Video After The JumpDirector Derrick G takes us behind the scenes on the video shoot of "On Fire" with Lil Wayne with his new band Mayday.
This is either the first or second single off of "Rebirth" depending on whether or not you count "Prom Queen". The album is full on rock and roll which could be considered risky for Weezy F. Baby since his core audience is Hip Hop. I guess we will find out when the cd drops.
The album has been leaked heavily due to a shipping mistake by Amazon. So the release date is up in the air as the project gets reworked.
Video After The JumpThere's no question Lil Wayne's Young Money crew has some colorful characters. They've become one of the favorite targets of the Broken Equipment crew.
This has to be one of BE's funniest clips yet. Whoever voices Lil Wayne is spot on and even Gudda Gudda will have to laugh at their impersonation of him.
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Two of the hottest chicks in the game,Tammy Torres and Rosa Acosta. Behind the scenes of Bentley photo shoot for Import EyeCandy Studios.
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Mr Real Talk DVD Arlis Michaels Links Up With Mike Beck For This Heater.
Both Arlis And; Beck Have The Internet Buzzing Lately; This Preview Will Not Dissapoint.
Also Make Sure You Download Arlis's New Mixtape Cruise Control Here
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NY Daily News Reports
Roxanne's revenge was sweet indeed.
Twenty-five years after the first queen of hip-hop was stiffed on her royalty checks, Dr. Roxanne Shante boasts an Ivy League Ph.D. - financed by a forgotten clause in her first record deal.
"This is a story that needs to be told," Shante said. "I'm an example that you can be a teenage mom, come from the projects, and be raised by a single parent, and you can still come out of it a doctor."
Her prognosis wasn't as bright in the years after the '80s icon scored a smash hit at age 14: "Roxanne's Revenge," a razor-tongued response to rap group UTFO's mega-hit "Roxanne, Roxanne."
The 1984 single sold 250,000 copies in New York City alone, making Shante (born Lolita Gooden) hip hop's first female celebrity.
She blazed a trail followed by Lil' Kim, Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah - although Shante didn't share their success.
After two albums, Shante said, she was disillusioned by the sleazy music industry and swindled by her record company. The teen mother, living in the Queensbridge Houses, recalled how her life was shattered.
"Everybody was cheating with the contracts, stealing and telling lies," she said. "And to find out that I was just a commodity was heartbreaking."
But Shante, then 19, remembered a clause in her Warner Music recording contract: The company would fund her education for life.
She eventually cashed in, earning a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell to the tune of $217,000 - all covered by the label. But getting Warner Music to cough up the dough was a battle.
"They kept stumbling over their words, and they didn't have an exact reason why they were telling me no," Shante said.
She figured Warner considered the clause a throwaway, never believing a teen mom in public housing would attend college. The company declined to comment for this story.
Shante found an arm-twisting ally in Marguerita Grecco, the dean at Marymount Manhattan College. Shante showed her the contract, and the dean let her attend classes for free while pursuing the money.
"I told Dean Grecco that either I'm going to go here or go to the streets, so I need your help," Shante recalls. "She said, 'We're going to make them pay for this.'"
Grecco submitted and resubmitted the bills to the label, which finally agreed to honor the contract when Shante threatened to go public with the story.
Shante earned her doctorate in 2001, and launched an unconventional therapy practice focusing on urban African-Americans - a group traditionally reluctant to seek mental health help.
"People put such a taboo on therapy, they feel it means they're going crazy," she explained. "No, it doesn't. It just means you need someone else to talk to."
Shante often incorporates hip-hop music into her sessions, encouraging her clients to unleash their inner MC and shout out exactly what's on their mind.
"They can't really let loose and enjoy life," she said. "So I just let them unlock those doors."
Shante, 38, is also active in the community. She offers $5,000 college scholarships each semester to female rappers through the nonprofit Hip Hop Association.
She also dispenses advice to young women in the music business via a MySpace page.
"I call it a warning service, so their dreams don't turn into nightmares," she said.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons said Shante is a shining role model for the rap community. "Dr. Shante's life is inspiring," Simmons said. "She was a go-getter who rose from the struggle and went from hustling to teaching. She is a prime example that you can do anything, and everything is possible."
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Fox411 Reports
Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush’s split wasn’t as amicable as they’re making it out to be.
An insider told FOXNews.com’s Pop Tarts that their relationship had been “been rocky for a little while ” because the two weren’t seeing as much of each other as they once had, with Kim’s increasing fame and their separate business commitments keeping them apart most of the time.
Now another source tells FOX411 that there was another, bigger reason behind the split: Kanye West.
“Reggie saw text messages on Kim’s phone from Kanye West and flipped out on her,” the source tells FOX411.
And these weren’t your average friendly messages.
“The texts referenced a night they hung out, how much fun he had, how hot Kim was, and more racy things that got Reggie’s imagination running,” says the source.
When Reggie confronted Kim about it, the couple had a huge blow-up, and jealousy issues, which had been pretty much kept out of their relationship until this incident ,surfaced, according to the insider.
“They realized there were trust issues on both sides, and couldn’t go forward,” says the source.
Reps for West and Kardashian did not respond to requests for comment.
At least both will be keeping busy in the coming months. Bush is starting NFL training camp with the New Orleans Saints, while Kardashian is filming new episodes of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
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