Shouts to my West Coast Familia, Jenny pops bottles wit big Suge.

Hilarious....

Marc Jacobs documentary snippets...

Mos takes the  A Millie beat for a spin

Brings out Young Buck and has some choice words for 50 Cent and G-Unit. Jim Jones also comes out at the end.

Brings out Lil Kim, Fabolous, and Maino

Nelly's listening party for Brass Knuckles @ Classic Car Club, NYC

Peep how he tells a rude party-goer to be quiet...

Directed by Kanye West

Animation by Takashi Murakami

Esquire: For the purposes of this portfolio, we're defining maximalism broadly. As an aesthetic, it tends to deal with large-scale creations--elaborate in design, ornate in detail, bright colors, and bold patterns. As a mind-set, it's even broader--it applies to individuals whose imaginations run away with them. How's our thinking?

Takashi Murakami: There is a sci-fi television show that I recently discovered called Battlestar Galactica, and there's also a new Japanese animated show called Macross Frontier. The common thread between these two shows is that both of them are stories in which humanity has had no choice but to abandon Earth and fight for survival in outer space, battle with both non-Earth beings and robots, and question the meaning of life. I guess you could call them somewhat stereotypical. But the concept that is important to me is the one of outer space. I have never traveled to outer space, and have thus never felt the fearsome limitlessness of that pitch-black world--but I think that perhaps this is the true maximalism that we are discussing here.

ESQ:Who are some of the great maximalists of all time?

TM: George Lucas and Walt Disney. From them I learned the importance of completely submersing myself in a surrealist world.

ESQ:Have you always been drawn to that kind of world?

TM: My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

ESQ:So much of Japan's postwar architecture was driven by minimalist impulses. With due respect to Richard Meier and co., what are some of the problems with minimalism?

TM: The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

ESQ: In sci-fi films, futuristic design is often ultrastreamlined and bright white--giant iPods and such. Does that vision of the future bother you?

TM: Really? In the world of P-Funk, Parliament comes from outer space in a UFO. I think that the aesthetic you are describing is an observation of only a narrow part of the field that doesn't take into account all the directions. I'm sure that funky space clothes will become mainstream again in the future.

(From Esquire)

Michael Phelps’ run at the Olympics — eight gold medals, seven broken world records — is unprecedented, and according to Phelps he couldn’t have done it without Young Jeezy. Phelps typically listened to the Jeezy/R. Kelly collaboration “Go Getta” before hitting the pool, which Jeezy himself doesn’t find surprising. “All my music is inspirational,” he told Rolling Stone’s Evan Serpick. “You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.”

Michael Phelps — the man of the hour for the U.S. at the Olympics — is a big fan of Young Jeezy.
I’m a big fan of Michael Phelps! He’s a great success. I like what he’s doing. He’s like the Young Jeezy of the swim world. I love it!

Have you been watching the Olympics?
Off and on, as much as I can on the bus, because I haven’t been anywhere stable. Otherwise, I just pick it up in the newspaper.

He said “Go Getta” is one of his favorite songs. What other Jeezy songs would you recommend to get him psyched up for a race?
Definitely “Soul Survivor,” “And Then What” and “Put On.” But really all my music is inspirational, motivational music. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Do you have any plans to meet Phelps?
I reached out and his people got back to me. I’d love to do something for him, maybe like a performance in his hometown. We definitely very proud of it him back over here, real talk. You don’t go over there and win that many medals, man. Maybe he can lend me one for a video or something.

Do you ever go swimming?
No, man. Somebody threw me in a pool once when I was younger and I had to work it out, but other than that, no.

(Spotted at Rolling Stone)

Da Brat has been sentenced to 3 years in prison as a result of hitting a women in the face with a bottle of rum last October.

According to TMZ.com, Da Brat will also receive 7 years probation and have to complete 200 hours of community service.

The incident stems from October 2007 when Da Brat was arrested following an altercation with a Studio 72 waitress. The two got into an altercation and Da Brat was said to have picked up a bottle of rum and smashed it into the women's face.

The victim was taken to the hospital with cuts to her face and above her eyes.

Da Brat was charged with felony aggravated assault at the time of the incident.

Studio 72 is an Atlanta area nightclub owned by Jermaine Dupri.

( From Streetcred )

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