Welcome to My Hood Remix (Official Video) - Dj Khaled (Various Artists )

Dj Khaled (Feat. Ludacris, T-Pain, Birdman, Ace Hood, The Game, Twista, Busta Rhymes, Mavado, Fat Joe, Bun B, Jadakiss, & Waka Flocka) - Welcome To My Hood Remix

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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 )

Check Out the Official Video for My God By Pusha T.