Maybe I been listening to too much good music and niggas who can rap lately but this feels like the most pre 2024 industry mandated slop. I feel like this is what 90% of music sounded like 2 years ago.
Rocafella’s 1st entertainment lawyer Louise West says she remembers talking to JAY-Z in the early Roc days & she asked him if he was sure about sticking with Dame & Darien Dash 😭
Hov said “I’ll be the last man standing” 😮💨🔥
Jay-Z’s “Dead or Alive” (1996), featuring Sauce Money, was an unreleased diss record aimed at Tupac during the escalating East Coast–West Coast tensions. Although the exact recording date has never been firmly established, Roc-A-Fella co-founder Kareem “Biggs” Burke revealed that the track was performed at the Apollo with The Notorious B.I.G. present. Following Pac’s death, the crew ultimately decided against releasing it out of respect for the fallen rapper. In a 2017 interview, Biggs explained that the record had circulated through mixtape channels before they decided to pull it back. An intriguing piece of mid-'90s hip-hop history, the track offers a glimpse into a battle Jay-Z and his camp were prepared to take further before choosing to let it rest.
When Jay Z does D’Evils, then drops his verse in from Rick Ross’ Free Masons, then transitions into Snoop’s Murder Was the Case WITH SNOOP! Night 2 going crazy!
Simple answer is the sound of mainstream rap music. Pretty much no rapper pre blog era rapping on video game beats with autotune and singing. Then the big 3 are able to currently get away with it because this is still their era. The 20s early 30s grow with them
La La Anthony talks about the issue of dating in the industry. She says it's better off for celebrities to date each other than a normal person, because a normal person will find it hard to understand the kinds of things their partners are expected to do on set
“What do you mean you gotta go to your co-star’s house at 01:30am?
It’s just to read lines”😭
1998 RAPPER OF THE YEAR/BEST R&B ALBUM ARTIST, presented by N’sync & Deborah Cox.
Billboard Awards Nominees:
DMX
JAY-Z
Lauryn Hill
Master P
Billboard combined both major Black genres into 1 category 😒