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Antonia Carter, Lil Wayne's Ex-Wife, Speaks (Part 1)
After reading the Lil Wayne cover story in VIBE's November 2007 issue, Antonia "Toya" Carter, Lil Wayne's ex-ife, wanted to give her side of the story. In the first part of this exclusive Q&A, she speaks about their history. She also loaned us a whole gang of photos - which seem to show they did have love, if only for a time - which we'll be publishing here on vibe.com over the next few days. Maybe even this afternoon... if we feel like it. Keep checking back for everything you never knew about Lil Wayne... and the craziest photos you've never seen. ... (read more)
Superhead on Love and Sex with Lil Wayne
A super-exclusive excerpt from VIBE's December 2007 issue: Is Karrine "Superhead" Steffans in love with Lil Wayne? Fresh off her book The Vixen Diaries, she dished EVERYTHING on Wayne, from love to, yep, sex.... (read more)
Lil Wayne on Superhead: "My Baaaaby!"
For our November 2007 cover story, Lil Wayne spoke with VIBE about his baby's mother and his love for Superhead. You won't believe his comments:... (read more)
Queen Latifah: The House that Queen Built
Since debuting in 1989 with the Monie Love duet "Ladies First," Queen
Latifah has created an empire. The hip hop pioneer's first album was
confidently titled All Hail the Queen; since then, she's cultivated a
career as an Oscar nominee, Covergirl model and A-List Hollywood
celebrity.
In 2007, the Grammy winner added two commercially
successful, critically acclaimed films: the musical Hairspray, and Life
Support, a thought-provoking film about HIV/AIDS in the black
community. Now, she's returning to music with Travel'n' Light,
which hit stores yesterday (September 25). A collection of covers from
the most legendary jazz artists of our time, this is the Queen's second
vocal album, showcasing a cool fusion of jazz and soul.
With a passion in her voice, Latifah spoke with VIBE.com
about her new album, her frustrations about the current state of
hip-hop, the ignored legacy of female rappers and much more.
Introducing L-A-T - a must-read interview for anyone who values the hip
hop history.... (read more)
Alicia Keys, "No One" (video)
A. Keys killed this synthy-piano love-lullaby from her new album - some of which we've heard, and is a departure from her earlier work - poppier but as pretty as ever. We love the chameleonic costume changes she makes happen in this video for "No One," which debuted last night on BET. What do you think of it all?... (read more)
Hip Hop Takes Washington
The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection began its hearing on hip hop at 10 am this morning. Titled "From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images," the hearing was scheduled to draw a witness list of music industry execs - including Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman and Universal CEO Doug Morris - and hip hop representatives, including Master P, David Banner, and Georgetown scholar Michael Eric Dyson. Faye Williams, PhD, Chair of the National Congress of Black Women, is also in attendance.... (read more)
The Rise and Fall of the DeBarge Family (Episode 4)
The DeBarge family - El, Marty, Randy, Bunny and James, not to mention Thomas, Bobby, and baby brother Chico - were supposed to be Motown's follow-up to the Jacksons. But after a trail of dazzling '80s hits, behind-the-scenes drama threatened to bring the family down. From dating Latoya and Janet Jackson to allegations of sexual abuse and drug addiction - the DeBarge family has dealt with everything from prison time to AIDS. But even now, their music is still sampled by the likes of Diddy and Polow Da Don, and some of the DeBarges are trying resurrect their careers. Is it too late, though, to pick up the pieces? A story in four parts, from our October 2007 issue. Episode 4 - the conclusion.... (read more)
Mya, "Ridin" (video)
We are loving, loving, loving this video/track from Mya's forthcoming album. A paean to a woman done way wrong, and obsessed with driving past her dude's house, threatening to find his sorry cheating self and take him down. She's about to get SERIOUS. The flaming silhouettes and hotel montage help. LOL at the dude's expression when he answers the hotel room door and finds our girl at the helm.... (read more)
Lil Wayne: Mama Drama, Drugs, and His Love for Superhead
VIBE's November 2007 is coming to stands near you soon - and features an intimate interview with the rapper-eater. LIL WAYNE talks growing up, dropping out, dealing drugs, and becoming the best rapper alive.... (read more)
The-Dream, "Falsetto" (music)
New song by your man the-Dream, who wrote "Shawty is a Ten" and "Umbrella."... (read more)
Rally Commences in Jena, Louisiana
This morning, a much-anticipated march and rally on the small town of
Jena, Louisiana commenced in defense of the Jena 6 - six black
teenagers who were charged with attempted murder in the alleged beating
of a white teen. The altercation was part of the local unrest that ensued after a young black student sat underneath a tree designated as "Whites Only" in the Jim Crow era. The next day, three nooses were hung from the tree, and authorities did not respond.
... (read more)
GUESS WHO'S BIZZACK: Jay-Z Dropping New Album November 4
Jay-Z is recording a concept album based on the forthcoming Frank Lucas biopic American Gangster, according to the New York Times. Scheduled to drop November 6 - just four days after the movie's release - Jay has already readied nine tracks. ... (read more)
I GO FOR MINE: 'Ye Takes the Cake
It's official: Kanye West won the showdown in the Kanye-50 album-sales race. Not only that, he clobbered young Fif by approximately 266,000 albums.... (read more)
The Dirty 30
You haven’t been in a record store in months.
Tower Records is gone.
Napster and Kazaa might as well be over.
CDs may be off shelves after Christmas.
What to do?
Check VIBE’s 30 best music Web spots to get your fave sounds — rap, R&B, Latin — for free, for pay, and for life. Some are hidden, some right in front of your face. Just don’t hesitate.
... (read more)
MY ALBUM'S OUT: Babyface
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds: you already know him. The legend who gave us classics like "Whip Appeal" and "For the Cool in You," who's worked with artists as diverse as Aretha Franklin, Madonna and Mary J. Blige, who's earned ten Grammys - including three consecutive awards for Producer of the Year (1995-1997). Now, the R&B god has returned with Playlist, a collection of unique cover songs - by artists like Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Jim Croce - flavored with his signature soul. "These aren’t just covers, these are really great copyrights," says the singer/songwriter/producer. "I have a lot of respect for the artists and the writers - I didn’t want to just throw anything on there."... (read more)
Diddy, "Unforgivable" (commercial)
Watch Diddy and a lingerie chick get their Skinemax on for his new ladies' fragrance.... (read more)
Kanye Besting 50 in Album Sales
Graduation is ahead of Curtis in the great album-sales / race to save hip hop head-to-head of '07. An early report from Nielsen soundscan says West is presently poised to pull 575,000 to 700,000 in sales, where 50 is expected to do only about 550,000 - the equivalent of country artist Kenny Chesney's predicted sales. It's looking bad for the man who said he'd quit hip hop if West beat him (to be fair, 50 later told Hot 97 that if West beat him, he would release a new album every time a Def Jam artist dropped).... (read more)
50 vs. Kanye: Healthy Competition
What's beef?
So here's the evidence - a timeline of the beef and a few songs to stream. After weighing the evidence, we want to know: who will emerge the victor? You tell us.... (read more)
M.I.A.: 3RD (world) BASS
They wanna check my papers
see what I carry around
Credentials are boring
I burnt them at the burial ground
Don't order me about
I'm an outlaw from the badland
-M.I.A., "Bird Flu" (2007)
May
2006. MC/producer/artist M.I.A. signs a deal with Interscope Records.
It's for her second album, the follow-up to her critically acclaimed
2004 debut Arular (XL). Scheduled to travel from London to
Virginia to begin recording her second album with Timbaland, she
applies for a visa to come to the US, a country she's been to plenty of
times, toured through - and even found love in.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship rejects her.
... (read more)
The Rise and Fall of the DeBarge Family (Episode 3)
The DeBarge family - El, Marty, Randy, Bunny and James, not to mention Thomas, Bobby, and baby brother Chico - were supposed to be Motown's follow-up to the Jacksons. But after a trail of dazzling '80s hits, behind-the-scenes drama threatened to bring the family down. From dating Latoya and Janet Jackson to allegations of sexual abuse and drug addiction - the DeBarge family has dealt with everything from prison time to AIDS. But even now, their music is still sampled by the likes of Diddy and Polow Da Don, and some of the DeBarges are trying resurrect their careers. Is it too late, though, to pick up the pieces? A story in four parts, from our October 2007 issue. Episode 3.... (read more)
The Rise and Fall of the Debarge Family (Episode 2)
The DeBarge family - El, Marty, Randy, Bunny and James, not to mention Thomas, Bobby, and baby brother Chico - were supposed to be Motown's follow-up to the Jacksons. But after a trail of dazzling '80s hits, behind-the-scenes drama threatened to bring the family down. From dating Latoya and Janet Jackson to allegations of sexual abuse and drug addiction - the DeBarge family has dealt with everything from prison time to AIDS. But even now, their music is still sampled by the likes of Diddy and Polow Da Don, and some of the DeBarges are trying resurrect their careers. Is it too late, though, to pick up the pieces? A story in four parts, from our October 2007 issue. Episode 2. Read Episode 1 here.... (read more)
Foxy Brown Slapped with a Year
On Friday, a more than three-months-pregnant Foxy Brown was slapped with a year in Riker's for violating probation relating to her fight with her manicurist in NYC three years ago. It was the unfortunate climax to a series of scuffles - including the alleged glue-throwing in a Florida beauty shop, and the alleged cell-slapping of a woman in Brooklyn - that finally pushed Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson to the limit. "I'm not going to give you any more chances," she told Foxy at the hearing. "I hope you turn your life around and never again have to stand in a court of law."... (read more)
Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars: Q&A
Sierra Leone was entrenched in a brutal civil war for much of the '90s and into the early '00s. So as bling was coined and celebrated, blood was let in one of the most diamond-rich countries of the world. Q-Tip memorably pulled Kanye West's couture coattail to the conflict in 2005 resulting in the titular reference on Late Registration's lead single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone," but the same year three filmmakers' documentary chronicle of the travails of some resilient and unimaginably industrious refugee musicians captured the film festival circuit. This film, Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, found musician Reuben Koroma and makeshift band tending to his fellow refugees psychic well being through music. With the help of the filmmakers the All-Stars even recorded an album, Living Like a Refugee (2006), in the civil war's wake. The documentary and album has touched a nerve in the west and the All-Stars have toured steadily to broadcast their message of peace and afro-reggae musicianship.... (read more)
Halle's Having a Baby
The rumors are true: Halle Berry, 41, is three months pregnant with her first child. She confirmed the news yesterday to Access Hollywood, saying the prospect of having a baby would give her life a deeper meaning. "Not that there's not more to accomplish, but I think I arrived at a point in life that I realized I needed more to get me up in the morning. More than going to a new movie set," she told the program.... (read more)
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Roses y Handcuffs
It gets quiet. Then he says, "you heard Ye's "Street Lights" yet?" In between those six words, lingers a heavier question then what's being breathed o (read more) -
The Nappy Diatribe
The last few days, watching the liberal blogosphere act like a bunch of whining malcontents as they clumsily hyperventilate over Obama picking Hillary (read more) -
Invite Only
THE SPOT: 74 Leonard Street between Broadway and Church, Nov 24, 2008. It's raining but we must press on because this is, in fact, is a VIBE event and (read more) -
zentronix d+h
We now have some idea of how hip-hop may have impacted the presidential election. According to stats from CIRCLE, those under the age of 45 delivered (read more)
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Will Smith
Government Name: Willard Christopher Smith Jr.
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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