The 27-year-old royal has been inspired to get behind the decks and play music from the genre ever since he visited Jamaica in March and met Rita Marley, the widow of music legend Bob Marley, who died in May 1981.
A source told The Sun newspaper: ‘Harry has always been interested in music, but Jamaica was a real eye opener. He started looking into reggae as soon as he got back to the UK.
‘Meeting Rita Marley was a great inspiration too. She seems to have had a big impact on him.’
Harry has been increasing his music collection by purchasing reggae on vinyl from specialist online stores and he is thought to be hoping to get good enough at mixing records at parties, although he is ‘unlikely’ to ever be able to show off his newfound skills in public.
The source added: ‘He’s unlikely to ever DJ in public — but if he did it’d be the party of the year.’
The flame-haired royal visited Jamaica as part of the Diamond Jubilee tour of the Caribbean, where he was representing his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, in her 60th year on the throne.
During the trip, Harry met Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and the country’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson.
EMOE TVEE: Chico aka YB “Doubt This”
EMOE TVEE: Chico aka YB “Doubt This” Music Video Directed by: E-Moe (1080p) HD
So Appalled (Freestyle) – Bennie Bates – #BennieMafia
Mystikal, Jazz Fest
NEW ORLEANS — Thousands turned out Friday to see New Orleans rapper Mystikal perform one last time before returning to jail on a probation violation.
The rapper, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was released from a Louisiana prison in 2010 after serving six years for sexual battery and extortion. He returns to jail May 14 following a February arrest on a misdemeanor charge of domestic abuse battery.In April, the rapper’s attorney, Roy Maughan Jr., said Tyler and the victim in the domestic battery case were longtime domestic partners.
The rapper alluded to his legal problems on stage Friday
“I’m going through some things, but it’s gonna be all right,” Mystikal said to cheering fans. “Fellas if you get into it with your girl, just walk away. Me? I’m gonna run.”
He also shouted: “Eighty-one days and I will be back,” referring to the length of his pending jail term.
Tyra Banks and rapper Aubrey “Drake” Graham
Tyra Banks and rapper Aubrey “Drake” Graham were recently photographed enjoying a romantic evening together at Disneyland, which has led to speculation that the former supermodel may have finally moved on from her ex-boyfriend John Utendahl.
The “America’s Next Top Model” host was seen chatting and giggling with the 25-year-old at Yogurtland, where he left a bad taste in one of the employee’s mouths, according to blogger Necole B—-ie.
“Thanks to my coworker & I Drake and Tyra got hooked up with Yogurtland tonight! He didn’t deserve it though. I told Tyra she was pretty & she said thanks & my co worker told drake he was cute & he didn’t say anything just turned his head,” an unidentified Yogurtland employee wrote via Twitter.
Rapper G. Dep will spend at least 15 years in prison
NEW YORK — Rapper G. Dep will spend at least 15 years in prison after being convicted of a 1993 New York killing. The case was reopened when he went to police to say he’d shot someone years before.
The 37-year-old rapper got the minimum sentence Tuesday for his April murder conviction: 15 years to life.
He said that when he was about 17 to 19 years old, he’d fired at someone while trying to rob him on a street corner.
He went to a police station in December 2010. He said that when he was about 17 to 19 years old, he’d fired at someone while trying to rob him on a street corner.
Authorities paired his account with the 1993 death of John Henkel.
At trial, his lawyer questioned whether police made the right match.
Born Trevell Coleman, G. Dep got attention with “Special Delivery” and “Let’s Get It” in the early 2000s
Straight Rapper Takes On Homophobia
When was the last time you heard a rapper start a track quoting Harvey Milk?
This video would be the first time that has happened.
If you’ve followed my writing a bit, you know that there are two things I think are incredibly necessary and powerful as far as creating change.
One is the use of culture and the arts to push the public discourse beyond standard political rhetoric. This form of work so often creates cultural change that precedes any related electoral or policy change.
The second thing history has shown to be particularly powerful is when diverse groups find unity and overlapping support in the fight for all of our rights and equality. (A good example of that work is expanded on in this piece about the organizing around the votes on both the Dream Act and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.)
Adair Lion‘s new video — “Ben” — smashes a prior cultural taboo, brings together diverse communities and, on top of all of that, throws a hot Michael Jackson remix into the whole thing.
As a straight, Texan, Latino rapper, Adair approached this work with the full understanding of the risk involved. But his understanding of the need for, and potential power within, the message was a stronger force for him. (For his full thinking behind this track, and the story lines in the video — breaking down the three dollar bill and why Adair’s character isn’t acting so decent in his own relations — he’s written up his own background piece.)
Google’s Self-Driving Car
Google’s self-driving car is growing up right in front of our eyes: The fledgling autonomous vehicle program recently passed its driver’s license test in Nevada, the first license of its kind in the United States. Obtaining Nevada’s self-driving car license clears the way for Google to test its technology on public roads in the state.
Google’s modified Toyota Prius was given the thumbs up after successful test drives in Carson City and on the Las Vegas strip. Alongside the special license, Nevada also issued the car a unique set of red license plates that include the infinity symbol and the words “autonomous car.” With any luck, those plates should differentiate all the other vehicles on the road from Google’s car, which has cameras and radar equipment strapped to the roof.
Kat St.John highly energetic solo colossal club/party songs
This record sends a strong message in music, dance and lyrics
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Slim Thug drops his new video to the track
Slim Thug drops his new video to the track “My Car” featuring Kirko Bangz and Doughbeezy check it out!
Adam Yauch Died!
Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland.
Yauch sat out the Beastie Boys’ induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, and his treatments delayed the release of the group’s most recent album, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2. The Beastie Boys had not performed live since the summer of 2009, and Yauch’s illness prevented the group from appearing in music videos for Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2.
Yauch co-founded the Beastie Boys with Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz in 1979. The band started off as a hardcore punk group, but soon began experimenting with hip-hop. The band broke big with their first proper album, Licensed to Ill, in 1986, and further albums Paul’s Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication cemented the band as a true superstar act.
In addition to his career with the Beastie Boys, Yauch was heavily involved in the movement to free Tibet and co-organized the Tibetan Freedom Concerts of the late Nineties. In 2002, he launched the film production company Oscilloscope Laboratories.
YMCM Rapper Mystika has his probation Revoked
Embattled rapper Mystikal is “disappointed” with himself after violating the terms of his probation.
The Danger (Been So Long) hitmaker was charged with misdemeanour domestic abuse battery last month (Apr12) and sentenced to serve 90 days in prison for breaching the terms of his probation for a 2004 sexual battery and extortion conviction, for which he served six years behind bars.
And he accepts he has no one to blame but himself for his latest “setback”.
He tells XXLmag.com, “Everything has been a setback. I’m disappointed. This is totally on me. I’m gonna take my liquor on this one and just be smart. You’re never too old to learn. I definitely realise that I can’t act like everybody else. No matter how ghetto or no matter how much you keep it real, yeah, that s**t don’t work.”
The rapper, who is signed to Cash Money Records – the same label as Lil Wayne, is planning to use his time wisely and cook up some hits while he’s incarcerated: “I’ll definitely be more constructive… this time around.”
And Mystikal is grateful his label boss, Bryan ‘Baby’ Williams, has promised to stand by him and continue working on his comeback album once he completes his sentence.
He adds, “At a time like this, to have the support from the record label, that’s the powers that be! Those are the people that matter the most in my career and what the f**k I got going on in my life right now. You know everything’s gonna be alright.”
Mystikal will only need to serve 81 days behind bars after receiving nine days credit for time served following his arrest.
The rapper’s latest stint behind bars will begin on or before 14 May (12).
Rapper Wiz Khalifa charged with marijuana possession
Second time in ten days, rapper Wiz Khalifa has run into some trouble with the law.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa, who has made no secret about his love of marijuana, was cited Tuesday by Winston-Salem Police for possessing it after an officer smelled the drug coming off the rapper’s tour bus, a search warrant filed in the case said.
Khalifa, 24, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, performed Tuesday night before about 2,000 people at the Joel Coliseum. Khalifa is an up-and-coming rapper who broke into the mainstream with his hit single, “Black and Yellow.”
Khalifa’s Winston-Salem charge was the second in about a week on possession of marijuana. On April 21, police in Nashville, Tenn., charged Khalifa with having marijuana in his hotel room. In 2010, he was arrested in North Carolina after police found marijuana on his tour bus after a concert at East Carolina University. Charges against him, including a drug trafficking charge, were dropped last year.
On Tuesday night in Winston-Salem, officer J.C. Renew of the Winston-Salem Police Department had been assigned to look out for people who might be selling or taking illegal drugs in the parking lot area of the Joel Coliseum, according to a search warrant filed in the case. When he came to Khalifa’s tour bus about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, he “detected a strong odor of burnt or burning marijuana,” the search warrant said.
Renew asked a man standing in front of the tour bus to open the door, and when the man did so, the smell of marijuana only got stronger, Renew said in the search warrant. He cleared out people on the bus and obtained a search warrant.
Winston-Salem police seized an undisclosed amount of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. TMZ, the celebrity website, reported that police seized 11.39 grams of marijuana. The search warrant and the citation did not show the amount of marijuana police seized from the tour bus, and Lt. Tom Peterson of the Winston-Salem Police Department declined to say how much marijuana was seized or what kind of drug paraphernalia was found on the bus.
He said 18 to 19 other people were charged with drug possession, including one for felony possession of ecstasy. Some of the people were with Khalifa’s entourage, while others were concertgoers.
Bucky Dame, the director for the coliseum, said no problems were reported during the concert.
Khalifa lives in Hollywood, Calif., but grew up in Pittsburgh. His debut CD, “Rolling Papers,” on Atlantic Records came out last year, and he has been on tour this year.
He also has ventured into acting, with a co-starring role in the comedy “Mac and Devin Go to High School” with rapper Snoop Dogg, which is scheduled to be released on home video and digital download in July.
Late Tuesday night, Khalifa posted tweets saying, “They hate us,” and then, about an hour later, “Made it out alive,” but whether those comments were related to his charges was unclear.
On his official Twitter feed Wednesday afternoon, Khalifa seemed to be taking the citation in stride, responding to one person’s tweet about the charges with, “Hey, it happens.” And when another person posted that he or she appreciated him coming to Winston-Salem and apologized for how the police treated him, Khalifa replied, “They juss (sic) did their job.”
The court date on the Winston-Salem case is set for July 27.
