The
RZA will be animated and placed in a cartoon as part of an upcoming promotion
for Wesley Snipes’ “Blade: Trinity,” The third installment
of the “Blade” series. RZA, who scored the movie, will fight gold-fanged
vampires in the three minute feature, which was conceptualized by ImajiMation
Studios, the same company behind the “Blokhedz” comic book series.
The animated cartoon will be released as a DVD in the accompanying soundtrack
to the movie. The soundtrack hits stores November 23rd, while the movie is in
theaters December 10th.
Special Ed is teaming
up with his original producer "Hitman" Howie Tee to release a new
album, Still Got It Made. The album features guest appearances from
Daz, Soopafly, Teddy Pendergrass, Snoop Dogg, Cash Money’s Gotti, Young
Rascoe and others. Still Got It Made is the debut album from Ed’s
new record label, Semi Records. Howie Tee produced Special Ed’s seminal 1989
debut Youngest In Charge,
Coo Coo Cal, who
at the moment is best remembered for his single “My Projects,” recently
launched a record label, In Da Trunk Records and inked a distribution deal with
Sony. On Friday, Cal started production on a video for his latest single “We
Got That” featuring Juvenile. The single is from Cal’s upcoming
release, What’s Your Hood Like. In addition to “We Got
That,” Cal shot two other videos for songs on his album including “Lapdance,”
which will be aired on BET’s late night video show, “UnCut.”
Russell Simmons’
Hip-Hop Summit Action Network joined New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey
and Trenton, New Jersey Mayor during the New Jersey Hip-Hop Summit last week.
More than 2,000 high school and college students attended the summit at the
War Memorial in Trenton. In addition to the students in attendance, the Hip-Hop
Summit was also web streamed to more than 800,000 young people across the state
of New Jersey, including many of New Jersey’s high schools, universities and
community colleges.