This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate [...]

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Mission Expensive: Nazi Extras Sue Tom Cruise’s Film Studio for $11 Million:
It all started when 11 extras dressed in Nazi army uniforms tumbled out of a World War II-era truck in Berlin during the filming of Tom Cruise’s movie “Valkyrie.” Now, the actors are suing United Studios for $11 million.
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saac Hayes was the first big celebrity that i interviewed. I can remember him being funny, welcoming and shorter then I expected. I guess that’s what we all think when we see someone as being bigger then life. This is DTV tribute to the man, the legend, the late Isaac Hayes. May God Bless [...]

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This animation is based on the track “Cloud Cuckoo Land” from the album “The London Book of the Dead” by British band The Real Tuesday Weld. Film shows what happened to the Royal Legion of birds from the animation “Bathtime in Clerkenwell” (2002) after they took over London and came to [...]

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Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an All American basketball player for the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008. She may be best known for being the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game and the first woman to [...]

In March 2004 Parker won the Slam Dunk contest of the McDonald’s High School All-American Game in Oklahoma City[5]. Only a 17-year-old high school senior, Parker outlasted five male competitors for the title, including future 2005 NBA Slam Dunk contestant JR Smith and champion Josh Smith. When her remaining male competitors missed their much more [...]