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| "Ante Up" Bert & Ernie Remix LOL!!!!! Posted: 07 Jan 2009 12:36 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Snoop Dogg Interview W/ DJ Who Kid Posted: 07 Jan 2009 12:11 PM CST Snoop Dogg Part 6 from Radio Planet on Vimeo. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Katt Williams "Pimp Slapper" Tells His Side Of The Story Posted: 07 Jan 2009 12:08 PM CST Comedian and actor Katt Williams has been buzzing all over the internet lately following his highly-publicized comedic massacre of elder jokester Steve Harvey at a New Years Eve show in Detroit. But later that night, Williams hit up Cutters, an East Side club in the Motor City, and wound up taking the microphone. Already on a high after a stellar performance, Williams begin to freestyle for the crowd…he then turned his attention to an unsuspecting guy on the dance floor and begin cracking jokes about his outfit. Before the routine was up, the angry man in the crowd gave the partygoers something to laugh at for real: he walked over and smacked Katt Williams in the face. VIBE.com found the slapper, who asked to remain anonymous due to worries of a lawsuit, to get his side of the story. According to him, he came to the club following a high school cabaret. "I was probably with like 16, 17 dudes, we were scattered out throughout the club," the anonymous man, who lives in Detroit's Jeffrey Projects, said. "Basically we were just up in there having a good time." Williams passed the man, who was wearing a cowboy outfit consisting of a pair of "$5,000 gator boots," as he headed to the stage. When Williams took the microphone and begin to freestyle, things turned ugly. "I wasn't even paying attention," the man says. "I was talking to someone else while he was doing it. And then he pointed at me. I walked over to a couple of friends of mine, and they told me, 'He's clowning you.' So I walked over there and asked [Katt], 'So what you say? I don't play that joke shit.' So he was like, 'And what?' He didn't even admit what he said when I asked him." The man said he proceeded to pimp slap the pint-sized star of "The Pimp Chronicles," who was recently hospitalized in South Carolina for a mental evaluation. "He was still on some comedy stuff after I slapped him, I swear," the man says baffled. "After I slapped him, he jumped back and he was still talking and it was some girls holding him back. It was actually some girls in the club grabbing bottles like they wanted to do something to me too, like trying to protect him. He stopped and actually grabbed a square and was trying to light his cigarette. It was on some comedy stuff to me. He was trying to get his square lit, he took like two puffs, and he tried to charge back at me. But at this time, the security was heading me towards the door." The next day on Detroit's radio station WJLB, Williams told radio host Dr. Darrius the man slapped him in an attempt to steal his jewelry. "We weren't trying to get his jewelry," the man says. "I wasn't that drunk to not know what was going on. [Katt] told like 20 percent of the truth [on the radio]. I could understand if we were at a comedy club, or some shit like that, but we weren't there for that. It was after-hours, niggas was drunk, feeling it, we wasn't there for that. It wasn't no comedy show we were at. He's mad because my guy was looking more pimpish than him." After the altercation, a club patron asked Williams if he was okay. "Hell naw I ain't alright, didn't you just see that nigga slap me?!" he reportedly quipped. The "pimp slapper," in hindsight, says that even though Williams is "a funny dude" who he doesn't have any personal problems with, he wouldn't hesitate to show him the hand of god again if he stepped out of line. "I'd do it again if he say something like that," he says nonchalant. "And if I meet him, and he don't do nothing like that, he on some old friendly buddy-buddy shit, I'm buddy-buddy too. I don't have no problem. But if he got a problem next time we see each other…" Well, you get the picture. |
| 50 Cent "I Get It In" Single Produced By Dr.Dre Posted: 06 Jan 2009 08:43 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Corey Gunz & Mickey Factz Freestyle On The Deal Posted: 06 Jan 2009 08:07 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Apple announces DRM Free Music for ITunes Posted: 06 Jan 2009 02:19 PM CST DENVER -- With the MacWorld conference kicking off Tuesday, rumors are swirling that Apple is poised to unveil music licensing deals with the major labels that will allow it to sell DRM-free music at variable prices. Citing two unnamed sources, CNET is reporting that Apple agreed to a three-tier variable pricing model in return for the ability to sell music without its limiting FairPlay technology, which restricts the use of iTunes-purchased music to Apple-created devices. According to the report, there will be different prices for older catalog titles, modern but less popular songs, and current hits. The announcement could come during the MacWorld keynote. Neither Apple nor representatives from the major labels returned requests for comment. Sources contacted by Billboard said labels say the new wholesale rates work out to 91 cents for current hits, 70 cents for most other tracks, and around 50 cents for catalog titles. Apple can then mark up those prices in any way it wants, but it is assumed that the cost to customers will likely result in $1.29, 99-cents and 79-cents, respectively. The labels will be able to decide which songs go in which pricing tier. The labels and Apple also reportedly have come to an agreement of over-the-air music downloads to the iPhone using the AT&T wireless network. Currently, iPhone users can buy iTunes songs only using the devices WiFi connection for lack of such a deal. If the reports are true, the variable pricing deal would represent a major win for the music industry. While other digital retailers like Amazon.com and Napster have won rights to sell music without DRM protection, labels were reluctant to extend the same offer to iTunes without some concessions -- variable pricing. For iTunes users, the DRM issue was largely inconsequential, since music purchased from iTunes worked just fine on their iPods and other Apple devices. But with interest in digital music turning away from just the iPod and towards more integrated uses -- like home streaming media devices and in-car options -- the restrictive FairPlay technology could soon pose a problem. More immediate is the label's desire to price tracks at different levels based on popularity and demand. Apple has been a stalwart believer that a one-price-for-all model was necessary for simplicity purposes. While that may have been true in the early days of digital music, the market has progressed to the point where music fans are familiar with the concept and the process, and introducing a new pricing model won't be as disruptive as it might once have been. Exactly what impact the move will have on iTunes competitors remains unclear. One of the differentiating features they all shared was that they could sell DRM-free music and iTunes could not. But studies have shown that DRM is not a major consideration for most consumers considering making a digital music purchase. Rather, label sources in the past have told Billboard that digital retailers will compete more on their user experience, discovery capabilities and other factors. Amazon, for instance, has a more generous partnership model, which played a large in its selection as the music sales provider for MySpace Music. |
| Lil Wayne & Skip Bayless On ESPN Posted: 06 Jan 2009 02:02 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Dow Jones Acquires Database Assets of Venture Capital Research Firm Library House Posted: 06 Jan 2009 01:29 PM CST ____________________________________ Dow Jones & Company, Inc. January 06, 2009 Dow Jones Acquires Database Assets of Venture Capital Research Firm Library House To view the full press release, go to: Visit http://www.dowjones.com/Pressroom/PressReleases.htm to view all Dow Jones & Company, Inc. press releases.
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