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We’ve heard of silent auctions, but this is a new one. Top producers in music have gotten together to host a private Beat Auction giving the opportunity to upcoming and established music professionals to acquire high-quality compositions that are not easily accessible otherwise. Some of these producers include Zaytoven, one of the most sought-after producers in hip-hop; Drumma Boy, a popular Atlanta notable; J White, the man behind most of Cardi B’s productions; AnonXmous, known for hits like “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj, and a slew of others. The Beat Auction was hosted by Atlanta’s own, Dj Holiday.

Atlanta Beat Auction ((Image: TMI Worldwide)

The evening unfolded with each producer showcasing their beats to a room full of ready and waiting auctioneers. Bids started at $300 and went as high as $1200. This is incredible considering the prices of beats from this caliber of individuals can typically range from tens of thousands of dollars upward and many times, include royalties on an artist’s album that keep the producers getting paid long after they’ve handed over the beat.

So why a beat auction?

“After years of working within the music industry, I have come across countless talented artists with promising potential,” said Khady Thiam Gueye, founder and CEO of TMI, and the creator of the concept. “Often times the only thing standing in their way of a hit record is quality production. A lack of resources has forced many artists to settle for mediocre, overused beats from either YouTube or beginner producers. I knew we had to bridge that gap and provide artists with the opportunity to catapult their music careers through industry standard, exclusive compositions from legendary producers.”

Khady Thiam Gueye, founder and CEO of TMI Worldwide and creator of Atlanta Beat Auction (Image: TMI Worldwide)

The overall goal is to ultimately revolutionize the way hit records are created. As the team continues to host Beat Auctions across a global platform, they foresee international collaborations leading to billboard topping records. By widening the door of opportunity, they anticipate a wave of new mainstream artists, as well as sensational emerging producers whose talents would otherwise go unnoticed.

All proceeds went to “Music Education Group” a group formed to bring music, film, and digital music based education to underserved youth.

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Jason Momoa sure has come a long way since barely speaking more than a handful of words in season one of Game of Thrones. With his comic timing, he proved to be one of the very best things in Justice League, and he made us all buy into the idea of a “surfer bruh” version of Aquaman. Now, with the release of the solo Aquaman movie imminent, Momoa is about to face the test of true super-stardom — hosting Saturday Night Live. But we already have a good feeling about the former Khal Drogo’s comedic abilities, thanks to this hilarious newly released promo skit for SNL, showing Momoa as an NBC page.



We get to see Momoa in full action hero mode, as he ensures everyone that he is taking his new job as an NBC page very, very seriously, and that includes his super-serious”tough guy” voice,  and punching cast member Beck Bennett square in the face when he attempts to pitch an idea for a sketch (we’re sure he deserved it). We also get an obligatory scene at SNL producer Lorne Michaels’ expense, which includes some Momoa-sized dance moves.

If this promo is any indication, then we are hopefully in for a treat when Momoa hosts the show this weekend, because this promo was legitimately funny enough it could have been included in the show itself. The Jason Momoa-hosted SNL airs December 8, with musical guests Mumford & Sons. And expect at least one “Aquaman talks to fish” sketch to be included in there somewhere.

Images: NBC 

Forbes released its 2018 list of the most powerful women in entertainment, revealing that some of our faves like Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé, made the top 10. Topping the list, unsurprisingly was Oprah Winfrey, who has been an influential mainstay in the world of entertainment for years. Beyonce comes in at No. 6, as one […]

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Daredevil‘s cancellation is still being processed by a lot of the fan community who are disappointed about how the series was finally coming together, only to be dropped like a dirty diaper.

It sucks that it took the cancellation of Daredevil that to really become aware of how many people are going to be screwed over by  Disney/Marvel attempting to combat the already streaming juggernauts of Hulu and Netflix through their own Disney+ service. We were so willing to accept that, “yeah Luke Cage and Iron Fist weren’t that good so that makes sense,” and we ignored that the way in which Marvel handled this put a lot of people out of work.

In an interview with i09‘s Beth Elderkin, Daredevil writer Tamara Becher-Wilkinson, who wrote “Karen,” talked a little about what happened in the writer’s room. “The storyline for season four had already been drafted and pitched to Netflix, and the writers were waiting for the seemingly inevitable news that they would get renewed.”

Becher-Wilkinson explains in the interview that she was in the middle of creating a new writing schedule for season four when the news came down that the show had been canceled.

“[Showrunner Erik Oleson] got a call asking him to go down to see the Marvel executives, and I jokingly went ‘Ooooooooh,’ like a third grader does when someone gets called to a principal’s office,” Becher-Wilkinson says in the interview. “Then, he waited for everybody to gather back in the writers’ room and he said, ‘Netflix has decided not to move forward with season four.’ And that’s all I remember, you know. I kind of missed the details because I was, like, so surprised.”

This, of course, was a huge shock, because pretty everyone across the interwebs was praising the show’s third season as a return to form. I enjoyed it sans Bullseye/Dex, because I can only take so much man pain, but having Vincent D’Onofrio back in form as the Kingpin and his weirdly beautiful relationship with Vanessa back on screen, I was hooked. Even taking into account the season’s flaws, it was a solid season of “television” so naturally, no one thought it was going to fail.

“The reviews were so overwhelmingly positive that I thought there was no way they would cancel it,” she explains. “I don’t know how well it does on Netflix or anything like that…[but] it was surprising to me they would cancel something that was so well received. I thought it was too big to fail.”

For years it has been implied that Marvel Studios co-prez Kevin Feige was not really a fan of the Netflix shows, hence their loose ties to the main cinematic universe. Perhaps this was always going to be the end result of the shows once Disney+, the upcoming Disney streaming series, became a reality.

Yet it’s still hard because for all the mixed responses the Netflix MCU has garnered, for a moment it was a huge part of our discourse and conversations as fans. If you’d have told me when Daredevil first came out that the Arrowverse would last longer than this human level-Marvel series, I would have lol’d, yet now it makes eerily a lot of sense.

The Arrowverse, despite its massive flaws (justice for Laurel), has always tried to be fun, including a lot of elements from the comics even when it could be seen as silly. It has grown to become more inclusive in terms of POC, and it has the biggest LGBTQ staple of characters on network television.

Marvel hasn’t come anywhere close to that, even with the few queer characters that do exist and Luke Cage/Black Panther. When it comes to television, DC is leading the charge and hopefully, Disney/Marvel is taking notes. Still, I’m still sad for the writers who worked hard to build something, only to have it pulled out from under them like Charlie Brown.

“Everyone who’s ever worked on [Daredevil], they’ve built something really special. And the way [the Marvel/Netflix shows] interacted with each other, it was really cool and unique [and] that didn’t exist anywhere else on TV,” Becher-Wilkinson said. “Sure, there are other superhero shows, but there weren’t other superhero shows like the shows that Marvel put onto Netflix. And it’s sad to think that all the episodes that exist now, that’s all there’s ever going to be.”

(via i09, image: David Lee/Netflix)

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