On Memorial Day weekend, 10 of the best dj’s in the world came to Vegas to bless the Wet Republic with their musical stylings. Check out this video and see what you missed. I am pretty sure this is another Them Too production.
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers came out victorious on Thursday evening (June 17) against Boston Celtics, but it was a fight all the way down to the wire.
In the end, the Lakers pulled out a win with a narrow margin of 83-79, earning the team’s 16th title, one shy of Boston.
It was the first time the Lakers had beat the Celtics in a Game 7 in their longtime rivalry. And it was Kobe’s fifth NBA Championship title — tying Lakers luminary Magic Johnson and moving to within one of Michael Jordan.
The Lakers star and Finals MVP had a rough offense game, going 6-24, but finished out the evening with 23 points and 15 rebounds, in this defensive battle.
It’s ok, because Kobe only cared about getting that title for his second straight year. Next season, they will look to three-peat since accomplishing the feat in 2000-2002.
“This one’s by far the sweetest,” Bryant said following the game on Thursday at Staples Center.
It was an emotional win, but all the Lakers were ecstatic. NBA.com said that center Andrew Bynum was popping champagne in the middle of the hallway outside the Lakers locker room. And, Ron Artest — who won his first championship — lost his voice after screaming at the top of his lungs in excitement after a hard fought Finals, Playoffs and season.
But, this win was especially sweet for the Lakers because they got their revenge after losing to the Celtics in 2008.
“We learned from the disappointment and the frustration and the anger that came from losing that series,” said Derek Fisher.
The Lakers shot just 32.5% in Game 7, but they won by rebounding the ball and play defense. The Lakers outrebounded the Celtics, 53-40, including a 23-8 advantage on the offensive boards.
They also managed to hold the Celtics to 40.8% shooting, Ray Allen making only three of 14 and Paul Pierce five of 15.
It wasn’t pretty, as Coach Phil Jackson said, but it’s done.
“It wasn’t well done, but it was done,” he said. “And we did it with perseverance.”
There will be a victory parade Monday (June 21). Get ready!
via BallerStatus
It doesn’t get much bigger than this boys and girls. Vice and D-Nice creating new concoctions from their favorite drink Hennessy Black. Balllaaaaa!!!
Them too… is at it again with another brilliant video documenting the recent SKAM Artist take over of Las Vegas! Check it out, then tell me you don’t want to be a DJ…
Wow… this video is so creative. I can’t expect the young-ins to get it all, but the cut’s for the word play is dope. It is also the first Hip-Hop 3-D vide… Too bad I don’t have glasses right now. I am excited to see it in 3-d.
Rhymefest’s sophomore album, El Che, drops in stores today!
Yes, it’s that time again. All the little kidies are growing up so fast and you can see the determination in their eyes. Ready to take on the world… heheh… little do they know. :) j/k Congrats to the class of 2010! Especially to Katelyn…
Last week I was in Idaho for my God daughter’s graduation and their Dean gave a speech at their dessert. He borrowed it from one of the most famous commencement speaches (although it wasn’t really a commencement speech). I thought that the speech was so good in fact, I had to call on my good friend Google, find the speech and blog about it. Let me know what you think.
Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young
Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there’s no reason we can’t entertain ourselves by composing a Guide to Life for Graduates.
I encourage anyone over 26 to try this and thank you for indulging my attempt.Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’97:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
With Game 1 of the NBA Finals starting in just a few hours — TMZ has learned two Los Angeles Lakers fans will be sitting courtside at the Staples Center … on Ron Artest’s dime.
The two $9,000 tickets were given away this morning in a contest on Power 106 radio in L.A. — but the winners had no idea that Ron paid for them out of his own pocket.
We called Ron to find out why he shelled out for the seats and he told us, “Most of my fans can’t afford the ticket prices to come to any of the games, let alone the Finals. I wanted to treat a fan to something they would normally never have access to, so they could feel like one of the stars for the night.”
Ron added, “I feel like just a regular person at the end of the day, and I wanted to be able to share my first Finals experience with one of my regular fans.”
A week ago Novation Music put up a count down on their site which no one was sure of what it was for. Well, they just announced their new product Dicer. This product looks amazing and fits right on to the 1200′s. It is basically a small midi controller that works with Scratch Live, Traktor and Ableton.
Check it out in this video… I can’t wait to get one.
http://blog.dv247.com/novation-dicer-dj-controller-launched/14045/
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