This is Irrelevant!

I’m Finally ging to graduate from Bradly Tech High School. I can’t believe how I’ve come. To be honest it scares me. I don’t think I’m prepared to go off into the real world. I didn’t really do the greatest job that I could have done in high school. And that’s my biggest regret. Do you you know what it feels like to be one of the most intelligent and intellectual people among your pears and not being able to show becase you don’t apply your or because you are in consistant. Well I do. But I’m not going to let it back me into a corner. You see I am a Survivor. I am a independant man come June 20th(my !8th birthday). I have know choice but to succeed. It’s “Hit or miss with this one”. It’s cruch time ladies and gentelman. And I aint going down.

Jay-Z Deal With Live Nation Reportedly Completed

Live Nation will reportedly contribute $5 million each year in overhead for five years and offer $25 million to finance Jay-Z’s external acquisitions and investments, plus $10 million per album for a minimum of three albums within the deal’s term. Jay-Z will also receive another $20 million for other rights including publishing and licensing. Live Nation is already producing the current Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige tour, which is putting up sellout numbers.

Full Story: BillBoard

Jay-Z has also set up a trust fund for the children of Sean Bell, Full Story.

Article On Gang Hand Signs

Sports blogs and talk shows exploded with speculation on whether the sign was a “b” for Blood (or perhaps Boston), a “bk” for Blood Killer, or just a team signal meaning “blood, sweat, and tears.” Pierce, in his one public statement on the matter, denied that he was making a gang reference but didn’t specify what he actually had been trying to signal. Celtics executive director of basketball operations Danny Ainge said it was a “blood, sweat, and tears” sign that Pierce made often – but then became fuzzier when asked directly about the other meaning, saying he wasn’t sure there was a gang connection.

Full Story: Boston Globe

For Video: Paul throws up the “B”.

Witness Claims To Have Had Relations With R.Kelly & Underage Girl In Kelly’s Rumored Sex Tape

A woman is set to testify at R. Kelly’s upcoming child pornography trial that she had a sexual encounter with Kelly and the allegedly underage girl shown in the video at the heart of the case. As part of the case, prosecutors claim to have identified the girl in the videotape. This alleged victim is now in her 20s. Kelly’s lawyers plan to argue — and the alleged victim will reportedly testify — that she is not the girl in the tape.

Full Story: Chicago Times

Does anyone out there really think that R.kelly is going to do time in jail?

U.K Border Agency attempts to ban Snoop for third time?

After two failed attempts to ban Snoop Dogg from the country, the UK Border Agency has filed an appeal and is again trying to have Snoop banned.

Last week Judge George Warr ruled against the Agency’s last banning attempt, saying they had failed to provide sufficient evidence that Snoop was a threat to public safety.

However The Guardian hs reported that the agency filed their second appeal on the case on Wednesday.

“We maintain that the immigration judge in the initial hearing made a material error in law,” said the Border Agency. “We will continue to oppose the entry to the UK of individuals where we believe there may be a risk to the public.”

Snoop was initially banned from the U.K on 2006 after a reported altercation with his entourage and authorities at London’s Heathrow Airport.

Video footage shown last week showed Snoop was in fact playing with children at times during the reported altercation.

Common discusses upcoming album “Invincible Summer”

Common recently spoke with Billboard to talk about his upcoming album “Invincible Summer,” which is slated for a July release.

“I created this music for the summer time, it’s about feeling good,” Common told Billboard.com during a recent preview of tracks appearing on “Invincible Summer.” “This is the type of music I felt was missing from my body of work.”

Frequent Common collaborator Kanye West is absent from the new album this time around.

“Kanye was focusing on his ‘Glow in the Dark’ show, so he hasn’t been able to make it to the studio to weigh in,” Common said. “But it worked out well, organically. The Neptunes & Mr. DJ came up with a fresh sound for me.”

Why southern rap music sucks so bad…

Let me again qualify myself by saying that I am not a vegetarian, Free Mumia, Black Power rap music fan. That type of rap hasn’t been good since Public Enemy and it won’t ever be that good again. I do think that today’s rap music lacks a component that inspires the listener to think outside of the box and critically analyze their surroundings. The question remains to be answered as to whether it is the listeners tastes that caused the shift or the controllers of media that shape one’s tastes.

This is where I use southern region rap music as my example. For as long as I can remember there was only one theme that came from rappers who lived south of the Mason-Dixon line. It was all about partying. Before Luke Campbell became a household name there was a cat called DJ Jimi from N’Awlins who had all the Atlanta strip clubs dancing to his song ‘Where They At?’. If you ever heard this song it was complete jibberish. The hook was garbage talking about “I might buy you a starter if you dance right”(I don’t know”). Since this was the late eighties I imagine that DJ Jimi was referring to a Starter team jacket. We had stopped wearing those in New York several years before, but the south was popular for copping old New York styles like they shopped at the Bowery Salvation Army.

For a brief moment OutKast had brought a soul to southern Hip-Hop and I thought that there might be the genesis of a new mindset. With all the young Black teenagers attending schools in the Atlanta area it looked as if there would be a moment when all the people who had been marginalized by mainstream society would finally push off their mental shackles and move themselves forward out from the clubs. The next thing I knew Jermaine Dupri said, “Money Ain’t A Thing” and all the co-eds were back working the night shift at Club Nikki’s. Little John came in with his dance anthems and so did Ludacris. As a side note, after all of the dancing jams Ludacris has crafted isn’t it ironic to watch him go to the Grammys with a song about some chick running away from abuse?

And speaking of the Grammy awards… T.I. was favored by some of you      (fill in the blank) to win because of his album titled ‘King’. This dude comes from Atlanta doesn’t he? The only King I know that comes from Atlanta doesn’t do Chevrolet commercials nor does he throw bricks of money up in the air to make it rain. What do you know about that? In a short window of time the controllers of mainstream media have subverted the messages and iconic imagery of what might arguably be African Americans greatest generation. They didn’t do it by themselves though. They had co-conspirators working with them from the inside. They used children, and the adults that refused to grow up.

In the thirty plus years that Hip-Hop and rap have been recognized as an art form you would imagine that Hip-Hop and rap would have had the sense enough to grow up. If you had thirty years of experience wouldn’t you be wiser for it? Then why isn’t Hip-Hop allowed to grow up? Why are you fans constantly being offered stupid lyrics and soda pop? Somebody doesn’t respect you for your intelligence and they are selling you the stuff off the bottom of their shoes. I would ask you “what you know about that” but I already know you don’t know any better. Southern Hip-Hop and rap reflects today’s consumer markets aspirations and dreams. Rap music is over thirty years old and it is still looking to escape responsibility and find a party. Hip-Hop died long before the Godfather did. People are keeping themselves busy by selling you parts of the carcass.

 

PS: I know this my upset some my viewers, but I have to Expose so that I can Dispose!