Exclusive: SOHH EXCLUSIVE: Busta Rhymes & Hurricane Chris Offer The Blueprint To Summer Hits, "The Beat Got To Knock"

Written by Danica Dow
Thursday, June 4, 2009 11:10:00

With the weather heating up, SOHH asked Busta Rhymes, Hurricane Chris and M.O.P. if they could lay out the formula for a hot summer song.

As SOHH celebrates summer music, Hurricane Chris--who is set to release his sophomore album, Unleashed--revealed his methods for crafting a summer hit.

"To have a hot summer song you gon' have to have that beat that sound like summertime. You gon' have to have that track that just makes you want to come out and feel fresh," he said. "It just makes you want to put on some good fresh clothes. And you got to have that hook on there, that chorus where they know it's time to party. Summer time they know it's time to party. You can't be talking 'bout the wrong things. You gotta be talking 'bout the club, 'bout staying out late every night. It's summer time. It's hot outside." (SOHH)

Busta Rhymes, who's new album Back on My B.S. just hit stores, agrees.

"What makes a hot summer song? First and foremost, the beat. The beat got to knock and make motherfuckers wanna spazz out, drop they top, throw they hands in the air while they riding down the strip," Busta told SOHH. "The second thing is it got to be a tempo that's a danceable one because all of the block parties is happening in the summer. All the greekfests... the
Penn relays, the Kentucky Derby, Memorial Day weekend, Fourth of July the grills is out the barbecues is happening. (SOHH)

News: Soulja Boy Talks T.I. Farewell Concert, Promises To Out-Twit Diddy

Written by Cyrus Langhorne
Thursday, June 4, 2009 11:00:00

Teen rapper Soulja Boy Tell Em recently explained how he wound up at T.I.'s farewell concert last month and how he plans to pass both Barack Obama and Diddy on Twitter.

Despite Diddy's one million followers, Soulja Boy discussed a "secret" he had to outshine the Bad Boy CEO's Twitter page.

"Yeah man, you know, T.I. called me and told me he wanted me to come through before he went in [to prison]," Soulja Boy explained in an interview. "I said no problem, you feel me? I was in Atlanta, came through to the Philips Arena, you know there was like 19,000 to 20,000 people there...I got a trick up my sleeve [for Twitter]. I'ma pass Diddy, Ashton Kutcher and Barack Obama. I got a trick up my sleeve, y'all gonna see me all on the news, 'Soulja Boy with the history-breaking Twitter. Oh my god.' We just gonna let 'em call it a miracle, 'How did he do it?'" (Radio Planet)
Tip gave his farewell concert just days before beginning a 366-day prison sentence last week.
T.I. told fans he would stay optimistic when he heads to prison on a federal weapons conviction. The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., performed for a packed audience Sunday (May 24) night in Atlanta's Philips Arena less than two days before he is to begin serving the sentence of a year and a day. "I'm going to stand up tall, head up high," he said. "Thank you for all of your support." Many in the packed crowd held up encouraging signs, like one reading "T.I. We Will Miss U!" (Associated Press)
Soulja has been known to receive praise from rap stars including Kanye West and Scarface.
"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)
He recently described his aim to make a "classic" hip-hop album.