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PICS OF THE DAY: KANYE AND MODEL/”FRIEND”

February 19, 2009 8 comments

Kanye and his new friend model Amber Rose, have been doing the rounds during New York Fashion Week, attending shows looking like Mr Prick and Ms Prickette.

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Damn idiots!

Oh the shallowness of it all……

View more pics here

NEW MUSIC: NICKELUS F – ‘THANK YOU’

February 19, 2009 Leave a comment

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Up and coming Hip Hop artist Nickelus F has released his first mixtape ‘Thank You’ and will follow it up with the highly anticipated debut album ‘Heathen’.

‘Heathen will drop on the 27th February.
 
‘Thank You’ features guest appearance from T-Pain, Devin The Dude & many more…

CLICK HERE to download the mixtape. 

[Thanks H Dollar]

UK MUSIC NEWS: CHOONG FAMILY SET TO DROP NEW ALBUM/VIDEO SHOOT NEWS

February 19, 2009 5 comments

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After a hiatus UK Hip Hop group the Choong Family have returned and will release their new album ’Baptism Of Fire’ at the end of April through Gridlockaz.

The group will be filming a video to support the release and are inviting members of the public to come along to be a part of it.

Shoot details below….

Date: Saturday 28th February 2009
Location Address: Shoreditch Studio, Unit 2 Batemans Row, Curtain Road, London EC1V
Calling Time: 8am

www.myspace.com/choongfam
www.choongfam.com

18-MONTH YEAR OLD CHILD MARRIES DOG

February 19, 2009 2 comments

Can two people really be this superstitious?

The parents need help!

Via The Metro Newspaper

A toddler has married a dog in a bid to protect him from being killed by a tiger.

The 18-month-old child, Sangula Munda, wed the dog at a Hindu temple in India on the orders of his superstitious parents.

They were worried that a tooth growing from his upper gum was an omen he would be killed by a tiger.

The weird wedding ceremony was seen as the best symbolic way to avoid such a fate, according to tribal elders in the Jajpur district village.

The bridal dog reportedly wore two silver rings and a silver chain.

According to the boy’s father Sanrumula Munda, Sangula will still be able to marry properly when older.

Craziness!

Your thoughts please…..

BLAST FROM THE PAST: MONTELL JORDAN ATTENDS ‘MADEA GOES TO JAIL’ ATLANTA PREMIERE

February 18, 2009 11 comments

90s R&B star Montell Jordan attended Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes To Jail’ film premiere on Monday night (Feb 16th) in Atlanta, Georgia.

I was never a Montell Jordan fan. I found his music bland and boring.

But I am curious to know what he is doing now. Does he still make music? is he touring?

Montell and Adina Howard (remember Miss ’Freak Like Me’) just disappeared in to obscurity post 1996.

The music industry can be so cruel and fickle……

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I haven’t watched any of Tyler Perry’s films. Partly because they have never been released in the cinemas here, so I will have to get my hands on some DVDs.  I want to see what all the fuss is about!

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Photographs: WireImage/Moses Robinson

UK NEWS: REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY SECURES WEDDING DEAL

February 18, 2009 7 comments

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Jade Goody has secured deals with a magazine and TV station ahead of her wedding to Jack Tweed this weekend, her publicist Max Clifford has confirmed.

OK! magazine has bought exclusive rights to Sunday’s ceremony for £700,000 and Living TV have paid £100,000 to broadcast it.

Clifford said that after the wedding there “won’t be more episodes of the series they have been filming”.

Terminally ill Goody has decided to use the media to raise funds for her sons.

Continue Reading….

And what will your percentage be Max?

JACKSONS STAR IN NIGERIA RESORT ROW

February 17, 2009 28 comments

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Visitors can contemplate the horror of slavery from their luxury rooms
Via BBC News

One of pop superstar Michael Jackson’s brothers, Marlon, is involved in a controversial plan to develop a $3.4bn (£2.4bn) slavery memorial and luxury resort in Badagry, Nigeria.

The historic slave port is to be transformed through the bizarre combination of a slave history theme park and a museum dedicated to double Grammy-winning pop-soul group the Jackson Five.

The idea is that the band will help attract African-American tourists keen to trace their roots back to Nigeria.

The men behind the plan say it will honour the history of the transatlantic slave trade and provide employment opportunities for Nigerians.

But the plan has been condemned by Nigerian commentators.

The African-American history trail is worth billions of dollars, the developers say.

Ghana and Senegal have successfully turned slave ports into tourist attractions.

The developers say the Badagry Historical Resort will be marketed to African-American tourists as a mixture of luxury tourist attractions and historical education.

Visitors will be able to see the route their ancestors walked, shackled together as they were whipped toward the “point of no return”.

They can then retire to their five-star hotel to drink cocktails by the pool.

Continue Reading…..

“Visitors will be able to see the route their ancestors walked, shackled together as they were whipped toward the “point of no return”.

They can then retire to their five-star hotel to drink cocktails by the pool. “

 I don’t know whether to laugh or cry……

*Rubbing my temples*

“a slave history THEME PARK and a museum dedicated to double Grammy-winning pop-soul group the Jackson Five.”

By all means turn the slave port in to a tourist attraction, in a respectful and tasteful fashion, as achieved in Ghana and Senegal.

But a slave history THEME PARK a long with a museum dedicated to The Jackson Five – This is PURE UNADULTERATED FOOLISHNESS!!!!

Are we REALLY expected to believe that connecting the defunct Jackson Five to this venture will attract African-American tourists, who are keen to trace their roots back to Nigeria?

OH PLEASE!

This must have been the line spun to woo the Jacksons in to investing.

Are they seriously attempting to merge the horrors of the slave trade with luxurious surroundings and the history of The Jackson Five???

They must really take us Negroes for idiots!

This proposed venture is a great big steaming pile of dog poo!

It should be scrapped!

UK NEWS: DAD AT 13 WILL GET DNA TEST ON BABY

February 16, 2009 11 comments

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Pure slackness!

The teenage boy who became a father at 13 will get the DNA test he has demanded, it has been confirmed.

Publicist Max Clifford has taken over dealing with Alfie Patten’s media relations since baby Maisie was born to girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15.

Clifford told Sky News Online: “There will be a DNA test, I think so.”

The family has dominated headlines since the news first emerged at the end of last week.

But over the weekend, more young teenage boys came forward, claiming they could be baby Maisie’s father.

Alfie, from East Sussex, has already pledged to be a “good dad… and care for it”. The claims he might not be Maisie’s biological father seem to have made the teenager more determined to prove his case.

“Publicist Max Clifford has taken over dealing with Alfie Patten’s media relations since baby Maisie was born to girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15.”

I don’t  know whether to laugh or cry… (shaking head).

I just hope for little Alfie’s sake the DNA test proves him NOT to be the father.

As for the baby’s mother Chantelle Steadman - you need help!

And where were the parents????

UK NEWS: HARRODS OWNER MOHAMED AL FAYED GIVES TERMINALLY ILL JADE GOODY A WEDDING DRESS / ELTON JOHN OFFERS THE USE OF HIS HOME AS A WEDDING VENUE

February 16, 2009 7 comments

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Terminally ill reality TV star Jade Goody is planning to marry her current boyfriend Jack Tweed, who proposed to her in hospital on Friday.

Goody’s publicist Max Clifford has also revealed that Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed had given Goody a dress as “a wedding present” and that singer Elton John had offered the use of one of his homes as a venue.

Goody was diagnosed with having cervical cancer in October 2008.

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Presumably Mohamed and Elton will both continue to show this same level of generosity to each of the 1000 other women who die from cervical cancer each year in the UK?  I assume that their generosity isn’t only restricted to celebs?

BET UK: ONE YEAR LATER…

February 16, 2009 13 comments

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BET UK (Black Entertainment Television) officially launched here on February 27th 2008.

But as the network approaches the first anniversary of it’s UK launch, do you think it has succeeded in making a positive impact here in the UK?

Has BET successfully managed to gear its content towards a British audience?

Has the programming so far been positive and informative?

Has it helped to promote homegrown talant effectively?

Is BET UK everything that you hoped it would be? If so then why?

Has BET UK proved to be nothing but a huge disappointment? if so then why?

Let me know what you think…….

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