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Watch Drake’s Hour-Long Interview with Jian Ghomeshi

RESPECT. Staff — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:23:13 +0000

Because this is the year of the hour-long interview, back home in Canada, Drake sat down with CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi for an in-depth, personal interview. Drake touches on everything from his father instilling music in him, his relationship to his country, the misconception of his upbringing, the dichotomy in his music and much more. Watch it all below.

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New Music: Mac Miller & Most Dope – “No Photos”

RESPECT. Staff — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:43:20 +0000

Mac Miller channels his alter-ego Larry Fisherman for the posse cut “No Photos.” The track is fourteen minuted long and features his Most Dope crew members Bill The Kid, Franchise, Willy Whip$, Vinny Radio, Peanut, G-Reg, Big Homie, Q, Treejay & The Cigarillos, Goldie Glocks, Clockwork, and babyscumbag. Larry Fisherman not only spits on the track; he also produced it.

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Today’s NY Post Profiles Q from WorldStarHipHop: “He has full-time security and stays in four-star hotels.”

RESPECT. Staff — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:35:14 +0000

It’s the YouTube of urban antics — and a formerly homeless ninth-grade dropout from Queens is the mogul behind it.

Hollis native Lee “Q” O’Denat makes sure WorldStarHipHop.com is “real, raw and uncut” — and peppered with such videos as one of cops grinding with near-naked dancers at the West Indian Day Parade.

Millions check in on the site each month to view the latest rap videos and such scenes as a woman dancing near a Bronx chicken joint with her bra outside her shirt or one stripping naked on a Bronx sidewalk.

Catfights are really popular. A June brawl at Downtown Brooklyn’s Pathmark shows women tearing off each other’s wigs.

“It’s not sugarcoated,” said O’Denat, 37.

Launched in 2005, the gritty page has become the 259th most popular in the nation, according to Alexa, a Web site-ranking service. It had 4.9 million unique US visitors last month, up 27 percent from a year ago, say comScore analysts.

O’Denat, a father of three and now in Arizona, would not discuss earnings but has full-time security and stays in four-star hotels, not bad for a kid who left Grover Cleveland HS, lost his home and lived out of his car.

He launched his site to stream video submissions just after YouTube kicked off in ’05. It had netted 142 million page views by last month, comScore reports.

“People,” O’Denat said, “relate to the realness.”

Via NY Post, “From HS dropout to online sensation”

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