OSLO, Norway – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. The stunning choice makes Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace. The Nobel committee praised Obama’s creation of “a new climate in international politics” and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage. The plaudit appeared to be a slap at President George W. Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama’s…

Just do the damn thang…we’re waiting on you!

I’m actually a fan of Project Pat’s, but with all his talent, this video is all he can come up with? When will we use our gifts to uplift one another. When will rappers treat women like queens in their music videos? Now I know Project Pat like to do it for the strip clubs and strip clubs have their place in Hip Hop. But the track to this song is actually nice, so why not put it to bigger use? Why not use the track to rap about your struggle as a black man who has a lot of odds against him in society? Instead of making us women…

Now here is a grimey track that I can get with! Three Six Mafia Artist, Yung D, did a collabo with Project Pat not too long ago. Memphis is representin!!

[pic from badboyforever.com] Rapper Jamal ‘Shyne’ Barrow was released today (Oct.6th) after spending nine long years in prison on charges of attempted murder and assault stemming from a 1999 shooting incident at a Manhattan night club. Shyne was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2001 for attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment for his role in the night club shooting. Barrow changed his name legally changed in prison to Moses Michael Levy in honor of his Jewish heritage (according to gossipandgab.com) and will be under parole supervision for the next two and a half years. He is currently working on a third album titled Godfather Exhumed which was rumored…

I found Lauryn Hill. She lives with her five children and mother in Orange County New Jersey. A source at Columbia Records, which still has Hill under contract, says she’s currently “on hiatus” but her baby-daddy, Rohan Marley, who does a lot of the speaking for Lauryn, says she’s always dreaming up songs. “She writes music in the bathroom, on toilet paper, on the wall,” says Marley. “She writes it in the mirror if the mirror smokes up. She writes constantly. This woman does not sleep.”Hill and Wyclef Jean dated through the majority of the Fugees time together, a relationship that friends have called “complicated”. In the summer of 1996,…

Before you get too excited there are three things you should know about this latest leak from Rakim’s upcoming The Seventh Seal album: 1. It is tagged.2. It isn’t finished, Styles P and Busta Rhymes are set to feature on the finished version. Rakim may also redo his verse, which may be good considering;3. This is far from Ra’s best track on on album.