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T.I. was a guest on Howard Stern's Sirius XM show today (October 18).
The Atlanta rapper was there to promote his new book, Power & Beauty, but somehow ended up in a conversation about a fight he had while in prison.
Tip also visited The View this morning as well.
Peep footage from both interviews down below.
T.I. on Howard Stern
T.I. on The View
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Harry Belafonte was scheduled to appear on a Bakersfield, California, television station Friday (October 14) to promote his new memoir, My Song, but things didn't exactly go according to plan.
Anchor Leyla Santiago introduced the "Day O" singer by talking about his new book and HBO documentary, when the cameras cut to the 84-year old singer he was fast asleep.
“Harry, wake up! Harry?” Santiago exclaimed. “Wake up, wake up! This is your wake-up call Harry! Okay, I’ll tell you what, he’s meditating. He’s taking a little nap.”
Peep the hilarious clip below.
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Soulja Boy was arrested in Temple, GA early this morning after a routine traffic stop turned into a narcotics bust.
TMZ is reporting that the 21-year old rapper was arrested along with 4 other men when Temple police found a substantial amount of cash and weed said to worth $70,000.
Guns were also found in the car. At this point it's unclear whether or not any of the men had licenses to carry.
Soulja is still being held in Carrol County Jail while police continue their investigation.
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Video footage of a two-year old baby girl being struck by vehicles in two separate hit-and-runs, then ignored by bystanders as she lay critically injured has caused an uproar in China around the world.
Many are calling into question the morality of a society where at least 18 people could either drive or walk by an injured child and not render aid.
The incident happened last week outside of a market in Foshan, a city in China's Guangdong Province.
In the footage captured by CCTV, two-year old Wang Yue is seen wondering aimlessly into the street. Moments later a van hits her, then stops momentarily before the driver continues on. The rear wheels of the vehicle roll over the helpless child.
Several minutes later another vehicle hits the child. Again, the driver doesn't stop to help or even get out of his vehicle.
Finally after at least ten minutes one woman stopped to help.
58-year-old Chen Xianmei was scavenging when she saw the child and pulled her to the side of the road before calling for help.
"Blood was coming out her nose and mouth," Chen told local reporters. "I didn't understand why no one else had carried her from the street."
The young girl's mom shows up to claim her and rushes her to the hospital where she is now listed in critical condition.
"I'm still so worried," the child's father, Wang Chichang told CNN. "I feel helpless and angry. Had one passer-by stopped to help earlier, this whole thing wouldn't have been so tragic."
The father was said to be busy running his hardware shop in the Foshan market, while his wife was hanging laundry. Neither noticed their daughter had wandered off until it was too late.
Police have caught the 2 hit-and-run drivers.
Watch the videos below.
*WARNING GRAPHIC FOOTAGE*
CNN News Coverage
Pyschologist explains 'bystander behavior'
Chinese News Coverage [English Subtitles]
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Eminem and Lil Wayne have been dubbed Gods of Rock by GQ magazine. The two rap superstars join Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards on the cover of the November issue.
This special issue dubbed 'The Survivors' pays tribute to "The greatest living music masters. Through career lulls, prison terms, ugly addictions, and industry earthquakes."
Eminem talks to the magazine about his drug addiction and recovery.
"Five or six songs leaked from the original version of Encore," Em told GQ. "So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. In my head, I was pissed off: 'Oh well. Songs leaked. F*ck it. I'm just going to take a bunch of f*cking pills and go in there and have a party with myself.' I'm sure the more pills I took, the goofier I got."
After a five year hiatus, the Detroit rapper, now clean and sober, bounced back strong with the releases of 2009's Relapse and 2010's Recovery.
"I've realized that the way I am helps with the music. Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour," Em said in the magazine. "But sometimes it sucks, and I wish I was wired like a regular person and could go have a f*ckin' drink. But that's the biggest thing about addiction: When you realize that you cannot — for f*ck's sake, you can not — f*ck around with nothing ever again."
This special issue of GQ which is available October 25 will also come with a photo portfolio shot by photographer Mark Seliger.
Peep the full list of artists featured below.
Erykah Badu
Metallica and Lou Reed
Beck
My Morning Jacket
The Black Keys
New York Dolls
Jimmy Cliff
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Dungeon Family
Robert Plant
Brandon Flowers
Iggy Pop
Debbie Harry
Raekwon
PJ Harvey
Keith Richards
Lil Wayne
Alex Turner
Nick Lowe
TV on the Radio
Stephen Malkmus
Jack White
Eminem
Starting today (October 18) GQ.com will have special interviews with these artists.
Via MTV and Digital Journal
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DJ Premier is always the man behind the turntables at the BET cyphers. He also has some input on the artists that appear.
The super producer recently revealed he had to put the brakes on one artist's would-be performance after it was revealed he wouldn't be writing his own lyrics.
"Justin Bieber asked if he could do the cypher and everybody was worried that might mess up the integrity of BET," Preem said. "I was like yo, as long as he got a dope rhyme, let him spit. But then we heard he wants Luda to write his rhyme. I was like oh no, no, no, no. If you ain't writing your own rhyme, you can't do it, so Justin, you gotta take a backseat. Write your own rhymes, honey."
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undun is an existential re-telling of the short life of one Redford Stephens (1974-1999). Through the use of emotives and Redford’s internal dialogues the album seeks to illustrate the intersection of free will and prescribed destiny as it plays out ‘on the corner’. Utilizing a reverse narrative arc, the album begins as the listener finds Redford disoriented--postmortem--and attempting to make sense of his former life. As he moves through its pivotal moments he begins to deconstruct all that has led to his (and our own) coming undun.
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If Drake is feeling any pressure to top his previous successes he's not showing it. He's found a comfort zone in the world of glitz and glamour that he's now a part of.
That newly found comfort is on display on the cover of his sophomore album, Take Care.
Drizzy says the new album tells a story. One he started on the mixtape track "Houstonatlantavegas." in which he created a fictional world.
"It was a world that was very much real to me, but I created it in my mind," he said. "It was a world that, being a kid from Toronto, I used to look at from the outside and I used to be like, 'Man that looks crazy.' All those strip clubs and all those nightclubs and the drinks and the girls and the fame. I used to stare at this world through a glass window and, like, two to three years later, I've become a king in that world. So that's who is sitting on that album cover. The kid that's just gone from somehow being in his mom's basement to becoming a king And there is a lot of deep thought involved in that because you can go crazy doing this."
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Meek Mill was trying to conduct an interview with Bossip on the red carpet on the BET Hip Hop Awards when Wale stepped in to add his two cents.
Mill tried to be patient, but appeared to become annoyed when the questions aimed at him were being answered by Wale instead. Mill eventually just walked away from the interview altogether.
Peep the footage below.
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Rapper Shyne is no longer part of the Def Jam family according to producer Ken Lewis, who worked with him on what was supposed to be his comeback album.
"Well, I mixed 18 songs for the upcoming album and produced two, but he got dropped from Def Jam [Records], and I haven’t heard from him since," Lewis told HipHopDX. "Yeah, that may not be common knowledge. [Laughs] That might get me in trouble. His release date was splattered as May 17 all over the world, but the day came and went, and I never heard from Shyne again. I don’t really know what happened to him, I just know that as far as I’m concerned, I’m not a part of that record anymore."
Former Def Jam President L.A. Reid, inked Shyne to a deal that was reported to be between $1 million and $5 million dollars in February of 2010, just months after he was released from prison, but the record company never saw a return on their investment.
Shyne, who changed his birth name from Jamal Michael Barrow to Moshe Levi Ben-David to reflect his religious conversion to Judaism is now living in Israel.
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Pennsylvania-based producer Jahlil Beats has just inked a deal with Roc Nation.
Jahlil made the announcement via Twitter yesterday (October 16).
"I feel like i just did the impossible today. I signed with Jay-Z and ROCNATION ," he wrote. "I wanna that malik, jay, ty ty & emory for giving me this opportunity."
Jahlil has provided music for artists like Chris Brown, Jae Millz and Diggy Simmons, but it's his production work for Meek Mill that really helped to put him on the map. He thanked the Philadelphia MC for giving him a chance.
"I wanna thank meek mill and charlie mack as well them n*ggas put me on and i'll appreciate it that forever."
Meek Mill "Rose Red" [Produced by Jahlil Beats]
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MTV caught up with Birdman, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj on the set of Stunna's new video for 'Y U Mad?'
Nicki rocks dreads, camouflage pants, a wife beater and holds a cigar as she morphs into the "female Weezy" for the Gil Green-directed clip.
Birdman told MTV that the song was a gift to him from Nicki.
“Nicki gave me that song. She called me one day like, ‘Stunna, I got a record for you I think you would like.’ I jumped on it and put my son on it. I liked it from the start. Working with Nicki is just special anyway and I felt good about it, so we rocked with it.”
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Many people were surprised by Christina Aguilera's appearance at the Michael Jackson Tribute Concert last weekend in Wales.
The singer appeared to have gained some weight, and the outfit she wore wasn't exactly flattering.
On Friday's edition of E's "Fashion Police," Kelly Osbourne went in on the "Genie In A Bottle" singer.
"She called me fat for years," Ozzy Osbourne's daughter said. "I was never that fat."
Her co-host Joan Rivers also chimed in: "Lady Marmalade got into the peanut butter again."
This isn't the first time Osbourne has had unflattering things to say about Xtina.
"She called me fat for so many f*cking years," Osbourne said last month on Fashion Police. "So you know what? F*ck you! You're fat too."
When asked by a fan on Twitter if she was attacking Christina out of jealousy, Osbourne replied that she was bullied by the singer for a decade.
Looks like somebody holds a grudge. Peep Christina's pics from the MJ Tribute below to see what Osbourne is talking about.
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LOS ANGELES — Bernard Hopkins was stopped for the first time in his career in bizarre fashion Saturday night when Chad Dawson lifted him and tossed him to the canvas late in the second round, leaving the 46-year-old champion unable to continue.
Dawson (31-1, 18 KOs) claimed the WBC light heavyweight title from Hopkins (52-6-3), but both fighters were left furious when referee Pat Russell ruled Dawson hadn’t fouled Hopkins.
“They want me out of boxing, and this is one way to do it,” Hopkins said. “Chad Dawson came in the ring tonight, and he just wanted to rough me up with dirty tactics. He wanted to get me out of there, and that was the only way he could.”
When Hopkins leaned over the crouching Dawson after throwing an overhand right, Dawson lifted Hopkins off his feet before shrugging him onto the canvas. Hopkins landed roughly on his left shoulder, his head poking underneath the bottom rope, and might have glanced off the ringside table.
Hopkins immediately clutched his left shoulder and grimaced in pain, apparently unable to continue. Russell declared a TKO — and just like that, a long-awaited showdown between the ageless light heavyweight champion and his top young rival was over, infuriating the lively Staples Center crowd.
“It was not a foul,” Russell said. “It’s a TKO. He could not continue because of an injury. No foul.”
After waiting a half-decade for a fight with Hopkins, Dawson was enraged when Hopkins stayed down on the ground, angrily taunted taunting him and climbing on the ropes. When Russell waved off the fight, Dawson went over to Hopkins and motioned at him to get off his stool.
“He jumped on me and was pulling me down, so I pushed him off with the shoulder,” Dawson said. “B-Hop disappointed a lot of fans. I was looking forward to a good fight. I trained eight weeks for this. ... Yes, he was faking. This is a fight I wanted for three years, and Bernard obviously didn’t want the fight.”
The result seems likely to be contested by Hopkins. Even California officials acknowledged the first TKO on Hopkins’ record could be erased on appeal.
“He couldn’t continue, so it’s a TKO for now,” said George Dodd, the California State Athletic Commission’s executive officer. “At this time, that’s the call.”
Source: Associated Press
Photos courtesy of Boxing Scene
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Just a week after dropping a video for "Countdown," Beyonce Knowles has released new visuals for "Love On Top."
Both songs are from B's fourth studio album, 4.
Beyonce says the "Love On Top" clip pays homage to her favorite all-male bands growing up.
"I had an idea for the video based on some of my favorite male groups. I remember seeing videos from New Edition, the Jackson 5 and The Temptations, bands I love for their beautiful harmonies, and precise choreography and I always wanted to make a video and be part of a boy group myself. It was so much fun."
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Common is gearing up for the release of his first album under his new deal with Warner Brothers. The veteran rapper from Chicago just finished shooting his second video in as many weeks. After wrapping up "Blue Sky," Common headed over to Haiti to shoot "Sweet."
Both songs are from his upcoming album, The Dreamer, The Believer.
Check out the behind the behind the scenes footage for the Phillipe Scaglietti directed "Sweet" video below.
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As we previously reported, an offer of $1 million dollars for an unreleased Tupac Shakur song playing in the background of a sex tape was made by NOHO CEO, Jay Grdina.
The offer has gotten the interest of 'Pac's estate. According to TMZ negotiations have started between Grdina and the estate.
The sex tape hasn't been viewed by Shakur's estate, so they have no idea what song is playing or even if they have it in their possession, but they are willing to sell Grdina another unreleased song from 2Pac's catalog if they can agree on a price.
NOHO plans to use the track as it's official theme song.
As for the sex tape itself, 2Pac's mom Afeni Shakur has vowed to put up a legal fight to ensure that it is never seen by the public.
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Drake served as both an actor and musical guest yesterday on Saturday Night Live.
The Toronto MC performed two songs off his upcoming sophomore album, Take Care. After performing "Headlines" Drizzy brought out Nicki Minaj for "Make Me Proud."
Drake also participated in a couple of sketches. In one he sits down for a very strange interview with comedian Andy Samberg. In the other Drake plays a rapping wolf on the Weekend Update.
Drake's funny interview with Andy Samberg
Drake "Headlines"
Drake as teen werewolf on SNL's Weekend Update
Drake "Make Me Proud" Ft. Nicki Minaj
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