Hip-Hop Dominates Olympians’ Playlists
What are the Olympic athletes listening to on their iPods? A little Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and even some Gucci Mane. Team USA’s shining stars share what gets them pumped before going for the gold at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Skier Lindsey Vonn
1. Beyoncé – “Sweet Dreams”
2. Lil Wayne – Anything on Tha Carter III
3. T.I. feat. Justin Timberlake – “Dead and Gone”
4. Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Snowboarder Louie Vito
1. Gucci Mane – “Bingo”
2. Da Underdawgz – “Gorillaz”
3. Jay-Z – “Justify My Thug”
4. Stunnaman – “2800″
5. Trouble feat. Stunnaman – “Cadillac”
6. Shyne – “Diamonds and Mac 10s”
7. Lil Scrappy – “Oh Yeah”
8. 50 Cent feat. Eminem – “Patiently Waiting”
9. Dr. Dre feat. Eminem – “Forgot About Dre”
10. Juice – “Be Easy”
11. Clipse feat. Cam’ron and Pharrell – “Popular Demand (Popeyes)”
Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler
1. Dead Prez – “It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop”
2. 50 Cent feat. Justin Timberlake – “Ayo Technology”
3. Run-DMC – “It’s Like That”
4. Beatnuts – “Watch Out Now”
5. A Tribe Called Quest – “Da Booty”
Snowboarder Elena Hight
1. Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
2. T.I. feat. Rihanna – “Live Your Life”
3. Lil Wayne feat. Bobby Valentino – “Mrs. Officer”
Figure skater Johnny Weir
1. Sam Cooke – “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Hip Hop Culture Video
A look into youth, influence and hip-hop culture
Hip-Hop Music vs. Hip-Hop Culture
For our 4th episode of the NahMean man-on-the-street interview series, John Public talks to a wide range of Hip-Hop fans and participants in the culture about the day to day influence that rappers and their raps have on them and others as individuals. I would also like to take this opportunity to announce the upcoming NahMean series companion mixtape, John Says: NahMean, that Mr. Public is currently prepping and will be dropping right here in the coming weeks.
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What is Facebook HipHop?
Facebook’s HipHop
The influence that Facebook is having on the enterprise now goes beyond making the corporate world a more Web-oriented place – its impact now goes deep into the code.
Facebook announced this week that it has rewritten the PHP runtime, translating it to C++ (a more machine-readable language) which is then compiled with g++. This is no small feat. Facebook engineer Haiping Zhao said that the rewrite significantly reduced the CPU usage on its Web servers by an average of about 50% depending on the page
The impact of this development on the enterprise will depend on a few factors:
- What kind of community develops around HipHop.
- How willing enterprise developers will be to embrace HipHop.
- How the improved run time will actually benefit enterprise operations.
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