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Hottest Celebrity Best Friends
Hottest Celebrity Best Friends
We like it so much more when people are friendly. And what’s better than one incredibly bangin’ celebrity out and about? How about two? Or three?! They get dolled up, look fine as hell and hit the town. It’s so nice.Let’s take a look at some pairs of buddy bangers that hang out and look fly. Enjoy!
Read more at http://bossip.com/637686/hottest-celebrity-best-friends39204/#dcpTGhkhh0TLYT5u.99
Jarrad Anthony "Ready To Live"
Once upon a time rap group Public Enemy asked, “Who Stole The Soul?”
and unfortunately no one has been able to offer a suitable answer. The
stir caused by the re-introduction of neo-soul god D’Angelo via the BET awards is a testament to the vacuum caused by his absence. With R&B’s obsession with popping (and throwing) bottles in the club, the state of meaningful music is in the drink.
But if you’re willing to look a little deeper Jarrard Anthony may have exactly what you’re looking for. With two albums under his belt and a collection of smooth, bedroom friendly tracks on his new album Ready To Live, the Virginia native has everything he needs to bring some missing pieces and missed emotions to music. All you gotta do is listen.
TUD: Where do you think your album fits in with the general landscape of today’s music?
Jarrard Anthony: That is an interesting question. Today’s music has many textures, but the majority of what is given the largest public platforms promote excessive glorification of external gratifications.
My music is designed to promote peace and joy from within first and that will then reflect in all externals around you creating whatever reality you want to see yourself existing in. Ready To Live adds color to the landscape and brings balance to, what I feel is, a lopsided music marketplace. My music is made for people who are in love or even desire to be or for those who want to cultivate the best part of themselves. That is the journey I’m on and I am just sharing my experiences through music. If you consider yourself a “Real N*gga” or a “Bad B!tch”, this probably ain’t for you. However, if you consider yourself a King or Queen and your mate as the complement of that, then READY TO LIVE was written with you in mind. Whoever wants to investigate that concept for themselves, I openly encourage it.
But if you’re willing to look a little deeper Jarrard Anthony may have exactly what you’re looking for. With two albums under his belt and a collection of smooth, bedroom friendly tracks on his new album Ready To Live, the Virginia native has everything he needs to bring some missing pieces and missed emotions to music. All you gotta do is listen.
TUD: Where do you think your album fits in with the general landscape of today’s music?
Jarrard Anthony: That is an interesting question. Today’s music has many textures, but the majority of what is given the largest public platforms promote excessive glorification of external gratifications.
My music is designed to promote peace and joy from within first and that will then reflect in all externals around you creating whatever reality you want to see yourself existing in. Ready To Live adds color to the landscape and brings balance to, what I feel is, a lopsided music marketplace. My music is made for people who are in love or even desire to be or for those who want to cultivate the best part of themselves. That is the journey I’m on and I am just sharing my experiences through music. If you consider yourself a “Real N*gga” or a “Bad B!tch”, this probably ain’t for you. However, if you consider yourself a King or Queen and your mate as the complement of that, then READY TO LIVE was written with you in mind. Whoever wants to investigate that concept for themselves, I openly encourage it.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
What is RedPandaLife.com ???
For the first time in 3 years, the Red Panda Supply Company (RPSC) has unveiled a new brand strategy to increase understanding of the impact that local designers have in the clothing community. The RPSC has the unique capacity to address many of the challenges facing the industry today. Through its new brand strategy and framework, the clothing line will extend its reach into communities to nurture the potential of youth and teens, improve the clothing industry outlook and well-being and provide opportunities to support other brands.
The new brand strategy – the result of more than two years of analysis and research – was introduced today at a Private Press Conference event that included leaders from the philanthropic and nonprofit community, corporate sponsors and volunteer students for local design schools. The RPSC unveiled a new, more forward-looking logo that reflects the vibrancy and diversity of the company while at the same time keeping to its theme "leaders of the rebellion". It is the framework that focuses resources on three core areas: collaboration development, successful living and social responsibility. In another major change, the company will be called “the R” to align with how people most commonly refer to the company. The national resource office, RPSC of the USA, has already begun the transition to the new brand. In the up coming future you will see Rs across the country that will transition fully within five years.
“This is a very important, exciting time for the R,” said Daniel Blaze, media spokesperson and head of PR for RPSC of the USA. “For the past 5 years, we’ve focused on changing clothing for the better. Our commitment to building greater awareness for the important work we do will enable us to expand our efforts and further strengthen brands all across the country.”
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Guru and Sean C talk sampling and hit making
‘Curator’ is probably one of the most over-used pop culture buzzwords of 2012 – only this time it perfectly applies.
On Friday June 29, 2012 legendary Engineer/Producer/DJ Young Guru hosted Sounds & Vision: The Art of Sampling at the 92YTribeca cultural arts space. For the first of three installments, Guru welcomed Sean C & LV from Grind Music and Diddy’s own Hitmen production squad to discuss Jay-Z’s American Gangster album, for which they produced six of the fifteen tracks.
In front of an audience filled with loyalists, aspiring producers and general music fans, Guru set the tone for the night by explaining that he created the Sound & Vision series ‘with the music lover in mind’.
WATCH: Sean C & LV Remember Grandmaster Roc Raida
Technical at times, universally comical during others, Guru proclaimed early on they “had all the time in the world.” They didn’t. The night would end with the three men being played off stage with “wrap it up music,” but the preceding two hours held a wealth of edutainment.
Usually the interview subject, Guru moderated, asking the duo to revisit their involvement in what would become Jay-Z’s first concept album and 10th (consecutive) number one effort (tying Elvis Presley’s record for the second most number one albums behind The Beatles).
“Puff walked in one night and said ‘Jay’s thinking of doing an album and I’m gonna executive produce it,” Guru recalled. “Give me everything you have.”
But despite being apart of the driving force behind the “Bad Boy sound,” LV recalls being skeptical that it was ever going to happen. “So I told Puff if he was serious, then call Jay and he said just said ok and walked away.” All doubt was erased when the doors to Daddy’s House opened and in walked a disheveled Hov, ten minutes later.
WATCH: Sean C & LV Remember Big Pun
“I just remember Hov coming back like ‘they got some shit over there’,” Guru added, and thus began what all three described as a grueling twenty-one days in which Jay recorded numerous tracks, including efforts from Just Blaze, Pharrell and No I.D. According to Sean C, the albums inspiration – the Ridley Scott film by the same name – played scene by scene during Jay’s recording sessions. “Guru would make sure we had the correct scenes when were working on tracks.” This process highlighted the first of many comparisons between the legwork (both symbolically and literally) absent from a lot of today’s production.
There was no emailing of tracks and verses. There was Guru. ‘”I would go back and forth between Daddy’s House and Roc The Mic [studios] helping to insure that nothing leaked but also that everyone remained on the same page. We would send over the rough, Jay would record his verse and then it would come back for us to finish it,” Sean explained. And by ‘finish it’, he meant recreate pre-recorded samples with lavish live instrumentation, bringing to life the lush sounds of the 70’s and 80’s and capturing the spirit Jay intended. This highlighted the second comparison: the job of the producer isn’t finished until the track is.
“Now-a-days, you send off a track and artists don’t realize that’s just a reference,” Sean explains. “They lay their verses down and think it’s ready to go out, and sometimes you don’t hear it again until it’s ready to be mixed, but really you had a lot more you wanted to do with it.”
Guru – the former student of Chucky Thompson and Derrick ‘DDot’ Angeletti – says while the age of “at home computer producers” has provided tipping points to many, it’s deprived more with a lack of proper training historically learned during apprenticeship under a more seasoned producer. “They lose the foundation of how to work from the bottom up. It’s the same as learning to add with a calculator from the very beginning.”
The solution, he says, is to make it your mission to familiarize yourself with a vast array of music, spanning all genres and time periods.
“When you listen to all forms of music your mind expands as a musician,” says Guru. “You’re exposed to different rhythms, different time signatures and different textures. It’s the same way a writer should read different authors so that his or her style can improve.”
When it comes to sampling, inarguably the zeitgeist of Hip Hop culture, the consensus is mixed. While all three men agreed that the best sample-friendly producers began as DJ’s, LV believes that once a sample is classically used it should become untouchable. (See the recent Pete Rock/Lupe Fiasco drama over “T.R.O.Y.” for evidence.)
Guru – whose producing credits include Jay-Z and Little Brother – says nothing is off limits, as long as it’s fresh.
“Samples can be used as many times as you want as long as you use it different than what the previous producer did,” he said. Exact copying of samples is undeniably wack but if flipped then it’s the very essence of Hip Hop. “Dilla was the best at that.”
American Gangster (both the film and the album) – debuted to critical acclaim in the first week of November 2007. Guru and Sean C & LV shared similar feelings: from the time an album is finished, you don’t play it again until it’s released. “So you can experience it with the people.”
Before venturing out to have drinks and mingle with the attendees, Grind Music did a live demonstration of sample usage by recreating the AG classics ‘Roc Boys (The Winner Is)’ and ‘Sweet’.
On Friday June 29, 2012 legendary Engineer/Producer/DJ Young Guru hosted Sounds & Vision: The Art of Sampling at the 92YTribeca cultural arts space. For the first of three installments, Guru welcomed Sean C & LV from Grind Music and Diddy’s own Hitmen production squad to discuss Jay-Z’s American Gangster album, for which they produced six of the fifteen tracks.
In front of an audience filled with loyalists, aspiring producers and general music fans, Guru set the tone for the night by explaining that he created the Sound & Vision series ‘with the music lover in mind’.
WATCH: Sean C & LV Remember Grandmaster Roc Raida
Technical at times, universally comical during others, Guru proclaimed early on they “had all the time in the world.” They didn’t. The night would end with the three men being played off stage with “wrap it up music,” but the preceding two hours held a wealth of edutainment.
Usually the interview subject, Guru moderated, asking the duo to revisit their involvement in what would become Jay-Z’s first concept album and 10th (consecutive) number one effort (tying Elvis Presley’s record for the second most number one albums behind The Beatles).
“Puff walked in one night and said ‘Jay’s thinking of doing an album and I’m gonna executive produce it,” Guru recalled. “Give me everything you have.”
But despite being apart of the driving force behind the “Bad Boy sound,” LV recalls being skeptical that it was ever going to happen. “So I told Puff if he was serious, then call Jay and he said just said ok and walked away.” All doubt was erased when the doors to Daddy’s House opened and in walked a disheveled Hov, ten minutes later.
WATCH: Sean C & LV Remember Big Pun
“I just remember Hov coming back like ‘they got some shit over there’,” Guru added, and thus began what all three described as a grueling twenty-one days in which Jay recorded numerous tracks, including efforts from Just Blaze, Pharrell and No I.D. According to Sean C, the albums inspiration – the Ridley Scott film by the same name – played scene by scene during Jay’s recording sessions. “Guru would make sure we had the correct scenes when were working on tracks.” This process highlighted the first of many comparisons between the legwork (both symbolically and literally) absent from a lot of today’s production.
There was no emailing of tracks and verses. There was Guru. ‘”I would go back and forth between Daddy’s House and Roc The Mic [studios] helping to insure that nothing leaked but also that everyone remained on the same page. We would send over the rough, Jay would record his verse and then it would come back for us to finish it,” Sean explained. And by ‘finish it’, he meant recreate pre-recorded samples with lavish live instrumentation, bringing to life the lush sounds of the 70’s and 80’s and capturing the spirit Jay intended. This highlighted the second comparison: the job of the producer isn’t finished until the track is.
“Now-a-days, you send off a track and artists don’t realize that’s just a reference,” Sean explains. “They lay their verses down and think it’s ready to go out, and sometimes you don’t hear it again until it’s ready to be mixed, but really you had a lot more you wanted to do with it.”
Guru – the former student of Chucky Thompson and Derrick ‘DDot’ Angeletti – says while the age of “at home computer producers” has provided tipping points to many, it’s deprived more with a lack of proper training historically learned during apprenticeship under a more seasoned producer. “They lose the foundation of how to work from the bottom up. It’s the same as learning to add with a calculator from the very beginning.”
The solution, he says, is to make it your mission to familiarize yourself with a vast array of music, spanning all genres and time periods.
“When you listen to all forms of music your mind expands as a musician,” says Guru. “You’re exposed to different rhythms, different time signatures and different textures. It’s the same way a writer should read different authors so that his or her style can improve.”
When it comes to sampling, inarguably the zeitgeist of Hip Hop culture, the consensus is mixed. While all three men agreed that the best sample-friendly producers began as DJ’s, LV believes that once a sample is classically used it should become untouchable. (See the recent Pete Rock/Lupe Fiasco drama over “T.R.O.Y.” for evidence.)
Guru – whose producing credits include Jay-Z and Little Brother – says nothing is off limits, as long as it’s fresh.
“Samples can be used as many times as you want as long as you use it different than what the previous producer did,” he said. Exact copying of samples is undeniably wack but if flipped then it’s the very essence of Hip Hop. “Dilla was the best at that.”
American Gangster (both the film and the album) – debuted to critical acclaim in the first week of November 2007. Guru and Sean C & LV shared similar feelings: from the time an album is finished, you don’t play it again until it’s released. “So you can experience it with the people.”
Before venturing out to have drinks and mingle with the attendees, Grind Music did a live demonstration of sample usage by recreating the AG classics ‘Roc Boys (The Winner Is)’ and ‘Sweet’.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Fantasia Breaks Down During Trinidad Show
Fantasia Breaks Down During Trinidad Show
“American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino
allegedly broke down into an emotional wreck during her show in
Trinidad on her birthday while reflecting on the loss of Whitney
Houston.MUST READ: Fantasia Returns To Twitter With An Apology For R. Kelly
Reports say she burst into tears “Even Angels.”
“This year, we lost Whitney Houston…They just wouldn’t leave her alone. They did not understand that she was only human. We lose family, friends, all for the love of money. The only person who will never leave you is Jesus.”
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Mindless Behavior Tweets Apology to Lauryn Hill
Mindless Behavior Tweets Apology To Lauryn Hill
As reported by V101.9 radio site…R&B boy band Mindless Behavior stepped in some mess at Sunday’s BET Awards show. they made a bad joke about Lauryn Hill‘s tax drama and they are apologizing for it now.
When Mindless Behavior presented the award for Best Female R&B with Mike Epps, they did the usual joking at the podium before announcing the nominees. The only problem is the jokes got out of hand when Mike Epps began singing terribly and Ray Ray of mindless Behavior said, “You sing bad. Like Lauryn Hill tax accountant bad.” People in the audience gasped at the insensitivity.
Today, the group apologized via Twitter, saying, “We meant no disrespect to our girl Lauryn Hill last night, it was a bad joke. We’re big fans and hope you’re not mad! #peace -MB” While we can’t blame Mindless Behavior for reading a teleprompter, we must hold the writer of that joke accountable for his poor judgment.
For more details on the incident, click here.
Prince Paul-Documentary
No one has repeatedly subverted and expanded the hip-hop
vocabulary quite like producer and comedic raconteur Prince Paul. From
his teenage days as DJ for Stetsasonic (the original hip-hop band) and his unparalleled collaborations with De La Soul, to his later, highly unsettling solo LPs Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) and A Prince Among Thieves,
Prince Paul has a body of work that resembles no other. Throw in Paul’s
stint as a sickle-swinging member of hip-hop supergroup Gravediggaz and
his production role on Chris Rock’s Grammy-winning comedy album Roll With The New, and the subject of this exhibit is the very thing he’d be slow to admit: a living legend.
Paul Huston was born in 1967 in Queens, New York, and raised in suburban Long Island. It was the heyday of Parliament/Funkadelic, and Paul grew up idolizing P-Funk’s chief prankster, George Clinton. Then, as hip-hop took shape in the boroughs around him, Paul started spinning records at neighborhood parties.
One night at a party the scrawny teenager was approached by two leather-clad men. Paul assumed they were going to beat him up. Instead, the pair introduced themselves as Daddy-O and Delite of Stetsasonic, and invited DJ Paul to join their group. Such scarifying weirdness may have been expected by a kid who lived not far from the Amityville horror house. But it was another local building, Amityville High School, where Paul met three fellow students with whom he’d change the face of popular music.
As the hip-hop timeline zooms further away from the creation and release of De La Soul’s first three, Prince Paul-produced albums, it becomes easier to overlook their initial impact. Three Feet High and Rising, De La’s 1989 debut, sold a million copies by offering something completely different. While Trugoy, Posdnous, and Pacemaster Mase delivered their skewed suburban stories, Paul provided a soundtrack hand-stitched from unexpected sources like Steely Dan, Flo & Eddie, even a French language-instruction record. (As technicolor sampling fantasias go, only Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique can compare.) If that wasn’t enough, the album also introduced to the world perhaps Paul’s daffiest invention, the hip-hop skit.
Under Prince Paul’s patronage, De La Soul promulgated a decidedly non-gangsta alternative they dubbed The D.A.I.S.Y. Age. The acronym stood for Da Inner Sound Y’All; nevertheless the group was labeled hip-hop hippies, and they snapped back with their sophomore LP De La Soul Is Dead. Around the same time, Paul clicked with 3rd Bass, Def Jam’s pale-faced replacements for the Beastie Boys. With a chip on their shoulder the size of Manhattan, 3rd Bass delivered the Paul-produced “The Gas Face” — still one of the funniest, foamiest dis records ever.
In 1993, De La Soul birthed Buhloone Mindstate, their most mind-expanding Prince Paul collaboration of all. In a genre where two decent songs an album was considered permissible and shelf lives are often on par with open jars of mayonnaise, Buhloone stands tall on the short-list of all-time front-to-back hip-hop classics. Simultaneously singalong-ready and defiantly anti-commercial (“It might blow up but it won’t go pop” goes one memorable chant), Buhloone Mindstate‘s soul-swabbed boom-bap remains one of Prince Paul’s most indelible achievements.
Productive partnerships seldom dissolve at the appropriate moment, but Paul and De La Soul parted ways at their peak. While De La waded into the mainstream with Stakes Is High, Paul paddled further into uncharted waters. Offered his own label by Def Jam mogul Russell Simmons, Paul insisted it be called Dew Doo Man Records (much to Simmons’ chagrin). The label disappeared quickly. Rap, meanwhile, was bigger than ever.
Since Paul started out with Stetsasonic, hip-hop had grown into a big business. And in business, the almighty dollar is king. This particular Prince never ascended to the throne of his overpaid peers. Instead Paul rallied with wordy cronies Fruitkwan and Too Poetic, as well as a not-yet-famous RZA, as the demented supergroup Gravediggaz. Their 1994 album Six Feet Deep, labeled “horrorcore” by critics, was equally a tribute to the campy, semi-scary movies like Blood Sucking Freaks that Paul had grown up loving.
As RZA went on to worldwide adoration with Wu-Tang Clan, Prince Paul descended into madness. On record, anyway: Paul’s 1996 solo treatise Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) was a portrait of a producer for whom laughter was his sole link to sanity. Alongside an album cover collage that would’ve made Freud flinch, Paul’s claim “Alfred E. Neuman got nuttin’ on me” seemed all too true. But could a madman have created a cohesive masterwork like 1999′s Prince Among Thieves? The album’s featured guests included Chubb Rock, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Keith and Everlast. Blaze magazine thought it sounded like if “Jonathan Swift smoked a blunt with Rodgers and Hammerstein, then invited the Juice Crew over.” Swift, presumably, would not have protested much.
Paul subsequently adopted the pseudonym Chest Rockwell, cigar-chewing martini-swilling majordomo of Handsome Boy Modeling School, a recording project that resulted in two deservedly acclaimed, gut-busting albums. Not bad for what had begun as a private joke with fellow producer Dan The Automator.
Most revolutionaries end up before a firing squad, but somehow Prince Paul has survived. The shifting tides of the rap game have occasionally set the producer adrift, but Paul has displayed an uncanny knack for surfacing with the goods. Witness the new on-line series Scion A/V Presents Prince Paul: Musician Impossible, where the producer travels to far-flung locales in an attempt to reinvigorate his own interest in making music.
Appropriately, this brings us to the Project Museum exhibit you are about to enter. A clinical assessment might deem Prince Paul a pack rat, but it’s history’s good fortune that Paul is in fact a minutiae-minded archivist who has held onto a wealth of memorabilia from throughout his career. Here, Paul takes us on the guided tour of a selection of artifacts from his personal collection that have never before seen the light of day. So whether you’re a long-time Prince Paul devotee or a new jack just starting to dig the great man’s tracks, there’s something here to delight, affirm and inspire.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Stevie J and Coke? Damn dawg!
Ask Jacky… Did you Know Stevie J. is Addicted to Cocaine
by Jacky Jasper
Jacky,
I stumbled across your post about that buffoonery of a show Love and Hip Hop Atlanta. I know Stevie J and his brother Mike Jordan (not related to the legendary basketball player). I used to live in Marietta, Georgia, in the Westminster apartments.
At the time I was dating a man named Damiane Stockdale who was friends with Mike and Stevie. Damiane knew I wrote songs, I was working on a book too. Every time Damiane and I met Stevie J, he was coked up. It became clear, he was only interested in sleeping with me. Stevie wasn’t into collaborating musically with me, he wanted sex. Damiane assumed I slept wit Stevie and he assaulted me, in my home.
He’s currently in jail (In a Georgia Department of Correctional Institution). Stevie and Mimi were living with Anna and Chris Benson (the retired baseball player) Stevie used to ride around in Mimi’s black Mercedes truck, he gave me a ride in the vehicle several times. Stevie was broke, because he was always high. Stevie is a heavy coke user, he’s on prescription pills too. Thinking about it, Damiane and I started to bumped heads once he started to hang out with Stevie.
Damiane started to use drugs after being clean for five years. I remember Stevie telling me Mike Jordan and Damiane were being on the down low, he was hating on Damiane and Mike. Stevie is so low, he’ll throw his own brother under the bus.
Stevie always bragged about the ‘BOULE’,he also told me Diddy and Fonzworth were lovers.
Thanks Jacky,
Kimmi Illumina
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Hip-Hop meets Classical (Vintage 2010 footage)
“Hip-Hop meets Classical” with SMKA, Aleon Craft & The Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra aired on CNN @ 12:45pm February, 12th 2010.
This is a special collaboration between Hip-Hop and Classical music that is the first of its kind. According to the governing symphony organization, this is the first collaboration of its kind. The collaboration was a result of ASO’s Concerts for Young People, a series of programs that focus on integrating the arts into school curriculum with concerts performed by full orchestra. The ASO commissioned Atlanta-based SMKA Productions to create a song that sampled classical music. The piece was performed for a full audience by the ASO and Aleon Craft at the Atlanta Symphony Hall 18 times between October-Febuary 2010.
“It’s a fascinating piece of work.”- Jere Flint (ASO Conductor)
“Music Is My Life”
Written by: Aleon Craft
Produced by: 808 Blake of SMKA
Guitar by: Parker Smith
Scored by: Brad Dorfman
This is a special collaboration between Hip-Hop and Classical music that is the first of its kind. According to the governing symphony organization, this is the first collaboration of its kind. The collaboration was a result of ASO’s Concerts for Young People, a series of programs that focus on integrating the arts into school curriculum with concerts performed by full orchestra. The ASO commissioned Atlanta-based SMKA Productions to create a song that sampled classical music. The piece was performed for a full audience by the ASO and Aleon Craft at the Atlanta Symphony Hall 18 times between October-Febuary 2010.
“It’s a fascinating piece of work.”- Jere Flint (ASO Conductor)
“Music Is My Life”
Written by: Aleon Craft
Produced by: 808 Blake of SMKA
Guitar by: Parker Smith
Scored by: Brad Dorfman
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D'Angelo teams up with Questlove....HOT!
MANCHESTER, Tennessee — Questlove always has a few tricks up
his sleeve, and the Roots drummer saved his one of his biggest stunts in
recent history for Saturday night's "Superjam" session at the Bonnaroo
Music and Arts Festival. Just a couple hours after the Roots finished
their own set on the festival's main stage, D'Angelo joined Questlove
for his first U.S. performance in over a decade.
The Superjam session (billed as "?uestlove with very special guests") didn't kick off until well after midnight at "This Tent," and Quest wasn't on the stage for long before he proudly introduced the legendary R&B singer to the crowd, telling them, "I've been waiting 12 years to say this: Ladies and gentleman, D'Angelo!"
After warming up with a few recent shows in Europe, D'Angelo finally made his way to a stage in the states. With the support of a nine-piece band and musical veterans like Roots collaborator James Poyser, D'Angelo joined Quest for over an hour, opening with Jimi Hendrix's "Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" and hitting songs like the Beatles' 'She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" and Led Zeppelin's "What is and What Should Never Be."
Rumors of an appearance from D'Angelo had been circulating through the music tents in Manchester, Tennessee all day, and when MTV News caught up with Questlove a few hours before the surprise set, he explained, without naming names, what his vision for the night was.
'What I wanted to do was recreate the magic of the songwriting process at the time when I was taking residency in Electric Lady Studios," he explained, referencing Jimi Hendrix's studio facility built in New York's West Village in 1970. "I made that my central location from 1996 'til about 2004, and during that time that's where D'Angelo's Voodoo album as created, Mos Def's Black on Both Sides was created, and even some of Phrenology and The Tipping Point was created," he said. "That was really the central location for our soul querying catalog, so what I've done [for the Superjam] is gathered a cast of characters to show what a night in that period was like."
And what exactly what a typical night in Electric Lady Studios like? "Around 3 a.m., we would sit around bored and decide what album to re-do," he reminisced. "So let's say Prince's Under the Cherry Moon album — we would get in the studio and karaoke-style do the album from start to finish. But if at any point we started playing something that sounded good, we kept playing the groove over it, then all the music would go away, the drums would still go ... and it slowly morphed into another song. That was our songwriting process. So tonight, eight musicians of historical significance will be on stage and when we're in that circle, it's just gonna be the eight of us. I'm not even gonna look at the thousands of people watching."
The thousands of people who were watching had a hard time believing that D'Angelo was really jamming at the late-night set, and it's safe to say that not one of them was "bored" as Questlove joked they might be. The next time fans will be able to catch D'Angelo live is at the upcoming Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, where he'll likely treat crowds to his own classics.
Are you at Bonnaroo? Share your review in the comments below!
The Superjam session (billed as "?uestlove with very special guests") didn't kick off until well after midnight at "This Tent," and Quest wasn't on the stage for long before he proudly introduced the legendary R&B singer to the crowd, telling them, "I've been waiting 12 years to say this: Ladies and gentleman, D'Angelo!"
After warming up with a few recent shows in Europe, D'Angelo finally made his way to a stage in the states. With the support of a nine-piece band and musical veterans like Roots collaborator James Poyser, D'Angelo joined Quest for over an hour, opening with Jimi Hendrix's "Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" and hitting songs like the Beatles' 'She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" and Led Zeppelin's "What is and What Should Never Be."
Rumors of an appearance from D'Angelo had been circulating through the music tents in Manchester, Tennessee all day, and when MTV News caught up with Questlove a few hours before the surprise set, he explained, without naming names, what his vision for the night was.
'What I wanted to do was recreate the magic of the songwriting process at the time when I was taking residency in Electric Lady Studios," he explained, referencing Jimi Hendrix's studio facility built in New York's West Village in 1970. "I made that my central location from 1996 'til about 2004, and during that time that's where D'Angelo's Voodoo album as created, Mos Def's Black on Both Sides was created, and even some of Phrenology and The Tipping Point was created," he said. "That was really the central location for our soul querying catalog, so what I've done [for the Superjam] is gathered a cast of characters to show what a night in that period was like."
And what exactly what a typical night in Electric Lady Studios like? "Around 3 a.m., we would sit around bored and decide what album to re-do," he reminisced. "So let's say Prince's Under the Cherry Moon album — we would get in the studio and karaoke-style do the album from start to finish. But if at any point we started playing something that sounded good, we kept playing the groove over it, then all the music would go away, the drums would still go ... and it slowly morphed into another song. That was our songwriting process. So tonight, eight musicians of historical significance will be on stage and when we're in that circle, it's just gonna be the eight of us. I'm not even gonna look at the thousands of people watching."
The thousands of people who were watching had a hard time believing that D'Angelo was really jamming at the late-night set, and it's safe to say that not one of them was "bored" as Questlove joked they might be. The next time fans will be able to catch D'Angelo live is at the upcoming Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, where he'll likely treat crowds to his own classics.
Are you at Bonnaroo? Share your review in the comments below!
YING YANG Twin DUI
Ying Yang Twins' D-Roc Arrested For DUI, Child Endangerment
Rapper was arrested in Georgia after a traffic stop; his two children were asleep in the backseat.
By Rob Markman (@RobMarkman) 
There was a time when the Ying Yang Twins
were at the top of the rap game, but last week group member D-Roc hit a
low point when he was arrested and hit with DUI, drug possession and
child endangerment charges.
On June 1, D-Roc (born Deongelo Holmes) was arrested in Georgia after Gwinnett County police stopped the rapper for failing to drive in a single lane. According to a police report obtained by MTV News after the stop, D-Roc admitted to having "a few beers at a friend's house" and smoking marijuana earlier in the evening. He was driving with his children (a 3-year old and a 2-month-old), who were asleep in the back seat of his 2002 GMC Yukon Denali.
The arresting officer found two alprazolam pills on D-Roc's person, and upon searching the vehicle, the officer also found two grams of marijuana in a grinder.
During their height, the Ying Yang Twins experienced success with high-charting Billboard singles like 2000's "Whistle While You Twurk" and 2005's "Wait (The Whisper Song)." In 2003, they dropped their hit "Salt Shaker" and also guested on Lil Jon's #1 Rap single "Get Low." The duo earned two platinum albums with 2003's Me & My Brother and then again two years later with U.S.A. (United States of Atlanta). The Twins dropped Ying Yang Forever in 2009, but the double disc CD failed to match their previous success.
Last month, the group took it upon themselves to remix Justin Bieber's hit single "Boyfriend."
Mos Def peforms "Hard in the paint" w/Orchestra
Mos Def Performs Waka Flocka’s “Hard In Da Paint”… With Orchestra?! [VIDEO]
Mos will be performing an orchestral version of… Waka Flocka Flame’s “Hard In Da Paint.” And it’s actually kinda fly.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
SLAMjamz South
SLAMjamz South serves as a separate Division and Expansion of SLAMjamz Records
[ 06/03/2012 ]
SLAMjamz South serves a separate division and expansion of SLAMjamz Records (www.slamjamzsouth.com & www.slamjamzsouth.com). SLAMjamz South is as an entertainment company with several areas of focus which include music releases as well as several other multimedia projects..
Slamjamz South is scheduled to release artist projects via SPITdigital utilizing e-distribution (iTunes, Amazon and etc) which will begin Mid 2012.
As of now SLAMjamz South has a limited artist roster and has an interest for new creative talent within all genres of music. SLAMjamz South Music has both "single" and "full project releases" scheduled for the Summer and Fall of 2012 and beyond.
Current Artist Include:
HBK (of C U Next Weekend)
Messenger
Supernatural INC Music Artist:
which include (Dsharp, Deelish, Lil Earl, R.E.A.L, Most HiFi and DJ Kayo)
SLAMjamz South has also partnered with Supernatural INC (www.thesupernaturalinc.com) as both a Music Label and Entertainment Entity. Supernatural INC has music and film projects scheduled for release Mid- 2012.
Live events in the form of artist and promotional showcases will take place starting Summer 2012.
Stay Tuned!
Be sure to follow us here:
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/SLAMjamz-South/329023447149769
Twitter- http://twitter.com/#!/SLAMjamzSouth (@SLAMjamzSouth)
website: www.slamjamzsouth.com
Janol "Mecca" Holmes \
Director/Board Member
SLAMjamz South/Supernatural INC
[ 06/03/2012 ]
SLAMjamz South serves a separate division and expansion of SLAMjamz Records (www.slamjamzsouth.com & www.slamjamzsouth.com). SLAMjamz South is as an entertainment company with several areas of focus which include music releases as well as several other multimedia projects.. Slamjamz South is scheduled to release artist projects via SPITdigital utilizing e-distribution (iTunes, Amazon and etc) which will begin Mid 2012.
As of now SLAMjamz South has a limited artist roster and has an interest for new creative talent within all genres of music. SLAMjamz South Music has both "single" and "full project releases" scheduled for the Summer and Fall of 2012 and beyond.
Current Artist Include:
HBK (of C U Next Weekend)
Messenger
Supernatural INC Music Artist:
which include (Dsharp, Deelish, Lil Earl, R.E.A.L, Most HiFi and DJ Kayo)
SLAMjamz South has also partnered with Supernatural INC (www.thesupernaturalinc.com) as both a Music Label and Entertainment Entity. Supernatural INC has music and film projects scheduled for release Mid- 2012.
Live events in the form of artist and promotional showcases will take place starting Summer 2012.
Stay Tuned!
Be sure to follow us here:
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/SLAMjamz-South/329023447149769
Twitter- http://twitter.com/#!/SLAMjamzSouth (@SLAMjamzSouth)
website: www.slamjamzsouth.com
Janol "Mecca" Holmes \
Director/Board Member
SLAMjamz South/Supernatural INC
Friday, June 8, 2012
RIP Lil Phat
Sandy Springs police said Friday they are searching for two suspects in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man outside Northside Hospital.
Police identified the victim as Melvin Vernell III, also known as rapper "Lil Phat," of Corbin Lake Court in Sandy Springs. A motive for the Thursday night shooting was not known.
Police spokesman Capt. Steve Rose said Friday morning that police are searching for two males "seen running from the location at the time of the shooting."
Witnesses described one as short and wearing a red shirt, and the other as tall and dressed in all black, Rose said.
The incident happened about 6:40 p.m. in the 1001 block of Johnson Ferry Road, Sandy Springs police said. A man was found shot multiple times in a car parked on the second level of a parking deck off Hollis Cobb Drive next to the Northside Hospital Women’s Center.
The victim was taken to Northside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Police declined Friday to say why Vernell was in the hospital parking deck,
Witnesses indicated to investigators that they saw at least one suspect running from the parking deck toward Johnson Ferry Road. Police said Thursday night they knew of no connection between the shooting and the hospital or its Women’s Center.
The parking deck has video surveillance cameras but it was not known if they captured any useful images.
One of the visitors caught up in the lockdown was state Sen. Charlie Bethel (R-Dalton).
“We arrived around 6:30 to visit my brother and sister-in-law – my wife’s family had baby today at Northside Women’s Center – and as we arrived, there was a disturbance in the parking lot,” Bethel told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a phone interview.
“As we entered the hospital, we were escorted to an empty patient room with other visitors,” he said. “Another family said that as they were beginning to leave, they heard shots and were hurried back into the hospital.”
Hospital officials, Bethel said, “just asked us to go, close the doors and stay away from the windows.”
The visitors were let out of the room about 8:30 p.m., he said.
Rob Markman, a Senior Hip-Hop Writer at MTV News, said Vernell was best known for his contributions to a popular song by fellow Trill Entertainment rappers Webbie and Lil’ Boosie in 2008.
The song, “Independent,” peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 at the time, and was twice the No. 1 rap single in the country the same year.
“The song was a big deal, and he was a part of it,” Markman said.
-- Staff writer Katie Leslie contributed to this article.
Pitchfork Music Festival
A$AP Rocky, Big K.R.I.T., Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar & ScHoolboy Q To Perform At Pitchfork Music Festival
It’s (unofficially) summer now, so you know what that means: short skirts, shorter nights and the abundance of music festivals. Pitchfork’s annual weekend concert goes down July 13-15 at Chicago’s Union Park, and a couple (2)dope favorites will take the stage among the 47 different genre-crossing acts. You can head over to Pitchfork’s e-tilt for more information and to purchase tickets.
B. Dolan Leaks "King Bee"
“King Bee” finds Dolan & Buddy Peace jacking for beats and making a certified rap banger out of the blues standard of the same name. In no mood to pull punches, Dolan tees off with a brash reminder of his hard-earned credibility: “I invented Ugly,” he declares, and proceeds to bare his teeth at more than a few of his rap peers. Mr. Dolan is sounding more seasoned and antagonistic than ever on this one, and doesn’t hesitate to throw shade at a field of peers who would rather “stay home and hope to go viral” than dedicate themselves to the craft and hustle to be King.
Buddy Peace punctuates the song with a jaw-dropping scratch sequence, right before the drag Queen (and Dolan’s Church of Love & Ruin partner) Ms. Nicholle Pride comes through to address Drake with a cameo of legendary, Prince Paul-esque proportions.
CCS x Trukfit Lil Wayne's clothing line
To
make this Memorial Day Weekend a little brighter, we’ve decided to
extend the deadline for you to win some free gear. So go ahead and
party till your gear gets trashed, because by entering you’ll qualify
for some pretty dope replacements.
URB
Magazine has teamed up with CCS and Lil Wayne’s Streetwear brand,
Trukfit to put together a free merchandise giveaway. One winning entry
to be chosen at random will win a $25 CCS Giftcard, a Trukfit hat, and a
Trukfit shirt.
Entering is easy, multiple entries count multiple times… just tweet or share the following:
@phil_enn said that I just entered the @URBMag x @CCS_Skate x @Trukfit Contest.
CONTEST EXTENDED TILL MONDAY, MAY 28th Midnight PST… contest winners will be announced online and notified via private message!
Gensu Dean
Gensu Dean’s “Lo-Fi Fingahz” album continues to spread throughout the world and today enjoy another leak from the album, this time focusing on the track “In My Way” featuring NYC legends Brand Nubian.
Make sure to pick up “Lo-Fi Fingahz,” produced entirely by Gensu Dean and featuring guest appearances from Large Professor, Roc Marciano, David Banner, Prince Po, Count Bass D, and many other.
Kool A.D. ft Heems
Chris Brown on "Today" Show
Chris Brown Rocks The “Today” Show With Live Performance
Despite being roasted by Chris Rock the day before, Chris Brown
gave the “Today” show his all in a crowd rocking performance of his
songs “Forever,” “Turn Up the Music,” “Yeah 3x” and “Don’t Wake Me Up.”Chris immediately took to his Twitter account to thank his fans for their support.
“Thx to all teambreezy who woke up so damn early to see me perform! I love y’all!” Breezy posted.
Check out photos from the performance:
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Stacy Francis: Talks Whitney Houston
Stacy Francis: Whitney Houston Argument A Misunderstanding
While promoting her latest single – a remake of the Prince (happy birthday, sir!) classic “Purple Rain” – former X-Factor contestant Stacy Francis was asked about her rift with Whitney Houston. If you recall, the two had reportedly got into a fight over Ray J
at the singer’s last public appearance before Houston’s untimely
passing. Well, Stacy says she wants to make certain everything is
cleared up once and for all — calling the whole deal a big
misunderstanding.She explained to Sister 2 Sister:
It’s something I don’t need to really discuss anymore. I don’t want to stir up her fans; we need to let her rest….I am an old family friend of Ray J and have known him for 15 years. Ray J came in and hugged me and it became a misunderstanding…Ray J and I have spoken and I wanted to make sure he was OK…He’s a very strong man, a good guy and his relationship with God has gotten stronger since….I have this gift that I really want to share with this world…No one will really understand what happened and I just hope that I don’t have to talk about it the rest of my career. Whitney told me God is a God of second chances.”
Usher Raymond's Mom KO'ed Tameka
Usher Raymond’s Mother Knocked Out Tameka Raymond?
Usher Raymond‘s
estranged ex-wife Tameka Raymond has never been fully welcomed by the
media and Usher’s mother Jonetta Patton. When Usher decided to marry
Tameka, he and his mother’s relationship took a blow and according to
new sources so did Tameka!In 2010, Tameka and Jonetta got into a disagreement over the children which allegedly resulted in Tameka getting knocked out by the 55-year-old, In Touch Weekly reports.
Tameka and usher are currently going through a bitter custody battle with their dirty laundry being aired along the way!
10 B-DAY CAKES for Kanye West
10 Birthday Cakes For Kanye West [GALLERY]
Happy Birthday Kanye West!
Today is Air Yeezy’s 35th Birthday and we’re pretty sure the
multi-hyphenate talent will find plenty of ways to celebrate in over the
top fashion. But what would a birthday be without some cake?RELATED: Happy Birthday Kanye West: His 10 Best Songs
We know that Kanye’s boo Kim Kardashian probably has some extravagant confection planned for their first birthday as a couple, but we found some Mr. West inspired cakes that Kimye should consider for this weekend’s festivities.
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