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In a surprising turn, three artists noted for their mixtape work have decided to release their next tapes for retail purchase. After last year’s So Far Gone by Drake attaining gold status, Amazon.com has revealed that impending mixtapes from Waka Flocka Flame, Vado and Joe Budden will all get a retail release.

Waka Flocka’s Flockaveli and Vado’s Slime Flu will be hitting shelves this October 5, while Joe Budden’s highly anticipated Mood Muzik 4: A Turn for the Worse gets an October 26 release. Both Slime Flu and Mood Muzik 4 will be released via E-1 Music, while Aylum Records will handle Flockaveli.

There is no word as to whether the three mixtapes will also be released for free download. All three mixtapes are currently available for pre-order at Amazon.com

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Swagg Boss & 40 Gloc chopping it up in L.A. Be on the lookout for the new T-Shirt coming from the Gorgeous Gangsters Collection. 
‘I Only Listen To The Bad Guys’

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman. … Ghost Dog

The director speaks about working with Wu members and why he thought ODB and RZA were on ’shrooms one day.

Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has stories to share about working with Wu-Tang members. After collaborating with RZA for his Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai film, he decided to speak to The Village Voice about his experiences with Wu’s RZA, the GZA and the late ODB.

According to Jarmusch, he had to look for RZA.

“I had to hunt RZA down,” he shared. “I wasn’t getting anywhere through the management–normal things. I just started asking some friends, and within two days, I was sitting with RZA in a studio in Midtown at 3 a.m., meeting for the first time. We got along really well, and we just started talking about everything, and by the end of that night, he was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I’m down. When should we start? What should I do?’ Him and GZA are like encyclopedias of martial-arts film. They don’t just know every director and actor; they know who choreographed the fight scenes, who did the design, who did this and that.”

Respecting their knowledge, he also decided to collect Wu beats to help him in giving RZA directions.

“I had collected all the Wu-Tang vinyl with the instrumental B-sides, so I could say, like, ‘I like this floating, damaged beat. I like this stutter, this trippy slow thing.’ We decided that we won’t do cues to the film. You’ll hand me off music, I’ll put it in the film, but don’t score to certain sections. . . . One of the coolest times: He came in with ODB, and we spent the whole day with ODB watching the placement of the music. That was amazing.”

Jarmusch went on to add that he felt the two emcees were on something when they came to visit him.

“I think they were on mushrooms or something, though—they were acting very peculiar. Every five minutes or so, ODB would jump up and go, ‘Yo, yo! Stop the machine! Earth, Mars, Venus: Pick one!’ And RZA would go, ‘I got this. Earth.’ And he’d go, ‘OK, start it up again.’ He was amazing. I wanted to go in and film him—we were going to go in when he was locked down. Go put a camera on ODB and let him talk about any fucking thing he wants. We never got to do it. That’s a big regret.I had to hunt RZA down. I wasn’t getting anywhere through the management–normal things. I just started asking some friends, and within two days, I was sitting with RZA in a studio in Midtown at 3 a.m., meeting for the first time. We got along really well, and we just started talking about everything, and by the end of that night, he was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I’m down. When should we start? What should I do?’ Him and GZA are like encyclopedias of martial-arts film. They don’t just know every director and actor; they know who choreographed the fight scenes, who did the design, who did this and that.”

For more of the interview with the director, check The Village Voice.

Jigga gives the NYPL a sneak peek into his upcoming memoir, ‘Decoded.’

Jay-Z is finally gearing up to release his biographical book Decoded. He teamed up with former The Source editor Dream Hampton to write the memoir, which combines an autobiographical first-person style with interviews from close friends and family. The book will also include his explanation to lyrics of selected tracks.

Jigga is now scheduled to discuss the memoir at the New York Public Library in November. While the book was completed several years ago, it is only now that he is ready to share it with audiences, despite his reservations.

“It’s too much,” he told Rolling Stone. “For the book, I was interviewed, people close to me were interviewed. So I was learning a lot of things I didn’t know as a child. It’s not anything I haven’t said in the past, in songs. It’s just more detailed. A song is three minutes long. A book doesn’t have to rhyme, and it has no time limit, so you can say exactly how everything went.”

The NYPL discussion will take place on Nov. 15, and the book is set to release the next day.

Jay-Z Introduces His New Book At New York Public Library

Lil Zane and HueyF

Lil Zane

Tipse

Tipse is very disggusted with bum rappers

Lil Zane, Huey F, and Tipse getting it in

Stay tuned for more to come from Lil Zane and Tipse.

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Have you been keeping the Faith? Ms. Evans, who’s kept her silence since the release of her 2005 holiday album A Faithful Christmas, returns with the promo for her first album in almost five years.

Something About Faith, her fifth studio LP and first since her ‘05 joint The First Lady, has already spawned the Snoop Dogg-assisted single “Way You Move” and, in anticipation of the release, the songstress has released a video promo showing behind-the-scenes footage of her album photo shoot.

With Evans’ church-reared vocals playing in the background, the clip shows she’s back and better than ever. Watch the vid below (care of Bossip), and look out for the album hitting stores October 5 via E1 Records.

The Pittsburgh emcee respectfully elects to remain on his own tour.

The Pittsburgh emcee respectfully elects to remain on his own tour.

On Thursday (August 19) Drake told fans via UStream that he hoped to secure Wiz Khalifa for his upcoming Light Dreams and Nightmares tour. However, due to the fact that Khalifa’s Waken Baken tour begins at the same time, the Pittsburgh emcee had to decline.

“Just the fact of cuz even extending his hand and me being on his radar is tight, to me,” said Khalifa in a brief interview with XXLMag.com. “It just lets me know that I’m doin’ what I need to be doin’ as far as stayin’ relevant and stayin’ poppin’. But I think to keep me poppin’ and keep me relevant I gotta stay buildin’ on top of what I’m doin’ and what I been doin’. No disrespect to cuz or anybody else who might wanna see me do some more collaborative things, but to keep buildin’ and keep my brand as strong as what it is, I gotta keep focusin’ on what it is. This is my first tour that I got comin’ up, the Waken Baken tour, I gotta at least kick that off and make that it what it is so we can do ten more.”

Khalifa joked that when he could make $10 million off of touring like Drake reportedly did last year, he would go tour with him.

“I really want to meet him and chop it up with him,” said Wiz Khalifa of Drake. “I wanna meet him, chop it up, smoke one with him and who knows what could happen. But it’s all positive right now.”

The Waken Baken tour begins on September 16 at Philadelphia’s Trocadero Theatre.

Pastor Troy Gives some details on expanding his portfolio with ESPN.
With a 21-album discography, music has been an enormous part of Pastor Troy’s life. Now, the “Throw It Up” rapper is parlaying his recordings into a licensing deal with ESPN.

“I messed around with ESPN for football season for the show NFL Live,” revealed Troy in an interview with OzoneMag.com. “We got some licensing deals and stuff like that and that shit is stoopid! I’m just getting into all these endorsement deals and stuff, because rap is so big now you just gotta find your niche and keep grindin’ it out. That ESPN joint opened up a lot of doors though. So when you watchin’ Sportscenter and you hear that ‘Murder Man,’ don’t think your TV goin’ crazy, baby! It’s me!”

Pastor Troy revealed that he feels more at home with the sports industry than the Hip Hop world. “…I’m more into the sports industry than I am in the music industry. I ain’t got a lot of music industry friends, I got a lot of sports industry friends, so just hookin’ up with those boys we kickin’, trying to blow this shit out of proportion.”

Pastor Troy’s latest release, King of All Kings, is in stores now.