Here’s the cover of URB’s new Power Issue.
URB #155: The Power Issue explores the various definitions of power within the escalatingly closer worlds of independent and “mainstream” music and culture. From booking agent Tom Windish to executive producer of Charlie Rose, from NahRight’s Eskay to a first look at MySpace Music’s relaunch, the power to create and distribute information and art is changing by the minute.
Hitting newsstands momentarily.
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Just passing this link along.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released 10 years ago this week and went on to sell more than 8 million copies, win five Grammys and earn a four-star review in Rolling Stone. Mary J. Blige hailed it as “one of the most incredible albums ever made” and the record influenced a generation of soul and hip-hop artists.
“Music is about to change,” Hill told Rolling Stone’s Touré for his 1999 cover story. “I think now people feel a little more comfortable playing with the parameters. Writing more intensely.”
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This is just….awe inspiring? Is that the phrase I’m looking for?
It’ll have to do, because I’m otherwise speechless.
Props to Bucky
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This should be an interesting read.
Previously: Kim Osorio Wins, Awarded 14.5 Million
UPDATE: Here’s an excerpt
I don’t usually do these eye candy type posts, but I’m still mad about not getting any credit for leaking the Stacey Dash cover way back when. Hoopz is no Stacey Dash, but I’m still gonna put this bad boy up for posterity.
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Here are the other two Source 20th Anniversary covers. The back of each magazine will feature a reproduction of the first two Source covers that Cube and Latifah appeared on. Those and Latifah after the jump.
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Here they are, the 2 official covers and the backpage shot from Vibe’s 15th Anniversary issue. Hit the jump for the 2 front covers and some excerpts from the YN penned feature.
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Pharrell, pictured with Natasha Poly, is featured in the August 2008 edition of Russian Vogue. Not that we can understand what’s written, just thought it would inflame people who were hating on Pharrell’s custom made purple Hermes purse bag. Another stealth pic after the jump.
Mr. Carter covers the September issue of Blender. The cover story, written by senior editor Jonah Weiner, offers a disturbing look into the daily life of the world’s most doped out Martian.
.Like any rock star, Lil Wayne isn’t immune to self-mythologizing. To hear him tell it, he’s a superman: He describes surviving two bullets—one a self-inflicted accident at age 12 and one fired into his bus by an angry groupie—with chuckling élan; he’s an indefatigable hustler: “I’m always in the lab”; and he’s an artist beholden to no one but his own codeine-addled muse: “The word pressure is not in my vocabulary.”
But the man desperately needs a vacation. The first day we meet, he’s running 10 hours behind—handlers try to rouse him from bed throughout the day, but word keeps coming back that “he’s in a coma.” The next day, at his condo, he snaps at T for failing to pack enough cough syrup for the trip to Atlanta. “I thought you said you were doing it,” T protests.
“Me? Why would I say that?” Wayne snarls. “Since when is that my job?”
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