“We’re all Parisians. In the capital, the poor are in direct contact with the rich, more than in the suburbs. You can live in a beautiful building but the top floor piled in a maid’s room with your brothers and sisters.”
Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (Tamil: மாதங்கி ‘மாயா’ அருள்பிரகாசம், Mātaṅki ‘Māyā’ Aruḷpirakācam ; born 17 July 1977), better known by her stage name M.I.A. (a play on her name and for Missing in Action), is a British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of electronica, dance, alternative, hip hop and world music.
M.I.A. began her career in 2000 as a visual artist, filmmaker and designer in West London before beginning her recording career in 2002. Since rising to prominence in early 2004 for her singles “Sunshowers” and “Galang“, charting in the UK and Canada and reaching number 11 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales in the US, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Grammy Awards and the Mercury Prize.
She is the only artist in history to be nominated for an Academy Award, Grammy Award, Brit Award, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize, and the first artist of Asian descent to be nominated for an Academy and Grammy Award in the same year. In 2005, M.I.A. was artist of the year by Spin and URB and M.I.A. is named as one of the defining artists of the 2000s decade by Rolling Stone in its “Best of the Decade” list. Esquire magazine ranked M.I.A. on its list of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century and Time magazine named her one of the world’s most influential people.
He was sixteen during the genocide. His mother was Hutu and his father was Tutsi. An armed group entered the family home, killing his parents and siblings. Cornelius was a powerless witness to the massacre, he was spared because he hid behind a sofa. He fled to Zaire after days of walking, and found refuge with a German couple who were friends of his parents.
In July1997, he left Germany to continue his studies in communications at the Concordia University of Montreal. A few months after arriving in Quebec, he made the acquaintance of Peter Gage and Martin Gardy (aka Gardy Fury), with whom he formed the group R’n’B O.N.E.
He dropped out of the band in January2001, to pursue his solo career.
In 2002, he participated in several projects. He composed and wrote the title Tonight for compiling R & B COCKTAIL 2 (Ghetto R & B / Sony Music ), and the title If only we loved the album Hip Hop Folies (Sony Music), featuring; Passi, Daddy Mory, K-mel, Sniper, Nâdiya, Sheraz, MBE, Nathalie Loriot, and The Weasel.
Cornelius is working with the Red Cross to raise awareness of Canadian children victimized by war.
Toujours dans la même année, il est sollicité pour écrire la chanson représentant la France au concours Eurovision, ce qu’il accepte. Il dévoile la chanson Vous c’est nous lors de l’émission spéciale, présentée par Michel Drucker et Claudy Siar, au cours de laquelle les téléspectateurs français élisent la jeune Virginie Pouchain, révélée chez Pascal Sevran, comme l’artiste qui ira défendre les chances françaises à Athènes. Mais ce titre ne semble pas convaincre les organisateurs du concours et Corneille est invité à revoir sa copie. Finalement, c’est un autre titre, Il était temps, composé en urgence, qui sera retenu. Malgré tout, le succès ne sera pas au rendez-vous, Virginie Pouchain n’arrivant qu’en vingt-deuxième position sur un total de vingt-quatre participants, à l’issue de la finale.
Le 9septembre2006, il épouse Sofia De Medeiros, sa compagne depuis cinq ans, dans une petite cérémonie au cœur des Laurentides, au nord de Montréal.
Après un album anglophone, il revient sur la scène française avec un quatrième album studio co-écrit avec son épouse, intitulé, tout simplement, Sans titre, sorti le 19octobre2009. Entre temps, le 9avril2010, il a eu un heureux évènement, la naissance d’un premier enfant, un petit garçon, Merrik. Check it.
Check it: Corneille.ca – Site officiel de l’artiste Corneille – The official site of the artist Corneille.
La Fouine
Laouni Mouhid, commonly known by his alias La Fouine (English: The Weasel) or Fouiskin (born December 25, 1981 in Trappes, Yvelines), is aFrench rapper of Moroccan origins from the city of Trappes, Yvelines in the Paris western suburbs. He is an established figure in French rap. La Fouine signed with Sony Records in 2003 and released his debut album, Bourré au son, in 2005. La Fouine released his second album, Aller-Retour, on March 12, 2007. The American beatmaker Focus produced four songs on the album. His most recent album, Mes Repères, was released on February 23, 2009 and is two times gold record in France. His new album, a double CD intituled “La Fouine Vs Laouni” released on February 14.
He has also his own label “Banlieue Sale Music” and his own clothing line called “Street Swagg”.
Due to the civil war in his native Zaire, now Democratic Republic of the Congo, he escaped at the age of ten with his mother to France. He grew up in the Paris suburbs, in the département of Yvelines.
Like so many young people in the French suburbs, he fell in love with hip-hop. He began at 14 years old to write hip-hop music for the first time. After a feature on a compilation of underground artists, he founded in 1998, the crew Frères Lumière. With it, he launched the single être né quelque part. After high school, Youssoupha decided to put his music career on hold and go to university.
In 2003 he went back into the music business, on the project Bana Kin. Under this name he brings together Congolese rappers in the album Tendance, in which he appreciates and gives tribute to the culture and music of his native country. A year later he joined the collective 3ème Underground. Besides these endeavors, he also worked as a solo artist and signed with Bomayé music, the label of his associates Philo. In 2005 he released his first solo album, recommencement Eternel, which promptly became the Street Album of the Year nominee. He then signed with the label Hostile.
By the end of 2006 Mixtape avant l’album appeared. The critics were highly positive of Youssoupha and voted him one of the most promising talents of French rap. His debut album on Hostile was A chaque frère, released in early 2007. The working title of Negritude was of great interest to the general public, generating popularity quickly, and the album was a huge success. Following this, Youssoupha took a break at home, but was always present with various ongoing projects.
In early 2009 he came back topping the charts fast and furious with the song La vie est speed for the film Fast and Furious 4. Later that year, he released Sur les Chemins du retour, his second album. Check it.
Check it. Youssoupha: Biographie, vidéos, extraits audio, dates de concerts et forum autour du rappeur français: Official Site.
He was sixteen during the genocide. His mother was Hutu and his father was Tutsi. An armed group entered the family home, killing his parents and siblings. Cornelius was a powerless witness to the massacre, he was spared because he hid behind a sofa. He fled to Zaire after days of walking, and found refuge with a German couple who were friends of his parents.
In July1997, he left Germany to continue his studies in communications at the Concordia University of Montreal. A few months after arriving in Quebec, he made the acquaintance of Peter Gage and Martin Gardy (aka Gardy Fury), with whom he formed the group R’n’B O.N.E.
He dropped out of the band in January2001, to pursue his solo career.
In 2002, he participated in several projects. He composed and wrote the title Tonight for compiling R & B COCKTAIL 2 (Ghetto R & B / Sony Music ), and the title If only we loved the album Hip Hop Folies (Sony Music), featuring; Passi, Daddy Mory, K-mel, Sniper, Nâdiya, Sheraz, MBE, Nathalie Loriot, and The Weasel.
Cornelius is working with the Red Cross to raise awareness of Canadian children victimized by war.
Toujours dans la même année, il est sollicité pour écrire la chanson représentant la France au concours Eurovision, ce qu’il accepte. Il dévoile la chanson Vous c’est nous lors de l’émission spéciale, présentée par Michel Drucker et Claudy Siar, au cours de laquelle les téléspectateurs français élisent la jeune Virginie Pouchain, révélée chez Pascal Sevran, comme l’artiste qui ira défendre les chances françaises à Athènes. Mais ce titre ne semble pas convaincre les organisateurs du concours et Corneille est invité à revoir sa copie. Finalement, c’est un autre titre, Il était temps, composé en urgence, qui sera retenu. Malgré tout, le succès ne sera pas au rendez-vous, Virginie Pouchain n’arrivant qu’en vingt-deuxième position sur un total de vingt-quatre participants, à l’issue de la finale.
Le 9septembre2006, il épouse Sofia De Medeiros, sa compagne depuis cinq ans, dans une petite cérémonie au cœur des Laurentides, au nord de Montréal.
Après un album anglophone, il revient sur la scène française avec un quatrième album studio co-écrit avec son épouse, intitulé, tout simplement, Sans titre, sorti le 19octobre2009. Entre temps, le 9avril2010, il a eu un heureux évènement, la naissance d’un premier enfant, un petit garçon, Merrik. Check it.
Check it: Corneille.ca – Site officiel de l’artiste Corneille – The official site of the artist Corneille.
Die Antwoord performs music which incorporates many Zef elements and references. According to the band, Zef is a South African slang term that describes a unique South African style which is modern and trashy and also includes out-of-date, discarded cultural and style elements. Both Ninja and Yolandi have offered definitions of zef. Yolandi was quoted as saying, “It’s associated with people who soup their cars up and rock gold and shit. Zef is, you’re poor but you’re fancy. You’re poor but you’re sexy, you’ve got style.” Their lyrics are performed in Afrikaans, Xhosa, and English. Check it.
In what prosecutors called a campaign to strike fear by a madman, a local Citizen pleaded guilty on Friday and is going to do 25 years behind bars on charges that he fired more than a dozen rounds of gunshots over the course of several days during the annual fête along Ave. du Môquet last July.
A District 1 couple from Wellington has been sentenced to death for Witchcraft, an EC website has reported.
Wallace Montserrat, 32, and Phoebe Collinswood, 28, confessed to Practicing the Occult, “invoking spirits”, and attempting to alter future events through “spiritual mediums”, according to the Courier News of EC.
The report stated Vice Police of D1PD extracted the confessions with enhanced interrogation techniques.
WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration announced a blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” to Protect Consumers Online.The blueprint will guide efforts to give users more control over how their personal information is used on the Internet and that their personal informatin is safe online.
“American consumers can’t wait any longer for clear rules of the road that ensure their personal information is safe online,” said President Obama. “As the Internet evolves, consumer trust is essential for the continued growth of the digital economy. That’s why an online privacy Bill of Rights is so important. For businesses to succeed online, consumers must feel secure.”
According to the Statement, the advertising industry also committed not to release consumers’ browsing data to companies who might use it for purposes other than advertising, such as employers making hiring decisions or insurers determining coverage.
Check it.WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE: We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Unveils Blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” to Protect Consumers Online Internet Advertising Networks Announces Commitment to “Do-Not-Track” Technology to Allow Consumers to Control Online Tracking -The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
Check it. The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: Are We the Consumers, Or Are We the Product?
“Yes, we want Google, Facebook, and all other online services to keep our information private. But if we want them to remain free, something’s gotta give” -Bloomberg Buisnessweek
Check it. Money Minute: Privacy ‘bill of rights’ isn’t good enough [Video]
“The White House’s privacy guidelines are just that — guidelines. They’re voluntary, and companies can still decide how much (or little) privacy protection to offer users. But the bigger issue here is the lack of an opt-in provision. As it stands, the administration’s privacy bill of rights would still require people to opt out of having their personal info used or shared by websites.” -LA Times
Not Enough
The major problem is as the LA Times David Lazarus points out, this blueprint does very little by being a voluntary program. In this age of less regulation of business, business interests come before consumers and individual privacy rights.
Judge ruled dude violated Protection order from wilding out and said he could avoid 60days in jail by posting a serious apology Every Day for 30 days.
Check it. Judge orders estranged husband to apologize on Facebook for online rant
Ex-husband ordered to apologize for Facebook posts “A judge orders a Cincinnati man to apologize to his ex-wife for comments he made on Facebook. WLWT-TV’s Terry Daniels reports.” -MSNBC
Check it. Court Orders Man To Apologize To Estranged Wife On Facebook . “A Cincinnati man has been ordered to apologize to his estranged wife on Facebook after a post he wrote last year.” -News5 WLWT
Homeboy posted this smack talk:
“If you are an evil, vindictive woman who wants to ruin your husband’s life and take your son’s father away from him completely — all you need to do is say that you’re scared of your husband or domestic partner and they’ll take him away!” Check it. -NBCMiami
The court-ordered Facebook apology:
“I would like to apologize to my wife, [….], for the comments regarding her and our son [….] which were posted on my Facebook wall on or about November 23, 2011.
“I hereby acknowledge that two judicial officials in the [….] Court have heard evidence and determined that I committed an act of domestic violence against [….] on January 17, 2011. While that determination is currently being appealed, it has not been overturned by the appellate court. As a result of that determination, I was granted supervised parenting time with (my son) on a twice weekly basis.
“The reason I saw (my son) only one time during the four month period which ended about the time of my Facebook posting was because I chose to see him on only that single occasion during that period.
“I hereby apologize to …. for casting her in an unfavorable light by suggesting that she withheld (my son) from me or that she in any manner prevented me from seeing (my son) during that period. That decision was mine and mine alone.
“I further apologize to all my Facebook Friends for attempting to mislead them into thinking that [….] was in any manner preventing me from spending time with (my son), which caused several of my Facebook Friends to respond with angry, venomous, and inflammatory comments of their own.” Check it. -USA Today
Watch your Facebook postings. Especially if you got a record and pressing court charges from a jaded ex. Regardless that this man has a domestic violence record this sentence is absurd.
