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11/28/2005 - Stacks Vinyl Gift Certificates Now Availiable For
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Music Industry News
Public Enemy Strikes Wireless
Distribution Deal For New LP
- courtesy of allhiphop.com
Legendary group Public Enemy and Chuck D.’s label
SlamJamz has partenered with Boston-based m-Qube to help promote their
new album New Whirl Odor.
Through the venture, a package of mobile offerings
will be available for download.
"As an independent label, we are always looking
for ways to expand our distribution network," said PE frontman
Chuck D. "Mobile is happening in a big way, and we are thrilled
to be using it to reach our fans - wherever they are."
Fans will have access to exclusive content, including
polytones, mastertones, full tracks and wallpapers.
According to Public Enemy's manager Walter Leaphart,
the new venture was a natural progression for the group.
"Public Enemy has always been a leader in music
and new technology, and this is the latest phase of their multi-faceted
campaign that will continue to build in the coming months."
m-Qube will manage distribution of the content, releasing
it to their network of wireless carriers.
"We are thrilled to leverage our technology and
distribution network to help innovative entertainers like Public Enemy
use mobile to reach their audiences," said m-Qube's VP of Worldwide
Content, Jon Bukosky. "Mobile is a critical channel for musicians
and we are pleased to have been selected by Public Enemy to make this
happen.”
PE's album New Whirl Odor is in stores now.
Read full story online:
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5111
50's 'Bulletproof' Kept Off Australian
Shelves, Rapper Allowed Into Canada - courtesy of allhiphop.com
The Australian Office of Film and Classification (OFLC),
has refused to rate 50 Cent's new video game “50 Cent: Bulletproof,”
effectively keeping the video game out of stores down under.
The game was deemed to be excessively violent by The
OFLC. The organization cited the ability to kill victims who moaned
or begged for their lives, the ability to shoot injured characters as
they attempt to crawl away and blood splattering on the screen as reasons
for not classifying the game.
“Bulletproof,” which is rated MA-18 for
Mature in the United States, is too violent to pass approval for the
Australian rating commission, which has an MA-15 rating.
“Bulletproof” is not the first game to
be banned in Australia. Games like “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,”
“Manhunt” and “NARC” have also been kept off
the shelves due to violent content.
Vivendi Universal, the company that created “Bulletproof,”
has been given the option to resubmit a more toned down version of the
game.
Watchdog group Family Media Guide recently released
this year’s listing of the top 10 most violent video games –
and “Bulletproof” made the list along with “Crime
Life: Gang Wars,” “True Crime: New York City,” “Resident
Evil 4” and others.
In related news, 50 Cent was granted permission to
enter Canada to complete a tour that launches Dec. 3.
The rapper was granted a temporary resident visa by
Immigration officials despite the objections of Canadian MP, Dan McTeague,
who claimed the rapper's criminal record and violent lyrics were enough
to keep him out of Canada.
For this and all of the latest news updates, visit
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5110
Daddy Yankee Sticks To His
Roots, Won't Lean On Snoop - courtesy of MTV.com
SANTA MONICA, California — Daddy Yankee, who
scorched up dancehalls around the globe with the reggaetón hit
"Gasolina," could have easily milked his recent collaborations
with Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams for all they are worth.
Instead, the Puerto Rican artist wanted to rely on
his own talents to sell his music. The infectious club anthem "Rompe"
(sans Snoop or Pharrell) serves as the first single off his forthcoming
release, Barrio Fino en Directo, a CD/DVD compilation featuring footage
from his latest world tour. "Doing [things] with my colleagues
in the hip-hop game is big, but I won't lose my fanbase and what has
got me here," Daddy Yankee said. "Why fix [something] that
is not broken?"
Yankee (born Raymond Ayala) picked up the torch as
the frontrunner of the reggaetón movement after his 2004 release,
Barrio Fino, became the first reggaetón LP to go platinum. The
album, which was Yankee's third solo effort, is also the first reggaetón
release to debut at #1 on Billboard's Latin chart.
His upcoming CD/DVD, which includes live renditions
of Yankee's hits, is due December 13. The 16-track release will also
boast five new tracks produced by Urba y Monserrate and the Latin Grammy-nominated
Luny Tunes. "Rompe," "Machucando" and "El Truco"
all feature the Daddy Yankee style that won over fans, while "Gangsta
Zone," featuring Snoop Dogg, is on deck to be the next single.
Snoop and Daddy Yankee will be shooting the video for the song in Puerto
Rico to "capture the real essence of the song and to show the real
way we live on the island," he said. Yankee also worked with Peoples
Champ Paul Wall on the remix "Machete Reloaded," which puts
a twist on the performer's original track.
"I think the industry needs new sounds, and that
sound is reggaetón right now," the 28-year-old said of the
genre that blends dancehall rhythms with Spanish lyrics. "It's
bringing the new flavor to the industry. Even though you don't understand
the language, you will dance to it and you feel it because it's real.
Music is a universal language, and we're unifying the cultures."
Daddy Yankee's DVD, directed by Carlos Perez, contains
concert footage from his extensive world tour, behind-the-scenes footage
and an in-depth documentary in which Yankee discusses racism and war
and opens up about personal matters like growing up on the streets,
his rise to fame and his role as a reggaetón ambassador thanks
to the global impact of "Gasolina."
"I have the responsibility to educate the people
out there and teach them what reggaetón is about, so with this
DVD I hope people will understand us more," Yankee explained, adding
that he hopes to serve as an example to youth that a person can become
a success without forfeiting his values.
"As a Latino, a lot of people are looking at me
as a leader, and I'm opening the door for a lot of kids who felt just
like me when I was a kid. I know that five or 10 years from now, people
will say, 'Yo, thanks to Daddy Yankee,' and I'll be sitting proud of
that because what I'm doing now is history."
Daddy Yankee is also hard at work on Cartel, the follow-up
to Barrio Fino. Pharrell, Luny Tunes and Dr. Dre are already on board
to help helm tracks for the disc, due out in 2006.
Yankee and Pharrell also teamed up for the hip-hop-tinged
"Mamacita," which will appear on Williams' first solo effort,
In My Mind (see "Pharrell Had To Be Sneaky To Record His Solo Album").
"I'm like a diamond in the industry," Yankee
said. "I'm doing the crossover [thing] right now without sacrificing
who I am, and for me that's the treasure right there. I don't sell my
soul. The Daddy Yankee that you hear now is the same one you'll have
for a long time. I'm going to show the world what Latino is about."
Read full story online:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1514459/20051123/yankee_daddy.jhtml?headlines=true
Missy Elliott Says She'll Expose Rape
In Autobiographical Film-courtesy of mtv.com
LOS ANGELES — Nothing against "Pootie Tang,"
but Missy Elliott wants to add a more respectable credit to her movie
résumé.
In between her various music ventures, the highest-selling
female rapper of all time is actually writing a biopic on the person
she knows best.
"I'm working on my own movie on my life, which probably a lot of
people don't know," Elliott said backstage at last week's American
Music Awards, where she won Favorite Female Artist: Rap/Hip-Hop for
the second year in a row (see "Will Smith Beats 50 Cent, Kelly
Rowland Flies Solo At American Music Awards").
"It's a detailed [look at] Missy Elliott's life,
'cause I've been kinda like a character in the TV world as far as videos
and stuff, so they really don't know my life story about my father being
abusive, the rape [at age 8, by a 16-year-old cousin]. So y'all will
see that soon."
Elliott's not sure if she will appear in the movie
or who will play her, as she's concentrating on getting the script finished
first.
Fortunately (or maybe not for her), she's had more
free time than usual as of late thanks to the six-month recovery time
required for the surgery she had earlier this fall to repair a torn
Achilles tendon.
"It's the worst pain ever and I'll probably be
like this till January," said Elliott, who alternated between a
pimped-out wheelchair and crutches at the AMAs. "I always heard
like it's a sports [injury], but most definitely I wasn't playing no
football or basketball. I was in there dancing, doing wrong moves. So
I'll be sitting down for a minute now."
Sitting down is probably not the best choice of words.
Later this week Elliott's shoving off for the Kora African Music Awards
in South Africa, and in mid-December she'll return to Los Angeles to
shoot her next video.
Following "Lose Control" and "Teary
Eyed" (see "Missy Elliott Has Lost Her Mind (In Her New Video,
Anyway)"), Elliott has picked the party track "We Run This"
as the third single from The Cookbook. She already performed the tune
at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, which airs December 10.
Missy also just remixed Ashlee Simpson's new single,
"L.O.V.E." (the "Missy Underground Mix" is available
on the CD single); continues to work with Adidas on a line of clothing,
shoes and accessories called Respect ME; and is included in the 2006
edition of prominent biography directory Who's Who in America. All of
this prompted a journalist at the AMAs to describe the rapper as an
icon.
"I ain't no icon," Elliott responded. "It's
people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy,
I'm just crazy, that's all."
Read full story online:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1515205/20051129/elliott_missy.jhtml?headlines=true
Outkast's New Album Pushed Back
Until At Least February- courtesy of mtv.com
Not too long ago, Outkast's Big Boi was working fans
into a tizzy with talk of a December release for Idlewild, the soundtrack
to the ATL duo's upcoming film and the first album of new 'Kast music
in more than two years.
And while we stick by our assertion that whatever Big
Boi wants, Big Boi gets (see "Outkast Finally Ready To Drop Their
New LP, Big Boi Says"), perhaps he was getting a bit carried away
with things. Because according to Outkast's label, LaFace Records, the
earliest Idlewild will be seeing the light of day is now February.
But it's not like that's too surprising, considering
that when MTV News caught up with Boi earlier this month at the Vibe
Awards (see "Mariah Wins Big, Mary J. Gets Emotional At Peaceful
Vibe Awards"), he told us that the album wasn't even finished yet.
"We're about 75, 80 percent done with it. We're
putting the finishing touches on it. Dre's in Atlanta right now working
on it," he laughed. "There's like three potential singles
right now, and we're trying to choose which one we're going to go with.
When it comes out, you know it's going to be Outkast."
According to Boi, the album features 14 tracks, including
"The Train" and "Idlewild Blues," and it'll be relatively
free of cameos, with just frequent Outkast collaborator Sleepy Brown
and Janelle Monae (whom Boi just signed to his Purple Ribbon label)
making appearances. He also said that the album mirrors the jazz-era
leanings of the "Idlewild" film, still due sometime next year.
"It matches the movie. The movie's set in the
1930s, so there's a lot of piano playing, a lot of ragtime, Cab Calloway,
Jelly Roll [Morton]. A lot of different stuff on the album," he
said. "It's a very mature album, it's rapping and everything else.
You've got to expect what you always expect from Outkast, and that's
the unexpected."
Read full story online:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1515114/20051128/outkast.jhtml?headlines=true
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