THE MOVIE IS A SUCCESS, THE EDITTING, TIMING, AND MESSAGE.A WELL PUT TOGETHER FILM, MANY LAUGHED, SOME CRIED, WITHOUT A DOUBT EVERYONE WAS FULLY ENTERTAINED..BEFORE I SELD DESTRUCT ALBUM & FILM OUT NOV. 16= DIGITAL NOV 9
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, & LEAD ACTOR: CURTIS "50 CENT" JACKSON
ACTOR: OG MACK (ROLE: MR. HARRISON-STORE MANAGER) & CO-DIRECTOR: KEN KUSHNER
LEAD ACTOR: ELIJA (ROLE: SHOCKA), AND FILM CONSULTANT/CO-PRODUCER J. JESSES
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, & LEAD ACTOR: CURTIS "50 CENT" JACKSON
WHOO KID & ACTRESS: EVE LORA (ROLE: LEAD ACTRESS MOTHER= MRS ORTIZ)
LLOYD BANKS << ALSO, PLAYED CLASS ROOM TEACHER IN THE FILM, ACTOR: OG MACK (ROLE: MR. HARRISON-STORE MANAGER), TONY YAYO
FANS & LEAD ACTRESS: SASHA (ROLE: PRINCESS)
G-UNIT'S JEREMY BETTIS, CORY GUNZ, LEAD ACTOR: ELIJA (ROLE: SHOCKA), ACTRESS: EVE LORA (ROLE: LEAD ACTRESS MOTHER= MRS ORTIZ), OTHER
RED CAFEMANY OTHER ARTIST AND PRESTIGIOUS PEOPLE ATTENDED.. CORY GUNZ, JOHN DEPP, JUELZ SANTANA, DJ JAZZY JOICES, DJ KILLA TOUCH ECT.....PICTURE CREDITS: D.J. XMAN OF DISCONNEXTIONS.COMPOST BY: EVE LORA TWITTER.COM/EVELORA
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Thanks in large part to 50 Cent, New York rappers are really becoming unified. 730 Dips Juelz Santana's video shoot for "Back To The Crib" was like a who's who of the New York rap scene. The song was produced by Polow Da Don and features Chris Brown on the hook.
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Video After The JumpLil Wayne, never one to lack self confidence comes off cockier than ever in this 2 minute and 30 seconds trailer for his highly anticipated "The Carter Documentary". Filmed by QD3, who in previous interviews has compared Lil Wayne To Tupac Shakur. This documentary promises to take viewers deep into the world of Dwayne Carter III. The video drops November 17th.
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Video After The JumpPolice say surveillance video shows a North Carolina man purposely drove his car through glass doors and into a courthouse early Friday morning. They say he then calmly got out, with cigarette in hand and walked away. The man has been arrested.Read more…
Video After The JumpLos Angeles Lakers basketball player Lamar Odom and his wife Khloe of the famous Kardashian clan hit up the Jimmy Kimmel show friday (November 6). They played a funny version of The Newlywed Game and vowed their marriage will last forever.
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HipHopWired Reports
The revolution has been televised.
I always knew it would be, since African American athletes have always been center stage in the NCAA's multi-billion dollar money machine. Millions of Americans go mad during the month of March to see "Tyrone G. Anyhood," the latest corporate product being lined up on the Great American assembly line of mass exploitation and academic fraud.
The NCAA has profited handsomely from the Black community's commitment to producing and delivering hoop dreams that put young Black men on the court during the hours they should be spending in a book. We perform death-defying athletic circus acts for the amusement of America, while universities profit under the guise of providing education. The NCAA's professional sports league has created hundreds of multimillionaires and has facilitated the purchase of summer homes, yachts and private planes for many of the fat old men who refuse to even hire African American coaches.
Some of the players have finally said, "enough."
Ed O'Bannon, a former star for the UCLA Bruins, has put his name at the top of an historic class-action lawsuit being filed against the NCAA for the illegal use of player images in videogames. This lawsuit is significant and opens a Pandora's Box of disturbing issues, like a maid charged with cleaning out a house with dead bodies and asbestos. To make things simple, here are just a few reasons the suit may actually end up having massive implications for the African American community:
Ed O'Bannon
First, it sets a precedent. If the players win this lawsuit, it will call into question the NCAA's practices, which I believe violate anti-trust law. It is my hope that Attorney General Eric Holder will help the public to understand that by being able to restrict mobility of labor and trade, the NCAA is allowed to operate in a manner that would be illegal in nearly any other industry in America. Secondly, the tax-exempt status of the NCAA would be called into question as well.
The NCAA is very good at convincing the public that collegiate athletics is nothing more than an extracurricular service being provided to enhance the lives of little bookworms who barely remember to go to practice. Anyone who has taught on a college campus knows that student athletes are forced to endure the rigors of professional athletes and spend dozens of hours each week going to practice and missing class for road trips. This is hardly the life of an amateur and top coaches push the athletes to earn every penny of their $20 million dollar contracts. As a result, the NCAA earns more during its post-season than the NFL and the NBA earn in their respective playoffs, including the Super Bowl.
Secondly, the attorneys in the lawsuit have the power to win. The lawyers filing the suit seemed to be licking their chops when they saw the egregious violations of anti-trust law alleged against the NCAA. It is my hope that we finally become intelligent enough to use the courts as a path to remedy this grave injustice to the families of African American athletes. The idea that the coach can live in luxury while the star player's mother is in poverty is nothing less than shameful. We've even been convinced that it is somehow scandalous and unethical when a player's family gets a mere fraction of the revenue being generated by the athlete on the basketball court.
Dr Boyce Watkins
When I participated in a CBS Sports special during March Madness, the question being asked was whether or not college athletes should be paid. I was surprised that the same network that paid $6 billion dollars for TV rights to March Madness would host a show that questions the operating practices of its economic empire. So, as the special went on and on about how it is clearly "impossible" for the NCAA to share its revenue with the players, I noticed one interesting fact: Every single person on the show arguing that athletes shouldn't get paid was earning at least half a million dollars per year off the backs of those very same athletes. If there were ever a visual representation of the word "hypocrisy," it would be Billy Packer, a millionaire commentator on college sports, explaining why athletes shouldn't get paid for their labor.
The same way that Dr. Harry Edwards called for the Olympic protests of Black athletes in 1968, we should call for the athletes of 2009 to stand up for their families: Demand the education you are being denied, demand the compensation your families deserve, demand the labor rights you should have as Americans. This lawsuit sends a clear message that the second-class citizenship of African American athletes will no longer be tolerated.
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11 time Grammy winner Alicia Keys takes us through an in depth look at her new music video "Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart" in this behind the scenes clip. She compares her character in the video to X-Mens Rogue or Will Smith In Hancock. Her new album "The Element Of Freedom" drops December 15th.
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Posted by Mr.I Get It on November 7, 2009 at 3:39am
After a few good single releases that didn’t quite make it mainstream, 50 Cent found that Billboard topping hit record he was looking for.50 Cent’s latest single “Baby By Me” featuring Ne-Yo off of his new album Before I Self Destruct has managed to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 31. Which is a great look for 50 Cent making it one of his best debut Billboard chart positions to date.50’s new album Before I Self Destruct will be available digitally on November 9th and will also be available in stores on November 16th along with a full length feature film directed by 50 himself of the same name included in the albums packaging.
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The beautiful and talented Amerie stopped by The Wendy Williams Show to perform her hit single "Heard Em All". She and Wendy go back a ways so they talked about Amerie's love life and her parents. Amerie's new cd "In Love And War" is in stores now. Also Amerie did a shoot for Complex Magazine, check out the video below.
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01. As Real As It Gets
02. Get Money
03. 24-34 (Kobe Lebron)
04. Everyday
05. Biggest Movie Ever (Feat. J-Dubb And Boo)
06. Get A Lot (Remix)(Feat. Boo)
07. Better Believe It
08. Air Forces 2
09. My Money
10. My First 48 Hrs
11. Trappin Ain’t Dead
12. Sunny Days
13. Might Just Blow That
14. Trap Files
15. Dead Or Alive
16. Ready To Ride
17. Consistent
18. She’s A Lesbian
19. The Underdawg
20. Stupid (Remix)(Feat. Playaz Circle)
21. 1st Name Last Name (Feat. J. Futuristic)
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London Times Reports
Miss England has been forced to relinquish her crown after an alleged duel with a rival beauty queen over a TV Gladiator. Rachel Christie, niece of Olympic gold medallist Linford Christie, stepped down after being accused of punching Miss Manchester, Sara Beverley Jones, 24, in the face during a night out at a nightclub.
Trouble allegedly flared after Miss Jones showed Miss Christie a message on her phone claiming that it was sent to her by Miss Christie’s boyfriend, David McIntosh, who appears as Tornado in the Sky One television show Gladiators.
Tornado
Miss Jones, who was dressed as a cavewoman, was taken to hospital, where she was treated for “superficial facial injuries”.
Miss Christie, 21, was arrested on suspicion of assault and released on bail pending a hearing in January.
The model and athlete, who hopes to win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in the heptathlon, has also quit the race to become Miss World to concentrate on clearing her name.
Last night a statement on the Miss England website read: “Due to the media attention following the allegations against her, Rachel Christie has now decided to withdraw from the Miss World competition and relinquish her Miss England crown. Rachel will concentrate on clearing her name and focus on training for the 2012 Olympics until this case is resolved.”
Miss Christie, who was dressed as an angel at the time of the alleged fracas, had been due to leave for the Miss World contest in South Africa next Tuesday. Police were called to the Mansion club in Manchester shortly before 1am on Monday.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: “It is believed that, earlier that night, a 24-year-old woman got into an altercation with another woman in the club and was hit in the face several times.
“The victim was taken to Hope Hospital, where she received treatment for superficial facial injuries. She has now been discharged.”
It is believed that Mr McIntosh, a 15st former Royal Marine, is a former boyfriend of Miss Manchester.
Miss Christie was the first black woman to be crowned Miss England. When she won the title in July, she pledged to be a role model for black youth. “One of my reasons for doing Miss England in the first place was because I wanted to show people, the younger generation especially, that you can do something positive with your life,” Miss Christie had said, adding that she had turned to modelling to fund her training.
“Whoever you are, you can be who you want and whatever you want.”
Her father, Russell, had been a promising athlete but was arrested for theft and stabbed to death during a drugs-related dispute in 1996. Four years earlier, he had been jailed for attacking a former lover.
Mr McIntosh cites Rambo as his greatest inspiration and says he likes to “chill out with a cup of green tea” in preparation for his television battles.
Miss Christie has been replaced as Miss England by Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge, who came second in the pageant. Miss Hodge, 22, who was awarded a commendation from her unit, the 1st Batallion, Royal Anglian Regiment, for her actions during a posting in 2005 in Basra, has been given leave from her duties as a soldier to appear in the Miss World final.
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Know how to make your favorite things better? Combine the two of them. Earlier this week we dropped our Top 100 Sports Moments of the decade list, and thought, Hmmm, what could we possibly add to improve upon that? How about we take our Top 100 Sports Moments x Top 100 Hottest Girls of the decade to make our a list of our top female athletes from the 2000s? So here it is, our sweat-drenched list of the hotties who sweat it out on the field of play. Game on…
10. HOPE SOLO, 28SPORT: SOCCER
WHY SHE’S HOT: In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Hope helped team U.S.A. win a gold medal by shutting out Brazil in the final. We’re usually not into girls who are known for cock ball blocking but Hope is so good-looking we’ll give her a pass.
9. AMANDA BEARD, 28SPORT: SWIMMING
WHY SHE’S HOT: This other team U.S.A. beauty wears a bathing suit to work, has posed nude for Playboy, and has won seven Olympic medals. Plus she specializes in the breaststroke. The give out medals for breast strokes? We’re going for the gold in 2012!
8. MIWA ASAO, 23SPORT: BEACH VOLLEYBALL
WHY SHE’S HOT: Miwa has been credited with bringing national attention to her sport with her good looks. She’s also been referred to as the “pixie of beach volleyball.” Sony, MXC, and now Miwa in a two-piece can be added to the long list of things we have to thank Japan for.
7. DANICA PATRICK, 27SPORT: AUTO RACING
WHY SHE’S HOT: A pioneer for women in racing, Danica became the first woman to win a IndyCar race in April 2008 at the Indy Japan 300. Girl knows how to make the stick shift.
6. NATALIE GULBIS, 26SPORT: GOLF
WHY SHE’S HOT: There are only three things that can make us tune into watch something as boring as golf. One is Tiger dominating the competition, the other two are on Natalie Gulbis.
5. JEANETTE “THE BLACK WIDOW” LEE, 38SPORT: BILLIARDS
WHY SHE’S HOT: After two decades in the game, “The Black Widow” has over 20 titles under her belt. Now we’ve heard that black widows are cannibals known for killing their mate after sex, but Lee’s so hot that we’ll take our chances.
4. MALIA JONES, 32SPORT: SURFING
WHY SHE’S HOT: When she’s not doing photo shoots for Sports Illustrated or People’s “50 Most Beautiful People” feature, this Hawaiian hottie hangs 10 on the regular. So yeah, she could handle a ride our long board.
3. MARIA SHARAPOVA, 22SPORT: TENNIS
WHY SHE’S HOT: Since bursting onto the scene with her win at Wimbledon in 2004, the long-legged Russian has kept us at love with her rep as the scream queen. We can only imagine the noises she’d make if we ever get to put the ball in her court.
2. SERENA WILLIAMS, 28SPORT: TENNIS
WHY SHE’S HOT: Currently ranked as the number one women’s tennis player in the world with 11 grand slam titles. The curvaceous Compton native is one of our favorites and really the only girl in tennis who has the body to rock the full body catsuit.
1. GINA CARANO, 27SPORT: MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
WHY SHE’S HOT: You have to love a chick who could kick your ass and look fine as hell while doing it. This badass babe caught our attention choking out other broads in the octagon. Hopefully someday she’ll put us in a hold and make us tap out.
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Posted by Patrick Perry on November 6, 2009 at 10:04am
Tracklist:--------------1. INTRO2. KAJMIR ROYALE – NONE OF THAT (PRO BY KAJMIR ROYALE)3. SOUTHERNGOVNA – ON IT (PRO BY CUBZ OF CPBEATS.COM)4. TRE-DOT – PUT THAT IRON ON EM (PRO BY MURPH)5. STRESS THE GLAMOUR KID – TOE TAGGER (PRO BY RNS BEATS)6. RAMO FEAT J.WOODS – YOU DON’T KNOW ME (PRO BY MISTER K.A.)7. MAGNUM DOLLARS – EPIC (PRO BY BELL VS BELL)8. TONY DICE FEAT SHELLY B – MONEY ON MY MIND (PRO BY TONY DICE)9. J BLAKK – IMMA GOON (PRO BY G2)10. INTERLUDE11. JINJER – ROWDY (PRO BY NEVAmind)12. JOCELYN ELLIS – HIGH LIFE (PRO BY JOCELYN ELLIS & RON ENCORE)13. SHALISA MEEKS & KNOC – SONG KRY (PRO BY TONY BUK)14. YOUNG BLACK G.B. – WE STAND 4 (PRO BY T DEEZY)15. HARDLINE – I LIKE IT (PRO BY J TRAXX)16. CATO, BIG ROD, T DOT – ALL CRAZY (PRO BY CARDIAK)17. JOHN DOUGH – NOTHING (PRO BY J PALM)18. KHB FEAT WES RESTLESS – ON MY WAY (PRO BY REASON)19. B STYLEZ – KEEP IT ON THE LOW (PRO BY COOL ETHAN)20. DRUFAMOUS – NUMBER 1 (PRO BY DANAIR)21. OUTROhttp://rapidshare.com/files/301152780/DJ_AMES_PRESENTS_UNSIGNED___UNLEASHED_VOL_2.ziphttp://rapidshare.com/files/301359527/UNSIGNED___UNLEASHED_VOL_2_NO_DJ.zip NO DJ Version
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NY Daily News Reports
The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood had been directing traffic moments before she confronted the gunman and pumped four bullets into him despite being shot herself.
Civilian police Sgt. Kimberly Munley and her partner responded within three minutes of reported gunfire Thursday afternoon, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said Friday.
Munley, who had been trained in active-response tactics, rushed into the building and confronted the shooter as he was turning a corner, Cone said.
"It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," Cone said.
Munley was only a few feet from crazed Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan when she opened fire.
Wounded in the exchange of gunfire, Munley was reported in stable condition at a local hospital.
The hero cop spent Thursday night phoning fellow officers to let them know she was fine and to find out about casualties in the attack - the deadliest ever on a military base in the U.S., Cone said.
Cone said Munley's aggressive response training taught her that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter you will have less fatalities."
"She walked up and engaged him," he said. He praised her as "one of our most impressive young police officers."
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Guardian UK Reports
October is Black History Month in Britain – a wonderful celebration of the huge, important and valuable contribution that black people have made to humanity and to popular culture.
It is also worth celebrating that many leading black icons have been lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), most notably the US black liberation hero Malcolm X. Other prominent black LGBTs include jazz singer Billie Holiday, author and civil rights activist James Baldwin, soul singer-songwriter Luther Vandross, blues singer Bessie Smith, poet and short story writer Langston Hughes, singer Johnny Mathis, novelist Alice Walker, civil rights activist and organiser of the 1963 March on WashingtonBayard Rustin, blues singer Ma Rainey, dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, actress, singer and dancer Josephine Baker, Olympic diving gold medallist Greg Louganis, singer and songwriter Little Richard, political activist and philosopher Angela Davis, singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman and drag performer and singer RuPaul.
Few of these prominent black LGBT achievers are listed on the most comprehensive UK Black History Month website, which hosts biographies of notable black men and women. In the section on people, only Davis is mentioned and her lesbianism is not acknowledged. The website fails to identify the vast majority of black public and historical figures who are LGBT. The Official Guide to Black History Month UK is equally remiss. Why these omissions? Black people are not one homogenous heterosexual mass. Where is the recognition of sexual diversity within the black communities and black history?
In contrast, LGBT History Month, which takes place in the UK in February, devotes a whole section of its website to the lives of leading black LGBT people and links to the websites for Black History Month. Disappointingly, this solidarity is not reciprocated. On the Black History Month websites I could not find a LGBT section or a LGBT History Month link.
Perhaps it is unintentional but Black History Month sometimes feels like Straight Black History Month. Famous black LGBT people are not acknowledged and celebrated. Either their contribution to black history and culture is ignored or their sexuality is airbrushed out of their biographies.
A good example of this neglect is the denialism surrounding the bisexuality of one of the greatest modern black liberation heroes: Malcolm X. The lack of recognition is perhaps not surprising, given that some of his family and many black activists have made strenuous efforts to deny his same-sex relationships and suppress recognition of the full spectrum of his sexuality.
Why the cover-up? So what if Malcolm X was bisexual? Does this diminish his reputation and achievements? Of course not. Whether he was gay, straight or bisexual should not matter. His stature remains, regardless of his sexual orientation. Yet many of the people who revere him seem reluctant to accept that their hero, and mine, was bisexual.
Malcolm X's bisexuality is more than just a question of truth and historical fact. There has never been any black person of similar global prominence and recognition who has been publicly known to be gay or bisexual. Young black lesbian, gay and bisexual people can, like their white counterparts, often feel isolated, guilty and insecure about their sexuality. They could benefit from positive, high-achieving role models, to give them confidence and inspiration. Who better than Malcolm X? He inspired my human rights activism and was a trailblazer in the black freedom struggle. He can inspire other LGBT people too.
Right now, there is not a single living black person who is a worldwide household name and who is also openly gay. That's why the issue of Malcolm X's sexuality is so important. Having an internationally renowned gay or bisexual black icon would do much to help challenge homophobia, especially in the black communities and particularly in Africa and the Caribbean where homosexuality and bisexuality are often dismissed as a "white man's disease".
So what is the evidence for Malcolm X's bisexual orientation? Most people remember him as the foremost US black nationalist leader of the 1960s. Despite the downsides of his anti-white rhetoric, black separatism and religious superstition, he was America's leading spokesperson for black consciousness, pride and self-help. He spoke with fierce eloquence and defiance for black upliftment and freedom.
Malcolm's complex, changing sexuality was never part of the narrative of his life until the publication of Bruce Perry's acclaimed biography, Malcolm – The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America. Perry is a great admirer and defender of Malcolm X, but not an uncritical one. He wrote the facts, based on interviews with over 420 people who knew Malcolm personally at various stages in his life, from childhood to his tragic assassination in 1965. His book is not a hatchet job, as some black critics claim, it is the exact opposite. Perry presents an honest, rounded story of Malcolm's life and achievements which, in my opinion, is far more moving and humane than the better known but somewhat hagiographic The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told To Alex Haley.
Based on interviews with Malcolm's closest boyhood and adult friends, Perry suggests the US black liberation leader was not as solidly heterosexual as his Nation of Islam colleagues and black nationalist acolytes have always claimed. While Perry did not make Malcolm's sexuality a big part of his biography – in fact, it is a very minor aspect – he did not shy away from writing about what he heard in his many interviews.
He documents Malcolm's many same-sex relations and his activities as a male sex worker, which spanned at least a 10-year period, from his mid-teens to his 20s, as I described in some detail in a previous article for the Guardian. Although Malcolm later married and, as far as we know, abandoned sex with men, his earlier same-sex relations suggest that he was bisexual rather than heterosexual. Abstaining from gay sex after his marriage does not change the fundamentals of his sexual orientation and does not mean that he was wholly straight.
Towards the end of his life, Malcolm's ideas were evolving in new directions. Politically, he gravitated leftwards. Faith-wise, after his trip to Mecca, he began to embrace a non-racial mainstream Islam. His mind was becoming open to new ideas and values.
Had he not been murdered in 1965, Malcolm might have eventually, like Huey Newton of the Black Panthers and the black power leader Angela Davis, embraced the lesbian and gay liberation movement as part of the struggle for human emancipation. Instead, to serve their homophobic political agenda, for over half a century the Nation of Islam and many black nationalists have suppressed knowledge of Malcolm's same-sex relations. It is now time for Black History Month to speak the truth. Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it.
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