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Shaun Boothe “Unauthorized Biography of Sean Combs” (Video)

I really think this Shaun Boothe cat is going to do big things. I posted up a collaboration he did with Amanda Diva called Music Man back in April (see Shaun Boothe feat. Amanda Diva “Music Man” (VIDEO)) and I’ve continued to be impressed with the stuff he’s delivered since then.

He’s got a sense of creativity that is certainly outside the box in terms of mainstream hip-hop, yet his songs and videos don’t get overly artistic, which will usually translate into something more recognizable as backpack or emo rap and bore me to death.

His latest project, Unauthorized Biography of Sean Combs, is a video dedication to the career of P.Diddy, as told through Sean’s raps and the accompanying visuals. This is the 6th Biography video in a 12 part series and he states the next story will highlight the career of Oprah. Side note: Did Oprah get her hip-hop pass reinstated?

Rupert Murdoch Hates Myspace Too!

As I reported the other day, media mogul (and owner of Myspace) Rupert Murdoch has a new biography on the way where he candidly bashes Fox News poster boy Bill O’Reilly. The biographer is definitely building some hype for the book, as he’s now divulged Murdoch’s feelings on the Myspace social network, which he seems to despise as well. This is getting weird…

Here’s what he had to say about the network:

“If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a (expletive) cretin. And you’re not only a (expletive) cretin, but you’re poor,” said Michael Wolff, whose previous book Burn Rate chronicled dot-com excess in the late ’90s and who openly attests to hating the word “blog.”

“Nobody who has beyond an eighth grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people,” added Wolff, who is also the founder of Newser.

Rupert Murdoch Hates Bill O’Reilly

Peep the excerpt from an upcoming biography on media mogul (and owner of FOX News) Rupert Murdoch sharing his views on our friend Bill O’Reilly:

“It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.’s highest levels) who absolutely despises Bill O’Reilly, the bullying, mean-spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator,” Wolff wrote, “but [Fox News chief executive] Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other.”

“The embarrassment can no longer be missed,” Wolff wrote, in another section of the book. “He mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it. He barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O’Reilly. And while it is not that he would give Fox up—because the money is the money; success trumps all—in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets.