BackPack/IndyTrack Throwback - I Used To Love H.E.R - Common

[Chorus]
Yes yes y'all and you don't stop
1,2 y'all and you don't stop
Yes yes y'all and you don't stop
1,2 Com-Sense is gonna' drop

Verse One:

I met this girl, when I was 10 years old
And what I loved most, she had so much soul
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me
On the regular, not a church girl, she was secular
Not about the money, no studs was mic checkin her
But I respected her, she hit me in the heart
A few New York niggaz, had did her in the park
But she was there for me, and I was there for her
Pull out a chair for her, turn on the air for her
And just cool out, cool out and listen to her
Sittin on bone, wishin that I could do her
Eventually if it was meant to be, then it would be
Cuz' we related, physically and mentally
And she was fun then, I'd be geeked when she'd come around
Slim was fresh jo, when she was underground
Original, pure untampered and down sister
Boy I tell ya, I miss her

[Chorus]
Yes yes y'all and you don't stop
1,2 y'all and you don't stop
Yes yes y'all and you don't stop
1,2 Com-Sense is gonna' drop

Verse Two:

Now periodically I would see
Ol' girl at the clubs, and at the house parties
She didn't have a body but she started gettin' thick quick
Did a couple of videos and became afrocentric
Out goes the weave, in goes the braids beads medallions
She was on that tip about, stoppin the violence
About my people she was teachin me
But not preachin to me but speakin to me
In a method that was leisurely, so easily I approached
She dug my rap, that's how we got close
But then she broke to the West coast, and that was cool
Cause around the same time, I went away to school
And I'm a man of expandin', so why should I stand in her way?
She probably get her money in L.A.
And she did stud, she got big pub but what was foul
She said that the pro-black, was goin out of style
She said, "Afrocentricity, was of the past."
So she got into R&B hip-house bass and jazz
Now black music is black music and it's all good
I wasn't salty, she was with the boys in the hood
Cause that was good for her, she was becomin well rounded
I thought it was dope how she was on that freestyle shit
Just havin' fun, not worried about anyone
And you could tell, by how her titties hung

[Chorus]
Yes yes y'all and you don't stop
1,2 y'all and you don't stop
Yes yes y'all and you don't stop
1,2 Com-Sense is gonna' drop

Verse Three:

I might've failed to mention that the chick was creative
But once the man got to her, he altered the native
Told her if she got an image and a gimmick
That she could make money, and she did it like a dummy
Now I see her in commercials, she's universal
She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle
Now she be in the burbs lookin' rock and dressin' hip
And on some dumb shit, when she comes to the city
Talkin about poppin glocks, servin rocks, and hittin switches
Now she's a gangsta rollin with gangsta bitches
Always smokin blunts and gettin drunk
Tellin me sad stories, now she only fucks with the funk
Stressin how hardcore and real she is
She was really the realest, before she got into show-biz
I did her, not just to say that I did it
But I'm committed, but so many niggaz hit it
That she's just not the same lettin all these groupies do her
I see niggaz slammin her, and takin her to the sewer
But I'ma take her back hopin that the shit stop
Cause who I'm talkin bout y'all is hip-hop

Lil Wayne vs. Nardwuar

Canada has enjoyed something of a creative renaissance in recent years between Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, and countless movies. Most recently Vancouver’s radio interviewer Nardwuar has been leading the cultural charge for our neighbor to the north, having scored a highly captivating series of video interviews with hip-hop’s most vital artists—Odd Future, Drake, Lil’ Wayne, Lil’ B, to name a few, and giving his very own TED Talk earlier this month.

In the new interview with Lil’ Wayne, in addition to asking great questions and getting Weezy to freestyle a shout-out to Drake for setting up the interview, Nardwuar addresses him as “Little Wayne.” He did the same thing in the Lil’ B interview, exclusively as “Little B.” Both rappers were too polite to correct him, but as Chris Matthews once admonished a particularly ornery politician, “you should always call people what they call themselves.”

“Lil,” Nardwuar, “lil.”

Bangladesh Says he still hasn't Received Royalties on 6'7'

MTV - Bang, who was also the maestro behind Wayne’s 2008 hit “A Milli” cried foul after he wasn’t properly paid for that Tha Carter III banger. And though the producer went in to craft “6 Foot, 7 Foot,” he is now claiming that he hasn’t been properly been compensated for that track either.

“I f— with Wayne, man; I had the opportunity to give him more music,” Bangladesh told MTV News this week. “It’s just hard to do. It’s just hard to keep working for free.”

In regards to “6 Foot, 7 Foot,” Bangladesh claims to have waived the upfront fee that he usually charges artists, just so he could have the opportunity to work with Tunechi again. “It’s not about the money, it’s not about me charging him for the beat, because he is Lil Wayne; he’s gonna sell albums,” the producer said. “You only really charge people that you think is not gonna really sell too much, so you want to get your money off top. You might not get it on the back-end because albums don’t sell no more.”

Instead of charging Cash Money for the track, Bangladesh said he struck a deal in which Wayne would do a feature on the beatsmith’s long-talked-about debut album. When asked why he hasn’t put out the album yet, Bangladesh answered, “It’s hard to do when I can’t get Wayne features.”

The producer isn’t sure whether the holdup on those features is Wayne himself or the label. “I don’t know if it’s the people around the situation or it’s the actual person,” he said. Cash Money had no comment on Bangladesh’s complaint.

What he does know is that he can’t continue to work with Cash Money until things get resolved. “Every time we come up with a solution, it never gets taken care of,” Bangladesh said. “I just can’t keep really giving them music.”

Bone Thugz N Harmony Hit With $27 Million Dollar Lawsuit

The platinum rap group Bone Thugz N Harmony and their record label are being sued by a man who claims he wrote two songs for the Grammy winning group but was never paid a dime, according reports by allhiphop.com.
Roland Brown is claiming that he wrote "Take Your Time" and "Here With Me" by the female group Tre off the multi-platinum album Mo Thugs Family Scriptures but was never compensated, according to a lawsuit he filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Please in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

The suit names Sony, Ruthless Records, Relativity, Loud Records, WMG, Mo Thugs Inc.. and each member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

Mr. Brown seeks $24 million in damages and an additional $3 million in mechanical royalties from the single, music video and album.

Mo Thugs Family Scriptures has sold over 1 million copies since its November 1996 release. It was followed up by Mo Thug: Family Reunion which also pushed past platinum.

In related news, Krazyie Bone recently announced his departure from the group after a run spanning three decades.

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Pusha T Compares working with Kanye and Pharrell

​90% of his friends are behind bars. His oldest brother is a recovering drug addict. His other brother has long since repented. All that and Pusha still wants to, well, push. "That's what happens when you Michael and they treat you like Tito," he raps on the hook for "I Still Wanna." For the first time in his life, Pusha (Terence Thornton) is not following in his brother Malice's footsteps and distancing himself from the coke raps that the Clipse brand was built on. There are claims that new Clipse material is on the way, but for now, Pusha is flying solo dolo.
We caught up with Pusha T at his local barbershop, right before he left for Miami to shoot a video for his version of Jay-Z's hustler anthem "Can I Live" (it appears on his mixtape Fear Of God), Push had plenty to say about detractors wanting him back on a strict diet of Neptune beats, his Bronx roots, and his relationship with his older brother. Gather 'round.

Your mixtape was so highly anticipated and managed to keep from disappointing the fans. At least most of them. How do you feel about people saying you should stick to spitting on Neptune beats and off of Jay's classics?
I think those people are super corny. I should just stick to Neptune beats?! I feel like people who say things like that show say that don't know the art of mixtapes. Jay was rapping over "The Symphony," B.I.G. was rapping over Death Row beats... that's the essence of a mixtape. I wanted songs that were inspirational to me over the years. I come from the Clue and Doo Wop era. Buying mixtapes in Norfolk and shit. If you can't feel that then it's not for you, sir.

Well put. So tell us...
See, I put those types of questions in the same category with the critics who ask why I only rhyme about coke. See, I do this for a particular consumer. If you're not that individual but you can still relate or you like the way I put words together, bet. That's cool too. Because this is what you're going to get, the mindset of a brash decision maker.
The mindset of someone who has lost 90% of his friends to jail sentences. Anyone you've seen me with in the last 15 years, all my fam, all my friends, gone. Doing 30 years, 50 years. So that mindset is what you're going to get 'cause that's all I know.

But Malice seems to have had a different reaction to the recent strife.
Yeah, he has. Everyone has different boiling points for different things. See, Malice is a little more introspective and I guess conscious, for lack of a better word. His shit is still aggressive but there were always consequences to his street tales. My shit is more brash, more unapologetic. It's not that I don't think like he does it's just that when you're in a group, especially in hip-hop, everyone gotta play their part.

What's it like working with 'Ye as opposed to Pharrell?
P has the beat finished and the hook almost down pat when I get to the studio. We may change a word or two to the hook but the melody and all that is there. It's like just insert the verse. I'll ask P how I should rap on it sometimes, how my cadence should be. He has a broad view of the whole beat, you know? With 'Ye, a lot of his songs come from conversations, so at first the beat is just a skeleton. I'll hear a stripped-down version, lay my verse. Then 'Ye takes the beat and makes it soooo different. It took a little getting used to at first, but now I love it because it comes back a surprise.

Speaking of surprised I wasn't at all surprised when I heard you guys were born in The Bronx. Castle Hill represent!
Ha, yeah, that's right. I was pretty young when we moved to Virginia, but my parents sent me up to see the family in New York all the time. I'd come up like, "Run-DMC is the shit!" and my cousins would be like, "Nah, Rakim is." Then I'd like Rakim and they'd be on Kane or some shit. But we always had a good idea of what was popping in New York, though we were a little late.

Were you mad your parents moved you out of the cradle of hip-hop, the crossroads of the universe, the Big Apple?
Nah, I could never be mad at my parents. I had great parents. I don't have the usual rapper "fuck my dad" story. Both my parents provided for us. We didn't have everything but we had enough. I hustled out of greed and sometimes it spun out of control. Just another set of values compromised by plain old American greed.

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Dr. Dre Wins Lawsuit Against Death Row Records

Tuesday, US District Judge Christina Snyder issued a ruling that entitled Dr. Dre to 100% of all digital royalties from The Chronic. In 2010, Dre filed a lawsuit against WIDEawake/Death Row Records alleging that he had been grossly undercompensated for his critically acclaimed album. The album sold well over 3 million copies, and during the 2010 suit, Dre’s attorneys were seeking upwards of $75,000.

According to reports by the Associated Press, a 1996 exit agreement between Dre and the original Death Row called for Dr. Dre to receive 18% royalties on music he created while at Death Row and gave him extensive authority over how the songs were used. Judge Snyder ruled that when WIDEawake purchased Death Row’s assets in 2009, they were restricted to selling the assets in the original format in which they appeared. Of course, all of the early Death Row albums were created in the early-to-mid nineties prior to the invention of iTunes and other digital licensing services.

“For years, Death Row Records forgot about Dre when they continued to distribute his music digitally and combined his hits with weaker Death Row tracks in an attempt to elevate the stature of their other artists,” Dr. Dre’s attorney Howard King wrote in a prepared statement. “We are gratified that the federal court has unambiguously declared that Death Row has no right to engage in such tactics, and must hold all proceeds from these illicit distributions in trust for our client.”

Indy Track Hustle - What We Do!!

We Are taking it up a Notch. We are taking tracks and adding them to our review section, and Letting the people vote on your tracks! Very simple very Easy!

All we Need is a short BIO, a Picture and Preferably a Reverbnation Page along with a Twitter name ...and soon as we post you will be notified! We will blast it across our Promo sites and then the rest is up to you!!

For all those who don't know, explain your background.

Deezle: I'm a multi-instrumentalist. I play bass, I play guitar, I play the keys, I sing and rap. I started as an engineer and became an artist and started producing my own stuff because I couldn't afford to pay any producers. As far as my production credits, I've worked with Aaron Neville, N'Dea Davenport from The Brand New Heavies, James Hall, Ani D. Franco, Bishop Paul Morton. I've done rock and country records and I finally became a Hip-Hop producer. I started at the bottom and one day I got a phone call from Slim to be their producer. And the rest with Cash Money, I guess you could say is history.

HipHopWired: Weren't you Cash Money's in-house producer?

Deezle: I was for several years, I worked on Birdman's Fast Money and I had six songs on there. Then Tha Carter I, I engineered over 75% of that record as a recording engineer. The same thing for the Carter II, I ended up having one song on that one but between Tha Carter I and Tha Carter II about six or seven of my records got leaked. I was really supposed to end up with about four or five records but six or seven of them got leaked. It was a big disappointment because they were talking about [making it] a single for at least on of them.

HipHopWired: What do you do then when one of your songs gets leaked or if you produce a song thinking it's for an album but find out it'll be given away for free on a mixtape?

My God - Pusha T ( Official Video )

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New Music 4/18/2011: B.Roc, Kid Ink Ft. Meek Mill, Swizz Beatz, Jay Z Ft. U2, and Lloyd Banks!

Check out New Music for Monday April 18th! We got some new tracks for ya'll make sure you follow the rules. If you Like it then support the artist!!


Top Back Freestyle - B.Roc



Blackout - Kid Ink Ft. Meek Mill



Live From Paris - Swizz Beatz



Sunday Bloody Sunday - Jay Z ft. U2



Misery - Lloyd Banks

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It's Friday, You Know we had to come through with some new music for you. If You Like it Download it! Support these artists!


100 Hunnit - Wale Featuring Meek Mill



Go Out On The Town - Killer Mike Feat Young Jeezy




Pocket Full of Money Remix - Alley Boy Ft. Young Jeezy




Look at me now Remix - Da Brat feat. Jermaine Dupri



Heads of The Heads - Freddie Gibbs



Look At You ( Killin 'Em Pt2) - Fabolous Featuring Ryan Leslie, and Ne-Yo



The Postman - I Double L




American Greed - Camron Feat. Vado



Tupac Back - Meek Mill Feat. Rick Ross




#84More - I Double L

Freddie Gibbs - Rock Bottom (Video)

Gangsta Freddie Gibbs drops another Video off of "No Filla" Speaking on Real Life problems. Gibbs does his thing, This is one of my favorite tracks off this project.

Stuck in between a rock and a hard place while standing on solid ground, the clip showcases the beauty of the rut no human being is exempt from a few instances in their lifetime. Even with the absent Bun B feature, the song still resonates amongst those living from check to check, trying not fall beneath the floor boards. You’re speaking through Freddie and he’s voicing your concerns.

2 Arrested In Dj Megatron Shooting

NEW YORK — Two New York City men have been arrested in the shooting death of radio and TV personality DJ Megatron.

Police say 21-year-old William Williams and 20-year-old Richard Cromwell were arrested Wednesday on charges of murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. It wasn't clear whether they had lawyers.

Police say the 32-year-old disc jockey, whose real name is Corey McGriff, was shot once in the chest while walking to a store near his home on New York's Staten Island last month.

DJ Megatron worked on BET's "106 & Park" music countdown series, mainly in a role interacting with its live audience. He also did some on-camera work for the show and BET's website.

New Music 4/6/2011: T.I, Progidy ft. Nas, Meek Mill, Tone Trump, Obie Trice, Wale, and More

We got 11 New joints for you. You Know the routine, if you like it! Download it, make sure you support these guys for putting out these new songs for summer!




Mobb Deep Featuring Nas - Dog Shit



T.I - Celebrate



Drumma Boy Feat 8 Ball and MJG - Round Me



Ground Up ft Freeway - Wonderful Day



NORE - Yonkers Freestyle Bottles Go Bang



Serius Jones - Cheater



Tone Trump - What's Beef ft. Ra Diggs, Hatian Fresh & Lex 9Eleven



Wale ft Rick Ross Jadakiss - 600 Benz



Meek Mill ft Rick Ross - Tupac Back



Obie Trice - Learn To Love



Memphis Bleek - Toast To Em

Volcom Sues Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Over Diamond Logo

Something told me this would be coming down the pipeline eventually! Today, Jay-Z battles clothing giant Volcom, as Volcom has filed a lawsuit against Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label due to ‘infringement based upon usage of their logo’.



The diamond stone used in Roc Nation ads looks very much alike to Volcom’s logo, which has been trademarked since 1991. Jay-Z usually ducks lawsuits well, but Volcom might come out the victor in this one!

Tone Trump - WorldStar Tony Mixtape Hosted By Dj Kay Slay

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