NEWS: French Montana Signs To Epic Records! [KingpinTV.net]

Now that Bad Boy has moved from Interscope to Epic Records, they’re bringing some of their former roster with them.

French Montana just announced that he is officially a part of the Epic family, inking a joint deal with

VIDEO: Machine Gun Kelly ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, French Montana, Yo Gotti & Ray Cash “Till I Die Part II” [KingpinTV.net]

Welcome back Bone Thugs & Harmony courtesy of Machine Gun Kelly & friends

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VIDEO: Diddy Ft. Rick Ross & French Montana – “Big Homie” [KingpinTV.net]

Diddy taking it back to the streets.

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NEWS: Mase Speaks On Almost Swinging On J. Cole, Says He’s The Only Artist To “Really” Get Paid By Diddy! [KingpinTV.net]

After years in limbo, Ma$e’s rap career looks to be heading in a positive direction with a new album titled, “Now We Even”, in the works and promising collaborations on deck. The former Bad Boy rapper recently clocked in for a sit down with Detroit’s Power 107.5, and, among other things, revealed he believes he was the only Bad Boy rapper to get his just due from Diddy and talked about an altercation that almost happened with J. Cole.

Since finally being released from his Bad Boy contract after 16 years in 2012, Betha has been spotted on occasion with Diddy, most recently at reuniting to perform at the Beats pre-Grammy party and linking for the opening of a new Revolt studio in Hollywood. “Sometimes we have a lot of issues, but I’m grown so I can respect the good that he’s done,” said Ma$e. Unlike several Bad Boy artists, Ma$e contends that his time on the label wasn’t all bad, monetarily. “I’m the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid. Puff will tell you I get really, really, paid,” he stated.

While talking about the newer artists who are on his radar, the Harlem World rapper revealed he almost put hands on J. Cole for a perceived diss the NC rapper delivered in a song. “I like J. Cole when he’s not taking shots at me,” Ma$e said. “I saw him one day, I was gonna hit him, but I felt like I was too grown to be knocking light skin people out. But I really like him as an artist.” The former pastor said he chalked up the misunderstanding to the age difference between the rappers. “That’s a different generation,” he added. “In our generation you said something on a record, we see you it’s action. But when I saw him I was thinking, ‘Oh, he’s just a kid… he don’t get it.’”

(XXL)

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NEWS: Atlanta Man Involved in Biggie’s Murder Escapes from Prison! [KingpinTV.net]

According to various reports, the man who had a part in the death of legendary rapper The Notorious B.I.G. has escaped from an Atlanta prison. Clayton Armstrong Hill is currently on the run from law enforcement.

There are documents signed by the United States Magistrate, Judge Russell G. Vineyard, giving a vague description of how Hill escaped. Apparently, Clayton Armstrong Hill just walked off the prison grounds without being detected. Nobody noticed he was gone until it was time to do a bed check. Deputy U.S. Marshall Clay M. Cleveland says, “I was notified by officials … that inmate Clayton Armstrong Hill walked off the grounds. A bed count was conducted to verify Hill’s status and at approximately 6:40 p.m. Hill was identified as missing.”

What kind of prison was Hill in that made it so easy to just walk off, you ask? Clayton Armstrong Hill was placed in a medium security prison after he plead guilty to upwards of 100 counts of fraudulent federal income tax returns in the mid-2000s. In his book “Diary of An Ex-Terrorist” Hill confessed that he was an accessory after the fact in the Biggie murder.  In the book, Hill implicates the Nation of Islam as being a part of the murder and subsequent cover up. He became involved when he helped a man who claimed to be the person who shoot the fatal bullets into Biggie’s truck that fateful night in 1997.

(HOT 97)

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TRIBUTE: The Notorious B.I.G. [KingpinTV.net]

March 9, 1997. A day that will forever live in infamy in the Hip Hop world. Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls was gunned down in Los Angeles California. He was only 24. The man who played a massive role in bringing east coast music back was gone. To this day the crime has not been solved. Let’s use this day not to mourn but to celebrate Mr Wallace, the Emcee who actually made Jay-z nervous in terms of musical ability.

In this tribute you see a serious of interviews, videos etc of Biggie. Enjoy!!

Here is a clip from the syndicated fox police drama New York Undercover back in 1995

 

Biggie at the tender age of 17, spitting fire on the Brooklyn block. The person who recorded this deserves a medal

 

Here is a rare commercial of Biggie promoting St Ides malt liquor

 

Party & Bullshit

 

Super Cat, Puffy & B.I.G

 

Biggie gets heated!!!!

 

When they was good….R.I.P Tupac Shakur

 

The one that really set it off:

 

Biggie with the Junior M.A.F.I.A clique

 

Live at the video shoot!

 

R.I.P Heavy D

 

Biggie’s last video:

 

The last interview:

 

Celebrating Biggie’s life:

Thanks for the memories Christopher

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R&B CLASSIC VIDEO: Faith Evans – “You Used To Love Me” (1995) [KingpinTV.net]

Classic R&B from The former 1st lady of Bad Boy Records. R.I.P Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G.

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VIDEO: French Montana Feat. Rick Ross, Lil’ Wayne & Drake – “Pop That” [TekniqueTheKingpin*com]

New video from French Montana. Eye candy everywhere. My eyes now have cavities. Time to see the Optometrist

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NEWS: Rapper G. Dep Convicted In 1993 Cold Case Murder! [KingpinTV.net]

Rapper G. Dep was convicted Tuesday in a 1993 murder to which he suddenly confessed in 2010, stunning police.

Born Trevell Coleman, G. Dep, 37, faces at least 15 years in prison at his sentencing, set for May 8.

The rapper, a married father who flirted with fame in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a member of Sean Combs’ roster, reopened the cold case murder of John Henkel when he walked into a New York police precinct to say he’d fired at someone on a Harlem street corner when he was about 17 to 19.

G. Dep had apparently been wrestling with his conscience for some time. His life spiraled into disarray with a slate of arrests on drug, trespassing and other charges. He had finished a drug-treatment program and had released a new album online in the months before he came clean.

“I couldn’t move on and keep trying to satisfy myself if I didn’t deal with that,” he told the hip hop magazine XXL in a jailhouse interview published in June. ” … I didn’t know what was going to be the outcome, but that was the only way I knew to deal with it.”

The victim had grabbed the rapper’s .40-caliber gun, and he pulled it back and fired at the man three times, G. Dep told authorities in a recorded statement played during his trial. After the gunfire, he said, he rode off on a bicycle, unsure whether the man had been struck. G. Dep didn’t testify at trial.

Authorities paired his account with the 1993 death of Henkel, 32. Henkel was shot three times with a .40-caliber gun at the same corner in October 1993, when G. Dep was nearing his 19th birthday.

“The more you study the evidence, you’ll see it just matches up too greatly for coincidence,” Assistant District Attorney David Drucker said in an opening statement.

But G.Dep’s attorney Anthony Ricco questioned whether police had made the right match. He noted discrepancies between G. Dep’s statement and Henkel’s shooting – including that the rapper said he thought the shooting happened in February or March, rather than the fall, and described the victim as blond and clean-shaven when Henkel had brown hair and wore facial hair.

The rapper, he said, has no way of knowing for certain whether Henkel was indeed the man he shot. He ultimately filled in some of the details from information police gave him, the lawyer said.

G. Dep turned down an offer to plead guilty in exchange for a guaranteed 15-years-to-life sentence that is now the minimum he faces, Ricco said.

Regardless, he remains convinced he did the right thing by coming forward, said Ricco.

“He has a conscience and a heart, and his conscience and his heart brought him to where he is today,” Ricco said after court. “He’s probably making the most powerful statement a rapper of his era can make, which is to be accountable and to do the right thing.”

G. Dep’s wife and mother wept after hearing the verdict and his relatives are heartbroken and torn about his decision to speak up, Ricco said.

Henkel’s relatives didn’t testify at the trial. But one of his brothers followed it through news accounts.

“I’m thankful that the justice system worked for this, for my brother’s benefit and my family,” Werner Henkel said by phone after hearing of the verdict.

(CBS/AP)

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HIP HOP CLASSIC VIDEO: Craig Mack – “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)” (1994) [TekniqueTheKingpin*com]

Classic posse cut featuring some hip hop heavyweights of the past and present.

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R&B CLASSIC VIDEO: Faith Evans – “You Gets No Love” (2001) [TekniqueTheKingpin*com]

Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career in the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Sure and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to be contracted with Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment recording company during 1994, for which she released three platinum-certified studio albums between the years 1995 and 2001. During 2003, she ended her relationship with the company to contract with Capitol Records.

Other than her recording career, Evans is known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, whom she married on August 4, 1994, a few weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photoshoot. The turbulent marriage resulted in Evans’ involvement in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop feud, dominating the rap music news at the time, and ended with Wallace’s murder in a yet-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California during March 1997.  A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff Daddy and the band 112, named “I’ll Be Missing You”, became Evans’ best-selling song to date and won her a Grammy Award during 1998. This classic single was featured on “Faithfully” her last studio album with Bad Boy records. Faith then moved to Capitol records and has dabbled in acting and writing

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R&B CLASSIC VIDEO: Total ft. Missy Elliot – “Trippin” (1998) [TekniqueTheKingpin*com]

Total was an American R&B girl group and one of the signature acts of Sean Combs’ Bad Boy Records imprint during the 1990s. The trip consisted of members Kima Raynor, Keisha Spivey and Pamela Long. Their second album Kima, Keisha, and Pam, debuted to strong reviews, sales, and was certified gold by the RIAA. The first single, another Missy Elliott collaboration, “Trippin'”, reached the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. While in heavy rotation on video networks like BET, radio chose not to play the song. The group has disbanded and has no intention to reunite

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R&B CLASSIC VIDEO: 112 ft. Lil’ Zane – “Anywhere” (1999) [TekniqueTheKingpin*com]

112 is an American R&B quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. The members of the group include Quinnes “Q” Parker, Daron Jones, Marvin “Slim” Scandrick and Michael Keith. Formerly artists on Diddy’s Bad Boy Records, the group signed to the Def Soul roster in 2002. They had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s with big hits such as this classic “Anywhere”. The group most notably won a Grammy in 1997 for Best Rap Performance by A Duo Or Group, for featuring in the song “I’ll Be Missing You” with Puff Daddy and Faith Evans .

Zane Copeland, Jr. better known as Zane (formerly Lil’ Zane before 2003), is a rapper born in Yonkers, New York and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for his debut album Young World: The Future, released in 2000.

Freak: A person who exhibits unusual passion about sex, sometimes in the face of community disapproval. Sometimes also suggests outstanding competence or dedication towards the art of sex

Shout Out to all the freaks out there who know that when it’s time and you can’t wait, anywhere becomes your domain

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NEWS: Former Bad Boy Rapper Loon Remains Held in Belgium, For Heroin Possession! [TekniqueTheKingpin.com]

Former Bad Boy Records rapper Loon, who now goes by Amir Junaid Muhadith, will remain behind bars in Belgium after a Grand Jury in Brussels reversed an earlier to decision to return the rapper to the U.S. to face charges for allegedly distributing heroin. According to Nieuwsblad.be, authorities in the U.S. have yet to file documents which are necessary to facilitate the extradition of the rapper and Loon is currently being held in a prison in the Belgian province of Vorst.

Loon’s lawyer, Isa Gultaslar, confirmed the courts decision but indicated that he would challenge the ruling in the country’s Court of Cassation, which is the Belgian equivalent of the Supreme Court. According to Gultaslar, he will have his argument prepared by Friday, January 13th after he consults with a Dutch colleague, as the court documents are written in Dutch, and Loon’s stateside attorney.

Loon was arrested in Brussels late in November, 2011 after he was spotted by airport authorities and held for charges that stem from over three years ago in North Carolina. According to the indictment, which was issued in May, 2011, the rapper is wanted on a charge of possession of more than a kilogram of heroin with intent to distribute.

The rapper abandoned his hip hop career after converting to Islam in 2009 and has since traveled extensively to pursue his faith. Loon spent sometime in Algeria and Saudi Arabia before branching out to other countries to share his experiences with others.

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R&B CLASSIC VIDEO: 112 Featuring Ludacris – “Hot & Wet” (2003) [TekniqueTheKingpin.com]

Hot & Wet is a single from the fourth studio album “Hot & Wet” by R&B group 112 featuring Ludacris. The album followed the highly successful Part III album (which featured the hit single “Peaches & Cream”), with the club tracks “Na Na Na Na” and “Hot & Wet” which was produced by Stevie J. It was also their first album not exclusively associated with Bad Boy Records, signaling the groups’ eventual departure from the label in 2004

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