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Hot Boy Turk sat down with The Breakfast Club to address all drama.
He discussed Birdman jerking all of the artists who were with Cash Money in the beginning, going to prison, partnership with J. Prince, linking back up with Lil Wayne after Baby keeping them part, overcoming a cocaine and heroin addiction, $1.3 million lawsuit against Cash Money, his wife battling cancer, Young Thug naming his album The Carter 6 and more.
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Nueliphe World emcee C. Black remixes Meek Mill's "Monster" track. Produced by Jahlil Beats. Video directed by Fes Taylor for Black Out City Films.
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50 Cent's SMS Audio business is building a brand with staying power. From it's previously announced deals with LucasFilms, Intel and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, to just announced partnerships with Marvel and Reebok, the company is swinging for the fences and hitting homers like Willie Mays.
In a new interview with Fortune, the business mogul and SMS Audio President, Brian Nohe, discuss their unique strategy for expansion into areas other companies haven't explored
How does the rapper 50 Cent describe his headphone company SMS Audio?
“It’s cool, because I’m cool, so that makes the whole thing cool.”
That may not sound like the most refined summation of a business. But the artist, whose legal name is Curtis Jackson, has succeeded in other businesses before, from VitaminWater (he made a reported $100 million when the company sold to Coca-Cola) to his G-Unit record label and clothing line (which also had a Reebok shoe deal). While many have jumped into the headphone space—with its storied low costs and high margins—and failed, SMS Audio (it stands for Studio Master Sound) is still here, after four years. How?
Brian Nohe, president of the company (Jackson is founder and CEO), thinks the key is brand partnerships. He uses Beats By Dre—certainly the better-known rapper-founded headphone brand—as a contrasting example. Beats has mainly used television ads, with artists and athletes, as its marketing vehicle. SMS has avoided that so far and focused on corporate partnerships.
“It is a little saturated when they’ve stuck a headphone on every single person in the world,” Nohe said. “You can only plow that ground so much. We’ve taken a different tack, which is association with brands, and co-branding. We believe those relationships, in a corporate sense, are just as good a strategy.”
SMS has existing partnerships with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (it is the only headphone brand available at Disney World and Disneyland) and with Lucasfilm’s Star Wars. It also has a relationship with Intel, which Nohe says “is spending an enormous amount of money globally on our biotech product.” And now, Fortune has learned exclusively, SMS has cut two more partnerships, with Reebok and Marvel.
While the former makes sense, since headphone marketing is so tied to fitness and sports, the latter may be a surprise. But Nohe and Jackson say it’s about brands that have staying power—whether that’s a tech company, shoe maker, or comics giant. “Those brands don’t go anywhere,” said Jackson. “They’re not going away.”
The Marvel-branded SMS headphones will be at a lower price point, around $99. And SMS says it will keep the Marvel branding subtle. “It won’t look toy-like,” said Nohe. “All that stuff we do, it’s classy. Like on The Avengers headphones, it won’t be a picture of Thor running around. It will be a little symbol, and have the same colorways.” The Reebok-branded headphones, meanwhile, will complement that company’s recent pivot toward a “fit-gen” (fitness generation) image, and be sold at some Reebok store locations and online.
Jackson says he has learned a lot about design. He discovered, from Apple as well as from the “FunToyzCollector” YouTube videos where a woman opens up children’s products (to the delight of Jackson’s little boy), that the act of unboxing is as important as the product within. This is why a package of the SMS Audio on-ear sport headphones contains a lot more than just headphones. It also has a zip-up case; two washable covers for each side; detachable cable with a built-on controller; SMS Audio stickers; and a small sport towel. He has also made sure the product is durable. (In a demonstration at the Fortuneoffices, Nohe grabs a pair and twists it violently, showing that it doesn’t break. “This is why we say it’s better quality, better sound, better value,” he said.)
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Before his Cherry Bomb album arrives on April 15th, Tyler, The Creator decides to release a new music video for "Fucking Young/Perfect." Pre-order the new album from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/cherry-bomb/id983056044?ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
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Here's the artwork for Tyler, The Creator's forthcoming album entitled Cherry Bomb. It will arrive in stores on April 15. Pre-order it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/cherry-bomb/id983056044?ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
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22-year old Frances Bean Cobain was just one-years old when her father, Kurt Cobain, took his own life. Tired of being worshiped as the leader of the grunge sound, which originated in his hometown of Seattle, and addicted to heroin, Kurt checked out age 27.
Frances sat down with Rolling Stone for an interview about being an executive producer of a new HBO documentary, Cobain, Montage of Heck. She also offers her opinion on her father's suicide, his band Nirvana
How would you describe Montage of Heck?
It's emotional journalism. It's the closest thing to having Kurt tell his own story in his own words – by his own aesthetic, his own perception of the world. It paints a portrait of a man attempting to cope with being a human. When Brett and I first met, I was very specific about what I wanted to see, how I wanted Kurt to be represented. I told him, "I don't want the mythology of Kurt or the romanticism." Even though Kurt died in the most horrific way possible, there is this mythology and romanticism that surrounds him, because he's 27 forever. The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long. Kurt has gotten to icon status because he will never age. He will always be that relevant in that time and always be beautiful.
There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity. Tropic of Cancer is one of my favorite books. And [author] Henry Miller had this work ethic, where he would get out of bed every day and force himself to write five pages. It taught me that if you do the work, you progress. So many people are content to settle. My dad was exceptionally ambitious. But he had a lot thrown on him, exceeding his ambition. He wanted his band to be successful. But he didn't want to be the fucking voice of a generation.
Do you remember the first time you heard a Nirvana record – and knowing that was your father? I've talked to Sean Lennon about this. He had a few more years with his dad that you did. But for him, the records were a road into understanding his father after he was gone.
I don't really like Nirvana that much [grins]. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre [laughs]. The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in. But "Territorial Pissings" [on Nevermind] is a fucking great song. And "Dumb" [on In Utero] – I cry every time I hear that song. It's a stripped-down version of Kurt's perception of himself – of himself on drugs, off drugs, feeling inadequate to be titled the voice of a generation.
The irony is that he wrote it before Nirvana made Nevermind.
I know. It was projection, to something. There's no way anyone can wrap their minds around that.
Did you feel awkward as a teenager, not being that interested in the music Kurt made?
No. I would have felt more awkward if I'd been a fan. I was around 15 when I realized he was inescapable. Even if I was in a car and had the radio on, there's my dad. He's larger than life. and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love to put them on a pedestal. If Kurt had just been another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible . . . But he wasn't. He inspired people to put him on a pedestal, to become St. Kurt. He became even bigger after he died than he was when he was alive. You don't think it could have gotten any bigger. But it did.
After the first screening I attended, there was a guy who saidMontage of Heck was a very interesting film about people he didn't like.
[Laughs] That's a pretty good description.
I found it interesting that the way Morgen told Kurt's story didn't evoke any sympathy for that viewer – that Kurt's art did not resonate with him. All he saw was a personalty he didn't like.
That is an interesting perspective. For me, the film provided a lot more factual information about my father – not just tall tales that were misconstrued, misremembered, rehashed, retold 10 different ways. It was factual evidence of who my father was as a child, as a teenager, as a man, as a husband, as an artist. It explored every single aspect of who he was as a human being.
What was it like hearing his voice?
I've been hearing his voice forever, through his music.
I was thinking more of his speaking voice.
His speaking voice is sort of similar to mine. It's sort of a monotone. The depth to it is similar to the way I speak. I don't know what the fuck that is. I wasn't even talking when he was around.
Don't mistake the power of genes.
It's very weird how genes are. Dave [Grohl], Krist [Novoselic] and Pat [Smear] came over to a house where I was living. It was the first time [the ex-Nirvana members] had been together in a long time. And they had what I call the "K. C. Jeebies," which is when they see me, they see Kurt. They look at me, and you can see they're looking at a ghost. They were all getting the K. C. Jeebies hardcore. Dave said, "She is so much like Kurt." They were all talking amongst themselves, rehashing old stories I'd heard a million times. I was sitting in a chair, chain-smoking, looking down like this [affects total boredom]. And they went, "You are doing exactly what your father would have done."
But I was glad they came over [smiles[. It was a cool experience, like having a Nirvana reunion minus one. Except for his spawn.
What do you want to do next, now that this film is coming out? In being one of the executive producers, you're stepping into the public at almost the same age your father was when he made Nirvana's first album. The timing is . . .I like to think of it as poetic.
Coincidental, yeah. Oddly enough, being 22, it's the first year a fire has been lit under my ass – not because of the documentary, just personally. I have this motivation and ambition that I didn't have before: "I want to go paint this painting." The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing. Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting. I'm there. And I'm doing it.
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Another cop shooting is grabbing the nation's attention.
25-year old Lavall Hall was fatally shot by Miami Gardens police officer Eddo Trimino on February 15. The dashcam footage was just released on Wednesday, April 9, by Hall's family.
Police were initially called to the scene by Hall's mother, Catherine Daniels, who wanted help getting her son in a mental hospital. Unlike other cases involving white officers killing African Americans, Daniels stressed this shooting had more to to with the police officer's lack of training in dealing with the mentally ill.
Catherine Daniels (center) speaks on her son, Lavall Hall's, shooting by cop in Miami Gardens
When police arrived on the scene Hall was reportedly in his underwear and waving a broomstick. Officer Trimino can be heard commanding Hall, who can't be seen in the video, to "get on the ground or you're dead," before firing his weapon five times, striking Hall in the arm and stomach area, killing him.
“After seeing the video it’s clear to me that the incident was avoidable,” Eric Pettus, an executive board member for the NAACP in Miami-Dade, told the Miami Herald. “This was a call that was a mental health issue.”
Hall’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit last month in federal court in Miami against the city of Miami Gardens.
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MILAN (Associated Press) — A man on trial for fraudulent bankruptcy opened fire in Milan's courthouse Thursday, killing his lawyer, a co-defendant and a judge before being captured nearly 25 kilometers away as he fled on a motorbike, officials said.
As the shots rang out in the fortress-like tribunal, court employees barricaded themselves inside their offices and took cover under their desks while police hunted for the gunman who moved unimpeded from one floor to the next.
"There was a lot of panic at the beginning when people came running toward us saying there was a person with a pistol who had been shooting," said lawyer Mirko Ricetti, who said he locked himself in a first-floor court room after hearing a shot.
After texting loved ones that they were OK, employees and lawyers were eventually allowed to trickle out of the tribunal, women first, followed by the men who had their court ID cards checked.
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said the suspect was caught by carabinieri police in Vimercate, near Monza, indicating he had traveled some 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the scene before being captured. An ambulance with escort was seen leaving the Vimercate police station, but it wasn't immediately clear if the gunman was inside.
Prosecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati said the gunman first fired on his lawyer and co-defendant, killing both and seriously injuring a second co-defendant.
Afterwards, he "walked through the building, going down a floor, and killed the judge," Bruti Liberati told The Associated Press.
He said it wasn't clear whether there was any relationship between the gunman and the judge.
He identified the slain judge as Fernando Ciampi, who worked in the civil section of bankruptcy court. The ANSA news agency identified the gunman as Claudio Giardiello.
Bruti Liberati said the gunman was on trial with two others for fraudulent bankruptcy.
Giardiello's former attorney, Valerio Maraniello, told RAI state TV the case concerned a failed real estate business and that Giardiello was "very unusual" and "over the top" in his legal dealings.
The shooting immediately raised questions about how the man gained entrance to the Fascist-era courthouse with a weapon, given that visitors must pass through metal detectors.
The courthouse has metal detectors at the four main entrances, but lawyers and courthouse employees with official IDs are regularly waved through without the additional security screen and accredited employees can drive into the internal garage.
Attornies Mirko and Davide Pupo noted that the metal detector from the lawyers' entrance had been removed several months ago.
Employees who emerged after the shooting suggested that the gunman could easily have gained entrance without passing through the metal detector by entering with his lawyer, though other attorneys said their clients routinely are told to go in via the public entrance.
The deputy interior minister, Filippo Bubbico, said an investigation would determine who was to blame for any security lapse, given also that the gunman wasn't stopped as he moved from one floor to the next to continue the spree, and then was able to flee unimpeded.
"There's no doubt that this episode signals a non-functioning of the protection mechanisms, which must be employed daily and which have worked for years at the Milan tribunal," he told Sky TG24.
Security concerns are particularly high in Milan given the May 1 opening of the Expo world's fair. In fact, the interior minister, Alfano, was in Milan on Thursday to preside over a public security coordination meeting for Expo when the shooting erupted.
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Meek Mill went all out for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles in February. The MMG rapper rented a Beverly Hills mansion and threw a party for nearly 1000 people.
There were a couple of problems with the get together though. Meek's landlord had him sign a lease that prohibited parties and guests left the house in bad condition.
Damage included broken glass in the pool, scuffed walls, trash, broken glass doors, a broken front gate, destroyed landscaping, a broken trampoline and more.
The landlord is now suing Meek for damaging the property and breaking the lease, according to TMZ. Check out the photos below.
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Here's some new heat from RIZSELFMADE to hold fans over until Dat Made Life 2 drops. He goes in over Meek Mill's "Monster" instrumental. The track was produced by Jahlil Beats.
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01 Izze The Producer feat Lil Durk x AD x DC Young Fly - Gangland
02 Illinois jones Checks In/ JusBlow - Lost One
03 ManeMane4CGG ft Fat Trel - Bussin' Juggs
04 Boss Smooth X FaceGang Chris - Computers [Remix]
05 Cap-1 Checks In/ D.P. Da Phranchise ft. Cap-1 & King Louie - $ign$
06 SGBATMAN X KidWOnd3R - Bad Habit
07 Young Famous Checks in/ Young Famous Ft Prince Dre - Tellin & Talkin
08 Benz Zoe x GC x JB BinLaden - Dumb
09 Edai ft Huncho Hoodo - 0 to 600 (FreeStyle)
10 Ike Feat Malik - T'd Up
11 Bloody Jay Checks in/ Bloody Jay -I'm Way Harder
12 Boss Top Feat. Prince Dre - Computers
13 A1 Ft King Ken 300 - Gang Member (Prod By Riley)
14 Parlae Checks in/ Parlae - Pussy niggas
15 Pistol X Lil Chief Dinero X Kiddo X Jo Armani - Off The Scottie (GMEEBE)
16 Gucci Mane ft Cheif Keef - Constantly
17 Baby D Checks in/ SHawty Boy x Baby D - Fuck You Mean
18 Blackgate Domino - 38 Bars pt.2
19 Tre Killa ft. Young Scooter & Lil Booter - JUGG
20 Young Snead feat. Migos - Man Down
21 Liffy Stokes ft Bo Deal - I aint goin
22 Blockheadz - Better
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A$AP Rocky grabs production from Mike Dean and Honorable C.N.O.T.E. for his latest song entitled "M's." Stream the track up top and let us know if you're digging it in the comment section below.
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Nueliphe World co-founder Lot-A-Nerv drops off official visuals for the intro to Nueliphe's Prelude mixtape. It's available now on Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Nyce-Da-Future-Paperchaserdotcom-Nueliphe-Present-The-Prelude-mixtape.682253.html.
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(Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday found Dzokhar Tsarnaev guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, as well as fatally shooting a police officer four days later.
Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty of all 30 counts against him, with 17 of the charges carrying the death penalty. The same U.S. District Court jury will now decide whether to sentence him to death or life in prison without possibility of parole.
Tsarnaev silently looked down, occasionally fidgeting, as the lengthy verdict was read. The courtroom was packed with survivors of the attack, the parents of 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest fatality, and law enforcement officials, including former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
Jurors spent just over 11 hours evaluating Tsarnaev’s guilt in two days of deliberations, following 16 days of testimony.
Defense lawyers began the trial by admitting that Tsarnaev carried out the April 15, 2013, bombing but said he did so at the bidding of his older brother Tamerlan, 26, who died following a gunfight with police in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Prosecutors laid out evidence that the defendant, an ethnic Chechen who immigrated from Russia a decade before the attack, had read and listened to jihadist materials, and wrote a note in the boat where he was found hiding suggesting the bombing was an act of retribution for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim-dominated countries.
The blasts killed restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 23, and Richard. Tsarnaev also was found guilty of the fatal shooting of Massachusetts of Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26.
Federal prosecutors detailed jihadi writings, including a copy of al Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine with an article on bomb-making found on of Tsarnaev's computers, describing that as evidence that he was an extremist who wanted to "punish America."
The trial, which began in early March after a two-month jury selection process, dredged up some of worst memories in living memory in Boston. The twin pressure-cooker bombs ripped through the crowd of spectators at the race's finish line, setting off a mad rush to save the hundreds of people wounded, many of whom lost legs.
Three days later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released images of the Tsarnaev brothers, saying they were the suspected bombers and seeking information on their identities. That set the stage for 24 hours of chaos as the duo fatally shot Collier in an unsuccessful attempt to steal his gun and went on to carjack a Chinese entrepreneur before police found them in the suburb of Watertown.
The pair fought a desperate gunfight with police, throwing a smaller pressure-cooker bomb similar to the ones they used at the race, as well as smaller pipe bombs. When Tamerlan Tsarnaev ran out of bullets in the rusty Ruger handgun his brother had borrowed from a drug-dealing friend, he charged Watertown police officers who were trying to wrestle him to the ground. Dzhokhar then hopped into the carjacked Mercedes SUV and sped toward the group, running over his brother and dragging him.
(Additional reporting by Tim McLaughlin; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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Chris Brown and frequent collaborator Tyga team up once again. This time they remix Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa's Paul Walker tribute entitled "See You Again" from the Fast and Furious 7 soundtrack.
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Check out Ludacris' new music video for "Beast Mode."
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Cory Gunz Militia Gang member and Quiet Riot boss Young Hash drops off his long awaited Doe Ave Demons mixtape, hosted by Head Debiase.
Features include Pop Dollarz, Brad Piff and Tray Bombz.
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The 1st single off the FTO University 2 disc mixtape, Comes from Westside of Chicago / Lawless inc's Icy Duck aka The 4God. " The FTO Freestyle " (No Bluffin).
So give a listen & Enjoy !! Also keep in tune with Icy Duck & The lawless inc fam On Twitter @ICY__DUCK & IG @The_4god
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