As promised, The Game drops his new mixtape, California Republic, with host DJ Skee and a healthy assortment of features including Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Drake, Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco, 2 Chainz, French Montana, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Shyne and Trey Songz. The project should hold over fans of the West Coast emcee until the arrival of his fifth studio LP, F.I.V.E., later this year. Get the download link and tracklist after the jump.
So C tha God calls Shyne 105.1′s “Donkey Of The Day” while Diddy is sitting right there huh? I don’t know about you but I think “That is G as Hell Dawg” (Punch Voice). Nah, but really Charlamagne is cold-blooded. HA!
In this installment of the.LIFE Files TV we catch up with Shyne in the holy land Jerusalem where he currently resides. Shyne can be seen walking through the streets of Jerusalem where he does a few impromptu freestyles for his fans as well as going to the club and discussing the bible with elder Rabbis. Po gets deep in this exclusive clip and talks about his inevitable return to the United States. Special Thanks To Steve-O, Pecas, and Al Branch.
We then head over to Englewood, NJ to catch up with Dorian Grace, owner of Dlux NJ – an upscale clothing boutique. Dorian gives us a tour of her space and shows us some of her new pieces you may have seen on the likes of Nicole Richie and Rihanna – while talking about her inspiration for fashion, working with model India (Charli Baltimore’s daughter) for her look book and being an entrepreneur.
CNN caught up with Moses Levi better known as Shyne to discuss his road of transitioning to Ultra-Orthadox Judaism and what he has been doing since his release from prison last year. Seeing how he is now compared to when he was more in the rap scene is like night and day.
Okay, politically it’s not in my best interest to slander this man, I know. But damn it, this cat is hilarious! I am over here crying laughing. Okay, okay, no more jokes- this is a freestyle Shyne did while in Israel—*walks away from computer for 3 seconds and comes back* nah, you bogus as hell, bro!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Aigh, I’m done foreal. I just don’t understand, I mean, if you got people around you sucking up your advance money like vampires, the least they can do is advise you to get your dress game intact.
Props: Savv
Shyne, what are we doing here, bro? No, really? And I’m not even talking about your flows, I’m talking about your dress game and those bogus ass sideburns you be rocking. Bro, you do realize that Hip-Hop is very much fashion driven right? Nah, and don’t use that I was locked down in the “bing” crap neither. Dressing like an Amish dude was never acceptable in Hip-Hop and never will be. And when you’re not rocking the Amish suit, you’re wearing Standford college shirts WITH a sleeveless jacket. Now if you’re trying to somehow incorporate the Home Improvement look into Hip-Hop, I guess that’s innovative, but realistically I don’t think that’s the case. L.A. Reid gave you like 5 mil right? Get a stylist, mayne. Sheesh! Lol!
I’m definitely trying to get with Cash Money but the Def Jam thing is a question mark right now. I’ve been fixing to get up out of there for a while now because [Island Def Jam CEO] L.A. Reid don’t care about hip-hop. The people up there, they don’t know what they’re doing. When you don’t have a strong leader, where you gonna go? They don’t care about hip-hop music. You give them a hip-hop record with an R&B singer, you “might” have a chance. They don’t care. You got The Roots, Ghostface, Nas, probably the best hip-hop roster you could imagine and they do nothing. L.A. Reid doesn’t want nothing to do with rappers — it’s nothing personal, I don’t have nothing personal with dude but he makes it known he doesn’t care about hip-hop. So I’m really interested in seeing who’s gonna replace him. Because I know he’s been replaced — so I wanna find out who’s gonna take his spot before I decide what I’m gonna do with Def Jam…The music that we make is responsible for pop, R&B, everything that’s jumping right now.
They gotta care about [what we've done] the way Jimmy Iovine cares about that, the way Lyor Cohen cares about that,” Shyne added. “I’m definitely not gonna scrap everything I recorded. I put in so much, I’ve come so far. From the first record I did when I got out to the new records I’ve done while going to all these different countries, I ain’t scrapping nothing. I paid for that. I’m not signed to Def Jam anyway, I just need to find another distributor. I might just have Cash Money do everything. Who knows? That’s the beauty about being in the business for yourself. You can decide where you want to go and what you want to do.”
Really Son? Really? Just give it up Po’. You were dope back in the 90′s. We are now in 2010. #NuffSaid
Dealer: SOHH
Was anybody on this conference call yesterday? I was and I don’t recall 50 wilding out like that. I mean, I do remember him getting on the phone saying he was a DJ from Harlem, but that was about it. Anyway, Po speaks on yesterday’s conference call and explains his perspective on what happened.
“Wow. That’s like an all-time low,” Shyne said. “I didn’t know he was so desperate. He’s gone from confidential informant, witness-protection program dude, getting order [of protection] on muthaf—as. Now he’s a stalker. I was in shock. He called up saying he was ‘Jamal from Harlem.’ He didn’t call up saying he’s Curtis Jackson, Hawaii 5-0. He’s a busta. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe he would stoop to that low. Then again, a guy in the witness-protection program, he has no shame.”
Shyne said he wasn’t aware that it was 50 who had called in until after he’d finished his interviews.
“You know how it is. When you do these things, you always gotta expect a muthaf—a to call and he might be disgruntled. We took it as another disgruntled person. ‘Cause you know, I don’t know what his voice sounds like. I don’t listen to nothing he do. If we on the yard, and they put his video on, they change the TV in the yard,” Shyne explained, referring to his recently completed prison stint. “I don’t jack that dude on no level. I don’t know what his voice sound like. But somebody at Def Jam caught him. He’s been reaching out to one of my generals in the street begging for peace. He caught his voice too. It was after the fact.
“I thought it was somebody who was having a bad day, who wanted to know the situation. It wasn’t until after everything was finished, muthaf—as at Def Jam was like, ‘That was Boo-Boo. That was Hawaii 5-0.’ I was like, ‘No. No.’ Then he put the [video] out, like he was talking reckless. He’s a creep. Any of my comments have been honest comments. These dudes do anything, I don’t give a f—. It never bothered me. The fact that he’s sitting in New York, selling his Vitamin Water, listening to my Ustream. What the f—? You’re stalking me. Go take some steroids. Find something to do.”
50 gave a courtesy phone call to Def Jam so he can speak with Shyne while they were hosting a live stream, watch what happens.
