Ciara and Rick Ross For Rap-Up

Ciara looks gorgeous on the latest edition of Rap-Up magazine. She spoke on a number of things such as:

On Keri Hilson: “I knew her back when she was really trying to get in pocket and become an artist, and I know she had been trying way longer than I had back then. Back in the day, I used to ask her to sing for me. I forgot what song she used to sing, but vocally I thought she was crazy. As a writer, I thought she was dope. We did one song together on my first album. That was back when we were kinda around each other.”

On Folks Claiming She Swag Jacked Bey: “I know what work I put in to what I do and I know where I get my inspiration from and it’s definitely not the references that they put up on the Internet. People live for it. Negative energy travels faster than positive energy. Whoever it was, for them to dig deep down and find all those references, that’s ridiculous.”

On Eminem Not Jumping In 50 Cent’s Conflicts: “Because he knows [50] is a monkey. He’s Eminem’s personal monkey. Eminem is a genius for signing the monkey. Once Eminem is through with him and Jimmy [Iovine]’s through with him, he may end up on Maybach Music and be my monkey.”

On Those Who Accuse Kanye West Of Being Flamboyant: “He’s supposed to be. What is he supposed to do, not be flamboyant, not be fly, not be arrogant? Why not? I feel like why should another ni**a be insecure about another man. That’s a man; he got his own lane.” source

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Random Rap Notes

Here's Jeremih's singing the piano version of his smash hit 'Birthday Sex.'

Delusional rapper Rick Ross plans to start his own clothing line. The man who wears fake threads and shades wants to target his line towards large men. He tells Rap-Up, “A lot of times, big dudes can’t walk in these stores and get these sizes of the fly shit,” he says. “So I’d love to put something together just for the big guys.”



Yung Joc is threatening to out a gay member of the rap community Tuesday. He's currently in a legal battle with Diddy. Hmmm.....Was Superhead right all along?

UPDATE: Yung Joc claims that he was just playing. Whatever.

New Video: Rick Ross Feat. The Dream - 'All I Really Want' // Keyshia Cole Feat. Monica - 'Trust'

Rick Ross says that The Dream and other people apart of the set were afraid of travelling to Colombia to shoot the video. Colombia is the home country of a real drug lord named Pablo Escobar. He says, “To be honest, everybody thought about their safety...We ran it by The-Dream, just like everybody else, [he] was thinking about safety...I kept telling them, ‘We got national guard!‘ I was lying like a muthaf—a. ‘We good everywhere we go!’ I’m lying!"

Does Racism Go Both Ways?

I guess Ricky Ross is feeling very full of himself after scoring the number 1 album on the charts this week because here he is talking hella sh*t in this video clip. He has said recently that he has grown "bored" feuding with 50 cent and might "go at" Eminem. He says that it's "black on black racial" to call 50 cent a monkey and proceeds to call Eminem a "honkey."

Asher Roth caused a Internet uproar for his twitter post last week, claiming that he was "hanging out with nappy headed hos."

Should Officer Ricky get called out for his slur as hard as Asher Roth had/has been?

Assessing Prez Obama's "swagga?!" Did CNN assess Bush's "swagga?" No wonder CNN is dead last in cable news. I'm so disappointed in T.J. Holmes as fine as he is. SMDH

Damn You 50 Cent!

This was supposed to be a joyous day for Ricky Ross. His album entered the charts at number 1 for the third time in his career with 158,000 copies sold. But G-unit Books has put out the prologue to Rick Ross' baby mama, Tia Kemp's book, titled 'Tia's Diary: Deeper Than Rap.' The book will hit shelves May 20. source

Oh well, look at the bright side. At least it's not another porno. Check out the prologue here.

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New Music: Rick Ross - 'Lay Back'//Ashtor Roth - 'She don't Want A Man'//Tank - 'All I Need Is U'

Listen: Lay Back

The track features Robin Thicke.

Listen: All I Need Is U

Listen: She Don't Want A Man

This features Keri Hilson.

New Music: Rick Ross, Yung Joc, Promise

Listen: Maybach Music 2

Here's Rick Ross featuring Kanye West, T-Pain, and Lil' Wayne. Sounds like a winner to me.

Listen: Watch Me Make A Movie

Here you have Yung Joc featuring DJ Khaled giving his usual standardized club thumper. If it ain't broke......

Listen: In My City

Here's Promise featuring Drake. Both are coming from Toronto. This is Aiight, but I still like Drake, he's becoming one of my favorites.

New Music: Teairra Marie Feat. Rick Ross - 'Cause A Scene Remix'// Dawn Richard - 'Trip City'// Meagan Good - 'Starstruck'

Listen: Cause A Scene Remix

This sounds like a winner. Word has it that Teairra is now filming a video for the track in Las Vegas with Flo Rida rapping on it rather than Officer Ricky.

Listen: Trip City

A swing and a miss, Dawn. Go back and try again.

Listen: Starstruck

Um.........I like her movies.