Atari / Marc Ecko's presents "Getting Up...Contents Under Pressure" video game is due out next month (Nov.) Talib Kweli is the voice of the lead character "Trane". This is a graffiti game.
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Blacksmith Music Present: Talib Kweli "Right About Now..." is slated for release on Nov. 22nd this is a limited edition CD. We are only pressing 70k of them. The CD features production by 88-Keys, Kareem Riggins, The Fyre Dept., Charlemagne, Jay Dee, DJ Khalil, Keezo Kane and Needles. With guest features by Mos Def, MF Doom, Jean Grae, Strong Arm Steady,
Pit Bull and Papoose
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Appearing last week on New York's Hot 97 morning show, The Game said he's currently working on the album, currently titled Doctor's Advocate, and plans to release it in April of next year.

Game has enlisted a host of A-list producers including Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Just Blaze, Buckwild and The Justus League, among others.

In related news, The Documentary was recently nominated for Album of the Year at this year's Vibe Awards. Chuck Taylor will face off against Kanye, John Legend, Mariah Carey and Lil' Kim in the category. The Award show is set to air on November 15th on UPN.

Game's Doctor's Advocate is due in stores next April.

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Look for R&B songress, Res to release her new project spring '06

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In recently released documents provided to AllHipHop.com, Christopher Lorenzo’s attorney, Gerald Shargel, recently wrote to Judge Edward Korman to officially raise objections to prison tapes being used by the federal government in the federal money laundering and racketeering trial of rap label The Inc.

The five-page filing documents Shargel's requests to suppress conversations between the Gotti brothers (Irv and Chris Lorenzo) and Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff that were recorded by The Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The filing also detailed the financial hardships of The Inc. (formerly Murder Inc.), an alleged plot to kill Irv Gotti and the status of Queens, New York drug baron Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols.

Ethan Brown, a journalist for Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Wired, the Village Voice, Radar, Vibe and others, recently penned "Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler."

Slated for a November 22 release, the book is a detailed look into origins of Queens, New York's most notorious and profitable drug gangs and their ties to the Hip-Hop music industry.

"These transcripts show that Irv is clearly hurting financially because of the years' long investigation into The Inc.," Brown told AllHipHop.com. "The expiration of The Inc.'s contract with Def Jam earlier this year has only worsened the situation."

Shargel’s motion seeks to have phone conversations ruled inadmissible because he believes that they’re “plainly irrelevant” and “hearsay.”

The motion further states that his client’s right to due process was violated when the government gained a strategic advantage by gathering evidence against the Lorenzo’s, by wire-tapping McGriff’s prison phone calls.

"They were successful in separating Irv's trial from Supreme's," Brown noted. "Supreme is charged with various narcotics charges and murder. Irv is not charged with any of that. He doesn't have to sit in the court room with Supreme and that is why the lawyers are saying these conversations are irrelevant.
Some of the characters that are resurfacing have been mentioned in songs by Nas, 50 Cent, Ja Rule and others. Fans can reference Nas' "Memory Lane (Sitting in the Park)" or 50 Cent's "Ghetto Quran" for more details.

Coincidentally, 50 Cent's upcoming movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin' features a character named "Majestic," said to be loosely based on Kenneth "Supreme" McGriffin

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Lil’ Wayne has signed on to become an official member of Boyz N Da Hood (BNHD) and Young Jeezy has exited the ranks, according to sources.

Lil Wayne, President of Cash Money Records will join the Atlanta-based super-group along with existing members Big Duke, Big Gee, Jody Breeze, a representative for Universal Record confirmed. Initially, T.I. was included in the group as well, but his representatives at Atlantic Records denied. “That’s false. He’s not going to be in Boyz N Da Hood,” a rep in the Atlantic publicity department said.

Blok, founder of Boyz N Da Hood and Blok Entertainment, also confirmed the news of Lil’ Wayne’s inclusion, but countered stating that T.I. was in the group. Despite persistent rumors, Blok said there is no bad blood between Young Jeezy and the rest of the group.

“Jeezy only signed on for one album and that’s my whole campaign – it’s not a replacement it’s a continuance. We’re not beefing. All of us are brothers. That’s very important, it’s a continuance. This is the way it was set out to be when it first started,” Blok told AllHipHop.com. Blok also stated that the original roster of Boyz N Da Hood included T.I., Trick Daddy and Sean Paul of the YoungBloodz and the newer members replaced them. Young Jeezy has experienced solo success with his platinum-selling Def Jam release Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation.

Representatives at Def Jam for Jeezy were unaware of the Boyz N Da Hood personnel change, but Jeezy commented on his status with the group in a previous interview.

“I was a solo artist first. I'm definitely a boss. I always had a label. I always had a movement. The whole thing with Puff [Bad Boy Records], we sat down and worked it out. I already had my solo situation at Def Jam,” he told AllHipHop.com. “My album was set up to come out first, before I did the little situation [with Bad Boy]. But just me being a gangster and real about what I'm doing agreed to push my album back so I could get the Boyz N Da Hood project rolling. I just want the fans to know it ain’t me acting funny or nothing like that. It's just that I got a solo album out, so just like how I went on a Boyz N Da Hood promo run, I gotta do mine. Everything I do with them, I gotta do for myself.”

While Jeezy was a member of BNHD, he was also signed to Def Jam as a solo artist and had to promote both the group album and the Def Jam opus at the same time. Jeezy frequently missed promotion and marketing tours with Boyz N Da Hood, but continued to push both projects. The BNDH self-titled album hit stores on June 21, while Thug Motivation 101 was released on July 26.

T.I. has issued a statement to AllHipHop.com, denying that he is a new member of Boyz N Da Hood (BNDH).

Last week, BNDH founder Blok confirmed that Young Jeezy had left the group and that New Orleans rapper Lil’ Wayne was the newest member.

Representatives for Atlantic immediately dismissed T.I.’s inclusion in the group and now T.I. himself has denied being a member of the group.

Blok had also stated that the T.I. was an original member of the group, along with Trick Daddy and Sean Paul of the YoungBloodz, until the newer members replaced them.

“Contrary to rumors circulating around the Internet, I have not and will not be joining Boyz N Da Hood,” T.I. stated. “Although I am and have always been part of the movement, I am not a member of the group. This is just another case of 'Urban Legend'.”


Ironically, T.I., Young Jeezy and Lil’ Wayne will embark on a tour of the United States with in mid-November

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People Magazine reports that Foxy Brown is going deaf.
The female MC is suffering severe and sudden sensorineural hearing loss in both ears. "I started breaking down in tears and screaming and I couldn't even hear myself scream," she told the magazine.
Nevertheless, Foxy is still confident she will recover from this loss.
I know God is working on me," she said. "I'm on a personal journey. I believe God wants to be the only voice I hear right now. I know I will be all right."

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