Yasiin Bey drops the visual treatment for “Niggas in Poorest”, his interpolation of The Throne’s hit single. The video, which highlights the socioeconomic crisis and includes a clip of Malcolm X speaking, premiered Feb. 21, the 47th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.
The rapper/actor formerly known as Mos Def, Yasiin Bey, offers up his take on The Throne’s hit single “Niggas in Paris” as the first contribution to his Top 40 Underdog series on which he’ll rework Top 40 hits. Let us know how much you’re feeling it.
Hotel Rwanda‘s Don Cheadle is taking his movie acting skills over to another side of entertainment – television. The Emmy-nominated actor is starring in a new comedy television series, House of Lies, where he plays Marty Kaan, “a highly successful, cutthroat consultant who is never above using any means (or anyone) necessary to get his clients the information they want”:
While you sleep, while you work, while you play, we keep America running like clockwork. With the secret handshake, the wizards of Oz, the hand up your skirt when no one’s looking, we keep big business in business by telling them what they need, when they need it. Truth? We’re just stealing their watch to tell them the time. And they’re paying us millions for the favor.
House of Lies is based off the Martin Kihn novel, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time. The television series premieres on January 8, 2012 at 10pm EST on Showtime. Peep the promo trailer above.
Speaking of Showtime, rapper Mos Def is also putting his acting skills to use as he guest stars in Season 6 of the cable network’s show, Dexter. He plays a character named Brother Sam and so far his character has been killed off! Halleluyer! Lol Check him out at the 0:32 mark in the video below.
With Lil Wayne selling a million records or 900,000+ units (depending on your source), many onlookers are in disbelief in the rapper’s album sale success. In so much disbelief that people are pointing fingers at his Young Money label for allegedly buying most of the tallied copies of Tha Carter IV.
The CEO of YMCMB/Cash Money Records, Birdman has been getting heat for supposedly buying most of the album units of the chart topping project. The 42 year-old entrepreneur stopped by Sway Calloway’s morning radio show and addressed the rumors:
“Nah, man, that really don’t make no sense. Why would we do that? I press and distribute ‘em. Ain’t no need for me to buy ‘em. That’s hustling backwards; we ain’t in it for that. I ain’t ever been a part of that type of scheme to be buyin’ records. We don’t do that, homey. We be working too hard to be — that don’t go with what we do. We truly what we do. We’re real about what we do, we work hard every day at it, and we work for the people. That’s what we do music for: for people. And we appreciate the love they give us back. But no such thing as me buying no CDs. I wouldn’t even play it like that.” [Source]
Hmm. You do know that If they did buy copies of the album, it would be an easy tax write-off…I’m just sayin’…
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