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For all intents and purposes, the long feud between Mobb Deep and Jay-Z is dead. Prodigy and Hov recently sat down to discuss doing business together.

"We got friends in common," P explained about how the meeting came about.

It looks like the Mobb are going to be executive producing the debut by Sam Scarfo, one of Jay's first signings upon becoming Def Jam prez.

"We're going to help him with a little bit as far as the beats and all that," Prodigy said, clarifying his team's role in the project.

"Me and Jay-Z had a sit-down over it," he continued. "We ironed out our little differences. We reached out to each other like, 'Let's have a sit-down, have a meeting.' It's all business, it's all good. Basically [the meeting] was [put together] through our manager Storm. Storm also manages Scarfo."

Besides sharing the manager, P says he and Havoc were attracted to the Scarfo project because the Jersey MC has such a unique style and "brings something new to the table."

When you pick up Mobb Deep's latest, Blood Money (in stores Tuesday), you'll notice that one of the most anticipated records on the album has been omitted: the Dr. Dre-produced "Nightmares."

"Yeah, some things happened, I can't really explain that one right there," Havoc said in New York last week.

"Basically it didn't get cleared," Prodigy added.

Havoc assured that the song will definitely pop up on a future Mobb Deep mixtape.

"You will hear it on the streets," he said. "It will be leaked. But we ain't gonna profit on it. It'll get out there some way."

Another long-running hip-hop beef may have come to an end as well. Lil' Kim's close friend Maino recently had a round of fisticuffs with one of Kim's former best friends, Lil' Cease. The altercation was what they call in hip-hop terms "shooting a fair one." It was one-on-one, a fair fight.

"It wasn't nothing, dawg," Cease — fresh from a 17-day stretch on New York's Rikers Island for possession of marijuana, resisting arrest and probation violation — explained last week. "N---as seen each other, we had problems, it was real personal. I saw him on his strip. ... I was going to the liquor store, the n---a approached me, took off his chain, we start scrappin'. We fought, nobody jumped in, nobody got jumped."

Cease says after the fight, both men agreed to end their beef.

"He said he was good, I said I was good, I jumped in my car and left," the Junior M.A.F.I.A. frontman added. "To be honest, I dug that. It's nothing for the rap police to be involved in. Wasn't no guns. It was some real old-school Brooklyn sh-- and that was it. Dude says he don't got no problems with me, I don't have no more problems with him."

Cease does say he still has problems with the Diplomats' Jim Jones and Cam'ron, however. He says he doesn't appreciate them calling him a snitch in various media outlets.

"Keep my name out of your mouth," Cease insisted. "I was really bugging off Cam because I saw him a couple of times ... and everything was all gravy. I'm like, 'OK, n---as is taking shots.' But [Cam] sat there and did something I didn't do. You get on a record and say the n---a threw up the Roc sign before he shot you [last year]. That's dry snitching. I got no love for them."

Cease says he's been catching it pretty hard since Lil' Kim and others labeled him a snitch after he testified against her in the highly publicized perjury trial.

"It took its toll," he said. "It [messed] up my street cred for a minute. I never got disrespected as far as n---as in your grill saying it, but that's everybody's word: 'The n---a is a snitch.' That had me feeling [bad]. A lot of people didn't want to do business with me. They didn't want to play our records. They thought I fouled out."

Cease says he wrote Kim a long, heartfelt letter since she's been incarcerated but has yet to hear back. Biggie's best friend says he plans to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he and his J.M. cohorts aren't snitches on the DVD "Lil' Cease's Reality Check," due in June.

"It's not like I'm talking about [Kim]," he explained. "I'm talking about the mistakes she made. It's just straight politics and talking to people about the law and how not to make mistakes. I got Jadakiss on there, Snoop, Bleu Da Vinci, Eve, Russell Simmons. ... We just explaining the whole situation, telling n---as that I didn't tell. I don't get down like that."

Cease says he's going to show the full transcript of his testimony in Kim's trial as added proof. The Junior M.A.F.I.A. are also planning to release a soundtrack mixtape for the DVD with guest appearances from Method Man and Peedi Crakk. Cease is also working on his solo LP.

"A real power unit is trying to holla at me," he said.

Cam'ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Hell Rell, JR Writer and… Money Mike? Cam's latest signing to Diplomat Records is none other than comedian Katt Williams, who's best known for recent cameos in hip-hop videos as well as his turn as Money Mike in "Friday After Next."

"Universal [Records] gave me a deal, and it was really a good deal financially, but it didn't put me at a home," Williams said. "I had two places to meet with before I signed off on [the Universal deal], and the last person I met was Cam.

"Dip Set is already a movement," he added about why he wanted to sign with the label. "The main thing is if you don't grow up with dudes, and you're not in a camp from its inception, you have to be with a camp whose ideals and goals mix with yours. Dip Set is my perfect element. The whole flashy, fly and still street-credible thing. That's what I represent on the daily, son. It's almost a no-brainer."

Williams — who's currently filming the Eddie and Charlie Murphy comedy "Norbit" with Cuba Gooding Jr., Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin and Clifton Powell — says his debut, It's Pimpin', Pimpin, was already 85 percent done before his signing. The LP already features Lil' Jon, E-40, Lyfe Jennings and Snoop Dogg, and Williams said he fully expects Cam and the Dips to jump on board as well.

Two Saturdays ago in Atlanta, Williams taped his first HBO special in Atlanta with guests Lil' Jon, Da Brat and Outkast. Toward the end, Cam came out onstage and announced that Williams is joining the Dips.

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US-Rapper angeschossen - anschließend führte er geplantes Interview fort
(01.05.2006 16:10)

Der US-Rapper Gravy aus Brooklyn sollte am Mittwochabend ein Interview mit dem New Yorker Radiosender Hot 97 führen.

Als er jedoch mit Freunden das Aufnahmestudio des Senders betreten wollte, tauchte ein schwarzer Escalade auf, aus dem mehrere Schüsse auf Gravy gefeuert wurden.

Der Rapper kam mit einem Streifschuss davon und ließ sich nicht davon abhalten, das geplante Interview zu geben. Mit blutendem Bein gab er das Interview und wurde anschließend ins Krankenhaus gebracht.

quelle: ssn



http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5626

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Power Music, Electric Revival.

Four Members Of T.I.'s Entourage Shot After Show

Four members of rapper T.I.'s posse were shot after a highway gun battle in Cincinnati early Wednesday morning. According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, witnesses told police that words were exchanged and a fight broke out inside the Club Ritz at an after-hours party following a show by T.I. and Yung Joc earlier in the evening across town at the Bogart's nightclub...




The fight reportedly moved outside and shots were fired around 3:20 a.m., injuring three men and a woman whose identities have not yet been released.

Police told local NBC affiliate, WLWT, that the rolling gun battle began after T.I. left Club Ritz and shots were fired into two vans transporting his entourage as they traveled down the highway.

The shooting led to the closing of the southbound lanes of Interstate 75, one of the two main highways leading to and from downtown Cincinnati, during the morning rush hour as police investigated the three-mile long crime scene. Among the evidence they were looking at was a black van that was believed to belong to T.I., which was found along I-75 after the incident, as well as a white van that was also found along the highway.

The names and conditions of the victims have not been released, but WLWT said that homicide detectives were dispatched to the scene, indicating that at least two injuries were considered life threatening. As of Wednesday morning, the other two victims had been treated and released. T.I. was not among those injured and a spokesperson for the rapper could not be reached for comment on the incident.

Community leaders and police asked the Cincinnati City Council to close down Club Ritz last year after several incidents at the club, but council members voted against it. Two months later, in June 2005, three people were shot in front of the club after a fight spilled outside.

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Neues Album von THE VETERAN CLICK



Das Album soll Mitte Juni kommen

www.myspace.com/theveteranclick

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MC Breed Sentenced To Jail

Flint, Michigan's MC Breed has been sentenced to serve a year in state prison for failure to pay over $200,000 in child support...

On Thursday (May 11), Genesee Circuit Court Judge Richard Yullie ordered 34-year-old MC Breed, whose real name is Eric T. Breed, to prison for violating his probation in lacking to make payments for child support.

Breed pleaded with the Court, saying that he is broke.

"I'm in so much debt right now that it makes my head spin every time I think about it," Breed said.

The judge however, showed no mercy for Breed's plea of being broke claiming that records show that his case dragged on for an extensive amount of time.

Yullie also noted that Breed had previously pleaded guilty in the fall of 1999 to attempted no support.

"Someone looking at this file would ask me why did I give Mr. Breed so many opportunities?... You have not met your obligations you have in respect to supporting these children."

Before being sentenced by Judge Yullie, Breed faced another judge for a separate child support case.

Genesee Circuit Judge Archie Hayman also sentenced Breed to serve a year in confinement in the county jail, with the provision that he can participate in the work release program if he could find a job.

But Judge Yullie's judgment to a year in prison without the work release program supercedes Judge Hayman's ruling.

Before Judge Yullie rendered a judgment, Breed apologized for all of his "inconsistencies" and said that he'd given up on his pursuits of the rap game.

Additionally, the rapper also had outstanding warrants in the Detroit area for failing to a pay speeding ticket and operating a vehicle with a suspended license.

But these extra penalties were waived since he was heading to prison.

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DJ Premier to Produce Royce Da 5'9"'s Entire Album


Last night during a show in chicago show, Royce Da 5'9" annouced to the crowd that his next album will be entirely produced DJ Premier...

Before the album release, 2 to 3 mixtapes are due to come out this year, the first with G-Unit's DJ Whoo Kid.
The album is slated to be released by either Oct. or Feb of next year.

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Xzibit Off Columbia, Enter Koch, New Album In 2006



Xzibit is off Columbia, and will release his next album on Koch Records, late 2006 to keep up with his "1 album every second year" schedule since 1996.
Xzibit is currently working on the new album, but there is no information about producers or album title yet.

Koch is looking to become a powerhouse in hiphop, with artists like Snoop Dogg, Dogg Pound, Alchemist, Rick Ross, Ghostface, DJ Khaled, Scarface, Sheek Louch, M.O.P., D-Block, RZA, Cormega, Diplomats, Wyclef Jean, etc. all having released albums on Koch, or planning to do so.

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Beanie Sigel Shot!!!



Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel was shot this morning (May 25) on a South Philadelphia street. While details are still being confirmed, sources told AllHipHop.com that Sigel was shot in a robbery attempt. Police said 5 men in two vehicles boxed the rapper in and that a man with a beard, jeans and boots open-fired on Sigel, striking him twice in the arm. Sigel drove himself to a local hospital where he is being treated and expected to recover.

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