North Carolina artist CB Smooth just dropped his first visual "Never Had"  (Produced by Zaytoven) off his upcoming album "All I Do".

Hailing from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, CB Smooth is a rapper and singer who focuses on Hip Hop but also infuses his work with the Blues, Jazz, R&B, and Bounce. Part of Dame Grease's Wave Gang Crew, CB Smooth has partnered with the independent label Entertaining Mindz to release his debut album "All I Do" as a follow up to his mixtape "Country Boy Smooth." Mixed by famed engineer Fabian Marasciullo, "All I Do" features Jazze Pha, 8Ball, Boldy James, Cory Jones, and Big Moeses. The first single, "Never Had" featuring Johnny P, was produced by legendary hitmaker Zaytoven.


CB Smooth's love for Hip Hop started at a young age. At 8 years old, CB purchased Naughty by Nature's "Poverty's Paradise" album, and soon followed that up by picking up 2Pac's "All Eyez On Me" and Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ready to Die." In addition to Pac and Biggie, CB's favorite artists growing up included R. Kelly, G-Dep, Rakim, DMX, Max B, 50 Cent, DJ Screw, Cam'ron, Black Rob, and Ma$e. These artists proved to be incredibly influential on CB Smooth's style as a Hip Hop artist. His love for the soulful nature of R. Kelly's song-writing, as well as the infectious hooks of Max B's music, provided him with the insight to focus not just on the standard bars dropped by most emcees, but also on the choruses, bridges, and production that are key in making quality music. For CB Smooth, the best things in life are music, basketball, boxing, and hustling.

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I thought the cremation and funeral service was handle wayyyyy to fast. My speculation may have been correct only to discover other news reporting that PRINCE HAD AIDS.

What do you think? - Crunkatlanta



Sources close to Prince told the National Inquirer that he contracted HIV in the mid-90s but the virus developed into AIDS six months ago, causing him to weigh just 80lbs at the time of his death.

Prince 'was diagnosed with AIDS six months before he died and refused treatment because he believed God would heal him'

• Prince contracted HIV in mid-90s but condition developed into AIDS six months ago, anonymous sources have claimed
• Artist 'did not get treatment because he thought God would heal him'
• Pop super-star had been preparing to die for some time, it is said
• By the time he died Prince weighed just 80lbs, sources have claimed
• Purple Rain singer also rumored to be addicted to painkiller Percocet
• Police sources claim Prince had prescription painkillers on him when he died 

Prince was suffering from AIDS before being found dead last week and had refused treatment because he believed he could be cured by prayer, it has been claimed.

The Purple Rain singer, who was a Jehovah's Witness, was diagnosed with the crippling condition just six months before he passed away, sources told the National Enquirer.

The 57-year-old weighed just 80lbs by the time of his death and had been 'preparing to die for a little while', the supermarket tabloid says sources told it. 

A source, who was not identified by the Enquirer, said: 'Doctors told Prince his blood count was unusually low and that his body temperature had dropped dangerously below the normal 98.6 degrees to 94 degrees.
'He was totally iron-deficient, very weak and often disoriented. He rarely ate and when he did, it all came right back up.
'His face was yellowish, the skin on his neck was hanging off and the tips of fingers were a brownish-yellow.'
This comes as sources close to the investigation into the singer's death claimed that he had prescription painkillers in his possession when he died.

CNN reported that the pain-killing substance was found on Prince while the Star Tribune in Minneapolis reported that prescription pills were found where the musician died at the age of 57 last week at his home in suburban Minneapolis.
Both reports were based on unidentified law enforcement sources. 

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It all depend on how old people are to agree or disagree with this list. Most of the new generation will wonder why their favorite artist not listed. Mainly because its garbage. Plain and simple .
The title of HIP HOP has changed over the years . It is watered down to a mumble and a beat these days.... CrunkAtlanta


#50 Outkast  "B.O.B." Stankonia, 2000

Outkast greeted the 21st century with a single that'll probably sound ahead of its time in the 22nd. Big Boi and André 3000 were inspired by hearing the hard, double-time rhythms of drum-and-bass music at a London party. "There wasn't anything in hip-hop that was killing me at the time," André said. "But that shit was tough … I thought about how to Americanize it." With an insane beat, Hendrix-at-Monterey guitar and massed voices chanting like a gospel choir conducted by Afrika Bambaataa, "B.O.B." became one of the greatest left-field hits of all time.


#40 Kurtis Blow "The Breaks" Non-album single, 1980


The first rap hit on a major label, peaking at Number 87 on Billboard's Hot 100, was a no-frills joint: a loping bass line and jumping beat with the Harlem-born Blow presiding over playground-party noises and percussion breakdowns. Blow toured extensively behind "The Breaks," introducing America to B-boy culture – "something I'm sure few people outside New York have ever seen," he said in 1981 – while blazing a trail for rappers like Run of Run-DMC, who started out calling himself "The Son of Kurtis Blow."


#30 The Notorious B.I.G. "Hypnotize" Life After Death, 1997

Notorious B.I.G's first Hot 100 chart-topper, which hit Number One just weeks after his March 1997 murder, is his supreme pop-rap moment: a litany of boasts and threats, delivered with cool sangfroid over Puff Daddy's Herb Alpert-sampling candy-corn beat. It was a fitting epitaph, a testament to Biggie's inimitable flow, matchless wordplay and knack for leavening gangsta sex and violence with punch lines even a toddler could cuddle up to. "Such a likable guy," said Jay Z. "He's forever loved by hip-hop."


#20 50 Cent "In da Club" Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2003

"We just made some shit we wanted to hear," producer Dr. Dre said. "As soon as 50 walked in the studio, he picked up a pen and we were done in an hour." Queens native Curtis Jackson had it all: an almost mythic backstory (he was a talented thug who'd once taken nine bullets), the backing of Dr. Dre and Eminem and a lush, languid flow. All he needed was a monster beat; over clinically precise handclaps and synths, he sent America hurtling toward the dance floor while threatening to "put the rap game in a choke hold." By the time this hit Number One, he had.


#10 Eric B. and Rakim "Paid in Full" Paid in Full, 1987

Exhibit A in the case for Rakim as hip-hop's John Coltrane. His incandescent thought-bubble rap on "Paid in Full" is all iced flow and sly beat-dodging, a good-versus-evil meditation that calmly frames thug life inside real-life economics (an appetite for "a nice big plate of fish/Which is my favorite dish") and a novelist's eye for detail ("Ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand"). In an era when most hip-hop songs exploded with loud, over-the-top boasting, Rakim's relatable, low-key flow was game-changing. "I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme and feel like it's them saying it," he said years later. Eric B.'s beat, looped from a break on "Ashley's Roachclip" by the Soul Searchers, is just as groundbreaking; it inspired the British DJ team Coldcut to craft "Paid in Full (Seven Minutes of Madness)," which soon became the song's definitive version, and arguably the dopest remix in hip-hop history.