1. Isn't it great how the song "Otis" by Jay-Z and Kanye West has reintroduced Otis Redding to the public?
2. Why does the Jimi Hendrix estate keep blocking a movie about him?
3. Why is Soulja Boy's camp retracting their story about his purchase of a 55 million jet?
4. Why did Vibe magazine split Kelly Rowland's cover to acknowledge the passing of Amy Winehouse but didn't do the same thing for Teena Marie?
1. Is Dr. Dre the greatest hip-hop producer of all time as reported by Vibe magazine? If so, what criteria did fans use to make that determination? Does it really matter who is the greatest hip-hop producer when it’s subjective anyway?
2. Does Gary Coleman’s ex-wife need to take a polygraph test regarding her version of his death?
3. Is Nicki Minaj really biting Lil’ Kim’s style when:
Nicki has always presented herself as an autonomous being when Kim’s career was jumpstarted by Biggie Smalls who also wrote some of Kim’s rhymes and designed her image? An image that Kim admits encouraged her to alter her looks because the men in her life like B.I.G. preferred lighter-skinned women and used Faith Evans as an example?
Nicki’s whole Barbie thing with the funny-looking eyes to entertain is very different from Kim’s Queen Bee from the Mafioso family always name-dropping fashion labels hyper hetereosexual persona?
Nicki’s is an openly bisexual and/or gay rapper who has stayed up all night signing pics of her fans’ breasts in an act of pro-body feminism/sisterhood and rapped graphically on more than one song about the kind of female company she would like where as Kim has always talked about being a real &*^%$ who takes the *($%?
Why would Kim reduce her influence to pronounced sexuality in clingy clothes and fluorescent wigs since that’s all she and Nicki really have in common?
And why does Nicki have to pay homage to Kim when Kim never really acknowledged that Salt N Pepa were the first female rappers to dress-up in sexy garb?
Has hip-hop produced anyone as charismatic as Tupac since he died?
“To speak of Michael Jackson in the past tense is to stamp in indelible ink the end of an era. This world does not make them like him anymore. Jackson was an absurdly talented, amazingly hardworking, troubled man. Which is to say he was built, literally, to be the biggest pop star this world has ever known. The overwhelming, global response to his sudden death only proves what we’ve known all along-he is loved. Michael Jackson is loved. It is with great sadness that we at VIBE Media Group mark his passing. That he is a legend will be said time and again. That he was once a boy should be remembered. It was as a boy-even with the hundreds of millions of albums he sold as an adult-that he perhaps touched the world most profoundly. So profoundly that we held him up-so high, as the song goes, he could see eternity. He gave his childhood and his adult life to his artistry, to entertaining us. Michael Jackson is the greatest entertainer, ever.”
(June 8, 2009 – New York City) VIBE Media Group has put another stake in the ground as the definitive voice of urban culture with the launch of its new tabloid property, THE MOST!. True to the brand’s motto: All Up In the Bizness, THE MOST! will fill a void on national newsstands by reflecting VIBE’s commitment to urban style, celebrity, beauty, and culture through a tabloid-themed publication. It will feature THE MOST of everything including THE MOST! Hype, THE MOST! Buzz, THE MOST! Style, THE MOST! News, and more. It’s a lifestyle and celebrity magazine featuring some of the most trendsetting stars in the world, THE MOST! is “urban” with pride and mega style. Featured on the cover of the premiere issue is one of hip hop’s most talked about couples – Nas and Kelis.