Issue 29 / July 2011
Issue 30 / August 2011 GUESTLIST NEE-HI
The Prince is preparing to bring his music to the masses...
Dubbed the ‘Fresh Prince of Ipswich’, Nee- Hi began his artistic journey at the age of 11. At 14, after constant practice and writ- ing, Nee-Hi became part of a crew known as ‘Ear 2 Da Street’ who worked indepen- dently to record and put out a mixtape and a DVD featuring none other than legend Roll Deep. As his music began to progress, Nee-Hi brought out an independent mixtape called The Story Book, released in December as a free download and on CD. Nee-Hi started working with Danny C in the middle of July last year and had the LP completed a couple of months later, featuring collaborations with local Ipswich artists along with P-Money and Sketch- man, shooting a video with the latter for a track called ‘Nice Knowing You’.
Weezy is Sorry 4 the Wait but gets ready to drop Tha Carter IV
After months of setbacks, Tha Carter IV finally looks set to drop this month! As it stands, Lil Wayne is preparing to release his 9th album on the 29th (fingers crossed!), but to apologise for making us all wait so long the ‘Lollipop’ and ‘Mrs Officer’ star recently delivered a mixtape aptly named Sorry 4 the Wait. The bonus EP is packed full of filthy words, threats and insults in true Weezy style and should tide us over nicely until Tha Carter IV drops. The hugely anticipated follow- up to Tha Carter III allegedly
features a massive line-up of key Hip-Hop players including Drake, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Gucci Mane, Jay-Z, Eminem and more, so we can see why it might have taken so long to put together! Though maybe if ev- ery artist rewarded their patient fans with a mixtape now and again we wouldn’t mind waiting so much... It is also rumoured that Lil Wayne may retire after Tha Carter IV! All we can do is hope and pray that it isn’t true... After all, who else is going to kindly let the ladies lick his lollipop?
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Are Kanye and Jay-Z out for Weezy’s throne?
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST The Guestlist Network takes a glance at one of Hip-Hop’s greatest and the legacy they have left behind
Once a tight group of neighbourhood friends from Queens, A Tribe Called Quest grew into one of the biggest and most influential groups in Hip-hop. They reshaped the traditional Hip-hop sound with Jazz influences, original sampling and lyrics that rejected Hip-hop’s reverence for the ‘hard man’ and instead addressed lighthearted issues as well as more serious,
affecting social topics. Originally called Quest, the Tribe formed in 1985 in New York, made up of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Mohammad and occasional member Jarobi, but didn’t really take off until 1990 with the releases of hits ‘Can I Kick It’, ‘Bonnita Applebum’ and ‘Check the Rime’. Sadly, the relationship between Phife Dawg and Q-Tip began to
break down during the making of their fourth album, Beats, Rhymes and Life, and the subsequent record was to be their last. The group reformed for a brief and tense reunion in 2006, however it was one that left little hope for future collaboration. Now, successful American comedian, Michael Rapaport, has produced the documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe
Called Quest, which covers the band’s formation, disintegration and the resonance of their work on the modern music landscape. Including interviews with members of Tribe, Ludacris and Questlove and on footage from their tours, it poignantly captures the history of these Hip- hop legends. They live on and continue ‘kicking it’ now!
Hip-Hop collaborative rumoured to be a thinly veiled dig at Lil Wayne
The long-awaited collaborative album from two of Hip-Hop’s big dogs is already stirring up trouble and it isn’t even out yet! Suspicions abound that the record title, ‘Watch the Throne’, may be a dig at fellow rapper Lil Wayne, following reports of rising tensions between Weezy and Jay-Z due to Jay-Z dubbing himself “the greatest rapper alive”. Cash Money mas- ter Birdman a.k.a Birdy fuelled the fire when he got vocal about Jay-Z’s allusions to Lil Wayne’s position as a second
class rapper, and Jay-Z hit back with his song ‘H.A.M.’, featuring the lyrics: “N*gga, really you got baby money”. Drake, who claimed that he was first in line to work on an album with Weezy, will have to sit back and wait for the ‘big’ boys to stop throwing their gold-plated toys out of the pram. With no confirmed release date as of yet and enough beef to fill a steak- house, he could be waiting a long time.
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