Layzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone and Flesh-N-Bone, what have(n’t) you done?
OK, we’ll let Flesh-N-Bone off because I think he was in the clink at the time, but the rest of the Bones are being straight up suified for allegedly not showing up for a performance in Washington last year.
The law suit has been brought by a basketball team, with some people called the Jazz of Tacoma claiming that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony:
- RECEIVED payment for their scheduled performance in April 2007
- DONE a runner
I’m not sure what “injunctive relief” is, but the Jazz are after a bit of that, alongside $280,000 compensation.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am

Looks like Global Radio have been taking a leaf out of the BBC’s book. Multi MOBO-winning DJ Steve Sutherland has been suspended after some listeners to his networked Galaxy radio show complained after he aired Busta Rhymes’ “Arab Money”.
“Arab Money” is just another blingalicious number really (also, it takes a fair amount of “inspiration” from Erick Sermon’s “React”), except instead of namechecking east coast / west coast locations it mentions Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Iran. One can imagine problems may arise when Busta breaks out lyrics like “Sittin in casinos while I’m gamblin with Arafat”, and referencing “cameltoe bitches”. Oh, and pronouncing “arab” as “ay-rab” isn’t going to help, either.
Meanwhile, just saying the words “Iran and Iraq, Saudi Arabia!” is enough to get some folk riled these days.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 11:45 am

My favourite bits?
“Yo, where do I put it at?”
“Yabba dabba do!”
“This smell gooood, what is this again?”
“You using white pepper? Step yo’ game up!”
“I wanna taste yours. I don’t trust mine.”
Check it out over the page.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 11:23 am

I suspect the bulk of Roll Deep’s new video had already been recorded when the list of BNP members leaked, but that hasn’t stopped them adding a scrolling list of names and locations below a figure with the head of a superimposed Nick Griffin.
It’s a pretty cheap alteration to the video really, and it gets their point across with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. And with many people claiming that the whole BNP list furore goes against the basic principles of democracy, it risks being seen as a spot of cynical witch-hunt bandwagon-jumping.
Having said that… er, check it out after the jump.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 11:25 am

I suppose if you record a rap song called “Girlz Gone Wild”, about girls going wild (by which I don’t mean feral), there’s a fair chance it’s going to come to the attention of the folk behind “adult” DVD series Girls Gone Wild (link NSFW, duh).
And so it is with someone called Lil Goonie, who should surely be spending his time recording sample-heavy tracks with titles like “Hey You Guyyyys!” and “It’s Wet Ain’t It? Drink It!”.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am

There’s a big punching match tomorrow night, with Joe Calzaghe from Wales heading over to Madison Square Garden to do some boxing on Roy Jones, Jr. In return, Jones will do some boxing back. That’s how the sport of boxing works. Rappers don’t get much more naughty than men who hit each other in the face repeatedly for the entertainment of the masses.
Jones has released albums and singles previously, but this tune seems more like an ad for HBO’s fight coverage than a single in itself. Since it’s a hip-hop tune you’d be within your rights to expect some mega-dissing to be in order, but actually it’s very respectful to Calzaghe. Is that what happens when older people rap? A little decency enters the equation?

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Friday November 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am

There are naughty rappers, and there are naughty rappers. In the scheme of rap naughtiness - which tends to run from overdoing the drugzngunz to all-out murderation - doing a poo while spitting a little flow is pretty small beer.

Nevertheless it is not the kind of thing my mum would like me to do, I’m fairly sure.

Kid Famous, in this video entitled “What I Wrote When Taking A Shit”, tells us that he has opened for Nas and written for Jay-Z; so assuming he’s not a big fat fibber he clearly has a bit of pedigree. And he does seem eager to be understood: “Do you understand the words that are coming out my mouth?” is as plaintive a plea as you are likely to hear today, I’d imagine.

I suppose the angle here is: “Hey you! Look what I can come up with while dropping a few brown bombs on the porcelain shore! You couldn’t do this even with your bum clean and pants up!”

Adjudge whether the Kid is as good as he reckons over the page…
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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 11:00 am

Rap types like to harp on about how much champers and whatnot they knock back, but this is the first instance I can think of in which one of them has chucked up in the manner of a teenager necking White Ace on a park roundabout.

To be fair to Jermaine Dupri (left, click image to enlarge), it was his birthday. And if you can’t blow chunks over a Jackson on your 36th, when can you?

Apparently he’d been a-sipping on Jay-Z’s Ace Of Spades champagne and a fair bit of tequila when the vomitus occurred.

Should point out here that Janet Jackson is Jermaine Dupri’s girlfriend, and that’s why he was sat next to her - it’s not like he just spotted her across the room and decide to ralph over her because he didn’t like Damita Jo.
[source: Digital Spy]

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday September 30th, 2008 at 9:59 am

The lesson to be learned from this story, I think, is basically that if you create a law related to smoking, Snoop Dogg will break it. The erstwhile weed-addled rapper foreswore the green a while back, if you believe that, but clearly hasn’t given up the ciggies.
Onstage in Amsterdam Snoop sparked up a fag (THAT’S BRITISH SLANG FOR CIGARETTE, AMERICANS) despite the country having brought in a UK-style smoking ban in July this year. Ironically, if Snoop had hit one of the infamous coffee shops in the city he’d have been able to draw on a pure spliff with no hassle, because all marijuana in the establishments must now be imbibed without tobacco. Not that it matters really, it’s not like he was ever going to be arrested.
God, am I really writing an article about someone smoking a cigarette? Is this the world we’re living in now? I’m sorry. But anyway, let’s hope they make it illegal to smoke through your bum while perched up a tree real soon, because withing months we’ll be spotting Snoop pulling some delightfully odd manoeuvres in a public park.
[source: Starpulse.com]

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 am

It’s all about “eezy” these days, isn’t it? Kanye’s Kanyeezy, Lil Wayne is Lil Weezy, and Young Jeezy is, well, Young Jeezy. Amy Winehouse is Sneezy/Wheezy/Skeezy, in case you were wondering. Anyway, Vice magazine’s online TV arm VBS.tv interviewed Mr Jeezy recently, and in the process provided one of those painfully/deliciously uncomfortable interview spectacles that you end up watching through your fingers.
Questions such as “Do you eat boiled peanuts?” suggest a lack of research on the part of the interviewer Baby Balls (no, nobody in this story has a proper name), who soon found himself roundly flamed out there on the internet barbecue once the video had gone up.
Now Mr Balls has published a rather entertaining piece in Vice giving advice to anybody else who would like to initiate some kind of beefiness with a rapper. As an admission of his own failings that contributed to the terse atmosphere it’s pretty honest and amusing, with pointers such as: “Make no preparations whatsoever for the interview. Do not listen to the rapper’s music the night before or even read his wikipedia page.”
Read and take notes on the full article here, but before you do you might want to check out the interview itself over this here page.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Friday September 19th, 2008 at 11:00 am