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'Drink The Kool-Aid' - Ice Cube's latest record from the September 28th slated LP, I Am The West.

Ice Cube - 'Drink The Kool-Aid' [CDQ] download here: [Mediafire] // [Usershare]

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The Ice Cube LP's first single, 'I Am The West.'

This video featuring Mos Def comes from Ski Beatz’ highly-anticipated 24 Hour Karate School (due September 7th.)

Video directed by Creative Control.

ALSO: Ski Beatz ft. Curren$y & Wiz Khalifa – Scaling The Building [DOWNLOAD HERE]

Dr. Dre and hip hop's classic west coast timepiece The Chronic from 1992 is set for re-release through WIDEawake Entertainment Group, the owner of Death Row Records.

Titled The Chronic Re-Lit, this edition will include seven unreleased tracks plus DVD of live never before seen interview of Dr. Dre and other Death Row related artists. Official release date for the Chronic Re-Lit is set for September 1st, 2010.

The entire 60 minutes of Dre's unseen interview footage below + download links and bonus tracks below.

Bonus included tracks:

1.Snoop Doggy Dogg - Poor Young Dave
2.CPO & Kurupt - Slippin In The West
3.Jewell & Snoop Doggy Dogg - Smoke Enough Bud
4.CPO - Foo Nay Mic
5.Snoop Doggy Dogg, Lady V. KV, Big Pimpin, 6'9", Twin & Badass - Dog Collar
6.Snoop Doggy Dogg & Threat - Touchdown
7.Kurupt, Daz, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Amber & Tyrone - Would You Ride

To download the bonus included tracks [CLICK HERE]

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BET's 'Food For Thought: Conversations With Ice Cube'

West coast legend Ice Cube meets with Angie Martinez, Stephen A. Smith and Harry Allen in a Harlem, NY restaurant to interview him on his career, in music, film and family - the first career as Cube puts it. One of the memorable questions led to Cube speaking on being in the ninth grade and writing his first rhyme. Great interview, a must watch for all fans of real West coast rap.

Posted on Sat, 17/07/2010 - 05:53

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From AllHipHop News: Rapper DMX could be a free man later today, after serving six months in an Arizona jail for violating the terms of his previous probation.

In March, DMX was sentenced to six months in jail, after the rapper tested positive for having cocaine in his system, a violation of his previous probation.

According to a tweet from longtime producer Dame Grease, DMX is slated for an early release today, almost two months earlier than anticipated.

Multiple sources told AllHipHop.com that DMX would be hitting the road for spot dates shortly after he is released.

DMX may also join the cast of Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab as well, as producers are still scrambling to find troubled stars to participate in the show.

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Quincy Jones’ “Summer In The City” has been chopped and smoked by Cookin' Soul. Laying Jay-Z and Lil Wayne’s vocals from “Hello Brooklyn” over visuals from Greg Solenström.

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Nas and Damian Marley perform 'As We Enter' and 'Count Your Blessings' from the new album, Distant Relatives live on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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Suge Knight was quickly released from police custody yesterday after posting $65,000 bail for allegedly pulling a gun on a man in South Los Angeles.

Former Death Row CEO, Suge Knight was arrested just after midnight on Thursday morning (May 20)in Gardenia and held by authorities for driving with a suspended license. His lawyer denies claims of any altercation with a deadly weapon.

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In light of recent news of the former mogul of West coast hiphop being locked up, XXL editor Meka sums up a modern-Suge Knight, the man after the Untouchable tag removed and industry pass revoked, twice Debo'ed and resorting back to smacking on naked bitches. This couldn't have been done better, it's a wrap!

Taken from XXL Mag.com
Posted Friday 21st May, 2010 by Meka

'Suge Knight… Damn, Homie'

Even though Marion “Suge” Knight is years removed from his Freddy Krueger-like urban legend tales of funding Death Row Records by (allegedly) dangling Vanilla Ice by his ankles off a hotel room balcony, (allegedly) setting up multiple beatings of anybody who dared breathe in his direction the wrong way and (allegedly) running with the Bloods, it’s still going to be hard-pressed for anybody of the Internets community to actually try to step to him today since most of this site’s visitors prefer Street Fighter to street fighting. However, eventually Suge had to get some sort of comeuppance, and it’s seemed that karmically he’s been catching wreck in spades. Some would even say he’s long overdue for it as well.

I don’t think anybody envisioned this kind of getback, however. Having your underwear of all things sold at a public auction is embarrassing enough, but getting robbed and shot at a Kanye West (I know, right?) after party, having the label your created, Death Row Records, taken out from under him, then punched out in the middle of the street… twice – once by a barber, the other by Akon’s weed carrier – is just something else. That’s not to mention the many lawsuits and bankruptcy filings he’s had to face.

Thing is, in spite of his current losing streak, Suge is still doing the things that got him caught up in the first place. I don’t ever support throwing hands at a woman unless it’s in the name of self-defense, yet he caught a charge for beating his girlfriend, and blamed of robbing both Luniz member Yukmouth for his jewels and – perhaps in retaliation for getting his face crushed in – another weed carrier of Akon. You would think that he’d learn from the past and, at the very least, “soften” up his style in a similar, quasi-homosexual manner Master P did when he turned No Limit into a child-friendly, curse-free endeavor, especially as a 45-year-old man who hasn’t been musically relevant in over a decade.

Of course, I’d only recommend this to him from a safe distance. While things haven’t been exactly chipper for him, Lord knows I’m still not trying to be on the receiving end of a Suge Knight special. Look at what happened to Yukmouth. And his girlfriend. And Orlando Anderson. And that guy he had jumped half to death at Long Beach’s Lakewood Mall back in the 90s. I mean I could sue him afterwards, but what good would that do when the guy had his draws repossessed? That turnip was squeezed dry a long time ago.

Suge should at least take pride in the fact he helped usher in a new era of music and business management. However, if I could give him a word of advice I’d recommend he should have ridden off into the sunset years ago as the feared mogul you once were, as trying to cement your legacy as a 45-year-old stick up kid just really isn’t working at this point. It didn’t for OJ Simpson. But then again, I like retaining the ability to reproduce children and walk without mechanical assistance, so you can take my advice with a grain of salt.

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Christopher George Latore Wallace, May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997.

Biggie Smalls would be 38 today. Lil Cease of Junior MAFIA remembers his friend. R.I.P.