Justina Valentine Spits Dope Freestyle On Premiere Of 'Hip Hop Squares'

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Justina Valentine

'Wild N' Out' Star Justina Valentine has landed her a seat on the celebrity game show 'Hip Hop Squares' and she gave the fans something to remember. Tuesday, on the premiere of the game show the red-head rapper and comedian was asked to freestyle on the spot and she gave him exactly that. She dropped a line about each celebrity that flowed so delicately in rhyming suit. She spit a dope freestyle hands down, even MC Lyte said it was HOT!

Freestyle rapping isn't the only thing Justina is good at. Looks like Queen Naija and Clarence underestimated her when they disagreed with the answere she gave, which were actually correct. She named Dijon as DJ Mustard's first name and she said Dubai was the place Cardi B shot her video for the hit "Bodak Yellow". You go miss Valentine. Don't let nobody steal your shine!

Check out Justina Valentine freestyling on 'Hip Hop Squares' by clicking on link below:

https://www.facebook.com/nickcannonwildnout/videos/440272079910989/

Also on the premiere of 'Hip Hop Squares' female icon rapper MC Lyte took over DJ Spinderella's spot and O'Shea Jackson Jr. held down T.I. spot. Joining Justina Valentine in the second part of 'Hip Hop Squares' include Erica Mena, Safaree, Dream Doll, Michael Blackson, Nene Leakes, Ray J, Lil Duval and Bresha Webb.

Overall, Queen Naija defeated Clarence White and it was also revealed that Ray J is a Katy Perry fan.

Until next time.........


Tamara M. Anderson
@mahoganymagazin
@mstekeyla75
@justinavalentine

Hip Hop Music Review: "Off Of You" Chughey

Rapper Chughey
Gladstone, Michigan

Introducing the latest single called "Off Of You" from hip hop artist known as Chughey. If you have ever been with someone that you just can't get off of no matter how hard you try or no matter what you do, you can definitely relate to this song. On this track Chughey starts off with a hook in rare form expressing the things he has done such as smoking, drinking and other things to help distract him from that special someone. Despite the vulgarity this Michigan born rapper shows he is not shy to share his emotional side with his audience.

Check out Chughey's latest hot track "Off Of You" with a catchy hook by clicking the link below:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0MbjsWZwG4tncfa72Ijs3g

Just to give a little info on Chughey, he is a hip hop artist living in Gladstone, Michigan who began expressing his creative music side following an accident from snowskating in 2012. Since then he has released four mixtapes and two albums. He also produced and engineered his second EP called "My Two Cents Is Free" released in August 2017.

Chughey has nearly 7,400 monthly listeners including listeners from Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle combined. To listen to "Off Of You" other tracks like "Spearfishing" and "Ready", albums and mixtapes from Chughey check him out on Spotify!

Follow Chughey on Twitter and Instagram @itschughey
Follow him on Facebook www.facebook.com/itschughey

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4oWbShc71448v61MynHMrs



Tamara M. Anderson
@mahoganymagazin
@mstekeyla75
@itschughey

'Love And Hip Hop Review: "Don't Test Nya's Gangsta"

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Mariah Lynn & Nya Lee

Looks like MTV needs to reconnect with Dr. Drew for a spin-off of celebrity rehab, only this time it should be called 'Reality All-Stars Rehab!

In the beginning of this season of 'Love And Hip Hop' Nya Lee openly talked about how her previous behavior had interfered with her music career and that she had changed for the better. Later in the season Mariah Lynn also admitted that she had been working on herself so that she could get further in her career. Well, from the looks of things their music career might just be on hold a little bit longer.

Monday night on 'Love and Hip Hop' Jonathan invited the ladies including Nya Lee, Mariah Lynn, Cyn, Kimbella and Sydney Starr to a winery where Sydney tried to make amends with Nya. On the ride to the winery Nya told Jonathan he had a problem with Sydney testing her gangsta ism. Unfortunately, Sydney didn't take heed to Nya when she said she wasn't ready to discuss the matter at hand. She insisted on poking the bear who wasn't quite ready to come out and play Sydney told Nya she only bucked at her to warn her to shut up which only made matters worse for her. Hopefully she now knows that if you ain't knucking than don't be bucking!

Meanwhile after Kimbella and Jonathan shared a few words regarding Yandy Mariah involved herself i matter that was not her concern that provoked the bear to come out of hibernation.

Whatever was going on with Mariah had nothing to do with Nya or Jonathan. She took Jonathan's comments way out of context but what do you expect from someone who says 'a salt of grain' instead of 'a grain of salt'.

While Mariah was still selling wolf tickets Jonathan stood by Nya who wasn't too happy with the way she handled herself. However, when it's all said and done if Mariah and Sydney didn't learn anything else, the one thing they should have gotten out of this is, don't test Nya's gangster!

  

Tamara M. Anderson

 @mstekeyla75

 @mahoganymagazin

2016 BET Hip Hop Awards: "Chance The Rapper Nominated For Lyricist of the Year"

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It's almost that time again! In less than two weeks the '2016 BET Hip Hop Awards' will be making it's debut. Hip Hop legend and actor Snoop Dogg hosted the last three years of the hip hop ceremony. This year music producer DJ Khaled will be hosting the '2016 BET Hip Hop Awards'. 

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Drake "Views" Album Cover

Rapper Drake is up for 14 nominations this year including Album of the Year, Lyricist of the Year and Best Hip Hop Video. Along with Drake rapper Future is also up for double nominations.

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Kanye West "The Life of Pablo" Album Cover

Chicago rapper and music producer Kanye West will be nominated in eight categories including Album of the Year for the album "The Life of Pablo". Joining the "Sorry" artist for Album of the Year Award are Future "DS2", Fetty Wap "Fetty Wap", Drake "Views",  Dr. Dre "Compton" and DJ Khaled "I Changed A Lot".

So who will win the Album of the Year Award? Will it be Future, Kanye West, ,Drake, Dr. Dre, Fetty Wap or DJ Kahaled?

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Chance the Rapper

Two Chicago artists Kanye West and Chance the Rapper known for the hit single "No Problems" have been nominated for Lyricist of the Year. 


Who will win for Lyricist of the Year? Will it be Kanye West, Drake, Chance the Rapper,  J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar?

The '2016 BET Hip Hop Awards' will air on Tuesday, October 4 on BET!

Tamara M. Anderson
@mstekeyla
@mahoganymagazin 

Former D4L Member Shawty Lo Dead At 40

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Rapper Shawty Lo

On Wednesday, September 21, rapper Shawty Lo aka Carlos Walker died following a car crash in Atlanta, according to his manager who reported the news to a radio station in Atlanta.

As reported by CNN, Shawty Lo's death which was confirmed by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office stated that the cause of the car crash is still in question. Shawty Lo was age 40 at his time of death.

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Rap Group D4L

Walker was the founder and member of the rap group D4L who is mostly known for the hit "Laffy Taffy", which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100 charts in 2006. "Laffy Taffy" also became the first song to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloaded song in 2007. Lo is also known for the hit singles "Dunn Dunn" and "Dey Know" released in 2007. In 2008 Shawty Lo won for "Rookie of the Year". That same year the song "Dey Know" won for "Track of the Year".

Lo who was born in Jonesboro, Georgia leaves behind 11 children in which he hoped to showcase on a reality show called 'All My Babies' Mamas'. The show was set to air on Oxygen network in 2013 but was later cancelled.

We here at Mahogany magazine sends their deepest sympathy and condolences to The Walker family. May Carlos aka Shawty Lo forever rest in heaven!

Tamara M. Anderson
@mstekeyla
@mahoganymagazin  

Sisterhood of Hip Hop 3: "Lee Mazin Debuts New Video Featuring Brianna"

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This week on 'Sisterhood of Hip Hop' Lee Mazin debuted her latest video to the hot single "T.O.B." featuring Brianna Perry. The song was catchy and the execution of the video was on point.  Lee and Brianna delivered something to the viewers that some of the cast of 'Love and Hip Hop' have not been able to bring. Maybe this will motivate the so-called aspiring female artists to step their game up.

Meanwhile while Lee is making progress in her rap career, Brianna is not where she need to be. She clashed with her label and was mad at her mom/manager for taking his side and not hers. She was also dealing with the loss of her uncle which caused her to lose focus during the video shoot with Lee. Brianna finally came to the ocnclusion that she needed to talk about her uncle and speak to her mother following her conversation with Lee. later on she expressed her feelings to her mother and went to visit her uncles grave.

Check out the video to "T.O.B.": The two female rappers also performed the song during rapper Trina's show.

Since Lee has been in LA she feels like she's in the right place but wants her manager Shantel to step her game up. She wanted to build a team so she brought in Charlie Mack who has worked with rapper Yazz who plays Hakeem on the Fox drama series 'Empire'. At first Shantel was hesitant to work with Charlie but she later gave in so Lee can get what she needs to continue ot move forward. 

While Siya struggled with forming a relationship with her father who is incarcerated, her mission to get a distributor for her music finally came through. On top of that music producer Irv Gotti agreed to work with her on a track. 

With Diamond missing in action one of the remaining four female rappers will have a chance to be featured on one of MC Lyte tracks. Which one of these artists will impress Lyte the most? Will it be Siya, Lee Mazin, Brianna or Audra? Who do you think will win this competition?

Tamara M. Anderson
@mstekeyla
@mahoganymagazin