Archive for September 19, 2009

BRETT RATNER MOVIE DIRECTOR GIVES US AN INTIMATE LOOK AT OUR FAVORITE VIDEOS!

OK, I must warn you that I almost died laughing after reading this.  Here is the basic lead into the below story.  Brett Ratner is an acclaimed movie director who got his start making hip hop music videos.  He has recently done the Rush Hour movies, X-Men 3 and is working on Beverly Hills Cop 4!  Well he has a new DVD coming out and he was an interview with Complex Magazine and they asked him to discuss some of the stories behind our favorite music videos he has shot.  Below is the story and the video for Redman’s ‘Tonight’s Da Night’ – HILARIOUS!!!

Redman “Tonight’s Da Night” (1993)
DIRECTOR’S COMMENTARY: “Redman wanted to shoot it in Jersey where he lived, in the worst area—it used to be a Jewish neighborhood, and his house was across the street from a Jewish cemetery. So, I show up and park outside his house at 5 o’clock in the morning. He was sleeping, and I wouldn’t knock on his door because I was scared! So I went around the neighborhood and shot all these faces in black and white, for four hours. He finally woke up at 11 [laughs]. We go down to this one abandoned house in the neighborhood where everyone sits on the stoop. I remember the part where he goes, ‘Would the packed pistol posse put their fingers on the triggers?‘ The packed pistol posse, who was his crew, pulled out their pistols and pointed at the camera—my DP said, ‘That’s it, I’m leaving!’ I said, ‘What do you mean? No one got shot! C’mon!’”

“The best part of the Redman story is, three o’clock in the morning, he says, ‘I want a white bitch to roll up and buy some drugs for me.’ This is when you could just do hardcore videos, and I’m like ‘You wanna portray yourself as dealing drugs?’ ‘Yeah, man, that’s real, man!’ The only problem is, we ain’t gonna find a white bitch in the middle of the night in the street. There was no women on my crew, so Redman goes, ‘What about that white bitch?’ And I said, ‘That’s my mom!’ He goes, ‘Well use that hoe! Put that hoe in the video’ So, my mom is in the Redman video, at the end of the video, when the car pulls up, buying drugs from Redman.”

OPRAH INTERVIEWS JAY-Z ON THE OPRAH SHOW!!!

Jay’Z, the ever evolving brand, has a momentous, career defining interviewed soon to be aired on Oprah.  In this clip, Jay explains to Oprah how he developed his impecable  memory, the full show airs Sept. 24th.

DIDDY TO SIGN RAEKWON TO BAD BOY!!!

I guess Diddy still cares about first week sales and music because there is talk of Rae becoming a Bad Boy.  Check it:

By Illseed

How crazy would this be? You young buckaroos may not know this, but in the 90’s Wu Tang and Bad Boy/Biggie had some serious beef going on! Here is how it went down…

Of The Notorius BIG, Rae said he was going to The Source Awards with a burner in a CAST!

“My intentions was if someone try to come harm me I got the burner and the gats. I was coming in with the fake broke arm with the ratchet and whatever.”

“You know when you dealing with grimey Brooklyn n***as you can’t let them get the drop on you first.”

Rae said he never went through with the diabolical plot, but he was ready! Now, how crazy would it be for him to be on Bad Boy!?

NEW MUSIC: MADONNA – REVOLVER FEAT. LIL WAYNE!

What do you think of Madonna’s new single featuring Mr. Weezy F Baby (Lil Wayne LOL).  I sense a billboard smash ya’ll!