Get More: Joey Bada$$, My Yout, Music, More Music Videos Google is sending out invitations to thousands of people inviting them to buy a new version of Glass before the general public can get their hands on one. On the Glass Google+ page, Google said that it's got a new-and-improved version of Glass ready and that its current early-bird Glass owners, known as Explorers, will be able to invite up to three of their friends to purchase it. The initial Glass program awarded the device to 8,000 people, plus another 2,000 developers who attended Google's I/O developer's conference, TechCrunch's Drew Olanoff reported. Google is also allowing those who already bought the device to trade their old Glass in for a new one, free of charge. As for new features, Google didn't say a lot, except that the new Glass will one day work with prescription shades and lenses and that it includes a new mono ear bud. Google has been tight-lipped on the specifics of when it will sell Glass to the public or what it will charge for it. It's expected that Glass will arrive sometime in 2014 and will cost maybe $300-$500, certainly less than $1,500. Google charged $1,500 to the early users. It's not clear Google expects this new crop of Explorers to pay that much but seems likely. We've tried Glass and the device works amazingly well, particularly the voice commands. But as Google+ user Jordan Keyes posted, "Still not 100% sure that I could justify paying $1500 for a piece of hardware, but with the upgrades they're including to help it work with prescription glasses, it might just be worth it." In honor of LeBron James' 11th season in the NBA, Nike released a two-minute long commercial called "Training Day." In the commercial, what seems like the whole city of Miami runs, bikes, and swims behind James as he heads to practice. They're stopped just short of following him onto the practice court, but James surprises them again by joining a random pickup game. It also features a brand new song, "My Shoes," from John Legend and producer Mike Will made available only through the commercial right now. The ad emphasizes the fact that James is so intense about training that he actually does bike to Heat home games, and that he's gone from being hated to having a whole city behind him. Pretty inspiring stuff: Freeway Ricky Ross’ recent comments about Jay Z’s drug dealing past made headlines as a diss to the legendary emcee’s street credibility, but Ross reached out to AllHipHop to address what he felt many had missed in the message he was trying to convey. During a recent interview with The Murder Master Music Show Ross said, “I was just reading on the airplane the other day in Vanity Fair with Jay-Z in it talking about that he sold crack. I was just reading it and it was so corny. These dudes just don’t keep it 100.” To clarify his point the former head of a $600 million drug empire wrote in a statement: I feel like my Esquire story starts laying things out more honestly, than the Vanity Fair piece on Jay Z. The game is real, and you’ll lose more than you win. If you sell drugs there is no rap career waiting as an exit strategy, you will either go to jail for a long time or end up dead. The kids deserve to know that, so they realize there’s better options. Ross also goes on to share his thoughts on Jay’s public statement concerning the Barneys New York racial profiling incidents: I read the Jay Z comments on Barney’s asking why he’s being judged, you’re being judged because that’s what comes with basing your career off the D Boy game. The game is give and take with those around you. It’s not enough to comment about Barney’s profiling when you sell products to the people possibly targeted. People that look like people you grew up with, and that are in your family. We know the reality of this country in regard to race. You stand up for them immediately when it comes to something as sensitive as racial profiling. You have to have context of American history that this profiling is happening and be honest, and demand the people you partner with to be of the type that treat your people fairly. This is the big problem of the high-end luxury these rappers talk about and have our children hooked on for status. They are not in our interest as a community, and often as seen in the profiling case they look down upon us as customers. As I said in my Hip Hop Can Heal piece onHuffington Post: “At my height I did not make hundreds of millions to belittle those around me, this is what elitism has driven rap into becoming. A tool to marginalize the have-nots as rappers say what they invented, how they will protect it and how your less than for not being in the same class. The goal cannot be to have large sums of money to marginalize your fans with diamonds they don’t have, clothes they can’t afford or cars they have not seen.” There are unsatisfied housewives in the world and apparently it is The Walt Disney Company’s global duty to give them their shine. Announced today, Nigeria’s EbonyLife TV and Disney Media Distribution EMEA will co-produce the new series Desperate Housewives Africa.
The show would feature “an African soul” and will provide ”the opportunity to engage African audiences through locally relevant and entertaining storytelling” according to a joint statement. The show will also act as a vehicle to promote Nigerian dress designers and feature pan-African acting talent. The U.S. version of “Desperate Housewives” was broadcasted on The Walt Disney Company-owned ABC channel and ran from 2004-2012. Its series finale scored 11.1 million viewers and a 3.2 rating among its core demographic (adults 18-49). There are other versions of Desperate Housewives that have been produced in Turkey, Argentina,Brazil and the United States in Spanish. Desperate Housewives Africa is set to premiere in the summer of 2014. |
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