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T.I. and Ludacris Set to Headline “2012 Atlanta Music Midtown Festival” This September

By: JP DelaCuesta (@JPdelacuesta) Updated Category: News
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(AllHipHop News) Organizers for the 2012 Music Midtown Festival have announced T.I. and Ludacris as participating headliners for their two-day event, to take place on September 21-22 at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia.

T.I. will be one of the headliners on Saturday, September 21, along with indie rock band The Avett Brothers and the 11-time Grammy Award-winning Foo Fighters.

Ludacris will headline on Sunday, September 22, along with Pearl Jam, mash-up DJ Girl Talk, and Florence + the Machine.

Others acts slated to hit the stage over the course of the festival include Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Van Hunt, Civil Twilight, O’Brother, and LP.

The Music Midtown Festival was first held in 1994 and for the next 11 years, until 2005, when organizers put the festival on a hiatus due to declining attendance and ticket sales. The festival was relaunched last year as a successful one-day concert, and will return this September as a two-day event.

Tickets can be purchased beginning on April 28 at 12PM as part of a limited-time-only “early-bird special” – one-day passes are $55 and two-day passes are $100, and will increase to $65 and $120, respectively. V.I.P. and Super V.I.P. tickets will also be available for purchase.

For tickets and more information, visit MusicMidtown.com

Daily Word: Make Progress!!!

By: seandrasims Updated Category: Lifestyle
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Happy Wins-Day, my dreamers and doers!

Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to making progress. Yesterday, I was talking to one of my mentees about life and its meaning, and during our conversation, we began to talk about purpose and progress. The conversation started because every time we speak and I ask him how everything is going, he always says…”Same ol’, Same ol'”.

Normally, I accept this as a greeting, but for some reason it stuck out to me yesterday! As we continued to converse, my concentration was on the greeting, and in my mind, I thought, “Why are we satisfied with the same old things every single day?”…

What I realized is that to many life is a routine. We live and try to survive and are of the thought process that if it ain’t broke, then we aren’t going to fix it! The problem with that type of thinking is that you close yourself to all the good that life has to offer! Essentially by keeping things the same, what we are saying to ourselves is that we are OK with the bare minimum!

Life is abundant and life is progress!! The only place that it is OK to stay the same is in the cemetery! We must immediately get out of the habit of letting life just past us by and taking it as it comes! We are the creators! We must be constantly creating and making our lives better by maximizing our full potential! STOP STANDING STILL AND MAKE PROGRESS!! And when I say progress, I mean not being in the same place… Many people mistake motion for progress but if you’re moving and not going anywhere, you are still standing still!! Live life to the fullest!! NOTHING CAN STOP YOU BUT YOU!!
-Ash’Cash

“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” -Alfred A. Montapert

“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” -Shirley Hufsteddler

“Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” -Frederick Wilcox

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” -Unknown

“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.” -Tom Krause

“Doing nothing gets you nothing.” -Sean Reichle

“Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow.” -Unknown

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg.” -Unknown

TO HEAR THE AUDIO VERSION OF THE DAILY WORD – CLICK HERE.

Ash’Cash is a Business Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Financial Expert and the author of Mind Right, Money Right: 10 Laws of Financial Freedom. For more information, please visit his website, www.IamAshCash.com.

Lawyers For Kris Humpries Believe Kanye’s Relationship With Kim A Sham

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: News
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(AllHipHop News) Kanye West’ swipe at basketball star Kris Humphries on the track “Way Too Cold” could come back to haunt his new love Kim Kardashian – in court.

Lawyers for Kris Humphries will challenge Kim Kardashian’s relationship with rapper Kanye West, in Humphries upcoming divorce case against Kardashian.

RadarOnline.com reports that Kris Humphries’ lawyers will attempt to prove that Kim’s relationship with Kanye is simply a publicity stunt.

Lawyers for the Brooklyn Nets basketball star claim that Kim has already broken her promise not to reveal details of her love life publicly.

This is important, because Kris Humphries claims his wedding was a sham and that Kim married him for publicity reasons.

Kris’ lawyers decided to pounce, after E! cameras were spotted filming Kanye and Kim at dinner on Monday (April 23) during the opening of restaurant RYU, in New York City.

“The crux of Kris’ case for annulment is that Kim married him under fraudulent pretenses and did it for her reality show. Team Humphries wants to know if producers of the Kardashian reality shows were in contact with Kanye West prior to the new couple dating or going public with their relationship and what those conversations consisted of,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. “When did Kim develop romantic feelings for Kanye and why after publicly stating she wouldn’t feature any future romantic relationships on her reality shows, did she do a complete 360?”

Kris Humphries is also suing the reality star for $10 million dollars, in addition seeking an annulment of their 72-day marriage.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Did French Montana Bring Ma$e Out Of Retirement?

By: ginatorres27 Updated Category: Rumors
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It looks like Bad Boy artist French Montana is the person responsible for bringing Ma$e backbout of retirement for the second time. Ma$e called the Funk Master Flex Show on HOT 97 last night and gave all praise to Frenchie for calling him up to be a part of Wale’s “Slight Work” remix.

In the interview, Ma$e also speaks about his reasoning behind his retirement 13 years ago, his beef with Jay-Z, why he didn’t sign with G-Unit, and the rumors about signing with MMG. Check out the full interview here.

HEATER OF THE DAY: Playboy Tre [BGA] Ft. P Dukes, Bobby Creekwater, Jarren Benton, Homebwoi and Bohagon “Shot of Rum”

By: Steve Raze (@SteveRaze) Updated Category: Breeding Ground
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Twenty Years After the Brutality, Rodney King Unleashes “The Riot Within” On AllHipHop.com

By: seandrasims Updated Category: Features
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In 1991, Rodney King was just another young, Black man living in Los Angeles – a product of the early Hip-Hop era who had experienced hard times growing up like so many of his peers.

In the wee hours of March 3, 1991, King’s life changed forever. Following a night of heavy drinking with a friend, and after being pursued in a high-speed chase by the California Highway Patrol, he was pulled over and was to be placed under arrest.

What happened next is videotaped history.

Afterwards, the rioting and flames that engulfed L.A. on April 29, 1992, after the shocking acquittal of the police who brutalized him, changed that city and the world forever. It’s been 20 years since then, and now King is read to tell his story, “in his own words”, as he puts it.

Read a snippet of our interview with Rodney King, and check below it for a free, sneak peek chapter from his new book, “The Riot Within”:

AllHipHop.com: So, right off the bat, I know you’re promoting a book right now called “The Riot Within”. I wanted to ask you about the title – is this more of a personal book about your life, or does it make parallels to the incidents from 20 years ago?

Rodney King: Yes, it’s both – about my life and the incident 20 years ago also.

AllHipHop.com: So, does it tell us about Rodney King before the incident? Will we get a sense of you and your childhood, things like that?

Rodney King: Yeah, it does go into my childhood…

AllHipHop.com: OK, “The Riot Within” kinda sounds like you’re still in some internal turmoil, Rodney. Why are you releasing the book now – other than the obvious reason that we’re here at the 20th anniversary?

Rodney King: Because it’s time. It’s been 20 years, and with all of the things that’s going on today, I thought that it would be a good time for it to come out. You know, and just to show that we can all get to know each other better through reading…reading my book and seeing what type of person I am, how I was raised, where I come from, and what kind of background this, this particular American Negro has been through.

And, also to show how race relations can improve. People can get to know me through my book, you know what I mean? Maybe it will change someone’s mind about how they look at another person. Maybe another person somewhere down the road won’t get stereotyped – just because he’s Black.

It’s just a wonderful thing for me to be alive and to even be able to put a book out like this after going through a police brutality case. Twenty, 30, 40, 50 years ago, I probably wouldn’t have been alive to even write a book, so it’s a good thing that I’m not living in the ‘30s or ‘40s, and time has moved on.

There are Civil Rights people who came before me who died for our rights back in the day. They made room for me to even sit down and be able to write a book. All of the work they did back in the day – they didn’t die in vain for it. I am a survivor of that brutality, and that police beating back then, and truthfully, Civil Rights Movement made a way for me, and made it so I can write a book and have a story, so people can read about me – in my own words.

AllHipHop.com: It’s really good to hear that there are some lessons in it that you can impart to others…

CLICK HERE TO READ CHAPTER 1 OF RODNEY KING’S “THE RIOT WITHIN”

Come back for more of our emotional interview with Rodney King later this week, as we pause to remember the 20th anniversary of the L.A. Riots. “The Riot Within” is available on Amazon or in stores now.