What might've been a great sketch on MADTV back in the with Bobby Peele along with Key & Peele, Dennis Rodman who is on a tour with Harlem Globetrotters in North Korea has struck up a friendship with dictator Kim Jong Un!
Here 's part of the article from ESPN:
"Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out Thursday with North Korea's Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey with VICE to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later dining on sushi and drinking with him at his palace. "You have a friend for life," Rodman told Kim before a crowd of thousands at a gymnasium where they sat side by side, chatting as they watched players from North Korea and the U.S. play, Alex Detrick, a spokesman for the New York-based VICE media company, told The Associated Press. .....Kim and Rodman chatted in English, but Kim primarily spoke in Korean through a translator, Smith said after speaking to the VICE crew in Pyongyang.
"They bonded during the game," Smith said by telephone from New York after speaking to the crew. "They were both enjoying the crazy shots, and the Harlem Globetrotters were putting on quite a show." The surprise visit by the flamboyant Hall of Famer known as "The Worm" makes him an unlikely ambassador at a time when North Koreans are girding for battle with the U.S. Just last week, Kim guided frontline troops in military exercises. North Korea and the U.S. fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. The foes never signed a peace treaty, and do not have diplomatic relations.""
"Over the past week, Dave Chappelle has spent several late nights of his most recent trip to New York City dropping in at the Comedy Cellar to work the crowd and work out new comedic material.
Over the past few months, Chris Rock has done likewise, albeit more methodically on the mechanics of a specific new hour-plus of stand-up. Early Wednesday morning, they performed together. Onstage. At the same time. This was not a dream. This was not a drill. This was real. Rock and Chappelle, onstage together. Riffing off of each other. It was the first episode of a podcast you may never hear. Or the first stop on a fantasy stand-up comedy tour -- a tour that very well might happen sometime later in 2013, if the two comedians could put their business heads and their schedules together. Which they actually began to do onstage right in front of the unsuspecting audience last night at the Cellar." Read more here
If this does happen, this tour could either be great like Jay-Z and Kanye West 's 2012 "Watch The Throne" tour or a total disaster like Jay-Z and R.Kelly's 2004 "Best of Both Worlds" tour with infamous light-man fiasco.
Either way it goes, this comedy tour would be epic!
While Raisman should be the favorite, anyone who watches Dancing With the Stars knows that most of the time, the best dancer doesn't win and there is always been someone who ended being a better dancer than expected near the end (I got my money on D.L. Hughley).
Although my love of the show has waned over the past few years (devoting 3-4 hours to one show is just too much), I think former General Hospital Aussie Ingo Rademacher (Jasper Jax) will be a contender, Kellie Pickler will be a fan favorite, while Andy Dick will try to keep his Andy Dickness" in check, but will be bounced early anyway. The interesting will be if former porn star Jenna Jameson will be there to support her former beau Victor Ortiz? Man, I would have loved to see haveseen Jenna and Sarah Palin in the same audience last season.
Looking like a Hip Hop Liberace as he played a grand piano, Odd Future frontman Tyler The Creator debuted two new songs from his forthcoming album "Wolf" (due April 2nd) on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The Roots joined the piano playing Tyler on the jazzy vibe on "TreeHome," with lead singer Coco, then the show kicked into high gear with the song "Domo 23" featuring the Danish duo Quadron.
A few week's ago, Jack White was featured on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter's "2nd Annual Music Issue".
Here's a snippet of his interview:
"...White, 37, grew up the 10th child (and "seventh son," as he likes to immortalize himself in song) of a maintenance man and Catholic archdiocese secretary in Detroit. Before Third Man was a record label or studio complex, it was the name of his upholstery business in mid-'90s Michigan, though his oddball tendencies -- he'd write poetry on the inside of the upholstery and make out receipts in crayon -- didn't go over as well as they have in show business. He formed The White Stripes as a blues-redolent odd-couple duo with Meg White in 1997 and spent most of the years until they broke up in 2011 insisting she was his sister, even after dogged reporters revealed her to be his ex-wife. That's the type of art-project privacy guard he has put up that allows him to deflect a certain type of attention, and journalists who've trekked to visit him through the years remain split on whether he's the world's greatest self-mythologist or as honest and earthy a guy as rock gods and guitar heroes get. After the Stripes rose to mainstream stardom with 2003's "Seven Nation Army" (a song Baltimore Ravens fans were chanting the riff of at the Super Bowl on Feb. 3), White fell into a rift with the guardians of Detroit's indie scene. Feeling himself permanently tarnished as a sellout there, he eventually set his sights on Nashville. "That was a survivalistic move on my part. I was in a particular pickle of a situation," he explains, when the hometown divide deepened. "Where am I supposed to go? I don't like big cities. I don't like Paris, Tokyo, New York. … I can't exist in those towns; they make me feel claustrophobic and sort of worthless." Neither was he a big fan of the Tinseltown attention he attracted when he was dating Renee Zellweger circa 2004." Read more
I didn't know about this EDM promo existed until W.Kamau Bell highlighted on his show "Totally Biased" a few weeks ago, (which is one of the best shows on TV).
Who knew President Obama was into Skrillex!??!
Well, he probably isn't, but it's still pretty cool.
Last week, I wrote while the new "Harlem Shake" is funny, but it has nothing to do with the the true Harlem Shake dance from the 2000's.
Now Its one thing for a guy in Akron, Ohio to say this, but when you talk to the residents of Harlem, New York about the true "Harlem Shake" and the poorly dance version of today, you gain great insight and video gold!
"First-time filmmaker Jordan Thierry offers context and conversation in
this honest exploration of fatherhood in Black America. Through a
telling of his own story and interviews with historians, he traces the
roots of the fatherless Black home and reveals a history much more
complex and profound than is often told. Putting that history into
perspective is a dialogue among fathers discussing their experiences,
inspirations, and insight on how communities can come together to ensure
the power of a father's love is not lost on America's Black children."blackfatherhoodproject.com
(Via Huff Post) ".... (Kelly) Clarkson took issue with a very different passage, in which the music mogul apparently writes (in his biography "The Soundtrack of My Life") that she broke into "hysterical sobbing" when he demanded that smash hit "Since U Been Gone" would be included on Clarkson's album.
"Not true at all," Clarkson wrote in a WhoSay post on Tuesday. "His stories and songs are mixed up. I did want more guitars added to the original demo and Clive did not. [Producers Max Martin and Łukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald] and I still fought for the bigger sound and we prevailed and I couldn't be more proud of the life of that song. I resent him dampening that song in any way.""
I'm reeeeeaaaal late on this song, but when I first saw it a few months ago I thought, OK dude is dressed like Kid Rock from 1999 with Eminem's Slim Shady like-lyrics also from 1999 with a slight nod to Nate Dogg and Busta Rhymes.
Who knew the Seattle rapper's song would blow up like it did!!!
I don't know if "The Internship will match the comedic brilliance of "Wedding Crashers" but the chemistry between Vaughn and Wilson still seems intact, which is a good thing.
AP photographer Jessica Hill captured a shot of UConn coach Geno Auriemma patting Baylor coach Kim Mulkey on the backside before the start of the Bears' impressive 76-70 road victory.
Everything about the photo is memorable, from Mulkey's stance, to
Auriemma's laser focus, to the giggling assistant coaches in the
background.
Thankfully, the Connecticut Post's Rich Elliott asked Auriemma about
the exchange after the game and got an explanation for the unusual
scene. Auriemma clarified it was a lighthearted, harmless moment between
two longtime friends.
"She was staring at my butt and she was commenting on it and I said, ‘Really? How about yours?’" Auriemma told the Post.
"She went, `Yeah, look at it,’ and I went (slap), 'I’ll teach you a
lesson.' And then she started talking about how she only dated Italians
her whole life and that she wanted me to set her up with some Italians
and I said `The Italians I send to see you aren’t going to date you.’
We’ve had a long and great relationship since, gosh, she was an
assistant at Louisiana Tech. It goes back a long ways."
Although he's making movies and TV shows now, the Common proves that Hip Hop never leaves you as he freestyles over Heltah Skeltah’s “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka.”
The Fast and Furious star recently posted this Valentine's Day cover on his Facebook page;but you know what? Add a little auto-tunes and probably be just as good as Rihanna vocally.
Buss came from academia, where you are exposed to different people and different thoughts.
Many team owners today, comes from a place where most people think like them, talk like them and look like them and diversity of thought means ROI and laptops than sit down Italian dinners and partying like Buss did with Johnson over the years.
Teams are so expensive nowadays that, its hard to find regular, fun
loving owners anymore who are more people conscious than money conscious.
Jerry Buss was relateable to the players, but he did not get in their way.
He allowed then GM Jerry West to do his job by not micromanage him, but was savvy enough to target Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant for the next phase of post showtime Lakers championships.
That's what great leaders do.
You put people in the right place, let them do their job and be there for them in the good times and bad.
Sadly we probably will never see an owner like Jerry Buss again (unless his daughter Jeanie Buss can take the team away from her brother Jimmy), but at least Magic Johnson has learned enough from Dr. Buss to continues his legacy with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Following lead singer Brittany Howard's performance on the Grammy's with Mavis Staples and Elton john, The Albama Shakes continues to build buzz with their performance of on Saturday Night Live. Judging by the response on Twitter, those who were not fans or never heard of the "Shakes" are either downloading or buying their debut album at Best Buy right now.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Police say a mother who got on stage and started to strip
during an upstate New York school assembly is facing child endangerment
and lewdness charges. Albany police say 24-year-old Aydrea Meaders was arrested at North Albany Academy on Friday morning. They
say school staff told them the assembly was halted and the cafeteria
cleared after Meaders began dancing onstage and took off some of her
clothes. She's charged with seven counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of public lewdness. An
Albany City Court clerk says Meaders was arraigned Friday afternoon and
ordered held on $3,000 bail. She doesn't have a lawyer yet. The North Albany Academy is a prekindergarten through eighth grade school in the Albany district.
"Marvel’s Captain America: Winter Solider, which will be shooting
late spring in the greater Cleveland area, is now accepting resumes for
local crew positions.
Local crew members who are interested in working
on the film should send their resume to: ohiofilmresumes2013@gmail.com
This address is for resume submissions for crew only. This is not for actor or extra resumes!!
As soon as additional information becomes available the Greater Cleveland Film Commission will post it on our website (www.clevelandfilm.com) and via social media –
"In Beyoncé's HBO documentary, "Life Is But a Dream," which premieres
on Saturday, the singer shares a touching moment of her with her
now-13-month-old daughter.
But 24 hours before the baby’s big debut, a still from the 10-second
interaction was leaked on Twitter … and instantly became a retweet
phenomenon."
Bonus:
Marley and Jake:You're All I Need To Get By" (by Marvin Gaye and Tami Terrell)
Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell: You're All I Need To Get By"
Method Man feat. Mary J. Blige - I'll Be There For You/You're All I Need To Get By"
Which version of "All I Need" is your favorite?
From the 1968 Stevie Wonder Album "For Once In My Life", the B-side of "My Cherie Amour" has enjoyed new life as "Don't No Why I Love You" was featured in Scandal's Valentine's Day episode ("Whiskey Tango Foxtrot") as President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn) pulled Olivia Pope(Kerry Washington) into the control room for one last White House "briefing".
When I first heard of the latest version of the "Harlem Shake", I thought that the old dance from the late 2000's which were featured videos from Eve's"Whos That Girl" to Diddy's "Let's Get it" had made a comeback.
Um, no.
This latest version has a person in a mask dancing poorly by themselves to Baauer's song "Harlem Shake", then as the beat slows, the video suddenly jumps to a bunch of other rhythm-less people in masks dancing, (although I dig what chicken is doing below).
Ironically, parts of the dance looks like the Weekend at Bernie's dance that appeared a earlier this decade)
Although most of the videos last for only 30 seconds, they are pretty humorously to watch like the Gradma version below, (she probably has no idea what's going on, but that's what makes it funny).
However, "Southland" star Regina King, summed it best on Anderson Cooper when she said after viewing his staff's version that "Harlem Shake" is definitely for people who "can't dance".
Although I concur with Regina, I will give a nod to T-Pain's version, which is probably the rhythmic of them all (and he didn't even need auto-tunes to do it!)
Sadly, the "Harlem Shake" might have jumped the shark already as the Today Show did their version for Valentine's Day. Where's David Gregory when you need him to give the Today Show staff some rhythm! (Kudos for Al Roker for trying to do best he can, while being the only brother on the set)
Hey Today Show! Watch KSLA News 12's version of the "Harlem Shake", this is how you do it!
So what's your favorite version of the Harlem Shake or do you think the whole thing is dumb?
The most memorable moment of the address came when President Obama said "They deserve a vote" as he talked about the gun violence that affected Newton, Aurora, congress woman Gabby Giffords and Cleopatra-Crowley Pendleton and Nathanial A. Pendleton, the parents of slain chicago student Hadiya Pendleton who were sitting next to First Lady Michelle Obama.
"CBS reporter Carter Evans records a large gunfight during the effort to capture ex-police officer Christopher Dorner" CBS News
(Via USA Today)
"One sheriff's deputy died and another was wounded Tuesday afternoon during a dramatic gunfight with the man authorities believe to be Christopher Dorner, the fugitive former Los Angeles cop wanted in three murders and a revenge shooting rampage across Southern California.
SWAT team later stormed a cabin near the community of Seven Oak, in the Big Bear ski resort area, where Dorner was believed holed up. TV footage showed the structure in flames."
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Inspired by Leah Haslage’s Valentine’s Day Playlist, where she listed some great love songs in different categories like "Love Stinks and "Get Your Sexy On", I decided to create the Valentine’s Day Mixtape with a slightly urban feel to it.
Ladies, since I'm alone on V'Day feel free to pass along a valentine or two...just don't tell your man!! Guys, here's a dating tip: Mixtapes don't get you much lovin' if you give it to a lady as a gift. However these songs are great to set the mood..just don't use too many songs from the "Break To Make Up" list; musically they are great, but they could be definite mood killers. Now that's out of the way, let's get it on! (Which didn't make the list, but is still a classic) It’s About To Go Down
1.)Simply Beautiful-Al Green
2.)I Want You-Erykah Badu
3.)Moments in Love-Art of Noise
4.)Bump N Grind- R. Kelly
5.)Funny How Time Flies-Janet Jackson
6.)Baby Come To Me-James Ingram and Patti Austin
7.)One on One-Hall and Oates
8.)I’ll Make Love To You-Boyz II Men
9.)Let Me Be Your Angel-Stacy Lattisaw
10.)Inside My Love-Minnie Ripperton
11.)Say Yes-Floetry
12.)Love You Down-Ready For The World
13.)Fire and Desire-Rick James and Teena Marie
14.)Do Me Baby- Prince
15.)Flex-Mad Cobra
16.)Between The Sheets- The Isley Brothers
17.)Red Light Special –TLC
18.)How Deep is Your Love-Keith Sweat
19.)Fortunate-Maxwell
20.)Soul Searchin-Me’Shell N’Degeocello
21.)Juicy Fruit-Mtume
22.)Whip Appeal-Babyface
23.)Love TKO-Teddy Pendergrass
24.)I Want You-Marvin Gaye 25.)Feelin On Yo Booty-R. Kelly 26.) Lady-D'Angelo 27.) Love Ballad-L.T.D. featuring Jeffery Osborne 28.) Freenk N U-Joedci
Love and Hip Hop
1.)All I Need –Method Man and Mary J. Blige
2.)Excuse Me Miss- Jay-Z and Pharrell
3.)Bonita Applebaum-A Tribe Called Quest
4.)Doin It-LL Cool J
5.)21 Questions- 50 Cent
6.)The Light-Common
7.)What’s it Going to Be –Busta Rhymes and Janet
8.)The Sweetest Thing-Lauryn Hill
9.)Passing Me By-The Pharcyde
10.)The Prototype-Outkast/Andre 3000
11.)Eric B and Rakim-Mahogany
12.)Give it to Me-Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey
13.)Luv U Betta-LL Cool J
14.)Splash Waterfalls-Ludacris
15.)Ms. Phat Booty-Mos Def
16.)One More Chance-Notorious B.I.G.
17.)Is it Good To You-Heavy D and The Boyz
18.)One Love-Whodini
19.)That Girl-Pharrell
20.)I Want to Know What’s On Your Mind-Eric B and Rakim 21.)Love Sick-Gang Starr 22.)Come Closer-Common and Mary J. Blige 23.)Take You There-Pete Rock and CL Smooth 24.)I Need A Girl Part 2-Puff Daddy, Loon, and Mario 25.) Sexual Seduction-Snoop Dogg 26.) Never Been in Love-Talib Kweli featuring Just Blaze 27.) Mind Sex-Dead Prez 28.) Like You-Bow Wow and Ciara
Break Up To Make Up 1.)Can We Try-Dan Hill and Vonda Sheppar 2.)Keep Forgettin’-Michael McDonald
3.)Heart to Heart-Kenny Loggins 4.)Baby I’m Back-Player 5.)At This Moment-Billy Vera 6.)We Can’t Be Friends-Deborah Cox-R.L. from Next 7.)Lately-Jodeci/Stevie Wonder 8.)Is This The End-New Edition 9.)Superstar/House is Not a Home-Luther Vandross/The Carpenters 10.)Tell Me if You Still Care-S.O.S. Band 11.)Where Did We Go Wrong -LTD feat. Jeffery Osborne 12.)Ex-Factor-Lauryn Hill 13.)Broken Hearted-Brandy and Wayna from Boyz II Men 14.)Goodbye Love-Guy 15.)The Hardest Thing-98 Degrees 16.)I’d Die Without You-PM Dawn 17.)Giggolos Get Loney Too-The Time 18.)Nothing Compares 2 U-The Family 19.)It Ain’t Over Till it’s Over-Lenny Kravitz 20.)Hear My Call-Jill Scott 21.) I'm Still in Love-Sean Paul 22.) It's Not Fair-Glenn Lewis 23.) Bringin' on The Heartache-Def Leppard 24.) You Are So Beautiful-Joe Cocker
25.) Against All Odds- The Phil Collins 26.) Come Back to Me-Janet Jackson 27.) I Just Wanna Stop-Gino Vanelli 28.) How Much I FeelYou-Jodeci
9.)Love Me in A Special Way-DeBarge 10.)Hello/Truly-Lionel Richie
11.)My First, My Last, My Everything-Barry White
12.)Always-Atlantic Starr
13.)Something-The Beatles
14.)Lady-Kenny Rogers
15.)Endless-Lionel Richie and Diana Rosss
16.)So Amazing-Paul McCartney
17.)Joanna-Kool and The Gang
18.)Anything For You-Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine
19.)Iris-Goo Goo Dolls
20.)Anniversary-Tony, Toni, Tone
21.)You Mean The World To Me-Toni Braxton
22.)Kiss Me-Sixpence The Richer
23.)Nobody Does it Better-Carly Simon
24.)If You Love Me-Brownstone
25.)The Closer I Get To You-Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway 26.) Computer Love-Zapp featuring Charlie Wilson 27.) Jody Watley-Everything 28.) On Bended Knee-Boyz II Men
College Crush Playlist
1.)I Like It-DeBarge
2.)Forever My Lady-Jodeci
3.)If I Ever Fall in Love-Shai
4.)Slow Jam-Midnight Star
5.)Differences-Ginuwine
6.)Anytime-Brian McKnight
7.)You Don’t Know My Name-Alicia Keys
8.)Weak-SWV
9.)Pretty Brown Eyes-Mint Condition
10.)Nobody’s Suppose To Be Here-Deborah Cox
11.)You Give Good Love-Whitney Houston
12.)One in a Million-Aaliyah
13.)Two Occasions-The Deele
14.)Slow Dance-R. Kelly
15.)Let’s Get Married-Jagged Edge
16.)Saturday Love-Alexander O'neal and Cherelle 17.)Can We Talk/I'm Ready-Tevin Campbell
18.)Next Lifetime-Erykah Badu
19.)Cross My Mind-Jill Scott
20.)Butta Love-Next
21.)Pony-Ginuwine
22.)I Like-Kut Close
23.)Anywhere-112
24.)Joe-I Want To Know
25.)Come and Talk to Me/Stay-Jodeci 26.) All Because of You-Marques Houston 27.) I Get So Lonely-Janet Jackson 28.) All I Do is Think of You-Troop/Jackson 5
