Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Watch this video in a new window Gucci Mane ft Waka Flocka Flame & OJ Da Juiceman- Dear Diary (Prod. By Nitti)
Monday, March 29, 2010
Silvano – Fly High Pigeon
Florida’s newly opened Project 51 is the brainchild of Courtney Cox. Along with the super sweet retail space the guy also has whipped up his own exclusive pigeon themed shoes.
The Slivano is a pretty clean take on Jeff Staple’s signature shoe that borrows the color sheet from his collaboration. A palette of various greys and white are all mixed up with a dash of orange and some pigeon embroidery to make a cool looking high top skate shoe. These are only available at Project 51 in Coconut Grove. Via SF
Lil late But Big's one album deal wit Def Jam
It’s Official Big Boi signs solo album Deal with Def Jam!!!!! More details to come…,” he tweeted at 9:40 p.m. “Ink is on paper,” he posted just a minute later.
The first album under his new deal is “Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty,” which has been in limbo for three years. Tracks releasing from the project so far include “Royal Flush,” which features Andre 3000 and Raekwon; “Sumthin’s Gotta Give” with Mary J. Blige; “Dubbz”; “Fo Yo Sorrows” with George Clinton and Too $hort; and most recently, “Shine Blockas” with Gucci Mane.
Big Boi also told Billboard.com recently that he’s worked with T.I., Lil Jon, Jamie Foxx and B.O.B. for the album, which was originally due at the end of 2008 via LaFace/Zomba.
“There’s been a lot of stops and stars with this project,” Boi told Billboard.com in December. “I’ve just been trying to make sure we’ve got the right avenues and the right brains and mindsets together to get the marketing and promoting behind it. When you work on something for, like, two years and 11 months, it’s like your baby. You want to make sure that everybody has taken the project the way they’re supposed to be taking it and the set-up is right.”
The Next Rihanna???
Former 'America's Got Talent' contestant Alexis Jordan has become the latest artist signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint. The 17-year-old South Carolina native didn't secure the winning spot when she appeared on the inaugural season of the show in 2007, but she impressed judges with her cover of Whitney Houston's 'I Have Nothing.'
Jordan later became a viral sensation with her YouTube covers of popular songs including B.o.B.'s 'Nothing on You,' and Jay-Z's 'Run This Town' and caught the attention of executives at Stargate and Roc Nation. "I thought if they didn't love me then they wouldn't fly me all the way out to New York," she said, after receiving the initial call from Stargate. "I knew I had a good chance. Once I got out there we recorded a few songs and Jay-Z came to the studio. I was so excited! And the next thing I knew I was signed to StarRoc/Roc Nation."
Jordan recently debuted her upbeat single 'Happiness,' and revealed that her album will follow the same, youthful tempo. "I want to be really positive, no cussing, none of that," she said. "I'm a young artist and I want to be a role model. A lot of songs are upbeat and some are ballads. There's a little bit of that country vibe in it, and a little bit of that reggae vibe. My album has everything."
Heat holds off Raptors 97-94
MIAMI -- Udonis Haslem more than picked up the slack for struggling starter Michael Beasley.
Haslem scored 23 points, including 11 in the fourth quarter, and the Miami Heat rallied from a 17-point deficit to beat the Toronto Raptors 97-94 Sunday night."I'm all about winning," Haslem said.Dwyane Wade scored 32 points and also helped set up Haslem, who hit four open jumpers in the Heat's fourth-quarter comeback."Me and Dwyane have been together a long time and he has trust in me that if I am going to be open, I'm going to knock down the shots," Haslem said. "I just feel comfortable in those situations that I am going to knock down the shot."Now a reserve after starting the previous five seasons, Haslem took Beasley's place for the final 25:01 of the game. Beasley finished with two points and shot 1 of 10 from the field.Miami outscored Toronto 19-7 in the final 6:12, taking the lead for good at 91-89 on Carlos Arroyo's jumper with 59 seconds remaining. He made it a four-point game with two free throws with 22 seconds to play.Jarrett Jack hit a 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left to cut the Miami lead to 95-94, but Arroyo secured the Heat's fifth consecutive victory with two free throws with 1.4 seconds left."Even though we weren't in control of the game, we still felt we could be," Wade said. "We just knew that we had to fight all the way to the end."This is the kind of resolve this team is getting."Arroyo converted six free throws in the final 22 seconds for the Heat, in sixth place in the Eastern Conference."I had a lot of confidence with my free throws," Arroyo said. "In those situations, I knew one point was not enough. Getting the two free throws each time was important."Chris Bosh led Toronto with 19 points.The Raptors made 6-of-10 3-pointers in the third quarter, but then were only 6 of 20 from the field in the fourth period."We had a hard time getting open looks," Toronto coach Jay Triano said. "We would swing the ball and they would close out. They cranked it up in the fourth."Andrea Bargnani and Jose Calderon each hit two 3-pointers during a 16-5 run midway through the third quarter. Calderon's second came with 5:14 remaining, capping the spurt and giving the Raptors a 72-55 lead.Bargnani finished with 19 points and Calderon with 12. But Bargnani missed two open jumpers after the Heat took the lead in the fourth quarter."We had some open looks at the end and the ball just didn't want to go in," Calderon said.The Heat played without starting center Jermaine O'Neal, who sat out with a hyperextended right knee. O'Neal was injured in the first quarter of Miami's victory at Milwaukee on Friday night.Joel Anthony replaced O'Neal in the Miami starting lineup and shot 6 of 6 from the field for 13 points."I keep myself ready for whatever is going to happen," Anthony said. "I was just trying to do my job out there. Carlos and Dwyane did a real good job of finding me for some easy baskets."Jack scored 11 points in the second quarter, helping the Raptors build a 49-43 halftime lead after the Heat led 26-23 at the end of the first period."The best part about this win was the fact things were not going our way and in the first half we were not mentally strong," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We were able to grind it out all the way to the end and our two captains [Wade and Haslem] were simply tremendous."Game notes
The Heat and Raptors finished their season series 2-2. ... Jack jumped and tumbled over the Raptors' TV broadcast crew while chasing a loose ball in the second quarter. ... The comeback was Miami's biggest of the season, surpassing a 13-point deficit and win at Phoenix on Jan. 8. Although Hedo Turkoglu was active, Triano decided against playing him. Turkoglu missed the last game with a stomach illness.
