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| MCs To Watch In 2009: Charles Hamilton Posted: 08 Jan 2009 04:58 AM PST 'As long as I'm alive, there's always going to be Charles Hamilton music,' eclectic rapper promises.
In this day and age, everyone is a rapper — and not all these rappers can actually rap. Many are trying to sell you an image on their MySpace. There's the tough guy dressed in baggy clothes. He's usually aggressively pointing toward the audience in the picture, breaking the fourth wall. There's the former/current drug dealer draped in jewels. As he holds his chains up, his smile reveals a bedazzled grill. Then, of course, you have the intellectual in black-rimmed glasses. His hands are grasped together, but he's not looking at the camera, because he's caught in introspective thought. Then there's Charles Hamilton. His MySpace page is covered with images of Sonic the Hedgehog and pink typeface. And when you make it to his music player, you realize he's actually a gifted rapper. Welcome to the Hamiltonization Process. "The Hamiltonization process is a two-month — no, it was a four-month process of introducing myself," the eclectic rapper explained to MTV News. "Basically, in four months, I did what I could do in 45 minutes if I had the JumboTron in Times Square." Over that course of time, he released eight mixtapes in rapid succession. Each mixtape chronicled who Charles Hamilton was. Whether it was The L Word, which explained how he views women, or Sonic the Hamilton, which dealt with him waking up and physically being Sonic the Hedgehog, Hamilton was determined to share his point of view with potential fans. "The whole process is for me to let other people see how I look at the world," he said. He wasn't sure how people viewed him as a rapper. He said he could be considered a passing phase, or "I could be considered the real deal." The Hamiltonization Process has been therapeutic, the up-and-comer said. While the people he's shared his story with have benefited from it, he's been just as fortunate. "I should be paying the fans for helping me in using this therapeutic art form," he said. The process helped him reveal some intense things about his past, including drug abuse and being homeless in New York. He said he's thankful for the acclaim, but he's happy to be alive and making music. "As long as I'm alive, there's always going to be Charles Hamilton music," he insisted. "Whether it's a song, or you just sitting next to me hearing me humming somebody else's song, there's always going to be Charles Hamilton's spin on music." Check out Asher Roth, Wale and B.o.B. in our "MCs to Watch in '09" series, and come back Friday for our final artist, Kid Cudi. Related Videos Related Artists |
| Aubrey O'Day Talks About Her Future With 'Making The Band' Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:47 AM PST 'I think there's a lot of misconceptions based off of Puff's portrayal of me as a person,' former Danity Kane star says.
In October, Diddy very publicly kicked Aubrey O'Day out of Danity Kane during the season finale of "Making the Band." It had many fans wondering if O'Day would be back for another season of the show — but for now, O'Day says she doesn't see it in the cards. "You never know if I'll be involved in the new season, but as of now, no," she told MTV News. "I'd really like to just move past 'Making the Band' and start making my own career. But you never know."
While she's continued to make headlines with talk about her sexuality and rumors of a Playboy pictorial, her musical plans for the new year are more vague, so making a cameo on the show that made her a star may not be completely out of the question. "I have love and respect for the entire situation and if I should need to go back and give a little love and respect to 'Making the Band,' then so be it," she said. O'Day admitted that she misses her former bandmates. "I'm sad," she said. "I think that Danity Kane is an amazing group and I think that we made amazing music. We had great albums." She added that things that might not have made it into the show or into headlines made it difficult for the group to go on as it was. "There's always tons that goes on behind the scenes and that's usually the part that matters most. "There's not much you can do about that situation," she added. "Puff needed to do what's best for him, and so now it's my time to do what's best for me." And that may mean trying to change some perceptions of her. She said she feels Diddy may have had the wrong impression, and now that she's on her own she can show people who she really is. "I think there's a lot of misconceptions based off of Puff's portrayal of me as a person, that I'm trying to be this or trying to be that," she said. "I'm not trying to be anything." We'll have lots more from our interview with Aubrey O'Day in the coming days — and be sure to check back on Wednesday the 14th, when we'll have some big news! Related Artists |
| Asher Roth Helps Subdue Would-Be Plane-Bomber Posted: 07 Jan 2009 04:04 AM PST MC and his bandmates are among passengers who helped restrain man who claimed he had a bomb.
Asher Roth has had quite a week, and not just because he was named one of our "MCs to Watch in 2009": On Wednesday (January 7), he and several fellow passengers subdued a man who claimed he had a bomb and assaulted at least one crew member of a Delta Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles from Atlanta, his publicist confirmed to MTV News. According to The Associated Press, FBI spokesperspon Laura Eimiller said the man announced he had a bomb as the plane was landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The man "lunged for one of the doors" once the flight had landed, but according to Roth's rep, the MC's guitarist, Chris Llewellyn, was the first to tackle the man, and Roth and other fellow passengers joined in. Crew members then bound the man with plastic ties, according to the AP. Llewellyn remained behind to talk to the FBI, his rep said, while Roth rushed to make his call time for his appearance on "Last Call With Carson Daly." The man was detained by FBI agents and the Los Angeles airport police, and could face federal and state charges, according to the AP. Eimiller said that he was currently being interviewed by authorities, but his motive and mental state were not immediately clear. She said no bomb was found, although the plane and the man's baggage were searched for explosives. |
| Fall Out Boy Fall Out With <i>Blender</i> Magazine Over 'Sensationalist' Cover Story Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:50 AM PST 'We stand by our reporting,' magazine responds.
Fall Out Boy are quite happy to be the cover stars of the February issue of Blender magazine. The article that accompanies that cover? Well, let's just say they have a slightly different opinion of that. "The Blender article is pure bullsh--," FOB drummer Andy Hurley wrote on his Twitter account late Tuesday. "It's sensationalist bullsh-- made up to sell a story. It's [full of] out-of-context quotes." So what seems to be the problem? In addition to the "out-of-context" quotes, the band — or, more specifically, Hurley and frontman Patrick Stump — seems to have two main issues with the Blender story, which hits newsstands on January 13. The first is the tone of the piece, which paints bassist Pete Wentz as a paranoid, pill-popping narcissist. The second is the fact that writer Josh Eells included several scenes that, according to Hurley and Stump, never happened. Take, for example, Eells' first meeting with Hurley, which takes place in a dressing room on the set of the "America's Suitehearts" video. Eells writes that Hurley is watching a Green Bay Packers game and "feeling suicidal" because his beloved team is losing. According to the article, when kicker Mason Crosby misses a game-winning field goal, Hurley "slams his iPhone onto the table, gets up and, without a word, starts punching the metal door frame, and doesn't stop for 45 seconds." Of course, Hurley maintains that never happened. "I never hit a door for 45 seconds. I may have been yelling, like all my friends and I do, but if I did anything that crazy, it was as a joke," Hurley wrote. "That is total bullsh--. I wound never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time. Yeah, I'm totally going to kill myself over a football game." Stump, for his part, seems less angered by the Blender piece as he is bemused by it, particularly a section in which Eells quotes the FOB frontman as saying that he decided to quit the band after a fight with Wentz in Australia. "Did I quit the band? Did I say what appeared in the article? Of course. But followed immediately by it was something to the tune of this: I quit, until I started writing my solo songs and I realized how much I need him. My songs sucked without Pete and they were less fun to write," Stump wrote MTV News in an e-mail. "I love the guy, he's my best friend, and I realized that for all the decisions I'd ever gotten mad at him about, I likely would've done exactly the same in his position. I quit the band (as we all have, by the way, that's part of being in bands) and when I returned I resolved to keep doing this as long as all four of us were having fun." Stump also said that while his quotes were taken out of context (or, as he put it, "spliced"), the thing that bugged him the most about the piece was the writer's portrayal of Wentz. "As for the article, as I had hinted at before, I found it an objectively well-written (if plotless) thing ... It's an entertaining article that manages to take its hero from the heights of superstardom to the depths of narcissism," he wrote. "But it never redeems him and it does so at the cost of fact. [Plus], at the end of both my and [guitarist] Joe [Trohman]'s quotes you can almost hear the context fading in the distance ... If only we had had that media training! We would know how better to fabricate pull quotes!" Wentz and Trohman did not respond to requests for comment on the article. When reached for a comment on the band's accusations, a spokesperson for Blender told MTV News, "We stand by our reporting. Anyone who reads the entire article will see that it is not only fair but essentially positive." This is the second time in less than a year that a Blender cover star has taken issue with the magazine's reporting. In a May 2008 feature on Alicia Keys, the singer was quoted as saying that gangsta rap was a ploy created by the government "to convince black people to kill each other" and that "Tupac and Biggie were essentially assassinated." Keys issued a statement saying that her comments were "misrepresented" and that the magazine portrayed her in a manner that was "too radical and too dramatic a departure from whom I have continually demonstrated myself to be." Related Artists |
| Soulja Boy Tell'em Gets Animated In New Cartoon Series Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:50 AM PST Online show co-stars "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" sidekick Alfonso Ribeiro.
Following in the hallowed tradition of MC Hammer's "Hammerman" cartoon, Soulja Boy Tell'em has launched his own animated series, titled ... what else? "Soulja Boy Tell'em: The Animated Series." Combining live-action and throwback animation, the first episode of the online series finds a cartoon SJB performing at a talent show and cruising around town in his signature Segway — which, in the 'toon world, is improbably pimped out with a sidecar. (Check out a review of Soulja's cartoon over in the Newsroom.) As in real life, everything the "Bird Walk" rapper does is taped by a member of his posse, and the 2-D MC — forced to return to high school in the midst of his superstardom — is obsessed with haters who disrespect him despite his mountain of ringtone sales. The real-life co-star of the first episode is none other than "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" sidekick Alfonso Ribeiro (a.k.a. the uptight Carlton Banks), who plays the role of the, well, uptight principal of the school. "Of course, Soulja Boy, with the help of his animated friends, is continually doing whatever he can to get out of his daily school routine," reads a description of the series from SJB's Web site. "The school's principal ... is always hot on Soulja Boy's heels to keep him in line." The debut is essentially a music video for the tune "Soulja Boy Tell'em," from the rapper's latest album, iSouljaBoyTellem. It will apparently serve as the theme song for what is promised to be a regular online series created by Buddy System Studios, which previously worked on "Robot Chicken." "I always wanted to do a cartoon since I was younger," the rapper said in a statement announcing the project. "I am excited, because I think that the subject matter will give my fans what they would expect from me." Future episodes will be available at Tellem.TV. Related Artists |
| New Year's Resolutions Of The Stars (Not Really), In <i>Bigger Than The Sound</i> Posted: 07 Jan 2009 12:18 AM PST Britney Spears eyes a new 'comeback,' Lil Wayne promises consciousness and more fictional 2009 plans.
New Year's resolutions are meant to be broken. I think I've busted about 13 of them already, and 2009 is just seven days old (damn you, GamblersPalace.com!). Still, that doesn't stop everyone from making them — stars included.
So, in order to make you feel a little less upset about blowing off the gym this week (and every week for the remainder of the year), I dug through my MTV Rolodex and contacted some of the biggest names in music and popular culture to see what their resolutions were. Some of the responses I got seemed a little odd — I'm looking at you, Britney — while others were downright refreshing in their honesty. (Of course, all of them are completely fictional, but don't let that distract you.) The point is, these stars are daring to dream big in 2009, regardless of how much it will hurt when they fail. So grab that fourth slice of leftover fruitcake. Polish off that bottle of champagne. Pledge to be guilt-free in 2009. Because after reading some of the resolutions below, there's no way you'll ever feel sorry for yourself again. Happy New Year, indeed. Britney Spears Lil Wayne Aubrey O'Day The Remaining Members of Danity Kane Kanye West T-Pain Joe Jonas Bill Kaulitz Pete Wentz Beyoncé Katy Perry Axl Rose Heidi Montag Spencer Pratt Mariah Carey Ben Gibbard 50 Cent Questions? Concerns? Hit me up at BTTS@MTVStaff.com. Related Videos Related Artists |
| Cindy Crawford Doesn't Ban 'Hannah Montana,' Rep Insists Posted: 07 Jan 2009 01:26 AM PST Rep says stories that the model won't let her 7-year-old watch the show are false.
Much like Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato before her, Cindy Crawford wants everyone to know that she has no beef with "Hannah Montana," or, for that matter, with the show's star Miley Cyrus, despite what you may have read online. Early Tuesday morning, several Web sites published a quote in which Crawford allegedly told the press that she didn't allow her daughter, Kaya Jordan Gerber, 7, to watch the widely popular Disney series, because it taught her to be "sassy." "I love Hannah Montana, but [my daughter] learns to be sassy from that show," she was quoted as saying in a story posted on AceShowbiz.com and other sites. "I'll say to her, 'I don't let anyone talk to me like that. I'll certainly not take it from a 7-year-old in my own house.'" When reached for comment, Crawford's rep told MTV News that the statement was untrue and that Crawford has no issue with the show. "I don't know where this quote came from. It doesn't sound like Cindy," the rep said. "I just spoke to Cindy, and she said that she is a fan of 'Hannah Montana,' and she has taken her daughter to multiple shows." With that out of the way, maybe the Crawford clan will be rooting for Cyrus this Sunday, when the 16-year-old is up for a Golden Globe for her "Bolt" song "I Thought I Lost You." And if Cindy and Kaya really are fans, they'll get to enjoy more "Hannah Montana" in 2009, both on the small and big screens, and more Miley, as young star starts to expand into other movie roles. No word yet on how many of those will be sassy. Related Artists |
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