ALBUM INSTORE MONDAY FEB 2
TRACKLISTING:
1. Notorious Thugs (Featuring Bone Thugs N Harmony)
2. Hypnotize
3. Notorious (Featuring Lil’ Kim and Puff Daddy)
4. Juicy
5. Party & Bullsh**
6. Warning
7. One More Chance/ Stay With Me Remix
8. Brooklyn Go Hard (Performed by Jay-Z, Featuring Santogold)
9. Letter to B.I.G. (Performed by Jadakiss, Featuring Faith Evans)
10. Kick In The Door
11. What’s Beef
12. The World Is Filled (Featuring Too Short and Puff Daddy)
13. One More Chance/ The Legacy (Remix) (Featuring CJ Wallace and Faith Evans)
14. The Notorious Theme (Composed by Danny Elfman)
15. Microphone Murderer (Demo)
16. Guaranteed Raw (Demo)
17. Love No Ho (Original Demo Version)
‘NOTORIOUS: MUSIC FROM AND INSPIRED BY THE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE’ - features timeless Notorious B.I.G. classics like ‘Juicy’ and ‘Hypnotize’ alongside
never-before-released demos and new tracks by some of hip-hop’s biggest stars, including Jay-Z and Jadakiss.
NOTORIOUS OST debuted at #4 on the Billboard album charts.
The movie has proven a huge success in the US, grossing $23.4 million in its first four days. ‘NOTORIOUS’ hits NZ Cinemas March 19
The NOTORIOUS soundtrack features:
· Kanye West-produced single, “Brooklyn Go Hard,” performed by Jay-Z and featuring Santogold.
· ‘Letter to B.I.G.’ by Jadakiss (Feat. Faith Evans), a new version of the Notorious B.I.G. milestone, ‘One More Chance/The Legacy’ (Remix)
featuring CJ Wallace and Faith Evans.
· Notorious B.I.G. tracks: ‘Juicy’, ‘Hypnotise’, ‘Warning’, ‘One More Chance/Stay With Me’ (Remix) and ‘Kick In The Door’
· Previously Unreleased demos: ‘Microphone Murderer’ and ‘Guaranteed Raw’ as well as the Notorious B.I.G.’s first-ever officially released track,
‘Party and Bullsh**’
· Please note that it has a ‘High Impact Themes’ warning, and contains ‘Coarse Language’
Ramon Ayala is more commonly known as Daddy Yankee and is a successful Puerto Rican grammy award winning artist. Yankee was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico and has been on the music scene since 1994. He’s been shot my rival gangs but thanks to his hit Gasolina, he’s got loads of money, appeared on more than 70 albums, owns his own clothing line called DY, has a deal with reebok for his own shoe, and is part owner of record company El Cartel, all at the age of 30. His latest album the big boss has guarennteed him a hit with Black Eyed Peas member Fergie on the track Impacto and Daddy Yankee fans will also be happy to see his face up on the big screen as he tackles the movie world.
Born in Kingston Jamaica, Sean Kingston is the latest reggae sensation to hit the charts. At only 17 years of age his song "Beautiul Girls" relates to a long term relationship he had that turned sour when his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend.
Sean's also released a kind of street feel single with The Game and Rick Ross, on the track "Colours". So, back to the track Beautiful Girls, just so you know, features a sample from the old skool song "Stand By Me".
And stand by his whanau is exactly what Sean is all about, at 14 his Mother and Sister were sent to prison and Sean wrote and dedicated a song on his forth coming album called "Dry your Tears" to them.
What does the future hold for Kingston, well if you were to ask him he'd say
"In the future I want to have my own label and work on the buisness side" he said "I went to acting school when I was younger, so I want to get into that. I want to get into every aspect of the buisness. It took me a while to develop and build my sound, to find out who the real Sean Kingston was. I didn't know if I wanted to harmonize or rap. But I found out that I can do it all."
While working for a Subway restaurant, Natasha was introduced to recording producer Rodney Jenkins. Now Rodney has produced for some of the hottest artists around including Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, and Mary J Blige. Now after seeing Natasha dance and sing just once, she was signed up on the spot!
A short time later she got signed to his Jive Records label thru Jenkins Dark Child Entertainment. he says "I've never seen a new artist like Natasha, she's already doing things that took a decade for more established artists to learn".
So after years dancing and singing in her living room in New Jersey, Natasha gets to live her dream!
When she's not singing Hey, Hey, Hey, you can find her repping for her senior year in high school.
Natalie and Nicole Albino are twin sisters who used the name Nina Skye as their alias. The girls wanted to use their own names as the start of duo's name. So that's NI from NIcole and the NA from NAtalie and skye because the sky's the limit.
Of Puerto Rican desent the girls mother moved to Queens New York when they were kids and married a guy who was a DJ. Their stepfather helped Natalie and Nicole with their ambition to be singers, and before long they had a hit with the track "Move Ya Body" in 2004.
The twins have also helped with the Reggaeton movement singing "Oye Me Canto" and releasing a mix album "La Conexion".
Their latest album "The Musical" is slated for release next month, and features Scott Storch, Trey Songs and Neyo.
Letoya Luckett aka ‘the H-town chick. This 2 time grammy award winning artist started off her career in the group Destiny’s Child. Things got bitter and the longtime friend of Beyonce split with the group. She and former band mate Lativia Roberson were replaced and a terrible dispute saw the group get taken to court by Letoya and Lativia.
The dispute got resolved, and after unsuccessfully trying to start another group called Anjel, she decided to go solo.
Signed to Capitol Records, Letoya released her self titled debut album which topped the American billboard charts. Miss H Town, called that because she hails from Houston has two songs in the lot tonite, ‘Torn’ and her latest track ‘she don’t’.
Here’s some interesting facts about Letoya:
· She owns a boutique called Lady Elle which stocks Beyonce’s clothing line ‘House of Dereon’.
· She used to date Slim Thug, Brian Casey of Jagged Edge and Young Rome from the group Imx
· Letoya has her own reality series called "The H-Town Chick"
· Letoya’s number one selling album is the first Capitol Records album to debut at number one since MC Hammer back in 1990!
Inspired by seeing a Destiny’s Child Video its Miss Ciara
Born and raised in Texas, Ciara has always wanted to be a recording superstar. She joined a band called hearsay but got bored not being the centre of attention so she left, went solo and hooked up with producer Jazzy Phe.
In 2004 she released her debut single and album simply titled Goodies and went to number 1 the american billboard charts.
Her followup songs have all been in the top 5 postions in the charts and has enabled her to sing alongside Missy Elliot, ex-Boyfriend Bow Wow, Maroon 5 and Chamillionaire.
Her next album Ciara the evolution is due out in December and has Ciara co-writing every song on the LP, shes also featured on P. Dittys latest push play, if that’s not enough shes acting and her debut is in the MTV flick All you’ve got. Give em all you got and you go girl!!!
Who is Johnta Austin, this guy is the man who co wrote such hit songs as Mariah Careys we belong together and Mary J Bliges be wthout you. Apart from writing songs for Chris Brown and Jermain Dupri, Johnta is in hot demand now as a solo artist.
He started his career when he was 8, hosting an american kids show.
Originally signed for a recording contract back in the 90’s, Johnta was dropped in favor for Tyrese, ironically, he ended up writing for Tyrese including his hit sweet lady.
People have compared Johnta to Usher but as Austin says "The worst thing an artist can do is try to be like someone else" "Instead of evolving, you get stuck trying to be the next whoever. All I want right now is to be the first Johnta Austin."
Born Myron Avant, he’s a platnuim selling r&b artsit but not a lot of peeps know about the brother. He’s best known for his track separated and he’s dueted with Lloyd Banks on the hit single Karma. The boys even been in the movies, yip, you might have seen him when you saw barbershop 2, Avant had a cameo in that flick opposite Ice Cube.
He’s also the dude that did a remix of the PCD’s song stick wit chu. That’s proberly where he met nicole who’s on the boys latest track ‘lie about us’. Rumour has it that the two are an item!! The boys got a brand new album out called the director and if its anything like his previous 4LPs its gonna go Platnium.
The Tahu FM hot track of the month is "Lollypop" from King Kapisi – the follow-up single to the club-banger "Raise Up" from his Dominant Species album.
Here’s a little info on King Kaps:
King Kapisi
Kaps became interested in music as a child after watching his uncle's family band play.
He went to Wellington High School and played in a funk band there. Rock band Shihad started out there too – their drummer Tom Larkin taught Bill a few things back in the day. Kaps plays many of the instruments heard on his later albums himself.
He went on to attend Rongotai College & that’s where he met Dj Raw.
King Kapisi was known as Bran Muffin MC in the group Gifted & Brown with A.T, Raw, Gerard Tahu & his sister Maila. Their single" So much soul" featured in the movie Once Were Warriors.
The single "Sub Cranium Feeling" was released in 98’ and reached number 8 in the New Zealand singles charts. The music video (which was directed by his sister, film-maker Sima Urale) received Video of the year at the Mai Time Awards that year & Best
The "Reverse Resistance" track dropped the following year and earned him the 1999 APRA Silver Scroll song-writing award,
The"'2nd Migration" video was directed by Kapisi himself & featured fellow Wellington MC ‘The Feelstyle’.
The "Savage Thoughts" album was released in 2000 & featured the hit single "Screams from the Old Plantation".
His "2nd Round Testament" album dropped in 2003 featuring the " U Can't Resist Us" track featuring Che Fu which went gold in it’s first week. Video included appearances from Micheal Jones, Pita Fatialofa, Imon Starr, Nathan Rarere & Oscar Kightley.
His latest offering, "Dominant Species" was released in 2005 & features production work from up-and-coming Chch beatmaker 10-A-cious.
King Kapisi has performed around the world, has his own clothing label, Overstayer Clthing, and has opened for international artists like The Fugees, Public Enemy, Spearhead, The Beastie Boys, Coolio, Moby, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ronny Jordan, Boyz 2 Men, and Janet Jackson.
Began his musical career playing the piano and drums in school bands. He took piano lessons for 3yrs. Director and Best DOP at the Flying Fish Music Awards 1999. (the first hip hop artist ever to do so) 'Best Song' award at the 2000 B-net awards and was joint winner of 'Best Hip-Hop/Reggae/Dub Release'. He was also nominated for the categories of Most Promising Male Vocalist and Best Music Video at the 1999 NZ Music Awards. This video was also directed by Sima.
Justin Timberlake is back and he's a bad ass! The brothers had a bit of a break from the music scene,but he's been popping up in videos like Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous with his boy Timerland and there's reason for that! The Brothers latest album feature sex/love sounds is produced by Timerland and has a real edge to it. It's also featuring Snoop Dogg and Nelly Furtado.
This is not the first time that Justin's teamed up withTimberland,it was his sound and producing that got Timberlake his Grammy award winning solo album, Justified.
When he's not behind the mic it seems that long-time girlfriend Cameron Diaz's job is rubbing off on him,cos the boy has turned to acting. And if that's not enough he's got his own clothing line called William Raast and a host of restaurants throughout America.
Janet Jackson. She’s on the cover of vibe magazine, topless wearing nothing but a string bikini bottom and her arm covering her breasts. Janet has said she’ll keep on taking photo’s like this till she’s 80! Miss Jackson has a new album out called 20. Y.O due for release sept 26th.
She’s dating none other than Jermaine Dupri who also co-produces her album. Janets had more than her fair share of controversay. In 2000 she filed for divorce from her husband Rene Elizondo. None of us even knew she was married let alone for 10years!!
Shes now moved on to JD and after her super bowl incident with the so called wardrobe malfunction, Jermaine even resigned from his post on the grammy awards committee when Jackson refused to apologise. From her 1986 debut album control, Janet hopes that this album will sell well and put her back in the cd player and ipod of her fans.
This album which is to mark the 20years since control and how old Janet says she feels is Jacksons biggest risk to date. It hasn’t had all the hype and advertising of her previous 5albums, instead its been rather low key, with nelly and Janet’s duet call on me as the debut single.
She may feel 20 but Janet celebrated her 40th birthday on may 16th being serenaded by none other than Stevie Wonder. The woman is in hot demand and knows how to make demands even asking that only fiji water be served to her in a recent interview. Janets love of water and exercise is also seeing the diva into signing a book deal oon weight loss and nutrition.