01 Welcome
02 Got Hungry
03 You’ve Been Slain
04 On & On
05 I Am
06 4 Stories
07 Roughnecks f. Deuce Wonder
08 Cool Cat
09 What You Want
10 Jack My Dick
11 Dope, Jobs, Homeless [Bonus]
Album Drops December 15th !
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Posted by RAPPERS I.Q ? on November 10, 2009 at 6:42pm
LOS ANGELES - Jenny got her block.A judge granted singer Jennifer Lopez a temporary restraining order barring ex-husband Ojani Noa Tuesday from peddling sexy home videos of their brief marriage.Noa, 34, was in court without a lawyer and claimed after the ruling it was never his intention to sell the steamy camcorder footage.He said he planned to make a Borat-style mocumentary about his life as a Cuban immigrant."She is destroying my life," Noa told the Daily News outside court. "This is another proof of her power and money trying to stop me from moving on with my life."He swore the home videos were not for sale.
"I'm not making any money from these videos," he said. "This is about having a closure. It's my story."He said the videos from their 11-month marriage - including intimate moments shot on their 1997 honeymoon - were used only for inspiration."We were watching with writers and directors and producers because we were getting the script down. We were writing about the characters," he said. "They're trying to twist it, that everything is my fault. She's trying to step on my shoes and not let me move on with my life, and it's not fair."The racy reels include shots of Lopez, now 40, "fondling herself" over skimpy clothing and getting spanked, said a source who's seen the 11+ hours."It's not stuff a mother of two wants out in the public," the source told The Daily News.The judge ordered Noa and film partner Ed Meyer to turn over any materials related to the movie and advise third parties - including TMZ.com and the National Enquirer - of the temporary restraining order.Lopez filed a $10 million lawsuit Friday claiming Noa is violating a confidentiality agreement with his intent to produce and market the movie "How I Married Jennifer Lopez: the J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story," allegedly based in part on the home videos.The judge scheduled arguments for Dec. 1. Noa, who supports himself with modeling work, stands to get a "50 point" share of the mocumentary's net earnings, Meyer said.Lopez has "a very strong probability of success," Judge James Chalfani said citing non-disparagement clauses in the couple's divorce agreement and a 2005 settlement stemming from an employment dispute over Noa's work at Lopez's restaurant Madre's.In 2007, Lopez won a $545,000 arbitration award that barred Noa from shopping a tell-all manuscript about their brief union. The proposed book reportedly claimed Lopez cheated on him with her current husband Marc Anthony.Noa says he plans to challenge the legality of his settlements with the Bronx-born beauty."I don't really believe in my (2005) agreement. My lawyer wasn't a real lawyer, he went to jail," Noa told the News. He added that Lopez hired and paid for his lawyer in their divorce."I was therefore coerced to settle," he said in a court statement.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/10/2009-11-10_jennifer_lopez_granted_temporary_restraining_order_barring_ojani_noa_from_sellin.html#ixzz0WVSQJdJYRead more…
Posted by RAPPERS I.Q ? on November 10, 2009 at 6:30pm
Fans expecting to see Tracy Jordan at Tracy Morgan’s Carnegie Hall performance Friday night got a rude awakening.The bawdy comedian packed the venerable performance venue with fans expecting his “30 Rock” character’s prime-time humor. But minutes after Morgan started his routine, many walked out in disgust.It turns out that some New Yorkers really can’t take a joke — especially when it’s unspeakably filthy.“People seemed to not be laughing at his jokes, but more because they were shocked and appalled with what was coming out of his mouth,” reports one audience member. Morgan talked trash about homosexuality (saying it’s “a choice,” which drew gasps), drugs, pornography and what he calls “politricks” — far edgier subjects than what his alter ego, Jordan, gets air time for.“There was a continuous flow of people getting up and leaving throughout the show,” our spy reports, adding that many in the crowd clearly didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. Middle-aged women were the most flabbergasted when he started mimicking explicit sex acts on stage.When Morgan found something shocking, he held onto it for minutes on end.Some of the controversial jabs he made included a set about the First Family.“Obama is really changing the White House, because he and Michelle will have the first presidential sex tape out,” he said to a stunned crowd.Morgan did better at his second try on politics, saying he wouldn’t vote for Mayor Bloomberg because all he does is go to Yankee games — a gag that seemed to at least draw a hoot from the crowd.The comedian has made his name off his eyebrow-raising opinions — most recently, he recounted his sordid life story of sex, drugs and strip clubs in a tell-all, “I Am the New Black.”Despite a reputation for outrageous behavior during TV interviews, he made a mainstream comedy comeback when Tina Fey tapped him for “30 Rock” in 2006.No one knew better than Morgan himself that the crowd got more than they bargained for. At one point Friday night, he addressed shocked showgoers, saying, “You want the clean Tracy? Turn on the TV.”Still, not everyone was horrified by the spectacle.Spike Lee, John Singleton and “Rock” co-star Jane Krakowski were all in the audience— and gave a standing ovation.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/10/2009-11-10_audience_members_walk_out_of_tracy_morgans_bawdy_carnegie_hall_performance.html#ixzz0WV7zLyayRead more…
Videos After The Jump
In this in depth thirty minute long interview with iTunes, 50 Cent talks about Before I Self Destruct, his writing process, the position he is in, his rivals, his favorite tracks off of the album and much more. Shouts To PhillyCustoms hooking this up !
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Comedian/Actor Mike Epps drops his new DVD "Under Rated & Never Faded" today (November 10th). In this laugh out loud clip, Mike warns the fellas why it's never a good idea to sleep on your woman's detective skills. Support good comedy and go cop the DVD.
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette Reports
A few years ago, I finally got around to reading "Black No More," a novel by the late journalist, social satirist and novelist George Schuyler.
A former reporter for the Pittsburgh Courier, Mr. Schuyler was both a black conservative and a "race man," an archaic term that refers to someone who takes upon himself the duty of protecting and defending the black race.
First published in 1931, "Black No More" is a hilarious and brutal tale about Max Disher, a Harlem insurance agent and neighborhood rogue who undergoes a pigment-lightening process said to have been invented by Dr. Junius Crookmore, a black mad scientist. Dr. Crookmore's studies in Germany led to the invention of a machine that turns people of African descent into Swedes and Norwegians.
Once Max takes on his new identity as a white man, he changes his name to Matt Fisher and marries the unsuspecting daughter of a notorious white supremacist. As you can imagine, all sorts of hilarity and racial subversion ensue.
Max isn't alone in undergoing the novel's "black no more" process. The book has most of Harlem, from the intellectual elite to juvenile delinquent, undergo the relatively cheap skin-bleaching and hair-straightening transformation inside Dr. Crookmore's machine. So many blacks flood the market as newly minted Caucasians, enraged Southerners push legislation to make it illegal to switch races, rather than suffer the further devaluation of white skin.
I thought of George Schuyler's book last week when recent photos of famed baseball slugger Sammy Sosa, born dark-skinned in the Dominican Republic, began making the rounds. Like Max Disher, Sosa appears to have undergone significant lightening since his debut with the Texas Rangers and famed years with the Chicago Cubs.
While falling short of the albino whiteness Michael Jackson perfected over a quarter of a century, Mr. Sosa shows what can happen when black folks with money engage in too much impulse buying on the racial cosmetics market.
Sammy Sosa Then
Mr. Sosa denies hanging around the modern equivalent of Dr. Crookmore's "black no more" machine. A former Chicago Cubs community relations flack blames the lighting in recent photos for Mr. Sosa's pale look. "He is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin," she said, adding that it wasn't much different from what a lot of women go through when they apply moisturizing treatment to their faces at night.
If Sammy Sosa hadn't also insisted that he only "accidentally" used a corked bat during a Cubs game in 2003 that resulted in an eight-game suspension, or that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs despite forearms as big as Popeye's, or if he hadn't failed a Major League Baseball drug test, I would be more inclined to believe he is the victim of a bad batch of lotion.
Sammy Sosa Now
If Mr. Sosa is trying to steal a base on the other side of the color line, he has plenty of company. I was surprised to read a list on the Internet about all of the black performers -- especially R&B artists -- who are also believed to use skin lighteners.
Using skin lighteners is generally frowned upon in the African-American community, but somebody in that demographic is buying them. Skin-whitening soaps containing banned ingredients in the U.S. and Europe have accounted for billions in sales in Africa alone in the last half century.
Advertisers in Asia know that they can juice sales by appealing to the vanity of female customers obsessed with achieving "milky white skin" they consider more desirable and aristocratic. Skin whiteners are believed to be an even larger business in Asia than in Africa.
The politics of skin lightening couldn't be more absurd. There is probably more acceptance of someone undergoing sex reassignment than of someone trying to "upgrade" their color. A transgendered person is trying to find a body in which to feel more authentic. Someone lightening his skin has bought into an inherently corrupt measurement of worth in society.
Folks who try to buy social acceptance in a bottle of whitening lotion are looking for the kind of shortcut to success Mr. Sosa sought when he turned to steroids. It's cheap and degrading to the soul.
Perhaps I'm being unfair to folks who feel "whitening up" is in line with their sense of beauty and personal aesthetics. Who says that you only get one bite at the apple of racial identity? For all his brilliance, George Schuyler could be wrong. In the end, looking askance at what many would consider pitiful attempts at racial migration is just another way of being prejudiced.
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Never one to bite his tongue or back away from an uncomfortable question. 50 Cent admits in this interview that in retrospect he regrets recording the very controversial song "Pearly Gates" with Mobb Deep off their "Blood Money" cd. Due to what many people perceive as a blasphemous verse from fellow Queens rapper Prodigy, that blasted both Jesus and God.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 10, 2009 at 10:00am
Videos After The JumpInquisitr Reports
Former Washington Redskins cheerleader Desiree Jennings made headlines in October when she told the media that she had been afflicted with the neurological movement disorder Dystonia following a flu shot.
As we noted at the time, the disorder apparently left her only able to walk properly backwards, or run forwards. The rest of the time she appeared on camera to be seriously messed up.
Despite their being “no successful treatment for its cause” (Wikipedia) guess who has been miraculously cured?
According to Science Blogs, the doctor who miraculously cured Desiree, Dr Rashid Buttar is “known for urine injection therapy, among other things, and has charged tens of thousands of dollars to apply his quackery to cancer patients.”
Desiree in the mean time is now pumping the anti-vaccine message, putting at risk the lives of thousands of children.
The chances of the whole thing being a hoax just went from about 50% to pushing towards 100%.
Original VideoDesiree's Most Recent Video
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Video After The JumpRobin Thicke is hard at work on his new album "Sex Therapy". The follow up to last year's "Something Else" which debuted at # 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. This album has a great production line up of Polow Da Don, Jeff Bhasker, Scott Storch, and Surf Club. With features from Jay-Z and Nicki Minaj. Peep the video below of Robin & Hov recording "Meiplé"
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Rap-Up Reports
Rihanna fought back tears while being honored as one of Glamour’s 2009 Women of the Year at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Monday (Nov. 9). The magazine’s latest cover girl broke from her all-black-everything look, turning heads in a dramatic white gown. She was accompanied by her Island Def Jam label head L.A. Reid. Other honorees included Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Maria Shriver, and Amy Poehler.
“I am shaking right now. I am so nervous, but overwhelmed and honored by this honor to be Glamour’s Woman of the Year,” an emotional Rihanna said as she was presented with her award from supermodel Iman. “I really look up to my gran-gran and my mom. They are my two women of the year. I love you very much, granny. I love you very much, mom.”
BallerStatus Reports
Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather has a lot to be thankful for this holiday. After 21 months off, he had a dominating victory over Juan Manuel Marquez in September, not to mention plenty of money. Now, in recognition for his good fortune, he's giving back to less fortunate Las Vegas residents, via a toy drive and Thanksgiving feast.
"The holidays are the most important time to give back," said Mayweather. "No family should have to go hungry on Thanksgiving and no child should go without a toy on Christmas. I don't believe that food and gifts should be a luxury. They are a necessity and through our efforts, we want make this year's holiday season happier than ones before for Las Vegas residents in need."
Beginning this week, the Floyd Mayweather Foundation, in association with United States Marine Corps, started its own toy drive through 15 Toys for Tots collection bins in locations around the city of Las Vegas (see list of locations below).
The collection will continue through the month of November and end on December 11. The highlight of the drive will be an event hosted by Mayweather for family, friends and invited guests, where each person must bring a toy to donate in order to attend.
The giving doesn't stop there. He's been feeding the homeless weekly for the past several months, and will step up his efforts and serve a Thanksgiving hot meal to those same people.
On November 21, the Foundation is planning a Thanksgiving feast for 250 people outdoors on Owens Ave & N. Main St. (across from the Salvation Army). Each individually wrapped hot meal will include turkey, rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, string beans, pumpkin pie, water and tea.
To top off his holiday-related contributions, Mayweather will be donating coats to the students at a local inner-city elementary school. All 318 students (pre-school through fifth grade) will be given a coat.
"I look forward to continuing our mission of making sure people who are hungry have food to eat, and that children wake up on Christmas morning with something to look forward to," Mayweather said. "Through the donation of toys, coats and food, I know we will be making the holidays a little brighter for those in need and that is the best gift of all."
TOYS FOR TOTS DROP-OFF LOCATIONS
Expressions Salon and Spa -- 6345 South Pecos Rd. St. #103, Las Vegas, 89120
Nail Gossip -- 4860 West Desert Inn Rd. #6, Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Merryhill Preschool/Elementary School -- 5055 South Durango Dr. Las Vegas, NV, 89113
North Stars Dance Academy -- 4025 North Rancho Dr. Suite#160, Las Vegas, NV, 89130
Las Vegas Indoor Soccer -- 1400 N. Rampart Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, 89134
Fletcher Jones Imports -- 7300 W. Sahara Ave. Las Vegas, NV, 89117
Jackie's Iced Out Barber N' Beauty -- 1100 Martin Luther King Blvd. Suite D, Las Vegas, NV, 89106
The Jeweler's -- 2400 Western Ave. Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Roots -- 4418 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Harsch Property Management -- 3853 Spring Mountain Rd. Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Harsch Property Management -- 3111 S. Valley View Blvd. Unit E-101, Las Vegas, NV, 89102
Harsch Property Management -- 6285 Dean Martin Dr. Suite A23, Las Vegas, NV, 89118
1st Commerce Bank -- 5135 Camino Al Norte Rd. Ste 100, N. Las Vegas, NV, 89031
Findlay Cadillac-Saab -- 933 Auto Show Dr. Las Vegas, NV, 89106
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Variety Reports
Screen Gems has acquired "Sheneneh and Wanda," a vehicle for Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence to star in a comic caper playing female characters they developed during their stand-up comedy days.
Foxx will write the script, which he and Martin will produce through Foxx's Foxxhole and Lawrence's Runteldat production banners.
The project originated as a parody of a movie trailer for a film called "Skank Robbers," which Foxx and Lawrence made for the BET Awards. The reaction was strong enough that the duo decided to turn the concept into a real film.
In the comedy, Sheneneh and Wanda are modern-day independent women trying to make it on their own, one bank robbery at a time.
Foxx and Lawrence have long tried to find a vehicle to work together, and Screen Gems' Clint Culpepper is fast tracking the production.
Foxx, who last starred in "Law Abiding Citizen," will next be seen in the romantic comedy "Valentine's Day." Lawrence will next be seen in the Screen Gems comedy "Death at a Funeral."
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AllHipHop Reports
Baton Rogue, Louisiana rapper Lil Boosie has been sentenced to four years in prison for violating the terms of his probation.
The rapper, born Torrence Hatch, was to serve two-years of a ten-year suspended sentence and was placed on active supervised probation for his third offense on a marijuana possession charge.
The sentence was the result of an October 22, 2008 arrest that uncovered drugs and a gun in Baton Rogue.
When Boosie was sentenced in September, Judge Chip Moore warned the rapper to stay out of trouble and to keep away from felons, guns and trouble in general.
At a sentencing hearing yesterday (November 9), Judge Moore double the original two-year sentence to four years, because Boosie’s house arrest ankle bracelet indicated that he had violated the terms of his release several times.
As a result, Lil Boosie, 25, was sent straight to prison to begin serving his prison sentence.
The Baton Rogue, Louisiana based rapper appeared at the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta where he spoke to AllHipHop.com about his original two-year prison sentence.
“It’s just a minor setback,” Lil Boosie told AllHipHop.com. “I am not even a convicted felon and they are giving me time.”
Upon release, Lil Boosie must complete at least two years of supervised probation in order to have the gun charge dropped from his record.
Lil Boosie's album Superbad: The Return Of Boosie Bad Azz is in stores now.
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MTV Reports
OJ Da Juiceman smiles with a gold-tooth grin when asked who has more mixtapes: him or his brother in arms, Gucci Mane.
"I'm at 25 or 26 mixtapes, but Gucci Mane is well over 30," OJ said.
He plans to increase his catalog very shortly, with a tape called Six Rings: The Michael Jordan Edition dropping soon. Then he and DJ Drama are hooking up for a Gangsta Grillz simply called Orange. After all that, OJ said he and Gucci have plans to put out a street project with Waka Flocka Flame, a new member of the Brick Squad crew.
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NEW YORK — Rihanna joined Jay-Z onstage Sunday night in Los Angeles to sing "Run This Town" and her Young Jeezy-assisted track "Hard." While it wasn't her first performance since she was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown in February, it did mark the first time she's performed any new material from the upcoming Rated R album.
Rihanna told MTV News on Monday that she was ushering in a "new era" at the concert.
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Video After The JumpAkon's star artist Lady Gaga is achieving some crossover success as this interview with BET shows. She talks about being surprised at how well her debut album has done and her admiration for Beyonce, who she has done two collaborations with recently "Video Phone" and "Telephone". She refers to her fans as "little monsters" and says her "Monster Ball" tour is open to everyone, regardless of race,gender or sexual preference.
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R&B superstar, Ciara is sure to turn heads in this shoot for the German edition of "Vogue" Magazine. She's seen here with photographers Steven Gomillion and Dennis Leupold.
In addition to appearing in "Vogue", Ciarra has signed on as the face of a major multimedia ad campaign for LG's new Chocolate Touch phone.
The Chocolate Touch is aimed at teens and young adults for whom music is a high priority and a lifestyle statement, said Tim O’Brien, senior director of marketing communications for LG Mobile Phones.
TMZ Reports
Comedian Katt Williams has officially been charged with burglary and criminal trespassing by a magistrate in Coweta County, GA -- his bond was set at $41,150.
Williams was arrested this morning, after cops say a man named Daniel Broach claimed the comedian broke into his home on Sunday night and stole $3,555 worth of jewelry and collectable coins.
Broach told cops Katt used a crowbar to break into his home, which is around 38 miles southwest of Atlanta.
Katt's lawyer told us the whole thing is a sham -- and is just the result of a dispute Katt had with a another man.
Katt has yet to post bond.
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AllHipHop Reports
Cash Money CEO addressed Lil Wayne’s upcoming jail stint, which will make him the third Hot Boy to be incarcerated, putting the group’s possible reunion on hold.
The Hot Boys feature group members Lil Wayne, B.G., Turk and Juvenile. Turk is currently incarcerated doing a 10-year-bid for shooting a SWAT team member during a drug raid in Memphis in January 2004.
Young Money CEO Lil Wayne is facing up to a year in prison for a weapon violation in New York, while B.G. was arrested for possession of guns and drugs during a traffic stop in New Orleans last Tuesday (November 3).
“We got a hell of a plan and hell of a strategy,” Baby told Eric B. & Friends on AllHipHop Radio today (November 9).
“I promise you, you’ll think he [Lil Wayne] never left the streets. It aint much about the music at this point with my son, like f**k the music,” Baby said. “We got to go through something family wise, that the fans and nobody else will ever have to go through. This is the first time I will ever be without my child that means the world to me. This is where Blood stick together.”
As for B.G.‘s recent arrest, Williams revealed that the rapper is being held t o his contract with Atlantic Records, which will co-promote his upcoming album Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood, which is being released on December 8 through a deal with E1 Music.
“I just talked to him. If you know B.G., he’s still in that jungle where it prescribes to carry tools [guns], or you can be the next n***a with a tag on your toe,” Baby stated. “Atlantic release the lil n***a so we can try to get him so money. See they don’t know how he’s living. I know how he’s living, so I was trying to say yall let him go, let me take him, I’ma get him so money, I’ma bring him with me, he can come to Miami and be a part of everything we got. But they don’t know the significance of a n***a’s lifestyle, they just think the n***a is a business. He already hurting, yall aint doing nothing for a n***a. I got love for him. I’ll bring him in and give him a life and a lifestyle, but now he’s heading for another life and another lifestyle.”
Baby revealed that he talked to Turk often and revealed that he was working towards mending his relationship with Hot Boy member Juvenile, who is gearing up to release his new album Cocky & Confident, which is also being released via deal between Atlantic and E1 Music.
“Me and him [Juvenile] spoke bout a couple of months a go for really the first time,” Baby continued. “Me and him talked and really honesty, I aint tripping and I don’t think they are tripping. N***as done got older and are trying to figure out ways to feed their families.”
The Hoy Boys recorded as group for Cash Money Records from 1997-2001 and hit the charts with singles like “We On Fire” and “I Need A Hot Girl” “Project B**ch” and others.
Baby stated that the highly anticipated Hot Boys reunion album is finished and could be in stores as soon as the Summer of 2010.
“They recorded a whole album and we are looking to put it out for the summer time,” Baby told AllHipHop.com.
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As many rappers have found out out, it's tough to follow a classic LP with a part two that can even compare. Wu Tang Clan's Raekwon The Chef however, does just that with "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II" On this the 3rd video off of the album Rae goes in over a Dr Dre produced banger with help from Lyfe Jennings. Check the visuals below.
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