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Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Gucci Mane, Lead Mixtape Of The Year Runners-Up
15 December 2009 3:50 AM, PST
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G-Unit, Clipse, Micki Minaj, others also scored big this year, in Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes
50 Cent
Photo: G-Unit
On Monday, Mixtape Daily crowned Drake's So Far Gone the best mixtape of 2009, but there were plenty of others that excited fans from 'hood to 'hood — plenty of mixtapes that were so popular the street couldn't contain them and they made their way into the 'burbs and even onto TV stations like Espn. So without further ado — and in no order of preference — here's our list of the rest of the best mixtapes of 2009.
The Hottest Mixtapes Of 2009
50 Cent: Forever King
DJ Collaborator: Whoo Kid
Necessary Notes: Who uses a Jackson 5 beat as the soundscape to rap about one of his one of his neighbors pumping crack cocaine down the block? 50 Cent! Who uses Jeff Redd's dance-floor-friendly '90s R&B classic instrumental
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Mixtape Of The Year: The Top Runners-Up, In Mixtape Daily
15 December 2009 3:50 AM, PST
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Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Gucci Mane and many others brought the hotness on mixtapes this year!
By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes
50 Cent
Photo: G-Unit
On Monday, Mixtape Daily crowned Drake's So Far Gone the best mixtape of 2009, but there were plenty of others that excited fans from 'hood to 'hood — plenty of mixtapes that were so popular the street couldn't contain them and they made their way into the 'burbs and even onto TV stations like Espn. So without further ado — and in no order of preference — here's our list of the rest of the best mixtapes of 2009.
The Hottest Mixtapes Of 2009
50 Cent: Forever King
DJ Collaborator: Whoo Kid
Necessary Notes: Who uses a Jackson 5 beat as the soundscape to rap about one of his one of his neighbors pumping crack cocaine down the block? 50 Cent! Who uses Jeff Redd's dance-floor-friendly '90s R&B
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Lupe Fiasco Rhymes Over Radiohead on New Mixtape
7 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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“Your attention please, your attention—I need it, so i can sit you in a position from which I see it.” So begins Chicago Mc Lupe Fiasco’s new mixtape, somewhat confusingly titled Enemy of the State. The 22-minute set, released for free download recently via 2dopeboyz, features a typically hungry Fiasco spitting his philosophizing rhymes like a seasoned veteran—the same wise-beyond-his-experience temperament he carried through his excellent debut Food & Liquor and modern-day classic follow-up The Cool.
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Snoop Dogg Aims To 'Take Over' With I Wanna Rock Mixtape
1 December 2009 3:51 AM, PST
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Snoop is also dropping his Malice N Wonderland album December 8, in Mixtape Daily.
By Shaheem Reid
Snoop Dogg
Photo: RadioPlanetv
Don't Sleep: Necessary Notables
Mixtape: I Wanna Rock
Headliner: Snoop Dogg
Co-Stars: DJ Whoo Kid, DJ Skee and DJ Scream
We Can't Stop Playing: "Blasten!!," "Protocall" and "Gangsta's Life" (featuring Nipsey Hussle)
Essential Info: Snoop Dogg had a marketing epiphany while playing one of his favorite video games.
"N---as playing 'Madden' right now," he said in his West Coast lair while talking about his latest street CD, I Wanna Rock. "The mixtape is banging. I need to get my mixtape on 'Madden 10' next time."
Snoop is doubling up in December. He's giving a free doggy bag of music with his new mixtape (hosted and mixed by DJs Skee, Whoo Kid and Scream) that just dropped, and on December 8, he's putting out Malice N Wonderland, an official LP.
" 'I Wanna Rock,
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How To Cinematically Fall Off the Grid
29 November 2009 8:06 PM, PST
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On August 15th, 2009, Evan Ratliff, a freelance writer for Wired magazine went missing. On purpose. He wanted to see if one could disappear into the ether in an age where we are surveilled, swiped, and social security numbered to death. Where our IPs are tracked and we willingly give information about our lives through social networking.
In a recent issue of the magazine, Ratliff recounted his attempt to change identities alongside the mad pack of tech savvies who were trying to find him (and earn a bounty of $5,000).
It's in that spirit that I wanted to see what we could learn from films about the subject of leaving your life behind and creating a new identity.
1. Double Back
The Film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Lesson: One of the first things Ratliff does is allow a toll checkpoint to register his ID tag before tossing it out the window, doubling
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- Dr. Cole Abaius
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The Sunday Movie Quotes Quiz – The Answers
9 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST
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Hope you all enjoyed the movie quote quiz. If you missed it, check it out here before you look down at the answers. Any feedback would be useful, too easy or too hard etc…
Here are the answers below, alongside the original quotes. Come back next Sunday for another quiz
1. A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen. – Way of the Gun
2. An ice-cream truck, an ice-cream truck. You know, they’ve got to get there before it melts. – The Cannonball Run
3. Rob…Rob…Rob…Rob… – Cloverfield
4. It’s fried rice, you plick – Lethal Weapon 4
5. I’m Toby N Tucker, that’s TNT, and when i go off, somebody gets hurt. – U-Turn
6. You were supposed to serve six warrants, instead you went out and you went on a rampage. – Young Guns
7. You kidnapped me with a candy bar? – The Chase
8. Please don’t shoot at the thermo-nuclear weapons!
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Laxmi has her sights on Bollywood
1 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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Top Southern actress Laxmi (Lakshmi Rai) has been offered a part in Bollywood’s Heyy Gujju with Himesh Reshammiya in a double role - but because of the usual contractual obligations is so far unable to say much. “I’ve moved to Mumbai and am getting ready to do the film,” she confirms, “I’ve been asked to lose nine kilos for the role.”
Laxmi is popular throughout the South, particularly in Kollywood and Mollywood - but doesn’t she find shuttling between the different climatic, cultural and language zones hard work? “Oh yes! It’s very difficult to adjust to diverse climates and food,” she says, “The last two months have been quite hectic. Mastering the languages is another tough task, but am hoping I will be able to overcome that handicap soon.”
Laxmi, perhaps best known for her role in Kangana Ranaut’s excellent Dhaam Dhoom, has had
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Tony Scott + Chippendales Means a Different Kind of Action
29 October 2009 7:55 AM, PDT
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That's right, Variety reports Tony Scott, the man responsible for such adrenaline fueled action flicks as Deja Vu and Enemy of the State, is gearing up to bring some sex to the silver screen in the form of a biopic about the rise and fall of Chippendales club creator Steve Banerjee. The Scott Free banner will produce the Lisa Schraeger written script (she also wrote another sex driven bipoic chronicling the Heidi Fleiss story Pay the Girl for Nicole Kidman) which is being adapted from some sort of manuscript written by Rodney Sheldon. No cast have been announced, but with all the shirtless guys in Hollywood it can't be that difficult.
The story of Banerjee has plenty of interesting ups and downs. After working at a Mobil gas station and a failed backgammon club (seriously?), Banerjee bought a Los Angeles club named Destiny II and turned it into a nightclub
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- Ethan Anderton
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What are Your Guilty Pleasure Movies, but Don't Like to Admit It?
14 October 2009 12:38 PM, PDT
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I thought the response to my "Do You Ever Lie about the Movies You've Seen? " post was excellent, and on top of everything so many of you said, several new questions came as a result. One of them, offered by 'Steve Mott', asks the question in the headline: Do you have guilty pleasures you don't like to admit to?
Steve lists his guilty pleasure as 10 Things I Hate About You, a film I personally love and was just discussing recently with a friend when the topic of "Where the hell did Julia Stiles go?" came up. To that effect I also love Save the Last Dance and to answer the Stiles question before someone gets smart in the comments, yes, she has the Bourne films and wrote and directed a film starring Zooey Deschanel and has also been doing plenty of work on stage. Moving along...
Other personal
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Exclusive: State of Play Poster
29 January 2009 1:19 AM, PST
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Courtesy of Universal, here's an exclusive first glimpse of the State Of Play poster, soon to be adorning a bus stop near you. In keeping with any self-respecting conspiracy thriller, there's a moody, noirish feel to it and plenty of meaningful staring. Presumably the shady character in the corner will take care of the running around and shooting part.For those who didn't catch the acclaimed BBC miniseries on which it's based, State Of Play features journalist Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe), whose investigation into the suspicious death of a prominent politician's mistress plunges him and his editor (Helen Mirren) into a world of corruption. We're hoping for a combination of the taut plotting of All The President's Men and The Parallax View, the freewheeling thrills of Enemy Of The State, and the double-dealing and sinister scheming of Empire on press day. Is that too much to ask? Will State Of Play
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