Rebel Without A Pause

Serchlite TV: Chuck D Part 1 (Shoutout to Grand Good for the heads up)

David Banner and E-40 Hardknock TV interview

This is a really insightful, entertaining (two part) interview , there's a lot of ground covered here....





My writing here isn't the greatest as of late, so here's Hard Knock TV's description of everything discussed in this convo between E, Banner and D:

David Banner, E-40 and Davey D talk Barack Obama, being entrepreneurs, Mississippi and more. Check out www.hardknock.tv for part 1 where Banner and 40 talk about the South, Hyphy music and being in bands at Grambling and Southern (Bayou Classic).

Weezy vs Swanepoe & Urband & Laza

Remember Weezy's (Lil Wayne's) track I Feel Like Dying, well respected journalist Jeff Weiss reports that Karma-Ann Swanepoe's Once was one of the sampled tracks used in the creation of Weezy's most downloaded song. Swanepoe took objection to the content of Weezy's I Feel Like Dying, not only that Weezy wasn't even supposed to recieve Once. I Feel Like Dying was supposed to be featured on Weezy's album you all know by now Carter III, but ended up on the cutting room floor after Zach Urband and Jonathan Laza, the owners of the publishing rights to Swanepoe's Once, took offence at what they saw as the insultingly small amount of money they were offered. So, although Weezy's codeine and Vicodin laced track was never released officially, due to the amount of people that have heard and downloaded I Feel Like Dying, Urband and Laza are now suing Weezy.

Here's Weiss's L.A. MUSIC PUBLISHER'S SUIT AGAINST LIL WAYNE THREATENS TO REWRITE RULES ON MIXTAPES LA Weekly piece, in full.