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Mydailyjoe Feature: Yelawolf with Jonathan Hay

Posted in Conversation Piece on March 30, 2011 by mymorningjoe

A little while back, Celebrity Publicist and Author / Journalist, Jonathan Hay got to sit down with Yelawolf — an artist blowing up quickly and signed to Eminem’s Shady Records. Here is there little quick chat for this MydailyJoe exclusive interview that was arranged by the good people over at Ghetto-Vision (with assistance of this interview by Greta).

MDJ: For the recording you’re doing now, is that pretty much in one studio or are you recording everywhere?

YelaWolf: We’re at Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta. One of the best studios on the planet.

MDJ: Absolutely. I know Groove Chambers and Mali up there. Read more »

Hoopla Media Group Going Major

Posted in Conversation Piece on March 29, 2011 by mymorningjoe

Hoopla Media Group is wide awake on the entertainment horizon!

Hoopla Media Group has joined forces with WIDEawake Entertainment Group for the global circulation of their vastly growing music catalog, which will now be distributed through E1 Entertainment.

WIDEawake Entertainment Group recently purchased Death Row Records for 18 Million – the infamous and powerful record company that rose to prominence in the early nineties and now has generated over 7 billion dollars in revenue to date.

This Hoopla Media Group and WIDEawake Entertainment deal has been in the works for over a year now, when Hoopla Media Group was brought on board to handle publicity for the new and unreleased Death Row archived releases. WIDEawake Entertainment recognized the talents of the emerging Hoopla Media Group and rewarded them with a major worldwide distribution deal.

Jonathan Hay and Chad Kiser started Hoopla Media Group in 2008 and they have added many principal executives including Justin Melo, Sabrina Hale, Patrick Solomon, Gary Meeks, Blake Rutherford, Raina Webber and others. Hoopla Media Group will start releasing music through WIDEawake Entertainment / E1 this year. Contact Hoopla Media Group at 310.402.6949 or email jhp@jhpworld.com.

Beyonce parts ways with father as manager

Posted in Conversation Piece on March 29, 2011 by mymorningjoe

Los Angeles (CNN) — R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles has parted ways with her father as her manager, with both sides claiming it was amicable.

“I’ve only parted ways with my father on a business level,” Beyonce said in a statement Monday. “He is my father for life and I love my dad dearly. I am grateful for everything he has taught me.”

Matthew Knowles had managed her daughter’s career from her start in the multi-platinum selling trio, Destiny’s Child, in the late 1990s through her phenomenal success as a solo artist: three blockbuster solo CDs, 16 Grammy awards and appearances in well-received movies, such as “Dreamgirls.”

“The decision for Beyonce and Music World Entertainment to part was mutual,” Matthew Knowles said. “We did great things together, and I know that she will continue to conquer new territories in music and entertainment.” Read more »

Security forces regain control of Iraq government building

Posted in Conversation Piece on March 29, 2011 by mymorningjoe

Baghdad (CNN) — Security forces wrested control of an Iraqi government building from armed militants who attacked and seized the location and held people hostage earlier Tuesday, Interior Ministry officials said.

At least 56 people died and 98 others were wounded when armed men assaulted and seized the building in Tikrit, the capital of Salaheddin Province in northern Iraq. Iraqi forces launched a raid to take back the building and free hostages, many of whom were killed by the attackers in the building, the officials said.

The armed militants, clad in police uniforms, clashed with the Iraqi police, and a suicide car bombing also was reported in the fighting. Read more »

An Exclusive Interview with Lindsey Christian

Posted in Conversation Piece on March 22, 2011 by mymorningjoe

MyDailyJoe (Associated Content/Yahoo) introduces you to the multi-talented and multi-dimensional Lindsey Christian, aka Chris, with an exclusive up close and personal interview.

MDJ: We’re right here with female artist Chris. In 2008 you established Soblu Music Group. What was the first move to be made immediately after you established the company?

Chris: It really spawned from the need to put out the soundtrack [Jazz in the Diamond District] for the film we were working on of the same title. That was the first project we put out on the label.

MDJ: Is there anything you would have done different during the upstart of Soblu?

Chris: Is that a trick question (laughs). There are a lot of things I should have done differently. I feel that way about every venture I have started. I am a perfectionist so I always find flaws in what I do. But without the mistakes you can’t really learn and grow. So in that sense, I wouldn’t change anything.

MDJ: It’s almost like you had so much going on that Soblu was necessary. You had to create it.

Chris: Because everything we were doing was in the entertainment industry, it made sense to just keep expanding what we could do in-house. Even with the talent management arm that we started, we were working with so many talented people and we wanted to work with some of them and really bridge the gap between them and the industry. So everything really just
developed naturally.

MDJ: Speaking of the film, you co-wrote and directed it in 2009. What was that experience like? Read more »

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U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigns after public spat

Posted in Conversation Piece on March 20, 2011 by mymorningjoe

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Mexico has resigned after a public dispute with President Felipe Calderon over the handling of the war against Mexico’s powerful drug gangs.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that she and President Barack Obama had accepted Ambassador Carlos Pascual’s resignation “with great reluctance.”

The announcement came as a surprise just as Obama began a five-day trip to Latin America, where he is visiting El Salvador, Brazil and Chile, to shore up ties with the region.

The United States and Mexico have long lauded their close economic ties and cooperation on security issues, with more than $1 billion in U.S. aid being funneled to Mexican forces to battle the drug cartels.

But a diplomatic fight erupted after State Department documents published by WikiLeaks showed Pascual criticizing Mexican authorities’ lack of coordination in operations targeting cartel leaders.

[ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ]

Calderon lashed out in an unusually critical newspaper interview on February 22, saying Pascual had shown “ignorance” and distorted what was happening in the country. Read more »