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Self-Promotion

October 24th, 2005
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Self Promotion

We at Gossiping Bitches have always been critical of hip-hop, causing several readers to write us saying things like “why don’t you do it yourself, if you’re so smart?” Well, we are so smart and have indeed decided to start doing it ourselves. That’s right, we have joined the ranks of media companies with their own record labels — because it’s not enough to just report on hip-hop from an objective point of view, we have to be part of the action too! It is this very spirit of selling out that is at the heart (or lack thereof) of the first GB Records release, “Self-Promotion.”

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Common: “I’m not gay! No, really.”

May 10th, 2005
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In what some are calling a publicity stunt and others are calling a beard, bohemian rapper Common (Sense) today held a press conference to come out as a heterosexual. The announcement comes on the eve of the release of his new album Be, the follow-up to the universally hated and ?uest-loved Electric Circus. Taking a […]

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GB New Artist Spotlight: M.I.A.

February 14th, 2005
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Every so often, the GBs like to give some shine to those struggling artists who don’t have the luxury of the media hype machine (i.e. The Man) puffing them up to ridiculous heights that no one could live up to. There’s a whole world of untapped, unnoticed talent out there just waiting for some kind […]

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Newsflash – Cam’Ron’s 2003 Pink SUV on EBAY

January 20th, 2004
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Cam’Ron’s 2003, pink Range Rover is currently up for bids on auction website, eBay. At the time of press, the sports utility vehicle (SUV) was still at its original starting bid price of $180,000. This news comes hot on the heels of our story earlier this morning regarding Cam’Ron’s latest exploits in Metrosexuality with clothing […]

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Armani, Hip Hoppers Embrace ‘Metrosexual’ Fashion

January 20th, 2004
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Little Italy, NYC — Giorgio Armani summed up the five days of menswear preview showings for Fall-Winter 2004: dressing a man who dares to show tenderness. Popular rapper and aspiring actor, Cam’Ron strutted his stuff on the catwalk, in what Giorgio Armani is labeling, ‘Metrosexual Fashion Season’. “Metrosexual” is the name invented for a man […]

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T-Shirts Plight Philadelphia Youth Sexuality

October 2nd, 2003
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In Philadelphia, young urban male teenagers are struggling to come to grips with their sexuality as many adorn long, white t-shirts that resemble dresses. What started as a popular trend a few years ago, the “white t-shirt phenomenon” as it has been coined, has spiraled out of control according to many parents in the metro […]

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Backroom Whispers

July 11th, 2003
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We all should’ve seen this one coming: in a marriage of low-selling gangstas and high-selling homo-thugs, Murder Inc. and Death Row or Tha Row or whatever it is Suge wants it to be called this week are joining forces to form a superlabel called Murderer’s Row. It looks like mutual hate of Dr. Dre and mutual desire to pump Tupac’s corpse for more cash is enough to land a major distribution deal with Sony. The first single on the new vanity label, “Lead Poisoning” by Ja Rule and Crooked I (with Ashanti and her pitch-shifter singing the hook) is sure to have screaming 12-year-old girls rocking red bandannas in no time.

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