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Friday, February 3, 2012

DRAKE DEBUTS "PRACTICE" VIDEO

It's no surprise that Drake ** loves his women with curves. Take exhibit... er' we lost count: "Practice." On his recent video for the "Take Care" track, Drake recruits a voluptuous young lady to shake her derriere before her bedroom mirror. "Practice" may not be the last time Drake and Juvenile ** collaborate. Mannie Fresh ** told Billboard that after Juvenile and himself gave Drizzy the green light to sample "Back That Thang Up," Mannie Fresh sent the Toronto rapper songs for Juve's upcoming album, "Rejuvenation." "I'm waiting for him to pick what he likes, put whatever he wants on it and send it back," Mannie said. You think you can "practice" better than Drake's on-screen leading lady? Drake wants you to prove it. Send your moves to October's Very Own [Link]! *View multimedia content on your computer **This content has been edited for mobile devices. Visit http://www.billboard.com on your computer to see it in its entirety

NEXT WEEKS ALBUM SALES LOOK LIKE THIS GOING INTO THE WEEKEND

With only a week to go before the Grammys, Adele holds on to the #1 spot for an astounding 19th week. As of now, one more week will tie the Bodyguard soundtrack for the most weeks at #1 in the SoundScan era. Next up will be MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, which spent 21 weeks at #1 in 1990. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend: Adele (XL/Columbia) 100-110k *Lana Del Rey (Interscope) 60-65k *Leonard Cohen (Columbia) 35-40k 2012 Grammy Nominees (Universal Republic) 30-35k Tim McGraw (Curb) 28-32k *Fred Hammond (Verity) 27-30k Drake (YM/CM/Universal Republic) 27-30k Kidz Bop 21 (Razor & Tie) 25-28k Rihanna (Def Jam/IDJ) 19-22k Tony Bennett (Columbia) 19-22k Young Jeezy (Def Jam/IDJ) 18-21k Mary J. Blige (Geffen) 18-21k LMFAO (Interscope) 17-20k Kelly Clarkson (19/RCA) 17-20k Black Keys (Nonesuch) 17-20k Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 17-20k

Thursday, February 2, 2012

((((DJ OF THE DAY)))) DJ SUPA MIKE "BATON ROUGE'S LEADING MAN ON THE TABLES. RADIO/MIXTAPES/CLUB"

Kool DJ Supa Mike, originally from St. Louis, first came to Louisiana to attend Southern University as a Marketing major. He joined the Max 94-One Dream Team in 2001. In his hometown of St. Louis, Kool DJ Supa Mike started mixing at local parties while in junior high. At that time, he hooked up with a group of local DJ's from the local hip hop station, 100.3 The Beat. That experience influenced Supa Mike to develop his skills and travel to the Dirty South. Kool DJ Supa Mike first came to Max 94-One when he participated in the Dream Team Competition and won his spot on the Max 94-One Dream team in 2001. After doing local college parties in Baton Rouge, he hit the airwaves at with Drak Muse on the "Beats 'n Rhymes Hip Hop Show". Supa Mike landed a permanent spot on Max 94-One on the "Beats 'n Rhymes Hip Hop Show" after Drak Muse move to L.A. to further his music career with the Ill Relatives. Kool DJ Supa Mike can be heard on Max 94-One Saturday, Midnight 'til 5am and Sunday from 7 'til Midnight on the "Beats 'n Rhymes Hip Hop Show". Look for Kool DJ Supa Mike at a party near you! Go Rams & Cards!!

BULLYING TAKES ANOTHER LIFE TOO SOON "RIP EIRA MAGHUYOP"

A Westchester community is mourning after the loss of local teen who friends say was bullied to death. 14-year-old Eira Maghuyop is said to have left a suicide note which spoke to the bullying, and pointed to one major contributing factor. While the Yonkers Police Department has started an investigation and has reportedly taken the girl's computer for forensic examination, the family is left to try to unravel what lead up to her hanging herself in the family home. Maghuyop was a bright and beautiful young woman who was hiding a devastating sadness. Attending the exclusive Ursaline private all girls school in New Rochelle school, she said she dreamed of becoming a doctor or nurse, like her mother, that she loves music and wanted to be a mom. But the 14-year-old grew so despondent that she took her own life. Nick Viviani, a neighbor of the family shared his sympathies, saying, "To lose a child, at any age, it's rough." Eira's friends were quick to mourn on social media, calling it a bullycide--that Eira was driven to suicide because she could no longer take the taunts. Friends launched an anti-bullying FaceBook page in Eira's honor, it has swelled to more than 12,000 likes. They are also paying tribute through video remembrances. One teen boy who said he went to so far as to dye his hair to escape the taunts said on his condolence video, "I do know what it's like to be that far over the edge, I almost did it myself." The students and faculty at Ursaline, a Catholic School, which goes from Kindergarten through 12th grade, were also in mourning, eulogizing her at an assembly this morning. But at a parents' meeting last night, school officials stated the bullying did not happen at the hands of fellow Ursaline students. "They must have been cruel. Merciless, you know?" said Chris Poniatowski, a Senior at Iona Prep, the "brother school" to Ursaline. "It wasn't even girls from that school. Because she loved the school. It was people over Facebook, Twitter." We repeatedly requested information about any anti-bullying programs that Ursuline may have in place, but no school official would return our calls for comment on the existence of any of their programs. Leticia Lopez, the mother of an 8th grader was picking her daughter up after a day at class. Her husband had attended the parents' debriefing session the night before. "This is a very serious problem. These are our children, this is very important." Eira, who called herself 100% Filipino, was by all appearances a happy teen, professing love for her favorite shows: Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle. She also blogged about her desire to be a singer. Friends of the family, some of whom work at NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where Mom Faith is a nurse, were sharing their condolences throughout the day. Delreen Fordeis came at the end of a twelve hour nursing shift. She knew Eira wanted to be a doctor, or nurse like her mother. Fordeis said of Faith, "I think she really wants people to see her daughter for who she was." Eira is survived by her parents, younger and older brother and grandmother.

THE BIGKeithMixshow BLACK HISTORY MONTH DAILY HONORS ((DR NEIL R. POWE MD/TOO MANY AWARDS AND RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO NAME))

Research and Professional Experience Dr. Powe's work unites Medicine and Public Health with the goals of saving and improving quality of human lives. It involves the knowledge of fundamental discoveries in biology and clinical medicine to advance the health of patients who ultimately make up a larger population of patients affected by a disease. Dr. Powe has worked in the areas of prevention and screening, clinical epidemiology, patient outcomes research, technology assessment, and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has worked on many important diseases with substantial morbidity including kidney diseas as well as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, thyroid disease, depression, and eye disease. He has also conducted projects on health disparities, care management, access to care, and quality of care. His has used prospective methods of randomized controlled trials and cohort studies, cost-effectiveness analysis, meta-analysis, retrospective analyses of administrative databases, and survey research. Dr. Powe is principal investigator of a Center for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored study to establish a national surveillance system for chronic kidney disease in the United States. He also led the CHOICE study, a national study of patient outcomes in chronic kidney disease funded by the agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). He has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in this population using data from prospective studies, the United States Renal Data System (USRDS), Medicare records, and patient surveys. Dr. Powe has also studied resource allocation issues in health and health care disparities. Honors and Awards 1995 - Honorable Mention: Article of the Year, AcademyHealth. (The Relationship of Provider Organizational Status and Erythropoietin Dosing in ESRD Patients. Medical Care 1994;32:130-140.) 2000 American Society of Clinical Investigation 2001 - Article of the Year, AcademyHealth (The Relation Between Pre-publication Release of Clinical Trials Results and the Diffusion of Carotid Endarterectomy. JAMA 2000; 284(22): 2886-2893) 2003 - Institute of Medicine 2004 - Garabed Eknoyan Award, National Kidney Foundation 2005 - John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Acheivement in Research, Society of General Internal Medicine 2005 - Association of American Physicians 2006 - Delta Omega Honorary Society 2007 - Distinguished Educator Award, Association for Clinical Research Training 2008 - University Distinguished Service Professor 2008- James F. Fries Professorship (inaugural recipient) 2010 - Association of Professors of Medicine Diversity Award

JUSTIN BIEBER RECRUITS LIL WAYNE FOR NEW ALBUM

First it was Ludacris ** on "Baby." Then Kanye West ** remixed his "My World 2.0" track "Runaway Love" with Raekwon **. Then, just when we thought he wasn't going to ask Busta Rhymes ** to be on his version of "Little Drummer Boy," he did just that. Now, pop superstar and "Otis" freestyler ** Justin Bieber ** is turning his collaborative efforts toward another star rapper: Lil Wayne **. Bieber, who is working hard on a forthcoming full-length titled "Believe," posted on Twitter [Link] on Wednesday (Feb. 1) that he had shared some studio time with the Cash Money superstar: "Good time in the studio last night. back at it tonight. oh yeah...and big bro came thru… and when i say big bro i mean @LilTunechi. #BELIEVE IT." He also posted a pair of photos of Wayne and himself kicking it at a skate park -- the black-and-white shots either depict Mr. Carter giving the Biebs some fatherly music advice, or teaching the youngster how to do a kickflip. Last month, Bieber announced on Twitter that he had started recording "Believe," which follows "Under The Mistletoe," a full-length Christmas effort that gave the teen star his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 last November. Over the past week, Bieber has also worked with songwriter Sean Garrett ( Usher **, Chris Brown **) as well as Timbaland **, who helped craft a classic Justin Timberlake ** album, "FutureSex/Lovesounds," in 2006. Meanwhile, Lil Wayne just pushed out a music video for his "Carter IV" single "Mirror" on Tuesday, and is polishing his next full-length, "I Am Not a Human Being 2," for an expected summer release. The wise, world-weary Wayne is also serving as a mentor to another teen artist, Young Money rapper Lil Twist, who is prepping his own debut album, "Don't Get It Twisted."

PANDORA TEAMS UP WITH THE GRAMMYS, AND PEPSI FOR SPECIAL VIDEO SERIES

Pandora, the Academy and sponsor Pepsi have announced an original content video series (www.pandora.com/pepsigrammyvideo) showcasing Best New Artist nominees The Band Perry, Bon Iver, J. Cole, Nicki Minaj and Skrillex and including exclusive interviews. The wrinkle here is the creation of Pandora Grammy genre stations (http://pandora.com/genres/grammys) based on official Grammy categories: Country, Pop and Dance, Rock and Alternative, Rap, R&B, Gospel and Contemporary Christian, Latin, Jazz, World and Reggae, American Roots, Classical and Comedy. On top of that, a Grammy “mixtape” gathering songs from nominees and newcomers in various categories can be found at www.pandora.com/pepsigrammymusic. Said Pandora Chief Marketing Officer Simon Fleming-Wood, “We're excited to celebrate this year's Grammy Awards by giving Pandora listeners access to their favorite Grammy-nominated artists and helping them discover great new music through our Grammy genre stations." Added Evan Greene, the Academy’s Chief Marketing Officer, "To commemorate the excitement for Music's Biggest Night with the launch of a dozen Grammy genre stations and the first-ever Best New Artist video series is exciting. We were pleased to extend this innovative program to Pandora users through our partnership with Pepsi."

MITT ROMNEY GETS FLACK FOR USING ARTIST SONG WITHOUT PERMISSION

K'NAAN FLAGS ROMNEY: A&M/Octone recording artist K''Naan was dismayed to learn that his song "Wavin' Flag" was used by Mitt Romney in his speech last night following Florida's Republican primary. The artist was not aware that the song would be used by Romney and the campaign is not something K'Naan endorses. "I have not been asked for permission by Mitt Romney's campaign for the use of my song. If I had been asked, I would certainly not have granted it. I would happily grant the Obama campaign use of my song without prejudice." K'Naan is currently seeking legal action so that further use of the song by Romney's campaign can be prevented. No word if he's OK with Newt Gingrich's eletropop version.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

((((DJ OF THE DAY)))) DJ SUPERSTAR JAY "POUND 4 POUND CURRENT NY MIXTAPE CHAMP"

Over the past decade and a half, Superstar Jay has proven to be much more than your average mixtape deejay. Stepping into the hip hop arena at the tender age of 12, under the tutelage of turntable greats Kid Capri, Ron G. and DJ Clue, it wasn’t long before Jay was labeled a mixing prodigy. His reputation grew steadily as he jumped at every opportunity to display his skills at parties and local events around his hometown of Jamaica Queens. Like many youth coming up in Queens in what was commonly known as the “Get or Get It” era, it didn’t take Jay long to realize that there were limited avenues which would take him out of the hood and lead him to a better place, those being basketball, beats or the hustle game. Fortunately for rap fans, Jay chose the former two options. As it turned out, Superstar Jay’s crossover was just as wicked as his cross fade. He perfected his street ball game and landed himself a full ride to Buffalo State College. Jay temporarily tossed his Technics to focus on books and ball, but early in his junior year his passion summoned him back. Superstar Jay created the “Midnight Run Mixtape,” a number one rated radio show on 91.3 WBNY-FM. News of Jay’s skills spread like wildfire throughout the campus and around Western New York. Jay became a staple in the Upstate New York club scene and rocked parties from Buffalo and Niagara Falls to Rochester and beyond. Once Jay realized that he could parlay his passion into a viable career, he set his sights on conquering the Big Apple. In 2003, Jay returned to NYC to dance with the big dogs. With his raw talent and hustler’s ambition, Jay’s mixtapes attracted the attention and respect of true rap fans across the globe. Since his emergence in New York, Jay has displayed that his dedication and work ethic are the reason that he has solidified a well-deserved spot as one of the hottest new deejays on the scene. With more than 200 tapes to date, Superstar Jay has independently moved more than 50,000 units. Jay is the hottest up and coming powerhouse in the mixtape game right now. His appeal is due largely to his ability to assemble killer rosters (including those ever elusive unobtainable artists) and deliver quality product. Jay’s gift and entrepreneurial spirit have apparently not gone unnoticed. In 2006, Superstar Jay linked up with L.A. Lakers Forward, Lamar Odom, who offered Jay a home at his newly established venture Rich Soil Records. DJ Superstar Jay has also recently been added to the all-star rosters of Da Union DJ’s and Noize Mob DJ’s. With limitless talents, DJ Superstar Jay is so much more than just a mixtape aficionado. He is a living example of turning a hobby into a commodity. Jay is not just a whiz inside the studio. With tireless energy and enthusiasm he can rock any crowd with ease. In 2000, he partnered with Oh Baby ENT. and Northside ENT. in a collaborative effort to bring rap back to its essence and assist upcoming recording artists like rapper/ actor Storm P (The Cookout, Flava Unit), Clap Cognac (BET’s 106 & Park Champion) and Gangsta Lou (Smack DVD) in establishing solid careers in the music industry. In 2007, Jay was named MTV's "MIXTAPE DJ OF THE YEAR". With several recurring guest spots on national music television shows like BET’s Rap City and MTV’s Direct Effect Jay is proving that he is definitely a force to be reckoned with.