I hadn’t really seen this clip of Kelis performing in NYC this week, but thanks to HipHopBlog for sending over her Club 57 footage, and thanks to the fact that I’m up at an ungodly early hour for one reason or another….so I watched it. The sound quality is deplorable but wow, Kelis is a whirling dervish on that small balcony-stage! I get amped when I hear that Major Lazer song too, but never a split. Ever.
It’s no secret that I’m very fond of Travis Barker the drummer, and my friend DJ A-Trak, turntablist and bon-vivant. So I was especially psyched to see that they’ve formed a duo. Its definitely different but still in the same collaborative vein as the incredible TRVS/AM partnership that Barker had with the late, great, DJ AM. A few weeks ago, Travis X A-Trak jammed at the Roxy in LA, and I posted some of that footage after the jump….
-Fashion: There were two photos that….well, frankly…they confused me.
(On the left: Chris Brown at Milan Fashion Week, imitating an formal chauffeur-turned-hillside-strangler. Sleeves tucked in?) (pic spotted at TMZ)
(On the right: Monique and husband at this past Sunday’s Golden Globe awards…but…where’s PETA to regulate that mink pelt on her legs? *shivers*) (pic spotted at SandraRose)
After the jump….Nivea remakes her 2nd baby daddy’s worker’s song and turns it into a tale of abandoned love…
Shout to reader Adrian F. who sent over this story on a company called Gemstone Creative. Its been making the rounds in the UK since last month. They make mosaic portraits out of diamonds and other precious stones. And are working the publicity circles by fashioning a portrait of lifelong diamond-lover and super famous person Jay-Z. Ok. I see the plan. But….
This company….I get the novelty aspect, but looking at their other work in the clip…diamonds or no diamonds…you’re still just copying pictures of tiger heads and the Queen of England. You spent some jeweler’s time and used stones or rhinestones to make a picture of a peacock. Anyone who buys a diamond picture of a peacock, better be named Mr. Tom Peacock, or they’re a complete ass.
Also, don’t pretend that your diamond Hov pic is 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide, GC. That’s disrespectful. There’s 22,500 stones in there….on their website, they don’t specify the ratio of real stones to rhinestones, but at that size, those diamonds would be multiple carats each? What a bargain at your price of $1million! Its weird because Damien Hirst’s infamous diamond-encrusted human skull sold in 2007 for….$100 Million.
Anyways, this and the Obama portrait are just lame. Lame if a dumb rich man fan buys it. Lame if Jay himself buys it (which I’m sure he’d never do).
I’d stick with this:
update: that diamond pic is the new version of the velvet painting…for russian oil rich. blech.
MissInfo: in addition to releasing an album, I think Sade should also release her line of skincare, vitamin supplements, and a fitness guide…because : Hello, Eternal Youth?? What the hell, man!
“I’m just lookin’ for a chick with a dude’s haircut…”
omg, HA! Ok, this guy doesnt really look like Rihanna’s new boyfriend Matt Kemp (in fact, he kind of looks like the homie Eskay, lol)….but this Funny-or-Die faux-Matt Kemp Match.com profile made me choke my SmartWater down the wrong pipe.
Speaking of “public ass-groping”…nothing looks better on a girl than new love. Old love looks snug and secure, but new love looks shiny and sexy, lol. RihannaDaily had tons of photos from Rihanna and Matt’s yacht trip off the coast of Cabo San Lucas…(click to enlarge)
Mikey: MC defends her “drunk speech” and explains that she just had some inside jokes for her old friend, Lee Daniels, and “hadn’t eaten much” before the award show. We understand Mimi. But last night it looks like Mariah gave another questionable acceptance speech at the People’s Choice Awards, you decide after the jump…
MissInfo: ok…I hadn’t watched the “drunk speech” until just now…but holy friggin’ drug interaction slizzard hallucinations! Mimi was high as a kite! That was crazytown!…on the other hand, the People’s Choice speech was totally regular Mariah Carey dizzyness. That’s just her normal self. Self-infatuated “this dress is a drama!” and coquette. I say: not-guilty!
1) A video tour of Lil Wayne’s Florida mansion….
What? no gold tub like Percy Miller, or gold toilet like Kimora? (”Where dey [don't] do that at?” (c) anti-WakaFlockaFlame) This place looks like like a rental, or a video shoot location. Gorgeous, but sterile.
soo….I’m back from the ‘Go, but sadly I didnt get to catch up with old friends or new, it was such a short trip, I just hung out with the family, ate bomb-ass home-cooked Korean food (traditional new year’s fare: rice-cake soup, plus a new lobster claw bibb lettuce salad concoction, and bbq short ribs aka kalbi), and nursed this nagging cough I still have. But I also left my computer off, so today, it was time to catch up….come to find out….not a lot happened. Above is a video of Wayne’s crib via his YM artist JR. I’ve heard that at one point he had a fly home in Miami but was still paying to live in an exorbitant penthouse at the Setai, but that was a couple yrs ago.
3) Scott Storch tells Allhiphop that he’s been talking to Shyne during his incarceration and will be working on his new album. I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and say…I think there are couple big name producers who are having talks with or about Shyne of late…So these revelations will keep coming as folks try to angle their way around this project.
Obviously Alicia Keys has been making the rounds because of her album which dropped this week, appearing on the Colbert Report, and on Letterman, But in this video taken by her own tour family in Dubai, you see Alicia in the wild, swimming, relaxing, jetskiing, and most importantly, applying SPF to protect against damaging UV rays.
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Rosie Acosta is the obvious choice to pose on the cover of the revival of King Magazine (which seems funded by Dynasty Series, which seems like a modeling agency or something. They’ve kept the cover fonts, but who will be writing the snappy front-of-book sections that Datwon Thomas and Jermaine Hall set up?) (spotted on The Smoking Section) Now Rosa looks beautiful as always, and ever taut especially in the abdominal region, but for Rosa-fanboys, its tame compared to that Supreme shoot, or that surreal stretching video. If you didnt catch that (shurrr), I’ll include the video for your Christmas cheer…
