We’ve come this far By Faith. I will trust in the Lord. I’m gonna stay on the Battle Field. I’m gonna treat Everybody Right. TMOTTMedia Network: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Continue reading We’ve Come This Far By Faith
Queen Latifah performs “I Know Where I’ve Been” at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall Watch video clip below: TMOTTMedia Network: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Continue reading Queen Latifah performs “I Know Where I’ve Been” at Mandela Day 2009 from Radio City Music Hall
by Sharks Interscope rapper Wale recently sat down with Canada’s Peace Magazine, to discuss his long-awaited album ‘Attention Deficit,’ which is scheduled for a Nov. 10 release. Wale claims that his album is “not a pop album,” despite the fact that his first single was the Lady Gaga assisted ‘Chillin.’ “I’m not here to be a pop act,” he said. “Chillin’ is a pop song and I’m not here to be a pop act. I enjoyed what Gaga brings to the table and I wanted to make something that could be a lot of fun, but I don’t think I’ll … Continue reading Wale Says He Won’t Go Down ‘Pop’ Road Again, Talks ‘Shades’
Washington City Paper: by Ruth Samuelson Ty Ruff, 22, came to D.C. as a recent graduate of Trinity College, and a recently single man (”fresh out of a three year relationship,” according to MTV press docs.) We soon saw him taking off his shirt at Cobalt, interning with the Caps, and doing other dramatic things like eating Subway sandwiches. Ty had a rough-and-tumble childhood in Baltimore. After being abandoned by his biological parents, “Ty was shuffled around foster homes before being adopted at age five; and he grew up in a part of Baltimore he compares to ‘The Wire,’” according … Continue reading Meet Real World DC Cast Member “Ty”
DMX on how shady the Industry was to him. “Def Jam offered me 2 cents for every copy sold of that video game!” Watch video clips below: TMOTTMedia Network: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Continue reading DMX On How Shady The Industry Was To Him
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The 50th Law: 10 Lessons in Fearlessness View more documents from Robert Greene. You can still order The 50th Law here on Amazon Source TMOTTMedia Network: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Continue reading 10 Lessons in Fearlessness Off The 50th Law
BET put on blast by BOONDOCKS. This was a banned episode but it is FUNNY AS A MUG! PART 1: PART 2: TMOTTMedia Network: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Continue reading Banned Boondocks Episode… “BET BLASTED” WOW!
By Neil Best Up next in ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary series: Kirk Fraser’s “Without Bias“ at 8 p.m. Tuesday – a World Series off day! – in which he looks back at the death of Len Bias in June of 1986. As Michael Wilbon correctly points out in the film, it is difficult for anyone over 70 or under 25 to understand the magnitude of the story at the time. But for those of us in and around Bias’ generation, few sports deaths have been as shocking and sobering. The publicity for the film suggests important new ground in … Continue reading ‘Without Bias’ To Air on ESPN ’30 For 30′ Tuesday November 3
From The Harvard Crimson By STEPHANIE B. GARLOCK Harvard students will be able to watch the “The Wire” for class credit next year. At a panel last night, stars of the HBO hit series joined Harvard professors in discussing the applications of the show—which depicts the struggles of urban life in Baltimore—in understanding and combating real urban social issues. “‘The Wire’ has done more to enhance our understanding of the systemic urban inequality that constrains the lives of the poor than any published study” Sociology Professor William J. Wilson said. African American studies chair Professor Evelyn B. Higginbotham said that … Continue reading Harvard Will Have A Class On “The Wire”
E1 Music has announced that the company will be releasing “The Avon Barksdale Story- Legends Of The Unwired” in March 2010. Fans of HBO’s The Wire should recognize Avon Barksdale as the character played by actor Wood Harris on the award winning series. In the docudrama, the real Nathan Avon “Bodie” Barksdale tells all to actor Wood Harris. The Avon Barksdale Story has already won an award at NY International Independent Film & Video Festival. The film is said to be a true insider’s view into the drug and gang wars that plagued Baltimore, MD in the 1980’s. — I … Continue reading The “WIRE” Returns to TV – ‘The Avon Barksdale Story – Legends of the Unwired’
By Chris Richards Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 28, 2009 “From the root to the fruit!” says Salih Williams, describing his lifelong devotion to the one of the most wretched teams in professional football today. “I’m a die-hard Redskins fanatic. . . . But the Redskins is like a girl I know I shouldn’t mess with: I keep coming back.” It’s Monday afternoon at Sound Spa Studios in Alexandria, where Williams is sporting an oversize white T-shirt emblazoned with his alias Bootsy Vegas. As the newest addition to the Donnie Simpson morning show on WPGC 95.5, Bootsy appears every … Continue reading Bootsy Vegas hails his team with ‘Redskins Go-Go’
Hillside Drive-In 5210 Marlboro Pike, Coral Hills, Md. (1 mile outside of D.C.) capacity: 715 cars years of operation: 1953-88 currently: demolished in 1998; sold to Maryland National Park and Planning Commission; school and community center planned for land. With its final show — the Chuck Norris actioner Hero and the Terror and the horror B-flick Night of the Demons starring Linnea Quigley — the Hillside brought the curtain down on the Washington drive-in era on November _, 1988. As late as 1993 it still stood, with the lot leased by the state of Maryland as commuter parking, and the … Continue reading Remember When HILLSIDE Was The Last Drive-In Standing?