Posts Tagged ‘the streets’
GB New Artist Spotlight: M.I.A.
February 14th, 2005
Every so often, the GBs like to give some shine to those struggling artists who don’t have the luxury of the media hype machine (i.e. The Man) puffing them up to ridiculous heights that no one could live up to. There’s a whole world of untapped, unnoticed talent out there just waiting for some kind […]
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.