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A Sandwich of Topics, Easy to DigestArchive for May, 2009
City On Steroids
China is building megacities like this at a pace and scale the world has never seen before. Chongqing has 12 million people and counting. It’s part of the central government’s plan to bring some of China’s economic boom to its impoverished interior province where three out of four Chinese live. Vanguard takes you on a whirlwind tour of the city—from inside a cramped boarding house where migrant workers to inside a starter apartment of China’s new class of yuppies; from inside ancient, crumbling teahouses to gleaming new car factories.
In the Studio with Lil Wayne’s Mentor & Kanye West’s Mentor – Its About That Money
Weezy’s Mentor = Mikkey Halsted
Yeezy’s Mentor = No I.D.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Gotta check one of the deepest raps I’ve ever listened to by Mikkey called Liquor Store
Throwback of the Week: Johnny Appleseed [cartoon]
Cartoon on the life of one America’s legends and most generous individuals. I learned about him when I was in elementary and I’ve been interested in his life since.
Intro by Darth Vader.
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Jay Z Buys Out Contract from Def Jam for 5 milli
“I’ve been in the family for almost my entire career. Doug and I spoke directly and had one of the most unique ‘negotiations’ ever.”…
…Jay said that negotiation included a coin toss. “Doug won the toss, but we both won in the end,” Jay said. “I thank him for allowing me to be a completely independent artist. Not every artist can say they own or are given the opportunity to own all of their music.”
It seems this Doug Morris is the pretty gangster himself. Who is this guy?
Word of the day: endemic
endemic (en-DEM-ik) adjective
1. Natural to a particular people or place; always present in a particular area.
2. Confined to a geographic region.
[From Greek endemos (native), from en- (in) + demos (people).]
Today’s word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=endemic
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
“Some of the worst actors on the international stage can also take
advantage of the collective exhaustion and outrage that people feel with
official corruption, as we’ve seen with Islamic extremists who promise
purification, but deliver totalitarianism. Endemic corruption opens
the door to this kind of movement, and in its wake comes a new set of
distortions and betrayals of public trust.”
Barack Obama; An Honest Government, A Hopeful Future; Speech at the
University of Nairobi, Kenya; Aug 28, 2006.
Common on Tavis Smiley
Vodpod videos no longer available. Common discusses his album, his role in the upcomming Terminator movie, and working with Kanye West and his mentor No I.D.
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