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| 50 Cent Says Rick Ross Will 'Work At A Pizza Shop' When Battle Is Done: <i>Mixtape Monday</i> Posted: 02 Mar 2009 04:50 AM PST Plus, Bow Wow wants to be the best rapper of '09.
Artist: Bow Wow Representing: Ohio Mixtape: Half Man Half Dog Vol. 2 411: Bow Wow says he's going to be the best rapper of 2009. All eyes are on him. "I just used my YouTube for the full potential," he said about releasing a myriad of freestyles virally last year before he released his first mixtape Half Man Half Dog. "Every time I do freestyle, and put 'em up, I get over 300,000 views just by being in my house. If my fans want it, I'mma give it to them. I do it as a hobby. I'm a mixtape fanatic." With his album New Jack City II due at the end of March, Bow just dropped a single called "You Can Get It All," a radio-friendly joint aimed at the ladies. We all know the young homie can do that — it's a hallmark of his career. But we will be surprised to hear him on the next mixtape Half Man Half Dog 2, as the almost 22-year-old makes a full-blown declaration of adulthood — and he's potent with the lines.
"Bow is keeping it hip-hop," DJ Infamous said about some of Bow's beat selection to freestyle over, such as the LOX's "Money, Power & Respect" and Jay-Z's "22 Two's." "Besides just being on the hottest records in the South right now, he's keeping it hip-hop. That's what we're bringing to the table. He's a veteran in the game but we're the young cats keeping it alive for the streets." Bow says that making a mixtape is just an outlet to show his other skill set. "For me, it was something that had just really been embedded in me," Bow explained. "A lot of people don't know that I was discovered by Snoop and [Dr.] Dre. Snoop was such an influence on me. It's always been in my blood to rap. When I got with [Jermaine Dupri], JD cleaned me up a little bit and did the right thing. That's the reason why I'm here right now. But it's always been in me to rap.
"I use the mixtape thing for fun," he added. "I hit Infamous up and said, 'Let's do something special for the people, a show-and-prove, show-and-tell type of thing that I can really do this.' It's no different from an NBA dude — when you see an NBA player go to [New York's] Rucker [Park street-ball court]. They bring a different game to the park. They don't bring the regular NBA game. It's two games I can play. I can hit you with the radio songs to sell records or I can do something else." Joints To Check For » "Underrated." "It was just me speaking the honest-to-God's truth," he said, referring to a line where he scoffs about people doubting he pens his own lyrics: "He don't write his sh-- that's what they all say/ But they don't say nothing when Eminem writes for Dre." "I do feel like I'm underrated. People put the rappers that don't sell records on the same pedestal as somebody who might have sold 30 million records. You can't do that; it don't add up. "A lot of people kinda overlook my accomplishments. I'm the youngest artist to ever go #1. I headlined seven arena tours. People overlook that. How can you not give me that credit? But you'll look at somebody who has one album, might have come out and sold 30,000 records, but he has the #1 rap single. But you think he's better than me? No way. The stats don't lie. You can't compare that. It's not equivalent. I get criticized so much. 'Who wrote this? He can't be writing this. That was too nice.' Y'all get on me so much but there are so many other rappers who don't write their raps but y'all like 'em. I write all my stuff. I'm just speaking for myself on how I feel." » "On Fire." "That's one of Infamous' favorites," LB Dub said. "Drumma Boy did the beat. It was weird how I approached the record. The beat was so hard, I said, 'I'm gonna find somebody talking about fire or how not to put out a fire.' That's why you hear it on the hook. I'm just talking, but I got samples talking about fire. It's about just attacking it. A real gritty, grimy record, doing what it is I do." » "Ambition" "I redid the 'Ambitionz As a Ridah' joint," Lamborghini Moss declared. "I did it first just as video over my YouTube [channel]. When I did it, I said, 'I'm gonna put it on the mixtape.' It's a straight verse, me writing and having fun with it. It's one of the hardest beats ever made. Shout out to Daz, who made it. And the rest is history." Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week » Joe Budden - Padded Room 'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar » Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "The Game Ain't Ready" The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground We give equal time here at Mixtape Monday. Last week, Rick Ross confidently said he should sell more records than 50 Cent. This week, we let the creator of Pimpin' Curly respond.
"I thought that was the funniest thing he could come up with," 50 said, laughing off Ross' prediction of 12 million records sold for Deeper Than Rap. "Why is there a Rick Ross and 50 Cent [beef]?" he asked. "It was just bad timing. It was publicity for his part why he jumped out there, but bad timing and no plan. He's gonna get mauled. People are gonna look at it like, 'Wow, that was like a Mike Tyson one-minute-and-thirty-second knockout. You didn't make it past your second week's sales.' " The G-Unit ringleader insisted that their battle is going to damage Ross' career. "When people get more publicity than they usually get — from an artist's standpoint — and it has nothing to do with their music, what usually happens is you make the public totally aware of you," the Queens native explained. "Which is good until the release date, and you see no one has bought your record. The public is totally aware you're trash and your material's not generating any interest. That's when you do the damage to yourself, because you don't want more publicity than your actual music is commanding." Fif also had jokes about a Ross vlog where the Boss said he was way more fashionable than the G-Unit. "He says things like he's really stylish," 50 scoffed. "Gucci, they have a European cut that even I can't get into a lot of times — so I'm sure there isn't anything in the whole store he can fit in outside of a scarf or maybe a hat. "It never gets worse than this," 50 added. "You get a guy that was a correctional officer come out and base his entire career on writing material from a drug dealer's perspective. When he loses this [battle], he can't even go back to his day job because the correctional officers are upset that you wanted to portray that message. He's gonna work at the pizza shop when I'm done with him." For other artists featured in Mixtape Monday, check out Mixtape Mondays Headlines. Related Videos |
| 'Watchmen' Easter Eggs: Our Favorite Blink-And-You'll-Miss-'Em Moments Posted: 02 Mar 2009 04:50 AM PST From a suggestive file-folder name to a '300' reference, these are the in-jokes to look out for.
BEVERLY HILLS, California — Since VHS tapes gained popularity in the '80s, filmmakers have delighted in hiding "Easter eggs" in their films for fans to discover during repeated viewings at home. It only seems appropriate, then, that Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" is not only set during the decade of greed, but that it breathlessly captures Alan Moore's pop-culture graphic novel by cramming more eggs into every frame than perhaps any movie before it. Nowadays, we have Blu-ray, DVDs and Internet screen grabs to help us keep up with Snyder's amazingly detailed, frantically faithful "Watchmen" world. But if you want to catch all the in-jokes, references and blink-and-you'll-miss-'em moments the first time you see the movie, you can start here. Below are seven of our favorite "Watchmen" Easter eggs, as revealed by the stars themselves. Not That There's Anything Wrong With That Silk Spectre May Be Dangerous to Your Health Read All About It Are You Ready for This Theory, Oliver Stone? What's Ozymandias Watching? What's Rambo's Problem Now? Don't Read It, Dan! Check out everything we've got on "Watchmen." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Silversun Pickups Say <i>Swoon</i> Is The Band's 'Time Capsule' Posted: 02 Mar 2009 04:50 AM PST 'As long as we're proud of it, that's all that matters,' frontman Brian Aubert says of Carnavas follow-up.
When the Silversun Pickups were writing Swoon, the follow-up to their breakout Carnavas album, they were given access to parts of the universe where mere mortals dare not tread. And they soaked in them. "We were on jets that landed on hovercrafts that rolled us onto Jacuzzi-shaped planes," frontman Brian Aubert laughed. "And on one Jacuzzi plane, there was a submarine, and that was the VIP, and that was going crazy. And that's where we wrote the album. We wrote Swoon on the backs of hookers. In crayon."
He's kidding. (We think.) But there's no denying that the past few years have been fairly eventful for the Pickups, who rose from favorite sons (and daughters) of Los Angeles' Silver Lake district to the show-stealing gigs at Coachella and Lollapalooza (not to mention opening slots on European tours for the Foo Fighters and the Kaiser Chiefs), based largely on the buzz generated by Carnavas, a blurry blast of My Bloody Valentine shoegaze, filtered through the Smashing Pumpkins hit machine. Two singles from the album hit the Billboard Modern Rock chart, and before they knew it, the band had adopted a rather robust (and decidedly non-indie) fanbase. Of course, they weren't aware of this, as they spent the majority of the time touring in a tiny white van. But their friends back home certainly let them know that suddenly, the Silversun Pickups were a big deal. "The best analogy for it is getting fat. Like, all of a sudden, your pants are a little tighter. It sort of gradually happened," Aubert said. "We weren't home for two years. Your friends sort of let you know that you're getting big — they'll call you and go, like, 'We just saw you on TV. That was so strange, and you looked weird,' but we didn't really notice. We knew we got to tour, and we were going to all these places, and that was, deep down, pretty stunning to us. Like, there's something inside us going, 'What the hell is going on?!?' " So when it came time to get to work on Swoon, (due April 14), there were certainly a lot more people paying attention — which is why they holed up in Hollywood's Sound Factory studios and tried very hard to forget about the outside world. That could either be a good or bad thing. "There are people who either really hate this record or really like it. I mean, it's nice that people will hear it. How they feel about it is up to them," Aubert smiled. "An album is sort of a time capsule of who you are and who you were when you're writing it. And after two years goes by, you're not in the same place, and this is a different sort of universe that you're in. So, really, our goal was just to make sure that at the end of the day, if it completely fails, it's not our fault. As long as we're proud of it, that's all that matters." We're willing to bet that Silversun Pickups fans are going to like it. A lot. When MTV News spoke to the indie rockers, they were in the finishing stages of mixing Swoon, an album that sounds an awful lot like the title implies. We'll have more on the songs of Swoon on Wednesday — including snippets of a few tracks — but until then, we figured we'd leave you with the album's track list ... and one final thought from Aubert about the making of the record. We think it sums the entire project up nicely. "When people come up to us and ask, 'How'd you do that?,' we just sort of scratch our heads and be like, 'Pfft? I don't know.' We just got lucky," he said. "And all you can do is try your hardest to make the best album you can, and then, if that happens, that's nice. Like, you have to be ready when the luck hits, and I think we did that here. There, I think I just blew your minds." The track list for the Silversun Pickups' Swoon: "There's No Secrets This Year" |
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