thatswhatszup.com taking its talents to TUMBLR

yes i know, its crazy... what an announcement... but since I get a lot of traffic here from soundclick... i figured i'd let you new visitors know that my blog is now at www.thatswhatszup.tumblr.com ...im workin on changing that to thatswhatszup.com but for the time being, just go to the tumblr link... talk to u soon

Batman with Laugh Track

hahaha too funny!

NEW beats for sale!!

just updated my store today... 9 new beats! find 1 more and u can lease all TEN for $100... thats TEN BUCKS EACH!

#WakeUpWednesday "Wake Up Intro"

every wednesday Soul Kryziz is going to be dropping new songs... this week is his intro from his album The Wake Up Show... here it is: Soul Kryziz - Wake Up Intro (produced by Zup)

PIC OF THE WEEK 10-4-10

really now?

Elumination BEAT (produced by Zup) FREE DOWNLOAD

since im getting into the Halloween spirit (no pun) I figured Id give u guys a FREE BEAT to either play durin ur halloween events or even rap on! i made this beat a year ago, and halloween was pretty much over by the time i could release it... so here... its yours... for FREE!!! and if u do rap over it... email it to me yungzup@gmail.com and ill throw it up here!

DOWNLOAD HERE!:
http://www.divshare.com/download/12732928-d31

Soul Kryziz ft Zup - "Long Nite" (produced by Zup)

Here is a track off of Soul Kryziz mixtape "The Wake Up Show" where u can download for FREE HERE! ... but yeah Soul was talkin to be about shootin a video for it... so I thought id start pushin the track now b4 the video! so here it is...

the concept is: leaving Cleveland and movin to NY to try and get a record deal, and the reality of how its not as easy as it seems... check it out!

Sonic 4: Mad Gear Trailer

am i too excited for this? ...

Yung Berg gets his chain snatched AGAIN!!!!

this is great... for those who know me or who have watched "Non Refundable Time" u know i HATE Yung Berg... this lame done got his chain snatched again in miami.... YYYYYBBBBBz

The History of Rap w/ Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake, and The Roots

Saw 3D Poster!

this is the last Saw... ima huge Saw fan so im pumped to see how they end it... Oct 29th

[RIP] Greg Giraldo dead at 44

man oh man... its a sad day for the Comedy World... for those of you who dont know who Greg Giraldo is... do yourself a favor and watch this video at the bottom or turn on Comedy Central and watch for a couple hours you'll know who he is...

Greg apparently was hospitalized over the weekend for a "accidental overdose"... he was 44... Rest in Piece man you were fucking hilarious!

Another Lil Wayne producer wants his money!

1st there was controversy about Bangladash not gettin paid over "A Milli" now Jim Jonson wants his money for producing "Lollipop"... shout out to Young Yonny; a Cleveland producer who produced "Mo Fire", and a couple more tracks for Lil Wayne... but producers... we've all heard stories about Baby (Birdman) from Mannie Fresh, to Juvinile, to everyone... watch out...

heres what Jonson had to say:

"We're still trying to get paid. Clearly, I don't understand what the issue is. They've collected checks, they're buying Bugattis, but the people that created the songs are not getting paid. And so we're going through some things now in hopes that it gets fixed...["Lollipop"] was like the most downloaded song in history, so pay the people who made it. It's not your record, it's our record."

Its funny because Danity Kane was supposed to get that beat, but im pretty sure they passed on it or sumthin... funny how shit works

Fight breaks out at graduation

"homie this shit is basic... welcome to graduation"

NBA Elite 11 Delay to Cost EA More Than 1 Million Sales!

So as many of you know, it was announced earlier this week that NBA Elite 11 is not gonna be dropping next tuesday (Oct 5th) against NBA 2K11... the reason behind it is that they have "so many great ideas" that they want to include in the game but ran out of time... so there gonna delay it instead.... WTF kinda logic is that?

EA Sports is releasing NBA Jam for the Wii on the 5th as well... it was only supposed to be for the Wii and certain copies of Elite was gonna come with a bonus NBA Jam for Xbox and PS3... this leads me back to EA Sports logic... NOW there gonna make NBA Jam a stand alone game for Xbox and PS3... meaning you dont have to buy Elite to get the game on those systems...

Thats pretty dope... Now u can buy NBA Jam on Xbox and PS3 on Oct 5th instead of Elite... WRONG!!! Jam wont drop for those systems until the "Holiday Season"... so once again... WTF kinda logic is that??? u announce your gonna replace one game with another BUT you dont release it until you release the previous game!?!?! wooooooow...

Sooo this brings me to the subject at hand... the fact that there gonna delay Elite is gonna cost them over ONE Million Dollars...

I knew from the get-go that 2K11 had the advantage this year over Elite (NBA LIVE) due to the Michael Jordan gameplay... but to me it seems like Elite just admitted defeat... It makes sense that there gonna loose a lot of money because basketball heads have been waiting for Oct 5th all year... even if you wanted Elite, your gonna go out and buy 2K11 because your gonna wanna feed your basketball sweet tooth, u know? and on top of that, think of how many people who love the NBA LIVE series are now gonna switch to 2K!

EA fucked up... good thing NBA Jam is droppin on the 5th for Wii... cuz thats where ima be next tuesday!

[WTF!] Dead Mouse found in a loaf of bread!

ok b4 u read this... this motherfucker said he ordered the bread online... theres your problem right there!!!!! go to the super market like a normal human being!! in my opinion some things should not be bought online and food is one of those things... but anyways, this is fucked up... BUT i believe everything has a purpose... that mouses purpose was to give that man a nice lil pay day... yeeeehaaaaaw!!

Via: BBC

A food production company was ordered to pay nearly £17,000 after a man found a dead mouse in a loaf of bread as he made sandwiches for his children.

Stephen Forse, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, had already used some slices when he came across the mouse.

Mr Forse purchased the loaf online, through a Tesco branch in Bicester in January 2009.

Premier Foods was fined £5,500 and ordered to pay £11,109.47 in costs at Oxford Crown Court.

In July, the company, which makes Hovis bread, Branston pickle and Bisto gravy, admitted to having failed to maintain acceptable standards at its British Bakeries site in London.

Mr Forse said he had already used some of the bread when he noticed "a dark-coloured object embedded in the corner of three or four slices".

"Initially I thought it was where the dough had not mixed properly prior to baking," he said.

"As I looked closer I saw that the object had fur on it."

Mr Forse said he continued to prepare some sandwiches for his children and their friends from another loaf of bread.

"I checked carefully each slice in turn as I felt quite shaken," he added.

"As I was feeling ill I couldn't face eating anything myself. I sat with the children as they ate theirs."

Tail missing

Mr Forse contacted Cherwell District Council and environmental health officers visited the family's home to collect evidence.

During the visit one of them identified it as a mouse minus its tail.

"Her comments made me feel ill once again as there was no indication as to where the tail was," added Mr Forse.

"Had it fallen off prior to the bread being wrapped or had any of my family eaten it with another slice of bread on a previous day?"

A spokesman for Premier Foods said: "We apologise profusely for the distress caused as a result of this isolated incident.

"As soon as this complaint was made we stopped all bakery production at that site and appointed an independent specialist contractor to conduct a thorough investigation.

"They confirmed this to be an isolated incident, affecting a single product.

"There was no evidence of mice within the bakery and no history of any similar issues."

The spokesman added that the council had agreed "the bakery was a well-managed site and that Premier Foods took its obligations for health and hygiene seriously".

...*SMH*

Mos Def signs with G.O.O.D. Music

I hope Kanye West can do to Mos Def what he did to Common... cuz once Common signed to G.O.O.D. Music he dropped 2 of my favorite albums ever!

Def Jam Rapstar Commercial

shout out to Stalley who is in this commercial!

Nick Cannon challenges Eminem to Boxing match

Nick Cannon is redunk for this... if he would have done this maybe after Eminem released "The Warning" track, that woulda made more sense... but of course he waited until the price raised on Ems head b4 he started all this "fuck Eminem" talk again...

dont get me wrong, I would love to see them fight... and i think it would actually be a good fight... but im 99.9% sure Eminem wont go 4 it... hes actually got money to make unlike Nick Cannon... smh

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 set for October Release Date!

So I have been waiting for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to finally drop since Sonic and Knuckles ended... but realisticly since the end of last year when they announced they were making a new Sonic game that was staying true to the originals... Well no more videos that say "LATE 2010" we finally have a release date... well a couple diff release dates...

• Sonic 4 will be released on the App store for the iPhone on Oct 7th
• then released for the Wii on Oct 11th!
• then Playstation store on Oct 12th
• and finally Xbox Live Arcade on Oct 13th

so needless to say Oct 11th will be a great day for myself... not only duz NBA Jam Wii drop on the 5th, 1 week later i got sonic... and its only $15! so if your a Sonic fan then get your download on!

OMG/ California Girls mash up

could these girls be any hotter

if this duznt make u wanna quit smoking...

two yr old baby, SMOKING!

Gary Coleman: Dead

hollywood and the world lost anouther one today; Gary Coleman... i saw this shit coming... he looked horrible recently, and the media was just bashing the shit out of him... i knew it would be a matter of time b4 life took a toll of the poor guy... now watch, the fuckin media is prob gonna talk about how great of a person he was, and how the world will never be the same... smh

R.I.P. Gary Coleman

NOMINATE Soul Kryziz "Best Live Performance"

HEAD OVER TO WWW.OHIOHIPHOPAWARDS.COM RIGHT NOW AND NOMINATE SOUL KRYZIZ

50 Cent changes his name to 50 lbs

shout out to my boy Peezy for hippin me to this shit... 50 Cent lost a lot of weight for his upcoming movie "Things Fall Apart". In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer.

He dropped from 214 pounds!!!! there is no fuckin way thats good for your body... they might as well bring The Wire back to HBO and cast 50 as a crack head b4 he gains his weight back, OR make a remake of Mars Attacks and have 50 play the king martian... just sayin

i guess it makes sense y we havnt heard 50 talkin shit about any rappers lately...

Eminems Recovery Tracklisting

so the tracklisting for Eminems "Recovery" album has leaked... a lot of people are surprised, including me, that there is no Dr Dre, 50 Cent, or D12... and u know what, im actually happy about this. When i saw Pink, and Rihannas name, i was like holy shit, seriously? for em to break away from the ussual, is a great thing. new production n now new features... i cant wait for June 22nd... what do u think? good move on Ems part?

Below is the tracklist from Recovery, courtesy of http://www.eminem.com/:

1. COLD WIND BLOWS
2. TALKIN’ 2 MYSELF FEAT. KOBE
3. ON FIRE
4. WON’T BACK DOWN FEAT. P!NK
5. W.T.P.
6. GOING THROUGH CHANGES
7. NOT AFRAID
8. SEDUCTION
9. NO LOVE FEAT. LIL WAYNE
10. SPACE BOUND
11. CINDERELLA MAN
12. 25 TO LIFE
13. SO BAD
14. ALMOST FAMOUS
15. LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE FEAT. RIHANNA
16. YOU’RE NEVER OVER

What Happened to the Remix

this is very interesting... check out what Just Blaze had to say about remixes now a days

this shits too funny

The Doctor Who Cried Detox from jeff on Vimeo.

Eminem breaking habbits and formulas

for everyone that has been following my blog, u know i NEVER post songs up from people that im not personally cool with or songs that i produced... but now that im back blogging again, i wanna interact with you guys as if you were with me in my everyday life... so i want to let u know how i feel about this new Eminem "Not Afraid"

Ems 1st single off "Recovery" dropped today... now when u think "1st single by eminem" the 1st thing that pops in my head at least is "pop culture disses, funny rhymes, childsplay" but when i heard that the song was called "Not Afraid" i thought to myself... hmmm will he break his ussual formula... the last couple features hes done have all been anthems... "forever", "drop the world", "airplanes"... so i think Em is seening that this is the type of shit people love to hear from him... Relapse was a dope cd in the sense that he fuckin MURDERED every beat, he proved that hes back and no1 can spit like him... but now i think the gloves are off and hes about to go HAM. people want to hear more about his life... he was gone for 4 years prior to Relapse... we want to know what was goin on durin that time.

the fact that Em is workin with diff producers like Boi-1Da is great... cuz even tho Em and Dre make great music together, u gotta branch out and do diff shit, or else its one big musical circle that just repeats... and this song proves that Em duznt need Dre to make a dope solo song... hes got his own "Forever" now

Eminems back, and the fact that hes finally breaking his old habbits proves that on June 22nd is gonna be a great day for hip-hop!

head over to Solid Buzz and listen/download the song!

Flows and DJs show

this saturday May 1st! come check the show out at The Symposium... Soul Kryziz will be performin, i wont be there, ill be in Kentucky... but Danny Dope, and Sean from Big Bang Theory will be rockin with Soul on the drums and guitar... so go support local music! shout out to Cy Harp, and Da Kreek

Kurzed "The Home-Schooled Project"

check out the man behind the boards... Kurzed...

hes back with his 2nd LP called "The Home-Schooled Project"... hes got features from D-Bunk, Kayo Alcatraz, myself, Mike Nice, Soul Kryziz, Not Nathan, Proph the Problem, D. Roof, X the Untouchable, and Torrance...

with 3 songs produced by me and the rest produced by Kurzed, with the help of D-Bunk of the intro...

shit is a great Cleveland cd, and def the best material ive heard from the homie Kurzed... give it a def listen...

Download his cd here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vlyytym2jdt

and heres a track i produced called "We Stumblin" featuring Kayo Alcatraz here:

KZD - We Stumblin Ft. Kayo Alcatraz by zup

im baaaaaaaaaack

well, its been a while since i blogged.... well im back for good... ive been sooo busy, but thats no excuse... its time i got back to keepin in touch with my people... yessssssssir

Tank ft. Soul Kryziz and P.Jones - Celebrate (produced by Zup)

peep out this track i produced for my homie Tank... it features P.Jones on the hook and Soul Kryziz on the 3rd verse... lets pop bottles

can u say "thank the Lord"!?

oh yes... finally a Sonic game that reminds me of the good old days... Sega must have realized that Nintendo had a huge success with the New Super Mario Bros Wii game... so now they r takin it back to when videos were the shit!!

Clash of the Titans

we shot an official video for the cypher track by Soul Kryziz ft. Kayo, Proph, and Izzrael called "Clash of the Titans" produced by myself... shout out to Kurzed, and Bam Bam for jumpin in the video as well... check it out and download the track under the video

DOWNLOAD VIDEO:

http://www.divshare.com/download/10712884-2c0

Non Refundable Time episode 1

last night we had our 1st episode for our radio/web show "Non Refundable Time". Shout out to my co-hosts; Dubbs and TMS of Wax Monkey Production and our guests Soul Kryziz and Ru$$... shit was a great time... we pranked sum people, played sum voice mails, took sum calls, and talked about Shaq, Trina, Kid Cudi, 50 Cent, and more... and shout to everyone who watched last night, and everyone in the chat room

check out the 2 hour video here

LIVE Radio Show on ZRL this SUNDAY Feb 28th!!!

yes... Dubbs and TMS of Wax Monkey Productions along side with myself are doing a radio show thru my ustream acount, pretty much every sunday... we r going to be talkin about hip-hop news that has happened during the week, and we will also have a guest every week... this week we have Soul Kryziz, of course...

Dubbs and TMS r 2 of the funniest dudes i know, and they hold no punches... so get ready for sum funny shit...

under here is the number u can call during the show where u can talk to us live on the air about the topics we r discusisng, the number is (216) 503- 6910 ... during the week it will be shut off so u can leave us a message and well play them every week on the show... ok thats it, and we will see u SUNDAY Feb 28th at 10PM!!

#WHITEBOYWASTED

#WhiteBoyWasted is the 1st promo song from Soul Kryziz mixtape "Feature Presentation". the track features Yung Mook and Yung King and is produced by myself... THANKS to everyone who sent me pics for the video!!! make sure if u gotta twitter to keep this song goin as a trending topic... hense the "#"




DOWNLOAD HERE!!!!

Day in the Life

check out this video showin u what a typical Saturday is like... started off with a recording session with Mr44 and then after that, i headed over to Soul and Neros basketball game, then we had a show that night at The Sea Level... and after i left the show, it was time to party with Peezy.... check it out, its pretty hilarious...

Hip-Hop Gives Back 2 PLAYBACK!

ok, i know its been a month since Hip-Hop Gives Back 2... but i got footage up!! i got everyones performances except Soul Kryziz, and Machine Gun Kelly cuz the camera was too dark, with the strobe lights n all that... but check out the show!

216thetakeover.com, DJ Jack Da Rippa, & Goodshyt Ent Present: On The Rise Vol. 3

216thetakeover.com brings you the third installment of the “On The Rise” mixtape series. Featuring artists such as Ohio’s own Jus Mic, Twizted Mind, Proph The Problem, and Soul Kryziz!! check out Soul song that i produced and am also rapping on...

Soul Kryziz ft. Zup - "Just Playin" (produced by Zup)

DOWNLOAD MIXTAPE HERE

Chip Burnigan - reports new PR news!

hahahaha "uummm.... pause" hahaha amazing

Soul Kryziz "Superman" (produced by Zup)

word to www.solidbuzz.com ...check out the new promo song from Soul Kryziz produced by myself...



DOWNLOAD SONG HERE!!

have u seen Soul Kryziz live yet???

last night... Soul Kryziz, Danny Dope, and myself had a show at the 2020 Martini Lounge... killed it... and if u havnt seen us live yet... heres a sneak at y the whole citys talkin bout a kryziz



shout to Nero

Megaman DOOM Mod

i keep findin these ridiculous mods for video games online... this one had me dieing... this shit is too raw, Megaman killing other Megamans in DOOM 2... check this out

DJ Chong Wizard's Eclectic Relaxation: A Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest‏

DJ Chong Wizard hooks up with Thick Magazine & KevinNottingham.com to present Eclectic Relaxation: A Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest. This mixtape has been a work in progress since last summer when a beat contest was hosted on KevinNottingham.com for producers to recreate their favorite ATCQ tracks. Hundreds of entries were submitted and the best made the cut.

I produced a cut on there... check it out

Download Link
http://usershare.net/ke8zwnvbxxro

RAPLAND 216 (Trailer)

This is what Cleveland needs!!!




This film sets the standard on objectively on showing some of Cleveland's best talent and articulating the highs and lows of the hip-hop struggle. Filled with excellent performances and interviews RAPLAND 216 is guarenteed to shake things up!

PLAYING IN SHAKER SQAURE CINEMAS IN CLEVELAND OHIO MAY 2010


CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE MOVIE

Hip-Hop Gives Back 2 PHOTOs (KatrinaBphotography)

HUGE shout out to Katrina B Photography for taking pics this year at Hip-Hop Gives Back!!! heres just a few of the million pics she took!!

Jus Mic - Poetry for Misfits

"A year, and half after Jus Mic released the CD Sampler with Mick Boogie, & Terry Urban, he's back again. With a touch of class, trash, anger, hate, and just all around frustration with life, we have "Poetry for Misfits". Listening to Jus Mic's music can pick you up, and lift you, or help you turn the bottle up one more time. With out a doubt one of Cleveland's most under rated emcee's. With lyrics of truth, honesty, & wisdom, your bound to connect with a track. With songs like "Misery", "Sick Man, and "Broken", you can see the diversity of emotion within his music, creating a true artist."

i produced "wasnt spose to be" on the mixtape!!! download it HERE and check it out!!!