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Nipsey Hussle’s “SPEAK MY LANGUAGE” featured on DJBOOTH.NET
June 23, 2009
The good folks at DJ BOOTH are rolling out the blue carpet and showing Neighborhood Nip some love on their site, highlighting the new single “SPEAK MY LANGUAGE” feat June Summers, Cory Gunz & Lloyd Banks. TEAM HUSSLE needs to hussle over to the site and let your feelings on this banger be known. BULLETS VOL 3 is on deck and ready to blast off, coming real soon.
Nipsey’s “GOTTA MAKE IT” featured on DJ BOOTH
June 19, 2009
DJ Booth is featuring Nipsey’s latest banger “GOTTA MAKE IT” feat June Summers & Taleema. Make sure you go over there and let em know what you think about this leak off of the upcoming BULLETS…VOL 3. Team Hussle, make your voice heard!!
[video] HoodNews™: Nipsey Hussle Interview
June 18, 2009[youtube-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xl55DKIbuU]
Ving Rhames Talks New Film, Nipsey Hussle, Gillie Da Kid
June 18, 2009
via HipHopDX
Since his unforgettable role in 1994’s Pulp Fiction, Ving Rhames has been a powerful force in Hollywood. With numerous film appearances before and starring roles aplenty since, Rhames has been hard at work at producing some films of his own. The actor’s present work, The Wrath Of Cain, contains a message about street life in America, as well our commonalities, that are very tangible to the Hip Hop generation. Ving spoke to HipHopDX on Tuesday evening, to discuss the film, his views on youth culture, and two of its co-stars – who happen to be rappers, Gillie Da Kid [click to read] and Nipsey Hussle [click to read].
Produced by Evan Louis and Eugene “Big U” Henley, Wrath of Cain contains a premise resonant in Rhames‘ eyes. “The storyline is that I’m a guy in a prison – a former gangbanger [who is] doing life in prison, with two sons. One of my sons is a Crip, played by Nipsey Hussle. The other one is a Blood, who’s my son, but I don’t know he’s my son at the beginning of the movie, played by Gillie Da Kid.” The film takes the unbenownst brothers who war in the streets, to a war on the inside, amongst their father. “They don’t know they’re brothers; I don’t know that [Gillie's character "JD" is] my son.” Rhames says this conflict leads to a powerful ending. “It’s gonna be very suprising,” Gillie said.
The film focuses on the similarities in people, regardless of skin or bandana color. “I’m trying to show, we’re all the same – Crips, Bloods, Mexican gangs. You grew up in this hood, I grew up in that hood; a real nigga is a real nigga regardless.” He later added, “They’re of the same blood. The only difference between [someone] being a Crip or a Blood is [their] address.“
The film starts June 29th in Los Angeles. With Big U as a producer on the film, Ving Rhames has worked with U’s South Central neighborhood to enrich, what he calls “the hood’s talent.” “I have Rolling 60s guys who are going to be apprentices with the camera, who are learning about sound, lighting, directing, wardrobe, what-have-you. They’re gonna be a part of this film in an apprentice program.” Rhames says after working in the Rolling 60s Crip neighborhood, he aspires to work with a Blood neighborhood next.
With recent events portraying gangs in an arguably misinformed light, Rhames says it’s the right time for films like this. “Big U helped me a lot with this. The Rolling 60s sometimes get a bad name. Recently, they busted a club where the Rolling 60s were giving a party [click to read]. There was no guns, there was no fighting in there, no drugs found. Some guys were found skipping probation or what-have-you.” Rhames expressed his frustrations with the headline news. “The cops raided a place just based on reputation. But if you think about it, and again, this is cultural sometimes, those police officers know nothing about people of color in general. They certainly don’t know anything about what you would call ‘gang culture.’” This leads to bigger problems, according to the Mission Impossible actor. “Let’s say when two white cops roll up on a group of 50 brothers, how you talk to the brothers will determine how they react to you – especially if they’re not doing anything wrong. Sometimes things are done that I think can instigate something happening.” Read the rest of this entry ?
