Street Cred Magazine - 31st October

THE WEEKLY EYE OF ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE

OCTOBER 2014

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THE CLUBBING EXPERIENCE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR HAS FINALLY ARRIVED

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It’s Black History Month, as you’ve no doubt realised by now, and celebrating this is very important to everyone here at Street Cred.

If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you’re destined to make the same mistakes, so this month read up, listen, and LEARN from it!

The beautiful and inspiring Jade Avia, Capital XTRA DJ and fashionista is our cover story this week.

From starting in local radio stations here in Birmingham to interviewing the biggest names in showbiz on Capital, Jade is a role model for young people trying to make their way in the entertainment business, which is why we’ve given her the cover!

Still nothing this month however has topped the one major thing that has happened in my life the birth of my little girl.

Both mother and baby are doing great, and we’re so grateful for all the support and thoughts we’re getting.

Thank you.

Check out the rest of the mag! What are you waiting for?!

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The views expressed in Street Cred magazine are not necessarily the editors opinion so do not try to kill him if you read anything you feel offended by.

The magazine is a positive and fun read and is not with the intent to threaten anyone. All images are copyright of their respective rights holders.

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CONTENTS GRIMEY (5-6) - Ed Proposals, Renee, Radio 2 Fashion lick (8-11) - Debenhams Mens Fashion

WHITE DEES COLUMN (12)

WHATS ON (18)

COVER STORY (14-16) - Jade Avia

Chantelle’s Spot (21)

Feature (17) - Spandau Ballet

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GRIMEY NEWS

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ip-hop impresario, Suge Knight, faces 30 years behind bars if convicted of stealing a photographer’s camera.

The Death Row Records founder and comedian Katt Williams were charged with robbery after a celebrity photographer reported they stole her camera in Beverly Hills, in September. Williams faces up to seven years in prison if convicted., whilst Knight, who has a prior conviction for assault with a deadly weapon, could face up to 30 years

Suge Knight back… behind bars?

Rochelle reveals all - oops!

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ochelle Humes has admitted one of the pitfalls of hosting This Morning with husband Marvin is she reveals too much about their private life.

She says she does sometimes embarrass her former JLS star spouse by “oversharing” on the show.

Rochelle confessed: “If something’s on my mind, I’ll say it.

Sometimes I think, ‘I better not embarrass him with this.’ But

then I just end up saying it anyway.” She admitted that she don’t know if I has an off button.

“Perhaps it’s a pause,” she said.

“I process it, and then I think, ‘I might as well say it’.”

Rochelle, 25, and 29-year-old Marvin have agreed that whatever happens between them on This Morning, stays on This Morning.

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GRIMEY NEWS

B Statham star-studded blockbuster ‘unrated’

rit hard man, Jason Statham‘s latest film ‘The Expendables 3’ is coming out in an Unrated Cut form on November 11. The Blu-ray and DVD versions of the film will come out a few weeks later on November 25.

The film is a star-studded affair with a who’s who of action heroes.

The line-up includes: Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarznegger, Mel Gibson, Wesley Snipe, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Jet Li and many more of Hollywood’s top beefcakes.

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What a difference a ‘gong’ makes as Mercury see Young Fathers shoot up charts

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cottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers look set to buck the trend and prove a success story after walking away with this year’s top Mercury Prize award.

With the trio’s winning album, Dead, previously selling 2,386 copies in the UK, unlike many other Mercury Prize winners, with ‘gong’ in hand the album jumped straight into number 7 on Apple’s iTunes chart, having not previously been anywhere in the top 100.

Their success could follow the path of Dizzee Rascal, who won the prize in 2003 when still a relatively unknown outsider. His album sales went up by 150% overnight and the album, Boy in da Corner, has now attained cult status, catapulting the grime artist into the mainstream and making him one of the biggest selling artists in the past decade.

Edinburgh-based trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G Hastings won £20,000 along with the Barclaycard Mercury Prize.

“We’ll take it in our stride,” said G. “We just wanted to make something bigger than the city we’re living in.”

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FASHION LICK

“The Jade Series” High Spirit in Collaboration with Jade Avia

High Spirits Bags are known for their theft-proof backpacks with unique zipping designs to protect your possessions from theft and loss.

They have teamed up with Jade Avia, who we recently interviewed and was the cover story in Street Cred Weekly (Don’t forget to check it out online @ www. streetcredmagazine.com!) and have created a range of unique and functional backpacks that are aimed at the culturally diverse metropolitan man or woman!

Jade absolutely loves these bags and wouldn’t stop raving about them, especially the quiky colour and material combinations that she feels represents her so well. Check them out!

Coat £30/€35, Jumper £4/€5, Bag £10/€12

WHITE DEE’S COLUMN

‘White Dee’s’ Column

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ell, well, well, its been a while since I wrote to you all - but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten about you all.

So much for a nice quiet relaxing summer holiday with the kids - you will never guess where I ended up?

6 months ago, I would never ever have thought I would be sharing a house with Olympic Gold Medal winner Audley Harrison, never mind having him make me a cup of tea and bringing it to me in bed haha.

ham, keeping it real and not putting up with the many a diva strop some of the housemates were having.

In all reality I personally didn’t What a complete and think I would last utter surreal situation, a week, never dance lessons from mind making it 1 wrong turn on the mo- James Jordan, Strictly to the final, where I came torway and I landed at Come Dancing, and having 5th and was the last the Celebrity Big Brother an argument with the infa- woman standing - totally House, and as I consider mous Gary Busey - Oscar overwhelming situation myself as a non celebrity Nominated Actor, and he- and I would like to thank this was way beyond even res me, Dee from a street the public for all their my belief. in Winson Green, Birming- support and love and best wishes.

As amazing as this once in a lifetime opportunity was, the best moment for me had to be walking from that house, and seeing my lovely, amazing dad and knowing how proud he was of me.

Then to be reunited with my 2 kids who I can honestly say I will never ever leave again, and then returning to my home - in good old Birmingham.

This Monday saw the Conservative Party Conference take over the city of Birmingham for 3 days, and I had the pleasure of being invited to talk from a ‘everyday persons’ perspective on a welfare reform panel.

what I was saying.

The government needs to keep it real and be more in touch with the people of the country that do actually matter, considering it is us real people that vote them in.

So come on, lets be heard at last and when the time comes, make your vote count.

Well to finish off, its so good to be home and back with the amazing people of Brum.

Sitting on a panel made up of MP’s and Council- Until next time - as Ricci lors, the nerves soon went from Geordie shore would away and when I got into say ‘ciao for now’ the flow of talking ‘real talk’ that’s when I realised that Lots of love - Dee x people were actually listening and taking on board

Questions, comments or suggestions for White Dee? Get in touch with her by emailing whitedee@streetcredmagazine.com

BIGScreen Also, the decision to confine a large portion of this movie to a tank is a unique and inspired choice.

It makes the action more visceral and the stakes much higher, as for every tank that is destroyed, there a five men inside who are destroyed along with it, which serves to make the action set-pieces hair-raising and nail-bitingly intense.

Under the glitz and glamour of its big name cast, Fury manages to be one of the most unique World War II movies ever made.

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pril, 1945. As the Allied forces make their final push through Europe, a battle-hardened army sergeant, Don “War-daddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman Tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

Outnumbered and outgunned, War-daddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany and end the war, once and for all.

Writer/Director David Ayer’s filmography is a mixed bag in terms of overall quality. It is a bag consisting of the simple yet entertaining popcorn flick The Fast and the Furious (2001), Oscar-Winning thriller Training Day (2001), the fantastic yet slightly flawed Crime-Drama End of Watch (2012) and the resoundingly dismal Sabotage (2014) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

While Sabotage is Ayer’s only genuinely bad film, it was enough to cast doubt over his abilities as a filmmaker. However, Ayer has pulled out all the stops here and delivered his best film to date with Fury.

It is a war movie that is more about the relationships built by war than the actual war itself. While there is still an abundance of action, it never gets in the way of character and instead serves to accentuate the relationships between these men.

There is no clear separation between right and wrong or good and evil between its characters.

This is a film that goes beyond what is expected of a war movie and resists the temptation to portray the American soldiers as pure, clean-cut heroes.

They are battle-hardened war veterans who have been both physically and emotionally manipulated and changed by the atrocities they have

Review wORDS by antony brown had to endure every day.

For them, war is a lifestyle now. They are so desensitised to the horrific violence that it has become second nature to them and if shooting, stabbing, burning and torturing people is what they need to do to get to where they’re going, they are more than happy to do so.

Because of this grim approach to the story, there are points throughout this movie that you will actually dislike the people you are meant to be rooting for; because you witness them do some truly horrible and down-right spiteful things.

However, due to the fantastic performances from the lead cast and the comradery they display during battle, you soon find yourself rooting for them once again and laughing along with them as they make fun of one another.

Even though they aren’t the heroes we expect in a film like this, we understand why they have become the people they are and we can sympathise with them.

Watching Fury is a truly odd and polarizing experience, in the best possible way. It is more than just a movie about World War II; it is a study about how war affects and changes people, which is what makes this movie as engaging and powerful as it is.

Fury may not be the best World War II movie ever made, but it is definitely one of the most unique and unapologetically grim depictions of war ever committed to film.

With a simple, episodic plot, a cast of fantastic actors, wince-inducing violence and brutally intense action, Fury is an exhilarating yet frighteningly realistic movie about what it’s really like to be on the front line.

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9-13th December 2015

ue to high demand, following the announcement that Dynamo would be embarking on his first ever live tour, it has been confirmed that his tour run has been extended and he will now perform in seven UK cities during 2015.

Dynamo fans will have the opportunity to see his magic skills up close and personal in what promises to be a spectacular and unique live stage production.

He will now also be performing for five nights at the Barclaycard Arena from 9-13 December 2015.

Dynamo, real name Steven Frayne, hit our screens just three years ago with his first series of Magician Impossible, in that short time he has quickly established himself as one of the world’s most known and most loved magicians, with his series airing in over 180 countries worldwide reaching over 250 million cumulative viewers across the world.

RISE AGAINST O2 Academy, Birmingham 6 November 2014 RISE AGAINST will head to the O2 Academy on 6th November with Pennywise and Emily’s Army supporting.

After 15 years, and six incendiary albums, RISE AGAINST have become one of the most successful, challenging and revered punk rock bands on the planet.

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SHOES

GLORIOUS

Word on the street CHANTELLE

SHOES,

pumps, heels and flip flops...

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o many types - hiheeled, kitten heeled, stillettos, flats, pumps, ankle, calf and thigh length boots, espadrills, court shoes, wedge, sandals, flip flops, open toe, peep toe, I could go on for a long while... but I won’t!

Us ladies, we love our shoes, the variety, the styles and pattern we just love ‘em.

Apart from stating the obvious, that they protect our feet from the ground, depending on the type of footwear they are they can inject a level of confidence in your swagger allowing you to walk like a BOSS and makes your calves look HOTTT! Is that pretence...Fake..A Front?

When we wear heels not only we shoot up in height but we also appear slimmer, our legs look longer and automatically our walk changes...2 reasons why!

1. TO LOOK GOOD, we walk good to look good, sexy and appealing. Tummy goes in, shoulders go back to enhance the chest, back straight and legs go nicely in front of each other its almost like scene from transformers!

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2, TO LOOK SENSIBLE, we walk right to stay upright! We don’t want gravity to win and pull us down to earth! No, no we carefully observe the surroundings taking a mental log of risen pavements, stones and sticks in the ground and animal waste!

Sometimes when we wear flat shoes we become flat too!

Dumpy and Slouchy the cousins of the seven dwarfs from Goldilocks and the three bears.

WHY? Even if we simulate wearing heels and raise up to the tips of our toes we instantly fix-up and the posture is modelesque!

Pretence is a rather strong word I think but, ladies and gents, lets keep it real, we like to look nice! Ashamedly enough some of us are willing to forfeit comfort over vanity!

That’s cool but I will state ‘What goes up must come down! Easy come and easy go!’

Chantelle’s

Spot

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