In what Anonymous calls “the single largest Internet attack in its history,” the government shut down the file-sharing site Megaupload yesterday, just as Swizz Beatz was outed as its secret CEO. The FBI had employes arrested (not Beatz) and “property subject to forfeiture” confiscated, including a Benz, a Benz, a Benz, etc., with license plates “CEO”, “GOD”, and “GUILTY.” Um, AWKWARD. Read more »
Swizz is more than Beatz and wants you to get to know him more intimately. Because “people that think me and Bono hanging out was, like, weird, awkward” but it’s not. As Kasseem Dean, he’ll be doing some name-branding via film, fashion, philanthropy and art with a gamut of possibilities between epic and epic fail. Bring ‘Em Out?
How can the good people of Haiti ever get back on their feet without a proper anthem? Thankfully, Bono, Hov and Swizz Beatz are up to the challenge and will rescue the island nation with a hot track. The rap producer announced the collaboration via Twitter and U2 confirmed it.
Swizz Beatz must have been really high or just not cared in this interview with Vandal Arts, offering a strange explanation for never writing graffiti when he was younger, despite his fascination with it, citing the costs: “I never really had access to the spray cans and the fat caps and all that stuff, like, I didn’t have no money like that.” Yeah, cause all those writers bombing the trains and later the streets were rolling in cash. They were likely racking paint too, it’s pretty much ritual. (Fast forward to the 3:44 mark for interview and to avoid obnoxiously long intro.)
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