2009 will be remembered as the year rappers went to jail en masse..
The latest rap artist to to end up on the wrong side of the law is Sean P of The Youngbloodz.
According to WSBTV, the Decatur,Georgia mc was arrested in Atlanta for disorderly conduct at a listening party for his new mixtape.
Bond was set at $1500, no word yet if it's been posted.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants Manny Pacquiao to submit to Olympic-style drug tests, including a blood test within days of their tentatively scheduled March 13 bout, and failing to agree to these terms could threaten the fight, Mayweather's camp said Tuesday.
Pacquiao has expressed reluctance to submit to a blood test within 30 days of the proposed world welterweight title fight, which will be staged at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
"As management for Floyd, we're insisting this Olympic-style, random [blood] testing take place to assure it's a level field before the biggest fight in history," Mayweather's advisor Leonard Ellerbe said. "We're definitely at an impasse."
Mayweather's promoter Richard Schaefer said a Pacquiao promoter told him the Filipino superstar would not agree to a blood test within 30 days of the bout because of his superstition against testing.
Pacquiao and Mayweather have previously submitted, and passed, urine tests for performance-enhancing and illegal drugs supervised by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.Travis Tygart, chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said a blood test can allow testers to detect use of energy-boosting synthetic EPO, human growth hormone and "a number of potent performance enhancers not detectable in urine. . . . With a [30-day] window like that, you could dope to the gills and get away with it."
Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, said Mayweather's push for blood testing is a ploy to avoid fighting Pacquiao, who has won back-to-back fighter of the year awards and has battered world champions Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto.
"I knew Floyd wanted a way out of the fight," Roach said.
Roach said his concern about the timing of a blood test has nothing to do with hiding anything. "It's 100% mental. If it's in your head that [a blood test] weakens you, then it will weaken you," he said.
Roach suggested a compromise, saying he would allow Pacquiao to give a blood sample one week before the fight, but no closer than three days before the bout.
"One would assume that he'd find it acceptable to be subject to the same testing that Lance Armstrong, Kobe Bryant and Floyd Mayweather agree to," Mayweather's promoter Schaefer said.
In another development, Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, said Schaefer's Golden Boy Promotions has applied for a permit to stage the fight at MGM Grand..
Several venues, including Staples Center and Dallas Cowboys Stadium, expressed interest in staging the Pacquiao-Mayweather bout with guarantees of $20 million and up. But MGM Grand, with tickets ranging from $500 to $2,500 and other related Las Vegas properties offering closed-circuit seats, can apparently offer more than $30 million.
Source: L.A. Times
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Videos After The JumpMary J. Blige is out promoting her just released cd "Stronger withEach Tear".
The Queen of R&B stopped by 106 and Park to talk with Rocsi and Terrence J about the album and the work she is doing in the inner city of New York.
The Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now was created by Mary to empower disadvantaged women and girls in Yonkers, New York.
She recently got the green light from BET for a reality show centered around the Foundation.
The show has recently been conducting casting calls for 18- to 26-year-old females who live in Yonkers, where Mary grew up
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 23, 2009 at 12:30am
Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi appeared on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien Tuesday (December 22).
The Good Music/Universal Motown Records artist performed "Pursuit Of Happiness" off of his debut album 'Man on the Moon: The End of Day' which is in stores now.
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Sean Combs is a perfectionist, he wants everything to be just right. Whether it's his Sean John clothing line, his new male and female fragrances or the liquor he co-owns, Ciroc Vodka.
So maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that the man who spent $3 million dollars on his own 40th birthday bash is taking his time with his next album "Last Train To Paris'
Originally slated to come out in September 2009, Diddy recently revealed to the Chicago Tribune he has no idea when the disc will see the light of day telling them:
"I don't know the exact month. We're going to have it come out when it's ready. We're bringing everything together, editing it down. We did 60 songs. Also, we're figuring out what's missing."
In the meantime he's hard at work with his new group Dirty Money which features Diddy, ex-Danity Kane singer Dawn Richard and Kalenna Harper.
Hopefully we will see that project sooner than later.
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Images of Arturo Beltran Leyva's corpse covered with blood-stained peso notes and jewelry raise concerns that law enforcement is adopting the tactics of hit men. An inquiry is underway
Reporting from Mexico City - The dead drug lord lay on his back, blood-soaked jeans yanked down to the knees. Mexican peso notes carpeted his bullet-torn body, and U.S. $100 bills formed neat rows next to his bared belly.
The gory photograph of Arturo Beltran Leyva, one of Mexico's most wanted kingpins, was among those widely published here during the last few days following his death in a shootout Wednesday with Mexican marines in Cuernavaca, capital of the central state of Morelos.
Even in a country where pictures of gruesome crime scenes routinely show up on the front pages of newspapers, the Beltran Leyva images have stirred controversy over who staged the tableau and whether Mexican authorities did so to send a taunting message to the rest of his powerful drug trafficking gang.
Several commentators said the photos, some of which showed religious jewelry laid across Beltran Leyva's stomach, were evidence that the government had adopted the macabre public-relations methods used by hit men. Gang members often line their victims' bodies along the roadside or hang them from bridges, leaving menacing, handwritten messages to scare foes.
The federal government, locked in a violent 3-year-old crackdown on drug cartels, has denied any responsibility for the photographs, calling the images "pernicious" and "reprehensible."
"The Mexican government fulfills its duty to halt organized-crime activity, but it does not get into personal humiliation," Interior Minister Fernando Gomez Mont said in a television interview.
But that has not laid the doubts to rest.
"Photographs of a corpse: law or vengeance?" the Excelsior newspaper asked in a headline over the weekend.
"The humiliated corpse, with its pants lowered, covered with bloody bills in one photo and religious objects in another, showed the typical modus operandi of narco-traffickers," security analyst Jorge Chabat wrote Monday in El Universal newspaper, which earlier ran a version of the photograph on its front page. "The only thing missing was a sign saying 'so that you learn to respect' to confirm the unmistakable stamp of an act of narco revenge.
"The problem is much deeper: It has to do with the absolute lack of democratic culture and respect for human rights in our country."
Among the main questions was who took the time to cover Beltran Leyva from neck to knees with blood-smeared bills, apparently to publicize the scene. Most of the bills appeared to be 500-peso notes, which are worth about $39 each. Another image, taken without the bills, showed Beltran Leyva's face disfigured by bullets.
Beltran Leyva, who called himself the "boss of bosses" and headed a family-run gang based in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, was killed when marines stormed an upscale apartment complex Wednesday. Six bodyguards and one commando also died.
Gomez Mont said the marine commandos, who are part of the Mexican navy, left the crime scene in the hands of coroner specialists from Morelos. He said federal officials would help state authorities try to figure out how the photographs were taken and distributed.
Morelos officials said Monday that they had opened an investigation.
El Universal published a series of photographs Sunday showing three people in civilian clothes, with faces digitally blurred, lifting Beltran Leyva's body by the arms and belted pants. Pictures showed gloved hands handling the bloodied bills and then portrayed the body covered with them.
The case sparked debate among journalists over newsworthiness of the photographs, which were credited to Mexican newspapers and wire services. But mainly it had people wondering whether the drug war, with 15,000 dead in three years, had both sides adhering to the same vicious rules.
"It is the state forces that adopted the basic language of the narco," columnist Luis Petersen Farah wrote in the Milenio newspaper. " 'There's your money,' the photograph seems to say. It's the language of war."
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Atlanta rapper T.I. was officially been released from a low-security federal prison in Forrest City, Arkansas today (December 22).
The rapper, born Clifford Harris Jr., is expected to report to Dismas Charities Atlanta West correctional center tonight, where he will spend three months.
T.I. was sentenced to 366 days in prison after an October 2007 incident, in which federal agents caught him attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers.
After he has finished his stay at Dismas Charities Atlanta West, the rapper must complete 500 hours of community service, in addition to another 23 days of house arrest.
T.I. is expected to work during the three months he is confined to the halfway house, according to reports.
Source: AllHipHop
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 22, 2009 at 10:55am
Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will give their fans a Christmas this year with the release of the FixTape Vol 3: Special Delivery.
The mixtape was slated to be released today (December 22), but the group delayed the album to ensure fans received the highest quality of material from the group.
The FixTape Vol 3: Special Delivery will now be released on December 25th as a present to the group’s longtime fan base.
"We decided to release this project on the day that our fan family are celebrating a day of giving special deliveries to their loved ones, Dec 25,2009,” Layzie Bone told AllHipHop.com. “Initially we planned to release it on Dec 22,2009 (and we still are going to give them one song) but we want to give them our total gift on a much more meaningful day to them."
Various members of the group will reveal more details about the mixtape on their website BTNHBoard.com and during a live Ustream event later today.
Group member Flesh-n-Bone expressed enthusiasm about the direction of Bone’s mixtape and album, Uni5: The World’s Enemy.
Last week, the group released snippets of the album, which has a planned release date in March.
“It feels good to be back as a full family and team with my brothers after all the years apart from one another,” Flesh-n-Bone told AllHipHop.com. “We have been working at a steady and focused pace. One day at a time, one fan at a time we are working hard to truly give the world a special delivery on March 2, 2010. Stay ready so you won't have to get ready."
To view Bone Thugs-n-Harmony live conference later today, click here.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 22, 2009 at 10:29am
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1. Rite Back produced by Vaughn T of the Labtechs
2. What Up produced by Mr. Porter
3. Thin Ice produced by Mr. Porter
4. Need To Know featuring Bilal produced by Mr. Porter
5. Happy Birthday produced by Quelle
6. Mill Ticket produced by Brenk
7. Get Back produced by Lord Quest
8. Alex Foley featuring Danny Brown & Chips Dinero produced by House Shoes
9. The Chase produced by D Fresh
10. The Way It Goes produced by 14KT
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Kid Cudi must feel like the world is against right about now.
After just recently being kicked off of Lady Gaga's 'Monster Ball Tour'. The "Day N Night" rapper was pulled over at gunpoint by the Los Angeles Police Department Monday (December 21). In an apparent case of mistaken identity.
Cudi had just wrapped up a photo shoot for NME outside a Joyrich store on Melrose Avenue. As he and his crew left the store in two SUV's and a Jeep the LAPD swarmed in like they were about to take down a Mafia boss.
After being pulled over, a total of five police cars blocked the path of the rap star and his entourage. Then made them get out of their vehicles onto their hands and knees where they were handcuffed.
The police soon realized their mistake and released them with the explanation that someone had identified them as being involved in a robbery.
Kid Cudi seemed to take it all in stride and released a statement via NME :
"Who knows, really, the story changed a bunch," he said. "I'm just happy to be back. I'm a free man! For that moment I was not free. I was in handcuffs. It did not feel very comfortable.
We're in LA, it's a rowdy place in the United States, you know? And a lot of shit goes down. And these cops have to use force. So it's, like, I understand that they were doing their job. I just wish we weren't in that place at that time."
I think Cudi must have been in shock and just relieved he didn't get shot because what happened would have outraged most people. The LAPD doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to dealing with people of color.
Here's hoping Kid Cudi has a much better 2010 with much success.
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Nominees Beyonce, Maxwell, and the Black Eyed Peas are among the first performers that have been announced for the 52nd Grammy Awards.
Beyonce, who already has 10 Grammy wins on her ledger, leads the trio with 10 nominations this year, including Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (“Halo”), Album of Year (I Am…Sasha Fierce), Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (“At Last”), and Best R&B Song (“Single Ladies”).
Maxwell has secured 6 nominations. Powered by his successful LP Blacksummers’ Night, Maxwell’s list features distinctions for Song of the Year, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, and Best R&B Song for “Pretty Wings,” Best Pop Instrumental Performance (“Phoenix Rise”), and Best R&B Album.
Three-time Grammy winners The Black Eyed Peas have also secured 6 nominations, including Record of the Year (“I Gotta Feeling”), Best Pop Vocal Album, and Album of the Year for The E.N.D.
Through January 15, fans can upload a 20-second video of renditions of BEP’s “I Gotta Feeling” for the opportunity to have their covers appears live during the Grammy telecast.
The videos can be uploaded at http://www.cbs.com/specials/grammys/upload/ The 2010 Grammy Awards will air live from LA’s Staples Center on Sunday, January 31 at 8PM.
Online coverage will be available through www.grammy.com, Youtube (www.youtube.com/thegrammys), Twitter (www.twitter.com/thegrammys), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/thegrammys).
Source: AllHipHop.com
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Videos After The JumpSoulja Boy Tell Em is proving to naysayers that he is much more that a one hit wonder.
A lot of people thought the young rapper from Atlanta would vanish after his smash hit song "Crank That" which also spawned a worldwide dance craze started to slow down. However, he bounced right back on his sophomore album 'iSouljaBoyTellEm' with the hits "Kiss Me Thru The Phone" and "Turn My Swag On"
Now as he preps the release of his third LP "The DeAndre Way", Soulja Boy stops by the popular Tim Westwood UK radio show to talk about where he's at both musically and personally.
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It’s game over for a 14-year-old Roxbury boy, whose overwhelmed mother was so exasperated with his incessant video game playing that she called the cops on him.
The final straw for Angela Mejia snapped at 2:30 a.m. Saturday when, “I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the light on in his bedroom,” hours after she had told him to go to sleep.
“Sometimes I want to run away, too,” Mejia said, breaking down in tears in her immaculate apartment. “I have support from my church, but I’m alone. I want to help my son, but I can’t find a way.”
Mejia is among thousands of parents struggling with today’s video-game obsessed youth. The Entertainment Software Association reports the popularity of video games is skyrocketing, with 42 percent of adults intending to give, or hoping to find one in their Christmas stocking this week.
Mejia’s son - one of four children the 49-year-old is raising alone - was playing “Grand Theft Auto,” an exceedingly violent video in which the gamer assumes the role of ladder-climbing criminal.
An argument ensued as Mejia unplugged her son’s PlayStation. Then, this mad-as-hell mother dialed 911. Police responded and managed to talk the boy into shutting off the game and going to sleep.
“They (police) were just like, ‘Chill out. Go to bed,’ ” the boy told the Herald.
Mejia said she approves of athletic-themed videos, but as for “Grand Theft Auto,” she said, “I would never buy that kind of video. No way. I called (police) because if you don’t respect your mother, what are you going to do in your life?”
Mejia, a cafeteria cashier at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jamaica Plain, said the two officers who responded “were surprised” there was more involved than putting the lid on a simmering family feud.
Emmy Award-winning documentarian Lawrence Kutner, former co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital is the author of “Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.”
“Clearly, it’s a very, very rare situation for someone to call the cops. That she went to the extreme of calling the police tells me more about her level of frustration than anything else,” Kutner said.
“Adults tend to view video games as isolating experiences,” Kutner said. “Kids view them as social experiences. It’s a way in part - especially for boys - of gaining social acceptance.”
Source: Boston Herald
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Video After The JumpPolice are hunting a man who carried out what they describe as 'bizarre' sexual assaults after he repeatedly knelt behind a shelf stacker to smell his behind.
The man was caught on CCTV creeping up on the unsuspecting worker at least 20 times as he stacked shelves at a Co-op store in Plymouth, Devon. The footage shows him casually pretending to chose items from shelves before suddenly crouching down behind the employee.
The man's odd behaviour to the employee was spotted on at least two occasions. The offences only came to light when the employee became suspicious and informed his manager who checked the in-store security video.
The victim - who cannot be named for legal reasons - said: "I had no idea what was going on. I thought it was all a bit strange. I was shocked and I couldn't believe he was in the aisle for that long."
Police say they are treating it as sexual assault.
DC Steve White of Plymouth police, said: "We are treating this incident very seriously and we would appeal to the public's help in tracking down this man.
"It is a bizarre incident and the shop was full of people. Someone must have seen the man and could well help us identify him."
The man is white, clean shaven and of medium to large build.
During the first incident he was wearing a brown T-shirt with jeans and black shoes and glasses and in the second a blue shirt with jeans.
Source: London Telegraph
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Jadakiss is scheduled to hit the stage with Clipse and Melanie Fiona tomorrow (December 22) in New York City’s Highline Ballroom and XXLMag.com has five pairs of tickets to give away.The first five people to email xxl@harris-pub.com with their full name and the correct answer to the following trivia question will win: In what movie did Jada share screen time with Jessica Alba? The winner will receive a confirmation email from the XXL staff.Tickets for the concert—which will also feature sets by DJ Envy, DJ Clue, DJ Self and R&B newcomer Wish, among others—are currently on sale for $20. The show is 21 and over and a strict dress code will be enforced with women expected to wear heels and men collared shirts. No hats, hooded sweatshirts or boots allowed. Doors open at 8 p.m. EST. —XXL Staff
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Gargamel Music Incorporated has announced their full support for their star reggae artist Buju Banton, who was arrested December 10 on federal drug conspiracy charges.
According to Gargamel president Tracii McGregor, Banton will be provided with top legal service representation from David Oscar Markus, who is a veteran of many high-profile drug cases including that of former Panama military dictator Manuel Noriega.
Markus is set to replace Banton’s current attorney Herbert Walker III, who represented the singer for his initial court appearance.
“It’s on and popping. Walker has never really been our attorney,” McGregor explained to CaribWorldNews.com. “This is Buju and we’re going to get him the top legal representation there is. We are ready to fight. I saw him yesterday and told him to go inward and preserve you.”
Banton, real name Mark Anthony Myrie, was indicted last Tuesday (December 15) with two other men for allegedly attempting to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine.
Before his arrest, Banton was having a highly successful year, receiving a Grammy nomination for his latest album Rasta Got Soul.
A video for the track “Optimistic Soul” was recently completed.
Last Wednesday (December 16), Banton waived his bail hearing right and will face trial in Tampa, Florida. If convicted, he faces a minimum of 20 years to life in prison.
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Hip-hop sensation Timbaland has unveiled a three-week run of major-market clubs as he supports his just-released album, "Shock Value II."
The Virginia-born rapper/producer will begin the new road trip with a Jan.15 performance in Norfolk, VA, stopping by intimate venues in 12 cities nationwide through early February. The current schedule concludes with a Feb. 3 show in Dallas.
Timbaland dropped his third solo set, "Shock Value II," earlier this month. The album, which peaked at No. 36 on The Billboard 200, features guest vocals from Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Nelly Furtado and Katy Perry, among others.
Several tracks from the new effort are currently streaming at the performer's MySpace page.
Earlier this week, Timbaland promoted his new release with a free concert and album signing at Universal City, CA'sHard Rock Cafe. While there, he also invited special guests Brandy, JoJo and Hayes to the stage.
Timbaland has collaborated on chart-topping hits with a variety of musicians, including Justin Timberlake ("Sexyback"), Missy Elliot ("Get Ur Freak On") and Shakira ("Give It Up to Me").Tour Dates:
January 201015 - Norfolk, VA - NorVa
16 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
17 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
19 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
20 - New York, NY - Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
22 - Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy
23 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
24 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
26 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
28 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues
29 - West Hollywood, CA - House of BluesFebruary 20102 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
3 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
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