Words & Flicks by Anthony Campusano      Edits by Lucas Alvarado Farrar

To say he is a genius is an understatement. At the age of 16, Ryan Leslie enrolled in Harvard University and began his pursuit of music, and the rest is history. With the help of McDonalds and 98.7 Kiss Fm, a sold-out crowd was able to rock out and enjoy Ryan Leslie as well as some poets.

Kiss Fm held a poetry competition for $1,000 and other prizes. Followed by an hour and a half of music by the house DJ, the crowd did not lose a bit of energy as they awaited Ryan Leslie. Ryan rocked the crowd for about 2 hours with tracks from all his projects.

With his band backing him up, Ryan Leslie played the keyboard as well, occasionally matching his guitarist. In the middle of his set he brought out Red Café who helped him out with Fly Together and Cafe’s track I’m Ill. A couple songs later he brought out Lloyd Banks to do So Forgetful & Start It Up. The sold out crowd devoured Ryan’s energy.

Set List for Ryan Leslie at SOBs

’Glory’
‘Smothing That I like’
‘Quicksand’
‘Zodiac’
‘Maybach Diamonds’
‘Guardian Angel’
‘Valentine’
‘Beautiful Lie’
‘How It Was Supposed To Be’
‘Fly Together’
‘I’m Ill Remix (ft Red Cafe)’
‘Gibberish’
‘Joan Of Arc’
‘Christian Dior Denim Flow’
‘So Forgetful’
‘Start It Up’
‘Addiction’
‘Breathe’
‘Diamond Girl’

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Check out XXL’s freshman Nipsey Hussle and Juelz Santana rock the stage at SOB’s in NYC last night. Nipsey performed “Let’s Talk Money”, while Juelz got the crowd extra amped with his verse off “Beamer, Benz or Bentley”. Stay tuned for full recap, pictures and EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW coming up!

Last night, ya gurls LexAve and J’More hit up SOB’s in NYC to check out the next big thing to come out of the West Coast since Snoop Dogg–Nipsey Hussle.

Earlier this week, ya gurl J’More got the chance to see 50 Cent perform a “secret” show at the PC Richard & Son Theater in NYC courtesy of iheartradio. The Queens rapper brought his G-Unit crew with him on stage and performed a few tunes from his new album Before I Self Destruct as well as some oldies including “P-I-M-P”, “Hate It or Love It”, “I Get Money” to name a few.

I was surprised when Beanie Sigel hopped on stage to perform Jay-Z diss track “Go Off” with 50 since word had it that he was involved in a car accident.

Look out for exclusive footage from 50 Cent x iHeartRadio’s secret show coming real soon…

Officer Ricky made a big mistake when he decided to attack Eminem. It’s one thing to get at Fifty and the G-Unit crew, but he took it a bit too far when he added Eminem to the mix. Seriously, Eminem has nothing to do with his beef with Fifty. Lloyd Banks seems to agree and believes that Ricky is out of line. He tells MTV,

“As far as calling out Eminem, you’re not in the top 10 lyricists nowhere. So just sit down, man. We seen what Em can do. Em’s in a whole ‘nother lane. How do you go from praising somebody in one interview to calling him a ‘monkey’ in the next? He’s been in out of pocket too many times. We’ll see where his future goes. It doesn’t look too bright, if you ask me.”

Although the Bawse is floating on cloud 9 because his album is No. 1 in the country, Lloyd doesn’t understand why. He adds,

“First of all, his first week [sales] was 150 thousand and change. That was with two or three months of promotion, beefing with the most popular rapper there is right now outside of Eminem. There is no bigger promotion than that. He reminds me of 12 or 13 year old. You know he’s always lying. He said he spoke to [G-Unit employee] Nelson [allegedly about  offering Ross money to end the beef], and it already was put out there you didn’t speak to him. Then you say, ‘I took the [prison-guard]  because my boss asked’ him to. They didn’t need you to go to the penitentiary to make a buck. C’mon.”

I’m getting tired of these rappers starting beefs just to sell records. Beef as promo is really getting old. Find another way to promote ya sh*t!