Bad Boy signee Donnie Klang debuted the video for his first single ‘Take You There (ft. Diddy)’ on FN’MTV last night. The slickly produced video looks pretty good, however I’m still not sold on Donnie and the direction they seem to be going with him. Contrived and ‘Justin Timberlake re-hash’ come to mind when listening to this.
Donnie’s album ‘Just A Rolling Stone’ hits stores September 2nd.
What do you think of the video?
As per the title of this post, feel free to drop anything and ‘errrrrthing’ in the comments section.
During his headlining set on the Glow In The Dark’s NYC tour stop, rapper Kanye West condemned homophobia, urging people to ‘open their minds’:
“Open your fucking minds. Open your minds. Be accepting of different people and let people be who they are. You know how many people came to me calling me gay cause I wear my jeans the fresh way? Or because I said hey, dude, how you gonna say ‘fag’ right in front of a gay dude’s face and act like that’s ok. That shit is disrespectful. Coming from Chicago, where if you saw somebody that was gay you were supppoed to stay ten feet away. It should be time to break out of the intuitions that I was sayin’, the steretypes, or the fear, the backlash that I would get if you don’t believe in what I believe in, acceptin’ people for who they are…they’re very talented and if they do something special in the world and they’re discriminated. I’ve flown across the world y’all, and I’ve come back here to tell you — open your minds and live a happier life…” {Source}
Your thoughts?
Despite the controversy that has ensued regarding Beyonce’s unrecognisable ad for L’Oréal, the French cosmetics giant have denied altering the shot:
“We highly value our relationship with Ms. Knowles. It is categorically untrue that L’Oréal Paris altered Ms. Knowles’ features or skin-tone in the campaign for Feria’s hair color.”
A rep for the 27-year-old Knowles declined to comment beyond the L’Oréal statement.
The ad is appearing in this month’s Elle, Allure and Essence. So far the magazines have not said anything about possible Pantone issues. {Source}
Granted we all know that was a lie from the pits of hell (I mean, honestly now…), it was unlikely they’d own up to such nonsense. After all, that would allow for increased debate about the whole issue; they wouldn’t want that now, would they. SMH…
Any thoughts?
As the press and public alike continue to speculate on the supposed ‘relationship’ between young stars Rihanna and Chris Brown, the pair are generating a buzz elsewhere – more specifically, on this week’s charts.Continuing along her promo trail here in the UK, Solange performed ‘I Decided (Part 2)’ on T4 recently. The few off-notes aside, I enjoyed this performance. I’m hoping we see more live performances of other material from her forthcoming LP ‘Sol-Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams’ soon, though.
What do you think of the performance?
Rapper Nas stopped by The Wendy Williams Show to perform ‘Hero’ from his #1 album ‘untitled’. Great performance; highly charged and Nas’ flow was as on-point as ever.
What do you think of the performance?
You know the deal; That Grape Juice, once again, wants to see what you all are listening to. Which 5 tracks have you got on constant rotation at the moment? Remember, it doesn’t have to be limited to Urban music; could be something new, throwback, even something you made yourself LOL. Drop a comment in the comments section. Mine are – in no particular order:
Watching this kinda reignites my slight disappointment with the actual video (you’d think the finished product would have been better); it lacked that certain ‘something’ IMO. With summer in full swing, I’m still kinda holding out for a release of the oh-so-aft (for this time of the year) ‘Sucka For Love’. Then again, this is Bad Boy we’re talking about…
Your thoughts?
The Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul Mary J. Blige has been hit with whopping $2 Million fine over the ‘illegal’ placement of a track from her most recent LP ‘Growing Pains’:
Producer Theron (NEEF-U) Feemster wrote the music for the song “Work That,” but the tune is owned by Dream Family Entertainment Inc., according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court.
The court filing claims the New York-based firm never gave Blige, Feemster or Geffen Records, the distributor, rights to use the song.
“Mr. Feemster created the music while he was under contract with Dream Family. Dream Family then owned the music, yet the music was used without permission in a Mary J. Blige release recording,” said Dream lawyer Brian Caplan.
“It was released as an album, a single and in a commercial,” Caplan said.
Rights to the lyrics of the song – which was featured with Blige in an iPod commercial – are not in question.
Geffen Records, Feemster and representatives for Blige didn’t return calls.
Caplan said it was unclear if Blige knew the music belonged to someone other than Feemster, and said the producer “had no rights to the music he used.” {Source}
It’s always somewhat baffling to see issues like this arise with such renown and high-caliber artists. You’d think all the ‘formal stuff’ was tended to prior to the album dropping. Randomess: ‘Work That’ wasn’t even all that great IMO anyway lol…
Peep Kelly Rowland’s new promotional shot with French singer Nadiya. The pair teamed up for a duet called ‘No Future, No Past’, which is being released in France. Awesome pic.
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