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Thursday, April 07, 2005
50 Cent To Release New Video Game
Hip-hop star 50 CENT is set to give fans a hands-on taste of his former gritty life on the streets with a new video game.
The former crack dealer, whose business portfolio now boasts clothing, accessories, porn and vitamin water, has signed a deal with VIVENDI UNIVERSAL GAMES to produce and release 50 CENT: BULLETPROOF.
The game, which will hit stores later this year (05), will feature the likeness and voice of the IN DA CLUB rapper as he gets caught in a web of corruption and shady deals that lead him on a bloody path through New York's drug underworld.
He also takes on the most dangerous crime families in the city. 50 Cent - real name CURTIS JACKSON - says, "In everything I do, I play to win. I'm out to destroy the competition and my video game is no different.
"It's a fantasy version of my life. I plan to shake up the video game world like I did the rap world - I'm pulling no punches with my game."
Fans who can't wait for the game's release can enjoy a sneak peek at the ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO in Los Angeles on 18 May (05).
The former crack dealer, whose business portfolio now boasts clothing, accessories, porn and vitamin water, has signed a deal with VIVENDI UNIVERSAL GAMES to produce and release 50 CENT: BULLETPROOF.
The game, which will hit stores later this year (05), will feature the likeness and voice of the IN DA CLUB rapper as he gets caught in a web of corruption and shady deals that lead him on a bloody path through New York's drug underworld.
He also takes on the most dangerous crime families in the city. 50 Cent - real name CURTIS JACKSON - says, "In everything I do, I play to win. I'm out to destroy the competition and my video game is no different.
"It's a fantasy version of my life. I plan to shake up the video game world like I did the rap world - I'm pulling no punches with my game."
Fans who can't wait for the game's release can enjoy a sneak peek at the ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO in Los Angeles on 18 May (05).
Yoga And Hip Hop - WHAAAAAAAAAAT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yoga is going hip-hop part of a rampant commercialization of the ancient exercise in America, where it is being marketed to new inner city audiences at Starbucks-like chains.
Yoga, the 5,000-year-old Indian discipline of exercise, diet and meditation, has exploded into a $3 billion (1.6 billion pound) industry in the United States, with urban entertainment impresario Russell Simmons the newest figure to join in.
Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, released a video series on Wednesday titled, "Yoga Live", with instructions set to 72 tracks of original hip-hop music -- sounds that might have jarred the yogis of bygone days.
Simmons said he tried to distil the spiritual from the physical in his tapes. "We packaged it intentionally in a way for people to digest the physical practice," he told Reuters. "It's not meant to get them worried about religion or spirituality."
In another commercial move into yoga, entrepreneurs Rob Wrubel and George Lichter who teamed up to lead online search tool Ask Jeeves, have launched Yoga Works, a chain of yoga studios that aims to grow from its current 14 sites to an average of 10 studios in the largest U.S. cities.
Interest in yoga has exploded.
A Harris survey of a sampling of 4,700 people across the country commissioned by Yoga Journal showed that 16.5 million people were practicing yoga, or 7.5 percent of U.S. adults.
Other offshoots of the ancient art that have found popularity include yoga spinning and combining the practice with indoor cycling and heat training. There is also a new California hybrid called budokon, Japanese for "way of the spiritual warrior," that mixes martial arts, yoga, meditation and optimal nutrition.
Some practitioners are concerned about the marketing of yoga.
"The commercial opportunities lead to less genuine forms of yoga," said Swami Ramananda, 51, head of Integral Yoga Institute's two New York City centres.
Ramananda said he worried about exercise fads co-opting yoga in a superficial way. "If someone's intention is to make money, he is not offering yoga with students in mind," he said.
Yoga Journal spokesperson Dayna Macy illustrated yoga's striking rise in popularity by her magazine's rapid growth in circulation -- from 90,000 in 1998, to 170,000 in 2000, to a current 325,000.
"Yoga is a very powerful practice and survives because its teachings are very adaptable to the culture where it lands," she said.
Many in the U.S. yoga establishment agree.
Garrett Sarley, head of the Kripalu Centre for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, said, "The premise of Kripalu yoga embraces the idea that more is better. In the end all yogas lead to one great yoga."
Now turf wars have sprung up over the right to copyright and trademark specific yoga programs.
A legal battle in California is ongoing over whether Beverly Hills maestro Bikram Choudhury has ownership rights over his "Bikram Yoga" program -- a specific sequence of 26 postures and breathing exercises performed in a heated room.
Luke Cammack, 32, co-director of a Bikram Yoga studio in New York, said he tried various styles of yoga before settling on this.
"You have to be calm because it's really intense," said Cammack. "We don't teach philosophy. There's no chanting."
Yoga, the 5,000-year-old Indian discipline of exercise, diet and meditation, has exploded into a $3 billion (1.6 billion pound) industry in the United States, with urban entertainment impresario Russell Simmons the newest figure to join in.
Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, released a video series on Wednesday titled, "Yoga Live", with instructions set to 72 tracks of original hip-hop music -- sounds that might have jarred the yogis of bygone days.
Simmons said he tried to distil the spiritual from the physical in his tapes. "We packaged it intentionally in a way for people to digest the physical practice," he told Reuters. "It's not meant to get them worried about religion or spirituality."
In another commercial move into yoga, entrepreneurs Rob Wrubel and George Lichter who teamed up to lead online search tool Ask Jeeves, have launched Yoga Works, a chain of yoga studios that aims to grow from its current 14 sites to an average of 10 studios in the largest U.S. cities.
Interest in yoga has exploded.
A Harris survey of a sampling of 4,700 people across the country commissioned by Yoga Journal showed that 16.5 million people were practicing yoga, or 7.5 percent of U.S. adults.
Other offshoots of the ancient art that have found popularity include yoga spinning and combining the practice with indoor cycling and heat training. There is also a new California hybrid called budokon, Japanese for "way of the spiritual warrior," that mixes martial arts, yoga, meditation and optimal nutrition.
Some practitioners are concerned about the marketing of yoga.
"The commercial opportunities lead to less genuine forms of yoga," said Swami Ramananda, 51, head of Integral Yoga Institute's two New York City centres.
Ramananda said he worried about exercise fads co-opting yoga in a superficial way. "If someone's intention is to make money, he is not offering yoga with students in mind," he said.
Yoga Journal spokesperson Dayna Macy illustrated yoga's striking rise in popularity by her magazine's rapid growth in circulation -- from 90,000 in 1998, to 170,000 in 2000, to a current 325,000.
"Yoga is a very powerful practice and survives because its teachings are very adaptable to the culture where it lands," she said.
Many in the U.S. yoga establishment agree.
Garrett Sarley, head of the Kripalu Centre for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, said, "The premise of Kripalu yoga embraces the idea that more is better. In the end all yogas lead to one great yoga."
Now turf wars have sprung up over the right to copyright and trademark specific yoga programs.
A legal battle in California is ongoing over whether Beverly Hills maestro Bikram Choudhury has ownership rights over his "Bikram Yoga" program -- a specific sequence of 26 postures and breathing exercises performed in a heated room.
Luke Cammack, 32, co-director of a Bikram Yoga studio in New York, said he tried various styles of yoga before settling on this.
"You have to be calm because it's really intense," said Cammack. "We don't teach philosophy. There's no chanting."
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Eminem + 50 Cent Confirm Summer Dates
LATEST: EMINEM and 50 CENT have confirmed they're hitting the road together for a month-long US tour this July (05).
The pair's ANGER MANAGEMENT 3 tour, which will also feature LIL JON + THE EAST SIDE BOYZ, G-UNIT and D-12, is expected to be the biggest hip-hop event of the year (05) - beating out join tours by THE GAME and SNOOP DOGG and NELLY and FAT JOE.
LUDACRIS will take 50 Cent's place on the first two dates of the tour, while 50 completes his new JIM SHERIDAN movie.
The tour will conclude on August 12 and 13 (05) with two hometown Detroit, Michigan shows for Eminem at Comercia Park. In announcing the tour dates today, Eminem says, "I'm always trying to top the last tour whenever I go out. I think we're really doing it this time."
The pair's ANGER MANAGEMENT 3 tour, which will also feature LIL JON + THE EAST SIDE BOYZ, G-UNIT and D-12, is expected to be the biggest hip-hop event of the year (05) - beating out join tours by THE GAME and SNOOP DOGG and NELLY and FAT JOE.
LUDACRIS will take 50 Cent's place on the first two dates of the tour, while 50 completes his new JIM SHERIDAN movie.
The tour will conclude on August 12 and 13 (05) with two hometown Detroit, Michigan shows for Eminem at Comercia Park. In announcing the tour dates today, Eminem says, "I'm always trying to top the last tour whenever I go out. I think we're really doing it this time."
Monday, April 04, 2005
50 CENT TO SELL WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR
Hip-hop star 50 CENT is set to enter into yet another business venture - this time women's lingerie.
The IN DA CLUB rapper's portfolio already boasts vitamin water and porn videos - and now his G-UNIT clothing label is set to treat female fans to their own range of raunchy underwear.
Sexy singer OLIVIA, who is the sole female in 50 Cent's G-UNIT rap collective, tells ALLHIPHOP.COM, "I'm coming out with a GUnit lingerie line, we're actually gonna do that. I wear the GUnit women's line, like, all the time.
"Most people don't know how really high end that stuff is. I get the 2006 (collection). I always get the line ahead of the stuff that comes out, so I get to see everything before.
"(People are) gonna be real surprised when they see, because, like I said, it's not a regular line. We have the best designers put in place, and (50 Cent) always oversees everything.
"And they come to me and find out about the patterns or buttons and stuff that should go on, so everybody's real hands on when it comes to that."
COOLIO TO SELL HIS BRAIDS
Veteran hip-hop star COOLIO is planning to cut off his trademark braids - and sell them.
The GANGSTA'S PARADISE rapper, real name ARTIS IVEY JR, is planning to get rid of his hairstyle in 2006 after sporting it for a number of years - and he plans to raise some cash for a good cause at the same time.
He says, "(My braids) are in a mohawk now. I'm going to keep them until the end of the year, then I'm going to cut them off and auction them for charity."
The GANGSTA'S PARADISE rapper, real name ARTIS IVEY JR, is planning to get rid of his hairstyle in 2006 after sporting it for a number of years - and he plans to raise some cash for a good cause at the same time.
He says, "(My braids) are in a mohawk now. I'm going to keep them until the end of the year, then I'm going to cut them off and auction them for charity."
Fight disrupts Kanye West signing
The Grammy Award-winner was taken out of the back door of the new FTK "urban boutique" as owners cancelled its opening and locked the doors.
Authorities spent almost 30 minutes clearing around 1,000 fans from the store's parking area.
"Security couldn't control it [so] we had to shut it down," an employee said.
The artist, who won three prizes at the Grammys in February, had been signing autographs for 40 minutes when the fracas erupted.
'Ruined'
"Everybody's chance to meet Kanye West was ruined," said one fan who had been waiting in line.
But store owners said an after-party with the producer-rapper took place as planned.
West rose to prominence by producing songs for artists such as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. He then emerged to become a rapper as well as a producer.
His solo career almost ended before it began after a near-fatal car crash left him with his jaw wired shut in 2002.
But West used the experience as the basis for the song Through the Wire, which became his first UK hit in April 2004.
Authorities spent almost 30 minutes clearing around 1,000 fans from the store's parking area.
"Security couldn't control it [so] we had to shut it down," an employee said.
The artist, who won three prizes at the Grammys in February, had been signing autographs for 40 minutes when the fracas erupted.
'Ruined'
"Everybody's chance to meet Kanye West was ruined," said one fan who had been waiting in line.
But store owners said an after-party with the producer-rapper took place as planned.
West rose to prominence by producing songs for artists such as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. He then emerged to become a rapper as well as a producer.
His solo career almost ended before it began after a near-fatal car crash left him with his jaw wired shut in 2002.
But West used the experience as the basis for the song Through the Wire, which became his first UK hit in April 2004.
50 Cent gives no change on Billboard charts
The rapper continues to dominate the US charts.
50 Cent's Billboard chart stranglehold continues this week, with the hip-hop star holding the top spot on both the album and singles charts with his second album 'The Massacre'.
With the 18th 'NOW That's What I Call Music' series holding the number two spot, this week's highest new entry falls to Frankie J's 'The One' at number three. Queens Of The Stone Age's ''Lullabies To Paralyze' makes its debut at number five, one place behind Green Day's 'American Idiot.
Gwen Stefani's 'Love, Angel, Music, Baby' moves back into the top ten this week, jumping 17-9, while Lifehouse's self-titled new set opens at 10. Trace Adkins' 'Songs About Me' enters one place lower at 11.
Further down this weeks Top 200, Tweet's 'It's Me Again' lands at 17, Moby's 'Hotel' is new at 28, TRUSTcompany's 'True Parallels' enters at 32, Ozzy Osbourne's 'Prince Of Darkness' bows at 36, C-Murder's 'The Truest S*** I Ever Said' is new at 41 and Billy Idol returns with 'Devil's Playground' at 46.
50 Cent's 'Candy Shop' featuring Olivia enters its sixth week as the Billboard Hot 100 number one.
Kelly Clarkson's 'Since U Been Gone' emerges at the strongest contender this week, moving up four-two, ahead of the Game's 'Hate It or Love It' ft. 50 Cent at three. Frankie J's 'Obsession (No Es Amor)' ft Baby Bash at four, Green Day's 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' is at five and 50 Cent's 'Disco inferno' falls to six.
Nine Inch Nails return to chart action after a considerable time out, with 'The Hand That Feeds' opening at number 31.
Further down the Hot 100, Stevie Wonder's 'So What the Fuss' ft. Prince and En Vogue opens at 96 and Juanes' 'La Camisa Negra' is new at 97.
50 Cent's Billboard chart stranglehold continues this week, with the hip-hop star holding the top spot on both the album and singles charts with his second album 'The Massacre'.
With the 18th 'NOW That's What I Call Music' series holding the number two spot, this week's highest new entry falls to Frankie J's 'The One' at number three. Queens Of The Stone Age's ''Lullabies To Paralyze' makes its debut at number five, one place behind Green Day's 'American Idiot.
Gwen Stefani's 'Love, Angel, Music, Baby' moves back into the top ten this week, jumping 17-9, while Lifehouse's self-titled new set opens at 10. Trace Adkins' 'Songs About Me' enters one place lower at 11.
Further down this weeks Top 200, Tweet's 'It's Me Again' lands at 17, Moby's 'Hotel' is new at 28, TRUSTcompany's 'True Parallels' enters at 32, Ozzy Osbourne's 'Prince Of Darkness' bows at 36, C-Murder's 'The Truest S*** I Ever Said' is new at 41 and Billy Idol returns with 'Devil's Playground' at 46.
50 Cent's 'Candy Shop' featuring Olivia enters its sixth week as the Billboard Hot 100 number one.
Kelly Clarkson's 'Since U Been Gone' emerges at the strongest contender this week, moving up four-two, ahead of the Game's 'Hate It or Love It' ft. 50 Cent at three. Frankie J's 'Obsession (No Es Amor)' ft Baby Bash at four, Green Day's 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' is at five and 50 Cent's 'Disco inferno' falls to six.
Nine Inch Nails return to chart action after a considerable time out, with 'The Hand That Feeds' opening at number 31.
Further down the Hot 100, Stevie Wonder's 'So What the Fuss' ft. Prince and En Vogue opens at 96 and Juanes' 'La Camisa Negra' is new at 97.
EVANS GRATEFUL TO P DIDDY FOR LETTING HER GO
FAITH EVANS is grateful to hip-hop mogul SEAN 'P DIDDY' COMBS for allowing her to leave his BAD BOY RECORDS label - even though she was still under contract.
The I'LL BE MISSING YOU singer, who was married to late rapper NOTORIOUS BIG, was desperate to sign up with CAPITOL RECORDS because she felt the multi-talented Combs wasn't paying enough attention to her music.
Evans says, "Puff had a lot going on. I applaud his success but my last album got caught up in his label negotiations, and I felt like I put a lot of work into that album, and I didn't feel it got the attention it deserved from the man who signed me.
The I'LL BE MISSING YOU singer, who was married to late rapper NOTORIOUS BIG, was desperate to sign up with CAPITOL RECORDS because she felt the multi-talented Combs wasn't paying enough attention to her music.
Evans says, "Puff had a lot going on. I applaud his success but my last album got caught up in his label negotiations, and I felt like I put a lot of work into that album, and I didn't feel it got the attention it deserved from the man who signed me.