STR8NYC.COM- All The Juice in HollyHood! » Vibe Magazine http://str8nyc.com A lil' bit Hood with a lot of Hollywood Good! Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:18:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 STR8 GLOSSY: USHER COVERS VIBE MAGAZINE! http://str8nyc.com/2010/10/05/str8-glossy-usher-covers-vibe-magazine/ http://str8nyc.com/2010/10/05/str8-glossy-usher-covers-vibe-magazine/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:06:18 +0000 Cola Janneti http://str8nyc.com/?p=42197 STR8 GLOSSY: USHER COVERS VIBE MAGAZINE!

Check out Usher on the cover of Vibe’s October/November 2010 issue. Looks like is trying to re-invent his image and regain his sex symbol status to which he lost the minute he married Tameka Foster. Check out an excerpt from the Usher’s cover story with Clover Hope below:
On Raymond V Raymond being a career rebound
“I don’t think it was a rebound at all. Some people in my organization felt like it was a rebound, but for me it was business as usual. Were there hard times in the process? Absolutely. I think it was the first time that doubt was ever amongst the opinions. Like, Can he do it again? Is it possible that this can happen? When you have 15 years of a legacy built, it shouldn’t be questionable with one album.”

Now that Usher has managed his way on to top of the charts…he can’t help but wonder do you still find Usher sexy?

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FAT JOE SAYS RICK ROSS CAN “NEVER BE BIGGIE”! http://str8nyc.com/2010/06/11/fat-joe-says-rick-ross-can-never-be-biggie/ http://str8nyc.com/2010/06/11/fat-joe-says-rick-ross-can-never-be-biggie/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:56:45 +0000 J'More http://str8nyc.com/?p=39687 FAT JOE SAYS RICK ROSS CAN “NEVER BE BIGGIE”!

Will all the talk of Teflon Don Rick Ross being compared to the legend Notorious B.I.G., Diddy stirred up more controversy after calling him “The Biggie of the South”. Vibe recently caught up with Fat Joe and asked him how he felt about Diddy dubbing his new client Rick Ross “The Biggie of the South”.

“He said that? I don’t know man. Diddy’s a smart guy and Rick Ross is smart guy, but I don’t think Ross wants to be Biggie. He can’t be Biggie. There’s no replacing Notorious. No disrespect to Ross’s talent though, because I think he’s one of the nicest rappers in the game. But they always compare new artists to the greats. I understand Diddy though, because I knew Biggie very well and I know Ross. They both are kind hearts and they have a similar aura and demeanor about them. They’re similar in that way.”

Seriously, what do Biggie and Rick Ross have in common other than the fact that they’re rappers who are fat and black. I guess I must be blind ’cause I don’t see see what Diddy’s talking about.


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STR8 GLOSSY: NICKI MINAJ COVERS VIBE MAGAZINE…IT’S BARBIE, BITCH! http://str8nyc.com/2010/06/02/str8-glossy-nicki-minaj-covers-vibe-magazine-its-barbie-bitch/ http://str8nyc.com/2010/06/02/str8-glossy-nicki-minaj-covers-vibe-magazine-its-barbie-bitch/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:50:01 +0000 LexAve http://str8nyc.com/?p=39119 STR8 GLOSSY: NICKI MINAJ COVERS VIBE MAGAZINE…IT’S BARBIE, BITCH!

Check out raps hottest chick in the game (right now), Nicki Minaj, gracing the cover of Vibe magazine’s June/July split cover issue. In the cover story Minaj gives some insight on her new found fame, female MCs before her and her weird voices.

Hold up! Did Vibe seriously coin Nicki Minaj as Hip Hop’s Superwoman?! WOW!!! Really?! Not to throw shade at fellow LAG performing arts peer but Nicki is just pure hype to me. Say what you want!


“People don’t get when you’re off, or you’re having a bad day,” she says, obliquely referring to the photograph that bounced around the blogs of her hand- in-hand with Diddy, looking especially miserable. The speculation was inevitable: Had she been crying? Was she just tired? Are they doing it?

“When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly,” she says. “The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.”

“I’m not abandoning the funny voices. I just did a crazy tribute to ODB’s ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya,’” she says, perfectly impersonating the late Wu-Clansman. “But it’s coming up more with the album. I had a teacher in elementary who would stand on her table and whisper. We’d all turn around like, ‘What is this lunatic doing?’ But she would achieve what she wanted. She wanted us to stop talking and listen. I feel like I need to mellow it down so people can hear what I have to say.”



Minaj issue hits newstands June 15th.

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STR8 GLOSSY: NICKI MINAJ DOES VIBE http://str8nyc.com/2010/05/26/str8-glossy-nicki-minaj-does-vibe/ http://str8nyc.com/2010/05/26/str8-glossy-nicki-minaj-does-vibe/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 19:56:03 +0000 J'More http://str8nyc.com/?p=38729 STR8 GLOSSY: NICKI MINAJ DOES VIBE

It’s Barbie b*tches! Vibe magazine scooped up Young Money’s first lady Nicki Minaj to grace the cover of its June/July issue. Although the cover hasn’t been revealed yet, here’s a sneak peek at what to can expect.

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STR8 BEEF: AKON CALLS CHRISTINA AGUILERA A LADY GAGA WANNABE! http://str8nyc.com/2010/04/15/str8-beef-akon-calls-christina-aguilera-a-lady-gaga-wannabe/ http://str8nyc.com/2010/04/15/str8-beef-akon-calls-christina-aguilera-a-lady-gaga-wannabe/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:53:54 +0000 J'More http://str8nyc.com/?p=36855 STR8 BEEF: AKON CALLS CHRISTINA AGUILERA A LADY GAGA WANNABE!

Looks like Akon is accusing singer Christina Aguilera of swagger jackin’! The Konvict seems to think that Lady Gaga has every chick in the game shook that they’re all trying to bite her style including Miss Aguilera. He tells Vibe magazine,

“Christina shouldn’t have anything to prove or anyone to compete with. I miss the old Christina Aguilera. I like the old one better than the new one. Honestly, Gaga and Christina could probably get together and do something that’s amazing. But that’s impossible if they are both trying to do the same exact thing musically.

And Akon is convinced Christina can’t knock Lady Gaga out of the game. He adds,

“Aw man, that’s not even any competition. You are actually giving Christina too much credit. She always had her cool little look and way about how she went about things. But soon as Gaga came out, everything switched up. Christina stepped out of her own shell to become something different. And the crazy thing is Christina is really talented. She has unlimited range when it comes to singing. Her voice is out of here. “I think sometimes she gets insecure because of all of the success Gaga has had, not realizing that she was already successful before Gaga came out.”

I can’t knock Lady GaGa’s movement, but she straight up jacked Madonna’s style. So Akon needs to #sithisassdown ’cause Lady GaGa ain’t original her damn self.


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STR8 SEXY: TREY SONGZ TOO HOT FOR VIBE! http://str8nyc.com/2010/04/10/str8-sexy-trey-songz-too-hot-for-vibe/ http://str8nyc.com/2010/04/10/str8-sexy-trey-songz-too-hot-for-vibe/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:22:05 +0000 J'More http://str8nyc.com/?p=36488 STR8 SEXY: TREY SONGZ TOO HOT FOR VIBE!

If you thought Trey Songz’ Vibe magazine cover was more than enough to drop your panties and possibly lose them in the process, well wait till you feast your eyes on the behind-the-scenes video from his shoot, as well as a few flicks that were just too HOT to print.

Peep behind-the-scenes footage of Trey’s steamy shoot…

WARNING: Press play with CAUTION!

Sidebar: Why shorty couldn’t be a sistah?

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SHOULD EVE WORRY ABOUT NICKI MINAJ AS COMPETITION?! UMMM, NOT REALLY!… http://str8nyc.com/2010/04/08/should-eve-worry-about-nicki-minaj-as-competition-ummm-not-really/ http://str8nyc.com/2010/04/08/should-eve-worry-about-nicki-minaj-as-competition-ummm-not-really/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:30:13 +0000 Lana C http://str8nyc.com/?p=36310 SHOULD EVE WORRY ABOUT NICKI MINAJ AS COMPETITION?! UMMM, NOT REALLY!…

It seems like every femcee is watching for Nicki Minaj, but Eve ain’t really worried. The former Ruff Ryder front woman, Eve seems not to be bothered by her “competitor” Nicki Minaj.  The pitbull in a skirt talked about working with Nicki while being on the set of Ludacris “That Chick” video. In a recent interview for Vibe magazine, Eve vented about Nicki saying:


“She definitely is a quirky chick. That’s a good word for her,” Eve said in an interview. “When she had the Freddy Krueger gloves I was like ‘Wow.’ But at the same time, whatever you decide to do, especially in music, you gotta go hard and own it. You can’t be timid wearing Freddy Krueger gloves in a video. If you look insecure, people are going to be like ‘Why are you doing that?’ You gotta f*cking own it and she did. I think that’s dope…Trust me, no one’s competition for me and that sounds cocky but I seriously live in such an Eve world. And not in a crazy-everything-is-me-bubble, it’s just that I’m building an empire. I go on Twitter and people say ‘Yo, knock Nicki Minaj out of the box, but ultimately we’re all helping each other and I’m happy seeing these chicks in the game. It’s too much testosterone. When I see another female, my immediate reaction is not ‘Oh I gotta go and get my sh*t right.’ I got 900 other things going on. I can’t keep worrying about what’s coming up behind me.”

Glad to see Eve ain’t stressing Nicki Minaj and her current domination. Realtalk, Eve vs Nicki…Eve will body her…rhyme for rhyme.

THOUGHTS?!

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FROM THE TWEETS…R.I.P. VIBE MAGAZINE http://str8nyc.com/2009/06/30/from-the-tweetsrip-vibe-magazine/ http://str8nyc.com/2009/06/30/from-the-tweetsrip-vibe-magazine/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:08:11 +0000 LexAve http://str8nyc.com/?p=19843 FROM THE TWEETS…R.I.P. VIBE MAGAZINE

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It all started with a rumor and was later confirmed by an assistant to EIC & Publisher of Vibe magazine. As of today, Vibe magazine will close down. Rap Radar got the official final Vibe cover, which will never see a newsstand. Check out the official statement from former CEO, Steve Aaron letting employees know of the news.

Folks on twitter where also mourning the iconic glossy.

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Aside from the loss, what’s really good The Dream and Christina Milian recreating Janet Jackson’s famous Rolling Stone cover? WTF?! Please you’re NOT on her level, so stop trying!!

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