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



Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 9/5/2010
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.

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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.

2Pac - Discography

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.

Where were you on 9/11? and what were you doing?


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On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur attended the Mike Tyson – Bruce Seldon boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  Shortly after the boxing match, 2pac was gunned down at the corner of Flamingo/ Koval , 1 block from the famous Las Vegas strip (keep in mind they got cameras on every street corner).  This crime is still unsolved to this date, 14 years later.

2pac is arguably 1 of the greatest entertainers of all time, before his death he released Six studio albums (1st rap artist to release a Double CD-“All Eyez On Me” 9x platinum), Six feature films including his debut in JUICE and released Eight additional studio albums after his death at the young age of 25.  He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling rap artist, with over 75 million albums sold worldwide.  If 2pac was still alive, would DMX, Ja Rule, 50 Cent, or Jay Z even have a rap career?

R.I.P. Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)


Who were the wealthiest people EVER?

A list of the twenty richest, based on scholarly estimates and adjusted for inflation, includes entrepreneurs, warriors, and robber barons.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Carlos Slim are the only living men who made the list — and that’s only counting their net worth at bubble peaks in 1999 and 2007.

You’ll notice much of the list come from England and America.

#17 Marshall Field

Marshall Field #17

Peak fortune: $66.1 billion Source of wealth: He started the retail store chain Marshall Field and Co. in Chicago during the Civil War.

#1 John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockerfeller #1

Fortune: $336 billion Source of wealth: He founded Standard Oil in 1870, at the age of 31, and bought up most of the oil refineries in the United States, eventually controlling about 90% of the American oil business.

Source: WALL STREET

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QP Radio presents Blowing Money Fa$t (mixtape) featuring Various Artists.

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Mixtape features Jeezy x Yo Gotti “All White Everything” [Video below]