Leave your glass slippers at home this weekend because you’ll need your dancing shoes for this ball. Saturday June 18th is the inaugural Governors Ball, an awesome festival set up by Founders Entertainment. I’ve never been to the Ball before (no one has, it’s the first ever) but I know that it’s going to be massive. Check the ingredients and tell me if you feel any differently: Take New York City, add another island, non-stop music, two stages, a lineup that has something for everyone, and beer pong – which I will be winning quickly because I want to watch the shows. If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, let us show you why you should. Check out our full preview after the jump.

In retrospect, 2003 is the year of reinvention of the pop star. No longer were Disney kids like Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera turning out cutesy songs for the under-17 set – or going through a “Can’t Be Tamed” phase. Instead, both Timberlake and Aguilera – as well as Beyoncé – knew that to have lasting careers, they need to produce songs to appeal to all ages – or at least to those under 30. In 2003, you didn’t need to be embarrassed to add “Crazy in Love” or “Rock Your Body” to your homecoming playlist alongside the latest trance track or The White Stripes. After all, everyone else had been listening to them all summer long, anyway. Check out this class’s suggested playlist after the jump.

Hip Hop, it’s some of the best music on Earth. Not to be confused with rap, which dominates the airwaves and is rife with bad lyrics, dance instructions and outrageously lavish music videos (where most high priced items are rented and the money’s fake). Here are seven albums that truly define how Hip Hop should sound. If you HAVE heard these albums, spread the love. Run and tell that!

If smoking does not put you in the perfect emotional state already, then there are songs specifically made for people just like you. Rappers and mostly any musician of the 1970′s smoked a lot of weed when they were making their music. So they know what it’s like when you have that deep yearning for a sound in your life that you need to be hearing at that moment. These are songs by potheads made for potheads. They’re intended to entertain as well as give the stoner an even better reason to keep their high strong and their head in the clouds.

Throw comedy everyman Will Ferrell into a zany project that deals with the rise and fall of a lovable idiot and the outcome will be golden – that seems to be the thought process behind Semi-Pro, Ferrell’s first official bomb (even if it does well in theaters, which it will).
In Semi-Pro Will plays Jackie Moon, a loud-mouthed Lothario who owns, coa… Click to read more

Semi Pro will hit theaters on February 29, 2008.… Click to read more

Pimp C of the legendary Southern rap duo UGK (Underground Kingz) was found dead in a Hollywood hotel today. While Pimp C and Bun B rose to prominence with their cameo on Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” UGK was releasing records as far back as 1992, with their debut album Too Hard to Swallow.
Pimp C (birth name Chad Butler) was 33 years of age.
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