BallerStatus Reports
Back in May, rapper Cage dropped his Shia LaBeouf-directed video, "I Never Knew You," which was the young actor's debut as a music video director. But, there's more to the story than just directing a music video for a friend.
Both have been friends for years, and Shia's goal -- in collaborating with Cage for a music video -- isn't about getting into the music world. It's about making a movie ... about Cage.
In an interview withMTV, the actor revealed that he's been a fan of Cage for some time, and reached out to him over four years ago with a film idea.
"Like four years ago, I got in touch with him. It was super Hollywood, like an 'I'll have my people call your people' type of thing. But his people really didn't exist in the form of my people," Shia laughed.
After that, he followed Cage on his Hell's Winter Tour, and shot a bunch of footage, after which he felt Cage's story would make a great movie.
"I came out during the Hell's Winter Tour and started filming him on that tour for, like, weeks and weeks -- almost two months. We just jumped around, city to city, and we became friends that way," Shia explained. "Yes, I'm a fan, and I wanted to see him perform, but I'd always wanted to make a movie about him since forever. And so the plan was to take that Hell's Winter footage and go pitch the movie."
A reserved Cage feels a little shy about the whole thing, saying its strange to even think about it.
It's really strange. I try not to think about it," the rapper said in a recent interview with Decider.Com. I don't talk about myself in the third person, but I try to think about myself in third person when we're talking about the Cage movie. I try to keep myself separated from it. There's nothing worse than the first few years of getting restless; you just feel like an asshole thinking, 'C'mon, when is this movie going to be made about me!'"
There's not a time frame, or schedule for this project, but neither are worried. Shia plans to continue filming, and pitching the film, and says as Cage's profile raises, it'll be easier to get investors onboard.
However, he feels Cage's story will sell the movie itself.
"I want them to know everything," Shia explained of Cage's story, which includes drug use, physical abuse and a stint in a mental institution. "If you could just picture getting handed the sh**tiest cards, over and over again, and having to play with them. When I listen to Cage's music [no matter how bad things are], it's like my life is not that bad."
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AllHipHop Reports
A full-fledged lyrical feud has broken out between Inspectah Deck of the Wu Tang Clan and Joe Budden, who now represents for Slaughterhouse.
While Budden has yet to respond in song, Deck has released a song called “House N***a,” where he proclaims “the war is on.”
The lyrical beef is a result of Joe Budden expressing that he was a greater emcee than Method Man in a tourney of the best rappers alive by now-defunct Vibe magazine.
"When I first heard the Inspectah Deck s**t I thought it was weak but I said, 'Aight I'm going to tear him up for fun," Budden said on BlogTV, a site he uses for live video blogging. "I just wish somebody else would've responded, not him... Me and Raekwon talked it out, me and Busta Rhymes already spoke. Now here you come...”
Budden didn’t say that he would definitely respond, but he did sent some barbed words for Deck.
“While Inspectah Deck may be considered a legend for the one great verse he had in his 30 year career, it's 2009...We'll see how it all plays out. We gotta see how it goes down when I get into the studio,” Budden continued. “He should be dissing RZA for not paying him. When Saigon dissed me, my next dis track was the fact that I got paid from his dis track. I don't think people really use their heads. He rapped on 'Pump It Up.' Me and Just [Blaze] got paid for it."
On the song, Deck admits to defending Method Man, who refused to entertain a battle with Budden.
On his blog, Budden suggested that he may use the feud to push his Slaughterhouse album with Crooked I, Royce Da 5’ 9” and Joell Ortiz.
“Honestly, dude ain't worth responding to... But I DO have an album coming out.. Might be buzzworthy to cook dude.. We'll see,” Budden wrote.
Listen to “House N***a” by Inspectah Deck of Wu Tang
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XXL Reports
While the war of words between Slaughterhouse and D-Block defector J-Hood has recently cooled off, Royce da 5’9″ says the dispute is far from resolved.
In a recent interview with XXLMag.com, Nickel-Nine denied that there’d be any more lyrical fire from his four-man super group, but insisted that the beef could leak off of the wax.
“We’re not going to respond to him because he’s a bum… just like Ransom,” Royce said, who’s digital EP The Revival dropped yesterday (July 7). “He might want to shut his fucking mouth. Detroit niggas don’t play that shit.”
Hood has been taking shots at the entire Slaughterhouse crew for the past few months, name-calling and levying threats on street DVDs. “I’m all for the battle rapping, but when you get to talking about what you’re going to do… I don’t want to fucking hear that,” Royce continued. “I move around New York how I feel. That nigga can’t step a fucking pinky toe in Detroit.”
“He can say what he wanna say,” he added, “but if he brings that shit anywhere near my circumference, I’ma take his fucking head off.”
The dispute began late last year, when J-Hood took exception to a Royce punchline. He told hiphopbeef.com the offending quip was, “I’m the one, really though/you just a J-Hood gun video.”
The Yonkers MC clapped back with “Watch What You Say,” also dissing Jim Jones, 50 Cent and Jadakiss.
In April, Royce responded with his rendition of Red Café’s “Hottest In The Hood” followed by partner-in-rhyme Crooked I’s “Slaughterhouse is a Big Deal.”
Next for Royce is the debut disc from his group , Slaughterhouse scheduled for an August 11 release. His fifth solo LP, Street Hop, is set to drop in September. –John Kennedy
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We just spoke with Tennessee assistant medical examiner Dr. Feng Li, who tells us preliminary test results in the Steve McNair death show Sahel Kazemi fired the gun that killed both of them.
Feng -- who conducted autopsies on the two bodies -- told us he was able to make the determination from the crime scene investigation, police interviews, autopsy findings and preliminary lab results -- which include a gunshot residue test.
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USA Today Reports
Sahel Kazemi placed an ad on Craigslist selling all her furniture on the same day she bought the gun police found at the scene of her death, the Tennessean reports.
Kazemi was found dead with former NFL QB Steve McNair on Saturday, two days after buying the gun on July 2. She had also been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving early in the morning on July 2.
The headline on her Craigslist ad read: "NICE FURNITURE. TV, COUCH, COFFE TABLE AND MORE - $1 (hermitage)." (Here is a link to a Craigslist ad -- from its Nashville site -- that matches that headline.)
The cell number listed in the ad matches the number police got from Kazemi, 20, on July 2 when she was arrested. She bought the gun later that evening, police said.
Family members have said Kazemi was getting rid of her furniture because she was planning to move in with McNair. She listed a flat-screen TV, couch, dining room set and coffee table for sale.
McNair's friend, Robert Gaddy, said Tuesday that the former quarterback was not planning on leaving his wife, Mechelle.
Police have called a news conference at 3:45 p.m. ET on Wednesday to update the case.
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AllHipHop Reports
Maino has released more information about his forthcoming as-yet-untitled reality show on Sirius Radio/Shade 45's Lip Service with Angela Yee and Leah Rosa.
Maino, who has been tight lipped on the pending reality series, has confirmed that the show is 90% complete but the paperwork isn't signed yet.
The Brooklyn rapper said, "There's something, realty-based that's around, MTV-ish. It's about a white dude that doesn't come from our culture, he don't understand the rap game. He doesn't understand what it is to be a rapper everyday. He lives with me and tries to like understand what goes on in our world."
Rumors have circulated that Maino slapped a house guest during the season, and when asked if it was true, he dodged giving a definitive answer.
He did address the alleged blow saying, "Nothing I do is scripted. So if you see me smack someone you know that it's really going down."
No network has been attached Maino's reality show.
If Tomorrow Ever Comes, his debut CD, is in stores now.
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