Amazing Landing Of A Boeing 777 at Frankfurt Airport (Video)
June 30, 2016
An amazing technological feat – a plane transforming and landing on its own feet – whether it was an animation or not. For the record, yes, it was. Watch, and you see if you can determine what ‘gave it away.’
(Still hella cool.)
Royce Da 5’9 – “Layers†feat. Pusha T x Rick Ross (Prod. By Mr. Porter) [Video]
June 30, 2016
Official visual for the Royce Da 5’9 single “Layers” (off the album with the same title). And all hands were on hand per the plan – Pusha T and Rick Ross appear in the vid, as on the track. Check it.
ROYCE DA 5’9 – LAYERS FEAT. PUSHA T X RICK ROSS | LAYERS (PRE-ORDER)
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Tags: Layers, MR. PORTER, Pusha T, Rick Ross, Royce Da 5'9 | 
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John Robinson – “Intelligent Sexy” (Video)
June 29, 2016
Latest visuals from John Robinson off the “Water The Plants” EP we posted on here earlier. The hits just keep on coming, and this “Intelligent Sexy” jawn is no exception.
(And oooh, peep the intelligent, sexy, singer, songwriter Cyann Ribeiro lending her appeal to this deal. Sweet Honey!)
Posted in EP, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Cyann Ribeiro, Intelligent Sexy, John Robinson, Water the Plants | No Comments »
Good Vibes Only Podcast | Love & Basketball: Ep. 19 “Dating An Avid Sports Fan” (With JayForce & PictureMane)
June 29, 2016
Everywhere JayForce go, JayForce rep though! The appearance on this episode on this episode of the Good Vibes Only podcast is no different. He reps the brand, sure; but listen in as he reps for the guys, sports fanatics, guys that are sports fanatics…all that! But the angle for this show: Loving a sports fan. It’s a challenge (worthwhile though).
Sports fans need love too! On this episode, host AplusAshley sat down with Jayforce of JayForce.com and the Beats & Lyrics radio show and Itoro (PictureMane) of FansFavoriteFan, both certified sports junkies about the benefits and burdens of looking to score a sports nut. We also touched on the 2016 NBA Finals, the Copa America and European Championship soccer tournaments, and the drama between Ciara, Russell Wilson, and rapper Future. Tune in and share. Please send song suggestions to Aplusashley on Twitter.
The lovely Aplusashley lives ‘all the way up’ to her name; leading Jay and PictureMane through some fun, meaningful convo. Enjoy!
GODD VIBES ONLY PODCAST | EPISODE 19 DATING AN AVID SPORTS FAN (WITH JAYFORCE & PICTUREMANE)
Posted in Lifestyle, Podcast, Radio, Relationships, Series, Sports, Travel | Tags: Advice, APlusAshley, Brazil, Dating, Ep. 19, Episode 19, FansFavoriteFan, Football, Good Vibes Only, GoodVibesOnly, Itoro, Jayforce, Love, PictureMane, Sex, soccer | No Comments »
Making Beats With Hezekiah (Video)
June 28, 2016
Producer/singer/songwriter Hezekiah discusses his creative process above. Watch, and look at an example of him making some beat heat from scratch.
Sample chopping + Live instrumentation = Magic. Welcome to Little Africa Studio.
Check out more of the good stuff at https://3crates.bandcamp.com.
Posted in Hip-Hop, Interview, Producers, Videos | Tags: 3 crates, 3crates, beatmaking, creative process, Hezekiah, Hezekiah Davis | No Comments »
Punching, Kicking, Headbutting…That’s How They Play ‘Historic Football’ In Florence (Video)
June 28, 2016
Okay, you’ve got your sports other than futbol (e.g. soccer) that claim to be tougher. American football, Australian football, hockey, boxing, mixed martial arts, yada yada, and etcetera. But yooooooo, have you ever seen anything this insane???
Thousands came to witness the latest edition of the traditional ‘Calcio Storico’ (‘historic football’) kick-and-punch-about at the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence.
All the world’s tough-guy sports in one. Gladiator-style sport in Italy. Who’da thunk it, right? More kick-azz football (literally) after the jump.
Posted in Sports, Travel, Videos | Tags: Calcio Storico, fighting, Florence, gladiators, grappling, Headbutting, historic football, Italy, kicking, Modern-day gladiators, punching, Ruptly TV | No Comments »
Nardwuar Interviews Cam’Ron (Video)
June 28, 2016
Killa Cam’Ron keeps a perpetual side-eye (e.g. rarely pressed or impressed); so how Nardwuar planned to wow him… any guess would be as good as ours. But won’t he do it though? Don’t believe, just watch. Talk touched on coming up in Harlem, Big L, the movie “Paid In Full.” And, of course, Nard hit Cam with the gifts! Peep.
The School To Prison, Explained (Video)
June 28, 2016
Damn. Vox breaks it down… how schools are breaking us down. Surely, you’ve heard of the ‘school-to-prison pipeline.’ Officers in classrooms, abundant and extreme zero-tolerance policies, Black students way more likely to be disciplined. In effect, our children are being set up, prepared even, to go to prison at some point. And it all starts in preschool. Watch the clip explaining it above. To get deeper in depth, check out Vox’s full write-up (linked below).
Posted in Education, Investigation, Videos, Youth | Tags: criminal justice, criminalization, discipline, expulsion, justice system, Juvenile, juvenile court, juvenile offender, police officers in classrooms, police officers in school, prejudice, Race, school officers, SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE, suspension, zero-tolerance | No Comments »
Technology: Boston Dynamics Introduces Its SpotMini ‘Dog Robot’ (Video)
June 28, 2016
Dog robot, dog bot, looking-like-a-giraffe-bot… whatever. Though we are into tech, gotta admit this is getting kinda creepy. Especially at the end of this clip (you can keep that cola can, um, ‘Spot’).
SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini is one of the quietest robots we have ever built. It has a variety of sensors, including depth cameras, a solid state gyro (IMU) and proprioception sensors in the limbs. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini performs some tasks autonomously, but it often uses a human for high-level guidance.
Still, this is a solid step forward in robotics tech; a mobile pick-and-place robot with some serious intelligence designed into it by Boston Dynamics.
Posted in Product, Technology, Videos | Tags: all-electric robot, Boston Dynamics, Robot, Spot, SpotMini | No Comments »
Jesse Williams Delivers A Powerful Acceptance Speech At The BET Awards (Video)
June 28, 2016
A system meant to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.
– Jesse Williams
Time to stand up Black people!
By now you have probably heard, or at least heard about the speech Jesse Williams gave in acceptance of the Humanitarian Award. We will steal NONE of its fire. PLEASE click the pic above or the link below and watch the full speech given at the BET Awards. Best three minutes you will spend today. Guaranteed to light a fire that burns in the depths of your soul. Let’s go!
#BlackLivesMatter
JESSE WILLIAMS ACCEPTS THE HUMANITARIAN AWARD (BET.COM)
(The speech is transcribed after the jump.)
Baboons In The Office… And All Over The Internet (Video)
June 27, 2016
These folks NAILED it with these baboon gifs so long before there was a Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. on which to share them. Baboons are already strikingly close to humans in their mannerisms, making them good fodder for all kinds of funny. But that ‘uploaded resume’ laptop shove gif… EVERYBODY knows and/or has felt that one. Hahaaaa!
Hear from the geniuses that started the trend before ‘trending’ was a thing.
(The Harts are surprisingly good-natured about missing out on all that licensing paper, too. Good clip.)
Dumbfoundead – “Safe” (Video)
June 27, 2016
Shots fired. I’mmo reload!
– Dumbfounded
In a word: Wow! OkayPlayer gets the credit for spotlighting Dumbfoundead. The Korean-American emcee takes to the mic (and above visual) to call Hollywood on [more of] its bullsh!t. We heard about the ‘lack of Black’ at The Oscars. But dude pointed out that the most ‘Yellow’ you saw then was the award statue.
BURN! Hollywood burn!
After the last Academy Awards and the regular whitewashing of Hollywood roles, I wrote this song and made this video to add my piece to the conversation. If you have any experiences or stories about this issue join the discussion at https://www.facebook.com/dumbfoundead/
You can actually get this single at iTunes.
Posted in Activism, Comedy, Hip-Hop, Music, Videos | Tags: Diversity, Dumbfoundead, Hollywood, lack of diversity, Oscar So White, OscarSoWhite, SAFE, Whitewashing | No Comments »
Travel: What To Do In Vegas (Parts 1 & 2) [Video]
June 27, 2016
Definite niceness as you see what Vegas has to offer through a couple’s eyes. More than just the clubs and casinos, way past the ‘Oceans Eleven’ view of the city. Watch vlogger Sazan Hendrix and her hubby Stevie do the town during the daytime (above) and after sundown (hit the jump).
Dude… a cupcake ATM… YOOOOO!
– @ojones1
Posted in Human Interest, Lifestyle, Travel, Videos | Tags: Daytime City Guide, Nightlife City Guide, Part 1, Part 2, Sazan Hendrix, What to do in Vegas | No Comments »
Ultimate Industry Insider Steve Stoute And Kaz Speak On TheStashed.com, Making Music & Marketing History And More (Video)
June 27, 2016
Steve Stoute – mogul, music exec, mover-and-shaker – has partnered with Kaz of TheStashed.com and they are making a late major move, taking the online presence over to the print industry. Interesting, very interesting, as the media world seems to be moving off-page to online (e.g. the opposite direction). But we MUST hear these guys out; especially Stoute. Why?? Don’t tell us you don’t know about Stout’s marketing agency Translation LLC, the origin story of the tagline/jingle for McDonald’s “I’m Loving It†campaign, the State Farm ads…
Hmmm… if not, it would seem you have some Googling to do. But wait-wait. You can do a LOT of catch-up by just watching this interview (above). There is SO much more to tell, too. Hear these folks tell it!
Posted in Business, Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Interview, Series, Videos | Tags: advertising, Advertising Agency, Budweiser, Ebro in the Morning, Hot 97, Hot 97 Morning Show, I’m Loving It, Kaz, Kazeem Famuyide, Laura Stylez, McDonald's, Music Management, National Basketball Association, NBA, PETER ROSENBERG, State Farm, Steve Stoute, Translation | No Comments »
Technology: Nissan’s FPV Drone Is Insanely Fast (Video)
June 27, 2016
We’ve done our share of posts on drones on here for certain. We’ve even written up drone racing for sport. That might bring to mind just how fast these things go; but how fast is that really?
Well, Nissan has this GT-R Drone – one of the fastest accelerating FPV (First Person View) racing drones in the world. Watch it above, keeping up with the new 2017 Nissan GT-R while filming on the track.
Zero to 100, real quick. Like in less than two seconds. Crazy!
Posted in Product, Sports, Technology, Travel, Videos | Tags: Britain, drone, Drone Racing, Drone Racing champion, First Person View, FPV, GT-R Drone, James Bowles, NISMO, Nissan, Nissan Europe, Nissan GT-R, quadcopter, Ricardo Sanchez, Silverstone, Sky-Hero, Sky-Hero quadcopter, Tornado XBlades Racing, World Drone Prix, World Drone Prix Champions | No Comments »
Eye Candy: Roni Rose (Video)
June 27, 2016
Roni Rose. Mm mm mm! You’ve seen her before, right? Remember that perfect pic of the ‘random’ chick beaming Steph Curry down during the playoffs so seductively? Yeah, you do. The one Wiz Khalifa doctored up for his cover art for “More And More.”
Whew! Well, the pic probably wasn’t all that random. When you’re that fine, the camera tends to find you. Quality Honey on tap above. Plus her Instagram game is insane!
– @ojones1
DJ Premier, Kareem Biggs And Beef Jones Talk Roc-A-Fella History, Jay Z And “Reasonable Doubt” (Video)
June 27, 2016
Beef Jones hosts a sitdown with DJ Premier & Roc-A-Fella’s Kareem “Biggs†Burke. They discuss Jay Z’s classic “Reasonable Doubt” album. The video starts with a lot of prelim (some setup is going on); as this is a live online discussion forum while. The meat of the discussion is set out around the 11-minute mark. Check it out.
Interesting insights on Preem’s production process and some early history at The Roc (like who was the label’s first signee).
Posted in Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Interview, Producers, Videos | Tags: Beef Jones, DJ Premier, Jay-Z, Kareem Biggs, Kareem Biggs Burke, Kareem Burke, Reasonable Doubt, Rhyming Joints, Roc-a-fella, Roc-A-Fella Fam, Roc-a-Fella Records, VICE, VICELAND | No Comments »
Internet Famous: Keraun Harris And Simone Shepherd (Video)
June 25, 2016
Above: Cara Santa Maria is interviewing Vine power-couple ‘King Keraun’ Harris and Simone Shepherd at home to discuss how they juggle the demands of their current social media fame as they chase their ultimate dream: to build a lasting career as major Hollywood celebs.
Keraun Harris (“King Keraun”) and Simone Shepherd are two of the biggest celebrities on the internet, with millions of followers on Instagram, Vine, and YouTube. They’ve made a living entertaining the market segment that is called “Black Vine” or “Black Instagram.” For Keraun, social media has been a life-changer — just a few years ago, before he became a digital celebrity, he was in prison for robbery.
But how does a social media power couple actually live, and where do they go from here?
Interview With The Creators Of “Tuskegee Heirs” at AwesomeCon 2016 (Video)
June 25, 2016
Major COOL!
Full disclosure: The cameraman/interviewer, going by the ‘Big O’ moniker, is NOT me. However, I am kind of envious of him. Watch this Blerd Verse Podcast ep with the artists/creators of the comic concept “Tuskegee Heirs” at AwesomeCon 2016. Blerd Verse – as in Black Nerd Universe all smashed together. Get ready to geek out on these guys homage and futuristic reinterpretation approach to the story of the heirs of the World War II pilots, The Tuskegee Airmen.
(More disclosure: I’m from Tuskegee… so I am extra GEEKED about all of this!)
#Afrofuturism
– @ojones1
Is There A Link Between Former Toronto Mayor And The Dixon City Bloods? (Documentary)
June 25, 2016
As usual, VICE asks the toughest questions: Does the gang involved in the Rob Ford crack scandal actually exist? There is a neighborhood called Dixon. Truth. In 2013, police raided the area; alleging that a street gang called the “Dixon City Bloods” was responsible for crack and gun operations across southern Ontario. Facts. Several alleged gang members appeared in a photo with the former Toronto mayor, and the group released video that ignited his notorious crack scandal. And here we are…
But where are we for real? Can the gun violence, gang activity, street players’ moves, and media and police reports actually tie together in a substantial way; one that signifies a true criminal organization?
VICE investigates.
READ: DIXON CITY BLOODS (VICE)
Posted in Film, Investigation, Politics, Series, Videos | Tags: Bloods, Canada, crack, Dixon City Bloods, Gang, Ontario, organized crime, Rob Ford, Toronto, VICE | No Comments »
