Drake is looking to get back into acting in a big way by portraying Barack Obama if possible.
The former star of Degrassi: The Next Generation was interviewed by VH1 while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah several days ago when he was asked about getting back into acting.
"I was inspired before I came out here," he said. "Now it's for sure."
Drake said that he's mostly offered roles of basketball players and rappers, but is looking for something with more substance.
"I've been reading scripts for a while. I wanna do something great," Drake told VH1's Janell Snowden. "I wanna do a movie specifically for my culture, the younger people who are still in tine with everything going on. I'm actually writing with my friends right now--the have a production company called Be Any Means Necessary. We're writing together trying to figure out the right movie."
According to Drake, the perfect role would be that of America's first African American President.
"I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him," Drake told VH1. "That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Anytime I see him on TV, I don't change the channel, I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions."
It's always interesting watching rappers get interviewed by The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God have a way of getting them to admit to certain things they may not want to.
Bow Wow was the latest artist to sit in the hot seat. The YMCMB rapper talked about the fallout stemming from putting his estranged alcoholic father in one of his webisodes, dealing with constant rumors, chopping it up with Snoop Dogg about doing a movie based on his life and becoming a father for the first time.
In addition Bow talked about past relationships with Karrine "Super Head" Steffans, Kim Kardashian, Dollicia Bryant and Ciara.
Nicki Minaj gets super animated in her new video for "Stupid Hoe." A song that could be perceived as a Lil Kim diss. The track is off of Nicki's upcoming album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.
Common displays the skills that show why he's going to be a problem for Drake in their war of words. The veteran Chicago rhyme spitta was in Atlanta recently for a Q and A session with fans when he was asked to freestyle.
With music from his hit record "The Light" as the backdrop, Common did his thing coming off the top of the dome encorporating words that are written on cards being held up the event's host. Of course the rhyme wouldn't have been complete without him dropping a Canada Dry line.
A$AP Rocky surprised the crowd last night at Toronto's Opera House by bringing out Drake during his show. The crowd went wild as Drizzy performed "Cameras" and "The Motto" off of his latest album Take Care.
A$AP and Drake will be hitting the road together later this year when the Young Money star launches his "Club Paradise Tour" in Miami on February 14. Kendrick Lamar will also take part in the tour which will play 17 U.S. dates before heading over to Europe for 18 additional dates, wrapping up in Nottingham, England on April 25th.
The beef between Drake and tattoo artist Kevin Campbell appears to be over. Campbell sent out several tweets yesterday indicating that he and Drake had talked things over and put aside their differences.
To refresh everyone's memory the beef started after Kevin, who works for Will Rise tattoo shop in Los Angeles, tatted Drake's name across the forehead of a female customer.
In a subsequent interview with Vice.com, Kevin referred to Drake as a "goofnugget R&B dude." Drake responded by telling Mando Fresco of Los Angeles’ Power 106 radio station that he would "f*ck up" Kevin if they ever met.
Fast forward a couple of weeks later. Drake does stop by Will Rise, but instead of going inside himself he sent one of the members of his security team to warn Kevin while he sat in the car.
Undeterred, Kevin kept talking trash via Twitter including sending out the pic below.
Luckily for all involved nobody got hurt and we can move onto something new.
Big Fendi, the owner of Come Up DVD fires all kinds of shots in the trailer for the next volume in the series.
Doggie Diamonds of www.ForbezDVD.com interviews Big Fendi, to get the real story behind his conflicts with Nicki Minaj, Jordan Tower, Gravy, Diddy and more.
Fendi goes in on Nicki Minaj for never compensating him for helping to launch her career. If you search youtube, you will see that before Nicki Minaj changed her image into the Young Money pop star she is today, she was featured on several Come Up DVD music videos as a hardcore rapper. According to Fendi he introduced her to Waka Flocka's mother Deb Antney, who became her manager for a while.
"Everybody know this DVD right here started Nicki Minaj's whole career," says Fendi. "I changed her name, I changed her image. Me and Nicki Minaj was arguing because I wanted her to be the sex symbol, talk about p*ssy and get n*ggas open, and she told me I was disgracing her name. But she [now] still talks about p*ssy and a$$, a$$, a$$. So is she following my blueprint? I gave her to Debbie [Antney] on some management sh*t--Waka moms and sh*t went left after that. Nicki goes to Atlanta and becomes a new Nicki after that. Debbie started questioning me as far what I ever did for her. So now, Nicki hanging out with Debbie," Fendi continues. "I call Nicki to tell her about my birthday party coming up. Nicki started telling me I need to holla at Debbie. Nicki piggybacked off Debbie to get with Puff [Diddy]. Puff aint did no more. Debbie aint did no more."
After all he did for Nicki, Fendi said he was expecting some form of financial compensation, but never got any.
"She gave me credits on her album, woopty-fucking-doo. 'Shout out to Fendi for teaching me everything.' I read that...I was like 'OK, but where the f*ck is the money at?' I'm the reason why Nicki Minaj is with Young Money," Fendi claims. "I spoke to Tez, who's the President of Young Money right before Wayne came home [From Rikers Island]. He was like, 'Yo Fen when Wayne gets home we gonna straighten you out.' N*gga I aint heard from Tez since."
Fendi sh*ts on his former artist Gravy, the rapper who played Biggie Smalls in the movie "Notorious" as being an ungrateful fraud with a fake image.
"Gravy was my son. Like a n*gga that I took care of like mt little boy," Fendi said. "N*gga's jewelry was fake, I got him real jewelry. Anything negative that come out of Gravy mouth about me, n*gga need to smack him for that. Cuz he aint built like that."
Fendi also accuses director Jordan Tower of stealing his videos and featuring them on WorldStarHipHop as his own and says Diddy's Dirty Money group name belongs to him.
Fendi says he will end a lot of people's careers when he releases Come Up DVD Volume 23 on March 3rd.
Shouts to Doggie Diamonds and M. Reck of Forbez DVD and Big Fendi.
There are big wagers taking place all over the country as Super Bowl 46 inches closer to taking place. Few will be bigger than a proposed bet between 50 Cent and Birdman.
As we previously reported, 50 won $500,000 dollars when he bet on the New York Giants to beat the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game, paving their way to the Super Bowl.
A day later Birdman tweeted that he was willing to place a $5 million dollar bet with anyone on the New England Patriots to defeat the Giants in the big game. Fif answered the call by telling Stunna he'd bet him $1 million instead.
This could get interesting. Who do you think will win the big game between the Patriots and Giants?
With the NFC's Green Bay Packers out of the running for the Super Bowl this year, Birdman has switched conferences entirely and decided to try his luck with the AFC's New England Patriots.
Stunna successfully bet $1 million dollars on the Packers to win last season. He's upping the ante this year by putting down $5 million on the Patriots to beat the New York Giants.
According to Birdman, Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis is his nephew. Eliis ran for 68 yards and scored a touchdown in the Patriots win over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game to help his team advance to the big show.
Super Bowl 46 will be played on Sunday February 5 at 6PM EST on NBC.
The fun and excitement of Mardi Gras in New Orleans kicks off on February 21. N.O. native Juvenile is getting into the spirit of things by prepping the release of his new mixtape which borrows it's name from the celebration.
The release date is not yet known, but Juvie did reveal via Twitter that the tape is being hosted by Southern Smoke's DJ Smallz. The cover art was designed by Queens, New York graphic designer Blake Gaston.
Juvenile is also hitting the road this Spring for his "Rejuvenation Tour 2012" that will run through 2013. Peep the details below.
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Tyga has earned a lifetime ban from the World Beat Center in San Diego, California after fans rioted when he failed to show for a concert there.
TMZ is reporting that the Young Money rapper was scheduled to perform at WBC on January 6, but never made it and didn't give the venue any advanced notice he wouldn't be performing. Once the 1200 fans inside realized Tyga wasn't coming they started trashing the facility.
The San Diego police department had to be called in to stop the riot after venue security got overwhelmed by the angry mob. It took 12 officers to stop the chaos and get the fans out of the venue.
Walls, floors and other property were reportedly damaged.
Shanell's new single "My Button" gets official visual treatment as the YMCMB singer gears up for her debut album, which will be released later this year. The video features cameos from Lil Wayne, Mack Maine, Birdman and Lil Twist.
The track is produced by "N*ggas In Paris" beat maker Hit Boy.
Tyga's "Rack City" has gone from being just a strip club anthem to a full blown hit for the young Compton rapper. A not so safe for work video of the cut was released last year, now here's the official version.
The track will be featured on Tyga's upcoming sophomore album Careless World: Rise of the Last King.
DJ Whoo Kid leaked this heater from Bow Wow featuring Lloyd Banks Saturday, now here's the dirty version. The track is off of Bow Wow's upcoming album Underrated.
"I heard you say you aint a b*tch 'cause you sing/You a b*tch 'cause you cling like a b*tch that's 18" - Common "Stay Schemin" remix
As we previously reported, Drake and Common are beefing and it looks like Com is not even playing around as he fires off on Drake on the remix to "Stay Schemin." It's a direct reply to Drizzy's verse on the song.
“I just ask that when you see me, you speak up n*gga that’s all/Don’t be ducking like you never wanted nothing,” Drake raps on the track. “It’s feeling like rap changed, it was a time it was rugged/Back when if a n*gga reached it was for the weapon, nowadays n*ggas reach just to sell their record.”
There was immediate speculation that the verse was directed at Common, who previously dissed Drake on the song "Sweet"
“He [Drake] opened his mouth and said some things, so if that’s what he want, all that subliminal [talk]…you could do that too, but say it now,” Common told Sway of MTV News and Shade 45's "Sway in the Morning" back in December when asked if "Sweet" was directed at Drake. “The verse is about me but when you hear some of the stuff on the chorus it’s like you can’t help but think about dude and I guess that’s what he felt. So at the end of day he fits in that category, he already embraced it, so wear it.”
The battle is in full swing now. Check out Common's new diss below.
Tyga's "Rack City" is really a strip club anthem, but mix in a grandmother with a weird sense of humor and her grandson rapping the lyrics, then you have the ingredients for a viral video.
This is either pure comedy or madness.... you decide.
Cory Gunz and Meek Mill team up with director John Colombo to deliver official visuals for "YMCMB MMG." The song is featured of Cory's mixtape Son Of A Gun.
In episode 10 of Tyga's "Careless World" web series we get a peek at footage not seen on "Keepin Up With the Kardashians" as Kendall Jenner celebrates her "Sweet 16" birthday party. Tyga is the entertainment for the night and Kendall requests he perform "Rack City" and "Make It Nasty."
Tyga also hits up El Paso, NYC, Toronto and Santa Ana during the clip. Guest appearances from Busta Rhymes, Drake, J. Cole and Waka Flocka.
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