Vibe has revealed the cover for Janelle Monae's "The ArchAndroid, which you can check out below. They also have a back story for the cover.''
As
expected, Diddy and The Hitmen have advanced to the second round of
Vibe's "The Greatest Hip-Hop Producer of All Time!" tournament. They received 88% of the vote in their first round match-up with Herbie Luv Bug. Only Dr. Dre (91% over DJ Toomp), Kanye West (91% over The Heatmakerz) and Timbaland (89% over Polow Da Don) held a wider margin of victory in all of the 32 matches.
Next up, they will face Teddy Riley, one of Diddy's mentors, who advanced over Kay Gee, 71% to 29%. As I said last round, I don't see how one man can be expected to match up with a team as large as The Hitmen. Riley has done amazing things, but against all of The Hitmen? I just don't see it.
Interestingly, I noticed that Vibe has removed Steve "Rhythm" Clarke from their list of The Hitmen. I had
mentioned earlier that I had never heard him mentioned as one of The Hitmen.
But, they also removed Chucky Thompson and Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool, who were both definitely part of The Hitmen as well as Harve "Joe Hooker" Pierre and added Buckwild which,
according to his MySpace is accurate. I'm unclear on if Harve Pierre was actually signed to Bad Boy as a producer.
That confusion aside, you can now
vote on the Vibe website. If Diddy and The Hitmen advance, the next round will start on April 26.
On Twitter,
Diddy announced that he wanted to do a
grime remix of Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning." He asked his followers to recommend who should do the remix.
Apparently, a lot of his followers recommended
Skepta, a UK-based rapper and producer and the two spoke, according to a
Twitter message sent by Diddy.
Diddy said that whatever grime mix that is done, he'll make sure it's played in the U.S. because "you play our music, we should play yours."
On
Gorilla Zoe's MySpace, you can listen to "Shut Em Down," which was just added to the page.
Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" is featured in a new commercial from Version Wireless, promoting their NFL content. Check it out below.
Via
justru1records.
According to
Liz Davis, she'll be previewing a new song at some point in the next couple of days. It's called "Liar."
Shooting on
Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" music video is now in day three, says
James Cruz, one of Diddy's managers.
"Today we hang with our little sis," he writes. "She's the bestest." This is terminology that Nicki Minaj has used before, such as during her verse on Young Money's "Bedrock." Meanwhile on
her Twitter, she says that she is in the "city of angels" to shoot a video - Los Angeles is nicknamed the city of angels and that is where "Hello Good Morning" is being shot.
Her involvement is unclear, but remember that earlier this month, she
she mentioned something about a special remix to the track coming soon." Oddly, Busta Rhymes tweeted congratulations to Diddy today on the "remix video."
This comes just days
after reports indicated that Cruz and Diddy would take on the co-managing duties for both Minaj and Rick Ross. Stay tuned.
Que has released a new mixtape titled "The Que Files," which is available for
free download, care of his management at
Soul World Entertainment.
I mention this because one of the tracks featured on it has Dawn Richard providing a guest rap. It's called "All Night" and it was produced by David "Davey Boy" Lindsey.
Soul World Entertainment, who manages Qwanell "Que" Mosley, has posted a "reality show introduction" for a show idea planned around the life of the former Day26 singer. Dawn Richard is featured heavily in the video, which features previously released footage from Making the Band 4, interviews and more.
The
seemingly unofficial remix of "Hello Good Morning" featuring Rick Ross has become an official remix. A version with cleaned up vocals (especially the start and end points of Ross' verse) has been
released for free download on Diddy's Twitter.
You can download
clean,
dirty and
extended versions. The extended version adds 56 seconds in the middle of the track.
