>>Mo' Cheddah

Hot on the heels of a Hip-Hop World nomination and an MTV Base promo deal, the prolific hip pop artiste, Mo’Cheddah drops her new hit single titled “Ko Maa Roll”, off her soon-to-be-released debut album The Franchise Celebrity.

The song comes as a sequel to her recent hit debut ‘If You Want Me’, which is already enjoying heavy rotation on radio stations across the nation; with the video blazing hard on local and Cable TV stations

With a heavy traditionally influenced beat, a catchy hook “Ko Maa Roll” which simply translates to “Let it Roll” and the distinctive voice of Mo’Cheddah, Knighthouse, in collaboration with Producers ‘Legendary Beats’ deliver a track that is sure to dominate radio and clubs everywhere.

The talented, young artist will release her highly anticipated debut album at the end of August 2010.

One day -Eldee New Video

Eldee the Don has delivered another surgicaly composed video for the track: One Day. Nice feel to the video with alot of industry celebrities. Enjoy it:

Deaths over Worldcup.

Somali Islamists killed two people and arrested over a dozen others for watching the World Cup on Television. On Sunday and Monday, the militants from the Hizbul Islam group raided houses in the Mogadishu district of Somalia, which resulted in 2 deaths and 35 arrests.

Hizhul Islam and Al Shabaab groups control a large amount of the region and enforce a strict interpretation of Islam which bans sports, music and dancing. This is the first time that the World Cup has been held in South Africa, and some Somali residents have continued to watch the event regardless, using makeshift satellites and tuning into local FM stations.

Courtesy: hiphopwired

HCODE-iwo ni ft. VECTOR * BANGIN TRACK

Fresh Video from TUFACE-ONLY ME

This video was directed by clarence peters. Splendid black and white feel.

::Mr. ENDOWED::

Hey! Its Don Jazzy again...lol DBANJ drops another hit on us Mr. Endowed, following his recent multi-million dollar international recording contract signing. Enjoy, download and contribute to making it a certified hit.

DOWNLOAD HERE>>

BET Awards Nominees

The BET Awards will take place live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 27th at 8 PM Eastern.

VOTE HERE


2010 BET Awards nominees:

Best Female R&B Artist
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige
Melanie Fiona
Alicia Keys
Rihanna

Best Male R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Raheem DeVaughn
Maxwell
Trey Songz
Usher

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
Ester Dean
Lil’ Kim
Nicki Minaj
Rasheeda
Trina


Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
B.o.B
Drake
Fabolous
Jay-Z
Ludacris

Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Melanie Fiona
Nicki Minaj
Wale
Young Money

Best Gospel
The Anointed Pace Sisters
Kirk Franklin Presents Artists United For Haiti
Tamela Mann
Marvin Sapp
Vickie Winans

Best Group
Black Eyed Peas
Clipse
Diddy-Dirty Money
New Boyz
Young Money

Best Collaboration
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Drake and Trey Songz – “Successful”
Drake featuring Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Eminem – “Forever”
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Trey Songz featuring Fabolous – “Say Aah”

2010 BET Awards nominees:

Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Gil Green
Anthony Mandler
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams

Video of the Year
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Melanie Fiona – “It Kills Me”
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West – “Run This Town”

Viewer’s Choice
Beyoncé – “Sweet Dreams”
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Monica – “Everything to Me”
Rihanna featuring Young Jeezy – “Hard”
Trey Songz f/ Fabolous – “Say Aah”
Young Money featuring Lloyd – “Bedrock”

Best International Act
Kojo Antwi (Ghana)
Chipmunk (UK)
Dizzee Rascal (UK)
Estelle (UK)
Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) (South Africa)
K’NAAN (Somalia)
M.I. (Nigeria)
P-Square (Nigeria)
Corinne Bailey Rae (UK)
Sade (UK)

Centric Award
Melanie Fiona
Maxwell
Chrisette Michele
Monica
Sade

PSQUARE>>E NO EASY- (New PSQUARE video)

INTRODUCING HCODE!

We would like to introduce to you HCODE, a fabulous Music Producer and Artist out to redefine music in Nigeria. We are not saying this simply because we have the privilege of working with him, but because his style of music is the kind that gets us a pamanent spot on the international music radar.


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To download for free his lead single iwo ni ft. Vector pls follow this link:: DOWNLOAD-IWO NI *LINK1
DOWNLOAD-IWO NI *LINK2

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Also to become a fan and learn more about HCODE follow this link::
http://bit.ly/ajf3vu


We hope you download the track and enjoy it, and also visit HCODE's fanpage and hit the like button.


You could also follow HCODE on twitter: @iamhcode

NB: The Video for the song would soon be released.

#The Armani Hotels and Resorts

welcome to Dubai the city of spectacular views, grand openings and one place where the affluence of a few pushes intellectuals beyond their limits.

Five years in the making, repeatedly delayed by financial and then natural disaster, the city’s most hotly anticipated

hotel finally opened last week. The ARMANI HOTEL yeah u read that right the world famous designer Giorgio Armani finally stretched the limits of the luxury lifestyle his brand is known for world over.

Exclusively housed in the distinctive Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, the Armani Hotel Dubai is the first of a series of hotels, resorts and residences designed by Giorgio Armani to be opened around the globe and marks fashion maestro Giorgio Armani’s debut in to the world of hospitality. Defined by its unique location, highest standards of aesthetics and service excellence, the Armani Hotel Dubai is the most exclusive destination in the city.

Adding to the claustrophobia of this spectacular too good to be true hotel, everything is decked out in dark wood. There are no door handles and the doorbells and room numbers are set flush into the walls. It’s sleek and it’s smooth, but the over-riding impression is more of a walk-in closet than a hotel corridor.

>>who born the maga video wande coal ft. Kswitch

The Grand Conspiracy (did he know exactly how long he had to live)

I must confess that my believe in the fact that most things are not what they seem is unwavering. The news of the death of our President and Commander In Chief (President Umaru Yaradua) stirred up some very heated argument about grand conspiracies which were birth at the end of former President Obasanjo's tenure.

The summary of the cause of the argument was this:

1. Was President Yaradua aware of his eminent demise such that he was a part of the power sharing conspiracy?

2. Did President yaradua just die on the 5th of May, 2010 or he had been dead for some time before the final announcement.

3. Was President Obasanjo a corrupt leader?

The issue got so flogged that all sorts of angles were exposed which only made me wonder....

In my opinion there will always be two classes of people.

1. Those who watch the news happen.

2. Those who make the news happen.

As a PR consultant i realise that not everything we read on the pages of newspapers or watch on the news are entirely true. As a specie that thrives on appearance, we would go to any length to scheme, lie, tell half truths, omit, twist and even kill to make appearances favor us as a people. The history books are full of such records:

we all know of Prof. Wole Soyinka's reputation in the international community but yet in our national history books he was accused of profiting illegally from the National Road Safety Corps funds. Does that make him a corrupt man.?

As i understand it the world is in a constant state of balance and any disturbance of any sort cause the world to attempt a correction of the disturbance in the long run (take global warming for example).

So then you ask me was President Obasanjo a corrupt leader? and my answer to you is this. President Obasanjo is only as corrupt as President Clinton (former US president), or President Bush, or even President Obama. As a leader who desires to be seen as an effective leader i understand that certain measures have to be taken to ensure the peace & stability of of a nation.

of all the governors, senators and political heads in the country at that time Yaradua was hand picked and for balance Goodluck Jonathan was also selected to deputise. Frgive me when i say that nothing happens by accident. Call it divine arrangement, but i will tell you that even though my statements make not make sense right now, some hidden truths would not remain within the walls of the Presidential villa forever. On the day the the walls of Aso Rock decide to speak the 2 decade old hiddens truths which have reflected off it, then would realise that there is more to news headlines than meets the eye.

May God grant our Late President Eternal rest.

~gossim

>>Blood and Oil- The Niger Delta Movie

Writing about the Niger Delta crisis is something i have avoided for a long time but after seeing this movie:
Blood and Oil written by Guy Hibbert and directed by David Artwood. I have gained some considerable insight into the Niger Delat Complexity.

Like it or not i believe this movie somehow is a fair assessment of the situation maybe not in total alliance with the fictional plot of the movie but in the message. From the local dialects and pidgin english used to the locations and cast (not toattly) the Blood and Oil movie produced for the BBC is a must watch.

Mark Unwin is one of four employees of Krielsen International oil company captured by militant group MEND
whilst they are working in Nigeria his wife Claire flies out with Alice Onuko, Nigerian-born,British-raised P.R. consultant for Krielsen. When the women arrive in Port Harcourt they are told a ransom has been agreed - as is the norm since MEND depends on ransoms to fund itself.

However when civil rights worker Keme, acting as go-between, escorts the women to the handover place they find only the corpses of Mark and his co-workers. Next day Claire meets a journalist who tells her the men were killed by the Nigerian government after their release by MEND and he is himself later found dead.

She also learns that he was having an affair with Angel, a prostitute,whom she confronts but who is whisked
away in a car before she can say anything. Alice is equally shocked to find that her father has made his money less than scrupulously from oil.
Keme is jailed but Alice levers Tunde,the police chief, into releasing him despite Tunde's efforts to silence her.
Keme takes Alice and Claire deep into the jungle to meet MEND leader Ebi who swears that Mark's murderers were Nigerian officers under Tunde and his men,who staged the massacre to blame MEND.

I could go on and on but this movie is better appreciated when watched.

>>Dagrin

Enough has been said about Dagrin the car crash and finally his death. I believe its very natural for people to say lots of positive things about the dead. But in all the comments i have read or heard about Dagrin's death there is one very common factor, the fact that Dagrin was a very likable person. If you had a very bad day that left you frowning all the way, a chance meeting with Dagrin would at least calm ur nerves simply cos he was always smiling plus his goat styled laughter was easily recognizable by all.

In such a short period his explosion was felt by all what if his career then lasted over 50yrs what would he have done?

In my opinion, I think for someone who survived that long after such an accident, Dagrin shouldn't have been kept at LUTH. For God's sake whatever happened to the Reddingtons and St. Nicholas's in this country. I think for some reason the medics may have been sloppy in some way. I do not wish to be insensitive to the pain felt by every one right now, but i just wonder, if Kanye could survive Jaw reconstruction after a more ghastly accident, and 50 did also wande coal did, would it have been too much to give Dagrin some better medical attention?

I realise nothing we can ever say or do can bring him back, but one thing is certain we won't have another Dagrin. I sincerely desire Eternal rest for Olaitan (Dagrin). Find below a freestyle by Dagrin over the pon pon pon beat. This is a clear picture of his kind of person off stage.

>>Road Trip

All Aboard! nah....this aint the old steam train conductor. Seeing that i am still crazy in love with my team Barcelona couldnt resist this post. That most major airports in Europe are closed is no longer news.

The catalans got on a road trip Sunday to make their champions league game on tuesday against InterMillan. Here are some pix of the team on this road trip.

Obama got a Grammy!

How much really does one have to have to be the most powerful man in the world. Obama recieved an income of $5.5mill and paid bout $1.8mill in taxes. But in contrast to what all them celebrities like beyonce, JayZ, 50cents etc.earn Obama's income is but a shadow of theirs & ordinarily Obama wouldn't even be a match.

But of course being commander in chief has its perks...lol. Obama, a former law school instructor and U.S. senator, became a millionaire a few years ago through sales of his 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father" and his 2006 political book, "The Audacity of Hope." He earned about $4 million in royalties in 2007, the year he launched his presidential campaign.

Sales included his audio versions of the books, for which Obama won two Grammy awards in the spoken-word category. Power as it seems is in the american context is beyond bank balances as is the case in Nigeria. Its more about the people's believe in an individual.