Prayers for a speedy recovery to RAP LEGEND Krayzie Bone!

The music industry and beyond is sending prayers and best wishes to Krayzie Bone, one of the original members of legendary group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony which is by far the greates Rap Group in Cleveland history. He went to the hospital after coughing up blood, and found out that a lung artery was leaking. Krayzie Bone who's real name is Anthony Henderson, is tackling a condition known as sarcoidosis (an inflammatory disease in his organs) which exacerbates his current health struggles. 

In 2016, Krayzie Bone told TMZ that he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, which is “characterized by the growth of inflammatory cells” known as granulomas that are commonly found in the lungs and lymph nodes, but can be found anywhere in the body, according to the Mayo Clinic.

It is unclear if Krayzie Bone's recent hospitalization is related to his condition, though member Layzie Bone did ask for prayers on Tuesday and said an update would be forthcoming.

"In this challenging moment, as the immediate and Bone thugs family rallies behind my brother, we humbly ask for a moment of privacy. Our family is facing the unexpected hospitalization of Krayzie Bone with strength, and your prayers are a beacon of hope," he wrote on Instagram. "Soon, we’ll share an update, but for now, let us come together and keep our love and thoughts focused on his recovery. 

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony which consists of members Krayzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Layzie Bone and Flesh-n-Bone was formed in 1991 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Your support means the world to us, and we truly appreciate your understanding during this time." The rapper’s fellow Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member Bizzy Bone wrote on his Instagram Story on Sunday, “Pray 4 Kray.”

The group is regarded as one of the greatest hip-hop/rap groups of all time with hits “Thuggish Ruggish Bone,” “1st of tha Month” and “East 1999, Rebirth (With Thin C), Thug Luv (With 2pac)” 

The Grammy-winning group is the only rap group to have collaborated with Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G., Big Pun and Eazy-E before they died.

Krayzie Bone also pursued a solo career in the late '90s with the release of his debut studio album Thug Mentality 1999. The project was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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GET BETTER KRAYZIE! We need you around a lot longer... Sending out prayers. 

Rapper Coolio has passed away.......... RIP

Artis Leon Ivey Jr., who was known professionally as Coolio, has passed away. He was an American Rapper, Actor who first came to fame as a member of the gangsta rap group WC and the Maad Circle. Coolio achieved mainstream success as a solo artist in the mid-to-late 1990’s with his albums It Takes a Thief, Gangsta’s Paradise, and My Soul. The rapper/Actor died at the Los Angeles home of a friend, longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press. The cause was not immediately clear.

Coolio won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film “Dangerous Minds” that sampled Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise.” He was nominated for five other Grammys during a career that began in the late-1980s. Born in Monessen, Pennsylvania south of Pittsburgh, Coolio moved to Compton, California, where he went to community college. He worked as a volunteer firefighter and in airport security before devoting himself full-time to the hip-hop scene.

His career took off with the 1994 release of his debut album on Tommy Boy Records, “It Takes a Thief.” It’s opening track, “Fantastic Voyage,” would reach No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

A year later, “Gangsta’s Paradise” would become a No. 1 single, with its dark opening lyrics: “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s not much left, ‘cause I’ve been blastin’ and laughin’ so long, that even my mama thinks that my mind is gone.” Social media lit up with reactions to the unexpected death. “This is sad news,” Ice Cube said on Twitter. “I witness first hand this man’s grind to the top of the industry. Rest In Peace, @Coolio.” and “Peaceful journey brother,” Questlove tweeted.

Tupac dissed on A Newly Surfaced Record by NAS That’s Just Over 25 Years Old

Well it’s like pac said “They talk shit when I’m gone cause they fear me in the physical form… I’m Troublesome.” Now More than 25 years later which is as long as 2pac lived, Nas and Tupac were entwined in a short-lived hip-hop beef which blew up due to the 2PAC & B.i.G Beef. It began in 1996, when Nas released his second album, It Was Written. It featured “The Message,” a track on which Tupac believed he was dissed. Tupac later released “Against All Odds,” with his own shots at Nas. But before they patched things up, Tupac was tragically killed in a shooting.

Soy 25 years after their beef came to an end, Vibe reports that an unreleased record by Nas has leaked, and it features him taking strong shots at the late rapper. His attacks arrive halfway through the song’s first verse. “From tube-socks in Timbs to blue rocks and Benz / Who got the ends, the type of n***a 2Pac pretends,” Nas raps. “To all n****s who shine, guess who got revenge / I won’t showboat, my flow choke you.” This marks the first time fans hear Nas directly, unambiguously diss Tupac on a record.

Last summer, Nas spoke about the moment Tupac confronted him about the alleged (though not confirmed) diss on “The Message” during an interview on Ebro In The Morning. Nas explained that he thought I was dissing him on the song ‘The Message,’ and I heard he was dissing me at clubs,” the rapper revealed. “He was like ‘Yo Nas, we brothers, man. We not supposed to go through this.’ And I’m like, that’s what I’m saying.” He added, “We had a plan to squash it in Vegas. So I was out there when he was in the hospital, praying for him to come through. Rest in peace.”

While the lyrics are clever it just shows that NAS didn’t mean anything said in that and it was all rhymes because he quickly was able to end their feud, and was at the hospital as 2Pac passed in 1996.

In his reply to NAS Pac has this track which was recorded but never released, and it’s part of the music still in the vault from the recordings Tupac has that well have yet to be on an official cd release. This track is fire, and I could see with the right production it could be mixed into at least 2 tracks with other rappers banging on it to fill out a new Tupac cd. Perhaps Tha Outlawz might want to get this on their future cds? OR maybe Amaru Records will put that idea on a future pac cd who knows.

This would have been his 50th Birthday...

So June 16, 1971 was the day Tupac was born, and after a short 25 years of life his life was cut short by a shooter, and one who is believed to have been Orlando Anderson the same dude who Tupac, and others on Death Row Records got into a fight the night Tupac was shot at the MGM hotel. This has been a long rumor since that fateful night, and one which I believe to be on point given my own person investigation into the shooting over the last 2 decades. Yes which includes actually speaking to people involved in the life of Pac, and who knew Orlando Anderson. They all think Orlando did it, and it was all set up after their fight. The current theme for years has been that Orlando called Biggie, and PDiddy and told them what happened, and they said to find him, shoot them, and the hit was for both Pac & Suge. Only Pac was hit the most, and died as a result, and the rest is now in the history books sadly.

A number of rumors have spread about the rapper over the years like when Suge Knight previously said the rapper had spoken about faking his own death when they were on vacation. His son, Suge J. Knight, is convinced Tupac is living in Malaysia and that his death was staged by the Illuminati. Many ‘sightings’ over the years have led people to believe that the star faked his own death, while others are convinced he’s living in plain sight.

Also Jada Pinkett Smith and Tupac Shakur’s relationship has long been a topic of discussion and she went as far as to trash the biopic about Tupac “All Eyez on Me” which came out a few years ago as she said it didn’t show their relationship how it went down for real, and from what I was told that was done out of respect to her since she has not really spoken publicly a lot about their time together but she took it the wrong way and got mad. The two were high school classmates at the Baltimore School for the Arts, Tupac played Jada’s still head-over-heels in love ex-boyfriend on A Different World, and their platonic friendship is one that has been both admired and envied by many, including Jada’s husband, Will Smith.

In honor of his memory and what would have been the rapper’s 50th birthday, Jada shared a never-before-seen poem Tupac wrote. I think this is where he got the song name, and partial lyrics for the track “Lost Soulz” with Tha Outlawz. Anyway check out the video posted by her below.

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You can read the full poem below:
Some say nothing gold can last forever
And 2 believe this I need no proof
I have witnessed all that was pure in me
Be changed by the evil men can do
The innocence possessed by children
Once lived inside my soul
But surviving years with criminal peers
Has turned my warm heart to cold
I used 2 dream and fantasize
But now I’m scared 2 sleep
Petrified, not to live or die
But to awaken and still be me
It is true that nothing gold can last
We will all one day see death
When the purest hearts are torn apart
Lost souls are all that’s left
Down on my knees I beg of God
To save me from this fate
Let me live to see what was gold in me
Before it is all too late

Black Rob Dead at 52

Damn we just lost DMX, and now Robert Ross, the rap artist known as Black Rob, has also died. He had been sick but sadly he was lost yesterday (April 17) at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, The New York Times reports. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, as Ross’ friend Mark Curry told the Times. He added that Ross was dealing with a number of health issues prior to his death, including lupus, kidney failure, diabetes, and multiple strokes. Ross was 52 years old.

The former Bad Boy MC is best known for his 2000 mega hit track “Whoa” and like I mentioned about losing DMX recently Rob also shared a video shot during a hospital stay, in which he paid tribute to the late DMX. At the time of his death.

Ross began rapping when he was a child and formed his first group the Schizophrenics, when he was in his early 20’s. He spent a small jail stint in the late ’80s before hooking up with Bad Boy Records the following decade. Though his star rose as he contributed verses to a number of the label’s other artists in the ’90’s, Ross wouldn’t get his time in the spotlight until 2000, when his debut Life Story was finally released.

Life Story and its hit single “Whoa!” would help resuscitate Bad Boy for a brief period, and Ross would later appear on the hit P. Diddy single “Bad Boys for Life” in 2001. Life Story hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and would go on to be certified platinum, though subsequent Black Rob releases would fail to chart as highly. He later signed to Duck Down for his third album Game Tested, Streets Approved in 2011.

Ross suffered a stroke prior to the release of his fourth and final album Genuine Article in 2015.

DMX Dies At Age 50 After Days On Life Support At White Plains Hospital

I just spoke about this on my show Sunday about praying for him to recover but it seems that our prayers aren’t enough as it’s now clear that DMX has been lost to drugs, and he won’t recover. He’s now gone from this earth. This is the result of a life full of hard drugs, and abuse to himself.

There is nobody to blame but himself, and it’s a real shame as he was one heck of a talent, and his music is classic, and still music that is banging 20 years later. He shouldn’t be dead right now but the drugs he took over the years resulting in wreaking havoc his health and eventually his mind, and heart.

DMX died being on life support at White Plains Hospital for the last week, his family said this morning (04/09/2021) in a statement. The family said DMX, whose birth name is Earl Simmons, died at the hospital “with his family by his side after being placed on life support for the past few days.”

“Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end. He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him,” the statement continued. “Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever. We appreciate all of the love and support during this incredibly difficult time.” The 50-year-old from Yonkers was hospitalized a week ago after suffering a heart attack. A large crowd of family, friends and fans gathered outside the hospital earlier this week for a prayer vigil.

“This is a legendary figure within our culture. One of the greatest artists in terms of showmanship,” one person told CBS2’s Ali Bauman. DMX released the first of his seven albums in 1998. He’s a three-time Grammy nominee and a two-time American Music Award-winner. His record label, Def Jam Recordings, called him “a brilliant artist and an inspiration to millions around the world.

“His message of triumph over struggle, his search for the light out of darkness, his pursuit of truth and grace brought us closer to our own humanity,” the label said in a statement describing him as “nothing less than a giant.”

New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins also reacted to his death on Twitter, saying DMX was “someone who overcame great obstacles and never forgot where he came from.” Sadly he came from the hood, and from selling, and abusing drugs, and he never overcame his main demon in life, and or obstacle. But of course these moronic leftists Democratic glorify people who are drug addicts, and so her words of ignorance don’t shock me. Again I’m a fan of DMX and he made banging music but this death is all his doing, and he lived how he died. 1000 miles an hour living the life of a rock star.

“Growing up in the School Street housing project and sharing his painful childhood through his music has always kept him connected to… Yonkers, along with his visits to the Nepperhan Community Center to give back to needy families,” she tweeted. “Sending my heartfelt condolences to his family and friends at this difficult time.”

This is really dope here it’s a music video that’s like an old school Michael Jackson video where it’s a mini movie with the music in it. Good concept, and I could see his life one day becoming a movie. DMX lived a very fast life, and this mini movie should shed some light into what drove him to where he ended up.

As of now DMX lawyer said he could not confirm reports the heart attack was caused by an overdose… But that’s the word from those who know him, and regardless if you watch him speak in the past over the last 15-20 years his mind was slipping for years. But he was a human being, and his troubles were one shared by a lot of Americans, and people world wide, and our heart goes out to him, and his family, and loved ones, and hope his life does lead to one major good thing. That his fans say no to hard drugs, and learn from losing one of hip hop’s all time best rappers. Rest in Peace DMX.

📻🎶Supporting REAL HIP HOP! Souljah Boy "TOAST FROM The Soil"

The one, and only REAL “Souljah Boy” is back hitting hard with his latest FIRE filled TRACK from his latest release “The Soil!” As some might know Jamma King is someone I’ve had on here and is one of the few rappers alive that you can put just about any one of his cds or mixtapes, and RIDE out without skipping a track. I love this dude (no homo) he’s not just a great rapper, he’s one good dude also, and someone we should all support by buying his music, and going to his YouTube Ch and Subbing it, and giving him a big Thumbs UP!

Which in todays climate (both cause of the KungFlu and how the music industry has changed due to streaming taking over) has become more, and more important.

King Jamma You keep producing that fire my dude! This is what HIP HOP needs more off… LOVE IT!

Souljah Boy “TOAST” The Soil Album Released June 5th, 2020

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