Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 18, 2009 at 3:11pm
Us Weekly Reports
Khloe Kardashian plans to wed beau Lamar Odom, a forward on the Los Angeles Lakers, after about a month of dating, Usmagazine.com has confirmed.
"Khloe and Lamar want to get married before Lamar has to go away for training, and the [basketball] season starts up [this fall]," a source tells Us of Kardashian, 25, and Odom, 29, who met at a party in L.A.
"They are hoping to pull together a wedding within the next two weeks so they can get married and have time for a honeymoon," continues the source. "They haven't decided where they will say 'I Do,' but they are scouting out numerous locations, including Khloe's family home in Calabasas, [Calif.]."
Earlier this month, Odom gushed to Us that he was "very happy" with the star of Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami.
"Khloe is smart and beautiful and that is very hard to find," he added.
Kardashian's sister Kim also approves.
"He's a great guy!" she told Us of the pair, who have been showing off PDA all over L.A. over the past few weeks.
At Hollywood club Guys and Dolls earlier this month, Kardashian "would pull him up to dance and steal kisses here and there...every time a good song came on," a witness tells Us.
Odom recently signed a four-year, $33 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers and helped the team win the NBA Championship in June.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 18, 2009 at 9:00am
HipHopWired Reports
Young Money's Drake has come out swinging against Memphis MC Kia Shine who has made claims that he owns 25% of the Toronto MC's hit single “Best I Ever Had.” In a post on Drake website, he wrote:
“There have been questions posed to me the last few days about the writing of Best I Ever Had and I figured I'd take the time to clear the air directly. I have never met Kia Shine or worked with him. I wrote the entire composition in Toronto and I borrowed one line from a Lil Wayne song that he produced the BEAT for. The claims of 25% ownership are false and for a artist to brag about splits on a song is distasteful to begin with.”
Kinfolk also responded to the confusion as he hit up the bank to deposit a fat publishing check. Speaking with Global Grind, he stated,
“Basically I did a record for Lil Wayne called "Do It For The Boy," which was on The Leak mixtape back in October. My dude DJ Absolute & Enuff was spinning the joint in NY. I gave Wayne the joint back in March of ‘08 and I had yet to hear the completed version until Absolute hit me. Actually, he was in the office with my man Daralle Jones at Atlantic. He wanted buy the song from me to use for Jahiem. I tried to contact Young Money to get paid for the original track before I made a move, but couldn't get anyone to hit me back.
Producer note, as a producer, it‘s tough with mixtapes these days. Artist will rap on a 2 track version of a beat & hook you put on a beat CD to shop and the next thing you know your beat is on the radio. It's really impossible for Wayne to do a mixtape track, because if the song is a hit, it's going to touch radio. That's why whenever I produce or perform on a record I immediately send it to my guy, Maani, on the publishing side to handle all the paperwork, etc.
I get a call from Absolute and he's like, "Yo, you sold the song to Drake." I'm like who's Drake??? Absolute sent me the joint in January and I'm like...wooooow! Drake sampled the melody, some of the words, cadence, etc. So because I had already registered the original record, my business was in order. I sent in the Drake record and let my legal team handle it from there. We were able to settle at 25% of the "Best I Ever Had" publishing. It's a blessing, but the moral of the story is to "follow up to get your dollars up" and always be prepared and on top of your business. People should really read my discography and they would understand that this in no surprise. They will respect my mind and my grind soon enough.”
Check out Kia Shine looking "Krispy" showing off his Billboard plaques for "Best I Ever Had".
Megan Fox appeared on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien last night (September 17, 2009) – it was a really fun interview, Megan looked very comfortable and had a good rapport with Conan who she admitted she had a crush on while growing up watching him :) Here is her full segment in two clips – enjoy!
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 18, 2009 at 1:30am
One good thing came out of Kanye West's outburst at the MTV Awards.This hilarious "drink responsibly" ad for HennessyCheck Out The Video After The JumpSourceRead more…
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 18, 2009 at 12:00am
Kevin Tavares, second from left, Stalin Felipe, center, and Rondell Bedward, right, talk to a reporter, left, after they were released from the Nassau County Jail in East Meadow, N.Y.
NY Daily News Reports
One of the five men falsely accused of gang-raping a Hofstra University student said Thursday he and his friends feared they would be attacked in jail.
"In life and in jail, rapers and molesters are seen as the scum of the earth, the lowest of the low," said 20-year-old Kevin Taveras. "We were scared."
Dressed in sweats and weary after his ordeal, Taveras said he doesn't even know the name of his accuser and hopes cops "file an investigation of that girl."
Kevin Tavares
"I hope that other people see the truth that she lied, that we never lied," he said. "We could have all done long bids [in prison]. It could have cost us 25 years."
Taveras' dad said what the 18-year-old Hofstra freshman did with her bogus charge will haunt his son forever.
"This is not over," Ramiro Taveras, 44, said outside his Brentwood, L.I., home. "What's going to happen when somebody Googles his name?"
Taveras spoke out a day after the woman recanted her story that five men raped her in a Hofstra dormitory bathroom early Sunday morning.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said she changed her story after being shown cell-phone video footage of the sexual encounter.
"Her actions and her demeanor depict a very troubled young woman in need of some help," said Rice, declining to identify her.
"It's fair to say that at some point she felt she had to tell the truth and I am glad that she did."
Rice left open the possibility she could be charged with a crime. "It is against the law to tell the police that a crime happened when a crime did not happen," she said.
While Rice declined to say who shot the footage, Taveras' lawyer said it was filmed by one of the participants and that "it looks more like a porn movie."
"It showed just the opposite of what the allegations were," said lawyer Victor Daly-Rivera. "There was no tying up, there was no bruising, there was no screaming."
Danmell Ndonye has been suspended from school pending a disciplinary hearing, said Hofstra spokeswoman Melissa Connolly. Asked point blank if he had sex with the girl, Taveras told the News, "I don't want to talk about what happened." But he said he learned a lesson.
"If you're at college and you're going to a party, do what your parents says - don't get caught up in things like this," he said.
Taveras said he and Stalin Felipe, 19, drove out Saturday with their buddies to see Rondell Bedward, a 21-year-old Hofstra student from the Bronx, and to attend a party at a campus nightclub.
The woman told cops later Sunday that one of them lured her out of the club by swiping her cell phone on the dance floor.
Taveras, Felipe, Bedward and another buddy were quickly rounded up and charged with first-degree rape. Cops were looking for the fifth man when the woman changed her story.
Behind bars, Taveras said, he stayed close to Felipe, who is his step-brother and lives in the Bronx. He said he was sprung Wednesday night and driven home by his dad.
Taveras said now he has to exlain to his girlfriend what really happened.
"I put her through hell," he said. "It's going to be hard to get through this."
Felipe said he believes the accuser lied because she "felt guilty and ashamed of herself."
"I did not touch her at all," Felipe added. "I know how to treat women."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 17, 2009 at 12:00pm
See Video Of This Amazing Story After The BreakBaltimore Sun Reports
MIAMI - -- A 60-year-old woman blind for nine years has regained useful vision following a rare operation in which surgeons removed one of her teeth, drilled a hole in it, inserted a plastic lens into the hole and implanted the tooth-lens combination into her eye. It's the first such operation in the United States, they said.
With 20/70 vision now, Sharron "Kay" Thornton of Smithdale, Miss., can recognize faces and read a newspaper with a magnifying glass, and she should get better vision once fully healed and fitted with glasses, doctors say.
"We're excited. We believe a lot of patients can benefit from this," said Dr. Victor Perez, cornea specialist at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of Miami, where the procedure was performed.
Thornton lost her vision nine years ago to Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a severe allergic reaction to medication that blistered and scarred her cornea, the convex part of the eye that covers the iris and pupil. She was not a candidate for a corneal transplant or an artificial plastic lens because the eye was too damaged, Perez said.
Thornton was referred to Perez, who trained in Rome under ophthalmologist Giancarlo Falcinelli. He developed a version of the tooth-lens procedure invented by Dr. Benedetto Strampelli in 1963. In the Miami operation, Thornton's eyetooth was chosen because it had a good amount of jawbone and ligament attached, which are crucial for it to stay alive and heal into the eye after being implanted, Perez said. The eyeteeth -- also called canines -- get their name because they sit in the mouth directly beneath the eyes.
The multistage procedure began when Dr. Yoh Sawatari, a dental surgeon, extracted Thornton's eyetooth, shaved it flat horizontally, drilled a hole in it and inserted an acrylic lens. He implanted the tooth/lens prosthesis under the skin beneath her clavicle for three months so the combination could heal together.
Meanwhile, an eye surgeon removed scar tissue lining her damaged cornea.
A month later, surgeons removed a patch of skin from the inside of her cheek and laid it over her cornea to replace the moist tissue lost to the disease.
Thornton now is looking forward to seeing her three grown children and nine grandchildren for the first time in nine years.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 17, 2009 at 9:00am
HipHopWired Reports
Amerikka's Most Wanted Ice Cube will be presented with the “I Am Hip-Hop” Icon Award as this year's BET Hip-Hop Awards. The Awards will be held on October 10 in Atlanta at the Bousfeuillet Jones Civic Center and will premiere on BET on October 27th at 8 p.m. Cube's partner in comedy Mike Epps will be the host of this year's awards.
Lil Wayne is nominated in multiple categories including “MVP Of The Year” alongside Drake, Jay-Z and Kanye West. Drake will also be competing against Kid Cudi, Wale and Dorrough for “Rookie Of The Year Honors.” The highly contested “CD Of The Year” category will see Young Jeezy, Kanye West, T.I., Q-Tip and Eminem scrap it out for the coveted award.
Here is the complete list of nominees for the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards:
Best Hip-Hop Collabo
Jim Jones & Ron Browz f/ Juelz Santana - Pop Champagne
Lil Wayne f/ Bobby Valentino - Mrs. Officer
Rick Ross f/ John Legend - Magnificent
T.I. f/ Rihanna - Live Your Life
Young Jeezy f/ Kanye West - Put On
Best Live Performer
Busta Rhymes
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
T.I.
Kanye West
Lyricist of the Year
Drake
Eminem
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Kanye West
Video Director of the Year
Gil Green
Anthony Mandler
Mr. Boomtown
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams
Producer of the Year
Ron Browz
Cool & Dre
Tha Bizness
T-Pain
Kanye West
Track of the Year
Day "N" Nite - Kid Cudi
D.O.A. (Death of Auto Tune) - Jay-Z
Every Girl - Young Money (Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Mills, Gudda Gudda & Mack Maine)
Live Your Life - T.I. f/ Rihanna
Turn My Swag On - Soulja Boy Tell'em
CD of the Year
Eminem - Relapse
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
T.I. - Paper Trail
Kanye West - 808 & Heartbreak
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Rookie of the Year
B.O.B.
Dorrough
Drake
Kid Cudi
Wale
Best Hip-Hop Video
Dorrough - Ice Cream Paint Job
Eminem - We Made You
Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death of Auto Tune)
Kid Cudi - Day "N" Nite
T.I. f/ Rihanna - Live Your Life
MVP of the Year
Drake
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
T.I.
Kanye West
DJ of the Year
DJ AM
DJ Drama
DJ Khaled
DJ Tony Neal
DJ Greg Street
Hustler of the Year
Diddy
Drake
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne
Kanye West
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip-Hop Style)
Jay-Z
Kid Cudi
Lil Wayne
Soulja Boy Tell'em
Kanye West
Best Hip-Hop Blog Site
All Hip Hop
Nah Right
SOHH
This Is 50
World Star Hip Hop
People's Champ (Viewers Choice)
Dorrough - Ice Cream Paint Job
Fabolous f/ The-Dream - Throw It In The Bag
Kid Cudi - Day "N" Nite
Soulja Boy Tell'em - Turn My Swag On
Kanye West f/ Young Jeezy - Amazing
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 8:30pm
London Times Online Reports
‘The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own—what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.’ 50 Cent
1. See Things for What They Are - Intense Realism
Reality can be rather harsh. Your days are numbered. It takes constant effort to carve a place for yourself in this ruthlessly competitive world and hold on to it. People can be treacherous. They bring endless battles into your life. Your task is to resist the temptation to wish it were all different; instead you must fearlessly accept these circumstances, even embrace them. By focusing your attention on what is going on around you, you will gain a sharp appreciation for what makes some people advance and others fall behind. By seeing through people’s manipulations, you can turn them around. The firmer your grasp on reality, the more power you will have to alter it for your purposes.
2. Make Everything Your Own - Self-Reliance
When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every manoeuvre in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.
3. Turn Shit into Sugar - Opportunism
Every negative situation contains the possibility for something positive, an opportunity. It is how you look at it that matters. Your lack of resources can be an advantage, forcing you to be more inventive with the little that you have. Losing a battle can allow you to frame yourself as the sympathetic underdog. Do not let fears make you wait for a better moment or become conservative. If there are circumstances you cannot control, make the best of them. It is the ultimate alchemy to transform all such negatives into advantages and power.
4. Keep Moving - Calculated Momentum
In the present there is constant change and so much we cannot control. If you try to micromanage it all, you lose even greater control in the long run. The answer is to let go and move with the chaos that presents itself to you - from within it, you will find endless opportunities that elude most people. don’t give others the chance to pin you down; keep moving and changing your appearances to fit the environment. if you encounter walls or boundaries, slip around them. do not let anything disrupt your flow.
5. Know When to Be Bad - Aggression
You will always find yourself among the aggressive and the passive aggressive who seek to harm you in some way. You must get over any general fears you have of confronting people or you will find it extremely difficult to assert yourself in the face of those who are more cunning and ruthless. Before it is too late you must master the art of knowing when and how to be bad - using deception, manipulation, and outright force at the appropriate moments. Everyone operates with a flexible morality when it comes to their self-interest—you are simply making this more conscious and effective.
6. Lead from the Front - Authority
In any group, the person on top consciously or unconsciously sets the tone. If leaders are fearful, hesitant to take any risks, or overly concerned for their ego and reputation, then this invariably filters its way through the entire group and makes effective action impossible. Complaining and haranguing people to work harder has a counterproductive effect. You must adopt the opposite style: imbue your troops with the proper spirit through your actions, not words. They see you working harder than anyone, holding yourself to the highest standards, taking risks with confidence, and making tough decisions. This inspires and binds the group together. In these democratic times, you must practice what you preach.
7. Know Your Environment from the Inside Out - Connection
Most people think first of what they want to express or make, then find the audience for their idea. You must work the opposite angle, thinking first of the public. You need to keep your focus on their changing needs, the trends that are washing through them. Beginning with their demand, you create the appropriate supply. Do not be afraid of people’s criticisms - without such feedback your work will be too personal and delusional. You must maintain as close a relationship to your environment as possible, getting an inside “feel” for what is happening around you. Never lose touch with your base.
8. Respect the Process - Mastery
The fools in life want things fast and easy — money, success, attention. Boredom is their great enemy and fear. Whatever they manage to get slips through their hands as fast as it comes in. You, on the other hand, want to outlast your rivals. You are building the foundation for something that can continue to expand. To make this happen, you will have to serve an apprenticeship. You must learn early on to endure the hours of practice and drudgery, knowing that in the end all of that time will translate into a higher pleasure—mastery of a craft and of yourself. Your goal is to reach the ultimate skill level—an intuitive feel for what must come next.
9. Push Beyond Your Limits - Self-Belief
Your sense of who you are will determine your actions and what you end up getting in life. If you see your reach as limited, that you are mostly helpless in the face of so many difficulties, that it is best to keep your ambitions low, then you will receive the little that you expect. Knowing this dynamic, you must train yourself for the opposite—ask for more, aim high, and believe that you are destined for something great. Your sense of self-worth comes from you alone—never the opinion of others. With a rising confidence in your abilities, you will take risks that will increase your chances of success. People follow those who know where they are going, so cultivate an air of certainty and boldness.
10. Confront Your Mortality - The Sublime
In the face of our inevitable mortality we can do one of two things. We can attempt to avoid the thought at all costs, clinging to the illusion that we have all the time in the world. Or we can confront this reality, accept and even embrace it, converting our consciousness of death into something positive and active. In adopting such a fearless philosophy, we gain a sense of proportion, become able to separate what is petty from what is truly important. Knowing our days to be numbered, we have a sense of urgency and mission. We can appreciate life all the more for its impermanence. If we can overcome the fear of death, then there is nothing left to fear.
Extracted from Robert Greene and 50 Cent’s new book The 50th Law, published by Profile Books
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 5:00pm
Pics Courtesy Of KanyeGate
Kanye West has turned into one of the biggest internet sensations overnight...just not in a good way. Check out these "Imma Let You Finish Pics" ,epic comedy,lol
Shouts to Miss Info for the heads up !!
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 2:52pm
CNN Reports
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Ten people have been killed in a shooting at a drug rehabilitation center in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, state-run news agency Notimex reported.
Three others were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire Tuesday night, the agency said.
It was the third such incident at a drug rehab clinic this year in the Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
The attackers entered the Vida Rehabilitation Center about 10:30 p.m., Notimex reported.
Seven victims were patients at the clinic. The others included a doctor and the clinic manager, according to the news agency.
Drug-related killings in Juarez began to spike in early 2008, when the Sinaloa drug cartel began a turf war with the Juarez cartel.
Including the deaths at the clinic, at least 22 people were killed in Juarez on Tuesday.
The number of drug-related killings in the city this year has reached at least 1,657, surpassing the death toll for all of 2008.
Gunmen shot and killed 18 patients and wounded two others this month at another rehab center.
In March, 20 patients at another drug facility were killed in a similar
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 11:00am
Bullying got out of hand in Belleville, Ill., when students began beating another on a school bus. Student Steve Raines, stepped in and talked to Harry Smith about the incident.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 11:00am
Alicia Keys stopped by the Today Show Wednesday, September 16th to talk about her new single "Doesn't Mean Anything". The hosts asked her about her MTV VMA performance with Jay-Z of Empire State Of Mind where Lil Mama jumped up on stage and also about Kanye West interupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 11:05am
Pics & Article Courtesy OfRolling Stone
Megan Fox has proclaimed herself bisexual, called actors narcissistic douche bags, flat-out lied to the press about a lesbian teen affair and slipped some scathing words about her Transformers director Michael Bay into interviews. So what makes this sexy starlet tick? Rolling Stone’s Erik Hedegaard goes head to head with the star of Diablo Cody’s Jennifer’s Body in the new issue and learns the secret of her bewitching power: “a powerful, confident vagina."
“Men are scared of vaginas,” she says, telling RS a woman is most powerful when she is “completely in charge of her sexuality.”
So what makes this seemingly in-control 23-year-old star crave the security of her pillow cocoon in bed at night and let her temper flare so wildly she’s told off-again, on-again boyfriend Brian Austin Green, “I’m going to stab you with something”? Fox opens up about childhood panic attacks, the only two relationships she’s ever had, and her struggle to reconcile her public persona with her true self. “I don’t really want to share myself with the public,” she says. “I want to deflect attention from my reality.”
In Jennifer’s Body, Fox is a demon-girl who literally devours her horny high school classmates and engages in the most anticipated girl-on-girl make-out scene of the year. “Clearly I can’t argue that it’s not gratuitous, because it is,” she admits.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 11:03am
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Clearly, for Kanye, styling is not about practicality. Amber's favored spandex jumpsuits are practical in the sense that she only needs to select one item of clothing to wear (although how she manages in the ladies' room could be an entirely different story). But who wears cutoffs with furry boots outside of raves?
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 10:25am
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that he believes race is at the core of much of the opposition to President Obama.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter told NBC in an interview. "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans"
Continued Carter: "And that racism inclination still exists. . . . It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."
The 39th president also predicted that Obama will be able to "triumph over the racist attitude that is the basis for the negative environment that we see so vividly demonstrated in public affairs in recent days."
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