Anthony Class and RAFA NAVAS & other: June 2008

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Eddy Willemsen

Artist: Eddy Willemsen

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Come On

Year: 2004
Tracks: 3

Sunday 15 June 2008

Michelle Williams - The Things They Say 8399

"(It's) something you can look back on at the end of your life and think, 'That was a cool thing I did when I was 27." Actress MICHELLE WILLIAMS was delighted to attend her first Cannes Film Festival in France on Thursday (22May08).

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Wednesday 11 June 2008

Nas Says Jay Electronica Is 'The Whole Package'; LL Cool J Is Ready To Prove He's The G.O.A.T.: Mixtape Monday

Don't panic: We're not changing our format. We're just scaling back this week.

Why? To devote more coverage to our "Hottest MCs in the Game" list. Elsewhere on MTVNews.com, you can see the full 2008 list -- and the debate it's sure to incite.

Next week, we're back big, bold and with a loud bow-wow. Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound will be giving us the ins and outs of their new mixtape with DJ Drama.

This week, we won't leave you totally in a lurch: We have Nas talking about a young artist who's motivated him, and DJ Kay Slay is working with one of the great legends.

Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week

» DJ 31 Degreez and Plies - My World
» DJ Messiah , Jim Jones and Max B - The Blues Brothers (The End of the Wave)
» The Empire - Southern Slang 10
» The Hitmen and 50 Cent - This Is 50
» J. Period, Skillz and Don Cannon - Design of a Decade

'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar

» Bun B (featuring Lupe Fiasco) - "Swang on 'Em"
» Lil Wayne (featuring Kanye West) - "Lollipop" remix
» Lloyd Banks - "Top Five"
» N.E.R.D. (featuring C.R.S. and Pusha T) - "Everybody Nose" remix
» Quan (featuring Lyfe Jennings) - "Baby I'm a Star"
» Raekwon and Ghostface Killah - "Necro"

The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground

Nas and Jay are working together tough -- newcomer Jay Electronica, not Roc Boy Jay-Z. The Queens legend is giving the upstart a chance to shine on Nas' controversially titled LP Nigger.

"When I met Jay Electronica, he handed me a CD and said, 'You gotta hear this one song,' " Nas recalled. " ... I put it in the car, and he did 'The World Is Yours' over. The way he flipped it was crazy. I called him immediately and was like, 'Where you at?'

"Jay Electronica is the future," he added. "He's what rappers are trying to be or what they are aspiring to be. He's the whole package. He has visual ideas for videos, and he could show you what he's been working on. He has a whole different take on his production. The guy's an incredible writer. I like his music. He was like, 'Let's go. Let's get in the studio.' He gave me a lot of his time." ...

LL Cool J is almost done with his first-ever mixtape, The Return of the G.O.A.T., and DJ Kay Slay is assisting him in making that happen. The Drama King says L will also have guests such as Busta Rhymes on the street CD. "Anybody that's featured on the mixtape has to be on a classic LL beat," Kay said.

The Harlem street figure also told us that Cool J wanted to heat things up in advance of his Exit 13 LP. "LL's got an album coming out," Slay continued. "I think he's just aware that he has to have that street presence and make people aware he still is the G.O.A.T. and he can still spit. A lot of people are under the misconception that LL is making those grown-and-sexy records, that he ain't with the street vibe anymore. I think he wanted to step back and let people know he's still the G.O.A.T."

Slay -- who also helped Ray J put together All I Feel -- is working on his next hip-hop compilation, More Than a DJ. The lineup includes, of all people, Uncle Murda. Everyone knows there's been a long feud between Murda's faction and Slay and Papoose's camp.

"At the end of the day, their camp has a lot of individuals that got common sense just like me and my camp," Slay said of how the beef turned peaceful. "Wasn't nobody gonna benefit from the situation. We already know where situations that spill from music into the streets could go at."

Slay said Hood, his former partner and Murda's current manager, reached out so they could cease all the nonsense.

Cool J's mixtape is dropping in a couple of weeks. Slay's album will be out before the end of the year.

Now that you've checked out our "Hottest MCs in the Game" show, we want to know what MCs you're feeling! Keep the debate rolling by submitting your own top-10 list below or heading to YouRHere.MTV.com to upload your video reaction. And the hotness continues: You can check in on last year's top 10 and see this year's complete list on our "Hottest MCs" page.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Receives Teacher's Choice Award for Third Straight Year

Museum's approach to teaching Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade is
obtaining national acclaim

CLEVELAND, June 11 -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum's distance learning program On the Road has received the national
Teacher's Choice Award for the Best Content Provider in the Fine Arts
Museums and Organizations category. This program is made possible through
generous support from the John P. Murphy Foundation and National City Bank.

For the third year in a row, the Rock Hall has received a Teacher's
Choice Award for its distance learning program which is quickly becoming
the most well-known of its kind in the nation. The award is sponsored by
Polycom, an interactive videoconferencing technology company.

This honor comes at a time when the Museum's educational programming is
experiencing an unprecedented growth in attendance, awards from respected
institutions and increased interest from media outlets across the country
and around the world.

"The Rock Hall is an established music hub, but we have a long-term
vision to use technology to provide our unique music based education
programs to classrooms around the world," said Terry Stewart, president and
CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. "We are thrilled to
receive this exceptional acknowledgement of our work from teachers across
the country. Music is an art form that merits serious study and speaks to
students in a powerful way. It has the ability to deepen engagement with
core subjects including language arts, history, social studies and
technology."

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is at the forefront of bringing popular
culture into the classroom and utilizing it to shed light on the music that
changed the world. The Museum's state-of-the-art interactive
videoconferencing technology allows it to offer incredible educational
experiences, teaching children and young adults the ways in which music has
played a part in some of the most important social, cultural and political
issues in modern history.

Using a high-tech, fully interactive videoconferencing system, the
Museum's On the Road distance learning program has reached more than 10,000
students and teachers in more than 28 states, Mexico, Canada, England and
Australia. Last year, the Museum won an Honorable Mention in the Best
Content Provider category and in 2005, it won an award for Best New Content
Provider.

"The Rock Hall's distance learning program touches upon key areas of
interest to our foundation," Richard J. Clark, executive vice president of
the John P. Murphy Foundation. "It's a groundbreaking program that has
respected educators around the country buzzing. Music and technology are
integral parts of the current generation's daily life and using them to
encourage renewed interest in core subjects is remarkable."

On the Road makes use of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's
extensive educational resources in order to increase students' knowledge of
the history, the people, and the sounds of popular music. These programs
promote interdisciplinary study and creative, analytical thinking - all
without leaving the classroom. The classes are developed and conducted by
the Museum's education department and include exclusive interview clips
with key figures in the history of popular music, behind-the-scenes
commentary with Museum curators, audio and video clips of Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Inductees, and more. On the Road classes, as well as pre- and
post-connection materials, meet Ohio and National education standards in
disciplines such as music, language arts, social studies, and technology.

Class offerings include:

* From Ambassador to the Orchestra: The Arranger in Rock and Roll
* Great Moments in Rock and Roll: Popular Music Through the Decades
* Hip-Hop Technology: From Turntables to Computers
* Rock and Roll Reactions: Records, Radios and the Birth of Teenage
Culture in 1950s America
* Ball of Confusion: Rock Music and Social Change in the 60s and 70s

For more details about the Rock Hall's educational programs, visit
http://www.rockhall.com/student.

About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization
that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world
about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It
carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum
that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through
its library and archives as well as its educational programs.

The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On
Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for
adults, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), $18 for adult
residents of Greater Cleveland. Children under 8 and Museum members are
free. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. When you become a member of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of rock and roll becomes yours to
explore. Call 216.515.1939 for information on becoming a member. For
general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK or visit http://www.rockhall.com.

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Angelina Jolie - Jolie Tops Motorcycle Movie Poll

ANGELINA JOLIE's action-packed motorcycle chase in LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER has been named the best two-wheeled movie moment of all time, in a poll by biker fans.

The actress' bike chase in the 2001 hit computer game adaptation topped of a poll issued by U.K. bike insurers Bennetts - beating legendary actor Steve MCQueen's iconic on-bike flight in The Great Escape.

Tom Cruise's high-fuelled motorbike adventures in Top Gun was voted in third place, with special effect blockbusters The Matrix Reloaded and Terminator 2 taking the fourth and fifth places respectively.

Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper's cult 1969 road movie Easy Rider - which depicts the life of a group of doomed bikers - was snubbed by film fans, failing to make the poll's top five.

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Joni Mitchell

Artist: Joni Mitchell

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening
   Miscellaneous
   Rock: Folk-Rock
   Rock: Folk
   Rock
   Jazz: Jazz-Rock

Discography:

Shine

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

A Tribute to Joni Mitchell

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Shadows and Light (CD 2)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Shadows and Light (CD 1)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 9

Travelogue (CD 2)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

Travelogue (CD 1)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

Both Sides Now

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

Blue

Year: 1999
Tracks: 10

Hits

Year: 1996
Tracks: 15

Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm

Year: 1988
Tracks: 10

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Year: 1987
Tracks: 10

For The Roses

Year: 1987
Tracks: 12

Hejira

Year: 1976
Tracks: 9

Court and Spark

Year: 1974
Tracks: 11

Ladies Of The Canyon

Year: 1970
Tracks: 12

Clouds

Year: 1969
Tracks: 10

Taming The Tiger

Year:
Tracks: 11

Song To A Seagull

Year:
Tracks: 10

Dreamland

Year:
Tracks: 17

When the sprinkle settles, Joni Mitchell english hawthorn stand as the most important and influential distaff recording artist of the late twentieth one C. Uncompromising and iconoclastic, Mitchell lost expectations at every turn; restlessly innovational, her music evolved from profoundly personal kinfolk stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even worldly concern music, presaging the multicultural experiment of the 1980s and 1990s by over a decade. Fiercely main, her work steadfastly resisted the whims of both mainstream audiences and the male-dominated recording industry. While Mitchell's records ne'er sold in the same numbers pool enjoyed by contemporaries like Carole King, Janis Joplin, or Aretha Franklin, none experimented so recklessly with their artistic identities or so bravely explored territorial dominion outside of the recognised confines of pop music, resulting in a creative bequest which paved the direction for performers ranging from Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde to Madonna and Courtney Love.

Born Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada, on November 7, 1943, she was stricken with infantile paralysis at the age of baseball club; spell convalescent in a children's hospital, she began her performing vocation by singing to the other patients. After later teaching herself to play guitar with the assistance of a Pete Seeger instruction ledger, she went off to art college, and became a fixture on the tribe music setting about Alberta. After relocating to Toronto, she married folksinger Chuck Mitchell in 1965, and began performing under the nominate Joni Mitchell.

A year later the duo moved to Detroit, MI, merely detached presently after; Joni remained in the Motor City, however, and north Korean won significant urge hail for her burgeoning songwriting skills and smoky, classifiable vocals, in the lead to a string of high profile performances in New York City. There she became a cause cÃ©lÃ¨bre among the media and other performers; after she gestural to Reprise in 1967, David Crosby offered to produce her debut criminal record, a self-titled acoustic attempt that appeared the following year. Her songs besides ground peachy success with other singers: in 1968, Judy Collins scored a major attain with the Mitchell-penned "Both Sides Now," patch Fairport Convention covered "Easterly Rain" and Tom Rush recorded "The Circle Game."

Thanks to all of the outside exposure, Mitchell began to pull in a hard cult following; her 1969 sophomore effort, Clouds, reached the Top 40, patch 1970's Ladies of the Canyon sold level better on the strength of the single "Handsome Yellow Taxi." It besides included her anthemic opus "Woodstock," a major strike for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Still, the commercial and critical approval awarded her landmark 1971 record Blue was unprecedented: a luminous, starkly confessional go under written primarily during a European holiday, the album steadfastly established Mitchell as one of pop music's most noteworthy and insightful talents.

Predictably, she turned aside from Depressed's incandescent folk with 1972's For the Roses, the first of the many major stylistic turns she would take over the course of her daring life history. Backed by rock-jazz performing artist Tom Scott, Mitchell's music began moving into more pop-oriented territory, a change typified by the individual "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)," her first significant hit. The followup, 1974's authoritative Court and Spark, was her nigh commercially successful outing: a sparkling, jazz-accented fix, it reached the number deuce smirch on the U.S. album charts and launched trey hit singles -- "Serve Me," "Justify Man in Paris," and "Elevated on Robbery."

After the 1974 live compendium Miles of Aisles, Mitchell emerged in 1975 with The Hissing of Summer Lawns, a bold, near new wave record that housed her progressively complex songs in experimental, jazz-inspired settings; "The Jungle Line" introduced the rhythms of African Burundi drums, placing her far in front of the kill world's mid-'80s fascination with public music. 1976's Hegira, recorded with Weather Report bassist Jaco Pastorius, smoothened out the music's more difficult edges while employing minimalist techniques; Mitchell later performed the album's first base single, "Coyote," at the Band's Final Waltz concert that Thanksgiving.

Her next travail, 1977's two-record rig Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, was some other ambitious move, a compendium of foresightful, largely improvisational pieces recorded with jazz players Larry Carlton and Wayne Shorter, Chaka Khan, and a stamp battery of Latin percussionists. Shortly after the record's spillage, Mitchell was contacted by the legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus, wHO invited her to make with him on a musical rendering of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Mingus, wHO was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, sketched out a series of melodies to which Mitchell added lyrics; however, Mingus died on January 5, 1979, in front the disc was completed. After Mitchell finished their collaborationism on her own, she recorded the songs under the title Mingus, which was released the summer later on the jazz titan's pass.

Following her second live compendium, 1980's Shadows and Light, Mitchell returned to pop district for 1982's Godforsaken Things Run Fast; the first individual, a cover of the Elvis Presley hit "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care," became her first chart single in eight age. Shortly after the album's spillage, she marital bassist/sound engine driver Larry Klein, wHO became a frequent collaborator on a great deal of her subsequent material, including 1985's synth-driven Dog Eat Dog, co-produced by Thomas Dolby. Mitchell's displace into electronics continued with 1988's Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, featuring guests Peter Gabriel, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and Billy Idol.

Arthur Mitchell returned to her roots with 1991's Night Ride Home, a spare, stripped compendium spotlighting little more than her voice and acoustic guitar. Prior to recording 1994's Roily Indigo, she and Klein spaced, although he still co-produced the disk, which was her most acclaimed work in eld. In 1996, she compiled a geminate of anthologies, Hits and Misses, which self-contained her chart successes as well as underappreciated favorites. A newfangled studio record album, Taming the Tiger, followed in 1998. Both Sides Now, a accumulation of standards, followed in early 2000.

Deuce age later, Mitchell resurfaced with the double-disc release Travelog. She announced in October 2002 that this would be her last album e'er, for she'd fully grown tired of the industry. She told W magazine that she intended to crawl in. She too claimed she would never sign some other corporate mark deal and in Rolling Stone blamed the transcription manufacture for being "a sink." By the time Travelog appeared a month afterward, Mitchell had simmered down and her plans to call off it quits had been axed. Numerous compilations and remasters appeared between 2002 and 2006, culminating in the button of the independent Shine in 2007.

Tabloid claims about Newman's health denied

Reports that film legend Paul Newman has undergone a secret operation to save him from cancer are unfounded, according to the actor's representative.
Warren Cowan revealed that he spoke with Newman about the claims by tabloid magazine The Enquirer.
Newman said: "I'm being treated for athlete's foot and hair loss... maybe the doctors know something that I don't!"
Whilst Newman has retired from acting he still spends considerable time working for his various charities.
The star, who has appeared in numerous film classics including 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'Cool Hand Luke', founded the Barretstown charity in Kildare in 1994.
To date over 10,000 children with cancer and other serious illnesses have benefited from the charity.

Rhymes' Security Guard Shot Dead

BUSTA RHYMES' security guard has been shot dead in New York.
Jermaine Williams, 35, was found on Wednesday (28May08) with multiple gunshot wounds in Ozone Park, Queens, reports AllHipHop.com.
Police found Williams' body wrapped in a blanket in the backseat of his SUV.
Busta Rhymes is currently touring Europe and was not in the country at the time of the incident.
Williams is the second bodyguard employed by Rhymes to be shot dead. His former bodyguard Israel Ramirez was shot dead in 2006.

Ellen Degeneres to wed girlfriend

US comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres plans to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after a California court ruling allowing gay marriage.

"I am announcing I am getting married," DeGeneres, 50, told the audience during the taping of her "The Ellen DeGeneres Show".

To wild cheers and a standing ovation, DeGeneres said she was very excited at a ruling by the California Supreme Court overturning a state ban on gay marriage.

"Thank you. I'll tell you who the lucky guy is soon," she joked.

DeGeneres did not mention de Rossi, 35, but pictures showed the former "Ally McBeal" actress in the audience, smiling and applauding.

"It is something of course that we have wanted to do and we wanted to be legal, and we are just very, very excited," DeGeneres said.

DeGeneres and de Rossi have been a familiar couple in Hollywood for about four years, appearing at red carpet events together. DeGeneres previously had a relationship with actress Anne Heche.

DeGeneres made broadcast history in 1997 when her TV alter ego came out of the closet on her ABC sitcom "Ellen," becoming the first openly gay lead character on US prime-time network television.

A short time later, DeGeneres and Heche went public with their real real-life love affair, instantly becoming America's most prominent lesbian couple. They broke up three years later.

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Cameron Diaz 'Falling In Love' With Jennifer Aniston's Ex?

Cameron Diaz is getting serious with Jennifer Aniston's cast-off Paul Sculfor – at least according to witnesses of their most recent date.

The pair reportedly looked very cosy indeed as they dined together at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood on June 8.
"Cam and Paul were sitting on the patio, leaning in toward each other," one eyewitness tells OK!.
"Her body language looked like she was really comfortable with him. She looked genuinely like a girl falling in love."

This latest sighting comes a week after their romantic dinner at Santa Monica's Il Ristorante di Giorgio Baldi.