♫ D. Woods – Just Friends (full) – listen
It seems as though more solo material has been leaking from our girl D. Woods. Early in the week, we posted her new song, “On My Side,” now we have the super-retro “Just Friends,” which also appeared on D.’s MySpace page. I’ve actually really been liking the songs that I’m hearing, and she seems to really be experimenting with a lot of different sounds that she didn’t get to dive into with Danity Kane. D. is planning on releasing a series of mixtapes with all new material, so we’ll be hearing more from her soon.
♫ Jamie Foxx feat. Jermaine Dupri & T-Pain – Blame It (SoSo Def Remix) (full) – listen
It seems as though Jermaine Dupri is trying to put his SoSo Def label imprint back on the map! He’s been jumping on every song that’s been getting heavy radio play. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad idea if he’s planning on staying relevant. But I don’t think anyone is looking forward to an entire JD album, so perhaps he’s just trying to have a good time and make sure people know that he’s still breathing. Either way, the clubs have been eating this song up, so I’m sure the remix will fair well with fans.
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Wednesday’s NY Post features this cartoon from Sean Delonas following news that a police officer shot and killed a rampaging chimpanzee in Connecticut.
Al Sharpton issued a statement early Wednesday saying,
“The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that “Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill.”
“Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?”
What do you think The Post is trying to say about the stimulus plan and the police shooting of an angry chimpanzee?
To express your outrage with the cartoon, send an email to the editor, Col Allan, at colallan@nypost.com, and the cartoonist, Sean Delonas, at seandelonas@gmail.com.
You may remember our good friend Steph Jones from previous artist spotlights. But it seems that since his split with Ludacris’s Disturbing tha Peace label, Steph has taken the reigns on his career and moved forward, with the new single from his upcoming six-song EP that he plans to release entitled “Shooting Star.”
I got a chance to chat with Steph about the song and here’s what he had to say:
“The inspiration for the song came when I was sitting in my car and all of a sudden, it was a meteor shower. The whole sky was lit up for hours… And I just had to make the record,” he explained.
“I know T-Pain is the Auto-Tune dude, but the effect I put on it fits the record, so I went with it…”
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Zoe Saldana and Solange Knowles pose with Giorgio Armani at the opening of the new Armani 5th Avenue store on Tuesday in New York City.
In related news, Solange was admitted to the hospital last night after collapsing from cold medicine she took on a flight leaving New York. Solange twittered the whole ordeal and announced early Wednesday that “they let me go”. Glad you’re doing well, Solange!
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