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- 50 Cent Would Welcome Release-Date Showdown With Jay-Z
- Adam Lambert To Fuse Classic-Rock Sound With 'Dancier' Vibe On Debut
- Cory Gunz Talks Reality Show With Nick Cannon, Mixtape With DJ Drama
- Did Joe Jonas Reference Taylor Swift Onstage In Tulsa?
| 50 Cent Would Welcome Release-Date Showdown With Jay-Z Posted: 20 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT So far, the rappers are holding to separate release dates in September.
Sorry, hip-hop fans — it doesn't look like the Jay-Z/ 50 Cent chart showdown will be happening after all. The rappers won't go head-to-head when The Blueprint 3 and Before I Self Destruct debut in September. Jay has settled on September 11, while 50 Cent told MTV News last week that his album is coming on the last Tuesday of the month. 50 said that if by any chance he and Jay did drop on the same day, he would welcome the challenge. "I wouldn't mind [that], either," Fif said via phone. "But it's just, the scheduling is different. Maybe he'll move back. ... Yeah, it'd be good." 50 came out on September 11 a couple of years ago, releasing Curtis at the same time Kanye West's Graduation hit stores. Graduation sold more the first week, but Curtis sold well too. "People, you know, they love conflict," Fif said. "They love competition like that. And this is why it built so much energy for me and Kanye West when we came out on the same day, and in reality, we created the largest-selling week for hip-hop music. And at the end of the day, who loses? "I tell you who wins: the Universal Music Group," 50 continued. "The both of us are on Universal Music Group. So as long as you create the largest-selling [day] from there, it hasn't done anything to strain any of my business in any other way." Related Videos |
| Adam Lambert To Fuse Classic-Rock Sound With 'Dancier' Vibe On Debut Posted: 20 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT 'The music's gonna be great,' the 'American Idol' runner-up promises. 'Just wait a couple months.'
Adam Lambert wasn't too excited when his unofficial music hit the Web last month, but now he's in control. MTV News caught up with Lambert before the American Idols Live! tour stop in Los Angeles, and he was more than happy to share details about his upcoming debut album.
"It's kind of taking the best parts of music from the '70s, like the classic-rock era, and trying to somehow fuse it with modern, dancier, electronic production," the "American Idol" runner-up explained. "It's kind of a fusion thing." We already told you Lambert was teaming up with Lady Gaga producer RedOne, but he has a few other hitmakers up his sleeve as well. He'll be working with Greg Wells, the producer and songwriter behind hits by Pink, Katy Perry and original "American Idol" champ Kelly Clarkson. OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, who wrote Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," is also onboard, as is Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful," Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For" and much more). Just like during his "Idol" journey, Lambert is planning to shake up tempos and styles on the yet-untitled LP. "It goes back and forth," he said. "There's some ballads, there's some uptempo, there's some songs that are a little bit more straightforward, current pop. There are some songs that are more dance; there are some songs that are straight rock." So what's his favorite song so far? "I can't tell!," he laughed. "I'm not allowed." But he does promise to deliver. "The music's gonna be great. Just wait a couple months. You gotta be patient." Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Cory Gunz Talks Reality Show With Nick Cannon, Mixtape With DJ Drama Posted: 20 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT Bronx MC tells Mixtape Daily his upcoming show is 'about bringing hip-hop back and taking it all the way to the top.'
Cory Gunz was born to be nice on the mic. Just like current WWE Champion Randy Orton (son of grappling legend Cowboy Bob Orton), Cory's lineage has nourished his love for hip-hop his entire life. Years ago, Peter Gunz brought a 15-year-old Cory up to the MTV offices. Cory was shy when it came to talking, but when asked to rap, he unleashed the beast. Since then, Cory has been proving himself on every street DVD, mixtape and even in the boardroom, with execs like Jay-Z — and in the studio with MCs like Lil' Wayne and Tony Yayo. The only thing that's missing is that debut LP — Cory says it's coming soon, but in the meantime he has more checks to cash and more blocks to feed with his mixtapes. This Week's Main Pick Street King: Cory Gunz Mix Masters: DJ Drama and Head Debiase Holding It Down For: The Bronx Mixtape: Heir to the Throne Real Spit: Cory Gunz is obviously doing something extremely right. So many heavyweights have wanted to put their muscle behind him at one time or another. Jay-Z, L.A. Reid, Tommy Mottola — and we don't even need to mention Gunz's god-pop, Shaquille O'Neal. The new cat in Cory's corner is Hollywood renaissance man Nick Cannon. Cannon is overseeing Cory's debut LP, as well as producing a reality-TV show for the Bronx rhyme animal. "It's about bringing hip-hop back and taking it all the way to the top," Cannon told us about the show. "Me and Nick got a couple things under wraps," Gunz explained, standing in front of the new Yankee Stadium last week. "We're trying to make a couple big things happen. We're trying to do things real elegant for '09, '10 and beyond. We caught a couple projects in the works. Nick has been real instrumental behind the scenes on the project. And he's opened a couple of doors for me. Nick is my big brother now, for real. He's opening doors for me, giving me opportunities in and out of the studio. It's about to be ugly." Cory, Cannon and even Gunz's dad Peter were all in the studio last week working, and while the official album cooks up, the 22-year-old legacy MC continues to thrive off his street and Internet popularity. Every Tuesday, he lets a new freestyle out on RapRadar.com, and he just released a new mixtape called Heir to the Throne.
Every year we see each other, every event, when he was DJing the BET Hip-Hop Awards, he said, 'That's it. From this point on, we gonna keep in contact. We gonna get this tape done.' It was a given. We exchanged numbers." Still, Cory was surprised a few months later when Drama hit him up out of the blue and said, "Let's make it happen." "I went to Atlanta, shot a couple of videos out there with their artist Lonnie B," Cory said. "[Originally] I found myself falling into the trap of sounding like everybody else [with a Southern flow]. I had to fall back and bring it back to the essence of where I'm from a little bit. People will appreciate that when they hear it. The beats is gonna be crazy, and the lyrics is more what I want y'all to listen to." Gunz retooled and recorded some new tracks. Now he's ready. Look for more music from Gunz's clique members on his own Militia Music as well. Joints To Check For » "Let's Move It" freestyles. "My pops!" Cory says about how he got put up on Special Ed's 1990 hit "Come On, Let's Move It." Gunz rapped over the beat for his track. "I grew up on this. Hip-hop, I love it. I got roots in the game. So I grew up listening to all of the greats. Special Ed, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. and Rakim. Anybody that had fire out. KRS-One. When I heard that [Special Ed] joint, my pop played it in the truck for me recently. It stuck out to me so crazy. I was like, 'Why didn't nobody touch this?' I know Missy [Elliott] did something to it at one point in one of her videos. She spliced it up. But that record is ridiculous. It sounds real militant to me. It's real hip-hop. Back to the essence. When that beat comes on, it's universal. Anywhere that joint comes on, it's pandemonium. " 'Let's move it,' I was just having fun," he added. "Going where he went with it, I paid respect. It wouldn't be right if you didn't pay respects to the person whose record it was. I flipped a couple of his phrases, his quotes, his punch lines and incorporated it in a rhyme somewhat. I was having fun, showing people what I do." » "Big Noise." "[We used] 'We Will Rock You.' I'm not even gonna lie. It wasn't supposed to be going to the tape, but we're gonna shoot a crazy street video for it," Cory said. "You remember the Queen record. ... It's a stadium anthem. When it comes on anywhere, [they go crazy]. I actually flipped a version for the [Cleveland Cavaliers]." » "Cannon." "It was produced by S. Dot and A-Pro," Gunz said. "A lot of people gonna think [DJ Don] Cannon did it because it has that drop on there. When I heard that record, it reminded so much of, like, that insanity, when-it-comes-you-can't-deny-it kind of feel. It has that bounce to it. It's crazy. "People don't be listening to me," Cory added. "A lot dudes don't sit and listen. They listen to the flow; they don't listen to what I say. They say, 'He be rapping too fast.' That's another thing I did on this mixtape: slowing my flow down. I wanna see what dudes' excuses are when they can hear me crystal-clear, word for word. I wanna see what they gonna say." For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Did Joe Jonas Reference Taylor Swift Onstage In Tulsa? Posted: 20 Jul 2009 03:51 AM PDT 'What happens onstage stays onstage,' Jonas says of the recent live lyric change.
The Jonas Brothers are about a month into their sold-out world tour and so far it's been more action-packed than they bargained for. "Me and Joe ran into each other last night onstage," Kevin told MTV News. "And it was pretty awesome. Well, it's funny ... it makes you laugh onstage during the show." Despite the occasional onstage collision, Joe said the tour has been going great so far. "It's going really well," he said. "We're having a great time."
The one brother who has kept out of everyone's way onstage, Nick, is also enjoying the trek. "I've been safe so far onstage, and had a lot of fun shows," he said. "The fans have been amazing in every city we've gone to and it's just so great to be out on the road." Some highlights of the tour include Miley Cyrus taking the stage opening night in Dallas, squeezing in a few games of softball on the road and playing "World War 3" off Lines, Vines and Trying Times because, as Joe explains, " the crowd goes crazy." However, it was a reworked version of the song "Much Better" that stirred up the crowd in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The song is rumored to be about Taylor Swift, and one night Joe Jonas changed a lyric from "Now I'm done with superstars" to "Now I'm done with country stars," but the guys don't seem to remember what we we're talking about. "What happens onstage stays onstage," he said. |
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