Lupe Fiasco Remembers Crucial Conflict
After bringing Crucial Conflict on stage back in October, Lupe speaks on his love for Chicago and reflects on the first time hearing the group’s “Hay”. And you say Chi city.
Via: Rap Radar
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LoudBox: Gucci Mane Ft. OJ Da Juiceman x Yo Gotti “Bricks” (Video)
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Gucci Mane Ft. OJ Da Juiceman x Yo Gotti “Bricks” (Video)
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30th Dec2009
::Drop Zone:: Omen – Delayed (Mixtape Sampler)
Meant to post this the other night. This isn’t the same Omen that produced “Overdose On Life” last year and “Shut It Down” for Thank Me Later. This Omen is a part of J. Cole’s camp and was the only (real) feature on this summer’s The Warm Up:
Heather posted his sampler and included this message from him:
I really want you to digest it and listen and hopefully feel something afterwards. It’s been a long time coming, and the mixtape is on the way shortly after this. Thank you for riding with me.
Hit the jump for the track list + download link.
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30th Dec2009
Study blames two genes for aggressive brain cancer
Scientists have discovered two genes that appear responsible for one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer.
Glioblastoma multiforme rapidly invades the normal brain, producing inoperable tumours, but scientists have not understood why it is so aggressive.
The latest study, by a Columbia University team, published in Nature, pinpoints two genes.
The researchers say that the findings raise hopes of developing a treatment for the cancer.
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30th Dec2009
Man who shot Pope John Paul II to be released, wants to be baptised by Pope Benedict
Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II four times in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981, is eligible for release next month, January 2010.
Agca was originally sentenced to life in prison for the shooting, but was pardoned in June 2000 by Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, with the Pope’s blessings. Pope John Paul II had met with Agca in prison on Dec. 27, 1983 and forgave him. Agca spent 19 years and one month in the Italian prison. At the time of his release, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told RAI television “regarding the truth of what happened May 13 1981, history can still uncover many things”.
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30th Dec2009
Complex Presents: 12 Rapper World Records Guinness Needs To Recognize
Complex Blog compiled this list for you:
If you weren’t in Indianapolis this weekend and/or don’t keep up with innovations in off-the-dome hip-hop, a dude named M-Eighty freestyled for more than nine hours and fifteen minutes on Saturday, with observers from Guinness World Records on hand to help verify the proceedings. If the 555 minutes of rapping about what people in the audience were wearing holds up, then M-Eighty replaces Supernatural as the officially sanctioned Longest Freestyle Ever record holder (Supernat set the record in 2006 by inducing narcolespy for just over nine hours).
That’s all well and good, and we congratulate dude’s seemingly indefatigable ability to rhyme one-syllable words together, but it made us realize that the existing rap-related world records just aren’t that exciting. Longest freestyle? Fastest rap? Why not acknowledge achievements that have really done something to change the world we live in? That’s why we took it upon ourselves to make our OWN list of world records. This is for you, hip-hop!
FEWEST WORDS USED IN A 16-BAR VERSE:
• OJ da Juiceman, for seven words: “servin,” “coke,” “aye,” “32,” “okay,” “brick,” “Zaytiggy,” and “Yongjooman.”
More After The Jump…..
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30th Dec2009
China unveils 'world's fastest train link'
China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world — a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.
The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 kilometre journey to a three hour ride and cuts the previous journey time by more than seven and a half hours, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Work on the project began in 2005 as part of plans to expand a high-speed network aimed at eventually linking Guangzhou, a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong, with the capital Beijing, Xinhua added.
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30th Dec2009
The Worst College Bowl Sponsors
The “Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.” I can live with that. Chips. A party. Football. They go together.
But a lot of the other college bowls are horrific-sounding concoctions that George Orwell couldn’t have dreamed up. The marketing geniuses who ink these sponsorship deals mainly care about just one thing–getting the corporate name in front of the masses. If there’s a particular message or product they’re trying to sell, they cram that into the name too. And why worry if it sounds like self-parody? Football fans, they assume, are probably too thick to notice.
So with the sponsorship season coming to a climax, here are some of the absurdities that will be tripping across the TV screen:
The Chick-fil-A Bowl. (Virginia Tech v. Tennessee, Dec. 31, Atlanta.) Companies named after poultry just were not made to sponsor bowl games. This sounds like a family-style dish you might order at Olive Garden, not a sports contest. Back in prehistoric times, before corporate America owned college football, this game was known as the Peach Bowl. How far we’ve come.
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29th Dec2009
Your Daily Dose of Redskins Dysfunction: Haynesworth goes off
It’s been a few days since we’ve had any drama in D.C. — last time we saw our Redskins friends, they were losing Vinny Cerrato and pulling off the dumbest trick play in NFL history. The latest from Landover is this: Defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, the team’s primary off-season free-agent acquisision, was sent home from practice on Friday after arriving late for a team meeting. Haynesworth went on the field anyway, at which point he and head coach/dead man walking Jim Zorn had what Jason Reid of the Washington Post called an “animated conversation”.
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29th Dec2009
SMH: Senate approves health care reform bill
Where’s the public option????
The Senate passed a historic $871 billion health care reform bill Thursday morning, handing President Obama a Christmas Eve victory on his top domestic priority.
The bill passed in a 60-39 party line vote after months of heated partisan debate. Every member of the Democratic caucus backed the measure; every Republican opposed it.
Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky — a staunch opponent of the bill — was the lone senator to miss Thursday’s vote.
Should it become law, the measure would constitute the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid more than four decades ago. It is expected to extend insurance coverage to 30 million additional Americans.
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29th Dec2009
SMH: Teddy Riley Accused Of Beating Daughter…w/ a Guitar?
Ha, basically! TMZ reports R&B legend Teddy Riley is being accused of beating his 18 year old daughter with a Rock Band video game guitar last week. She has since filed a restraining order against him. Earlier today, Teddy addressed the situation on his now defunct Twitter account. Nonetheless, feel free to hit him at Teddyjamriley@gmail.com.
Via: Rap Radar
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29th Dec2009
Sean Hannity continues demonization of Ron Paul, calling his supporters crazy
Sean Hannity tries to ignore & over talk a caller who acccuses him of being a pawn of the illuminati, military industrial complex & the major companies therein..
