DJ Khaled Named President Of Def Jam South

DJ Khaled with Officer Ricky

Congratulations to DJ Khaled, but this makes no sense to me. Why was he rewarded with this position? When Khaled was given the opportunity to bring out his own artist, Ace Hood, the album flopped. Rick Ross is going to flop, too. Maybe LA Reid will get Khaled to stop screaming over tracks?

50 Cent Explains DJ Khaled “Psychic” Diss Video

It feels like 2003 all over again.

50 Cent “A Psychic Told Me” DJ Khaled Diss (SCARY VIDEO)

What's beef?

AutoTune May Be Played Out But T-Pain’s Karaoke Video is On Point

The next Best of Both Worlds

So T-Pain’s got a new song (featuring DJ Khaled adlibs) called “Karaoke.” The song is a big middle finger to all the rappers, fans, and bloggers who have been saying Teddy Pain has zero talent. Ironically, despite all the criticism of AutoTune seems like every known rapper has been getting their R&B on with the help of the computer program. (It’s NOT a vocoder, Rolling Stone.) Anyway, Pain RAPS on this song and directs his words to all the rappers who have been stealing his AutoTune swag. The message?  I can rap just as well as you , but you don’t know how to sing on AutoTune like me.  And he proves his point quite well. After all — T-Pain’s first album is called Rapper Ternt Sanger.

Check out the video below. There’s a cameo from Kanye West at the beginning and numerous scenes where DJ Khaled calls old people “bitch ass niggas” and pokes people in the forehead. At least he was able to make fun of himself. After all, I can’t imagine that DJ Khaled adlibs are going to be in hot demand 5 years from now. Hope I’m wrong, though.

Ace Hood Ride Remix Video ft. Trey Songz, Rick Ross, Juelz Santana, Jadakiss, Jim Jones, DJ Drama, Akon, Shawty Lo, + more

Daaaang! Khaled went crazy with his connections to hype up Ace Hood’s latest video (“Ride [Remix]“). Ace is the first artist signed to We The Best/Def Jam. The “Ride” remix features Trey Songz on the hook, Ace Hood on the beat, and feature verses from Rick Ross and Juelz Santana. The video (below) has those artists plus cameos from Jadakiss, Akon, Jim Jones, DJ Drama, Shawty-Lo, Ray J, and more. With all these artists co-signing Ace, will he be the next rapper from Florida to go gold?

NEW MUSIC: Jay-Z Aims at DJ Khaled and Fat Joe

Fat Joe and Khaled Get Dissed by a Newly Wed

What? Jay is clearly going at DJ Khaled and Fat Joe on a new Uncle Murder song. The “Untitled” track debuted last night on Kay Slay’s show (Hot 97 – NYC). Apparently the beat is courtesy of Pharrell Williams. Does Chad still produce with him? Someone fill me in (yo@hiptics.com).

• LISTEN HERE: Uncle Murder ft. Jay-Z – “Untitled”

Someone send Jay the link.

I’m not going to analyze what Jay said about Khaled and Joe. You can hear it for yourself (Murder comes nice!). He did say something that bugged me. Jay likened himself to Che Guevara saying, “Ain’t no stoppin this Roc-A-Fella movement/The name is Jay Guevara.”

Che Guevara may have been a revolutionary but he was also a ruthless killer who ruined countless lives. Ironically today his image the epitome of capitalism. Check this article about Che Guevara before you wear a t-shirt with his face.

In January 1957, as his diary from the Sierra Maestra indicates, Guevara shot Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information: “I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain…. His belongings were now mine.” Later he shot Aristidio, a peasant who expressed the desire to leave whenever the rebels moved on. While he wondered whether this particular victim “was really guilty enough to deserve death,” he had no qualms about ordering the death of Echevarría, a brother of one of his comrades, because of unspecified crimes: “He had to pay the price.” At other times he would simulate executions without carrying them out, as a method of psychological torture.

Luis Guardia and Pedro Corzo, two researchers in Florida who are working on a documentary about Guevara, have obtained the testimony of Jaime Costa Vázquez, a former commander in the revolutionary army known as “El Catalán,” who maintains that many of the executions attributed to Ramiro Valdés, a future interior minister of Cuba, were Guevara’s direct responsibility, because Valdés was under his orders in the mountains. “If in doubt, kill him” were Che’s instructions.

DJ Khaled’s We Global Album Review

Modesty Is Not a Virtue

Although DJ Khaled’s buffoonery has become a thing of legend over the past couple of years, no one can argue the success that the man has garnered. DJ Khaled has mastered the art of asking for a feature and finagled his way to a record deal along with a third album commemorating this mainstream notoriety, We Global. Whereas Khaled seeks to bask in his international success, the DJ makes little effort to reach past Dade County for his features and conceptually refuses to move to uncharted territory.

We Global is fundamentally the same Khaled album we’ve heard before. There are numerous contrived mash-ups of rappers over generic Runners, Cool & Dre and Co. beats with an R&B hook. How’s this for repetition: of the thirteen songs on the album, ten of them have some sort of sung hook by Trey Songz, T-Pain, Akon or a off-brand knock-off. Furthermore, the big collaborative efforts lack the star power of past Khaled projects. There is no Wayne, T.I. or Jeezy to counteract the lack of substance or stellar production. Instead, artists with substantially less talent and appeal take over. The aforementioned MCs are replaced by the likes of Ace Hood, Blood Raw and Brisco. Look no further than Boosie’s annoying spelling on “Out Here Grinding” and Shawty Lo’s unbelievably horrible verse on “Final Warning” to see that We Global is a lyrical step back from We The Best.

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