A photo by Mark Liddell of recently engaged Britney Spears and dancer Kevin Federline, graces the cover of the July 12,2004, issue of People magazine. It hits newsstands on Friday, July 2
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A photo by Mark Liddell of recently engaged Britney Spears and dancer Kevin Federline, graces the cover of the July 12,2004, issue of People magazine. It hits newsstands on Friday, July 2
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The mtv Lloyd Banks Punch Line Poll
Lloyd Banks' solo debut, The Hunger for More, is finally out, and when you hear him brag that we'll be hard pressed to find a rapper hotter than him, he's talking the gospel like Mase on Sunday morning. The Queens native lays it on thick during his album's 14 tracks, making a run for the title of the game's top lyricist with a blitzkrieg of punch lines.
These lines are so good that MTV has compiled a list of highlights. Vote on which one is your favorite, and see if we agree. Like Banks, we can battle you all day!
"I'll be damned if I'll co-sign [vouch for] an old snitch/ That was gangbanging when Jaws was a goldfish" (from "Ain't No Click")
Imagine the open seas' most ferocious body-chomper as an itty-bitty kiddie: Welcome to the devilish mind of Lloyd Banks.
"Don't confuse me with these suckers/ 'Cause when I spit, you hear more 'ooohs' than a 'Skip to My Lou' move at the Rucker" (from "I'm So Fly")
L.B. references one of the most famous And 1 players and pats himself on the back. Multitasking never sounded so good.
"As soon as you ain't around, Jake, you get your ass whipped for chips/ And that's the real definition of poundcake" (from "Work Magic")
Hearing how Banks uses food to describe a robbery makes us cringe at what he'll think of to describe jaywalking.
"A hood rat'll put her future in a fool pants, till she find out you can't buy furniture with food stamps/ A year ago I made a decision before I shut my eyelids/ Pray to God I get shot tomorrow, 'cause I don't like surprises" (from "Die One Day")
The Boy Wonder proves he's never scared while sharing food for thought with the chicken heads. See? Rappers can teach.
"Yeah, he's talkin' sh--, but we can tell he's ass/ Jabs will black his eyes like the R. Kelly mask" (from "Work Magic")
Yeah, that's a hot line. But if Banks wants to really impress us, he'll rap about making someone's pupils bulge like Elton John's diamond sunglasses.
"And them n---as in New York know the man is a monster/ And I ain't from Atlanta, but I'll A-Town stomp ya" (from "If You So Gangsta")
Please, don't let him start doing the Muscle or the Rockaway. There'll be more havoc on the dance floor than Bobby Brown at an Usher party
"I ride on Davins by the pair/ But when you stop, the only thing still spinning is your hair" (from "On Fire")
It's not enough to have waves in your hair if you're a member of the G-Unit: Your wheels have to be up to par.
"Where I'm from, the little kids ain't f---in' with Santa/ 'Cause they love Tupac more (Word?)/ Word to my grandma" (from "Playboy")
"Ho, ho, ho?" No, no, no. According to the Boy Wonder, the shorties around his way would much rather hear "I Get Around" than "Jingle Bells." Guess the only big man in a red suit they want to see is Suge Knight.
"Hounding him is a big mistake/ He won't surrender, he'd rather give up a rib to break/ 'Cause he remembers when they wouldn't lend a helping hand/ 'Till he was sittin' on green like a Celtics fan" (from "Warrior Part 2")
"Banks blows more cake than birthdays." With all the money the G-Unit's made in the last couple of years, we're sure all those hands looking for help are now fully extended.
"When I was 10 years old, I seen a n---a take three to the head/ Probably around the same time you used to pee in the bed/ I stayed awake 'cause my nightmares were seeing him dead" (from "South Side Story")
Lloyd articulates his hard-knock life with a staunch verbal grimace.
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Watch Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, kick off the Worldwide Developers Conference with a preview of Mac OS X Tiger from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
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Models present bikinis as part of Blue Man's 2005 Spring/Summer collection during Rio Fashion Week in Rio de Janeiro, June 27, 2004.
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' Breaks NYC Records!
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" turned on the box office heat in its first day in theaters breaking single-day records at the two New York City theaters where it played. The movie, which aims a critical eye at President Bush and his prosecution of the war in Iraq, sold $49,000 worth of tickets at the Loew's Village 7 theater, beating the venue's single-day record of $43,435 held by 1997's "Men in Black," according to distributors Lions Gate Films and IFC Films.
At the Lincoln Plaza theater, "Fahrenheit 9/11" took in more than $30,000 to top the $24,013 set by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000.
A spokesman for Lions Gate Films said the company debuted the movie in the two theaters to help build good word-of-mouth -- friend telling friend -- publicity ahead of the wide debut on Friday when it plays in 868 theaters in all 50 states.
The film has caused a storm of controversy because director Moore, whose past work includes Oscar-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," makes a case that the Bush administration was determined to invade Iraq following the Sept. 11 attacks.
The movie links Bush family members and business associates with wealthy Saudi Arabian families, including that of Osama bin Laden, and Moore clearly wants to see the president fail to win reelection in this fall's presidential campaign.
Groups have organized support for and against the movie, and audiences appear to be keen to see it.
Online ticket service Fandango.com on Wednesday reported that "Fahrenheit 9/11" was making up 48 percent of advance ticket sales for the weekend ahead, compared to 11 percent for "Dodgeball" and 9 percent for next week's "Spider-Man 2."
A detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, June 22, 2004. The American soldiers said that he had repeatedly got into fights with other inmates in the prison.
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Rapper with 'Hunger' for hits must escape 50 Cent's shadow
By most people's standards, rapper Lloyd Banks would seem to have it made.
He's part of what is arguably the most successful hip-hop posse on the planet G-Unit, which is fronted by no less powerful a star than 50 Cent.
Banks, 22, also has earned the respect of hard-core rap fans, after taking last year's Mix Tape Artist of the Year award for his series of independently released recordings. And on June 29, he'll issue his first major-label solo album, "The Hunger for More," which has already spawned the top-five rap hit "On Fire."
But Banks isn't entirely happy about the acclaim.
He says his association with 50 Cent has made the police pay him unwanted attention. His Mix Tape prize has made bootleggers more eager than usual to rip off his recordings. And the hard-core nature of his latest music has him concerned about getting it past the FCC, which has been tightening its strictures on what's acceptable.
"Even my clean version is not clean enough," Banks says with a laugh.
Indeed, Banks has built his reputation on cruel and racy lyrics, brutally stripped music and a cold-blooded rap flow. Mainstream music fans discovered him on G-Unit's debut CD, 2003's double platinum "Beg for Mercy." Some critics felt that his raps, delivered in a bone-dry monotone, even outshone 50 Cent's.
Again on "The Hunger for More" Banks keeps his vocals coldly understated and his words unforgiving. But in conversation, he couldn't be more courteous or eager to please.
"I'll do whatever it takes to sell this record," he says. "I'll kiss babies, shake hands. There's no plan B [for my career]. This has to work."
He has felt that way since he started rapping as a child in Jamaica, Queens. Born Christopher Lloyd, he took his nom de rap from an uncle, a career felon, who always used to say, "That's money in the bank."
Banks' mother, who's Puerto Rican, was still in high school when he was born.
His father, who's black, was rarely around when the boy was growing up. He was serving several long stretches in jail.
Banks began smoking pot at age 11, a habit he says he maintains to this day.
"That's my cigarette," he says. "I use it to calm down."
His rap role models were Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick, who greatly influenced his unhurried, conversational style. Dropping out of high school at 16, Banks developed his own rap sound and soon began appearing on local mix tapes.
Positive feedback gave him the confidence to begin trading verses with two childhood friends Tony Yayo and 50 Cent. The two suggested forming a trio G-Unit which quickly developed a strong local following for its mix tapes.
But the group faded into the background once 50 Cent got signed to Eminem's label and rushed to solo superstardom. 50 Cent's fame came partly from his music, partly from the legend of his having survived being shot nine times.
"I've been shot, too," Banks points out. "And not long after 50."
STAYING IN FRONT
"The Hunger for More" features fewer guest stars than most rap albums. Eminem is one of them, but there's no participation from ace producer Dr. Dre, who has worked with G-Unit, and only a single hook line from 50 Cent.
"The streets wouldn't respect me if I didn't lay it on the line and give them as much as possible," Banks says of his decision to dominate his record.
One of the rare cameos on the album is that of fellow G-Unit member Yayo. He had been incarcerated for most of the previous 16 months on a gun-possession charge, but got out just in time for the recording.
"He went straight from the cell to the studio," Banks says.
Because of his sentence, Yayo didn't appear on most of "Beg for Mercy." He was replaced by Cash Money rapper Young Buck. According to Banks, not only will Yayo now rejoin the group, they'll retain Buck and add a new member, Game, a West Coast artist who makes his debut on Banks' CD.
Over the next few months, a series of G-Unit-related CDs will appear, including solo works from Buck in July, Game in August and 50 Cent in November.
"I got five months for my album," Banks reasons. "Then 50 comes and takes the attention."
ALL BASES COVERED
To maximize his time in the limelight, Banks is involved in a surprising variety of projects. He's providing a voice-over for a Saturday morning kids' cartoon ("Beaver Street Gang"). He's also appearing in a porn flick, "Groupie Love," filmed for his own company. With a perfectly straight face, Banks labels the latter project "educational."
Obviously, Banks wants to keep all the bases covered and, he says, to make as much money as quickly as possible.
"This is the business music, not the music business," he says. "It's all about the marketing." And right now, no one is hungrier to market himself than Banks.
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Jay-Z Performs With Phish
Following a year in which numerous DJs mixed Jay-Z's vocals with the music of the Beatles, Metallica, Weezer and others, the Brooklyn, New York, rapper tipped his hat back to rock fans by performing at two unlikely concerts over the weekend.
The stranger of the two was Friday night during a set by the jam band Phish in Coney Island in Brooklyn, at the group's supposedly final New York-area show. After the veteran rockers played "Wilson," the second song of their second set, Jay hopped onstage and the group backed him on "99 Problems" and "Big Pimpin'."
The rapper made his second unannounced showing the following evening at K-Rock's eighth annual Dysfunctional Family Picnic radio festival in Wantagh, New York, which featured the Strokes, the Darkness, Cypress Hill, Brand New, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and others. The Beastie Boys had just finished their set, and fans were on their way out of the venue when a voice blared over the PA warning them not to leave, because something special was coming up that would "blow [their] f---ing minds."
Then Jay, dressed in baggy light blue jeans, a purple-and-white shirt and shades, blasted through "99 Problems" for the thousands of rock fans in attendance.
The stranger of the two was Friday night during a set by the jam band Phish in Coney Island in Brooklyn, at the group's supposedly final New York-area show. After the veteran rockers played "Wilson," the second song of their second set, Jay hopped onstage and the group backed him on "99 Problems" and "Big Pimpin'."
The rapper made his second unannounced showing the following evening at K-Rock's eighth annual Dysfunctional Family Picnic radio festival in Wantagh, New York, which featured the Strokes, the Darkness, Cypress Hill, Brand New, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and others. The Beastie Boys had just finished their set, and fans were on their way out of the venue when a voice blared over the PA warning them not to leave, because something special was coming up that would "blow [their] f---ing minds."
Then Jay, dressed in baggy light blue jeans, a purple-and-white shirt and shades, blasted through "99 Problems" for the thousands of rock fans in attendance.
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'hip hop mickey'
Disney's Mickey Mouse adopts some freshness from the b-boy massive in this limited edition vinyl figure from Worthfield. With only a total of 100 made, you can be sure that this one will be in crazy demand further down the road. Many stores have already sold out of their limited stock. The kid in all of us meets the adult as Mickey sports a dope trench coat and slacks. He's got a second pair of closed fist hands and a b-boy vest outfit. Best of all, he's got his 80s ghetto blaster at his side. Again, Hip Hop Mickey is so limited you can't sleep on it. You can click on the image above to see an enlarged version with enhanced details.
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ENGLAND BRANDED THUGS BY NEW ZEALAND MEDIA
England's forward Simon Shaw makes the long walk to the sideline after receiving a red card from referee Nigel Williams, unseen, for stomping, during the rugby test match between the All Blacks and England at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, June19, 2004. The All Blacks won, 36-12
Referee Nigel Williams, second left, struggles to control a fight after England's Simon Shaw (4) received a red card for stomping during the rugby test match between the All Blacks and England at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, June19, 2004. The All Blacks won, 36-12.
ENGLAND BRANDED THUGS BY NEW ZEALAND MEDIA
New Zealand's media have launched a stinging attack on England's rugby team branding them nothing more than thugs.
Despite the All Blacks winning the Test series 2-0 much of the focus has been on the sending-off of Simon Shaw, the ban metered out to Danny Grewcock for stamping on Daniel Carter and the general indiscipline, which the New Zealand media argues was largely at England's instigation, shown in the matches at Carisbrook and Eden Park.
Under the headline 'Dirty England a disgrace' the Dominion Post's Australian columnist Spiro Zavos said England were "nothing more than a rabble, a rugby equivalent of a lynch mob, intent on playing All Blacks off the ball and angering them into mistakes and indiscretions".
Zavos also turned on Sir Clive Woodward for his comments about Shaw's dismissal saying: "A genuine world champion side, like the All Blacks in 1987 and the Wallabies inn 1991 and 1999, sets the standard in world rugby for the best practice. It does not try to set the standard for 'allowable' foul play.
He continued: "Woodward's attempt to exonerate his players represents a disgrace to the leadership position he is supposed to now hold in world rugby as a knight for services to rugby. Services to thuggery is more like it."
The New Zealand Herald's rugby writer Wynne Gray follows much the same theme arguing England "were shown up in both tests as a group who resorted to bully-boy tactics when their skills deserted them. It has happened to all top rugby sides on the slide. When age hurts or skills deteriorate, the indiscipline escalates".
Richard Boock is also scathing of Woodward's reaction to the Shaw sending-off and likens the England coach to a World War I general.
"The England coach clearly prepared his team to go over the top and then refused to accept the responsibility of his own flawed planning.
"Even worse he showed a distinct lack of integrity by attacking the match officials."
England are now in Australia preparing for their final Test match of the season against the Wallabies.
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Dave Chappelle ** live in richmond / july 1
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Francis Ford Coppola's winery seeks out a new market
A can, and a plan, for this sparkling wine
Francis Ford Coppola's winery seeks out a new market
Honestly, it wasn't originally supposed to be in a can.
Niebaum-Coppola Winery, owned by film director Francis Ford Coppola, wanted to sell its Sofia blanc de blancs sparkling wine -- named for daughter and fellow director Sofia -- in a 187 ml serving, just big enough for one drinker's thirst and a neat way to enjoy sparkling wine without opening a full-size bottle.
For years, Champagne and other sparkling wines have been served up in 187 ml bottles (about six ounces, or a quarter of a full bottle) known among wine types as splits. Coppola wanted to sell a split of Sofia, but couldn't find anyone to package it in small bottles with corks of the same quality as their full-sized offering, which has been bottled since at least 1999.
Other ideas weren't terribly appealing -- a bottle with a screwcap looked too much like those airline single-servings; not bad, but not the hip image the winery wanted for Sofia. Then they contemplated the can.
"The more we kind of played with the idea, the more we warmed up to it," said Erle Martin, president of Niebaum-Coppola. "We realized we could make a can very cool and very elegant."
Since this spring, the winery has quietly shipped 5,000 cases of Sofia in a can. Rather than target the usual wine shops, it has been trying out the sleek pink cans at high-end nightclubs in cities like Miami, Las Vegas and San Francisco.
The Sofia cans go national this month, and the winery expects to sell 50,000 cases this year, well beyond what it originally intended as a niche offering.
Part of the plan has been to market Sofia not merely as premium wine without a bottle but as a clubgoers' drink: ordered by name, easy to hold at a bar and ideal for resort poolsides where glass is a no-no. Niebaum-Coppola's intention is to target drinkers of beer or alcopops, those fruity mixes like Smirnoff Ice that have supplanted wine coolers as the choice for sweet-palated drinkers.
The cans are meant to appeal to what Martin has described as a "Sex in the City" crowd: sophisticated female city-dwellers, from just over drinking age up to their mid-30s. It's a different audience than most wine drinkers.
Like many wineries, Niebaum-Coppola has been looking for ways to attract younger drinkers who may still have a beer-and-shots preference left over from their college days, or those who have gravitated to punchy drinks like vodka with Red Bull. Initial marketing was word-of-mouth, Martin said, but the national release will include print ads in buzz-generating magazines like Paper and Surface.
Thus the can is upscale but not snooty: almost a fashion accessory, and an excellent sell to twentysomethings hoping to look a bit more grown-up and refined without being seen as stodgy wine drinkers like, say, their parents. The winery wants a small, loyal following that appreciates sparkling wine as an affordable treat more often than once a year.
"I think this product has really got an opportunity to cross over," Martin said.
It may be a good time to be experimenting. Sparkling offerings have become increasingly popular in clubs, both for their taste and as a status symbol. Two French Champagne makers -- Piper-Heidsieck and Pommery -- already market splits of their non-vintage wines for clubs.
Still, most sparkling wine is served in full 750 ml bottles and younger drinkers with lean pocketbooks aren't about to adorn their table with a bottle of Cristal or Veuve Cliquot.
"They don't feel they can finish the bottle in one sitting and don't realize they can buy a stopper to seal in the bubbles," said Berit Holms of MKF, a wine industry consulting firm. "The smaller single serve packages can serve to take some of the intimidation out of the category."
Sofia will be the same in cans and full bottles, so fans can switch up. Unlike the drier French offerings, Coppola's wine is blended from the drier pinot blanc and sauvignon blanc grapes as well as 8 percent muscat, which gives it subtle, sweet overtones that may sit more comfortably on the palates of its target audience.
Cans will retail at $20 for a four-pack. Clubgoers can expect to pay $6 to $10 a pop. Matching straw included.
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The All Blacks beat England 36-12 in a brutal rugby Test
England's Mark Regan is tackled by All Blacks' Chris Jack as Justin Marshall (9) looks on during the rugby test match between the All Blacks and England played at Eden Park Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, June 19, 2004.
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New Zealand 36-12 England
The age-old rivalry between rugby superpowers New Zealand and England
"New Zealand have defeated England 36-12 in the second test after the world champions were reduced to 14 men in the 10th minute. Lock Simon Shaw was sent from the field on Saturday for kneeing Keith Robinson in the back when the All Black was lying on the England side in a ruck."
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A double-decker bus owned by Double Deck Tours Limited, based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is shown on River Road after it sheared its roof off trying to pass under the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge linking Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, N.Y., Tuesday, June 15, 2004. More than a dozen tourists from Japan were injured. None of the injuries was serious, authorities said.
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Two Die At Bonnaroo
Two concertgoers died this weekend at the three-day Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, according to the Coffee County Sheriff's Department.
Twenty-year-old Brandon Taylor of Lowell, Michigan, died Friday, and 22-year-old Amber Stevens of Flatwoods, Kentucky, died late Friday or early Saturday, according to a sheriff's department spokesperson.
"On Friday morning our medical personnel were called to help with a guest who was attending with his parents," said Rick Farman of promoters Superfly Productions. "Our medical team responded immediately, and within minutes he was transported by ambulance to the medical center in Manchester, where he was pronounced dead. ... Because of an ongoing police investigation, that's all I'm at liberty to say."
The causes of both deaths have not yet been determined, and toxicology reports are pending, the sheriff's department spokesperson said.
"We have extensive medical personnel on site," Farman said. "In fact, the numbers of our medical personnel far exceeds the requirements of the Tennessee mass-gathering code by a large amount. The people running our medical operation here are people that handle large events all over the country NASCAR, football games and large events like that so we really have an extremely experienced medical staff on hand. In both situations we were satisfied with the response of our medical team."
This year's festival, held on a 700-acre farm 60 miles south of Nashville, featured Bob Dylan, the Dead, Dave Matthews & Friends, Wilco, Maroon 5, Ani DiFranco and My Morning Jacket, among others. The sold-out concert attracted 90,000 fans, up 10,000 from last year.
These were the first deaths in the festival's three-year history.
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shannons bbq was fun.
ther was a freestyle battle.. aubyn vs sam.. very fun
shannon is so fun
then we played poker at matts playerville penthouse..
shout out to matt.!
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Shaq vs Skillz
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Shaq Attack On Mixtape Track Has Skillz Striking Back
For the past few years, the most we've heard about Shaquille O'Neal on the hip-hop scene is via references from rappers like Fat Joe on "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" ("You against me, that's like Earl Boykins going against Shaq"). But evidently the NBA's man of steel, who debuted on the mic in 1993 with the LP Shaq Diesel, has regained a Jones in his big bones for spitting rhymes.
On a recent mixtape by DJ Sickamore called Drop Another Day, #34 raps a freestyle about going after the Timberwolves' Kevin Garnett and the Spurs' Tim Duncan and apparently takes aim at Virginia MC Skillz, formerly known as Mad Skillz.
"I don't care how mad your skills is, you can't serve me," Shaq raps. "You don't like Deez, take off my throwback jersey." O'Neal goes on to say, "You're the fourth-best from Virginia/ Guess what? I don't fu-- with scrubs either/ ... I don't know what you look like/ You be spitting metaphors like you're a geek."
"I just thought the freestyle was hot," said Sickamore, who did not want to reveal where he got the freestyle from. "NBA players usually get fined if they curse, but Shaq's being gully."
"I got home and a couple of my friends had called me and said, 'Yo, it's a mixtape with Shaq dissing you,' " Skillz said Friday (June 11). "It sounded ludicrous off the top. Why would Shaq be dissing me? I listened to it a hundred times to make sure. It's evident he was talking about me. I have no idea why, but that don't really matter. He threw the first blow. That's a heavy blow. That's a big dude."
Unlike Garnett and Duncan, O'Neal doesn't directly say the name Mad Skillz, and the Diesel was unable to be reached for confirmation. However, Skillz is sure he was called out by Shaq, and he plans to holla back with his own dis.
"I wouldn't even answer Shaq back if he didn't think he could rap," Skillz huffed. "I think he actually believes he's nice. It's a mismatch. It's gonna be funny."
Though Skillz said his words will be laced with humor, he hopes to remove any smile Shaq may have on his face. He wants to destroy the basketball star's rap career.
"That's what I'm out to do," said Skillz, whose biggest record is probably Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody" remix. "People know me as far as rap battles. I don't hold nothing. I'm real serious about my lyrics, and when I come out, I come swinging.
"He's not an MC," continued Skillz, who called Shaq-Fu one of the worst ever on the mic. "I don't think anybody I know respected him or even looked at him as an MC. He's OK. He was OK back in the day, but for him to wait that long before he rapped at all, then rap against me, that's sad, Shaq. You ought to be worried about the [Detroit Pistons'] Wallace boys, not me."
Skillz said he's a heard a theory about why O'Neal might want to throw jabs at him. At the top of the year, he released the underground cut "The Rap Up 2004," on which he made fun of another Laker, Kobe Bryant, by calling his alleged rape of a Colorado woman "the dummy move of the year." Skillz also took a piece of 50 Cent's "Wanksta" for his rap, saying, "Damn, Kobe. In high school you was the man, Kobe."
"I don't know how close him and Kobe are," Skillz said. "What I said about Kobe in 'The Rap Up,' it was the truth. I didn't make none of that up. 'The Rap Up' is a summary of what happens in the year. [Shaq] might have been trying to take up for Kobe, but even Kobe wouldn't have taken up for Kobe.
Skillz said he's had his response written for some time but hasn't had time to record it. He's been on tour with his friends the Roots. "Touring with the Roots and playing with the band, you can't get no better than that as far as a hip-hop band is concerned," he said, beaming. "Performing with them is the pinnacle of performing."
A free agent since Rawkus folded a few months ago, Skillz has a new track called "Take It Back" on the Roots' Okayplayer Presents: True Note Vol. 1 He shot a video for it last week.
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8pm Saturday, June 12, 2004
SOJA W/ MIDNITE!!!
at Kili's Kafe & Nightclub
$20
2009 8th Street NW,
Washington DC 20001
(old 2K-9)
w/ DJ Redemption
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
SOJA
at Whitlows on Wilson
2854 Wilson Blvd.
Clarendon, VA 22201
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6pm-10pm Friday, June 18, 2004
SOJA
at Champs Americana
$5
11694 Plaza Americana Drive
Reston, VA 20190
(703) 318-7600
w/ DJ Redemption
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Saturday, June 19, 2004
S.O.J.A.
at Ned Devines in Fairfax
(703) 293-9600
3971 Chainbridge Road
Fairfax City, VA 22030
w/ DJ Redemption
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9pm Wednesday, June 23, 2004
SOJA with Dub as a Weapon
at Starrhill Music Hall
$8
Starr Hill Music Hall
709 West Main Street.
Charlottesville, VA
434 977-0017
w/ DJ Redemption
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