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The family of Michael Taylor are still trying to come to grips with his senseless murder last week in New Orleans. As we previously reported, the 16-year old made headlines in January 2011 when his uncle, Lamoine Ward, videotaped himself whipping Taylor for putting gang related information on his Facebook wall. Ward then posted the video online where it went viral almost overnight.
In a new interview with New Orleans television station WDSU, the uncle says he did it out of love and fear for what could happen to his family.
"It was love and I wanted to really show that he's not a gang member. I was not only going on his [Facebook] walls, I was searching his friend's walls also," Lamoine said. "So, I was frightened about what could happen to my family. I was led by the right spirit when I did it, but now the enemy is twisting it in my head like I did something wrong. Maybe I draw some extra attention to him to make him feel like he need to prove to these people that he's not soft."
Asked if he had any regrets about posting the video, Lamoine told WDSU he only had one.
"I regret maybe not being a part of his life a little bit more after the video," he said.
After the video hit the net, Taylor was reportedly bullied and made fun of at school. His mother, Kimberly Ward, said her son was a good kid who may have simply been trying to fit in with the wrong crowd.
"I'm hurt," she said through tears. "I'm not angry but I'm hurt. My boy was my world. But at the same time I'm blessed that if my child's death can save another child's life and another mother [not] have to go through what I feel, then I feel alright."
She added that parent's shouldn't be afraid to check their children's Facebook pages and most of all, "Don't be a friend, be a parent."
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It may seem as if Mya has dropped off the face of the earth musically, but nothing could be further from the truth. The singer has been quite busy over the last several years putting out music exclusively in Japan, where her last three albums have been released through her own independent label, Planet 9. Now she feels the time is right to re-introduce herself and her new sound to American audiences.
That re-introduction will come in the form of a deluxe U.S. and Canada version of the album K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy and Simple), which will be released December 20.
"It's about being cool and drama-free. And everything I do reflects that," she told Billboard. "The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep is real simple and sometimes we think or we're trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it's the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy."
The deluxe version includes four additional songs that are not on the Japanese version, including the recently leaked "Somebody Come Get This B*tch," a track inspired by the gay club scene and "Earthquake" featuring Trina.
Mya told Billboard that you won't see any extensive promotion or music videos for the album. She plans on saving that for her next project which will have less of a J-Pop feel and more of the traditional R&B sound stateside fans are used to hearing from her.
"K.I.S.S. is just a boutique album that I'm offering fans under the radar. If they want it, it's accessible now," she says. "This is just more of an appetizer. I've already started on what people will be looking forward to. I'm still going to put out my mixtapes. I still may do projects in Japan, but my focal point and priority is to bring it back home."
Mya Ft. Stacie and Lacie "Somebody Come Get This B*tch"
Mya Ft. Trina "Earthquake"
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Wale drops new visuals for "Chain Music," a bonus track off of his latest album, Ambition.
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With the way Soulja Boy has been releasing new music and videos lately you would think he was already promoting a new album, but those were just warm ups for the official deal coming next year.
Soulja just unveiled the cover for his upcoming fourth studio album, Promise. The disc is scheduled to hit stores in March 2012 via Stacks On Deck/Interscope.
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When you book Snoop Doog for an event it's a good bet the smell of chronic will be filling the air.
The Doggfather is being sued by Roger Kalaouz, a Middle Eastern concert promoter who alleges that Snoop smoked a blunt at an after party following a 2009 concert in Beirut and put the footage in a music video for "That's Tha Homie."
According to TMZ, Lebanese authorities found out about the illegal activity and launched a criminal investigation into Kalaouz's company. Kalaouz claims the investigation severely damaged his reputation and is seeking $280,000 in damages from the American rapper plus a commitment to perform two additional concerts in the Middle East.
TMZ reports that Snoop's reps are aware of the lawsuit, but so far no agreement has been worked out between the two parties.
Snoop Dogg "That's Tha Homie"
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The always entertaining Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the best interviewers in the game. He catches up with the Wu Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah and takes him on a trip down memory lane during Ghost's recent trip to Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Check the interview out below.
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Capo drops a new joint featuring Trav and Mel Matrix.
Cals teams up with Strong Arm Steady MC Mitchy Slick for a certified banger. The duo flip Notorious B.I.G.'s "10 Crack Commandments" and put a sinister West Coast spin on it.
Cals' Paper Trail Gang coming in 2012.
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The ink may barely be dry on her divorce papers, but Kim Kardashian might already be moving on.
It hasn't quite been two months since Kim ended her 72-day marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries, and there are already rumors things could be heating up with Kanye West.
The New York Daily News is reporting that Kim and Kanye attended a "Watch The Throne" after party thrown by billionaire Ron Burkle. The two were seen getting very cozy according to sources.
"Kanye was eating Kim up like she was a piece of cake,” says the source. “He was all over her — caressing her head, touching her waist. I think he was dying to kiss her, but there were too many people in the room,”
The Louis Vuitton Don has been known to play the field. He's been spotted everywhere from Paris to Philadelphia with different beautiful women. Could Kim K be next to get chopped down?
Last month on the Wendy Williams show, Yeezy's ex, Amber Rose, hinted that he's hooked up with Kim before.
"I mean, Come on, like, you know," she told Wendy laughing. "Come on! We'll keep it cute."
While at the after party Kanye seemed to only be interested in Kim.
“He wouldn’t talk to anybody else,” the source said. Adding that Kim didn't mind the attention, “She was totally into it.”
At one point Kanye and Kim got up and went outside, although nobody knows for sure if they left together.
Kim did tweet that she had a good time.
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Ashanti is back and this time she's calling her own shots. The R&B singer has started her own label, Written Entertainment, and has secured worldwide distribution through eOne Music.
“The more I learned the business the more I knew this is what I wanted,” the 31-year old said in a statement. “Ownership is so important. As a business woman this was a great move for me. With eOne as my distributor, I feel that their innovative and ambitious approach to the music industry, really gives my label a worldwide presence. They have the top radio people in the business and are hungry to win!”
The first single from her forthcoming fifth studio album is the Busta Rhymes assisted "The Woman You Love."
“eOne is proud to have a partnership with Ashanti and her label Written Entertainment,” said Alan Grunblatt, President of eOne Music. “Ashanti truly has the independent entrepreneurial attitude that eOne was built on, and we’re thrilled to be working with her."
What do you think of Ashanti's new single?
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Chris Brown drops a new song the strip clubs are bound to keep on repeat as he encourages the ladies to work their magic while he makes it rain.
The song will appear on Breezy's 2012 album, Fortune.
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A 16-year old Louisiana teen who was seen by millions of online viewers being whipped by his uncle because of online gang activity was found murdered in New Orleans last week.
Michael Taylor had been posting messages on his Facebook page earlier this year when his uncle found out about it. To make an example out of the youth, the uncle made a video of himself whipping the teen with a belt, while telling him to admit to the camera that the gang ties he had been bragging about were fake.
"Y'all parents all these senseless f*cking crimes... all this gangbang sh*t. This my f*cking nephew right here," the uncle says in the video, pointing at Michael. "He aint no gangbanger, we don't come from that sh*t."
"All that's fake," Michael said, before his uncle whipped him.
When the video hit the internet in January 2011 most people applauded the uncle for his actions. As it turns out the video did nothing to prevent Michael from meeting a tragic fate.
BlackAmericaWeb.com is reporting that the teen's mom had been keeping close tabs on him, making him stay within eyesight whenever he went outside. On the night he was killed he received a text message and went outside to talk. Not too long afterwards his mother, Kimberly Ward, said her daughter received a text message saying Michael had been shot and killed.
"I came home and saw my son on the ground," Ward said.
Police say they have no suspects or motives in the December 7th shooting, but witnesses said they saw two men approach Michael and open fire, hitting him multiple times in the torso.
Stacey Patton, who runs the website SpareTheKids.com said she wasn't surprised to hear about Michael's murder after seeing the video of him being whipped.
"I am not surprised to hear that this young man's life has ended violently. When I saw the video, I kept thinking that by beating this youth, the uncle was setting him up for some kind of tragedy, either prison or an early grave," she said. "I don’t understand why more people don't make the connection between how children are dealt with at home and the larger societal impact. Studies show that maltreated youth make up a disproportionate number of youth involved in school and gang violence. Violent parental discipline increases the risk that a child will act violently later in life. The use of violent discipline teaches children that violence is an appropriate means of shaping behavior and solving problems. Physically disciplining a child has no positive impact for the child, that child's relationship with the parents, or the larger community."
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Young Jeezy seems to be everywhere these days. The Atlanta rapper is dropping videos left and right as well as making television appearances as the December 20 release date for Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition nears.
Check out his new video for the Lil Lody produced "Nothin."
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Rapper Plies has been ordered to pay a group of five men $200,000 total after a jury found him civilly liable for a 2006 club shooting that left them injured.
The victims were hit by bullets after a fight broke out between members of Plies' camp and another rapper at a Gainesville, Florida nightclub.
During the criminal trial, Plies pleaded no contest to illegal possession of a concealed weapon that was found after the shootings. Plies avoided jail time and was sentenced to probation while his brother, Ronell "Big Gates" Levatte served three years in prison for his role in the incident.
The civil lawsuit against Plies, real name Algernod Lanier Washington, was filed in April 2008.
According to the rapper's lawyer, the victims in the case were offered nearly four times the amount they were awarded to settle the case out of court, but they turned down the offer.
The plaintiff's attorney Chad Roberts told Gainesville.com back in March 2010 that he feared the shooting would only bolster Plies' street credibility.
"The irony is that when you criminally prosecute (gangsta rappers) their stock goes up," he said. "It's hard to punish them. The only way to punish is them is to hold the record company accountable."
During the trial Plies took the stand where he revealed a background much different than one you would expect from a gangsta rapper.
Plies told the jury he was his high school's homecoming king, best dressed student and received a full scholarship to Miami of Ohio University to play football.
The jury deliberated for nearly two days before deciding the rapper and his brother should pay the victims for their pain and suffering, but the total dollar amount didn't come close to the $10 million they were seeking.
Plies take stand during civil trial
Plies and his brother Big Gates found civilly liable for 2006 shootings
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BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta paid solemn tribute on Thursday to an “independent, free and sovereign Iraq” and declared the official end to the Iraq war, formally wrapping up the U.S. military’s mission in the country after almost nine years.
“After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqis and Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure itself has become real,” Panetta said at a ceremony held under tight security at Baghdad’s international airport. “To be sure, the cost was high — in blood and treasure for the United States, and for the Iraqi people. Those lives were not lost in vain.”
The 1:15 p.m. ceremony (5:15 a.m. in Washington) effectively ended the war two weeks earlier than was necessary under the terms of the security agreement signed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments in 2008, which stipulated that the troops must be gone by Dec. 31.
But commanders decided there was no need to keep troops in Iraq through the Christmas holidays given that talks on maintaining a U.S. presence beyond the deadline had failed. The date of the final ceremony had been kept secret for weeks, so as not to give insurgents or militias an opportunity to stage attacks.
Dignitaries and a small crowd of military personnel in fatigues gathered at a terminal in the Baghdad airport, which until now had been operated by the U.S. military. In the future, it will be overseen by the State Department, which is assuming responsibility for a massive, $6 billion civilian effort to sustain American influence in Iraq beyond the troops’ departure.
The white flag of United States Force-Iraq was carefully folded and put away, and Panetta took the podium.
“No words, no ceremony can provide full tribute to the sacrifices which have brought this day to pass,” the defense secretary said. “I’m reminded of what President Lincoln said in Gettysburg, about a different war, in a different time. His words echo through the years as we pay tribute to the fallen in this war: ‘The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.’ ”
In his speech, Panetta singled out U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey and Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, for overseeing the rapid withdrawal of 50,000 troops in recent months and the closure of dozens of bases.
But he paid special tribute to the more than 1 million U.S. troops who have served war duty in Iraq since 2003, including about 4,487 who were killed and some 30,000 who were wounded.
“You have done everything your nation has asked you to do and more,” he said. “You came to this ‘Land Between the Rivers’ again and again and again.You did not know whether you’d return to your loved ones.
“You will leave with great pride, lasting pride, secure in knowing that your sacrifice has helped the Iraqi people begin a new chapter in history free from tyranny and full of hope for prosperity and peace.”
Panetta also paid homage to military families who, “through deployment after deployment after deployment ... withstood the strain, the sacrifice and the heartbreak of watching their loved ones go off to war.”
“Together with the Iraqi people,” he added, “the United States welcomes the next stage in U.S.-Iraqi relations.”
And with that, the U.S. military’s mission was declared over, eight years, eight months and 25 days after it began.
Panetta arrived in Baghdad after a two-day stop to visit troops in Afghanistan. He was making his first visit to Iraq since becoming defense secretary in July, although he also visited the country during his tenure as CIA director and prior to that as a member of the Iraq Study Group, an advisory panel of foreign policy veterans that sought to change the Bush administration’s approach to the war.
In recent days, during visits to Djibouti and Afghanistan, Panetta refrained from declaring victory in Iraq or “mission accomplished,” as the Bush administration did prematurely in 2003. Instead, he has acknowledged divisions and regrets among U.S. lawmakers and the American people in general, while trying to frame Iraq’s future in a guarded sense of optimism.
“In many ways I think we can all take some satisfaction — regardless of whether you are for or against how we got into Iraq, the fact is we can take some satisfaction in the fact that we are now heading them in the right direction,” Panetta told an audience of U.S. diplomats Wednesday at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
In the end, Panetta described the purpose of the war as an attempt to turn Iraq into a stable, self-governing democracy after decades of dictatorship under Saddam Hussein. During his trip to Afghanistan, he did not name Hussein directly and made no mention of the failed search for weapons of mass destruction, which the Bush administration had cited as justification for the 2003 invasion.
“It’s a mission whose goal was to establish an Iraq that could govern and secure itself,” Panetta said Wednesday. “And we have done that. We are giving Iraq an opportunity to be able to govern itself and to secure itself into the future, and to enjoy, hopefully, the benefits of a democracy.”
“It won’t be easy. There will be challenges. They’ll face the challenges of terrorism. They’ll face the challenges of those that would want to divide that country. They’ll face the challenges, the test of democracy,” he said. “They have the opportunity to be able to do that. And because of the blood that was spilled by Americans, because of the blood that was spilled by Iraqis, they now have that chance.”
Many Iraqis still find it hard to believe that the U.S. troops are actually leaving, after a war in which more than 100,000 Iraqi lives were lost and more than $800 billion was spent by U.S. taxpayers on the military effort and reconstruction. At the war’s peak in 2007, there were 170,000 U.S soldiers in Iraq, although that number had dwindled to 50,000 over the past year.
The withdrawal will have little immediate impact on the lives of most Iraqis. U.S. troops pulled out of the cities in 2009 and halted combat operations a year later. For more than a year, they have been training the Iraqi security forces on military bases, largely out of public sight, although Special Forces have continued to conduct counterterrorism operations.
Many Iraqis were unaware that the departure was imminent, although in recent days, the domestic press has been speculating that it might take place sooner than anticipated.
On Wednesday, thousands of people in the mostly Sunni town of Fallujah, where Marines fought the biggest battle of the war in 2004, took to the streets to celebrate. They burned American and Israeli flags, and carried a banner declaring Fallujah to be “the city of resistance.”
Some residents, nevertheless, expressed misgivings, even as they said they were glad to see the Americans go. Bashar al-Nadeq, 32, said he could not help but be happy because he spent two years in the Camp Bucca prison camp after a cousin to whom he owed money told the U.S. military that he was a terrorist.
But he fears simmering sectarian tensions could erupt in violence once again, and he does not plan to celebrate.
“What’s the point of lighting a candle at the beginning of a tunnel when you know you will be walking in darkness?” he said at his car wash, near the center of the battle-scarred town. “I am happy they are going, but I know my happiness won’t last for long.”
Sources : The Washington Post and CNN
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Young Jeezy hit up the Jimmy Kimmel Live stage Wednesday (December 14) to perform a medley of "I Do" and "Lose My Mind."
Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition drops December 20.
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After all the votes were counted Machine Gun Kelly has been named MTV's Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2011. The award caps off what has been a meteoric rise for MGK, who built up such a cult following in his home state of Ohio it got the attention of major labels. After the dust settled MGK signed with Diddy and Bad Boy Records in August 2011 and he hasn't looked back since.
"I can't explain how grateful I am for all those kids who sat there and got in voting circles and sat there for hours and hours and did votes upon votes," MGK told MTV. "I know that we have probably the least amount of fans, but like I told my fans: Heart is always gonna prevail over connections and who these people know and who tweets what."
Check out the final rankings below as voted by the fans.
10. Freddie Gibbs
9. French Montana
8. Future
7. A$AP Rocky
6. Roscoe Dash
5. Kendrick Lamar
4. Meek Mill
3. Mac Miller
2. Lil Twist
1. Machine Gun Kelly
Next up for Kelly is his Bad Boy debut album Lace Up, due in 2012.
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