Posts with tag HipHop

Being an international music and style icon, rapper and sometimes clothing designer Kanye West has to be about as comfortable with getting mobbed by the paparazzi as one can get. Yet, it appears that even Kanye can sometimes lose his cool amidst the constant click of $10,000 cameras.

According to reports, at around 7:15am Thursday morning, Kanye and his manager/bodyguard Don Crowley got arrested for "felony vandalism." The altercation apparently broke out between West, Crowley, and two TMZ photographers in area just outside of LAX's security screening area. No word yet about what set Kanye off, but if we had to guess, we'd say that he's probably not a morning person. Police originally considered battery charges for the star, but found no evidence and stuck with vandalism of a camera valued at over $10k.

TMZ apparently got the whole thing on video. To be fair, if there's any time or place that we wouldn't want the paprazzi in our face, it's at 7:15am just before we have to go through an airport security probing. Bad timing.

Perhaps the most stylish movie of 2000, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog is a strange but sleek mix: one part samurai flick, one part mob movie, one part 'hood film and one part Western.

Played by Forest Whitaker, Ghost Dog is a modern-day samurai working as an assassin for a low-budget mobster. Ghost Dog lives on a rooftop and can be contacted only by pigeons bearing notes. His best friend is a Haitian ice cream salesman who speaks only French (Ghost Dog, in turn, speaks only English). Ghost Dog, though generally quiet and deeply faithful to the samurai code, has an abiding fondness for hip hop ... especially the hip hop of the RZA (who did the film's entire soundtrack).

All of these things make Ghost Dog stylish, yes. But the most stylish part of the movie is its opening: though Ghost Dog doesn't even speak for the first 45 minutes of the film, we watch a pigeon fly through the industrial nightscape to the RZA's beats. Stunning.