Shady Records

Yes, you read it well…new joints have been leaked on the net. Those tracks include collaborations with Eminem, Big Herk, 5O Cent and Nate Dogg…I’ll review them for you very soon!

Rating: 4 stars

When Sick Notes decide to combine their talent with Obie Trice’s the results can only be fantastic. A new Obie Trice out of Second Rounds On Me has been leaked on the net. It is definitely worth your attention.

Open your ears wide: the song will probably amaze you.

As the song begins, trumpets, melodic vocals, piano sounds and rhythmic beats will allow to step into a universe where realness is everything. People who know Obie Trice also know that there is no place for fabrications on his songs. Down to earth, natural in his behavior, Obie Trice is a real life guy.

The track targets the people that are behind his shooting at New Year’s Eve. Some coward shot Obie in the head on a freeway. This person probably didn’t expect Obie Trice to survive miraculously to the shooting.

Electric guitars, combined with drums and trumpet sounds will make you feel the tension and the harshness of the struggle in rap game.

You murderers and haters wanna destroy artists you are jealous of. Like Deshaun Holton expressed it in one of his latest videos, you can kill the artist, but you cannot kill the music.

You murderers are monsters. You tear family fathers apart from their families. You are making desperate attempts to annihilate what you losers will never be. That’s the point in Obie’s brand new song.

Cry Now. Your tricks have been fully exposed.

Cry Now is definitely worth your listen. Also, enjoy the lyrical effort O Trice put into his songs.

Stop the violence. You can’t and won’t kill real talent anyway.

Rating: 4,5 stars

Meet Obie and his crew in the streets of Detroit, ready for a bank robbery. People who are not familiar with hip hop culture might not know there are rules gangstas abide. You have to respect this code of honor, unless you wanna meet the reaper sooner than expected. Loyalty plays an important role and you’d better not snitch around.

Because of a snitch, Obie and his fellows have been transferred to jail. 5 days ago, they were about to make some big money in Detroit City.
Flashback. Watch Eminem mess up the banks camera with a bomb spray, allowing his accomplices to rob the bank and to take a lot of money away. While guards are running after Obie and co, the crew manages to excape and drives away in a van. Inside of the van, the gangsta crew rejoices about their maggot.

Akons voice sounds nostalgic and has a little reggae flavor. His words are a warning to the person would be tempted to betray Obie’s crew:

I keep the 40 cal on my side
Steppin with the mindstate of the mobster
See a nigga pass by
Tuck your chain in cause he might rob ya
Got glocks for sale, red tops for sale
Anything you need, believe me, Im gon lace you
Just dont whatever you do, Snitch
Cause you will get hit, pray I dont lace you, yeah

Picture the snitch in the street, stealing a homies chain and being caught by the police.

Nothing hurts more than a homies treason. Obie has some serious doubts about the young man who was full part of his crew:

Its risky, the bitch tend to rise out a nigga
Its history, Snitch, who decided hes a member
Once he got pinched, coincided with law
Same homie say he lay it down for the boy
Brought game squad around ours
How could it be ? Been homies since Superman draws
Only phoniness never came to par
He had us, a true neighborhood actor
Had his back with Ks
Now we see through him like X-Rays
Cuffed in that Adam car
No matter, his loss, we at him, its war
Knowing not to cross those resevoir dogs
You helped plant seeds just to be a vegetable
When we invest in team, its to the death fo sho
No ex and ohs, tex calicos
Aim at your chest nicca

The musical background for the video is as copious as a good meal: catchy beats combined with violins, maracas, guitar, harpsichord and drum sounds will allow to taste the song with delight.

Still in jail, Obie and his accomplices realize that they have been the victims of a plot, probably lead by the young man with the dreadlocks.

Obie eventually found out that the traitor moved to another area to keep cool:

Nowadays, Sammy Da Bulls got the game full
So he move to a rural area to keep cool
He snitchin on a snitch now, theres nothin to tell
Nowadays, your circles should be small as hell
Aint tryin to meet new faces, this dont interest me
Even if we bubble slow, well get it eventually
No penitentary, there will be no climacy
You will meet the lowest snitch in given us a century
These cats is rats now, the streets need decon
Thats how they react now, weak when the heats on em
Stop snitchin, you asked for the life your living
This act is not permitted, Nowhere on the map, It is
Forbidden to send a nigga to prison if you been in it
Along with em and then snitch and become hidden
So its no exs and ohs, techs calicos
Aim at your chest nicca

When you belong to a street gang, you gotta watch your actions and whatever you might do, snitching will sign your death certificate.
Some snitches move to another town, another state or even to another country. However, they should remember that wherever they go, they can be found.

The young snitch plays it cool, with girls and Champaign in a isolated house. But Obie and his fellows have his address and things are about to turn ugly.

I like the realness of the video that fully represents the street mentality. Be what you wanna be, but never betray your homies or you might pay the highest price.

Good job, Obie and Akon. I enjoyed the video from the beginning to the end.

Download Snitch at Shady Base.

They Wanna Kill Me

Rating: 4 stars

Electric guitar sounds mixed up with sitar sounds and rhythmic beats that give a heartbeat tempo to the track introduce you into Obie’s world.

Since he’s been signed to Shady Records, Detroit rapper Obie Trice has made some enemies. Success often goes with jealousy and Obie nearly lost his life at New Year’s Eve. He was shot in the head while driving on a freeway.

Fortunately, Obie was safe after being shot. Till now, nobody has a clue about who tried to kill him.

O Trice handles his words in an incursive way, addressing to his enemies.
What motivates jealousy and envy?

I’d say: mainly people who feel insecure and uncomfortable with themselves. On the Detroit scene, emcees who have less success than others and experience difficulties in selling their Cds are more likely to be jealous of people who have reached success.

What can you do against arrogant pricks who are consumed by jealousy, even when they put your life in jeopardy?
Humor them. Make them losers look ridiculous.

This is part of Obie Trice’s lyrical strategy. While them losers are trying to get wealthy from the streets, Obie gets his money from the Billboard.

Some weak rappers just can’t stand talent. Instead of trying to improve their weaknesses and learn from gifted rappers, eradicating talent is an easier solution to them.

Obie is a true Detroit ghetto soldier who is not afraid to confront his enemies with their own stupidity.
He’s been close to death, with a bullet left in his head. But guess what, bitches? Obie is back, more confident and more energetic than ever.

You wanna kill him, bunch of losers? Obie is quite a legend. His music will live on forever anyway!

Rapper Obie Trice is at home recovering after being shot in the head in the early-morning hours of December 31.

His record label, Shady, released a statement Wednesday (January 4) saying that Trice — who was treated and released from the hospital on the same day he was shot — still has the bullet lodged in his skull. Doctors initially concluded that the bullet’s position made it too risky to operate upon and remove. In the coming days, they expect to determine whether it can be removed at a later time.

Trice was shot, while riding with his girlfriend on a Detroit freeway, by an unknown assailant in another vehicle. Michigan State Police are still investigating and no suspects have been named yet. In the statement, Trice declined to speculate on the reason for the shooting.

“This is living in Detroit, and that’s all,” he said. “You hear about it because it’s me, I got ties to Eminem or whatever, but I got people that are out there dealing with it every single day where I’m from. As far as all the rumors and guessing games, people talking road rage and all that nonsense, I’m not getting involved in any of that right now.”

According to his label, Obie is at home resting and will be checking in with his doctors again very soon.

— Shaheem Reid

Police seek information on person who wounded Eminem protege Obie Trice on the Lodge.

George Hunter / The Detroit News

SOUTHFIELD– Police and family members of rapper Obie Trice were trying to find out why someone shot the Detroit native and Eminem protege as he drove home from a party early Saturday morning.

Trice, 28, was driving his sport utility vehicle on the northbound Lodge Freeway with his girlfriend in the passenger seat when, about 1:10 a.m. Saturday, someone in another vehicle shot him in the head, police said.

“The shot came through his back window,” Michigan State Police Sgt. Mario Gonzalez said. “He was struck in the head, but the bullet just grazed him.”

Trice managed to continue driving, Gonzalez said. “He got off the 10 Mile/Evergreen exit, then (Trice’s girlfriend, whose name was not released by police) flagged down a Southfield police officer, who contacted EMS.”

Trice was taken to Providence Hospital, where he was treated and released Saturday morning.

Trice’s grandmother, Delois Askew, said the rapper was shaken up by the incident.

“He’s doing fair, but he’s naturally quite upset,” Askew said. “It’s a puzzle why anyone would want to do this. Was it just a random incident, or did someone go after him? That’s what we’re trying to figure out.”

Police are also looking for clues, but so far the investigation has revealed little, Gonzalez said.

“We have very little to go on,” Gonzalez said. “We’re asking anyone who may have been on the Lodge at that time and saw the incident to contact us, because right now, we just don’t have much information.”

Askew called it a miracle that her grandson survived the shooting.

“It’s very unusual to get shot in the head and live,” Askew said. “It’s just a blessing he wasn’t hurt really bad. I’ve talked to his mother twice (since the shooting) and I talked to his other grandmother, and we’re all trying to figure out why someone would do this. He’s a happy-go-lucky fellow who tries to be friends with everyone.”

Trice records on Eminem’s Shady Records label. He recently released a new single, “Wanna Know.”

Eminem produced Trice’s 2003 debut album, “Cheers,” which went platinum, and Trice’s second album, “Second Round’s On Me,” which is expected to be released this summer.

Trice had a bit part in Eminem’s hit movie, “8 Mile.” Trice also stars in “Life Goes On,” a movie that is set in Detroit. The film is scheduled to be released Jan. 9 at the Sundance Film Festival.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Michigan State Police at (313) 456-6600.

You can reach George Hunter at (586) 468-7396 or ghunter@detnews.com.

DETROIT – Rapper Obie Trice was shot early Saturday while driving on a freeway, police said.

Trice, a Detroit native and protege of Eminem, was on the Lodge Freeway at about 1:10 a.m. when his vehicle was shot at by someone in another car, said Michigan State Police Sgt. Mario Gonzales.

Trice managed to continue driving and exited the freeway in the suburb of Southfield, where his girlfriend, who also was in the vehicle, flagged down police, Gonzales said. The girlfriend wasn’t wounded.

The rapper was taken to a hospital and was listed in good condition, Gonzales said.