The Game - The Game Wants To Work With Jay-z

Rapper THE GAME has been "subliminally" insulting JAY-Z on his records - in a bizarre bid to get the hip-hop mogul to work with him.

The Dreams hitmaker took shots at Jay-Z via his music on tracks like It's Okay (One Blood), after hearing a freestyle the 99 Problems star made that The Game thought was aimed at him.

It turned out to be a misunderstanding, but The Game is glad it happened - because Jay-Z has now acknowledged his presence in the rap game.

And he hopes their lyrical exchange will lead to them hooking up in the studio.

He says, "Even though me and (Jay-Z) don't talk or do songs, he knows. He listens.

"He heard the 'You're 38, and you're still rappin', ugh' (from It's Okay (One Blood)). He came back on 'Kingdom Come' and I was like, 'Yeah! Jay listens to my s**t! (When Jay said) 'I used to think that rapping at 38 was ill / Till last year I grossed about 38 mill.' I was like, 'I know who he is talkin' to. I know he listens. I know his antenna's up.'

"Maybe one day he'll do a song with me, and then I'll stop shooting subliminals."

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Club 8

   
Artist: Club 8

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Club 8

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Nouvelle

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10

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Consisting of singer Karolina Komstedt and composer/ multi-instrumentalist Johan Angergård, Club 8 debuted in 1995 upon their departure from Poprace. Intending on creating a sound of delicate, alive pop, the twosome quickly released their first base single "Me Too" shortly after their organisation. Compared to the likes of colleague Swedish residence Cloudberry Jam, The Cardigans and Red Sleeping Beauty, Club 8 continued with their first full-length Nouvelle in 1996. Their irregular album The Friend I Once Had came kO'd iI geezerhood by and by and finally followed with their first ever alive public presentation in New York City that same year.





Mark Anthony

Kendra's a V.I.P. -- Very Irritated Playmate

She showed up to Lil Wayne's show at the House of Blues with his posse -- but when Kendra Wilkinson had to wait an outrageous 13 minutes to get in, Playmate got pissy.

At least it beats waiting around the mansion for Hef to get it up though, right?





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Bassface Sascha

   
Artist: Bassface Sascha

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Different Faces

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17

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Pete Doherty Questions Babyshambles Future

Pete Doherty has questioned the future of Babyshambles, revealing that he is concerned why the band aren't a bigger commercial success.



Speaking to MTV News, to the surprise of his bandmates, Doherty said: “We’ve got a few concerns at the moment over issues with management, where the money has been going (and) distribution of wealth.”



The singer, who was speaking at the Rock AM festival, said that the group needed to “sit down as a band and talk about the future.”



"What’s happening and why, when and who with. Two years of arseing about, we could actually make money out of this job,” he said.



“I’ve just realised people are always saying to me ‘yeah but you can afford it’ and I’m like ‘what’s making them say that?’”



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A Place To Bury Strangers, Wire for South Street Seaport

A Place To Bury Strangers, Wire and Dirty Projectors have been lined up to play South Street Seaport this summer in New York.

The shows, which take place among the tall ships at Pier 17 in south Manhattan, will also feature performances from Atlas Sound, No Age, King Khan, White Williams and El Guincho.

The shows are all free, and tonight�??s show features Wire and New Zealand punk-rockers Die! Die! Die!

The schedule so far is:

Wire, Die! Die! Die!, DJ Mike Wolf (May 30)
A Place to Bury Strangers, King Khan & the Shrines (June 27)
No Age, Abe Vigoda, Telepathe (July 11)
Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las (18)
Atlas Sound, El Guincho (25)
Brother Ali (August 1)
Dirty Projectors, White Williams (15)

More acts will be announced soon. Stay tuned to [b]NME.COM for more details.


--By our New York staff.
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Artist Jim Torok Will Give You Love, He'll Hit You Like a Truck

Jim Torok’s All I Want Is My Truck (2006).Courtesy of Nancy Margolis Gallery
Jim Torok’s compact watercolors of chicken-wing dinner combos and sad faces captioned “You Are Happy” read like storyboards for cartoons produced in art-therapy classes for wayward youth in, say, rural Mississippi. Torok shows many more small, dichotomous works next to clay renderings of Jughead and Dick Tracy by sculptor Jack Earl at Nancy Margolis Gallery through June 28. —Emma Pearse