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Source Magazine No Longer Accepts Ads For Lewd Products

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:36 PM CST

One thing magazine advertising and hip-hop music have always had in common is skin — images of models, usually women, in alluring poses and various states of undress. The Source, the hip-hop magazine, does not aim to do away with such images — there is a lot of money in them — but it wants to make the sex in its pages a lot less explicit.

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Ads for pornography and escorts had been a mainstay for The Source, more than half the ads at times.

To that end, the magazine announced recently that it would no longer take what the co-publisher, L. Londell McMillan, calls "booty ads," for pornographic films, pornographic Web sites or escort services. But those have been a mainstay for The Source — more than half the ads in the magazine at times, he said.

The Source hopes to gain more than it loses by chasing mainstream advertisers that do not want their ads alongside the adults-only kind. That's a serious gamble at a time when magazines are struggling, unable to hold onto the ads they have.

"I realize the risk that we're taking," said Mr. McMillan, 42, a partner at a major law firm, Dewey & LeBouef. "But I think when you have the more raunchy, seedy ads, you lose ads like financial services ads, some of the travel ads, the bigger corporate consumer ads like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, technology, high fashion."

The Source, he said, should be able to appeal to the core hip-hop audience, mostly young men, while also being something "you wouldn't mind your kids seeing."

Founded in the 1980s, The Source became the first major magazine devoted to hip-hop, but in the 1990s, it lost ground to its primary competitor, Vibe. Since then, it has gone through turnovers in management and financial troubles that culminated in bankruptcy.

A group of investors, led by Mr. McMillan, bought The Source in 2008. The major independent auditors of circulation and advertising have not examined it in recent years, making it hard to gauge the magazine's progress, but these are hard times for the entire industry.

Mr. McMillan says eliminating sex ads is no mere business decision. Sounding, at times, less like the music's fans than like their parents, he says he wants to transform the often raunchy image of hip-hop itself.

"We don't want to just glorify the lowest-hanging fruit," he said. "There's a lot of people that want hip-hop but don't want some of the filth that some of the business carries with it."

T.I. Gives Thanks For Past Year @ Hip Hop Inaugural Ball

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:32 PM CST

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Patting his pants pockets, T.I. claimed he couldn't find the acceptance speech he had prepared for the Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball at the Harmon Center for the Arts on Monday (January 19). So he went off the top of his head with an ode to all the things he's thankful for; the speech left the crowdmembers stunned and on their feet.

"I want to thank God for giving me the strength, the wisdom, the patience, the resilience, the perseverance to make it through one of the toughest times of my life," he said. The rapper's past few years have included the murder of his best friend and assistant Philant Johnson, his arrest on weapons charges and a one-year prison sentence he's slated to begin in March.

He improbably thanked the U.S. government, "the U.S. attorneys who prosecuted me in my case for giving me the opportunity to make a difference -- real talk," he said, as an audience member shouted out, "That's the man!"

"I want to thank God for somehow ... I know he perfect. So I'mma thank him for everything. I'mma thank him for making me drop out of school. I'mma thank him for making me run the streets. I'mma thank him for making me sell crack. I'mma thank him for making me have shoot-outs. I'mma thank him for allowing me to watch my partners die in my arms," he said, his voice rising and quickening and taking on the cadence of a fire-and-brimstone preacher. "So I'd be fearful enough for my life and paranoid enough to go out and cop machine guns and silencers so I catch a fed case and I have to put up $3 million for my bond so I have to spend seven months of my life in my house, so I have to spend a year of my life in prison just so I be validated enough to get out there and touch the youth because they know that I done been through it, and if I say it, it means something. You know what I'm saying?"

A look of relief on his face, Tip asked the clapping and hollering crowd to give him a minute, calling out an earlier speech by Young Jeezy -- another MC honored earlier by show sponsor the Hip-Hop Action Summit Network -- who double-checked to make sure his name was on his award. "I'm gonna make sure it's my name on it, 'cause I don't normally get awards for doing good stuff," Jeezy joked.

Also honored during the event were pioneering female rapper MC Lyte, Bow Wow and LL Cool J. Mario opened the show with a cover of Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror," leaning in extra hard on the lines "I'm gonna make that change for once in my life" as a montage of notable African-Americans flashed behind him. The show was closed by special guest Busta Rhymes, who took the stage with Spliff Star for a medley of hits, including "Ante Up" and "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See."

"Be the Change: Live From the Inaugural" will air live on MTV on Tuesday, January 20, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. MTV News will have wall-to-wall coverage of the event and of the scenes in Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Kenya in the days leading up to the event and in the days that follow.

Wyclef Jeans Green Inaugural Ball Sells Out In Minutes

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:28 PM CST

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Tickets for next week's Green Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC, which features headliner Wyclef Jean, have reportedly sold-out in a matter of 12 minutes.

Wyclef and others are billed to perform at the celebration for a "Green" audience.

"We are ecstatic to have Wyclef perform on the 17th. As one of TreeHugger.com's 'Top 5 Most Buzzworthy Green Musicians,'" co-producer Stephanie Campbell said in a statement, "he is the perfect fit for an event that is not just green in name, but also in design and implementation." (Press Release)

Once placed for sale, tickets sold faster than expected.

The sold-out Green Inaugural Ball brings together more than 75 environmental, labor, business, civil justice, and community organizations and sponsors under one environmentally conscious banner. Capacity is about 2,500 and tickets sold out in about 12 minutes. (Billboard)

The event's focus will be on welcoming the new presidential administration in a green environment.

In honor of President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joe Biden, the Green Inaugural Ball celebrates the grass roots efforts made by individuals and organizations across our nation and the world whose actions improve and protect our environment. (Green Inaugural Ball)

Jay-Z "Brooklyn (Go Hard)" Live

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:23 PM CST

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Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST

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50 Cent Launches New Film Company, Pushes Back "Before I Self Destruct" Back To March

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST

50 Cent announced the launching of his film company Cheetah Vision at the Sundance Film Festival today (January 19).

According to The Associated Press, 50 revealed Monday that his film company has already purchased eight scripts and the first script it will be producing is The Dance which will star himself and Nicholas Cage.

"(The script) was previously passed around a little bit but both me and Nicolas Cage had an interest in the film so it will still happen," 50 said. "[Cage] plays the founder of a boxing program, and I play a fighter who goes to state prison".

"They are all different types of movies that I bought the rights to, and we're developing projects," the rapper added. "You will see different things from me in the future.

50 Cent will be making his directorial debut via his film Before I Self Destruct which will be a free DVD packaged with his forthcoming album of the same name.

50 revealed that Before I Self Destruct has been pushed back to a March release. The album had been slated for release next month.

50 Cent fans can expect to see the rapper grace the big screen this year. The G-Unit honcho will appear alongside Val Kilmer in the cop drama Streets of Blood. 50 is also attached to two other movies which are currently in production, 13 and Dead Man Running.

Barack Obamas Inauguration Speech

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:01 PM CST

Gerard Baker, US Editor

At the swearing-in of America's first African-American president, amid crowds on a scale never witnessed before in Washington, and in all the usual pomp and pageantry of a presidential inauguration, the great set-piece inauagural speech - even from a highly accomplished orator - might have been in danger of being overshadowed.

But this was after all Barack Obama, now President Barack Obama, and if anyone's oratory can rise to even the highest occasion, it is his.

Yet with the country confronting its gravest set of circumstances in at least a generation, this wasn't the occasion for his most soaring of speeches.

It was instead an oration rooted in the immediate challenges. It was directed at two audiences: a hopeful but anxious one at home, and an uncertain but hopeful one overseas.

To the global audience, Mr Obama signalled, perhaps more sharply than expected, the different path he intends to take from that of his predecessor.

In remarks that presaged important policy announcements in the next few days, President Obama indicated that the way he prosecutes the war on terrorism will change markedly from George Bush's approach.

"As for our common defence, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." In the next few days he is expected to order the eventual closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and to issue new orders barring harsh interrogation treatment of detainees.

"Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expediency's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more."

And though Mr Obama warned terrorists that the US would pursue and defeat them, and he promised to disengage from Iraq and achieve victory in Afghanistan, perhaps most striking was the distinction between Mr Obama's inaugural tone and that of Mr Bush's second inauguration four years ago. There was no reference yesterday to committing the US to the eradication of tyranny in the world. Instead Mr Obama contented himself with warning tryants that they were on "the wrong side of history".

He promised to seek a new way forward with the Moslem world based on "mutual interest and mutual respect" and there were references to a renewed effort to join in international efforts on climate change and global poverty.

But the bulk of his speech, and his focus, was on the domestic challenges facing his administration.All new presidents like to convey the message that the country is in desperate need of a new direction, even when things are going swimmingly. But no-one seriously questions the scale of the economic mess that now confronts the US and the loss of national self-confidence is almost palpable.

Mr Obama promised that an activist government would move quickly on a massive stimulus programme of public spending. But he asked for patience from the American people, warning it would take time for measures to work.

He was also careful to rein in the ambitions of some of the more ideological of his supporters, saying that the question the world faced was not whether the market was "a force for good or ill", and reminding them that government was not always the answer.

"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end."

And in a further indication that he intends to pursue a pragmatic approach, he echoed the theme of his campaign that it was time for Americans to put partisanship aside. "The stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply."

The new president also warned his expectant audience that, while the government would do its part, it was also the responsibility of individuals to repair the damage to the economy and to American society.

" What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

It was a realistic assessment of the limitations of any government policy, and a timely reminder that restoring America's self-confidence is ultimately the work, not of great speeches by politicians, but of hard work by all Americans.

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