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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
GREAT MARKETING STRATEGY !!
Marketing strategists behind the carbonated drink brand Dr. Pepper, perhaps spending too much of the 1980s listening to Sweet Child o' Mine, are hoping to rouse Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose from his 17-year dry spell.
The Cadbury Schweppes plc brand has vowed to give "everyone in America" a free can of the fizzy drink (except for estranged Guns N' Roses guitarists Slash and Buckethead) if Rose manages to release his long-awaited album Chinese Democracy in 2008. No word on whether that offer is open to us Canucks.
"Dr. Pepper supports Axl, and fully understands that sometimes you have to make it through the jungle before you get it right," says a press release from the Plano, Tex.-based company.
Adds Jaxie Alt, director of marketing for Dr Pepper: "We completely understand and empathize with Axl's quest for perfection -- for something more than the average album. We know once it's released, people will refer to it as "Dr Pepper for the ears" because it will be such a refreshing blend of rich, bold sounds -- an instant classic."
The company is encouraging the public to show support for Axl at www.chinesedemocracywhen.blogspot.com.
For his part, the reclusive Rose issued this response on the official Guns N' Roses web site:
"We are surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr Pepper with our album "Chinese Democracy." As for us, this came totally out of the blue. If there is any involvement with this promotion by our record company or others, we are unaware of such at this time. And as some of Buckethead's performances are on our album, I'll share my Dr Pepper with him."
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TECH: is a good marketing strategy "yes it is" I think CoCa-CoLa should use the same strategy with DR.DRE and hes album DETOX.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
EGO TRIP IS BACK WITH ANOTHER ONE..
In ego trip's Miss Rap Supreme, contestants will compete to win the title of next great female MC.
The show, which has completed production, will be hosted by (White) Rapper Show host MC Serch and female MC Yo-Yo. It is set to premiere on VH1 in the Spring of 2008.
tech: On the real I watched every single episode of the white rapper show, that shit was funny so I'm definitely watching the Miss Rap Supreme Show
The show, which has completed production, will be hosted by (White) Rapper Show host MC Serch and female MC Yo-Yo. It is set to premiere on VH1 in the Spring of 2008.
tech: On the real I watched every single episode of the white rapper show, that shit was funny so I'm definitely watching the Miss Rap Supreme Show
Saturday, March 22, 2008
READ THIS ARTICLE...LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK
If you've ever seen photos of LeBron James away from the basketball court, it's obvious he takes great pride in his appearance.In fact, he's widely considered one of the best-dressed guys in the NBA -- perhaps even in all of sports. LeBron's mentor is Jay-Z, the rapper-turned-mogul who dropped throwbacks for Armani suits years ago.
Vogue
LeBron making the cover is a good thing. But the pose, not so much.
LeBron's image clearly means a lot to him, maybe even as much as pursuing a championship. And that's why I can't understand why he would allow Vogue to feature him with supermodel Gisele Bundchen in such a distasteful manner.
In case you haven't seen the cover, LeBron has Gisele in one hand and a basketball in the other. LeBron is dressed in basketball gear, with his muscles flexing, tattoos showing and bared teeth. Gisele, on the other hand, is wearing a gorgeous slim-fitting dress, and smiling.
She looks like she's on her way to something fashionable and exciting. He looks like he's on his way to a pickup game for serial killers.
Now, maybe the point was to show the contrast between brawn and beauty, masculinity versus femininity, strength versus grace. But Vogue's quest to highlight the differences between superstar athletes and supermodels only successfully reinforces the animalistic stereotypes frequently associated with black athletes.
A black athlete being reduced to a savage is, sadly, nothing new. But this cover gave you the double-bonus of having LeBron and Gisele strike poses that others in the blogosphere have noted draw a striking resemblance to the racially charged image of King Kong enveloping his very fair-skinned lady love interest.
LeBron is just the third male ever to appear on Vogue's cover, but it's hard to believe Vogue would have made Brett Favre, Steve Nash or even David Beckham strike his best beast pose. And even if Vogue had, it wouldn't carry the same racial undertones as having a fear-inducing black man paired with a dainty damsel.
Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.
The examples of this are endless. The 2002 Sports Illustrated cover that featured Charles Barkley chained like a slave. Ricky Williams wearing a wedding dress on an ESPN The Magazine cover in 1999. And while it didn't appear in a magazine, the Terrell Owens-Nicolette Sheridan intimate-encounter tease for "Monday Night Football" gave viewers a sexualized image of a black man.
In fact, the shirtless black male athlete cover is pretty much a staple, reinforcing the idea that black athletes were blessed with physical characteristics, not mental ones.
"Society has become more civilized, more humane over 150 years or so, and that's all fine and good," said Dr. John Hoberman, a University of Texas professor and author of the controversial book "Darwin's Athletes: How Sports Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race." "But what happens to these fundamentally racist ideas over a period of time? Do they simply disappear?"
Having studied the images of black athletes for years, Hoberman contends that the images of black athletes presented today are no better than the ones offered centuries ago. And if it matters to you, Hoberman is white.
See any similarities with the Vogue cover above?
"One of the 19th-century themes was the savage versus the civilized," Hoberman said. "The practice of stripping black males above the waist and displaying him is as American as apple pie."
But we don't even have to dip back to the 19th century to see how images of black athletes have affected how we think and thus how we view sports. In 1994, Jack Nicklaus said there weren't more African-Americans in golf because "blacks have different muscles that react in different ways."
And that backward thinking isn't limited to whites, either. Former ESPN NFL analyst Michael Irvin channeled his inner Jimmy the Greek when attempting to explain Tony Romo's abilities. Irvin surmised that Romo was good because his "great, great, great, great grandma pulled one of them studs up outta the barn [and said], 'Come here for a second.'"
It's like Barack Obama said in his much-talked about speech on race Tuesday. We know so little about one another. Even scarier, we know even less about the fallout of racist history.
"It's a great, great issue that Vogue has made trivial," Hoberman said. "It's exploitative. It's going for the primitive, racial emotion as opposed to something tasteful and edifying."
Vogue deserves criticism, but more blame should go to LeBron and other black athletes, who need to exercise stricter control of their images. If LeBron is brave enough to wear a Yankees cap at an Indians playoff game, picking up a history book and educating himself shouldn't cause a strain.
This isn't to say Vogue's cover deserves to be in the same category as Golfweek magazine, which featured a noose on its front during the Kelly Tilghman-Tiger Woods flap. But as always, it's important to question who was in the room when the cover decisions were made.
As it is, LeBron was the first African-American male to grace Vogue's cover. Too bad it will be memorable for the wrong reasons.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
REMINDER ABOUT TONIGHT !!!
Aja - Monet & Tahani Salah Presents:
BLAH BLAH BLAH
10 pm SHARP at The Bowery Poetry Club
$5 Bucks for Students with valid school ID ...
$10 Bucks without it ...
I hope to see you there !!!!
For more info and directions CLICK HERE
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
EUROPEAN GANGSTER
By: MAD MELLOW from ZONASEIS
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tech: I know their is a lot of remakes of this album but this shit right here is just dope. download it and hit me let me know what you think.
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you can also check out his new MYSPACE PAGE
tech: I know their is a lot of remakes of this album but this shit right here is just dope. download it and hit me let me know what you think.
LATIN URBAN MIXX 08'
ZONASEIS hit the latin urbam mix in MIAMI this weekend. we were lucky enough to load some pictures into the computer before the camara got lost..
sneaker stack for the 3 days we were there
BEACH BUMBS
EL NUEVO HERALD
URBAN MIXXXX
M.C & BRIDGET ... SHOUTS TO BRIDGET COOL CHICK
DANTE & ESCO
THE FLAMING GREEK
lost camara + broken iBOOK + mojitos + Beach + dope kicks + zonaseis + chicks = a good weekend in miami...
sneaker stack for the 3 days we were there
BEACH BUMBS
EL NUEVO HERALD
URBAN MIXXXX
M.C & BRIDGET ... SHOUTS TO BRIDGET COOL CHICK
DANTE & ESCO
THE FLAMING GREEK
lost camara + broken iBOOK + mojitos + Beach + dope kicks + zonaseis + chicks = a good weekend in miami...
Monday, March 17, 2008
THIS THURSDAY EVENING !!!
So 2 of the inner cities, most flyest poets (Aja-Monet & Tahani Salah) have came together to put on a series of poetry showcases at The Bowery Poetry Club. There is quite a buzz going on since they've had their first show in February. Not only does this show include a dope lineup of acclaimed poets but, it also has one of the "illest" after party events (right in the Bowery). The show begins at 10pm SHARP ( I do recommend you getting there a little earlier for there will indeed be a line !!!). This show will be very special as well because, the 2008 team for Urban Word NYC, will have there first performance as a team at this show. There is however a price you must pay at the door (its well worth it though ...) $5 for students with ID, and $10 without. Not so bad right?Well I Hope to see you there! I will def. have recap posted.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Fat Shouts to LUCKY !!!
So, I met with this pretty cool guy via facebook. And we began to speak about many different things. From blogging to poetry. Turns out he dug my work so much that he featured me on his blog!!! go check it and, bookmark his site. His blog is so dope that, I think even kanYe took some things off of it ... LOL!!!! But go support my man. Good Lucks (get it ?!)
LUCKY'S BLOG !!!
Please Watch
Shout Out to Concrete Loop, for unveiling this unto the masses. Please turn down your ignorance and, put the volume up as you watch and learn the story of "Hottentot Venus"
And now we are back to the SHOW!!!! (I hope it got your conscience in a chokehold).
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
GOOD LOOKS ON THE BLOG CRUSHED
TECH: zonaseis & crushed linen got some events coming up so be on the look out..
STRONG ISLAND
When Fashion meets Disaster !!!!
Raven Symone. DAMN! she has really got me speechless with this ensemble. She wore this during the Christian Audigier’s One World Collection show in L.A.'s Fashion Week ... SMH. Stick to Disney and Cosby baby damn. SMH ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
HAH !!!
Ernest's Speaks: I have been watching this all day and it still makes me cry with laughter AHAHAHAHA !!!
Talk about "Pimp the System" ...
Former New York Mayor David Dinkins and, current Governor Eliot Spitzer, at better times ...
So ... New York Governor Eliot Spitzer just got busted by wiretapping feds for, get this ... Arranging a meet with a very pricey PROSTITUTE while he stated at Washington Feb 13 2008. I just do not what is worse though, him getting caught, or him cheating on his wife one day before Valentines Day mmmmm. tsk tsk i SMH ... He has yet resigned or spoke of relinquishing his title as New York State Governor. Talk about "Pimping the System" HAH !!!
P.S. Governor Eliot Spitzer is nationally acclaimed for his prosecution of at least two prostitution rings when he played the role as an attorney general.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
QUOTE OF THE WEEK !
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
By: Sven Goran Eriksson
Tech toughts:
By: Sven Goran Eriksson
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
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Monday, March 3, 2008
The Inspiration has begun: 2008 Urban Word NYC Grand Slam Finals !!!
Good Morning. It is Monday and, I am still trying to find new vocabulary that could describe Saturday nights event, aside from using "Remarkable, Beautiful, Crazy, Awesome, Incredible" but, I stumble upon the word "Heaven" to describe of it. To me, whenever I hear the word "Heaven" aside from its religious relations, I think of it as inspiration. I witnessed Heaven on Saturday night.
To most not familiar with what I am speaking of, Urban Word NYC is a grassroots, not for profit program based in the inner city of New York. Their aim is uplifting youth ages 13-19 by having poetry workshops, as well as many other workshops that is not solely based on poetry. Each year around the month of February, they host the biggest youth Poetry slam event in NYC. 20 or more poets who qualify from their semifinals performance get an opportunity to perform at the final stage in front of a large audience and, before a panel of acclaimed judges. Judges choose 5 poets to represent NYC on national level in the summer for the "Brave New Voices" national poetry slam (will take place in Washington, D.C. this year). This year, they chose 6 poets.
This event really should be televised (thank you Stan Lathan and, HBO filming staff). It's vindication will show proof, when those who were not able to attend, witness raw emotions as if it were their own skin. I am still blown away and still hyped over this years slam, and this years team that, my general feelings for this event remains unconquered. Im am glad to have met Afrika Bambaataa. Im also glad that Russel Simmons had a chance to witness this event as well, hopefully he can do some yoga and meditate some change into the music industry. I am so proud of each and everyone of you guys (all the performers, whether I know you personally or not). I know how it feels, to have those nerves hitting on high, and those lights blinding you so, your only choice is ... your VOICE. Thank you once again.
*And my message to the 2008 team* :
Your summer has just begun. As Tahani Salah says, this is YOUR moment. Live your moment. I love you guys.
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