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JADAKISS NARRATES CLARKS WALLABEE DOCUMENTARY “SOLES OF THE CITY”

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Although many 1990s sneakerheads preferred Jordans, Adidas, Nike, FILA, and Reebok, the Wu-Tang Clan and other Hip Hop fans were loyal to the Clarks Wallabee.

Clarks Originals has released a documentary made by Set Free Richardson that pays tribute to the Wallabee and its impact on hip hop in New York City through the personal tales and music of fans including “Wallabee Kingpin” Ghostface Killah, “Wallabee Lover” Styles P, “Dave East,” and others.

As Raekwon recalls in the documentary, “The first people I remember seeing wearing Wallies was the Jamaicans and old skool cats from my hood,

However, the Wu-Tang Clan, and more specifically Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, are the ones that truly made the Wallabee their own. The Staten Island rappers talk about their long relationship with the shoe, including how Ghostface made them famous by including them on the cover and in the music video for his first album Ironman in 1996.

According to Ghostface, “The Apollo Kids video is one of the illest videos I ever did,” Ghostface says. “Shoutout to my man Chris Robinson. He had the vision. It was magic, it was magic, yo. We came with a sketch, I can remember like pieces just drawn up. I think that video, to this day, will knock a lot of videos out!”

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The history of footwear and fashion has long been connected to Hip Hop since its earlier roots. Hip Hop figured out early that you can't just be a dope MC or Djay without having dope wears to hold you down. You wouldn't look complete. In fact, you'd probably be wack. Wutang, being Hip Hop fans before they created fans themselves understood this importance. When I think of them and their impact on the Wallabee I think of GHOSTFACE saying" Yo, like blue cream, I'ma rock niggas yo" ...this was on Raekwon's only built for Cuban Linx album. Certified Classic. It was right there that Ghostface gave you the visual and the importance of the Wallabee to him and the genre' all in one sentence. Hip Hop has a problem doing that. It has a good problem doing that. And there simply ain't NO PORK In That!

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MA$E explains his “PORK” towards DIDDY and claims he created “MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS.”

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A new episode featuring Ma$e and on Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast included him discussing his “disdain” towards Diddy.

During an interview with co-hosts Wallo and Gillie Da Kid on Sunday (July 31), the former Bad Boy Records rapper said that Puff Daddy never wanted to promote him to the next level.

“Let me take my shades off for that,” Ma$e began. “Now, I can say this because it wasn’t something I didn’t say to him. Puff – how do I wanna say this – me and Puff was like, I felt like I did more than I got credit for, more than I got paid for.

“OK, so let’s get this out of the way now, since I’m trying to be kind. I was never treated with respect or paid what I was worth. ‘Is this how you want to keep me from leaving, ngga?’ I’m out of town. Everyone from my class is gathered up here. ‘I’m the boss of all my peers.’

He continued: “When it’s time, just like somebody raise somebody up, they did work with you, they go from your lawman to maybe A&R to something else – he just kept tryna keep me right here, like he didn’t want me to grow at anything.”

Biggie’s 1997 Life After Death smash “Mo Money Mo Problems” was reportedly written by Ma$e, according to the rapper.

“Puff would go out and party and I would be in the studio writing the records,” he said. “And then I’d just come back and say, he’ll say this is his part or this is that part, but I was the person creating it all. I mean, from the lyrical standpoint, whether somebody did the beats, and even ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ – I came up with that.

“I came up with the beat, too. I said, ‘Stevie [J], we need to do this beat and do it like this.’ So just imagine all of these moments that are taken from you, the records, the beats, you ain’t getting the money, you ain’t getting the publishing, you ain’t getting the respect.”

A few minutes later, “And I don’t think you’re like that to be pulling with you’re pulling. You know what comes with doing that, but everybody is letting you get away with it. Everybody. So me quitting after one album, it didn’t take long for me to figure it out, like I’m not gon’ be here with this. I don’t care who’s here, ’cause you’re not paying me and you’re not respecting me.”

Puff Daddy and The Family’s 1997 No Way Out Tour included a stop in Ma$e’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. However, he wasn’t making much in terms of his role and how much money he thought the tour was making.

The areas he went to make money when he first started his work as a freelancer were places like Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. “The No Way Out Tour was mostly for commercial purposes for me when I first embarked on it.

“So the second leg I started getting like $15,000, but the first couple of shows I really do believe they were all promotional. Because I remember the people at Bad Boy asking me, ‘Do you wanna get in a van and go state to state and go radio to radio and do promo, or do you wanna do the No Way Out Tour?’ And common sense, we did the No Way Out Tour.”

In retrospect, I kid you not, this was one of the greatest things that ever happened for me. Getting the deal, getting the fame and being able to take care of my family, but it was a lot of the worst experiences, and that’s just my understanding.”

In response to a question regarding the tour’s revenue, Ma$e replied, “I can’t count another man’s pocket. I know Budweiser was involved, I know a lot of other people. According to the day’s term, it could be a million or north, but I just know what I was getting. And now that I look back, I was the headliner, but I didn’t know I was the headliner.

“I’m cool with that – I’m cool with putting in at the beginning. And that’s what made me so upset at the end, because I felt like I was putting equity in the house, and at some point you gotta be able to pull the equity out.”

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Ying Yang Twins rapper D-ROC collapsed Onstage at a Vanilla Ice concert in Missouri

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Springfield, Missouri D-Roc, the rapper for the Ying Yang Twins, suddenly fell ill during a gig in Springfield, Missouri, and had to be carried off the stage by security.

The rapper’s tragic event at a show in Springfield, Missouri, on Sunday remains a mystery (July 31). In addition, it’s not clear whether he was transported to a hospital or treated on-site.

The following is a video representation of the scene:

When Vanilla Ice and the Ying Yang Twins performed together at the Ozark Empire Fair last week, it caused quite a commotion.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey allegedly used a photo of Vanilla Ice without permission on Thursday (July 28).

Vanilla Ice and the Ying Yang Twins would be performing at the Ozark Empire Fair, and the poster urged people to “join team McCloskey.”

Vanilla Ice and the Ying Yang Twins were featured in the campaign, which featured McCloskey alongside the “Ice Ice Baby” rapper. Vanilla Ice’s manager issued a response after the ad was uploaded on the campaign’s website and numerous social media sites.

Vanilla Ice’s managers stated that he isn’t taking a position on political matters and is striving to support his family. “Would you please make this known?”

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Dababy claims that he bills $200k for club appearances.

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According to DaBaby, his crazy activities haven’t deterred him from bringing a hefty bag of cash to nightclubs despite the fact that many people have turned their backs on him recently.

While on the Full Send Podcast, DaBaby disclosed that the cost of a club appearance is $200,000. In the opinion of the Charlotte-raised performer, the cost is justifiable given the quality of his performance.

“Oh man, it varies, you know? Sometimes I get $200K, “I always overplay it though. … If they’re giving you that type of bag that means it’s love. It means you’ve got that type of draw in that club.”

DaBaby explained that he’d gone a long way to demand $200,000 for a club performance. He used to barely make $15,000 a year, which was nothing in comparison to the millions he was raking in during performances.

On another occasion during the interview, DaBaby was questioned about the largest bag he’s ever received for a feature.

Naming his feature on Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” he said: “I got a bag. I think it was three-even [$300K]. … I think it was 300 to be fair, I don’t wanna throw no extra grease in the pan. It was at least three, though. It might have been $350K.”

According to an interview with VladTV, Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment signee Stunna4Vegas first revealed just how much DaBaby made off of Dua Lipa’s deal a few days earlier. DaBaby was dropped from the song last year after making homophobic remarks at Rolling Loud Miami.

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