2011 Mixtapes of the Year
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GWOP Magazine staff has compiled a list of the best Mixtapes of the year. Checkout what we came up with after the jump. (Free Downloads Available)
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Feel Rich TV (QD3)
Forty-time platinum, multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning producer, and digital guru Quincy Jones III (QD3) has turned his attention to a new creative pursuit: the creation of a health and fitness culture born from the urban and hip-hop community’s love and respect for the music, movement, and entertainment that defines us. FeelRich.com is the cornerstone of this new culture, promoting fitness and healthy living as the way to take your life to the next level. You can get anywhere you want to go. Having a healthy body will get you there.
Feel Rich isn’t just another health service. It’s an attitude and a movement. It’s health on your terms, fitness in your style, and food choices that make sense on the streets where you live. It’s a health program that knows where you come from, and lets you decide where you want to go.
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Weekend @ the Box Office: December 9-11, 2011
Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd)
- New Year’s Eve $13.7
- The Sitter $10 m
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 $7.9 m
- The Muppets $7 m
- Arthur Christmas $6.6 m
DJ Suss-One “Champion”
featuring Floyd Mayweather, Jadakiss, Lloyd Banks, French Montana & Junior Reid
New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov set to run for President of Russia
Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia’s richest tycoons and the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, said Monday he will run against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March presidential election.
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Amazon’s Top 10 Selling Books of 2011
Amazon has just released the list of their ten best-selling books of the year, and Walter Isaacson’s thoughtful biography of Steve Jobs has come out on top.
The biography’s appearance at the top of the list is a bit of a surprise considering its relatively late publication this year, but the book’s impressive sales performance was fueled by the huge show of fan support after the Apple co-founder’s untimely passing in October.
Amazon culled these rankings from both their traditional book sales figures and Kindle eBook downloads, and this year two titles submitted through Amazon’s Direct Publishing program have made the top 10: Darcie Chan’s “The Mill River Recluse,” and Chris Culver’s “The Abbey”.
While Isaacson’s take on the life of Jobs took Amazon’s top honors, it doesn’t seem to have fared as well over at Barnes and Noble. According to their list of the year’s best-sellers (which to be fair only runs through November 21), Jobs’s biography rounds out the top five. It’s performance as a eBook in Nook’s line-up is even less impressive: it lands at #33 on the nookbook bestseller list, behind the compiled Hunger Games trilogy and something called “Mail-Order Christmas Brides.”
Here’s the full list of Amazon’s best-sellers, in case you’re looking to finish up your holiday shopping with a few good books.
1. “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
2. “Bossypants” by Tina Fey
3. “A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard
4. “The Mill River Recluse” by Darcie Chan
5. “In the Garden of the Beasts” by Erik Larson
6. “A Dance with Dragons” by George R.R. Martin
7. “The Paris Wife” by Paula McLain
8. “The Litigators” by John Grisham
9. “The Abbey” by Chris Culver
10. “Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle)” by Christopher Paolini
50 Cent Releasing Fitness Book and Eating Guide
50 Cent continues to expand his book-writing empire.
The G-Unit general is releasing a fitness book in January 2013 by publisher Avery Books, reports the Associated Press. Titled Formula 50: A 6-Week Total Body Transformation Plan, the book will focus on metabolic resistance training and will also include a nutrition guide. Read More
Oprah’s OWN network set to target African-American Market similar to VH1
Almost one year after its launch, Oprah Winfrey‘s OWN Network hasn’t exactly blown up as expected. The former talk-show hosts’ channel has introduced various shows like Oprah Presents: Master Class, The Rosie Show, Oprah’s Life Class and her BFF’s show, The Gayle King Show, with some reality shows in the mix.
Interesting enough, one of the newest shows, Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s has been doing the best when it comes to television views. The highest number of people viewing the show in one night was 418,000, with an average viewership of 216,000. And because of this, the OWN network is looking to possibly cater their programming and advertising more to the network’s African-American followers similar to VH1, who broadcast popular shows such as Love & Hip Hop and Family Hustle starring T.I. & Tiny:
“Anytime you have a program that pops like Sweetie Pie’s did, you start looking at what drove it,” Logan tells Adweek. “And we saw that the African-American audience really had a connection with that show. . . . We’re going to look at ways to nurture and grow that.”
“We’re not going to sell out and just chase one demographic or segment,” he said. “We’re going to nurture the success we had with Sweetie Pies. . . . [But] it is our job to strike a balance. The Oprah brand is not niche. The Oprah brand is very broad. How we translate that to the screen is the challenge we have.”
13 Cities Where Home Prices Are Dropping
source: Forbes
The folks at Local Market Monitor compiled a list of the 13 cities that suffered relatively big home price hits this year with more projected through the next 12 months. LMM sifted through market data for more than 300 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Metropolitan Divisions (MSADs), as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The company crunched home prices from October 2010 through September 2011 and calculated price projections through September of next year, taking into account job growth, population growth, sales and rental prices. Checkout full list after the jump.
Early Morning Eyecandy: Elisha Jade
Elisha Jade aka “Leesh”
25 years old
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Height: 5’7
Measurements: 34-26-42
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website: iloveleesh.com
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50 Cent – Queens, NY feat. Paris
Off of The Big 10 Mixtape
Eddie Murphy set to play Marion Barry in biopic
Source: Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Eddie Murphy may soon star in a more serious role, playing former Washington Mayor Marion Barry in a new HBO film project. Read More
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