Harlem emcee Vado will be dropping his Slime Flu 3 mixtape tomorrow. He's secured features from Fred The Godson, Jae Millz, J.R. Writer and Chinx Drugz.
Production on the project will come from Stoopid On The Beat, araabMUZIK and more. Peep the tracklist below.
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Wes Welker is probably wishing his wife, Anna Burns Welker, didn't have a Facebook page after she went off Baltimore Ravens player Ray Lewis last night.
Welker's New England Patriots team lost the AFC Championship game 28-13 to the Ravens on Sunday sending them home for the year, while the Ravens advance to the Super Bowl in New Orleans in two weeks against the San Francisco 49ers.
After the game Anna, who was Miss Hooters International in 2005, went to her Facebook page and vented about Lewis.
"Proud of my husband and the Pats. By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model," she wrote.
Anna later deleted the post, but by then it was too late. It's since spread all over the internet.
For the record Lewis has never been married, but he does have six kids with four different women. In 2000, Lewis was charged with murder for his involvement in a fight that resulted in the fatal stabbings of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar.
He later accepted a plea deal in the case. He plead guilty to obstruction of justice in exchange for his testimony against two other defendants.
Lewis reached financial settlement in 2004 with the Lollar's daughter who was born months after the death of her father. He also reached an undisclosed settlement with Baker's family
Anna has now issued an apology for her comments about Lewis.
"I apologize to Ray Lewis and his family for my comments. In no way did I mean for them to be mean or hurtful. I'm embarrassed for being a sore loser," she wrote, according to TMZ. "I wish Ray and the Ravens good luck. Lesson learned!"
Do you think Anna's apology is sincere?
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Ransom is back with a new freestyle for the masses titled "Holy Water." The track serves as a warm up for Duffle Bag's upcoming mixtape, The Alternative. Be on the lookout for that to drop soon.
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A$AP Rocky was over the in the United Kingdom recently promoting his debut album, LONG.LIVE.A$AP. While there, Rocky paid a visit to BBC 1Xtra for an in-studio concert on DJ Semtex's show.
Here's a clip from the show with Rocky freestyling over the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony classic "Thuggish Ruggish Bone."
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Bow Wow is holding it down nicely as one of the hosts on BET's 106 & Park, but he's still doing his music thing. The YMCMB rapper has released the cover to his upcoming mixtape, Greenlight 5.
The DJ Jus, DJ Ill Will and DJ Rockstar-hosted project will have features from Kendrick Lamar, Gucci Mane, Busta Rhymes, Chris Brown, Jadakiss, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and Omarion.
No release date information is available yet.
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Yo! My name is Starbound. My girlfriend and I are music artists and we took our first trip to L.A to meet with platinum producer Xtreme and enjoy the beautiful weather L.A has to offer. This trip made us even more excited for what our future as artists will bring and I hope you are motivated and inspired by our trip.
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Consequence and Jen The Pen stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning to discuss this season of Love and Hip Hop New York.
Cons had to a lot say as he dissed Raqi Thunda, Q-Tip, says he will wash Big Sean up and talked about Joe Budden getting smacked in the head by Raekwon.
The couple also took issue with Kanye West for not sending a gift when they had their child. Jen said that's the least Yeezy could have done since they kept his secret of smashing Kim Kardashian when she was still dating Reggie Bush.
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Beyonce made her presence felt today at the 2013 inauguration of President Barack Obama. The singer performed a rousing version of "The Star-Bangled Banner" to help close out today's ceremony
An estimated crowd of 800,000 that extended along the National Mall to a giant tent and screen in front of the Washington Monument watched Monday's presidential inaugural event on the Capitol Steps.
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Visual off of their new mixtape "Banksy" dropping in a few weeks
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Dr. Dre may have been born and raised in Compton, California, but he's not riding with the home state San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. Instead, the super-producer is rolling with the Baltimore Ravens.
"I'm excited for Ray Lewis," Dre told TMZ. "That's a good guy, and I'm a fan of his. I'm wishing the best for him. Ray Lewis get your money man, I'm proud of you."
Dre also weighs in on the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax story, this year's potential Coachella festival line up and reveals he's given up eating meat.
"I don't eat meat. I eat a little fish every now and again," he said.
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Vado is gearing up for the release of his highly anticipated mixtape, Slime Flu 3. The Harlem emcee drops off this new single "Right Now" to warm up the streets.
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Chief Keef is dealing with additional legal trouble while behind bars. The 17-year old rapper is being sued for child support by a girl who is still in middle school.
According to TMZ, Keef got the girl pregnant in 2011 when he was 15.
In the state of Illinois it is considered a misdemeanor for two people under the age of 17 to have sex, even if it's consensual. If both parties are between 9 and 17 years old, the older person commits a crime called "criminal sexual abuse."
TMZ reports that if prosecuted and convicted, Keef could serve up to one year in jail and have to register as a sex offender for 10 years. However, that hardly ever happens in cases like these.
The unidentified girl, whose current age is unknown, is suing Keef, real name Keith Cozart, for child support, health insurance and other medical expenses.
Keef is currently serving a 60-day juvenile detention sentence in Chicago for violating his probation on a previous gun charge.
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In a game that is being dubbed the "Super HarBowl" because the two opposing coaches, Jim Harbaugh (49ers) and John Harbaugh (Ravens) are brothers, the Baltimore Ravens will face off against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, Sunday February 3 in New Orleans at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
The Ravens made it to the big game by defeating the New England Patriots 28-13 in the AFC championship game. The 49ers beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24 in the NFC championship game to advance to the big show.
It will be the 49ers first appearance in the Super Bowl in 18 years. They have never lost a title game. If they win they will tie the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most title rings with six.
The Ravens will be playing in their second Super Bowl. The defeated the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV for their only title.
Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis will be playing in his final NFL game after 17 years in the league. He previously announced his retirement.
"I said to our players last year, don't put your heads down, we'll be back," said Lewis. "
To see us come back like this, after all the injuries and things we have been through... our team is just awesome and this our time."
Bookmakers have listed the 49ers as 4.5-point favorites to win over the Ravens. There are expectations this could be the heaviest bet title game ever.
"It's a monster matchup, brother versus brother," William Hill oddsmaker Jimmy Vaccaro said. "I believe it will top last year's Super Bowl handle and could go higher."
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Lupe Fiasco was the headliner last night at the StartUp RockOn Inauguration Celebration at Washington's Hamilton Live. His set ended sooner than expected after he said he didn't vote for Obama and performed the first verse of his anti-Obama song "Words I Never Said" for 30 minutes straight.
I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullsh*t
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip
9/11 building 7 did they really pull it
Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups
Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, that's on the up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust
You get it then they move it so you never keeping up enough
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks”
Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such
And that ain't Jersey Shore, homie that's the news
And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say sh*t
That's why I ain't vote for him, next one either
I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people.
Organizers cut off the Chicago rapper's mic, but he continued to rap for another 5-10 minutes before being escorted off the stage.
Lupe has not made it a secret that he isn't a fan of Obama's, so his choice as headliner for the event was an odd one to say the least. In 2011, Fiasco called Obama "the biggest terrorist . . . in the United States of America,"
"Lupe Fiasco just got thrown off stage here at the Hamilton Live after he went on an anti-Obama diatribe mid set," journalist Josh Rogin, who was at the event wrote on Twitter. "So Lupe played one anti-war song for 30 min and said he didn't vote for Obama and eventually was told to move on to the next song. Lupe refused to move to the next song so a team of security guards came on stage and told him to go."
Hypervocal organized the event and issued a statement saying Lupe was not kicked off the stage for his anti-Obama views.
We are staunch supporters of free speech, and free political speech. This was not about his opinions. Instead, after a bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied, organizers decided to move on to the next act.
Watch video of Lupe being escorted from the stage below.
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Soulja Boy continues to promote his latest mixtape, LOUD, by releasing a brand new music video off of it. This time the SODMG boss teams up with Fredo Santana and Tadoe for "Turn Up."
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With only his family nearby, President Obama was sworn into office in the White House before noon on Sunday in advance of Monday’s public pomp, the private moment forced by a rare quirk of the constitutional calendar but appropriately capturing the downsized expectations for his second term.
Even the Monday festivities, with the traditional inaugural parade, balls and not least the re-enactment outside the Capitol of Mr. Obama’s swearing-in, will be less spectacular than four years ago, when the new president embodied hope and change for most Americans at a time of global economic crisis and two wars. This year fewer parties are planned, and fewer people are expected to swarm the National Mall.
The private but official swearing-in of the 44th president at 11:55 a.m. was just the seventh such event in history to be held before the public ceremony, and the first since Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural, each one occurring because the constitutionally mandated date for the inauguration fell on a Sunday. Recorded and televised minutes later, the simple scene suggested a couple marrying before a justice of the peace, with a big ceremony and party planned for later.
Only Michelle Obama, holding her family Bible, and the couple’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, stood beside Mr. Obama, in the grand Blue Room as he recited the oath specified in the Constitution and again administered to him by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
The chief justice administered the oath faithfully and Mr. Obama repeated it accurately, unlike four years earlier, when Mr. Roberts inverted a few words during the public swearing-in, Mr. Obama echoed the errors, and the oath had to be repeated in private later. The chief justice, who had relied on his famously prodigious memory in 2009, this time took no chances: He read the oath from a printed text.
After they finished, Justice Roberts congratulated Mr. Obama, who thanked him twice as the two shook hands. Mr. Obama next embraced his wife and daughters in turn. His younger daughter, Sasha, said, “Good job, Daddy,” and he replied “I did it!” only to have her joke, in reference to the problem four years earlier, “You didn’t mess up.” Mr. Obama laughed as he turned to the pool of reporters and about a dozen relatives, saying, “Thank you, everybody” before exiting the room.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in earlier at his residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory, using the same 19th-century family Bible he has used in every swearing-in ceremony since he entered the Senate in 1973.
At Mr. Biden’s request, the oath was delivered by Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. He was surrounded by family members, including his wife, Jill. Afterward, Mr. Biden shook the justice’s hand, turned to a large audience of family, friends and close political associates, and expressed his warm thanks. Justice Sotomayor, he noted, was due in New York and had a car waiting to take her to Union Station. “Madame Justice, it’s been an honor, a great honor,” he said. Mr. Biden then left for Arlington National Cemetery, where he joined President Obama in laying a wreath before the Tomb of the Unknowns.
The president and his family later traveled to Washington to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, an historic church with a long record of activism against racism — it once harbored runaway slaves — to worship and to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The federal holiday honoring Dr. King coincides this year with Inauguration Day.
The congregation was enthusiastic, according to pool reports, and the sermon ended with a boisterous call and response of “Forward” – the president’s one-word campaign slogan.
These events took place mostly out of view of the hundreds of thousands of Americans, foreign visitors and dignitaries who have poured into Washington to be a part of the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American president, a more restrained affair than four years ago but still a resonant marker in the nation’s history.
The oaths mark not only the official start of the second Obama-Biden term but also a certain demarcation between the challenges of the first term — winding down two wars, dealing with an economic recession, passage of landmark health care legislation amid fierce partisan wrangling — and the typically more modest agenda of a second-term president.
Mr. Obama, whose hair has visibly grayed over the past four years, has certain advantages as he looks ahead to an agenda expected to include immigration overhaul, a push for gun control, efforts to speed the economic recovery and an end to the war in Afghanistan. Polls show he has the cautious support of at least a bare majority of Americans, though recent surveys also confirm the nation’s persistently sharp partisan divide.
A stock market that lost hundreds of points on the eve of his first term has rallied, despite an otherwise tepid recovery. The debt crisis in Europe appears to have subsided for now, but other enormous foreign-policy challenges loom: in North Korea, Iran, across the Middle East and most recently in North Africa. Still, across Washington, the mood was festive on Sunday as final preparations for the events of Monday, from morning prayers to glamorous balls, parties and candlelight celebrations in the evening, were completed.
Flags have sprouted on official Washington facades, bunting adorns banks and luxury hotels, tall metal barriers and cumbersome concrete ones are in place to block or divert traffic, and the gleaming white presidential reviewing stand, with its bulletproof windows and steeply sloped roof, awaits the arrival of the official parade on Monday.
A crowd of up to 800,000 is expected to assemble Monday on the National Mall for the inaugural festivities, while millions more watch on television from afar. On Sunday, when Mr. Obama repeated the oath, swearing to faithfully execute the office of president and “to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” he placed his hand on a Bible that Mrs. Obama’s father, Fraser Robinson III, gave to his own mother, LaVaughn Delores Robinson, in 1958.
The Blue Room, with its royal blue and gold carpet and French Empire-style ornamentation, has long been used for White House receptions.
President Grover Cleveland married his much younger bride, Frances Folsom, there on June 2, 1886, as John Philip Sousa led the Marine Band in a rendition of the Wedding March from a nearby hall. James Monroe sipped tea there with Great Plains Indian leaders. The main White House Christmas tree graces the room each year.
In recent weeks, White House officials, apparently hoping to keep the public focus on Monday’s ceremonies, had hinted that reporters would be excluded from the swearing-in on Sunday.
There is precedent for that approach: When Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday in 1877, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite administered the oath to Rutherford B. Hayes in the Red Room with no one else present; the private swearing-in had come as a complete surprise to the public, with a news report at the time saying it had remained a “profound secret.”
This year, the White House ultimately decided to allow a small pool of reporters and a network television camera crew record the event. But there was not much to record; the president was saving his speechmaking for Monday, when he is expected to deliver an Inaugural Address of about 20 minutes from the western steps of the Capitol. One of his senior advisers, David Plouffe, said Sunday on the ABC program “This Week” that while Mr. Obama would lay out his vision for a second term on Monday, “the detailed blueprint and ideas will be in the State of the Union” address, on Feb. 12. The four swearings-in for Mr. Obama, including the one to come on Monday, might seem to place him in rare historic company — along with the only four-term president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. But he is not the only president to have been privately sworn in on the morning of Inauguration Day to ensure a smooth transition.
Two other presidents did so because Jan. 20 fell on a Sunday, according to the White House Historical Association: Ronald Reagan in 1985 (which was just as well: frigid weather forced the cancellation of the next day’s inaugural parade, and the swearing-in was moved to the Capitol Rotunda), Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 (the president and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were sworn in back to back in the East Room; Nixon’s young daughter Julie had a black eye from a sledding accident).
There were other times the normal Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, but they were before 1933, when the ratification of the 20th Amendment changed the mandated inaugural date to Jan. 20 from March 4.
The first time Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, in 1821, James Monroe consulted with Chief Justice John Marshall and decided to simply postpone the ceremony a day. Twenty-eight years later, Zachary Taylor did the same, though some at the time questioned who in fact was president during the one-day gap.
But in 1877, Hayes, after consultation with Chief Justice Waite and others, decided to take the oath privately a day early. They had concluded, as an Associated Press report said at the time, that “such a course was advisable, though it was not anticipated that any exigency would arise under which, in case there was an interregnum in the Executive Office, the peace of the country would be imperiled.”
Woodrow Wilson was also sworn early in 1917. Edith Bolling Wilson, a first lady not always treated gently in the press, later wrote that she and her husband found the simple ceremony “more to our taste than the formal Inauguration, which followed on Monday.”
It was in keeping with that tradition of ensuring a smooth transition that the events of Sunday were unfurling.
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Children are often confused by a lot of things as they grow up. But what if your son tells you he wants to be a girl as soon as he learns to speak?
Jazz is an 11-year old transgender boy whose parents are fully supporting his efforts to be known as a girl. From an early age Jazz wanted to do everything a young girl would do. At age 3 he was diagnosed with GID (Gender Identity Disorder). From that point on he has dressed and acted like a girl.
Now at age 11, when puberty will hit and give him a deeper voice and eventually facial hair, Jazz's parents have taken a step that some people might consider extreme by putting him on gender blockers.
The medication stops testosterone from entering his body, essentially pausing his natural male development.
Dr. Will Charlton
"Jazz is 100% girl," her doctor, Will Charlton told ABC. "And there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that [her parents] have done the right thing."
The next big decision the family faces is if and when to give Jazz the female hormone estrogen, allowing him to grow breasts and give him a female shape. The cross hormone therapy is irreversible but Jazz wants it now.
"I wish I could take it right now," Jazz says. "I wanna start looking like the other girls. I want boobs."
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Jazz's parents don't seem to mind paying for the expensive procedures. They say they are OK with the fact that cross hormone therapy will make him infertile.
"She shouldn't have to [worry about being infertile]. She wants to have a baby of her own," Jazz's mother says.
When reminded by Barbara Walters that Jazz won't be able to have children, his mother replies: "She knows she can't. That's probably one of the things that upsets her the most."
Do you think Jazz's parents are wrong for encouraging this behavior? Or do you believe that you can be born a girl, but be trapped in boy's body?
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