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Thursday, October 28, 2010
TINIE TEMPAH!!!! ANOTHER SENSATION FROM LONDON!!
For all those Intrigued by the concept of Hood Economics here it is:
Hood Economics: [HooD Ek-uh-nom-iks, Ee-kuh-]:~ Understanding the economic situation you as an individual are surrounded by and using it to your advantage to create the absolute best situation for yourself thus inspiring and motivating others in your community to do the same. (Inspired by Adams Smith ‘s Wealth of Nations)
Hood Economics is more than a theory it’s an autonomous way of life. Those who understand it were already living by it way before I defined it. Those who don’t never will.
*Takes a deep breath* I’m Tinie Tempah South East London born musician nurtured by the Grime Scene, discovered from the Grime Scene. I’ve scored Music for Video Games (WipeOut Pure, PSP) Performed all over the U.K including the Prestigious O2 Wireless festival & Notting Hill Carnival, Participated In major corporate events including Orange’s RockCorps project alongside Alex Zane & Busta Rhymes and numerous anti Knife/Gun crime charity events, received reviews by The New York Times, The Guardian, Playboy Magazine NYC to name a few, Featured on MTV’s Spanking new music, Featured on tracks with everyone from M.I.A to Jay Sean, Sway, Chipmunk, Ironik Wiley etc, Freestyled for Tim Westwood, had A- List play listed tracks on Kiss, Choice, 1Xtra, Galaxy, been mentioned by some of the U.K’s Top Bloggers (Chantell Fiddy, Dj Semtex, Channel 4), all my Videos are on the LEFT all my Gig dates are ABOVE. Phew! I’m out of Breath stay tuned to this MySpace & my all new exciting blog MILKand2SUGARS.wordpress.com for updates on every single move I make!
"I am Green.
Not by colour, nor by nature. It's just my alias.
My real name is Stephen Paul Manderson.
I was raised in Hackney by my Grandmother and Great Grandmother.
Despite being very academically capable i didn't see much of school after year 8. As smart as I was, I was too stupid to stay in school.
What followed was an attempt at a 9 to 5, a bad career choice and a police raid which nearly put me away, but fortunately didn't.
Since narrowly avoiding prison I've signed a deal with mike skinner's record label 'the beats' (which sadly went bye bye in dec 07), had my own radio 1 show, and done very well on the battle scene, intoxicating myself all the way along.
After a messy year wrestling with Warner to get my masters back, my dad passing and getting shanked in the neck with a broken bottle, i had a facebook convo with Lily Allen which spawned a remake of 90's classic 'Dub Be Good To Me' for my album, featuring Lily. A European, UK and Australian tour with Lily (performing the song) later, I've signed to Virgin, got my teeth fixed and am just about to finish my Debut album 'Alive Till I'm Dead'. Yippee.
I like; The Wire (tv), Bonobo (music), Jack Daniels (liquor), and Jessica Alba (woman).
I dislike; Eastenders (tv), Techno-Rap (music?), Southern Comfort (liquor) and most of my ex girlfriends (women).
I love you all.
Bye for now,"
Green x
L.A. Reid Released From Def Jam ?
Nas Pens Letter To Def Jam Execs ?
From: Nas
To: LA Reid, Steve Bartels, Steve Gawley, Michael Seltzer, Joseph Borrino, Chris Hicks
Subject: PUT MY SHIT OUT!
Peace to all,
With all do respect to you all, Nas is NOBODY’s slave. This is not the 1800′s, respect me and I will respect you.
I won’t even tap dance around in an email, I will get right into it. People connect to the Artist @ the end of the day, they don’t connect with the executives. Honestly, nobody even cares what label puts out a great record, they care about who recorded it. Yet time and time again its the executives who always stand in the way of a creative artist’s dream and aspirations. You don’t help draw the truth from my deepest and most inner soul, you don’t even do a great job @ selling it. The #1 problem with DEF JAM is pretty simple and obvious, the executives think they are the stars. You aren’t…. not even close. As a matter of fact, you wish you were, but it didn’t work out so you took a desk job. To the consumer, I COME FIRST. Stop trying to deprive them! I have a fan base that dies for my music and a RAP label that doesn’t understand RAP. Pretty fucked up situation
This isn’t the 90′s though. Beefing with record labels is so 15 years ago. @ this point I just need you all to be very clear where I stand and how I feel about “my label.” I could go on twitter or hot 97 tomorrow and get 100,000 protesters @ your building but I choose to walk my own path my own way because since day one I have been my own man. I did business with Tommy Mottola and Donnie Einer, two of the most psycho dudes this business ever created. I worked well with them for one major reason……. they believed in me. The didn’t give a fuck about what any radio station or magazine said….those dudes had me.
Lost Tapes is a movement and a very important set up piece for my career as it stands. I started this over 5 years ago @ Columbia and nobody knew what it was or what it did but the label put it out as an LP and the fans went crazy for it and I single handlely built a new brand of rap albums. It’s smart and after 5 years it’s still a head of the game. This feels great and you not feeling what I’m feeling is disturbing. Don’t get in the way of my creativity. We are aligned with the stars here, this is a movement. There is a thing called KARMA that comes to haunt you when you tamper with the aligning stars. WE ARE GIVING THE PEOPLE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. Stop throwing dog shit on a MAGICAL moment.
You don’t get another Nas recording that doesn’t count against my deal….PERIOD! Keep your bullshit $200,000.00 fund. Open the REAL budget. This is a New York pioneers ALBUM, there ain’t many of us. I am ready to drop in the 4th quarter. You don’t even have shit coming out! Stop being your own worst enemy. Let’s get money!
-N.Jones
Swizz Beatz Designing An Aston Martin ?
@astonmartin & therealswizzz is about to put something on the streets you cant deny! Coming soon follow @astonmartin
Swizz Beatz posted this picture to his Twitter account yesterday afternoon. From the looks of it, he’s overseeing the design of a new Aston Martin. Eat your heart out Rick Ross. Ha!
Jay-Z To Work For Obama ?
According to the New York Post, Jay-Z may be asked to push for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
“I can’t believe you’ve finally heard the chatter about him replacing Larry Summers,” Deputy White House Press Secretary William Burton told us. “In all seriousness, keep in mind he was pretty active during the 2008 election, so I don’t think it’d surprise anyone that he would be involved again. But it’s a little premature.”
Kanye West & Jay-Z EP Now Full Album
During Kanye’s post game recap of Runaway, he tells the media that his Watch The Throne EP with Jay-Z will be now a full length album. No word as to when it will be released, but so far, producers include Pete Rock, Madlib, and Q-Tip.
“We putting out a whole album now. We had done five [songs] so far, but then a few of them kind of were out there, and I put them on my album. Sorry, Jay. But we got some more, and we’re going to the South of France at the end of the month to just record new ideas. But we’ll probably be done with the album in a day.”
Alicia Keys Pens Note On Parenthood
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Best-Selling Author Cosigns Jay-Z Decoded
– Kathleen Norris, author of The Cloister Walk