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Nicki Minaj Covers Black Book Magazine

lovelyti — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:13:51 +0000

Nicki Minaj is the latest celebrity to cover an issue of ‘Black Book’ magazine.
Inside the fashion and pop culture mag, Young Money’s Barbie dresses like a doll donning a curly wig and carrying an oversized stuffed toy.
She later dons colorful makeup and 70′s style dress in the high fashion shoot.

The rapper, whose set to tour with Lil Wayne and Rick Ross this summer, also shared her thoughts on her comparisons to Lady Gaga.
According to Minaj, the comparisons are fitting considering that they both have similar tendencies.
She tells Black Book,

“We both do the awkward, non-pretty thing,” she says. “What we’re saying—what I’m saying, anyway—is that it’s okay to be weird.

And maybe your weird is my normal. Who’s to say? I think it’s an attitude we both share.”

I like this pic of Nicki…

Once again Dr.Dre says that Detox will be released soon

lovelyti — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:50:08 +0000

Dr. Dre was featured on the cover of the new December 2010/January 2011issue of XXL Magazine.

in the magazine he stated: “Yes, Detox is coming”

“I’m really feeling it now. My energy has been back and forth with the record, tussling with doing it out of obligation, as opposed to doing it because I really feel it. My feelings about it have been going up and down. Now I’m in that place where I’m really feeling it, and it’s coming out right. It’s like, Yeah, I’m excited about it.

“The only part that has been pushing me back is just the fact that I’m getting older, and certain things to talk about… But I can incorporate other artists, new artists with this record, to say some of the things I won’t say. It’s been a little tussle in that area also, just because of age and being able to identify with the younger audience.” (XXL)

Dre is now 45 years old and this will be his first album in over 10 years.
He has no solid release date as of yet, his album is scheduled to drop in Jan 2011.
I’m not holding my breath, Dre has been coming out with Detox for the past 5 years.
I’ll believe when I see and hear it…just saying.

Billboard Magazine calls Nicki Minaj the First Lady of Hip hop

lovelyti — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:00:09 +0000

Billboard is seriously tripping with that title…

THE 1ST LADY OF HIP HOP?? C’mon Son ya’ll for real? �
Nicki Minaj is cool, but she is NOT the first nor the best Femcee in the hsitory of Hip Hop.
If she’s the first then what about Mc Lyte, Queen Latifah, Yo-Yo, Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Eve,
Missy Elliott, Trina, Da Brat, Left Eye, Rah Digga and let’s not forget Lauryn hill!!
So many females have paved the way, I don’t mind Nicki getting the cover
she looks cute and all, but come on she’s not the THE 1ST LADY OF HIP HOP…
#fohwtbs Billboard Magazine #epicfail!!

Angela Burt-Murray steps down as editor-in-chief of Essence magazine

lovelyti — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:39:54 +0000

New York –
Angela Burt-Murray, editor-in-chief of Essencemagazine, exited stage left today, resigning from her post after a five-year-run.
Apparently, Burt-Murray summoned her editors late this afternoon and made the big announcement that she was moving to Atlanta with her family. Insiders say Burt-Murray had actually laid the groundwork for her resignation last July and wanted to keep it under wraps.

Fifty Cent and Soulja boy pose for XXL…

lovelyti — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:18:20 +0000

50 Cent and Soulja Boyare on the cover of the November 2010 issue of XXL Magazine,
which will feature a provocative photoshoot and three-part cover story
that includes separate profiles on 50 and Soulja,
followed by a Q&A roundtable discussion between the two rappers.
In this issue, Soulja Boy also talks about his “connection” with 50 Cent…

Soulja Boy says: “Being Black, with money, from the hood, struggles, and coming from nothing to something, of course you’re going to share the common struggles. You going to have people hate. You going to have people that change on you, and all that. So of course, watching 50, and him going through what he did—if there wasn’t no 50 Cent, there would be noSoulja Boy. You know what I mean?”

About his young friend, Fif says: “If I had the wish to be another artist, just for right now, it would be Soulja Boy.”

Source: XXL

This has to be the creepest magazine cover Iv’e ever seen….

why is Fifth holding him and looking like that?

why is Soulja Boy holding his Nutz???

yuck!! wheretheydothisat?

Usher Covers October/November 2010 Issue of VIBE Magazine

lovelyti — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:13:13 +0000

Usher is featured on the cover of the October/November 2010 issue of VIBE Magazine,
due on newsstands nationwide soon. In the issue, the Grammy Award winning R&B crooner discusses his new album
Raymond v. Raymond, his divorce from Tameka Foster
and supporting younger acts in the entertainment industry and more.

On Raymond V Raymond being a career rebound
“I don’t think it was a rebound at all. Some people in my organization felt like it was a rebound, but for me it was business as usual. Were there hard times in the process? Absolutely. I think it was the first time that doubt was ever amongst the opinions. Like, Can he do it again? Is it possible that this can happen? When you have 15 years of a legacy built, it shouldn’t be questionable with one album.”

On how long he was thinking about divorcing Tameka
“During our disagreements, that’s when I really began to contemplate marriage and if this is someone whom I’m compatible with. Anytime we had a disagreement or an argument, I began to contemplate: Wow, is this really gonna work out? I’m going through hell right now, given the fact that people have an opinion about our relationship. I can’t be unhappy at home and fighting the wars or the opinions outside… ‘You should’ve handled things this way,’ ‘I wish you would’ve said this,’ ‘You’re handling me wrong,’ ‘I don’t like the way I’m feeling about this’—it could be anything, man.”

On supporting younger acts
“There is no competition. I think that the artists that are doing great, they definitely need to have the support of the people that have [paved the road]. And that’s why I support Chris. I support Trey Songz. I support the Sammies of the world. I support the Lloyds of the world. Because this is a dying industry. This next tour represents a standard that has to be set for entertainment.”

Jeezy makes the cover of XXL

lovelyti — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:20:56 +0000

source: XXL

It’s an all-white affair at the Metropolitan Business and Arts District in southwest Atlanta. The industrial loft complex is the locale for XXL’s 13th-anniversary cover shoot with ATL’s own Young Jeezy, and it’s his third anniversary cover in a row. On this sweltering mid-June afternoon, Da Snowman is playing it extra-cool between takes, making sure not to ruffle his all-white attire while chopping it up with old friend and master boardsman Shawty Redd. With Jeezy’s aptly titled Shawty Redd–produced hit single “All White Everything” blaring (on repeat) throughout the large loft space turned photo studio, the moment might seem a little premeditated. But Jeez is hardly putting it on for the cameras today.

With his long-delayed fourth album, Thug Motivation 103, set for release at the end of this summer, 32-year-old Jay Jenkins is focused on a project he considers well worth its long wait. He’s not paying any attention to negative chatter about the LP’s late arrival, yearlong pushback or the tepid response to the Trap or Die Pt. 2 mixtape, which he released this past May. He’s ignoring the whispers that he’s no longer one of the brightest stars in Atlanta’s rap constellation. And he’s on a vegetarian diet—no beef, or talk of beef, with anyone, including his longtime rival and fellow A-Town rap star Gucci Mane (who just happens to be doing his own photo shoot at the same time, about 200 yards away, in the same row of warehouses).

Today, nothing is as important to Jeezy as the great expectations he has for TM103. Where his previous LP, 2008’s The Recession, offered biting social commentary,TM103 has Da Snowman going back to his roots, back to the trap, back to the feel of his first album, 2005’s Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101.

As day turns to night, the scene moves to ATL’s legendary Stankonia Studios, where OutKast have recorded some of the their most revered work. Jeezy wants to celebrate the five-year anniversary of TM101 and the revival feel on the TM103. He’s confident that his brand of trap music has permanently impacted hip-hop and made him one of the last authentic street dudes in rap. While more and more artists are achieving success with fabricated street lives, Jeezy makes his case for why much of it is not believable and explains why he’s not much of a fan of rap these days. More importantly, he’s adamant that TM103, which was reshaped during months of one-on-one sessions at Shawty Redd’s home studio, will quiet all the talk of Jeezy’s demise. Let’s get it.

Thug Motivation 103 has been long delayed. It’s evident that people are becoming very cynical about its release. How do you calm the skeptics and respond to those who say you’ve lost it and you’re not in a good space right now?

You think it wasn’t like that for B.I.G.? You think it wasn’t like that for Jay? ’Pac? Shit, that’s all Jay talks about. Like, “Nigga, y’all gon’ count me out? Okay, watch this. Boom. I do this better.” That’s what it’s about. But, at the end of the day, that’s what keeps me goin’… Nobody’s not gon’ sit here and tell me, “We done with you, ’cause we’re done.” Nigga, that’s y’all. I’m not done with shit. And they gon’ sit up here and tell me, “Aw, well, you ain’t…” I’m doin’ what any nigga would do on his fourth album. I’m gettin’ it together. I’m not just gon’ give you anything, to be hot and relevant. That don’t make sense. That’s like telling a muthafucka anything just to get it done. I’ma be straight up with you, so when you walk away, even if you ain’t satisfied, I kept it real. I kept it 100. And that’s the way I feel. I wouldn’t even call it the top of my game. I’m just really figuring out the music shit. Once I put that old-school blueprint outline together that I used, with this shit that I’ve done now, it’s a wrap on ’em, homie. C’mon, I’m on my fourth album. Think about niggas’ 10-year plans. I done did more in four albums than a lot of niggas gon’ do for the rest of they life.

Is this going to be the album that separates you from the pack? That authenticates your brand even further and stops the comparisons to the other rappers that do what you do?

I don’t think nobody should compare me to anyone, ’cause, at the end of the day, you’ve got a ’Pac, you’ve got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne—there’s only one Jeezy, man. Ain’t nobody walked in these shoes but me. My level of intelligence and know-how, and being able to adapt, and being able to live, and being able to walk, and still be the same person that I was from day one— that shit ain’t somethin’ that’s just given to you, man. So, at the end of the day, I’m not worried by far, because I wouldn’t even be here right now if it wasn’t for me being and thinking the way that I am. So with that being said, you can’t compare nothing to that. ’Cause I’ll say it again:
I done been ’round the world, ’round the block. Two things a nigga can’t tell ya is that I ran off on ’em or I owe ’em anything. It’s been me the whole time, bruh. Fuck the music—let’s take that out of the equation. It’s nothing. Let’s talk about life for a minute. Look where I came from. Look where I’m at. What do you compare to that? You let me know, and then I guess we’ll have a comparison.

Let’s compare Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 to Thug Motivation 103. Do you think, five years later, that 103 can make as significant an impact in today’s musical climate as 101 did?

Yeah, well, they just waiting on me to come back and change the game, that’s all. [Laughs] But, you know, OutKast made great music. I listened to 8Ball & MJG album the other day—it was good music. It was good music, man. That was us! Nowadays, everybody makes beats, everybody’s a rapper. But then those were the ghetto poets that we listened to, because they were the ones that saw the struggle, and they come out and they tell the world about it, and people feel it like that. I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It’s, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you’ve got something. Nobody’s putting passion or any thought behind it anymore. Or even going in, like, really going in and making shit that’s going to matter in two months. ’Cause, you know, everything sounds good when you’re [in the studio]. And I’m not hating at all—I’m just being real. —Rondell Conway

To read the rest of this cover story, be sure to pick up the 13th anniversary issue of XXL, September 2010, when it hits national newsstands August 10. Let’s get it!

Rihanna on the cover of seventeen magazine

lovelyti — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:40:33 +0000

Rihanna made the cover of Seventeen Magazine’s August issue.
she looks really cute when she is playing up her innocent side,
personally I’m over the whole demonic princess look.
Rihanna looked fashionable, friendly, and angelic I think it was a good change.
Check out her photos from the shoot!

Rolling Stone says Jay-z is king of America

lovelyti — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:37:57 +0000

The latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine features Jay-Z on the cover….
On the cover rolling stone had the nerve to write,
“How Jay-Z Became King Of America” #sideeye when did that happen?
we all know that Jay, has had a long running music career since 1998,
but America doesn’t have kings, we elect presidents.
if they said he was the king of hip hop, then that would have been cool, but don’t try and blow him up to the status of king of America, that most definitely sounds like some elitist sh*t…and it’s not that serious.

In the interview Jay-z discusses various topics from his life with Beyonce, to the challenges as president of Def Jam. When asked what’s was the most difficult meeting while at Def Jam he said, “All of them,” which is surprising with all the successful acts he brought to the company.
Jay also shares his opinion on music he’s feeling, indie-rock group Grizzly Bear saying, “I love the energy coming out indie rock right now. It has this rebellion thing that hip-hop is missing now, the thing that made hip-hop hip-hop.”

Nicki Minaj’s Fader magazine pictures…

lovelyti — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:28:02 +0000

Incase you care Nicki Minaj’s fader magazine pictures are out….
Nicki Say’s she has been keeping herself busy touring with Young Money, and
she is preparing to release her debut album “the Harajuku Barbie” o_O