The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a lawsuit by former police official turned Detroit Councilman, Gary Brown.
Brown alleges he and others were videotaped illegally at the Detroit stop of the 'Up In Smoke Tour' in 2000 that featured Dr Dre, Eminem, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg.
Brown threatened to have the power turned off at Joe Louis Arena if a sexually explicit video was shown.
The argument was filmed and shown on the 'Up In Smoke Tour' DVD.
Brown is suing Dr Dre alleging his privacy was violated.
Dr Dre's attorney Herschel Fink says there's no privacy when police are doing their job.
Dre won't attend today's hearing.
Dr Dr ft Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg & Kurupt "Next Episode" From Up In Smoke DVD
In the new issue of Rolling Stone — on stands and online in the digital archives on January 21st (subscription required) — Lil Wayne opens up for the first time about his time in prison. (See video from his cover shoot below.) During his eight month stint in Building C-76, cell 23 at Rikers Island, Weezy worked as an SPA (suicide prevention aide), listened to a lot of music on the radio (oldies and Hot 97) and played countless games of Uno with his cellmates in the Protective Custody division.
"I'd bust a nigga's ass at Uno," he told writer Josh Eells. "We gamble for phone time. I'd take nigga's commissary: Lemme get them cookies, lemme get them chips, get that soup."
Eventually his cellmates stopped inviting him to games. "They'd be like, 'Oh, we thought you were asleep,'" Wayne says. "Like you can't look inside my cell and see that I'm right there! We ain't got no doors!"
Other highlights from the piece:
- When Wayne sat court-side at a recent Miami Heat/New Orleans Hornets game he was upset that Lebron James and Dwayne Wade never came over to talk to him. "Them niggas never speak to a nigga," he says. "They don't chuck me the deuce or nothing. Nigga spent all that money on them fucking tickets ... Come holla at me. We sit right by them little bitch-ass niggas. At least come ask me why I'm not rooting for you."
- In prison he read biographies of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Joan Jett, Vince Lombardi and Anthony Kiedis. "[Kiedis'] Scar Tissue was really good," he says. "I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he'd be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool."
- He spent his final month in jail in solitary after he was caught with an iPod charger in his cell. It could have been worse: He also had a watch with an MP3 player on it, but another inmate took the rap. "He was a solid nigga," says Wayne. "Shout-out to Charles...Solitary was the worst. No TV. No radio. No commissary. Basically you're in there 23 hours a day." The only upside was he had a window where he could watch cars go by. "I used to sit at that motherfucker all day," he says.
What started out as a press conference to introduce new head coach Hue Jackson, turned into a bizarre mud slinging with hints of a sex scandal.
Oakland Raiders boss Al Davis has always been known as a maverick, he's moved his team from Oakland to Los Angeles then back again and fired a boatload of coaches.
Throughout it all Davis has managed to keep a firm grip on the team.
During the press conference yesterday, Davis let himself get off track by beginning to speak about issues he says led to the firing of coach Tom Cable after this seasons 8-8 record.
Davis said Cable was a wife beater, talked about the 2009 incident where Cable allegedly broke assistant coach Randy Hanson's jaw and hinted Cable was bringing freaks on the road with him when the Raiders traveled.
"He knew I could throw him out without any money," Davis said of ending Cable. "There's no way he can come clean on this. He knows what he did."
When asked why he didn't just fire cable during the season if he was causing all these problems Davis said: "We had a shot with five games to go to get in the playoffs. There's no telling how far we could have gone. "... With five games to go, we messed it up. Not necessarily on offense. We didn't play well enough on defense."
And then there is Davis' health. He looked like a very sick man sitting on stage. It's probably time for him to hang it up.
Move over Pharell Williams there's a new Skateboard P in town, as in Prodigy of Mobb Deep.
The rap game's "most infamous" has teamed with Selfish Skateboards to create the world's first board designed by a rapper.
The "Blood Sport" deck was hand drawn by P himself and it's the real deal, made out of the best Canadian maple wood money can buy.
Professional skateboarder Jereme "Sherm" Rogers of Selfish spoke with Transworld and told them he couldn't be happier with the collaboration.
"It is very much an honor to do this board. Mobb Deep is a legendary group and my passion for music goes deeper than I can explain. This is one of many collaborations we aspire to do and I’m glad this first one is with such a classic group. It’s also unique and exciting that he didn’t just lend us his name and actually sat down and hand drew a graphic for us. I’d like to thank Prodigy and Havoc and everyone else working with us to make Selfish work."
Havoc and Prodigy also released a statement regarding their partnership with Selfish for the line of boards.
“Since 1993, “The Infamous Mobb Deep” has supplied the world with our unique style of reality based hardcore Queens, New York hip hop music. We understand the importance of sticking to our formula and being the representatives for poverty, struggle & the inner city lifestyle. Havoc and I are proud to announce that we have teamed up with Selfish Skateboards to design a line of boards with the same unique hardcore style as our music. We look forward to the release of these designs & would like to thank the skaters all around the world for supporting Mobb Deep throughout the years. - Prodigy and Havoc of Mobb Deep
The boards should be in stores by March 2011, just in time for P's release from prison.
Also be on the lookout for new music from Hav and P soon. Havoc is already itching to get started on Mobb Deep's next album. He says it will be a classic.
Additionally Prodigy's autobiography 'My Infamous Life The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy' will be dropping April 19. You can pre-order it below.
Keep it locked on here and Prodigy's website www.themostinfamous.com for up to the minute info on Mobb Deep. 2011 is going to the year of the infamous!
Special Shout Out To Dan Diego For The Heads Up, as well as Chris "Broadway" Romero and Jerome Rogers!
1. Jim Jones ft Rell - Blow Your Smoke 2. DJ Jay Claxton ft Smash & Jim Jones - Make It Rain 3. Mackadenice - When You Come Home 4. L.C. - Block Boy 5. Chris Brown ft Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes - Look At Me Now 6. Young Don ft Project Pat - Shawty Bad 7. Konfadints - Set It On Fire 8. Trey Songz ft Fabolous - May I 9. J.R. Bricks ft Fred the Godson - Throw It Up (Produced by King Turo) 10. Fabolous - In The Morning Freestyle 11. Lamontiz - No Problumz 12. Cardinal Red & Slick NIC - You Know That 13. Grafh ft Waka Flocka - Knock Em Down 14. Maino Feat. Swizz Beatz, JadaKiss, Jim Jones, Joell Ortiz - We Keep It Rockin (Dirty) 15. Big Bril ft Sam Black - Mind on my Money 16. Boyy Face Aka Will Smiff Dogg ft K-Jo - Don't Hate The Hustlers 17. Noni Spitz ft Dae One - STYLERAGEOUS (Produced by Reason of 4AR.BIZ) 18. Ne-Yo ft Fabolous & Jadakiss - One In A Million (Remix) 19. Max Money & Dome - City Nights 20. Justino ft Maine - Nothin' on Me (Prod by K to the Dash) 21. Jae Millz - Finish The Year Right Pt. 2 22. Tay Dizm ft Young Cash - Swager Up 23. Keith Davis - Get With You 24. Akon ft Ludacris - Drop Down 25. Jim Jones ft Juelz Santana - Perfect Day 26. Kanye West ft Cam'ron, Jim Jones, Vado, Cyhi Da Prynce, Pusha-T, Musiq Soulchild, Teyana Taylor, & Big Sean��� - Christmas In Harlem
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean your friend/business partner isn't looking to cut you out of the mix, or a piece of that Roc-A-Fella pie.
In part 10 of Choke No Joke's web series "The Last Days Of The Roc", Dame Dash gets his first inkling that maybe things between him and partner Jay-Z aren't exactly cool.
Hov called a marketing meeting with Def Jam without informing anyone at Roc-A-Fella. When Dame finds out he storms over to the Def Jam offices and goes ballistic.
He curses out Def Jam CEO Lyor Cohen, Vice President Kevin Liles and Randy Acker.
Tired of listening to Dame rant, Liles tells him. "Just go handle your business n*gga." In other words you're barking up the wrong tree.
But Dame is either too angry to think clearly, or too arrogant to understand what was really going on. He was wilding out yelling at everyone over at Def Jam, when the person he should have been talking to was Jay-Z, who initiated the meeting in the first place.
Of course we all know how the story ends. Hov takes the Roc from his two former partners, Dame and Kareem "Biggs" Burke and sets up shop at Def Jam as President and CEO.
Did Jay do Dame dirty? Should Dame have seen it coming? Or was it just business? That's a subject that will be discussed forever.
Gucci Mane's bank account is $20,000 lighter today after losing a bet over the weekend.
The rapper said via Twitter that he would bet anyone 20K, that wanted to take the Green Bay Packers vs his Atlanta Falcons.
"i got 20k on them dirty birds any body want this bet who like green bay. straight up who want the bet," Gucci tweeted Friday (January 15).
It wasn't long before Gucci came back and said that Cash Money CEO Birdman had taken him up on his offer.
"Stunna took the bet my boy we bet everyweek and get it how we live follow my brother @BIRDMAN5STAR," Gucci tweeted.
Birdman is no stranger to big bets. He claimed to have bet $4million dollars on Floyd Mayweather Jr against Sugar Shane Mosley last May.
And just like he did with Mayweather, Stunna won with the Pack as they manhandled the Dirty Birds 48-21 on Saturday (January 16).
Neither Birdman or Gucci have tweeted since the 15th, but it's highly unlikely Stunna would rub it in publicly. And it's also doubtful Gucci would brag about losing 20 G's
Singer/rapper Lauryn Hill has 8 dates remaining on her 17-city trek that kicked off last month in New York. The only problem is, fans don't know what to expect from the eccentric singer.
The tour by all accounts has been a mess, plagued by late starts due to Hill hitting the stage whenever she feels like it. Sometimes an hour or two later than scheduled.
Reports that have come in from her show Friday (January 15) at Atlanta's Center Stage paint a picture of a diva that has lost touch with her fans.
According toSandraRose.com, Hill was supposed to hit the stage by 9pm, but the singer didn't appear until midnight. At which time she tells the audience she is tired of “playing the same music night after night.” and wants to try something different.
After instructing the band to speed up the music, the audience was left bewildered because they couldn't recognize any of the songs.
“Nobody could participate because nobody knew the music!,” one fan said. “Everybody was looking around like ‘What song is this?’ It was new music completely. The lyrics were the same, but you had to be on ecstasy to follow the music!”
After a while fans started to "storm out" of the building in disgust, way before the show was over.
Hill repeated the exact same antics at her next show Sunday (January 17) at The Pageant Concert Nightclub in St. Louis according to Popeater.
Again some fans left early.
So what exactly is wrong with the former Fugees singer? Is she bored with touring already? Or does she think audiences will take whatever she dishes out?
Whatever the case, fans that paid good money to see her perform and got shortchanged aren't likely to forget anytime soon.
Gucci Mane continues to make business moves despite his recent troubles with the law. The Atlanta rapper has shot a pilot for a reality series he hopes will be picked up by a network.
The show will center around the life of the leader of 1017 Brick Squad and his crew according to MTV.
"We show everyday life. What we get into in studio and at our shows. We just ordinary people with a crazy rock and roll lifestyle," Gucci Mane said. "Because of the music we make, people think that's what we do all the time — but we got a real family life. We got heart. We do a lot of things for the community and we love each other."
Also scheduled to make appearances on the show is Gucci's Manager, Deb Antney who also happens to be Waka Flocka's mom.
The pilot is being shopped to several networks currently, BET is said to be interested in the project.
It will be interesting to see how this all pans out because Gucci is due back in court January 24, for a probation violation hearing.
Gucci could face up to 17 months in prison if found guilty.
If all goes well and Gucci remains a free man, he said fans can expect to have fun watching his reality show,
"I think they'll get a laugh more than anything," he said. "I'm not serious all the time. People think we are thugs because of our music."
What do you think of a Gucci Mane reality show? Is it something you would be interested in watching?
(CNN) – In her first interview since the Arizona shootings, Sarah Palin Monday sharply beat back critics who have suggested her at-times charged political rhetoric and use of a graphic featuring crosshairs may have contributed to the shooter’s motivations.
"The graphic that was used was crosshairs. That's not original. Democrats have been using them for years," Palin said in the interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, where Palin is a paid contributor.
"For many years maps in political races have been used to target certain districts that people would feel that they can get into those districts and find someone to whom they believe would represent the constituents' will better than the incumbent," she added.
The map in question – created by Palin's political action committee last spring - featured the crosshairs of a gun over the congressional districts of 20 Democratic candidates – including that of Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman who was shot in Tucson nine days ago. Last week, Palin aide Rebecca Monsour defended the graphic, saying the crosshairs were not those of a gun but rather "a surveyor symbol."
But Palin's PAC quickly scrubbed the graphic from its website after the shootings, a move Palin said she found appropriate.
"The contract graphic artist did take it down and I don't think that was inappropriate," said Palin. "If it was going to cause much heartburn and even more controversy I didn’t have a problem with it taken down."
In the 30 minute interview, Palin also addressed the criticism she has faced for her video response to the shootings posted last week on Facebook. Critics particularly took issue with the former governor's use of the term "blood libel," a phrase that for many conjures anti-semetic connotations.
"Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands. In this case, that's exactly what was going on," she said, adding later, "Just two days before an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal had that term in its title. And that term has been used for eons."
The phrase, which traditionally refers to a long-standing anti-Semitic myth that Jews murder children for religious rituals, drew fire from the Anti-Defamation League and others. But Palin insisted critics were taking issue with the phrasing in hopes of derailing her overall message.
"It isn't about me personally, but it is about the message," she said. "I know that a lot on the left hate my message, and they will do all that they can to stop me because they don't like the message. They’ll do what they can to destroy the message and the messenger."
Meanwhile, when asked about speculation the recent controversies have disrupted any future political ambitions, Palin vowed she will continue to speak her mind.
"I am not ready to make an announcement about what my political future is going to be. But I will tell you ... I am not going to sit down. I am not going to shut up,"she said.
The wait wait is almost over, you can mark a date on your calender for the long awaited 'Detox' album.
Just Blaze uploaded a video via his Twitter account announcing Saigon's'Greatest Story Never Told' drops February 15. He then turned the camera towards Dr Dre. "Pow Pow 4/20 baby... 4/20 I'm coming." Dre said
I got hyped, but then looked at my calender and saw that April 20 falls on a Wednesday. Not a likely day of the week for such a high profile release.
However 4/20 is also National Weed Day which would make perfect sense for the man who made "Chronic" a household name.
Either way, expect 'Detox' to drop sometime around that date.
Interscope needs a guaranteed first quarter mega-hit album, since Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' doesn't drop until May.
Things haven't exactly been going Beanie Sigel's way as of late.
The former Roc-A-Fella spitta reportedly is in trouble with the IRS and he still hasn't patched things up with his former boss Jay-Z.
But a recent interview 804 ENT Beans is sure to raise a few eyebrows.
Beanie looked like he might have been full of that liquor, so it could have been the drink talking, but the Broad Street Bully said he would like to hook up with Fat Joe and Officer Ross to remake a Fat Boys album.
He also said he wouldn't mind signing to Cash Money Records.
What do you guys think of Beanie's latest comments?
PaperChaserDotCom takes you inside the studio with Lil Eto, as he preps a new mixtape.
Peep the footage of lil Eto, Oowop , Ced Black , B MAC , Klass Murda , Nappz, POP Off and Jai Black in the studio laying down vocals for “Coke Kash” off Lil Eto’s upcoming mixtape.
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