Cassie Is For Comeback In Complex Magazine
August 4th, 2008 | Posted in Magazines
Bad Boy recording artist Cassie graces two ultra sexy covers for Complex Magazine’s August/September issue, which hits newsstands August 12.
The Me & U hitmaker sat down with Complex to talk about her upcoming album, rumored relationship with Diddy and growing up ethnically challenged. Here are some excerpts from their conversation:
Your second album was supposed to have come out a while ago. Why hasn’t it?
Based on my past and how my last album came out, I really need to come back much, much stronger. I wanted to have more personality. Before, I had tracks delivered to me; you pick and you choose, and there’s no personality behind it, nobody knows who you are. I really want to tell a story when I’m doing a song. Vocally, either you like my voice or you don’t. I’m not trying to blow like Mariah, back when she was doing that.What’s the harshest thing that’s been said about you?
“She’s fucking for checks.” I don’t fuck for checks—I’d rather live on the street.But is your single “Official Girl” a marketing ploy to cash in on the rumor that you and Diddy are dating?
Nope. It wasn’t planned. It was just a song I really loved that I heard. Nobody will ever know who “Official Girl” is about. They think it’s about certain people but it’s not. Anything that happens in my personal life is personal. I never actually put anything out there. Nobody’s really known who I’ve dated.Have you seen any of the debates about your ethnicity online? It’s just like Dave Chappelle’s “Racial Draft” sketch.
What’s funny about it is, when I was growing up, I wasn’t confused. I knew exactly what I was. My dad’s Filipino, my mom is Mexican, West Indian, and black—I’m a little melting pot. In school, you were either black or white. Being Asian really wasn’t anything until I got to high school and was modeling all the time, and it was important because it intrigued people. Black people definitely didn’t claim me before. They were like, “Light skin over there, she’s just not for us.” [Laughs.] It’s all perception. The other day, I was at the drugstore and this girl in line was like, “She’s next, the white girl.” I’m not white. I’m not even close.
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Meagan Good Does Complex Magazine
June 18th, 2008 | Posted in Magazines, Videos
Actress-turned-video-vixen-turned-actress Meagan Good recently sat down with Complex Magazine, and discussed her role in Mike Myers’ new comedy, “The Love Guru,” and various other oddities. Check it out:
In The Love Guru you play the wife of a hockey player. Were you able to relate?
I can relate in the sense that he left her. He left because of his feelings of inadequacy. He felt he wasn’t going to win the World Cup—You mean the Stanley Cup?
Yes, the Stanley Cup. [Laughs.] That’s the one.I take it you’re not a huge hockey fan.
Ehhh…I follow boxing a little bit.Do you get frustrated when people forget about your previous acting and just peg you as a video vixen?
A lot of people ask me “How do you make the transition from video girl to actress?” It’s a little frustrating because I was acting before I did videos. But if somebody knows me as a video vixen, I’m not mad at that at all.Is Hollywood taking you more seriously now?
Yeah. It’s been a long time coming, but it’s good. I feel like I paid my dues.As far as movies go, what’s your take on nudity in films?
If it’s done artistically, and it’s necessary for the scene, that’s one thing. But when people show full on breasts and A-S-S, it’s just shock value.Of course, some people really like A-S-S. But I guess that means you’re not looking to get back into videos.
As of right now, I don’t see myself doing a music video for a long time. I have offers but at this point in my life I don’t want people to only look at me as a sex kitten.Well, you’ll be missed.
I don’t know, I’d consider being a back-up dancer in a Britney Spears video.Really?! Britney now?
I hope and pray she gets it together. I love her. I would do anything. I’d be like “Gimme, gimme more!”
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Mila Kunis Gets Sexy For Complex Magazine
March 27th, 2008 | Posted in Magazines, Television
Mila Kunis has posed for the cover of the April/May 2008 issue of Complex Magazine, and she looks pretty hot!
In this issue: The actress reveals her thoughts on invisibility, talks about her acting job on Family Guy and lots more.
Mila on what she would do with the power of invisibility
“I would go into the White House, I would go into the Senate. I would go into these peoples’ private homes and feel like I was invading them and it would be the craziest rush. It’s the most fucked up thing you could ever do. I think it would be great.”Mila on the high stress work environment that is Family Guy
“I come to work one day out of the month. I come in my pajamas, I hang out and play Ping-Pong, I record a couple pages of stuff, and I leave. I hope that job never ends. It’s like money from the sky.”
Be sure to pick up the issue when it hits stands nationwide on April 10th.
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Ice Cube Blames The Current State Of Hip-Hop On Viacom
January 8th, 2008 | Posted in Magazines, Music News
Ice Cube recently sat down with Complex Magazine to discuss the current state of Hip-Hop among other things:
On your last album you kind of poked fun at kids coming out of pocket and acting hard in the rap game, do you think things have gotten worse since then?
I feel like you got a different kind of rap. You got real serious rap and you got comic-book rap. And, you know most of them dudes just fall in the comic-book section of this whole thing.What do you mean by that?
You have people that are way over the top with it, and fake with it no matter what they do, and you got people that are real with it. I’m not saying that gangster rap is real, and ring-tone rap ain’t, because both rap is real. I don’t want you to be fake and just trying to do anything you need to to get over. Those are the rappers I don’t like the ones that do anything to get over. They got to be popcorn they’ll be popcorn, they got to be hard they’ll be hard. That’s fake. My style ain’t never change.You said your new album would be more political than usual, what was the reasoning for heading in that direction?
I just hate the commercialized game, I hate being worried about what the program director’s thinking. All that kind of stuff doesn’t make any difference. What makes the difference is what the fans think, what the intelligent hardcore, mature Hip-Hop fan wants to hear. Get it to them and let’s make music. I’m at a point where I’m not just grinding at this record, like “Yo, I got to eat off this,” so I could have more fun with it, and do what I feel and not do it for other reasons. When you’re on the record label, they are worried about that kind of stuff. You know, like where’s the single? Where’s the single? You just want to give them a single kick in the ass, and tell them to get the fuck out of the studio [laughs]. I’m just going back to the essence, doing it from the heart, doing it from the gut, and being happy with the results.On your last album you went kind of hard at George W. Bush, what caused you the frustration?
He doesn’t give a fuck about anybody. That’s my main frustration. He cares about making his families rich and his friends. That’s how his daddy is, and that’s how he is. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. They don’t care about nobody, they just want to be rich, and use their position to get richer. They know they have four or eight years to snatch and grab all they can and they did. And people are going to say “worst president ever,” and he’ll say “who gives a shit? I’m rich.”In NWA, you guys said what you wanted to say and you never held back-how different is it today?
I don’t know if it’s different. I don’t know if rappers are holding back. I think the rappers are going with the audience. At some point mainstream media decided to promote hardcore gangster rap to the masses on a big level, and you can’t blame the rappers for that, it was something that [the media] did in the mid ’90s. Now they want to blame us for them taking it and blowing it up. The Viacoms and all these people in the world got to take the blame too. They ain’t no innocent bystanders in this shit either. So if it got out of control or whatever, it ain’t just because of the artist.Interesting…
What it is is that they kind of pushed escapism rap, and they pushed the political rap to the back. Political rap is more of a threat than shake-ya-ass, titties, get drunk, take an X pill, whatever the hell type of music-so that’s what they wanted people to be focused on. They didn’t like things were said in the early ’90s, late ’80s,that have been lost until now. In the late ’90s there was no market for this kind of rap. Now through YouTube and people getting their own information through the computer and things like that, people are getting what they really want and they’re not being programmed. This kind of music that’s coming back is real. There was a wave to stomp it out. But it never went all the way out.
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Kristen Bell in Complex Magazine
November 30th, 2007 | Posted in Magazines
Actress Kristen Bell is so HOT; she doesn’t need any mistletoe as her excuse to kiss as she graces the cover of the December and January 2008 issue of Complex Magazine.
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T.I. in Complex Magazine
October 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Magazines
T.I. is featured in the November 2007 issue of Complex Magazine. The cover reads “Home for the Holidays with the American Gangster,” although there is a strong possibility that T.I. won’t be home for the holidays. What a shame…
Here’s an excerpt from T.I.’s interview with Complex Magazine:
You’re the only rapper to drop platinum albums the last two years. How can you say you don’t fit in? When I saw Tupac talking that “Thug Life” shit, getting locked up for shooting police, and getting shot and living, that’s when I was like, Damn, them niggas is really about that shit. Now you’re just let down. This ain’t this guy that he was on this record. And nobody seems to have a problem with it. It’s a lot of fake shit in it. I like to consider myself an intelligent person, and this shit is not something of intelligence anymore. It’s getting real young and stupid, and that ain’t me.
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Harley-Davidson And Complex Magazine Celebration
October 19th, 2007 | Posted in Celebrity Sightings
Last night, Harley-Davidson and Complex Magazine hosted an event and fashion show to celebrate LA Fashion Week. Adrienne Bailon, Claudia Jordan, Aubrey O’Day, DMC, Kyla Pratt and Travis Barker were among attendance.
Picture Above: Aubrey O’Day and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels… Audbrey looks a hot mess! I love the cleavage, but hate everything else… And whats up with that Run DMC chain?
Maria Conchita Alonso and Travis Barker were there.
Cheetah Girls, Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams…Adrienne is rumored to be replacing Vanessa Hudgens in HSM 3.
Actress Kyla Pratt looked very cute.
Model Claudia Jordan posed for our cameras.
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Alicia Keys in Complex Magazine
October 1st, 2007 | Posted in Magazines
Alicia Keys looks pretty hot and tempting in the latest issue of Complex Magazine (November 2007).
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