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“Hip-Hop” vs. “Rap” © KRS One [A Take On Kendrick Lamar’s "Control" Verse]

Hip-Hop culture just celebrated it’s 40th anniversary earlier this week and shortly afterwards an interesting event happened that highlighted the disconnect between Rap listeners, Hip-Hop fans and its individual contributors & participants. There are those that are too young to remember when verses like Kendrick Lamar’s on Big Sean’s “Control” were a common occurrence and there was so much quality competition at the major label level that fans and critics alike declared it a golden era…. Continue Continue reading

WATCH: Jason Bateman Deals With A Different Kind Of Arrested Development In ‘Disconnect’ Trailer

Disconnect ,  which is the latest effort from Murderball director Henry Alex Rubin, looks like it could be the Babel of the wired world based on this trailer.  The synopsis also indicates that we’ll be getting a series of intertwining stories with one thing in common: the perils of our digital society. The cast includes Jason Bateman ,  Hope Davis, Frank Grillo , Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough , Max Thieriot and Alexander Skarsgard . The synopsis: A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can’t find the time to communicate with his family. A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today’s wired world. Intriguing. The poster is cool, too. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on  Twitter . Follow Movieline on  Twitter .

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WATCH: Jason Bateman Deals With A Different Kind Of Arrested Development In ‘Disconnect’ Trailer

Reason.tv: Too Much Copyright

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“This disconnect between the public’s view of copyright and fair use and what should and should not be prosecuted, versus the ‘copyright maximist’ view of the law, is our generation’s Prohibition,” says Ben Huh, CEO and founder of Cheezburger and a loud voice in the recent backlash to SOPA and PIPA, two congressional bills aimed at curbing internet piracy. Copyright exists to “promote the useful arts”… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 19/04/2012 07:12 Number of articles : 2

Reason.tv: Too Much Copyright

Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders: Engaged!

Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders, his girlfriend, are getting married. Congrats to the snowboarder and former winner of The Bachelorette, and to Lueders, who later competed in Jason Mesnick’s season of The Bachelor! This whole community is just so weird. Jesse won the final rose from DeAnna Pappas in 2008 over Mesnick, who went on to star on The Bachelor the following season. DeAnna just got engaged to Stephen Stagliano , the twin brother of Bachelor contestant Michael Stagliano. In any case, Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders are happy now, although to hear him tell it, the proposal itself could have gone a little more smoothly. “When I first asked for Ann’s hand in marriage, her dad didn’t realize that Ann wasn’t supposed to know,” Jesse tells People of his engagement to Ann. Hopefully Jesse Csincsak’s engagement to Ann Lueders lasts longer than his previous attempt! It probably will, since they didn’t meet on a reality TV dating show. “He went inside the house and Ann and her mom were just chatting and he goes, ‘So Jesse just asked me a very interesting question. He asked me if he could marry you.’ And she goes, ‘DAD! You’re not supposed to tell me that!'” “He didn’t do it on purpose!” adds Csincsak, who previously dated former Bachelor contestant Holly Durst, now engaged to Michael Stagliano of all people. “He was just trying to be the typical happy go lucky dad!” But in no way did it ruin her excitement when the moment came. Jesse popped the question on the shore of an island in Lake Erie near her Ohio hometown. Despite the spoiler alert, the bride didn’t expect it. “I told Jesse, ‘I wish I knew this was coming,'” Ann Lueders said. “I would have ran a brush through my hair!’ ” The pair will wed before the end of August in Las Vegas.

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Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders: Engaged!

Stephanie Pratt Still Estranged From Spencer Pratt

It seems like just yesterday he brought his lil’ sister into The Hills fold. Now the show is over and Stephanie Pratt and Spencer Pratt have not spoken in a year. The Hills came to an end earlier this summer, but the family drama did not. And unlike anything you saw on the MTV show this past year, it’s actually legit. Stephanie Pratt says the disconnect between herself and her loose cannon brother is, ironically, real: “In September it will be a year [since we’ve spoken].” “It’s getting more normal and more normal.” Stephanie and Spencer Pratt: The Hills has come to an end, but his weirdness and isolation from loved ones continues. [Photos: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com] Though she says she’ll be there for Spencer Pratt whenever the time comes to talk, Stephanie doesn’t appear to be itching to dial her bro’s number, either. The 24-year-old says it’s “his choice” that the two don’t communicate, even as he finds himself in the midst of a divorce from plastic bride Heidi Montag. Still, she’s willing to bury the hatchet when he is. “When he’s ready to come around, I’m going to greet him with open arms,” she says. “I love him more than anything in the world. He’s my blood.”

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Stephanie Pratt Still Estranged From Spencer Pratt