Nicki Minaj Previews Highlights of ‘Pink Friday’ (Leak)

November 11, 2010 5 Comments

Tweet Young Money artist Nicki Minaj, hip-hop’s newest queen, says her debut album “Pink Friday” will have some hip-hop gems on it. Young Money has released a 7-minute teaser (below) to “Pink Friday” that whets the appetite of fans everywhere. Speaking to MTV, the former Myspace phenom says she’s enjoying making music without having to ...

Social Boy Tell ‘Em? How a rapper conquered social media

November 3, 2010 1 Comment

Tweet Rapper Soulja Boy has been called a lot of things. Marketing genius is not one of them, but maybe it should be. While the “Kiss Me Through the Phone” star is not what you would envision when you think of a social media guru, the former Batesville, Mississippi resident has vaulted near the top of ...

Ciara: “I’ve evolved as a woman”

October 21, 2010 No Comments

Tweet MySpace Music Presents: 24 Hours with Ciara Ciara | Myspace Music Videos “We were’nt super rich or super wealthy,” Ciara says about her youth on her 7-minute day-in-the-life clip she released yesterday. Ciara knows that you need to have your social media game on lock if you’re going to sell some CDs these days, ...

NFL player: We ‘import’ women from FB, Myspace

May 20, 2010 1 Comment

Tweet NFL player Dwayne Bowe has given the game away for NFL players everywhere. He told ESPN Magazine that players jump from hotel to hotel room. What’s in the rooms? Women. Lots of them. Bowe said having a groupie seek you out is played out. Now, the players coordinate through Facebook, Myspace and Twitter and ...

Nicki Minaj: From Myspace to Femme Phenom

April 7, 2010 11 Comments

Tweet At LaGuardia High School in New York, Onika Maraj was as silly as silly puddy. You can tell from the daffy-duck faces she makes even now. But when did the femme fatale known as Nicki Minaj emerge on the hip-hop scene? In 2002, a group of eUuniverse employees created Myspace. In two short years, ...

Nicki Minaj: Hip-Hop Queen?

February 25, 2010 8 Comments

Tweet Young Money artist Nicki Minaj has nary an album out but is the hottest female in the rap game already? How could this happen? How could a lyrical novice who started on Myspace with barely two mixtapes and a handful of features, and some major detractors, be a serious contender for hip-hop queen? Call ...

Rise of the camera-phone photographer

January 20, 2010 2 Comments

Tweet Used to be when you wanted to “make a picture” (as they say down South) you had to send it in to be developed into a Space Station 13-type pod at the Kodak store or local pharmacy. That is, if you didn’t have your own developing room, a pitch-black room illuminated with a scary ...

‘Sexting’ Can Be Dangerous

March 11, 2009 3 Comments

Tweet It was with awe, sorrow, astonishment that I read some of the newly-released text messages from the ‘sexting scandal involving former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and ex-Chief of Staff Christine Beatty. I’ve wrote about the perils of sexting before (which is some of the reason why I’m not a big Twitterer/Tweeter), but some things ...

Adult Sexting: Cool?

January 14, 2009 1 Comment

Tweet Rep. Anthony Weiner. John Edwards. Tiger Woods. Kwame Kilpatrick. The list grows. ‘Sexting’ did not exist when I was in middle school or even high school. The dating game has changed. Used to be, you had to actually know (face to face contact) a person to talk to them. Now, you can text them ...

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