Negotiations between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have been ongoing for several years. Whether or not these two gladiators will ever meet in the ring is anybody's guess.
One person who doesn't think the fight will happen is SMS Promotions CEO, 50 Cent. He recently spoke with sports writer Chris Mannix at the Sports Illustrated office and told him he believes Floyd is afraid of Pac Man.
What's your take on the proposed fight? Is 50 Cent's observation on the money?
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Adam, a photographer for TMZ is not getting the desired effects at the gym. When he spotted 50 Cent coming out of an office building Adam decided to ask for some advice from a workout expert.
Make sure you grab 50's Formula 50 workout book today from Amazon.
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With the highly anticipated second season of Power just a couple of months away, XXL's Miranda J caught up with the show's creator, lead writer and co-producer, Courtney Kemp Agboh, to discuss comparisons to other shows, the direction of the series for the new season, working with co-executive producer 50 Cent, which character undergoes the biggest change and more.
XXL: How did you feel about all the reactions to Season One?
Courtney Kemp Agboh: I was grateful and blessed, absolutely, because you could put out a TV show and no one could watch. I've had that experience because I've worked on a bunch of TV shows that you've never heard of. You work really hard and then the show premieres and nobody watches it. Not only is your effort not being appreciated by the public but you're also going to be out of a job pretty shortly. In this case, people responded even more than I had hoped. I really hoped people would enjoy it, and then they watched it [and] they were like, "Damn!" Then I got on Twitter and people were debating and getting really excited about it. They were talking about things that me and the writers had talked about in the room and hoped people would react to, so [I feel] grateful and blessed. I hope that even more people watch it this second season.
Power, in a lot of ways, filled a void for urban audiences. I know with our audience, a hip-hop based audience, we felt like the show catered to us. Do you feel like you were filling a void with the show?
That's a really good question. The thing is, I wanted a show that I wanted to watch. I like to watch a lot of different things, but I'm 37, so I'm of the generation of hip-hop. A lot of folks in hip-hip are 40 now, right? You don't hear hip-hop in a lot of broadcasts as much. Obviously, because of the profanity and things, but I really did want to make a music-driven show. The show is not only driven by [hip-hop]. In the first season, I really wanted to include Mary J. [Blige]. There's actually two Mary J. songs, kinda. When you do "Sweet Thing," she covered [that song] but it really is Chaka [Khan's]. That, and then there was "Real Love."
It's our generation. It's specific to our generation. 50 [Cent] is so great because he allows me to put whatever music I want in the show. It's not just the total G-Unit catalog. So the first season, you can tell. I love Pusha T and The Clipse. You can tell 'cause it's in there. I like specific producers and 50 was like, I don't care, because the show is lifting the medium and he's able to see wider than just, It has to all be about me. What would The Sopranos have been like if it had hip-hop music?
What's that dynamic like with you and 50? You guys are entering Season Two of Power and have been working together for a while now.
It's funny because 50 Cent and I have spent very little time together. Curtis and I have spent a lot of time together. That is actually the truth. 50 Cent goes and performs. I have two distinct relationships. I have my actor Curtis Jackson, who I work with and we talk about the performance when we have our actor meetings, like I have with every other actor. For me, it's so amazing because of the physical changes with [his character] Kenan. 50's general personality is [very social]; Kenan's like, sunken. His eyes narrow, there's like a panther feeling.
So there's that, then there's Curtis my EP. The executive producer we share is very much... I'll be one the phone with him and he'll start telling me about stories from the neighborhood or about people that he still knows. People that he was obviously in that lifestyle with. When he tells me those stories I'm like [takes notes]. He pitched me something that, for me, is the first three scenes of Season Three. We just talked on the phone and it comes. It's a funny thing because most people assumed it's like a vanity project [for him]. But, we spend a lot of time talking about these stories.
I'd say the biggest scene or the second-biggest scene for Kenan this season came out of a conversation we had and the lines Kenan is saying, 50 just spat that. We were on the phone [and] he was like, "Then he says this, this, and this." I was like, 'Yes!" That was like months before we even wrote the episode. He gave us something to drive toward. He really does have an amazing sense of story. I know I've said that [before] but it's true. He gets it. He's a storyteller. It's interesting; if he had the same kind of education that I had, I wonder if he would be doing what I'm doing, directing movies or whatever.
I have to ask you about all the comparisons to Power. A lot of people are saying it's similar to The Wire and even Empire. How do you feel about those comparisons? Do you feel they are justified?
The Wire comparison is an interesting one for me because it's so spread out and it's so gritty. It really changed as a show every year. You had the school and the docks, so I feel like that's kind of a weird comparison because it's seeing people of color dealing drugs—and yes, we do cover that—but the way we do it is so different. You haven't seen a hand-to-hand [drug deal] on this show yet. It's more about the board room. Our show is, How do you run a business? It's about trying to get all these people on one page. We do cover violence, but the show isn't about the violence. The Wire was about the violence.
As for the Empire thing, the problem is it's so unfair to compare them because doing broadcast—I did broadcast first—is so much harder, in terms of not having sex to show and not having profanity. [They don't have] real violence. They have some but not what I can do. So that's not really fair for them because it's not the same thing. But then the flipside for us is, we'll never be in that many households. We're not Fox, it's a different thing. We're doing different things. I think ifEmpire had a white cast, no one would ever make a comparison. That show is much more structured like Nashville in terms of song and it being about the music industry. Our show is not about that at all. There's hip-hop music in Powerbut the show is not about the hip-hop industry. We chose not to make Ghost a rapper.
Do you think the comparisons boil down to the lack of shows on TV for hip-hop audiences?
I love that people of color have found this show appealing and interesting, [that] it's something that they want to watch. But I also think our show, just as Empire does, has a broad appeal. The themes are universal...[These] are sort of American questions. I want the show to have a broader appeal. There are different ways to watch people of color. You can watch The Real Housewives Of Atlanta, you don't have to watch Power. I think that the reason people do is because it provides something else other than just seeing someone like you on TV. Hopefully, it's bigger than that.
What is the overall dynamic of Season Two of Power?
The overall dynamic is speed, intensity. Bigger, harder, faster and stronger; the Olympic motto. That was the challenge this year—how do we take this and do it way better and way more intense? I think that we wanted to achieve this concept of, By Any Means Necessary. The idea that Ghost will achieve what he needs to achieve by any means necessary. We obviously know that at the end of the season last year, Tommy found out Angela was a Fed. So now, what do we do? What’s going to happen to Ghost once he knows that? We asked that question the first year; when will [Ghost and Angela] find out about each other?
Then, in this second year it’s definitely about, well, now that I know, how do I feel? I’m not a romantic; the show is very romantic but I’m not a romantic. I think that love is kind of bullshit; I actually think that the reason people fall in love with each other is to project to the other person what you want. Ghost projected onto Angela this idea that [he] could live a full, legitimate lifestyle. Angela projected this idea that [she] could really find true love and actually not have to pick between her career. She wasn’t in love with Greg. I think what’s interesting is that [Ghost] represents this idea of true romantic love. She represents the idea of romantic love and his transformation. You take these two people and there are cracks. Once she represents fear, danger and incarceration; that’s different from [what she once represented]. The opposite is true for her—if she ever found out about Ghost, what would that mean? Because he’s supposed to be this perfect representation of them getting out of the hood and being all clean. [And] I achieved my goals and I got this great romantic love.
I think that we require [lovers] to lie to us about who they really are and then we get disappointed when we find out the truth. [Overall] the second season is about speed, intensity, by any means necessary, commitment and survival. I think that everyone on the show is always trying to survive. And [the second season is about] love, but love between fathers and sons. There’s this really interesting thing about loving the person you had babies with but not being in love with them or how you feel when somebody does you wrong.
To read the full interview head over to XXL
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R&B star Tank releases a new free EP for Valentine's Day entitled "If You Were Mine."
Tracklist:
01.If You Were Mine
02.End Of Time
03.All Of Me
04.Stay With Me
05.Someone Like You
06.Lost Without You
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Here's another new music video from the Tru Jack City crew of 2 Chainz, Short Dawg, Cap 1 Skooly & Kaleb. This one is for "Keep It 100." This is off of the T.R.U: The Real University mixtape. Download it for free from Datpiff http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/31863/tru-the-real-university.html.
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Watch Sevyn's official video for "Don't Kill The Fun" featuring Chris Brown. Download the single here: http://smarturl.it/dktf
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Thomas rides along with a police officer through East Atlanta's Zone 6 and we learn about the complicated sprawling neighborhoods of the city and what the cops think of Gucci. Still stoned from his previous meeting with Trouble [http://bit.ly/NOISEY-ATL-E4 ], he links with rapper Young Scooter in an area of Zone 6 known as Little Mexico. During the conversation, Scooter gets a message that somebody has been shot.
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Legendary West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg took to his Instagram account on Tuesday, Febrary 10, to rip the Grammy Awards for not giving hip hop it's proper respect.
The Doggfather posted a photo of Macklemore and a list of well known rappers, who together had less than the three trophies Macklemore won in 2014.
"Fuck the Grammys, we need a hip hop show for real niggaz n real mcs," Snoop wrote.
Snoop was actually agreeing with a report by Complex entitled "The Grammys Don't Know Shit About Rap."
The publication cited Iggy Azalea's four 2015 nominations, noting that they were more than MC Lyte, Foxy Brown and Lil Kim combined in rap categories. The Australian import even had more rap category nominations than Lauryn Hill.
In the group category, The Black Eyed Peas have won more rap Grammys that A Tribe Called Quest, UGK, the Geto Boys and Gang Starr combined.
Drake has 22 nominations, but only 1 win. A female emcee hasn't been given a rap Grammy in a decade.
To top that off, legendary rappers like Ice Cube, Mobb Deep, Ghostface Killah and Rakim have never even been nominated.
We'll have to agree with Complex's assessment of the Grammy Awards. What's your take?
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Bobby Brown has decided to take his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown off of life support at midnight February 11, to coincide with the third anniversary of her mom, Whitney Houston's death, according to the New York Post.
Whitney's mom, Cissy Houston, reportedly suggested February 11 as the date to let Bobbi pass away and her father eventually agreed.
The move is a symbolic way to keep the mother and daughter together for eternity, according to a Brown family source.
Bobbi, 21, has been in a medically induced coma since being found face down and not breathing in her bathtub on Saturday January 31, 2015, in her Roswell, Georgia home. Her condition has not improved since then. Doctors informed the family there was nothing more they could do.
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. She was found submerged in the bathroom of her room at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
The coroner ruled her death an accidental drowning. Heart disease and cocaine were contributing factors. She was 48-years old.
**UPDATE**
US Weekly is now reporting that the decision to pull Bobbi off of life support is not accurate.
The family reached out to US Weekly to say there is "no truth to it at all" to the New York Post report.
We'll keep you updated as this story continues to change.
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Plies gets a new verse from Lil Wayne and a hook from K Camp on the remix to his single entitled "Find You."
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******* New Release from Cory Gunz #MILITIAGANG artist & childhood friend Young Hash known to some as @HASHBRONBEAST This track is#MustDownloadToday featuring Q.R.M.G artist own Brad Piff
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EarDrummers presents Two-9's new mixtape entitled B4FRVR. Features include Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Swae Lee and Slim Jimmi of Rae Sremmurd
Tracklist
1.Gather Round Prod By Childish Major
2.Did It Prod By Mike WiLL Made-It
3.Verified Prod By The Olympics
4.Captain Insano Prod By Snubnose Frankenstein
5.Full House Feat Wiz Khalifa / Ty Dolla Sign Prod By Metro Boomin
6.Never See Me Again Feat Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd Prod By Mike WiLL Made-It
7.For The Cash Prod By Snubnose Frankenstein
8.World Go Crazy Prod By Backpack
9.Money Counter Prod By Charlie Heat
10.Functioning Feat Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd Prod By Dramatics
11.She Could Be Shorty Prod By Mike WiLL Made-It
12.My Dawgs Prod By Dexter
13.Creation Feat Rellajamu Prod By Brio A
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Master P and Ace B release a new 14-track EP entitled CP3.
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Soulja Boy continues to drop new music. The SODMG boss links up with AGoff to release an official music video for their collaboration entitled "Million$." Check it out below.
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Madonna will release her new album entitled Rebel Heart on March 10. Here's a song off of it featuring Mike Tyson and Chance the Rapper called "Iconic."
Pre-order the album now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rebel-heart/id953710965.
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Last weekend Birdman was denied entrance into Nicki Minaj's pre-Grammy party at 1OAK nightclub in West Hollywood. At the time many people assumed it was a sign that Minaj had sided with Lil Wayne in his beef with Cash Money Records.
Sources close to the female rapper say that isn't the case. By the time Birdman and his entourage arrived at 1:45 a.m., Nicki was gone. Another reason they were denied entrance is because they wanted to order bottle service and it was too late because the club was closing in 15 minutes.
Drake and Nicki are reportedly trying to remain neutral while the Wayne vs Cash Money legal war rages on. Both are hoping for an amicable end to the beef.
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A small snippet in the trailer for the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton appears to show Suge Knight stomping somebody out. TMZ reports that the former Death Row Records CEO heard his likeness was going to be used in the film. He never gave his permission and went to the set of the movie to talk to Dr. Dre about how he would be portrayed.
We now know that ended up being a terrible idea because two fights broke out. One on the film's set between Suge and security. Followed by another one later at a burger joint between the record executive and actor Cle "Bone" Sloan.
During the second fight Suge wound up hitting Sloan and his friend Terry Carter with his car. Carter supposedly set up the meeting with Dre
Carter was killed during the hit-and-run. Sloan's foot was badly mangled.
Suge is currently being held in an L.A. County jail on charges of murder and attempted murder.
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Music video for Ain't No Lady performed by Karlos Farrar.
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Today Scoop Deville & Demrick are back with the 2nd leak off of their joint EP titled "LOUD PACK" - This track track is titled "Blowing Money Fast" featuring B Real of Cypress Hill & Taylor gang's Berner. This track actually doubles as an exclusive off of B Real & Berner's upcoming project "Prohibition 2" with is set to drop in March. Scoop Deville flips the Cypress Hill classic "I Wanna Get" and add's his spin on it.
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Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated new album is coming soon. Here's a new song off of it entitled "The Blacker The Berry."
Produced by Boi-1da
Additional Production by Terrace Martin
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