Some of the biggest names in the business will take part in this year's Openair Frauenfeld in Switzerland.
The three day event takes place from July 6-8. Check out the full lineup below.
50 Cent Drake Nas Sean Paul Rick Ross Wiz Khalifa Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) J. Cole Beginner Sido Mac Miller, Tinie Tempah Jedi Mind Tricks Max Herre and friends Samy Deluxe K.IZ Marsimoto Yelawolf A$AP Rocky Royce 5'9 Dilated Peoples Phenomden Steff la Cheffe Liricas Analas Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Prince Pi Raf 3.0 Kollegah & Favorite Lo Leduc & feat. Pacôme Dabu Fantastic
UFC President Dana White needs to do something quick or risk losing one of the most popular fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is adamant that he will only fight one more time for the organization, then he will leave for what he hopes are greener pastures. And by greener, I mean more money. The problem for Jackson is that the UFC has a stranglehold on the sport.
The UFC's parent company Zuffa, LLC has bought out World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC), Pride Fighting Chamionships, Strikeforce and World Fighting Alliance (WFA). What that means is if you plan of fighting in mixed martial arts you will either fight for the UFC or starve.
In the past week Rampage has twice stated he's done fighting for the UFC after his next bout.
"I feel sorry for my next opponent, no matter who or what it is," Jackson wrote via Twitter several days ago. "I will fight whoever they put in front of me — I always have — but it will be my last fight in the UFC. I have other things on my mind. I didn't say I would be done fighting; I just said I'm not fighting for the UFC (u fight cheap)."
According to Yahoo Sports Jackson was paid $325,000 for UFC 96 in 2009. A win against Keith Jardine. Since that time he has fought five more times in the Octagon with only two wins. One of those losses was a championship fight against Jon "Bones" Jones.
It's being reported that the UFC has asked Rampage to take a pay cut because he is losing audience "appeal" which is probably what set him off.
Rampage's record now stands at 32-10. At 33-year's old his options are limited, but despite being told he has lost his "appeal" fans still like to see him fight because he goes for the knockout every time. But his temper may get the best of him. Check out his most recent Twitter rant below.
If this keeps up we may not be seeing much more of Rampage in the Octagon.
The Odd Future crew are out on the road in support of their upcoming project OF Tape Vol 2. Here's some footage of the crew as they touch down in Tempe, Arizona on March 9th for a show and to meet fans and sign autographs at their pop up store.
Two Philly heavy spitters Gille Da Kid and Beanie Sigel link up for "Blow My High." The track is off of Gillie and DJ Drama's Gangsta Grillz mixtape King of Philly, available now.
Even when Kanye West and Jay-Z tear something apart it's still worth money.
The Maybach 57 the two rap titans wheeled around in their video for "Otis" went up auction Thursday [March 8] and sold for $60,000 in less than five minutes. The price was less than the pre-sale estimate of $100,000 to $150,000 by auction house Phillips de Pury & Co, but then again the car was basically destroyed in the Spike Jonze directed video.
The vehicle normally retails for $375,000 when new.
Proceeds from the sale went to benefit the Save the Children organization to provide food for children in Africa.
The rift between Bobby Brown and his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown appears to be widening.
Bobbi is Brown's only child with late singer Whitney Houston. TMZ is reporting that the 19-year old wants nothing to do with him and that includes having his name.
According to the report, Bobbi has wanted to change her name for some some time, but her mother wouldn't let her. Now that Whitney is gone Bobbi is free to do as she pleases and wants to be known simply as Kristina Houston.
As we previously reported, Azealia Banks expressed her displeasure with Iggy Azalea being named to the 2012 XXL Freshman cover, citing a supposed racist lyric Iggy said. Within the last couple of days Iggy's Grand Hustle boss T.I. came to her defense.
"Strategically if {Azealia Banks] really cares about a freshmen cover maybe she could hope that she’ll suck enough to get shelved and then next year when the freshmen cover comes back around, maybe she’ll still be a freshman," he said "Which brings me to my next philosophy. If you spend half of your day getting money and the other half of your day counting money, you ain’t got no time in your day to worry about nobody else.”
Banks didn't waste much time in firing back at Tip. She took to Twitter yesterday to get at him.
"Lol I NEVER needed the next n*gga to sit up on a radio show with me and defend me," Banks wrote. "Furthermore, n*ggas r sitting up here trying to mask/defend what homegirl said. F*ck outta here. Everybody got something slick to say, but no one got an explanation. Come on T.I.... N*ggas is not scared of u and whatever sh*t u got to say on some radio show. @tip you corny for that one. LMFAOO how u a grown man commenting on what's going on between two girls. Come on son. Stop it. Ruin my career: what f*cking ever... Y'all wish."
Looks like this one might be going on for a while.
When Robert Deniro hits a club, he makes sure it's packed with A-list celebrities. The 68-year old veteran actor was recently spotted at Atlanta’s Vanquish Nightclub with T.I. The two reportedly didn't arrive together, but Tip paid his respects once he found out Deniro was in the building.
Other stars on hand included Trey Songz, Fabolous, Wale, Def Jam exec. Bu Thiam, Kenny Burns and Ne-Yo's finance Monyetta Shaw.
Deniro is reportedly in Atlanta filming the movie The Killing Season with John Travolta.
As everyone knows by now Iggy Azalea made the 2012 XXL Freshman cover, becoming the first woman to do so. Almost immediately there was controversy as another female rapper, Harlem's Azealia Banks took offense to it.
We reported on the story and got a lot of feedback from our Thisis50 members, but there had not been a direct public response from Iggy or her Grand Hustle boss T.I. until now.
During a recent interview with DJ Drama the two addressed the conflict.
"Was she not happy with Iggy being on there or was Azealia Banks unhappy because she was not on there?" Tip asked. "Because if I am someone and I am moving and shaking and doing my thing, I don't care what's going on outside of my circle because my circle is being successful."
Tip then said he didn't know who Azealia was and had never heard her music.
"This is my day and it's my achievement," added Iggy. "So, you have to work to have your own achievements, with all due respect. Instead of worrying about who else is on there, you should just be happy that I’m on there as a woman for women. And if you wanna have an achievement work and have your own achievement. I can’t take what’s meant for you and you can’t take what’s meant for me.”
Tip threw one more dart Azealia's way before he was done.
"Strategically if she really cares about a freshmen cover maybe she could hope that she’ll suck enough to get shelved and then next year when the freshmen cover comes back around, maybe she’ll still be a freshman," he said "Which brings me to my next philosophy. If you spend half of your day getting money and the other half of your day counting money, you ain’t got no time in your day to worry about nobody else.”
Jacob Acaye, the former child soldier featured in the “Kony 2012″ viral sensation, told ABC News Friday that although attention from the film was overwhelming, his life was good now and it was important for people to see the video.
“It’s a hard movie,” he said today in an exclusive interview. “It brought back some memories. … I still don’t know when will it end. The more time is ticking, the more people are dying. The more people are still suffering. The more people [are] being abducted.”
At the age of 11, Acaye was one of 41 youth taken from a Ugandan village by Joseph Kony, the leader of the rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army.
In the video, Acaye, who escaped from the LRA, was interviewed by videographer Jason Russell, a cofounder of the San Diego-based charity Invisible Children Inc.
“We worry. The rebels when they arrest us again, then they will kills us,” he says in the video. “My brother tried to escape. Then they killed him. … They cut his neck. … I saw.”
“Kony 2012″ has garnered nearly 65 million views since Monday. It is part of a campaign by Invisible Children to bring Kony to justice, although the group has faced its own critics for its religious affiliations and financial practices.
In “Kony 2012,” he tells Russell that even though he’s not with the LRA, he wants to die. Then, at least, he would be reunited with his brother.
“No one is taking care of us,” he says. “We are not going to school.”
Acaye is now 21 and studying to become a lawyer at Uganda’s Makerere University — it’s a wish he shared in the 30-minute film released by Invisible Children.
He said that when the video was shot — he was 13 — he did not think it would reach this level of success.
“By then, I was like really, really invisible — like real meaning of invisible children,” he said. “We are like the children who are not seen. Children who are not even knowing that they are suffering.”
Acaye told ABC News today that while the video reminded him of horrible memories of his childhood, it made people aware of Kony.
“If they [people] know and they have seen and they could learn that Kony is still being the same in that movie, they can think about what to do,” he said. “And they can think about what they can do.”
Human rights groups say the LRA has terrorized Central Africa for more than 20 years, killing and maiming thousands of civilians and forcing children to become young soldiers. Kony and his commanders are wanted by the International Criminal Court.
Metropolitan Transit Authority police are looking for a man and the woman he is caught on tape beating and kidnapping outside of the Ronkonkoma subway station in Long Island, New on Sunday [March 4].
The man can be seen knocking the woman down, then walking away. The woman then gets up and walks into a store, but her attacker follows her and pulls her outside again where he knocks her down, then drags her on the ground by her hair.
After the tape ends a witness says the man picked the woman up and threw her as she screamed over his shoulder, before tossing her into a car a driving away.
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