Man, miss me with the fake Jay and B quotes already. Headlines. Some of you sites will do anything for attention and traffic. You really believed B would speak to Star magazine? Tuck your tabloid in. And why would Hov need to write a letter to his daughter? Bitch please. He wrote a song! It's called "Glory" and it's pretty fuckin' revealing. He went on the record (double entendre) but you still don't get it. You may hear baby Blue's first cries but no you don't know her height, weight or what she looks like. And no you ain't gettin' a flick, fool. Can new parents get some privacy? Even if they are celebrities. Sheesh! Who raised you animals? Party at the 40/40. Paps outside. Rushin' the velvet rope. Don't trip over your integrity.
You Played Yourself
Put us here if you like. The RR store stays open 24/7. SOPA? Yeah we Showcase Our Product Always. And we're gonna continue straight ahead til somebody up there turns out the lights. Start from scratch? I'm not afraid.
Saturday, March 28 2009 6:18 PM EST | Posted by: B.Dot | Posted in: Focus
Pharrell and friends premier their new track, “Soldier” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. At the :30 second mark, Skateboard P does the McDonalds shuffle, again. Will someone get this nigga some dance lessons?
Saturday, March 28 2009 4:40 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Gossip
T-Pain didn’t show up for last night’s concert in San Jose leaving his homie Lil Wayne hangin’ on his I Am Music Tour. But it appears he had a good reason. There’s a rumor, he fell out of a golf cart scrapped up his arm and lost some teeth. Guess niggas don’t belong on golf courses. Ha!
Bonus: An awful T-Wayne collabo off the new mixtape, My Face Can’t Be Felt.
Saturday, March 28 2009 1:06 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: R&B
Speaking of Candy Girls, here’s rare footage of New Edition fuckin’ around in the studio and re-creating their first monster hit. I didn’t even know they could play instruments. Ralph T on drums. Ricky Bell on keyboards. And the future Mr. Whitney Houston Bobby Brown on bongos?! I can’t believe this is real. It’s surreal. But even if it’s fake it’s still amazing. Happy Saturday!
Yup, YN knows a lil something about video chicks. Here’s an excluisve clip from the fourth episode of E!’s Candy Girls which airs on Sunday’s at 10:30 EST. Pretty girls arguing over fried chicken? Must see TV!
Friday, March 27 2009 11:47 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Paparazzi
Here’s a flick from Young Jeezy’s new video for “Get Allot (Remix)” which features his CTE artists Boo Rossini and Roccett. Shot yesterday in Atlanta by director Gabriel Hart.
Photo: Thaddeaus McAdams from ExclusiveAccess.net.
Another flick from that vid after the jump and a look from the set of Jeezy’s video for “Don’t You Know.”
Friday, March 27 2009 10:54 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Focus
2 straight Run-DMC posts in 2009. Who knew? Anyway we all know Eminem is inducting Run-DMC into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame on April 4 and Fuse TV got the Queens legends to give them their future hip-hop picks to one day join them.
Friday, March 27 2009 10:14 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: True Story
Wow 25 years ago today an album came out that changed my life. Growing up in Queens, Run-DMC was simply the shit to me. They could do no wrong. The word idolize doesn’t even begin to explain my devotion to them. Besides Michael Jackson, they were the first music act that I was truly a fanatic of. Every record they put out was life-changing to me. “It’s Like That.” “Sucker MC’s.” I remember riding in a car back and forth from baseball practice with my best friend Frank Valentin reciting the lyrics to “Rock Box” as loud as possible. We just couldn’t believe someone was rhyming over guitars. Guitars!
Back then, Run-DMC’s success was hip-hop’s success. They had the entire culture on their back and not only did they carry it, they broke the doors down to the mainstream and made it clear that hip-hop wasn’t a fad. And it all began with this self-titled debut. I used to stare at the album cover like a mental patient. Why was Run written over the top of a picture of DMC and vice versa? Why was Jam Master Jay’s picture on the back of the album when they made a whole song about him? How could they make such a mistake I thought? It bothered me. Ha!
But thankfully the sounds here soothed me. They jacked Kurtis Blow on the jolting jumpoff “Hard Times,” recycled the classic lyrics from “Here We Go” on “Hollis Crew” and closed the album with two brilliantly bizarre tales of blinding hope (“Wake Up”) and love-me-or-leave-alone swag (“30 Days”). The record was superbly short and was never complete until you picked the needle off the vinyl and played it all over again. Twice as nice!
My wife always teases me that I don’t have an emotional response to music but this LP proves her wrong. Thankfully I fell in love with a woman who loves “Wake Up” and “30 Days” even more than I do. Although Darryl and Joe would go on to make a better album (if you haven’t heard Raising Hell then go to hell) there’s nothing like the first time. I truly felt a part of a movement that was gonna change the world. And it did.
Friday, March 27 2009 9:07 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: True Story
Courtesy of MTV and Vibe got their transcription on:
“VIBE’s current cover-boy, rap star T.I., held a press conference today to discuss his horrific jail sentence of a whopping…one year and a day. “It brings me great pleasure and honor to say to you today that I have begun to close this chapter in my life with, of course, the help and blessings of the U.S. attorneys and the courts of the U.S. government,” the rapper said (yes, he actually said “great pleasure and honor”).”
Clifford Harris he’s runnin’ this court shit!
No “sim-u-lar” paths, kids!
After the jump: Longer version of press conference from YouTube via CNN
Friday, March 27 2009 8:44 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Focus
Beyonce kicked off her world tour in Canada last night and pulled out all the stops. From donning a white gown (Bey-Z stans stand up!) to doin’ a cool cover for the hometown crowd of Alanis Morisette’s “You Oughta Know.” And there were no reports of her fallin’ or slippin’. Put a sock in it, haters!