Lead single for the Str8 Killa EP, on sale August 3rd via Decon Records.

It feels like Gang Starr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music. A bunch of guys in front of the project steps. “Mass Appeal”, “Dwyck”, ‘Stick up kids just out to tax’ … It’s just so much, man. When Guru passed, and I’m hearing all these rumors, I just wanna kill everybody. I want to shoot the computer, cause I’m like, “No, this ain’t what we do when our legends, our icons, pass. We salute them. We don’t go for rumors; we salute these dudes.” He was an icon, man. It’s the purest group in hip-hop, in my opinion. DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.
Preemo, I was waiting for Preemo to give me a “Ten Crack Commandments” or a shoot em up, bang bang. He sent me the beat when Guru died — the day Guru died. It was a somber, sad beat. I knew where to go with it… I knew Preemo was hurting; I been through that with Pun. I knew how it felt. I had to pay homage and salute.

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Passenger plane crashes in hills near Pakistan capital

Mist hampers plane rescue

A plane has crashed in hills north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Police said it was an Airblue flight to Islamabad from Karachi, with more than 150 people on board.

It crashed in the Margalla Hills to the north of the city, and Pakistani television showed images of smoke and flames on a foggy hillside, with helicopters flying overhead.

A huge rescue effort has been launched. Officials said five bodies had been recovered.
Map of Pakistan

The plane, with an estimated 152 people on board, is thought to have left Karachi at 0750 (0350 GMT), and officials said it lost contact with the control tower minutes before landing.

Witness Khadim Hussain told the Reuters news agency: "It was raining. I saw the plane flying very low from the window of my office."

Saqlain Altaf told Pakistan's ARY news channel that he was on a family outing in the hills when he saw the plane, looking unsteady in the air.

"The plane had lost balance, and then we saw it going down," he said, adding that he heard the crash.

Officials said forestry guards in the Margalla Hills searching for survivors had seen five bodies.

Mohammed Usman, an official at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, said dozens of relatives of passengers gathered there were crying and desperate to get information about their loved ones.
The skies in Islamabad have been heavily overcast in the past couple of days.

Initial reports said the flight originated in Turkey, but this has not been confirmed. Later reports suggested it was a commuter flight.

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Bright and bold: Katy Perry shows off her enviable figure in PVC underwear in new promotional pictures for her new album, Teenage Dream


She has never been one to fade into the background.

And Katy Perry certainly stands out in the promotional pictures from her new album, 'Teenage Dream.'

Wearing a bright blue wig and PVC underwear, the 25-year-old singer is likely to achieve a place in the thoughts of adolescent boys everywhere, as the album title suggests.

In another photo Perry, wearing a cropped tasselled T-shirt with her home state California emblazoned on the front and leather hot-pants, she looks like a hippy Barbie of the future.

She even shows off the upper arm tattoo that matches her fiancé Russell Brand's.
When talking about the making of the album,which was done with the help of mega-star producers such as Dr Luke and Max Martin, Perry suggests that she had to fight to get what she wanted.

'I'm in the studio fighting with them to change the melody, or I'm fighting for the best lyric at all times,' she said in a recent interview with Billboard.

'I think we rewrote "Teenage Dream" five times for 10 days straight. On the last day, I was so happy to finally get somewhere that we all agreed on.'


Hippy chic: The California Gurls singer combines flowers in her hair with leather hot pants


Of her upcoming nuptials to Brand and subsequent bachelorette party, Katy's best friend, singer Rihanna, said: 'It’s so much pressure. Her wedding is probably going to be the best wedding I’ll ever go to and now I have to match the bachelorette party to that.'

'It’s taking up way more time than my tour,' Rihanna laughed to Access Hollywood.

Rihanna suggested: 'I could have balloons and Disney characters there and she’ll still make it wild. That’s just Katy Perry. There’s no way around that with her.'

Perry and Brand, 35, became engaged on a Christmas holiday to India last year and are expected to wed later this year.


Cover: Katy Perry rocks a blue wig on the front of her new album



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