Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist who falls for her professional basketball player client, Common. Paula Patton is also in the film as Latifah’s BFF and Common’s potential trophy wife….And it looks like Common may have some ball playing skills in this movie!
the.LIFE Files spent today day hanging out with the hottest thing on the internet since Twitter, Justin Bieber. We talked about his upcoming album, we joked, we played pool – if you don’t know why EVERYBODY is talking about this kid you will when the full interview drops this week!!!!
Full audio of the show below, courtesy of FWMJ.
If you’re going to SXSW, don’t miss Rosenberg’s Noisemakers with a crazy lineup that includes Bun B, Reflection Eternal, Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady, 88-Keys, Gangrene (The Alchemist & Oh No), Rakaa, Kev Brown, Oddisee, Diamond District, and Homeboy Sandman.
Flyer after the jump.
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New webseries on GlobalGrind.com that’ll premiere every Wednesday.
“I’m a bad mothefucking clone”
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Rhymefest tells the story of a b-boy anthem he did with Just Blaze at Baseline. After hours of tweaking his flow, he couldn’t figure out how to best approach the track. It even made him question himself as a rapper. When he returned to Chicago, he came up with the idea of bringing a b-boy crew into the studio while recording. It worked, the pressure was gone and he was able to finish the song. He later performed it to a rocking crowd at Lollapalooza and saw everything he had envisioned for the song.
Shot & edited by Konee Rok.
El Che drops May 18th.
“I have to admit, you know, a few years ago, I wouldn’t have admitted this — or maybe I wouldn’t have been conscious of it in a way to admit or be embarrassed — but in my earlier years from when I first left home, I was embarrassed from being from the South. Not in general, but as a rapper because all of the negative things that people in the States put on the South. Like, “The South, they’re slow. They move slow, they think slow, they’re less intelligent. They’re less exposed, they’re underexposed, they’re more sheltered.”
So as a rapper — I’ve been rapping since I was 10 years old — I always had a feeling of ‘I’m gonna show you’ because we down here doing it. Not that I was embarrassed necessarily — I don’t know if that’s the correct word — but I know that when I left home, if someone had heard my accent and heard where I was from, the door was immediately closed.”
Electronica said he had to adapt and become a chameleon on the mic. While trying to break into the music industry, he moved between different cities such as New York, Atlanta and Chicago.
“I kind of stiff-armed my roots for a couple of years,” the Brooklyn transplant continued of his journey. “Then my sister told me one day, ‘You know, you act like you’re ashamed of being from home.’ It was like a reality check. I checked myself. I mean, this is years ago, but now I’m at a place where I understand where I’m from. I understand my culture and I’m more proud to be from there than associate with somewhere else.”
Despite trying to hide his roots early on, Jay thinks back to the early days of New Orleans hip-hop with a smile.
“I’m from New Orleans and there’s a certain type of music,” he explained. “I come from a bounce culture — bounce music. You been to New Orleans a couple times, you probably heard of the bounce music. It’s a part of me; I grew up with bounce music. It’s call-and-response, it’s trance, it’s tribal, it’s communal, it’s African, it’s based in Africa … the energy of it.”
- MTV
Dropping exactly when you think it will. Shouts to Chris Herche.
First leak: Devin The Dude - What I Be On
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Off the upcoming remix edition of Gun Powder Guru.
Tony Yayo ft. Uncle Murda - Murder (Remix)
Brandon Jennings allegedly asked Wale to make him a song to warm up to before a football/basketball game and this is what Wale and his DC homies came up with.
Wale feat. Fat Trel & Black Cobain - Who Don’t | Mediafire
Chorus is a line from Lil Wayne’s O Lets Do It freestyle off No Ceilings.
Previously: Wale feat. Fat Trel - O Let’s Do It
U-N-I called out J. Cole last night at their album release party for A Love Supreme 2.0 and he stepped to the plate to do Lights Please & A Star Is Born.
So every Tuesday we (LA Leakers) do this party in LA called Bubble Gum (inside Blu Monkey Lounge) and last night we held UNI’s official album release party for “A Love Supreme 2.0″ there. Shout to UNI, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Curt@!n$, Terrace Martin, Shawn Chrys, Johnny Polygon and EVERYONE else that came through… Here’s video of J. Cole performing “Lights Please” & “A Star Is Born”.
Previously: U-N-I feat. Miguel - Lately (Video)
They’re saying 13 freestyles/videos in 13 days leading up to the release of The eXXecution on March 23rd. I don’t know about all that, but this is cool. Directed by Mills Miller Media.
Download this song here.
Previously: Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx - Nobody
A LIFER sent us these shots of him taking out the competition in spades with his double diamond encrusted Audemar Piguet money clips and white Blackberry in tow. Get a close up of that thing after the jump and there just may be a bonus in it for you.
Send us the photos and sounds from your cool ass life to url@thelifefiles.com, your limbs just might make it!
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