Challenges loom as Obama seeks space weapons ban

via Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama‘s pledge to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy while posing the tricky issue of defining whether a satellite can be a weapon.

 

Moments after Obama’s inauguration last week, the White House website was updated to include policy statements on a range of issues, including a pledge to restore U.S. leadership on space issues and seek a worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites.

 

It also promised to look at threats to U.S. satellites, contingency plans to keep information flowing from them, and what steps are needed to protect spacecraft against attack.

 

The issue is being closely watched by Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co, Northrop Grumman Corp, the biggest U.S. defense contractors, and other companies involved in military and civilian space contracts.

 

Watchdog groups and even some defense officials welcomed the statement, which echoed Obama’s campaign promises, but said it would take time to hammer out a comprehensive new strategy.

More Chicago Bloodshed: The Mother of Ex-Bull, NY Knick Curry’s Son Found Murdered

What the heck is going on in Chicago? It seems that the value of human life is non-existent when you have two prominent sports and entertainment figures whose families were brutally murdered. With a corrupt govenor refusing to go and the murder rate soaring these last couple of years, Chicago has taken a beating in the public relations dept.
Below are the gruesome details about injured Knick Eddie Curry who was just sued in an embarrassing gay sexual harrassment suit this past week.

via My Fox Chicago
Chicago, IL. –

The mother of former Chicago Bulls center Eddy Curry’s 3-year-old son and her baby daughter were found slain with multiple gunshot wounds Saturday in a South Loop condo.

But the boy she had with the NBA player was found unhurt in the building in the 50th block of West 15th Street.

Police are looking for a known acquaintance of the woman, Nova Henry, 24, and her 9-month-old daughter, Ava. A police source said Curry was not a suspect.

Both Henry and Ava suffered multiple gunshot wounds, according to an autopsy by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Another child, a 3-year-old boy, was found in the building unharmed, officials said.

Curry’s attorney, Kelly Saindon, said the 3-year-old boy is Curry’s.

Full Story Here..

Update :Barack Obama is ‘Run*DC*’

Here is some info someone just sent in.

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I predict the hottest t-shirt this year. When I found a link to buy I will update.

[audio] Papoose- LAW LIBRARY PT 6

PAPOOSE- LAW LIBRARY PT. 6

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I am a fan of these “Law Library” series that Pap has been doing, it is not only very slick and original but we definitely need to get more knowledge of the law on our cap.

[video] A Message from Martin Louie The King Jr. (formerly known as Kanye West)

This n*gga is really smellin’ himself now…he wants to be addressed as “Martin Louie The King…Jr.” from now on. Can you f*ckin’ believe this kid?

Ring of Fire: Indian Ocean to see Solar Eclipse

via Yahoo

PARIS (AFP) – A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim. In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface. In an annular eclipse, a tiny shift in distance that results from celestial mechanics means the Moon does not completely cover the Sun’s face, as it does in a total eclipse. Instead, for those directly under the alignment, the Moon covers most of the Sun’s surface, and a ring-like crown of solar light blazes from the edge of the disk. For those watching from the fringe of the track, the Sun is partially obscured, as if a bite has been taken out of it. According to veteran NASA eclipse-watcher Fred Espenak, the total eclipse track will run from west to east on Monday from 0606 GMT to 0952 GMT.

It will traverse the Indian Ocean and western Indonesia before petering out just short of Mindanao, the Philippines. The partial eclipse will be seen in a much wider swathe, including the southern third of Africa, Madagascar, Australia, Southeast India, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. It will be the only annular solar eclipse this year. The last was on 7 February, 2007, and after Monday, the next one will be on 15 January, 2010. The big event for eclipse junkies this year is on July 22, when a total solar eclipse will be visible from India and China, the world’s two most populous countries.

UFO Initiative Grounded

This makes an interesting story, especially since Obama got some other worldly visitors during his inauguration

via Rocky Mountain News

A proposed ballot initiative to create a government commission in Denver tasked with developing a strategy to deal with space aliens on Earth has been shelved.

For the time being, anyway.

“It’s on hold for now because of the confidence that I feel and a lot of people feel in the Obama administration in moving toward more disclosure of the UFO/extraterrestrial information,” said Jeff Peckman, whose proposed Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission generated national headlines.

“But I would say I’m only 51 percent confident, so I’m not abandoning the ballot initiative,” he said today.

Peckman said other new presidents have asked the CIA for all UFO-related information immediately after taking office.

Former President Jimmy Carter asked for the information the first day on the job, he said.

“When he became president, the first day, he asked for that information from the CIA director but was denied the information by George H. Bush,” Peckman said. “That’s a well-known story.”

‘Flying Car’ Goes to Market

via MSNBC

The aptly named Transition takes a stab at bridging the gap between automobiles and airplanes. Some people call it a flying car. The company designing and selling the vehicle prefers the term “roadable aircraft.”

Either way, it boils down to this: You sit down behind the steering wheel, drive to the runway, unfold two wings and take off. You can fly 500 miles on a tank of gas — regular unleaded —and when you land, you simply fold up the wings and drive where you want to go. At the end of the day, you fly back, drive home and park inside your garage.

Terrafugia, of Woburn, Mass., is not the first firm to attempt what may be the ultimate hybrid.

“It’s probably a concept that people have been dreaming up since there have been airplanes and cars,” said Dick Knapinski with the Experimental Aircraft Association, a 55-year-old aviation group based in Oshkosh, Wisc.

Air Force spending $1B on surveillance planes

via AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force soon will fly commercial planes outfitted with surveillance technologies that can help troops in Iraq or Afghanistan detect mines, explosives and other enemy efforts, a senior service official said Friday.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Blair Hansen detailed previously classified plans to reconfigure used and new Hawker Beechcraft Corp. aircraft under a nearly $1 billion contract to support surveillance and reconnaissance operations in both U.S.-led wars and beyond. The first two King Air 350 planes are slated to begin flights by April.

“We always need to know more because of the nature of insurgency … (and have) more information faster,” Hansen, the service’s director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, told reporters at a Pentagon press briefing.

The Air Force said it will buy a total of 37 of the modified MC-12 aircraft, which will carry a crew of four, plus two operators, under the so-called “Project Liberty” program. United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney is building the engines for the nearly 47-foot long aircraft.

The planes can carry up to 539 gallons of fuel and reach a maximum speed of roughly 370 miles per hour.

Newsweek: Israel Has Fewer Friends Than Ever, Even in America

via Newsweek

As Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton begin to use their uncommon authority and intelligence to implement a new American international agenda, it might behoove them to read a speech given some years ago in Beijing. It read in part: “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights for one and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely—and the right to be heard. Women must enjoy the rights to participate fully in the social and political lives of their countries if we want freedom and democracy to thrive and endure.”

Secretary Clinton was first lady when she spoke those words at a United Nations conference on women in 1995. Some of the participants wept to hear an influential American commit to a view of the world so many of them shared: that the way for nations to prosper was to pay attention to women’s rights, women’s welfare and women’s concerns.

[Op-Ed] Why “Black” America Must Be Patient with Obama

via Newsweek

As soon as my jam-packed plane hit the ground in Washington, I instantly felt a kind of shift in the air. D.C. has long been called the “chocolate city” for its large number of African-American residents. But on this particular weekend—the historic one before the swearing-in of the first African-American president—the city was transformed into a sort of chocolate Disney World. The streets were filled with thousands of smiling, almost giddy, brown faces. Young and old wandered joyfully and endlessly in the freezing cold, searching for any souvenir with Barack Obama‘s face on it. “This is what hope looks like,” I remarked to one of my friends as we walked by a man selling T shirts with a picture of the White House and the slogan THE BLACK HOUSE.

Ever since Barack Obama and his family hit the national scene two years ago, African-Americans have balanced our greatest hopes against our fears of disappointment. Would he run? Would he win the nomination? Would he, could he, win the presidency? On the broadest level, Obama has fulfilled our dreams just by taking office. African-American boys I know in South-Central Los Angeles who wore cornrows and once dreamed of nothing more than living to the age of 18 without being shot down are now entering barbershops to ask for the no-nonsense Obama haircut. Teenage girls I mentor who once yearned only for a date with someone who lived “the thug life,” are now giving the nerd in the front of the class a second look.

N.Y. Law Firm Accuses Suge Knight Of “Gangster Style” Business

via HipHopDX

Kaye Scholer, one of the New York law firms representing the trustee in Suge Knight’s bankruptcy case, is requesting a $6.8 million case fee for handling last week’s auction of Death Row Records [click to read]. The firm cited their need to go above and beyond the normal means to track down Knight’s assets for the auction.”The representation of the Trustee in this case has been particularly complex due to the individuals involved in the company’s operations and intentionally illicit, ‘gangster-style’ business operations of the debtor,” stated a Kaye Scholer bankruptcy case fee application.

A federal bankruptcy court in California was scheduled to hear discussions on the matter yesterday, but none of the rulings have been made public. According to the Wall Street Journal, Kaye Scholer cites expenses used to recover assets Knight intentionally hid as a large contributor to the $6.8 million tab. The firm says those assets allegedly included “a Malibu home, that Knight transferred to friends in an effort to shield those assets from creditors, a secret storage locker in Michigan that contained a ‘treasure trove’ of unreleased songs by famous Death Row artists [and] other secret tracks–and records of hidden bank accounts–stashed in a southern California warehouse.”

The firm also claims it had to negotiate settlements with at least three women who claimed Knight owed them over $500,000 in child support. If Kaye Scholer’s accusations are true, the firm joins a list of creditors that includes Death Row co-founder Lydia Harris [click to read] and the Internal Revenue Service.

When asked about the winning bid by the WIDEawake Entertainment Group–a bid that was over $10 million short of the worse predicted sales–Robert Orgel, who helped track down the assets, was tight-lipped.
“This was a messy case,” Orgel told AmLaw.com. Adding that “it is no surprise” that the assets drew only $18 million.

[audio] RICK ROSS- MAFIA MUSIC

MAFIA MUSIC- RICK ROSS

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The Big BOSSALINI is reloading and aiming at the game to reposition himself on top.  Can Ross pull off the biggest comeback of all time? Well here is the first single off of “Deeper Than Rap“

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[video] CNN Captures UFO Fly-Over During Inauguration…Do You Believe?

This is causing quite a stir online as speculation is hitting a fever pitch as to whether or not a UFO really showed up Obama’s Inauguration. Quite honestly, I was saying to myself during the festivities, ‘damn, everyone came out to see this historic event. The only missing was a visit from either aliens or Jesus.’  And presto! just like that, I find out that someone was checking in.  I’ve always said if this is the dawning of a new day and America makes first encounter with life from another planet, there probably isn’t anyone that we’d trust more to represent us with the Intergalactic Confederacy than President Barack Obama. They’d be like “take me to your letter” and Obama would come out the White House, swagger on a thousand and challenge the martian to a game of B-Ball or something.

[video] Duo Live ft. Billionz, Joell Ortiz, Red Cafe, M.O.P. & Uncle Murda – Shootin (NBA Version)

I can see them tearing down All-Star with this…DUO!

[video] Kanye @ Louis Vuitton Fashion Show

[video] Jay-Z x Affion Crockett

[video] MOS DEF- Life In Marvelous Times

this is more like it…go in Mos

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Guantánamo Detainee Resurfaces in Terrorist Group

via IHT

BEIRUT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a U.S. counterterrorism official. “They’re one and the same guy,” said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing an intelligence analysis. “He returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007, but his movements to Yemen remain unclear.”

Rikers Island Fight Club Ring Broken, Officers Plead Not Guilty

via NY Daily News

Officers Michael McKie, Khalid Nelson and Denise Albright called their fight club “The Program,” and the teens they recruited as enforcers were “The Team,” officials said.

Team members were allowed to extort commissary money, clothing and phone privileges from other city jail inmates.

Those who didn’t cooperate were beaten – and McKie and Nelson set the time, place and punishment, prosecutors said.

“They didn’t turn a blind eye to violence. They authorized and directed it,” Assistant District Attorney James Goward said at the trio’s arraignment.

“They turned jail into what might be called almost a nightmare environment where inmates were subjected to beatings, where inmates were recruited to commit beatings.”

In one case, Nelson had one group of prisoners show another the right way to deliver a beating so the injuries wouldn’t be so noticeable, prosecutors said.

Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said the motive was laziness: “It made their job easier.”

The abuse at Rikers’ Robert N. Devoren Center came to light after the Oct. 18 death of inmate Christopher Robinson – who refused to take part in “The Program.”

A hotline tip led to a probe into “predatory behavior,” said Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn said.

The officers aren’t accused of ordering Robinson’s beating. Instead, McKie and Nelson are charged with enterprise corruption. Albright, a lesser player, is charged with conspiracy and assault. All three pleaded not guilty in Bronx Supreme Court.

UNDERWORLD Leads the Pack this Weekend with $19.75M Already in the Bank

via Big Hollywood

As the dust settles from the Academy Award nominations and Hollywood prepares for Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, two new wide releases have hit theatres with one, a slight disappointment, and the other, a total misfire.

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Sony), a prequel to the two previous Underworld movies, will win the weekend after grabbing an estimated $7.6M, which should translate to an opening 3-day of about $19.75M. The movie has less sizzle than expected and the missing ingredient seems to be actress Kate Beckinsale clad in black leather.

 

In 2003, Underworld, directed by Len Wiseman, grabbed $21.75M on opening weekend en route to $52M domestic. The film featured the sexy Beckinsale and her then-longtime-boyfriend Michael Sheen. While making the movie, Kate and director Wiseman fell in love. They were married in 2004 as Sheen and Beckinsale went their separate ways.

Then came Wiseman’s Underworld: Evolution in 2006 starring his now-wife Beckinsale, returning as the character of Selene. The franchise grew bigger with a $26.85M opening 3-day and $62M in the US. Sheen’s Lucien character appeared in the sequel, but only in flashbacks.

Rise of the Lycans is about the origin of the “vampires versus werewolves” feud set in the dark ages starring Sheen as young werewolf and British actor Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean) as Viktor, the leader of the vampire race. In this film directed by Patrick Tatopolous, Beckinsale is credited, but appears only briefly. It’s hard to say where this franchise is headed, but I have to assume that if Mr. and Mrs. Wiseman were to commit, there would be another Underworld movie, probably sans Sheen (who is plenty busy with serious roles like David Frost in Frost/Nixon and Tony Blair in the forthcoming Peter Morgan-penned A Special Relationship).

The other major studio release is Inkheart, which is the product of New Line (absorbed last year by Warner Bros). Based on a novel by Cornelia Funke and starring Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code) and Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, this Narnia-wannabe never really had much of a chance. With tepid reviews (36% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and very low awareness according to pre-release industry tracking, Inkheart only mustered about $2.1M on its first day of US release, and the film will stumble to a possible $7.55M for the weekend, finishing a disappointing #8.

British Man Killed Wife Over ‘Single’ Facebook Status

via Breitbart

A British man who murdered his wife after becoming enraged when she changed her relationship status on Facebook to “single” was jailed for at least 18 years late Thursday.

Edward Richardson, 41, stabbed wife Sarah, 26, to death in a “frenzied and brutal” attack at her parents’ home in Biddulph, central England, last May after she altered her profile on the Internet social networking site.

The couple had been living apart since the previous month, said Fiona Cortese, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service, which is responsible for prosecuting cases in England and Wales.

“Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his (text) messages,” Cortese said.

“He gained entry by breaking the front door window and made his way into the property.

“Once inside, he found Sarah in her bedroom and subjected her to a frenzied and brutal attack with a knife and then attempted to take his own life.”

The Audacity Of Dope: Cops: New York dealers sold heroin branded with president’s name

via Smoking Gun

JANUARY 23–Add heroin to the scores of products that have been branded with President Barack Obama’s name. Cops in upstate New York this week broke up a drug ring that allegedly sold heroin under several brand names, including “Obama.”

As seen in Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office photos, the president’s surname was stamped in red ink on small glassine wrappers that were peddled by street dealers. Investigators arrested five suspects for their alleged roles in the narcotics distribution activity. The branding of illicit drugs is a favorite of pushers, who have previously sold bin Laden heroin, Harry Potter Ecstasy, bricks of Teletubbies cocaine, and green-tinted crack in recognition of St. Patrick’s Day.

President Obama Attempts to Shut Down Limbaugh, Puts Republicans Under the Deodarant

via NY Post

WASHINGTON — President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.

“There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats,” the official said. “We shouldn’t let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done.”

That wasn’t Obama’s only jab at Republicans today.

In an exchange with Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) about the proposal, the president shot back: “I won,” according to aides briefed on the meeting.

“I will trump you on that.”

Not that Obama was gloating. He was just explaining that he aims to get his way on stimulus package and all other legislation, sources said, noting his unrivaled one-party control of both congressional chambers.

“We are experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis that has to be dealt with and dealt with rapidly,” Obama said during the meeting.

Fwd: Nike Blazer High Premium Hoosiers

 

 

 

[video]Kanye’s ‘Louis Vuitton Don’ Sneakers Debut in Paris

The shag man has achieved his dream.

[video] Jay-Z Talks About “My President” Remix And BLUEPRINT III Album!

Spotted at The Life Files

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Britney Spears’ Racy “If U Seek Amy” Hits the Radio, Angers Parents

via Rolling Stone

The Parents Television Council is livid that Britney Spears‘ cunningly titled “If U Seek Amy” is getting radio play, despite the fact that the title and lyrics essentially say “F-U-C-K Me.” Parents in Australia first complained about the song’s content, and now that the track has become the third single off Circus, American parents are lining up to demand radio stations cease playing the song between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. as it “violates the broadcast indecency law.” “There is no misinterpreting the lyrics to this song, and it’s certainly not about a girl named Amy,” PTC president Tim Winter said.

“It’s one thing for a song with these lyrics to be included on a CD so that fans who wish to hear it can do so, but it’s an entirely different matter when this song is played over the publicly owned airwaves, especially at a time when children are likely to be in the listening audience.” Despite the PTC outcry, radio stations continue to play the track, as evidenced by its Number 92 debut on the Billboard Pop 100. A Jive-edited version of the song excises the “k” from “Seek,” thus “If You See Amy” (which is pretty much still “F-U-C Me.”) Some inventive DJs are throwing their own names over the “Me,” so for instance when the chorus plays, it’ll go “All the boys and all the girls are begging to if you seek George,” etc.

Obama urges Israel to open Gaza borders

This guy really seems like he’s determined to completely steer this country on a different course. I definitely applaud him for this. He was silent while he awaited his chance to speak his peace, and when he said something it was a statement full of character. Kudos to Obama.

via FT

President Barack Obama urged Israel on Thursday to open its borders with Gaza.

The plea came in a speech that signalled the new US administration’s shift from Bush-era policy on the Middle East and the world as a whole. In a high-profile address on his second day in office, just hours after he signed an executive order to close the centre at Guantánamo Bay, Mr Obama proclaimed that the US would “actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians” in the wake of this month’s Gaza war.

“The outline for a durable ceasefire is clear: Hamas must end its rocket fire: Israel will complete the withdrawal of its forces from Gaza: the US and our partners will support a credible anti-smuggling and interdiction regime, so that Hamas cannot re-arm,” the US president said.

“As part of a lasting ceasefire, Gaza’s border crossings should be open to allow the flow of aid and commerce, with an appropriate monitoring regime, with the international and Palestinian Authority participating.”

New staff find White House in tech Dark Ages

 

via Washington Post

If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.

Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.

What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.

“It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs.

In many ways, the move into the White House resembled a first day at school: Advisers wandered the halls, looking for their offices. Aides spent hours in orientation, learning such things as government ethics rules as well as how their paychecks will be delivered. And everyone filled out a seemingly endless pile of paperwork.

Bush Advisors Take Exception at Obama’s “Cheap Shots” During Inauguration Speech

The nerve of these guys, they should be glad that Obama didn’t order that lunatic Bush to be lead off in cuffs. Of course he had to tap Dubya’s chin, after all it is his mishaps that have derailed this country to begin with. What could they have possibly thought, that America, let alone the world would forget that a drunk has been fumbling the reigns of leadership for the last eight years?

via NY Times

WASHINGTON — On the plane, no longer Air Force One but now Special Air Mission 28000, they talked about the speech. George W. Bush, the former president, was heading home to Texas with his inner circle, having just left the Capitol, where his successor first thanked him for his service and then proceeded to discredit it.

The Bush team had worked assiduously to make the transition smooth for the incoming President Obama and stayed out of the way as he used the postelection period to take leadership of the economy even before being sworn in. And now, as far as some of them were concerned, the new president had used his inaugural lectern to give the back of the hand to a predecessor who had been nothing but gracious to him.

Kanye West for Louis Vuitton Sneaker

These are kinda hot.

via Hypebeast

Finally, we see an official picture of one of the sneakers from the Kanye West and Louis Vuitton collaboration. The sneaker comes in all red with a simple form, but it features a special quilted flap on the back heel for your jeans. Check out the press release below:

PARIS — Marc Jacobs and the Louis Vuitton men’s studio director Paul Helbers have some design competition this season. Kanye West, who was sitting front row at the Vuitton show, has designed a line of five LV sneakers. Only one design, above, was featured in the show — a monochromatic midtop with no frills, save for a quilted flap in the back, all the easier to tuck pants into. “The inspiration came from a jacket with a huge collar in the movie ‘Dune,’ ” West says. “Most sneakers focus on the tongue, so I wanted to do something different.” West knows whereof he speaks: he says he has no idea how many shoes he owns, but he does know that he routinely needs to send shipments off to storage. The LV-meets-Kanye kicks will be available at Louis Vuitton stores in June.

Source: The Moment

[video] Mexican Wrestling : Mascarita Dorada: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I guess this is what they were trying to capture in Nacho Libre?

[video]Young Jeezy and Jay-Z at the Belvedere Inaugural Ball(High Quality)

A really well put together segment of the historic Hip Hop moment of Jay-Z debuting his verse to the monster hit “My President is Black”. Classic Hip Hop moment.

Props to Chunnel.tv

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[video] Katt Wiliams on Obama ” Barack Obama is the Black Super hero”

LMAO. Katt Williams always kills it. Between him and Chris Rock this will be a funny four years indeed.

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[video] She’s a Whooty!!! (Whooty is a White Girl with a Booty)

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Obama’s First Air Force One Trip: Comments On Pilot’s Looks, Orders Dinner (VIDEO)

Via Huffington Post

Only the best.

In this segment from National Geographic’s upcoming TV series “On Board Air Force One,” President Obama boards his first flight on Air Force One–from Chicago to Washington, D.C., when he was still president-elect. He greets the pilot and says “You’re the pilot of Air Force One? I’ve got to say, you’re out of central casting. You’re exactly what I want the pilot of Air Force One to look like. You look like Sam Shepard in ‘The Right Stuff’.”

He’s then offered his first Air Force One meal. After a quick glance at the menu, Obama says he wants “to see how you guys do a burger,” cooked medium-well, with cheddar cheese, dijon mustard (Grey Poupon–which he also likes in his tuna salad–will do), with lettuce and tomato. He also requests some salad or vegetables. When the waiter asks, “No fries?” He replies, “Oh, I’ll still take the fries.”

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[video] Fox News Attacks Jay-Z & Young Jeezy’s Inaugural Anti Bush Rap On Stage Again! (Michelle Malkin Speaks On It) “So Much For A Post-Racial America”

These pundits are funny as hell. They never raised a voice when the disparities were in their favor and now that Hip Hop wants to infuse a sense of pride in the community via “My President Is Black” they wanna make a fuss. How is that offensive if that was the media’s tagline all day Tuesday? Let’s see how Hip Hop defends itself against this attack. Fox News has no right to even open its mouth about anything that takes place in Hip Hop, the nerve of those hypocrites.

 

Notorious Soundtrack Makes BIG Debut on Charts

via Allhiphop

Matching the success of the film from which it spawned, Notorious: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture has landed atop several Billboard charts, scoring the week’s biggest debut at #4 on the Billboard 200.

The Bad Boy Records release, which was in stores three days before Notorious hit theaters, sold 43,000 copies in it’s first week of release.

The album also made it to No. 1 on the “Top Rap Albums” chart, and No. 2 on both the “Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums” and “Top Digital Albums” list as well.

A musical companion to the film capturing the rise of Brooklyn’s favorite son, the album combines Notorious B.I.G. chart toppers like “Juicy” with new music by Jay-Z, Jadakiss, Faith Evans, and even Biggie’s son CJ Wallace.

A two-disc special edition is currently on sale at Target stores nationwide, pairing the CD with a new documentary, Remembering Christopher Wallace.

The DVD features exclusive interviews with slain rap great’s family including Mrs. Voletta Wallace and the two children he left behind.

Former Bad Boy Artist Slams Diddy in New Book

yI was getting kind of worried there, I am use to at least two Diddy lawsuits or slanderous claims a month, and honestly its been a minute.  The hiatus is over and the Diddy Crusade is back in effect.

via Thats HipHop

Former Bad Boy artist Mark Curry is trashing his former boss, Sean “Diddy” Combs, in the self-published book Bad Boy: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop. Curry, who appeared on the 2002 hit “Bad Boy for Life,” claims that Combs reneged on such promises as releasing his solo album and helping him earn over seven figures. Curry writes, “Today, after years of writing hit records for Combs, I am no closer to having my first album released by Bad Boy Entertainment than I was when we signed the contract. Combs cajoled, hoodwinked and bamboozled me for nearly a decade.”

And Curry details some of what he claims were Combs’ unethical business practices. “Puffy would charge his artists for his appearances on their records and videos, usually without them realizing it until they received their royalty statements… He even charged artists for having his Bentley in their videos — which he insisted upon — and then took a tax credit for business use of the car.”

The first chapter of Bad Boy is available for free at MarkCurryBook-dot-com.