50 launches Sleek headphones
Bringing competition to Beats headphones by Dr.Dre is 50’s new line of headphones called Sleek. The headphone are said to be the first headphones to offer Wireless Hybrid Technology using military grade metal. The whole headphones thing seems to becoming a trend in hip hop now, with Ludacris also dropping his own headphones line called Soul Headphones, which are expected to drop around March this year.
Timbo Thursday
Another growing trend in hip hop especially amongst producers is the trend to have a day on which they release free music to their fans. The first was Kanye and his G.O.O.D Fridays then Swizz Beatz and his Monster Mondays now it’s big time producer Timbaland and his Timbo Thursday which begins on Thursday 13 January 2011. Make sho you hit up HI MY NAME IS HIP HOP to get his weekly track
Lil Kim’s Nicki Minaj look-a-like
The beef between hip hop’s veteran queen b Lil Kim and hip hop’s current leading lady Nicki Minaj continues, with Lil Kim taking it a step further. In her new music video for the tracks “Clap, clap/ Black Friday”, Lil Kim cast a Nicki Minaj look a like. I can’t wait to see the video drop to see what role they got Nicki Minaj’s clone playing.