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As part of the promotion for Steve Stoute’s new book, The Tanning of America, Stoute has partnered with AOL HuffPost Media Group for a video series entitled, The Tanning Effect. Check out the trailer features highlights of Stoute’s interviews with Jay-Z, Pharrell, Lady Gaga, and Jimmy Iovine.
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Speaks On His Time In Prison, Recalls The Day He Was Arrested, and refutes that Jay-Z is in the Illuminati - though he says that while being uneasy in his chair. He says Obama made him get into politics but that he danced around the issues when he was confronted by Ron Paul (That is true...lol).
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KRS ONE: What we knew was hip-hop. We knew if we came out with what our people wanted to hear, that’s just what it is. It wasn’t on the radio, there’s no videos for it. We just said what we knew the block wanted to hear at the time. We knew we were changing the game.
YRB kicked it with the new face of NY’s rap scene, Vado and chopped it up while he got a fresh cut at his local shop. The pioneer of slime-slang talks about making music with concepts in the fashion of some legendary MC’s and proving his worth beyond his Cam’ron co-sign.
"If you think about all the different genres of music, they’re all descriptions of something else that has nothing to do with music — like the blues. Whoever coined that term, they completely got it right, they knew that those chord progressions, and the nature of those chords, the way that they were built, would give off a hue that was more blue, and not necessarily happy and sunny"
- Pharrell
"There’s a specific brain area called the left inferior parietal lobule, which is especially pronounced in humans and not seen at all in lower animals. It’s where all the senses come together—touch, vision, hearing, the other senses—and when that’s damaged, people lose the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking."
T.I. was featured On the Record w/ FUSE. Sitting down with Touré to talk about the night his friend Philant Johnson was murdered, his legal issues and his previous work.
The new album, Lost Tapes 2, people comparing J. Cole to him, some of his favorite new rappers, a new solo album, the Autobiography of KRS-One, his current relationship with Hov and the possibility of a Nas/DJ Premier album.
I'm a big fan of Tim Burton and in the video below he explains his vision for the drawings being shown at the "MoMa NYC" until April 26, 2010. So for those who are in New York (and I'll be there soon to see this), you HAVE to go check the amazing exhibition, and for those who aren’t, you can check the MoMa site at the link above the picture and view his behind the scene video below.
Sammy Sosa (r.) with wife Sonia in Las Vegas on November 4. Sosa's skin has been a topic of discussion, but the former Chicago Cubs slugger denies any health woes.(he looks like dracula)
“I use a cream to keep my skin smooth and soft. I apply it before I go to bed. When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for 1 o’clock games,” said Sosa, who turns 41 tomorrow. “The flashes (from the cameras) also made my skin look lighter. I’m surprised with the controversy this has caused.”
Sosa, who would not tell Dandrades the name of the cream he uses, did say that it is European and that he is in negotiations to market the product. He added that he wears colored contact lenses because he wanted to “try something different. I’m not trying to be superficial.” Asked by Dandrades if Sosa was trying to be like Jackson, the 1998 NL MVP laughed.
“Not at all, I respect him very much,” said Sosa, who gave the interview at his Miami penthouse apartment on Monday. “I’m not a racist. I’m not like that. I’m just a happy person.”
At 13 he was selling crack. By 30 he was a hip-hop legend—having gone, in his words, “from grams to Grammys.” Now Jay-Z charts his escape from the hard-knock life, describes the reunion that healed the wounds of his childhood—and even reveals the standing Sunday date he has with what’s her name. The complete interview will be availabe in the October 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, on newsstands September 15th. Get a first look right here.
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Oprah: So tell me how you got into the drug dealing.
Jay-Z: It was natural.…
Oprah: Because drug dealers were your role models. There wasn’t a teacher or a lawyer or a nurse or a doctor or an accountant in the neighborhood?
Jay-Z: Well, we were living in Marcy by then, so, no. And if anyone did become something like that, they moved out. They never came back to share the wisdom of how they made it. If anyone made it, you never knew it. That’s why I’ve always said that if I became successful, I’d come back here, grab somebody, and show him how it can be done.
Oprah: So by the time you were 13, this was a way of life. Did the lifestyle frighten you?
Jay-Z: No. It was normal. And at some point, you become addicted to the feeling. The uncertainty and adrenaline and danger of that lifestyle.
Oprah: This is where we differ. This is where we differ. Because I’d be very scared! Weren’t you shot at three times—within six feet—and you lived to talk about it?
Jay-Z: That was divine intervention. Divine intervention, and nobody knowing how to shoot.
Oprah: What happened in each situation?
Jay-Z: It was one situation, three shots.
Oprah: So he was a bad shot.
Jay-Z: Well, no one really practices shooting a TEC-9 machine gun, right? And when you’re a kid, with little bony arms—no wonder nobody could aim.
Oprah: Many of the little boys who grew up in the Marcy projects are either in jail or dead. Why do you think you got to grow up and buy your mom a house?
Jay-Z: There’s the gift, there’s the spirit, and there’s the work—all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.
Oprah: When I met you a few years ago, we discussed our disagreement over the use of the N word and misogynist lyrics in rap music. Do you believe that using the N word is necessary?
Jay-Z: Nothing is necessary. It’s just become part of the way we communicate. My generation hasn’t had the same experience with that word that generations of people before us had. We weren’t so close to the pain. So in our way, we disarmed the word. We took the fire pin out of the grenade.
50 Cent has revealed that he is feeling uninspired by the current state of Hip Hop. Speaking to Billboard, the rapper explained that artists within the genre are not being creative.
“What I fell in love with and inspired me to get into hip-hop is dwindling away. I’d like to be a representation of that, because there isn’t much of that left. I think people are so conscious of the numbers they’re not being creative anymore.” 50 has set his sights on the Latin market by collaborating with reggaetón duo Wisin & Yandel for the track ”Mujeres En El Club”. The Queen’s rapper also chose to promote the song and feature it on his website.
“I’ve received nothing but positive feedback on this collaboration. And it’s a surprise because it’s playing in a space where you wouldn’t traditionally hear 50 Cent. It’s exciting and it’s a whole new charge of energy for the person that is tuning in.”
For all the drama following Drake around these days, he's decidedly grounded. He jokes that he still has to overcome the three strikes against him — being an actor, light-skinned and Canadian. But his easygoing nature and articulate thoughtfulness conceal a silent confidence that just might hint that this whole mania thing could be a brewing pandemonium.
"I still have people who are finding out about me, who are still going through that process,"
