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Nelly, Ciara And Jermaine Dupri Fondly Recall Sneakers


There are two types of raps about sneakers: labors of love like "My Adidas" and corporate shilling, like The Game making sure to mention Nike on almost every track on The Documentary. "Stepped On My J's" is probably the latter. Nelly's rap (which rhymes "what now?" with "what now?" and "crib" with "crib" and "crib") is mere filler before he can awkwardly segue to the Do The Right Thing-quoting chorus, and Ciara (who sounds the best of the three) focuses on her beauty, but Jermanie Dupri plays the good spokesperson, describing the joy a young man feels when he dons his first pair of Jordans, and how one should collect them all. In the video, he even dresses up like Mars Blackmon. Ah, when ads were ads. [YouTube]

9:00 AM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Today's Awful Packaging Idea, Courtesy Of Ciara

The physical CD market is admittedly pretty lousy these days as people lose their affection for liner notes, plastic cases and shiny discs. However, R&B singer Ciara is going to get you into the record store one way or another, with whatever gimmick it takes, for her upcoming album Fantasy Ride. How about three five-to-six-track discs in one package, with each disc showing a different aspect of her personality? First, the sensual side on a disc called Groove City, then a disc of what is described as house on Kingdom of Dance, followed by an unspecified emotion on Crunktown. Adding additional production costs for an album that might not sell that well anyway? What could go wrong? [FMQB]

11:00 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By Dan Gibson
403 views, 14 comments

Latest by drjayphd: Thrice, meanwhile, are left sobbing in their coffee ice creams. more »

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What We All Missed At Monday Night's Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Awards

• Slightly incongruous attendee George Lucas, there in support of his main squeeze and probably spending the evening mentally toting up that Crystal Skulls money/plotting from his seat on how much more interesting awards shows would be with CGI'd Ewoks and explosions.
• Jim Jones being incoherent.
• Ciara referring to her brain as a "memory stick," while failing to note its maximum read/write speed.
• A casual Friday Pharrell comparing honoree Snoop Dogg to the Redheaded Stranger before noting that we should not condemn the man for his weed intake. (Why on earth would we condemn him for that?)
• Snoop himself torpedoing Pharrell's good intentions by making a rolling papers joke before claiming to be mentoring 2,500 kids by proxy in his after-school football program, because the pimp-turned-televised family man is for the children. [NY Daily News/ Photo: Getty]

11:30 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Jess Harvell
203 views, 3 comments

Latest by sparkletone: There's nothing worse than seeing two Al's fighting. Actually. A George Lucas/Rich Boy album might be worse than that, so I take it back. more »

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Attn. Perverts: Those Chris Brown Nudes Are Fakes

Teen R&B semi-sensation Chris Brown—who, it behooves us to point out, only turned 18 about three months ago—has helpfully cleared up the issue of those Internet-distributed nudie pictures that hit the Web before he was even able to vote. He also disses another barely legal pop R&B star for apparently not being good enough to date his squeaky ass and talks about appearing on the new Aesop Rock album*: More »

2:00 PM on Tue Aug 28 2007
By jharv
3,203 views, 3 comments

The seemingly arbitrary censoring policies at MTV continue: The network is bleeping "dope" (as in "the dope boy's turning me on") from the video for 50 Cent/Ciara's "Can't Turn Me On." Judging by the rest of today's TRL, though, "4:20," "masturbation," and the "stoned" half of "LoveStoned" are still a-ok! (At least for now.)

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Listening Station: Ciara And R. Kelly Keep Making Promises

So how did you celebrate R. Kelly's fortieth birthday last week? Bumping and grinding? Stepping in the name of love? Or merely sitting at home, hoping that Kelly would guest on a remix of Ciara's fantastic 2006 single "Promise"? More »

9:35 AM on Tue Jan 16 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,358 views, 1 comment

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Stuck At Eleven: Ciara Would Very Much Like To Tell You About Ciara

Compiling a year-end Top 10 list means making plenty of painful nips, tucks, and tweaks. And so, after preparing our Jackin' Pop singles lists, we present "Stuck At Eleven," a daily look at the songs that came thisclose to making the final cut. More »

8:44 AM on Fri Dec 22 2006
By Brian Raftery
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Who Charted?: Eminem's Next Album To Be Filled With Ciara Diss Songs

ciara.jpgThe holiday-shopping season in full steam, and album sales were up about 28% this week; Ciara's Evolution benefited, selling 338,000 copies and debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The debut marks Ciara's first-ever No. 1 record, and her sales tally nearly tripled that of her debut album's first week on the charts. More »

1:23 PM on Wed Dec 13 2006
By mjohnston
763 views, 1 comment

on the shelf

On The Shelf: Tomorrow's New Releases Revealed Today

Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator's weekly look at the new releases hitting stores on Tuesday morning. Gwen Stefani's first post-baby album comes out tomorrow, as does the Eminem-led compilation The Re-Up; after the jump, we look at new albums from Ciara and Brian McKnight, as well as the soundtracks for Dreamgirls and The OC. More »

4:14 PM on Mon Dec 4 2006
By mjohnston
39 views, 1 comment