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— by Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes and Bridget Bland
Artist: DJ Clue
Mixtape: He's a Hustler Part 2
Representing: Queens, New York
The 411: There was a bunch of highly anticipated street releases this week. On the indie, underground hip-hop album tip, Buckshot and 9th Wonder are releasing their debut as a group, Chemistry. Young French dropped the follow-up to his Cocaine City Volume 2 with Volume 3. Then, DJ Clinton Sparks teamed up with the Shady family to release Anger Management 3 (The Exclusive Shade 45 Mixtape) (there's a lot of multiplatinum acts on there, but Juelz Santana's ruthless freestyle may be the illest moment — aiiiiiyyyyyy!!). But ultimately, it was an old friend we listened to the most this week: DJ Clue and his Hustler Part 2.
Joints To Check For
- "We Do It" by Sheek Louch featuring Jadakiss. The beat has a real slow-drag feel that would make it perfect for Sheek and Jadakiss to unleash one of their blood-stained, back-to-back freetyle raps, but instead, they came left and delivered a club jam to help you get your two-step on. Listening to Sheek brag about being broke — but still able to get more girls than his homie P. Diddy — is just one hot line out of a bevy.
- "Problem Child" freestyle by Jadakiss and Styles. The Lox continue their feud with 50 Cent, this time taking another one of Fif's beats. "Hov don't really respect you, get in your place," Jada riffs. "If Big was alive, he'd probably spit in your face/ Nas was doing just fine without you/ If Pac was here, he would have probably made an album about you."
- "Girls, Cars, Cash" by Cam'ron/ "Something New" by Cam'ron featuring Jaheim. In the first record, Cam crassly alerts a female that she may need to take a bath while he brazenly lets the world know how fly he is. On the latter track, Cam and Jah use the beat from Grand Daddy I.U.'s "Something New" to lure more women from their men. "I'll be your thug in the morning, sugar daddy at night," Jah sings. "Get with me if little homes ain't hitting it right."
Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week
- Young French's Cocaine City Volume 3
- Clinton Sparks & Eminem's Anger Management 3
(The Exclusive Shade 45 Mixtape)
- Buckshot and 9th Wonder's Chemistry
- DJ Syncity's The Draft: G-Unit Reloaded
- Kamaflaj's Full Breach
- Dutchess's The Royalty Mixtape
'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar
- "I'm" - Remy Ma
- "Shut Up Bitch" - Lil' Kim
- "Every Ghetto" - Slum Village
- "Get Up" - Joe Budden
- "Turn It Up" - Chamillionaire featuring Lil' Flip
- "Out in the Park" - Saigon
Celebrity Favs
Teena Marie, the influential soul singer who set stages on fire with Rick James in the early '80s, shares her favorite memory of Luther Vandross.
"The last time I saw him [was when I was performing] in Los Angeles at the Forum three years ago," she said. "That night was magical. Everything that came out of my mouth, God touched me. When I came off the stage, the audience was screaming, next thing I knew I was up in the air. I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody is holding me up in the air.' I looked down and saw the face of Luther Vandross. He was like, 'Girl, you were up in the rafters!' He was just smiling. I was like, 'I've died and gone to heaven. I'm in the air, in the arms of Luther Vandross.' "
The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground
Noreaga says he's back where he started. After switching from Def Jam and signing with Roc-A-Fella over a year ago, hip-hop's captain of charisma says he's putting out his next album on Def Jam. "It was a whole lot of confusion for me," Nore said of his brief stint with Roc-A-Fella. "It was some weird things where I had to pick a side and I didn't want to pick a side. I was down with the whole movement."
Rather than get in the middle of what he says was a clash at the label (which he says he still has love for), Nore decided to go back to Def Jam. He's putting out a traditional hip-hop album, One Fan a Day, on the label in September, and later this year he's releasing a reggaeton LP (featuring most of the genre's major stars), but does not know what label it's coming out on.
Nore says record-label politics between Def Jam and TVT have jeopardized the official release of a collaboration he did with Ashanti and Lil Jon called called "Young Boy, Young Girl" that would have been his first single, but one half of the Neptunes has come to his rescue and produced a new track.
"If all else fails, I go back to Pharrell," he laughed. "It sounds like nothing we've done before, but the basic chemistry remains the same: Me and the n---a went in there and had fun. This is gonna remind you of a Nore-style 'Drop It Like It's Hot.' "
Speaking of droppin' it like it's hot, there was a rumor a couple of weeks back that Nas and Nore got into an altercation at a club and Nore wound up throwing a flower pot at his onetime close friend. Nore neither confirms nor denies the incident, only saying he was having "a bad week."
"Let me clear it up for the record: Nore loves Nas," he said. "The situation was little crazy, but Nore has a lot of love for Nas.
"I don't know if it will ever be the same. I took a shot from him that was cold-blooded, we recently squashed it," he added, referencing when Nas went on a radio tirade a few years back and told Nore to step his rap game up. "Hopefully the situation will not escalate. We was actually gonna do 'Body in the Trunk Part 2' — I guess that's never gonna happen."
In support of his album, Nore just put out his mixtape Hang Hang Sangria, which is also the name of the liquor brand he wants to have in stores this year.
"I dug and in and took all the joints from my album I'm not using and said, 'I'm gonna give it to the streets.' " ...
One person who has made it perfectly clear where he stands on the Lil' Kim situation is her childhood friend Maino. The 28-year-old rides hard for the Queen Bee — the two went to junior high school together — because, when he came home in 2003 after serving a little over 10 years in jail for a drug-related kidnapping, Kim was one of main ones to show him love. He's been by her side during her trial and sentencing, and last week gave her advice before she received jail time.
"The good thing is that it's not forever," he said. "It hurts regardless, but she got the [shortest sentence]. Kim's strong. She comes from the streets, so she has a natural instinct of how to react, but I tell her to hold her head [up]."
Maino is going to be one of the acts on Kim's September 19 release, The Naked Truth, and she'll appear on his untitled 2006 debut. In the meantime, Main-O is pushing his mixtape Real Recognize Real and the accompanying DVD.
"I put more songs on it than freestyles," he said. "The average n---a is just out here freestyling."
For more on the role of mixtapes in the music industry, check out the feature "Mixtapes: The Other Music Industry."
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Photo: MTV News
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