News: Scarface Gives Soulja Boy Future Props, "He Got The Potential To Be The Next Russell Simmons"

Written by Cyrus Langhorne
Monday, June 1, 2009 16:55:00
Hip-Hop pioneer Scarface recently spoke on the status of hip-hop and why teenage rapper Soulja Boy Tell Em could one day join the ranks of Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons .

"I think the Internet is what's wrong with rap right now," he explained. "Because it's no way to filter garbage. You say some dumb-a** sh*t, and you get a million hits on your Web site...And Soulja Boy is not included...He getting money and he's my son's age. I like the way he do it. I think he got the potential to be the next Russell [Simmons]. I?m giving him some big-a** shoes to stand beside but if that kid really focus on finding talent and marketing that sh*t like he is now at f*cking 18, 19-years-old, I ain't mad at it...Dre [is the best producer] in the f*cking world. Like, I was listening to a track in this movie War and it was just an instrumental. The f*cking track was man who can f*ck with it? I mean the man releases a record every eight or nine years. This is how you rate the producers: staying power. Everything that he's ever touched was some big sh*t." ( Vibe )
Soulja Boy recently described his aim to make a "classic" hip-hop album.
"Right now I'm in the studio making The DeAndre Way ," Soulja Boy explained in an interview. "And mark my words, this album will be a classic. A lot of people been sleeping on Soulja Boy for a long time, when I first came out with 'Crank Dat' it was so big, gimmicky and catchy it went five times platinum and a lot of people were stuck on it for a long time. They said I was garbage, they said I was a one-hit wonder. Now I came out with 'Kiss Me Through The Phone,' my second No. 1 single and I released 'Turn My Swag On,' my third No. 1 single and now I'm going into my third album. I got everybody's ears open right now...Mark my words, this album will go platinum...I'm reaching out to hip-hop's greatest...I wanna reach out to that top status. Your Jay-Z 's, your Kanye 's and your Lil Wayne 's." ( MTV )


News: Shaquille O'Neal Talks Eminem's "Relapse" Success, "I Bought 300K Of Them"

Written by Cyrus Langhorne
Monday, June 1, 2009 16:10:00
NBA player-turned-rapper Shaquille O'Neal has weighed in on Eminem 's Relapse landing atop the charts and spoke on the contribution he made to the biggest debut of the year.

"Congratulations to my man Eminem," Shaq said. "600,000 for the first week and I bought 300,000 of those. Of course dawg, I bought 300,000 and passed 'em out, like 'Yo this is my man Em, check him out.' You know good thing about me is I know everybody, I show supprot to everybody and you know, street rule number 25 is stay outta other people's beef. You guys make me who I am 'cause I could throw in the CD in the jammie, get pumped up and blow up in the fools' face. Today is old school wack white boy week, I got Vanilla Ice [in the CD player.] ( Radio Planet TV )
Em recently shared his reaction to landing No. 1 last week.
"I mean, record sales to me, honestly, since the beginning of my career I've always said they're not as important to me as the respect and things like that," Em explained in an interview. "I would just rather rap and get respect from the fans and my peers and things like that. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to sell any records, but at the same time it's not my main priority." ( 106 & Park )
Dr. Dre previously spoke on Em's diligent work ethic.
"It's hardcore, it's dark comedy," Dre said in an interview about Relapse . "I talked to my son about [Em's return] and he was like 'The kids want to him act a fool. We want to hear him be crazy, we want to hear him be Slim Shady and nothing else.'...Once he makes a painting, once he lays a lyric down, it's impossible to get him to change it. If there's a couple of lines he says on a record that's not relevant today, it's 'No, that was that painting. That was for that moment.'" ( New York Times )