Robin Thicke has as an official hit on his hands with “Blurred Lines.” And an official controversy. While the song has shot to number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, many are taking issue with its lyrics, with The Daily Beast leading the critical charge and accusing it of being too “rapey.” Robin Thicke – “Blurred Lines” Among the verses generating criticism against Thicke is the following: “I know you want it /You’re a good girl/Can’t let it get past me. I know you want it /But you’re a good girl/The way you grab me/Must wanna get nasty.” Collaborator T.I. then goes on to sing about “these blurred lines” and how he knows “you want it.” The official unrated video, meanwhile, depicts a number of naked ladies, leading to more charges against Thicke. Listen to the track now and react: What do you think of the lyrics? They’re harmless! They’re totally inappropriate! View Poll »
Kim Kardashian is in labor with her and Kanye West’s first child, a daughter, according to reports. According to The Daily Mail, the 32-year-old Kardashian…
Kanye hates everything, but himself. Kanye has got to be one of the most narcissistic celebrities ever. Everybody bugs you? Maybe your just an azzhole that needs an attitude adjustment. Truth be told ever since his momma died, his music has gone downhill. Kanye West Slams Paparazzi And Youtube According to The Daily Beast “[I hate YouTube because] the player is so ugly, and it’s presented in such a terrible manner. I want everything I do to be presented in an art context, as this is a form of sonic art. I was an artist originally, I have been in art school since I was five-years-old. I got scholarships to three art schools, Art Institute of Chicago, Saint Xavier, and the American Academy of Art, where I ended up going–and I dropped out because I had an assignment where I was supposed to do an ink painting or something, and I would take two weeks to do it, and when I looked at my work, I just felt that I would never be one of the great visual artists of the world.” ( I just felt like I would end up like–and this is no knock to anybody that does this–but I felt like I would end up working at an ad agency or something like that. I wanted to make something of impact. I found that when I would drop samples, my friends would react to it more. I felt that I had a real talent in chopping and appropriating music.” He also offered an interesting take on the state of popular culture and art. “Right now it’s a fight against the separation and constant dumbing down of culture, and I’m standing in the middle of it. So if you know what people say are my lowest moments, those moments where I sat and saw them try to dumb down culture, and I would not allow it to happen on my clock. So when I used to go to fashion shows with my boys and we’d be eight deep, it was almost like a civil rights, like a sit-in. They wouldn’t even let us in. They had no idea what rap would mean to this world, what rap would mean to the art world. Before the Kendrick Lamars and the A$AP Rockys, it was Kanye West in a hotel room at the Le Maurice getting a ‘no, no, no, no’ to every single fashion show. But I thought it was so important to get close to the artists who worked so hard on making a usable form of art–like this furniture right here, like everything that is in all these rooms that inspire us so much–and I fight in my position of being a very commercial celebrity boyfriend, I fight to push culture forward every chance I get. And I only frown because paparazzi ask me dumb*** s**t all the time, and I think about changing the world, and I think about what I can do to make things better. And, without further ado, I want to play you guys my new album. It’s called Yeezus.” Kanye needs to focus on the birth of his child and chill out. It’s not that serious homie. Splash News Continue reading →
‘I feel like this music is so good that it’s going to change the rest of my life,’ 360 tells Mixtape Daily of his new mixtape. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Ade Mangum
It’s only a matter of time before this guy is found dead face down on the floor with a bullet in his head. Man Who Leaked U.S. Spying On Citizens Back On The Run According to The NY Daily News Edward Snowden, the former CIA technician who unabashedly leaked word of the U.S. collecting phone records and internet data, may be a lot less secure in Hong Kong than he believes. In an interview released Sunday, Snowden praised Hong Kong’s “commitment to the right of political dissent.” But it likely won’t give him a free pass if the Obama administration seeks his extradition — assuming he’s still there. A guest who had checked into Hong Kong’s Mira Hotel under the name Edward Snowden has since left, The Washington Post reported Monday citing a hotel receptionist. Under a 1996 extradition treaty between the U.S. and Hong Kong, now under the sovereignty of China, the two sides agreed to surrender an individual wanted for prosecution by the other. The matter is theoretically complicated by China’s relationship to Hong Kong. China can derail Hong Kong’s move to extradite someone if it believes it impacts its own national security interests. But it’s currently unclear why China would want to get into a tussle with the U.S. if Washington wanted Snowden, who worked for the private defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. in its dealings with the National Security Agency. “The Chinese have no interest in making this an issue,” David Zweig, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, told Bloomberg News. “He hasn’t helped China necessarily.” “This is an internal affair within the United States. They’ll see it that way. If they hold on to him then it just strengthens the American right to intervene in China’s internal affairs.” The Guardian reported that Snowden, 29, holed up in a Hong Kong hotel after leaving the United States last month. “I think it is really tragic that an American has to move to a place that has a reputation for less freedom,” he told the Guardian, which was the original conduit for his leaks. “Still, Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People’s Republic of China.” Ironically, his fate may now be more in the hands of China and whether they see any self-interest in essentially protecting him by blocking potential extradition. If he remains in Hong Kong, he might want to check the local press. On Monday, Wen Yunchao, a liberal blogger in Hong Kong, wrote that Snowden has gone “out of the tiger’s den, and into the wolf’s lair,” according to a Beijing blog by a New Yorker correspondent. And he may generate a lot less sympathy than he apparently believes. As a former high-ranking Justice Department official in the Clinton administration told the Daily News, “I think he’s a moral and legal idiot.” The government will probably hire some “Huck” like assassin to murk him before the trial begins and say it was an “accident.”
Ted Nugent is a few fries short of a happy meal. Ted Nugent Says Obama Wants To Rape The Constitution According to Raw Story In typically bombastic language, National Rifle Association chairman Ted Nugent claimed Thursday that President Barack Obama’s agenda involves raping the U.S. Constitution and urinating on the nation’s Founding Fathers by passing gun regulations that restrict the sale of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. “Clearly their agenda is banning guns, not banning criminals or saving lives,” he wrote for conservative conspiracy website World Net Daily, couching his thesis in the tale of a murderer who was released from prison and went on to kill again. “And their morally bankrupt agenda is wrong, anti-American and counterproductive. Their agenda will achieve nothing except to rape our Constitution and urinate on the vision of our Founding Fathers.” It’s not clear how the proposed regulations pose such an affront to the constitution — the Second Amendment explicitly says it provides for states to maintain a “well regulated militia” — but Nugent was adamant that if individuals do not have unlimited access to deadly weapons, freedom will surely die. That’s a typical screed for the Detroit-born rocker, whose modern fame is more due to his alarming commentaries on guns in America than his music. Nugent came face to face with Secret Service agents last April when he claimed that he’d be “dead or in jail” within a year if Obama won a second term. He’s not been jailed just yet, but did claim in January that he and some buddies are ready to launch an armed revolt against the government. Despite Nugent’s absolutist views on gun rights, his brother Jeffrey explained in May that he believes the nation will move forward with gun regulations “with or without” the NRA. “Let’s see if the NRA and its new leaders step up and do what is right,” he wrote. “If not, it will get done without them. We all have a role here, especially to protect our children. Who is going to be the voice for them?” Somebody needs to give grandpa his medicine.
So sad . Forced Sex Victim Subject Of Documentary According to Mail Online The brave fight of a gang forced sex victim shunned by her rural Pakistani village for accusing her alleged attackers is now the subject of a heartbreaking documentary. Kainat Soomro was labelled a ‘kari’, or ‘black virgin’, and her own family ordered to kill her in order to rid themselves of shame after she said she was attacked by four men as a 13-year-old in 2007. But the teenager’s relatives refused to turn their back on Kainat, and vowed to support her as she took the extraordinary step of fighting for justice in defiance of moral laws that have been in place in Pakistan for centuries. The years that have passed since Kainat’s nightmare ordeal have proved no less difficult, with her family forced out of their village, Dadu, amid threats of violence and murder. Her father and one of her brothers were beaten, while an older brother disappeared for three months before being found murdered. Kainat’s pursuit of the case through a legal system which places the burden of proof on the victim ended with her alleged attackers being acquitted. Kainat and her family, who now live in a cramped two bedroom apartment in Karachi, say they have ‘lost everything’, a report on news.com.au said. A documentary, called Outlawed in Pakistan, tells the story of Kainat’s fight for justice against the odds. The documentary, first unveiled at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, aired for the first time on U.S. television last week. ‘They told me I am not a real man,’ Kainat’s brother, Sabir, tells film-makers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann. ‘[that] you failed to follow your tradition, you failed to kill your sister.’ Viewers watch as Kainat hires a lawyer, makes television appearances and appeals against court decisions. But despite her persistence, the film’s narrator tells how the judge describes her accusations as ‘a product of her own fantasy’. Following their acquittal, the men she accused wonder why she didn’t just stay home ‘and keep quiet’. Outlawed in Pakistan shines a spotlight on the fight Kainat insists she will never give up, in spite of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path. What do you think needs to be done to curb violence against women in foreign countries?
More and more of these “on the job” disasters are happening in these foreign countries. So sad. 119 Killed In Poultry Plant Fire In China According to The NY Daily News Fire raged through a poultry plant in northeastern China on Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing at least 119 people, reports and officials said. Several dozen people also were hurt in the blaze in Jilin province’s Mishazi township, which appeared to have been sparked by three early morning explosions, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The provincial fire department, on its microblog, attributed the blasts to a leak of ammonia, a gas that is kept pressurized as part of the cooling system in meat processing plants. State broadcaster CCTV quoted unidentified workers as saying the fire broke out during a change of shifts and may have originated in a locker room at a time when about 350 workers were at the plant, owned by Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Co. It wasn’t clear how many workers had been accounted for and a provincial government media official, who refused to give his name, said he expected the death toll to rise further as more bodies were recovered from the charred building. The plant’s ‘’complicated” interior, narrow exits and a locked front gate made escape difficult, Xinhua quoted survivors as saying. Some employees raised the alarm shortly after a shift began at 6 a.m., and then the lights went out, boosting the level of panic as workers rushed to find an exit, employee Wang Fengya told Xinhua. “When I finally ran out and looked back at the plant, I saw high flames,” Wang, 44, was quoted as saying. Xinhua said she and three other workers were sent to a hospital in the nearby provincial capital of Changchun. Another worker quoted by Xinhua, 39-year-old Guo Yan, said the emergency exit at her workstation was blocked and she was knocked to the ground in the crush of workers seeking to escape through a side door. “I could only crawl desperately forward,” Guo was quoted as saying. “I worked alongside an old lady and a young girl, but I don’t know if they survived or not.” The disaster killed 119 people, and 54 people were being treated in hospitals, the provincial government said on its microblog. Calls to fire and rescue services rang unanswered and hospital administrators said they had no information about the injured. By about noon, the fire had been mostly extinguished by about 500 firefighters and bodies were being recovered from the charred buildings. CCTV footage showed dark smoke billowing up from the prefabricated cement structures topped with corrugated iron roofs. The fire highlighted the lax safety standards at many Chinese workplaces, despite efforts to compel improvements through regular inspections and fines. Jason Yan, technical director in Beijing of the U.S. Grains Council, said safety considerations usually take a backseat in China to features designed to maximize production and energy efficiency. “I’m sure they consider some aspects of safety design. However, I think safety, to me, is not the first priority in their design plan,” Yan said. What more do you think needs to be done to ensure safety for workers in America and other countries?
Amanda , girl just get the help you need. Amanda Bynes Tweets She Doesn’t Do Drugs According to TMZ Amanda Bynes just tweeted something the cops clearly aren’t buying — she says she’s drug free. Amanda says, “I only smoke tobacco. I don’t drink or do drugs.” She adds, “I’ve never had a bong in my life!” As you know, Amanda has been accused of smoking drugs in her apartment and then throwing a bong out the window after police entered. And there’s more. Amanda says, “I need to get another nose job after seeing my mugshot!” That seems to be the least of her problems. Chick probably wants a nose job so she can sniff more lines of that white girl. GSI
