Monthly Archives: February 2012

Almost one year after African-Americans celebrated the inauguration of the U.S.’s first black president, Barack Obama is rejecting complaints he’s done too little to help a population hit disproportionately hard by the recession. In interviews with African-American media outlets, he said it’s unrealistic to expect he could solve the myriad economic and social problems facing [...]

New Orleans architect Mark Ripple only plays the occasional game of poker, but he’s willing to put all his chips on the table and risk at least $150,000 on somebody else’s dream. That’s the estimated value of in kind contributions that Ripple, his partners and consultants are donating to build what’s been dubbed the 9th [...]

Groundhog’s Day isn’t until February, but in the Bill Murray movie sense it could come a month earlier in the NFL. That’s because two Week 17 games –Packers-Cardinals and Eagles-Cowboys — could repeat on the schedule the very next week in the wild-card round. In fact, we project that exact scenario will play out in [...]

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.4275282&w=425&h=350&fv=] Audio: Just Blaze & Jay Electronica on Toca Tuesdays | Mediafire Props to Tim G. for ripping the whole show. He pointed out some highlights from the interview portions: Act II mixtape on Christmas is once again confirmed. Before New Years at the latest. Jay Electronica says Nas is on Act II, and [...]

Here is the second half of my recent interview with Lupe Fiasco. In this part, Lupe talks about “People Speak” and his experience working on that, when fans can expect a first single and the album, and his touring plans for 2010. Via: Nah Right [...]

Rapper Keith Murray recently returned to the United States after a trip to Mozambique in Africa, where the rapper was raising awareness about the plight of children with HIV/AIDS. Keith Murray took up the cause of HIV/AIDS awareness after losing his mother to the deadly disease when he was just 20-years-old. Three years later, he [...]

In an effort to centralize his many industry hats, Nick Cannon has announced today (December 15) the formation of NCredible Entertainment to handle his projects in TV, film, music, digital music, publishing and radio. Cannon adds the NCredible CEO position with his role as Chairman/CEO of TeenNick, the 24-hour Nickelodeon network. NCredible offices have opened [...]

Wale borrows the Young Money instrumental. Wale – Bedrock Freestyle Via:Nah Right [...]

You know the expression: Numbers don’t lie. And according to the Nielsen BDS report, Usher’s “Yeah” is the second most played record of the last 10 years with 416,267 spins. Unfortunately, the song was no match for Tim McGraw’s “Something Like That” with 487,343 rotations. Meanwhile, Flo Rida’s “Low” and Snoop’s “Drop It Like It’s [...]

For the second time in less than a week, BlackBerry users were plagued by Internet and e-mail outages across Canada and the United States. Officials with Research In Motion, the Waterloo, Ont., company that makes the popular devices, offered no estimate last night when service to users in North and South America would be fully [...]

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Jeezy announces Trap Or Die 2 is coming any day now. Young Jeezy – Big Dog (I Wanna Rock Freestyle) | Mediafire Via: Nah Right [...]