Is hip-hop haunted by ghostwriters?
No talib would not spit someone else’s lyrics, he writes his the same night he spits…not too many who can do that out there and sound as dope as he does…. “Kanye West’s Jesus Walks was co-written with rapper Rhymefest and was inspired by the ARC Choir (Addicts Rehabilitation Center) track.
Undoubtedly inspired by Roland Barthes’ seminal paper The Death of the Author, Sean Diddy Combs’ reflects succinctly on the relationship of the rapper to his craft, on his 2001 hit Bad Boy 4 Life:
We still here, you rockin with the best / Don’t worry if I write rhymes, I write cheques
For Diddy, creating music is a straightforward process - pay the best writers and producers to collaborate, rap someone else’s words with mild competence, and before you know it you’ll have a hit record. But is it right for rappers to have their lyrics written for them?
Amy Winehouse ‘may have brain damage’ after two ODs
Amy Winehouse may have brain damage after suffering two major overdoses in the past 12 months where she binged on crystal meth, heroin and cocaine, it emerged today.
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Dark Knight Reaches 500 MM in Box Office Sales
The Dark Knight which reached $400 million in box office sales in record time, has become the second movie in history to gross over $500 million at the box office according to the AP.
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American Idol winner in trouble with IRS
Season two ‘American Idol’ winner Ruben Studdard has been hit with federal and state property liens for allegedly failing to pay nearly $200,000 in state and federal taxes, according to court records.
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OMG!, Yahoo!’s New Celebrity Gossip News Website
Seems like just yesterday, Yahoo launched OMG! to compete w/ TMZ. They had a heavy marketing campaign and the advantage of having the #1 visited parent site on the internet (yahoo.com).
Today the site boasts over 8 million unique hits a month. That places them second behind TMZ.com and just ahead of People magazine’s website (cite: wikipedia.org).
Yahoo! Launches OMG! today, a celebrity gossip website. The homepage unsurprisingly features Paris Hilton crying on her way to jail. Yahoo! Entertainment, NBC
’s Access Hollywood, and x17 is providing some of the content for the website.
