Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The Chain Remains...
While Jay-Z is starting to set the foundation with his Roc Nation imprint on Sony, Dame Dash has plans of his own with the "old" Roc-A-Fella. Dame was able to helm the newly resurrected Roc-A-Fella through a new deal with L.A. Reid and Def Jam, which will distribute the label's new releases.
Def Jam has chose to resurrect the label with Dame at the helm. Will this be a Hov left at Def Jam.
"I think we just having fun, really," said Dash, sitting in his office at DD172 next to Curren$y. "[Curren$y] inspired me to dust off the chains. We brought 'em out for kicks, just 'cause we could. Then we was like, 'F--- it, let's put it out through Roc-A-Fella.' It was really more something he wanted to do. Basically, 'cause we havin' such a good time, and the opportunity's there, we was like, 'Why not?' "
"What that means, what that shows me, is that dude thinks as highly of me as I do him," Curren$y said about releasing an LP on the label Dash co-founded with Jay-Z and Kareem "Biggs" Burke in the mid-1990s. "I know what's behind that. We all know and the fans know what that represented at the height of it. The aesthetic of it."
The label's first release will be Curren$y's "Pilot Talk" on June 15.
You can read the rest of the article here:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1638284/20100503/dame_dash.jhtml
Thoughts? Opinions?
Monday, May 3, 2010
Beyoncé - Why Don't You Love Me by VIIMAG
Beyoncé - Why Don't You Love Me by VIIMAG
Who Knew? When we thought Beyonce finally took a break to enjoy her hubby and life, she blindsides us with a new video. The preview for new video, "Why Don't You Love Me" is cute and the song is a party anthem. I'm not too big on the song but I'm sure it'll grow on me after I hear it three thousand times .
Here is the link to the song:
Here is the preview:
Sunday, May 2, 2010
And The Winner Is.....
This is why I am against selling
A few months ago, while standing at the register in my Dad's store in New Jersey, I was speaking to a business, ?, man who said it would be advisable to sell this magazine when it reaches my peak. Now I am adamant against anything that anyone tells me that I feel is against my better judgment. I was born stubborn, sue me. In my mind, it was like the magazine is in its brainstorming phase and we're already talking about selling? I just didn't get it. I'm glad I didn't because this is why:
Recently, Sheila Johnson the co-founder of BET stated that she hated the direction the network has taken since she sold the network to Viacom. Here is her full quote:
"Don’t even get me started, I don’t watch it. I suggest to my kids [a 20-something daughter and a college-age son] that they don’t watch it… I’m ashamed of it, if you want to know the truth."
It wasn’t always that way. “When we started BET, it was going to be the Ebony magazine on television,” Johnson tells me. “We had public affairs programming. We had news… I had a show called Teen Summit, we had a large variety of programming, but the problem is that then the video revolution started up… And then something started happening, and I didn’t like it all. And I remember during those days we would sit up and watch these videos and decide which ones were going on and which ones were not. We got a lot of backlash from recording artists…and we had to start showing them. I didn’t like the way women were being portrayed in these videos.
Johnson says she no longer has any connection with BET. “I just really wish—and not just BET but a lot of television programming—that they would stop lowering the bar so far just so they can get eyeballs to the screen,” she says. “I know they think that’s what’s going to keep programming on the air; that’s what’s going to sell advertising. But there has got to be some responsibility. Somebody has got to take this over. Because with all the studies that are out there, this is contributing to an atmosphere of free sex, ‘I don’t have to protect myself anymore
Sheilia Johnson and Bob Johnson sold BET to Viacom in 1997 for $3 Billion Dollars-yes that's with a B-making them the nations first black billionaires. The pair divorced five years later. I understand her stance, because very few people like BET but I feel like that's what happens when you have corporate people who've probably never stepped inside a black neighborhood creating what they feel black people want to see.
