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- Lil Wayne Finally Set To Be Sentenced, Begin Jail Term Today
- Travis McCoy Says New Album Is 'Music To Have A Good Time To'
- Tyga Says 'The Music Is Solid' On New Mixtape
| Lil Wayne Finally Set To Be Sentenced, Begin Jail Term Today Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:52 AM PST Dental surgery and a courthouse fire postponed Weezy's previous sentencing dates.
After a delay at his request due to dental surgery, a postponement Tuesday because of a courthouse fire and then rescheduling his court date Wednesday, Lil Wayne is set to finally be sentenced and begin his one-year prison term stemming from a 2007 gun arrest on Monday (March 8). The rapper was set to be sentenced last month, but Wayne's attorney requested a delay so the rapper could undergo eight root canals. Judge Charles H. Solomon agreed to the last-minute request and rescheduled the proceedings for Tuesday. Then, just hours before he was set to appear before Judge Charles H. Solomon on Tuesday, a fire broke out at the Manhattan Criminal Court Building. At the first sign of smoke, the building was evacuated and all appearances were postponed. Lil Wayne's attorney, Stacey Richman, confirmed to MTV News that her client's case had temporarily been postponed as a result of the fire. The next day, Weezy's court date was once again rescheduled. Wayne is now set to appear before Solomon on Monday afternoon and plead guilty to attempted gun possession. He's then expected to turn himself in immediately to begin his prison term. Lil Wayne has spent his unexpected free time partying in NYC, traveling back to his Miami home and, of course, recording. The rapper reached a deal with prosecutors in November to plead out to a lesser deal, and in return, he is expected to be released from prison as early as October. In 2007, Lil Wayne was arrested for attempted gun possession following his first headlining performance in Manhattan at the Beacon Theatre. New York is among the toughest states in the country when it comes to gun-possession laws. In other states, Lil Wayne could have gotten off with a misdemeanor rap and probation. However, in New York, only law-enforcement officials and those affiliated with authorities are permitted to carry firearms. Ultimately, what Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to amounts to him being able to have access to a gun. Police did not find a weapon on the rapper when his tour bus was searched. Rather, the gun — registered to his manager — was in a bag located near the rapper, hence the "attempted" charge. Lil Wayne has been working feverishly in recent weeks to complete a number of videos and songs to stay relevant during his physical absence. That pace he's gotten accustomed to, however, will come to a screeching halt, according to a New York corrections officer who spoke to MTV News. "He'll be housed with inmates who are classified in his category, and he'll be able to be a regular inmate," the guard said. "He'll be able to watch television, go into the day room and congregate with people of his classification. "He'll have no preferable treatment at all. He'll be treated like a regular inmate," the guard, who declined to be identified due to the classified information he discussed, added. Lil Wayne is still facing charges in Arizona, and that trial is set to begin March 30. Related Videos |
| Travis McCoy Says New Album Is 'Music To Have A Good Time To' Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:52 AM PST 'Now a lot of the records are happy,' Gym Class Heroes frontman says.
First things first: Travis McCoy wants to be known as "Travie" these days. After all, that's how he's always been known amongst his family and friends. "I mean, anybody who knows me already calls me that. No one in my circle calls me Travis. Even my family, at a young age started calling me 'Travie,' " he said, cracking up slightly. "So I want people to feel comfortable calling me 'Travie.' It's almost like inviting people in. You can be part of the family, so long as you buy the album." And that brings us to the second point — his long-in-the-works solo album, which McCoy wants you to know is no longer called The Lazarus Project, for legal reasons ... involving Paul Walker. "Unfortunately we had to change the title to just Lazarus, because there's already this movie out there called 'The Lazarus Project,' " he explained. "So we're just calling the record Lazarus now. It's more to the point." And all this talk of labels, nicknames and titles is sort of relevant to McCoy in general. Because ever since he burst onto the scene with Gym Class Heroes (McCoy and the band are currently at work on a new LP), people have struggled to slap a label on the charismatic frontman. Is he a rapper? A rock star? Something in between? Certainly GCH's hip-hop leaning 2008 album The Quilt didn't help matters any and now, with Lazarus on the horizon (it's tentatively due in June), McCoy is facing another round of critical labeling. And yes, it's a bit annoying. "It's hard to put a stamp on the record. With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it. This one took a bit longer to find the lane," he said. "It was a year in the making. ... We thought we had found the lane, then I started doing other sh--. Now that it's done and I've listened to it a bunch of times, I'll say that it's got a pop appeal ... the songs will appeal to a broader range of people as opposed to the hip-hop crowd or conventional GCH crowd." Initially, the songs on Lazarus reflected the dark times in McCoy's life ... inspired mainly by his breakup with longtime girlfriend Katy Perry. But in the months following the split, he said he found a new outlook on life. And the new songs he wrote reflected that shift. "A lot of the music started off pretty dark and introspective, but now a lot of the records are happy. I stopped being so bitter about my life and situations," McCoy said. "I hate going back to this, but I went through a sh---y breakup, so a lot of records were bitter in the beginning. Sad and mad about sh--, but then I found a median with myself. I realized I don't have it that bad, so I figured, why dampen the mood with sad, sh---y records?" And on Monday (March 8) fans can get an official taste of what Lazarus will offer, when the first single — a song called "Billionaire" — premieres on MTV.com. But don't let the title fool you: This isn't your average, run-of-the-mill song about Benjamins. " 'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money?" he explained. "Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category. So it's about what I would do with the money and, the same time, it opens up the question, if you were in a position to do something with a decent chunk of money, what would you do?" And that's sort of the balance McCoy is striking on Lazarus — a little bit of the serious, a little bit of the social, but, of course, a whole lot fun, too. That's the point of making songs like this, no matter how you choose to label them. "I've always wanted this album to come out in the summer, because that's when most of the memorable music drops," he said. "You want music to have a good time to, music to connect to. You wanna play it at the party." |
| Tyga Says 'The Music Is Solid' On New Mixtape Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:52 AM PST 'I'm a solid individual,' Young Money MC tells Mixtape Daily.
This Week's Main Pick Street King: Tyga Holding It Down For: Young Money Mixtape: Black Thoughts Real Spit: This tape has nothing to do with the Legendary Roots Crew's lead MC — it's all about Young Money's West Coast rebel Tyga.
"Basically, I named the mixtape Black Thoughts because when you think of the word 'black,' you think of great, confidence, individuality. I feel like the music is solid. I'm a solid individual. The music is solid. We put 'thoughts' behind it because basically all the music is things I think about, things people think about doing, things I've thought about doing or I've done. I put it all together and made Black Thoughts." Joints To Check For » "Remember Me." " 'Remember Me' is crazy because it's a friend of mine on the hook, a girl that was just chillin' in the studio. I was like, 'You chillin' in the studio, you wanna work?' She got up and did the hook. I wrote the hook. 'Remember Me' is basically about things I wanna accomplish and things I wanna be in my life and progress in my life. These are the things I want them to remember about me. It's a great song, man." » "Party Girls" (featuring Lloyd). " 'Party Girls' featuring my Young Money homie — Lloyd sent me the song a while ago. I felt everybody could relate to this with what's going on in the world. Don't nobody wanna wife up no party girl. But we like party girls. We like to go to the party and chill with those party girls, so we had to do a song about it. It's about how a young musician like me, I like these types of girls but I can't like you for too long. We just put in music and it makes sense. Me and Lloyd go back. "We been doing music for a minute; he sent me the song. Soon as I heard it, I knew. He doesn't just [approach the record] like some quick mixtape stuff — we send each other good quality songs. From singer's point of view, if I was a singer, that's how I would have said it." » "I Wanna Rock." " 'I Wanna Rock,' I had to do this for the hometown. I feel like Snoop, he killed it. I had to rap on it. On his song, he's got his chant, 'Snoooooop Dogg!' I had to put the YM on it and do that, just let 'em know why I'm here and why I'm Young Money and why I do what I do. And why I'm from L.A., swagged out." For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines. Related Videos |
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