The Friday Hip Hop Report (Oct24)

Theweekly show that reports all the developments in Hip Hop from news and new releases to album sales and charts. Hosted by Wahidah Fowler, this weeks show features: ===MAIN STORIES=== -‘Dolemite’ Star Rudy Ray Moore, died on sunday aged 81 from complications of diabetes. -RnB Singer Lyfe Jennings was arrested in Atlanta, Georga after a domestic dispute and police chase ended when he crashed his car. -Diddy has bought the Enyce clothing label from Liz Claiborne for million. -T-Pain replaced Katt Williams as host of The BET Hip Hop Awards. -Pras was confronted by ABC’s Eye Witness News about owing Fight Klub Recording Studios 000. -Rappers turning actors seems to be the new trend with -Will.I.am providing the voice for moto moto in the Madagascar sequel, Eve starring in Drew Barrymore’s ‘Whip It!’, 50 Cent joining Nicolas Cage in The Dance, Mos Def, Rihanna and Macey Gray in Mama Black Widow which is based on the Iceberg Slim Novel and finally Diddy is rumoured to be playing T-La Rock in the Denzel Washington directed movie about the 80’s rapstars life. -And finally Eminem, Colin Powell and Google CEO Eric Schmidt have all endorsed Barack Obama. ===NEW RELEASES=== Statik Selektahs – Stick 2 The Script Prodigy – Product of the 80’s Stat Quo – The South Got Somthin To Say Lil Rob – Twelve Eighteen Part II Jus Bleezy – Go Hard or Go Home Crooked I – The Block Obama Mixtape DJ Storm – Jayhovah: The God MC ===NEW MUSIC=== Black Milk feat. Royce da 5′9″ – Losin Out Asher …
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PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948’s oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com It would be difficult to find a rock & roll star — and that was what he was for two years in the mid-’60s — less likely than Gary Lewis, or a less probable chart-topping act than Gary Lewis & the Playboys. Lewis himself was possessed of a limited singing range and didn’t have what could be considered good looks, yet with a lot of help he managed to make some exceptionally good (and good-selling) records out of Los Angeles, in the midst of the British Invasion, and teenagers loved him. He was the son of actor/comedian/director/producer Jerry Lewis, who was then one of the most popular entertainers in the country. Gary Lewis was born in 1946, before his father’s ascent to the top of the entertainment world, but by the time he reached his teens — and had begun playing drums and leading a combo of his own, which included Dave Walker on rhythm guitar and Dave Costell on lead, Al Ramsey on bass, and John West on the cordovox (a kind of electric accordion) — Jerry Lewis was a major star and one of the hottest box office and television attractions in the world. He could get a television series on the air, and networks and sponsors opening their checkbooks to back it, just by indicating he wanted to do one, and get a movie made by writing — or just okaying — a script. If he had any …
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