Video After The JumpFollow Birdman along with Jay Sean & Mack Maine on the album release week of "Priceless" & "All or Nothing"This video includes::
Day 1: in New York goin dif radio station and doin live tv also goin to pace university to talk to students
Day 2: goin to New Orleans for his 15th annual Thanksgiving day turkey give away
Day 3: cameo album release party featuring Lil Wayne
Video After The JumpDirector Derrick G takes us behind the scenes on the video shoot of "On Fire" with Lil Wayne with his new band Mayday.
This is either the first or second single off of "Rebirth" depending on whether or not you count "Prom Queen". The album is full on rock and roll which could be considered risky for Weezy F. Baby since his core audience is Hip Hop. I guess we will find out when the cd drops.
The album has been leaked heavily due to a shipping mistake by Amazon. So the release date is up in the air as the project gets reworked.
Video After The JumpZoo Life General 40 Glocchas sat back, played his position, staying loyal to 50 Cent and G-Unit while others haven't.
In this interview with Street Treats HD he offers a very unique perspective on the whole Young Buck situation. From where 40 was sitting Buck started getting out of pocket way before 50 kicked him out of G-Unit. Buck even went as far as calling 40 to see if he could get him to be disloyal, but Glocc wasn't having it.
Ultimately, being from the west coast and having a gang mentality 40 feels Young Buck should have been disciplined (DP'd) and that might have set him straight.
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With the release of his fourth studio album, 50 Cent has found himself in an unfamiliar position.
These days, the rap behemoth, who has sold 30 million albums worldwide since 2003’s landmark Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, has had to answer to lackluster sales of his latest release Before I Self Destruct. The much-hyped project, which debuted with 160,000 copies this past November, represents a career low for the Queens rapper.
Yet, 50, who has never held his tongue when it came to proclaiming his commercial dominance over rival MCs, is philosophical about such criticism.
“I think it’s a natural thing,” 50 Cent told VIBE of his detractors. “I’ve watched other artists in the history of entertainment. The industry builds entertainers up in order to destroy them. People think I should be uncomfortable. Every obstacle possible has been placed in front of me, and I’m talking about before I even take off from day one. The pressure that they are applying is minimized in my head. They want to see my out of control.”
Indeed, 50 Cent is not letting talk of his impending demise slow him down. In addition to releasing Before I Self Destruct and film of the same name, he is set to shoot the urban weapons drama Gun with veteran actor Val Kilmer. “I’ve accomplished so much from where I come from that it’s impossible for you to take my smile away from me,” muses 50. ––Keith Murphy
Source: Vibe
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 24, 2009 at 12:00pm
Multi-platinum songstress Mary J. Blige is rebuking reports that she punched her husband Kendu Isaacs in the face Tuesday night at her NYC album release party.
According to initial reports from anonymous “sources,” the fight occurred when Isaacs was seen flirting with several female waitresses, causing Blige to strike and taunt him.
“She turned to him and was screaming, 'You're not going to ruin my night,' " an alleged witness told the NY Post. “They got up in each other's faces before someone tried to separate them, at which point she shoved the guy aside, pulled back and popped [Isaacs] in the face. She was yelling at him, 'What are you gonna do, Chris Brown me?'”
From there, Blige’s bodyguards were said to have escorted Isaacs from the M2 Ultra Lounge venue.
Blige’s publicist Kerynne Tencer released a statement denying the incident, and proclaimed the couple’s relationship is on steady ground.
“People lie and don’t know what they’re talking about,” Tencer explained. “They’re as happy as can be. They’re spending the holidays together with their three children. Everything’s great.”
Blige and Isaacs, who also serves as her manager, have been married since 2003.
On Tuesday (December 21), Blige released Stronger with Each Tear, her 9th studio LP after a 2-year hiatus. To date, Blige has maintained a streak of every album since 1992’s What’s the 411? going platinum or multi-platinum.
The album features guest spots from Drake, T.I., and Trey Songz. Production credits include Ryan Leslie, The Runners, Polow Da Don, The Dream, Stargate, and Tricky Stewart.
Source: AllHipHop
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 24, 2009 at 11:30am
Video After The JumpA Texas woman called 911 and hung up the phone quickly, then called back. All the 911 operator could hear on the other end was a woman screaming so a police unit was dispatched to the residence.
When the police arrived they were informed by 51 year old Elsa Benson that her husband "wouldn't eat his supper"
According to kens5.com, Mrs Benson has a long history of calling 911 for non-emergencies.
In recent months she's called because her dogs were loose, she couldn't get her clothes and other ridiculous non-emergencies.
The local police were finally fed up. The lady was arrested and charged her with 911 abuse.
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If “A Christmas Carol” came to Hollywood, rap star Kanye West would be Scrooge and 9 year-old Frankie Jonas, the youngest Jo Bro, would make a great Tiny Tim, according to results in a survey of more than 1,900 children, teens and adults that was released on Wednesday.
Also, when E-Poll Market Research asked respondents for its annual holiday survey what “celebrity” they would most like to spend New Year’s Eve with, U.S. President Barack Obama came out as one of the top choices, along with talk show host Oprah Winfrey and singer Taylor Swift.
But it was the feature of the survey that identified celebrities with popular Christmas characters that produced the most noteworthy results and labeled West as the new Scrooge.
West received widespread scorn after he took the microphone from Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards in September, and it appears that the survey results are proceeding along that wavelength in calling him the year’s Scrooge. Frankie Jonas, who has a recurring role on the Disney television show “Jonas” and voiced the main character in this year’s animated film “Ponyo,” is so young that it’s probably a natural pick for survey respondents to link him to Tiny Tim, although fortunately for him, he has none of Tiny Tim’s tragic infirmities.
The survey also identified television weatherman Al Roker with Frosty the Snowman, “American Idol” alpha judge Simon Cowell with the volcanic Heat Miser from the Christmas TV classic “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” and sometimes scary actor Christopher Walken with the spindly Jack Skellington, the lead character in Tim Burton’s 1993 film “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
E-Poll Market Research said it linked the celebrities to Christmas characters by having survey respondents describe attributes of celebrities, and then matching those findings with Christmas characters with similar attributes.
In another part of the survey, respondents named heiress Paris Hilton, divorced reality stars Jon and Kate Gosselin and singer Britney Spears as the celebrities they hope get “stranded on an island in 2010″ and forgotten about.
Source: Reuters
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We brought you the girls of King Magazine the other day. There was just one problem. We only had one pic of Rosa Acosta.
No worries, we bounced right back like a basketball to present the full shoot with Rosa looking as fine as ever.
Make sure you cop King's relaunch issue in stores now!
Videos After The JumpFaith Hill hosted the 10th 10 Annual CBS Home for The Holidays Special Wednesday (December 23).
Performers included Reba McEntire,Mary J. Blige, Carrie Underwood and Shakira.
Check out a few of them below.Mary J Blige "I Am" LiveShakira "Gypsy" LiveCarrie Underwood "Temporary Home"
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks at a rally of Democratic senators following a final series of procedural votes on the health bill WednesdayThe Senate has started the final day of deliberations on passage of a sweeping $871 billion health care bill. A vote is expected shortly after 7 a.m. ET.
The Senate health care bill cleared a third and final procedural hurdle Wednesday as Democrats successfully limited remaining debate time on the $871 billion measure.
The Senate voted 60-39 along party lines to set up Thursday's vote on final passage.
Democrats also turned back last-ditch motions from Republicans claiming various provisions in the bill, including a mandate that individuals purchase coverage, are unconstitutional.
"It's long past time we declare health care a right and not a privilege," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said after Wednesday's vote.
"Today is a victory ... for American families," proclaimed Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana. "Americans won."
The expected victory for President Obama's top domestic priority comes after nearly a year of sharply polarized deliberations on Capitol Hill. Any measure passed by the Senate, however, will still have to be merged with a $1 trillion plan approved by the House of Representatives in November.
Increasingly confident Democrats hope to have a bill ready for Obama's signature before his State of the Union address early next year.
"Health care reform is not a matter of if," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. "Health care reform now is a matter of when."
If a combined House-Senate health care bill clears Congress and is signed by Obama, it would be the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid over four decades ago.
Republicans have mounted a no-holds-barred legislative campaign against the bill, using a series of procedural maneuvers to slow debate while arguing that the measure will raise taxes while doing little to slow spiraling health care costs.
They've also ripped Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, for garnering the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill in part by cobbling together a series of "sweetheart deals" for wavering members of the Democratic caucus.
"This bill is a grab bag of Chicago-style, backroom buyoffs," Utah GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch said Wednesday.
Recent compromises made to win the backing of moderates such as Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut also angered many liberal Democrats and threatened to undermine support for the bill.
Democrats have now held three key procedural votes on the health care bill this week. The backing of all 60 members of the Democratic caucus was required during each vote in order to overcome a filibuster from a GOP minority united in opposition.
Final passage of the measure, in contrast, will require only a bare majority in the 100-member chamber.
Enthusiastic top Democrats argue the Senate bill would constitute a positive change of historic proportions. The legislation, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, would extend health insurance to more than 30 million Americans currently lacking coverage while reducing the federal deficit.
The House and Senate bills agree on a broad range of changes that could impact every American's coverage.
Among other things, they have agreed to subsidize insurance for a family of four making up to roughly $88,000 annually, or 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
They also have agreed to create health insurance exchanges designed to make it easier for small businesses, the self-employed and the unemployed to pool resources and purchase less-expensive coverage. Both the House plan and the Senate bill would eventually limit total out-of-pocket expenses and prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Insurers also would be barred from charging higher premiums based on a person's gender or medical history. However, both bills allow insurance companies to charge higher premiums for older customers.
Medicaid would be significantly expanded under both proposals. The House bill would extend coverage to individuals earning up to 150 percent of the poverty line, or roughly $33,000 for a family of four; the Senate plan ensures coverage to those earning up to 133 percent of the poverty level, or just over $29,000 for a family of four.
Major differences between the bills will be the focus of the conference committee that will try to merge them. House and Senate Democrats are still divided over how to pay for their plans. They are also split on, among other things,
language relating to abortion coverage and whether to include a government-run public health insurance option.
The House bill includes a public option; the more conservative Senate measure would instead create nonprofit private plans overseen by the federal government.
Source: CNN
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Trailer After The JumpVeteran actor Clifton Powell and Bay Area emcee Yukmouth are among the ensemble cast of Dioncel “Donny” Armstrong’s film Five.K.One, which addresses a controversial informant law.
The movie takes its name from the federal sentencing mandate that gives more lenient sentencing to informants who have committed murder, robbery, or drug conspiracy.
The narrative follows best friends Tiger (rapper Forty Da Great) and Remo (Melvin Jackson, Jr of The Wire), who form the street crew Self Made Bosses (SMB), specializing in drugs, murder, and money.
The organization’s problems begin due to a federal indictment, and Remo’s desire to go legitimate and focus on family life.
Clifton Powell plays the role of a nightclub owner in debt to the SMB, while Yukmouth takes the character of a vicious hitman.
A veteran entertainment entrepreneur who launched his career with the popular independent project Street Life: The Documentary, Armstrong’s inspiration for the film derives from witnessing the federal informant laws effects of urban communities around the country.
“The whole 5K1 snitch [law], nobody ever told it like it is in this movie, how easy it is for a person that’s a snitch to commit all types of crimes and still get off,” Armstrong told AllHipHop.com. “I wanted to tell that side of the story, so this film really tells it without the people pressuring me to change [it]. Soon as I sent it out to distributors and they wanted me to change things like the ending, I decided right then and there to go independent.”
Ironically, the film’s star Forty da Great is incarcerated due to information provided under the 5K1 law. Armstrong also revealed how he narrowly avoided the same fate before his transition into entertainment.
“My man Forty da Great who is the star of the movie is incarcerated right now because of the same law. Somebody snitched on him and it’s crazy and shows how real it is. This happened before the movie was even shot,” Armstrong detailed. “People need to take responsibility for what they are doing. If 5 people are out there committing crimes together and everyone gets caught, all of them should go to jail. But if only one gets caught, he or she has to understand that they have to go because they got caught. I’m not in the street game, but I’m a product of it. All my family was in it, but I just found something [positive] to do. My years in the street only caused me grief. The person who snitched on me just so happened to not show up in court so I was blessed. I put a little piece of that in the film to show how easy it is for someone to make up a story to the police and have it believed.”
With artists such as Forty da Great and Yukmouth playing significant roles, Five.K.One is a film with direct ties to Hip-Hop music.
Regarding distribution, Armstrong plans to involve overlooked outlets such as barbershops and clothing stores, by allowing them to share profits of the film by advertising at their businesses.
Five.K.One debuts January 19, 2010, and will be accompanied by a soundtrack, and behind the scenes book. For more information, visit www.fivekone.com.
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Any worries about "Avatar" after it got off to less than a phenomenal start this past weekend have been erased.20th Century Fox's costly 3D tentpole movie sold $16.4 million worth of tickets on Monday and $16 million on Tuesday in the U.S. and Canada, according to the studio. That's the highest-ever domestic gross on either day for a film playing outside of summer.
Including flicks that opened in summer, traditionally the strongest time of the year for moviegoing, "Avatar" had the third-biggest non-holiday Monday (excluding Memorial Day and July 4th weekends) ever and the third-biggest Tuesday ever.
Huge weekday ticket sales for "Avatar" are yet another sign, along with its higher-than-predicted Sunday, that word-of-mouth for the movie is fantastic and spreading fast.
According to people who have seen audience polling, "Avatar" will probably decline very modestly, if at all, this coming weekend compared with its $77-million debut. Combined with the $109.5 million it has grossed so far, it will probably be close to and possibly over $200 million by Sunday and on its way to an ultimate domestic gross of at least $350 million.
Combined with even bigger grosses from foreign countries, including a debut in Japan today that is expected to be very strong, a final worldwide total of more than $1 billion is looking more and more likely for "Avatar."
The $430 million that Fox, along with Dune Entertainment and Ingenious Partners, spent to produce and sell the movie is looking like a better investment every day.
-- Ben Fritz
Source: L.A. Times
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An impasse over the drug-testing protocol to be used in the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather welterweight title bout can be overcome if Mayweather agrees to allow the agencies used by the NBA, NFL and MLB to handle testing for boxing's biggest fight, Top Rank's Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, said Wednesday.
"Our suggestion is to utilize any of the independent agencies that work with the National Football League, the National Basketball Association or Major League Baseball, since they administer drug testing for their professional athletes," Arum said.
Bob Arum and Manny Pacquiao
The fight, which was tentatively scheduled for March 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, was knocked off track Tuesday over a significant disagreement on drug testing.
Mayweather continues to demand Olympic-style testing, which is conducted by the United States Anti Doping Agency. Its protocol calls for random urine and blood testing throughout the training camps, fight week -- even the day of the fight -- and immediately after the fight. According to Leonard Ellerbe, a Mayweather adviser, that means something like 3 to 5 blood tests and 10 to 12 urine tests over an approximately 10-week period.
Mayweather would be subject to the same testing as Pacquiao.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission and other state commissions only conduct post-fight urine tests and, in some cases, pre-fight urine tests.
Floyd Mayweather Sr., the fighter's father, has repeatedly accused Pacquiao of taking illegal substances. Pacquiao, who has risen through seven weight divisions to win titles in a record seven divisions while maintaining his speed and power, denies it. He has also never failed a drug test.
Floyd Mayweather Sr
"Manny says, 'I'm not going to let them take my blood whenever they want when I'm getting seriously ready for a fight. They can take all the urine they want,' " Arum said. "My fighter feels uncomfortable with that and feels that would weaken him. I know if I deal with an organization that deals with pro athletes we can agree to the protocol."
Arum said that USADA's testing procedures would not allow it to assure Pacquiao that he would at least not be blood tested during the week of the fight or even on the day of the fight.
"He'll give them blood but he wants to know it will stop at a particular point," Arum said. "He wants the fight. But he's a proud guy. He won't be pushed around by this guy [Mayweather]."
Ellerbe said that if Pacquiao won't submit to random testing, it must mean he has something to hide.
"The reason why they don't want to do that is because obviously there is something to hide," Ellerbe said. "You're not going to dictate to an organization like USADA, which has tested the elite athletes of the world, on how their testing is conducted. Arum is talking about the fighters like they're going to have a blood transfusion. We're talking about a tablespoon of blood. We're taking about a tablespoon. This is the same representation of Manny Pacquiao that says he's superstitious and doesn't like needles and then you look all over his body and he has tattoos. So which one is it? If there's nothing to hide then what is the problem?
"Boxing has an opportunity and a platform with the whole world watching to say we have a clean sport. What better opportunity that with the two top guys in the sport stepping up to make this happen?"
Arum said Pacquiao would submit to three blood tests, even though he would prefer not to have his blood drawn at all.
"Let's be very clear on the real issues we differ on. It's not about being tested," Arum said. "Manny is on board with that since it's such a major concern of Floyd Mayweather Jr. It's about who does the testing and the scheduling of the procedures.
"Manny will submit to as many random urine tests requested," Arum said. "Regarding the blood tests, he will subject himself to three tests -- one given in January during the week the fight is formally announced, one 30 days from the fight, no later than Feb. 13, and the final one immediately following the fight, in Manny's locker room.
"The major issue related to the testing rests with which independent agency will administer these tests," he said. "The United States Anti Doping Agency cannot do it because they will not amend its procedures to accommodate the blood testing schedule we have outlined. USADA, under its guidelines, would have the right to administer random blood tests as many times as they want up to weigh-in day and that is ludicrous.
"If Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions are sincere in creating 'a level playing field,' as they stated in their [Monday news] release, our recommendations should put their minds at ease. If not, one has to wonder if their motives are more about leveling the fight."
Arum said that if they use the agencies that administer testing to the American professional sports leagues they could write down a specific set of guidelines, while USADA will only conduct testing one way.
"You gotta understand," Arum said. "I'm dealing with a Filipino fighter who is superstitious and I have to tell him they (USADA) have the power to come into his dressing room before the fight and take his blood. Any time means any time. They would put nothing in writing as to any kind of schedule. That is ludicrous. Let's bring in the testers from the NBA or the NFL or baseball."
Ellerbe said Mayweather is not interested in anything other than the USADA way of doing things because its way is random.
"We're sticking to what we've been saying," Ellerbe said. "Manny Pacquiao or any of his representatives are not going to dictate random testing. That's the whole point of random testing, so you don't get a chance to study for the test. USADA is the premiere agency for doing this, the gold standard. They're not going to have Top Rank, Mayweather Promotions or Golden Boy Promotions dictate to them. It's pretty simple. Manny Pacquiao can put an end to this whole thing by stepping up to the plate and doing this."
Source: ESPN
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Singer Amy Winehouse has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking a theatre manager at a pantomime.
Ms Winehouse was in the audience for Cinderella at Milton Keynes Theatre on Saturday, watching an all-star cast including Mickey Rooney, Anthea Turner and Bobby Davro.
But she was reported to have entered the pantomime spirit a little too enthusiastically, repeatedly shouting out "He's f***ing behind you!" during the performance. The Sun newspaper said that she also branded the Ugly Sisters "bitches".
Thames Valley police launched an investigation after the front-of-house manager, Richard Pound, complained that the Back to Black star had pulled his hair, punched him and kicked him when he asked her to move seats.
They confirmed today that Ms Winehouse was arrested after she attended Milton Keynes police station in Buckinghamshire voluntarily with her legal adviser at 1.15pm.
The 26-year-old, from Hertfordshire, was charged under the name Amy Civil with a public order offence and common assault following the incident on Saturday night.
Source: London Times
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 23, 2009 at 12:00pm
Kanye West surprised everyone by showing up to bless the mic at Kid Cudi's recent Los Angeles show.
Mr West has been off soul searching ever since the Taylor Swift VMA disaster, but he showed the Nokia Theater crowd he's back better than ever.
The Louis Vuitton Don spit a hot freestyle before ripping through his new joint "I'm So Appalled". He even brought out his baby girl Amber Rose for a few. I'm not sure why, but hey who cares she's a dime.
I'm assuming this signals the end of Kanye's hiatus, we should be hearing a lot more from him in 2010.
Kanye West "Freestyle" Live
Kanye West Performing "I'm So Appalled"
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