Using a senior citizen to hype a rap contest doesn't seem like the smartest marketing ploy, especially when the man in question can't name any rap songs but knows he likes the ones "with the singing in it."
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Andrian Adams is either selling the future, a great cocktail party
story--or maybe a bit of both.
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Reverend Run, "Distortion" (Island Def Jam)
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Rap feuds aren't usually about differing opinions on President Bush. However, that appears to be the case between 50 Cent and Kanye West.
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Call it a confab of Motown all-stars: the cast and crew of "Lady Sings the Blues" gathered on the Paramount lot to celebrate the DVD release of the 1972 Billie Holiday biopic, "Lady Sings the Blues."
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In a first for Wal-Mart, the retailer has recruited celebrities like Garth Brooks and Destiny's Child to appear in holiday television and print ads.
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When Madonna takes the stage in Lisbon
on Thursday to perform her new single "Hung Up," it will be the
culmination of weeks of promotion harnessing new technology
that is revolutionizing the music industry.
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Long before Katrina and tsunami
relief, Live 8 and Live AID, former Beatle George Harrison
assembled an all-star concert that cast the mold for celebrity
charity, and with a new DVD and remixed songs, "The Concert for
Bangladesh" is raising money
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Madonna will give the first global live
television performance from her new album on Thursday when she
appears at the MTV Europe Music Awards, a key showcase for the
music industry outside the United States.
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Madonna will give the first global live
television performance from her new album on Thursday when she
appears at the MTV Europe Music Awards, a key showcase for the
music industry outside the United States.
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Indie distributor ThinkFilm
said Tuesday it nabbed worldwide rights to "Awesome: I F-----'
Shot That," a kaleidoscopic Beastie Boys concert documentary
shot mainly by 50 fans on hand-held Hi8 cameras at Madison
Square Garden.
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Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first "Tonight Show" bandleader, died Monday. He was 87.
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After being broadcast in English to
dwindling TV audiences in recent years, the recording
industry's Latin Grammy Awards will be broadcast in Spanish for
the first time on Thursday.
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