Flo Rida and AdultFriendFinder.com join hands to promote his new video featuring Trina and the "AdultFriendFinder girls":

To coincide with the premiere of Touch Me, a video release party is scheduled for Friday, October 23, 2009 in Flo Rida's hometown of Miami at LIV in the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. The video will then premiere exclusively on AdultFriendFinder.com on Monday, October 26, 2009. Following the premiere week, the video will be released to major online music channels including YouTube.com and WorldStarHipHop.com as well as MTV and BET.

I'm betting the free level of AdultFriendFinder.com will allow access but that's just a guess!

Over at Hip Hop Press:
Hip-Hop Artist Flo Rida Partners With AdultFriendFinder.com for His New Music Video Touch Me

OhMiBod: iPod or Music Player Powered Vibrator

Khia and OhMiBod are holding a contest in which the winners will receive an iPod powered vibrator, perhaps the classic OhMiBod model pictured above.

OhMiBod has a fascinating range of music powered vibrators including ones for cell phones.

Khia – Nasti Muzik

The contest, which is almost over but simply requires sending in an email, gives me a chance to post Khia’s Nasti Muzik album cover which is meant to be part of this copromotion.

Interesting idea with a good fit between artist and product but something’s missing here in terms of contestant involvement that would make this less of a novelty item and give it some depth and open up possibilities for news coverage.

The novelty item issue is a problem for Khia so that’s something that should be taken into account with any such move at this stage.

Lil Wayne for Strapped Condoms

Strapped Condoms has switched ads to the above featuring Lil Wayne after the first version below got lots of flak due to the homoerotic vibe on which many bloggers, forum writers and photoshoppers jumped with glee.

Lil Wayne for Strapped Condoms

Strapped Condoms doesn’t seem to have a YouTube channel but you can find lots of their earlier shout out video/commercials via this search.

New ad alert via Real Talk NY.

So apparently Eve was a stripper and I recall a variety of sexual documentation of a woman that may be her floating around.

I bet she’ll get more flak for legally giving others pleasure than any of these a-hole drug dealers who killed and destroyed so many individuals, families and neighborhoods.  I understand that lots of young drug dealers do what they feel they have to do but being grown and proud of the drug game has pretty much runs its course both socially and artistically.

Real Talk NY says, "I mean it isn’t like she was a prostitute."

ProHipHop says, "At least she wasn’t a crack dealer."

Crain’s New York Business.com has an article about Jermaine Dupri that includes excerpts from Young, Rich, and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul.  In particular Crain’s found Dupri’s thoughts on strip club research worth noting.  Check the links at the end of the post for prior ProHipHop coverage of this fascinating topic.

Jermaine Dupri writes about strip club research:

Strip clubs are basically a way into that street life…Magic City and The Body Tap are my special music laboratories. These are the places where artists and records break, especially in the South. In strip clubs the music gets nice and grimy. People can lose their inhibitions so you really get to know how they feel about the music. I’d even say strip air play is stronger than radio air play in Atlanta…

If the girls are requesting the track and shakin’ it to the beat you know it’s gonna cross over into radio. It’s like the girls are hit detectors. That’s why guys wanting to get their demos heard try to pay off the strip club DJs to play ‘em. They know some cat like me is sitting in the club studying how the ladies and the audience react to their song.

Strip clubs are for real down an’ dirty grassroots marketing. Young Jeezy broke in strip clubs. Rick Ross’ song "Hustlin’" did well–strippers made money off of it. They moved so well they made their customers happy and got more bills thrown at them.

I’m probably the only top label executive in the world who goes to a strip club at least once a week. Puffy goes once in a while, but you won’t see L.A. Reid or Jay-Z in the clubs. But for me it’s necessary. That’s where I meet people, learn things and see what’s happening in other people’s worlds. The clubs are like a gumbo of life. All together in one building you can find the straight white corporate guys listening to rap in their suits, alongside the hardest thugs who killed 10 people. You get NBA guys mixing it up with artists as well as regular dudes. It’s my chance to be in the thick of it all.

For me musically the strip club is equivalent to the whole mixtape scene in New York. You get exposed to records you’re never gonna hear on the radio.

Via Sit Down Stand Up.

Related ProHipHop Coverage:
Jermaine Dupri’s Strip Club Research

Hip Hop Research & Marketing in Atlanta Strip Clubs

Hip Hop Research & Marketing in Strip Clubs, Pt. 3

Box Cover of Kim Kardashian Superstar

Technically speaking, I guess the sale of an adult video featuring Ray J and Kim Kardashian to Vivid Entertainment for $1 million is more of an RnB thing but I feel it's important we up the sleaze factor at ProHipHop in 2007!  Besides, it says right there on the cover he's a "Hip Hop Star".

(Photo courtesy of vivid.com)

Since the issue of adult content will continue to be an important one in both hip hop and in online publishing, I think it’s cool that my newsletter service, FeedBlitz, now offers the option of asking subscribers a Yes/No question such as "Are you 21 or over?" in order for them to subscribe.  Though folks  can always lie, it does give publishers (from bloggers to adult website owners) a basic tool for responding to concerns that I haven’t seen before from such a service.

I don’t know what else you might want to ask instead but the form of the question is up to you.