Quincy Jones To Buy Back VIBE?

Vibe magazine, the best-known and most mainstream of the magazines aimed at the hip-hop generation, is folding immediately after 16 years, Steve Aaron, Vibe Media Group’s chief executive officer, announced on Tuesday. Later in the day, Vibe founder Quincy Jones said, ‘I’m trying to buy my magazine back now,&rdquo; according to Adrienne Samuels Gibbs of Ebony magazine.</p> <p>’Jones told EbonyJet.com just moments ago during a telephone call to Jones&rsquo; London abode” that, ‘They just messed my magazine all up, but I’m gonna get it back. You better believe it, I’m going to take it online because print and all that stuff is over’ Gibbs wrote.</p> <p>’It is with a heavy heart that I share some tough news, VMG is closing down effective today, June 30 due to lack of additional financial investments,’ Aaron told staffers in a memo.</p> <p>’Unfortunately, over the last several months, a confluence of events has obviously posed VMG to exceedingly serious challenges…</p> <p><strong>To read more, click ‘See Original Story'</strong></p>