Day: April 30, 2013

UK NEWS: WOMAN CHARGED OVER NAOMI ONI ACID ATTACK

Via BBC News A woman has been charged over an acid attack on a 21-year-old in east London. Naomi Oni had acid thrown in her face after getting off a bus in Lodge Avenue, Dagenham, in the early hours of 30 December. She was on her way home from her job at a Victoria’s Secret store in Westfield, Stratford, when she was attacked. Mary Konye, 21, has been charged with throwing or casting a corrosive fluid with intent to burn, maim, disfigure, []

UK ENTERTAINMENT WEBSITE ‘GRM DAILY’ SET TO HIT SKY TV CHANNEL LOADED TV

After four years of bringing entertainment and black music into the homes of teenagers and young adults through YouTube, GRM Daily will now enter a new phase bringing the best of the best to your TV screens. From Wednesday 1st May you can find exclusive music, news and never before seen footage from GRM Daily each and every day at 7pm on Sky TV channel Loaded TV (channel 200). Well, well, well…GRM Daily is definitely moving up in the world and has come a long way in a relatively []

QUOTE OF THE DAY: SNOOP DOGG BLASTS REGGAE LEGEND BUNNY WAILER

Earlier this year legendary Reggae star Bunny Wailer publicly called out rapper Snoop Dogg’s “conversion” to Rastafari and his ridiculous “Snoop Lion” antics.  CLICK HERE to read all about it. Now in a recent interview with Rolling Stone Magazine Snoop has hit back at Bunny. The people I visited at the Nyabinghi Temple aren’t speaking negative on me. They’re real Rastas. I went in there and filmed them, showed their whole get-down. Nobody did that before. If anyone, they should have complained – “He []

MUSIC: BEYONCE AND ANDRE 3000 – BACK TO BLACK (AMY WINEHOUSE COVER)

Check out Andre 3000 and Beyonce’s cover of Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black, which features on the Great Gatsby soundtrack (Jay-Z is a producer on this soundtrack). Can someone please tell me whose idea was it to give Mark Ronson his own radio show? The man has no personality and sounds like he is hosting the show from his bed with one eye closed. Anyway Mark produced and recorded the single with Amy back in 2006 and is being nice about the cover . He claims he is “flattered” by the new version but Amy’s []