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Now it all makes sense. In recent months, YG and Young Jeezy have been very chummy and have even collaborated on a few tracks in the process. Consider this a foreshadowing of the Compton rapper's latest power move. "I got Jeezy on my team now, so he at the label going hard for me. And I'm Corporate Thuggin' though, people don't know that yet. We linked up, we partnered up," revealed YG. This could signal nothing but good for the former XXL Freshman, who has been sitting idle in the Def Jam ranks for some time now. This happened despite the success of proven hit records like "Toot It And Boot It," and most recently, "You Broke." YG explained that dropping a major label project is all about timing and having the right people at the label backing you. Now that the Thug Motivation rapper on his side, he say "The album finna come out. He [Young Jeezy] goin' hard for me." As for Jeezy, this is the second signing to his newly renovated CTE World imprint —post Freddie Gibbs. Detroit collective Doughboy Cashout were the first addition to the Atlanta native's roster. Hopefully, this means that fans will receive YG's highly anticipated debut, I'm From Bompton, sooner than later. Check out the full interview with Bootleg Kev below to hear the young rhymer speak more about his new deal, working with producer DJ Mustard, rapping with gang affiliations, and more. -- Photo: YouTube

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Slum Village 's next full-length, and first since July 20102s Villa Manifesto , is set to drop next Tuesday, June 24. But before it gets here, the trio of Young RJ, Illa J, and surviving member T3 is letting us stream Evolution in full nearly one week early. It's a smart move, of course, as fans of the Detroit group's original music have been understandably wary of SV's output following the deaths of J Dilla and Baatin. So what better way to possibly prove 'em wrong with a free sampling? You can listen below and, as always, let us Read MoreBlog: Potholes In My BlogRelated: Stream: The Roots' 'Undun' In Its EntiretyStream Trickys False Idols In Its EntiretyStream Grimes Visions Album In Its EntiretyStream Grizzly Bears Shields In Its EntiretyNews: Listen: Daft Punk Stream ‘Random Access Memories’ In Its Entirety

Source: Setlist.fmHere's KISS' set list forr their show in Milan, Italy at Mediolanum Forum on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Set List: Psycho Circus Shout It Out Loud Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll I Love It Loud Hell or Hallelujah War Machine (Gene breathes fire) Heaven's on Fire Deuce Say Yeah Shock Me (Only first verse) Outta This World (Tommy and Eric Jam) God of Thunder (Gene bass solo intro — spits blood and flies) Lick It Up Love Gun (Paul flies over crowd to the B-stage) Rock and Roll All Nite Encore: Detroit Rock City I Was Made for Lovin' You Black Diamond

I don't know how most of you feel about Johnnie Morton, although I know a number of you love to mock his MMA fight, but I personally loved the guy when he was in Detroit. Anyway, I live in southern California now, in the area he grew up and about a month ago I was walking around the grocery store and bumped into him in the cereal aisle. I recognized him right away and he was super friendly when I approached him. I let him know I was from Detroit and a huge Lions' fan, told him I was bummed when he went to Kansas City and he said he was too. He said he loved Detroit and would have loved to stay there, he cursed Millen, and seemed really interested in talking football with me. He was even kind of enough to let me snap a picture with him. Anyway, I just thought it was a cool experience and felt like this was good place to share it. I don't know how most of you feel about Johnnie Morton, although I know a number of you love to mock his MMA fight, but I personally loved the guy when he was in Detroit. Anyway, I live in southern California now, in the area he grew up and about a month ago I was walking around the grocery store and bumped into him in the cereal aisle. I recognized him right away and he was super friendly when I approached him. I let him know I was from Detroit and a huge Lions' fan, told him I was bummed when he went to Kansas City and he said he was too. He said he loved Detroit and would have loved to stay there, he cursed Millen, and seemed really interested in talking football with me. He was even kind of enough to let me snap a picture with him. Anyway, I just thought it was a cool experience and felt like this was good place to share it.

A year ago, DJ/producer, and ambassador of all things Detroit, House Shoes, released his debut producer album, Let It Go. With features from Danny Brown, Roc Marciano, Oh No, Alchemist, Quelle Chris, MED, Black Spade, and more the LP is well worth your dollars – however, he’s giving it out as a free download, today. Says Shoes: “My debut LP, Let It Go, dropped a year ago today. To celebrate the anniversary I’m letting it go. For the free. Fuck it. Pass this shit around y’all. It’s a good fucking record. All your favorites are on the shit. Buy links are below if you wanna pay some respect out of your pocket.  Stay tuned for STREET CORNER MUSIC, the new imprint on Fat Beats Records. More to come…” >>>Download 1. Let It Go feat. Shafiq Husayn 2. Empire / Get Down 3. Goodfellas To Bad Boys feat. Moe Dirdee / Dank Interlude 4. Dirt feat. Greneberg (Oh No, The Alchemist, Roc Marciano) / Jeedo Interlude 5. Time feat. Big Tone / Hex Interlude 6. Crazy feat. Black Milk, Guilty Simpson / BahBahBahBah 7. Last Breath feat. Nottz, Oh No, MED / Mayer & Shoes 8. Keep On feat. Co$$ aka Cashus King / Helluva 9. Sweet feat. Danny Brown / Noodles 10. So Different feat. Chali 2na / Moody Interlude 11. Everything (Modern Family) feat. Fatt Father / Without You 12. Sunrise feat. Black Spade / Love 13. Trouble feat. Moe Dirdee, MarvWon / Royce Interlude 14. Nails feat. Quelle Chris and Guilty Simpson / Broken 15. Castles (tHE SKY IS OURS) feat. Jimetta Rose / My Brother 16. Cry Now / Gone 17. Roller Coaster feat. Self Says and Fat Albert Einstein 18. Empire Reprise feat. Sam Beaubien of Will Sessions (Bonus Track) The post House Shoes – Let It Go [LP Download] appeared first on Okayplayer.

The Detroit Red Wings and city officials have announced a $650 million plan for a new arena for the NHL team in Detroit's downtown entertainment and sports district.

As the NFL continues to look at playing more games in London, there is increasing speculation that there will someday be a team overseas. It's no secret that the NFL wants to grow the game in Europe, and given the emphasis they have put on games in England, London seems to be the logical location if a team were to ever make the move across the Atlantic Ocean on a permanent basis. The biggest problem with this idea is the travel. Logistically, it just doesn't seem like a team could make eight games in London each year work. The time difference would be an issue, and spending so much time traveling would be tough to do for an entire season. There's a reason why teams always get a bye the week after playing in London. If a team ever does end up in London, expect a mixed reaction to the news around the league. The Free Press' Dave Birkett recently sought out the opinions of Detroit Lions players on this topic, and there were players for it and players against it. Wide receiver Nate Burleson, for example, likes the idea. "That would be tough, but I like traveling, so I would love it," receiver Nate Burleson said. "I’m in my later years, so a free trip to London wouldn’t be bad at all. But no, I like it. I think change is always good, no matter how far or how foreign it may seem to people who are used to this traditional look of the NFL. "We have an international fan base, so why not take it to the next level?" On the flip side, center Dominic Raiola, who is very familiar with time differences given that he's from Hawaii, said it'd be tough to have a team in London. "If you can have one there, why can’t you have a team in Hawaii? I feel a little slighted," said center Dominic Raiola, a Hawaii native. "Seriously, it’d be hard. It’s a time adjustment. You’d have to have a bye after teams play there. That’d be tough." My guess is that there will be a team that London can call its own at some point down the road, just not on a permanent basis. I could easily see a team splitting its home schedule with four games in the United States and four games overseas. I just don't see how having a team permanently based in London could ever work, though.

We are talking about rule 27.8 of course which restricts the movement of a goalie who might be playing the puck. Commonly referred to as the "Goalie Trapezoid", it prevents a well meaning goalie from playing the puck behind his net unless he is in an oddly shaped trapezoid-like area the NHL has somehow deemed magical. The rule starts out innocently enough with just some measurements: 1.8 Goalkeeper's Restricted Area - A restricted trapezoid-shaped area behind the goal will be laid out as follows: Five feet (5') outside of each goal crease (six feet (6') from each goal post), a two-inch (2") red line shall be painted extending from the goal line to a point on the end of the rink ten feet (10') from the goal crease (eleven feet (11') from the goal post) and continuing vertically up the kick plate. Now that part is just fine by itself, and in fact could be considered a great thing for the guy getting paid by the hour to paint lines on a sheet of ice. I'm all for jobs and job creation folks. A job I'm not a big fan of however is people whose job it is to make rules. They would seemingly be out of a job if they weren't able to come up with a monstrosity like this: 27.8 Restricted Area - A goalkeeper shall not play the puck outside of the designated area behind the net. This area shall be defined by lines that begin six feet (6') from either goal post and extend diagonally to points twenty-eight feet (28') apart at the end boards. Should the goalkeeper play the puck outside of the designated area behind the goal line, a minor penalty for delay of game shall be imposed. The determining factor shall be the position of the puck. The minor penalty will not be assessed when a goalkeeper plays the puck while maintaining skate contact with his goal crease. I do especially enjoy how they give the goalie an out, like a tiny flicker of hope at the end. 'No no good sir, you can play the puck in the restricted area all you want, just stay in your crease to do it!' The rule, seemingly put in place to punish a goalie who can actually handle the puck, also eliminates another very important and unpredictable part of the game. It is a part I miss very much, and that is the goalie who struggles with handling the puck. Gone in an instant is Chris Osgood of the Red Wings attempting to play the puck in the corner during the 1994 Western Conference Quarter Finals against the Sharks. It's game 7, Osgood screws the pooch pretty bad giving up the game/series winner because of gambling and losing. Love it! Fortunately that moment lives on forever on YouTube. Sorry Detroit, that hurts! That is what I truly miss folks. I know a lot of goalies out there are plenty peeved they are restricted in where they are allowed to help their team, when all I really want to see myself is a goalie frustrating the fan base to no end. That is not a whole lot in the grand scheme of things if you ask me. Now the reasoning behind the rule is something which I have heard a lot of hockey fans complain about. It creates a buffer zone in the corners for your prototypical dump and chase offense. With a goalie not allowed to clear out the corners, it give the opposition's offense an opportunity to get in on the fore-check and create puck battles in the corners. Wilderness, you cannot tell me with a straight face you have not explicitly complained about the Wild's (or anyone else's) dump and chase, ad nauseam. Another argument for the trapezoid was that it would create more opportunities to score goals. So obviously with more opportunities you will see more goals right? Not so much, sorry folks. Here is how those numbers breakdown. The '00-01 seasons saw a goals per game average of 5.51. This number spiked to 6.17g/g in the '05-'06 season when the trapezoid was instituted but has steadily declined since, down to 5.64g/g in the NHL's last full season ('11-'12), and 5.44g/g this lockout-shortened season. Over the past 13 seasons those numbers fluctuate

DETROIT, MI - The Downtown Development Authority is expected to make a "significant vote" at its 2 p.m. meeting Wednesday, and there is speculation that it could concern plans for a $650 million Detroit Red Wings arena and entertainment district....