Swizzy Talks Fake MCs & Ruff Ryders Return

Swizz Beatz recently did an intervie where the producer slash rapper gave his view on who's "real" in the music industry nowadays. [Swizz Beatz Calls Out Fake Emcees "I think hip-hop is missing something that's real," Swizz said in an interview. "So we did 'Who's Real.' When we first dropped 'Ruff Ryders Anthem,' everybody felt like it was real. From that time to now, you don't really know who's real because everything is so watered down," Swizz said.

Swizzy then went on to talk about the return of the Ruff Ryders. "The dog [DMX] is back. A lot of people are intimidated for him to make his appearance because you gotta understand that DMX is doing his thing. A lot of other artists are under pressure, a lot of labels are under pressure because it was something that they didn't even know how to contain. They didn't even know how to control DMX, the Ruff Ryders movement. Being with a movement for so many years, it's like being in the house with your parents. As a kid it's cool and your respect it but you wanna go out and explore your options

Jay-Z Set To Take Over VMAs

It's official, Jay-Z will be taking the stage at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Not only will Jigga perform at the show, but he is also nominated for two moon men for his "D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune)" [watch here] music video. Hov will have to face off with some big names and videos including Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" [watch here], Asher Roth's "I Love College" [watch here] and Flo Rida's "Right Round"

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Young Jeezy Talks Tour With Lil Wayne

Young Jeezy will soon be touring the country with Lil Wayne for their 'America's Most Wanted' tour and the southern rapper sat down with Sway to talk about what makes this tour different from their past shows1. [watch here] "Me and Wayne went on my Street Dreams Tour," Jeezy said in an interview. [watch here] "That's two and half, three years ago. This is our third time being out. But this is amphitheaters -- it's outside, so you have a whole different feel." [watch here]

Jeezy then spoke on motivation and his love of performinjg. "I still do it for where I came from, I do it for the 'hood every time...I'm just ready to see what the crowd is gonna be like. How they gonna feel...For the most part, you gotta really be creative at this point...I brought the band out. I got a eight-, nine-piece band...Despite all the ghetto classics I got, I got music. I wanted to present it as music. Especially since I'm working on a new album, and that's kinda where I'm going with. I wanted to get them started early." [watch here]

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Lil Wayne talks more on Young Money Crew

Kicking off the "Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival" Weezy wants to make sure all his young talent is getting the shine they deserve. That is no problem for newly signed artist [see Inside Drakes $2 Million Dollar Record Deal]Drake, who is already making a name for himself in the game, or newest member Omarion [see Wayne Signs Omarion]. But for other, lesser known artist who are signed to Young Money, this is their time to make themselves known.

Like member Gudda Gudda, the artist who has been with Wayne the longest, Wayne said "Gudda, he's got this aggression about him, What people don't know, Gudda started rapping several years ago, He started rapping because I said, 'I like your look. You should rap.' I wrote his first rap for him, and I never written another rap for him ever since that day I told him he should be a rapper."

Representing for the younger crew are Lil Twist, who rolls on a segway instead of in a whip, and Lil Chuckee, of whom Weezy has high hopes for, saying in regards to Chuckee’s style "His energy, he's a pure entertainer,I know that kid is gonna make it. It's like in sports when you got that Kobe Bryant. You don't know what to do with him, whether to play him the guard, center, small forward — you just know we're gonna win with him."

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