PEACE TO DOLEMITE! YOU ARE ALIVE FOREVER.







AND PEACE TO RUSSELL JONES!


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MONEY AIN'T A THING TO ME... WATCH THIS!



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AT LEAST HE'S OPTIMISTIC:

Although some people may be counting Young Buck out of the game due to his less-than-amicable split from G-Unit, the Cashville rapper isn't phased.

"The name of my record is The Rehab," he told MTV News in Atlanta. "Straight up, that's where I been at."

Buck added that he and the Outlawz are planning to put out their separate projects around the same time. "You can expect for their album at the top of the year," he said. "Hopefully it comes January, no later than February.

"Regardless of whatever you may hear, whatever dealing with Buck, what you see is what you get. Honestly, to be real, 50 [Cent] made the statement to the world that 'Buck is no longer a part of G-Unit, but he's still an artist on the label,' so whenever I guess he gets over his situation and figures out his album, I guess we'll come to terms and figure out a release date on my album. Until then, I ain't stoppin'. That's why I'm going so hard with the mixtapes. I'm everywhere. Hopefully, we'll get a release on my album in January or February."

Buck's goal with the album? To sell a million in a week. But Buck indicated that if 50 is willing to negotiate, he has prospects ready to buy him out of his contract.

"I'm trying to get totally away from the whole G-Unit situation, period," he said. "If I can directly deal with Interscope, so be it. I only got two albums left anyway. So at this point, all I'm trying to do is fulfill what I got left with homeboy and move on. It's already understood that the relationship with me and G-Unit will never be the same, so you don't ever have to look forward to seeing me back with G-Unit. That's not my thing. I'm staying down with the streets, and the streets are staying down with me."

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ABSTRACT POETIC. IN THE IDLE MODE, BUT HIS ENERGY'S KINETIC:



I WANT TO SEE THIS!

Though it’s been nearly a decade since Q-Tip’s last official studio release Amplified, the buzz off his new single “Getting’ Up” and its associated album, The Renaissance has been exemplary of the type of emcee he is. Stopping by Hot 97’s Angie Martinez Show, Q-Tip discussed his new album and also a documentary currently being filmed on A Tribe Called Quest.

After co-signing the likes of Charles Hamilton and Lupe Fiasco as fresh faces that are progressing the art form of Hip Hop, Q-Tip explained the title and musical direction of his upcoming release.

“You know we always have these conversations about ‘yo this is wack, this music is wack,’ and whatever, [but] we turning the corner," explained Q-Tip. "I feel like [The Renaissance] is speaking to a resurgence of some Hip Hop music that is just good.”

Another topic that "The Abstract" spoke on was a documentary being produced by fellow New York emcee, Nas. The significance of their relationship dates back to the early 90’s and Nas’ debut album Illmatic, for which Q-Tip produced “One Love” and subsequently was featured on the track.

Obviously behind the project 100 percent, Q-Tip stated, “Nas is producing a documentary on A Tribe Called Quest that Michael Rappaport is shootin’. He approached me like, ‘I wanna shoot it.’ He’s getting into film, and he’s producing it. I saw some of the rushes [unedited footage] and it looks crazy.”

Q-Tip’s album The Renaissance hits stores Nov. 4.

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KANYE. LOVE HIM.


Kanye West visits Big Boy's Neighborhood from qdeezy on Vimeo.

Shortly after Kanye West launched his Web site, KanyeUniversecity.com, he expressed his distaste for being misquoted in interviews via his blog.

"SIIIIIIGGGHHHH! [sic]" he wrote. "I told the media you can't make up lies about me because I have a media outlet myself. Oh and sidebar I don't know if everyone has realized this yet but I don't do interviews if there's anything I wanna say I'll say right here on my own blog."

True to his word, there was very little, if any, written press done. Aside from live performances and the occasional talk show appearance, there were even fewer television and radio appearances. All details about his upcoming 808s And Heartbreak album have either come via his blog or from friends and collaborators, such as Common and Kid Cudi. On Monday, West appeared on Big Boy's Radio Show [WQHT 97.5 "Hot 97," KPWR 105.9 "Power 106"] and explained the reasoning behind his Auto-Tune and melody-heavy new album.

"I wanted people to take my words into their soul, and have it embedded it their life, spirit and energy," explains Kanye. "When I was a shorty, they taught us stuff with a melody, like the ABC's. So I'm about to express my stuff with melody. It's a fine line, where you don't know if it's rapping or what it is. It's just what's necessary at the time--what it feels like [and] what the beat makes me do."

West also addressed rumors that he was just being experimental and hoping critics would recognize his upcoming album as an Avant-garde work.

"People heard 'Heartless' and thought it was safe," says Kanye. "They were like, 'Kanye's over here. It's all good now.' As you see, nobody's safe. I'm coming for the spot. It's a lot of people with number one spots right now, and I'm coming back for my spot. I'm not really playing right now. I think people might have thought I was playing games or just doing something real Avant-garde. But I'm coming to make the best music I can possibly make."

808s And Heartbreak will be in stores Nov. 25.

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I LIKE THIS GUY TOO. INSPIRING.



NOW HE OWNS ENYCE. GOTTA GET ONE TO GO WITH MY SEAN JOHN JEANS (WHICH ARE GOOD QUALITY, BTW.)

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DON'T SEE HIM MUCH, BUT HE'S COOL WITH ME... J. IVY. THE SOURCE OF A NEAR ARGUMENT WITH ME AND KANYE WEST, LOL!



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KISS MY ASS SAYS JADA:



KAY SLAY, YOU NEED TO TELL PAPOOSE TO CHANGE HIS PITCH UP.

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How We Are Getting Racists to Vote for Obama

by Guest Contributor SuzeNYC, originally published at Daily Kos (SuzeNYC’s Diary)

Yesterday, I spent the day canvassing with friends for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. It doesn’t matter where it was. It could have been any number of cities all over our country. I am shocked by my experience.

I’ve been working as a volunteer for almost a year and a half for this campaign and I have encountered a fair amount of people’s racism around Barack. I’m a white 44 year old woman. My support for Barack has meant that I’ve been spat upon, physically attacked, called terrible names, cussed at and, of course, had the door slammed in my face by people using the “N” explicative.

[UPDATE: It was brought to my attention in the comments that I am misrepresenting the canvassing experience and there is truth to that. While petitioning and registering voters on the streets, or while doing visibility on primary days I had most of those negative experiences. They were all completely un-provoked. I was wearing an Obama button and a smile. The only thing negative that has happened while canvassing is having doors slammed and being scared by dogs from behind a fence. On to the next door.]

As this campaign has progressed I always felt that it was a given that a certain percentage of Americans are racist and we just don’t worry about losing that vote because we never had it. We make up for that by registering tons of voters and making sure that they get to the polls. This is the work I’ve been doing with my band of friends who I’ve met through the campaign.

Well, yesterday that presumption disintegrated.

I was knocking on doors talking to folks. We met many Democrats, Independents and even some Republicans who are Obama supporters. We also talked with people who are undecided and heard at a few doors something that I’ve heard before, “I’m a Democrat (some were even Republicans) and I really don’t like John McCain, but I just don’t know what to do.” I’d go on to talk taxes, education, health care, but realized after a few of these conversations that something was missing,

I knew these people were intimating that they were having trouble with Obama’s race but I couldn’t figure out how to approach this.

The answer came in the form of an amazing guy I’ll call Stan. Stan’s daughter answered the door. She had long blond hair and looked to be about 15. She said her Dad was across the street at the garage where he works and he had not decided who he was voting for. My canvassing partner Kevin and I crossed the street to find Stan who was sitting with his co-workers having lunch, so we had quite an audience for what was to follow.

Stan said the usual stuff. Democrat. Doesn’t like McCain. Worried about the economy and then he was hedging around the fact that he has some problem with Barack. I looked him in the eye and with a relaxed smile on my face I plunged into the water and asked, “So, are you having a problem with the color of his skin?” He said he was. I asked him why and he said some non-sensible things like, “I don’t know. It’s just not right, you know? Something feels wrong about it.”

I asked him, again in a relaxed, non-judgmental tone, “Do you think you are a racist?’ At first he said, “No.” Then he said, “I don’t know, maybe.” I said, “You know, Barack’s mom looked a lot like me. And Barack and Michelle just finished paying their student loans last year. I wish that you would take a closer look at this man and try to see deeper than just his skin color. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are regular people who will never betray the middle class. That isn’t who John McCain is.” He agreed. At this point we could feel him relaxing and Kevin and I really stared connecting with him. I think he felt relieved that the cat was out of the bag and we weren’t giving him superior attitude or stomping away. We talked with him and listened to him talk about taxes and how Obama will give tax breaks to everyone making under $250K and we talked about the war and oil prices and how hard it has been to pay the bills.

He told me that his daughter with his first wife, the blond girl who answered the door is 1/4 African American but doesn’t know it. I said, “Wow. You are an interesting, complicated guy.” He laughed. He said that he doesn’t want to be a racist, but change is hard. I empathized. Kevin said, “Yeah, change is hard, but it’s inevitable and you don’t want to be on the wrong side of change.” Stan smiled and said, “Well, this is going to be the first time that I vote and I just might vote for Obama.” We told him we were amazed and thanked him. He seemed happy. We were happy.

We went on to have very similar conversations with about 6 more people that afternoon. Later when we joined our other canvassing friends they reported very similar conversations.

So, what I was shocked by is the realization that it seems that there is a category of white Americans who are somewhat racist but who are poised to be persuaded. In my experience the key was asking these people in a non-judgmental manner if they think the color of Barack’s skin is getting in the way for them. They were struggling with deciding to vote for Barack, but they did not seem to want to think of themselves as racist, so they were open to re-thinking their position with me and Kevin. Once we got past the racism thing it was not hard to show them how Barack is more like they are than McCain is.

What is so unexpected to me is that it really only took between 10- 15 minutes per person to turn this category of people that I had given up on from “NO” to “MAYBE” or “LEANING.”

We have 30 days to keep talking to these people. Please. Please, get out there canvassing! You can make the difference.

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THE THINGS GOING ON OFFLINE ARE SO FUCKED UP I CAN'T WRITE ABOUT THEM ON HERE.
LOVE YOURSELF RIGHT.
ADDI