Daily Archives: February 15, 2010

Yummy by Hopie Spitshard

Peep this tight music video from Hopie Spitshard for her single Yummy off her “The Diamond Dame” album. In her debut music video, Hopie’s chomping on yummy MCs like dumbfoundead on Rapper O’s. She gives you the female perspective in the game. Asian American female hip hop artist representin’!! Don’t cross this MC. Download Yummy on Hopie Spitshard - The Diamond Dame - Yummy or at Amazon.

Lots of Asian American firepower behind the scenes including 6Fingers, who also did the beats for MRSHMLO by Rocky Rivera, along with director Patricio Ginelsa and producer A.J. Calomay (the guys behind Crooks & Rooks by Bambu, American Pie by Vox Merger, LOVE (Cupid Style) and The Digital Family)

Yummy by Hopie Spitshard

Making of Yummy by Hopie Spitshard (contains spoilers)

Joe and Heidi Wang on Amazing Race 16

Amazing Race 16 started yesterday. Among the people competing are married couple from El Segundo, CA, Joe Wang (a 42 year-old sales executive) and Heidi Wang (a 37 year-old homemaker/former business developer). They started off by navigating through the congested streets of Los Angeles and, for the first time ever, must rely solely on public transportation to make their way to LAX. The Teams’ first destination lies in Chile where they will encounter one of the most daunting Roadblocks in the history of the series. In their ongoing battle for the one million dollar prize, Teams will participate in a grueling World War I reenactment in France, retrace the early days of the iconic rock group, The Beatles, and come face-to-face with one of the world’s most infamous villains. Teams will travel nearly 40,000 miles across five continents and eight countries.

Will the take the top prize like Tammy and Victor Jih in Amazing Race 14

Joe and Heidi Wang on Amazing Race 16 (see 3:22 mark)

More about Joe and Heidi Wang

Joe Wang

­Age: 42­

Hometown: El Segundo, Calif.

Connection to Teammate: Married

Current Occupation: Software Sales Executive

Favorite Hobbies: Coaching youth sports, poker and golf

Achievements: My biggest achievement is my family.

Lifelong to do List: Travel around the world.

If I could switch places with someone: My son Jameson who has unlimited potential.

Role Model/Hero: My parents. They immigrated here to USA to provide a better life for me.

What are you passionate about? Raising my kids to be the best they can be.

What would you do if you won the million dollars? Pay for my kids’ college education.

People would be surprised to learn: I was born in Taiwan and speak fluent Mandarin Chinese

Favorite place you have ever visited: Fiji

Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Getting a task that we both can’t do and being away from our kids for an extended period of time.

What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other then winning one million bucks)? Create a closer bond with Heidi

Pet peeve about your teammate: She can’t multi-task.

Heidi Wang

Age: 37

Hometown: El Segundo, Calif.

Connection to Teammate: Wife

Current Occupation: Homemaker

Favorite Hobbies: Traveling, gourmet cooking, shopping, golfing and reading

Achievements: Giving birth to my two beautiful and intelligent kids, having a successful finance career prior to choosing to stay home to raise my children.

Lifelong to do List: Run a marathon, improve my golf game and to never stop learning new things

If I could switch places with someone: It would have to be with my daughter, Herason. The opportunities and potential for a young girl today are endless.

Role Model/Hero: My parents, Richard and Yohko Leeser. They sacrificed everything for their children to give them a better life. I have the utmost respect and admiration for both of them.

What are you passionate about? My family. There are no words for the love and devotion I have for my husband and children.

What would you do if you won the million dollars? Invest it towards my children’s college education fund

People would be surprised to learn: In high school, I was voted Senior Class President, Most Likely to Succeed, Most Likely to win a Nobel Peace Prize and Most Likely to Total Their Car

Favorite place you have ever visited: My home. Although I’ve traveled extensively and visited many wonderful places, there really is “no place like home.”

Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Being away from our children for so long and not being able to eat sushi.

What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other then winning one million bucks)? Spending quality one-on-one time with my husband. We both could use some extra, uninterrupted time and attention from the other. Additionally, I plan to re-enter the professional workplace soon and I hope this experience makes me a better job candidate.

Pet peeve about your teammate: Joe is a very intense and short tempered individual who thinks he’s right all the time!

Help fund Jane Lui’s next album

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One of YouTube’s Top Unsigned Picks, Jane Lui, is looking for you to help fund her next album. Like many other artists, Jane is getting her fans involved in funding her upcoming project. She’s trying to raise $12k in 60 days. Anything over the $12k, she’ll contribute partial donations to Red Cross. There’s tons of perks available based on the amount you contribute (be an MC for one of her shows, karaoke with Jane, and more). So here’s some of the reasons why you should support her:

1. You like her music

2. Get fun stuff

3. It’s a happy album

4. Be a part of her dream

5. Help Haiti via Red Cross

Details on supporting her third album can be found here.

You can also pick up her previous albums on Jane Lui or at Amazon.

Help fund Jane Lui’s next album

Here’s a few other artists looking for support Nylon Pink, Odessa Chen, X’s and O’s movie, and Gary King’s film “How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song”.

2010 Chinese New Year Hip Hop Census with Jin

Jin is wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year in New York’s Chinatown. As part of Chinese New Year tradition, red envelopes are usually handed out. Jin’s giving away a fistful of red envelopes. All you need to do is take his 2010 Chinese New Year Hip Hop Census.

It’s simple all you need to do is create a 1 minute or less video about how you fee about hip hop culture or the current state of hip hop. Love it? Hate it? You can sing, write a poem, dance, talk, or whatever. Jin even give you an example. On February 28, 2010, one video will be selected from the top 10 clips submitted and get the money.

BTW – for all you that don’t know, Jin is now on twitter.

2010 Chinese New Year Hip Hop Census with Jin

Valentine by David Choi

Great Valentine’s song by David Choi. Nice easy listening music from a great musician. It’s got that classic love song feel to it. If you like the song, pick it up on David Choi - Valentines - Single or at Amazon.

Don’t forget David Choi starts his Northeastern Tour this week. Go out and support David Choi. Don’t let the snow stop you!!

Valentine by David Choi

Also check out these Valentine’s Day songs: Valentine by Kina Grannis, Valentine by SHINY x Albert Posis, and The Way You Do by Jennifer Chung