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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The People's Choice Awards on NBC live @ 8/7c!

Tuskegee Airmen

The first time African American where employed by the United States Army Air Corps in 1940 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt order the Air Corps to create/build an all African American unit for flying. They created the 99^th Pursuit Squadron to develop the new African American pilots to train at the central base in Alabama at the Tuskegee Institute. These pilots faced racism from White Americans and the Nazi military. First fighter mission took place June of 1943 in Farjouna in Tunsia.

The following is a list of the combat record of the Tuskegee Airmen:

over 15,000 combat sorties (including 6000+ for the 99th prior to July '44)
111 German airplanes destroyed in the air, another 150 on the ground
950 railcars, trucks, and other motor vehicles destroyed
1 destroyer sunk by P-47 machine gun fire (Lt. Pierson's flight)
sixty-six pilots killed in action or accidents
thirty-two pilots downed and captured, POWs
150 Distinguished Flying Crosses earned
744 Air Medals
8 Purple Hearts
14 Bronze Stars

In January take the time to find out more about these famous black fighter pilots by watching George Lucas’s move on the History Channel. A documentary on the History Channel on the War World II Tuskegee Airmen or better yet set out to the movie theater on January 13 to watch Red Tails.

Reference

Sherman, S. (February 2000. Updated June 29, 2011) The Tuskegee Airmen, Acepilots.com. Retrieved from http://acepilots.com/usaaf_tusk.html

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tune In Tuesday's

Available today in stores | local retailers, and iTunes | Google Music are:

“Breakthrough” – Dale Ciceron/Optimistic 4 Christ

“Live From The Kitchen” – Yo Gotti

“Fallen Empires” – Snow Patrol

The Man Behind The Auto-Tune

“..get back to rap, you T-pain-in’ too much..”

Jay-Z, “DOA” (The Blueprint 3 | 2009)

With multiple club bangers, Billboard Top 100 hits, and awards for Songs like: “I’m Sprung”, “I’m In Love With A Stripper”, “Bartender”, and “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” T-Pain quickly became the most sort after artist to collaborate with. Working with artist such as Pitbull, Taylor Swift, and many others including:

“The Boss”- Rick Ross featuring T-Pain

“Low”- Flo Rida featuring T-Pain

“Kiss, Kiss”- Chris Brown featuring T-Pain

“Blame It” Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain

“Good Life”- Kanye West featuring T-Pain

“I’m So Hood” – DJ Khaled, Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, and T-Pain

“She Got It”- Tay Dizm featuring 2 Pistols and T-Pain

Recently premiering in MTV’s “ When I Was 17”, Faheem Rasheed Najm has came a long way from when he was living out of his 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Since coming off Chris Brown’s F.A.M.E. Tour he has unleashed rEVOLVEr on 12/06/2011. None the less the $4.5 Millionaire singer can be heard on the Billboard Top 100 charts with “5 O' Clock” featuring Lily Allen and Wiz Khalifa. In the mean time catch him featured on the following songs:

“How To Hate” – Lil Wayne featuring T-Pain

“Never Leave Her”- Tay Dizm featuring T-Pain

“I Get Money” – Birdman featuring Lil Wayne, Mack Maine and T-Pain

“The Way You Move” – Ne-Yo featuring Trey Songz and T-pain

““EDITED In Paris (FREESTYLE)” Chris Brown featuring T-Pain

“Welcome Home”- Bow Wow featuring T-Pain

Also, look for Mr. Teddy P and Ke$ha “K-Pain” for a possible collaboration sometime in 2012.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Happy "Mix Tape" Monday!

B.O.B’s “Every Play Is Crucial (EPIC)” dropped originally 11/28/2011 teamed up with some hit maker’s such as: T.I., Roscoe Dash, Bun B, Lil Wayne and much more.

EPIC Track-Listing:
01.Epic
02. Wrong
03. Guest List
04. What Are We Doing
05. Perfect Symmetry
06. New York New York
07. Boom Bap
08. Welcome To The Jungle
09. 5 On The Kush
10. How Bout Dat
11. Things get worse
12. EDITED Up
13. Strange Clouds
14. Friday Night Star
15. High

Lil Twist released last month "The Golden Child" for fans. The Mixtape features Khalil, Chris Richardson, Lil Za, Jae Millz and others.

EPIC Track-Listing:
01. The Golden Child
02. Blame Tez
03. Lights Up
04. Twisted
05. Steady Hatin’
06. There She Go
07. Godzilla Twist
08. Gunzo Meets Twizzy
09. Twist!
10. Wait On Me
11. Getting Crazy
12. #1812
13. Reckless
14. Past-Life
15. If you only Knew

Saturday, January 7, 2012