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Wiz Khalifa - Work Hard, Play Hard

Wiz Khalifa has premiered the music video for 'Work Hard Play Hard', the official first single lifted off the rapper's upcoming sophomore album "O.N.I.F.C" to be released in stores on August 28 (Atlantic Records)...Watch below! The catchy urban track was produced by hit-makers Benny Blanco and Stargate.

FLASH BACK- IF YOU DONT Evelyn "Champagne" King, NOW YOU KNOW

Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love."

Evelyn King was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her uncle Avon Long had played the part of Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess and worked with Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Her father sang back-up for groups at Harlem's Apollo Theater.

She was discovered as a young woman while working with her mother at Philadelphia International Records as an office cleaner. Producer Theodore T. Life overheard her singing in a washroom and began coaching her. She was eventually signed to a production deal with Life's Galaxy Productions and a recording contract with RCA Records.^[1]

Background information

King released her debut album, Smooth Talk, in 1977. The album included the song "Shame", which is her only top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #9. The song also reached #7 R&B and #8 on the dance chart. The record was eventually certified gold. Another single from that album, "I Don't Know If It's Right", peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 R&B. This would become her second certified gold single. In 1981, the single "I'm in Love" was released from the same-titled album. It reached #1 on the R&B singles chart and dance chart in August of that year. It also peaked at #40 on the pop charts.

In 1982, King released the album, Get Loose. It yielded a top twenty pop and #1 R&B hit with the single, "Love Come Down". The song also peaked at #1 on the dance charts and reached the UK Singles Chart top ten, peaking at #7 for three weeks. The follow-up, "Betcha She Don't Love You," peaked at #2 on the R&B chart and #49 on the pop chart. From the mid- to late 1980s, King would continue to chart on the R&B charts, placing eight singles in the R&B top twenty, with three making it to the top ten.

On September 20, 2004, King's "Shame" became one of the first records to be inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York's Spirit club.

                            

On August 14, 2007, King released her first studio album in 12 years, Open Book. It featured the single "The Dance," which peaked at #12 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

In 2011, King also collaborated with deep house DJ Miguel Migs, on the track "Everybody", which was included on his album Outside the Skyline. The single for "Everybody" was released on July 19, 2011.

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WHO IS Karolina the King "Available on Amazon"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

As South Carolina, continues to break into the mainstream of the music scenes, where rap is increasing by the day. South Carolina’s next artist to emerge from this sizzling state is hip hop artist Karolina the King he is making some major moves towards success, with his hit single “Super Fly” Off mix-tape “Groomed For Greatness”.

At just the age of 16 was when he made his first professional appearance into the music business, the young man of Varnville (Da-Ville) South Carolina was inspired by all the music he came into contact with by both major and local artist. He began making a name for himself on the local music scenes, performing live shows and getting his own CDs duplicated. His determination and well articulated lyrics caught the attention of a local record store owner (Spinbad Records & Moore) 

Johnny Moore, who would later become a strong adviser and mentor in his music career. Shortly after Mr. Moore helped him get into a professional studio, the artist found himself in some trouble with the law. This prevented him from being able to record for awhile. After a year and half of dealing with the court system, Karolina returned from his hiatus, but to a new found home this would be Charleston, SC, where he currently resides.

Karolina continued to record and perform, he fine-tuned his craft on local crowds, and set his sights on putting together an Entertainment company (Triniboy Entertainment) named in honor of his father's heritage "Trinidadian”. This plan would call for a team, the roster consist of Three people his wife Danielle who wears many hats in the business, a close and dear childhood friend Lonzo as the Graphic designer/Creative Director  and Karolina The King ARTIST/C.E.O/Promoter. Together they put "Karolina the Kings" freshmen mix-tape labeled "Groomed for Greatness" together. This was digitally released January 5th 2012.

                           

CEO/Hip-Hop Artist

Karolina The King

phone 843.367.7696  -  email triniboyent@yahoo.com / triniboyent@inbox.com

GOOD COPS, BAD COPS Police Brutality!! Caught on Tape!!

IS IT JUSTIFIABLE? ONE COULD SAY COPS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERYDAY TO PROTECT AND SERVE. BUT IS IT PROTECT AND SERVE IF YOU ARE ON THE RECEIVING END OF A FRESH ASS WHOOPING IF APPROACH BY AN OFFICER WHO IS HAVING A BAD DAY.  EDUCATE YOURSELF

Dirty Dave w/ Mally Racks, Mike Jones, DjDrama, BoomMan , etc at Mayfest 2012 in Augusta, GA--Performing "I got a SACK" Live

JAY-Z, KANYE WEST AND RICK ROSS MENTIONS BASQUIAT. WHO IS Jean-Michel Basquiat

Graffiti, Neo-expressionism, Contemporary art

Biography

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York.  His father, Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and his mother, Matilde was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. Early on, Basquiat displayed a proficiency in art which was encouraged by his mother. In 1977, Basquiat, along with friend Al Diaz begins spray painting cryptic aphorisms on subway trains and around lower Manhattan and signing them with the name SAMO©  (Same Old Shit).  "SAMO© as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics, and bogus philosophy," "SAMO© saves idiots," "Plush safe he think; SAMO© ."

In 1978 Basquiat left home for good and quit school just one year before graduating form high school. He lived with  friends and began selling hand painted postcards and T-shirts.  In June of 1980, Basquiat's art was publicly exhibited for the first time in a show sponsored by Colab (Collaborative Projects Incorporated) along with the work of Jenny Holzer, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, Kiki Smith, Robin Winters, John Ahearn, Jane Dickson, Mike Glier, Mimi Gross, and David Hammons. Basquiat continued to exhibit his work around New York City and in Europe, participating in shows along with the likes of Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger. 

In December of 1981, poet and artist Rene Ricard published the first major article on Basquiat entitled "The Radiant Child" in Artforum.  In 1982, Basquiat was featured in the group show "Transavanguardia: Italia/America" along with Neo-Expressionists Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzu Cucchi, David Deutsch, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel (who will go on to direct the biographical film Basquiat in 1996). In 1983 Basquiat had one-artist exhibitions at the galleries of Annina Nosei and Larry Gagosian and was also included in the "1983 Biennial Exhibition" at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was also in 1983 that Basquiat was befriended by Andy Warhol, a relationship which sparked discussion concerning white patronization of black art, a conflict which remains, to this day, at the center of most discussions of Basquiat's life and work. Basquiat and Warhol collaborated on a number of paintings, none of which are are critically acclaimed.  Their relationship continued, despite this, until Warhol's death in 1987. 

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By 1984, many of Basquiat's friends had become quite concerned about his excessive drug use, often finding him unkempt and in a state of paranoia.  Basquiat's paranoia was also fueled by the very real threat of people stealing work from his apartment and of art dealers taking unfinished work from his studio.  On February 10, 1985,  Basquiat appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine, posing for the Cathleen McGuigan article "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist."  In March , Basquiat had his second one-artist show at the Mary Boone Gallery.  In the exhibition catalogue, Robert Farris Thompson spoke of Basquiat's work in terms of an Afro-Atlantic tradition, a context in which this art had never been discussed. 

In 1986, Basquiat travelled to Africa for the first time and his work was shown in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. In November, a large exhibition of more than sixty paintings and drawings opened at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover; at twenty-five Basquiat was the youngest artist ever given an exhibition there. In 1988, Basquiat had shows in both Paris and New York; the New York show was praised by some critics, an encouraging development.  Basquiat attempted to kick his heroin addiction by leaving the temptations of New York for his ranch in Hawaii.  He returned to New York in June claiming to be drug-free.  On August 12 , Basquiat died as the result of a heroin overdose. He was 27.

Primary source for biography:
Sirmans, M. Franklin. "Chronology." Jean-Michel Basquiat. Ed. Richard Marshall. New York: Whitney/Abrams, 1992. 233-250.

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From Street to Studio
Basquiat once told an interviewer, "Since I was seventeen, I thought I might be a star." As a teenager, he plunged into the emerging eighties art scene. He met artists and celebrities at the Mudd Club; appeared on Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, a television show about the downtown scene; and starred in a low-budget film, Downtown 81 (New York Beat), based on his own life. All the time, he was also making art: hitting downtown Manhattan buildings with spray-painted aphorisms, selling hand-painted T-shirts and collages on the streets, and making drawings. His big break came in 1980, when critics singled out his work at the Times Square Show, an exhibition showcasing young New York artists. He finally got a studio in 1981, when his first New York dealer, Annina Nosei, invited him to paint in the basement of her gallery.

Until then, he had little money to buy supplies, so he painted on window frames, cabinet doors, even football helmets—whatever he could find. After Basquiat began to make money, the quality of his art materials improved. Even so, throughout his career he often chose to paint on rough, handmade supports and intentionally pursued the awkward look of outsider art.

Legacy

Untitled acrylic, oilstick, and spray paint on canvas, 1981

In 1996, seven years after his death, a biopic titled Basquiat was released, directed by Julian Schnabel, with actor Jeffrey Wrightplaying Basquiat. David Bowie played the part of Andy Warhol. Schnabel purchased the rights to the project after being interviewed, as a personal acquaintance of Basquiat, during its script development and realizing that he could do a better film.^[32]

In 1991, poet Kevin Young produced a book, To Repel Ghosts, a compendium of 117 poems relating to Basquiat’s life, individual paintings, and social themes found in the artist’s work. He published a “remix” of the book in 2005.^[33]

In 2005, poet M.K. Asante, Jr. published the poem "SAMO," dedicated to Basquiat, in his book Beautiful. And Ugly Too.

A 2009 documentary film, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, directed by Tamra Davis, was first screened as part of the 2010Sundance Film Festival and was shown on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2011.^[24]

In 2011, MC/poet/hip hop producer Ohini Jonez released a piece called "Basquiat (PBUH)" on Tumblr to widespread online acclaim.

Both Jay-Z and Kanye West made reference to Basquiat on their 2011 collaborative album "Watch The Throne". In "Illest Motherfucker Alive", Jay-Z raps "Basquiats, Warhols serving as my muses".