Monday, July 28th 2008 // The Rundown // Discuss This!, News & Gossip // 72 COMMENTS
Jay-Z recently had a few words to say on the topic of the “hood life”:
‘I think it’s more important for me to be in touch with who I am than in touch with the streets, per se,’ he says. ‘Being in touch with the streets, keeping it real, that’s become a lie and a cliche. I’m not hanging on the corner in the Bed-Stuy. I hate it when rappers say, “I’m keeping it ‘hood.” I’m like, “Why? What do you mean? No one’s there by choice! You’re in the hood, by choice?”‘
Bling he feels was misinterpreted by the media as tasteless showing off, when really it was a celebration of success by people who had enjoyed precious little of that before. ‘These people came from nothing,’ he says. ‘No-thing. The bottom. And when they got money and cars and houses it was a party. Like, us being here, at the Lanesborough, eating caviar? That just didn’t happen before. Why not celebrate that?’
Source: Guardian
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Monday, July 28th 2008 // The Rundown // News & Gossip, Say What?! // 29 COMMENTS
Trina and her boyfriend were in a car accident in Belize on Friday!
Trina and NBA player Kenyon Martin were involved in an accident last night in Belize in which two children, ages 12 and nine were injured.
According to a report by News 7 in Belize, a green minivan crashed into the passenger side of a white Excursion, which Martin and Trina were riding in.
“As we were coming down from the airport trailing behind the vehicles we see the white car that Trina and Kenyon Martin were travelling in was cutting across and the same time a green van came and they hit each other and they went straight across and one of the children nearly came out of the vehicle because of the impact,” Raymond Martin, a witness to the accident said. “It was very very hard and horrifying and hmmm, I still left stunned right now.”
The driver of the Excursion, JA Jex, suffered minor injuries.
George Abraham, the driver of the green minivan was shocked and angered after the accident took place. His eldest child, Delane had to be carried away on a stretcher. Abraham’s other son, was also hurt.
“I was on my right hand side and this vehicle overtake on this side. That guy was in the wrong in that vehicle. I was on my correct hand. Ahh my shoulder,” Abraham told News 7.
Trina and Martin left in another vehicle and were not hurt in the accident. The pair is in Belize for the weekend attending a Hip Hop peace rally and celebrity basketball game.
Source: HipHopDX
