1017's Frenchie dropping a Queens centric freestyle over a nice Ross beat. With a cameo by, our editor-in-cheif, Bimmy. 

If you value the security of your smartphone data, you can only trust one name in the business. That name is BlackBerry (at least they don't have an on going deal with the feds, unlike the other guys).

Research In Motion (RIM), the owner of the BlackBerry, prides itself on being its own handler of its own data stream. Unlike BlackBerry, smartphone makers like Apple and HTC, among others, leave it up to wireless providers or clients to manage data.

RIM stores your data on secure severs that it owns. And each phone is encrypted with a key that scrambles and unscrambles your data. Theoretically, all these measures protect your data.

Well, that is if you’re living in a different country, other than the US. But act fast, because, other countries are rushing to ban the carrier from doing business at all; countries such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, and India.

These governments are trying to requiring BlackBerry to build severs ‘in country’, in order for them to keep an eye on things.

In the States, with a court order, the coded door magically opens for the feds. Which, most likely means they already have the encryption key.

The good news is, unless you’re a governmental agent, you can’t get in to see or hear anything. However, the far more serious threat comes from the phone's browser. There’s always the ever-present risk of accessing websites that hack into your phone and retrieve personal data.

Truth is, you have a much higher chance of this happening; than having a conversation that the feds are interested in listening in on.  

DJ Canon presents The Choice is Yours. Featuring Jadakiss, Uncle Murda, Nipsey Hussle, Brisco, Mikey Rocks, Chip tha Ripper, and Um. 

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Swizz and Alicia honeymoon in the peninsula town of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, near Nice, in the south of France.

These shots are from a jaunt out on the Mediterranean the newlyweds’ took with buds Queen Latifah and her trainer/girlfriend Jeanette Jenkins. All were sunning in style, on an accommodatingly sized, beautifully designed yacht.

Clam seas and smooth sailing is wished for Alicia, her new husband, and her almost certainly beautiful child.  



photos by BAUER-GRIFFIN

Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star status.” He achieves critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by racism from his peers. In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody.

Featuring interviews with Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Shafrazi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn O'Brien, Maripol, Kai Eric, Nicholas Taylor, Fred Hoffmann, Michael Holman, Diego Cortez, Annina Nosei, Suzanne Mallouk, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, among many others.

 Now Playing at Film Forum in NYC