Last month, Def Jam’s CEO Sean Carter was on the cover of multiple magazines, including XXL, Entertainment Weekly and GQ , as he shared Man of the Year honors with Lupe Fiasco and Will Ferrell. The Presidential MC wasted no time selling 600K in his first week of sales and has already double booked XXL for January, making Nas and Young Jeezy share a cover. Conspiracy theorists who believe Jay-Z signed Nas merely to shun him after Ether will have a field day with this, but he’s still going to drop Hip Hop Is Dead with little competition from the market. Which may be the best move for the Def Jam CEO.
Mass Appeal sits down with Ashy Larry aka Donnell Rawlings from Chappelle’s Show and talks with Jerry Heller whose about to release a book talking about those Ruthless days and those Ruthless boys, especially his relationship with the late Eazy E. They also talk to producer/emcee combo, Cool & Dre (no, not that Dre), Dungeon Family‘s most monstrous son, Killer Mike and one of Snoop‘s favorite artists, Stacey Adams.
Interesting covers over at the hip-hop Tiger Beat magazine, The Rap Up has the Game and Mya sharing the cover in their winter issue. The two were rumoured to be a couple last year and she even shamed 50 after he claimed something happened, but said it never did and maybe he got her confused with Lloyd Banks or something. Even if the magazine is aiming for the younger crowd they also cover, Fat Joe, Omarion, Chili, Toni Braxton, Nina Sky, Jibbs, Lady S-O-V and Bobby Valetino.
Expect The Fader to muse about how the press release for the re-issue of Dilla‘s, Ruff Draft EP is nowhere near as promising as an advance disc would have been. Scratch Magazine hits the block in Miami to talk to Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled and Ricky Ross. They’re all sorts of excited about Talib and Hi-Tek reuniting and they talk to Large Professor and Dan the Automator as well.
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XXL will take a look at what the Internet has done to hip-hop and get a little more in depth with Ca$his, Ice Cube, Three 6 Mafia, Chamillionaire, Young Dro and of course, they’ll be defending their classic rating of the Clipse album, With Nas dropping Hip Hop is Dead December 19th and Jeezy dropping The Inspiration December 12th, doesn’t it seem a like a the January XXL cover might be a little late to promote the album? I know you’re waiting to peep Chris Webber‘s production game on “Blunt Ashes” with Nas, but you’re going to have to wait like everyone else. Maybe a real A.I. album isn’t that far off after all.
Also, in this months Elle Magazine, not really known for it’s in-depth hip-hop coverage, 50 Cent says that Oprah Winfrey is an “oreo”. As he says, she “started out with black women’s views but has been catering to middle-aged white American women for so long that she’s become one herself. I think the idea of being publicly noted that she’s a billionaire makes [black women] interested in seeing her views. But it’s even more exciting to the demographic of white American women she’s been aiming at to see that she has the exact same views that they have.”
