NYC BLACKOUT VH1 SPECIAL

For those who missed it the first time around, VH1 Classic is airing NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell tonight. The rock doc chronicles the city's legendary Summer of Sam, focusing on NYC's social woes—unemployment, crime, and, of course, the blackout—to illustrate how they gave rise to a cultural explosion. (Graffiti made for a colorful, er, silver lining.) It's worth DVR'ing to watch filmmakers interview a crew of seventies survivors on a variety of topics, including Where They Were When the Lights Went Out. Geraldo Rivera, apparently, was with Cheech—we're surprised he remembers. See below:


NY77: Blackout

Cassie New Hit Single - Official Girl

Cassie from Bad Boy Records is back at it with the new release of her hit single "Official Girl" Click here to download Official Girl

This album has many great beats on it as well as vocals from Bad Boy recording artist Cassie.

Cassie's new single 'Official Girl' featuring the one and only Lil Wayne, is available in stores and online today!

Also be sure to check out the video featuring Lil Wayne as well.

Great TV Spot Advertising

This ad definitely branches the gap of history and technology in just a few words and historical clips check it out and see if it reminds you of anything or someone from the past.

MacBookTouch drops in 2009

Although, the MacBookPro and MacBooks has made many happy with the speed and accessibility to the usefulness of production, Apple is yet coming out with a new and improved MacBook name MacBookTouch. The MacBookTouch looks like a rendition of the iphone with more features and has more exclusive innovative things attached to it consisting of a GPS System and easy to use qualities by just a touch of your finger. Now we all know that Apple definitely is trying to go global and make the whole world never use keys again when it comes to any technology, pretty soon we will be able to type on air and walk on water.

Microsoft Surface is on the rise

Microsoft is developing a new technology called Microsoft Surface. This new and improved way of using technology is very convenient in many ways being that you can use it for your restaurant business, advertising company, or simply to put together projects for school by taking digital photos that can be wirelessly downloaded to the surface immediately. It is said that the first couple public usage of this technology will possibly be in restaurants and stores in Las Vegas. When you get a chance check out the video and check out this new and improved technology that sorta looks like the iphone but on a bigger surface.

Barack Obama is my candidate - Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton called herself a "proud supporter of Barack Obama" after Democratic convention delegates greeted her with a standing ovation: "Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be our president." - Cnn

Wow, although it is a shock that Hillary Clinton has even considered being apart of the Obama camp. Its finally clear that she knows who the best candidate for the position of the United States President should belong to. Yesterday she gave a speech in which she rallied about how she supports Obama and how he will definitely be the change the U.S. will need to stride for the better.

Hotels.com Commerical: One of the worst yet

This is one of the worst commercial I've seen in a long time. In this commercial they have a black guy who seems to be really cheap and so cheap to the point where he goes to a hotel and has two white guys blowing bubbles in his tub as if he's in a jacuzzi. Not only has this TV spot ad for hotels.com create much controversy about it but it leave many people with mixed feelings as well. Check it out and let us know how it makes you feel after watching it.

Obama and his new running mate Biden

Many people would say that Barack Obama is out of his mind for making a person that once chastised him on live television his Vice President in this election. Barack's new running mate Joe Biden of Delware will be Baracks right hand man in this election and hopefully the ideas as to why he didn't believe Obama was qualified or even ready to be President will soon change in this election. Therefore this will be quite interesting and a race to remember in 2008.

Official Kanye West Good Morning Video

Kanye West New Official Video to Good Morning off of the Graduation Album

Dream Team Gains Win Over China!

This was the stuff a Dream Team is made of. Acrobatic moves, reverse slams and tomahawk dunks. Who needs outside shooting? Just toss it up and throw it down. The United States opened its campaign for Olympic basketball redemption Sunday with a 101-70 rout of host China that had even the home crowd oohing and aahing.

R.I.P. Bernie Mac

One of the greatest comedians alive pasted yesterday morning and today here at Koncrete Messages we would like to pay tribute to one of the Original Kings of Comedy Bernie Mac. Bernie was always good for making people laugh whether he was on stage or off and had a spirit of a champion. He has always had a bright smile on his face and will always be remembered as one of the greatest at what he did.



Mac died early Saturday morning of complications due to pneumonia, his publicist said. Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to his spokeswoman. A few years ago, Mac disclosed that he suffered from sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in tissue, most often in the lungs. Bernie Mac will definitely be miss by many and will not be forgotten from a long shot!

Robin Thicke: Evolving Soul, "Magic"

Robin Thicke definitely has one of the hottest videos out right now entitled "Magic" which has eye catch graphics, pretty women, and a phenomenal beat. It seems like just yesterday when Robin Thicke first got started just singing over a Neptune beat saying "I wana love you girl, I wana love you," and now after creating his first album, The Evolution of Robin Thicke he is moving forward to his new album Robin Thicke: Evolving Soul. Check out the Video and voice your own opinion.

"Messy Jesse and His Foul Remarks."

This month our Koncrete Exclusive goes to "Messy Jesse" also known as Jesse Jackson. In a shocking blast at Barack Obama that was caught on tape, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, "I wanna cut his nuts out." He made the astonishingly vulgar remark as he accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of giving moral lectures to African-Americans.

"See, Barack [has] been talking down to black people . . . I wanna cut his nuts off," Jackson said. While saying this Messy Jesse also moved his hands in a cutting motion and all of this was picked up by a live mike before an interview on health care on Fox News was aired off.



Although, Messy Jesse had some cruel things to say about Obama he apologized the next day publicly. Of course Obama accepted his apology and is still moving forward with his campaign and giving moral lectures to African-Americans as he did previously. One thing for sure is that Messy Jesse needs to lay low and stay away from trouble before he creates another mess for somebody to clean up.

First African American Super Hero on the Big Screen!

Recently the super action pack, Super Hero movie Hancock was not only a graphiclly well created movie but it created history as Will Smith played the role of John Hancock the first African American super hero to hit the Big Screen. Be sure to see how Diddy feel about the History in the making.

Get Paid On YouTube

Google Inc.'s YouTube is setting up a virtual screening room to bring the work of independent filmmakers to a global audience. Independent filmmakers will collect a majority share of ad revenue generated from views of their work. Struggling filmmakers already use YouTube to kick-start viral marketing campaigns. The new feature, which debuted Wednesday, gives them an easy-to-find home -- and makes them partners in drawing new ad revenue.

The screening room will highlight four new films a week, picked by a YouTube editorial panel. Submissions are welcomed. The panel also will scour film festivals and work with partners such as the Sundance Channel to identify prospects. Filmmakers can choose to have a "Buy Now" button attached to their work for sales of DVDs or digital copies. They will also collect a majority share of ad revenue generated from views of their work.

This way many youtube indie film makers will not only be able to display there work globally but also make money off of the views of there work just by it being on YouTube.....this is definitely a huge opportunity for advertisers and will have a nice impact on the world of new media. As for YouTube they are seriously considering making sure that everything they do for here on out will be to capitalize on money making ventures and move new media to the forefront.

R. KELLY CELEBRATION TEXT MESSAGE!

After R. Kelly, went through much unwanted attention about his pornography videos with young teenage girls for the pass few years he finally had a serious trial and with 14 counts against him in various cases he was found not guilty of them all. At approximately 6:00pm many random text messages and instant messages across the nation was sending out the infamous message about R. Kelly having a celebration party at Chuck E Cheese. It read exactly as follows: "R.KELLY NOT GUILTY CELEBRATION PARTY 2NITE ' @ CHUCK E CHEESE, 7PM until...., Ladies Free B4 9 w/high school ID.....NO PARENTS or Video Cameras!". As the nite went on the message continued to spread so dont be surprised if you receive a text message about the R&B KING having a party at CHUCK E CHEESE.

Oreo Reporter Goes Ghetto!

This month our Koncrete Exclusive goes to an Oreo Reporter who at the time was being very articulate and news like and switched up and went Ghetto in a matter of 3 secs as a moth flies in his mouth while he was reporting. So prepare to laugh and have a good time watching this brother change up from professional to down right just Ghetto.

"HUMMER BUMMER!"

Just recently gas prices have skyrocketed and that therefore, leaves many people unhappy with the money that they have to invest in gas just to get around. In early 2006, many people loved the new big body HUMMERs and trucks because they looked cool and was fun to drive. But now many are looking away from the bigger vehicles like Hummers and looking more towards more economical choices that are better.
This therefore, leaves General Motors in a bad position because not only are they losing money because these vehicles are not being sold like they use to, its now starting to become more of a liability than bringing in great revenue. So now there is a great big discussion about GM possibly wanting to get out of the Hummer business.

This definitely affects Advertising in a huge way because, now the advertisers for Hummer has to be very careful and clever as to how they will sale this vehicle so that their company does not lose much of their market shares. In return, makes the job a lot easier for Advertisers that are promoting more full efficient vehicles like Hondas, Hyundais, and Ford Focuses. Moreover, this now put advertising and marketing to the front of their to do list and for others it will be a piece of cake to sale a competing brand against GM. Especially if they do not produce a more fuel-efficient vehicle or gas prices continue to increase.

Straight 80's (The Cool Kids)

The Gold Chains, Nylon Jackets and Beepers just might be back on the rise as for this new young up and coming Rap Group from Chicago is definitely making it Cool once again. The Cool Kids was once your typical college students that surf the net, loved music and have a drive to be rich and successful in the near future. For this rap duo Mickey Rocks (born Antoine Reed) and Chuck Inglish (or Evan Ingersoll) met in 2005 after Mickey came across some of Chuck's beats online and liked what he heard.

After getting in contact with Chuck, Mickey went to Chi-town with the intention of making beats to sell to other artists. Immediately the two fused together and realized that they had the talent to not only produce beats but rap on them as well. In 2007, though they had yet to release any material outside of what was posted on their MySpace site or MP3 blogs, the group started receiving a lot of press attention from fellow-Chicagoans.

This led to a spot at New York's CMJ Music Marathon, where they shared a showcase with DJ A-Trak -- who offered to put out their EP --and they began to open up concerts for M.I.A. on her solo tour. Which led to them being signed to Chocolate Industries, where they released their debut, The Bake Sale EP, in January 2008, with major plans in the near future. You might have also seen this rap duo in the Zune ads on TV as well so be sure to look out for them because they are definitely on the rise and about to bring back a fresh old skool, new skool feel to the Hip-Hop game once again!

Photography by Oscar Merrida IV "Discover The World Of Photography"

One of the most inspirational Photography companies based out of Washington, D.C. right now would definitely be Photography by Oscar Merrida (OMIV). With there goal being perfection in Photography in every way possible OMIV invites us to "Discover the World of Photography!" Founded by Oscar Merrida IV in 2007, while at Howard University and he has put his passion and dream to the forefront and used that as fuel to help him build his company up to one of the most recognizable companies in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia Area. You can easy find that his company is one of the best when it comes to Sports Photography, Event Photography, Head Shots, and Personal Photo-shoots.

So if you are looking to take some professional pictures that will be sure to have a superior look to them you would definitely like the work of Photography by Oscar Merrida IV. If you would like more information please be sure to check out their site at WWW.OSCARMERRIDA.COM

The OMIV site was just launched and looks pretty amazing being that it was designed by Koncrete Media Group™, whom perfectly put together a website that captures the true essence of Photography and the professionalism and unique feel of Photography by Oscar Merrida IV.