HEAT NIGHT CLUB PRESENTS LLOYD OFFICIAL KING OF HEARTS & LIL WAYNE I AM STILL MUSIC TOUR AFTERPARTY

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HEAT NIGHT CLUB PRESENTS LLOYD OFFICIAL KING OF HEARTS & LIL WAYNE I AM STILL MUSIC TOUR AFTERPARTY

August 12, 2011

HEAT NIGHTCLUB

6115 Brandt Pike

Huber Heights, OH

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Contact & RSVP Ticket Information:

Phone: 937-233-HEAT(4328)

Email: heat.nightclub@yahoo.com

Lil Wayne Doesn't Like "Anne"

We posted the song "Dear Anne (Stan Part 2)" by chart-topping rapper Lil Wayne earlier this month. The song isn't bad and has a good sound, but from the lyrics, it doesn't quite make sense. There seemed to be a concept of some sort but it wasn't tied together very well. Apparently Wayne himself isn't a fan of the song either:

Lil Wayne tells XXL he’s no stan of “Anne.”

A couple of weeks ago, Wayne’s collaboration with Swizz Beatz titled “Dear Anne (Stan Part 2)” hit the internet and found the charismatic Miami transplant pledging devotion to his number one fan. And while Weezy says he’s heard accolades from his real life fans as well as his Young Money camp, Lil Tunechi isn’t sold that the song will make the cut for his August 29 release Tha Carter IV.

“That was actually a record for Tha Carter III that just leaked,” Wayne told XXL last week in Miami’s Hit Factory. “It leaked out and everybody’s thinking that it’s going on Tha Carter IV ’cause I was actually gonna put it on Tha Carter IV . But I had been listening to it and didn’t like it. I don’t like it ‘cause the song, all the verses are old. And me being a perfectionist, I hate going with old verses.”

Wayne’s right hand man Mack Maine and manager Cortez Bryant have expressed different sentiments. “Mack and Tez and them, they love it,” he said. “They be like ‘Man, you trippin, you killed it.’ I be like, ‘Did you hear what I just said? I don’t wanna do that anymore.’ But I heard that the ‘Anne’ song has been getting buzzed up and everybody’s buzzin’ about it so it might end up one of those you might have to put on the album, you know what I mean. But I ain’t trippin’ on it like that; I don’t like the song. I love the beat; I love the idea. I don’t like my execution. I don’t like what I did, I don’t like how I delivered on it. The idea that I had for it, I didn’t accomplish that, what I thought I was gonna do. ‘Cause I was tryna make it a situation song. And I just don’t like it.”

President Carter. digs a lot deeper into revealing secrets of Tha Carter IV in the cover story ofXXL‘s forthcoming July/August 2011 issue, hitting newsstands nationwide on July 12, 2011. —Shaheem Reid

Swizz Beatz On Lil Wayne's "Dear Anne"

If you liked Lil Wayne's ode to Eminem, then you may just love this interview with Swizz Beatz, the brains behind the sound of "Dear Anne."

The interview was conducted by The Source magazine. Read more there.

Lil Wayne's Ode To Eminem: "Dear Anne (Stan Pt. 2)"

It looks like Lil Wayne has let forth his fondness for rap phenom Eminem again with a song called "Dear Anne (Stan Pt. 2)." If you know hip-hop, you certainly know the song "Stan," wherein a deranged rap fan becomes so angered by perceived disrespect from his idol - Eminem - that he stuffs his girlfriend (along with her unborn daughter) in a trunk and drives the car off a bridge. Wayne's version is very different but I genuinely like it. They both have very different styles and this shows Wayne's versatility. Download it below.



For a little compare and contrast, here is the video for Eminem's classic song:

Eminem Performs "No Love" At Bonnaroo

Carl Roe - No Love

The "No Love" freestyle by the incomparable Carl Roe has been released on the BOI mixtape and can be seen on YouTube, but here it is for individual download for the first time. Download it, RT it and spread the word.

The Blood Is One Artists

"Multiple Skin Tones, The Blood Is One" - Pharoahe Monch, "Shine"

Since Will Pierce and I started The Blood Is One, we have been very interested in recruiting, mentoring, marketing and booking up and coming artists. Hip-hop is only the beginning. The staff at BOI has interest in genres spanning from R&B to electro to alt country. We're currently working with three talented artists - Carl Roe, CaLii and Game Brothas. Following are biographies of all three. Keep this page bookmarked as we'll have music and other stuff posted here as things move on. All three will be featured on the upcoming BOI mixtapes and compilations.

Carl Roe

Carl is born in Chicago and made his way to the northwest after joining the military. He's a very talented guy - acting as a rapper, singer and producer - and plans to tour nationally. His forthcoming LP is entitled The Broken Time Machine.

Kenan Bell

Kenan Bell takes the changing zeitgeist of hip-hop - shaped by such emotional chameleons as Kanye West and Drake - and runs with it. Kenan is currently prepping a great deal of work that will appear with the epic forthcoming Blood Is One mixtape compilation. Look for his work. It's serious.


CaLii

CaLii a.k.a. the Tri-State beast bring the Club to the streets, with a sound that attracts everyone from your club hopper to your local dope boy.  The music lover turned femcee discovered her love and appreciation for music at a young age, and credits music as being an epic part of her life.  She began rapping and writing rhymes at the tender age of 10.  However, CaLii did not begin to fulfill her potential as an artist until upon graduating from Waterbury Arts Magnet School in Waterbury Ct., this is when she became serious about her gift and blossomed into the rapper we all love today.

God Rest Ye, Arthur and Wizard

By way of Disinformation comes this story:

After years of service, Arthur departed the material plane today.

He died as he lived — free, high and a-dreaming of love, ‘neath vultures’ terrible gaze.

Thank you, and love to all.

Arthur Magazine was distributed at indie records across the United States, at places like Seattle's Sonic Boom Records or the Bay Area's Rasputin Records. In other words, places that are already on life support and mostly kept around due to larger community solidarity.

Wikipedia has a pretty good run down of the magazine's coverage:

Arthur magazine, a free bi-monthly 50,000-copy periodical, was founded in October, 2002 by publisher Laris Kreslins and editor Jay Babcock. It has received favorable attention from other periodicals such as L.A. Weekly, Print, Punk Planet and Rolling Stone. Arthur features photography and artwork from Spike Jonze, Art Spiegelman, Susannah Breslin, Gary Panter and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Arthur's regular columnists include Byron Coley, Thurston Moore, Daniel Pinchbeck, Paul Cullum, Douglas Rushkoff, and T-Model Ford.

Arthur magazine is particularly drawn to noise music, stoner metal, folk and other types of psychedelia. The first issue of Arthur featured an interview with journalist and author Daniel Pinchbeck (author of Breaking Open the Head); artwork by Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen); and an interview with Arthur C. Clarke.

As great as Alan Moore and T-Model Ford are, that is a pretty good lack of mainstream. Here at Blood Is One, we're smart enough to know that things are changing dramatically, especially in the music world. The snooty divide between "underground" and "mainstream" was really propelled by the big record label's monopoly on the business. The internet is fracturing that monopoly and in the process also fracturing the need for an "underground" or "counterculture." With Twitter, Facebook, SoundCloud and blogs, artists can now push their albums, videos and promotion straight to the audience in order to build buzz for concerts, media contracts, merchandising and other money makers.

The writers I've got here are similar, though different. Will is a big fan of roots music and old blues, but seems perfectly willing to bump Lil Wayne any time. Aneesah gets the world of the web pretty tenaciously as well, and maintains a dating website that has alot of promise to it.

Arthurt Magazine was pretty cool, but with its limited, free print distribution and niche alliance to the avante garde, it was doomed to fail. The few times I picked it up, it provided a nostalgic feeling of being back in the 1990s to read an interview with Sonic Youth about the making of their first album, but that's not enough to bring in new people. It's amazing it lasted as long as it did.

In the world of comic books, an industry with differing dynamics than music but many that are similar, Wizard Magazine was finally forced to close its doors earlier this year:

Now this is an end of an era.

I am receiving multiple confirmations from across the industry, through none yet from Wizard’s higher ups and PR people yet, that Wizard: The Guide To Comics, the magazine that covered the mainstream comics industry for twenty years and created all manner of careers in the process has closed, effective immediately. Or at least the print version has.

Almost all Wizard magazine staff have been laid off, and all freelance engagements cancelled.

Sister magazine Toyfare, covering the toy market, has not been affected, nor have the Wizard comic conventions.

Created by Gareb Shamus and Stephen Shamus in 1991, the magazine carved a niche for itself covering the most commercial comics in the most aggressive fashion. At one point it regularly sold more than the comics it covered. But sales have declined of late, as the internet has grown in prominence and favour for this kind of news. For many Wizard is no longer the news breaker and agenda setter of the comics industry it once was. And people still have issues with the tone it has taken over the years. Even though it’s arguable that the last couple of years have seen some of the best Wizard content since it started.

The Shamus brothers are not really spoken of fondly in comic book circles. I've heard of them being slick and creepy, which must hold water considering that most people in the comic book world have negative social traits. In retrospect, Wizard was a conglomeration of everything that is bad for the comic book industry. It had significant links with Top Cow and many writers that worked there and preferred to push misogynist creations like Witchblade and Magdalena over the works of Oni Press or Dark Horse.

Like Arthur, Wizard was emblematic of a false divide that was probably bad for the comic book industry. Comic book conventions like Emerald City Comic Con are now overpacked, while they were seedy places in the 1990s when Wizard was at its prime.

Just like humanity has since its infancy, we still seek to be entertained and enjoy music, but the means by which we do that have changed dramatically and for the better.

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