Reportsare leaking out thatDrake'sartistPARTYNEXTDOORhad a close call in Atlanta following a sold out concert atCenter Stage Theateron Friday, February 20. Details are sketchy, but theOVO Soundsignee's tour bus was allegedly shot up.DJ Vladspoke with a witness who was understandably reluctant to reveal his identity.
"All The Way" feat. Futuristic and Madchild" was produced by Cali Cleve and is the latest single from Demrick's new solo album "Losing Focus", which drops February 24th on Battle Axe Records. The track is available as an instant download if you pre-order the album on iTunes online at Bit.ly/DemLosingFocusiTunes.
Nick Gordonis the prime suspect in the unexplained incident that has leftBobbi Kristina Brownin a coma.
The 21-year old daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston was found unresponsive and face down in the bathtub of her Roswell, Georgia home on Saturday, January 31st.
Since Bobbi was admitted to the hospital Nick has not been allowed to to see his girlfriend because Bobby won't allow it.
Bobby Brown's lawyer,Chris Brown, toldTMZ on Monday, February 23, 2015, that Gordon has not been forthcoming with information about facial injuries found on Bobbi by medical personnel after he administered CPR.
"It appears that Mr. Gordon did not want his understanding of the facts to be subject to the truthful examination of various experts or Bobby Brown himself," Chris said. "Mr. Gordon has every right to remain silent and not share his version of events with Bobby Brown. Mr. Gordon is not as desperate to visit Bobbi Kristina as he wants the world to believe."
Gordon took to Twitter to fire off a few rounds. Saying among other things that Bobby was never there for his daughter and he's received death threats.
Islamic militants Boko Haram have destroyed villages, kidnapped schoolgirls, used girls as young as 7 for suicide bombing missions and killed thousands of innocent citizens across Nigeria.
Recently they've launched attacks in Cameroon, however help is on the way.
Led by theU.S.special forces, other countries have joined in by sending units of their elite soldiers toChadto train the beleaguered people of Africa how to combat the growing threat of violence.
John Legend and Common had a big night at the 2015 Oscars on Sunday, February 22. Their song "Glory" from the Selma motion picture soundtrack won an award for Best Original Song.
Lil Scrappy chimes in on the Kanye West/Beck Grammy drama. The Love and Hip Hop star thinks Kanye West was right in his opinion that Beyonce should have won the Best Album award. He goes on to call Beck a "fucking idiot" who has never been a world tour like Beyonce.
French Montana drops an official music video for his single entitled "Bad Bitch" featuring Jeremih. The song was produced by Remo The Hitmaker. Download it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id948462440.
During a recent sit down with DJ Smallz, Big Gipp of Goodie Mob was asked about Outkast's 2014 reunion tour. His answer was interesting, to say the least. Take a listen to what he had to say below.
"They proved to everybody they are the greatest hip hop group to ever touch the mic," Gipp said. "They bigger that RUN-DMC, they bigger than everybody. They the biggest. Nobody sold more records than them. Nobody achieved musically what they achieved."
Do you agree with Gipp? If not, tell us why and name your top five hip hop groups of all time.
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) — The long take of "Birdman" has stretched all the way to the Academy Awards, where the jazzy, surreal comedy about an actor fleeing his superhero past took Hollywood's top honor in a ceremony punctuated by passionate pleas for equality.
On a stormy night in Hollywood, the 87th annual Academy Awards — which came in humbled by backlash to its all-white acting nominees — bristled with politics and heartfelt speeches about women's rights, immigration, suicide prevention, governmental surveillance and race.
In a battle of B-movies for best picture, the Oscars awarded "Birdman" best picture, opting for a movie that epitomizes Hollywood — showy, ego-mad, desperate for artistic credibility — over one ("Boyhood") that prized naturalism and patience. "Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" also won best director for Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, best original screenplay and best cinematography.
"Maybe next year the government will inflict immigration restrictions," said Innaritu, recalling last year's best director winner, Alfonso Cuaron. "Two Mexicans in a row. That's suspicious, I guess."
Inarritu, a larger-than-life figure of frizzy hair regularly wrapped in a scarf, concluded the night's many moving speeches that called for societal progress. Inarritu said he prays his native country finds "a government we deserve" and that immigrants to the U.S. "can be treated with the same dignity and the respect of the ones who came before and (built) this incredible immigrant nation."
The ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, hosted by Tony Award veteran Neil Patrick Harris, was heavy on song-and-dance to near-Grammy levels. Lady Gaga lavishly performed "The Hills Are Alive" from "The Sound of Music" with a rapt Julie Andrews looking on.
The awards overwhelmingly went to less-seen independent films and were widely spread around. All eight of the best-picture nominees won awards, including Eddie Redmayne for best actor for his technically nuanced performance as Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything."
"Please know this that I am fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man," said the young British actor. "This belongs to all of the people around the world battling ALS."
All of Sunday's big winners were first-timers, including best actress winner Julianne Moore, who won for her performance as an academic with early onset Alzheimer's in "Still Alice."
"I read an article that said that winning an Oscar could lead to living five years longer," said Moore. "If that's true, I'd really like to thank the academy because my husband is young than me."
Harris gave the Academy Awards a cheery tone that sought to celebrate Hollywood, while also slyly parodying it. He began the night: "Tonight we honor Hollywood's best and whitest — I mean brightest."
Though Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-making "Boyhood" was the critical favorite for much of awards season, it won only best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette.
"To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation," said Arquette. "We have fought for everybody else's equal rights. It's our time to have wage equality once for all. And equal rights for women in the United States of America."
Cheers erupted throughout the Dolby, perhaps the loudest coming from a fellow supporting-actress nominee Arquette bested: Meryl Streep. "Made my night," Streep told Arquette backstage.
Tears streamed down the face of David Oyelowo, who played the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in "Selma" and was infamously left out of the best actor nominees, during the rousing performance of the song "Glory" from the film. Immediately afterward, Common and John Legend accepted the best song Oscar with a speech that drew a standing ovation.
"We say that 'Selma' is now, because the struggle for justice is right now," said Legend. "We know that the voting rights act that they fought for 50 years ago is being compromised right now in this country today. We know that right now the struggle for freedom and justices where we live in the most incarcerated country in the world."
Graham Moore also moved the star-studded audience, accepting best adapted screenplay for his "The Imitation Game" script about Alan Turing, who was chemically castrated for being homosexual. Moore said when he was 16 years old he tried to kill himself, and urged others to never lose faith: "Stay weird. Stay different."
Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel," a European caper released way back in March, tied for the most Oscars with "Birdman." The academy awarded Anderson's latest confection with more awards (production design, score, costume design and makeup and styling) than any previous film by the director.
Best supporting actor went to J.K. Simmons, a career character actor widely acclaimed for one of his biggest parts: a drill sergeant of a jazz instructor in the indie "Whiplash." Simmons fittingly accepted his supporting acting Oscar with some straightforward advice, urging: "Call your mom. Call your dad."
Most of the awards went as expected, though Disney's "Big Hero 6" pulled off an upset in the best animated feature category, besting DreamWorks' favored "How to Train Your Dragon 2."
The Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki became the first to win best cinematography twice in a row. After last year winning for the lengthy shots of the space adventure "Gravity," he won for the stretched out takes of "Birdman." Recalling Inarritu's plans to shoot it as if in one shot, Lubezki said he responded: "It sounds like a nightmare."
The black-and-white Polish film "Ida" took best foreign language film, marking the first such win for Poland despite a rich cinema history. Director Pawel Pawlikowski charmed the audience with a bemused acceptance speech that ran drastically over his allotted time.
Pawlikowski remarked at the irony of having made a quiet, ruminative film, "and here we are at the epicenter of noise and attention. It's fantastic. Life is full of surprises."
Several of this year's biggest box-office hit nominees — Clint Eastwood's Iraq war drama "American Sniper" and Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Interstellar" — had to settle for single wins in technical categories. "Interstellar" won for visual effects, while "American Sniper" — far and away the most widely seen of the best-picture nominee — took the best sound editing award.
The Edward Snowden documentary "Citizenfour," in which Laura Poitras captured Snowden in the midst of leaking National Security Agency documents, won best documentary.
"The disclosures that Edward Snowden reveals don't only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself," said Poitras, accepting the Oscar. "When the most important decisions being made affecting all of us are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control."
At Hollywood's studios have increasingly focused on mounting global blockbusters, the Oscars have become largely the providence of smaller indies. In the night's opening routine, Jack Black, playing villain to the chipper Harris, lamented Hollywood releases "opening with lots of zeroes, all we get is superheroes."
"Birdman" was thus a fitting winner: a meta-movie about an actor (Michael Keaton) reconciling himself to his superhero fame. Backstage, co-writer Nicholas Giacobone warned: "Birdman 4" will open next summer.
Winners List
Best Picture
Birdman — Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu — Birdman
Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of Everything
Best Actress
Julianne Moore — Still Alice
Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons — Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette — Boyhood
Achievement in Costume Design
Milena Canonero — TheGrand Budapest Hotel
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier — TheGrand Budapest Hotel
Best Foreign Language Film
Ida – Pawel Pawlikowski
Best Live Action Short Film
The Phone Call — Matt Kirkby and James Lucas
Best Documentary Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 — Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Original Screenplay
Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Whiplash — Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley
Achievement in Sound Editing
American Sniper — Alan Robert Murray Bub Asman
Achievement in Visual Effects
Interstellar — Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Paul Franklin
Best Animated Short
Feast — Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Best Animated Movie
Big Hero Six — Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
Achievement in Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock
Achievement in Cinematography
Birdman — Emannuel Lubezki
Achievement in Film Editing
Whipalsh — Tom Cross
Best Documentary Feature
Citizen Four — Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Best Original Song
Glory — John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Alexandre Desplat
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore
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Beth Harris, Sandy Cohen, Lindsey Bahr and Anthony McCartney contributed to this report.
Chicago battle rapper Big T fires up episode one of his "There's No Way Around It" vlog. In this one he breaks down why all niggas, no matter what they say have to cough up paper to get some pussy.
New mixtape from ROCKO "Expect The Unexpected" Presented by A1 & Street Katz. Features include Juelz Santana and Lil Wayne.
Tracklist:
1.Seesaw 2.Im High 3.Strap On My Lap 4.WhatUPutThatOn 5.Muscle Up ft. Juelz Santana 6.String Puller 7.Good ft. Lil Wayne 8.Lil Gurl Shit ft. Young Thug 9.Night N Day 10.Sexercise 11.Dont You Leave
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The biggest question going into the 2015 NFL draft is which teams will pick quarterbacks Marcos Mariota and Jameis Winston.
It's very hard to predict which one will have a better pro career, but they both have the potential to be franchise leaders for the next decade.
Both are former Heisman Trophy winners. Winston won it in 2013 while playing for Florida State. Mariota, the former University of Oregon quarterback, took home the trophy in 2014.
TheTampa Bay Buccaneershold the number 1 overall pick in the draft, followed by theTennessee Titansat number 2. Both teams are in need of a quarterback. Most draft experts have Mariota and Winston going either 1 or 2.
Character issues and a recent report that his right shoulder is weak may prevent Winston from going 1st. However, he looked great at the NFL combine over the weekend and comes into the league already knowing how to run a pro-style offense.
The only question about Mariota is will he be able to successfully make the transition from running a college spread offense to commanding an NFL offense.
If your were an NFL general manager who would be your pick?
All Def Digital unearths previously unseen footage of rap superstar Lil Wayne auditioning for a movie roll. He brought a cup of lean with him and let's just say things didn't go according to plan.
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Adrian Perterson's days as a member of the Minnesota Vikings appear to be numbers. The All-Pro running back has played his entire 8-year NFL career for the Vikings, but only saw action in 1 game in 2014, after it was revealed he was under investigation in Texas for physically abusing his 4-year old son.
He was indicted in September on a felony charge of reckless or negligent injury to a child.
In November, A.P. All Day cut a plea that was accepted by Montgomery County judge Kelly Case. He was placed on probation, fined $4000, ordered to complete 80 hours of community service and will have to take random drug tests for 2 years.
After initially being placed on the exempt/commissioner’s permission list by the Vikings, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stepped in and suspended Peterson for the rest of the 2014 season.
In the letter to Peterson, Goodell wrote:
"The timing of your potential reinstatement will be based on the results of the counseling and treatment program set forth in this decision," Goodell wrote. "Under this two-step approach, the precise length of the suspension will depend on your actions. We are prepared to put in place a program that can help you to succeed, but no program can succeed without your genuine and continuing engagement. You must commit yourself to your counseling and rehabilitative effort, properly care for your children and have no further violations of law or league policy."
Peterson won't be reinstated until April 2015. If he violates the NFL's personal conduct policy again he will be banned from the league.
On Friday, February 20, the running back who has 10,190 career rushing yards, told ESPN he's not sure if he wants to return to the Vikings.
"There were people (in the organization) that I trusted, who knew exactly what was said, that weren't heard from," Peterson said. "It's hard to say (what my future will be). I'm still uneasy, to be honest with you," he added. "I'm still uneasy about a lot of things that took place within the organization. Of course those guys ultimately supported me, and I'm grateful for that. But ultimately, with me being able to be on the inside and see how cards were dealt, how things were worded, this, that and the other, it's about protecting your brand, your organization, what you have built. In the (grand) scheme of things, not one person counts over that. I get that."
The Bleacher Report published a story stating that Peterson has requested a trade to the Dallas Cowboys. The Vikings want to keep him, but may not have a choice to deal him.
As the sound of Hip-Hop has evolved over the years, so has the ritual of writing your rhymes before you step in the booth, and Alchemist and Evidence share their thoughts on the matter with VladTV.
The famed rappers agree that it doesn't matter if you memorize your rhymes or write them down as long as the outcome sounds good, and point out the trend of rappers trying to do a track in one take.
Evidence explains that he doesn't see a problem with redoing certain parts of the song to enhance the track, with Alchemist chiming in about having serious talks with rappers being stuck with that version forever.
ELLIS releases the visual for Soft Lips and Tattoos one of the four bonus tracks off his critically acclaimed album The Education of ELLIS just in time for Valentines day. Accompanied by his long time collaborator and fellow BMC member Stan Green; ELLIS delivers a soul track for the ladies produced by Henry J. Stuart. Directed by LiveFreeFilms
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