Kanye’s New Album Shelved?

Kanye has been a little absent lately. After the whole world shunned him for his VMA antics there was several rumors of what he was up to. Rehab and India were the two main rumors floating around however those were quickly dismissed just as fast as they were brought up. Ye’s artist, Kid Cudi recently said in an interview that Ye’ was doing fine and is in fact working on an entirely new album.

This was no shocking news as Kanye has already announced the name and theme of his new album, supposedly entitled Job Well Done which would mark his return to rapping. However now I am hearing that Ye’ is not sure about which direction to  take his music in and has scrapped almost all the material he had recorded for this album. The record was almost done so this was a lot of music!

The person who hipped me to this info didn’t say what new direction Ye’ is going to take but I gotta say I for one was looking forward to hearing him rap again, the way he’s been putiting it down lately. We’ll just have to wait and see…

Royce Da 5”9 VS. Lil Wayne?

Lil Wayne is at the top of the game. No doubt about it. Royce Da 5”9…well dude can rap. So recently when I heard Royce might be coming at Lil Wayne I immediately thought it was a bad idea…and still do.

There are several whispers that in a few days we will be hearing a diss track going at Weezy from the Slaughterhouse member. No reason as to why this is coming out so far and I still haven’t heard it yet so who knows? If this does come out though I predict Wayne won’t even hear it and therefore it will be nothing but a futile attempt from fallen star
Royce.

The Return Of The Lyricist?

For years we have heard the grumbles from rap fans that real huip hop is dead. Soulja Boy and all the other laffy taffy type rappers have come and fucked up the game and now real lyricism and respect for the craft is dead. Well everything comes in cycles and it is going around that the new look for the next few years will actually be going back to the basics and focusing more on who is the better rapper instead of what they wear or how they dance.

With the success of Drake recently and Jay’s declaration that Auto-Tune is dead and we need to get back to the rapping it looks like label and radio execs are taking notice. Within the next year the new sound is supposed to be more lyrics oriented and labels will be signing more MC’s instead of entertainers.  The catch is though that despite the return to lyrics the labels are not budging on the fact that today’s top artists has to have some kind of sex appeal as we see with Drake and even now Soulja Boy.  They are looking for that balance.

This is great news to me. I’m hearing Florida rapper Heretic and Pittsburgh artist Wiz Khalifa are supposed to be getting some big looks along with several others rappers that fit this mold.