50 Cent Talks Touring, Macklemore, G-Unit, Album Sales, Favorite Kanye West Songs & More [Video]

Yesterday, 50 Cent reached out to speak with London’s DJ Semtex on his 1Xtra show. In addition to his “Animal Ambition” album, 50 talked about how he measures his success today, being impressed by what Macklemore was able to achieve as an independent artist, his favorite Kanye West songs, feeling no remorse about destroying Ja Rule’s career and more.

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Vic Spencer – Daily Bread [Stream x Download]

Vic Spencer has stories. He lets one go entitled Daily Bread, where Vic is in a tight situation with his cousin, who happens to be a guy from the street that can polly with rap celebrities. His cousin is trying to give Vic bread on a daily for his musical career to take it to the next level but Vic wants to get to success on his own. Although it’s hard and tempting not to take the bread thats offered to him on a daily, Vic appreciated the offers that been given to him but Vic don’t want to owe nobody nothing. “I owe my engineers and producers, which are the same people”, Vic Spencer laughs while smoking with Doc da Mindbenda at the Grind House in Chicago. Doc loops Ain’t The Devil Happy by Jeru the Damaja for Vic to go the Slick Rick route to tell us a story about how he is praying for his street brothers.

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Shabaam Sahdeeq – Keepers Of The Lost Art [Album]

Brooklyn veteran spit kicker Shabaam Sahdeeq has returned with his fifth studio album, Keepers Of The Lost Art. The relentless lyricist delivers a body of work that puts his lyrical aptitude at the forefront, while placing an emphasis on top shelf production and cuts, courtesy of Ran Reed, Lewis Parker, DJ Dister, DJ Ready Cee and DJ Skizz, to name a few. What originally started as 40 tracks, Keepers Of The Lost Art was eventually boiled down to 20, reflecting S-Dub’s most comprehensive long play release to date. The LP details his motivation to stay in the game and fight for the culture with bars as tough as the mic in his hand. The production runs the gamut from laid back as exemplified by the nostalgic piano chords on the Lewis Parker produced “Walk with the Light,” to electrifying, as demonstrated by the DJ Skizz produced street banger “That Dope,” which boasts features from Brooklyn’s premiere panderer Wais P, and the lyrically sharp Sha Stimuli. And complain no more club deejays, Shabaam has you covered for a dance friendly cut to spin late Friday nights with the DJ Wonder produced “Fall In Line.” It’s safe to call it a comeback as his rhymes are as polished today, as they were when he made his Rawkus debut in ’97 with “Arabian Nights” B/W “Side 2 Side.” Artistically, the album cover reveals a scenario where Hip-Hop’s younger generation discovers the cultural keepsakes of yesteryear. From a solid gold boombox, to jewel crusted

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