I gotta give it up to Ye. His passion is often looked down upon, but I ride with him 100%. He has teamed up with MTV to shoot "Choose or Loose: Homecoming" where he goes and visits veterans that have just returned from Iraq. Kanye provides a platform form them to tell their stories. He also gives them gifts such as free rent for six months, money towards bills and potential job leads.

Remember Nike had the ACG (All Conditions Gear) line. Well they are bringing it back out now. Check them out at Nike's website.
Kevin Rose demonstrates how he uses iPhone Remote software. Pretty cool. I am really thinking of getting an iPhone, but my job pays for my Blackberry now. Decisions, decisions.
One of the illest Hov songs ever. The video is hilarious too! This was from the Streets Is Watching movie.
This is one of the rawest rap songs ever! Smoothe and his brother Tigger the Gambler freaked this. And the video version is clean of course but the got down right raw on the album version.

text from Karmaloop.com - Karmaloop held a T-shirt contest for Lupe Fiasco's album "The Cool." We asked participants to make the sickest design based their interpretation of the album. Behold the winning design by Guadalupe Cos-Gayón and Miguel Abio from Spain. Cop this limited edition Karmaloop exclusive and all proceeds go to Lupe's charity of choice WHY- helping to bring solutions to hunger and poverty.
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For the entire month of July the artwork Kime Buzzelli will be displayed via video on the InterContinental Hotel in LA. Take a look at the video to see how incredible the display is.
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LA artist David Choe teamed up with Upper Playground to create a limited edition custom made Stan Smith Adidas. I am really becoming a huge fan of Upper Playground and next time I'm in LA (October) I am going there to take some flicks and cop some gear. For more pics click Read More

So my partner in B@P Mike Lacy has really gotten me into using Twitter. If you didn't know it is a microblogging application that allows you to send quick status updates to your friends or followers. You can also view what your friends are doing by reading their tweets. Well this morning I awake and start to send a status update and notice that all of but 1 of my followers is gone and I am only following 3 people now. Wow. Not sure what happened. They are fixing the issue and as of right now all my peeps are still not there! But checking their blog here is what they had to say:
One thing to note: Even after this recovery is complete, your counts may appear lower than previously. In almost all cases, this is not due to missing data. The counts we display on your profile page are not always up-to-date. For example, when we remove spammers from the system (which we’ve been doing a lot lately), the follower counts are not updated in real-time.
With the assistance of ColorOfChange.org Nas took to the streets of NYC and delivered over 620 petitions to the Fox News Studio. As we all know the Sly Fox network makes unacceptable comments about Black Americans, Entertainers and especially the way the speak on the Obama family. Fox turned away the petitions (of course), but you know who accepted them? Nas made an appearance on the Colbert Report last night and bought the petitions with him. And if you follow Colbert, you know he always gives the Sly Fox network shit too! Watch the video above of Nas giving his speech in front of the station and click the Read More like to watch him on the Colbert Report. And if you need to see how Sly Fox talks about Black people, watch the video with Colbert!