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Are you ready to embark upon something epic? Well here is your chance. This is a public service announcement to all. Come out and support innovative and thriving  artists at the premiere of ‘The Memoirs of Hip-Hop‘.

(If you are interested in participating in the show, whether any actors, dancers, poets, rappers or stage crew position PLEASE SEE INFORMATION BELOW)

The Memoirs of Hip Hop is a multimedia, interdisciplinary chorepoem play and documentary that utilizes the Arts to tell the story of Hip Hop’s life that is not always told.  The show is introduced by Latasha A., the creator and lead of the production.

A brief storyline, The Memoirs of Hip Hop’s plot is Hip Hop is the main character and in the story other characters come into play such as Mama Africa (Hip Hop’s grandma) Mama Jazz (Hip Hop’s mother) Papa Funk. Hip Hop meets with Mr. Industry who basically transforms her life and the story goes on.

Alongside the metaphoric play is a documentary. This project is where various Hip Hop artists voice their thoughts on Hip Hop today and if Hip Hop were human, what would she or he be like? The documentary has a lot of new artists including J.Cole and Ninjasonik etc. Latasha used the documentary to bridge the gaps between the reality and the play.

The debut is August 7th and really big names will be in the seats including

VIBE, MTV, SONY, BET etc. This is a great opportunity to get yourself out there!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! AUGUST 7th 2010! LET’S SUPPORT HIP-HOP!

AUDITION INFO:

AUDITIONS AUDITIONS AUDITIONS

Dates: Monday, June 21st- Wednesday, June 23rd

Time: 6:30-10pm

Location: Rockwell Lounge 31 Rockwell Place Brooklyn, NY 11217-1113 WANTED: Actors, Dancers, Poets, Rappers and Stage Crew As an *actor*, Alot of the work is body language and improvising yourself as the musical genre you embody. I.E if you are electronica, how would electronica move speak feel?

The roles we are currently seeking are : (some roles are racially cast/not that we are racist but because you are metaphoric as you symbolize and entity, not a generalization)

Extras/ the people: ??? If you are interested in any of these you will have to act like these genres (improvise) at the auditions and say a few lines provided at the auditions. Alot of this is fun! so please enjoy yourself but be professional.

*Rappers and Poets: *

I need you to come in with a quick 16 line poem or 16 bar rap about your relationship with hip hop to spit (We prefer memorized)

*Stage Crew and extras!* WE NEED YOU MOST!!! This show is a moving play so furniture and things of that sort needs to moved all around and we need alot of hands for it. All we need you to do is come  in tell us about ur self and sign up!

*Dancers*: Come in ready to dance/ something improvised ( I love freestyles) but also some choreography! Dancers Auditions are exclusively at 9pm so be there sharp!

IF YOU KNOW YOU GOT WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING FOR, THEN COME, SHOW AND PROVE!

I REPEAT, SAVE THOSE DATES! ITS A MOVEMENT!

FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT LATASHA, THE CREATOR, VIA EMAIL: LANOHOLLYWOOD@GMAIL.COM

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Thriving female hip hop artist, J. Philippe, released her promotional video for her debut mixtape J.Philippe Presents “The Mixtape”. The video captures many scenes of J.Philippe being none other than herself and her hunger for stardom. The song featured in the video, Intro, is off her mixtape which drop this coming Monday. Without further ado, here is the video that you all have been waiting for. Watch, Listen, and Enjoy!

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 What happens when some of the hottest young MC (s) around New York City come together? Well, you get a KILLER cipher. Get familiar with some of these up and coming artists: KJAY, SCRAMZ, Dopescienze, Marv, SNEAKY PETE, XIAMJIMMY, COLV, LA, AND TONY POLO. This video is a problem. Support real hip-hop. Watch, Listen, and Enjoy!

WE GOT BARS VOL 1 from Nunnie20 on Vimeo.

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It looks like rap star, 50 Cent, really doesn’t like when his fans come onstage uninvited. During a recent concert, a male groupie jumped onstage to try and hype the crowd with 50 Cent and his hype men but 50 came behind him and shoved him right back down into the crowd.

Unfortunately for the fan, the young man landed head-first back into the crowd, cushioned only by the few pairs of sneakers on the floor.  But here’s the ringer – concert security did not lift a finger to help the young man!

And then some people wonder why people prefer to have real police at concerts instead of the normal security guards?

It’s unknown whether or not the fan was hurt or not but this video is definite testimony to 50 Cent fans to never come onstage unless he personally invites you or else you’ll be sure to get a shocking rejection.

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To the surprise of many, Rev. Run’s encouragement to his daughter to work on making money now before waiting and depending on four hard-working years in college has been the instruction of many parents to their children in America as the economy seems at a stand still for opening up job opportunities for even the highest of qualified college graduates.

However, many parents who’ve always insisted on pursuing education as the next generation’s road to success are now beginning to agree with other parents like Rev. Run and encouraging their kids to work diligently on their “side hustle” to ensure a pay check at the end of the week.

“I don’t discourage in my house. This is an entertainment house,” Rev. Run said in a recent quote. “My daughter, Angela, was in college she was like, ‘Daddy, I don’t know what to do. I’m getting straight A’s in college but Pastries is taking off.’ I , ‘Peace college, go take your butt down to the sneaker office and go get that paper…that’s your college…We’ll get back to . Pastries is doing millions.’”

It’s a hard but real truth that, with the unhealthy economy, a college education may not cut it in the job industry for the next few years, leaving graduates with options to either find and hold on to part-time jobs for as long as they can or work diligently on their second talent and hope for the best. It’s times like these where the old philosophy is twisted from “It’s who you know” to “It’s what you can do”.

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With her newfound swagger and style creating an uproar in the music world, Rihanna is planning to amp-up her new look’s debut with the beginning of her 2010 North American tour, “Last Girl on Earth”, starting this July.

The songstress will be accompanied by new artist Ke$ha and Young Money member Nicki Minaj. The two will open for Rihanna during all the planned concert tour dates, produced by the Live Nation.

Rihanna’s “Last Girl on Earth” tour dates and locations are:

July 2 – Seattle White River at Amphitheatre

July 4 – Vancouver at General Motors Place

July 6 – Calgary at Pengrowth Saddeldome

July 9 – Sacramento at ARCO Arena

July 10 – Mountain View Shoreline at Amphitheatre at Mountain  View

July 14 – Albuquerque Hard Rock Casino at The Pavilion

July 15 – Denver Comfort at Dental Amphitheatre

July 17 – Las Vegas Mandalay Bay at Events Center

July 21 – Los Angeles at Staples Center

July 22 – Phoenix Cricket at Wireless Pavilion

July 28 – Atlanta Philips Arena

July 30 – Tampa Ford Amphitheatre

July 31 – Miami American Airlines Center

August – 3 – Indianapolis Verizon Wireless Music Center

August 5 – Toronto Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

August 7 – Montreal Bell Centre

August 8 – Boston Comcast Center

August 11 – Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena

August 12 – New York Madison Square Garden

August 15 – Wantagh Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre

August 18 – Camden Susquehanna Bank Center

August 20 – Bristow Jiffy Lube Live

August 21 – Hershey Hershey Park Stadium

August 22 – Detroit DTE Energy Music Theatre

August 25 – Chicago United Center

Tickets are available online now at LiveNation.com.

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To everyone’s surprise, Will Smith has turned down a lead role offered by movie-maker Cameron Crowe that would depict him as Marvin Gaye in an upcoming movie biography. It’s said that Smith tried to negotiate his portrayal of the renowned singer for several months but, unfortunately, neither side could come to an agreement and Smith ultimately refused to take the role.

Daily Variety quoted Crowe saying, “It’s all about getting the contact high in a movie theatre that you can get from music. A record can change your life. Somebody poured their life into that little piece of music. To me that’s a hero.”

Many say that they couldn’t see Will Smith acting as Marvin Gaye anyway, claiming that they’d prefer to see him in a movie depicting President Barack Obama. Although many Smith fans are split over the idea of his next biography movie, we doubt that he would have made a good Marvin Gaye impersonation. There may be few things that Will Smith can’t do but this may have been one of them.

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A while after announcing the impending end of her renowned television talk show, Oprah Winfrey has released information on her new nighttime show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter”, that will be featured on her new cable channel.

The television network announced that they new broadcast will be a hour-long show that will free her from the confines of the studio and the conventional talk show format to have “every-day” conversations and allow her to travel around the world. “Oprah’s Next Chapter” is planned to be the key ingredient for the completion of the new 24-hour Oprah Winfrey Network, where Oprah will be one of the main people programming the network from behind the scences.

The network is a joint project of Oprah’s Harpo Inc. and Discovery Communications Inc. and will be signed to air in over 80 million homes on January 1. The Oprah Winfrey Network will begin soon after the end of her syndicated talk show with its 25^th season during the late 2011.

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Alicia Keys takes her fans behind the scenes of her upcoming “Freedom” tour, showing everyone that it takes more than an amazing face and incredible singing voice to pull off a large-scale on-stage performance.

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Usher is back and in full throttle as he continues to soar up on the Billboard with his new album Raymond VS. Raymond. The R&B singer is determined to recover from his Here I Stand flop and come out on top even though his latest album already has him at the top of the charts.

“I went all the way into being super husband and super dad, thinking, ‘I’ve got to be serious all the time. I’ve got to be the man’,” Usher said, referring to how his last album played out. “I put my swagger down for a minute, but I didn’t throw it away; now it’s time to get it back.”

And it’s obvious, from the turnout of his songs “Papers” and “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)” that he’s truly risen from the dust.

Thinking back to his song “Papers”, Usher said, “The song wasn’t intended to glorify my personal situation or people breaking up. I didn’t know if it was going to be the single or part of the album. I just thought it was a special track that would represent me well.”

And represent it did. Usher is still climbing on the Billboards and doing a lot more that just getting his swagger back.

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