Wednesday, January 30, 2013
MIKE WILL MADE IT EXPLAINS GOOD KUSH AND ALCOHOL
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MOST EXPENSIVE CHAMPAGNE IN THE WORLD
Most Expensive Champagne in the World
Champagne, a sparkling wine named after the Champagne region of France is the costliest wine to produce. To produce champagne there must be two fermentation processes, with the second step trapping carbon dioxide and making the bubbles. In most of Europe, the name champagne is legally protected meaning only the most expensive sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France can be marketed as champagne. In the United States and other areas, $3 bottles of wine are often labeled champagne.
People often drink Champagne as part of a celebration and when celebrating success many feel the need to show off. The most expensive champagnes are more about image than what is in the bottle.
Cristal Brut 1990 “Methuselah”
US $17,625
US $17,625
This six-liter, gold-labeled bottle of Cristal Brut 1990, dubbed the Methuselah, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York to an undisclosed buyer in 2005. At the time, Cristal was a favorite of the hip-hop crowd.
Dom Perignon White Gold Jeroboam
$40,000
$40,000
During the same year, a limited edition bottle of Dom Perignon became the most expensive champagne in the world. Sold in three-liter bottles, the Dom Perignon White Gold Jeroboam was sold to commemorate the New Year. Much of its price, however, is surely due to the white gold bottle from which the expensive wine takes its name.
Pernod-Ricard Perrier-Jouet
$50,000
$50,000
Each of the 100 sets contains twelve bottles of fine, expensive champagne. Marketed only to the ultra-rich, buyers will have the chance personalize their drinking experience by choosing the liqueur used in the champagne and they’ll have to fly to Eastern France to do so. The sets are being sold to consumers in the United States, Britain, Japan, China, Russia, Switzerland and France. The price even includes a storage nest where the champagne may be allowed to age for up to eight months!
Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck
$275,000
$275,000
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
THE TRUTH BY ELLIOT WILSON: LUPE FIASCO
TERRACE MARTIN RECREATES REAL(KENDRICK LAMAR)
Monday, January 21, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
MOMMA DEE & FRANKIE FIGHT ON V103(ATL)
SD(@SERMONSDOMAIN) EXCLUSIVE WITH RAEKWON
Thursday, January 17, 2013
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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE TO ALL HIS FANS
An Open Letter to you (the fans):
I hope this gets to you the right way. It’s the only way I know to do it. Some people may criticize me for the last 3 days. But it was fun, right?? Right?!?! Besides, I’d rather speak directly to all of you. And, who can knock me for having a little bit of fun with it?
Well… No more teasing. Although, it was A LOT of fun. (Did I mention that I’m having fun with this?? Ha!)
*Makes a serious face*
So, here goes:
This year is an exciting one for me. As you probably have heard through the “grapevine,” I’m gearing up for a big 2013.
Back in June of last year, I quietly started working on what is now, my next journey with that thing I love called MUSIC.
Back in June of last year, I quietly started working on what is now, my next journey with that thing I love called MUSIC.
The inspiration for this really came out of the blue and to be honest, I didn’t expect anything out of it. I just went into the studio and started playing around with some sounds and songs. It was probably the best time I’ve had in my career… Just creating with no rules and/or end goal in mind and really enjoying the process.
What I came up with is something I couldn’t be more excited about! It is full of inspiration that I grew up listening to and some newfound muses that I’ve discovered along the way.
I’m calling it “The 20/20 Experience,” and it’s coming out this year.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.
That’s all I’m giving you for now… I know, I know! Again, with the teasing!!!
Get ready. This is going to be fun (well, at least it is for me).
GUNPLAY INTERVIEWS WITH HIPHOPSINCE 1987
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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TAVIS SMILEY ON DJANGO MOVIE.....
I’m interested to hear your thoughts on Django Unchained. What was your initial reaction to the film?
I refuse to see it. I’m not going to pay to see it. But I’ve read the screenplay, and I have 25 family members and friends who have seen it, and have had thousands of conversations about this movie, so I can tell you frame by frame what happens. I’m troubled that Hollywood won’t get serious about making an authentic film about the holocaust of slavery but they will greenlight a spoof about slavery, and it’s as if this spoof about slavery somehow makes slavery a bit easier to swallow. The suffering of black people is not reducible to revenge and retribution. The black tradition has taught the nation what it means to love. Put it another way: black people have learned to love America in spite of, not because of, so if the justification for the film in the end is, as Jamie Foxx’s Django says, “What, kill white people and get paid for it? What’s wrong with that?” well again, black suffering is not reducible to revenge and retribution.
Tarantino even went on the record saying Roots was inauthentic. First of all, Tarantino is not a historian. When people see his film who don’t have any understanding of history, they take it as history, because Tarantino passes himself off as a historian by declaring Roots inauthentic, and then goes on to make the “authentic” story about slavery. It doesn’t tell the truth about what the black contribution to this country has been. Tarantino has the right to make whatever films he wants to make. What he’s not entitled to is his own set of facts and to lecture black people about the inauthenticity of an iconic, game-changing series like Roots. I don’t take kindly to white folk like Tarantino lecturing black folk about their history. That’s just unacceptable. Tarantino is absolutely exhausting.
What do you find so exhausting about Tarantino, and in particular, his film’s relationships with black culture? Spike Lee has had issues with Tarantino’s usage of the N word in the past, and he also came out and said this film was “an insult to his ancestors.”
To my mind, there’s clearly a level of arrogance with what Tarantino does, and what he thinks he can get away with. I don’t always agree with Spike Lee on everything, but he’s absolutely right on this. I can’t imagine any other culture that would allow someone to so recklessly use the word “n----r” in film after film after film. It’s not even like he did it one time. There’s a level of comfort that Tarantino has with appropriating and reimagining black culture and black history, and that’s what I find offensive.
Are you trying to say that you find Tarantino’s oeuvre racist?
I’m always leery to call people racist because I don’t ultimately know what’s inside their heart. I don’t know what’s inside Tarantino’s heart; what I do know is what’s inside his head, because that’s what we see on film. If what’s inside his head is connected to what’s inside his heart, then this brother needs some help. And black folk are going to have to make some choices and some decisions about whether we continue to aid and abet Hollywood in the raping of our history.
Why hasn’t someone like Lee taken on the subject of slavery? It always seems to be white filmmakers like Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Ed Zwick (Glory), etc.
It’s a great question. John Singleton did a movie called Rosewood and it tanked. When Spike did Malcolm X, he had to go around and get wealthy black celebrities—Bill Cosby, Oprah, others—to invest in the film. Hollywood wouldn’t give him the resources. He put his neck out there. Then he cast Denzel Washington, who did a brilliant job as Malcolm X, and he got robbed of an Oscar. There’s a history here of black people trying to tell the story, and when they try to tell the story, Hollywood doesn’t support their telling of the story, and when the story is told, they get robbed of Oscars!
Henry Louis Gates recently did a series of interviews with Tarantino onDjango Unchained, and he didn’t really take him to task on any of these points.http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/04/tavis-smiley-on-quentin-tarantino-s-django-unchained.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet
Monday, January 7, 2013
RICK ROSS ON MAGIC CITY TV SHOW...
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
AR-AB ON CASSIDY AND MEEK MILL.
AR AB, FORMER SIDEMAN TO CASSIDY, SPEAKS ON THE BATTLE OF PHILLY BETWEEN MEEK MILL AND CASSIDY. DAMAGING WORDS FROM AR AB.....DAMAGING
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