“Role models should be someone that’s in your life on a daily basis, someone that’s prevalent in your life, that you can see not just on television,” he said. “The only thing that kids see is that person’s success. That’s it.”

Nelly also revealed that he would not consider changing his image or toning down his songs to please people.

“If I did that, what would I be telling the kids? To let society dictate you as a person?

Source: Metro

A serious problem with today’s youth is they have a hard time finding role models to follow. Instead of looking at their parents or hard working people in their community they look up to the characters rappers portray. A Basketball player is not a role model because he puts a ball in a hoop nor is a rapper because he can rhyme. You have to look at a person’s morals, what they stand for and how they strive to reach their goals. Parents step your game up, TV can’t raise your kids for you.

“After seeing all the stuff that has been going on with the Correctional Officer (William Roberts) that stole my name, [it] makes me think back to a year and a half ago when we spoke,” Ross explained to AllHipHop.com. “I tried to talk to him like a big brother and let him know to be you, and that he couldn’t be me. And that if he wanted to rap the lifestyle that he couldn’t frame it based on my life.”

“How different his life would have been if he would have taken my advice,” Ross reflected. “You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

Full Story: AllHipHop

Damn at least this came out after the album dropped.

Thoughts on the video and upcoming album, “L.A.X.”?

“Makes a living peddling the N word.”
“His new album is a bomb.”

“When I lost my hearing, Jay gave me the respect to go heal myself. He stuck with me along the way. But there are times when I just really needed him, and it wasn’t even about Foxy Brown and Jay-Z. It was just like, ‘I need you to help me save my life,’ and he just wasn’t there.”

The tears are streaming down her cheeks. “I would never denounce him in public. That’s just how I feel. But I’ve been incarcerated for eight months, and Jay’s been everywhere, and he hasn’t mentioned one thing about, ‘Tell her I love her. Tell her to be strong.’ That broke my heart more than anything. When they sent me to jail, I just knew he would be there-everyone came. But he never showed up… My mother always says, Jay also said this, in the tru life freestyle ‘Inga, when a person shows you who they are, believe them. Been showing me all through the years and you just don’t wanna believe it.’”

Source: Platinum Lounge

That’s life, you can’t depend on anyone to save you or always be loyal.

When I originally wrote the song “My Life” I was trying to think back on events that affected my life and how they changed me.  When I first got signed to Aftermath and G-Unit I was exposed to so many different people from Dre to Em to 50 to Proof.  I always identified with Proof.  We were always cool and he would reach out to me when ever I was going through something  I remember when Proof died vividly and now every time I think about going to Detroit I get depressed.  That is what I was trying to say in that verse and the more I looked at I realized that people would take it the wrong way…the way they are taking it now that it leaked.  So I decided to change it so that this bullshit wouldn’t happen and now it’s happened anyway. For the record, this is not the version on my album, this is not the version that radio will get and this is not the version that I just shot the video to.  Furthermore, I apologize to anyone who took this the wrong way as that was never my intention.

Source: 2DopeBoyz

The Game ft. Lil Wayne – My Life

Freak is produced by 15 year old Kidd Genius

CROOKED I AND TREACHEROUS RECORDS wants all fans dj’s and websites to know that we are going to put out THE BLOCK OBAMA for free download untagged with no dj..THIS IS THE MIXTAPE FOR THE STREETS so we want all fans and websites to do what they want with it..they can sell it host it themselves or just tell a friend..Crooked also thinks THE DJ IS NOT DEAD so he wants all dj’s to download it and host it themselves and put it out in there local mom and pop shops  or put it  for free download on there websites or on there my space pages.The next track we leak will have a crooked intro and him talking to everyone and letting them know why he wants to give this project out for free and untagged.