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Doesn’t this remind you of when Steve Harvey was joking about Mitch Green’s swollen eye taking over the interview and talking about what happened when Mike Tyson beat him up?

Gotta give it to Waka though, he doesn’t let anything stop him, bullets or punches. Let’s hope he chills out a little though, its getting pretty hot for buddy right now.

Stat Quo talks Mary Jane with Devin as he outlines the recipe for weed butter, or as he calls it, “Cannibutter.” Kids, don’t try this at home. Fellas, don’t try this at home if you still at mom’s crib.

Stat Quo’s Statlana in stores 5/9…Devin the Dude’s Suite 420 in stores on 4/20

Spotted at NR

By now you’ve heard about how the music industry is struggling, records aren’t selling, labels are chasing singles, etc. But an optimist would see these times as a perfect opportunity to not only change the way things are going, but create an entirely different way to sell and promote music. One such person is Kieran Cox, CEO/Founder of Full Throttle Software, LLC.

The Bay Area based software engineer has written programs for numerous platforms, including the iPhone you may be texting on right now. His background in Google Android development has allowed him to create a revolutionary program that will make it easier for independent artists to promote and sell music, as well as make it easy for consumers to get. (more…)

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Lloyd reaches back to his New Orleans roots and gets the fresh out Mystikal to hop on this track. Doesn’t sound like he’s lost a step.

Bay Area founding fathers hook up to rap about everybody favorite subject. E-40’s Revenue Retrievin’ is shaping up to sound pretty good. It drops March 30th

Bay Area newcomer DaVinci dropped his debut album, The Day The Turf Stood Still, earlier this week. You might already be familiar with him if you follow San Quinn. This is the video for the first single. Check it out, you’ll be glad you did.

Ozone West Patiently Waiting alums just dropped a new video off of their A Love Supreme 2.0 project. Sounds nice, looks even better.

Bonus: Kendrick Lamar x J. Cole performing at U-N-I’s album release party (Video)

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This was supposed to leak at 5pm…but yeah.

Spotted by the NMC

This interview will appear in Ozone’s upcoming Sex Issue

Freaknik Resurected
Adult Swim is Bringing Freaknik Back…but is it welcome?
By Maurice G. Garland

Even though Freaknik has been retired for a decade, the mere mention of its name still draws a bevy of emotions. Whisper the word around the city of Atlanta and you get a spectrum of responses ranging from “ah man, good times” to “oh lord, good riddance.” What stared off as a small gathering amongst Atlanta University Center students in 1982, grew into a city wide party that became both legendary and notorious.

Very similar to the Spring Break celebrations in Miami, Cancun and Daytona Beach that often made it to MTV, Freaknik was the Black version where students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities convened on Atlanta for a weekend of partying. Unlike the other celebrations though, Freaknik did not take place on beach, but rather in the confines of a major city. Gridlocked traffic was a common occurrence as party seekers often made a party out of the situation, making many other Atlantans late for work, weddings and even emergency hospital visits.

While traffic was a tolerable nuisance, Freaknik’s reputation for lewd and sometimes violent behavior was not. Reports of rapes and robberies often times overshadowed the benefit concerts, celebrity basketball games and even job fairs that were also associated with the weekend celebration. Couple this with the fact that the thought of 250,000 Black people being in one place at one time can look threatening to some, the City of Atlanta acted swiftly to start thwarting the party.
City officials blocked off streets, boosted police presence and littered the streets with tickets the same way that patrons did with empty food and drink containers. From 1992 to 1997 Freaknik became a thing of folklore that had popular rappers not only name dropping it, but making plans months in advance to attend. But by 1998, the party was strangled to death and eventually disappeared completely by 2000.

Party promoters have attempted numerous times to resuscitate the festival, but none have succeeded. However, Cartoon Network’s late night programming block Adult Swim has found a way to bring Freaknik back, as a ghost.

Last night Freaknik: The Musical debuted on Adult Swim with T-Pain voicing the part of Freaknik. A ghost with skin made out of dollar signs who wears an outrageous gold chain with a charm that is a likeness of himself. Surprisingly, this probably isn’t the most outrageous element of the cartoon. (more…)

Trailer for Nappy Roots new album The Pursuit of Nappyness

1.) How safe do you feel in the spot after seeing the artist punk out and beat up security.

2.) Somebody should’ve told security….YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN!

Previously: 28 Days Later

DJ Drama interviewed Mike Vick in Atlanta this past weekend. Shouts out to Hood Affairs for scoring this footage. More after the jump. (more…)

Yesterday Ozonemag.com broke news about Turk of the Hoy Boyz’ younger brother being murdered in New Orleans and his request for helping with his burial costs. Aside from the feelings of sadness that most of feel whenever a young life is lost, many had questions as to why Turk would reach out to the “Hip Hop community” for help when he played a part in building the music empire that we know as Cash Money Records.

Turk happened to have phone privileges today, roughly ten minutes with a horrible connection. He reached out to Ozone to speak on what he knows about the case of his younger brother’s murder so far, the kind of person he was and why he hasn’t heard from all of his Cash Money bretheren, yet. (more…)

Dose steals borrows Yung LA’s style…where they do that at? Fabolous is a fool for his opening line though…

Patiently Waiting Alum Big K.R.I.T. shows up with another Creative Control clip.