According to Benzino's website, his new mixtape "Caezar" will feature production from Mario Winans. It will be released at midnight on September 11 on benzino.net.
Ciroc has released a pair of new promos: "Summer Social Responsibility" and "Labor Day Spot 2011." They are similar to the ones released in June, but with new audio. The "Summer Social Responsibility" clip may be the same as the clip of the same name released in June, but as they removed that one, I have no point of reference.
In July, Complex reported that Diddy would appear on the opening track to Pusha T's upcoming EP, "Fear of God: Let Us Pray." According to Alex Chapman of New York Magazine, Diddy will provide ad-libs on the record. Chapman asked Pusha T about the collaboration.
So I noticed Diddy is screaming during the intro of Fear of God. How’d that happen?
There has never been anything in the world better to me than Diddy when he’s screaming over the top of a track, like in ’95 — that whole Bad Boy mixtape era. I wanted to have that feel for the mixtape. I didn’t want to lose the street edge of it. That polish isn’t always good to me.
Women's Wear Daily reports that Zac Posen has decided to present his main collection at New York Fashion Week this year, after two consecutive showings in Paris. His show will be at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on September 11.
"Paris is wonderful but it just feels like the right time to show in New York," he said.
Melena Ryzik of The New York Times' Art Beat has a piece dedicated to the appreciation of Tony Montana, a character portrayed by actor Al Pacino in the movie "Scarface." Red Cafe is quoted.
The style and catchphrases of Mr. Pacino’s Tony Montana proved irresistible. “I appreciated that Tony was loyal to family, very ambitious and wasn’t taking” dirt “from anyone,” the young Brooklyn rapper Red Café said, using an earthier term. “Yet, he still remained suave and confident at all times.”
It was “a world for the fly and flashy,” he added approvingly in an e-mail. “Where money buys you a seat above the law.”
In an interview with BET's Ronke Idowu Reeves, actor Michael Clarke Duncan revealed that he was supposed serve as a bodyguard for The Notorious B.I.G. on the night that the rapper was fatally shot. But, he switched with someone else.
And is it true you were supposed to be the Notorious B.I.G.’s bodyguard the night he was shot and killed?
Yes and I remember it like it was yesterday. A co-worker friend of mine called because he was supposed to guard Babyface that night but he liked being in that [hip hop] limelight and I didn’t. He asked to switch so I went to pick up Babyface, he went to pick up Notorious B.I.G. and the rest is history. I woke up the next morning to the news and I called my friend and he said everything happened so quick and so fast. So every year when that day [the anniversary of Biggie’s death] comes around I think about two things, a young brother lost his life for nothing— it was senseless and stupid and that was the last day I worked security. I quit that day turned in my stuff and said I’m not willing to put my life on the line for somebody, because as a security guard or bodyguard that’s what you’re supposed to do.
