Rihanna decided to pay homage to late rapper Tupac Shakur in the most predictable of ways – by getting a tattoo. However, where she got is what’s shocking. Earlier today, the racy performer Tweeted a picture where it showed that she’d gotten the words ‘THUG LIFE‘ inked in white across her knuckles. Find out what the singer had to say about her new tattoo.
The rapper who once told us to “party like it’s our birthday” isn’t very optimistic about the future. On Monday, 50 Cent posted a series of pessimistic tweets including, “Ill be honest I don’t think I am going to live much longer.” Why is the guy who’s survived 9 gunshots so skeptical about his life?
The creative juggernaut that is Kanye West has unveiled a Cool List via his must-follow Twitter page.
“Who do you think the coolest famous creative people are?” West tweeted to his massive list of followers. Then he dropped his own cool choices on everybody.
Who made the cool list? Who was totally ignored? See below!
Boy, did John Mayer pick a bad time to quit Twitter.
If the loquacious pop star could have held off on Monday’s announcement that he was shutting down his Twitter account and bolting to Tumblr., leaving his 3.7 million-plus Twitter followers in a social media wasteland, he could have been part of the revelry surrounding Twitter’s announcement Tuesday that it’s reinventing itself – starting with a major redesign of its homepage.
Because his arrogant and, more often than not, misguided public displays of hyper-ego (or, as he calls it, “talking”) don’t hit us fast enough, Kanye West has finally taken to Twitter, a site that allows his insipid megalomania to take shape in 140-character bursts. And, according to MTV, West made the move because, quite simply, traditional journalism cannot capture how funny he is:
In a bid to maintain pop relevance but without having to actually, you know, really have much to do with music television whatsoever, MTV has announced a new contest reminiscent of the old Wanna Be a VJ contests – the music (heh) network is now on the search for a new Twitter Jockey. A… (long sigh) TJ. Continue Reading
Lady Sovereign was detained in Australia over the weekend after she spat at a nightclub doorman. According to Spinner, Lady Sovereign arrived in the country Friday to perform the next day at the Parklife Festival Tour. After pounding back a few at the popular Brisbane-area gay nightclub Beat, she was arrested for an altercation with the nightclub doorman.
Does Twitter know, no bounds? The internet phenomenon has engrossed itself in all forms of contemporary entertainment. According to Bizjournal, not even classical music is safe. Britain’s Royal Opera House plans on performing what they call a “Twitter opera,” at an upcoming performance. If it sounds confusing it should, but I’ll explain in detail the best I can.
UK’s Gary Go composed one of the first songs ever via Twitter after he spotted a heart-shaped balloon entangled in a tree outside him house. Go began compiling fan-submitted lyrics and bang, music was born. After obtaining all of the lyrics Go decided to compose it on his iPhone, and earlier this month, Go performed at the Wembley Stadium to 70,000 people with only his iPhone in hand.
