Duke recruit Austin Rivers raps during McDonald’s All-Star game

Now I have a story that I'd like to tell,
about this guy named Austin who plays ball real well,
he's No. 1 in Rivals and is going to Duke,
his dad is Doc Rivers, so his game's no fluke!
Much like J.J. Redick, Austin likes to write rhymes
and, just like Redick's words, his are poetic crimes.



During a brief halftime segment during ESPN's Thursday night broadcast of the McDonald's high school All-American game, Duke recruit Austin Rivers talked about his love of rap, R&B and hip-hop. Then he dropped some rhymes for the cameras:

Today I woke up with a mindset that I have to be the best
these dudes coming after me, they don't want this test.
Every time I go to the court, man, I give it my all,
these dudes underrate me, they don't think I can ball.



Remember that "Cosby Show" episode where Theo and Cockroach rapped a retelling of "Julius Caesar"? Compared to Rivers, they sounded like 2Pac.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Rivers is a high school basketball player who likes to rap. It's his hobby. Golf is my hobby and I'm just as proficient at it as Austin is at writing rhymes. I certainly don't mean to throw stones at somebody's part-time passion.

My question is, why showcase your "skills" in the first place? You're already going to Duke, ensuring that you'll be heckled mercilessly during every road game. Do you really want to give more fodder to Maryland fans who are probably creating cardboard cutouts of Vanilla Ice as we speak?

A word of advice to all future recruits, Blue Devil or any other: When an ESPN producer asks you to rap during an interview segment, politely decline. If a magazine reporter wants to see your poetry, say you keep it locked up in your dorm room. And if you choose to ignore that advice, at least buy a rhyming dictionary. "All" and "ball"? Come on, Austin. You're better than that.

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This guy is funny as he tells the truth.....





Good luck in your success Jerry Lavigne Jr
funny stuff!!

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Bun B Now Teaching at Rice University in Houston, TX

“Co-teaching Hip Hop and Religious Studies at Rice University this spring! Undergrads enroll!”

According to Bun, professors are particularly worried about students making a push to get their demos heard. "That's the problem that the professors' got, he's concerned about that, he's concerned about some people coming to class [for demos]," Bun said. "If they coming to the course specifically to give me a demo, then that's a wrap on the first day."

But what's education without a little problem solving? Bun revealed that he already has a quick solution for the demo issue. "My plan was to put a box on the desk, a demo box, but the box is gonna stay there and everybody's demo is gonna stay there till the course is over. Nobody gets listened to until the course is over," Bun said. "I'm not saying I'm not going to listen, but I'm not listening [until the course is over] ... and I'll be looking to see who's in class everyday. You may get priority for perfect attendance. So pay attention to me, I'm gonna pay attention to you."

Southern rap godfather Bun B. completed his first class as an instructor at Rice University today (January 11.) The rapper issued the syllabus and required reading for his "Religion and Hip-Hop" course.

"This is a religious course, this is not in the music department," Bun B. explained during an interview with Houston's 97.9. "These are young people who have taken upon themselves at a very young age, dedicated their life to religion, the search of religion and the study of religion, so I don't want to give the people any mis-information."
Bun said that he wasn't nervous at all about the challenge of teaching college students. "I'm totally prepared, I'm from P.A. [Port Arthur, Texas], so not much can shake me up. I used to work with Pimp C., so it's very hard to throw me off," the rapper joked.
"Hip-Hop artists and musicians, their religion comes into play a lot more during the course of making their music than people would think because a lot of music is geared toward the club and partying and all that," Bun explained. "A lot of times people go through a lot of serious life choices throughout the course of their career, may it either be the music, the business, the people around them or the choices that they make. A lot of that comes into conflict with their religion, if their Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, even Buddhists. Whatever your religion may be."

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Jay-Z Explains he is not the same like in his older days.

Good question. Unlike Eminem and his constantly rehabbing progenitor, Marshall Mathers, there has always seemed to be a lot of harmony between Jay-Z and his real-life alter ego, Shawn Carter, the Marcy-born drug dealer who gave Jay-Z the nerves and the seed money to get his music-biz start. "I never had to reject Shawn Carter to become Jay-Z," the rapper explains, but note the distinction—those two people are not the same. That this is a fact that matters is one of the central revelations of Decoded, which began life as an autobiography, penned with the smart critic Dream Hampton. The bio, once called The Black Book, was scrapped for its too-personal revelations about his father and Carter's years as a career criminal—"It's too much," he told Rolling Stone.

Though Jay-Z spends much of Decoded talking about his career as a drug dealer, there's not much explanation of how or why he extricated himself from that life. Somewhere toward the middle of the book, he zips right past an explanation of how and why he got out, saying "Maryland ended badly, too--shootouts in clubs, major police investigations, whole crews arrested. I got out of there just in time." In fact, one of the main reasons he decided to get out was a failed attempt on his life.

By the early 1990s Jay-Z's hustling career was approaching its peak. He spent much of his time making "business trips" from New York to Maryland and points further south. Rapping was merely a hobby, a dream deferred--when the opportunity arose, he'd appear on songs like "Can I Get Open," recorded with a group called Original Flavor in 1993. But he remained hesitant to devote time and money to music when he knew he could make more as a hustler. It would take more than a nudge to make him change his priorities.

That came suddenly and violently in 1994, when Jay-Z almost had his life taken over a dispute with rival dealers. "He messed with the wrong people," one of his associates told me in an interview for my Jay-Z biography, due out this winter. According to this source, an assassin tracked down Jay-Z in the streets and chased after him, firing three errant shots. When the would-be killer tried to fire a fourth shot, his gun jammed, allowing Jay-Z to escape with his life.

Jay-Z makes note of this incident in his song "Moment of Clarity" on The Black Album, rapping that, "Three shots couldn't touch me / Thank God for that." But in Decoded, all he offers about the lines describing his near-death experience is the following: "This is about not having fear ... even three shots couldn't touch me ... which means I'm untouchable."

The rapper's memoir leaves plenty of questions about his life unanswered.

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Lupe Fiasco Newest Album drops on "March 8 ,2011

Lupe Fiasco joined the vast ranks of artists that utilize listening in for self-promotion. The Chicago rapper tweeted that his upcoming album will be called Lasers, after he said it was titled We Are Lasers . According to one of Fiasco's tweets, " Lasers ...comes from some repressed high school outcast shit...blended amidst 'And He Gets the Girl' ambitions." Fiasco is producing track's this time out and aims to nab guest spots from Bun B and Kid Cudi. Longtime producer Soundtrakk will also handle the production duties. Fiasco announced last year that he was retiring from hip-hop after the follow to 2007’s The Cool drops. As for as pending retirement, the popular rapper confirmed that he’s still pacing on those plans: “yeah I’m still retiring..."

Fiasco was going to release his triple album, LupE.N.D. as his third and last album, but his contract with Atlantic Records stopped him from retiring with this agenda. He postponed LupE.N.D. purposely and intended on releasing an album titled The Great American Rap Album in June of '09. The album was also postponed and he announced a new album was in progress, primary titled We Are Lasers and then changed to Lasers. Lasers is an acronym for "Love Always Shines, Every time Remember two Smile"

The album can be found when it drops on LupeFiasco.com

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Carmelo Anthony(notes) demands the New Jersey Nets surround him with veteran talent as a condition for him to commit to a contract extension, his agent has been the driving force behind bringing Detroit Pistons guard Richard Hamilton(notes) into multiteam trade talks, league sources told.

Sports first reported on Dec. 14, the Nets want the chance to use Russian billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov to personally sell Anthony on signing a contract extension. First, the teams must agree on terms of a trade. There are several scenarios still in play, including a straight-up package that includes Favors, Murphy and draft picks going to Denver for combinations of Anthony, Al Harrington(notes) and Renaldo Balkman

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