20. "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" - Outkast
19."Kala" - M.I.A.
18."King" - T.I.
17."God Son" - Nas
16. "Future sex/love sounds - Justin Timberlake
15."I am...Sasha Fierce" Beyonce
14. "Fishscale" - Ghostface killah
13. "Stillmatic" -Nas
12."Late Registration" -Kanye West
11. "Tha Carter 2" -Lil Wayne
10. "Lord Willin" - The Clipse
9. "The Fix" - Scarface
8. "Attention Deficit" -Wale
7. "BP3" -Jay-Z
6. "The college dropout" -Kanye West
5. "Black Album" -Jay-Z
4. "Food and liquor" -Lupe Fiasco
3. 808's and heartbreak" - Kanye West
2. Graduation - Kanye West.
1. Blueprint - Jay-Z
Yeah, yeah, yeah... We know. A LOT of Ye' and Jay-Z! ( In fact, every Kanye West album is on our list) this was pure hip-hop and r&b) Blueprint was the favorite amongst the people who helped compile this list! It got 7 first place votes. Lupe's "Food and Liquor" suprised me, bc I personally liked "The Cool" a lot better. Idk. An up and down decade for music, but I like what's coming up, I think hip-hop is making a turn for the better. And oh yeah... My favorite hip-hop album of thisd decade was...(Drum roll!) "Be" -Common.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
the LIST
Alright... We hope you love it!
Our favorite songs this year
7. "Run this town" Jay-Z ft. Rihanna and Kanye West
6. "Ego" Beyonce ft. Kanye West
5. "Chillin" Wale ft. Lady Gaga
4. "Popular Demand" Clipse ft. Cam'ron
3. " Love come down" Diddy and Dirty Money
2. "Every girl" Young Money
1. "Empire state of Mind" Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys
Our favorite albums/mixtape
7. So Far gone -Drake
6.The Burrrprint -Gucci Mane
5. Till the Casket drops -Clipse
4.Ready -Trey Songz
3.Back to the feature -Wale
2. Attention Deficit -Wale
1. BP3 - Jay-Z
Our favorite artists
7. Lady Gaga
6. Beyonce
5. Kanye West
4. Kid Cudi
3. Jay-Z
2. Drake
1. Wale
Overall 2009 was a great year for hip-hop and our site. Next year, we hope to focus on more indie acts, and getting there music to you guys. We've enjoyed doing this, and we hope to continue doing it. All love, and Happy holidays. - MandM
Our favorite songs this year
7. "Run this town" Jay-Z ft. Rihanna and Kanye West
6. "Ego" Beyonce ft. Kanye West
5. "Chillin" Wale ft. Lady Gaga
4. "Popular Demand" Clipse ft. Cam'ron
3. " Love come down" Diddy and Dirty Money
2. "Every girl" Young Money
1. "Empire state of Mind" Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys
Our favorite albums/mixtape
7. So Far gone -Drake
6.The Burrrprint -Gucci Mane
5. Till the Casket drops -Clipse
4.Ready -Trey Songz
3.Back to the feature -Wale
2. Attention Deficit -Wale
1. BP3 - Jay-Z
Our favorite artists
7. Lady Gaga
6. Beyonce
5. Kanye West
4. Kid Cudi
3. Jay-Z
2. Drake
1. Wale
Overall 2009 was a great year for hip-hop and our site. Next year, we hope to focus on more indie acts, and getting there music to you guys. We've enjoyed doing this, and we hope to continue doing it. All love, and Happy holidays. - MandM
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Mindless Souls presents...Young Free
What up! We (Mindless Souls) wanted to do something a different... See, we put up all of these celebrity posts, and blogs, and statements etc... This is a hip-hop site, and what better way to show our appreciation for the genre by following an up and comer in the biz. This is a six-part series... Ladies and Gents... Young Free.
Mindless Souls what it look like?!?!? I feel like a news reporter or something! As I'm emailing you my post, I'm on my laptop looking for "The Carter" Documentary. Idk why I'm doing this, but I wanna see how different niggas do this shit. I had a big show like 3 nights ago, and I freestyled my whole set. Like, no background vocals, nada. Why? I blame it on the drugs, and the party life. I've recorded about 3 mixtapes worth of music in the last 2 weeks. Thanksgiving eve, like 9 songs, I went to bed @ 630, and I was back up @ 9. This is the life I want... Girls come snd go. A nigga like myself just record my nigga. Typical people wouldn't comprehend that hunger. Like, I feel like I'm the BEST rapper alive sometimes. I think that's why I couldn't fuck with Black Sunday. I felt like I was light years ahead of niggas. I got with B and elevated. He's Cortez 2 my Wayne. Lol. We are really elsewhere. That's nothing against J-rip or whoever, but I'm a fucking different specie than them niggas. They ain't friends of mines. They competition to me. Them niggas frozen food, and thet need me to heat em up. I like Privy. Like, I like his hunger. I like Madison Jay, snyp, Bonez, and I think that's where it stops. I look @ Raleigh and laugh. Fuck with me. The radio station is wack, the artists don't have an outlet. Ooh well. What can you do? My brand is growing as we speak, eeerybody want me to do their venue, or songs, and I luv the luv. It's cool. Mark and Money showed me luv way back. And I appreciate it. A! I'm tired of typing! I luv yall. -FRee-O dec 2nd 2thousand9
Mindless Souls what it look like?!?!? I feel like a news reporter or something! As I'm emailing you my post, I'm on my laptop looking for "The Carter" Documentary. Idk why I'm doing this, but I wanna see how different niggas do this shit. I had a big show like 3 nights ago, and I freestyled my whole set. Like, no background vocals, nada. Why? I blame it on the drugs, and the party life. I've recorded about 3 mixtapes worth of music in the last 2 weeks. Thanksgiving eve, like 9 songs, I went to bed @ 630, and I was back up @ 9. This is the life I want... Girls come snd go. A nigga like myself just record my nigga. Typical people wouldn't comprehend that hunger. Like, I feel like I'm the BEST rapper alive sometimes. I think that's why I couldn't fuck with Black Sunday. I felt like I was light years ahead of niggas. I got with B and elevated. He's Cortez 2 my Wayne. Lol. We are really elsewhere. That's nothing against J-rip or whoever, but I'm a fucking different specie than them niggas. They ain't friends of mines. They competition to me. Them niggas frozen food, and thet need me to heat em up. I like Privy. Like, I like his hunger. I like Madison Jay, snyp, Bonez, and I think that's where it stops. I look @ Raleigh and laugh. Fuck with me. The radio station is wack, the artists don't have an outlet. Ooh well. What can you do? My brand is growing as we speak, eeerybody want me to do their venue, or songs, and I luv the luv. It's cool. Mark and Money showed me luv way back. And I appreciate it. A! I'm tired of typing! I luv yall. -FRee-O dec 2nd 2thousand9
Thursday, December 3, 2009
50 going in on Jigga with Rolling Stone
When Rolling Stone caught up with 50 Cent for a Close-Up in our current issue (dated December 10, 2009), the Queens MC was having some of his signature tattoos lasered off his arms to benefit his budding acting career while musing on the leak of his latest disc, Before I Self Destruct. Fiddy also chatted about his new collaboration with Philly rapper Beanie Sigel and mouthed off about another New York legend with a major 2009 LP: Jay-Z.
"I Go Off," your single with Beanie Sigel, recently came out. There's a lot of speculation that he's going to be in G-Unit. Is that going to happen?
There's a strong possibility we're going to be doing it. We're starting with this song, and the deal structure between me and him is a complete 50 percent profit split. It's not like an artist deal, like you get 50 percent of everything. For me to deal with Beanie, I'd have to explore the possibility of doing that the entire project, because I wouldn't want to force him to make commercial music, where he can make decent money — a lot of money — without selling a lot of records, and just let it be what it is. That's the details, the difference between doing a deal with that artist and other artists.
And he has a lot to say about the way he was treated on Roc-A-Fella.
If he writes those things, you should expect it to be all on the record.
When he came out of jail, you offered him $800,000 to sign, but Jay-Z blocked it?
He would have definitely got the 800,000 at that point, because I had just did the Mobb Deep and M.O.P. deals, and at that point, there was a lot more physical cash available. The music business was in a different state. When you say 800,000 now, it ain't going to be that now, just because of the way things are. What the expectations are for return on actual CD sales — I still have to get the money from Interscope, and it has to be deemed a legitimate deal, they're not going to just put money in the bag.
Were you saying Jay had the deal going the wrong way by not letting him take that opportunity?
I think he was saying, "Roc la familia, we family, it's the Roc-A-Fella gang," and then using traditional business tactics. See what I'm saying? At the same time, we had them in a space where they were feeling like they were family, and they didn't have to pay attention to everything. He didn't have their interests in mind, he was just doing what he had to do for himself.
Is Beanie talking about Jay?
I think when you hear it, you'll understand it. He has some stuff he has to get off his chest. You have to actually hear it, I don't want to blow it.
His last single was all about what Jay said about him. Has it changed the way you feel about Jay at all?
With Jay-Z, I don't know him personally. I don't think they do, either. They just had stronger access with him.Who?
As far as artists he works with. I think he completely has his best interests in mind. When you commit to working with other artists — I have to be passionate about it. Of course, you want to make money, so you only commit to the things that you're excited about, that you feel you have the chemistry with or has something there, but after you get past that point, it should be something that you actually want to see win. I tried to collaborate with him on the Freeway project ? What I did was Freeway went out and found his publishing deal, and we started the album, and Jay did "Big Spender" and I did "Take You to the Top," and when it came time to put the record out, he didn't want to shoot his video, so I'm like, "Why am I going to shoot mine? I'm not shooting it. It's on your label." He has a king complex, he thinks he's fucking Jesus, you know what I mean? This J-Hova shit.
Is that something you'd put on a record?
You have to say something ? I don't really have a passion for this guy. We're compared to each other, because we're both in hip-hop, it would be me, him and Puffy. When they make those comparisons, they compare me to guys who have been here 10 and 15 years longer than me. Can you not see the significance of me being able to make the same deals that they're able to make in 10 years less than they have?
You have no personal beef with him, nothing to jump in on?
I'm just watching him. He said something one time I didn't like, those little things, subliminal things — for me, that's the punk way to do things.
He said something about, "I'm about a dollar."
That was a long time ago, that was '99. That didn't matter. There are little things in his records, he would make reference to things, and it would just be a question mark, but when he was in the U.K., he was talking on the radio, and the guy must have made him feel like he was a punk, because he had to point out that he's not afraid of 50 Cent. "Nobody's afraid of 50 Cent," or whatever he said, but he should have been addressing the guys who made him feel like that, because his approach and presentation has made him so approachable that Lil Mama's on the stage [uninvited at the 2009 VMAs]. He made himself like that. When you wear glasses, when you wear Urkel glasses, what do you associate those glasses with? Intelligence. There's certain things that connect to the man — don't hit a guy with four eyes, right? That's the message he's putting out when he's walking around with these glasses and stuff like that on, and you know he's making himself look safer so he can get in the spot on the Beyoncé path.
It seems he'll have to respond, and he might throw you in there.
I'd love for him to say something he's not supposed to say about me. The difference is the last guy he competed with was Nas, and he lost. Nas just didn't keep his business intact, and later had to submit and sign under him, so we couldn't acknowledge that he beat him when they had to compete. I think he got a phobia from that. You know what the most vulnerable space for an artist is? Confusion. So if you think you're the hottest rapper or the hottest artist, whenever you're losing and everybody knows it, that could be a confusion point for you, right? That's what he went through at that time. We don't know what happens in the future, but we know the facts.
"I Go Off," your single with Beanie Sigel, recently came out. There's a lot of speculation that he's going to be in G-Unit. Is that going to happen?
There's a strong possibility we're going to be doing it. We're starting with this song, and the deal structure between me and him is a complete 50 percent profit split. It's not like an artist deal, like you get 50 percent of everything. For me to deal with Beanie, I'd have to explore the possibility of doing that the entire project, because I wouldn't want to force him to make commercial music, where he can make decent money — a lot of money — without selling a lot of records, and just let it be what it is. That's the details, the difference between doing a deal with that artist and other artists.
And he has a lot to say about the way he was treated on Roc-A-Fella.
If he writes those things, you should expect it to be all on the record.
When he came out of jail, you offered him $800,000 to sign, but Jay-Z blocked it?
He would have definitely got the 800,000 at that point, because I had just did the Mobb Deep and M.O.P. deals, and at that point, there was a lot more physical cash available. The music business was in a different state. When you say 800,000 now, it ain't going to be that now, just because of the way things are. What the expectations are for return on actual CD sales — I still have to get the money from Interscope, and it has to be deemed a legitimate deal, they're not going to just put money in the bag.
Were you saying Jay had the deal going the wrong way by not letting him take that opportunity?
I think he was saying, "Roc la familia, we family, it's the Roc-A-Fella gang," and then using traditional business tactics. See what I'm saying? At the same time, we had them in a space where they were feeling like they were family, and they didn't have to pay attention to everything. He didn't have their interests in mind, he was just doing what he had to do for himself.
Is Beanie talking about Jay?
I think when you hear it, you'll understand it. He has some stuff he has to get off his chest. You have to actually hear it, I don't want to blow it.
His last single was all about what Jay said about him. Has it changed the way you feel about Jay at all?
With Jay-Z, I don't know him personally. I don't think they do, either. They just had stronger access with him.Who?
As far as artists he works with. I think he completely has his best interests in mind. When you commit to working with other artists — I have to be passionate about it. Of course, you want to make money, so you only commit to the things that you're excited about, that you feel you have the chemistry with or has something there, but after you get past that point, it should be something that you actually want to see win. I tried to collaborate with him on the Freeway project ? What I did was Freeway went out and found his publishing deal, and we started the album, and Jay did "Big Spender" and I did "Take You to the Top," and when it came time to put the record out, he didn't want to shoot his video, so I'm like, "Why am I going to shoot mine? I'm not shooting it. It's on your label." He has a king complex, he thinks he's fucking Jesus, you know what I mean? This J-Hova shit.
Is that something you'd put on a record?
You have to say something ? I don't really have a passion for this guy. We're compared to each other, because we're both in hip-hop, it would be me, him and Puffy. When they make those comparisons, they compare me to guys who have been here 10 and 15 years longer than me. Can you not see the significance of me being able to make the same deals that they're able to make in 10 years less than they have?
You have no personal beef with him, nothing to jump in on?
I'm just watching him. He said something one time I didn't like, those little things, subliminal things — for me, that's the punk way to do things.
He said something about, "I'm about a dollar."
That was a long time ago, that was '99. That didn't matter. There are little things in his records, he would make reference to things, and it would just be a question mark, but when he was in the U.K., he was talking on the radio, and the guy must have made him feel like he was a punk, because he had to point out that he's not afraid of 50 Cent. "Nobody's afraid of 50 Cent," or whatever he said, but he should have been addressing the guys who made him feel like that, because his approach and presentation has made him so approachable that Lil Mama's on the stage [uninvited at the 2009 VMAs]. He made himself like that. When you wear glasses, when you wear Urkel glasses, what do you associate those glasses with? Intelligence. There's certain things that connect to the man — don't hit a guy with four eyes, right? That's the message he's putting out when he's walking around with these glasses and stuff like that on, and you know he's making himself look safer so he can get in the spot on the Beyoncé path.
It seems he'll have to respond, and he might throw you in there.
I'd love for him to say something he's not supposed to say about me. The difference is the last guy he competed with was Nas, and he lost. Nas just didn't keep his business intact, and later had to submit and sign under him, so we couldn't acknowledge that he beat him when they had to compete. I think he got a phobia from that. You know what the most vulnerable space for an artist is? Confusion. So if you think you're the hottest rapper or the hottest artist, whenever you're losing and everybody knows it, that could be a confusion point for you, right? That's what he went through at that time. We don't know what happens in the future, but we know the facts.
SMH... okay
I was excited when I heard my man Jim Jones signed with Columbia/Sony... I guess it didn't go as planned....
XXLMag.com has learned that Dipset Capo Jim Jones has left Columbia Records and recently signed a deal to release his next solo studio album on E1 Music, formerly known as Koch Records. According to the contract, the Harlem rapper will also drop a mixtape vie E1 as well.
Jones has a long history with the E1. Along with releasing a handful of records on the imprint, last January he was appointed vice president of urban A&R.
“Jim Jones put Koch on the map,” label prez Alan Grunblatt said in a prior statement. “He truly knows what it takes to make a hit record. I am thrilled to be working with him for many years to come.”
Jones’ as-yet-untitled new album is set to hit shelves in spring 2010.
XXLMag.com has learned that Dipset Capo Jim Jones has left Columbia Records and recently signed a deal to release his next solo studio album on E1 Music, formerly known as Koch Records. According to the contract, the Harlem rapper will also drop a mixtape vie E1 as well.
Jones has a long history with the E1. Along with releasing a handful of records on the imprint, last January he was appointed vice president of urban A&R.
“Jim Jones put Koch on the map,” label prez Alan Grunblatt said in a prior statement. “He truly knows what it takes to make a hit record. I am thrilled to be working with him for many years to come.”
Jones’ as-yet-untitled new album is set to hit shelves in spring 2010.
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