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So this Killer Mike interview was one of the best I’ve done in a minute. I sat down with him for Behind The Grind. The full interview is on Globalgrind.com. But here are some funny outtakes of him impersonating Rick Ross and Notorious Big. He says he wanted to play Biggie in the upcoming Notorious movie and after watching this, he would have been good.

Plus, Killer Mike Likes Dark Butts.

Okay, so what’s the difference between the Vibe cover that’s out and what Ciara claims should have been a photo with her wearing panties. C’mon now, it’s not like we can actually see anything.

So yesterday, I saw the MTV News clip where she says the panties were airbrushed (?). Okay, and even if we believe her, and she is probably telling the truth, what would the difference be in this shoot?  Watch this where she clearly states that “today’s concept was suggestive nudity.” Did she expect to see her panties in the photo even if they were there? I’m confused.

here comes the bad guy…

From that moment on, I likened Ray and Dave to Gargamel and Azriel of the Smurfs cartoon. When Gargamel was around the Smurfs would run for cover and try to avoid him at all costs to save themselves from being swallowed whole. Azriel was Gargamel’s pet cat, who performed some of Gargamel’s evil duties. When Azriel disobeyed Gargamel though, he was punished. Ray was a real-life version of Gargamel and we were the Smurfs. Dave was now viewed as the lowest man on the totem pole. He was Azriel. At least the Smurfs could be happy when they were at home with no sight of Gargamel, but Azriel was always with Gargamel. That was his home.

From Straight From The Source… p. 153

from pages 147 – 149…

Here’s another excerpt…

The Source was a hip-hop magazine, but somewhere along the way Ray decided the the Source was going to change its tune. It was going to be more of a men’s lifestyle magazine. Men in jail and involved in street activities. It was part of the reason wy he became so infatuated with F.E.D.S. magazine and hired Antoine–who was not making my job any easier. I had to come to work every day and deal with him after our incident. Fortunately for me, he barely came to work. When he did, however, I pretended as if his being there didn’t bother me anymore.

At one point, Ray was inspired to launch a completely new magazine. Originally to be called Source Style, it almost made its way onto newsstands. Meetings were conducted, stories were assigned, and a staff was assembled. Everyone was extremely excited about it until all of a sudden Dave called us into his office to inform us that the title for this spin-off had changed. It would now be ZNO magazine. For the rest of our days at the Source, we would refer to it as MagaZINO. Luckily, MagaZINO was never released because of budget concerns. But it didn’t matter, because the Source itself was slowly making its transition into MagaZINO anyway.

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I’ve been a bit hectic and not able to post, but I’m about to flood you with stuff. Here is the Bun B interview I did about a month ago. It had a serious tone but then again, Bun B is a serious type of dude. But I give him a lot of credit for still moving forward with the UGK album. Here he is talking about “being in the studio with a ghost.”

Okay, so I laughed at myself when I watched this because I don’t know what the heck made me curse so much in an interview. Shouts go to Doggie Diamonds and ForbezDVD for getting this interview way before the book had even come out. And I apologize to all my girls who keep yelling at me, telling me not to forget to take the sunglasses off my head. I’m conscious of it now, I swear ! LOL.

The book excerpts will go up now. Book comes out this Tuesday, Sept. 9. Here’s another preview…

Excerpt from pages 14-15…

By the year 2000, the hip-hop industry was comparable to a male football locker room. Most of the top executives were men, the majority of hip-hop artists were male, as were almost all of the producers, video directors, engineers and DJs. That basically left video model or personal assistant as the most likely career option for a woman. But as a female, if you were successful, and rose to the top of the corporate ladder, your reputation became that much more vulnerable. If you looked halfway decent, then the misconception was that you slept your way to the top. On the contrary, if you were not easy on the eyes, then you must either have been gay or related to someone. As a woman, I knew it would be hard to beat the odds. But because I had put so much time in, I wasn’t about to let the odds come between me and what I wanted.
But a woman doesn’t only have her resume to worry about, she’s also got her reputation, and when it comes to a woman’s reputation in the business of hip-hop, it’s almost customary to define her by the men she’s been linked to. Pick up any hip-hop magazine and compare the stories done on women to those done on men. I guarantee you’ll find out more about he woman’s past sex life than you will about the man’s. That code doesn’t just apply to celebrities, it’s the same behind the scenes as well. For me, it was no different. The more successful I became in the industry, the harder it became to keep people out of my personal business.
My days and nights revolved around the magazine and around hip-hop, and my social network was composed of people who were just as obsessed with money, power and hip-hop as I was. Therefore, the majority of the men that I met along the way had some sort of function in the music industry. But in this particular sect of the industry, known to us as the hip-hop culture, the usual double standard applied to women is administered in much bigger doses. Once Snoop said “Bitches Ain’t Shit,” it was a wrap for us.

You can purchase it here on amazon.com.