Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman. …Ghost Dog
The director speaks about working with Wu members and why he thought ODB and RZA were on ’shrooms one day.
Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has stories to share about working with Wu-Tang members. After collaborating with RZA for his Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai film, he decided to speak to The Village Voice about his experiences with Wu’s RZA, the GZA and the late ODB.
According to Jarmusch, he had to look for RZA.
“I had to hunt RZA down,” he shared. “I wasn’t getting anywhere through the management–normal things. I just started asking some friends, and within two days, I was sitting with RZA in a studio in Midtown at 3 a.m., meeting for the first time. We got along really well, and we just started talking about everything, and by the end of that night, he was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I’m down. When should we start? What should I do?’ Him and GZA are like encyclopedias of martial-arts film. They don’t just know every director and actor; they know who choreographed the fight scenes, who did the design, who did this and that.”
Respecting their knowledge, he also decided to collect Wu beats to help him in giving RZA directions.
“I had collected all the Wu-Tang vinyl with the instrumental B-sides, so I could say, like, ‘I like this floating, damaged beat. I like this stutter, this trippy slow thing.’ We decided that we won’t do cues to the film. You’ll hand me off music, I’ll put it in the film, but don’t score to certain sections. . . . One of the coolest times: He came in with ODB, and we spent the whole day with ODB watching the placement of the music. That was amazing.”
Jarmusch went on to add that he felt the two emcees were on something when they came to visit him.
“I think they were on mushrooms or something, though—they were acting very peculiar. Every five minutes or so, ODB would jump up and go, ‘Yo, yo! Stop the machine! Earth, Mars, Venus: Pick one!’ And RZA would go, ‘I got this. Earth.’ And he’d go, ‘OK, start it up again.’ He was amazing. I wanted to go in and film him—we were going to go in when he was locked down. Go put a camera on ODB and let him talk about any fucking thing he wants. We never got to do it. That’s a big regret.I had to hunt RZA down. I wasn’t getting anywhere through the management–normal things. I just started asking some friends, and within two days, I was sitting with RZA in a studio in Midtown at 3 a.m., meeting for the first time. We got along really well, and we just started talking about everything, and by the end of that night, he was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I’m down. When should we start? What should I do?’ Him and GZA are like encyclopedias of martial-arts film. They don’t just know every director and actor; they know who choreographed the fight scenes, who did the design, who did this and that.”
For more of the interview with the director, check The Village Voice.
Jigga gives the NYPL a sneak peek into his upcoming memoir, ‘Decoded.’
Jay-Z is finally gearing up to release his biographical book Decoded. He teamed up with former The Source editor Dream Hampton to write the memoir, which combines an autobiographical first-person style with interviews from close friends and family. The book will also include his explanation to lyrics of selected tracks.
Jigga is now scheduled to discuss the memoir at the New York Public Library in November. While the book was completed several years ago, it is only now that he is ready to share it with audiences, despite his reservations.
“It’s too much,” he told Rolling Stone. “For the book, I was interviewed, people close to me were interviewed. So I was learning a lot of things I didn’t know as a child. It’s not anything I haven’t said in the past, in songs. It’s just more detailed. A song is three minutes long. A book doesn’t have to rhyme, and it has no time limit, so you can say exactly how everything went.”
The NYPL discussion will take place on Nov. 15, and the book is set to release the next day.
Jay-Z Introduces His New Book At New York Public Library
Brabus one of the most respected tuning companies in the world has now unveiled its latest creation the brabus ibusiness.Based on the Mercedes-Benz s600 the Brabus iBusiness four-seater luxury sedan packs in a range of multimedia features including two ipads in the rear seats with bluetooth keyboards and mouse an ultra-small Mac minicomputer under the rear shelf and a 64gb Apple iPod Touch.
Brabus Mercedes s600 iBusiness is a high-tech office on wheels.
Pastor Troy Gives some details on expanding his portfolio with ESPN.
With a 21-album discography, music has been an enormous part of Pastor Troy’s life. Now, the “Throw It Up” rapper is parlaying his recordings into a licensing deal with ESPN.
“I messed around with ESPN for football season for the show NFL Live,” revealed Troy in an interview with OzoneMag.com. “We got some licensing deals and stuff like that and that shit is stoopid! I’m just getting into all these endorsement deals and stuff, because rap is so big now you just gotta find your niche and keep grindin’ it out. That ESPN joint opened up a lot of doors though. So when you watchin’ Sportscenter and you hear that ‘Murder Man,’ don’t think your TV goin’ crazy, baby! It’s me!”
Pastor Troy revealed that he feels more at home with the sports industry than the Hip Hop world. “…I’m more into the sports industry than I am in the music industry. I ain’t got a lot of music industry friends, I got a lot of sports industry friends, so just hookin’ up with those boys we kickin’, trying to blow this shit out of proportion.”
DJ Khaled is officially a Cash Money millionaire. The boisterous dj announced the news Thursday (August 19) that he will join the likes of Lil Wayne, Cool & Dre, Bow Wow, and Bizzy Bone who recently revealed that he too was signing with the label. Khaled who has collaborated with both Lil Wayne and Cash Money labelhead Brian “Birdman” Williams, sent out a few celebratory tweets once the deal was finalized.
“Deal is done!! We the best YMCMB!!!” Khaled wrote via his Twitter page. “Hard work pays off! I’m on my way to the studio! We the best Cash Money! FREE WEEZY! WETHEBESTFOREVER coming soon!”
The 34-year-old who currently resides in Miami, has released four albums and has worked with Rick Ross, T-Pain, Drake and Usher. Once signed to E1 Entertainment/Koch Records, Khaled’s upcoming album ‘We The Best Forever,’ will mark his debut release on Cash Money. The album, due out sometime this year, will feature his fellow Cash Money counterparts Birdman and Cool & Dre, plus appearances from Rick Ross and Fat Joe.
Khaled’s currently on board the S.S. CMB with Birdman and his flock:
This is some next level mega mix right here.
Jordan brand decided to fuse 4 Jordans into 1, and the results, a pair of Jordan Rare Air “Olympic”. They fuse some of the most distinguishable aspects from the Air Jordan 3, 4, 5, & 6, plus composing it with white patent leather on the upper, red, yellow, blue, green, and black accents on the midsole, elephant print on the heel and toe with famed Jordan attributes scattered over the shoe. This pair of the Rare Air’s are available for $140. Pretty dope.
PINKY is an American pornographic actress and rapper. She has appeared in over 100 adult films since 2006, in 2009 she won the Urban X Award for Porn Star of the Year. Her official website also won the award for Best Talent Website. As well as Female Performer of the Year.
Rapping career
Pinky announced that she was going to pursuit a rapping career and released her debut mixtape entitled Fuck You Pay Me on April, 2010.
(Produced by DJ Scream)
SWAGG BOSS GOES ALL THE WAY IN WITH PINKY THE PORN STAR… EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENE PHOTOS BY SSL
