Posts Tagged ‘irv gotti’
Thug Rappers Clamor for "Shiny Object #7"
January 28th, 2006
“Yeah, I may be coming back and whatever. I’m having sex with Beyonce. Def Jam doing alright. Young Jeezy moving units. Drug raps! Who would have thought it? But what I’m really most excited about right now is that I got an order for Shiny Object #7. I’m supposed to be one of the first ones in the world getting it. I think it’s like some prince in the Middle East and then me. This thing is gonna change the hip-hop game. Either you got it, or your career is over. Y’know?!”
Cheney Rocks Triple Fat Goose at Auschwitz Memorial, “Shows Love” for The Inc.
February 1st, 2005
+ CLICK TO ENLARGE AP — Most people would consider being arrested on federal money laundering charges a bad thing, but not Irv Gotti. The label head proudly struck his best Al Capone impression, mean-mugging and screw-facing as he was hauled away by FBI agents last week, visibly proud of taking his place alongside other […]
Fake Thug Court Is in Session
May 12th, 2004
The amazing career of Tupac Shakur cannot be pigeonholed with such labels as “fake thug,” “homo thug,” or “total fucking sham.” No, Tupac rose above all those mere terms and made fake thuggery an art, and his records canonize the rules and morals of a fake thug. Who else could be such a convincing on-wax tough guy that people think of him as a “West Coast ridah” and forgot he was actually a lousy East Coast rapper who called himself MC New York?
Backroom Whispers
January 19th, 2004
So some of you saw that “Timbaland to work with Axl Rose” story we threw out there a little way back, and thought to yourselves; “how come I didn’t read that anywhere else?” You think we made it up, didn’t you? We know you did, don’t be lyin’. You think we made it up. Like there aren’t enough “Axl Rose is a stupid no-talent fuck-up” stories out there that we need to go and make one up? Y’know, stories like the one about Axl delivering (and Interscope rejecting) “Chinese Democracy” a year or so back causing Axl to flip out, trash the office of his manager/ex-bodyguard/yes-man, and blow out a sold-out European tour.