Kim Kardashian Slams Ryan Seacrest Over Engagement Rumors Rotund-rumped reality star Kim Kardashian is finally speaking out rumors that her G.O.O.D. music man Yeezy gave her some ring-finger bling and popped the question on her birthday. Kim spoke directly to E! News over the weekend regarding the “rumor” and even put former E! News host Ryan Seacrest on blast for stirring the pot. “I think we could definitely see an update on this story on Monday,” Seacrest had speculated over the airwaves nearly two weeks ago, while Kim and Kanye were celebrating her birthday in Europe. The implication being West would be putting a ring on the twice-married — and still not divorced — Kim. “I don’t know where Ryan came up with that,” Kardashian told E! News on Saturday, adding, “Ryan, I’m so mad at you, where did you come up with that? You’re starting rumors.” Hmmm..we’re still a little skeptical on this one since it’s no secret that this attention-sloring couple likes to do their own dirty work when it comes to putting the details of their relationship out in the streets. If they do get engaged, we doubt KimYe would let anyone else one-up them on the announcement.
Oh the struggle… 10 Hall Of Fame Level Flicks Of Rapper Struggle Faces Shout out to our fearless leader Alvin Aqua Blanco for coining the phrase “struggle face.” You know that look: it can be a combination of fear, loathing, self-loathing, depression, you name it. Let’s face it, rappers have a lot of reasons to make struggle faces. Career struggle highlights include album delays, personal issues, being dropped by their labels and standing next to rappers who are more successful. Read more at Hip Hop Wired
Beautiful April is a banger… and she got some stuff poppin with our boy My-Kel Monroe: Bossip: How was it doing the Frank Ocean Video? BA: I love the song and the vibe on set was great. I love his music. He’s dope. Bossip: You and Joe Budden are friends?Did You guys ever date?
“He’s got an ice cream cone on his face, I can’t even take him seriously”-Young Jeezy Young Jeezy Talks Rick Ross, BET Hip-Hop Awards Fight, Gucci Mane On Big Boy’s Neighborhood
Maybe Hov has a point with this one? LLS. Jay may be a big Kurt Cobain fan but we think he’s dead wrong with his opinions on grunge dominating 90′s youth culture. According to Spin Magazine : In his upcoming coffee-table book Pharrell: The Places and Spaces I’ve Been (Rizzoli), human hyphenate Pharrell Williams includes interviews between him and notables ranging from Buzz Aldrin to Kanye West to Anna Wintour to Jay-Z. For the most part, they’re of the tell-me-how-you-do-what-you-do variety, but the back-and-forth between producer-designer-rapper Williams and Jay-Z quickly reaches Nirvana. Literally. “So, where were you mentally and physically when grunge music hit?” Pharrell asks Jay-Z. “Like where were you when you first heard, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit?’” Coincidentally, Hova was in Pharrell’s home state of Virgina when he heard the generation-defining song for the first time. But he’s more interested in discussing why the song hit so hard than where he was when it got going. “First we got to go back to before grunge and why grunge happened,” reasons Jay. “‘Hair bands’ dominated the airwaves and rock became more about looks than about actual substance and what it stood for—the rebellious spirit of youth….That’s why ‘Teen Spirit’ rang so loud because it was right on point with how everyone felt, you know what I’m saying?” Jay-Z then goes on to say that grunge actually stalled the rise of hip-hop in popular culture. “It was weird because hip-hop was becoming this force, then grunge music stopped it for one second, ya know?” he says. “Those ‘hair bands’ were too easy for us to take out; when Kurt Cobain came with that statement it was like, ‘We got to wait awhile.’” Next, Pharrell mentions that he used to see Jay-Z in his old Virginia stomping ground of Newport News, but Jay-Z is still focused on the Kurt tip. “I have always been a person who was curious about the music and when those forces come on the scene, they are inescapable,” Jay says. “Can’t take your eyes off them, can’t stop listening to them. [Cobain] was one of those figures. I knew we had to wait for a second before we became that dominant force in music.” If Nirvana prevented Hip-Hop from expanding, how is it that so many of us can trace back that day and time real hip-hop changed our life? When Nirvana busted out with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in ’91, that golden age of hip-hop was in full effect. NWA, Tribe, De La Soul, 2Pac, DJ Quik, KRS-One…Dre released The Chronic in ’92 and, it may have dropped two weeks after Cobain’s death, but Nas’ Illmatic was all anybody could talk about in ’94. Maybe the difference between 90′s hip-hop and now is that dope MC’s from back in the day weren’t trying to be moguls with their own Vodka company; they were just tryin’ to make good albums and keep hip-hop interesting instead of pleasing the masses… What do you think??
Déjà vu or do you think POTUS could take a few tips from Pryor? Funny how most of the same damn issues 40 years ago are still what the candidates are talking about today. Images via youtube
