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Lil Mama attended the first day of activities at The Power Summit Reunion on October 24th in Las Vegas.
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Lil’ Mama performed at the 2nd Annual Entertainers 4 Education Alliance ‘Stay In School’ event at the Manhattan Center on October 17th in New York!
We have added the pictures of Lil Mama arrives at the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta on Oct. 13, 2007.
Since reporting Monday that Nine Inch Nails had dumped its record label and was to offer future albums direct to the public, Oasis and Jamiroquai have also joined the move away from the record industry, but the biggest announcement of all is news today that Madonna has dumped the record industry. According to reports, Madonna has signed a $120million deal with L.A. based concert promotion firm Live Nation to distribute three studio albums, promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license Madonna’s name.
Whilst the deal differs from Nine Inch Nails in that Madonna is not offering direct-to-public albums, Live Nation isn’t a record company. The deal shows that even for a world famous act, a record company is no longer required in the days of digital downloads and P2P music sharing.
Lil Mama posed during her Glam it Up appearance at L’Oreal Paris in the Beverly Center Mall to promote her new L’Oreal lip gloss color Watermelon Crush on September 29th in Los Angeles!
Los Angeles, CA — Baked Goods Productions has completed more than 80 visual effects shots for Lil Mama’s “G-Slide” music video, the heavily anticipated sequel to the young hip-hop phenomenon’s hit “Lip Gloss” (which was nominated for “Monster Single of the Year” at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards).
From Lil Mama’s soon to be released debut album “VYP: Voice of the Young People” (Jive Records), “G-Slide” was directed by R. Malcolm Jones (who has directed all of Lil Mama’s videos) and produced by Kareem Johnson and production company Radical Media.
“Tour Bus” was shot over two days in Harlem, with Baked Goods’ George Loucas serving as visual effects supervisor. The action begins with Lil Mama (after being challenged that she doesn’t have a tour bus) attempting to use her celebrated, sparkling “Lip Gloss” magic to transform a school bus into her fantasy dream ride. But the showers of pink sparks she blows fall ineffectually on the street, forcing her to break out with brand new magic in the form of some fancy footwork she calls the “G-Slide.” As she playfully performs her dance moves, her plain white sneakers are suddenly covered heel-to-toe with yellow and pink sequins and sparks fly from her heels as she clicks them together transforming the old yellow bus into a big, shining luxury vehicle with stars on the side.
The challenge for Baked Goods was to use the inspiration of the signature “Lip Gloss” sparkles and take them to a new level visually for “G-Slide.”
“This was a really fun project to work on. The song and lyrics have a playful feel to them,” said Loucas. “We incorporated that feel into the visual effects with lots of candy colored sparkles turning everyday objects from mail boxes to hot dog stands into colorful works of modern art. Everything was stylized, but still very realistic.”
As the street fills with Lil Mama’s friends, a new boom box magically assembles itself from old parts and a cardboard box transforms into a colorful dance mat. A full moon rises, trailing sparkles across a cloudy sky, as a pair of glittering, but empty, sneakers dance by themselves (reminiscent of the moving silverware in the “Lip Gloss” video).
“It was very important that ‘G-Slide’ be as fantastic creatively as ‘Lip Gloss,’ said Loucas. “The concept revolved around the idea of Lil Mama arriving in Harlem on a day where everyone is hot and bored. Her music transforms everything, infusing a tired and rundown place, filled with tired and rundown people and things, with life. The visual effects played a crucial role in turning Lil Mama’s tour bus and the whole neighborhood into an energetic and inspiring surrounding.”
“G-Slide” premiered on BET’s “Access Granted” and on MTV’s “Total Request Live” (“TRL”). Visual effects artists were Ryan Mitre and Michael Fessenden.
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The Emmy-winning actor who plays all-American hero Jack Bauer on the hit Fox TV series pleaded no contest to a single DUI count yesterday in a deal that leaves little room for one of his signature TV escapes.
Sutherland must serve 18 days starting Dec. 21 to pay for the fact that his recent drunk-driving bust violated the probation terms of his 2004 DUI conviction. Cushy house arrest with electronic monitoring is strictly forbidden. He then must serve another 30 days by July, with no Paris Hilton-style reprieve, officials said.
“He has to serve the time … [There’s] no credit for overcrowding,” said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for Los Angeles city prosecutor Rocky Delgadillo.
Sutherland, now a twice-convicted drunk driver, was busted last month after making an illegal U-turn in West Hollywood and flunking a breath test at the scene.
Lil Mama may be young, but her sensibilities reach a bit beyond her teen years. So when it came time to celebrate her 18th birthday, the Brooklyn, New York, rapper admitted that the only plans she had were to spend time with family. No big blowouts. No fancy dinners.
“I want to spend time with my family, to go back to New York City,” she said last month at Dub magazine’s Custom Auto Show in California. “Just celebrate the day I was born, however it may be.
“It’s huge,” Lil Mama added of her birthday on October 4. “It’s major. [But] it don’t get crazy like that. I think if I don’t do it [relaxed], then I’ll take that day and use it in the wrong way. Celebrating the day I was born and being around the people I love will make me happy, seriously.”
Another birth that the pint-size wordsmith takes seriously is that of the “hip-pop” movement that she and fellow dancing rap acts like Soulja Boy and Jason Fox have ushered in.
According to Lil Mama, that’s what her outfit at last month’s Video Music Awards represented. The baby costume she wore symbolized the birth of a new genre, she said.
“The birth of hip-pop is more than just pop culture with the dancing and the singing and the rapping and the writing that I do,” she explained. “It’s that too, but it’s also my way of life.”
Fittingly enough, “Life” will be the next single from Mama’s upcoming debut, Voice of the Young People. (The album is slated to drop in 2008, although no release date is scheduled yet, according to a rep from Jive Records.)
“Life is really a deep joint,” the rapper said. “I have so many joints on my album, but what makes them a part of the album is that people have a chance to get into you more. And they should get the album to get into you more. A lot of the singles are really fun and something that everybody is gonna love. But I also have faith in my deep records to come out [as singles] and one day I’m gonna see to it that [they do].”
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Yasmine Richard (MTV.com)
