MADONNA 4 MINS MASHUP FEATURING NINA B

Here is another video installment of Nina B's The Icon Madonna Mashup, directed by Scenario. I have personal interest in this video since I helped shoot some scenes in this video. They were the bottom up shots. Stay tuned for the Material Girl video mashup.

No Good People on BET's RapCity

No Good People on BET's RapCity
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Nina B The Icon Mixtape airs on BET RapCity

Nina B The Icon Mixtape airs on BET RapCity
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Steadicam Merlin Demonstration

More on the Stedicam Merlin, dopeness!!

Steadicam Merlin / Canon XH-A1 Initial Test

This is the Stedicam Merlin, a device that balances the camera for smooth motion picture filming. A must have for Videographers and Directors. Price is around $1000.

Say Hello to the Bad Guy

I've been told I am a nice guy. The deli clerk by my house reminds me everyday, "Youre a nice guy" he says. People I associate with, "You're a good dude Puma", JO I see you, lol. I dont know, are other people complete assholes to the point where I contrast with them like night and day?

Not sure if thats a good look for me anymore, lol. I mean I can be mean too, I am actually. Try and call my office phone and solicate me when im at work, I dare ya, lol. You'll be quite surprised. But maybe taking a new route may benifit me, people might respect my authority more, maybe I can get ahead in the music industry more by using cut throat tactics.

In reality, I am quite fair, I instantly give respect to all until there's a reason not to. I also hold things in a lot that others might not, thats part of being a good guy, ya know. But thats not always a good thing because then theres the passive-aggressiveness that comes out of me at times. Ask my friends. Anyway, I think im going to pick up this book and start reading and it and see if theres a time for change. I'll let you know when im done, or maybe my attitude will suck so bad I wont even care to blog anymore. lmao!

Make Enemies and Alienate People
A satirical new book serves up a 10-step program on how to be, well … an a--hole

Are you a swell guy, everyone's sunken-chested doormat? Maybe you're a pushover of a gal, a tad overeager to please at the expense of your own tepid desires? Saps of the world, rejoice: Martin Kihn has written the book just for you.

"I was the nicest guy in the world—and it was killing me," he writes in "A$$hole: How I Got Rich and Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone and How You Can Too," his new mock-help masterpiece. "My life was a dictionary without the word 'no.' If you asked me for a favor—even the kind of favor that required me to go so far out of my way that I needed a map, a translator and an oxygen tank—even if I didn't know you that well, I might hesitate a second, but I'd always say yes."

Until, that is, he realized that he was competing for a promotion with a colleague he refers to as the Nemesis (a text-book a-word). Kihn resolved to "blowtorch away [his] old personality and uncover the rock-hard warrior within." Toward that end he devised a "10-step program to [anus]ism" for anyone wanting to acquaint himself with his inner über-alpha. Kihn, who has written for Spy, the New York Times Magazine and VH1's beloved "Pop-Up Video," calls his hilarious send-up of business culture "office-based satire." Think Dogbert on steroids, munching garlic bagels in public while closing deals on his Bluetooth ear thingy. Kihn recently discussed his new life as a walking, talking sphincter with NEWSWEEK's Brian Braiker. Excerpts:

NEWSWEEK: Your book seems to be a hit in the U.K., where it came out first. Martin Kihn: It was No. 33 at one point. There's been quite a lot of press.

Well, there are a lot of them in England. [Laughs] I can't figure it out. They really seem to get it. It's doing well in Germany, also. I think there's a slightly anti-American flavor in Europe. Maybe this is helping the situation for me: "He's an [fill in family-unfriendly word that NEWSWEEK generally avoids]; he's American. This makes sense."

In this book you hire an acting coach and a dog whisperer; you have a nemesis competing for a big client. How much is true? I would say everything in there happened. It certainly didn't happen in that order. The biggest challenge was the acting coach. He wasn't one person; multiple people were made into one. Also, I have a thing about reimagining. It's not malicious intent, it's just that I can't remember what people say. I'm trying to make it funny, too.

But you actively went out into the world and tried to be an, uh, aggressively un-nice person?Oh sure, absolutely. It started from a really real place where I was actually very serious in the beginning. I had a performance review and it was implied that I was too nice to ever be in charge. It sort of made me sad, to be honest. So I thought, "Why don't I try this experiment." But the original idea was that this would be a serious book: you have to be an [curse word synonymous with "unbelievable jerk" that begins with the letter A] in America, because it came out of being really bitter and enraged. And then it turned funny. I started doing it, and it became ridiculous.

What did you do out of character that you wouldn't normally have done?It's amazing what you can do in New York and not get much of a reaction, like giving people a dollar to insult me right outside Rockefeller Center. Thinking about it ahead of time was a lot more painful than doing it. I cut in line at a hot dog stand. I threw it down and I demanded my money back. There was somebody I had offended in line. The guy wasn't saying anything, but there was a look about him that made me back down immediately. I did return things without a receipt.

What's the difference between being an [epithet that begins with the first letter of the alphabet] and just a jerk? Where's the line? The alpha male is someone like Donald Trump. They're simply decisive, commanding. But they have empathy. And if somebody appeals to them on a human level they'll respond, probably. The [buttocks personified] takes it to the next step: he or she is somebody who literally has no empathy. What I was trying to do in this book was press the point and ask, "How far is too far?" What direction are we going in when we try to out-alpha each other to the extreme? It almost becomes a comical character. It's no longer simple dominance, it's ridiculousness.

It becomes a caricature. Yeah. And the big insight of the whole thing for me is that I was able to adopt a kind of persona that I didn't have. It wasn't really me, but it was a character. And it let me off the hook, because it wasn't really me. We all do that to a certain extent, we do that at the office.

If Donald Trump is just an alpha male, who are the famous [human derrieres] throughout history?There are [scatological body part] philosophers. Everyone says Nietzsche, Machiavelli. But my favorite is Ayn Rand. Everyone really likes her, but if you look at her books it's like an [rectal] manifesto. It's a big ego trip: either you're the special person and you can do literally whatever you want—that is the definition of an [a-hole]—or you're not, in which case you're the victim of one of these people. It's a pretty clear [orifice] worldview. She even had a book called "The Virtue of Selfishness." But my perfect role model is a fictional character, Tony Montana [in "Scarface"]. He was over the top; he was not quite real.


But now you have a blog where you cite examples of such behavior in the real world. Women can be [disagreeable people] too. Heather Mills is a classic. She seems a little unhinged. Everyone thinks of Simon Cowell. Some people have said Rupert Murdoch, but I was on Fox News, so I wouldn't call him an [excretory opening]. There are some timeless [proctological] maneuvers: interrupting, taking credit for everything, claiming every idea you've ever heard as your own—that's the one I like.

I like interrupting the person talking to you just to assert something that makes absolutely no sense.[Laughs] People do that. Neil Cavuto did that on his [Fox News] show! It was pretty funny. He took out his BlackBerry and started looking and he wasn't listening to me. He said, "Oh, uh, I wasn't listening." He didn't say, "Sorry." He was being an [posterior portal]. See?
What's your take on alternate words, like "a--hat" or "douchebag"? [Laughs] I like "d---head," because apparently you can say that on the radio.

You can? That's what I've heard. You can't say [the word we have refrained from printing thus far in this interview] in America, but you can say d---head.

Yeah, I'm still not sure how we're going to print this interview, to be honest.On TV I can say masspole, so I just say masspole the whole time. Or a-hole is all right, or jerk. By the way, the BBC made a new rule for me. I was allowed to say the word [begins with A, you figure it out] after 10 p.m. So I changed history. Me. I'm so proud.

Nina B's The Icon Mixtape is Available for Download

Looks like Nina B has been getting a lot of Blog love from me, lol. Well shes certainly worth it. Her mixtape The Icon is now available for download here.

http://www.ninabmusic.com/THE_ICON_MIXTAPE.rar

Nina killed it lastnight with her high energy performance at Happy Endings as she dropped a few cuts of the album. Cant wait to hear the rest and you should too.

Nina B - Madonna Mashup "Music"

This just in, Nina B - Madonna Mashup "Music" Directed by Scenairo "More Hype then Williams"


NINA B MUSIC MASH UP

F.U. Youtube and F.U. Sony BMG, Haha, Jeff lets them know!

Yesterday I blogged about the video some youtuber posted titled "Polow Da Don Exposed? How Ushers "Make Love In This Club" Was A Pre Made Beat! LMFAO". You can check my previous posting below to see what I wrote. Today I noticed the video was removed by Youtube sighting a 3rd party complaint. Man, this kid must of pissed someone off for real.

Luckily WorldstarHiphop.com was able to upload to their site before it was removed. You can find the video here now.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhJscfck7Ur9EQNxU6

And here is the kids response to Youtube removing the video.





First of all, for those of you who say that what Polow did is sampling is wayyy off. He didn't take a loop from some old vinyl, or some old song that was a classic at some point or whatever. He took a damn loop from a program that was designed to make it easy for people to make music; See where I'm going. It is the not the same as sampling a record, which for one thing producers or artists have to pay for anyway to get clearance and also have to put in a good amount of work to incorporate into their music. This loop was meant to make music on the fly, was timed perfectly that a kid can do it and that's the whole point. He didnt even make the effort to plug his CD deck or turntable into his DAW mixer or MPC. It was a file, he found it and used it. Props to the kid for point this out. If Polow found those sounds on TV, a radio broadcast, vinyl, cd, or even a cassette; which he would have to make a effort to sample, than at least I can respect his efforts for digging for his sounds. But the shit was right there, royalty free samples in a effing music program. And to think we have hard working talented musicians out there in this world making original music who never see the light of day. Such a shame!

How USHER'S "Make Love In This Club" Was Made

credit to (http://www.missinfo.tv/)

I just saw this video on MissInfo's Blog and it was enough to make me want to Blog this myself. Theres nothing new to sampling, which is similar to what was done here but comon, they took the loops from a music production program (Garage Band) and made a track. And not just one loop but two. Sheeet, I have a crap load of drum and intrument loops but I would never make a song out of it. If thats the case I would have tracks for days to sell to my rapper friends, for real. And who makes love in the club anyway? someone needs to put me on dammit, lol.

Nina B Prepares to Release "The Icon" Mix tape

Ravenel Records Nina B Prepares to Release "The Icon" Mix tape
March 25, 2008 12:12 AM
By Diony C. Mixtapekings.com

New York, NY, March 2008) Ravenel Records own Nina B is preparing to release her 6th and highly anticipated mix-tape, "The Icon". Nina B, whose last release, "Nina B: The Bostress" hosted by former Atlantic Records A&R Sicamore, received rave reviews amongst fans and the music industry alike.

From her old school style to her lyrical flow, Nina B embodies and echo's the sounds of hip-hop legends like Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, and Salt n Pepa. Combine that with the swagger and dynamics of hip-hop's new era, and what you have is a street certified industry recognized hip-hop icon in the making. "The Icon", hosted by Hot 97's Dee Vazquez will be released April 1st. "The Icon" boasts 12 songs that undeniably merge the sounds of pop music and hip-hop to perfection. Nina pays tribute to Madonna, one of pop music's icons as she lays her versatile, one of a kind flow over some of Madonna's most classic tracks.

Nina takes it a step further, displaying her raw talent with a remake of "Material Girl", one of Madonna's most popular and memorable songs. When asked about her new mix-tape and the concept of combining pop and hip-hop, Nina B explains "Madonna has always been at the top of the pop charts and has been looked upon as a musical icon since I can remember. I consider myself to be a female hip-hop icon in the making that will contribute to breaking down barriers for female artist in the music game. Being a female artist signed to Ravenel Records, a female owned independent label (Amber Ravenel) alone is a huge stepping stone to help pave the way. I also thought creatively it would be a wonderful idea to combine such dynamic genres of music as pop and hip-hop. The music world is in for a treat. The Icon is definitely not your average mix-tape!""The Icon" mix-tape, which drops April 1st, will be available for FREE download at www.remembermeninab.com.