I never figured 50 for the manbag type. Who knew? Boo Boo and Saigon came through for the “Tikva Drive For Life” to Benefit Orphaned and Abandoned Children, presented by Ecko Unltd. @ Chelsea Piers the other day.
Kelis ft. Nas – Blindfold Me (incidentally, did you Nas has the best hip hop site on the internet?)
Meet the newest member of G-Unit/Infamous Records
Break out your RBG wristbands and chew sticks, Black August hits NYC on Sunday. Performers include M1 of dead prez, Brand Nubian, The Beatnutz, and CL Smooth.
Jin tries to battle Serius Jones in the middle of his set at the Breeding Ground show the other night.
Looks like Dave’s about to hit the road again. I guess the bills have to get paid one way or another.
08/11/06 Norfolk, VA Chrysler Hall
08/12/06 Richmond, VA Landmark Theatre
08/13/06 Pittsburgh, PA Chevrolet Amphitheatre
08/15/06 Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre
08/17/06 Buffalo, NY Shea’s Perf. Arts Ctr.
08/18/06 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
08/19/06 Rosemont, IL Rosemont Theatre
08/20/06 Cleveland, OH Tower City Amphitheater
08/21/06 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
08/22/06 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
08/23/06 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
08/24/06 Washington, DC Warner Theatre
08/25/06 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel / Casino
08/26/06 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel / Casino
If you’re so inclined, you can watch the Jay-Z press conference at the U.N. here. (via MTV) Meanwhile these people say they confronted Jay about the privitization of water and the alleged use of sweatshop labor by Rocawear and he brushed them off. EDIT: Here’s a youtube of the press conference.
Star chooses "a prostitute and a six pack" over CNBC’s Donny Deutsch.
New Obie Trice interview/story in the Detroit News. There’s also one over at XXL.
Fader goes through Lloyd Banks Rotten Apple song by song.
U.K. rapper Ruffstylz says he, not Supernatural, holds the record for longest freestyle ever. He claims to have gone for 10 hours and 43 minutes.
Tom Breihan says Idlewild is a terrible album.
…niggas politic theyselves.
(Props to Leighton for the heads up on this.)
DMX loses out to Now Vol 22 for the number one spot, making this his first album that didn’t debut at #1 on Billboard. Meanwhile, his brother in law and nanny get pinched for crack posession in Yonkers.
Outkast deny breakup rumors, 3000 says they didn’t turn down Oprah
Common and RZA join Denzel, Russell Crowe and T.I. for American Gangster
Scarface says he’s not rapping anymore.
According to these people, Diddy is now the richest man in hip hop, with $346 million, 6 mil more than Jay.
In case you didn’t already know, nominations are now being accepted for the 2006 Black Weblog Awards. I guess you can consider these the Oscars of the Black blogging world, seeing as they’re the most prominent (and only) award contest that represents our little corner of the internets. Plus, I don’t see most of us getting a whole lot of love from these guys anytime soon.
You can make nominations until August 15th, at which point you will then be able to vote for the one of the top 3 nominees in each category until August 31st. Categories include Best Hip Hop Blog (ahem), Best Original Content, and Best New Blog. The only category I really fit under would probably be Hip Hop, so please don’t raise the ire of the people running the contest and nominate me in the Best Political/News Blog category, or anywhere else this site doesn’t belong. You also need to use a valid e-mail address or else your ballot will be deleted.
Obviously, I’d like everybody who frequents NR to vote for my site, but if you think you know a better hip hop blog (yeah right), then by all means vote for them (you can also take your ass over to that site if they win). Shout out to Fresh who won last year for best Entertainment Blog, and The Humanity Critic, who straight up Carlos Santana’d the whole damn thing.
"I can never talk myself out of [winning], you know why? Because I put in the work. I don’t care if I jumped up and down right now on the couch like Tom Cruise. I don’t care what I do, I don’t care how much I stunt — you can never take away from the amount of work I put into it. So I don’t wanna hear all of that politically correct stuff. You put the camera in front of me, I’m gonna tell you like this. I worked hard to get here." – Kanye West before the 48th Annual Grammy Awards
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