Jay-Z Vs. Everybody: Don't Do To 'Em Hov!

The Jay-Z hate, it’s everywhere the Jay-Z love isn’t these days. Seems like most of his beefs stem from semi-personal relationships (longtime ones made in the music industry) and deep hood bonds that were formed in his old hustling days. So…that’s pretty much everybody he knows! We are talking the original Roc-A-Fella Records crew that includes Dame, Biggs, Cam’Ron & Dipset, Beanie & State Property, basically everybody except the dude in his will (Memphis Bleek) and the dude that wills him to greatness (Kanye West) to names like Jaz-O, DeHaven and Calvin Klein. We won’t even go into the whole Gucci Mane diss, Baby of Cash Money slight, Game’s constant love/hate tug-of-war rhymes and the random rap hater that’s trying to get Jay to respond. As the old saying goes, “heavy is the head that wears the crownYet, Jay seems to handle it all with style and smile. But something has to give at some point. It’s cool to be the guy that dragged Nas into the middle of Hip-Hop blvd and try to shoot ‘em up only to find out he had on a Teflon outfit. Nas ended up showing how to properly attack Jay-Z with “Ether” and gave hope to those that felt they could take him down. Let’s look at it for real though, that was Nas answering. Nas. The author of Illmatic. Not some swagged out, autotune creation that thinks they are more talented than they really are. Mr. Jones battled with science and perfectly placed reality bites that took chunks out of Jigga’s armor and Jay responded with “Super Ugly”. Say what you will about a Jay-Z loss, but that’s still a scathing round of uppercuts and power punches that most would never recover from. Just the sheer surprise of Nas’ retaliation and the fact that Jay was shaken for seemingly the first time, is what kept the hate flowing and the “Ether” love going. But that was eons ago, a little of the bite is lost in it as Nas and Jay have squashed the beef and have even done major business together. However, there is a line in that “Ether” joint that sparked some thought. Aside from Nas saying that “Eminem murdered you on your own sh*t,” it was the line “compared to Beans you wack.”

Diddy Wants Shyne Back In The States

Last night the 40 year old hip hop mogul celebrated his 40th birthday at the Plaza Hotel, but that didn't stop him from speaking on other events. In an interview w/ Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97 the mogul spoke on how he wouldn't mind seeing Shyne back in America.

"I've never had any problem with Shyne," he explained. "I've never had any problem with him, I was looking forward to him coming home and just getting out here and letting people see what I saw. I think it [his career] was cut down too early, people never got a chance to see what I saw.
"The thing that bugs me out is people forget what was going on at the time, y'all [Hot 97] was throwing so many stones at me telling me how Shyne sounded like Biggie. All the cats up here at this station was throwing stones at me and I was telling them, 'Nah, the kid got something special.' At the end of the day, when [someone goes] to jail, a lot of people jump on the bandwagon and it was beyond that to me. I never wish bad on anybody, I only wish somebody the best and I hope he gets to come back to the United States, he did his time, he deserves to come back."
Big words from a big man. I hope the two of them can work out their differences and everyone can let the past be the past. Check out who showed up at Diddy's party last night.

Edward Ark In A Fashion @ NIU

Fashions are not fashion shows without the people that come to them but I was thinking that fashion show was for the stores to make orders on the garments that they see they like not about a money making event for a promoter I'm asking you do you think I'm wrong cause fashion show I'm doing are not right.

Edward Ark New Shirts and Jeans

Edward Ark is now showing his shirts an jeans for fall season tell me what you think about them this is some thing that would put my line on the next level.

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Manufacturing My First T-Shirt

After manufacturing my jeans for the last 2 years an going on my 3 run of 2500 pair (each run is 2500 pair) I still find it crazy as you go into the next launch of the next product now I'm doing t-shirts an the steps are the same but the waiting time of getting your sample is crazy the guys that I had to meet came all the way from overseas an he was please to meet me and like wise, now I got the sample an was shock cause the sample was better than i thought now the money talk starts they know the product is very good but I have to not show them that it is very good they are trying to get me to get 2000 dozen on the first run WOW thats now bad but this is the thing, they need me and plus I'm now in 42 stores they are counting the money that they can be making if this deal go good so I put a tech at the last min. an said I would buy 1000 dozens and you guys give me 30 days to pay you guys for other 1000 dozen, guest what they did they start talking in the other talk that I don't understand but its cool cause I got the CASH an they needed it, so guest what with my company card the deal was done an my own t-shirt, now my t-shirts will be here in Chicago in June it feel good to no that you doing what u like in life sorry other t-shirt company's I don't love you no more after June bye bye.

Clothing Lines Vs. Stores

As I sell Edward Ark Denim an T-Stores to the 30 stores that I'm in I'm starting to learn why some of the clothing lines are having hard times in hard times of the buying an selling market when we are clothes to stores or just hustling them on the streets or going from business to business its is hard cause when you get the next money for the next time you are trying to print up some shirts and trying to get to the next level if it is getting into the Manufacturing ur own denim or t-shirt its hard I have been some bless that I can do it cause my line is not looking to sit an wait on the stores to sell my product cause if you look at it now some of the stores only survive off of credit if it is your line or mine then they have different credit lines with different lines so you may get paid in 30 to 45 days of you putting your product in that store so listen designers sometimes you need to find other ways of selling your lines, stores are great don't get me wrong but having more ways to selling your line is greater than one good luck designers.