Rappers Stop Spamming!!!

A few years ago I hated leaving Hip-Hop shows because every rapper would be by the door handing out their latest mixtape. Nowadays everything has gone digital and my mailbox can’t escape being filled everyone’s latest single or mixtape. So I’ve decided to give rappers a bit of a guide on how to not on everyone’s shit list.
Now let’s get one thing clear, if you “work” in music (or are trying to get into the industry) you are going to be getting email from everyone and if you’re not, then you’re probably not very important. It’s annoying, I know but artists need to find ways of getting their music heard and emailing is one of the simplest ways to do that today. If you don’t like it, hit spam on any unwanted emails. It’s your right!
But artists need to learn how to send an effective email. It’s really not that difficult.
1) Learn to BCC: Seriously, quickest way to end up in someone’s SPAM folder or getting cussed out is not putting emails in the BCC box. For those of you who don’t know what BCC does, it’s simple, it hides the email addresses of the people you are sending your music to. Why do this? Because people don’t want their email out there for everyone to see and they don’t want 30 replies on the same email of people cussing you out. Plus, say you do have some important people on your list, do you want every bum to have that address? Do you want other rappers to have your mom’s email address? Then learn to BCC.
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Amy Whinehouse Found Dead
Damn, not shocking but damn.
View the story on TMZ
300K House for $16 [video]
Extremely interesting.
Got this video from http://ikeepsit100.com/
Missy Elliot Has Graves’ Disease [news]

So I’m flipping thru the Washington Post today and I see this pop up. Never heard of the disease but the article explains it.
Sidenote: As much as Kim is mad Nicki stole her style or whatever, Nicki def got more of her steeze from Missy than anyone. Missy was always on that weird costume/make-up/goofy face steeze. People do say steeze still right? No? Oh I meant swag then…
Artists Stop Faking YouTube Views!!!
It’s become an epidemic. Seriously. Anyone with half a brain knows your views are fake. It’s a bad look when you have 100,000 views and only 100 comments. Basically that means per 1,000 views only 1 person cared enough to comment? Look, I know getting Youtube views to increase is difficult, but their are ways. Plus the money that it costs to get the fake views could be better spent.
P.S.
It’s also a bad look to be following 5,000 and have only 5,001 people following you.
Man Admits To Shooting Tupac in 94′
For $2,500, paid by Jimmy “Henchman” Richmond. No real shock. Artists like 50 Cent, Nas, and Tupac himself have written coded songs over the years airing out what happened (well Pac’s songs were not coded, see above). For those who aren’t familiar, Jimmy Henchmen is the Game’s manager, Sean Kingston’s manager and is currently on the run from the feds (he was also said to be an informant since 1997).
This story has been beat to death over the years but I figure I’ll tackle some of the rumors for the readers on this site.
Why was Tupac in NY?
Tupac was running around New York a lot back in the day, chilling with the underworld (during Around the Rim). These people helped fund a certain label and wanted Pac to join, Pac didn’t. These people didn’t like that and had Pac set up (taking the jewelry they bought him).
Where does Bad Boy come into play?
Isaac hinted that Puff had something to do with it in his confession (read the full confession HERE). As much as Diddy tries to make himself look legitimate, their have always been rumored that certain types of people helped him start Bad Boy (*cough extortion). From my understanding (read opinion and could be wrong), Tupac never thought Biggie set him up, but was upset that he didn’t get warning about the shooting since they were friends. Furthermore Tupac claimed that everyone looked at him funny after the shooting and he began wondering how involved they were. Tupac’s friend “Stretch” was with him the night of the shooting and was shot a year to the date of Pac’s murder. Pac is on record saying he believed Stretch was involved.
A big rumor is that these people were not going to shot Tupac, just rob him. But Pac pulled out a gun and shot in the elevator and the bullets came back to hit him.
Enter Death Row
In 95′ a close friend of Suge Knight was shot at an aftert party for Jermaine Dupri. Suge Knight blamed Puff for it. Tupac and Suge now had a mutual enemy. You can’t go to war alone, especially not against New York’s heavy hitters.
What about Nas, Fugees, and the rest of the world?
Tupac was paranoid after the shooting (rightfully so). Anything that remotely looked like a diss was given a response. Nas, Xzibit,and LL each said little lines that may or may not have been a diss. It’s said that Nas and Pac squashed it right before he died. Legend goes they were both mad deep and talked it out (Outlawz have said this and Tragedy Khadifi talks about it in his documentary). The Fugees are different though. Wycelf is related to Haitian Jack.
Who the hell is Haitian Jack?
A friend of the Underworld and an alleged informant. He also caught a case with Tupac…the rape case that was going on when he was shot. It’s also said that the cops who arrived on the scene when Tupac was shot, were the ones who arrested Tupac for the rape case.
As you can see, their are a lot of rumors and shady characters involved. Tupac made a lot of interviews and songs about it though (the infamous Vibe interview goes in greater detail than anyone ever gives it credit for). I left out a lot of rumors and just tried to say the major ones. It’s a conspiracy theorists wet dream. We’ll probably never know the truth behind this shooting or the muders of Pac and Biggie though.
Eminem & Royce Da 5’9″ prepping “Bad Meets Evil” EP

The homies over at RR report…
Welcome to the best of both worlds. Now that Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″ are back on the same page, the pair are set to release an EP inspired by their 1999 collaboration, Bad Meets Evil. The project is set to drop on June 14th through Interscope and will feature production from D-12′s Mr. Porter, Havoc, DJ Khalil, Bangladesh and others


