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Saturday, April 13, 2013
L.A.’s Classic Hip-Hop Station KDAY Could Be Facing Format Change
Listeners of 93.5 KDAY in Los Angeles are not pleased with a suspected programming change set to come. With the proposed sale of KDAY by Magic Broadcasting to RBC Communications for $19.5 million, the station is reportedly switching from a classic Hip-Hop and R&B format to Chinese language talk radio according tonbclosangeles.com.
The KDAY call letters have a long history in the L.A./Redondo Beach area. The original KDAY 1580 AM was actually the first station in the country to play Hip-Hop exclusively. KDAY also helped launch the careers of West Coast rap acts like N.W.A.
As of yet the sale is not final. It still must be approved by the FCC which may mean that RBC will not take over KDAY for another 4 months at the earliest. There is also an ongoing legal matter concerning Magic Broadcasting.
A previous attempt to sell the station to SoCal935 for $35 million in 2010 fell through supposedly because there was still pending ligation involving Magic owner Don McCoy and creditor/license holder Durden Enterprises.
Radioinsight.com reports that McCoy is quoted saying, “I don’t understand [why] someone would buy a station with a stockholder lawsuit filed against it. It will be interesting to see what happens.”
There have not been any formal public statements about a format change at KDAY from any of the parties involved.
In February, KDAY’s ratings put the station in a tie for 29th place in its market.
Watch the NBC report on the sale in the video below.
DMX Reunites With Son; Looks To Fix Life
DMX has been on of the most consistently confounding artists in Hip-Hop history.
He may top his accomplishments with a new show, “Fix My Life,” as he reunites with his son Xavier. The pair have not seen each other in over a year.
The reunion becomes contentious with his son put a no-drugs condition on their reconciling.
“Healthy relationship, can we have that? Clean, completely clean,” Xavier says.
“That’s some bulls**t,” DMX exclaims. “If you gonna put a condition on our relationship, well then I get that’s when you’ll get to see me.”
In the video, host Iyanla Vanzant and DMX clash as well.
The show runs in its entirely tonight on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network.
Gucci Mane Released From Jail And Immediately Arrested AGAIN
Gucci Mane was released yesterday on charges that he assaulted a fan and was re-arrested just today on parole violation.
The rapper was put back in jail, according to TMZ.
The initial charges stem from the late March accusation that Gucci Mane struck a fan in the head with a bottle at an Atlanta night club. The rapper was granted bail at $75,000 after the judge reconsidered. After posting bail, he was arrested again. No word on what his new bail will be.
Another man in Philadelphia says that he was also assaulted by Gucci.
Tyga To Rock Harvard’s Yardfest Despite Protests
Rick Ross may have lost his bout with protesters, but Tyga will continue to perform at Harvard University’s Yardfest despite opposition.
The rapper will perform today as originally scheduled, even though there was a 2,000 person petition in circulation again his inclusion in the annual event.
The YMCMB rapper’s detractors said his songs contained “violently misogynistic lyrics.”
The Harvard Concert Commission and College Events Board made the ultimate decision to keep Tyga.
Tyga is a Grammy-nominated rapper that recent released Hotel California, his first album.
Neither Tyga or his reps have commented on the controversy.
Cassie Speaks On Getting Rap Lessons From Los & Working With Wiz Khalifa For "Rockabyebaby"
Cassie speaks about the creation of her newest mixtape "Rockabyebaby", including rapping for the first time, working with Los, Wiz Khalifa, Rick Ross, and French Montana.
Cassie just dropped her first full length project in six years. Rockabyebaby is stacked with features from Rick Ross, French Montana, Meek Mill, and more. It also sports some pretty hard production from Young Chop and Mike WiLL Made It. Cassie recently sat down with Complex to discuss the process behind the tape, where she details working with Wiz Khalifa, and learning to rap from her Bad Boy affiliate Los. Read excerpts of the interview below.
RockaByeBaby been getting some amazing feedback since it dropped. What were you doing between projects, essentially in the last six years. Where were you creatively?
Even though I wasn’t really out there with the music, I was in a creative place always. I was always making music and trying records and trying new sounds, I don’t think anything really stuck the way the project has now, because I just kind of developed a different sound. I was always really creating, it just wasn’t on the scale that I’m creating now.
Even though I wasn’t really out there with the music, I was in a creative place always. I was always making music and trying records and trying new sounds, I don’t think anything really stuck the way the project has now, because I just kind of developed a different sound. I was always really creating, it just wasn’t on the scale that I’m creating now.
Definitely. You tested out a lot of music, and we hear that progression, from “Me & U” to “King of Hearts” to now. How did you find a balance?It really started about nine months ago when I started the tape. I did the first track, “Numb,” the one that we added Rick Ross to, and I think that’s kind of where I felt the sound needed to be. It was just the first sound that felt like it made sense. That wasn’t even a year ago. To think that I’ve been really working on trying to find a sound that I wanted for the past six years, for five years. I still have been simultaneously working on a second album. I got in with will.i.am and a lot of other great people, too, for that project.
Before I get to talking about the album, your big comeback this year was “The Boys” with Nicki Minaj.
It was really cool. It’s one of my favorite records, “The Boys.” I’m happy that Nicki wanted to work on it with me, and we made it happen, and the video came out great. I was really proud of it. I don’t know what else to say. It was dope, though. I think that was the first time where I really jumped into my creative control, styling myself and everything.
And you rap on “RockaByeBaby,” too.And I rap on RockaByeBaby.
And where did that come from?
[Laughs.] Exactly, like where did that come from? I have no idea. I worked on that with my labelmate Los and he just really coached me through it, and I was like ‘Los I can not believe you have me rapping this fast, I never thought I could move my mouth this fast.'
[Laughs.] Exactly, like where did that come from? I have no idea. I worked on that with my labelmate Los and he just really coached me through it, and I was like ‘Los I can not believe you have me rapping this fast, I never thought I could move my mouth this fast.'
Everybody’s letting it marinate, but even when I played that record and “Bad Bitches” for one of my friends who’s known me since I first started in the music industry was like, 'Wait, this is Esther Dean.' Everyone has been like, ‘What the Hell? Where did you come up sounding like that? I don’t ever remember you being loud and boisterous.’ I’m like, ‘I know, I’m so laid back in real life.’
How was working with Wiz? He seems really happy in the video, as usual.It was just so natural. Him and I have known each other for some time because we shot his “Roll Up” video together, and I knew him before that, when he first came out with “Black and Yellow.”
Wiz is just such a happy person, you can’t help but laugh and have a good time and that’s kind of what we did. We were all on the stoop—it was me, Jeremih, Problem, all my producers, everybody was there. We were just having a good time. That’s what we wanted to come off, so I think it did.
Exactly. Back to the mixtape, you have a bunch of stacked features on it, too. Everything kind of came organically, in that we would make a record, finish it and go, “Who would sound really dope on this?” Maybe I wouldn't finish a bridge so I could leave it open for a rap verse, and be like ‘Damn, let me call French. French where you at?’ ‘I’m next door.’ ‘French, I’m sending you something right now.’ It was like that. It exceeded my expectations as far as the verses. The quality of the verses, they are album worthy.
DMX: “Iyanla Didn’t Fix My Life…She Made It Worse”
Ever since the previews of “Iyanla: Fix My Life,” DMX has been the talk of the internet as he showed a volatile interaction between the rapper and inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant. DMX is the subject of the season preview of the show, which airs tonight on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network.
But DMX, through his representative Domenick Nati of Nati Celebrity Services, sent AllHipHop.com an exclusive comment denouncing the show’s effort to fix his life.
“DMX agreed to be a guest on ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ with the understanding that she would be helping his relationships with his 10 children,” the statement says. “When he arrived for the taping, most of the content was focused on his struggles with drugs and poor parenting. Iyanla did not ‘fix’ DMX’s life just made his image worse, and does not have DMX’s personal written consent to use the footage.“
DMX’s effort to stop the 90-minute show set for tonight at 9/8c will assuredly prove futile. What other actions DMX may pursue remain to be seen. The rapper is moving forward with his career. Earlier in the week, he played Madision Square Garden hijacking a set during Alicia Keys show.
“What the team does want DMX’s fans to know is that he is working on a new album that will include Swizz Beatz and we hope to also work with Timbaland, Dr. Dre, and Kanye West.,” it said. “Another announcement is his upcoming film ‘Blame It On The Hustle’ Mekhi Phifer and Ving Rhames.”
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