Legendary producerDr. Drehas his legal team ready to do battle withSony Picturesif they release the film, "Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le."
According to TMZ, the movie depicts Dre as a woman beater who physically assaulted then-girlfriend Michel'le, and at one point pulling a gun on her.
Dre vehemently denies the accusations that date back to his relationship with the singer 30 years ago..
A cease-and-desist letter fired off to Sony by Dre's lawyers points out that Michel'le never filed a police report or sought medical treatment from the alleged beatings.
"Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le" is set to air October 15 at 8/7c on Lifetime.
Jermaine Dupri and Da Brat continue to crank out new quality music. For their latest song titled "Lighting Round" the duo recruit Phresh Ali. Stream it up top.
James Fauntleroy returns with a great new song titled "How You Feel." Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think by sounding off in the comment section below.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Rochester, New York collide as Original Block Hustlaz (OBH) spitter Dark Lo links up with Maverick Montana and Rigz of Da Cloth, for "Dirty Palms."
The Roca Beats-produced song can be found on Dark Lo's new "Darkaveli" mixtape, which is available now.!
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The song can be found on Dark Lo's "Darkaveli" double disc mixtape.
HartBeat Productions digital family comedian and "Wild N' Out' season 8 cast member Tonio Skits teams up with Kevin Hart for a "What Now" comedy sketch.
Kevin's new comedy special titled "What Now" hits theaters October 14th.
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Check out the official music video from Famous Dex for his song titled "Lemonade." View it below and let us know what you think in the comment section.
Robert de Niro was asked to film a video for the #VoteYourFuture initiative. The Oscar Award-winning actor used the opportunity to rip into Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with such ferocity, that the producers decided it would be best to release the clip separately on Friday, October 7th.
"He's so blatantly stupid," de Niro says of Trump. "He's a punk. He's a dog. He's a pig. He's a con ... a bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn't know what he's talking about. Doesn't do his homework, doesn't care. Thinks he's gaming society. Doesn't pay his taxes, he's an idior. Colin Powell said it best, he's a national disaster. He's an embarrassment to this country," de Niro continued. "It makes me so angry this country has gotten to this point that this fool, this bozo, has wound up where he has. He talks how he wants to punch people in the face. Well, I'd like to punch him in the face. This is somebody that we want for president? I don't think so."
NEW YORK (AP) — In a videotaped midnight apology, Donald Trump declared "I was wrong and I apologize" after being caught on tape making shockingly vulgar and sexually charged comments. Yet he also defiantly dismissed the revelations as "nothing more than a distraction" from a decade ago and signaled he would close his presidential campaign by arguing rival Hillary Clinton has committed greater sins against women.
"I've said some foolish things," Trump said in a video posted on his Facebook page early Saturday. "But there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims."
Trump's 90-second statement capped a jarring day that threatened to sink the billionaire businessman's White House campaign, sending Republicans into a panic with just over a month until Election Day and on the cusp of Sunday's crucial presidential debate.
One by one, outraged GOP lawmakers condemned Trump's comments in a 2005 video obtained and released Friday by The Washington Post and NBC News. In the video, Trump is heard describing attempts to have sex with a married woman. He also brags about women letting him kiss and grab them because he is famous.
"When you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything," Trump says in the previously unaired comments. He adds seconds later: "Grab them by the p----. You can do anything."
House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was "sickened" by Trump's remarks and angrily revoked an invitation for the real estate mogul to appear at a GOP event Saturday in Wisconsin. But like most of the many lawmakers who slammed Trump's words as reprehensible, Ryan did not pull his endorsement of his party's nominee.
"I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests," Ryan said.
But for some Republican officials, Trump had finally gone too far.
"You, sir, are the distraction," said an angry Utah Sen. Mike Lee in a video posted to his Facebook page after Trump issued his midnight apology. "Your conduct, sir, is the distraction."
Lee called on Trump to abandon his campaign, saying it was time for the Republican Party to "expect more. There is no need for us to settle."
Clinton, who spent Friday away from the campaign trail preparing for Sunday's debate, weighed in on Twitter, calling Trump's comments "horrific" and adding, "We cannot allow this man to become president."
For more than a year, Trump's outrageous and often outlandish comments have given Republicans fits. But with some notable exceptions — including nearly all the party's living past presidents and White House nominees — GOP officials have at least nominally thrown their support behind him.
Some of that support has been driven by a belief that Trump needs to at least be competitive in the November election in order to give candidates in down-ballot races a chance to win. The question many Republicans now face is whether the balance will now tip and supporting Trump becomes the riskier position.
BTW the "her" in Trump's lewd "moved on her" appears to be Nancy O'Dell, who Trump tried to fire for rejecting him: https://t.co/gxxxh9Fw5a
Even before Friday's revelations, Trump was struggling to steady his campaign. He had an uneven performance in the first debate and in the following days, bewilderingly feuded with a beauty queen he had shamed for gaining weight.
Let's NOT confuse lewd talk with discussing PERPETRATING Sexual Assault and a basic admission of guilt. #TrumpTapeshttps://t.co/L6whebOIMk
That incident stunned Republicans, particularly given Trump's desperate need to shore up support among women. But the businessman's comments about the Miss Universe contestant pale in comparison to his words in the newly released recording.
On it, Trump is caught on a live microphone while talking with Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood." The candidate is heard saying "I did try and f--- her. She was married." He also uses graphic terms to describe the woman's body and says he frequently tries to kiss beautiful women.
"Access Hollywood" said an Associated Press story about Trump's lewd behind-the-scenes comments as star of "The Apprentice" led it to dig through its archives and turn up the previously unaired footage from 2005. It was recorded during a bus ride while Trump was on his way to tape an episode of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
Trump issued a short apology Friday afternoon, saying he was sorry "if anyone was offended." As he did hours later, he shifted attention toward the Clintons, saying the former president "has said far worse to me on the golf course — not even close."
Trump has spent months hinting he might make the Clintons' marital issues and their handling of the president's affairs a campaign issue. Earlier this week, he said he didn't plan to raise the matters in Sunday's town hall-style debate, but his early morning video suggests he may have changed his mind.
The Republican desperately needs a standout performance in the debate. With his invitation to Wisconsin rescinded, he said he would spend Saturday in New York preparing for the faceoff with Clinton.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump's running mate, planned to replace him at the Wisconsin event. Coming off a widely praised performance in Tuesday's vice presidential debate, Pence ignored questions shouted by reporters in Rossford, Ohio, where he was campaigning Friday with his daughter.
A person familiar with Pence's thinking said the Indiana governor was "beside himself" and his wife was furious. That person spoke on the condition of anonymity, because the person was not authorized to share the private discussion.
As Friday became consumed by Trump's vulgarity, Republicans bemoaned another lost opportunity to chip away at Clinton.
The WikiLeaks organization posted what it said were thousands of emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, including some with excerpts from speeches she gave to Wall Street executives and others — speeches she has declined to release despite demands from Trump.
The excerpts include Clinton seeming to put herself in the free-trade camp, a position she has retreated from. In a talk to a Brazilian bank in 2013, she said her dream was "a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders."
But a distracted Trump didn't seem to notice, focusing instead on pushing attention toward Bill Clinton's infidelities even as he apologized for his intemperate remarks.
"We will discuss this more in the coming days," he said at the end of his midnight video. "See you at the debate on Sunday."
The next installment in the blockbuster franchise, UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS follows Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David (Theo James) and his father Thomas (Charles Dance), she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
In theaters January 6, 2017
DIRECTED BY:
Anna Foerster
SCREENPLAY BY:
Cory Goodman
STORY BY:
Kyle Ward and Cory Goodman
BASED ON CHARACTERS CREATED BY:
Kevin Grevioux and Len Wiseman & Danny McBride
PRODUCED BY:
Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Len Wiseman, Richard Wright, David Kern
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Eric Reid, James McQuaide, Skip Williamson, Henry Winterstern, Ben Waisbren
CAST:
Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Lara Pulver, Tobias Menzies, Bradley James, James Faulkner and Charles Dance
Long Island is making a major comeback into the hip-hop world in 2016, and King Myers is definitely aiding in that process. This time around, he liberates a soulful cut titled "I Need" which features an R&B artist from Long Island by the name of Voice, and produced by Erick Sermon, producer/rapper from the legendary hip-hop group, EPMD.
Ice CubeandDr. Drecan breathe a sigh of relief after being dismissed from the wrongful death lawsuit that had been filed against them by the family ofTerry Carter.
Carter died on January 29, 2015, when Suge Knight hit him with his truck at Tam's burger restaurant in Compton. Knight was in the middle of an altercation with actor Cle "Bone" Sloan, who was also injured in the hit-and-run incident, when Carter was killed.
Terry Carter
The fight between Knight and Sloan started on the Compton set of the "Straight Outta Compton" movie, before spreading to Tam's.
Cle "Bone" Sloan
TMZ reports that Carter's family included Cube and Dre in the lawsuit because they believed the music icon's knowingly hired gang members as security. Sloan is a former member of L.A.'s Athens Park Bloods.
The lawsuit against Knight is moving forward. The former Death Row Records CEO is currently sitting in a Los Angeles jail cellawaiting trial for one count of murder, one count of attempted murder and two counts of hit-and-run.
In the latest episode of of King of the Dot's web series titled "Behind the Bars," Harlem, New York's Charlie Clips talks about his third round vs Daylyt in California at the "Battle of Los Angeles 5" event.
Kalief Browder committed suicide on June 6, 2015, at the age of 22, but in many ways he actually began slowly dying years prior.
Browder was arrested in May of 2010 in the Bronx, New York, at the age of 16 for allegedly stealing a backpack. Ordinarily, he would have been released right away because he was a juvenile, however because he was already on probation the judge in the case ordered Browder to be held in Rikers Island, with his bail set at $3500.
Unable to make bail, Browder spent three years in Rikers without a conviction. Two of those years he was held in solitary confinement.
Browder refused to take a plea deal, insisting he was innocent. While in jail he endured beatings by guards and other inmates. He attempted suicide six times while incarcerated.
In June of 2013, his case was dismissed without ever going to trial.
Jay Zand theWeinstein Co. held a press conference Thursday, October 6, announcing they would be producing a six-part docu-series on Browder and the criminal justice system titled "Time: The Kalief Browder Story."
During the press conference Jay, born Shawn Carter, recalled meeting Browder after reading about his plight in a piece written by The New Yorker.
I look at Kalief Browder as a modern day prophet. Our prophets come in many different shapes, forms, or mediums. This young man just by the fact that he brought all of us here today lets you know how powerful of a soul he was. I came across his story inThe New Yorker and I called Chaka Pilgrim, who has worked with me forever. She's sitting here today. I said, "I need to meet this young man, can you find him?" I was thinking that it would take a while and my phone kept ringing. I didn't answer because sometimes I don't answer her call [laughs]. She kept calling so I knew it was important. I was like okay, you're not going to believe this. She was at another event and she ran across his lawyer who was helping him out, he's a brilliant young man who was helping Kalief seek justice. It was meant to happen. Kalief came to the office and we met and I wanted to give him words of encouragement, that I saw his story, and that I'm proud of him for making it through, and to keep pushing. He told me that he was going to college. This story, in the movies it would've ended differently. I got a call from Chaka and she told me that he had taken his own life. I was thrown of course. I was asking myself,this story doesn't end like this, it's not supposed to end this way. That's not how the story goes. Not in the movies, not in real life. Shortly after things start happening, Obama starts talking about a crime bill and eliminating solitary confinement for minors. I know that was Kalief. All of these things start happening and we came across these fabulous filmmakers and everything started happening the way it should have been. I knew right there that he was a prophet. Some of my prophets go in tragedy, Martin Luther King ends tragically but what comes from it, the life and the next iteration and the lives saved and how this man has moved culture forward is incredible. And I think you [to Venida Browder, mother of Kalief] should be and you are incredibly proud of your son and what he has accomplished, I know it's difficult to you and your family to not have him and not be able to speak to him but he's here. He's here today and he's done more in 19 years than what a lot of us will do in a lifetime, so on that note, I would like to thank you for bringing us Kalief's energy in this world.
"Time: The Kalief Browder Story." will debut in January on Spike.
**UPDATE**
Footage of Jay Z speaking on Kalief Browder and juvenile solitary confinement added.
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