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DENNIS HASKINS, A.K.A. PRINCIPAL BELDING FROM ‘SAVED BY THE BELL’ TO RELEASE KARAOKE CD/DVD
Principal Belding, from TV’s “Saved By the Bell,” is releasing a karaoke CD/DVD set titled “Karaoke With Your Favorite Principal Dennis Haskins A.K.A. ‘Mr. Belding’,” on September 1, via Marketwire. Sadly, there aren’t any tunes from the Zach Attack on the set, but some of the karaoke tunes include “School’s Out,” “California Dreamin’” and, of course, “Friends in Low Places.” We’ll get drunk and sing to that!
THE 11 MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS IN HIP HOP HISTORY
About.com has a great list of the most embarrassing moments in Hip Hop history, including Dr. Dre in makeup. What about Eminem getting teabagged by Bruno?
A couple embarrassing moments from the list:
10. Akon or Con Man?
Akon always touted his past reputation as the ring leader of a notorious car theft clique. He claims to have been locked up for 31/2 years. He even rode his way to fame on the strength of a catchy single titled “Locked Up,” in which ‘Kon gave a supposedly autobiographical account of prison desolation. In fact, Akon was so obsessed with his felonious past that he named his label Konvict Music. That sound you hear at the beginning of every song he produces? That’s the sound of a clanking cell door.
A Smoking Gun investigation would later revealed some inconsistencies between his account and the real deal. Sure, Akon was arrested several times, but the man who titled his sophomore LP Konvicted has never served jail time.
9. Dr. Dre in Pumps and Mascara
At the height of the Eazy-E vs Dr. Dre beef in 1992, the feuding friends traded insults non-stop. Just when it appeared as if Dre had sealed the deal with “Dre’s Day,” Eazy-E rebounded with “Real Muthaf-ckin’ Gs.” Eazy-E attacked Dre and Snoop, dubbing them studio gangsters who had never really witnessed the harsh realities of the “hood,” but that wasn’t the highlight. He devoted plenty of airtime to Dre’s past as a member of the electro-pop group World Class Wrecking Cru’ saying that he dressed in drag outfit while in the group. “Damn it’s a trip how a n-gga can go so quick from wearing lipstick to smoking on chronic at picnics,” he rapped. Eazy also threw in a promo pic of Dre from 1986 dressed in pumps and mascara to boot.
HUMAN HEAD TURNTABLES
Via Buzzfeed comes this creepy video of turntables made from human heads. We would like it written into our wills that when we die, our heads will be re-animated as human turntables. Then we can keep the music going for all eternity.
TIC TAC MUSIC
On I Am Bored, we found this video of a man entertaining a crowd with music he’s making from utilizing Tic Tac containers. It’s pretty amazing, and will no doubt lead to a full stage show, ala Stomp.
MADONNA BOOED FOR SUPPORTING GYPSIES
BeatCrave has a piece on Madonna getting booed in Romania for supporting gypsies. Yes, gypsies. They still exist, apparently, and Madonna supports them. Who knew?
12 UNGODLY AWFUL ALBUMS BY OTHERWISE GREAT ARTISTS
FunnyCrave has a list of really awful albums by some of your favorite artists. KISS’ “Carnival of Souls” and Van Halen’s album with someone who wasn’t named Diamond Dave or Sammy Hagar made the list. We would also like to nominate Electronic. It was an Ungodly awful supergroup formed from members of three great ’80s bands (The Smiths, New Order, and The Pet Shop Boys). The end result was painful.
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