Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Reek Da Villian Recalls Getting Put On By Busta Rhymes

After impressing Busta with a five-minute freestyle, Reek recalls hanging up on his platinum mentor when he called to sign him.

In October, Reek Da Villian held down a spot in BET Awards Freestyle Cipher segment alongside Mickey Factz and Zawcain. And while the notoriety that came with the appearance surely helped, Reek credits a much less desirable appearance for jump starting his Hip Hop career.

“Jail was the best thing that happened for me,” Reek recently told the New York Daily News. “When you go to jail it’s just you, you’re by yourself. “You have to meet new people, learn how to become friends with strangers and pick out who’s good and bad, and overall it just turned me into a man and it showed me what I didn’t want to do.”

Upon his release in 2004, Reek completed his bachelor’s degree and began pursuing a Rap career. He ran into Busta Rhymes in a Long Island clothing store a few years later, and freestyled on the spot for about five minutes in hopes of getting an A-list co-sign.

“He didn’t come off to me like the regular—you hear a lot of dudes all the time,” Busta explained. “He made sure the impression he left was an everlasting one. And that’s how I felt.”

Apparently the feeling wasn’t initially mutual. Reek was in disbelief when Busta Rhymes called him to follow up on the impromptu freestyle.

“I called his ass and he hung up on me,” Busta Rhymes added. “He thought I was a prank caller!”

These days everything’s serious. Busta enlisted the likes of Swizz Beatz to help Reek with his upcoming debut. In addition, to Busta and Swizz, Reek got a cast of all stars including Nelly, Method Man, DJ Khaled, Cam’ron and Vado to appear on his most recent mixtape, The Gift.

Pharrell Talks Recording New Album By The Neptunes

Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, known to the world as The Neptunes, have been consistently making music in one form or another for well over a decade. Usually they can be found producing for the world’s biggest stars or teaming up with their pal Shay Haley to make N.E.R.D. records. But according to recent comments by Williams to Sam Kelton of Melbourne, Australia’s Herald Sun he and Hugo are currently working on just their second official full length under the Neptunes moniker. The disc would be the follow up to 2003’s The Neptunes Present…Clones.

Pharrell has been keeping himself busy lately touring with N.E.R.D. opening for Gorillaz on a global tour and working on various projects but the work with his main group seems to be his focus now.. He says, ““I’ve just been all over the place from project to project. Right now, I’m working on lil’ Neptunes music.” While no release date or title has been revealed the Virginia Beach producer would say, “This new Neptunes record we’re working on right now is vicious. It’s definitely harder – it just demands sweat.” One high profile guest looking likely to make the record are French Disco icons Daft Punk. “Working with Daft Punk – they’ve been our buddies for like 10 years, and watching those guys work is pretty amazing,” Pharrell said, “They make great beats and it was cool to collaborate with them.”

Pharrell and Hugo’s other group, the aforementioned N.E.R.D., released their fourth album, Nothing, in November.

50 Cent & Val Kilmer's "Blood Out" Coming To Theaters In April

With a new title, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's latest film is expected within five months.

Almost a year ago to the day, it was announced that Southside Queens, New York emcee 50 Cent was at work on a film with Top Gun and The Saint actor Val Kilmer. Then titled, Gun, the film now known as Blood Out is coming to screen in April, 2011 - according to ComingSoon.net.

The Lions Gate film is directed and co-written by Jason Hewitt, and has the following premise: "When big city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang related murder, small town Sheriff Michael Spencer drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death".

Snoopdoggy dog vehichle Gets Impounded

Snoop Dogg's Vehicle Gets Impounded

The Doggfather gets his yellow convertible 1967 Pontiac Parasienne impounded during the holiday season.

Snoop Dogg is known for a variety of things. He's, of course, a legendary emcee and he has become an actor and football coach. He's also an avid fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and a car enthusiast. During the holiday season it seems one of his cars has been impounded, according to TMZ.

His yellow 1967 Pontiac Parasienne was impounded after a Snoop Dogg associate was stopped by police on Christmas eve. It seems the associate was driving the vehicle on a suspended license and the car was confiscated.

In related Snoop news, he was also a part of a holiday commercial for Pepsi Max. In the ad, he rhymed a holiday poem Snoop style.