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Sharon Carpenter of Global Grind caught up with Dame at his art gallery space to talk about his new businesses ventures and more.

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Checkout documentary on Otherside farms, one of California’s premier medical marijuana shops. They show us how they use pot to help patients cope with serious illnesses the natural way, all while dodging the feds.

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Hip Hop Entrepreneur and business man Jay Z is ready for the 2012-2013 NBA season as he twitpics a photo of his newly designed Brooklyn Nets.

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Hip Hop entrepreneur Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is expanding his branding power into the cognac industry.  Last night in New York at an ultra private event he helped introduce D’usse (pronounced “dew-say”) a cognac being produced by Bacardi that is expected to compete with Hennessy.  Don’t worry, you won’t have to break the bank to drink this stuff it will go for $44.99 for a 750-ml bottle – but don’t be surprised if there is a super expensive version. Read More

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An investment group that includes NBA Hall of Famer-turned-businessman Earvin “Magic” Johnson will buy the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team from bankrupt owner Frank McCourt. And it won’t be cheap. Per a Tuesday night agreement with Major League Baseball, the team and its facilities will go for $2 billion, shattering the record for the most expensive sports franchise ever purchased.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 – Sean “Diddy” Combs, founder and CEO of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group (BBWEG), a Grammy Award winning producer, hip-hop artist, and global business owner, declared “One of the Most Influential Businessmen in the World” by Time Magazine and CNN, today announced REVOLT, a new venture to create a real-time, socially connected music television network.

REVOLT was selected as one of four new minority-owned independent networks to be broadly distributed on Comcast Cable systems between July 2012 and January 2014. After a thorough evaluation of more than 100 proposals, Comcast selected Combs’ proposal. Comcast will be the first cable operator to broadly carry REVOLT at the time of launch. Read More

The Greatest Basketball Player of All Time turns 49 Today! Happy Born Day MJ!  [more pics and video after the jump]

“i can accept failure… but I can’t accept not trying” -Mike J  #Jordan #rules

Jordan is an active entrepreneur and his Jordan brand generates up to $1 Billion annually for Nike.

NBA website states, “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.” Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. Read More

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A web entrepreneur who had it all by the time he was 21 managed to blow his staggering $2.5million fortune in just 12 months.

Andrew Fashion dropped out of high school to live the high life – his monthly $100,000 pay packet seeing him buy a plush Los Angeles house and several top-of-the-line sports cars.

He played high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, flew to London, Florida and Hawaii, and bought all the latest tech gadgets.

But within just one year his websites, which gave users the tools to ‘design’ their MySpace pages, fell out of favour and the cash GWOP dried up.

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Dame Dash (co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records) flies down to Miami to create some Cavi designs with his team and kicks it with Cam and Zeke on the set of Killa Season 2.  Dame shows you how to make moves, complete projects and still have a good time.  Fly Boss Shit! Pay Attention. Checkout out the 1st episode after the jump.

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Music artist Will.I.Am has been working on developing a new car called IAMAUTO. The Black Eyed peas frontman debuted the vehicle on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. The auto was developed to help create jobs in his old Los Angeles neighborhood.

The car, which looks a lot like the Delorean from Back To The Future, features a Beats By Dre sound system  and was constructed using OEM parts from Chrysler.

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We all Love our Momma’s, rap artist and designer Kanye West is ensuring his mother’s name DONDA lives forever with his new brand.

Kanye West announced his plans to start a new brand: DONDA (the name of Kanye’s late mother R.I.P.). Checkout the details below and how you can get involved. Read More