The 20-year-old singer-dancer, who plead guilty to felony assault and is on probation for five years, recorded an audio message Wednesday on Say Now asking his fans to "bring [him] back." A humbled Brown said he needs his fans' help. "Some radio stations aren't playing my records," he said. "They're not being that supportive and I wouldn't expect them to. But it's on the fans...It's in your power to bring me back."

Brown said he is doing everything he can do. He refers to himself as a "better person" and said he is doing his music for the love, but added that his career is in jeopardy.

"It won't be possible for me to be an artist if I don't have support from people who give me an artist outlet," Brown said. "I can't be an underground mixtape artist." Read More

Because of the huge demand and the great looks of hip hop fashion, people just have to have it and wearing it, just means that you know what you are talking about. There are very few other fashion industries that have such a hardcore following. Look for hip hop fashions to keep popping up and becoming more and more available.But, who says what look is the right look to have? Hip hop fashion is largely based on what the hip hop artists are wearing. Through the use of media such as their videos, concerts, and interviews, they convey the look that is hot. Hip hop clothing, like many other types, is often designed and produced under labels of some of the hottest artists in hip hop. One such example is the G-Unit clothing line. This clothing line was designed in part by 50 Cent, a very well known and often considered on the best artists in hip hop. But, hip hop fashion also incorporates quite a bit of jewelry, the flashier the better. All of this jewelry, from spinning belt buckles to iced out watches can be purchased on the web. Read More

While the music continues to drive sales in the rap culture, the accessories continue to reveal the music in terms of sales. Hip hop accessories include jewelry, clothing, artwork, posters and a host of other items frequently worn by rap artist and fans. Many non-rap fans admit to liking the styles because of the loose fitting comfort of the clothing. Read More

Donna Karan speaks onstage at Urban Zen in New York City. (Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

The Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week opened Thursday, Feb. 11, with New York’s designers focusing their attention on this high point of the season. But in the midst of the hustle and bustle before the week opened, Donna Karan rallied people from the fashion, art, music, and entertainment industries to hold an auction to raise money to help Haiti in the Hope Help & Relief Haiti (HHRH) event, “Night of Humanity,” held on Monday, Feb. 8, at the Urban Zen Foundation.And what did they auction? Bidders paid for tents, water treatment devices, and cooking stoves, supplies desperately needed by the earthquake survivors, in a campaign called “Tents Today, Home Tomorrow.”
Donna Karan speaks onstage at Urban Zen in New York City.

Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation is working with other organizations, Partners in Health, Yele Haiti, and Habitat for Humanity, which will partner with the New York City Housing Authority to source volunteers and raise additional funds, according to a press release. The long-range goal is to help rebuild and revitalize a permanent, sustainable community in Haiti.Read More

The "neo-soul" movement, which for a brief moment brought a lyrical and musical depth back to urban-pop at the close of the '90s, gave way to a colder, heavily digitalized sound in the last decade. Most of it was concocted on a laptop. Once upon a time, arrangements cushioned voices in urban music. Sure, the beat was always important, but the voice often drove it. read More

Reporting from Detroit -On the city's east side, where auto workers once assembled cars by the millions, nature is taking back the land.
Cottonwood trees grow through the collapsed roofs of homes stripped clean for scrap metal. Wild grasses carpet the rusty shells of empty factories, now home to pheasants and wild turkeys.
This green veil is proof of how far this city has fallen from its industrial heyday and, to a small group of investors, a clear sign. Detroit, they say, needs to get back to what it was before Henry Ford moved to town: farmland.
"There's so much land available and it's begging to be used," said Michael Score, president of the Hantz Farms, which is buying up abandoned sections of the city's 139-square-mile landscape and plans to transform them into a large-scale commercial farm enterprise. Read More

year: 2008
location: beihai, china
typology: residential apartment
site area: 109,203sqm
building area: 492,369sqm
building height: slab-106m; tower-194m
status: under construction