SMACK/ URL The leaders of MC Battle culture link up with BET’s 106 & Park to create Ultimate Freestyle Friday(UFF) The UFF is a 7 week elimination tournament between some of URL’s finest MC’s.
An Ice-T produced documentary that tells the life of Iceberg Slim, a legendary Chicago pimp. Through the likes of Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, Henry Rollins, Chris Rock, Quincy Jones we get a depiction of how Slim ushered his way from pimp to author, writing 7 groundbreaking books that described life in the ghetto unlike how it had previously been scribed. His poetic detail and honesty about this lifestyle has made him a cultural icon.
Directed by Jorge Hinojosa
“F*ck it I want a Billion” –JAY Z #PicassoBaby
Created by Broken Equipment
Detroit—The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation’s iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Detroit is 18.5 billion dollars in debt.
Today is Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. #HappyMandelaDay
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~Nelson Mandela
People around the world are spending 67 minutes making a positive impact upon other people’s lives for Mandela Day. Checkout 67 ideas to change the world after the jump…
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Zane chats to Jay-Z about the new album Magna Carta Holy Grail
#1. Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 527,000 (527,000)
#2. Ciara – Ciara – 58,000 (58,000)
#3. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 39,000 (478,000)
#6. Kanye West – Yeezus – 29,000 (459,000)
#7. Wale – The Gifted – 28,000 (237,000)
#10. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 22,000 (913,000)
#24. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – 10,000 (148,000)
#40. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 7,400 (966,000)
#50. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 6,200 (517,000)
#164. Tony Touch – The Piece Maker 3 (Return Of The 50 MC’s) – 2,400 (2,400)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
Directed by Spike Lee
A dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
McDonald’s has partnered with Visa to make a website dedicated to showing its employees how to properly budget their peasant salaries. However, what it actually does is illustrate the fact that it is nearly impossible to get by on minimum wage in America as shown in this “example” budget chart:
If you earn $34,000 p/ year you are in the 1% of the wealthiest in the world according to billionaire Charles Koch. Koch is spending $200,000 on this video media campaign in Witchita, KS to focus on economic and political issues. (We can create this same style video @GWOPMagazine for under $5,000)
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