Allstars]
15. Killa Lipstick [ft. Method Man and Masta Killa]
16. Slow Down [ft. Chrisette Michele]

With anticipation levels surrounding Ghostface Killah's forthcoming The Big Doe Rehab fast approaching a boiling point-- particularly since we no longer need divide our anticipation between Big Doe and the Wu-Tang's 8 Diagrams-- Ghost has gone and added some kindling to the fire. Album details, people! Have a look. First, of course, is that classy cover art you see up there, set to adorn copies of Big Doe that Def Jam delivers on December 4.

Next, the tracklist, reprinted in full below. Of note: Kid Capri-featuring first single "We Celebrate" (not just "Celebrate", as reported prior), which samples Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate"; Raekwon-boosted "Yolanda's House" and "Shakey Dog Starring Lolita" (an epilogue to Fishscale standout "Shakey Dog"!); a pair of tracks featuring Ghostface's tourmates Rhythm Roots Allstars; a track called "I'll Die for You" and another called "!". Then, naturally, there are the guests, including the aforementioned along with Ghost's Wu associates Method Man (as you know), U-God, Masta Killa, and Cappadonna, plus Ghost's posse and More Fish co-stars Theodore Unit, Beanie Sigel, Styles P, and more.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/46988-ghostface-unveils-ibig-doei-tracklist-guests-cover-art

First Ghost, now Rae.
Raekwon speaks out on RZA and making the album
http://realtalkny.rawkus.com/2007/11/topic/topic/videos/video-raekwon-talks-about-the-new-wu-tang-album-problems-with-rza/

Cuban Linx 2 is never coming out 

[daigong]

Whose that hottie with Ghostface?? 

But yeah son. Fuckin inbeefs, RZA needs to find some help to lead the ship. EGOS are huge. Everyone claiming they own projects. I guess that's why [MM_Theory]Rae, Ghost, and Mef are the center guys[/MM_Theory]. LMAO look at Deck, looks like Kardi. Mef and Rae are STILL working on new discs.

Went to Method Man show last nite.



Cilvaringz came and opened with DJ Suicide. Oh there was local beatboxers but, fuck em.


I'm a be straight, his set was dope. Got the crowd FUCKED UP.
[youtube=425,350]PKZM_GRpcU4[/youtube]

In came meth, all hoodied - delivering classics like "How High" "Tical" -- went into "Da Rockwilder" 4:21 and Tical 0 shit. COME ON COME ON! COME ON!


FUCK! I dunno how many times he dived into the audience. Standing on the crowd then DIVE! I managed to slap his arm LMAO
[youtube=425,350]uluO3U8zyYk[/youtube]

Him and Streetlife tore it up with more classics like ... shit I was so stoned, everyone passing blunts.


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DJ Allah Mathematics


He ended da show with a tribute to ODB. IF YOU LOVE HIP HOP! SAY ONE! LOVE! ONE! LOVE! lol FUCK DAT SHIT.


DOPEST SHOW EVAR. Fuckin Meth is one of the deffest performers around. Diving in and out of the crowd.

Too many wiggaz, I loved it when peoples was doing the Wu sign, some guys did the West Coast sign. whores everywhere. Fuckin hoe grinded up on me and I was like "OK" and her bf like grabbed her WTF! Good thing I had my cru, but I stared him down. BITCHES!

Then a train of hoes filed backstage. LMAO.

[MochaNutz]

Kanye West's mother died.
Rhymefest confirmed it on a radioshow somewhere.  Its not confirmed, but its been said it was probably because of operation complications. 

Kanye's probably going crazy.  We all know how much he loved his mom.  Really sad news.

R.I.P. Donda West

There' wasn't a video for it, but
Hey Mama

[daigong]

Aw nowei Mocha... I read it's cosmetic surgery?

I played 'Hey Mama' on HiP HoP Hizzy every Mother's day cuz every homeboy loves his moms. Crushing news indeed, Mista West...DAMN.



Hey Mama, I wanna scream so loud for you, cuz I'm so proud of you
Let me tell you what I'm about to do, (Hey Mama)
I know I act a fool but, I promise you I'm goin back to school
I appreciate what you allowed for me
I just want you to be proud of me

RIP Mama West.

[mode107]

So sad, "Through the wire" came through my head when I read that news.

RIP Mrs. West

[daigong]

HiP HoP loses another artist every few days it seems. The one dat still keeps stinging is the lost of ODB. Dirt Dawg. Dirt McGirt. Osirus. Or simply, Russell Jones.

Can't believe we have lost him for 3 years on this day. I ripped this concert of his from 2004. Includes the funniest interview ever.






DOWNLOAD HERE

ODB RIP.part1.rar
ODB RIP.part2.rar
ODB RIP.part3.rar   

Go ahead and share it elsewhere, just don't credit me or jphip

Ooh baby, I like it raw....

[Masa]

The Big Doe Rehab promo video
http://videovault.morrisvideos.com/videos/ghostface-killah---big-doe-rehab

Wu-Tang Clan - Campfire (preview)
http://sharebee.com/32144f83

HiP HoP loses another artist every few days it seems. The one dat still keeps stinging is the lost of ODB. Dirt Dawg. Dirt McGirt. Osirus. Or simply, Russell Jones.

R.I.P. Ol' Dirty Bastard!

[num2son]

Thanks Masa and daigong 

Wu-Tang Clan - Life Changes (Could be the Full Version)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/48833052abe45e/

[daigong]

Props for the previews Masa Big Doe Rehab is gonna make December EPIC

Life Changes is so chilling...some of em regret not being there for him. GZA was like he's in the same studio rapping his verses where ODB died.



My fave ODB songs of all time:

1. Don't U Know. Where he
Ooohhh I beg, I beg, Easy on my balls, they fragile as eggs.

2. Shimmy Shimmy Ya - esp. the whole intro. THE FIRST TIME YOU EVER SUUUCCKED MY DICK!

3. Brooklyn Zoo II. With classic "How'd u get so fuckin dark? SUN-TANAMA!!

Yo! You wasn't from Panana!!
I asked you how you get so fuckin dark, you said suntama
He responded so fast, you made me laugh
Ha-ha-ha, HARARRRH scared-his ass!



RIP, ODB. I'm a karaoke his songs in tribute.

[num2son]

ol dirty bastard - wastin time no more.mp3 - 1.85MB

[daigong]

^ NICE num2son. Is that the hidden tribute track Masa was talking about?

In case y'all missed it (like me)

VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07

Props to matrixjk 

VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07- A Tribe called Quest-Song Medley

http://xirror.com/spread/07-_A_Tribe_called_Quest-Song_Medley.avi.html

VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07- Various Artists- A Tribe called Quest Tribute

http://xirror.com/spread/07-_Various_Artists-_A_Tribe_called_Quest_Tribute.avi.html

VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07- Various Artists- New Jack Swing Tribute

http://xirror.com/spread/07-_Various_Artists-_New_Jack_Swing_Tribute.avi.html

VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07- Various Artists- Snoop Dogg Tribute

http://xirror.com/spread/07-_Various_Artists-_Snoop_Dogg_Tribute.avi.html

VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07- Various Artists- Whodini Tribute

http://xirror.com/spread/whodini.part1.rar.html  http://xirror.com/spread/whodini.part2.rar.html


VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07- Various Artists-Wild Style Tribute

http://xirror.com/spread/07-_Various_Artists-Wild_Style_Tribute.avi.html

VH1 Hip Hop Honors '07-Various Artists- Missy Elliot Tribute

http://xirror.com/spread/VH1_Hip_Hop_Honors__07-Various_Artists-_Missy_Elliot_Tribute.avi.html

password: chapes

[A1]

Maybe this sounds kind of rude but why is Missy being honored?

[Masa]

Tracklist:
1. Iesha Poem
2. Free Chilly
3. Go Go Gadget Flow
4. The Coolest
5. Superstar featuring Mathew Santos
6. Paris Tokyo
7. High Definition featuring Snoop Dogg and Pooh Bear
8. Little Weapon
9. Hip-Hop Saved My Life featuring Nikki Jean
10. Gold Watch
11. Street on Fire featuring Mathew Santos
12. Hello Goodbye
13. Gotta Eat
14. Dumb It Down featuring Gemini and Graham Burris
15. The Die featuring Gemini
16. Put You on Game
17. Fighters featuring Mathew Santos
18. Go Baby Go

Hello Goodbye (live version)
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The Live version doesn’t sound anything like the actual track on the album folks! That track is incredible, but it’s not for the true hip hop heads though that’s for sure! If you know UNKLE they are more of a experimental/rock group, and that’s what lane that song is in! The pitchfork kids will eat it up though, a true masterpiece. Also, the cheeseburger track - is crazy HOT (i didn’t even know that’s that the song was about when i listened, dude is so smart) The tracklist that is floating around the internet is correct though.

Fiasco Goes High Concept On Sophomore Album

Rapper Lupe Fiasco embodies multiple characters and concepts on his sophomore album, "Lupe Fiasco's The Cool," due Dec. 18 via 1st and 15th/Atlantic. Among the characters are Michael Young History, the Game (described as "a male personification of a hustler's damaging influences") and the Streets ("a female embodiment of an urban area's corrupt allure"). Throughout, dark production by Soundtrakk, UNKLE and Chris and Drop enhances the weighty themes, particularly on "Street on Fire" (about a burgeoning epidemic) and "Put You on Game." Among the few guests are Snoop Dogg, who turns up on "High Definition," while Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump serves as the producer of "Little Weapons."

A number of tracks diverge from the conceptual theme, including "Gold Watch" and "Paris Tokyo," on which Fiasco longs for a simpler life atop a jazzy backing track with shades of A Tribe Called Quest. Perhaps the oddest song is "Gotta Eat," which is apparently written from the perspective of a cheeseburger and is rife with food/life metaphors. Fiasco makes at least two allusions to quitting the music business after one more album, "L.U.P.N.," but he ends "The Cool" on an up-tempo note with "Go Baby Go." "Congratulations ladies, this one's for you," he says. "The Cool" is the follow-up to last year's "Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor," which spawned the Grammy-nominated single "Kick, Push."

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003672989

Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool - Cast of Characters

Lupe Fiasco (star/narrator/writer/director)
Born: 1982
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois

Biography: Born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, Lupe Fiasco is a rarity in today’s record industry – an artist more concerned with creating timeless, not timely, music. After years of false-starting label deals and mixtape dominance, Fiasco broke through the mainstream’s shield in early 2006 with “Kick Push,” a breezy skateboarder’s ballad that only hinted at his lyrical wizardry. Such verbal gifts became crystal clear on his critically lauded debut, Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor. Having brushed with fame while admirably maintaining his integrity, Fiasco is now taking his substance-over-style approach to new, conceptual levels on his sophomore effort, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool.

Cool Points
- In 2005, Fiasco delivered a scene-stealing verse on Kanye West’s hit single, “Touch The Sky.”
- Fiasco was nominated for three Grammy Awards—Best Rap Solo Performance (“Kick Push”); Best Rap Song (“Kick Push”); and Best Rap Album (Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor).
- In addition to the Grammys, Fiasco was also honored at the 2007 BET Awards (Best New Artist nomination) and 2007 Soul Train Awards (Best New R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist nomination for “I Gotcha”).
- His most nominations came at the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards: Hip Hop CD of the Year (Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor); Hip Hop Video of the Year (“Kick Push”); Rookie of the Year; and Element Award – Lyricist of the Year.
- Through Atlantic Records, his homebase, Fiasco launched his own company, 1st & 15th Entertainment. His first artist (outside of his own projects) will be Gemini.
- In January 2006, Fiasco signed a deal with Reebok. As part of the footwear/apparel company’s “O.G.” campaign, he designed his own sneaker.
- GQ Magazine named Fiasco as the “Breakout Man of the Year” for 2006.

Michael Young History
Born: March 2006
Birthplace: Every Hood, USA

Biography: Since his early childhood days, Michael Young History was conflicted. Raised by a single, hard-working mother, History never really knew his father, a man who abandoned both History and his baby sister. This lack of paternal guidance turned an otherwise intelligent, promising boy into a drug-selling, money-grubbing Scarface-wannabe. Starting off as merely a petty crook, History’s torrid affair with his mentor’s (Game) wife, The Streets, sent him on a downward spiral of greed, deception, and, ultimately, death.

Cool Point
- An unabashed atheist, History anointed his own “holy trinity”—himself, Streets and The Cool.

The Cool
Resurrected: Amongst the undead since September 2006
Birthplace: Six feet under the Earth’s surface

Biography: The Cool is the physical manifestation of History’s debt to humanity. Payback for every user abused and every family torn apart by History, The Cool walks amongst the living as a zombie. “He” – that term used lightly, considering The Cool isn’t human – reeks of death, an ironic contrast to his polished three-piece-suit appearance. Searching for his purpose, The Cool haunts The Streets.

Cool Points
- His only possessions—two diamond earrings, a gold chain, and a letter from History’s eight-year-old sister.
- Despite the long-finished settling of rigor mortis, the sharp sensation of three bullets constantly causes aching in The Cool.
- Only one thought plays in his head like a broken record – “Hustler for death, no heaven for a gangster.”

The Game
Born: Given life the moment the snake suckered Adam and Eve
Birthplace: The Garden of Eden

Biography: An immortal, soulless entity, The Game scours city blocks and country landscapes with equal menace. Scheming from morning until night, he changes targets like the wind – hustlers, politicians, celebrities, and impressionable youth have all succumbed to his charms. His most valued accomplice is his wife, The Streets. Together, this “Bonnie and Clyde” duo have affected the lives of every man, woman, and child. The victim closest to their affections, however, was Michael Young History, a tortured man seeking acceptance through fame and fortune. Of course, nothing from The Game comes without a price.

Cool Points
- Quite convincing, his foolproof method of touching minds is through blunt fingertips.
- Through his wire-tapped ears, he’s able to hear the approaching of any enemy.
- When not hovering over common society, he lives behind bars, plotting ways to see his son, Heroine, and secretly conversing with his marital lover, The Streets.
- Despite carrying out such heartless actions, The Game does have a blood-pumping system – an amplified system pumping beats through woofer-like veins.

The Streets
Born: Conceived thousands of years ago, when the first paths and roads were paved.
Birthplace: Unknown

Biography: A temptress like none other, The Streets possesses an uncanny knack for seduction and betrayal. An equal opportunity heartbreaker, she exudes an allure irresistible to both men and women. Some have accused her of pedophilia, having lured people into her tangled web at ages as immature as eight years old. The word “love” isn’t in her vocabulary –although The Game is her admitted soulmate. Yet, The Streets has always felt a peculiarly strong connection with Michael Young History.

Cool Points
- Often referred to by her condemners as a “demon in a dress.”
- No stranger to loss, she’s tattooed the names of her murdered ex-boyfriends across her breasts.
- Her ambitions are clear upon eye contact, with dollar signs in the place of her pupils.
- Witnesses to History’s slaying reported seeing brown, almost Hennessy-colored tears roll down The Streets.

http://childrebelsoldier.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/lupe-fiasco%e2%80%99s-the-cool-cast-of-characters/

Ghostface Killah feat. Beanie Siegel & Styles P - Barrell Brothers
Sharebee

[MochaNutz]

The Cool.  I'm really liking these concept albums.  Highly anticipated

[Masa]

Wu-Tang "8 Diagrams" is coming...
[youtube=425,350]lE2eLopAX1s[/youtube]

[daigong]

^ SHIT WTF lol

Kanye West Paris Concert Breakdown; Kanye West Cries During First Concert After Death Of Mom

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Kanye West returned to the concert stage Saturday night, and the hip-hop heavyweight broke down in tears while a playing a sold-out concert in Paris. Kanye was attempting to introduce the tribute to his late mother, Dr. Donda West, at Le Zénith in Paris, saying “this song is for my mother….” and could get no further broke he began crying. His fiancee Alexis and her son were with him.

“He just cracked,” one attendee tells PEOPLE, “He was at the end of his concert and had just started to dedicate the song and then he just lost it completely.”

“He said the word, ‘Mother’ and just couldn’t go any further,” Le Parisien journalist Meddy Magloire reports. “A back-up singer, the DJ and a guitar player came over to console him. It looked like he might collapse. He just couldn’t continue. He just stood there in a spotlight, crying while the band continued playing.”

“He was very nervous, seemed to have gathered himself up, and had a lot of energy,” Magloire says. “He kept shouting out to the audience, ‘I need you… I need you right now.’ and the public was screaming back. It was magic.”

Source: Hip hop Crunch

I feel ya Kanye. I feel ya...