CURTIS out 26 - 6 - 07

If you didn't already know 50 Cent's third album will be called CURTIS and will hit stores on the 26th June. I felt I had to plug it cause he's been marketing it so well. Like Money said there can only be one winner when you go against Ferrari F50 and that’s not Cam. If you didn't see him coming to ringside with 'Pretty Boy' Floyd in the biggest fight this century then here he is plugging the album at the BET Awards press conference...



And the self proclaimed 'King' was also there to give his two pence...



He's also starting to get comfortable on the thrown. Big new tune TI - Big Things Poppin



Next vid I got in my inbox and I was in stitches...

A day and night in pictures...

Been doing work experience in Zoo magazine lately and there's always models coming into the office for some reason or the other. By the seventh time of time of me thinking "Woah!" out loud as the models are coming in they decided to let me jump in one of the pictures...




By the second pic I had got the hang of the 'this happens everyday' look.

Then Russell Simmons held a party at Paper on Friday night to commemorate 15 years of Phat Farm and we had the hook up through Truth's favourite celebrity dj, Nikki from Beatnik...


Nikki & TD

Rev Run was also there as a guest dj but more importantly so was the team team and guests...



above B.Money, TD & the girls, and below with fashionista Adam


I lost the afro wars to dj AmyLola from Jiggyradio.com

Oh yeah so was Russell Simmons...

Money, TD & new Kimora Lee with Russell


When I got from behind the camera I bumped into Masterstepz

TD had the right idea...


TD with Rachel Ritfeld and with our Sharon


TD with Becky from Beatnik and with Estelle


TD, Sam and your fav jeweller Daisuke Sakaguchi

And it got loose...




'Ricky' Money "livin the vida loca"

Truth's Documentary season 2

Once again this blog turns into TD's photo diary... but hey what can you do. Ride Out's man about the town has been about the town of late. Last week he was lucky enough to get an invite to the ROCKERS NYC spring/summer wear launch at the DPMHI store in Soho.





The collection demonstrates the labels distinctive neon pop style, this time drawing obvious influence from the world of music and album art including a very special collaboration with Maharishi to create two tone inspired tees!


'Blurt! When you hear the sirens comin' Dizzie was also present

Truth also celebrated his Bday at Melange on Kingsland Rd. Unfortunately the spot was shut down by police as part of their clamp down on after-hour’s clubs in the "Shoreditch Triangle". The Evening Standard reported that a team of six officers have been mounting high visibility patrols in the area until 5am... must have been the same officers that got us but not before we finished the film in the camera...


I had my 'two thumbs up' for the special occasion


TD with Kwams 'the future'


ladies man


TD and your favourite jeweller Daisuke Sakaguchi


with Rich and Sheridan from Mayhem Makers





The club has now been closed temporarily for serving alcohol after-hours, along with the Russian Bar in Kingsland Rd and T Bar in Shoreditch High St, voted in top 50 clubs in the world, which has been closed for security improvements.

I might as well start the campaigning now... SAVE OUR SHOREDITCH TRIANGLE!

Young Jeezy - Dreamin ft.Keyshia Cole

Another one from my fav rapper at the moment...

Young Jeezy Ft Keyshia Cole - Dreamin
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West Africa Idol

My friend emailed me a clip of West Africa Idol and I haven't stopped laughing since. I've been looking for clips ever since she told me about it but now I see there's a couple up on youtube, anyway enjoy... I'm told this only the half of it...



The show which kicked off in February was open to contestants from - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

It follows the same format as our Idol and the judges are: DEDE MABIAKU a Nigerian musician, protégé and member of Fela Kuti's band; ABREWA NANA a household Ghanaian name and first female 'hip-life' artist; and DAN FOSTER a prominent Nigerian radio personality.

But the stories are very much different...



This young lady, Jerrilyn Mulbah, is still in it and it's at the final 5 stage now... you go girl!

Make It Rein!!!

We've got the best goalie in the world!!! And thats Pepe!!

Yesterday night the world enjoyed another magical European night at Anfield and I had to put this vid up so you can relive it anytime you want.

The best bit is the shot of Rafa 'da Gaffa' doing his best impression of the Dalai Lama...



BRING ON THE MANCS.... COME ON YOU REDS!!!

Rhianna - Umbrella ft. Jay Z

Right now Rhianna over Beyonce any day...

Hip Hop under the kosh...

First it was the fallout from the Don Imus 'nappy headed hoes' comment now it’s the 'stop snitchin' theology. If you haven't already heard hip hop has been getting a lot of flack, and with that a lot of airtime, in the u.s recently.

Last week Russell Simmons led a hip hop panel including Common, Kevin Liles and Dr. Benjamin Chavis (president of the Hip-Hop Summit Network) on Oprah to discuss the use of sexist and misogynistic language in hip hop - or more like get berated by black women who just 'ain't gonna take this shit no more.'



Now Russell is calling on the hip hop industry to ban three words from the mainstream media: n****s, h**s & b*****s. And there's me thinking these words were already banned from radio edits.

Then earlier this week Cam'ron appeared on a CNN show called 60 minutes which was looking at the affect rap's 'stop snitchin' campaign has had on crime in urban communities.

When you wanna portray the worse in hip hop you can always rely on Cam...

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What’s funny is that Cam got great promotion in the show; further demonstrating how all this negative stuff is good for business. Anyway who made these guys the rule makers? What has to be stressed to the kids is that these guys will say anything to get that money... its strictly business. They're millionaires. Like 50 said it’s a different financial space, you have to have a different mind-state, they're just acting ghetto to maintain their income.

Don't believe me - look at what happened with the Diddy and Shine case. Diddy took the stand and he's out getting more money than ever before and he's still running the city. Shine felt he would be betraying his principles by getting on the stand; so he didn't and the last time we saw him was when mtv did that interview with him from his jail cell but at least he always gets shouts on tracks hey...

***In case you got the wrong idea: Coffee does not encourage snitchin of any kind***lol