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Exclusive: Eminem's Limited Edition "The Way I Am" Jordans
To commemorate Eminem's new book "The Way I Am," the rap star has teamed up with Nike's Jordan Brand for a collaboration on a limited edition jordan shoe. The shoes will be called "The Way I Am" Air Jordan 2, and feature handwritten lyrics from Eminem's songs on the shoe's ankle collar and toe trim. The package will also include a limited edition "The Way I Am" T-shirt.
There will be only 313 pairs, the area code for Eminem's hometown, Detroit, MI, and only be available for purchase at the official Jordan Brand “Flight Club”: www.airjordanflightclub.com. To receive an invitation code text "Flight Club" to 23623. The retail price of "The Way I Am: Air Jordan 2" has yet to be determined.
Proceeds from the shoe will go towards Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers Foundation, an organization primarily dedicated to helping disadvantaged youth in the state of Michigan.
This is the second time Eminem and Jordan Brand have collaborated. The first Eminem Jordan was the Air Jordan 4 “Blueberry” but that was only available as a promotional item and for contest winners of his Encore album. Eminem's representative Paul Rosenberg said, "The Jordan 2 is Marshall's favorite Air Jordan sneaker, so he was super excited to get to be able to do another collaboration with his favorite sneaker brand."
Eminem's "The Way I Am" book is available from Penguin/Dutton at Amazon.com and local bookstores.
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The Barbadian beauty was spotted cuddling Kanye West backstage at a T.I. concert at the Key Club in Hollywood on Oct. 3.
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Hip Hop Weekly Celebrates It's 50th Issue
Hip Hop Weekly, the first and only celebrity newsweekly format magazine for the large and highly influential multicultural consumer market, will celebrate a major milestone with a special edition of the magazine hitting newsstands October 14th. The publication of its 50th issue marks the successful return of the creators of The Source, David Mays and Ray “Benzino” Scott, who have once again proven to have the “golden touch” when it comes to shaping media content for the diverse consumers of the hip hop culture.
“Hip Hop Weekly fills a tremendous void in the marketplace! It’s fast like the youth market and it gives the kind of special honest insight that the audience desperately needs,” said Russell Simmons, Godfather of the hip hop movement. In 2007, Hip Hop Weekly was recognized by the prestigious MIN Awards as one of the “Top 15 Magazine Launches” of the year, out of more than 700 startups. Hip Hop Weekly delivers over 800,000 readers per issue and is among the ten best-selling magazines at the 7-11 chain nationally. The magazine serves a burgeoning market of ethnically diverse consumers with over $500 billion in spending power.
“Hip Hop Weekly is a huge success because its unique and innovative format has brought excitement and relevant content back into print media for our generation,” said David Mays, publisher and co-founder of Hip Hop Weekly. “Our newsstand sales have doubled in the last 12 months, which is the only true sign of a magazine’s vitality in today’s market. We are one of the fastest-growing national magazines on the newsstands, while other print titles are experiencing double-digit sales declines. Hip Hop Weekly has established a reputation for breaking exclusive celebrity news first, and we are capturing a loyal and rapidly growing audience of trendsetting young people. No other magazine is engaging these readers in the way that we are.”
In addition to a loyal readership base, Hip Hop Weekly has attracted a bevy of key advertisers such as Colgate, Pepsi, Burger King, Procter & Gamble, Crown Holders, Akademiks, Ciroc Vodka, Def Jam, Pelle Pelle, and Sean John. The magazine is the first national consumer magazine to offer its clients “branded editorial” sponsorships.
Hip Hop Weekly’s star-studded 50th issue will launch a cover redesign and feature exclusive celebrity interviews, photos, style packages and juicy celebrity news, with multiple-in-book spreads profiling VIP events attended by the hottest stars in Hip Hop and Hollywood. The 50th issue of Hip Hop Weekly magazine will be on newsstands nationwide on October 14, 2008.
For a copy of Hip Hop Weekly’s 2008 Media Kit and Advertising Rate Card Contact Julian Hill at 347-535-3707 or click here.
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Hip Hop Marketing: Common's Deal With Microsoft & the History of Hip Hop Ads
Common talks to Ad Age about his deal with Microsoft & the history of ads & Hip Hop
The Chicago native took a moment away from the tour bus to speak with Ad Age about how hip-hop musicians and marketers have come together, and why he's fine with integrating an MP3 player into his new Hype Williams-directed music video.
M&V: I saw the video for "Universal Mind Control," and I almost missed the Zune that appeared in the first five seconds.
Common: The video, or any visual, is very important to me, and for me to be open to showing a product in my video means a lot, because it's a representation of me. With anything I associate myself with, I think, "Is it gonna help or bring me down?" The Zune is something that I've been confident about associating myself with, because I think it's got a fly presentation to it. It is truly about music lovers, for me.
M&V: What persuaded you to work with Microsoft?
Common: Their tradition. ... I know that Microsoft has been around for 20 years, they established themselves in the mid-'80s, and since then they've progressed. Microsoft is classy, it's a timeless brand, and it means something to the world, internationally, and I felt like that's the direction of what I want Common to be, to be honest. I want to be timeless, I want to be international, and those are the things I feel like I'm working toward now. I was able to team up with them for some of those reasons. Like I said, I liked creatively where they wanted to go. Actually Microsoft and I are about to do a line of T-shirts coming out in November. I'm designing them.
M&V: Do you feel like Microsoft has similar goals to you?
Common: Yeah, definitely. Because I listen to what they want, and they want to touch down with the community and they want to touch the world. And they also obviously want to hit certain audiences that are hip and cool. So yeah, we've got certainly have similar goals. And Bill Gates is a philanthropist and does good things in the world. There's nothing wrong with making money, but you definitely want to be able to give back, and I see the head of their company giving back, so from that point right there, the head is giving back to the people, so that automatically can tie him in with me and make him alright with me and make the company alright with me.
M&V: You've been rapping now for a couple decades. How do you think the hip-hip community's attitude toward brand partnerships has changed since you started?
Common: Before, it used to be, "Oh man, you don't mess with corporations." I mean, you know corporations; they just represented the evils of America at a certain point. They represented capitalism and the exploitation of a lot of people. And hip-hop is so rooted in culture that it's based on a love for art, and art and corporations didn't seem like they mixed, but I think the Sprite commercials [from the mid-'90s] are what started turning it around for a lot of people. They'd go out and get Grand Puba, CL Smooth, Afrika Bambaataa. I remember I knew one of the guys who used to write those commercials, and he was a pure hip-hop dude.
I think more hip-hop artists became open with more people in corporations when the corporations really started to understand the music and respected the artists. So corporations could go out and get [KRS-One], and not just get the popular person, the person of the day.
M&V: As in people who have deeper connections with fans.
Common: A deep connection and a true following.
M&V: So whose attitudes have changed more: rappers or corporations?
Common: I think the rappers' attitudes changed because the corporations, some of them really had a respect for true artists and they knew what they were talking about and they presented things that made sense for the artist. And also artists realized that we have to make a living too, and if it's something that's gonna go well with what I do, then why not do it, 'cause these corporations are making money off it. If I mention something in a rap, they're making money off it anyway, so why shouldn't I get a piece of it?
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