Curren$y & Stalley – Address (Video)
Directed and produced by Creative Control.
26th Feb2010
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26th Feb2010
North Korea refuses to abandon nukes
(CNN) — North Korea vowed Friday not to dismantle its nuclear program — not even in exchange for economic aid — as long as the United States continues a “hostile policy.”
“It was none other than the U.S. that pushed [North Korea] to acquiring nuclear deterrence and it is, therefore, wholly to blame for the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula,” the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
North Korea will never abandon its nuclear program, “even if the earth is broken to pieces unless the hostile policy towards [North Korea] is rolled back and the nuclear threat to it removed,” the agency said.
The United States believes that North Korea has enough weapons-grade plutonium to build a half dozen nuclear bombs.
The reclusive Communist nation last year cut off six-party talks involving the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia, in anger over international criticism of its nuclear and missile tests.
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26th Feb2010
26th Feb2010
Lupe Fiasco says that he doesn’t want to be Jay-Z and be worth $400 Million
Lupe talked to THE AGE in Australia, mainly discussing the conflicts he is/was going through with his label. Check it out below.
Historically, there has been a conflict between the music Lupe wants to create and the music his label wants him to make.
Lupe: ”It’s less about me being a celebrity, because I guess I’m not really a celebrity,” he says. ”The most difficult part of the music business is the label.”
“What I want to do and what they want me to do – creatively – is in conflict. It doesn’t keep me up at night. I look at it as a challenge. It’s not meant to be easy.”
“There’s a misunderstanding with my fanbase,” he says. ”People [at Warner] feel they know my fans more than I do.
They want me to step out of my comfort zone and step into theirs. I don’t have necessarily the celebrity success they want me to have but it’s more social success and being able to speak at a college about world affairs. That’s a success, to me.
I don’t want to be Jay-Z and be worth $400 million and perform on every awards show. It’s getting in touch with somebody who needs to improve their self-esteem, as opposed to driving a Bentley and putting some chains on.”
Lupe’s third album for Warner, Lasers, was submitted last month. The label has yet to announce a release date. ”It’s an album we both feel comfortable putting out,” Lupe says. ”I’m somebody saying the things that maybe 98 per cent of the music industry is not.”
Click HERE to read the whole article!
26th Feb2010
Jay-Z stake in Aqueduct slots deal draws scrutiny
Gov. Paterson has 99 problems — and Jay-Z might be one of them.
The governor’s friendship with the hip-hop impresario is raising questions because of the latter’s involvement with AEG, the consortium controversially selected to run a multibillion-dollar racino at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Paterson’s bond with the man born Shawn Carter was growing at the same time that Jay-Z was being courted to join the Aqueduct Entertainment Group.
Paterson tabbed AEG in late January to turn the aging track into a slick gaming venue with 4,500 video slot machines.
But the deal is under federal investigation after questions were raised about the secret selection process.
Last Aug. 31, Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé, shared a podium with Paterson to announce that Jay-Z would stage a 9/11 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden.
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26th Feb2010
Ludacris – Sexting (prod. The Neptunes)
Ludacris pokes fun at the frantic message Tiger Woods left his side chick pleading her to take her name off of her voicemail greeting.
Ludacris – Sexting (prod. The Neptunes) | Mediafire
Ludacris’ Battle of the Sexes drops March 9th.
25th Feb2010
Snoop Dogg ft. Kid Cudi – That Tree prod. Diplo
Off Snoop’s Malice N Wonderland re-release, More Malice (March 23rd)
The re-release will have 5 songs from the original, 5 brand new songs, and 2 remixes. It also comes with a Malice N Wonderland mini-movie, where Snoop plays a super hero named Malice.
Snoop Dogg feat. Kid Cudi – That Tree (prod. Diplo) | Mediafire
Props to Complex for the premiere.
25th Feb2010
Truck North x The 3rd – Just Begun Freestyle
They’re working on a Satellites EP and mixtape, both coming soon.
25th Feb2010
Curren$y Interview w/ CDR (Video)
Talks Dame Dash, Smokee Robinson and Saints winning the Super Bowl.
Curren$y is headlining the BluRoc show at The Gramercy Theater in NY on Thursday night. Get tickets on LiveNation.
25th Feb2010
Benjamin Fulford Interview with David Rockefeller(2007)
This is the introduction & a mini interview with Former Finance Minister Heizo Takenaka.
The next 3 parts after the jump…
25th Feb2010
*Blank Stare*: OJ Da Juiceman – XXL Freshmen 2010 Freestyle
Today’s pick is actually one of the few to actually freestyle off the top of the dome (with a different verse for each damn take) so for effort alone, he should get an AYE!
Two more (actual) MCs left.
25th Feb2010
Grand Opening of Damon Dash’s DD172 (Video)
This is groovy. Friday night was the opening night of the Damon Dash Gallery at under the DD172 roof in TriBeCa.
Join Dame and his partners in music on Thursday, February 25th at The Gramercy Theater in NYC for a night of music entitled BluRoc.
25th Feb2010
“We The Best, Nah, We The Worlddd”
Two weeks ago, someone came up with the bright idea of remaking “We Are The World”… with rappers. While results were less than swaggalitious, we at Hood Newz managed to swap a copy of an exclusive never before heard HIP-HOP REMIX of “We Are The World” and we must say, this is how it should have sounded.
This mix features Bollywood sensation DJ Khaled, renowned vocalist T-Pain, upstart producer Dr. Dre, Policeman’s Ball host Rick Ross, baggy-jean enthusiast Kid Cudi, Swedish singer Akon, children book author Young Jeezy, satanic worshippers Bone-Thugs-Harmony, cardigan kingpin Drake, rehab sponsor DMX, yogi-maven Eminem and Christopher “King Of NY” Walken.
So, not only do I have the exclusive of all exclusives but I have a neat player to make your site look neater. In an effort to stay ahead of the comp, we have added a tape player to the mix…sick, huh?
CD? (Peace out!), Vinyl, (R.I.P)…MP3? (sooo 2001)…It’s all about the tape, son.
25th Feb2010
FBI investigates allegations webcam used to monitor student
(CNN) — The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that a Pennsylvania school official remotely monitored a student at home, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told CNN on Saturday.
The official, who asked not to be identified, said the FBI became involved in the case after a family filed a lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District, located outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The family accused an assistant principal at Harriton High School of watching their son through his laptop’s webcam while he was at home and unaware he was being watched. The family also says the school official used a photo taken on a laptop as the basis for disciplining the student.
In a statement issued late Friday, District Superintendent Christopher McGinley rejected the allegations.
“At no time did any high school administrator have the ability or actually access the security-tracking software,” he said. “We believe that the administrator at Harriton has been unfairly portrayed and unjustly attacked in connection with her attempts to be supportive of a student and his family. The district never did and never would use such tactics as a basis for disciplinary action.”
A school official said it was a mistake not to make families aware of a feature allowing the school to monitor the computer hardware.
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25th Feb2010
Mos Def is Not a Fan of the New York Observer, Claims Story Fabrication
Letters to the Editor: they’re fun. But the New York Observer doesn’t run many of them online! If they did, people would know how unhappy Mos Def is with the New York Observer. But the voice of the people…
…is the voice of blog, and now, the very pissed off letter Mos Def wrote to the Observer is available for all of us to savor. Grievances: they get aired.
As the story goes, D.M. Levine wrote a story for the Observer last month about Jay-Z’s former Roc-a-Fella label partner Dame Dash, and Dame’s new venture, called DD172, described as “essentially an umbrella organization housing a number of different projects,” among which are an art space, a online-production arm, and a forthcoming culture magazine. Some of this stuff, like Blak Rok—which teamed up blues duo The Black Keys with a bunch of rappers—is pretty neat!
But Mos Def took issue with a specific passage:
On a recent blustery December night, rapper Mos Def was in the house. Dressed in brown slacks, shiny dress shoes, jean jacket and a cabby hat tilted to the side, he sipped a bottle of Rolling Rock, taking in the vibe. “It’s like a cross between early Hitsville, Andy Warhol’s Factory and a little bit of the Algonquin roundtable,” he told me. “But it’s something completely different.”
