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So Young Jeezy's baby mama wants 20 grand a month for child support now. And what does she plan to use it on? Clothing, transportation and housing she says (You know, the bare necessities of life). But damn I didn't know it costed that much. Something tells me she's headed straight to the gucci shop, Lenox mall, the hairdresser etc...

Don't get me wrong, I do think he needs to pay more than the previously ordered $178 a month. The average father pays double that amount anyway. Yeah dude is a star but she's just on some way out shit asking for 20K a month (240K a year). I mean what's he going to do five years from now when he's not a multi-platinum artist? Yep you guessed it, probably incarcerated for non-payment.

So fellas, the moral of this story is this...If you don't do anything else in life, Keep ya baby mama happy if you have one because you never know when you might blow up. I'm guessing that he wasn't stepping up to the plate like he should've been for her to go for the juggler like this.

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Recently, I had a chance to catch up with Field Mob and discuss everything from their recent DTP signing to their highly anticipated third CD release Light Poles and Pine Trees. As expected, Smoke and Shawn Jay were their usual self, candid and pulling no punches. They concluded the interview by proclaiming themselves to be at the top of the game, and from the songs that I've heard off of Light Poles and Pine Trees they might not be too far off the mark with that declaration.

SOHH.COM:
So where did the name for your new CD Light Poles and Pine Trees come from?

FIELD MOB:
When you riding through on the highway that's all you see is Light Poles and Pine Trees in Georgia. You know how St. Louis got the Arch and D.C. has the Washington Monument and so forth, well in Albany all we have is Light Poles and Pine Trees. The album drops in early November, then we got the compilation "Ludacris Presents Disturbing The Peace" dropping on December 13th. Also, look out for our new label Field Mob Incorporated coming soon.

SOHH.COM:
What producers and other artists did you work with on the CD?

FIELD MOB:
We worked with Ken-Jo, out of Albany, who did about 80% of the CD, Jazzy Pha, and my man Voodoo who produced "Georgia On My Mind". As far as verses, we really don't mess with too many artists because we feel like why pay somebody to do a verse when we can do it 10x better our damn 'self. But we did work with Luda of course, Bun B, and Ciara on this project.

SOHH.COM:
How did you and DTP end up linking up?

FIELD MOB:
We been down with them for a couple years anyway. We knew Luda from when he was doing the radio station thing back in the day. My man Shaka Zulu hooked everything up for us.

SOHH.COM:
The first single "Friday Night" is doing good, are you shooting a video for that?

FIELD MOB:
Yeah we shot the video for Friday Night already, and man they loving it. It should be on MTV/BET real soon. We shot that in Atlanta. Next we shooting the Georgia On My Mind video in Albany this month. Ain't much here but it's home. Alot of people don't realize this, but Ray Charles is originally from Albany, GA not Florida.

SOHH.COM
How do you feel about the music scene in Georgia right now?

FIELD MOB:
I mean it's cool. Atlanta is where we live but Albany is where we from, so we represent every small town in America from Lawton, OK to Quincy, FL we don't care. We the reason that country is acceptable in the rap game. I remember watching a well-known southern rapper deny being country back in the day, so we just said we'll never be like that. We puttin' country on the map. Atlanta has always been that market and it's so big that you can't overlook it now. You have to give Atlanta the same credit that you give New York because we been doing this for a long, long time now.

SOHH.COM:
What's else should we look forward to on the CD and what's dropping next?

FIELD MOB:
We going to drop some gritty music next time. We might even go with that Jazzy Pha & Ciara cut "So What" at some point.

SOHH.COM:
I'm going to read you a quote from Killer Mike off his Monster CD. "My country cousins I would take on the world in a battle if they would let me have you two. I have more respect for you two than the ink in this pen will allow me to write"

FIELD MOB:
Oh yeah we fucks with Mike. We got much respect for Killer, alot of people feel like that but just never say it and Mike just brought it out. Believe it or not we both going through some of the same things with this music. We feel the same way about Mike, he would definitely be one of the first we call too.

SOHH.COM:
We gone leave y'all with this. Y'all just make sure to go cop this album because we the best rap duo out right now. We are THE dynamic duo. We are the best, PERIOD. It's our time right now, others have had their time but it's our time right now. Don't get us wrong we love Outkast and UGK they our favorites, but everybody got they time and hopefully our time is now. I mean who else would you put up there at the top but us?

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Former Atlanta Hawk Jason Terry is jumping into the rap game as head of atlanta-based indie label Reason Records.

I heard talk of JT starting a label a couple of years back but now it's official. He's already signed a couple of artists, playing a behind the scenes role, concentrating more on the business end of things.

Mentored by Master P of No Limit Records and Jermaine Dupri while in Atlanta, JT's first signee's are West Koasta Nostra, comprised of four former Seattle and Arizona gang members, slated as the first group to drop.

Their first album The Shakedown is expected to have a west coast/southern feel to it, with guest apperarances from Bone Crusher, Da Brat, Bun B and Jazze Pha. I guess when you have NBA money, you can get anybody to collab with you.

I wish JT the best though, hopefully he transitions into the game better than Iverson, C-Webb, and the rest did. Word is, he's still spending alot of time in Atlanta on the hunt for new artists.

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If the rumors are true, I'm already a fan. Weezy is a monster lyrically (Yeah, we do have lyricists down here for all you non-believers). However, I think that the whole Boyz N Da Hood thing is played out, so let's move on.

T.I., despite ongoing rumors is not joining the group, having issued the following statement:
"Contrary to rumors circulating around the Internet, I have not and will not be joining Boyz N Da Hood. Although I am and have always been part of the movement, I am not a member of the group. This is just another case of 'Urban Legend'."

Blok Entertainment reportedly stated that the original roster of Boyz N Da Hood included T.I., Trick Daddy and Sean Paul of the YoungBloodz and the newer members replaced them. Damn that's a serious decline! From T.I. and Trick to Big Gee and Big Duke?

Jeezy reportedly left to concentrate on his solo project and initially only agreed to do one project with Blok.

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Ludacris just can't get it right with these college performances I see. First there was a problem in Boston a couple years back, then East Tennessee State went back and forth with city officials on some political BS. What next?

I know the collegiate money is good when it comes to doing these shows, I've been on those SGA committees before, but is it really that serious for an artist of Cris' status. City officials expressed security concerns among other things as if Luda was NWA reincarnated or something.

The thing is, when dealing with universities you have so many outside entities involved, not to mention thousands of kids 17-21 years of age who can barely contain themselves off Heineken, not to mention Grey Goose . That's why I say stay on some grown man shhh' Luda and do the conventional shows at the conventional places like convention centers. You'll avoid the majority of the complications.

The last I heard they didn't want to pay him, then the show was cancelled etc...now the show is back on. I'm thoroughly confused at this point. I say move on Luda, but you know what they say "It's The Principle".

But yo, on a lighter note make sure you get to the Battle of the Bands on Sunday here in Atlanta.

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I recently had a chance to politic with the Trillville and find out where they've been this last year and what they have on deck for us in the near future. During our interview, they candidly discuss their many business moves as well as dive into the so-called beef with Lil' Scrappy.

SOHH.COM:
What's on the agenda for Trillville right now?

TRILLVILLE:
We just dropped I'm Pimpin with E-40 and that's off the upcoming Reloaded album which should be dropping in November. The first single off the CD is called Nuthin Less produced by me, Don P. I produced two or three tracks on the CD and rest was of course produced by the Producer of the Year Lil Jon.

SOHH.COM:
Will the TVT Records situation affect Trillville at all?

TRILLVILLE:
Not at all, we signed to BME/Warner so we not affected at all.

SOHH.COM:
Lately you've been working with E-40 on several tracks, how did that partnership come about?

TRILLVILLE:
We used to see him around Atlanta alot and one day he came into the studio while we were recording the Reloaded album and he just decided to get on a track with us. He did something with BoHagen too so he's just part of the BME family and you'll hear alot more from E-40 and BME.

SOHH.COM:
Who were some of the Trillville musical influences before you got on?

TRILLVILLE:
Well growing up in the A alot of our influences were some of the local cats around here. But on a national level definitely UGK [Free Pimp C], The whole Trill thing we got from Bun B and Pimp C so big shot out to them. Also, shots out to Three 6 Mafia and Eightball & MJG.

SOHH.COM:
Along those same lines, what is Trillville riding to these days?

TRILLVILLE:
Mostly us, Target Practice, Trilltown Mafia and The Reloaded joint, but you know we got our on radio show now and Trilltown.com is what we mainly listening too. But as far as outside people we on that Lil' Webbie and Three 6 Mafia.

SOHH.COM
So what's up with the Lil Scrappy beef and has all of that been cleared up?

TRILLVILLE:
Yeah the Scrappy situation is resolved, it was just a friendly competition thing. He put his mixtape out and I put out mine but we good now.

SOH.COM:
Finally, what's on the immediate up and up for Trillville?

TRILLVILLE:
All the fans can hit us up on our CRUNK-LINE # at (678) 438-3138, all the fans can hit us up and leave messages and get on the radio or whatever. Make sure all the fans check us out on Trilltown radio too, we give away T-shirts, CD's and posters so all the fans can find out what we doing right there. Also, we up for a Southern Entertainment Award for Best Cover so everybody go online and vote for us on that website.

CHECK OUT THESE TRILLVILLE SINGLES... (It's free to download or play, just click on the song)

Trillville - The Weakest Link
Trillville - Man Up

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"The jokes on What's Happening!! were funnier. The jokes on Fat Albert were funnier. Even the jokes on Dixie Cups were funnier." - New York Post

"...Roll Bounce has heart and good vibes but little else to recommend it." - NY Times

"Mildly entertaining and occasionally funny, but too often a roller skating movie that falls -- sometimes fairly hard." - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Harsh reviews but I thought the movie was decent myself, I didn't go into it expecting an Oscar-type performance so it was straight to me. I think the critics come down hard on anything hip-hop related. They usually show us minimal love if any.

You can check out a clip here.

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Usher pulled off a real nice benefit concert over the weekend for the Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims. But you already know, when it comes to Usher you expect nothing less, he's arguably the greatest performer of our era. I mean ya' boy brought out the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, what more can you say. Alicia Keys also came through and represented big with Usher.

On the hip hop tip, Jeezy, T.I., Youngbloods, JD and Franchise all showed up doin' it big on stage. Big up.

T.I. was decent although I've seen him rock a show 10x harder than he did but he just needs some new material. I think people are just burned out on the Urban Legend joints. And the PSC CD, well I don't even count that. But overall the concert was straight, respect due Usher for representin' for the hurricane victims when many haven't (see Michael Jackson).

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It's a good weekend for all aspiring artists and music-related professionals in Atlanta. The 21st Annual Million Dollar College Radio & Music Conference will be putting on several seminars and artist showcases this weekend, October 7-9.

The event has a rich history that includes participation of several celebs and industry professionals. Artists will have their demo's screened and some will even be selected to perform. On Sunday, the entire day will be devoted to helping aspiring models, so there's a little something for everyone to benefit from during the weekend's events.

The conference will be held at The Hilton Garden Inn, 2301 Sullivan Road. College Park, GA, Contact # (404) 766-1275.

Also on a separate note, L.L. Cool J will be in town at Club 112 on Saturday and 8-Ball & MJG,will be throwing a birthday bash at Club Chocolate on Saturday.

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I'm On It...I'm On It..I'm On It! I officially declare this Killer Mike and Purple Ribbon Day in the A. Killer and the rest of the click will be on stage at Club 112 tonight.

As Killer Mike's release date approaches the buzz sorrounding him is increasing big time. He teased us with "My Chrome" the first single from Ghetto Extraordinary now the hope is that the wait is over. It's time to drop, we've waited long enough for the follow-up to his debut CD Monster.

The Purple Ribbon album is scheduled to drop later this month following the huge success of the first single off the album "Kryptonite".

This should be a breakout year for Killer, it's time for him to get the respect that he so rightfully deserves. Hopefully, he performs some of his material from the new album just to give us a sneak preview of what's to come.

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Yo first off, say what you will about Young Jeezy as an artist, all I know is...Snowman knows how to throw a birthday bash. Visions was crazy last night, wall to wall pressure. DJ Infamous held it down real nice on the wheels too.

With that said, Club 112 was flooded with people hoping to become new on-air personalities at BET . I mean people spent the night on the concrete, some even migrated sirectly from Visions (lackluster hygiene and all).

C'monComic Ciew 2 or 3 times a day, Ultimate Hustler, Midnight Love etc... are all decent shows but they won't push a network over the edge in today's society.

We shouldn't have to copy ideas from MTV, the last time I checked, black folk' were the ones usually being copied from, so what happened? Also, haven't black actors and actresses done enough movies over the past century to where we shouldn't have to repeat flicks every other month.

Will we ever get another black station to rival BET and provide us an alternative. Hasn't 25 years been long enough? BET needs a self-check or either we need to check 'em!

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Ludacris has signed a deal to host a weekly show exclusive for XM radio, the nation's largest satellite radio service. The show will be called "Disturbing The Peace Presents Ludacris' Open Mic". The show will debut in January 2006 on XM’s uncut hip-hop channel RAW (XM channel 66).

Luda has the on-air experience having started his career as a DJ here in the "A" so I anticicipate the show will be fire. I've heard him on the radio and just as he does on a track, he has that uncanny ability to amp up anything he's on. If Luda can't get it hyped I don't know who can.

XM is turning into the new voice of music. How long will AM/FM last you have to wonder, is this the new face of radio? We do know this, Luda will definitely bring the nations ear closer to the Atlanta music scene. Now other areas will be able to hear the "lyrical" side of Atlanta to go along with the heavy dose of crunk that everybody associates with us.

Also, Ludacris will be appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show on Thursday Oct. 6th.

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Just when you thought everything Young Jeezy touched would turn to gold, we find out that the original manufacturer of the Snowman T-Shirt clothing line actually had some morals and ceased production because of the suggested cocaine affiliation of the emblem.

Yaniv Zaken, owner of hip-hop fashion line Miskeen Originals, the original producer of the Snowman shirts was originally in the dark as to what the moniker meant but once the meaning surfaced, Zaken took a stance. After Zaken learned of the connection the snowman image had to hustling, he had to consider the implications for his business. So, recently he decided to simply halt production.

What does Sir Jeezy say to all of this? "You gotta understand what it symbolizes," he explained. "It symbolizes a young hustler. If a cat goes and gets fresh, hits the club or goes to an event and he has a Snowman shirt on, it's almost like a white tee. You can throw on a white tee and G your way through the party. You might have a Snowman shirt on and it's all good. Everybody can't afford the Gucci and everything. It's the next best thing, the Snowman."

Jeezy shirts are going for about $70 unless you get it bootleg or flea market. The setback really hasn't stopped Jeezy at all, word is there's a Rocawear deal already on the table.

Also, get to Visions on Tuesday for Jeezy's All-Black affair where I'm sure there will be plenty of Snowman shirts to go around.

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