Posts Tagged ‘dr dre’
Gangsta Rap Claims Journo: From the Feather Leather Weather Archives
November 27th, 2013
In this edition of the FLW archives, a dark time in rap journalism is recalled with the case of rap blogger Infinitezimal. Though not noticed at the time, the series of FLW posts reveal a narrative of the tension between writers and rappers that often resulted in writers being intimidated or physically attacked for their published opinions.
Anticon/Dre Beef; Sole Raises the Stakes
February 3rd, 2004
As the remix craze scales ever more ridiculous heights, we now hear that Sole’s abandoning his plans to remix Weezer’s Blue album using only samples from Weezer’s Green album, and instead concentrate on “The Antichronic (The Day The Crackers Took Over)”, something he described this weekend as “a re-imagining” of Dre’s 1992 classic, and “my […]
Dre Claims ‘Advanced Album’; Anticon Goes to Court
January 31st, 2004
Dr. Dre and once Roots mainstay, Scott Storch claim they have “the most advanced rap album ever.” And they say it is Dr. Dre’s new album, The Detox. “I’d describe it as the most advanced rap album musically and lyrically,” says Scott Storch. When asked if he was familiar with Anticon and the label/collective’s history […]
Gossip 101
January 5th, 2004
Our sources stay anonymous, our mercy is none, we spot blowin’ maaaaan. We’ll show ya how to gossip. Yeah, it’s a new year with new fears, but before we play a friendly game of Who Can Ruin Whose Career, let’s cover a few basics. There are tons of gossipy rumors flying around–some of them many years old, some of them pretty new, all of them juicy. So before we start punching throats in the ’04, we Gossiping Bitches wanted to start addressing some of these rumors so you can know what’s fact and what’s fiction. So we now present to you the first installment: Gossip 101.
Backroom Whispers
July 11th, 2003
We all should’ve seen this one coming: in a marriage of low-selling gangstas and high-selling homo-thugs, Murder Inc. and Death Row or Tha Row or whatever it is Suge wants it to be called this week are joining forces to form a superlabel called Murderer’s Row. It looks like mutual hate of Dr. Dre and mutual desire to pump Tupac’s corpse for more cash is enough to land a major distribution deal with Sony. The first single on the new vanity label, “Lead Poisoning” by Ja Rule and Crooked I (with Ashanti and her pitch-shifter singing the hook) is sure to have screaming 12-year-old girls rocking red bandannas in no time.