Bilal’s strategy to sell an album: have random respected but not quite commercial artists promote you and your music. Yea, I don’t think that’s gonna work, either. Where are some concert dates, dude?

Source: bilal oliver on Vimeo.

History in the making, once again. More below.

Didn’t expect this. Now all we need is Lil’ Kim…

Another clip and a breakdown on Aliya S. King after the jump.

From TeamYeeTV:

Author Aliya S King came by “The Morning After” and gave us some juicy behind-the-scenes stories from the journalism world. If you don’t know who she is, she’s the woman who co-authored Faith Evan’s “Keep the Faith” and Frank Lucas’ memoirs “Original Gangster,” and is working on Tashera Simmons’ book, as well as Timbaland’s memoirs. In addition, she has a proposal out to Mashonda so maybe you’ll be reading that whole saga soon!

Right now though, Aliya has her fictional novel “Platinum” in stores, with the sequel already scheduled to drop August 11, 2011. “Platinum” was an idea she came up with after writing an article for Vibe Magazine entitled “The Secret Lives of Rappers Wives,” where she researched and interviewed the wives of rappers, including Ja Rule, Wyclef, Snoop, and DMX. You have to read this book and see if you can figure out who the characters are based on!

Aliya discusses how difficult it was to work with Frank Lucas and how much she loves Faith Evans. She talks about a situation with Eve when she first started at The Source 10 years ago where they almost had an altercation and had to be held back from each other.

Aliya also gave some insight into what DMX’s wife, Tashera’s book will be about. Apparently he has several kids outside of his marriage and currently has a 1 and 2 year old in Miami.

Wait, what?

Yea. Even disses Slick ‘Em. This is also the same interview where he speaks on a positive alternative to B.M.F. I need to get rich.

With a 40 appearance. Google Nardwuar (I even have a search bar at the top of the page for you), his interviews are usually pretty interesting, to say the least.