Did You Know Kanye West Was In A Group Before Blowing Up?

When was the first time you heard of Kanye West? 

Many of us were introduced to him as the guy who rapped through a wired jaw on “Through the Wire” in 2003. Other listeners who voraciously read through credits might have noticed that he produced multiple tracks on JAY-Z’s 2001 classic, The Blueprint, or even the Hov ballad “This Can’t Be Life” from the year prior.

But years before Kanye became a rising star in music and a go getter in several industries, he was actually a Go Getter.

The Go Getters were a Chicago rap group in the mid-to-late ’90s, consisting of a young Kanye West alongside GLC, Timmy G, and Arrowstar. They were orbited by an extended crew of characters familiar to any Kanye fan, from collaborators like Really Doe, Malik Yusef, and Rhymefest, to the group’s managers: cousins Don C and John Monopoly. 

The beginnings of the group can be traced back to the day Kanye met Monopoly in 1990, when they were each in their early teens. After being introduced by a mutual friend, the pair admired each other’s beatmaking skills and formed a short-lived production company. “I quit making beats nine months after meeting Kanye West because he was so good and it was like, why am I even doing this?” Monopoly recalls with a laugh.

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(No Homo) Remember The Time Drake Grabbed A Man's Buttocks? (Video)

Internet reactions:

"He was just trying to feel the leather of the coat, seeing of that shit was Pelle or somn, son was probably bragging all day in school how he copped this new Pelle Pelle and Drake didn’t believe him, and when he felt it, he knew that shit was pleather and son was lying. If thats gay, then we’re all gay fam. smh."

"This is from degrassi that was his character"

"Shit i would never expect this from Dra…

Nevermind"

"Drake is just so assured in the fact he is straight that he can do this. Ya’ll niggas calling everything gay is seriously sus."

"These scenes are not from Degrassi. There is no explanation for these videos. I repeat I have no idea where these are from but they are nooooooot from Degrassi I am basically a Degrassi historian and can certify that."

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How It All Started: Pusha T vs. Lil' Wayne?

Back in 2006, Lil Wayne appeared on the front cover of Vibe magazine rocking apparel from A Bathing Ape, as well as wearing BAPE clothes in his “Hustler Musik” music video. The Clipse, a hip-hop group formed by two brothers Pusha T and No Malice, were some of the first people to ever wear BAPE clothing along with Pharrell, so after they saw Weezy rocking it, they released a song called “Mr. Me Too” were they sent a shot at him:

“Niggas bite the style from the shoes to the watches”

In an interview with Complex in the same year, Wayne responded to The Clipse after he got asked if he wore A Bathing Ape clothing once he saw they had started the trend:

“I ain’t gotta talk about no coke nor no fucking BAPEs. I got my own shoe out nigga, that OG collection Reebok nigga. I got my own jeans out nigga, W. Two Us, I’ve got my name—the W is gonna be on your bitch ass. Aight?”

“I don’t see niggas like that. You talking to the best. Talk to me like you’re talking to the best. I don’t see no fuckin’ Clipse. Come on man. Weezy, man. They had to do a song with us to get hot, B. “What Happened To That Boy?” C’mon B. Don’t do that, dog. This is a fucking legend you’re talking to right here. 14 years, B. How many years them niggas been around?”

“Who the fuck is Pharrell? Do you really respect him? That nigga wore BAPEs and y’all thought he was weird. I wore it and y’all thought it was hot. C’mon man. C’mon now. The nigga walked around with niggas that looked like you, y’all thought he was crazy. If I did it, y’all gonna think these niggas are killers.”

 The Clipse did not like Tunechi‘s response one little bit! Check out what Pusha T said to Virginia’s WWHV Hot 102.1 FM radio show after he heard what Wayne said about himself and his brother:

“Wayne, you sort of copying The Clipse right now. I think he made a bad judgment call, maybe hes got an album coming out. This is a small thing to a giant, he’s just acting out.”

“If anything, I am upset about him using the F word before my name, being as though he likes to sit around and kiss men. If you gonna kiss men, you can’t even use them words in conjunction with The Clipse, Pharrell, or any of the family. He’s definitely acting out right now. Jay-Z? Do what you gotta do. But involve The Clipse? You don’t want to do that. I already don’t look at him like a G. He ain’t nothing like me.”

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André 3000 Celebrated Mother’s Day by Releasing Two New Songs?

"André Benjamin, aka André 3000 of Outkast, celebrated Mother’s Day in the traditional fashion this year: signing up for Instagram and releasing two new solo tracks. You’d expect the new music to be bigger news than the Instagram account.."

'Young, Rich & Dangerous,' the Best Kris Kross Album That No One Ever Heard

by: Philip Trapp

By mid-decade 1990s, breakout hip-hop youth duo Kris Kross were already discounted as novelty in the minds of most music fans. Bursting onto the scene in 1992 with their infectious No. 1 hit, "Jump," Atlanta teen rappers Chris Kelly ("Mac Daddy") and Chris Smith ("Daddy Mac"), guided by then-unknown writer and producer Jermaine Dupri, created an ephemeral pop culture smash that moved over 2 million units. It also branded them a one-hit wonder, ex-post-facto, a juvenile gimmick.

Twelve and 13 years old when they recorded "Jump," its parent album and Kris Kross' debut LP, Totally Krossed Out, sold 4 million copies on the strength of that single and succeeding jams like "Warm It Up," "I Missed the Bus" and "It's a Shame." 1993's follow-up album, Da Bomb, sadly embodied its moniker as far as critics and mainstreamers were concerned; the green but confident display of gangsta rap fell on deaf ears, selling a quarter of the amount of its trendy predecessor.

And it truly is a shame, because their third and final album, 1996's Young, Rich & Dangerous, is possibly the Chrises' (and, perhaps, Dupri's) finest record. Coming into their own as rappers by the post-pubescent epoch of ages 16 and 17, and further coalescing with Dupri's progressive G-funk production style, Dangerous is not only the Kris Kross swan song but a practically unheard -- and now unfortunately forgotten -- Southern-aping-West-Coast, feel-good, hip-hop masterpiece.

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Lil' Kim Was Never On Bad Boy! Kriss Kross Was Never On So So Def!

"Puff didn’t think she was capable of selling platinum records

For that matter, he really didn't think any female rapper was capable of going platinum and wouldn't sign Kim onto "Bad Boy." Lil Kim proved him wrong because her album, Hard Core sold over 1 million records - 1.4 million records to be exact. Not only that but The Notorious Kim sold 1.41 million just in the United States alone and 3.23 million in the whole world. Also, La Bella Mafia sold 1.1 million records. Wow, she really did prove P. Diddy wrong! Not only did she prove to him she could sell platinum records but she proved she could sell multi-platinum records."

Kim has been signed to & released albums on 'Undeas', 'Big Beat' & 'Atlantic Records'

Kris Kross was never even part of the label (So So Def), as it was their success with Ruffhouse/Columbia that launched Dupri's career as a producer and gave him the clout to start So So Def in the first place. They were signed to & released albums on Ruffhouse/Columbia.

Kriss Kross was basically just extended family/affiliates of So So Def.

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"It’s OK if Cardi B and Nicki Minaj don’t like each other"

By: Claire Lobenfeld

Less than a week after Cardi B released her deft debut Invasion of Privacy, Nicki Minaj stoked the rumors of beef between the two rappers by releasing two new tracks that could conceivable be aimed at Cardi. After Nicki’s tense, and seemingly confessional, interview on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show, Claire Lobenfeld trims the fat off this possible beef and examines what both artists bring to the table at this moment.

When Cardi B released Invasion of Privacy last week, there was a lot of chatter on Twitter, at least in my own timeline, about whether or not both Cardi and Nicki Minaj can shine without stealing each other’s light. I saw haughty tweets condemning the idea of competition between them and hopeful tweets nearing on fanfic about how powerful they could be together. And they are strong together: just listen to ‘MotorSport’, a 2017 Migos single that both Nicki and Cardi are featured on. Without
them, it’s a slog. But since that track didn’t result in the two of them in an affectionate alliance, it felt fairly clear to me that they’re probably just not each other’s cup of tea.

And that’s OK! It’s not anti-feminist to not want to be friends with or be a fan of another woman. (In fact, it’s actually more belittling to women to expect that they like each other simply because they share a gender.) Plus, this is hip-hop! It’s about competition! We would have just let LL Cool J keep “G.O.A.T.” as a goofy album title instead of adopting it as an esteemed measurement if striving to be the best wasn’t part of the game.

The Thursday after Cardi released her impressive debut album Invasion of Privacy, Apple Music declared it #NickiDay. Minaj debuted two singles on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show and hinted at a brand new album coming later this year, and told a story about how she had her feelings hurt by some press Cardi B did after ‘MotorSport’ was released.

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You Hate Cardi B... Why?

"But honestly though...

If you hate Cardi, you hate yourself because underneath this veil of dictated modesty and taught oppressive respectability, we are all Cardi.

If there was no system staring in our faces, constantly reiterating to us that our AAVE was “ghetto”, our long nails were inappropriate, our colorful hairstyles were a distraction and our demeanor was intimidating we would all be Cardi.

• all whilst using our vernacular and Black girl aesthetics as props but this aint about that right now •

If you weren't afraid of being rejected, if you weren't afraid of being talked about, if you weren't afraid of standing out like an orange tic-tac in a pack of white...you would be Cardi.

Cardi is you at home with your girls, locked behind closed doors being your truest self. And Cardi is a reminder that you camouflage for love. You want Cardi to sit down and be quiet because she is a harsh reminder that even with doing all that you have done to conform and follow the rules, this loud mouthed ratchet gutta ball hoodrat from the projects just made history being who she is and you cant fake it enough to get a call back.

And regardless of what you feel Cardi is or how you feel she should “identify” as, the indisputable fact is that she is a non-#6f woman who grew up along side other “underdog” low-income Black and Brown girls. In the same hoods. Running the same streets. Dealing with the same trash from a society who had already determined who she was going to be because of where she is from before she even knew who she was. Cardi was never SUPPOSE to make it. She was suppose to die where she was. She was never suppose to make it out. And not only did she make it out, she came in like a got damn wrecking ball and took the entire world by storm. Unsuspectingly...

You should be proud.

But I get it though.

You hate Cardi for doing what you don't have the courage to do.

Be authentic.

And do the work."

- Jennifer Renee

The Original Version: Nas & Puff Daddy "Hate Me Now" (DJ Clue Exclusive) + The Sample

"The original, very rare version of "Hate Me Now" with the "O Fortuna" sample. The sample wasn't cleared so the studio version has the sample replaced by a synthesizer."