After yesterday’s news that VIBE magazine would soon be shut down [click to read], Quincy Jones has expressed interest in buying back the magazine he helped launch in 1993.
“I’m trying to buy my magazine back now,”Jones told EbonyJet.com during a recent telephone interview [click here]. “They just messed my magazine all up, but I’m gonna get it back. You better believe it, I’ma take it online because print and all that stuff is over. We gotta get into the 21st century you know. Print and all that stuff is over, we gotta remember that. ‘The Chicago Tribune,’ ‘The Seattle Post Intelligencer,’ ‘The Miami Herald.’ They’re over the same way as the record business. We have got to get into this century.”
In other news, various media outlets are getting initial previews of The 50th Law, the collaborative effort between author Robert Greene and 50 Cent. In his “Power, Seduction and War” blog [click here], Greene recently explained his motivations for working with 50 and what to expect from the upcoming book.
“He was in the midst of a power struggle with a rival rapper and he talked quite openly about the strategies he was employing, including mistakes he had made along the way.”Greene writes. “He analyzed his own actions with detachment, as if he were talking about another person. Over the last few years he had witnessed a lot of nasty maneuvering within the music business, and he seemed to want to discuss this with somebody from the outside. He was not interested in myths but reality. Contrary to his public persona, he had a Zen-like calmness that impressed me.”
The 50th Law is due out September 8 via HarperStudio Publishing. Copies can be preordered at Amazon.com and ThisIs50.com.
