Happy Birthday! The Notorious B.I.G. would have been 41 today.
Christopher Wallace Aka The Notorious B.I.G. would have been 41 today. Personally, my favorite Biggie video & song is Juicy. You cant catch the video and lyrics after the jump.
Air Dubai - Dance With The Devil (Music Video)
Stream the new Air Dubai Music Video for Dance With The Devil after the jump
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Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) Joins Stone Temple Pilots & Releases First Song
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has replaced Scott Welland as the singer for Stone Temple Pilots. Bennington is not leaving Linkin Park and the band is still his first priority, but he will be recording new music and touring with STP. Stream a song featuring Bennington called “Out Of Time” after the jump.
Brand New - Jesus Christ (Lyric Meme, Video, And Lyrics)
My bright is too slight to hold back all my dark
Watch the official video for Brand New’s Jesus Christ, Brand New playing the song live with Kevin Devine, and read all of the lyrics after the jump
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Clemens Behr - Wooden Skull (2011)
Conformity
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself”
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer and feminist.
Instead of Sleeping - The Reds, The Blacks, The Grays (Album Stream)
Stream some cutting edge, indie alt rock, Instead of Sleeping’s album The Reds, The Blacks, The Grays after the jump
Kanye West performs “BLK SKN HEAD” & “New Slaves” On SNL *(Video, Lyrics, & Yeezus Album Art)
Kanye West performed two new Songs off his upcoming album Yeezus, “BLK SKN HEAD” & “New Slaves”, last night on SNL. Peep the video, lyrics, and Yeezus album art after the Jump
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Watch Kanye West Project his New Video for “New Slaves” on Buildings Around the World
Kanye West Projects New Video “New Slaves” on Buildings Around the World
Watch Kanye West Project his New Video for “New Slaves” on Buildings Around the World after the jump in full
Marijuana Deathsquads - MDS (Album Stream)
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Manchester Orchestra - Shake It Out (P.O.S. Remix)
Stream the Mux Mool track “Death 9000” ft. Prof and P.O.S. (Broadcasting Version)
Watch the new P.O.S. ”Weird Friends” Music Video
A New Episode of VICE on HBO Airs Tonight at 11PM
Here at the VICE HQ we have a gigantic sand timer that we reset each week to count down the days until the next week’s HBO show. It takes ten interns all heaving at once to flip it, and the chances of one of them getting pinned underneath or losing a limb is real high. It adds a good deal of suspense to the buildup though, and according to our in-house risk assessment team it’s totally worth it. That is all to say that the sand timer is nearing its end, meaning a new episode of VICE on HBO is nigh. Here is what to expect from tonight’s episode, airing at 11:00 PM.
Tobaccoland
Indonesians like tobacco a whole lot. So much, in fact, that 67 million of them smoke it. There are no restrictions on advertising in the country, meaning ads targeted at young people abound, and kids often start smoking when they are as young as six years old. To top it off, some Indonesians actually think smoking is good for you and believe it cures all sorts of bad diseases, including cancer. We sent Thomas Morton over there to cut through the smoke and find out what’s really happening. Months later, he’s still coughing up weird yellow stuff.
Underground Heroin Clinic
It’s something of a universally acknowledged truth that a heroin addiction is one of the hardest habits to kick. In the US we offer replacement drugs like Methadone, but unfortunately those drugs are also highly addictive. There are other schools of thought that believe in a different approach, but the drugs they use are often illegal in America, meaning users who want to get clean with their methods have to leave the country. Ibogaine is a drug used to treat addiction in many parts of the world but is labeled a schedule I narcotic in the US. It is rumored to cure physical dependency on opiates without the terrible side effects of withdrawal, and is often used in tandem with a voodoo-like ritual. VICE co-founder Shane Smith traveled to Mexico with an underground heroin clinic based in Harlem to see how well this unconventional addiction cure really works.
Who’s Getting Rich Off the Prison-Industrial Complex?
You likely already know how overcrowded and abusive the US prison system is, and you probably are also aware that the US has more people in prison than even China or Russia. In this age of privatization, of course, it’s also not surprising that many of the detention centers are not actually operated by the government, but by for-profit companies. So clearly, some people are making lots and lots of money off the booming business of keeping human beings in cages.
But who are these people?
Using NASDAQ data, I looked through the long list of investors in Corrections Corporation of America andGEO Group, the two biggest corporations that operate detention centers in the US, to find out who was cashing in the most on prisons. When we say “prison-industrial complex,” this is who we’re talking about.
Henri Wedell
The individual who’s invested the most in private prisons is Henri Wedell, who started serving on CCA’s board of directors in 2000, when the company was struggling with scandals related to prisoner abuse and mismanagement. He now owns more than 650,000 shares in the company, which is far more successful these days. Those shares are worth more than $25 million.I called Wedell to ask him what it was like to make a fortune from the incarceration of others, and whether it bothered him to profit off a system that puts more people in prison than any other country in the world.
“America is the freest country in the world,” he told me. “America allows more freedom than any other country in the world, much more than Russia and a whole lot more than Scandinavia, where they really aren’t free. So offering all this freedom to society, there’ll be a certain number of people, more in this country than elsewhere, who take advantage of that freedom, abuse it, and end up in prison. That happens because we are so free in this country.”
Presumably, when he’s referring to all the freedom Americans have, he’s not including the 80,000 inmates in 60 prisons operated by CCA.
Belize Government may have burned John McAfee’s House to the ground.
John McAfee is claiming via his blog, that the US Embassy is confirming, that His estate has been burned to the ground and that it was not an accident. According to McAfee, an investment group was set to close on the sale of the property within days.
See More Photos after the jump or read his thoughts on the subject here
The Lonely Island ft. T-Pain - I Fucked My Aunt (Song Stream)
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