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Wednesday 27 August 2008

Download Femi Kuti mp3

Artist: Femi Kuti: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Folk
Electronic
Other

Discography:

The Definitive Collection CD2

Year: 2007

Tracks: 10

The Definitive Collection CD1

Year: 2007

Tracks: 12

Africa Shrine

Year: 2004

Tracks: 14

Shoki Shoki

Year: 2003

Tracks: 9

Fight to Win

Year: 2002

Tracks: 12

Shoki Remixed

Year: 1999

Tracks: 8

The word of Afro-beat caption Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Femi Kuti worn-out age playing in his father's band in front finally uphill to superstardom following his father's death in the later '90s. Since few artists can buoy match his father's legacy of not only music but influence, Femi's relation as his son is both a approving and a bane. On the one deal, it's ne'er been unmanageable for Femi to garner crusade or attention, and MCA went out of its agency to scrap his career with absurd amounts of publicity. Yet on the other hand, no matter his case-by-case accomplishments, Femi will forever be known as Fela's boy. Practicing a similar flair of Afro-beat as his padre, Femi helped acquaint the percussive blending of nothingness and casimir Funk medicine to the extraneous hoi polloi outset in the mid-'90s, along with his father's same signified of political activism. After his father's death in 1997, Femi suddenly found himself the subject of vast attending. He responded by sign language with MCA and embarking on his solo career outset with Shoki Shoki. He north Korean won enormous vital celebration roughly the orb and began making efforts to conk out into the U.S. mainstream in consecutive years.

Innate in London and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Femi's musical career started when he began playing in his father's band, Egypt 80. In 1986, Femi started his possess isthmus, Positive Force, and began establishing himself as an creative person independent of his father's massive bequest. In the mid-'90s, Motown offered him a record deal with its dress shop label, Tabu. Femi's eponymic debut record album resulted. Released in 1995, the record album south Korean won congratulations passim Europe and Africa for offering a more streamlined and accessible adaptation of his father's medicine. Femi embarked on an protracted promotional hitch, crossover get-go Africa, then Europe in 1996 and 1997. His solo career was off to a successful start, despite the dissolution of Motown's Tabu label and Femi's record deal with it.

However, this problem became the least of Femi's concerns when his padre sadly died of AIDS-related complications in 1997. Shortly later on, his sister, Sola, as well suffered an untimely destruction, making 1997 a genuinely dark year for Femi. He would later write "'97," a strain that frankly reflects on this peculiarly tragic time. Yet with cataclysm comes opportunity in the earthly concern of music, and Femi at long last signed a major-label record deal with Polygram in December 1997, only months subsequently his father's destruction. MCA made the most out of the situation, repackaging, and re-releasing much of Fela's catalogue and setting the stage for Femi's MCA debut album in the sue. Following months of press and hype, MCA released Shoki Shoki in early 1999 to widespread hail from a number of honored publications like the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vibe, non to mention former smaller publications.

A twelvemonth later, Femi returned with his s album, Fight to Win, and toured the States with Jane's Addiction in an exploit to crossover to a more than mainstream audience. Part of this crossover feat meant positioning himself closer to hip-hop and its mammoth audience. Fight to Win featured a phone number of well-thought-of rap artists like Mos Def and Common. As expected, critics far-famed the record album, though western masses seemed kind of indifferent to both the album and Femi's concert trek with Jane's Addiction.

Friday 8 August 2008

Arvel Bird

Artist: Arvel Bird

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Big Chief Quetoos

Year: 2003
Tracks: 13

Animal Totems

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

Tuesday 1 July 2008

O Brother Where Art Thou?

Artist: O Brother Where Art Thou?

   Genre(s):
Soundtrack

Discography:

Soundtrack

Year:
Tracks: 19

Wednesday 18 June 2008

Paul Newman responds cryptically to cancer reports

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman, responding to a flurry of unconfirmed reports he is gravely ill with cancer, issued a terse, cryptic statement on Tuesday that shed little light on his actual condition.

"Newman says he's doing nicely," his spokesman, Jeff Sanderson, said in a message e-mailed to Reuters and other media outlets in answer to queries about the cancer reports.

Reached by telephone in his Los Angeles office, Sanderson declined to elaborate or give further details.

"This is what I got from him. He says he's doing nicely, and this is the statement I wanted to share with you, and that's what I have," Sanderson said. "I spoke to his office. ... this is the statement that came directly from him."

According to numerous media accounts circulating on TV and the Internet since Monday, Newman, 83, has been diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing out-patient treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

A spokeswoman for Sloan-Kettering said she had no information about whether Newman was a patient there.

Newman announced just over a year ago he was essentially retiring from a half-century career in acting because of his age.

Last month, he stepped down as director of a stage production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, citing unspecified health issues.

Monday 2 June 2008

Mischa Barton: 'Cellulite Photos Were Faked'

For a girl who claims she isn't going to feed into publicity, Mischa Barton is going on about those cellulite pictures an awful lot. Now she claims that the images were photoshopped to look worse than they actually are.

The dreaded pictures in question were taken while Mischa was holidaying in Australia. Having decided to do a spot on sunbathing, the former O.C. actress slipped into a bikini to reveal her dimply thighs and bottom.

Mischa's PR person fumed to Rush & Molloy. "Those photos are doctored,” she said. “I'm not saying she's perfect, nobody is. But they've given a 22-year-old woman the legs and bottom of an 80-year-old.

“Look at the shots that were taken shortly before on a beach in L.A. Did she develop all that cellulite in a couple of weeks? There's a lot you can do with Photoshopping."

Jamie Fawcett, the photographer behind the snaps, responded by saying: "I wouldn't seek to publicly embarrass her with nudity or health issues or body image issues.

“It is a shame that publications tend to highlight an issue that is not fair to a young girl... However, sometimes these are the things that sell pictures."

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Tuesday 27 May 2008

Shawty Lo Says T.I. 'Ain't No Jay-Z'; Ne-Yo Hopes To Make Collab Album With Fabolous: Mixtape Monday

Artist: Ace Hood

Representing: Miami

Mixtape: Ace Won't Fold

411: Ace Hood says his name means he's a force to be reckoned with. "Every time you think of 'ace,' you think of 'one.' I always took myself as an army within itself.

"This whole mixtape, I gave them a series of different looks," he added about his new mixtape, Ace Won't Fold. "I can swag it either way, not just giving them one perspective of me."

Ace is the lead artist from DJ Khaled's We the Best Records and has the stupidly hot "Cash Flow" song out with T-Pain and Rick Ross. He got along with Khaled by being a professional. The charismatic spinner had already heard of Ace's reputation through the underground circuit, but Hood met the DJ at a Miami radio station and brought him a package with a demo, picture and bio — none of that "Put me on, son!" crap.

"The music I provided him with and the bio was an extra boost," Hood said. "When he heard it, he was like, 'Yeah, and hit my manager back.' He was like, 'I like his swag. I wanna hear him on a bigger record.' "

Khaled sent him "I'm So Hood" just to see how he would sound over that, and Ace served the track. A couple of weeks later, he was signed to Khaled's label. A couple of weeks after that, he was inked to Def Jam.

"When I seen him, I seen that star glow in him," Khaled said. "He made me stop. I heard the music, and I was like, 'He's gonna be one of the best.' When I vibed with him, he fits in with the family immediately. It feels good to bring the future to life."

Ace's Gutter LP comes out August 26.

"That's just a representation of me. The bottom," Ace explained of the album. "It represents [Florida's] Dade County, Broward County. We can be fly at moments in that Louis V, but we can kick it in the white tee. I felt that way right out the womb: gutter."

Rick Ross, T-Pain, Plies, DJ Nasty, Justice league and Flo Rida are all onboard. Ace's second single is the title track, which features Trick Daddy.

Joints To Check For

» "Collection Plate." "That's a big cut," Hood said. "It's relevant. It kind of throws them off. If you have a pile of money, that's your collection plate. It's an offering song. It's relevant to what's going on. Like 'Cash Flow,' we're coming to see you. This is our collection plate: Put your offerings in."

» "400 Degrees." "It was just a ride-out record," Ace said. "It was just how I was feeling. I was feeling fly at that moment. We was just swaggin'. I felt so proper in the booth that day. 'First off, it's a rich ni--a that you lookin' at/ Ace Hood making movies like Cinemax.' I went in the booth, no pad, no pen. Let me get 'em."

» "We Here." "That's the introduction to you nonbelievers," Ace said. "Just in case they didn't know who I was, that 'Dunn Dunn' beat goes hard. It's the type of record that everything you say is heard clear because it's not too much going on with the beat. The beat is big. Shouts out to Shawty Lo, he's doing his thing.

'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar

» CNN (featuring the Clipse, Tha Dogg Pound, Maino and Uncle Murda) - "My Hood" remix

» Dame Grease - "9's Out"

» Maino - "Getaway Driver"

» N.E.R.D. - "Spazz"

» Ne-Yo - "Nobody"

» Uncle Murda - "Anybody Can Get It"

Celebrity Faves

At least Ne-Yo isn't trying to gas us up. Unlike a lot of other celebs who have hyped up huge collaboration LPs and not delivered (a Lil Wayne/ T-Pain LP is a big rumor floating around), he's talking realistically about the Best of Both Worlds-type LP that he and his good friend Fabolous have been thinking about.

"We've been talking about doing some stuff," Ne-Yo explained. "For whatever reason, me and Fab, our energies together make a lot of sense. Our voices sound good together, and it works out. So who knows? Jay and R. tried it. For whatever reason, it didn't exactly go the way it was supposed to go. Maybe we will try it. We have been definitely talking about it, but nothing is set in stone. So don't hold your breath waiting on that album, but don't assume it's just not gonna happen. It's possible."

Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week

» DJ P Exclusivez and Young Buck - My Interview

» DJ Diggz and DJ Rated R - The Most Infamous

» DJ Spinatik and Lil Wayne - Got What U Need Pt. 2

» P Cutta - Street Wars 21

» Superstar Jay - My Award Speech

The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground

Well, now that the elephant in the room has been addressed, everyone can move to the next phase. No, this has nothing to do with Fat Joe and his feud with the G-Unit — we're talking about the long-brewing back-and-forth between T.I. and Shawty Lo.

T.I. recently told MTV News that he was calling out Lo on "No Matter What." Then, when Tip had a phone interview with an Atlanta radio station recently, he compared the D4L founder to a canine. "It's like a dog barking and howling at the moon," T.I. told radio station 92Q Jamz. "That dog don't even know why he's barking and howling at the moon. The moon don't care. The moon is so far away. The dog can't touch the moon. The dog cant shut the moon off. He just sits there. Eventually the dog will get tired of barking and he, too, has to admire the moon as it shines. Just let the moon shine, dog."

"He ain't no moon," Lo responded. "I feel like he ain't no Jay-Z or nobody like that. He's the clouds, but I ride through clouds every day. He gotta meet me eye to eye. I can't beat him at arguing. He's like a girl. A girl will win an argument every time.

"His name ain't Tip, it's 'T. Lie,' " Lo continued via cell from Atlanta. "Yeah, T. Lie. That's his name."

While Lo rapped on "Dunn Dunn" that Tip should acknowledge him, he didn't mean like this. "We ain't finnin' to hint no more. We ain't gotta hint no more," Shawty said about the subliminal bantering between the two.

Lo said it all started around the time Tip dropped his "King" song. Lo had another song with "king" in the title and even tried to collaborate with T.I. He says Tip turned him down and made reference to it on "Big Sh-- Poppin' " with the line: "I said it on 'King,' and them lames started laughin'/ And same suckers now want the King on a track with 'em."

Still, Lo insisted that he wasn't really sweating it too tough. He said he even enjoyed T.I. as a rapper. "He did put Bankhead [the rappers' shared Atlanta neighborhood] on the map. I can't take that away from him," Shawty added. "But he ain't from Bankhead. It wasn't no problem. He was screaming our 'hood. I liked him. ... We ain't have no rapper repping for our 'hood. You had Jermaine [Dupri] and Ludacris from the south side, and then you had people repping for the east side, but nobody for us. He had a pass."

Lo said he's calling T.I. out now because of his lines on "No Matter What." "He disrespected me on a song," Lo said. "Pass over with. Time to tell the truth. He ain't no real street n---a. We been letting him get away with it for a long time. Tell him to come to Bankhead like he went to [Houston neighborhood] Cloverland with [Lil] Flip."

For the record, Tip has brought the MTV News cameras down to Bankhead before, and people did acknowledge him as being from around there.

Lo just released a "Foolish" remix, which features DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Jim Jones and Baby and he raps, "Cross your T's and dot your I's/ I'm the real Bankhead man, that no lie/ ... I said it before, I'm a real D-boy/ You can't be me, folk."

"I ain't gotta respond," Lo said about his records that go after Tip. "I ain't trying to get in no battle rap with T. Lie. That's what he do; he's a rapper. I'm a street n---a. I'm a trapper. I really lived it. I got 28 arrests, four convictions. My name is Carlo Walker — look it up." ...

While Rocko's claim that he's "the best thing since electricity" is still up for debate, the Atlanta thoroughbred is staying committed to his grassroots game plan of gaining plans. He's hitting several markets in promotion of his debut album, Self-Made, performing twice a day sometimes.

His "Tomorrow" video was recently released and "Umma Do Me" is getting regular spins, as if it weren't almost a year old ("Dis Morning" is working out well for him on Southern radio as well). And while he's letting fans marinate on his current album, Rocko began working on a second LP. He tells us he's dropping another mixtape in June called Swag School.

"My next mixtape comes out on June 14. I got a release date. I got a whole campaign around it," Rocko said. "Like how my single started off in Atlanta, I'm using that same formula. I got this mixtape called Swag School. I start it off, first song I take them to school. Anytime somebody mentions the South and swag, my name comes up in the same sentence. I said I'mma capitalize off that. ... My new mixtape, it'll have a few exclusives from my upcoming project, and I'm dropping more records for the ladies. ... I'm really a ladies' man, and at the same time, I represent the streets and the struggle, 'cause I'm a new artist. But I can't shake these ladies, and I know that."

Rocko said the ladies outnumber the men 10-to-1 at his shows. ...

Will "Thanksgiving" drop somewhere around Turkey Day? Mr. Thanksgiving, DJ Drama, is in the midst of putting together a follow-up to his official Gangsta Grillz album that was released last year. Barack O'Drama has the end of 2008 as his tentative due date for the next one. Prior to that, though, his Aphilliate Music Group will be releasing solo album by brothers La the Darkman and Willie the Kid.

"When you look at the success of my album and the numbers I did compared to the mainstream exposure I may have had, I did good," Drama told us in Atlanta. "My album, from beginning to end, is quality hip-hop music. I'm very excited about it. It's only right that I'mma go back in. I already started working on the new one. I'mma put an album out, try to get it done before the end of the year. You're gonna see everybody on there, of course. The Aphilliate movement is crazy. We just put the La the Darkman mixtape out, The Notorious L.A.D. La and Will, the two of them as a duo is crazy. You don't see that a lot in hip-hop."

And now, a little something from Rick Ross: He's a fan of the "Hottest MCs" show. We know you are as well. To see how the 2008 roundtable panned out, tune in to MTV on Friday at 10 p.m. ET to see the special "The Hottest MCs in the Game." Log on to MTVNews.com directly afterward to see a more in-depth analysis of the MCs who made the list.

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