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Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week:
Wire To Wire Limp Bizkit asked Paul Wall to be on their new album. He agreed. Let that sink in for a minute. Rap-A-Lot's Mike Dean got with Hip Hop DX to talk about things. Curiously, nobody bothered to mention J. Prince's notorious strong-arm tactics. Someday somebody is going to break that story and it's going to be badass. D'Angelo unknowingly tried to get a femme cop to give him a blow job. When he was arrested, he had $12,000 in cash on his person. Guess how much he offered her for the BJ? $40. Blasphemous Screwed and Chopped Video of the Week
The Roots will release their
How I Got Overalbum in June.
Diddypicked a June release date too. Jay-Z popped in at
the White Houseto say hello. He brought Beyonce with him. And Trey Songz. Fuckin' Trey Songz? For real? Yuck. T.I. is supposed to be out of
that halfway housesometime this month.
Actual Chopped and Screwed Youtube Video of the WeekOh good,
J-Kwon isn't dead. After multiple postponements, Weezy is
supposed to be in jailtoday. Yikes. There is a documentary about
A Tribe Called Quest, one of the most influential African-American groups of all time, being worked on. Curiously, it's being put together by Michael Rapaport, who you might remember from his role in
Higher Learningwhere he played a neo-Nazi who killed Tyra Banks and then himself. Some crazy woman was so convinced that she was Diddy's wife that she
broke into a house she thought was hisand just hung out.
Z-Ro Going Away Video of the WeekJump to the 1:15 mark. Listen to it. It sounds like a cult's prayer or something. Amazing.
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