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Video After The Jump Katy Perry loves wearing latex outfits, and she looks damn good in them. The 'California Gurls' singer was in Germany Sunday, (September 5) promoting her new album 'Teenage Dream'. Before her show, she posed for paparazzi in her skin tight PVC dressed covered with ice cream cones and talked about her candy-themed album. Perry also revealed plans to apply for duel citizenship in Britain once she marries boyfriend, Russel Brand.

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He's a Grammy Award-winning, multiplatinum hip-hop star who's scored a host of top 10 hits, collaborated with heavy hitters from T.I. to Tim McGraw, owns a label and a successful clothing line and is celebrating his 10th anniversary in music. But for rapper Nelly's teenage daughter, the biggest validation that her father is still "cool" came only last week-from Taylor Swift. "I'm so in love with that new Nelly song," the country phenom tweeted about Nelly's latest single, "Just a Dream," produced by Jim Jonsin and Rico Love. "My daughter was like, 'OMG!' " the 36-year-old father of two says about his daughter's shock at Swift's recognition. "I'm only cool to her because I know Chris Brown and Bow Wow, and now Taylor tweeted about me." Apparently, Swift isn't the only one enamored with the track. "Just a Dream"-one of two lead singles from Nelly's upcoming "5.0" album from Derrty/Universal Motown (Nov. 16)-debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 8 on Hot Digital Songs, marking his first top 10 hit since "Grillz" topped the Hot 100 in 2006. Released concurrently with club track "Tippin' in Da Club," the midtempo, guitar-driven "Dream" is No. 7 on Hot Digital Songs and No. 13 on the Hot 100. "When I did the song, I knew I had something; I loved the strings in it," the St. Louis-raised rapper says. "As an artist, you get those feelings, like when I did 'Dilemma' [with Kelly Rowland] and 'Over and Over' [with McGraw]. Me, Jim and Rico . . . we just felt it." Jonsin points to the "super contagious melodies" and Nelly's strong fan base as key reasons behind the breakout success of "Dream." And Love agrees. "It just shows that people are still in love with great songs minus the bells and whistles," he says. But Nelly's fan base hasn't always been as impressed with his work. His 2008 album, "Brass Knuckles," has only sold 223,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In fact, "Dream"-about missing a former love-has already outpaced sales of "Brass," moving 252,000 downloads, according to SoundScan. While Nelly was disappointed by the "Brass" outcome, he used it as motivation for his upcoming sixth album. "Like the 5.0 Mustang, it's going to be a classic," the rapper says. "This album is a lot more melodic than most of my previous albums. It has the power, energy and diversity that my fans have allowed me to [draw from] over the years, including pop, rhythmic, urban and even country." In addition to "Dream" and "Club," the album includes "She So Fly." Featuring T.I., who also produced, the song is about having a second opportunity to impress someone you desire. "1000 Stacks" is another club track featuring Sean "Diddy" Combs and the late Notorious B.I.G. Other guests include Rowland, Baby, Plies, Chris Brown and Nelly's own St. Lunatics crew. The Runners, Polow Da Don, Dutch and Juke Box are among the set's producers. Aside from "5.0," Nelly hopes to release a St. Lunatics project on the same date and plans to issue the accompanying video to "Dream" in the coming weeks. In between, he's been staging stateside in-stores in support of his Apple Bottoms fashion brand and recently acquired the rights to the Troop clothing line. He also continues to work on his nonprofit organizations, 4Sho4Kids and Jes Us 4 Jackie-the latter inspired by the loss of his sister Jackie to leukemia. As the countdown to "5.0" begins, Nelly is savoring his return. "I was always told good artists are only one hit away from re-establishing themselves or becoming bigger than they were," he says. "I love the comeback. I love the triumph in it." Source: Billboard twitter-5d.gif
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Soulja Boy went in this morning (September 7) on Fabolous via Twitter. Last week Fabolous dropped a freestyle on Funkmaster Flex's show and dissed Soulja in the process with the line, "pretty boy swag, never coke my nose though." Soulja heard and is not taking that diss lightly. "THIS NIGGA FABOLOUS SAID PRETTY BOY SWAG NEVER COKE IN NOSE NIGGA U LAME AS FUCK LOL FUCK U NIGGA WEAK ASS NY RAPPER U SUCK FABOULOUS U LAME AS FUCK NIGGA LOL U MAKE ME LAUGH U WEAK ASS NIGGA"

"ITS OVER FOR YOU NIGGA @myfabolouslife RIP @myfabolouslife UMMA HANDLE YOU NEZT TIME I SEE YOU BOY 1 ON @myfabolouslife SQUAD UP YOU WEAK ASS NIGGA ITS OVER FOR YOU @myfabolouslife FUCK LYRICS @myfabolouslife WHEN I SEE U UMMA BEAT YO FACE IN BOY"

"UMMA GIVE YO BITCH ASS THE BLUES NIGGA @myfabolouslife GET READY YOU LAME ASS NIGGA CHIP TOOTH BITCH I HOPE YOU READY NIGGA" Damn, sounds like it's about to pop off. twitter-5d.gif
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Video After The Jump Lil Cease been around for a minute, holding it down ever since he was Notorious B,I.G's right hand man. Cease chopped it up with Major Moves DVD about what he's been up to and put a rumor to bed. Cease said he's dropping a new mixtape next month hosted by DJ Kay Slay "Everything Is Hardbody" with features from Styles-P, Peedi Crakk, Sheek Louch, Raekwon, Papoose, Jay Rock, Fabolous, Bustah Rhymes, Young Chris, Shawty Lo and Mr Fab Rumors that Cease is a snitch have been bouncing around since he testified at Lil Kim's trial a few years back. He says nothing can be further from the truth. "I don't like talking about no more...it's like this. My paperwork is public record, my name is James Lloyd. Go the building, get my case number and you'll have your own judgment," Cease said. "If a n*gga got a problem with me and wanna address, I'm out on my block, I aint hard to find. I caught plenty cases and never talked, ner ratted on a n*gga" Cease also sais that he has no more beef with Maino and dismissed Bunk S.A (the dude that recently offered to fight Maino for 10G's, who also called Cease a snitch). Cease says Bunky is one of those disloyal dudes that bounces from crew to crew. twitter-5d.gif
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01.intro
02.lil wayne(live from jail)
03.blaack ft Jody breeze-take a picture
04.bun b ft young jeezy-just like that
05.phyzikal ft waka flocka & Roscoe dash-girls go crazy
06.French Montana ft gucci mane-straight cash remix
07.soulja boy ft gucci mane-pretty boy swag remix
08.slim thug ft z ro-gangsta
09.blaack-unstoppable
10.lil boosie ft hatch boy-transform
11.Ray rizzy ft lil jon & juvenile-ok yea
12.ti-yeah ya know takers
13.game ft ti & robin thicke-pushin it
14.blaack ft mac bre-z-N.F.L
15.bird man-junior doin time
16.oj da juiceman-dope cookin fool
17.waka flocka ft Roscoe dash & wale-no hands
18.lil jon ft Travis porter-fall out
19.shawty Lo ft gucci mane-birds rmx
20.yo gotti-look in the mirror
21.blaack-dear momma remake
22.outro


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Last night, Rihanna made a surprise visit to the chatbox over at Rihanna Daily and she revealed some details regarding her new fragrance as well as her upcoming single ‘Only Girl’ and untitled album:Regarding her new album: “I didn’t want to go backward and remake ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’. I wanted the next step in the evolution of Rihanna, and it’s perfect for us”. As for her new, Stargate-produced single: “’Only Girl’ is a bigger sound than ‘Rude Boy’.” The singer also revealed she is finished recording for her new album.‘Only Girl (In The World)’ is set for released tomorrow.Source:YK2Follow EntertainmentBo on Twitter
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Video After The Jump What's worse than watching ur friend get his a** kicked? You jumping in the action and getting knocked the f*ck out for your troubles. Looked like a simple one on one scrap with one guy badly over matched, but hey it's like that sometimes. His friend gets all amped up and decides he was gonna put it down for his people and represent, by fighting another guy himself. Captain Save Em rips his shirt and the fight is on, Captain Save Em tried some week a** kick that got met with a fist the face. Dude fell like a face first on the concrete. Flawless Victory! I respect both the dudes that lost, they fought fair, but they just need to be doing something else. Like playing tennis or something. This fight game ant for everybody. twitter-5d.gif
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Video After The Jump DMX sat down with Young Dip TV recently and didn't bite his tounge when talking about who he feels is one of the worst rappers out today. Dark Man X tipped his hat to T.I. as an artist he enjoys listening to, took aim at Plies, specifically for his song "Bruh Bruh". "I'm sure I don't even know who the worst is, but he [Plies] has to be one of the worst," X said. "Bruh Bruh...are you serious? That has to be one of the worst...like how do you even fix your mouth so say that or spell that? What a lot of people don't understand is that we as artists, are teachers. And if you're teaching people to spell like that and talk like that, then you're dumber than the people you're supposed to be teaching." What do you guys think of DMX's comments? Is Plies one of the worst rappers and is "Bruh Bruh" that bad of a song? twitter-5d.gif
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Over the past few years Interscope has been cleaning house. With the recession and all of the cutbacks that major labels had to make in order to stay a float, many artists formerly signed to majors were left with no home and were forced to go independent. But while many were cut, others strategically remained in place in hopes that they would be able to realize the full potential they were initially expected to meet. Ca$his is one of those artists.

Originally from Chicago, and signed to Shady Records, Ca$his is one of the few remaining artists left on Shady Records, a lineup that only now only includes Eminem, D-12 and 50 Cent. But why did they decide to keep Ca$his? What was it that Em saw in this troubled rapper that could make him worthy of staying at Shady Records?Beefs with Royce da 5’9”, Freddie Gibbs, Chamillionaire, Game and the G-Unot camp, jail, drugs, having 11 kids and just wilding out in general, nearly put Ca$his’ career at a standstill. But he is emerging out of the clouds of smoke with a new state of clarity, which is clean and focused.Ca$his is ready to hit the game with some of the best music of his career. Coming out with music for 8 weeks in a row now, a new video and with his manager/long time friend and producer Rikinati by his side, Ca$his is ready hold of his career and the game. Take a look at AllHipHop.com’s up close and personal sit down with one of the game’s most intriguing spitters.AllHipHop.com: So pretty much you are one of the few artists still signed to Shady Records?Ca$his: This is 100% correct.AllHipHop.com: Can you talk to me a little bit about what that is like and how you feel about your experience at Shady Records thus far?Ca$his: It’s a real good feeling man. Being signed to Shady is a real good feeling. It feels good to me to have been here when things were going down and now still when things are going up, just I think for the loyalty that it shows. Because you know a lot of people counted us out and during that time we only got better. And I don’t mean by anyone leaving the label that we improved. Like Obie and Stat, I still consider them part of the team like to me they never left. You know I don’t handle anyone else’s business but from the friend and camaraderie side, nothing has changed and we all are part of the same squad still.To me its good I can reach out from the personal and from the music side how to really deal with music and life a little bit and its made me mature being on Shady Records man. It’s real good on Shady man. I think it’s a blessing and that’s why I’m still here. Never leaving, never planned on it, never was even close to that. AllHipHop.com: That’s what’s up man, its been a rough couple years in the music industry. There were a lot of rumors circulating Interscope and the state of the label. Can you talk about what it was like during that time and how that affected you?Ca$his: Yea I mean I was affected by random people asking me questions that had nothing to do with me and my name being out there in a place it wasn’t. It made me want to go in on my music and just show it wasn’t true what I can do, and I have contact with my label and I know what’s going on and I am glad I got a chance to put something out there.AllHipHop.com: Yea in this industry not many people, even the artists sometimes understand that labels have a budget and that it’s a business.

Ca$his: You can get X’d off a label, not because you are wack but just for budget reasons. Thankfully and luckily that didn’t happen for me because I keep us relevant with a buzz on the internet and on mixtapes and that’s what I do and my job. When Em comes out he makes a big splash. That’s a blessing and that’s what my job has been. To do whatever it takes to keep us visible, until it’s my time to come out. I knew as long as I did my part we were cool.People think this is an emotional business and its really not. Me that’s what I thought and I used to act impulsively and on emotion and not act on strategy. But now it makes it more fun and more complex also. I know a lot of artists that are free agents that are cool artists, and its not because they aren’t talented. Its just because labels aren’t offering those big deals and people think its going to be a Bump J or 50 Cent type deal or some million dollar record deal. That was at a time when more people in the general society were spending more money and making more money. So you have to do what you can to keep yourself at a low cost to your label and to remain highly effective. People miss the real hip hop, but if you Hollywood with it and you think you gonna be sitting on 10, 15, 20k a month with Ferraris and you aren’t selling Ferrari numbers then you forever gonna be on that street corner, and life is short on that street corner.AllHipHop.com: So you are originally from Chicago huh? Bulls fan, White Sox, Y’all just got Manny Ramirez.Ca$his: (Laughs) Oh yea 79th Street, South Side, Southeast Side. Definitely White Sox, Bulls and BlackHawks, everything man.AllHipHop.com: Talk to me about how Chicago shaped your style and how you’ve taken it to the West coast.Ca$his: Well like Chicago inspired me as a person, that makes me who I am, is Chicago. I grew up listening to Phsyco Drama, and Twista, Crucial Conflict, Young Buk from Psychodrama, Common Sense and I kind of learned how to formulate my rhymes like that. Its more melodic with your voice but also like witty with your words. Its like that soul feeling and that zone where I can just mash out on a track or whatever.AllHipHop.com: So you said that you pretty much have been wildin out in the music. Can you elaborate on what you meant by that?Ca$his: I was wilding out, and you can hear it in the music, you can see it in my face. And, I’m a big influence on a lot of people. A lot of times (pauses)… I believe that’s why I smoke weed, to maintain my sanity. Cause I’m always going through ups and downs, a lot. It’s crazy. So, that depression and that inner anger, that feeling of uncertainty, because when I feel that uncertainty, and fear, I just get angry. I just don’t act out like a little kid. Or get nervous. You would never tell that, and you would have to know me, to understand that. Because that’s when I become completely irrational, and do some of the things that I may rap about. From that, I was a negative influence on my kids , my older and younger homeboy’s; my relatives. On everything. It was a part of me, and its in my blood, and musically, I had to change that, because that’s what came out.Then it came to omitting the word ni**er. Not just from my normal vocabulary, because that is kind of hard for us to do, but as far as my lyrical content. Just musically, I won’t say it because I feel that I don’t need to say it. You know the crowds that opens up? The doors that opens up? Because, you know, I’m from Chicago man, and ain’t no way anybody black can roll down my hood singing, “ Imma lay that ni**a out”. Cause its gonna be a problem. And not I'm saying that it should be a problem. I’m just saying that it could be a problem because that is just how people are.

AllHipHop.com: What, if any, is the projected release date on the album that your working on? Or are you just focusing on building up the buzz right now?Ca$his: The album is 75% done. This is my plan. I about to unveil my grand plan, just for ya’ll baby [ in his Midwest accent]. My plan is just to go super hard. I went in super, crazy hard on this 12 song project that we putting out through Shady/Aftermath. This is all original material, and I gave my all on each record. From the production, to the A&R, I mean, everything lined up perfectly. And I honestly feel, that this is gonna destroy a lot of stuff. Honestly, I think, that if its tight enough, and the people want it, and they feel about it the way that I feel about it, I could just give them the top 5 songs off the CD, and package it up, and that can be a CD. I’m telling you! It’s real, and the music that I have been recording right now is just real.AllHipHop.com: That’s what its all about. I think that even that way with my writing and stuff. I think that once I lose that love for what I do, its not the same. Its not what you originally started doing it for.Ca$his: Exactly. I started doing this for money. When I first started doing this, I was doing it for nothing. [sarcastically] And with that, I gotta bring a quarter pound of weed with me, 12 guns, 3 vest, and mob dudes giving out neckties, and I thought to myself…..wait a minute, wait a minute, I ain’t getting none of this money. Man, hell nah. That’s when my music started becoming better, and my music started becoming better. And, I started remembering this is what its about. Now that im starting to do better again, I still just focus on the music. When you take away the hype of it, and the publicity stunts, its just about the music. AllHipHop.com: With that being said, what kind of stuff are you listening to?Ca$his: Man, I listen to…(pause), Honestly dog, I don’t listen to nobody. I listen to the stuff that I do. I mean, I do music so fast, and so much, that I don’t even have time to listen to my shit. I’ll record something, and for like 3 days, ill be rocking with it, and then it will be another studio session, and that’s old to me now, and I don’t care about it. If we in the car, and we may be going on a ride or something, I definitely bring that Twista, I listen to a lot of R. Kelly, cause he from my home. I bump a lot of Chicago shit, like Crucial Conflict, their second album, stays on repeat. A lot of Scarface. But I also ride out, and listen to a lot of old school R&B, like Frankie Beverly and Maze; all that music that was before me, but when I sit back and listen to it, it’s relaxing.AllHipHop.com: Speaking of those dudes, do you still have any contact with G-Unit at all?Ca$his: Yeah, I mean everything is still cool. It was never like, we just hanging around each other all day everyday. But everything is still cool. It’s a business. I don’t know. I mean I’m on Shady. They do what they do. But its still like, we on the same team. I know when I came out, I thought it was like a gang. I’m like “ woo, woo, woo..” and chasing people out clubs, wearing G-Unot T-Shirts. And I got talking to my brother Kino, and he was like, “ What are you doing? You putting your life on the line.” I was like "I’m riding." But, you know, I still have a line of communication with them, but its not like we chilling together, or doing all that. I’m concerned about getting my money, and they concerned about getting they money too. They getting hot again, to where they trying to do a takeover. I’m doing the same thing. I don’t have all the bread they got, but I’m getting my money in, and I’m getting super hot. And it makes sense. Cause I don’t ever want to have to pay anyone to do a record with me. If I can do a record with Em, we just trade art. You respect me, I respect you. But I just want people to see that I’m going somewhere, and so that way, we can make some money to where it’s a favor for a favor.AllHipHop.com: One of the things that I wanted to touch on throughout this interview is that whole situation. I know you were pulling people out with G-Unot T-Shirts and all. But this is the hip-hop game. People have beef. Can you talk about your beef with Freddie Gibbs, or Chamillionaire, or Royce da 5’9?

Ca$his: Alright. Let’s start with Royce. Man, straight up that was some bulls**t. Some weak ass shit. That’s crazy, cause I didn’t know. I was all Xanied out; not saying that I wouldn’t have did it sober, but I saw something when he called my man a cracker. I was like, “ F**k you mean, ni**a, you with racism? F**k outta here homeboy! ” . That s**t pissed me the f**k off. So, I probably would have done that s**t sober too. But, that was just me not having restraint. Cause I called to check and see what was going on. I didn’t know that the s**t was mad old, and all that. You know, and the end of the day, I just let it ride. I reached out to the muthaf**ka like, “ Yo, what’s up with the record? “ But he respected it. But he also know ain’t no hoes over here. I ain’t scared of s**t. Not saying that Im the biggest, baddest, toughest muthaf**ka, but you wouldn’t be able to tell that. And I got a big ass family, and we go after it. But, he know I’d ride for him that same way. We ended up doing bomb ass music together. Now we on the same squad.

Now, Chamillionaire. I ain’t got no beef with Chamillionaire. We got a bomb ass record together too. He cooler than a muthaf**ka. I actually like his material. But, it was like, he had this video. And he was like “ Ca$his, how you man? “ . He had this black dude in the video with white make-up on. Running around like, Cashis Bonds. And I had just came out, so I thought that it was distasteful. And my songs had already been released before that video came out. And I was like Ca$his, that’s not your name, who are you dissing? And I had to call my manager at Suave House, like yo, homey, let him know. And Suave know how I am, and he was like whoa! It would have been a problem if I seen him on my scene. Cause I felt threatened. I am straight from the streets. I was like oh, you burning , you making jokes, and you got people laughing, using my name? Oh, I’m on you, dog. But I let him know, and his people said that it was no problem. But we reached out to each other, and did a record together with the homie Talito. It wasn’t like I was like I’m sorry, I was just like, yo let’s do some music. I just felt like we grown, and that was some bulls**t. If turned out to be good thing, which was a blessing.

As far as Freddie Gibbs, I don’t even know that dude. I don’t know. I don’t know what to say, like straight up. I wasn’t even aware of him until like 2 days before he dissed me. One of my A&R’s had hit me like won’t I do this record with this dude Freddie Gibbs. He is out of the Midwest and went to California like you. I’m like, okay, that’s what’s up. He from the Midwest, I’ll f**k with him. So, the next day I went in the studio, and laid down a dope ass record, and was gonna hand it over to him. The next day, I get an e-mail from my A&R like don’t do the record with the dude, and I look in the e-mail, and homie [Freddie Gibbs] is talking mad s**t in the e-mail.And I’m like, Oh my God, that was the ultimate slap in the face, cause I’m really working harder than a muthaf**ka to be good. To do good. I been telling people that I don’t diss people in my music, I’m tryna stay out of jail. Then this dude come with that. So, I’m like alright. I didn’t know what to do, so I just won’t respond. Because he called me a buster, which means that he wasn’t talking about rapping. So, I’m not talking about rapping. So, he gone have to prove that I’m a buster. I ain’t gonna go looking for that ni**a, because I don’t know him. And I would have wished him the best, but it seems like we are cut from a similar cloth, or he’s mimicking. One of the two. Because we both have a Pac sort of influenced style. We both went from the Midwest to California. We both supposedly like guns and all this crazy s**t. So, either we are similar or someone is copying someone. And I know its not me, because I came out first.I feel as though we should have done something to unify the Midwest. And to help them be stronger in California. I don’t bang any California gang, so I can go anywhere. I got a whole gang of Latino homies, I got a gang of homies from 60’s [*known Crip area], I got homies everywhere. From Bloods to Crips, I got a lot of homies, and I’m not even into that type of thing. I do my own thing. But you called me a buster; I got a 13 year old, a 12 year old, 11 year old. My kids read that. My momma read that. I got enemies that read that whom I probably did something to for less. As a man, that threatened me. You called me a buster. So, I would never threaten or respond in rap. Because, I don’t think that the people need that from me. I feel like the best way to address a hip- hop beef is to put out better music. And I know I put out way better music than Freddie Gibbs.I mean, I am about to put out a dangerous album, that you[ Freddie Gibbs] had a great opportunity to be a part of, and gets some fame off of. And I just don’t understand why someone would diss someone that is trying so much to change his ways. That’s like the devil. Satan. And for a minute I was playing Satan’s angel. Save other people dissing, cause for a minute, I was doing that. It got me nowhere. I got poor publicity, and it got me nowhere. And now I’m on the other side, so my karma is good. And I am never gonna reply back musically.AllHipHop.com: Did any of the situations Eminem went through with his decision to go to rehab, did that influence your decision to change your life?Ca$his: No, because I didn’t know he was going to rehab. They kept it a secret from everybody. Because we used to talk everyday, than it became less and less. And I just thought that he was working, then he came out, and we talked about it, and it was so eye opening, and was like oh shit. But me, I used to go in the studio with like 80 valium, literally 80 valium, and record. And my speech used to be all slurred. Like, I couldn’t annunciate for nothing. What did it for me is that I kept getting in trouble. I kept getting cases, and it caused me to keep losing everything. I had looked up, and I had almost lost my family. My girl had came to me, and said look what you doing to yourself, baby. Like you don’t even know your kids, you don’t even know yourself. That’s not you. You becoming a walking zombie.

I just knew that I was moving too fast. You know, I was kind of hostile all the time. That ain’t a good influence on Eminem. Cause I’m sitting here popping pills, and he’s trying to get clean secretively. He can’t be around me, because I’m professing it. I got Xanax bars tattooed on me. I’m like we got them everywhere we go, pills by the hundred. Obviously, you would want that around someone who is trying there best to get clean. So, I started going through my own things, and started to get well. It just so happen that it was at a similar time that Em did. So, when I popped up in New York, and I was like what’s up, they were shocked because they could see a clear difference. And they were like, aww man, he’s back. Everything has been lovely every since then, and the music has been speaking for itself. Source:AllHipHopFollow EntertainmentBo on Twitter
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Ludacris scrolled through his Rolodex for his 5th Annual LudaDay Weekend, a weekend-long event meant as a platform to give back to the community. The Atlanta MC took over Morehouse Gym at Forbes Arena yesterday (Sept. 5) for a celebrity basketball game, where stars including Nelly, Chris Brown, Bow Wow, Chris Paul, and Polow Da Don squared off on the court while Ne-Yo, Kelly Rowland, and Teairra Mari watched from the sidelines. Ballin’!

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Video After The Jump (CBS) For the second time in a week, a woman has been attacked by an acid-throwing female. And police and other experts say they suspect the latest assault may be been a case of someone imitating the first. The latest took place Friday afternoon in Mesa, Ariz. The victim, Derri Velarde, 41, a mother of five, says it came out of nowhere. She says she was getting out of her car at home and, "There was a woman walking from the back side of my car. ... She had what I thought was a glass of water in her hand, and then she just stopped abruptly and looked at me and just threw it in my face." Velarde was splashed with what she originally thought might be water. It turned out to be acid. "It just instantly was like fire. It started burning intensely, instantly," she told CBS News from her hospital bed. Velarde was left with severe burns on her face and neck, and along her arms. The incident, notes CBS News Correspondent Betty Nguyen, was eerily similar to one that occurred Monday in Vancouver, Wash, in which 28-year-old Bethany Storro was also attacked as she left her car. Again it was a female stranger throwing acid. "It was the most painful thing ever," Storro, her face wrapped with bandages, told a hospital news conference. "My heart stopped, I almost passed out." "It's absolute hatred of the highest degree," says writer Victoria Schofield, who studies culture and the politics of South Asia, where acid attacks are far more common, and the culprits are usually men. "It is probably in the present day one of the most demeaning forms of punishment you can think of, to destroy someone's face." And that's why police say it's rare for these kinds of assaults to be random acts. "This type of crime is usually personal in nature, one Mesa police officer says. Velarde, who is going through a divorce and recently started a new relationship says she doesn't know who her attacker is, speculated that her attacker "wanted to make sure she disfigured me so that no-one would want me." Paramedics and police say Velarde stopped the burns from getting worse by quickly getting into the shower and rinsing the acid off her body. On "The Early Show," criminologist Casey Jordan told co-anchor Erica Hill, "The only connection (between the two attacks) is the idea that the Bethany Storro story was in the news so much that it could have actually been inspiration to somebody who already held a vendetta, who got the idea from watching television, if they were jealous, if they were thinking of getting back at somebody. Maybe the idea hatched in this woman's head that this would be the way to actually get retaliation against the woman in Arizona. Like Schofield, Jordan points out that such assaults happen much more often in other parts of the world. "In international cultures," says Jordan, "it's usually a way of controlling women, especially women who have spurned advances. It's a way of men exerting control and putting women in their place by harming their beauty. "But that same concept of harming someone's beauty can also be used by other women who are very jealous or upset, because they understand that, in America's culture, a woman's physical, facial beauty is really huge. … So, to get back at somebody, to teach her a lesson, one woman to another, it's usually linked to jealousy or retaliation, almost always over a man or a previous relationship." Both victims are very pretty, and that likely played a role in both attacks, Jordan says, observing that, "Even though I do believe the attack in Washington was random, don't forget that the attacker there said, 'Hey, pretty girl.' She used the word 'pretty' to describe Bethany before splashing her with the acid. Even though we think, in Arizona, that the woman was targeted, and we don't know who the culprit is, the fact that she is such an attractive woman probably played a role in the choice of attack." Why use acid? "It's easy to obtain. It's cheap. I mean, as they say, even the smallest child can strike a match. Well, anyone, male, female, can get a caustic substance at a hardware store and actually do incredible damage to somebody with very little effort." Jordan had a word of caution for the media. "In the United States, even though we've had a number of acid attacks in the last few years, very few have made the news. There's a balance between giving enough media attention to this to show the problem it's becoming but also walking away and understanding that they are isolated incidents. You don't want to make it into a snowball factor where people get the idea." Source: CBS twitter-5d.gif
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Video After The Jump Gucci Mane teams up with Swizz Beatz for his latest joint. This is the first single off of Gucci's new album 'The Appeal'. Album is due in stores September 28. Be on the lookout for Waka Flocka Flame's new album, 'Flockaveli' to drop soon after, possibly followed by a 1010 Brick Squad group cd. twitter-5d.gif
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Video After The Jump Just when you thought you had seen it all as far as bad singing auditions go, Abbey and Lisa aka Ablisa come along to prove it can always get worse. These two obnoxious chicks started off on the wrong foot when one of them yells at the X-Factor audience to "shut up", and it just went downhill from there. After they had finished butchering Shayne Ward's "That's My Goal", the judges tore into them. Simon Cowell said, "you have the worst attitude of any contestants I have ever met on any of these shows." Singer Natalie Imbruglia told them, "the singing was not great girls." To which Lisa replied "who are you may I ask?" At that point Abbey lost it and punched Lisa in the face before storming off the stage. UK's Daily Mail reports the two had to be separated once backstage. They may have come on the show as best friends, but they left as bitter enemies. "It's the last time I ever do anything for her again." Abbey said. I just wish there would have been more punches thrown, lol.

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Greg the K.O. kid is preparing to get revenge on Club Wonderland in Hollywood, after being choked unconscious by club bouncers there back in July. Greg was conducting interviews for Hood News at the time, when he got into a confrontation with a bouncer. After pushing the bouncer, another one snuck up from behind and put him to sleep via a rear naked choke hold. K.O. Kid told TMZ he is filing a lawsuit against the club, "I'm like Larry H. Parker ... I need $2.1 million!" The club is trying to convince Greg not to file the lawsuit, according to him, by "offering bottle service whenever I want" but he insists they "have to pay." Greg became famous back in 2008, when he knocked out former Death Row Records CEO, Suge Knight at an L.A. club. twitter-5d.gif
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The self-proclaimed "Mayor of Miami" Trick Daddy exploded onto America's pop culture landscape as one of the pioneers of Dirty South rap. His 2001 album, Thugs Are Us, established him, as one critic wrote, "alongside Ludacris and Mystikal as one of the few nationally championed Dirty South rappers, and … catapulted him onto the playlist of every urban radio station in America, not to mention MTV." Widely credited with infusing hip hop with new life, he has been one of the most prolific southern talents since his introduction on Uncle Luke's timeless 1996 dance floor staple, "Scarred". Born and raised in poverty as one of twenty-seven children, Maurice Young aka Trick Daddy, is considered by many as a thoughtful thug. His unsparing portrayal of life in the southern ghetto has earned him a legion of fans. Over a twelve-year career, he's released two platinum selling albums and numerous Billboard chart toppers. The recent merger of Trick's label, Dunk Ryders, with the high profile Cash Money Records, the home of Lil Wayne and other platinum-selling stars, along with the upcoming release of the debut Dunk Ryders group album, is currently causing quite a buzz in music circles. Magic City: Trials of a Native Son, chronicles Trick Daddy's story against the backdrop of Miami, the Magic City. It is an extraordinary story, of a childhood marked by poverty, a crime-laden adolescence, an incarceration, a meteoric rise to fame, and a struggle with a potentially fatal medical condition. It's the story of a boy whose father was a pimp; who, left to his own devices, learned to hustle to survive and whose only role model was his brother, the drug dealer he watched plying his trade on the block. But while his story is remarkable, the most astonishing part is that he is not only still alive, but that he got out. Magic City: Trials Of A Native Son is the story of how that potent mixture of extremes, the dazzling beauty and glittering wealth of the Magic City, and the crime, the corruption and the despair playing out in its shadows gave rise to what has now become the most dominant sound in hip hop, in the process revitalizing a stagnant art form. MAGIC CITY, told in Bailey's artful prose, is an ode to the city of Miami, a riveting tale of a paradise lost. Source: HipHopPress twitter-5d.gif
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More Pics After The Jump Chris Brown celebrated his recent return to the top of the charts by hosting the 400 Club at Lux on Friday, September 3, 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida. Breezy had his pick of the litter looks like, as he packs the ladies in his SUV as he left the club. Several didn't mind riding in the trunk! Damn Chris, you keep acting like this you might get raped by a pack of women! lol

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(AllHipHop News) A guard on Rikers Island could face disciplinary action for allegedly giving superstar rapper Lil Wayne preferential treatment in the prison.An investigation has been launched over the alleged actions of Captain Latanya Brown, who is accused of spending extra time with Lil Wayne.Additionally, the New York Post reports that Captain Brown allegedly allowed the rapper to stay in his cell, while other inmates were ordered out of their bunks and into the recreation yard.The prison has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to showing favoritism towards any inmate.In April, just one month after the rapper started his year-long sentence for attempted criminal possession of a weapon, a guard at the complex was fired for allegedly spying on Lil Wayne.Amelia Negron was fired for glimpsing at Lil Wayne, although she denied the charges, claiming her union boss forced her to make a confession.This is not the first time a rapper has caused controversy on Rikers Island.In June of 2009, it was revealed that Foxy Brown allegedly received preferential treatment during her 9-month stay on Rikers Island in 2006.The rapper held a photo shoot and allegedly received unlimited phone/TV use, makeup, luxury clothing and outside meals.In October of 2009, Correction Chief Peter Curcio and a Rabbi named Leib Glanz resigned over the scandal, after the Brown reports, in addition to allegations that Rabbi Glanz arranged a lavish bar mitzvah for an inmates son.Source:AllHipHopFollow EntertainmentBo on Twitter
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Chelsea Handler is no stranger to hip-hop (or hippity-hop as she calls it). The host of the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards has had numerous rappers appear on her “Chelsea Lately” talk show and has even let some cop a feel (ask Akon and Pharrell).With a week to go before the VMAs, she weighs in on this year’s Best Hip-Hop Video nominees. Find out why she’s scared of Eminem, why she’s not interested in getting in bed with Kanye West, and which married man’s name she would like to scream out during sex.Tune in to see who else bears the brunt of the funny woman’s jokes when the VMAs air Sunday, Sept. 12.Source:Rap-UpFollow EntertainmentBo on Twitter
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Video After The Jump Taylor Gang is definitely in the building. Wiz Khalifa, MTV's 2010 Breakthrough Artist Of The Year drops official visuals for "In The Cut". A track what was featured on his mixtape "Kush & Orange Juice". Khalifa, who is about to embark the 50-City, "Waken Baken Tour", just inked a deal with Atlantic Records. His album drops early next year twitter-5d.gif
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