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News and logos
Remember I was telling you about Marty, Denosh and Timor (see post below)? Well, Dutch entertainment magazine RTL Boulevard has picked up the story. Which, as usual, they twisted and cut to make it super sexy… Check out the video here. Sorry, no English subs. I’m at Matry’s this weekend – he’ll be happy to [...]
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Tags: Andre Merritt, Beat Brokers, Boulevard, Brussels, Canada, chris brown, Denosh Bennett, graphic design, Marty Kudelka, MySpace, RTL, So You Think You Can Dance, The Bionix, Timor, Toronto, Trish
Ya boy is back…
Thank you for the emails and comments. The inspiration was gone for a minute, but then I just got caught up in Beat Brokers and New Frontier. Man, for someone who doesn’t have a job, I’ve been very busy. Graphic design stuff has take off, and I’ve been designing MySpace pages for various artists and [...]
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SoundScan for this week
1 1 T.I. GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 169,694 -71%
PAPER TRAIL
– 2 RISE AGAINST DGC/INTERSCOPE 68,299 –
APPEAL TO REASON
5 3 METALLICA WARNER BROS. 66,613 -25%
DEATH MAGNETIC
2 4 JENNIFER HUDSON ARISTA/RMG 61,207 -73%
JENNIFER HUDSON
– 5 OASIS REPRISE 52,963 –
DIG OUT YOUR SOUL
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Tags: album, first week, oasis, rise against, sales, soundscan, tim mcgraw
Do not vote! FUCK IT!
The Presidential race is all over the TV. You can’t miss it when you’re on the internet. When I was in New York this July, Obama volunteers were on many block corners in Mid Town Manhattan to convince people to vote [for Obama]. I’m kind of surprised that the campaigns aren’t really visible here in [...]
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Tags: anti-obama, biden, celebrities, commercial, debate, do not vote, election, fox, los angeles, new york, obama, palin, tv
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
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
