Monthly Archives: June 2009

DRAKE SIGNS TO YOUNG MONEY

Canadian rapper DRAKE has settle all the speculation that took place over the last few months. Drake was widely known to be considering several different offers from major record labels across the board. When all the smoke cleared there was one standing, Young Money Entertainment. LIL WAYNE has ponied up an absurd 4 million dollars [...]

MARIAH CAREY SHOTS FIRED!

Looks like MARIAH CAREY has another side to the butterflies and glitter. Mrs. Nick Cannon fires shots at Motown rapper Eminem in her latest video “Obsessed” which was filmed in New York on Monday. Eminem rapped about Carey — who he has said he briefly dated in 2001 — in his song “Bagpipes from Baghdad” [...]

VIBE MAGAZINE: WE BID YOU ADIEU

“On behalf of the VIBE content staff (the best in this business), it is with great sadness, and with heads held high, that we leave the building today,” said Danyel Smith, former Chief Content Officer of Vibe Media Group and Editor in Chief of Vibe. “We were assigning and editing a Michael Jackson tribute issue [...]

RIHANNA: TWO TONE FLY

I have to be honest with you. I tried so hard to dismiss RIHANNA because of her mediocre singing abilities. I tried to convince myself that she was a one hit wonder and would soon fade into the abyss of has beens and faded stars. But, wow. I have to saw that there are different [...]

NEW CHRIS BROWN AND ROCK CITY, ‘RANSOM’

CHRIS BROWN’S back for real this time, releasing some of the first REAL new music since his now infamous incident. But the Breezy that’s returned is noticeably different than the one that left.
Brown teamed up with super producers ROCK CITY (Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson, Akon) to throw their own spin on Drake’s ‘Ransom’.
The first thing [...]

THE BET AWARDS: BACKSTAGE PIMPIN PART ONE…

So I know ya’ll are saying, ‘Where the hell has this heffa been?’
Well if you follow me on twitter (which I strongly suggest you do) then you know that I was tapped to cover the 2009 BET Awards for Giant Magazine and the past couple weeks have been beyond crazy. (Shouts to Mecca for taking [...]

KANYE WEST DESIGNS BLACK OUT ROLEX

The College Dropout himself, KANYE WEST adds another credential to his resume. Rapper,spoken word poet, shoe designer, producer, and now watch designer. The urban tastemaker has customized an all black Rolex Submariner by Swiss firm Black-Out Concept. The watch includes a nylon NATO spec strap with that unique Kanye flair. Of course he had to [...]