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When Going Corporate Goes Wrong: E-40 Ed.

31, Dec 2008

There are reports that E-40’s venture of launching Fatburgers, is not turning out to be the money maker he thought. 
 
Rapper E-40 announced on Monday the closing of his Fatburger franchise in Northern California. 
E-40, who no doubt signs franchise related agreements with the name his mama gave him – Earl Stevens, explained to the LA Times music blog why he invested in a [...]

Of Course You Heard…Viacom is Spazzin’

31, Dec 2008

First it was the removal of the Warner videos on Youtube, and now the possibly most unusual form of business, clashing the cash strapped Time Warner and rattled ratings/losses of Viacom. 
“The issue is that they have asked for an exorbitant increase in their carriage fees and their network ratings are sagging,” he said. “Basically we’re trying to [...]

Did Jay Invest With Madoff?

31, Dec 2008

I’ve been away working on some real life these past weeks but, there have been a series of things that have raised concern these last few moments of 2008. First and foremost the rash foreclosures of a lot of Hip Hop stars, 50 Cent’s show cancellation, and Madoff. Something, I personally dealt with by [...]

Blackberry Blurbs

22, Dec 2008

Warner & Youtube, First of Possibly Many Shutdowns [rpshen]
Download beefs to end, but what’s the real motive? [eFlux Media]
Cold weather messes with Will Smith’s movie [MSNBC]

2009: The Amputation

20, Dec 2008

We saw this year coming. In 2002, I personally saw the justification of low jobs for grads all based on the September attacks. It wouldn’t look good by the time I finished school and I tried to make my young adult peers hip to the notion, we won’t have social security and we may not have jobs. At [...]

Episode 4 & 5: Respect The Hustle/The Hustler’s Eye

15, Dec 2008

50 Cent: The Money and The Power – MTV Shows

50 Cent: The Money and The Power – MTV Shows

Simmon’s Sister Are Daddy’s Girls

15, Dec 2008

Daddy’s Girls: The Simmons Sisters Spin-off

You Want To Fix The Economy? Then…

13, Dec 2008

Opening up my credit card bills. I used to think I was close to paying it off.It seems for the legitimate ones, that challenge was met with success. But with WAMU, they’re trail of illigimate practices have not ended. Apparently with the new games being played, if its up to them, paying it of will [...]


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