Grab a seat, rocking chair and hammock! Azealia Banks Defends Using Gay Slur Rising hip-hop star Azealia Banks has continued to dig herself into a deeper and deeper hole over her appropriation of the gay slur that begins with the letter F. She started out calling blogger Perez Hilton the derogatory term in early January. Via Yahoo News reports: Banks then got into a Twitter argument last Friday defending herself: “Everyone pretending to be so shocked and moved by the word (fa***t)… It’s like society is so bored with itself it needs to hold on to these outdated rules of what you can say and cannot say… Why has society accepted ‘ni**er’ As a colloquialism … But will not accept ‘(fa***t)’? “Everyones always acting like its f**king 1905 in this bitch. What is your definition of the word faggot? (Fa***t) means coward, liar, backstabber…… Energy stealer, blood sucker. Perez tries to get every gay person all riled up when the only (fa***t) I see …….. is him. It’s really time for a cultural shift. All these leftover old world social themes we’re all still trying to hold on to are BOOORRIIING” And now this week, Banks is taking on the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, telling Australia’s theMusic.com, “There are such bigger problems… and then you’ve got organisations like GLAAD, which are f**king complete bulls**t. “I mean let’s look at it, it’s gay and lesbian alliance against defamation, or whatever…. that’s what it stands for, right? I mean would you agree that homosexuals, and the homosexual community, have bigger problems than the word (fa***t), you know what I mean?” In response to Banks back in January, GLAAD Associate Director of Entertainment Matt Kane wrote, “Banks’ claim that the word “fa**ot” doesn’t mean a gay male is not true. Regardless of her intent or her personal definition, what matters is the meaning given to that word by those who hear it, and the damage it causes when they do. Undoubtedly there are gay kids who follow her on Twitter who hear this word in an entirely different context. This word is used almost universally by bullies, often as part of a larger verbal or physical assault. This word hurts those kids, no matter what Banks meant by it.” Last Friday, GLAAD reached out to Banks on Twitter to offer to begin a dialogue about the issue. Should slurs such as ni**er and fa**ot be accepted in today’s society?? Discuss…
Blue Light Special!!! Nicki Minaj just signed a new deal with Kmart and it seems you won’t have to covet her style anymore! Via The Grio : The lifestyle brand will include her own fashion and accessory line, as well as housewares. The American Idol judge commented on the new deal, saying: “I am so excited to work with this iconic, mass retailer and to bring affordable fashion to my beautiful barbz all across the U.S.” Minaj made the announcement alongside Maroon Five lead singer, and co-host of NBC’s “The Voice,” Adam Levine, who also has a new Kmart clothing line. Sears Holdings, which owns Kmart, says it hopes the two new lines will drive more traffic to their online shopping destination, ShopYourWay.com. “We are thrilled to align Kmart and Shop Your Way with two of America’s superstars,” said Imran Kooma, executive vice president and president of Marketing & Online at Sears Holdings. “We welcome Adam and Nicki into our world and look forward to capturing their energy and creativity on ShopYourWay.com and translating it into unique apparel, accessories and other merchandise.” Nicki Minaj brand products will hit Kmart store shelves before the end of 2013. We can’t wait for the first shots from her line to be released! Images via tumblr
Irina Shayk is a fucking babe….and I don’t care how many gay guys she had to pretend to date to get to the cover SI…I am just glad her hustled worked out for her…so that I can stare at these motherfuckin’ titties….half naked…promoting bikinis..which is a way better job then working the brothel she was working what her soccer playing champion’s staff recruited her and made her a “model”….
Christmas is over fatty…time to get in shape…or pretend to get in shape cuz that’s everyone’s new year’s resolution and you are typical…you know some thing to disappoint yourself and be let down over….everytime you face that pie you are pretending you can’t eat…only that you take 5 pieces of when you break down and give into your cravings…you weak pathetic person…. You should just give up on me, and focus your energy on watching girls work out instead, cuz fit girls turn me on, especially in their tights, and seeing them sweat just makes me think how could they can fuck without getting wiped out….. So let’s get my new years resolution of watching babes work out more than I did last year started this glorious boxing day – with Jojo…the stupidest name in the game….even if Jojo isn’t exactly what I’d call the fittest ass I’d wanna see squat….but who cares…right?
Although she hasn’t officially decided on it, actress and avid Democrat Ashley Judd isn’t ruling out a run for U.S. Senate in her native Kentucky. Judd lives in Tennessee and would have to re-establish residence in neighboring Kentucky before challenging Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. The 44-year-old says she’s honored to be mentioned as a potential candidate, but sidestepped the question of whether she would actually run in 2014 . “I cherish Kentucky, heart and soul,” she said. “While I’m very honored by the consideration, we have just finished an election, so let’s focus on coming together to keep moving America’s families, and especially our kids, forward.” No Democrats have stepped forward to challenge Republican McConnell, a political powerhouse who already has $6.8 million in the bank for his re-election. In 2008, he won re-election to a fifth term and became Kentucky’s longest serving senator. McConnell spent some $20 million on his last campaign, beating Democrat Bruce Lunsford, a wealthy Kentucky businessman, by 6 percentage points. His campaign manager Jesse Benton, withheld any criticism of Judd – at least for now. “Sen. McConnell and his wife are big fans of Ashley Judd’s movies and appreciate her energy, especially when it comes to bringing young people into the political process,” he said. What do you think? Would Ashley Judd, a vocal proponent of President Obama’s 2012 reelection win , make a good candidate for U.S. Senate? [Photo: WENN.com]
I know Sophie Turner’s rocking body is one the industry she has been trying to be a part of doesn’t give a fuck about…. I know that she is forced to take pics of herself…for the internet and her creepy fans…cuz no one gives a fuck about her….at least not the right people her 35 year old ass is probably too old and too replaceable to bother with…. I know she’s a lawyer….with a law degree cuz she didn’t believe in herself as a model and figured it was the smart back-up plan….. But I think what she needs to do…is focus her energy on that hook, you know the fact she’s a lawyer and looks like a hooker…cuz maybe people will stop complaining about the outrageously hourly rates lawyers are notorious for…and maybe…if all lawyers looked like this, dressed like this, the reputation of the lawyer would be closer to that of a hooker…cuz if they are fucking you up the ass…they might as while have fake tits, ass, hair and tans and be in bikinis about it….since paying for half naked girls never gets complaints… It’s a new business model…merge one hourly rate profession everyone hates with another one everyone loves… I am a genius…and so are Sophie Turner’s self shot pics.
Microsoft and 343 industries aren’t getting into the cinema, they’re sidestepping it entirely as an obsolete technology. Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn is a 90-minute, $10 million dollar movie , and if you’re wondering why you haven’t heard about its upcoming release, it’s because it’s already out . The new movie follows the a squad of military cadets as they gradually learn how to be soldiers and then, very suddenly, learn that they’re under alien attack. Finally, they learn that Master Chief kicks ass. But gamers already knew that. Master Chief is the ultimate tough guy. A bulletproof power-armored soldier, faceless by design behind his golden visor, all he does is sleep and fight. Literally: They keep him in cryosleep until its time for him to open another can of interstellar whoop-ass. He’s so self-sufficient an action star that he even carries his own damsel in distress with him, Cortana, a smokin’ female AI that’s been loaded into the computers in his armor. (This enables her to call him long-distance when the bad guys get her.) Given those credentials, how insane is it that he and Halo haven’t been in the cinema? Think about it: Halo is one of the most popular gaming franchises in history. It’s the face of an entire console generation, a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon that generates block-long lines with the release of every new chapter of the game and opening weekend sales that would make most movie producers and studios weep into their cayenne-pepper cleansing smoothies. Even novels based on the game have been bestsellers, and novels based on games have a worse reputation than the used socks of gamers. Halo would seem to have all the ingredients for an awesome summer tentpole picture: An inscrutable tough guy teams with unlikely allies to battle invading aliens and, along the way, encounters enough twists and support characters to support a full trilogy. (Sergeant Johnson alone deserves his own movie). And yet, Halo has been knocking around Hollywood production hell for seven years. In that time, the franchise has produced five more games, including a remake of the original 2001 game, Halo: Combat Evolved . An early script was written by Alex Garland, whose merciless Dredd 3D demonstrates that he’s the perfect writer for tough-guy-in-helmet-kills-everything plots. In 2005, Peter Jackson came on board as executive producer and Neill Blomkamp, who would go on to make District 9 , was set to direct, and for a few months gamers were certain their dreams of a Halo movie were about to become computer-generated reality. Given the sweeping battles that Jackson depicted so vividly in LOTR , we envisioned breathtaking footage of the epic space combat only hinted at in Combat Evolved, alongside the and close-range futuristic firefights the game was all about . (Even fanfic that combined both franchises sounded possible. Imagine a crossover in which Legolas swings up around the turrets of a giant Covenant Scarab to shove an Energy Sword through its core, while Gimli clubs Brutes with their own gravity hammers and shouts “That still only counts as one point!”) Ironically, the huge financial potential of the Halo film is what ultimately doomed it. Microsoft saw the property as nothing less than the ultimate game movie and wanted to be compensated accordingly. Twentieth Century Fox and Universal initially partnered to take on the challenge, but the project collapsed over costs. The rights reverted to Microsoft, which was left with a money-minting game franchise that no one wanted to make mint money from. Which may be why Microsoft has decided to test the waters on its own. The company has a can’t-miss franchise and a vast entertainment network already wired to Halo’ s target market. It’s no secret that Microsoft and Sony have been positioning their Xbox and PS3 consoles as home-entertainment centers for years now. Gamers can stream Netflix movies through the former and watch Blu-Ray discs on the latter. And now here comes Microsoft with its very own content: Halo: Forward Unto Dawn, a live-action web series tied to the Nov. 6 release of Halo 4, which also bears the Forward Unto Dawn subtitle. Microsoft-owned 343 Industries has produced five 20-minute webisodes, which if you add them up clock in at the length of a feature film. Then again, the shows are released weekly and distributed through Machinima , host to several popular video game series. The series is essentially an extended advertisement for the Halo games, but that doesn’t make it any less good. George Lucas kept Star Wars fans coming back to the cantina by expanding the universe and telling the story of brand new characters. With Forward Unto Dawn , the lines between advertising and content are blurred enough that it’s possible to enjoy both. This advertising pedigree also helps with production – they’re using everything they know about internet marketing, building interest in the series by slipping in hints about the hotly-anticipated Halo 4 game. Guaranteeing that every player will watch. The teaser trailer told fans everything they need to know: We’re sure a certain officer Lasky will turn up the upcoming Halo 4 . Impressively, Microsoft is now taking the “pay if you want to” model of many independent internet creators. The entire series runs free for everyone on YouTube, and will later be available for sale as a standalone DVD or — much more likely for most fans — an extra in a Collector’s Edition of Halo 4. That’s the exact opposite of cinema: you get to see whether you like it first, then you can pay some money. Most modern movies wouldn’t survive under those conditions. This is a test. Microsoft has a can’t-miss canon, an established fanbase, its very own distribution network, and a healthy love of making money. The producers of Resident Evil: Damnation recently avoided cineplexes entirely (possibly because it’s offended by the live-action movies), and marketed the movie directly to its hardcore fanbase through — via their consoles — a week before the DVD was released. If this series succeeds, it won’t just be a good collection of YouTube clips — it’ll be proof that movies don’t belong exclusively to the movie industry. Luke McKinney loves the real world, but only because it has movies and video games in it. He responds to every tweet. Follow Luke McKinney on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
People are under the misconception that real music needs to have a bunch of money behind it. Talented people’s music DOESN’T NEED MUCH! In this Anti-America album, Po talks about issues that NO RAPPER talks about today… The truth about our system and why most of the current mc’s are actually yes-men. After hearing him talk yesterday… we looked up the mixtape and think it is one of thee best hip hop albums heard in a while. Shyne’s first song is consistent with his first 2 albums and from there, he then takes you into a journey about our exploited culture. Po mentions how Michael Jackson was crucified-undermined yet Robert Blake, Elliott Spitzer, and others of that same ilk go free and continue to prosper in America. Kobe Bryant is also mentioned… One of the other things we admire from Shyne is him admitting the destruction he may have caused and fueled in our community with his old music and way of life. He admits he was wrong for embracing the thug culture. Now Po seems to be preaching to the kids about the realities of what he was involved in and what these devils in disguise are pushing to these fatherless-motherless kids. It also looks like he is NOT trying to get back into America anymore. Most of the newschool who love music from Rick Ross, Drake, MGK, Juicy J, Chief Keef, Future, And 2 Chainz… will diss this mixtape and say it sounds bootleg. The song with Pusha T is sickening and this guys knowledge of the street, bolitics, and pop culture is phenomenal. We loved the first 2 albums by Shyne, but couldn’t fade the third when he was released from prison (probably because of outside influences). With that being said… this latest “Gangland” mixtape is legendary. Blanko PS. This is how real and how much he thinks of his “swag.” Shyne performs his new song “Solar Energy” at Kibbutz Ketura on June 5, 2011 at the inauguration of Israel’s first solar field. ************************************** Lyrics: “Solar Energy” Written by Shyne and Captain Sunshine The remedy to stop the oil dependency We better be the better breed Bring a global end to greed The end will be the death And we never see the heavenly gates open If you don’t go green That’s what they’re telling me Got private planes mulsanne and chauffeurs Is my Bugatti the one polluting the whole earth? A future twisted and darker than Whoopi Goldberg If I don’t get a hybrid get up that rover Solar – renewable light to the nations Adam bit the fruit and oil is my abomination I heard Obama waiting for the Senate bill to pass Well tell him send a visa We gonna make the planet greener While congressmen debate Make the air more cleaner I know I got some felonies, one or two misdemeanors But them lobbyists in Washington far more egregious Environmental bills written by Exxon leeches Endangering out species with a bunch of empty speeches, Hallow rhetoric, then propaganda to deceive us. It don’t take no genius or a microscope to read it It’s written in the stars Ray Charles you can see it Yeah I know you wondering where Shyne went When did I start thinking or caring about the environment? Ah, I’m just thinking out loud It’s hard to see the future through a mushroom cloud Chorus: Solar energy (repeat) I am powered by solar Bugatti Hybrid King Judah Roller. Living in a world – many questions, no answers. Trying to figure it out through this solar power anthem. Ooh and the sun’ll shine Ooh from the Arava fire I’m from the 70s when men were bred with honor and integrity Unquestionably superior both morally and ethically Regrettably the end we’ll see the car will go, the jet will leave And then we’ll be stuck in hell fire Where the hell will freeze Listen man don’t lecture me I got some Malcolm X in me But who am I to save the world? That’s too much of a stretch for me. I heard them talking ’bout global warming and warnings Droughts in Africa Babylonia is falling Distracted by the roaring that this Lamborghini causing Not thinking I’m responsible for flooding in New Orleans Don’t believe in Darwin but it seems kind of appalling That God would make the world And we’re destroying what he started Chorus I’m sailing on a ego trip I’m on a spaceship Miles from reality I need clarity My mind like a Warhol art gallery Painting pictures of conflictions That’s within us Gangland Hasiddus Yeah I know we all sinners But I’m just trying to fix up before the angels come and get us Could live with what I see when I’m looking in the mirrors Trying to get myself half a billion light gigas So fresh so fresh powered by solar panel Ralph Lauren flannels Reading psalms of Hallel No oil barrels. Powered by the sun. Solar energy – the revolution has begun. (has begun) I always prayed the day would come where ain’t no war for oil just rays of the sun Power everything Man, I got faith in the one This is brought to you by King David and son Yeah It’s a green revolution. Harley David Hybrid. Word To Rick Ruben. Get the Japanese and all the Haitians out of ruins. Clean water for the Africans, Belize to Jerusalem Yeah Believe what I’m doing Arava design. Shyne, he’s not a human. You can pray to God, but he’s not moving. You wanna save the world then we’ve gotta do it. youtube
After an electrifying Battle Round premiere Monday, The Voice returned with three more head-to-head performances last night in its hour-long Tuesday episode. Let’s see who won, who lost and who was stolen away to sing another day on NBC: Team Adam – Caitlin Michele vs. Melanie Martinez – “Lights” (Team Adam) Melanie Martinez vs. Caitlin Michelle – Lights (The Voice Battle Round) Winner: Melanie! Steal: Cee Lo! Team Cee Lo – Cody Belew vs. Domo – “Telephone” Cody Belew vs. DOMO – Telephone (The Voice Battle Round) Winner: Cody! Aquile vs. Nathalie Hernandez – “You Give Me Something” (Team Christina) Aquile vs. Nathalie Hernandez – You Make It Real (The Voice Battle Round) Winner: Aquile! Also, we barely got to see it, but Celica Westbrook defeated Lisa Scinta on Team Christina, and on Team Blake, Rudy Parris took out Charlie Rey … Rudy Parris vs. Charlie Rey and Celica Westbrook vs. Lisa Scinta (The Voice Battle Rounds) Which battle was your favorite Tuesday? Are you liking the new steal format? Which coach is your favorite, and whose team do you think is best?
With new Sarah Palin photos causing a stir online, the former political figure and current pro celebrity has offered an explanation for her noticably thinner frame: She’s working with her family on a new fitness book! She tells People , “Our family is writing a book on fitness and self-discipline focusing on where we get our energy and balance as we still eat our beloved homemade comfort foods!” Sarah Palin promises a “unique and motivating book.” “We promise you what we do works and allows a fulfilling quality of life and sustenance anyone can enjoy,” the 48-year-old former Alaska Governor adds. It is unclear when the work will be published or if haters will be singled out for criticizing her recent weight loss. Also unclear? What she bought at KMart (above). [Photo: Fame/Flynet]
