12/28/02 | More News On The X-Homie
       As previously reported, J-Ro of Tha Liks has recorded a diss song aimed at Xzibit. According to BET, the track "Look Out (The X Homie)" could end up as the B-side of his new single "Tonight" featuring Kurupt, from J-Ro's own imprint Wolfpac Records. The self-produced track is making the rounds of mixtape and radio DJs these days. The lyrics of "Look Out" speak for themselves:
"Lil Homie/ You act like you don't know me/ Jumping ship on your crew must be real lonely."

"Xzibit gonna have to get the message," J-Ro said. "It's no way around that. It's all real stuff that actually happened, so he has no choice but to feel it. It's like scolding your kid or your nephew; sometimes you gotta just make it happen whether it's in front of anybody or not. I'm just letting him know that what he been doing ain't appreciated by the whole Likwit crew, or by the whole west coast." J-Ro explained.

Xzibit has yet to respond to "Look Out," whether on wax or in person. Stay tuned for more news and audio as we get it.

 

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12/26/02 | New Audio
       Here is something kinda new by singer Darius Rucker featuring Snoop Dogg. The track is a slow jam and called "Sleeping In My Bed". Click here to listen.

E-A-Ski dropped a dope new Freestyle on the new Kay Slay mixtape. He's spittin around 3 minutes over the Made You Look beat, click here to check it.

 

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12/26/02 | New Foesum Projects
       As previously reported, Foesum are workin together with the Twinz to bring out the long awaited reunion album in 2003. More to look out for from Foesum are some special appearances by Goldie Loc and Dat Nigga Daz. DJ Glaze steps back to the mic and solo albums from T-Dubb and M&M are already in the works. Source: GfuNka/Foesum.com

 

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12/26/02 | 40 Glocc Tracklisting
      According to CD Universe, this is the tentative tracklisting for the debut album from 40 Glocc titled "The Jackal". It has guest appearances by Kurupt, Tray Deee, Ras Kass, Snoop Dogg, Spice 1 and many more. Producers include Dr. Dre, Lexx, Kwame, 40 Glocc and others. Click here to order "The Jackal". Below is a preview for the song "Leave Me Alone" with Suga Free and Mr Shadow, click the link next to the track title to listen. Here is the album cover & full tracklisting:

 

1. Intro - (featuring Mac Minister)
2. Zoo Life
3. Everybody
4. Ohh! - (featuring Kurupt)
5. Gladiator - (featuring Badass)
6. Till We Meet Again
7. What Type - (featuring Ras Kass)
8. Leave Me Alone - (featuring Sugar Free/Mr. Shadow) [LISTEN]
9. Skit
10. Click Click - (featuring Kay Tray The Enforcer)
11. Skit
12. Gold Rush - (featuring Lil Tute/Sweeny/Toot Toot)
13. Game - (featuring Spice 1/Big Tray Deee)
14. Papa Lil Soldier
15. Love You Baby - (featuring Cavelear/Laura)
16. Sittin' On 20's
17. Gentleman Of Leisure
18. Mink Coat
19. Get Live - (featuring Riggamortis/Little/Champ/Shells)
20. Move - (featuring K.B.)
21. Seventh Sign
22. Snoop Trac - (featuring Snoop Dogg)

 

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12/24/02 | Merry Xmas
      Merry xmas to you and yours from wc2k.

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12/19/02 | Promised St. Ides Commercials Up
      As we reported last week, the classic St Ides Commercials were released on Dr Dranks "Greatest Malt Liquor Hits" (check Dec 15 update). The album is very limited but can be purchased for 12 bucks at FriscoStreetShow.com. Now you know we dont support bootlegging but since this is a rare release and most people wont be able to get their hands on it I thought Id to post all the tracks from the compilation in real audio. As you can see below, it has alot of Ice Cube and King Tee songs and most of them are unheard. DPG Fans might know the Snoop, Nate and Warren tracks because those leaked to the public a long time ago. All tracks are in high quality, all from the 1993/94 era. Click on the titles to listen.

1. King Tee "St. Ides"
2. King Tee & DJ Pooh "Forty Ounce Fit for a King"
3. King Tee & DJ Pooh "Tha Bomb Malt Liquor"
4. King Tee & E-Swift "Do Ya Like St. Ides?"
5. King Tee "Do You Wanna Go To The Liqor Store?"
6. E-Swift & King Tee "Let's Have Some St. Ides"
7. Ice Cube & King Tee
8. Ice Cube & DJ Pooh/E-Swift "S.T. Crooked I.D.E"
9. Yo Yo & Cube "Femalt Liquor"
10. Ice Cube & Dj Pooh "All I want for Christmas"
11. Ice Cube "Jackin for Malt Liquor"
12. Ice Cube "We don't want no 8-ball"
13. Ice Cube "Wish They'd Come up with a 12-Pak"
14. Ice Cube & Dj Pooh "Blind Fold Test"
15. Eric B & Rakim "Real Men's Drink"
16. Rakim "Get Some"
17. Yo Yo & King Tee "You Need A Six-Pack"
18. EPMD & Ice Cube "East meets West Malt Liquor"
19. Erick Sermon "40 oz or a can"
20. Kool G Rap, DJ Pooh & Sir Jinx "Getta Grip, Take A Sip"
21. Geto Boys & Cube "5th Ward/South Central Malt"
22. Geto Boys "My Malt's Playin' Tricks On Me"
23. Snoop Doggy Dogg & Nate Dogg "St Ides in the LBC"
24. Warren G "When We Sippin' On Tha Brew"
25. Nate Dogg "Drank Anthem"
26. MC Eiht "The Brew Took Me Unda"
27. Scarface "Drankin Toon"
28. Wu Tang Clan "Shaolin Brew"
29. Snoop Doggy Dogg "Dogg Food n Drank"
30. Ice Cube "Crooked I for All Ages"

 

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12/18/02 | Unheard Styles Remix With Knoc
      Here's a song you might want, an unheard & official Remix of Styles P's "Good Times (I Get High)" featuring KNoc-Turn'Al. Click here to listen to the cut, exclusive whattt!

 

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12/18/02 | Tha Liks Didnt Sign With Snoop
      I dont think many people out there actually knew that Snoop Dogg showed interest to sign Tha Liks to his Doggystyle label. But the Liks have signed with Artist Direct Records instead.

“Snoop showed a lot of interest and its something that could still go down… but in the meantime we just signed a one album deal with Artist Direct, so we gonna put an album out this summer.” J-Ro said.

Tha Liks have also partnered with Playboy Entertainment who will release "Tha Alkaholiks 10th Anniversary" DVD late next year.

“Playboy got a hold of our last DVD, X.O. The Movie Experience and the people up there loved it, now they gonna do the 10th Anniversary DVD with us and they gonna supply all the women.” J-Ro added.

Playboy will begin documenting The Liks on January 5, 2003 at their concert at the El Rey Theater in L.A.

On an interesting sidenote, J-Ro has also released an underground single titled "The X Homie" which addresses the "tensions" between the Likwit crew and former member Xzibit. (thesource)

 

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12/18/02 | The D.O.C. Ready To Drop 'Deuce'
      As previously reported, the long awaited new album by the legendary D.O.C. titled "Deuce" is coming out next year, February 12th. According to Billboard.com the first single is the track "The Shit", featuring MC Ren, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg replacing Xzibit, who was featured in the original version. Dre lends his vocals to the track "Gorilla Pimpin'," also one of many tracks featuring the D.O.C.'s protege, young Dallas-based MC 6Two. Nate Dogg and Kurupt guest on "Concrete Jungle." Production for the album was handled by the D.O.C. with Jah Born, Jazze Pha, Erotic D, and Organized Noise Productions.
Both The Source Magazine and VIBE magazine gave "Deuce" 3 1/2 mics/stars.
Here is the tentative tracklisting & cover:

01. Music Business
02. Intro
03. Concrete Jungle feat. Nate Dogg & Jazze Pha
04. Tha Shit feat. Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube & MC Ren
05. What Would You Do?
06. Psychic Pimp Hotline
07. Gorilla Pimpin feat. Dr. Dre
08. Judgement Day feat. Dr. Dre
09. Soliliquy
10. Ghetto Blues [Listen]
11. All in the Family
12. Critical Condition
13. Touch of Blues
14. Mentally Disturbed
15. Safari West
16. D.F.W.
17. Simple As That [Listen]
18. Playboy
19. Snoop Props

 

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12/18/02 | Scans From The Source Mag
      The homie Kevin scanned some articles from the December issue of the Source Magazine, so thanks to him for those pics below. For once they show some love to the West and focus on artists like E.White, producer Jelly Roll or Kurupt and his movies. They also reviewed Xzibits latest album Man vs. Machine (3 1/2 mics) and wrote another article on Philly producer Scott Storch. Click to enlarge:

 

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12/18/02 | Pocos Peros Locos Delayed
      As previously reported, there is a new Pocos Pero Locos album coming out titled "Show". The album had a November release date but got pushed back to January 14, 2003. So make sure you support Latin Rap, here is the tracklisting for those who missed it last time.

1. In Love With A Gangsta - Knightowl
2. Runaway - NB Ridaz
3. Loco Por Vida - Spanish Fly
4. West Coast Party - Mr. Shadow
5. Naughty Boy - Lil ROb
6. Years Old - Hit Squad, Wicked Minds
7. Babygirl - Triple C
8. I Need A Sweet (remix) - SPM, Mr. Shadow, Baby Beesh
9. Running Game - Madogg
10. Just Keep It (remix) - Daz Dillinger feat. Mr. Shadow
11. If You Want It - Old Town Gangsters, James Debarge
12. Fuck The System - Down, Roscoe
13. Hustlin For My Baby - Pops
14. Get Nice - Cali Lifestyle
15. On The Kool - Baby Beesh

 

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12/18/02 | New Interviews
      Our affiliates WCKillaz and RealBrothas did an exclusive interview with BG Knocc Out. In this interview BG speaks on the current West Coast rap scene to the infamous beef with the DPG. Click here or here to read it.

Another interview worth checkin out is from the good people at MVRemix.com. They conducted an interview with Dr. Dre's new protégé Brooklyn and is quite an interesting read. She talked about her debut album "Name and Address" which is droppin in March. To see whos on the album, and much more hit up MV Remix to read it.

 

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12/18/02 | Audio Back Up/ New Song
      Back with some audio, first of this nice unreleased cut by Lil Peanut, you probably heard of the young kid before. The song features Kurupt, with Daz doin a short intro and produced by Daz himself. Its called "Let It Go" and as you can see its a song from the good old Dogg Pound days. You can listen to it by clicking here.

And here is the new song by Bad Azz, Daz Dillinger and Ill Knob called "Don't Want None" taken from the new Rocks The World MC's compilation. Click here to listen.

As people requested it, Ive put the audio sections back up. I took it down a while ago cause most of the songs were down and still are but Ill take care of that asap.

 

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St Ides Released On CD! - Dec 15, 2002

The classic and famous St Ides Commercials finally found the way to CD on DJ Drank's "Greatest Malt Liquor Hits". Rap music fans who were down with the sound in the early 90s might remember the big gangsta oriented advertising push carried out by St. Ides malt liquor. The project was a well-funded series of commercial jingles helmed by Alkaholiks producer E-Swift and Lench Mob crew members King Tee, DJ Pooh and Sir Jinx, all West Coast's finest at the time. The result was super dope one-minute spots by such notable artists as Ice Cube, Erik B and Rakim, EPMD, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G, Dr Dre or Scarface just to name a few. These rap commercials were really really good and they sound better than most commercial rap crap today.
Not surprisingly with lyrics like Cube's "Get your girl in the mood quicker, get your jimmy thicker, with St. Ides malt liquor," it wasn't long before controversy soon overshadowed the advertising campaign. The project eventually met with harsh criticism by minority and community groups who charged that the malt liquor brand was using rap music to sell itself to minors. The beer's trademark holder disconnected itself from the product and the national commercials were dropped.
But to the point, the songs were really good and impossible to find. How DJ Drank got em all on a CD in high quality is beyond me. But dont expect to see copies of this album in your record store, it still is very rare and limited. 30 tracks in all, here is the tracklisting and cover. Ill post some tracks from the album in the next few days on this site, all high quality.

1. King Tee "St. Ides"
2. King Tee & DJ Pooh "Forty Ounce Fit for a King"
3. King Tee & DJ Pooh "Tha Bomb Malt Liquor"
4. King Tee & E-Swift "Do Ya Like St. Ides?"
5. King Tee "Do You Wanna Go To The Liqor Store?"
6. E-Swift & King Tee "Let's Have Some St. Ides"
7. Ice Cube & King Tee
8. Ice Cube & DJ Pooh/E-Swift "S.T. Crooked I.D.E"
9. Yo Yo & Cube "Femalt Liquor"
10. Ice Cube & Dj Pooh "All I want for Christmas"
11. Ice Cube "Jackin for Malt Liquor"
12. Ice Cube "We don't want no 8-ball"
13. Ice Cube "Wish They'd Come up with a 12-Pak"
14. Ice Cube & Dj Pooh "Blind Fold Test"
15. Eric B & Rakim "Real Men's Drink"
16. Rakim "Get Some....."
17. Yo Yo & King Tee "You Need A Six-Pack"
18. EPMD & Ice Cube "East meets West Malt Liquor"
19. Erick Sermon "40 oz or a can"
20. Kool G Rap, DJ Pooh & Sir Jinx "Getta Grip, Take A Sip"
21. Geto Boys & Cube "5th Ward/South Central Malt"
22. Geto Boys "My Malt's Playin' Tricks On Me"
23. Snoop Doggy Dogg "St Ides in the LBC"
24. Warren G "When We Sippin' On Tha Brew"
25. Nate Dogg "Drank Anthem"
26. MC Eiht "The Brew Took Me Unda"
27. Scarface "Drankin Toon"
28. Wu Tang Clan "Shaolin Brew"
29. Snoop Doggy Dogg "Dogg Food n Drank"
30. Ice Cube "Crooked I for All Ages"



Dj Quik Talks About Lawsuit - Dec 15, 2002

Dj Quik talked to The Source Magazine on the current status about the $500 million lawsuit for using an Indian melody for the song "Addictive".

“We working it out cause somebody in India flipped our record and did their own version of it, but it contains elements of our record and our arrangement so technically we can counter sue. If it’s business, we gonna play business tactics. This ain't rocket science. The Calcutta people aren’t that mad anymore and we working it out with the people at Universal and Interscope."

Despite the drama, Quik and Truth have reunited for Quik’s latest single “Come 2Nyte.”



Mitchy Slick Interview - Dec 15, 2002

We'll have an exclusive interview with Mitchy Slick very soon. If you have some questions you want asked email me. If you dont know Mitchy Slick had one of the best Underground Albums in years called "Trigeration Station". He toured with Tha Liks and E-40 this summer, and was discovered by Sir Jinx. To listen to some samples from his album click here.



2 New Reviews Added - Dec 15, 2002

Our reviewer Dead Eye has reviewed 2 new albums, this time he brought you Snoop's "Paid Tha Cost To Be Tha Boss" and WC's "Ghetto Heisman". Click here to read those two.



Daz Strikes Back Again - Dec 08, 2002


Here is the new diss song titled "Tha Row Killa" by Daz Dillinger featuring his artist PFN. Its gonna be featured on the self titled LP, but this ones taken from the latest Whoo Kid mixtape. He's obviously dissin Suge Knight & Tha Row and the whole Murder INC. You be the judge. Click here to listen to Tha Row Killa.



Dj Quik Doin Big Thangs - Dec 04, 2002

I picked this up from MTV.com, its an update on Dj Quik. It sais that Quik is conducting an orchestra for the score of the upcoming Chris Rock comedy "Head of State."

"It's another avenue for me and I love it. Its strings and brass and orchestration mixed with hip-hop. And the main vignette in the movie I did with Nate Dogg doing the singing." Quik said.

And according to the MTV article, Butch Cassidy is now a official recording artist signed to Quik's Bungalo Records. He's been in the studio with him recording tracks for his album, along with Suga Free and newcomer Amir, the 26 year old Persian rapper.

"I was in a studio with Butch, and Amir was in another session and he opened up the possibility of doing some production," Quik explained. "So we talked a little bit and he was hungry, and I listened to his projects and it was another kind of music for me, the whole Persian and Arabic thing."

Amirs debut album titled "Images of My Mind", due early next year. It includes the songs "Bombs Over Saddam," "What's My Life Worth" and "Bloody Murder."

After Amir's album is released, Bungalo Records will focus on Suga Free's follow-up to the classic "Street Gospel".

"It's Richard Pryor's lyrics over some Dr. Dre-type production," Quik said of Suga Free's new material. "It's real interesting. It's comedy, but really street, really vulgar, on the pimp thing. He's a real rhythmic dude. He can beat on the table and rap at the same time without missing a beat. That takes a lot of talent."



Album Sales For Pac & Snoop - Dec 04, 2002

Here are the first weeks album sales for Snoops new album "Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss" and 2Pac's latest posthumous release "Better Dayz". Pac arrived at number 5 on sales of 380.512 copies. The album debuts No. 1 on Billboards R&B/Hip Hop albums charts.
Snoops new album barks its way onto the Billboard 200 at No. 12 and No. 3 on R&B/Hip Hop charts on sales of 197.128 copies. That first week total is a major decline for Snoop from the 397.000 copies of his last album "Tha Last Meal" (to date Tha Last Meal has sold 1.98 million copies).



New 2Wice Movie & Soundtrack - Dec 01, 2002

2Wice aka 2Wiceberg Slym is back with a new  album titled "Da X-Rated Soundtrack" along with the movie. 2Wice has put together another masterpiece with another all-star movie to support the soundtrack. The album has appearances by Snoop & Tha Eastsidaz, Jayo Felony, Kurupt, KAM,  Devin the Dude, E-40, Too Short, Dru Down and many more. The album has 15 brand new tracks all produced by multi-platinum producers such as Ant Banks, Bosko, Tone Capone and others.  2wice has also put a very special DVDto the movie as well. Check out the hot new single and video "Holla Pimpin" featuring Devin the Dude, Dru Down and Kam. Also check for the radio single with Snoop Dogg and Tha Eastsidaz and the street single featuring E- 40 and B-Legit. The follow up to last years "Off The Hook 2001" is available now in your local record store. The album is released on Nuff Entertainment, artists like  C-Knight from the Dove Shack, Domino or Shorty of tha Lenchmob are signed to their label. If you were lookin for 2Wice's last album from 2001 called "Keep Em On A Leash", dont look no further because it never came out in stores. The songs from there are featured on the new soundtrack so make sure you pick this up. Click here to order.

This is the cover & tracklisting for the Soundtrack: