Nice track Rell...here's some hip-hop news for ya'll:
Riding the wave of his break out hit "Pop, Lock And Drop It," St. Louis newcomer Huey is ready to show and prove with his debut album Notebook Paper. With his CD hitting stores yesterday, SOHH caught up with the young rhyme-spitter as he waxed poetic about his new album, the "new St. Louis," and his beef with Nelly.
"I never figured it would be a movement like it is. I figured if I go for the females, I'd get a lot more support. I wanted to talk about something other than busting heads," said Huey of the success of his hit "Pop, Lock And Drop It" and the subsequent dance, The G5, that followed. "My manager's daughter was already doing it to the song and we happened to turn on YouTube and saw people doing the same dance to it. So it was kinda like it was meant to be."
Though the 19 year-old rapper is excited about the way the song has been received, he's quik to note that his album is not just one big party.
"The album is very versatile. 'Pop, lock' is the only dance record on there. I got swag records, gangsta songs, conscious songs that'll make you sit down and think...just wait and see. I got everybody back home calling it the New St. Louis."
Though the album features guest appearances from Yo Gotti, Bow Wow, Lloyd and Diamond of Crime Mob, fellow St. Louis rapper Nelly will not be making any cameos alongside the young artist any time soon.
"I'm only cool with Chingy and Jibbs, everybody else can kiss my a$$. Nelly is disrespectful and arrogant. His head is as big as this f#@$ing table I'm sitting at. He's on some arrogant, unsupportive bullsh!t," he told SOHH.
"When he found out I got my deal, he didn't congratulate or anything. I met him at Club Toxic and the label wanted me to reach out to get features from other established artists from St. Louis. So I asked him and he basically said, 'Look here dirty, it's not gonna happen. Especially with this being your first album, it's not gonna happen.' It's crazy because I can go out of town and get love but when I go home I can't get the same respect? But he's small talk."
With his next single, "When I Hustle" featuring Lloyd, starting to gain momentum, Huey also has plans to hit the road this summer as well. Huey also stressed that he will do his best to show his fans the same love that they've shown him.
"I just want people to know me as a real a$$ dude. It's a job, but at the same time I don't want people to think I'm not gonna show love. I'll sign every autograph that I can. I love my fans."
---LOL at a beef between two wack rappers...
50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and Lil' Wayne are among seven rappers being targeted in billboards posted by a Chicago church for its "Stop Listening To Trash" campaign, which denounces rappers that demean women and perpetuate violence through their music.
According to NBC 5, St. Sabina Church put up twenty billboards across the city on Monday (June 18). The billboards read "Stop Listening To Trash," and also lists Nelly, Twista, Fat Joe and Ludacris.
"If we are going to end the violence and the disrespect of women, we must fight every form of negativity, including the music industry," Reverend Michael Pfleger told NBC 5. "When you disrespect women and you continue to demean a community or race by names and by language, that's unacceptable. We can kill with our words."
Local rapper Shala Esquire of the group Qualo, who admits to using profane language in his music, thinks the billboards are a good idea.
"I think the billboards are a bold step in a world that has been pretty cowardly lately," he said. "Hopefully it brings balance back to hip-hop so folks can move on to beeyatchin' about something else. I'm not going to say that we don't use certain words to depict the reality of life, but it's becoming kind of crazy and it's getting out of control. Don't fix the music, fix what causes the music."
Public Enemy front man Chuck D reportedly met with Pfleiger and Senator James Meeks on Tuesday (June 19) to discuss the billboards and rap music.
----Now this is what really pisses me off...if anything hip-hop has toned down a whole lot since the early 90's when they started this shit with rap music. First off, why is hip-hop being singled out? What about movies, television, hell the cartoon network is pretty fucked up too...they used to air shows like The Flinstones and The Jetsons back when I was growing up now they have shows like Family Guy and Futurama and shit like that which people should be more worried about "corrupting their children and disrespecting women". Looks like hip-hop is, eventhough it always, was a target for a bunch of "haters". Now I can agree with Shala Esquire and what he said, "don't fix the music, fix what causes the music". Hip hop has always been an interpretation of the real world; no bullshit..just straight up to the core type of music. If people want to fix the music they should focus on their communities because the communities around the rappers is what's causing the music to be so "disrespectful and bad".
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