Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 1, 2009 at 12:41pm
Marsha speaks on working with Just Blaze and Dre for her new album and the difference between working on a solo project as opposed to her work with Floetry.
Also, footage from her August 2009 performance at the legendary SOB's in NY!
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HipHopWired Reports
Miami street poet Trick Daddy will be releasing his autobiography later this year called “Magic City: Trials Of A Native Son” through MTV Books. Speaking to HipHopWired exclusively about the project, Trick revealed,
“Nothing I ever say whether in music or DVD or whatever will ever get any one indicted or open any closed caskets or fuck up no appeals but this book is definitely gonna be a best seller and show Miami in a whole ‘nother light. "Cocaine Cowboys" was a good movie but it never showed the people who actually went out and sold the drugs. Niggas who toted and shot the guns. Parents who got addicted to the drugs and the babies born addicted to the drugs. They don't show and tell that part in these other documentaries and my book does all that and it also sets up a movie to follow behind that as well as a part 2 and 3 to follow.”
Trick will also be starring in the upcoming film Just Another Day co-starring members from the cast of the HBO series “The Wire” and directed by Peter Spirer. Spirer has directed numerous Hip-Hop film projects including Rhyme & Reason, Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel, Black and Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop” and Beef I and II. Breaking down the film, T-Double D said,
“The flick is a Hip-Hop gangsta flick. It's a flick about a dude that owns a record company and the other dude is a rapper with the company and they deal with a whole bunch of street shit. Just showing the real shit that we actually go through and though we're entertainers, we also have to live. I get to be me in the movie. I ain't got to play no “Broke Back Mountain” scene. I ain't got to be no rat or none of that. I was being me and doing my thug thizzle in the movie. And it was a privilege to work with these young niggas that I admire for what they do.”
Just Another Day will also feature “The Wire's” Wood Harris and Jamie Hector as well Lil Scrappy, Big Daddy Kane, Esther Baxter, Petey Pablo and Big Daddy Kane.
In regard to the music, Mr. 305 will release his eighth album on September 15th entitled Finally Famous. The album will also break new stride for Trick as this will be his first independent release on his own label Dunk Ryders since severing ties with Slip-n-Slide and Atlantic Records. Trick added,
“It's the same Trick Daddy you hear on all my albums. I'm still representing what I always have, the struggle, the streets, the thugs. It's a new game out now called “Telling” where niggas is snitching and getting their time cut and it's very contagious and I'm talking a lot about that up there. I'm doing me now. I am the boss on this project. I totally control everything now but I'm still definitely doing my thug thizzle.”
Trick is already tearing up the streets with several songs from the album including “Why They Jock” and the Rick Ross diss, “This Is The Shit That I Live.”
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MTVNEWS Reports
OK, so Kanye West and Lady Gaga probably have not actually gotten married, as Gaga jokingly said. However, they are apparently working on their first baby.
By "baby," we of course mean the super-ambitious set design they're collaborating on for their upcoming co-headlining tour, which, although it is yet to be officially confirmed, is reported to be kicking off on October 4 in Buffalo, New York.
In an recent interview with the BBC, Gaga said that she and Kanye have been working together on the look and feel of their tour, and, from the sound of things, it's shaping up to be a big production — if not, as she says, one of the biggest of all time.
"I love Kanye ... [he] is my very dear friend and we are creative kindreds," she said. "It's been fun to work on the design of the tour with him — we're finishing each other's sentences.
"It's going to be one of the most groundbreaking moments in touring history," she continued. "I am sure of it."
In another interview — this one in the September issue of Out magazine — Gaga made another claim.
She said she told Kanye, "I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay," she told the magazine. "And I love my gay fans and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay."
Before Gaga hits the road with West, she'll get the chance to work out the live show kinks at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. She's up for nine Moonmen, and earlier this week, it was announced that she'll also be performing at the big show, alongside the likes of Jay-Z, Green Day, Taylor Swift, Pink and Muse.
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A "severely emaciated" Michael Jackson weighed just over 8 stone (112 lbs) and was disfigured and virtually bald after years of physical abuse, according to leaked results from an official autopsy.
Details from the post-mortem carried out on Friday by Los Angeles County's Chief Medical Examiner were carried today in The Sun, which reported how the star's face was a mass of scars from 13 cosmetic operations.
The Sun said that the bridge of Jackson's nose had disappeared and the right side had caved in. It also reported unexplained bruises on his knees and shins and bruising to his back suggesting a recent fall.
The newspaper said that the only thing pathologists found in the star's stomach were partially dissolved pills, which were removed for toxicology tests.
The experts also found that several of Jackson's ribs had been broke as paramedics tried to revive the 50-year-old singer after he collapsed at his rented mansion in Belair on Thursday. There were also signs of four adrenaline jabs administered directly to his heart during the failed resuscitation.
A source close to the Jackson entourage told the newspaper: "He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and he had been eating nothing but pills when he died. Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he'd been in terminal decline for years."
The autopsy leaks emerged as Jackson's family went on the offensive, vowing to fight for control of his estate and three children and voicing concerns over the circumstances of his death.
After days of uncoordinated statements by family advisers and lawyers, Jackson's parents, Joe and Katherine, announced last night that they had sole "personal and legal authority" to act on behalf of their son. They also announced the appoint of Londell McMillan, an entertainment lawyer, as the family's designated spokesman.
McMillan swiftly told CNN that Mr and Mrs Jackson were seeking to secure custody of the late singer's three children and revealed that the family had not yet been granted access to the pop icon’s will.
Mr McMillan also said the family was “closely watching” the progress of the official investigation into Jackson’s death. The family has already hired a private pathologist to carry out a second autopsy.
Asked about the fate of Jackson’s three children -- born to two different mothers -- McMillan said that their grandmother Katherine - who has been looking after them since their father's death - would seek custody, raising the possibility of a bitter legal battle.
“She will seek custody of the children. She loves them dearly,” he said. “They’re in a loving environment. She’s a great grandma. I couldn’t think of anyone better for these children than a grandma like Miss Katherine Jackson and the loving support of family of the Jacksons."
Mr McMillan also revealed the family had not yet seen Jackson’s will, and was uncertain if one existed. If Jackson had not left a will his assets would go to his next of kin under California law, he said.
“If there’s no will then under the state of California it goes to the next of kin, that’s an adult administering and overseeing for the best interests of the children ...,” the lawyer said.
After Friday's official autopsy, officials ruled out foul play in the star's death, but Jackson family members have continued to question the role played by Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, in his final hours. Joe Jackson, the 79-year-old family patriarch, said last night that he still had "a lot of concerns".
LA police conducted a second interview with Dr Murray on Saturday but cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing, his lawyer's said.
The 51-year-old has faced intense speculation amid reports that he injected Jackson with the potent prescription painkiller Demerol just before he died but Dr Murray's lawyer said yesterday that reports of an injection were “absolutely false,” the first time the allegation has been denied.
“There was no Demerol. No OxyContin,” Edward Chernoff told the Los Angeles Times, adding that Dr Murray had discovered Jackson unconscious in the bedroom of his home.
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