“Rumours abound that hip hop star Just Blaze has told all about Apple’s much talked-about sub-notebook, after he was promised one for performing at a recent Apple Christmas party. The mystery machine is allegedly to be announced at Macworld in January,” Scott Snowden reports for Reg Hardware.
“According to website boygeniusreport, Mr Blaze was one of several music celebrities who performed live at the company-sponsored music event for Apple’s employees. In exchange for their work, each artist was promised a free notebook that will be unveiled at the Macworld expo in San Francisco.,” Snowden reports.
Full article here.
The Boy Genius Report says, “Apple will 100% be announcing a new laptop at MacWorld. We’ve also heard the laptop will go on sale a week after MacWorld, too.”
Full article here.
@Me in LA.. I bet you don’t!!!
@Jim TIV. If you don’t see how the comment Ampar made was insensitive and inflammatory.. then you’re the one who is myopic.
And if you can’t make a point without flaming, you’re pretty stupid as well
@Wrong Again – you’re right. SJ is not usually one who takes kindly to leaks before MWSF
@Switcher…
“And if you can’t make a point without flaming, you’re pretty stupid as well”
the definition of irony
“I bet I have more black friends and neighbors than you do.”
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Just to join into this lovely fracas here
I didn’t know that knowing black people was a competitive sport. Darn, I miss all the fads! Who’s going to raise the bar by saying they were raised in a black family?
switcher: You’re assuming a lot. Btw, what color am I? You seem to know many things based on your incredible powers of cognition.
To get an idea how the crap that is being called music nowadays is being made go to:
Hip Hop stars are made the same way.
Just take a gang banger/drug dealer off a street corner (Doesn’t matter what race, just someone with street cred.) give him some rap lyrics to read, then get someone with real talent to sing a catchy chorus ripped off from some other hit song and mix the hell out of it. Then for a video get dozens of barely 18 girls in next to nothing grinding away to the noise.
There’s now hundreds of hip hop “singers” rising to fame using this exact formula. Now guys like 50 cent are a dime a dozen. (Pun intended)
@Switcher. . .
I love it when people who aren’t a part of a culture speak on its behalf, as if they’re think they can possibly understand *every* individual who is a part of that culture.
Let me give you a clue. It’s not possible, and you tend to look foolish when you try.
As I revealed earlier, I’m a black guy. I don’t like Hip-Hop. Maybe that’s because I’m older. I certainly know lots of younger white people who do like Hip-Hop. Is it part of their culture? I would say yes. Musical taste is a generational thing, not (necessarily) an ethnic thing. At least in the United States.
In my personal opinion Ampar didn’t say anything racial. (which is not the same as racist, but he didn’t say anything racist either)
Don’t try to make this bigger than it is. You and several others are conflating Hip-Hop appreciation with ethnicity. Ampar isn’t.
And I can’t stand the music of John Tesh. Run with that for awhile.
“Thugs degrading women with violent and obscene lyrics is not music”
Here’s a juicy one!!! Subject matter determines musicality. This would mean that you could take something that’s musical (“Carmen” or “Sound of Music”, change the words, and make it non-musical!
I likes some killin,
I likes some stabbin,
I likes punching all my ho’s in da head.
I likes some robbin
I likes some sexin
I likes gang bangin til a muthaf**ka’s dead!
Thanks, Darkness. Reason has a chance.
@Jim – TIV. Yeah I flamed too.. I allowed your flame bait to p1ss me off for a few minutes.. Don’t worry, I won’t descend to your level again.
@Ampar – Good question Ampar… I will be seriously shocked if I find out you’re not white… Even more shocked if I find out you’re black.
What race do you think I am? Do you think one has to be black to urge restraint when posting insensitive and/or thoughtless comments?
Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock . . . yea boiiiiii!
Pay me my money bitches.
I need to finance my grill.
“Thugs degrading women with violent and obscene lyrics is not music”
Here’s a juicy one!!! Subject matter determines musicality. This would mean that you could take something that’s musical (“Carmen” or “Sound of Music”, change the words, and make it non-musical!”
Exactly.
Sh*t
But you’ve got a hit record on your hands there for some folks…
@Darkness – you don’t know anything about me.. If you did your post would read different
“What race do you think I am?”
Honestly? I don’t care. Unless you’re from another planet. Then, I want in on the movie rights.
“You and several others are conflating Hip-Hop appreciation with ethnicity.”
I’d thought some were simply taking issue with excluding it from being “musical”. I’m not on one side of the other (or I’m on both sides flinging mud back and forth), but I’m generally wary of anyone who seems to be exclusionary…
@Switcher… and turning a hilarious commentary into a discussion of bigotry wasn’t flame bait? Your hubris is simply amazing. If anyone has a “level” here that needs to be raised it’s you.
“If you don’t see how the comment Ampar made was insensitive and inflammatory.. then you’re the one who is myopic.”
You’ve obviously never watched or seen Chris Rock, or A.J.Jamal, or Arnex J, or even Bernie Mac make commentary on the hip hop culture.
Ampar’s original comment wasn’t bigoted, (or even racial as Darkness has pointed out) it was freaking HILARIOUS! It was the funniest thing he’s said on this site in a long time. And this is a man that cracks people up who read this site everyday.
Switcher…. seriously. Give it a rest. You’re just plain wrong on this one. Take a chill pill, drink a beer, or maybe go get some action.
Finally – learn the definition of humor. It will help you in life.
and Darkness.. I don’t think that what Ampar said was ‘racist’ either… I’m just saying that his comments where a touch ‘bigoted’, as in showing an excessive intolerance for something that he personally doesn’t favour..
It was also thoughtless, because the end result was an unnecessary flaming war, and the drawing out of some of the real idiots and bigots that tend to read this site.
99.9% of the time though, I enjoy reading Ampar’s comments.
“Take a chill pill, drink a beer, or maybe go get some action.”
I’m going for the trifecta.
@WrongAgain…
I’ll raise the bar and say it.
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@Switcher…
Insensitivity and/or thoughtlessness are in the eye of the beholder. I didn’t find what Ampar said to be either but apparently you did. There’s no right or wrong here, but I urge you not to be hypersensitive about race and not to succumb to “liberal guilt”. It’s something that can be discussed without believing that someone is going to be offended just because it’s mentioned. Which I’ll note again that Ampar never did.
Ampar has a history here and I think it’s worth considering that before assuming he’s an insensitive clod.
And with that I will bow out of this tempest in teapot.
“99.9% of the time though . . .”
I have GOT to work on that 0.1%!
“I’m going for the trifecta.”
Is that anything like a threepeat?
I love reading MDN, especially for the lively and sometimes extremely funny commentaries that follow each topic
But at the end of the day people… I simply saw that headline and thought “oh no! this discussion is not going to be about the technology in question, it’s going to be a flaming war revolving around a predominantly black issue”
Maybe I did slightly overreact to Ampar’s comment, given that I was expecting to see SOMETHING inflammatory. Fine, accepted. But the premise still stands.. Whenever there’s an article related to black people or culture, all manner of bigots tend to crawl out of the woodwork and the discussion quickly degenerates into what we saw here today.
That simply wouldn’t happen if the artist in question here was a Heavy Metal or Punk or Folk or Country artist
Anyway… enough already!!! Peace to all and a Happy New Year! Especially to you Ampar
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Thanks, switcher. Namaste.
@Switcher…
“Whenever there’s an article related to black people or culture, all manner of bigots tend to crawl out of the woodwork and the discussion quickly degenerates into what we saw here today.”
Only the reason it did today is because you turned it that way. Take ownership of that. You’re the one who made this thread about race, not anyone else before you.