ehuffnsd said:

Exactly.

sextonseven said:

Blame it on the invasion of the blogs and boring new music.

I'm really sorry to hear that btw.

Their final cover:



I won't even state te obvious.

IdentityCrisis said:

Damn say it ain't so Christina.

phunkdaddy said:

SO!

This hoe have been substituting seats for laps since god knows when.

"Vibe" mag's propensity to embrace flava-of-the-week artists and its lightweight interviews impacted readership. Good riddance.

Copycat said:

Basically how I feel.

BartVanHemelen said:

Actually its not the music biz, its the magazine biz also, so many of them are taking it online, as for the music ones, i mean do you really care to read about Lil Wayne's childhood?? I mean can you really sit down and interview todays so called artists and get something intelligent out of them. Its like JAY LENO said, we cut the guests down to one segment, because no one has anything interesting to say, youre lucky to fill up the 7 minute interview

IdentityCrisis said:

It's no wonder why Vibe is going out of business. THAT cover looks more like XXL-wannabe than Vibe.

MuthaFunka said:

.....until gangsta rap defeated hip-house, latin freestyle, chicago house, and every other genre that put up a fight up to 1995.

Cinnie said:

How did you do THAT^?!?

vainandy said:

@ this thread!

For us straight guys, there were plenty of women that were neatly trimmed. Not every woman was clean shaving yet (barring the armpits of course).

SoulAlive said:

Not only that, but the last 5-10 pages were ads for porn and how to keep your dick hard. It's a shame, really. It used to be a good magazine.

Perhaps they wouldn't be shutting it down if it still was...

TonyVanDam said:

I wasn't even aware they were still around to be honest. I thought they went out of business a year ago due to the economy and the internet killing the print publishing industry. Frankly, it's hard for magazines like Vibe, Rolling Stone, Spin, and others to keep up on their favorite stars when you have blogs and artist fansites who can give more up to date information on various events and subjects and give even more in-depth interviews on their favorite artists. Plus, their last issue was to work on a Michael Jackson tribute, yet anything they could possibly out out has already been done by fans online in print, photos, mp3's and YouTube videos, and more in-depth than any magazine could possibly put out.

I grew up reading VIBE but havent touched a VIBE magazine since early in this decade. I remember when VIBE first appeared back in '92. I was 12 or 13.

IdentityCrisis said:

What an unappealing couple and cover. GROSS!!!!

Good riddance, Vibe.

And that's why I'm not mourning the loss of NoVibe.

There have always been sexy images on album and magazine covers but they are usually sensual and sexy looking. Even "Playboy" covers are artistically done. There's nothing artistic looking about this cover at all. It looks like one of those DVD covers for a black porno movie from the image, all the way down to the generic fonts in the headlines. It just screams cheap and sleazy.

vainandy said:

bettybop said:

Seriously, the first thing to pop into my head when I saw this cover was this:



Except that cover sucks.

I like Hip hop, not that shit rap lil wayne shit or whatever it is now, to me rappers after 97, except Kanye, Lupe, and Luda sucks balls. To be honest, I never gave a damn about this magazine, except Nas's 15 year anniversy of "Illmatic" other that it's a bullshit magazine, I have no remorse for this mess just like I don't for Nickelodeon magazine, so FUCK YOU Vibe, Good Riddence you dumbass sellouts and good luck to the muthafucking staff, who particpated in this shit, looking for a job, I heard "The Source" is hiring have fun fucking around with it
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vainandy said:

Looks like they took it with their camera phone to me.

I haven't bought an issue of Vibe since 2002

Cinnie said:

Yeah, though i occasionally saw a cool review in there. I've bought some issues with articles about 80's soul & funk with good photographed sessions. They somewhat reviewed classic groups who started to perform again more frequently
around the early/mid-90's, along with an event like Sinbad's Summer Soul Jam and live-releases which came out, mainly on Intersound Records (Cameo/Con Funk Shun/Dazz Band/Gap Band/Lakeside/United We Funk All Stars/etc...).
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IdentityCrisis said:

See,this is one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription.They do cover stories on whack performers that nobody even cares about.A talented artist like Robin Thicke can't make their cover,but they choose these nobodies instead?!

Copycat said:

That's why I stopped reading them a long time ago. The last one I brought was when Janet was on the cover on the beach.

SoulAlive said:

Okay! That is the most craptastic cover I've seen in a long time! Are they kidding?! They deserve to get the plug pulled in the middle of the production. Not only is it blatantly tacky and artistically, a horrible photograph.

Christina hasn't done anything but be a chick to someone else. And she gets a cover because she's dating Dream? A guy who wouldn't get picked out of a crowd on any given day? Good riddance! My last issue was Aaliyahs's memorial.
[Edited 7/1/09 7:24am]

IdentityCrisis said:

That's not their final cover. This issue won't hit the newsstands.

This is the last one:

BartVanHemelen said:

I liked that article about 1998 Rap (tippy-top cover headline)