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WTF News: Glow-in-the-Dark Pigs Created Using Jelly Fish Genes
Scientists in China created 10 piglets that glow green under black fluorescent lights, using a technique developed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Medicine.
Via Huffington Post:
A group of scientists from South China Agricultural University were able to do this by injecting fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA into pig embryos, thus creating the green-glowing pigs.
This same technique was used to create the world’s first glow-in-the-dark bunnies in Turkey earlier this year, where they are currently working to produce similar results with fluorescent-glowing sheep.
Scientists, however, are not creating glowing farm animals for seasonal décor. The goal of the research is to have an efficient and cheap way of getting a beneficial gene into humans that could help treat many genetic disorders.
Dr. Stefan Moisyadi, a UH Manoa bioscientist with the Institute for Biological Research, says, for example, that this technique could benefit people who suffer with the rare blood-clotting disease hemophilia. “We can make [blood-clotting] enzymes a lot cheaper in animals rather than a factory that will cost millions of dollars to build,” Moisyadi said in a press release.
Master P Uses Proceeds From 'The Gift' Album To Buy Christmas Presents For Underprivileged Kids
Master P aka Percy Miller, No Limit Forever Records CEO, loaded up his tour
bus on Christmas Eve with Bicycles, Xbox Ones, Games, and Toys to brighten up Christmas for underprivileged kids that lost their parents due to senseless violent crimes.
Master P’s The Gift Album is one of the hottest records on the street but instead of celebrating his success, he spends his proceeds from The Gift Album project to help inner city at-risk youth. Master P stated, “Hopefully, I can be like a guardian angel to these kids during this tough time as they celebrate Christmas without their parents. These kids are special, our mission is to uplift and encourage them even though they’ve been scarred by these tragedies. If we can help them learn how to smile again, have hope and overcome their adversities with time, their wounds will eventually heal. Our goal is to help Let The Kids Grow. Christmas is a time of celebrating Jesus’s birthday with family, love and joy. Although these kids have lost their parents, we want them to know that there are still people who care and love them.”
Check out the pictures:
Hip-Hop Rumors: Scott Disick Headed For Rehab?
Kourtney Kardashian has allegedly had enough of Scott Disick’s drunken mischief and wants him to go to rehab.
Radar Online reports that a recent incident where he made drunken spectacle of himself at a Kanye West concert was the last straw. Kourtney is now begging him to go back to rehab or to at least attend AA meetings.
The pair allegedly plan to get married next year but Kourtney refuses to move forward with him unless he handles his addiction. Kourtney is also concerned about Mason, her 4-year-old son, and Penelope, her 18-month-old daughter, because she doesn’t want them to be traumatized by having a drunk dad.
Audio Push Says T.I. "Sh*tted On Us" Before We Collaborated (VIDEO)
(AllHipHop News) In the music industry, you have to earn your stripes before you are allowed such privileges. While appearing on Cipha Sounds’ Take It Personal Hip Hop improv show last Friday (December 20th), the west coast duo Audio Push spoke on how the privilege of collaborating with a legendary rapper almost escaped them.
On their 2013 mixtape Come As You Are, Audio Push collaborated with T.I. on the Hit-Boy produced song “Theme Song”. According to the duo, T.I. “sh*tted” on their request to collaborate at first until he heard the beat and proceeded to freestyle his verse on the song. The UCB improvisers took T.I.’s lack of writing and demonstrated what would happen if he applied that to other real life situations.
Check out Audio Push at Cipha Sounds’ Take It Personal Hip Hop improv show below:
Hip-Hop Rumors: Kenya Moore is Looking For Sperm
When viewers first started watching Kenya Moore on Real Housewives of Atlanta, she presented herself as a marriage and baby hungry maniac. That plan didn’t work out so well so, she seemingly ditched her dreams of marital bliss with then alleged boyfriend Walter and went on to terrorize the rest of the cast with her wacky behavior.
Fastforward to today, she’s back on the show and still not mentioning her dreams of having a family but word is, she’s hasn’t given up hope. She can’t control the husband factor (assuming there’s no good bribe involved) but she is planning to get artificially insemenated. She recently told Life & Style that she plans to do in vitro with the hopes of getting pregnant within the next six months. Of course, if this works out she’ll have her baby just in time to be filmed for the next season of RHOA.
Lil Kim Says She's "The Blueprint" & "Very Pro-Women"
(AllHipHop News) With a discography full of platinum albums and a Grammy award on her mantelpiece, Lil Kim is undeniably one of the most successful female rappers of all time. According to the Queen Bee, she also serves as the model for femcees in the business.
[ALSO CHECK OUT: Lil Kim “I Am Kimmy Blanco”]
“In my field, I am the blueprint of what I do,” Kim tells Rolling Out magazine. “I’ve always starred in my own lane.”
It has been eight years since Lil Kim released her last studio album The Naked Truth, but Kim says she is not rushing the process to drop her next LP. Kim is holding off announcing when the album will be released, but she ensures that the public can expect to hear some singles from her by summer 2014.
In the meantime Kim’s fans are still waiting for her forthcoming mixtape Hardcore 2K13. The Brooklyn rhymer was scheduled to drop the project on Halloween, but it was pushed back indefinitely. She did release the tracks “Dead Gal Walking” and “I Am Kimmy Blanco” as well as a tracklist over the last several months.
“I just think that my fans — not even just my fans, but even potentially new fans — are ready to hear some new Lil Kim music,” added the rapper. “People are ready to hear real rap, real s**t coming from a female. Because I’ve always been different, no matter what. My music has always been very sexual and very pro-women.”
[ALSO READ: NEW MUSIC: Lil Kim “Dead Gal Walking”]
Pro Era To Release "The Secc$ Tap.e 2" Mixtape In February
(AllHipHop News) Joey Bada$$’ 2012 mixtape 1999 may have been the project that introduced his Pro Era crew to most of the world, but the Brooklyn collective had previously released The Secc$ Tap.e compilation earlier that year. PE is now revealing that a sequel to their debut mixtape will be released in 2014. Pro Era member A La $ole made the announcement on Twitter.
[ALSO READ: Joey Bada$$ & Akomplice Clothing Release “Two Lips” (Unreleased J Dilla Beat)]
$ECCS TAP.E PART 2WO x VALENTINE$ DAY
— $w### Corleone (@ALa_SOLE) December 25, 2013
The Secc$ Tap.e Part 2wo will be the third official mixtape from Pro Era following 2012’s P.E.E.P: The aPROcalypse. A La was recently joined by Joey and Dyemond Lewis for the new track “Sol Luna.” Pro Era also dropped a new video for the song “47 Piiirates” by the late Capital Steez.
[ALSO READ: Pro Era Release Video For Capital STEEZ’s “47 Piiirates”]
Listen to “Sol Luna” below.
Google Penalizes Rap Genius For Link Schemes
(AllHipHop News) After the lyric website Rap Genius was accused of uses link schemes to get unnatural hits, Google has apparently penalized the site. A link to “rapgenius.com” is no longer available on the first page for a Google search of “rap genius.”
Rap Genius was recently exposed as using an “affiliate program” to garnered traffic to the site. The “growth hacking” plan offered bloggers a tweet mentioning their post in exchange for back links to Rap Genius. This would help Rap Genius increase their Google search engine ranking position which is a violation of Google’s linking policy.
The founders of Rap Genius did issue a statement on the matter. Writing in part:
We’re going to be requesting that site owners take down links to Rap Genius that don’t fit well with their editorial content. Going forward, we do believe a track list widget that bloggers can embed has value, but we’ll develop one in JS rather than HTML.
Rap Genius is the product of many passionate communities collaborating to create a massive, living knowledge base for the world to enjoy. We do not want to break Google’s rules, and will do whatever it takes to learn them inside out and comply with them. Thank you very much!
Earlier this year Rap Genius was sent a take down notice by the National Music Publishers Association for publishing licensed lyrics without permission. RG later announced a licensing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing allowing them to keep up lyrics from Sony/ATV artists.
[ALSO READ: Rap Genius Announces Licensing Deal With Sony/ATV Music Publishing]
Yo Gotti Says The Music Industry Is Like "Living In A Fake World"
(AllHipHop News) During a recent interview Memphis rapper Yo Gotti expressed his feelings about being in the music industry. According to the “Act Right” performer, he is one of the few people in the business who really represents what he raps about.
[ALSO READ: Yo Gotti Teams With Rocksmith For “I AM” Clothing Collection]
“I tell my n***as, we real n***as living in a fake world,” Gotti shared with The Dope Academy’s DJ Quinn Raynor and DJ El Plaga. “You may have two n***as who suppose to be on some street s**t. You do something to me, and I do something back. Then you may press charges on me. That ain’t keeping it ‘G’.”
Yo Gotti also addresses rappers who use “fake beef” for publicity. For him, that’s not a tactic he participates in even though he has been involved in public spats. Gotti was one of the artists Gucci Mane mentioned in his infamous Twitter rant earlier this year. The two southern rappers also had issues over their mixtapes being released around the same time.
[ALSO READ: Hip-Hop Rumors: Yo Gotti Responds To Gucci Mane’s Taunts]
Gotti released his sixth studio album I Am last month. The Dope Academy Q&A session eventually led to some of the things the 32-year-old claims he is not.
“I ain’t no sucka. I ain’t no fraud. I damn sure ain’t broke. I ain’t no clown like a lot of these n***as. Money can’t make me move, so I ain’t gonna do sh*t for money,” said Gotti.
[ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: Yo Gotti Speaks on ‘I Am’ Feedback And New Hit ‘F-U’]
Watch the interview below.
Fabolous – The Hope feat. Jadakiss (P### By Araab Muzik)
Kanye West Gets Sued Over Bound 2
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West has been sued for using the sample for “Bound 2” with out permission.
Ricky Spicer of The Ponderosa Twins Plus One has filed suit against the Chicago rapper for using his vocals without his consent.
Spicer was the lead singer on the single “Bound,” which was released in the 70’s.
He is seeking unspecified damages.
Kanye West has not commented on the charges against him.
WTF News: Santa Claus Successfully Robs Florida Bank
A bank robber dressed in a Santa hat, beard and sunglasses robbed a Port Orange, Florida SunTrust bank and walked out with money, reports AP.
The man placed a package that was wrapped in gift wrap on the teller’s counter, then handed a note demanding cash and suggesting that the contents of the package were dangerous.
He was given money but the amount hasn’t been disclosed.
No one inside the bank was harmed.
Looks like he’ll be having a good Christmas. He better enjoy it while he’s still free.
Christmas Win: 2 Cent Presents Their Fifth Annual Xmas Parody
The 2 Cent Collective has been creating zany Christmas parody videos for about five years now. Today, they say Merry Christmas with their 5th annual xmas special featuring “Nicki Minaj,” “Lorde,” “Jay Z,” “Kanye West,” “Kendrick Lamar,” “Drake” and more.
Enjoy.