Blade Icewood was a member of the Street Lord’z rap group and is considered one of the most influential rappers in the Detroit underground rap history. He was fatally shot on April 19, 2005 on the infamous 7 mile rd. A gunman pulled up alongside Icewood’s Range Rover and fired 17 rounds where he was sitting in his wheelchair. #STOPTHEVIOLENCE
R.I.P. Blade Icewood (1977-2005)
“Givin’ me them snotty looks/ Young n*ggaz play hard for me i’m like Scotty Brooks”
HOUSTON – Since the late 1990s, it has been glorified in rap music and become a part of underground Americana.Individuals who have actually turned over the counter cough syrup into their drug of choice. Houston legendary rapper Willie D of the Geto Boys knows just how dangerous the misuse of cough syrup or as some call it “robo-tripping” can be. He’s seen some heavyweight Houston entertainers die as a result of the abuse of codeine in cough syrup. “After the death of Big Moe and DJ Screw, people took notice how he died,” Willie D says.
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Eminem Discusses Effects Of His Drug Addiction With The New York Post
Multi-platinum rapper Eminem‘s recent bout with prescription pill addiction may have been worst than many knew about. In a recent interview with the New York Post, Em reveals that his dependence caused so much cerebral damage that the rapper had to learn how to write and rap again.
“I had to learn to write and rap again, and I had to do it sober and 100 percent clean. That didn’t feel good at first … I mean it in the literal sense. I actually had to learn how to say my lyrics again; how to phrase them, make them flow, how to use force so they sounded like I meant them. Rapping wasn’t like riding a bike.
It was [as much] physical as mental. I was relearning basic motor skills. I couldn’t control my hand shakes. I’d get in the [recording] booth and tried to rap, and none of it was clever, none was witty and I wasn’t saying it right.”
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Spike Lee has be callin’ upon to direct a live webcast of a concert featuring John Legend and the Roots on September 23rd.
The concert, to be held in New York on Sept. 23, is the second part of “Unstaged series,” a live concert series presented by American Express.
The live stream will be available on YouTube, via the music video website Vevo. Lee recently spoke on the project and said:
“It’s not necessarily a Spike Lee joint, It’s a John Legend and the Roots joint. I like doing stuff live, especially with someone like Kobe. I can’t stop the game. You got to be ready for almost anything. We can’t stop this concert, either. Going to have to go with the flow.”
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 3 | Eminem | Recovery | 93,000 | 2,420,000 |
| 13 | Usher | Versus | 22,000 | 68,000 |
| 16 | Drake | Thank Me Later | 20,000 | 1,034,000 |
| 24 | Rick Ross |
Teflon Don |
16,000 | 368746 |
| 30 | Usher | Raymond v. Raymond |
14,000 | 1,051,000 |
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 66 | Bun B | Trill O.G. |
6,500 | 83,000 |
| 68 | Big Boi | Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty | 6,400 | 161,000 |
| 119 | Mike Posner | 31 Minutes To Takeoff |
4,000 | 48,100 |
| 131 | Ludacris |
Battle of the Sexes |
3,700 | 529,000 |
| 145 | Roots | How I Got Over |
3,500 | 140,000 |
Out of the top 10 list, African Americans are more than 50% of the population on 8 of the 10 cities listed. Read the Full Story after the jump to see if your city made the list.
Today is the 14th anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur. His life and legacy lives on thru his music and movies, an inspiration to the staff here at GWOP Magazine.
Today marks the nine year anniversary of the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
On this day, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.[2][3] The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.
The death toll of the attacks was 2,996, including the 19 hijackers.
pictured above former president of United States George W. Bush getting word of the attacks.
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