The Source
Awards - and the nominees are...
It's
that time once again for all of the hiphop world to come together into
one area and hand out sliverware to those deserving. The 3rd annual Source
HipHop awards is just around the corner and
one wonders what's in store this year. Who can forget the major diss Suge
Knight (head of Def Row
Records) from the west coast sent out to
Shawn
'Puffy' Combs (the head of Bad
boy) on the east coast in '99 or the brawl that
broke out during last year ceremony ending in the police APD for
E-40
This year
the founder of the Source magazine David Mays says that will (hopefully) not
be the case this year. He's hired top security firm the Fruit of Islam
security firm to handle security and plans on reducing the number of invites
by 1,500. He's also moving the show from Los Angeles to Miami. Mays has
also hired influential music video and film director Hype Williams to head the creative
team to inject some much needed power into the live
performances.
Leading
the way in nominations is Outkast and
Eminem both grabbing 5 nods each
followed by Snoop Dogg, with four nominations, and
Jay-Z, who has three
nominations. The show will be broadcast Aug. 29th on UPN.
The
list of nominees are as follows:
Album
Artist (Solo)
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Rush
Hour-2 arrives in stores July 31st
The
soundtrack to the sequel of Rush Hour - 2 will drop on your
record store shelves come July 31st. The soundtrack's features some of
the hottest acts in the Rap and R&B field. The first single will
be Ludacris's "Area Codes" from taken from his
sophomore Def Jam release, "Word of Mouth," that's
due in September. The single has already been released to radio
The second release will be "Party..." from
Method
Man and newly signed Virgin artist
Teddy Riley who has been
busy wrapping production on Michael Jackson's latest effort
"Invincible" Teddy will release his first solo album
in November while Method Man is currently recording his third solo
effort for Def Jam, with no release date set.
The album's track listing is as follows:
Ludacris,
"Area Codes"
Montell Jordan, "Mine, Mine, Mine"
Method Man and Teddy Riley, "Party..."
Kandice Love, "No"
Keith Murray, "I'm Back"
Jazz (Dru Hill) featuring Jill Scott, "Lovin' Again"
LL Cool J, "Crazy Girl"
Musiq Soulchild featuring Redman, "Keep it Real"
Macy Gray featuring Slick Rick, "The World is Yours"
LovHer, "How's it Gonna Be"
WC, "Paper Trippin'"
Christina Milian, "You Make Me Laugh"
Say Yes, "Mercedez Benz
Higaru Utada featuring Foxy Brown, "Blow My Whistle"
3rd Storee, "I'm Sorry"
Benzino featuring Scarface and Snoop Dogg, "Figadoh"
FT, "Brolic"
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D'Angelo
and Lucy Pearl.....together?
Can
it be true? Rumor has it that soul crooner D'Angelo is pegged to replace
the now departed Ali Shaheed Mohammed of
Lucy Pearl. With the recent
departure of Dawn Robinson (replaced by
Joi) the original founding
member Raphael Saadiq seems as if he will be starting from scratch even
though the band is less than 2 years old
What's
caused the recent demise of the band it yet uncertain maybe the chemistry
between the members wasn't quite what it seems only those involved will
know for sure but if D'Angelo does join then it definitely wouldn't be a
bad thing to say the least ....(fingers crossed...eh).
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US
'Soul24-7' Party set for November
As
one of the organizers of this very special event, I am pleased to
announced that myself alongside a host of other percipients of the
"Soul24-7.com" family will be holding the 1st annual US
"Soul24-7.com" Soul party to take place in the Washington DC
area this
coming November 2 - 4th (we feel this date would best fit
everyone's schedule).
Soul 24-7 is
the first internet radio station to broadcast soul music (and I do mean
soul music) 24 hours 7 days a week (hence the name) and with the success
of their 1st annual "Soul bash" to commemorate their one
anniversary of the station being on the air, soul fans alike thought it
only fitting to celebrate with a party on US soil as well. Some of the DJs
from the station will make the trip across the pond to spin at the party
alongside myself and other jocks to be comfirmed. Stay tuned to
this newsletter for more info or click on the image to go to their site.
Thanks to Mike Wheeler and Claudia for all of your hard work and
dedication in getting this to come together..
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Michael
Jackson's 'Rock my world' will be the lead-off single from
'Invincible'
It's
official - Michael Jackson
the king of Pop will make the uptempo dance track "Rock My World"
his first release and single release from his upcoming 'Invinciible' album. The song's producer is rumored to be
Rodney
Jenkins but neither he or anyone at
Epic would confirm who is (why all the
hush hush about the producer? is beyond me)
The
album has the likes of Teddy
Riley, R - Kelly and
Raphael Saadiq serving as
producers and according to MJ's fan based site planetjackson.com the
famed gloved one's favourite track on the album is
"Unbreakable," another upbeat track but again no producer given
(don't figure). The
album is said to additionally include the passionate "Cry"
produced by R - Kelly
the surprisingly, electric club song "2000
Watts"; and a posthumous rap from the late
Notorious B.I.G of the hip
hop world.
There's
no street date for the single as of yet but the album has a tentitive date
set for September 25th though again no one at Epic would comfirm this as the
official date. Keep you posted.