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Solar Man VS EBunny

A race for everyone

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Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day 4 Review

In brief: Flashback! Government! Offence! Death! In depth: Ok then! Day 4 spends its first 10 minutes picking up on that... more

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My Sister's Keeper reviewed by The Rotten Tomatoes Show

Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "My Sister's... more

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Great International “9″ Trailer

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The Health Care Crisis: Letters From Vermont and America | CommonDreams.org

Here is an article from my favorite Senator Bernie Sanders and independent from Vermont.

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Women's-only pharmacy to be North America's 1st

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The Duckworth Lewis Method. LIVE IN DUBLIN

The Duckworth Lewis Method. live in dublin

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The End of the Line

Just watched the trailer and the background info. Feels like one of most important under reported issues out there.

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Earthquake Destroys 10,000 Homes in China

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Play Where's the Naughty Governor

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themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet

I'm going to suggest that this is the BEST of web 1.09.

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Jewish Persecution | Timeline of Judaism | History of AntiSemitism

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Frank Schleck crashes - Tour de Suisse

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Sholin Soccer is Real in Brazil

Awesome. Plain and simple.

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Lightning

Eureka!

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Road rage attack

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24 Types of Pot Smokers

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Top 6 Reasons Why People Hate the Jews

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24 Types of Pot Smokers

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Trailer Time: Love Happens, The Answer Man, and Informant!

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The True Meaning of Patriotism

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Born and raised in L.A.’s Nickerson Gardens Projects, Jay Rock [born Johnnie McKenzie] proudly proclaims, “I represent the ghetto.” Expressing his disdain for rappers who seem to care more about image and swagger and less about lyrical talent, Jay Rock is on the fast track to bringing back that rawness that seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle after Rap became Pop music.

In the media he’s been labeled "the real deal" and even "the last of a dying breed," but Jay is just happy to have finally gotten his big break from the concrete streets to a contract with Warner Brothers. Ready to live up to the tremendous buzz surrounding him through countless cosigns, Jay Rock (whose debut album Follow Me Home is slated to drop this fall) has already collaborated with some of the most recognizable names in the industry including The Game, and Lil Wayne.

Only time will tell in regards to longevity within the Rap game, but for right now, this kid’s got next.

Influences: “I love [2Pac], N.W.A. [click to read], Ice Cube [click to read], the whole Death Row [Records] --Snoop [Dogg] [click to read] and everybody, Biggie, Scarface [click to read], I love everybody. A lot of oldies too, like The Temptations [laughs]. Even my homies influence me. My big homie Dude Dawg signed me, he made it out the hood and came back and grabbed me outta there too…and of course my mom.”

On How His Teenage Poetry Writing Helped Get His Bars Up: “[Writing poetry had] a big influence on my rhymes… at the time I was writing poetry; I wasn’t really trying to ‘rap’. It was just expressing myself on paper. As I started feeling Rap, poetry made it easier for me to move over. Poetry got a whole lot of thought to it. More emotion goes into it too—so I think it helped me a lot.”

On Working With Lil Wayne: “There was an L.A. concert- I grabbed a few of my dudes and rolled backstage. We weren’t concerned about the show, wanted to see the artists and make some connections, you know? We ended up out by the tour buses after and I saw [Lil] Wayne [click to read]. I told him straight up ‘I’m the new nigga in the city. I need you on a track’. He was like ‘Whatever you need, I got you’. Wayne…he’s a real nigga. He could've given me a fake number, but he didn’t. He looked out for me, like ‘Call me when you ready.’ I gave him a call and we made it happen.

Wayne inspires me. Seeing how he go in—he works like he hasn’t made it big yet. That tells me a lot. That tells me I got to go in harder too. If Wayne can still write a rhyme a day, I need to be writing two or three a day. [Laughs] I need to be hustlin’ and doing it.”

On What It Means To “Represent The Ghetto”: “It means telling the ghetto stories that public doesn’t know about. We getting’ beat down in the hood, that’s why we hustling and killing. I tell the real about what’s going on. The 10 o’clock news talks about kittens stuck in trees, and how the firefighters had to come and rescue it….but meanwhile two of my homies got shot and its nowhere on the news. Niggas is dying and it never makes the news.

When you rep your hood, you gotta rep it right. It’s about telling the stories so people know what’s really going on.”

On Having A Black President: “[Barack Obama is] making a change…a little bit…but we still struggling. The change is gonna be when people aren’t struggling, ‘cause that will take away from some of the violence. People won’t be as violent when they aren’t struggling to survive. It’s still a struggle now, but [having the first black President] is big for us and I'm happy…I hope it does end up making a big change.”

Read more on this Watts, California emcee here............
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/dxnext/id.119Born and raised in L.A.’s Nickerson Gardens Projects, Jay Rock [born Johnnie McKenzie] proudly proclaims, “I represent... more