Monthly Archives: December 2009

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Posted by: ANGEL

MUSIC VIDEO: JAY-Z ft. MR. HUDSON – “YOUNG FOREVER”

Check out the new Jay-Z video for “Young Forever” featuring singer/songwriter Mr. Hudson. If you didn’t already know, the song samples the 1984 hit from Alphaville, “Forever Young”.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Posted by: ANGEL

RANDOM PICS: MARIAH CAREY & NICKI MINAJ FILM “UP OUT MY FACE”

Check out some photos of singer Mariah Carey and rapper Nicki Minaj on the set of their new video, “Up Out My Face”. Mariah’s husband, Nick Cannon posted the photos of his blog and is also the director of the upcoming video.

The song will be featured on Mimi’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel remix album, due in stores February 23.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Posted by: BRIAN

HOT OR NOT: SEAN GARRETT & GUCCI MANE – “UP IN YOUR HEART”


♫ Sean Garrett feat. Gucci Mane – Up In Your Heart

Since their collaboration on Beyonce’s hits “Video Phone” and “Diva,” as well as Mario’s “Break Up,” singer/producer/songwriter, Sean Garrett, whose career as an artist has kind of gotten off on a slow note, has been getting it in with producer, Bangladesh.

They team up again on “Up In Your Heart,” featuring Gucci Mane, which is slated to be the new single from Sean’s oft delayed debut album, formerly titled Turbo 919, which has never seen U.S. release.

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Monday, December 21, 2009 Posted by: J. Dakar

ALBUM REVIEW: MARY J. BLIGE – STRONGER WITHEACH TEAR

Nearly two decades ago Mary J. Blige released What’s the 411?, her debut album, and follow-up, My Life, both fan favorites which helped earn her Queen of Hip-Hop Soul title. In her nearly 40 years, she’s endured much but always managed to prevail, and today she releases Stronger withEach Tear, which represents who and what she is right now.

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Writing much of the material and serving as executive producer alongside Johntá Austin, Mary enlists a number of musical heavyweights to help on the project including Darkchild and Stargate on the first two singles, “The One” (featuring Drake) and “I Am”, respectively.

“Tonight”, an upbeat sampling of Edwin Birdsong’s “Rapper Dapper Snapper”, is the perfect opening to the album, produced by The Runners and Akon. Hip hop’s current “It” boy Drake makes an appearance on “The One”, which includes an auto-tuned Mary and was featured in an AT&T commercial earlier this year. The Ryan Leslie-produced “Said and Done” sounds like a reject from his latest lackluster release. Fortunately, the upbeat, feel good vibe returns on the Ne-Yo-penned “Good Love” featuring T.I.

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