directed by Clifton Bell
Las Vegas, NV ranks no. 4 in the United States in homeless population rate in 2012. GWOP Magazine takes an exclusive inside look at the homeless underworld of Sin City and the effects of poverty on our nation. There are approximately 3.5 million homeless people in America and 18.5 million vacant foreclosed homes in the country at the same time.
directed by Beezy @GWOPMagazine
produced @SpongeBanks
music by @NewPaper7
via Forbes
The autoposy report for Notorious B.I.G., aka Christopher Wallace, has been revealed more than a decade after his passing in 1997.
The report, released on TMZ, confirms that the Brooklyn rapper was shot four times in a drive-by shooting on Wilshire Blvd. while he was sitting in the passenger seat of a Chevy Suburban.
15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.
Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the “Visiting Practitioner’s Program” at MIT.
source: THNKR
In this short documentary, JAY Z’s Life+Times takes an unprecedented behind the scenes look at the creation of JAY Z’s Barclays Center opening concerts.
Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd)
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, and Downtown Project have pledged $1 Million to Venture for America. During the next five years, Venture for America will send at least 100 of the country’s most talented and enterprising graduates to downtown Las Vegas to assist Tony Hsieh and Downtown Project in helping revitalize downtown Vegas. Downtown Project is a $350MM+ initiative to transform downtown Vegas that includes a $200 million investment in real estate, $50 million in local businesses, $50 million in tech start-ups, and $50 million in education, arts and culture.
The first SMS was sent as a Christmas greeting on December 3, 1992. Now we send 8 trillion text messages a year.
Neil Papworth, a software programmer from Reading, UK sent the first SMS (text message) in 1992.
“Since mobile phones didn’t yet have keyboards, I typed the message out on a PC. It read ‘Merry Christmas’ and I sent it to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone, who was enjoying his office Christmas party at the time,” said Papworth. Read More
#1. Rihanna – Unapologetic – 238,000 (238,000)
#10. Keyshia Cole – Woman To Woman – 96,000 (96,000)
#21. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 49,000 (428,000)
#26. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded The Re-Up – 36,000 (727,000)
#31. Ne-Yo – R.E.D. – 29,000 (120,000)
#32. The Weeknd – Trilogy – 28,000 (114,000)
#45. 2 Chainz – Based on a T.R.U. Story – 22,000 (405,000)
#57. Meek Mill – Dreams & Nightmares – 18,000 (245,000)
#93. Cee Lo Green – Cee Lo’s Magic Moment – 11,000 (26,000)
#105. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 8,900 (143,000)
#151. Nas – Life is Good – 6,400 (333,000)
#165. DMX – Icon – 5,600 (19,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
spotted: Forbes
Top 10 highest paid musicians via Forbes (pre tax earnings)
1. Dr. Dre ($110 million)
2. Roger Waters ($88 million)
3. Elton John ($80 million)
4. U2 ($78 million)
5. Take That ($69 million)
6. Bon Jovi ($60 million)
7. Britney Spears ($58 million)
8. Paul McCartney ($57 million, tie)
8. Taylor Swift ($57 million, tie)
10. Justin Bieber ($55 million, tie)
off O.N.I.F.C. album due out next week
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