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Rakim Speaks
August 26th, 2010Meet the Street king of Tweet
August 25th, 2010
Stacy Reign – I Don’t Need You
August 24th, 2010
Snoop Dogg Blows Up Armored Vehicle
August 23rd, 2010
Mariah Carey is definately Pregnant
August 23rd, 2010Mariah Carey is definately pregnant as seen in concert photos from her recent concert in Brazil.
The increasingly pregnant-looking 40-year old showed off what can only be described as a baby bump at a São Paulo, Brazil, concert on August 22. And while fans got an eyeful of the singer, they did not get any official confirmation. Forty years old is very old for having a healthy baby, as women who have babies after the age of 40 have a much higher rate of having a downs syndrome baby.
Mariah Carey Pregnant
Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon have been dodging baby rumors since May, when they were spotted outside of a Los Angeles clinic. She hasn’t said anything outright but did take to Twitter after the concert to say, “Tonite was tuff 4 me 4 personal reasons,but U got me thru!”
She plans to release another Christmas album on November 2, and talks are reportedly still ongoing for her to join wack ass “American Idol” as a new judge.
Queen Latifah to do Movie with Dolly Parton
August 23rd, 2010Actress/rapper/Lesbian Queen Latifah will team with country singer/actress Dolly Parton for a new film titled Joyful Noise.
The movie, which is a gospel-choir feature, centers around two women who are forced to work together to save a small town gospel choir after budget cuts threatens their future.
Latifah will play a mother who takes over the choir after the untimely death of the original director, while Parton plays the widow of the deceased director.
The role will be the first major appearance in film for Dolly Parton since 1992′s flick Straight Talk.
Queen Latifah was recently seen on the big screen alongside rapper/actor Common in the basketball flick, Just Wright. Queen Latifah was also caught embracing with her girlfriend on a boat and the photos were circulated across the web.
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August 22nd, 2010Raekwon talks about crossing over into Pop Music
August 21st, 2010After creating a buzz across the Internet for hopping on pop star Justin Bieber’s “Runaway Love” remix, Raekwon has now opened up about the possibility of doing more non-rap guest features.
Despite being a hip-hop veteran, the “Chef” feels he can dominate any genre of music.
“Let’s be straight up. Number one, you know I love all kinds of music,” Rae said in an interview. “When you think of the Chef, you think of somebody that knows how to cook and cook various dishes, so I couldn’t really sit here and say that I wouldn’t be up to do anything because I know at the end of the day it’s gonna be hot. Anything I touch is gonna be hot. I don’t care if I go through a record with a Mexican man from wherever, you know what I mean? When you look at the Chef, you can put me in any sauce and I have my ingredients and it’s gonna taste like what it’s supposed to taste like.”
Lets keep it real it had nothing to do with Raekwon. Justin Bieber could do a song with a crackhead and it would get airplay and love from his army of teenage fans.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Updated Review
August 20th, 2010If you play video games , then you already know Call of Duty is the Best war game series ever produced case closed. Below is the new review on Call of Duty Black -Ops.
The new demo of Call of Duty: Black Ops that Activision is showing here at Gamescom 2010 doesn’t quite start off with a bang. In fact, it’s more of that gurgling sound you hear when certain objects start sinking underwater. That’s not a bad thing, because we’re not talking in metaphors here–you literally start the level trapped inside a downed helicopter sinking to the bottom of the Huong River. It’s a tense sequence that sees you making a desperate escape while swimming through murky water with more than a few dead bodies in it.
If the sight of those bodies sinking to the bottom of the river while you’re trying to swim to the top of it doesn’t grab you, then the level’s rollercoaster pacing will. The whole level, dubbed Victor Charlie, is one great big crescendo that starts of slow and methodical, explodes in the middle, and slows back down for a bit toward the end. To give you an idea of how it builds up, let’s go back to the beginning. Once you get out of that river, you make your way through some waterfront huts and meet up with your squad mates, those grizzled deniable ops super soldiers who operate with vicious efficiency and sport some pretty awesome tattoos to boot. With them at your side you slowly and silently creep into an enemy hut while one of the bad guys, asleep on the job, is taking a nap.
What happens next isn’t for the faint of heart, but the basic jist is that you cover his mouth and and sink your knife quickly and silently into his throat in a grim scene of surgical violence. Okay, so maybe that’s not so much the jist as much as it is precisely what happens. At any rate, you continue along at a similar pace in order to get through this dangerous area unseen while dispatching a few more foes and taking another dip or two into the river (complete with first-person swimming) before getting to a village a bit farther inland. And that, well, that’s when things get really hot. The mission requires you to plant some C4 on a target building, and that explosion obviously attracts a lot of attention. The transition from all that sneaking about to this swarming bee’s nest of a shootout is something else, and definitely seems like it’ll keep a lot of players on their toes.
The firefight is a bit more of that classic Call of Duty, with fast-paced gun combat and more than a few explosions. A few of the highlights we noticed were the ways those wooden houses explode in a flurry of debris when you hit them with your M16′s underslung grenade launcher, and those handful of desperate enemies who come charging out of nowhere with a clear desire to skill you not with a gun, but with a gentlemanly knife to the chest. After that you hop into a dim, claustrophobic tunnel in a sequence that has you crawling through some pretty creepy scenery while encountering a few grim surprises along the way.
After Victor Charlie wrapped up, we had the chance to see the helicopter level that Treyarch demoed during Microsoft’s E3 2010 press conference a couple months ago. Named Payback, this level takes the aircraft sequences we’ve seen from time to time in previous Call of Duty games and lets you actually pilot the thing (while still operating the guns, of course). After sneaking up on a group of soldiers guarding a Russian Hind helicopter and taking them out, you hop into the attack chopper and fly through a river canyon shooting down on-foot enemies, armored trucks, helicopters, and entire bridges. You can read our initial impressions from the press conference demo for more details, but suffice it to say this level managed to put a new spin on the type of vehicle moments the Call of Duty series has previously been known for.
All told, Call of Duty: Black Ops is looking quite good. That’s not exactly a surprise for a series that’s garnered plenty of glowing reviews over the years, but it’s good to see that Treyarch has been able to jump into a new timeline–Cold War-era conflicts–without missing a step. Expect to see more coverage on Black Ops before the game releases on November 9.
Fat Beats record stores to close
August 19th, 2010Real DJs who use real vinyl will mourn over this. Fake button pushing DJs, and the New Serato DJs might understand, but its a sad day to lose all the record stores.
Hip-hop fans with an affinity for wax are mourning the end of an era – the closing of Fat Beats record stores.
The intimate West Village shop, one of the last in the city that specializes in selling hip-hop vinyl, is closing its doors, the company announced Wednesday.
“The business is down. The rent is up,” said store manager Eric (DJ Eclipse) Winn, 40. “We’ve slowly lost all of the retail end of the company. … Between the Internet and Serato [a digital DJ program] that’s what hurt the vinyl sales.”
Inside the store, known as “The Last Stop for Hip-Hop,” customers were devastated.
“Damn, I didn’t know,” said DJ Kase, 29, of Jersey City, a longtime customer at the Sixth Ave. store.
“The Internet messed it all up. This was like a cornerstone for hip-hop. This is where you get your [stuff],” he said.
He recalled when he saw Outkast inside the store and picked up Raekwon’s album “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…”
“It’s something about putting your hands on wax and digging through records. It’s something the Internet can’t do for you,” the deejay said. “I have a true love for vinyls.”
Jorge Berrios, 34, of South Ozone Park, Queens, spent $13 on three vinyls – “Player’s Anthem” by Junior M.A.F.I.A., “Candy Rain” by Soul for Real and Zhigge’s “Rakin’ in the Dough.”
“You have no idea how sad I am,” Berrios told the store owner. “It’s almost like my second home.”
The store was a haven for rap fans, and a top promotional stop for artists. The Fugees, Common and Kool G Rap were among the artists whose autographed photos covered the walls.
Veteran hip-hop producer DJ Spinna was deeply saddened by the closing of the store that boosted his career.
“It was definitely a landmark for the underground movement of the ’90s,” he said. “Young people who’ve never touched wax probably don’t know what the closing of a store like this means.”
In past years, once popular music stores like Tower Records, HMV and the Virgin Megastore have also been shuttered.
“It just means that we’re heading to a place where music won’t exist in a physical form anymore,” the producer said.
The final day for the New York store, which first opened on W. Ninth St. in 1994, will be Sept. 4. The Los Angeles store will close on Sept. 18.
“We’re losing stores that sell vinyl because of downloads and stuff like that,” said veteran DJ Clark Kent. “It’s a shame that deejays lose this place.”
