Combining Basketball and Rap Artistry
Although Ron Artest has been generally belittled for putting his rap ambitions ahead of the Pacers, University of Michigan's Brent Petway has found a way to build his rep in rap while supporting his team.
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Although Ron Artest has been generally belittled for putting his rap ambitions ahead of the Pacers, University of Michigan's Brent Petway has found a way to build his rep in rap while supporting his team.
In an interesting take on the consumer's musical ownership rights, James Gaskin discusses the ramifications of considering cd purchasing as a form of music licensing.
Charles Green, of Manhattan based Hip Hop Modeling and Talent, has been charged with rape, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for alleged casting couch encounters with a 14-year old.
Although this press release came out last week, I wanted to mention the announcement that Carnivo Unlimited is the first African American owned company to import cognac to the U.S. However, their initial product, to be released in February, will be a cognac, vodka and fruit juice mixture similar to Hpnotiq. Their release reveals refreshing honesty and a "ride or die" attitude combined with the excellent phrase, "doing for Cognac what FUBU did for fashion."
The Maxine Mimms Academy, a new community program for students suspended or expelled from Tacoma, WA middle schools, uses hip hop to reach kids who spend seven hours a day in the program as an alternative to staying at home. For example, hip hop business plays a role in math class where students might discuss "percentages by breaking down a $1 million contract into studio time, music video production, marketing and other music production expenses."
BusinessWeek Online looks at personal branding by independent consultants including Josh Taekman, who helped launch the marketing division of Bad Boy Records. BW also has a Special Report on Internet advertising that includes a relevant piece on the rising use of branding ads on the Internet.
EUR's Lee Bailey interviews R&B singer Jon B. who discusses, not just his new album, but his path through the difficulties of the music industry.
With the upcoming launch of eight new series on the Black Family Channel, President and CEO of Productions Robert Townsend has included hip hop in the mix with the following new shows, and I quote:
• “Barbershop Critics:” Up and coming comedians to deliver a humorous spin to what’s hot in movies, music and pop culture.
• “Souled Out:” It's fiery conversation about the lyrical content in today’s music. The show will examine the suggestive language, and subliminal messages depicted in all genres of music videos.
• “Spoken:” “Apollo” Legend, Jessica Care Moore hosts the nation’s most prolific poets, spoken word artists and lyricists as they deliver eclectic verses of rhymes, rhythm and rap.
Recently launched Swagger Wireless partnered with newly launched content and services provider Thumbplay to produce the Holla at Ya Boyz campaign for the Jay-Z and Friends tour, formerly the R. Kelly/Jay-Z Best of Both Worlds tour. The unique campaign allows concert attendees to send wireless text messages to large video screens for 99 cents a message. If you attend the Jay-Z tour and have comments about how it worked in practice, please let me know at: prohiphop(at)netweed(dot)com.
Swagger Wireless was founded by Briant Briggs, CEO, and Loreal Coppedge in September. Biggs has music management affiliations with Roc-a-Fella Records, while Coppedge manages recording engineers and producers, most of whom are involved with hip hop. Thumbplay developed the text to screen application.
MocoNews.net highlights two research reports predicting the increasing importance of mobile content downloads to the mobile industry requiring further relationships with content providers.
Murder charges have been added to the investigation of The Inc.'s involvement with the criminal activities of Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, which may include the murder of rapper E-Money Bags. Label founder Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo was quoted as recently saying, "When people see Ja in the streets it's still Murder, but to corporate America, it's The Inc.". Unfortunately for Mr. Gotti, corporate America still reads the daily news, whether on or offline.
With hip hop and hip hop related acts taking most of the major awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards, the victory of D12 in the hip hop category was the biggest surprise. Outkast, Black Eyed Peas and Linkin Park were also victors. Xzibit hosted, Eminem performed and almost every other winner has a history of working with hip hop artists.
In non-hop hop related news, the "Free Your Mind" award went to the organization, La Strada, that focuses on ending sex trafficking. Let me just say, Right On.
You may notice that I'm continuing to add and refine categories for blog entries. I have a lot of categories but, if this blog is successful, they will all be needed over the long haul. I will also be playing with the layout over the weekend in order to add banner ads and a footer. The long range goal of ProHipHop is to be an ad supported online publication, so I'm trying to prepare the site for that development, as well. After I finish my Friday posts, I'll also post on what I've learned this week. The short version? A heck of a lot.
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