Friday's 20/20 special “Sweet Revenge” featured Kim Mathers opening up about the demise of her relationship with Eminem (re-demise) after re-marrying in Jan 2006. Read more to find out about her side of the split…
“There was a disagreement between me and his brother,” Kim told 20/20. “Inappropriate behavior, that his brother had, yes and that's what it was. And the next morning there was a note in the bathroom [from Eminem] that said 'I'm going to the other house, I need to clear my head.' I am still confused about the whole thing. He didn't even come around for a month after that. He didn't come see the kids, he wasn't calling me, he didn't return phone calls, I didn't know what the heck was going on. Then his attorney's assistant comes to the door and serves …
We try to support everyone here. Honestly, we love every little blog, 'zine, and upstart little websites we can find, and when we ape them for this here blog, we certainly give credit where due. But an email 'zine from Word On Da Streetz made me pause yesterday for more than a few reasons. The first being I never subscribed to it. But I did find a story that seemed interesting – an “entrepreneur” named Chris Jackson has filed a formal complaint with the Writers Guild of America stating he actually wrote the movie Crash – 2006 Best Picture and Screenplay winner for Million Dollar Baby writer Paul Haggis – and feels he's owed money and an Oscar. There was a link to find out more, and guess what? There's not. …
Long-time URB scribe and everyone's favorite rap writer Jeff Chang discusses Jay-Z's legacy and explains the relevance of J-Hova to those crafty liberals for The Nation–the country's oldest weekly magazine. Contributers to the “flagship of the left” have included Albert Einstein, Hunter S. Thompson, Martin Luther King Jr and John Steinbeck.
Chang's article, “Moving On Up,” puts Jay-Z's career into the larger perspective of the world at large…looking at the reflexive relationship that the “CEO of the ROC” has had with the American economy and pop culture. We May not have a better scribe in this hip-hop journalism bit, so anything this man writes is worth 20 minutes of perusing. And while we're at it–and in case you missed it–check out info on Chang's new book Total Chaos.
Before blogs went blog-wild (2003ish, we'll say) and way before hip-hop blogs went hog-wild (2005ish), rapper Mad Skillz was on top of that shit. Each year since 2002, the MC now known simply as Skillz has released a year-end (w)rap up, dissecting 12 months hip-hop fodder. From the album flops to the sour beefs (no e.coli), rumors to relationships…Skillz always comes with some clever punch lines and relatively valid insight to the year that was. It's an audio blog and more clever than most of the questionable calls that pass as proper time capsules come each Dec. As we open up day two of URB's slick new blog, it's probably apt to point this out.
Some of the better quips:
“And K-Fed your rap career is through/Ron Artest almost sold more CDs than you”
Adding to the annals of famous shows and last hoorahs, Sunday Dec 17th will be remembered as the day when Wooster Collective held the final show at11 Spring which found 35 artists from several continents and eras getting up over every square inch.
The line around three of the four sides of the block was itself a work of art, both conceptually – as a statement on the indoor show of mainly outdoor artists; the reverting to the fetishism of the artist as savior + gallery …
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