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November 9, 2007
VH1 Storytellers Jay-Z: Life of an American Gangster RECAP!
L'Chaim, fam!
Dressed simply in a black leather jacket, black tee, and black Yankees cap, Jay-Z tipped off the end of what could be known as "Jigga Week" with the airing of his VH1 Storytellers: Life of an American Gangster special. Backed by a 12 piece band at Steiner Studios, Jay broke down the basics of the album from his point of view, "from Genesis to the Rise to the Demise" of the young hustler. During the show, there were also pics of different iconic places in Brooklyn projected onto screens.
Aight, now that we got all of the specifics out of the way...
Did anyone actually catch this special? If you didn't, then you missed out.
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Written by SOHH Breezy on November 9, 2007 8:30 AM
April 1, 2008
Snoop "Seduces" VH1 Storytellers With Hits From The Past, The Present, and Everybody He Knows
He may not have been the first rapper to stage– but unlike his predecessors (Jay-Z and Wyclef Jean), Snoop Dogg was the first to Crip Walk across it– and he damn sure was the first to have his own custom made “DOGG” mic for the special.
Yes– It was The Dogg’s turn to entice a select audience of the stories behind his music of the past and present. Honestly, I thought the entire special was okay. He did have some shoes to fill due to the fact that the Jay-Z “American Gangster” airing was kind of a BFD at the time, but that was probably because we saw a different side of Jay-Z that the public eye rarely gets to see; while we are all aware that Doggy Dogg has at least some sort of personality.
ANYWAY– that’s neither here nor there.
Although I wasn’t horribly moved by it, there were some highlights to checking out this entire thing, some of which made me even open my Limewire iTunes program to download some songs I previously thought I had in my collection.
To pop things off, Snoop brought out Too $hort and Mistah F.A.B. to perform a joint off of Ego Trippin’ called “Life of The Party” (which at air time is the only current embeddable video circulating the ‘Net.) It’s funny that he says his main reason for doing the song was because his kids thought he did “old people music... [and] not music to make the kids dance.” Weird, how many 10-14 year old girls do you know that DIDN"T try to “drop it like it's hot" when the song came out?
As of air date, that's the only embeddable image circulating the 'Net, but feel free to check the next page for HIGHLIGHTS from the special...
Written by SOHH Breezy on April 1, 2008 10:00 AM