Drake Calls Out Ludacris For Borrowing His Signature Flow

Young Money 's Drake recently spoke on his rap flow and why artists like Ludacris have borrowed and misused it in their rhymes.While not trying to offend anyone, Drake expressed his issues with his popular flow and referenced Ludacris' line off "My Chick Bad.".
"Well, that flow has been killed by so many rappers. And, I never want to use that flow again in life. [Laughs] I wanted to take if off my album, because I was like, 'I shut 'em down. Onyx.' I hate the fact that that rhyme is still in there. To be honest, that flow, you can trace it back to like...I trace it back to Big Sean (artist on Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music). That's the first guy I heard utilize that flow throughout the duration of a verse. I'll give him that credit. I think Kanye got it from him. Me and Wayne found a dope way to do it. I don't want to sound cocky, but the best way its been used was on "Forever." Those lines just all individually make so much sense. They're all punchlines. Then a bunch of rappers started doing it and using the most terrible references in the world. I don't want to offend somebody...I hate that rappers picked that flow up. I wish they had left that for people that know how to use it. [They go like] "It's a parade! MACY'S!" (All Hip Hop)
Luda is heard using the flow off his Nicki Minaj guest featured single.
"Couple girlfriends and they all a lil' crazy/Comin' down the street like a parade, Macy's/I fill her up, balloons!/Test her and guns get drawn like cartoons/Doh, but I ain't talk 'bout Homer/Chick so bad the whole crew wanna bone her!" ("My Chick Bad")
G.O.O.D.'s Music Big Sean also took notice of Drake's comments.
"D*mn, Drake admitted that he used my #supadupa flow, n got it from me, I started a ryme scheme that changed raphttp://bit.ly/bd7rrF" (Big Sean's Twitter)
Aside from flows, Drake's Thank Me Later debut topped the charts this past week.
Young Money rapper Drake's Thank Me Later finally debuted on the charts this week landing at No. 1. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the rapper's long-awaited debut moved 447,300 units after seven days in stores. (SOHH Sales Wrap).
Listen to Ludacris' usage of the flow on "My Chick Bad" below:



From: http://www.hiphopdx.com/

Lil Boosie, Other Gunmen Face Hearing Today

Rapper Lil Boosie is slated to appear in court today (June 28th) to face a hearing related to a first-degree murder charge. 

Boosie, born Torrence Hatch, will attend the hearing along with several other men who are accused in a string of shootings.  

A grand jury indicted Lil Boosie on a first-degree-murder charge on June 18th for his role in the October 2009 shooting death of Baton Rogue resident, 35-year-old Terry Boyd. 

Lil Boosie, 27, has also been declared a suspect in at least two other murders, prosecutors recently confirmed. 

As previously reported, Lil Boosie is being investigated in the murder of Chris “Nussie” Jackson, who was publicly feuding with Boosie until his murder in February of 2009. 

Now, police are investigating if Lil Boosie and his alleged crew of killers were involved in the death of Darryl “Bleek” Milton. 

Milton was a former employee of Lil Boosie’s record label, Bad Azz Entertainment, was found shot dead in his Cadillac on April 1st. 

Five other people have been indicted in Milton’s killing already and East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore III, said police are investigating Boosie’s possible ties to the slaying. 

Milton is featured prominently in Lil Boosie’s video for “We Out Chea” and his death is acknowledged at the end of the video. 

Lil Boosie is facing death by lethal injection if he is convicted of 1st-degree murder.






From: http://allhiphop.com/

JAY-Z AND EMINEM ADD MORE DATES IN NEW YORK, DETROIT

Jay-Z and Eminem have doubled up on performances for their upcoming 'Home And Home' tour, adding two additional dates for their September shows at Yankee Stadium in New York and Comerica Park in Detroit.

Just hours after the Thursday (June 24) pre-sale for their September 2 and September 13 dates in Detroit and New York, an extra show was added in each city. Now, the 'Renegade'-duo will perform in Detroit's Comerica Park on September 2 and 3, and Yankee Stadium in New York on September 13 and 14. Jay-Z is scheduled to open up for Eminem at the Detroit shows, while Em will return the favor for Jay's performances at Yankee Stadium. Tickets for both shows are currently on sale.

On Friday, June 25, fans can catch an early preview of the duo in action, during the the 'Late Show with David Letterman.' Jay-Z and Eminem performed a three song mini-concert on Monday (June 21) atop the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, and the footage is scheduled to air at 11:35PM on CBS.

From: http://www.theboombox.com/

'Twilight Eclipse' Premiere PICS: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner & A LOT Of Fans (PHOTOS)

'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' premiere took over LA on Thursday night.

The film's stars were the main draw, and people had been camping out for days for a glimpse.

Below are photos of stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, and below the photos is an AP article on the 'Eclipse' premiere hysteria.

LOS ANGELES -- Monica Siegel and her two friends dropped a total of $2,500 and flew hundreds of miles to camp out for four days on a gritty patch of sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles. On Thursday, it was all worth it.

Siegel, 22, of Fennville, Mich., nabbed a spot near the red carpet to see - and swoon over - the heartthrob stars of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" as they arrived at the premiere of the latest installment in the blockbuster vampire series.

"It's been a big part of my life. I start caring about the characters a lot, and when they make the movies, you start caring about the actors that portray the characters," she said after frantically coloring a fan poster. "The love story is what drew me in."

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Is Splatter Paint The Tie-Dye Of Menswear?

Despite the rage for beachy tie-dyes that Proenza Schouler and co. inspired in women worldwide, men have been a little more hesitant to pick up the trend. But watching the Dries Van Noten show in Paris yesterday, we wondered if the Belgian bellwether wasn’t offering his own alternative. Van Noten showed ink-spattered tops and bleach-stained jeans that picked up the look of the tie-dye but infused it with a rougher, slightly more masculine edge. (In look, at least: As Tim Blanks reports, the blotches were hand-painted by couturiers in Lake Como.) Is the trend catching? Gaultier, too, showed paint spatter, on pants and knits that called to mind one of the roughest and most masculine of modern painters: Jackson Pollock.

From: http://www.style.com

Another Model Down: Viveka Babajee Commits Suicide

Bollywood actress and Indian model Viveka Babajee, 37, was found dead today, Thaindian News reports. She allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan in her suburban Mumbai apartment. According to The Calcutta Telegraph, the former Miss Mauritius titleholder and one-time face of Coca-Cola and Kama Sutra ads in India, suffered from severe depression.

Babajee's death adds to an ever-growing list of recent model suicides, loaning credence to what Jezebel contributor and ex-model Jenna Sauers posited last month: "Suicidal models are fashion's worst trend."

Indeed, in the past two years, a hauntingly high number of models have taken their own lives. There was 20-year-old Korean superstar Daul Kim, of course, who stalked down runways for Alexander McQueen and Chanel before hanging herself in her Paris apartment last November. French model Noémie Lenoir tried to kill herself in May; and last Friday, one day before the men's fashion shows kicked off, 22-year-old French model Tom Nicon plunged from his apartment in Milan, in what authorities suspect was a suicide. And that's to say nothing of the deaths of Russian Vogue cover model Ruslana Korshunova, Colombian model-turned-TV presenter Lina Marulanda, Canadaian bombshell Hayley Kohle, not to mention Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow.

But are any of these suicides really connected, or just a tragic coincidence? Do they speak to the tremendous pressures of a looks-obsessed industry, or inadvertently glamorize the act as noble in some sick way?

Dr. Lanny Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology in Washington D.C., says that in the month following Marilyn Monroe's fatal overdose, the numbers of young women dying in the same manner spiked. They were most likely victims of a “non-specific loss of hope,” he says, plagued by the idea that if someone so successful couldn’t make it, how could they?

But Dr. Berman is hesitant to judge the rash of fashion suicides in a similar light, saying that “if you then suggest that there is a cluster going on of imitative suicide, you then influence the problem." To prove that these are indeed copycat suicides, he adds, models would have to have shown undue interest in, or looked up to those peers who took their own lives — "otherwise the evidence is coincidental.”

Sauers thinks it's important to recognize the "extremely high-pressure environment" that models exist in. “When you’re successful, you’re sort of surrounded by people who have a financial interest in your career, who want you to be working hard all the time,” she says, further noting that agents “may not necessarily look very kindly on the notion of taking time off, even to deal with an obvious mental health problem.”

Preston Chaunsumlit, a freelance casting agent and close friend of the late Daul Kim says the model once told him she took 17 flights in three weeks. Four days before she died, she wrote on her blog, “Oh but how lonely it is. then and now.” Chaunsumlit, who met Daul in New York in 2007 at an Ohne Titel casting, and says he spoke with her almost daily, also wonders if his industry was somehow complicit. “I’m kind of responsible for these young people and one of them I am really close with is not here any more,” he says, “I asked other casting people, ‘Are we doing something weird? People are dying all around us.’”

Charlotte Ronson sees campaigns like the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s 2007 “Beauty is Health”, which asked designers to avoid using rail-thin models, as a step toward alleviating job-related stress. “There are pressures of any industry, but when it’s that transparent and it’s all about your exterior,” says Ronson, it “is effecting how you feel about yourself.”

Certain industries do have higher rates of suicide, says Dr. Berman, though he was not aware of any studies of its prevalence in fashion. “But even in industries where suicide rates are higher than others, it’s always going to be the most vulnerable,” he says. “You never want to leave the impression that this is something that healthy people do."

But Gaspard, Tom Nicon’s agent at Next, says the model seemed healthy enough. “Sometimes, you know, you have some kind of fragile kid,” he says, “but [Nicon] was the last person you would expect [to commit suicide].” Though Chaunsumlit says Kim griped to him about her day-to-day annoyances, it all sounded pretty normal — “growing-pains.” Neither Gaspard nor Chaunsumlit knew how either model truly suffered, until it was too late.

Now that Kim's gone, says Chaunsumlit, "it [just] feels like she is on a really busy, busy schedule. The difference is that I’m not going to see her in the magazines anymore."

From: http://nymag.com

Sidewalk Catwalk Initiative Unveiled

NEW YORK — An unorthodox fashion show is being staged on the streets of the Garment District.

It’s called Sidewalk Catwalk, and scores of designers, garment executives and business leaders strolled up Broadway Thursday morning to unveil the artistic, sometimes off-the-wall collection of 33 mannequins, each dressed by a designer. “This is all about bringing what’s inside the walls of the garment industry outside to the streets of New York,” said Terry Lundgren, chairman and chief executive officer of Macy’s Inc., which, along with LF USA, The New York Times and HP, sponsored the project in conjunction with the Fashion Center Business Improvement District and several designers.

The objective is to project the Garment District as a center of creativity, not just commercialism, even amid its shrinking manufacturing base, and to enliven the stretch between Herald Square and Times Square, which has been partially transformed into a pedestrian plaza with outdoor seating and restricted vehicle traffic. Catwalk Sidewalk will grace Broadway from 35th to 42nd Streets through Sept. 3.

“Sometimes this industry needs a good kick in the butt to get it going in the right direction,” said Elie Tahari, whose mannequin is futuristically dressed in aluminum and Plexiglas panels and pays homage to “Orpheus and Apollo,” a sculpture by Richard Lippold in Lincoln Center, where designers will show their spring collections in September. “The garment industry needs to reinvent itself, but there is more than hope for this. We have to be as creative as possible,” said Kenneth Cole, whose mannequin is covered by a “social messaging” sign reading, “Underneath it all, you’re naked.”

Yeohlee Teng created an homage to the architecture in the fashion district with a brick-and-mortar, wedding cake-shaped figure reflecting how the buildings at a certain level are inset to let the sunlight stream in. Rebecca Moses designed a waterproof felt skirt with a hoop to keep its shape, with a mesh blouse and a reptile skin sash. Fashion Institute of Technology students Ariel Penzer and Christopher Ciaccia tiled over their mannequin for a ceramic look.

On the ephemeral side, Betsey Johnson dressed her mannequin in flowers. Victor Alfaro dressed his in a parachute and goggles, and Diane von Furstenberg painted hers in one of her classic prints and signed it “Love is Life.”

The mannequins will withstand the elements. “They are steel reinforced, and very thick because they need to be really heavy. They’re also sprayed with a catalyzed acrylic coating,” explained Michael Evert, sculptor at Ralph Pucci International, which created the mannequins. They’re also mounted on steel plates and concrete bases. The mannequins and what’s on them are being auctioned to benefit Materials for the Arts.

From: www.wwd.com/

La Roux Unplugged At Viktor & Rolf Monsieur

Viktor & Rolf’s menswear show this morning was an intimate engagement, so when they booked Elly Jackson—a.k.a. the front woman of dance/pop sensation La Roux—they requested something softer than the usual dancehall thrum. “I think Viktor and Rolf originally wanted me to do a cappella,” Jackson told Style.com. “It was a nice idea, but I wasn’t sure entirely how that would work.” They met in the middle with an unplugged set of three songs, including, for the models’ final exit, the worldwide hit “Bulletproof.”

“It works really well in the space,” Jackson continued, describing the slowed-down, acoustic versions of songs from her self-titled debut album. “It’s a lot more Viktor & Rolf. It wouldn’t really be right to do the songs as they are on the record in a space like this. I think the way we’re doing it now a lot more suits the V&R brand and the way they are.”

Speaking of the way they are—that’s just the way Jackson dressed. The flame-haired singer wore a custom-tailored suit from the Monsieur collection, combed her trademark quiff into a style resembling Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren’s own, and donned a pair of their signature glasses (which also appeared, by the way, intarsia-ed on a model’s sweater). The a.m. appearance marked Jackson’s first time at Paris fashion week, but the menswear-favoring singer (she doesn’t wear women’s clothing) said as much as she’d like to, she couldn’t stay for any other men’s shows—she jetted off to Glastonbury, where she’s performing, immediately after her set. But she, Horsting, and Snoeren may all meet again. “There might be a way to involve Viktor & Rolf in [the next music video],” she said.

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Victoria Beckham Debuts Rachel Zoe's Boot Collaboration with Brian Atwood

They may not have been made for too much walking, but the sexy thigh-high boots that Victoria Beckham donned Wednesday night certainly stole the show among the fashionable guests that gathered at the Diane von Furstenberg party at Claridge’s hotel in London. And with good reason! Stylist-to-the-stars Rachel Zoe helped design the super-high and uber-chic black suede “RZ” boots as a collaboration with her longtime friend and celebrated designer Brian Atwood. Featuring a chic chain detail up the back, the platform boots–which Posh paired with a barely-there black Giles corset dress–looked just as fabulous as the unexpected ensembles that Zoe pulls together for her A-list clients. And while pop star-turned-designer Posh got to debut the style from Atwood’s fall 2010 collection this week, the rest of us will have to wait until the boots arrive in stores later this month–as if we needed another reason to envy Posh!