Posted by Mr.I Get It on November 28, 2009 at 5:25pm
Eminem's top spot as the biggest selling album of 2009 may soon be in jeopardy. His Relapse album debuted at #1 selling over 600,000 copies and easily beating out competition across the board. Now as he prepares to re-release the successful project as Relapse:Refill, Em's top spot may soon be up for grabs. According to Billboard, newcomer and British talent show star Susan Boyle is set to knock Em out the top honor. Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream was released November 23 and is expected to outsell his latest product by a small margin. Along with beating out Eminem, Boyle's debut will more than likely smash Rihanna's Rated R which is projected to move 180,000 units.As Em sees his top debut spot being given up to a British talent show sensation, Em is looking to travel across the pond to import America's next rap star. Em recently declared that he would be interested in being a judge for England's talent show, “The X Factor. “ The MC told the Britain Sun that he'd love the opportunity to bring his Hip-Hop knowledge to the program.“No disrespect to the current judges but you need people who are global, platinum-selling stars. You need to prepare contestants for what it's really like out there, and what sort of pressure you are going to be under…..A hip-hop star will never win a show like The X Factor without somebody like me on the panel. There are a lot of very talented hip-hop stars who would kill for a break in Britain but the judges aren't qualified in hip-hop…I keep my eye on the urban scene in Britain and there is a lot of talent out there. It needs somebody in power to open a door for them.”He also made sure to add that while he may not be available to judge the show full time he would gladly accept a guest judge position.“I am not sure I would have the time to do it full-time, but I would come and be a guest judge...Simon tells it like it is and I am down with that. If somebody ain't good enough they ain't good enough.”
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Posted by Mr.I Get It on November 28, 2009 at 5:24pm
For stans of team Game eagerly anticipating R.E.D. season, the delay may very well be worth the wait. As previously reported, Games' R.E.D. album was originally scheduled to be released December 8 but has since been pushed back to an early February release.Now Hurricane Game is releasing details on the forthcoming release via his @IHateGame twitter. Game tweeted about R.E.D. confirming that he would have an all-star production line up of Dr. Dre and Pharrell. He broke the news to his 85,000 plus followers saying,"The R.E.D. Album is gonna be classic, that's a promise. Executive produced by Dr. Dre and Pharrell. The music is phenomenal.”Be on the lookout for Game's “phenomenal” release early in the first quarter of next year.
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Posted by Mr.I Get It on November 28, 2009 at 5:17pm
50 Cent's sales for his latest studio LP Before I Self Destruct were disappointing to say the least. The G-Unit President only managed to sell 161,000 copies of the project despite his tireless promotion and ongoing rap beefs. Now as news of his poor sales hits the net, his main rival is declaring victory over him. As previously reported, 50 took disrespect to new heights when he flew Ross's baby mother and child to Las Vegas to parlay with himself and Floyd Mayweather. In retaliation to that and several other shots Ross spoke out against 50 at a recent concert.Rick Ross took the stage with DJ Khaled for the 305 DJ's birthday celebration. Before performing his hit “This Is the Life” from Trilla, he spoke on his nemesis's poor sales week stating,“So we celebrating my nigga birthday, but we're also celebrating the demise of a pussy. R.I.P. to the donkey, we buried him. It feel good, nigga. Don't look surprised, you knew we was gonna do it. There's only one record that can describe the feeling.”50 Cent has yet to respond but we all know it won't be long before he does.
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Whoa, kinder, gentler 50 Cent alert! Far be it from me to make such proclamations, but it would seem, based on this episode of “The 5,” that Curtis is, dare we say it (we dare!), getting softer with age?In honor of Spankin’ New Music Week, and in recognition of his new album, Before I Self Destruct, we sat down with 50 Cent to talk about the new LP and its connection to his first album, Get Rich…Or Die Trying.50 Cent also goes on to talk about the get-together-then-break-up relationship arc across his two singles, “Baby By Me,” and “Do You Think About Me.”Check out the thoughtful, sensitive, and reserved 50 Cent (who knew!?) in this episode of “The 5.”Courtesy of MTV.
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Video After The JumpFrench Montana aka Macaroni Wit Da Cheese doing his thing with some help from Boss Don Biggaveli, Hollywood Fergie and Dame Grease. This must have been one of the last videos Max-B shot before he went in. Hold ya head Max, that Coke Wave seems to still be in full effect.
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NY Daily News Reports
A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, an online newspaper reported on Thursday.
The 55-year-old man from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam opened up his wife's grave in 2004, molded clay around the remains to give the figure of a woman, put clothes on her and then placed her in his bed, Vietnamnet.vn said.
The man, Le Van, told the website that after his wife died in 2003 he slept on top of her grave, but about 20 months later he worried about rain, wind and cold, so he decided to dig a tunnel into the grave "to sleep with her."
His children found out, though, and prevented him from going to the grave. So one night in November 2004 he dug up his wife's remains and took them home, Vietnamnet reported.
The website carried a photo of Van with the figure of his wife, which is still in his home.
The father of seven said neighbors did not dare visit the house for several years.
"I'm a person that does things differently. I'm not like normal people," he was quoted as saying.
BlackBookMag.com Reports
Rachel Uchitel is an accomplished nightclub VIP operations manager who's gotten rather famous, rather suddenly. In a bombshell National Enquirer story that's yet to appear online, a young lady from Las Vegas named Ashley Samson alleges that Uchitel, a friend of hers, has been enjoying a months-long affair with decidedly married pro golfer Tiger Woods; tabloids even speculate that Woods' car accident this morning occurred after he fought with wife Elin Nordegren over the revelations. The media's going nuts over the scandal, so we called Uchitel and asked for her side of the story. "I've had better days," she began.
On the merits, it seems a little implausible that someone who makes a living serving the nightlife needs of celebs (see her VIP lowdown on New York’s Griffin lounge) would be so comically indiscreet. For now, Uchitel is keeping more mum than she could be on the advice of counsel, but she did have a few choice points to make:
● “I don’t appreciate my name or what people think of me being dragged through the mud by people who don’t even bother to research what or who they’re talking about ... they should research who these stories are coming from, who they’re believing as a credible source. Not to mention that it’s in the National Enquirer.”
● “I totally deny the Enquirer story. They did contact me about it, but they didn’t use any of my quotes or any of the information I gave them. They make it sound like I said those things, but it’s all other people saying I said things.”
● On the story’s report that she followed Woods to Australia and was observed checking into his hotel and riding the elevator to the 35th floor, where Woods had a suite: “There’s just no possible way I could have done that. You can’t just walk into a place like that and ride the elevator to a floor with someone like Tiger Woods on it without someone seeing you and stopping you.”
● On allegedly sending racy text messages to Woods: “If you talked to any of my old boyfriends, and I’m sure they all hate me, but they’d all confirm that I don’t sex-message. I don’t do it, I don’t know how to do it.”
● On Ashley Samson, the “close friend” of Uchitel’s who provided all the information to the Enquirer, along with another unnamed source, both of whom supposedly “passed” a polygraph: “I’ve met her twice in my life. We’re not friends. I’m just speculating but it seems like someone else is telling her what to say or manipulating her. After all, she got $25,000 for this.”Read more…
Daily Telegraph Reports
BAFFLED police are yet to interview Tiger Woods over a bizarre car crash just outside his Florida mansion that left the world's greatest golfer unconscious and sparked claims it was caused by a domestic spat over allegations he was having an affair.
The golfing great's wife, Erin Nordegren, said she rescued her husband from the wreckage using a golf club to smash the car window, but other reports emerging out of the US claimed she had used the club on her husband during their late-night row.
The fight that apparently led to the crash was reportedly sparked by tabloid reports Woods cheated on his wife with a nightclub hostess in Melbourne during the recent Australian Masters.
Woods, 33, suffered facial lacerations not in the accident but in the earlier fracas with his angry wife, according to celebrity website TMZ.
The crash, at 2.25am on the morning after Thanksgiving, followed the emergence of the unsubstantiated National Enquirer report claiming that Woods enjoyed trysts with 34-year-old New York party planner Rachel Uchitel in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Australia.
The magazine published a photograph of Uchitel checking into Melbourne's Crown Casino Hotel, where Woods stayed during the Masters tournament.
Both last night denied any affair. Uchitel said she had been in Melbourne two weeks ago with clients, but did not see Woods.
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But TMZ, which broke the news of Michael Jackson's death, said the allegations sparked a confrontation between Woods and Nordegren, who allegedly scratched his face and followed him with a golf club as he "beat a hasty retreat" to his Cadillac four-wheel drive.
As he tried to drive away, Nordegren hit the vehicle with the club, distracting Woods and causing him to crash into a fire hydrant, then a tree, just metres from their $2.4 million mansion.
When police arrived, they found a dazed Woods on the ground with cuts around his mouth and his wife hovering over him. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said he was unconscious for six minutes.
"He had lacerations to his upper and lower lip and a little bit of blood in his mouth," police chief Dan Saylor told The Sunday Telegraph. "They asked his wife what happened - she said the car hit a fire hydrant, then a tree. She was very distraught."
Nordegren told police she rushed outside after hearing the crash and used the club to shatter the car's rear window, so she could unlock the door and drag Woods out of the wrecked car.
Woods' representatives would not comment on reports that the couple had quarrelled.
The drama unfolded in a prestigious gated community just outside Orlando, home to a slew of sports stars including basketballer Shaquille O'Neill and Australian golfer Stuart Appleby.
Shocked neighbours brought the injured Woods a pillow and a blanket as he lay on the ground.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash and will decide whether to press charges. "Right now, we believe this is a traffic crash. We don't believe it is a domestic issue," spokeswoman Kim Montes said.
Authorities hope to interview the sports star for the first time today.
Mr Saylor said the golfer was not breathalysed at the scene: "My officers did say they had no indication he was under the influence of anything."
Officers were turned away by Nordegren when they returned to speak to Woods yesterday. She told them he was sleeping.
Police were baffled at how Woods hit the hydrant and tree, on opposite sides of the road. Airbags in the car did not deploy, suggesting that it was travelling at less than 55km/h.
Uchitel, who has a high profile in New York and lost her fiance in the 9/11 attacks, insisted she had no relationship with Woods.
"God forbid Tiger got into a car wreck because of this false report of him having an affair," she said.
AllHipHop Reports
A controversial new documentary about superstar rapper Lil Wayne has shot to the top of the iTunes movie charts.
QD3 Entertainment’s film The Carter is currently the No. 1 selling documentary on iTunes in the U.S.
In addition to landing the top slot on Apple's iTunes U.S.’ music store, The Carter is also in the Top 10 on the Canadian iTunes music store alongside such blockbusters as Bruno and GI Joe.
“Having our Lil Wayne The Carter documentary place in the Top 10 on both U.S. and Canadian iTunes store within the first 48 hours, competing neck and neck with multi-million dollar studio films such as Bruno and GI Joe during Christmas season is quite a feat for a self distributed indie doc and beyond our expectations,” QD3 Entertainment CEO Quincy Jones III told AllHipHop.com. “We are very excited about continuing to innovate within the digital space.”
The Carter was released on November 17th and is an in depth look at the personal and professional life of rapper Lil Wayne.
Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., is known for his rigorous touring schedule and frequent drug use, which is spotlighted in the documentary.
In April of 2009, a judge rejected a request by Lil Wayne's lawyer to block the distribution of the DVD, due to several scenes in the movie which the rapper and his management objected to, reportedly because of his drug use.
The rapper's management claimed they requested to have the questionable scenes removed, but those scenes were still in The Carter, when it premiered at the Sundance film festival in January.
Despite the lawsuit Jones told AllHipHop.com that the documentary’s release is in line with a digital distribution strategy the company has been developing in 2001.
"It was my goal since the inception of QD3 Entertainment in 2001 to have a strong focus on digital distribution and multi platform innovation,” Jones told AllHipHop.com. “Since 2001 our primary means of marketing have been organic and viral on digital platforms. Using this approach we've been able to sell over 2 million DVD's via the QD3 (DVD) collection at physical retail….this is the era we have preparing for all along by retaining all rights to our content and were about to launch a couple of digital content and social media platforms by early 2010 utilizing our over 3,500 hour library of high quality content that includes films such as Tupac Shakur - Thug Angel and the multi platinum Beef.”
QD3 Entertainment’s The Carter was directed by Adam Bhala Lough and is currently available on iTunes for $14.99.
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ESPN Reports
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Tiger Woods has been seriously injured in a car wreck in Florida, authorities said Friday.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 2:25 a.m. ET. Woods was driving a 2009 Cadillac sport utility vehicle.
The police report narrative said the "driver had just pulled out of the driveway at his residence ... as [vehicle] began to drive on Deacon Circle, [vehicle] struck a fire hydrant. The front of [vehicle] then struck a tree..."
Woods was taken to Health Central Hospital. His condition was not immediately known, though the highway patrol news release said his injuries were serious.
The airbags in the car did not deploy, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel. The newspaper said that airbags typically do not deploy if a vehicle is traveling less than 33 miles per hour.
The highway patrol says the crash is still under investigation, and charges are pending. However, the highway patrol said the crash was not alcohol-related.
Woods is scheduled to play in the Chevron World Challenge beginning Dec. 3 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He last played two weeks ago in Australia, where he won the Australian Masters.
He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.
Woods, who has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, returned to his $2.4 million home in the exclusive Isleworth subdivision near Orlando earlier this week after attending the Stanford-Cal football game, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame at halftime.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 27, 2009 at 12:30pm
TMZ Reports
Tyler Perry used too much of the goodness of Jesus in his movie, "Madea Goes to Jail," at least according to a new federal lawsuit obtained by TMZ.
The suit, filed by the personal representative of deceased gospel singer/songwriter Bertha James, claims Perry lifted an entire verse from a song James wrote in 1950 -- "When I Think of the Goodness of Jesus."
The suit claims Perry pilfered the verse and used it in "Madea" -- specifically, "incorporating the entire Chorus in a monologue delivered by the main character in 'Madea" referencing her deliverance from a jail sentence and leniency for repetitive criminal conduct, in a staged court proceeding presided over by 'Judge Mabeline.'"
Bertha's estate, which is also suing Lionsgate Entertainment, wants unspecified damages for copyright infringement.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 27, 2009 at 11:30am
Video After The JumpMr Cocaine City DVD, French Montana continues his street and viral campaign by releasing another hot video. This joint was Directed and edited by Mazi.O. Be on the lookout for French's new mixtape "Black Friday". Hosted by Evil Empire and DJ Big Mike dropping soon.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 27, 2009 at 11:12am
HipHopWired Reports
As the release date for Lil Wayne's Rebirth rock debut draws nearer, new details are emerging on the upcoming project. As previously reported the album was slated for a December 15 release but was pushed back to the 22. Additionally, Gudda Gudda confirmed an upcoming Young Money/Cash Money tour in time to promote both Wayne's Rebirth and his YM's family, We Are Young Money album.
Now just a few short weeks before both albums hit stores and their tour takes off, the tracklisiting for Weezy's latest lyrical LP has hit the net.
While the features have not been tagged to the project as of yet, the 12 song tracklisting and cover are available below.
1. American Star
2. Prom Queen
3. Ground Zero
4. Da Da Da
5. Paradise
6. Get A Life
7. On Fire
8. Drop The World
9. Runnin
10. One Way Trip
11. Knockout
12. The Price Is Wrong
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The director Steven Soderbergh compared casting the 21-year-old porn actress Sasha Grey as the lead in his latest film to working with Brad Pitt. The interest in the sylph-slim, smoky-eyed actress, he explained, would be greater than the interest in the movie itself, a useful boost given that The Girlfriend Experience is firmly positioned at the defiantly uncommercial end of the Soderbergh spectrum.
Grey’s might not be a name that resonates through every household, but she has made her mark in the three years that she has been active in the adult entertainment industry. Last year she was the youngest person to win Adult Video News Awards’ Female Performer of the Year gong.
I witnessed the Sasha factor first-hand when I hosted a question-and-answer session for The Girlfriend Experience at the Barbican cinema in London. It wasn’t the stampede of autograph hunters at the end of the evening that surprised, however, rather the fact that about half of them were young women.
The path from porn to mainstream cinema, though not exactly well-trodden, bears the footprints of a few determined individuals. Marilyn Chambers, a sensation from the hardcore film Behind the Green Door, assured her cult status by starring in David Cronenberg’sRabid in 1977. The director Catherine Breillat twice cast the Italian stud Rocco Siffredi as art-house beefcake in her feminist-tinged erotic essays Romance and Anatomy of Hell, but Siffredi subsequently focused his talents on the porn sector, directing and starring in a series of self-celebrating titles such as Rocco Ravishes Ibiza and Rocco’s Dirty Dreams (parts 1 to 6). John Waters gave the teenage porn actress Traci Lords her first break in Crybaby but, while she went on to have a reasonably prolific career in mainstream cinema, it’s worth noting that the highest-profile title she has appeared in over the past decade was Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
So making the jump from porn to a wider public is possible. The challenge seems to be staying in the mainstream once the idea of “novelty” casting has grown old. So will Grey be the one to break the mould?
There is no denying that she is different. With her pellucid skin, petite frame and dramatic sweep of nearly waist-length brunette hair, the physical contrast to the porn-star stereotype is striking. The bulging, overripe artifice of her fellow performers accentuates her soignée delicacy and chic.
But it’s not just her looks that set her apart. Grey is smart. She has an autodidact’s appetite for art and literature and an achingly cool list of references. She is probably the only porn star whose MySpace page lists among her interests Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudrillade, Nietzsche, French new wave and Italian neo-realist cinema alongside “my ass and gash”. The Grey mythology states that, when she was choosing her professional name, she originally considered the name Anna Karina in homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s wife and muse.
In addition to her adult work, Grey models, has recently ventured into theatre and, with the sound designer Pablo St Francis, records brooding experimental music under the name Atelecine.
But brains are only so much use in the porn industry and what really caught the attention of the adult entertainment world was the gusto with which Grey approached her scenes, and her vocal appreciation of S&M and consensual humiliation. In her very first film, Grey invited Siffredi, her partner in the scene, to punch her in the stomach. Given that Siffredi’s oeuvre contains scenes in which he forces his sexual partner’s head into a lavatory, one might assume that Grey’s suggestion would be par for the course. It wasn’t — and word of her performance spread through the industry like a rash.
In person, Grey is immaculately poised and put together. She’s articulate and unflappable, even when, inevitably, questions turn to matters intimate. Unexpectedly, she’s also quite giggly, perhaps because one of the hazards of talking to a porn actress is that even the most innocuous question is suddenly sticky with innuendo. “So, tell me about Soderbergh’s directing technique — did he give you your head? Er, I mean, did he use a firm hand?” I’m drowned out by Grey’s laughter.
Grey was brought up, the youngest of three children, in a working-class neighbourhood in Sacramento, California. Her parents separated when she was 5. Perhaps because of her mother’s Roman Catholicism, Grey associated a certain amount of guilt with her nascent sexuality. “Growing up, I was the oldest virgin out of all my friends. When I finally started having sex, I thought, ‘I can’t believe I have been made to feel this way all this time.’ That’s not to say, ‘Teenagers, go out and have sex, it feels good.’ That’s irresponsible. It’s more that when you are ready, and you do start to understand it, don’t feel guilty about it.”
Grey started watching porn when she was 16 and quickly realised that it was something she could do and do well. In the run-up to her 18th birthday she thoroughly researched her chosen career. “When I first started thinking about it, I thought I could put on a British accent and so if anyone said it was me I could deny it. Then I thought, ‘No, that’s ridiculous. If that’s a choice that I’m going to make, I should be 100 per cent proud of it.’ ”
So how do you go about breaking the news to your parents? “My mom and my sister came to visit me about two weeks after I moved to LA. I told them in person. I said, ‘If I want you to respect me and my decisions, I have to respect you and tell you myself, not let you hear it from someone else. I moved to LA to get into the adult business.’
“Obviously my mother wasn’t happy and my sister had a nervous laugh. Now my sister and my brother are both, ‘OK, don’t be a walking cliché and we’ll support what you do.’ And my mother and I still have a good relationship — she doesn’t like what I do, but I don’t like that she’s Catholic. We’re both very stubborn, hard-headed people. My dad said, ‘As long you accomplish what you set out to accomplish, then OK.’ ”
And Grey has accomplished a lot. After reading an in-depth profile of her in Los Angeles magazine, Soderbergh approached her to play the high-class Manhattan escort Chelsea in The Girlfriend Experience, and Grey has two more mainstream cinema roles lined up. She has taken control of her porn work, managing her own schedule, starting up her own production company and branching into directing. “For me, it’s about creating something that can get you off physically and intellectually. Something that’s unpredictable, so you don’t know when to fast forward and when to play.”
After injuring her back in a bus crash, Grey says she has had to tone down some of the rougher S&M scenes. “A lot of those scenes,” she says, smiling companionably over to where her fiancé, the photographer and film-maker Ian Cinnamon, sits. “I really do enjoy them and its part of my sexuality and something I spent a lot of time discovering and developing, but it’s something I want to reserve for home now.”
Having control over her work and her brand so early in her career has to help. But is it really possible for a young woman to enter the world of adult entertainment and come out the other side unscathed? Certainly, the normalisation of porn in popular culture thanks to the X-rated exploits of Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian et al means that the vilification that might have greeted Grey’s crossover ambitions a decade ago hasn’t materialised. Still, there’s a hint of world-weariness that seems a little sad in one so young. “Everything in life is a transaction,” she announces at one point. Even love? “Everything,” she says firmly.
The Girlfriend Experience is released on Dec 4
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