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Soulja Boy Totally OK With The Slave Trade, Since He Was Able To Score Some Sweet Tattoos As A Result

Sure, "Soulja Boy says something stupid" is sorta dog-bites-man news at this point, but this quote he gave to Toure last week while being interviewed for a BET show kind of goes above and beyond the Gob Bluthisms dude has been dropping up to this point. OK, it doesn't go "sort of" above and beyond—it makes you want to lock this kid in a room with a book. Any book. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Oct 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
4,696 views, 15 comments

Founding Idolator editor Brian Raftery chats up accordion-wielding parodymaster "Weird Al" Yankovic, and how the Internet has changed his business: "Back in the '80s, 'Purple Rain' would be number one for half a year," Yankovic says. "You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars. That makes it more difficult for me." [Wired]

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Tony Yayo Has Sipped Freely From 50 Cent's Kool-Aid I was going to say "50 Cent's Vitamin Water," but it would have ruined the image that this sentence immediately conjured up in my mind: "In my eyes, I don't think Kanye will never be bigger than Fif, no matter what his numbers do." Although, wait a second, does the double negative mean that Yayo is actually dissing the G-Unit's head honcho? Somebody call the Grammar/Beef Police! [MTV]

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R. Kelly Wants You To Know That Champagne, GIrls, And Sex Are Nothing More Than Another Day At The Office

Last night, R. Kelly sat down with the journalist Toure to talk about the aftermath of being found innocent on child-pornography charges, and the future of his musical career. Thanks to other commitments (including my perhaps unwise decision to torture myself by watching the last half-inning of the Phillies-Braves game unfold via MLB.com's diagrammatic app Gameday), I missed the show, but MTV has helpfully provided us with some highlights. A few quotes from the hour after the jump. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Sep 17 2008
By Maura Johnston
383 views, 4 comments

Latest by TriedandTrue: @Nicolars: But this article does not even do that part justice. His reaction was hilarious in that it did not promote his case ONE IOTA. The fact he had to even ask where the age limit was........crazy. My other favorite part more »

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The End Of The Innocence, Cont'd.

"There was no YouTube, no MySpace, no TMZ. In the '60s and early '70s, most artists weren't willing to 'ho' to get their fifteen minutes of fame. Peoples' lives were not an open book, their foibles not public property. We did our fair share of debauchery, but there was nobody there trying to film it." Is this the first time I sort of agree with one Mr. Don Henley ever? It very well may be! (Although the whole boomer-exceptionalist bit does, naturally, rankle more than a bit.) [Star-Telegram; HT Reed Fischer]

3:45 PM on Fri Sep 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
284 views, 12 comments

Latest by Hyman Decent: @Maura Johnston: Don't worry, I know it wasn't... I was making a Rick Allen meta-joke myself. more »

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Lloyd Shows Us How To Do A Q & A

Here at Idolator, we have a collective love for the R & B singer Lloyd, whose forthcoming album Lessons In Love drops Aug. 5. That admiration was mainly based on his musical output, which is made up of some of the finest R & B tracks of the last few (maybe more) years. But there's a whole new reason to have a crush on him now, as this chat he had with TJ Tanner of Neon Limelight shows that his interview technique is as smooth as his falsetto. (Two minutes into their interview, he says to her, "If you look anything close to how you sound you have to be the finest woman alive." The reason? "I have an album coming out in two weeks. Why wouldn't I try to win you over?") After the jump, other choice quotes. More »

3:45 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Maura Johnston
591 views, 2 comments

Latest by breedavies: I would've liked the entire interview to be about his hair. more »

Jay-Z has become more politically aware over the past few years, but don't expect Barack Obama's implicit endorsement of him to serve as a gateway to a run for higher office: "No. Ha ha ha! No, they'll kill me in 30 seconds. 'Shit! This guy's in!' Bang! Ha ha! I won't make it past the primaries! Ha ha! They talk about Obama's priest—imagine what they'd do to me! My friend is locked up! Ha ha ha! That's funny." It's probably for the best, since dude is too busy working on buying a piece of the—ugh!—Yankees right now. [Time Out London via XXL]

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The owner of the New York record store Rockit Scientist thinks that anyone who legally downloads music is an idiot, since digital music is free everywhere you look. (One wonders what his his fellow neighborhood denizens Other Music would think of that. But LPs like the ones he has for sale at his store are definitely worth the money, while CDs are less so. This quote seems to signify that dude thinks his business' days are numbered: "If I was a kid I'd be downloading music," he told CNet, "but if you ask me I think the music business blew it by charging too much for CDs." [CNet]

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Quotable The director of Weezer's "remember that thing on YouTube? wasn't that funny?" video for "Pork & Beans" speaks about his, ahem, "inspiration" for the clip: "When I heard 'Pork and Beans,' I loved its non-conformist message and felt like it was a natural anthem for the self-expression that's been taking shape on YouTube and the Internet. At that point, I connected the dots and wanted to create Weezer's mash-up of their favorite popular culture of the Internet—a viral music video made of virals, rather than just a traditional music video." Seriously, dude? I thought that your concept was more along the lines of "hey, we can probably get some easy Internet buzz by reminding all those kids of things they laughed at six or eight months ago, and the 'talent' will cost a lot less than Playboy bunnies." Shows you what I know. [Buzzworthy]

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Liz Phair Hasn't Felt Creative In 15 Years

Did you know Liz Phair never wanted to be on a major label? That Matador "left" her at Capitol and her infamous self-titled 2003 album (which is pretty good, BTW) was her attempt to "make the best of it"? Now that she's on Dave Matthews' label ATO she feels more "creative" than she has since, well, Exile In Guyville. "I can honestly say, for the first time in 15 years, I feel creative. I don't have to start with a mindset that thinks about how to sell the record and works backward." So she didn't even feel "creative" for Whip-Smart or Whitechocolatespaceegg? Who names an album Whitechocolatespaceegg and doesn't feel "creative"? More »

12:45 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,721 views, 26 comments

Latest by nicksweeney: I blame Sheryl Crow. Well, not totally. Though I'm really not tempted by the revisionist line here. 'Exile' holds its own, especially if you're prepared to judge it as a product of its time; the s/t is just not a good more »

Former MTV metalhead-in-residence Iann Robinson on the channel's relationship with the record labels: "MTV isn't actually the Big Man On Campus or the Star Quarterback, they are the fat linebacker friend who holds the kids down while the Quarterback gives them wedgies. They are on the same team, they even protect the Quarterback but their whole lives are spent being subservient to him. That's MTV, they make bands, build careers but bend right over when the labels (or Quarterbacks) say to." [Frank Castle's Family via Buzzgrinder]

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