When you think of Precious Paris three things automatically come to mind: her beauty, G-Unit and bars. The Queens, New York representative can flat out spit with the best of them. With each release Paris' talent becomes more evident.
50 Cent provides some much needed comic relief to the T.I. vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. beef. Watch 50's hilarious phone call to the boxing champion. He gives Money May advice on how to deal with Tip and Tiny.
"My little brothers crazy,first RAY J then Nelly now TIP #smsaudio#animalambition ," 50 joked on Twitter. "Me and Floyd working all this out lol."
Gucci Mane fires back at Young Jeezy for his interview with Big Boy's Neighborhood where he called Gucci "retarded." This beef seemed to have died down, but it's definitely all the way back on.
Gucci will be dropping his Trap God mixtape on October 17th.
Styles P is getting ready to drop his new mixtape The World's Most Hardest MC. Check out the first song/video off of the project entitled "Murder Mommy."
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IZQJ4TRo2Dc?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe> <br/> This is the second ad for the upcoming EP "The RPD20X Project" by The OCS. This commercial definitely showcases who's featured on the project and the lineup is star studded! The EP includes new music from Nipsey Hussle, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Ya Boy,Scipio, Fashawn, Crooked I, Glasses Malone and more produced entirely by The OCS. The project is due to drop on May 8th. Be looking for more coming from the Cali bred production crew coming soon.
Machine Gun Kelly saw both good times and bad while in Florida last week for a couple of concerts. He was arrested, then released for disorderly conduct in St. Petersburg, but not before he successfully performed there on Saturday and in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.
Mikey T The Movie Star caught up with the Cleveland rapper after his rowdy show at Club Revolution in Fort Lauderdale to talk about his Bad Boy Records deal and upcoming single.
"They gave me full creative control," MGK said if his Bad Boy deal. "I have creative control over everything on my project. It's worked out for me well. They let me grind and they don't hand me sh*t. I don't have a csilver spoon with that label, and that's what I asked for. Puff is a big brother to me. I signed for 2 [albums]."
MGK's "Wild Boy" single with Waka Flocka has been making some noise. He's getting ready to follow that up with the release a new single entitled "Rain."
"A song called Rain [is my next single]. I'm really excited about that song. It's a deep song," he said. "It's the opposite of Wild boy. A very revolutionary, rebellion type of message."
Check out the rest of the interview and wild concert footage below.
French Montana hit up the Hot 97 show today to chop it up with Angie Martinez. He talked about the upcoming NY Giants "Shot Caller" remix, turning down a deal with G.O.O.D Music to sign with Bad Boy, meeting Rihanna and his appearance on the record "Stay Schemin" that took the Drake vs. Common beef up a notch.
Angie asked French about Drake's verse on "Stay Schemin" getting at Common and the Chicago rapper's immediate reply.
"With them you gotta look at it like it's hip hop, it's competition, it's good for the music," French said. "I think Drake wanna fight. He said he can't wait to run into him."
It's hard to believe Cassie hasn't released an album since her 2006 self titled debut. The singer appears ready to make a comeback starting with the release of a video for her new single "King of Hearts."
The video will drop on February 14. The song will hit iTunes on the same day the singer announced via Twitter.
Are you still checking for Cassie's music? While you contemplate that question check out the video teaser for "King of Hearts" below.
It's hard to imagine Cassie has been in the business since 2004 and has only managed to drop one album, but that's about to change as the Bad Boy singer preps the 2012 release of her sophomore album.
Here's a sneak peek at her upcoming video "King of Hearts."
According to O'Guin, Allen and Semenik in their book Advertising and Intergrated Brand Promotion, the new world of advertising is full of companies who are looking for new ways to get their brand across to audience and potential consumers. In this seemingly ad cluttered environment, small businesses are caught in the struggle between big corporation on how to make their brand visible and recognizable, send out culturally relevant messages in a refreshing way and become top-on-the-minds of audience and potential customers. How can new small businesses favorably compete considering the criteria listed above. Let us examine one of ResQ Records brand: The Omogo Reloaded Logo. The Omogo Reloaded logo is good because it is simple, representative and fresh.
Omogo Reloaded brand, Yahoo, Disney and Taco Bell brand all have something in common: Simplicity. When encountered, they are supposed to evoke some sort of feelings in the minds of audience. In comparison, the 4 brands have visual simplicity. These brands employ texts and sometimes an image (as seen in TACO BELL). In the music industry, ResQ Records is a new player with a relatively new genre of music called Afrofusion. The logo just spells the brand out in bold uncomplicated type-face, the smaller font well spaced to hold the weight of the larger ones on top. There are just two colors: Green and black plus the neutral white. The task is to clearly communicate the essence of the music to potential audience and customers and keeping the new logo simple will make recall and association easy for music enthusiasts, potential industry business partners and customers. Simplicity is synonymous to recall and easy recognizability and the Omogo Reloaded brand has that quality.
As Disney appeals to the fun-loving population and Yahoo to the instant messaging internet users, the Omogo Reloaded logo is packed with cultural appeal. The text is set in white background with green on either side. Green-White-Green is the flag of Nigeria, where Afrofusion originates evolving from Afrobeat. According to WorldFlags101.com, " The green stripes represent Nigeria's agriculture industry and its lush vegetation and the white stripe represents the desire for peace and unity within the country". In relation to Afrofusion blend of music, the green and white mean flourishing in harmony. Brand logos do not just represent names, they carry meanings. Here in North America, almost everyone is familiar with the recycle symbol. It is also used as part of the brand. Representation is what makes the Omogo Reloaded logo better. It is packed with meaning of cultural relevance that an African, American and global audience can relate to.
Notice that the "G" in Omogo has been slightly and intentionally rotated to imitate recycle symbol and the refresh button. This symbol is common on the internet and eye-catching. It represents giving vitality to something that may be worn out. Refreshing, starting afresh and new are the intended messages. At the same time, the rotated "G" also represent ResQ Records consciousness of the diminishing state of the world's resources and our support for the green revolution like encouraging dowloads and reading electronic copies instead of print-outs. The world craves new and refreshing ideas and the Omogo Reloaded brand represents just that. The word, "Reloaded" is implied in the rotated "G" and along the line of brand evolution, all other elements on the logo will be dropped. Like the NIKE swoosh, the slightly tilted G with a arrow head will come to identify Afrofusion music by Omogo Reloaded, percieve as something new/fresh and infigurating.
It's lunch time and you're driving on highway 33, when you spot a fast food restuarant sign. Almost immediately, you're feeling hungrier. Result and that's what an advertisers in that industry desire.
For the Omogo Reloaded brand, the composition is created to stimulate ones imagination by arousing one's curiousity. A look at top ranking national and international brands will reveal their simplicity, their struggle to be very represnetative and relavant in meaning transmission to audience and strive to stay fresh. The Omogo Reloaded brand possesses the above-mentioned qualities, making it very easy to recall. Upon immediate recognition and recollection, certain subtle cultural messages are conjured and a sense of affiliation with the brand is established. It is easy to support a brand that customers have a connection with. This connection is importnat to the survival of a brand.
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