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Mac Miller stopped by The Breakfast Club to chop it up with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Angela Yee.
He talks about his problems with drugs, $10 million deal with Warner Bros., touring, problems being a white rapper, forgetting his lyrics during Jay Electronica concert, "One Hundred Grandchildren," getting sued and more.
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Suge Knight and his lawyer got some bad information about a possible release from jail for the former Death Row Records co-owner.
Matthew Fletcher, Knight’s attorney, told The Los Angeles Times that Floyd Mayweather Jr. would pay his client's $10 million bail if he wins his May 2nd fight against Manny Pacquiao.
“They’re good friends.That’s one of his wealthiest friends," Fletcher said. “Suge said, ‘Man, I was really going to pull for him to win, but now I’m going to have to pray for him to win.’”
When reached by TMZ Sports, a source close to Mayweather denied the story. The source said that the boxer and Knight were close in the past, but haven't spoken in years.
Knight is facing murder and attempted murder charges for a fatal hit and run that killed 55-year old Terry Carter and injured Cle "Bone" Sloan, 51.
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LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) — Marion "Suge" Knight is scheduled to be back in court Friday morning after a Los Angeles prosecutor asked a judge to set bail at $25 million in the former rap music mogul's murder case, alleging he has been shaking down rappers.
The bail motion filed Thursday cites numerous threats and acts of violence by Knight dating back to the mid-1990s. It accuses him of being part of an extortion ring that targets up-and-coming and established rappers and has been paid more than $10 million in recent years. It also states Knight has made threats over the upcoming film "Straight Outta Compton," which chronicles the rise of iconic rap group N.W.A.
The co-founder of Death Row Records was a key player in the gangster rap scene that flourished in the 1990s, his label once listing Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg among its artists. Knight lost control of the company after it was forced into bankruptcy.
Knight has been held without bail since early February, when he was charged with murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run after authorities say he struck two men with his pickup truck in a Compton parking lot. Terry Carter, 55, was killed in the crash.
Terry Carter (left) and Cle "Bone" Sloane were run over by Suge Knight's truck
Knight has pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys have said Knight was ambushed. A phone message for Knight's attorney, Matthew Fletcher, was not returned Thursday.
If Knight attempts to post bail, Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Barnes has requested that he prove the money has not come from illegal activities.
If Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen grants bail, Knight would either have to post the entire amount in cash or pay a bond company 8 percent of the bail amount and the company would put up the whole amount, Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Lou Shapiro said.
The bond company would keep Knight's money — $2 million if bail is set at $25 million — as its fee, Shapiro said.
Barnes' bail motion includes a summary of a heavily redacted police report taken last year from someone who claims Knight issued threats over "Straight Outta Compton."
"Knight was angry that he was not compensated for his likeness in the movie," the motion says. It adds that Knight warned the unidentified victim that he was prepared to attack over the film and would target former N.W.A. members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube.
The prosecutor's motion also cites Knight's 1994 conviction on a federal firearms charge and a 1995 conviction on two counts of assault with a firearm that led to a lengthy prison sentence.
"Since his release from prison custody, defendant Knight has continued his repugnant life of crime," the motion states before listing allegations that include battery, criminal threats, extortion and assault.
Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Biddle said detectives began looking into the extortion scheme after Knight was shot six times last year at a West Hollywood nightclub on the weekend of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Knight has complained that he is suffering from complications from his wounds. He told a judge at a hearing earlier this month that he is blind in one eye and has limited vision in his other eye.
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Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP
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Birdman can easily end his legal battle with Lil Wayne. All he has to do is pay Weezy the money he's owed and the rapper's argument that his contract has been breached will no longer be valid, according to TMZ.
As we reported yesterday, Wayne is owed a total of $10 million for the recording of Tha Carter V. He was supposed to receive an $8 million advance when he began recording the album and an additional $2 million upon completion.
Wayne fulfilled his obligation, but was never paid a dime by Cash Money Records.
TMZ reports that the $51 million is asking for in his lawsuit against Cash Money is to cover the debt as well as future losses.
Universal, Cash Money's distributor has gotten involved. They're putting pressure on Birdman to cough up the money and end this dispute. Whether he will or not remains to be seen. Previous negotiations between lawyers for the two sides broke down, leaving Wayne no choice but to seek a legal remedy.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quincy Jones sued Michael Jackson's estate on Friday claiming he is owed millions in royalties and production fees on some of the superstar's greatest hits.
Jones' lawsuit seeks at least $10 million from the singer's estate and Sony Music Entertainment, claiming the entities improperly re-edited songs to deprive him of royalties and production fees. The music has been used in the film "This Is It" and a pair of Cirque du Soleil shows based on the King of Pop's songs, the lawsuit states.
Jones also claims that he should have received a producer's credit on the music in "This Is It." His lawsuit seeks an accounting of the estate's profits from the works so that Jones can determine how much he is owed.
The producer worked with Jackson on three of his most popular solo albums, "Off the Wall," ''Thriller" and "Bad."
Jackson's estate wrote in a statement that it was saddened by Jones' lawsuit. "To the best of its knowledge, Mr. Jones has been appropriately compensated over approximately 35 years for his work with Michael," the statement said.
An after-hours message left at Sony Music's New York offices was not immediately returned.
Jackson's hits "Billie Jean," ''Thriller" and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" are among the songs Jones claims were re-edited to deprive him of royalties and his producer's fee.
Jones' lawsuit states the producer's contracts called for him to have the first opportunity to re-edit or alter the songs, in part to protect his reputation.
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Riff Raff is looking to cash in by going after the makers of the movie Spring Breakers. The rapper believes James Franco's character in the flick was based on him, and he has a good point.
Franco plays a character named Alien. A white rapper/gangster with gold teeth and long cornrows who looks remarkably like Riff Raff.
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According to the former MTV star he is suing for $8 million-$10 million after not being compensated by Annapurna Pictures for using his likeness
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"It's like if I have a front yard. And you're planting soil and you're planting trees and building peaches and houses and selling parking lots on my property," Riff Raff told TMZ. "Then I deserve to be compensated for some portion of that money."
Think Riff Raff has a good case?
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He was supposed to be her perfect match but he almost cost her her life. Mary Kay Beckman of Las Vegas is suing Match.com for $10 million. She said she met a man through the popular dating website and he tried to kill her.
"He broke into my garage," said Beckman. "When the police arrested him, he said he wasn't there to hurt me. He was there to kill me. His intent was to kill me that night."
Beckman has told her story many times but she still gets emotional recalling the worst experience of her life.
In 2011, Wade Ridley stabbed her 10 times with a butcher knife. When the knife broke, he stomped on her head.
"It's a very traumatic thing for anybody to have to go through," said Beckman
The 50-year-old real estate agent and mother of two says the attack left her hospitalized for months. She endured three head surgeries and a seizure. While she was in the hospital, Beckman said Ridley killed an Arizona woman he met, 62-year-old Anne Simenson, on the same website.
"I struggled a lot thinking why did she die and why did I live," said Beckman
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She said Ridley came looking for her but authorities arrested him. Ridley then committed suicide in jail.
Now Beckman is suing Match.com, claiming it doesn't do enough to keep violent offenders off its site.
"They don't say one in five are part of an attempted murder or one in five are killed," said Beckman. "They don't tell you people are missing."
Beckman is pushing for a disclaimer on Match.com similar to what you find on cigarettes, warning people dating sites can be harmful.
"God saved me that night for a reason," said Beckman. "I shouldn't be here today. It's my mission and goal to save someone from being hurt or help someone make a different decision with their online dating choices."
Beckman said besides the physical scars she's healed from the attack. She's still in counseling but she's now in a happy and healthy relationship with a man she did not meet online.
Match.com issued this statement:
"What happened to Mary Kay Beckman is horrible but this lawsuit is absurd. The many millions of people who have found love on Match.com and other online dating sites know how fulfilling it is. And while that doesn't make what happened in this case any less awful, this is about a sick, twisted individual with no prior criminal record, not an entire community of men and women looking to meet each other."
They add there's online safety tips throughout the site.
Beckman said she'd been on Match.com for two months when she met Wade Ridley in September 2010. She said it took her only eight days to see his true colors. She broke it off and he turned violent
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Mary Kay Beckman tells story of Match.com date Wade Ridley trying to kill her
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Nas is facing a possible new financial hurdle after being sued by a concert promoter who was kidnapped in December 2011 after the rapper failed to show for a concert in Angola.
As we previously reported, 51-year old Patrick Allocco, CEO of AllGood Concerts and his 22-year old son, also named Patrick were kidnapped by local Angola promoter Henrique "Riquhino" Miguel after Nas was paid $300,000 for a New Year's Eve concert, then failed to show.
The Allocco's passports were taken away and they were forced to stay at a hotel until Nas repaid the money he received.
Nas eventually returned the funds and the father and son were allowed to return back to the United States in February 2012.
TMZ is reporting that the elder Patrick Allocco filed a $10 million federal lawsuit against Nas on Friday. Allocco claims that while being held for 50 days he was beaten and constantly threatened.
Allocco also claims that because he was held so long he was unable to business, and as a result lost his home and his company.
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Mac Miller recently chopped it up with Sway and Heather B on Sway in the Morning. He talks about what rapper influenced him to pick up a pen, $10 million lawsuit against him by Lord Finesse, the Pink Slime project with Pharrell plus spits a freestyle.
Mac Miller says Big L inspired him to become an MC
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For the second time in less than a month Mac Miller has been hit with a $10 million lawsuit for copyright infringement.
In July Lord Finesse filed a lawsuit against the Pittsburgh rapper, Datpiff and Rostrum Records for using his song “Hip 2 Da Game,” for Miller's “Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza,” track off of his Macadelic mixtape.
Yesterday Patrick Berlinquette, aka Warm Speakers, filed a lawsuit for the same amount against the same three parties according to HipHopDx. According the the lawsuit Miller sampled Berlinquette's song titled “The World Around You” and used it for a track titled "Fuck Em All" without first getting permission.
“[Miller] uses other people’s music because it’s easier, cheaper, and faster than creating his own,” reads the complaint. “Miller seeks to capitalize on the common misconception in Copyright Law that people whose music he takes have no remedy if he gives their music away for free.”
Berlinquette claims he was “irreparably harmed, suffered damage, and defendants have profited in an amount to be determined at trial.” He is suing for willful infringement; violation of Copyright Law and New York’s General Business Law; and is seeking a permanent injunction. He is also suing for damages and seeks to recoup "no event less than $10 million."
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When Mac Miller sampled Lord Finesse's 1995 "Hip 2 Da Game" instrumental for his song "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" off his 2010 K.I.D.S mixtape he could have never imagined the hot water it would get him into. It's become a fairly common practice for rappers to use music from other artists for freestyles and mixtapes without being sued, but Finesse isn't buying it.
The legendary D.I.T.C. member has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Miller, his record company, Rostrum Records, and the mixtape site, Datpiff.
"This is a case about a teenage rapper- Mac Miller- copying the music from a song written, produced and performed by Lord Finesse, a hip hop legend, changing the title and then distributing it under his own name in order to launch his music career," the complaint states according to Courthouse News Service.
Since it's release in August 2010, Kids has been downloaded more than 450,000 times. And the video for "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" has been viewed nearly 24 million times on YouTube, according to the complaint.
Finesse says Miller has profited from the unauthorized use of the song and that he only filed the lawsuit after DatPiff, Rostrum and Miller refused to respond to a cease and desist letter earlier this month.
The $10 million lawsuit "alleges copyright infringement, unfair competition, unjust enrichment, interference, deceptive trade practices, and a number of related state law claims." Finesse also seeks a permanent injunction from the court.
Mac took to Twitter to respond to the lawsuit.
"I'm supposed to be on hush but lemme speak on this real quick," Mac wrote. "Finesse and I spoke on the phone for an hour after he heard the record and cleared the air. We even planned to work on music together. All I wanted to do is shed light on a generation that inspired me. Finesse never cleared the Oscar Peterson sample on the original record. I did nothing wrong. We spoke on the phone had a good conversation, he was cool with the record. It's all love tho. I ain't even mad at dude. He still a legend. When I heard there was a problem, I reached out to him to try and solve it. No response. Lord Finesse, thank you for what u did for hip hop. Thank you for bringing my favorite rapper into the game."
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CNN Money recently took a peek inside 50 Cent's opulent Connecticut mansion.
The beautiful 50,000-plus-sq.-ft. residence sits on 17 acres of land. It features about 19 bedrooms, 37 bathrooms, a gym, billiard rooms, racquetball courts and a disco.
Even if you have seen the crib before, it's worth another look.
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Police in Salt Lake City, Utah have arrested a mother after uncovering her plan to pimp her 13-year old daughter's virginity to a man for $10,000.
32-year old Felicia Rea McClure has been charged with two counts of first degree felony aggravated sex abuse of a child and two counts of second degree felony sexual exploitation of a minor.
She and a man police identified only as "Don" had agreed to the deal, after McClure asked her daughter if she would be willing to lose her virginity to him according to ABC News.
The two took the girl to a Victoria's Secret store and had her model in thongs and bras for the man. Authorities say the girl initially agreed to do it, but later changed her mind, saying she wasn't ready for sex.
Salt Lake City District Attorney Sim Gill said the mother also took pictures of her daughter and sold them to another man named "Will."
"The photographs that were shown her buttocks was bare, so it's fairly graphic," said Gill.
Police were notified by McClure's boyfriend after he found texts on her cell phone detailing the plot.
The mom now faces 15 years to life in prison for each of the two first degree felony charges if convicted.
Were 50 Cent's tweets this weekend pumping a penny stock the most valuable tweets of all time?
We think they probably were.
Earlier we noted how penny stock HNHI -- a distributor of headphones -- were surging after 50 Cent tweeted about it all weekend.
The stock ended up closing up a staggering 240%.
Here's the chart:
At the current market cap of $71 million (per Yahoo Finance) that's a $50 million gain from Friday.
Check out the tweets that made 50's pockets go ka-ching!
Obviously 50's being compensated. How much? A LOT.
This SEC filing shows that he owned 30 million shares. Seeing as each one gained $.29 today, that's nearly $10 million for one weekend of tweeting.
How soon do you think he sells?
Source: Business Insider
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