Archive for September, 2008
Guns ‘n Roses x Best Buy
If you have been reading my blog for a while, you have come across my post about Target snatching the Aguilera best of exclusively. Well, a new major chain has risen to the occasion to get a big release this year. The title of this post probably spoiled the surprise, I’m talking about GnR’s long [...]
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Tags: aguilera, album, best buy, chain, Chinese Democracy, dr. pepper, exclusive, Guns 'n Roses, leaked, retailer, target
Own a piece of rap culture
You know the recession hit the States bad when rappers are selling their jewelry. I’m joking. Russel Simmons’ Rush Community Affairs has joined forces with a New York auction house to give you the opportunity to own a piece of hip hop’s history. On March 5th, New York’s contemporary art auction house Phillips de Pury [...]
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Tags: 50 cent, auction, bling, culture, diamond, guiness book of records, hip hop, history, jewelry, kanye west, notorious big, rappers, recession, russel simmons, tupac
StarRoc (JAY-Z ft. StarGate)
And there you have it. Not too long ago I mentioned JAY-Z is in the Live Nation deal for way more than just him the artist. [StarRoc] confirms my theory that after the mid 90s craze for European pop music like Swedish duo Max Martin and Denniz Pop (Please look these names up if they [...]
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Tags: 360 deal, 360 model, billboard, charts, estelle, europe, jay-z, joint venture, label, live nation, music business, norway, producers, publishing, record, roc nation, signed, stargate, starroc, sweden, talent, UK, US
The A Files (Mya)
What do you do when the group of people who actually want to buy your music is gradually shrinking? Significantly… What are your alternatives (hence the name, A files) when you’re not selling 250K in the first week anymore? Hell, you probably ain’t selling 100K anymore either. Where do you go when you aren’t a [...]
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Tags: 360 model, acting, album sales, busta rhymes, chris brown, Christina Milian, donald passman, dru hill, grammy, hip hop, jazmine sullivan, joe, king, maxim, music business, Mya, MySpace, publicist, r&b, rihanna, The-Dream, universal, vip
My other blog…
Not sure when my fascination for beards started, but I want one. I want my beard blog to grow out (what a clever choice of words) to become the number one source for everything beard.
I want to exchange experiences about the growing and shaving process, I’m going to put up pictures and you’re more [...]
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Tags: beard, beards, blogs, club, grooming, growing, ladies, shaving, thirty, trivia
When RIM? When…?
UPDATE: First look at BlackBerry Javelin on CrackBerry.com. Now, I’m definitely willing to wait.
I’m over the Bold, I need the Javelin.
Bold is the new 8800 and Javelin is the new Curve. Lighter, sleeker, more casual. No info to be found on Blackberry.com. No rumored street date either. I’m sad. More specs and images after the [...]
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Tags: blackberry, gadgets, javelin, RIM, sick, soon
NOTORIOUS
Picture this: A small, all-white conservative town under Rotterdam. We’re one of the few immigrant families living here. It’s 1995, maybe ‘96. I’m wearing a black t-shirt with on the front a huge picture of the face of a black, 19 year old rapper from Long Beach City (CA), named Snoop Doggy Dogg.
By that [...]
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Tags: 2pac, big, christopher wallace, death, dogg, doggy, doggystyle, dr. dre, east coast, faith evans, gangsta, hustle, mixtapes, movie, mtv, notorious, rap, snoop, warren g, west coast, yo mtv raps
Free at last
Lunch with team IV, originally uploaded by Future CEO.
I’m relieved, yet sad. In that order. The last few weeks at the office felt like an endless struggle. To drive to work for the last time this morning, knowing that I’m finally moving on to a new phase in my life, one that has been more [...]
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Tags: iphone, lil wayne, pictures, team, tha carter III, uncle fred, universal, vuur
