Pablo (Surviving Our Streets): From Going To Jail To Making A Change (@THEGRIMEREPORT)

This is really dope…from The Grime Report:

Pablo from Surviving Our Streets discusses working in Prisons as an Intervention manager and how stopping violence between gangs in Jail stops it spilling out into the streets makes a difference and also talks about going to Jail before deciding to make a change as well as his views on what the UK Media channels and UK Artists and if how they affect the youth whom he works with in Prisons.

Texas Actress Indicted For Mailing Ricin-Laced Letters To Obama

Multiple reports are saying that Texas woman Shannon Richardson, 35, is being charged with two counts of mailing a threatening communication and one count of making a threat against the president of the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas said in a news release.  It has also been said that she tried to pin charges on her then-husband.

Read more here
Sources: NBC News, Miami Herald.

TRACKLISTING: Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail (Final)

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It wouldn’t have even seemed right if Jay-Z didn’t go an extremely creative route in revealing this tracklist (below). Judging from the above image, we still have some information to look for (features, perhaps). From Billboard:

Today (June 22), the track listing from “Magna Carta Holy Grail” was revealed via a scavenger hunt held in Brooklyn, NY. Jay-Z’s publicist Jana Fleishman tweeted pictures of locations where she was waiting with books containing the song titles. A number of fans clever enough to figure out the locales grabbed the copies, and went on to share the info with the world.

But more could be coming from Fleishman. After the promotion ended, she tweeted a photo via Instagram containing the words, “Hey family… Done for right now… Stay tuned for next time. I’m out…”

1. Picasso Baby
2. Heaven
3. Versus
4. Tom Ford
5. Beach Is Better
6. FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt
7. Oceans
8. F.U.T.W.
9. Part II (On The Run)
10. BBC
11. La Familia
12. Jay-Z Blue
13. Nickles & Dimes
14. Holy Grail (Bonus Track)
15. Open Letter (Bonus Track)

UPDATE 2: Track list with features is confirmed by Wow HD which suggests no more features.

 

1. Picasso Baby
2. Heaven
3. Versus
4. Tom Ford
5. Beach Is Better
6. FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt (Feat. Rick Ross)
7. Oceans (Feat. Frank Ocean)
8. F.U.T.W.
9. Part II (On The Run) (Feat. Beyonce)
10. BBC
11. La Familia
12. Jay-Z Blue
13. Nickles & Dimes

14. Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake)
15. Open Letter

 

JUKEBOX:DC Podcast #1

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We here at JukeBOX:DC are proud to present our first podcast, the beginning of a number of weekly sessions where Myself, Jon, Eku and a long list of others will talk about news, all types of music, interview guests, tell stories and more, followed by a mix of some of the music that was talked about on the show.  This week there are no guests except a few reoccurring characters you may hear on future podcasts.  Take a listen down below.

UNRELEASED: Justin Bieber’s Failed Saturday Night Live Skit

From MTV:

NBC posted an unreleased sketch called “Song for Daddy” from the show’s dress rehearsal that never made it to air. The skit’s writers provided commentary to explain why it didn’t make it, calling it the “greatest train wreck ever”.

The clip starts off with castmember Bill Hader, who plays a crusty old country-western musician and remains the focus of the sketch for its entirety. So, for the teen audience that gathered in Rockefeller Center’s studio 8H wanting some Biebs, they were already pretty disappointed.

“The audience right now is filled with pre-pubescent girls,” Hader says in the commentary. “This is not the crowd for this. It’s just all Justin Bieber fans. …I’m just looking at young girls looking at me wondering ‘When is Justin going to do something? Is this really about this old man?’ ”

Justin makes his appearance soon enough, but he got off to a bad start. A wall started to fall from the set, and the wig-wearing singer looks off camera warily. Hader doesn’t break character, but asks the stage manager if they should proceed. “Ah, the stage almost fell on ya, son. That would’ve sucked,” he ad-libbed in a jokey twang. But in the NBC commentary, Hader points out that “he’s really scared right there. That’s true fear on Justin Bieber’s face.”

From there, things only went downhill. When Bill pulled out his “big joke,” a four-neck, pink electric guitar, completely contradicting the southern man’s stereotype, no one laughed. We find out that the band was performing on “Steve Harvey,” which was also supposed to get laughs. Nope.

And the sketch rolled on, with one gag after another getting minimal reaction. Justin tried to do his part of bringing it back to life by playing up his keyboardist role in the band.

“Justin’s really giving it his all there. Maybe he’s trying to make it funny?” Hader says.

After minutes of a rambling Bill, we get a short glimpse of Bieber again, this time in a Hulk fist and pharaoh hat. And when Kenan Thompson, who played Steve Harvey, asked JB what the name of the awful fake song they played was, Justin spat out the wrong line. “Pattycake.”

The sketch died right after, and maybe it’s for the better. Biebs did give us a few more laughs — falling walls and all.