St. Lunatics to Make a Comeback with Birdman

April 26th, 2010 | By

It’s been over a decade since an album has been released for the once super-famous rap group, St. Lunatics. The St. Louis group is putting together a new album that will be released soon. It will feature the usual hip hop members, Ali, Nelly, Kyjuan, Murphy Lee and an addition, Nelly’s brother City Spud. You may know of him because his lyrics and voice was on Nelly’s “Ride Wit Me” single. Back in 1999 right before the release of his brother’s album “Country Grammar”, City Spud was locked up for ten years with assault charges. He was released in 2008.

“Of course, everybody knows that I’ve been on vacation for a while and now I’m back,” City Spud told the St. Louis American.

The group got together earlier last week to put together a video for “Money Talks”, their first one for their upcoming album. It was shot at Visiontracks Studio in Fenton, Missouri.

“He wasn’t able to be a part of Country Grammar or any other Lunatic album that had been done up to this point,” Nelly told KMOV-TV. “It’s exciting for us to watch him because this is his first time really going through the whole process of putting out an album and everything that comes along with it.”

As mentioned, Birdman will be making an appearance with the group. He is featured on “Money Talks”. The video was filmed by the director named Juwan Lee. The new album doesn’t have a release date yet, but it will be called “City Free”, so keep an eye out for it.

Rappers Going into Retirement

October 18th, 2009 | By

We’ve heard those words before,”I’m going into retirement”, from sooo many different hip hop artists, such as Jay-Z, Master P, Eminem and so forth. But for some reason, they just can’t leave the game alone. They all come back one or two years later with a debut album. Jay-Z is by far the worst, if you ask me. He has retired like 4 times, but just keeps coming back. I don’t and won’t believe it anymore if he says it again. Now, it just seems like a big publicity stunt to get people to buy their CDs because it’s the last time they will hear from them.

Now, Lil Wayne is claiming that he will retire, but no time soon. His retirement plan says that he will stay in the game no longer than 8 more years.Wayne claims that he always said that he wouldn’t rap anymore after the age 35. Ha, he says that now. A lot of people agree that rappers and hip hoppers shouldn’t be old and should retire to allow new game to come into the industry. But Jay-Z being an old head, of course, doesn’t agree. He says that it shouldn’t be made easy for the youngsters coming into the hip hop game. If they want to be on top, they’re going to have to work hard for it. Heck, it wasn’t made easy for Jay. Back then, there wasn’t as much competition as there is now, even if a lot of them are low-level rappers. People like these stars because they make good club bangers. After Lil Wayne retires, he’s looking to own a basketball team.

Hip Hop Rappers Going Soft

October 18th, 2008 | By

There’s always been hype about the hip hop industry and how many of the rap artists that enter into the game come out hard and then go soft. One of the first rappers to do that was Ja-Rule. He rapped about women, money and cars with hardcore lyrics while rockin’ a bandana and hip hop jewelry; but a couple albums later, he had a love Jones. Many of the songs he released there after were love songs featuring singers like Lil’ Mo and Ashanti. A lot of his fans didn’t like the new Ja and he eventually fell off. Even other rappers took notice of the bad boy gone soft and started beef — remember when 50 Cents came out with that controversial hit?

Well, Ja Rule isn’t the only one that has “fallen off track”, but there’s a new buster in town. Kanye West is best known for his ill lyrics and old school approach, but his new album is definitely different than his hardcore self. Many fans are mad about his new R & B, techno-beat feel. You may have already heard a few of them, like “Love Lockdown” and “Coldest Winter”. Some congratulate his attempt to sample new waters while others are mad about another good rapper gone bad.

His new album has a more R & B sound and those that have heard it — well, some are a bit disappointed. There are a lot of heart broken songs on there, but it doesn’t really seem to be talking about a girl of interest. Some folks have speculated that he could be making this album for his late mother…who knows?

What do you think?