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Swizz Beatz, Alicia Keys Welcome Baby Boy

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop producer Swizz Beatz and R&B singer Alicia Keys gave birth to a baby boy named Egypt Dauode Dean late last night (October 14th) in New York’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital. Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys became romantically involved around May of 2009 and announced their engagement in May of 2010, when it was also revealed that Keys was pregnant. “I’m so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life wowwwwww,” Swizz Beatz tweeted. The child the first for Alicia Keys and the fourth for Swizz Beatz, who also has three other children. Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz were married in August, in a lavish ceremony on the Mediterranean. 

Turk Planning Unity Conference Call Update On Prison Term

(AllHipHop News) A variety of rappers will unite to show their support for incarcerated Hot Boy group member Turk, who is slated to appear in court today (October 15th) in regards to his 12-year prison sentence. While the details about his court-date today are scarce, the New Orleans rapper is planning the “Hip-Hop Unity Conference Call,” that will be open to the public this Sunday (October 17th) featuring a variety of rappers, including former group member/Cash Money artist B.G.According to Turk’s manager Steve Williams, he hopes to share some exciting, important updates about Turk’s pending release from prison, after serving over seven years for shooting at members of the Memphis S.W.A.T. team during a raid of an apartment in Memphis, Tennessee in 2004.In addition to updating fans and artists about Turk and his career, The purpose of the call is to foster unity among artists in the South. “There are a few influential people that are in the process of forming change and bring culture to the forefront through unity, and that is this team of people and Turk as a soldier. The Hip-Hop Community needs to jump on and pay attention,” Turk’s manager Steve Williams told AllHipHop.com.In addition to B.G., Turk’s artist Dr3d, Soulja Boy’s artist Calico Jonez, Waka Flocka, Blood Raw, Pastor Troy, Tiffany Davis of First Class PR and hundreds of DJ’s, producers and radio personalities will join the call. Young Turk’s “Hip-Hop Unity Conference Call” Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 PM. To call & listen in, dial (559) 546-1000 Access Code: 421510#.

Waka Flocka’s Booking Agent Hit With $1 Million Lawsuit Over Missed Show

(AllHipHop News) The booking agents for rap star Waka Flocka Flames has been hit with another lawsuit, claiming the rapper’s manager raised his asking price for a show twice, and then failed to show up for the performance. Promoter Walter Conwell DBA as G.D.B. Promotions is suing Debra Antney, Johnnie Cabbell, Hitt Afta Hitt Entertainment and So Icey Ent for over $1,000,000 dollars. The lawsuit claims that G.D.B. spent over $20,000 dollars to book Waka Flocka Flame for an under 21 show in Birmingham, Alabama in June of 2009. According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, G.D.B. Promotions sent a $1,800 deposit to secure Waka Flocka, with another $1,500 due when the rapper arrived at the venue. After the wire was sent, G.D.B. claimed that he was contacted by Hitt After Hitt and told that Waka Flocka would no longer honor the agreement, because  the rapper was booked by JAMZ FM, a local Hip-Hop station. G.D.B., which purchased advertising time with JAMZ, attempted to reach Hitt Afta Hitt with reps from JAMZ, but couldn’t contact a representative for Hitt Afta Hitt to resolve the issue. According to the lawsuit, Waka Flocka’s mother, Debra Antney confirmed that the radio request was false and agreed to honor the date – if D.G.B. paid the new asking price of $4,000. Additionally, the rap star wouldn’t honor the original date and set a new performance date of November 28th. The week of the show, his road manager allegedly demanded another $2,750 instead of $1,750. G.D.B. claims they honored the new agreement and sent additional monies to Hitt Afta Hitt, in addition to spending extra money for fliers, tickets and the new venue. “After hearing both sides of the story Ms. Antney called the artist and told them to turn around and do the show, but because it was a teen show, the Birmingham curfew had already set in and the Plaintiff’s venue had closed. Walter Conwell and G.D.B. seek over $60,000 in damages and $1,000,000 dollars in punitive damages in addition to attorney fees. 

Breeding Ground Spotlight: LC

Family oriented from Youth to Adult life – Rapper LC was introduced to music by his Mother as a means to stay out of trouble. He in turn has kept it positive and continues to make his Mother proud. Conducting business affairs with his Uncle near his side with another Family member continuously setting the bar and mentoring him to do right, the New York artist is selfishly doing what not many indie artists do – give back. His WellCheck Campaign is growing daily, LC is the future.VideoDont Trip – LC – feat. Donell Jones from Monstar Films on Vimeo. AllHipHop.com: I understand you are a part of a campaign making awareness to the community.LC: Yeah, I am the face of this site called Well Check, a clinic for Flu shots, H1N1 shot for kids and adults. It’s people out here dying and we’re trying to make awareness for these clinics and get these shots. You can go to their site and see me there www.wellcheck.com. AllHipHop.com: That’s rather noble of you, very rare for an indie artist. How did you get into the music world?LC: When I was mid-teen age, my Mother provided me an outlet to let my anger out. She brought me a Casio key-board. I was having a bad day and she told me to play music to rid of my problems. I started writing music out for like therapy and it was helpful.  Also growing up, my Dad and Sister would put on Heavy-D and Slick Rick tracks. Got me into music and wanting to be a part of it. Listening to  KRS-One, Big L, Nas, Jay Z, TuPac, Rakeem, people like that did wonders for me.  AllHipHop.com: You taught yourself to play?LC: Yeah, the Casio keyboards came with books, Michael Jackson music, “Beat It”, “Thriller” and all; I would play those tunes and make my own music with the keyboard. AllHipHop.com: Where are you from originally, LC?LC: Bronx, New York. Born and raised is where I reside nowAllHipHop.com: Tell me about your first single?LC: The first single is called “Don’t Trip” it’s a song about dudes who be tripping because I’m in VIP and the ladies are on me and its my way of saying “Don’t Trip”, there are plenty of women in the club for them to holla at, don’t worry about what we have going on over here, popping champagne and stuff, don’t trip!AllHipHop.com: Who has assisted you thus far to getting to where you are? LC: I had a great mentor, an older Cousin of mine, A.L.M. He mentored me and shaped me, taught me how to compose a record and make sense of a record and organizing it, making sure you have a hook and everything and putting it all together. He made beats around the neighborhood and people know him around the way. He’s like what an A&R does. My manager also has given me great guidance, I’ve known him since I was a kid, and he’s actually my Uncle.AllHipHop.com: How do you making yourself stand out on the NY Music scene?LC: What I do basically is, I don’t use profanity, I don’t use the N-Word and I don’t call females the female dog name. All of that rapping about drugs and violence, I don’t none of that. I don’t know who does it, that’s for them, not me. If you want to sale drugs, that’s cool but its not who I am. I make a lot of feel good music, my music is like reality. I make a lot of music that caters to the ladies. AllHipHop.com: Collaborations and projects – what can we expect from LC?LC: My first album is entitled, “Hold That”, because that’s exactly what I want you to do – Hold That. I collaborated with Donnell Jones on a track called, “Don’t Trip,” which is my first single off of the album. Its doing pretty good right now, #5 on the Billboards right now. I couldn’t ask for anything better, too be honest. Its doing well. I feel really good about it.I had a release party in New York a September, a lot of media was in the building. Had a great turn out. I’m feeling real good right now, real good.AllHipHop.com: Hitting the road anytime soon?LC: Yes, that’s definitely what’s next for me is shows. We are in tour talk right now to hit the road in November. I did a few shows in Brooklyn and got another one coming up soon in Brooklyn. We’re releasing the video for “Don’t Trip” and it should be all over the place very soon. I’m really excited about that, getting it out there and having people look at my work.AllHipHop.com: Who are some artists you’re looking to collaborate with in the future?LC: Jazmine Sullivan – she’s mad dope! I would love to do a track with Eve, she is dope too. Raheem Devaughn, I think he is dope. Fabolous, Rick Ross, TI, Ludacris, and Jahiem. Those are some of the people I want to work with.AllHipHop.com: Where can the fans find you?LC: Visit LCtheone.com for music and up and coming show info. My video will be up there soon. The name of the first album is “Hold That” and the first single is “Don’t Trip”, it’s on i-tunes and all digital outlets artistsfirstentertainment.com www.twitter.com/lcthe1.

Nicki Minaj Salutes Troops With VH1 Divas, Moves Up Debut Album Release

(AllHipHop News) Young Money rap diva Nicki Minaj will be in good company in the next couple of months as she shows appreciation for U.S. troops as part of this year’s VH1 Divas special.  The entertainer will join singers Keri Hilson, Katy Perry and music groups Sugarland and Paramore for the event, which will be taped at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego.  In addition to performing via satellite, Paramore will visit Marines, soldiers, airmen, sailors, coastguardsmen and reservists at an undisclosed military base in the Middle East Minaj’s appearance on VH1 Divas Salute the Troops comes as the rapstress gears up for the release of her forthcoming debut album, Pink Friday. Media sources report the offering, originally scheduled to hit stores Nov. 23, will now arrive a day early on Nov. 22. The new release date will place Pink Friday among a string of albums coming out the same day, including Jay-Z’s The Hits Collection Vol. 1, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Ne-Yo’s Libra Scale and Akon’s Stadium. With three BET Hip Hop Awards to her credit,  Minaj is riding a wave of momentum leading to Pink Friday. The femcee recently made Billboard history by becoming the first female rapper to top Billboard’s Rap singles chart since 2002 with her hit song, “Your Love” as well as garner the most entries at one time on the Billboard Hot 100 with seven singles on Nielsen Soundscan’s 200 best-selling songs of 2010. VH1 Divas Salute the Troops featuring Nicki Minaj will air Dec. 5 on VH1. The Armed Forces Network will broadcast the show internationally. 

Hip-Hop Rumors: Kanye Pics Leak! Drakes & illseed’s Ex? Yung Berg’s New Fail!

OH I GOT YOU MFs!!!! Don’t act like you didn’t hit that link to see Ye in the buff hahahahaah!!!! Some of yall in the closet behind those PCs – don’t not front. Anyway,  that’s ya biz. Sorry for the prank, ladies! Here is a pic of Kanye. He was playing some basketball in Australia. BABY GOT TATS Yo…I just had to post this pic of Baby’s head. Pause. Dude has the craziest tats in the rap game!   Wanna see an epic fail of a tat..baby got…back tats? Sure you do. Click here…and warning NSFW! DRAKE AND FREE? REALLY? Those of you that really rock with illseed remember…I had a thing for Free from 106 & Park. In fact, I bet she remembers. She never said anything even though we’ve “tweeted.” That’s the closest I’ll get, I suppose! Anyway, this ain’t about me. This is about Drake. Drake is in town otver there in Chicago for his tour and the homey is doing well for himself. Some of my spies saying that he’s doing so well that he scooped up Free and they were seen together. This sighting apparently happened at the hotel in which he was staying. We all know by now that Drake has a thing for older woman. Might be true. LIL KIM GIVES IT UP TO NICKI MINAJ Peep what I saw over at Hood Relic. Lil Kim finally giving Nicki Minak her proper dues! DIAMOND IS IN A BAD CAR ACCIDENT! Not Diamond D, you sillies! Diamond from Crime Mob was in an accident, not the New York rap producer! Anyway, the female rapper was driving her ill Porsche and wrecked it. I saw DJ Drama tweeting about and he said she was OK. Whew! Be careful, darling! ILLSEED’S QUICKIESClick here if you heard 50 Tyson got signed to Atlantic Records. Morgan Freeman’s ex-wife got $400 million. Damn, Morgan is caked up. They need to give us that money. He mad old. Randy Jackson went in on Oprah. He said, ““She is the last person on earth he [Michael] would want around his children.” He said she exploited the kid-related allegations agains MJ when he was on trial. Tiger Woods is fighting hard to get his money, I mean his Wife Elin back! Bobby Brown is going to try to clean up Whitney Houston off drugs. That’s very nice of him.Chingy’s alleged Tranny friend got into it with Kat Stacks…again. I know yall don’t want to see that so I put it on illseed.com for those that may. Yelawolf and Big Krit are doing a whole mixtape together. EPIC WIN OF THE DAY I love that Sesame Street is teaching young girls to love their natural hair. EPIC FAIL OF THE DAY Damn you Yung Berg! You cannot stay out of the rumors! His baby moms got on the internet and put him on bli-AST. She says he doesn’t take care of his kid and his kid has autism. Well…here it is. FRIDAY…FREE HUGS FOR EVERYBODY! Courtesy of illseed.com. Click here for more. Maybe something else will pop off. ..and I’ll be back when that happens.HUGS FROM ABOVE, WE LOVE YOU! They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!

Hip-Hop Rumors: 50 Tyson Signed To Atlantic Records? The Real Deal HERE!

DISCLAIMER:All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. Read on.WHO: illseedWHAT: Rumors, Funnies, Fails and more!WHERE: illseed.com, twitter.com.illseedHOW: Send your rumors, sightings and ill pics to illseed at allhiphoprumors@gmail.com.50 TYSON GETS SIGNED TO ATLANTIC? Oh mannnnnnnn! I know about half of the rap game is going to quit if 50 Tyson gets a deal with Atlantic Record. For those that don’t know 50 Tyson is a rapper than has autism. Despite what seems to be a hindrance, his skills are actually on par witih some rappers that are out right now. I’m not going to say a lot as far as my opinion other than to say that I heard its not true. Still, there has been no formal word from anybody at Atlantic. UPDATE! I did a quick bit of research and it looks like somebody created a fake Atlantic Page on Twitter and mimicked it. Here is the fake one…Here is the reason one. Notice the difference in followers. Oh and here is my twitter page just so you know. www.Twitter.com/illseed Whew! That was a close call! But, isn’t it sad that people thought it was real? 50 TYSON, WE LOVE YOU! HOWEVER…They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!

Ras Kass Inks Deal With 40 Glocc’s Zoo Life Imprint

(AllHipHop News) Revered Watts, California lyricist Ras Kass inked a deal with Big Bad 40’s record label Zoo Life earlier this week. Ras Kass is currently in the studio preparing his debut album for Zoo Life, which is distributed worldwide by Fontana/Universal. “I’ve always been a fan of Ras Kass plus he’s my homey,” said Big Bad 40 aka 40 Glocc. “With me gaining the opportunity to have a real label with distribution I automatically want artists with good music to come eat with me.”Ras Kass’ last official release was in July of 2010, when he dropped A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About Spittin) with DJ Rhettmatic. The 26-track download featured a variety of artists, including Ice-T and David Banner, while production was handled by The Alchemist, DJ Babu, Mr. Porter and DJ Rhettmatic. According to 40 Glocc, signing Ras Kass was part of his plan to move his record label forward and develop the Zoo Life imprint into a powerhouse label. “When you deal with corporate America, no one has time for excuses and you are held accountable for every little thing, that’s gangsta to me,” 40 Glocc said. “It’s a say what you mean and mean what you say kind of business. Me building my own label has forced me to move forward in some areas that I can honestly say work for my own benefit. I’m about getting this money every way possible, feel me,” says 40 Glocc.No release date was available for Ras Kass’ untitled Zoo Life debut.

AHH Stray News: Diddy’s Train Gets Release Date; Fabolous $85 Million Lawsuit, Petey Pablo Surrenders

(AllHipHop News) Sean “Diddy” Combs’ group Dirty Money has announced a release date for their upcoming album Last Train To Paris. The album is the debut full-length from Dirty Money, which includes Combs, Kalenna Harper and Dawn Richard. According to a press release, Last Train To Paris will finally be released on December 14th, 2010. The album has already produced a hit single titled “Hello Good Morning,” which has already been certified gold. The group is preparing two new releases from Last Train To Paris. In the next two weeks, the new single “Coming Home” will impact radio, while a video for “Loving You No More” featuring Drake will premiere in the coming weeks. Last Train To Paris features guest appearances by Lil Wayne, Usher, Drake, Swizz Beatz, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, Grace Jones, Trey Songz and others. Producers include D’Mile, Polow Da Don, Danja, Sean Garrett, Tricky Stewart, The Dream, Swizz Beatz and Mario Winans. An $85 million dollar 2005 lawsuit involving former Philadelphia radio jock and Fabolous is slated to head to court in New York this week. In 2004, Lisa “Golden Girl” Natson was allegedly assaulted by Fabolous’ bodyguard, after Power 99FM’s annual Powerhouse concert. The incident started when Golden Girl and a friend was on Fabolous’ tour bus chatting with Fabolous. When she “asked for a ride to the top of the ramp,” the rap star’s bodyguard became irritated and refused her request. When she threatened to stop playing the rapper’s#### single “Breathe” on the radio, the bodyguard picked her up off her feet and allegedly slammed her to the ground. According to TheMusic.Fm, a trial is scheduled to start this week in regards to the lawsuit. Fabolous denied the charges in a previous interview. “I never touched or did anything to Golden Girl, therefore, I am not involved and do not have anything further to say or do with that incident,” Fabolous told AllHipHop.com. In addition to working for Power 99FM, Golden Girl published a book titled Sex and Celebrities: The Truth, The Whole Truth, The Naked Truth, where she described a sexual encounter with Lil Kim. Rapper Petey Pablo surrendered to federal authorities yesterday (October 13th), for bringing a gun into the Raleigh-Durham International Airport on September 11th, 2010. The rapper was busted by airport security, when they found a stolen 9mm handgun and ammunition, inside his carry-on luggage. According TMZ.com, Petey Pablo will have to go back to court in November to face charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen firearm and attempting to take a gun onto an airplane. In the meantime, Petey Pablo, born Moses Barrett III, must report a U.S. probation officer. If he travels, he must submit a complete itinerary of all of his plans one month before his trip. Additionally, the rapper must submit to drug testing and refrain from excessive alcohol use. Representatives for Petey Pablo claimed that he stashed the gun in his bag to hide it from a distraught friend, who may have used the weapon. The rapper allegedly forgot the gun was in the bag, when he attempted to board a plane for Los Angeles on 9-11, to attend the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.