The Pepsi 500 Running Wide Open charity event benefiting the NASCAR Foundation was at Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles. The event was hosted by Jeff Gordon and Pharrell Williams. A few other celebs came out, including Aaron Eckhart of “The Dark Knight” fame. Spears has reportedly been turning her life around over the past year. It seems that Pharrell Williams has worked with nearly everyone in the music industry, and he is praising the career of Britney Spears. The pair have worked together on multiple hit songs, including “I’m a Slave 4 U” and “Boys.” “She’s made her mark with her career,” “She’s super-talented. She’s an entertainer.” Which may not seem like much, but considering that Spears is nominated for three VMAs, and is reportedly working on her best, and darkest, album to date (according to Spears, her manager and her producer), this seems like a great compliment. “I’m not sure [if she will win],” Williams said. “I don’t even know if it really matters whether she wins or not.”
*thecelebritycafe.com
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Pharrell Praises Britney Spears Before VMAs
Nelly Shots Video For Let It Go (Lil’ Mama) featuring Pharrell
After much delay, St. Louis’ best finally gave New York’s industry audience a taste of his upcoming album, Brass Knuckles, set to drop September 16th. In an intimate location that resembled a glorified chop shop on Hudson Street, Nelly—tequila in hand—went track for track, unraveling a story behind how every one came to life. As guests sipped on Don Julio spiked punch, they gathered around the DJ booth to bounce to Nelly’s latest single, “Body On Me,” and to find out if the rest is just as hot. Bursting at the seams with all-star cameos (Akon, Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, Pharrell, and of course, Ashanti, to name a few), the album was almost overwhelming. We actually think that the songs where he’s left to his own devices and playful hooks are the ones that shine, but let’s just see what the charts say…
Nelly – Brass Knuckles (2008) (September 16th)
01 – U Ain’t Him
02 – Hold Up feat. LL Cool J & T. I.
03 – L. A. feat. Nate Dogg & Snoop Dogg
04 – Long Night feat. Usher
05 – Lie feat. St. Lunatics
06 – Party People feat. Fergie
07 – Self Esteem feat. Chuck D
08 – Body On Me feat. Akon & Ashanti
09 – Stepped On My J’z feat. Ciara & JD
10 – Let It Go (Lil’ Mama) feat. Pharrell
11 – One & Only
12 – Chill feat. St. Lunatics
13 – Who Fucks Wit Me feat. Avery Storm
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B. G. – ‘Bout To Blow feat. Pharrell (Freestyle) (MP3)
Nelly – Let It Go (Lil’ Mama) feat. Pharrell (Live)
Skateboard P Has A Cameo In Concrete Jungle (2009)
Pharrell is featured in the Concrete Jungle (2009), a documentary about the Skate & Hip Hop Culture. In the 1970’s, on opposite sides of the city and opposite sides of the country, two separate yet equally dynamic new art forms were emerging. Both possessed a rebellious spirit and quickly evolved into movements that have become a global phenomenon and the creative voice of a generation. Hip Hop and Skateboarding were born.
Concrete Jungle (2009)
Release Date:15 January 2009
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
Tony Hawk As Himself
Pharrell Williams As Himself
Travis Barker As Himself
KRS-One As Himself
Chad Muska As Himself
Paul Rodriguez As Himself
Stevie Williams As Himself
Terry Kennedy As Himself
Jereme Rogers As Himself
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Madonna’s Tour Grand Opening
Madonna kicked off her Sticky & Sweet World Tour in all grandeur with a show that featured eight costume changes, $2 million worth of jewellery and a full dance troupe. She began the 49-date trek with an opening concert in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday night and wowed the 40,000 people at the Millennium Stadium by taking to the stage on a giant throne, surrounded by throngs of dancers in top hats. The show was split into four parts and each was followed by video recordings from celebrity pals including Britney Spears, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West. The 50-year-old singer stunned the audience with her still-sexy self and kept her fans happy by performing a mixture of classic hits including Vogue, Borderline, La Isla Bonita and Into The Groove.
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Madonna – Get Stupid (Interlude)
Pharrell’s Voltron Gets The Hollywood Green Light
Pharrell’s “Voltron” movie gets the Hollywood Green Light When rumors of a potential Voltron Movie hit Hollywood over three years ago, Pharrell Williams jumped at the chance to be involved due to his love for Japanese pop culture (hence BBC’s popularity in Japan). Attached as a producer to the film, Pharrell not only was willing to contribute some money out of his own pocket for the movie, but he wanted to lend his music producing skills to do the music score as well.
After many years of development and negotiations, Voltron The Movie is now a reality. 20th Century Fox and Relativity Media just announced that Voltron has been given the green light and will go into production with a “modest budget” and a look and feel similar to 300. The movie is set for a 2010 release and this will be Pharrell’s first foray into producing a major motion picture.
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Omarion Has The Neptunes On New Album
O’s new album is really just getting started. He’s gone from the Sony system, where he spent the first six years of his career, to Timbaland’s Mosley Music Group. The deal was recently finalized. Omarion said he felt the need to change labels because of all the changes that happened at Sony over the past few years. Switches in staffing, he said, affected the proper push of his past few projects. There’s no date yet for the new album, nor have any guest stars been announced. The only other producer being mentioned is Pharrell Williams.
“I asked to be released,” he said of the rumors that Sony dropped him. “A release is different from a drop. When an artist is dropped, usually they haven’t brought any revenue to the company. As you know, I’ve been with that company for a long time, roughly over six years. Throughout B2K and my solo albums, revenue was still brought in. An artist like me could never get dropped. How did I get dropped and I still ended up in a great situation? Usually when you hear ‘drop,’ it means, ‘Oh, he’s over.’ It’s a wrap. It’s unfortunate that stuff like that gets put out there. Everybody likes to associate — especially me being such a cool dude — with negative things. Are you kidding me?”
“We’re just picking each other’s brains to see what can be done differently,” he continued. “My energetic style and aggressiveness when I perform, I don’t think that’s necessarily been captured [for the length of] an album. I always felt like I had joints like ‘Touch,’ even ‘Entourage,’ where it’s upbeat. But it hasn’t been captured in an album. All these crazy new dances, all these different things I wanna do. When I look at my peers in the game, they capture the true essence of who they are. I kinda felt like throughout my career, I had just blots of that.”
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The Fader Fam-Lay Article
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Fam-Lay “Da Beeper Record” 12-inch. I saw the cutest baby on the subway today. She was in a stroller and she was so little. She was sleeping but would half wake up intermittently, mostly with her eyes still closed, and paw around at her face and tiny blanket. Then she yawned and her mouth moved in a circle. The palms of her hands were pink. She had a lot of hair. She could not have been more than a few weeks old. She was chilling. A while ago, my friend Jessica asked me why everything makes me bummed. It’s a good question. That baby was one hundred percent cool though.
I bet Fam-Lay gets bummed out by everything all the time. Like especially the fact that no one cares about his music even though it’s good. There used to be dozens of copies of the “Rock N Roll” 12-inch at this one store, all a dime apiece. I bought three or four and gave them away. But “Da Beeper Record,” I never saw that until I went to Amoeba in San Francisco a few years ago and they had piles of them for three dollars each. “Catch me on the night shift like the Commodores/ If you about to bullshit what you’d call me for?” My grama is like that, she hates the phone. She is like Fam-Lay, they both work hard and don’t get a lot of recognition, except from their close family (me and Pharrell, respectively).
Sinden made a song out of “Beeper” and then Kid Sister rapped over it. I wonder if he heard that. My grama tutors young immigrant kids. I wonder if she sees them when they get old. I wonder if they ever look at cute babies. My grama has a really small dog named Yasmine. Does Fam-Lay have a cute baby? Or did he keep a copy of the note Pharrell wrote when he promised to make him famous? My grama has a cool Turkish accent. Fam-Lay sounds southern. Fam-Lay sounds like family, my grama is my family. This is bumming me out. Do you think cute babies like rap music? If I was a baby would I be cute? Was I a cute baby? Was Fam-Lay? Was my grama? This is bumming me out. Thanks to Alkashi.
*thefader.com