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Vince Yuen
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Vince Yuen is an Associate Editor and author for We Got This Covered based just north of Toronto. I'm a graduate from York University and write video game and music articles for the site in my spare time.
After three years of frustration with former label E1 Records (formerly Koch), Joell Ortiz is finally free from their grasp. In March, Ortiz complained about the album delays and E1 preventing him from signing other deals, essentially halting his career.
Just a few days ago, we reported that MC Hammer, now King Hammer, released a diss track and video to Jay-Z in response to his lines in Kanye's So Appalled. Well Jigga stopped by DJ Semtex's radio show yesterday and spoke on it.
While thoughtful, emotional hip hop is often labeled as backpack or even emo rap, it's worthy to note that some of the best music that's ever been made in any genre comes from strong emotions like heartbreak and depression. You can feel it in the music and it is brilliantly displayed in the lush soundscapes of Kno's solo debut.
Now going by King Hammer, the Oakland rapper was offended when he heard a Jay-Z line last month in Kanye's G.O.O.D. Friday release "So Appalled" in which he raps, "And Hammer went broke so you know I'm more focused / I lost 30 mil so I spent another 30 / 'Cause unlike Hammer 30 million can't hurt me." As a blatant reference to Hammer's financial troubles over the years, he took this as a diss and promised a retaliation track on Halloween via Twitter. Well October 31st came and went and just as he promised, a song and video was released called "Better Run Run".
Legendary Mega Man creator, Keiji Inafune, has announced his departure from Capcom at the end of the month, which has been his home for the past 23 years. His title is currently head of R&D at Capcom and CEO of Capcom online gaming subsidiary Daletto.
Did you ever watch an old spaghetti Western flick and think to yourself, "This movie would be so much better with zombies"? Well apparently, the minds at Rockstar did as they bring us the fourth and final piece of downloadable content for their critically acclaimed Western epic.
So here's the story up until this point in case you missed it. In a July HipHopDX interview with Lord Finesse, fellow D.I.T.C. member and mentor of the late legend Big L, stated that his father, who abandoned the family, forced his way back into their lives to eat off his son's successful career and gained control of his estate when his mom passed away. But because Finesse is "not gonna be financially responsible for this nigga getting paid", a second posthumous Big L album will never happen. This caused some confusion as news surfaced about a new album from the slain rapper called Return of the Devil's Son a couple of months later. Well in another interview with Donald Phinazee, Big L's brother, the situation is cleared up.
After being one of the most hyped up and coming rappers of the mid 2000's and experiencing numerous delays and issues with former label, Atlantic Records, Saigon's debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, will finally be releasing in February of 2011 on Suburban Noize Records. The album, originally slated to be released on Atlantic in 2005, still features production by Just Blaze, although no further information has surfaced on how much (if any) of the album has been changed since it was originally made five years ago.
In an interesting form of self-promotion, veteran rapper Skillz (formerly Mad Skillz) imitates the annual cyphers from the BET Awards show and creates his own direct-to-web version. This was an attempt to get the attention of Stephen Hill (Executive Vice President of Entertainment and Music Programming for BET) and Debra Lee (President and CEO of BET Holdings, Inc.)
Here's a free mixtape courtesy of J. Period. Imagine your favorite highschool mixtape performed live - but why pay all those artists to play when you can just bring the quintessential emcee, Black Thought?