| Mixtape Monday: Jim Jones Drops His Own Gangsta ; Jail Doesn't Scare ...
I'm so smooth. People love it. When I was on Koch, it was political. Now I'm on Sony; I'm politics. It's about to get heavy."
Jones' next album will drop sometime around Easter.
"I'm in the studio like I'm selling crack," he said. "Twelve a.m. to 6 in the morning."
Jones has never been one to idly sit on his hands. He recorded his next mixtape, Harlem's American Gangsta, in just over a week.
"I did like nine songs in six days," he told us last week. "We just started this right before the deadline. Two days for production [of the CDs], two days for promotion. We just go hard. I just want everybody to know this a free album for Harlem. This side is the Harlem side of Harlem. That side is the Brooklyn side of Harlem."
Jones is referring to Jay-Z's Tuesday LP, American Gangster, inspired in part by the movie of the same name.
A history of the Daytona 500
Relive the history of the Daytona 500 with a look at the first 49 Daytona 500s. The 50th race is Sunday, Feb. 17. Race 1
Feb. 22, 1959
Top 3: Lee Petty, Johnny Beauchamp, Charley Griffith.
Margin of victory: 2 feet.
Synopsis: The iconic photo of Lee Petty, Johnny Beauchamp and the lapped car of Joe Weatherly all approaching the finish line side-by-side is as much a part of NASCAR as the picture of Ty Cobb sliding into third is to baseball. Beauchamp is declared the winner but three days later NASCAR gives the win to Petty after studying photos of the finish.
Fast facts: No cautions. ... Only two of the 59 cars that start the race finish on the lead lap. ... 28 cars fail to finish the race. ... The only 500 to feature hard tops and convertibles.
Auction kicks off with Robosaurus
PHOENIX, Ariz . -- Why, you have to wonder, would someone who cherishes vintage automobiles want to buy something designed to tear those vehicles into smoldering shreds? We have to ask because right there among the classics and concepts being auctioned off at the Barrett-Jackson Car Collector Auction next week is Robosaurus, a 40-foot tall, 31-ton, fire-breathing mechanical monster that has been ripping cars to pieces for nearly two decades. Billed as "The World's First CAR-nivorous Monster," Robosaurus's car-crushing show has been an attraction at fairgrounds, racetracks and other venues throughout North America and has made several trips overseas. .
8 dengue cases in tricity
A city coach Surinder Mahajan, will be in Hyderabad on Tuesday to start coaching the national junior badminton team for the junior World Cup Championships, to be held in South Korea from November 2 to 7. The camp, in which Commonwealth games bronze medallist Saina Nehwal will be joined by 10 promising boys and girls, will continue till October 30. Surinder Mahajan had earlier accompanied the junior badminton team for the Youth Commonwealth Games, held in Australia last year, in which India won a silver. He works with the Sports Authority of India and has been associated with training of many promising boys and girls of Chandigarh and surrounding areas. .
Business leaders talk tax increase
Instead of periodically throwing big money at slick publications they need to be working leads they can get from reporters who are looking for stories. Hopefully, they already are doing this. Somebody with a little PR experience, who can write a press release, could multi-task for the Chamber and/or the CVB and make a huge difference. There are services that are free and some that can be subscribed to that would generate all kinds of opportunities to spread the word about Natchez. If the tax comes from tourists and they allocate a portion of the budget to finding and following up on national leads rather than mainly advertising in publications where they are competing with everyone else in MS or the South it would benefit the tourism industry substantially. .
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