Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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New Reality TV Series : “Starmaker” with P. Diddy

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:48 AM PDT

This just in. There's a new reality TV series coming out called "STARMAKER" and it'll be featuring the always reality rapper star himself, P. Diddy. The show is being produced in partnership between MTV, Mark Burnett and P. Diddy himself.

P. Diddy's Starmaker

As you can imagine the show is about 14 aspiring artists fighting for their chance to win the ultimate prize. Which is a recording contract from Bad Boy Records and a career launch supervised by Sean "Diddy" Combs himself.

Every week you can tune into MTV and watch P. Diddy bring the best in the business to help him judge the challenges he'll be putting them through. Some of the celebrities scheduled to join Diddy at the judging table are none other than Pete Wentz, Lady Gaga, Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland.

Diddy's regular judges will be Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Tamara Conniff, Laurie Ann Gibson, Kimberly Caldwell and Johnny Wright.

Tune into MTV every Sunday night at 10pm beginning August 16 with a special 90-minute season premiere.

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Jay-Z Cracks Oprah’s Hip-Hop Shield

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 11:15 AM PDT

It’s no mystery that Oprah Winfrey doesn’t like hip-hop artists. In fact she seems to dislike everything she considers to be middle to lower class. Kind of a snob for someone from her upbringing.

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Despite her hatred for the hip-hop industry she had to admit that it was the hip-hop artists like Jay-Z and Will.I.Am who helped her boy Barack Obama become the first African American president of the United States.

In a new segment of the Oprah Winfrey Show she decided to visit some celebrities hometowns. So what better way to show the then and now than to bring in a hip-hop artist and do a show on that.

So Jay-Z will be taking Oprah and her camera crews through his grandmothers house in Brooklyn, New York located on Lexington Avenue and Lewis Avenue. He’ll then show them around the Marcy projects.

No doubt on the upcoming show Oprah will share with people the horrors of being poor and that everyone has the power to make it out of the projects.

Sorry I just need to get this out there. Like most people I grew up poor. And I can tell you that making it out of the poor cycle isn’t always a choice. It’s as if Oprah is calling people who live in the projects lazy or something. My dad worked hard to support his family and we still didn’t have money. If she believes that minimum wage is enough to support a family she’s crazy and should try doing it herself. That would be a good show. The only thing this upcoming hometown segment will prove is that if you can rap or have talent you have no hope of making out in this world.

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