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New Music: Chris Brown (F/ Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz) - "I Can Transform Ya"

Chris Brown premiered his new single today and it sounds like a smash. Swizzy produced the track, so you know it's fire. Now will this transform into a hit single? Hmmmm. . . ?

C. Breezy's song is not bad (for the kiddies at least) but, for me, Auto-Tune is done. It's a musical fad that has outgrown itself. It's time for a new gimmick.

via Chris Brown World

**BONUS**

C. Breezy talks about his new single via YouTube:

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(2004) Blog Post Revisited: Game . . . Blouses

**Blog Note: Originally posted in February 2004. Re-edited for clarity.**

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Charlie Murphy's hilarious true story of when he recieved a princely ass-whuppin' in a game of basketball by Prince will probably go down in history as the Best TV Comedy Sketch of All Time. Dave Chappelle's performance as Prince is comedy gold; simply brilliant.

And five years later after it aired on the trailblazing Dave Chappelle Show, it's still a laugh riot.

Some have wondered if Prince can really play basketball?

Well, I talked to a reliable source in Minneapolis and the answer is yes! -- Prince did play basketball. In fact, Prince, for a short time, was on the basketball team at Central High School in Minneapolis.

Now don't get it twisted: Prince wasn't no Charles Barkley on the hardwood floor as Charlie Murphy (aka "Darkness") exaggerates in his story, but Prince had game.

{MEMORABLE QUOTES}

Charlie Murphy: [sweating] Prince, you got towel, man? It's kinda hot out here, man.

Prince: Why don't you purified yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

[After finishing the game with Prince winning in a landslide victory, the purple one served up some pancakes.]

Charlie: I gotta admit, um, it was a good game.

Prince: I wish I can say the same for you, and your crew of flunkies. Do you guys want some grapes . . . bitches.

**DEAD!**

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New Music: John Mayer - "Who Says"

"Who says I can’t get stoned . . .?

John Mayer -- "Who Says"

Props to the. Life Files and John Mayer

Full disclosure: I am a huge fan of singer-guitarist John Mayer . . . and I like to get stoned (Ha! Just kidding!).

John recently finished recording his new album titled Battle Studies. The collection's first single is the acoustic-lite "Who Says." And if it weren't for the first lines in the song, I think most music critics would have brushed this off as an innocuous acoustic ballad. But everyone is raising their eyebrows over John's first verse: "Who says I can't get stoned?/ Turn off the lights and the telephone/ Me in my house alone/ Who says I can't get stoned?"

So is John advocating the legalization of marijuana?

"When I sing it, I do not think about marijuana -- I think about walking around your house naked with a guitar, he told Rolling Stone magazine. "It's about being in control of the pleasure in your life."

Idolator believes radio stations won't be able to play the song without swapping out the word "stoned" in the verse.

Either way, I think it's a cool, white-bread ditty.

Battle Studies, John Mayer's fourth album and the follow-up to his double-platinum LP Continuum, is due in stores Nov. 17.

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New Book: Design for Obama. Posters for Change: A Grassroots Anthology

During Barack Obama's historic campaign to become the nation's 44th President in 2008, hundreds of graphic posters were created in support of Obama. Most of those artwork appeared on designforobama.org website.

All of the posters that appeared on the site are featured in a new book titled Design for Obama. Posters for Change: A Grassroots Anthology, which arrives on book shelves Nov. 1. Filmmaker Spike Lee and historian Aaron Perry-Zucker selected the best, and wrote contextual essays about the posters they selected.

Props to Taschen Books

You can pre-order the book via Amazon.com HERE

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New Music: Joss Stone -- "Free Me"

Joss Stone -- "Free Me"

Props to Soulfull Vibes

Check out Joss Stones's new single, "Free Me," from her upcoming new disc, Free Me, Colour Me (due Oct. 20). The collection is described as an eclectic mix of pop, soul, R&B, funk, hip-hop, and gospel sounds (What, no polka?).

Among the guests appearing on Free Me, Colour Me included Nas (on "Governmentalist"), her "purported" boyfriend(?) Raphael Saadiq ("Big Ole Game), Jeff Beck and Sheila E. ("Parallel Lines") and saxophonist David Sanborn ("I Believe It To My Soul").

Nikki Costa > Joss Stone

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