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Amazon Enters Online Art Market

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Artwork by Kati Elm

On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the start of Amazon Art, where customers can buy original and limited-edition art from more than 150 dealers and 4,500 artists, ranging in price from a $10 screen print by the up-and-comer Ryan Humphrey to a $4.85 million painting by Norman Rockwell.

Amazon, which worked with Sotheby’s for a short-lived experiment selling art on the Web in 1999, will now vie with other, more established competitors in the online marketplace, including Artsy and Artnet.

Checkout our original #GWOP art at: instacanv.as/beezytarantino

Rap Group Da YoungFellaz Sued For Spending $130k Marketing Loan On Weed

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source: NYPost

A group of rap-star wannabes blew a $130,000 marketing loan on drugs, first-class airplane tickets and cross-country trips to entertainment festivals — where they weren’t even performing, a new Manhattan lawsuit claims.

While Bronx-based Da YoungFellaz, who have rhymed with Talib Kweli and Snoop Dogg, boast on their Web site that they “haven’t just sat around and waited for fame to land in their lap,” their legal adversaries tell a very different story.

StigmaSound, a Manhattan recording studio, says YoungFellaz Joseph Aguiar, Johnny Aguiar and Brett Officer blew through their first $25,000 loan, meant to rocket the group “toward A-level stardom in the entertainment industry,” in just three months by last October.

“The defendants used loan money . . . for illegal purchases of marijuana,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit alleges. Read More

Arianna Huffington’s Daughter Opens Up About Cocaine Addiction

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The daughter of bi sexual republican congressman Michael Huffington and media mogul Arianna Huffington (founder of Huffington Post) was just 16 when she tried her first line of cocaine. Soon after, she became addicted. Now 24 and sober, she tells Glamour her story—and shares the truths about drug addiction every woman should hear.

“Cocaine almost killed me” -Christina Huffington, Arianna’s daughter, speaks out about her addiction—Read full story at: GLAMOUR

Perseverance of A Titan [trailer]

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Rashad Phillips

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This is the story of Rashad Phillips, a man who’s struggle through many trials and adversity, molded him into the man he is today and how he changes lives using basketball as his tool and his guide.

Doughboyz Cashout ft Yo Gotti x Jeezy “Woke Up”

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August 7, 2013

Doughboyz Cashout release first video off the Boss Ya Life Up Gang compilation featuring Jeezy, Yo Gotti, YG, DJ Mustard and more

Directed by Motion Family

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/4/2013

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August 7, 2013

#1. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines – 177,000 (177,000)

#3. Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 62,000 (797,000)

#4. Tech N9ne – Something Else – 58,000 (58,000)

#14. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 17,000 (544,000)

#16. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 17,000 (967,000)

#34. Wale – The Gifted – 10,000 (278,000)

#36. YMCMB & Friends – Rich Gang – 9,600 (33,000)

#38. Kanye West – Yeezus – 9,200 (497,000)

#64. Ace Hood – Trials & Tribulations – 6,400 (51,000)

#81. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – 5,100 (167,000)

^{* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.}

Ronnie Fields Documentary [trailer]

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August 7, 2013