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Lil Wayne’s Master Plan
With tracks off Drake’s soon to be released album, Take Care, already breaching the Billboard Top Ten before the album release we can start to visualize that the YMCMB crew may be passing down the torch. Business strategy, fate, who knows, but Drizzy’s following and musical output can now be put along the same lines as his master, Lil Wayne. As Weezy approaches 30 (now 29), his glamour will no longer contain the same Young Money swagger it once had. We can view this as Drake, now 25, overcoming the natural tale of time, replenishing the YMCMB motto (with counterpart Nicki Minaj, now 28, drawing in the female market). Ultimately, the growing YMCMB business will grant Lil Wayne enough money to live to old age in immense steadily growing wealth. He has accomplished his ultimate goal, and soon Dr. Carter can sit back and hope his Young Money farm team raises another YMCMB star into the majors. - S.R.
Written by Uptown Soldier correspondent:
Steven Reubenstone
In dropping off the new vlog, Wiz said:
My Last Album Was A Mixture Of Everything That Inspired Me At That Time Musically. My New Shit Is For RIch Muh Fuckas. Lol People Who Are Rich Wit Love For One Another And Peace U Feel Me? The Real Mu Fuckas Who Made Me Rich
#ONIFC We All Got RIch This Year So What Im Sayin Is Im Makin This Album For You#Taylors As Well As My Personal Enjoyment
2012 should be a crazy year for Wiz.
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Year In Review Topic #4: Are The “Young” Rappers Ready To Take The Torch?
Today we wanted to talk about the group of younger artists that have taken the game by storm and really established themselves for the year to come. The group of Drake, J. Cole, Wale, Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa, and Kendrick Lamar have all had amazing years with their music, promotion, and overall feedback from fans. But are they ready to be a superstar? Jay-Z, Kanye, Weezy, have all given some of these artists the keys to success, but can they handle it? Hit the jump to find out.
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Dee-1 – Standing Ovation (2012 XXL Freshman Tribute) (Video)
I know everyone is out there fretting over who the new 2012 XXL Freshman list is going to include, but if you don’t know all the nominees we got something for you. Southern MC Dee-1 schools us on all the nominees for XXL’s coveted list and gives you a lil something to expect from each. Definitely a must watch.
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Year In Review Topic #3: Will The Joint Projects Be Up To Par In 2012?
Some of the biggest stars in Hip Hop set some major standards for collaborating in 2011. From start to finish, the year featured some of the craziest joint projects we’ve seen in years. Doing joint mixtapes/albums has been a part of the game for a bunch of years. It is sometimes how new artists are broken into the game and how artists generate new buzz. For our third Year In Review topic, we will be discussing the proposed joint projects for 2012 and see if they will live up to what 2011 had to offer. Hit the jump for Topic #3.
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Fiff is out here making movies for mixtape tracks. What the fuck are you doing? The Big 10, nuff said.
PREVIOUS: 50 Cent – Put Your Hands Up (Video)
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Rozay has been hyping this tape on Twitter a good amount. Rich Forever does not have a release date as of now but Rozay did say it has all original music. This should be a dope project to hold us over for GFID.
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This year we have started our first annual Uptown Soldier Awards process. We will be doing these awards at the end of every year which help to recap the year in music. 2011 was another huge year for music. The biggest in the game dropped some of the best songs and the best projects. There were also some new guys coming onto the scene and those a bit older trying to show their worth. The year was full of surprises, comebacks, and music on music on music. There was so much music out there this year. The game was hectic week in and week out. If you weren’t bringing it, you weren’t being talked about. A lot of artists made some big moves this year and for that we are going to give them some awards. Tonight we have the nominees for you and the winners will be announced on January 1st at 12:00pm. We didn’t have a specific number of nominees, each category is different. Please feel free to comment about who you think deserves each award in the comment section, via Twitter, or Facebook. Hit the jump for the nominees.
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Mac’s hit single off his mixtape Best Day Ever is now officially Gold certified. The hard work and dedication continues to pay off for the young Jewish rapper/entrepreneur. Keep it up Mac!!
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Year In Review Topic #2: Are The “Older” Rappers Still Making Impacts In The Game?
Obviously when you say “older” rapper, the first thing that comes to your mind is guys like Jay-Z, Em, Nas, Andre 3000. But do you mean “older” in a bad way? In an irrelevant way? In a wiser way? Any way you put it, the “older” cats who hit it big back in the late 90s are still out here trying to bring heat to their fans. Many are doing it pretty well still, but most are not. Not everyone can be married to the hottest chick in the game, owner of an NBA team, and worth well over 9 figures by the time they hit 40. But hey, that’s why there’s only one Jay-Z. This article discusses some of the rappers we all grew up listening to and how they did in 2011 as well as what the future holds for them. Hit the jump for today’s Year In Review topic.
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NEAKO releases the first episode of the LVLY$LPSA series. In it, NEAKO discusses LVL, TATT, upcoming moves and a Blunt/Joint analysis for 2012 LVLY$L #ZebraGANG 3F2+S.
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Big Sean Gives G.O.O.D. Music Album Update (Video)
While on the set of Wale’s “Slight Work” shoot, MTV caught up with Big Sean to discuss the status of the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album set to drop in 2012.
“We’re gonna do the G.O.O.D. Music album first; we been working on that. So, me, Kanye, Cudi, CyHi, John Legend, Common, Pusha T, everybody on G.O.O.D., Mr Hudson: We’re all working on a new project; it’s almost done. We’re going to London to finish it up and do the last part of it and working on my album at the same time with ‘Ye and everybody.”
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The Rosenthal boys are back and better than ever. Here’s their interview with Wiz Khalifa. You’re always good for more than a few laughs when you’re watching these guys.
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Joe Budden Cancels Feature Presentation Mixtape (Video)
Last night backstage at Budden and Ortiz’s show in NYC, AllHipHop caught up with Joey to discuss some music. In the interview he revealed that his highly anticipated, star-studded mixtape Feature Presentation will not be dropping, and why. The slaughters must be getting ready for something bigger.
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Fiff just keeps churning these videos out. Definitely not complaining. Making The Big 10 look even better than we thought. Here’s the Jahlil Beats produced track.
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Week 17 Power Rankings: Playoff Implications on the Line in Week 17
Just as it does every year, week 17 is coming down to playoff implications and the stakes are huge. Continue Reading Story…
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On The Set: Rick Ross feat. Drake, Meek Mill, French Montana & DJ Khaled – Rich Forever
Ricky Rozay recently announced he’s dropping a new mixtape before he releases GFID in 2012. The new tape will feature all original music. For his title track, the BAWSE enlisted his MMG all-star rookie Meek Mill, YMCMB/OVO’s Drizzy Drake, Bad Boy’s French Montana, and his main man DJ Khaaaaaaleddd. This shit gonna be epic!! More flicks after the jump!!
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Year In Review Topic #1: Was 2011 A Success For Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson?
For the last week of 2011, we at Uptown Soldier have decided to bring our viewers some interesting topics to discuss and sit with as we get ready for 2012. Each day leading up to Sunday’s New Years Day we will be releasing a new article discussing a new topic about the Year In Review. The topics will be released about 2 hours before we drop the article each day so continue to check back daily for the newest topic. Today we figured no better person to start this series off with than Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. This was a crazy year for Fiff with the music and with all the other stuff he’s got going on, but was it a successful year for Fiff. For Uptown Soldier’s Year In Review Topic #1, hit the jump!!!
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TIP’s new tape is right around the corner. Peep the second trailer to get you ready for the new TIP Harris.
PREVIOUS: Trailer #1
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After being signed to Rick Ross’s Maybach Music label, being named “Most Street” and one of the top Freshman of 2011 by XXL and having his single “Ima Boss” become a club anthem, it’s safe to say 2011 was a big year for the Philly-raised rapper.
We caught up with Meek at the studio of classic hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion to shoot the cover for Meek’s upcoming remix of “Ima Boss” (featuring Lil’ Wayne) and learned a little more about his history, his last year and how he keeps Philly close to his chest.
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50 Cent’s “Are You A Street King” Contest (Video)
Fiff is reaching out and really trying to push his Street King business. Thus he has created a contest for people to submit their own ads. Submissions can be dropped off here and the winners will receive:
- $10,000 for yourself
- A VIP trip to NYC to meet 50 Cent
- 10,000 Meals donated in your name
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