Editorial:
Remember when rap music, like rock, was looked down upon with disdain by many, but the fans loved it and supported the artists anyway...
Before rock and rap became multi-billion dollar industries with glitzy music awards shows.
Well, who decided it would be a good idea or business model to take music videos away from the fans who shaped the industry and force every fan in the world onto a handful of monopolized portals controlled by the Internet elite? Music video views will be waaayyy down!
Lest we forget Flo Rida set sales records [downloads via itunes] during a time when music videos were proliferating across the web like jack rabbits in the springtime via countless uploads on many websites...pre-VEVO!
When fans like a song, they will buy the ringtones, the CDs and/or
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Whether the Professor Gates - Sgt. Crowley incident was simply an embarrassing power struggle or something more esoteric, I learned three things:
1) No man wants to feel inferior
2) Disrespecting police can turn a routine matter chaotic
3) Rule by fear and intimidation breeds contempt and perpetuates the tension between authority and man.
For more info: Urban Legal Issues
Jabuki - The New Don Cornelius
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Need some weed? Well, there’s an app for that, if you have a medical prescription at least. “Cannabis” is a relatively new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that pretty much hooks it up when it comes to giving you all of the info you need to get your 420 on. Oh wait, did we mention that this was for medicinal use only?
The app description states in part,
...Looking for your cannabis medicine? Need to find a doctor? Have legal issues? Cannabis Apps has cultivated an iPhone application that allows you to quickly locate the nearest medical cannabis collectives, cooperatives, doctors, clinics, attorneys, organizations, and other patient services in states that have passed medical marijuana (cannabis) legislation.
For those states without medical marijuana laws, users