Hip-Hop Blog Round-Up: 50 Cent Wants To Produce 2Pac's Album
Saturday May 20, 2006
Someone please tell Afeni Shakur to hide all of 2Pac's masters and vocals from 50 Cent. 50 says he's not too happy with the way people handled the late great rapper's albums in the past, so he wants to produce the next one. I'm not convinced by Fiddy's promise that he'll churn out a better 2Pac album than All Eyez On Me (which is far from 'Pac's best work by the way). Curtis also expressed some concerns over the creative direction of Tupac's prior posthumous releases, which would include Loyal To The Game, exclusively produced by Eminem. Hmm....looks like he's trying to tell his boss something. (Source: Livejournal - Hip-Hop)
The blogosphere is still fizzling over the recent Radio City Hall concert featuring The Roots, Nas, Common, and others. According to The Assimilated Negro, ?uestlove wasn't joking when he said "don't be late to the show." One of my favorite hip-hop bloggers, Joey over at Straight Bangin,' has an expansive unslanted synopsis of the concert. Other than Talib Kweli's listless performance and the hasty Nas set (15 minutes!?), it appears this was a great show. (Source: Straight Bangin')
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Thanks for the shout, man. My name is Joey, though
Joey, pardon the oversight. I was still brewing my coffee when I posted that last night.
No worries. Keep up the strong work.
Thanks man.
Eminem is a gutter producer. And I don’t mean that in no nice way. Every beat is the same–synth heavy, ersatz emotion, boring, melodramatic. 50 will likely do no better. They should perhaps get some of their own new ideas rather than further exhume and degrade deceased rappers who didn’t ask for their sh*t to get recycled.
I shudder to think what Mr. Billion Dollar Budget will do emboldened by “successes” like the abortion of an album that he helped put together for Club Mobb.
nas’s performance was hasty, but i definitely jumped out of my chair when i heard “bravehearts” coming from the wings. it was great to see him live, and no songs from street disciples were played. talib kweli pretty much shouted into his mic the whole set, and common rocked it. the show was set up much like dave chappelle’s block party — the roots played the whole time and different mcs weaved in and out. big daddy kane was the only surprise guest that showed up. friday night had jay-z and a comedy set by mr. chappelle himself. i only went to thursday’s show, but friends went to friday night and gave me the whole report. so was it worth the cash to feel the bass reverberate through radio city music hall? i have no regrets
Grrrr….time to move to New York. Nahhh…just kidding, I love H-Town too much. Thanks for the synopsis, Gina.
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eminem….HELL NO…..50…DEFINATLY NOT!
the stuff pac released when he was alive was thee best and will never be topped. but the only people who should produce new pac stuff is “DR DRE and Dat nigga DAZ”
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They should let dre produce it he actually knew pac not like eminem and his whack ass beats. Also guest that actually knew pac not wannabes that think they knew pac like g-unit, ludacris, lil scrappy and so on…
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