CIARA’S GAP AD FOR SKINNY JEANS/40TH ANNIVERSARY

By Angel

Check out Ciara’s new ad for The Gap, celebrating their 40th Anniversary and their perfect Skinny Jean. The advertisement will be featured in magazines in the U.S., Japan and U.K.

*Hip Hop Wired Exclusive*: Memph Bleek Talks About Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 Leakage “Man , That’s Timbo’s Camp… Somebody Is Playin’ Dirty”

By Bossip Staff

In a matter of a week, Jay-Z has sprung a leak problem as three tracks were released titled “Off That” featuring Drake, “Reminder” and most recently “Venus vs. Mars.” Thursday saw the release of a track called “Ghetto Techno,” but luckily this track is not set to be thrown on The Blueprint III. All of the tracks had production handled by Timbaland which could lead speculation to who is responsible for letting the tracks out of the cage so soon. Speaking with Memphis Bleek, HipHopWired was able to get his incite on the current situation and defends his former labelmate from the wrath of bloggers.


“Man , you know where that's coming from. That's Timbo's camp. Somebody is playin' dirty. It's cool though. I like to see the people's opinions. I've been reading the comments on Jay's records saying that the beats don't sound like this or that. I think they just set the bar too high for my guy.”

As the tracks have all been catching flack from fans and been crucified by bloggers, Bleek states that Jay won't ever be the way he was when he first came back and has realized that his longtime friend will never take steps back to recreate the magic, but will only move forward and further his musical outreach.

“A couple of years back, I had asked Jay why he doesn't make another “Big Pimpin.” This was like four years ago when I asked him this and his answer to me was ‘Why would I do that?' “Big Pimpin” is already made. So then, I didn't understand what he meant by that and I'm like so what, I would just make six of those and ride it to the end of the wave. But he's right because if you make four more of those records, then the original won't be hot anymore. You have to move on to the next wave and I think that people want him to stay Reasonable Doubt, Volume 2, Blueprint Jay. He's not that guy anymore, he's outta here.”

Recently, Timbaland spoke on the production that he gave for the album and there are reports saying that he didn't even give Jay his best material. For an album of such volume, many would come to believe that Tim would bring his best, but he stated that he will save the best for his own album, Shock Value 2. Although early reports said that Jigga was set to be on the upcoming sequel, time will tell if this will still be.
It's disappointing that 1/3 of the album has already been released as 5 songs have come out from a 15 song track list. The worst part is the fact that the leak has not created further anticipation, but further disappointment. Let's hope that Kanye West and No I.D. have something in store for fans as 10 tracks remain unheard… for the time being.

Exclusive*: DJ AM is Found Dead In Apartment With Crack Pipe and Pill Bottles!

DJ A.M. (pictured right), was found dead in his apartment in NYC with a crack pipe and empty pill bottles. Last we reported on DJ A.M. and Travis Barker, they had just survived a horrific plane crash in Sept 2008:


A close source tells BOSSIP that friends and family have been trying to contact the DJ for days now. When one friend went over to check on DJ A.M., real name Adam Goldstein, he received…

… no response after numerous attempts at knocking on the door. The friend then called the police who came over and knocked down the door. His body was found around 5:30 today. Adam was 36 years old. Drugs and paraphernalia were found close to the body and in the apartment. A glass pipe was found next to his body and prescription pills were found somewhere else in the house. People are saying his recent break up with his girlfriend led to more depression-drug use.

This is what DJ A.M. said in an interview last Feb:

In February’s Glamour, DJ AM (nee Adam Goldstein) says that his father’s verbal abuse was so bad it led to his drug addiction.“I grew up in Philadelphia with a father who seemed to hate me: The verbal abuse he subjected me to was unbelievably cruel,” he says.

(He says he would later learn his father was gay and addicted to drugs. “If my family went out to dinner, my father would hit on the [male] waiter right in front of my mom,” DJ AM recalls. “Finally she’d had enough and kicked him out.”) But DJ AM says he blamed himself for the abuse. “To deal with my anger and sadness, I ate,” he says. “By the time I was 10, I was obese.” He says people began referring to him as “’the fat kid from Philly.’ I spent the next two years doing drugs every day, until I went to my mom and actually asked her to send me to rehab.”

But the treatment center — which specialized in “tough love,” DJ AM recalls — “was an abusive house of horrors that would eventually be shut down. The counselors beat us. They spit in our faces. They starved us,” he tells Glamour. “When I left rehab, I’d learned nothing about recovery—I attended a few meetings, but within five months I was back doing drugs. Then my father died. Eventually, my mom kicked me out of her house.”At that time, he says his “main source of income was stealing cash and drugs from drug dealers.

A source close to the DJ tells Bossip that Adam was still battling a drug problem. He already survived a plane crash, so what could have taken out such a strong guy… besides drugs- drug dealers or suicide?
R.I.P.