Slowly but surely, most hip-hop artists are realizing that without a technological presence their chances at winning are slim (word to Charlie Sheen).
Except these days, only using the Internet isn’t good enough and many artists are finding out other ways to bombard us with their rhetoric. One way is the Iphone app.
Many entertainers have jumped on the app bandwagon, coming up with all kinds of useless applications to stay in the consumer’s pocket conscience.
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Here are 10 Hip-Hop artists who jumped in the Iphone app game, and the pointless apps they have come up with…
Jay-Z
Name: Decoded by Jay-Z
Price: $9.99-$24.99
Function: Basically, an extension of Jigga’s best selling novel, with 30 minutes of never-before-seen interviews and a couple of bonus vids that are going to end up on YouTube anyway. You might as well just pick up the paperback. We promise it won’t hurt.
T-Pain
Name: I Am T-Pain
Price: $.99
Function: Turns your phone into an auto-tune machine so you can belt out mechanical bars just like Teddy. Singing into a fan saves you the buck.
Nicki Minaj
Name: My Pink Friday
Price: $.99
Function: This Nicki Stan’s dream keeps you updated to everything Barb related, and even has a ‘Nictionary’ of the weirded out rapper’s vocab. You can turn on the radio for free and get the same results.
Snoop Dogg
Name: iFizzle Soundboard
Price: $.99
Function: Contains 16 memorable quotes recorded by the Dogg Father himself. Man, this shizzle is kinda wizzle.
Soulja Boy
Name: Kiss Me Through The Phone
Price: $1.99
Function: Places a digitally imposed image of puckered lips onto your picture of choice. (blank stare)
Lil Wayne
Name: Be Like Lil Wayne
Price: $1.99
Function: Give you the enviable ability to add computer images of Lil Wayne’s jewelry, hair, clothes and tatts to pictures of yourself and your friends. (even longer blank stare, followed by deep sigh)
Lil Jon
Name: Lil Jon: The Official Soundboard
Price: $.99
Function: (see #4, change the voice to Lil Jon’s and add one more quote)
50 Cent
Name: Baby By Me Calculator
Price: $.99
Function: Gives you the all-important capability to fictionally find out how much you will be paying or receiving in child support payments by entering your hoodrat/dead beat qualities. Everyone can use one of these…right?
P. Diddy
Name: Diddy’s Blackbook
Price: FREE
Function: Why would you use the other 5,000 hotspots guides in the app store when this one has Puff’s personal picks? Because if P. Diddy likes the spot it has to be hot, that’s why. Take that. No, really it’s free. You might as well take that.
Gucci Mane
Name: iGucciMane- Soundboard
Price: $.99
Function: Says stuff like, “Burr!,” “Skerrt!,” and “Yeeoomm!” (hits self in face with tub of Breyer’s, Rocky Road)
