Many of the Hip Hop heavyweights go to this event.  Hopefully I can get down to one in the next couple of years.

I swear you cannot make these stories up.  MTV excerpt below.

Game told MTV News that during his beef with 50, which began in 2005, Jackson actually called the Compton MC and offered to play peacekeeper between the two former friends.

“I was on tour in Canada, sitting in my room, cutting my hair,” Game told MTV News, recalling Jackson’s phone call. “I was messing my hair up. Then my road manager knocks on my door. Boom, boom, boom. He told me, I got MJ on the phone. I ran and snatched up the phone.”

On the other end of the line was a British gentleman who connected the two musicians. A nervous Game said Jackson started the conversation by talking about music and complimenting him on his records like “Hate It or Love It” and “How We Do.” Then the King of Pop asked about the rapper’s children. But before the phone call ended, Jackson touched on one last topic, a sensitive matter at the time.

“He got to this one thing that makes me laugh, man.” Game explained. “He said, ‘I don’t know how you’re gonna feel about this, but I want to ask you something. I don’t want you to judge me, but I don’t really know everything that’s going on between you and 50. But I want to be the middle man behind you putting this situation to bed.’ “

Jackson wanted the two to meet, with him serving as a mediator, according to Game. The rapper mentioned Jackson’s outreach in his new song, “Better on the Other Side,” a tribute to the late King of Pop that features Chris Brown, Diddy, Boyz II Men and Mario Winans. A video for the track, featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the record, is set to premiere online on Tuesday (June 30), Game said. On Friday, 50 Cent also released two Michael Jackson tribute tracks, “Respect It or Check It N—a” and “Where You Are.”

Although 50 and Game eventually put their differences aside, Jackson wasn’t involved. Game said MJ wanted all three of the artists to collaborate on a song together. But, unfortunately, nothing ever came about.

“It just never manifested,” Game said.

In this addition of “Double Barrel” Tuesdays Marco Polo & Torae join DJ Premier on his Live From HeadQCourterz show at Sirius. Watch DJ Premier go in on several tracks off the “Double Barrel” album in stores now.

Tapemasters Inc have just shot over this mixtape featuring Ghostface Killah’s right hand man, Trife Diesel (formally Trife Da God).  The Project Pope has features by Ghostface Killah, B.O.B, Termanology, Inspectah Deck and Sun The God.  The Staten Island representative has a new album coming out in July titled “Better Late Than Never”, and this mixtape should hold you off till it’s released.  After the jump grab the mixtape.  Enjoy.

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DJ Mike Nice has recommended this mixtape for everyone to check out.  Memory Man gives us a Wu Tang Clan Vs. D.I.T.C mixtape mixing the vocals of Wu Tang over D.I.T.C and visa versa.  Definitely something you should check out.  Sorry no track listing, but that shouldn’t discourage you from downloading this release!!

Download: Memory Man – Wu Tang Clan Vs. D.I.T.C (Blend Mixtape)

True Stories links up with Nipsey Hussle in the studio to talk about Nipsey’s history, and what we should expect from Nipsey in the future.  You can check out some of Nipsey’s music on Journey To The West which drops this week!

Bun B chats with DJ Semtex about working with Dizzie Rascal, what Michael Jackson meant to him, being in the UK streets, and Drake’s buzz in 2009.  UGK 4 Life! Rest in Peace Pimp C!

Fellow diggers, I’ve decided to rip this cd for your enjoyment, as I haven’t really seen it around.  It was released last year by Hannibal King(Black Fist Productions) and myself in conjunction with Mixtapekings.com, and features classic material from the Native Tongues family(Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Black Sheep, Jungle Brothers, etc).  Hopefully a part 2 will surface one day, as plenty of material couldn’t make it onto this one.  Grab it after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Here we are back again for another edition of Martial Arts Mondays.  This week, we’ll focus on a classic, unknown to only about 35 people on the planet who haven’t heard of this movie.  The 5 Venoms (US title-5 Deadly Venoms) was released in 1978 by the Shaw Brothers studio and directed by Chang Cheh.  The infamous masks and original plot were just some of the many factors that contributed to this movie being so re known. Read the rest of this entry »