The plan to build an Islamic community center near Ground Zero has turned into an ugly situation.  Many believe that the targeting of those of the Muslim faith is just a new channel for discrimination against people of color.  There are daily protesters and gawkers surrounding the site, which consistently reeks of tension.  Recently a video surfaced of a black man who was sent to work on the site was harassed on his way into the building by angry protesters.  “No mosque here!” They yelled at him, repeatedly.  He turned out to just be a carpenter who was, in fact, a Christian.  Does this remind you of SB1070?  People being categorized based on what they “look like.”

Peep the video below:

You Still Mad? Kanye West helped that little girl out, let’s keep it real.
Check what I found out from US Magazine.

A year after infamously interrupting Taylor Swift on stage, Kanye West is set to return to the MTV Video Music Awards, UsMagazine.com has learned.
A source tells Us West, 33, is performing on the show, airing Sept. 12. (A rep for the rapper and MTV had no comment.)
The Grammy-winning rapper’s untitled fifth studio album is expected to drop this fall. He debuted a video “painting” for the first single, “Power,” on MTV last Thursday, and a follow-up single is also expected to be released in the next few weeks.

Just a brief post, here.  When I was working at my last job, I had the opportunity to work around James Cruz, who is now Diddy’s manager, before he was Diddy’s manager. I just saw him as a guy who was positive and had a bunch of inspirational quotes all over his office, and I figured he was doing well for himself.  He also got us into anywhere we wanted to go, even bourgesie ass M2.

Get Better, James.

Anyway, I just felt he needs to:

- be recognized for his work

- also, have prayers and thoughts go out to him on his accident. According to Cruz’ twitter, he was “at airport picking up my family & packing the car with my kids’ luggage Some idiot forgot to put his van in neutral,” pinning him between his truck and the van.  He suffered broken legs and dislocated his knee.

Salute to you, and we all hope you get better, fast.  Behind the scenes people don’t get recognized that much– believe me, I know.

#thinkpositive

I came across this article on MSN, and I am passing the info along because I know almost every damn one of you is on Facebook.  How many times did I tell you about changing your privacy settings?  — Rahim The Dream

The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable to make their publicly available information private.

However, Facebook downplayed the issue, saying that no private data had been compromised.

The information was posted by Ron Bowes, an online security consultant, on the Internet site Pirate Bay.

Bowes used code to scan the 500 million Facebook profiles for information not hidden by privacy settings. The resulting file, which allows people to perform searches of various different types, has been downloaded by several thousand people.

This means that if any of those on the list decide to change their privacy settings on Facebook, Bowes and those who have the file will still be able to access information that was public when it was compiled.

Bowes’ actions also mean people who had set their privacy settings so their names did not appear in Facebook’s search system can now be found if they were friends with anyone whose name was searchable.

‘Scary privacy issue’
On his website, www.skullsecurity.org, Bowes said the results of his code were “spectacular,” giving him 171 million names of which were 100 million unique.

“As I thought more about it and talked to other people, I realized that this is a scary privacy issue. I can find the name of pretty much every person on Facebook,” he wrote.

“Facebook helpfully informs you that “[a]nyone can opt out of appearing here by changing their Search privacy settings” — but that doesn’t help much anymore considering I already have them all (and you will too, when you download the torrent). Suckers!”

“Once I have the name and URL of a user, I can view, by default, their picture, friends, information about them, and some other details,” Bowes added. “If the user has set their privacy higher, at the very least I can view their name and picture. So, if any searchable user has friends that are non-searchable, those friends just opted into being searched, like it or not! Oops :)

R.I.P. Jack Tatum

After battling diabetes for years and losing his left leg due to circulation problems, Jack Tatum suffered a heart attack today. Tatum, a former first round pick of the Raiders in 1971 was best known for paralyzing Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley in a preseason game. Now, that’s what I call no remorse! R.I.P

This is out of control.

A Calif. man arrested after a freeway shootout with authorities was planning to attack people at the ACLU and another nonprofit group, authorities said Tuesday. He faces four counts of attempted murder on peace officers. (July 20)
Source: Associated Press

Written by @WrinkledTshirt, starring B.o.B. (Bobby Ray), Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Amber Rose, and Wale

Blame Canada

Drake’s first week numbers are in, 462,000 aren’t bad by most

standards but for Hip Hop’s new hero thats a different story.

Many predicted Thank Me Later to sell over a million copies the

first week and to not even sell half of that pretty much means he

floppped better have a good second week. What went wrong?

His buzz was so big he could of sold a blank disc (he said it not

me). Co-signs from almost every big name in music. Can’t blame

the leak, every album leaks. Maybe its something bigger than we

all think, maybe Hip Hop didn’t want Drake to succeed? Or was it

in front of our eyes the whole time?

It’s Monday June 14, 2010 just one day before Thank Me Later

releases, Kid Cudi, Wale, and B.O.B are all together in poorly lit

room, they aren’t making music or talking much, just waiting.

About five minutes pass by and a cell phone rings. The ringtone

is “Power” by Kanye West. They all jump up with a sense of

urgency.

Kid Cudi:

Thats the Ye’ phone ringing.

Wale:

The Ye’ phone?

Kid Cudi:

Yeah the Ye’ phone like the Bat phone the Ye’ phone.

B.O.B

So answer it.

Kid Cudi:

I’m trying to, I just can’t get it out of my pockets.

The phone begins to ring louder.

Wale:

Hurry up!

Kid Cudi:

Help

Wale:

Help how the hell are we suppose to help you?

Phone gets louder

Kid Cudi:

You guys pull the pocket towards you

then I’ll reach in and get the phone

Wale and B.O.B reluctantly pull Kid Cudi’s jean pocket with all

their strength as Cudi manages to pull the phone loose.

Phone stops ringing, they all have a nervous look on their face.

Then the phone rings again playing “Power” this time they

quickly answer and turn on the speaker, on the other end of the

phone is Kanye West at an unknown location somewhere in

Hawaii.

Kanye West:

Aye fam, what the fuck I don’t call any

phone number twice especially back to back.

B.O.B & Wale:

Cudi’s fault!!

Kid Cudi:

My bad Broski.

Kanye West:

You got the phone stuck in your jeans again???

The room is silent

Kanye West:

You guys couldn’t put the phone anywhere else?

How about Wale’s dreads or B.O.B’s guitar.

B.O.B:

It’s Bobby Ra….

Before he can finish Kanye West interrupts him

Kanye West:

B.O.B I’m really happy for I’m gonna let you finish,

but Malcom X had the greatest name change of all time.

Wale and KId Cudi break out in laughter.

Kid Cudi:

You got Taylor Swifted.

Wale:

Your lucky OJ’s in jail you know what he does to blondes.

Kid Cudi

Still gotta look out for Tiger he’s out of rehab.

Wale and Kid Cudi stop laughing.

Kanye West:

Whatever….. Operation “Blame Canada” is in its final stages.

Drake can not sell a million albums his first week.

Wale:

Why not?

Kanye West:

Why….why? Cause I never sold a million record’s my first

week

and on top of that all three of you combined still haven’t sold a

million records. And you had Lady Gaga on your first single.

If you think your not shit now, imagine if he sells a million

records?

You’ll be selling knock off handbags then, thats why fam!

Kid Cudi:

He’s right, before Drake came around stealing all the features

and shit an average rapper like you could survive.

Wale:

I’m the best average rapper around.

Kanye West:

Phase one, sabotage the video for his biggest single “Best I

Ever Had”….. check! Phase two, sell him a leftover beat from

808′s and HeartBreak followed up by coming out of hiding

and leaking a new single….check! Now for phase three, make

sure he doesn’t sell a million records.

B.O.B

So whats the plan?

Kanye West:

I need ya’ll to go down to South Street Seaport for Drake’s

performance tomorrow and make sure he doesn’t get on

stage.

Wale:

We just can’t go down there people will notice.

Kanye West:

Just tell them your Kyle Barker from Living SIngle

The next day June 15th Southstreet Seaport is packed with

20,000 plus Drake fans. It appears what is about to be his biggest

performance ever is only a matter of minutes before it goes down.

Kid Cudi disguised in baggy pants along with Wale dress as Kyle

from living single and B.O.B as a Desperado with his guitar. They

all give each other a glance and begin to toss whatever they can

get they’re hands on inciting a riot. Then B.O.B makes a call on

his phone.

B.O.B

(In a spanish accent)

Hello 911, I’ve just been hit with a chair I’m at

Southstreet seaport its crazy down here ….

Kid Cudi yells from the background and Drake said “Fuck The

NYPD Free Weezy”

911 Operator

We’ll send units over now.

As she hangs up the phone you can hear her say “damn rappers”

A week has gone by and Drake’s first week numbers are coming

in B.O.B, Kid Cudi, and Wale are in the same room as they were

the week prior when speaking to Kanye West. A cellphone rings

playing Kanye West’s “Power” B.O.B reaches in his guitar and

pulls out the phone then places it on speaker its Kanye West still

at an unknown location in Hawaii.

Kanye West:

What the fuck is wrong with you

guys he went Platinum still.

They all look stunned.

Amber Rose with Kanye West at an unknown location in Hawaii

yells from the background “In Canada”

Kanye West:

What’s Platinum in Canada?

Kid Cudi:

100,000

Kanye West

Oh fuck it, good job then guys

THE END

Sumit‘s Commentary:

Trey Songz had a show in London when I was in New York so I called upon my boy Amaru to make Trey go through the “When You First Met…” segment.

Jay-Z, LL Cool J & U.S. President Barack Obama were the topic of coversation.

The singer opens up with meeting Jay-Z at the 40/40 club during a Superbowl game.

But it’s get interesting when Trey first met LL Cool J. Trey was actually with his mother at an award’s ceremony and she being a fan of Uncle L, she wanted a picture.

Trey even lifted his mother over a baracade so they could get a picture.

And finally the singer speaks on meeting U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. The singer reveals President Obama told him in the Oval Office that he was “proud of him”. Songz called the experience very “surreal” and “inspirational”.


Found on Bossip.

He says “they are openly terrific.” that shit was funny.

They Call Me Drizzy Bing, I Can Find Anything

Drake sold 447,307 records his first week, and folks still aren’t happy…

Sandra Rose kinda went in on him:

As predicted, Canadian rapper Drake’s debut disc Thank Me Later failed to go gold in its first week out. Though he came in at #1, his sales figures actually fell far below the estimated 492,000 that Hits Daily Double had predicted. According to Soundscan, ‘Thank Me’ scanned 447,307 units. The over-the-top hype for this project reminds me of the hype surrounding Nas’ debut album, Illmatic, which garnered a rare 5 mics from the SOURCE magazine in 1994. It also flopped.

If Drake is the definition of flopping, then I want to become a rapper and flop. Like now. 447,000 is 447,000 more than ZERO.

Sheeit.

Am I buggin?

Update/Good news: Drake Went Platinum in Canada

Related News: 100,000 gets you platinum in Canada.

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