Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 27, 2012 at 10:00am
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While out in the UK recently Bow Wow stopped by Tim Westwood's show for a Q and A session. He was asked who the hottest producers in the game are right now. His answer revealed how the beat to "Stay Schemin" slipped through his fingers.
"Jahlil Beats hands down," he said, regarding the hottest producer. "Jahlil did Meek Mill's 'I'm A Boss'... did a couple joints for myself. His little brother the Beat Bully is the dude who did 'Schemin' which is crazy because if you look on the blog on the youtube I had the 'Schemin' beat first. A lot of people don't know that. I just used the beat for the webisode series just to play while me and Meek were in the studio," he explained. "I don't know how it reached back to Ross and them, but as soon as I heard it I was like, 'You gave that beat to Ross?' And he was just like, 'I didn't know if you was gon' use it. I thought you just used it for the...' I said 'aghhh.' Look at it, it happens."
Bow Wow tells Tim Westwood he had the "Stay Schemin" beat first.
Bow Wow "Underrated" Webisode 12 Live From Amsterdam
(L-R) Producers Rich Middlemas and Sean Combs, and directors T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay
Diddy came away from Sunday night's Oscar Awards with a trophy for "Undefeated." The football documentary beat out "Hell and Back Again," "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" and "Pina."
Diddy, who was an executive producer on the project was understandably ecstatic with the win.
"God is the greatest!!!! Thank you! #undefeated !!!!" he tweeted right after the show. "I am buggin. DREAMS DO COME TRUE!! Hard work pays off!!"
You gotta give it to Sacha Baron Cohen, he knows how to promote a movie. The actor showed up on the red carpet of the Oscars Sunday night dressed as Admiral Aladeen from his upcoming movie The Dictator. Flanked by two female "security" members, Cohen was interviewed by Ryan Seacrest.
“It gave me the opportunity to bring my dear friend and double tennis partner Kim Jong Il. It was his dream to come to the Oscars and be sprinkled over the red carpet and Halle Berry's chest again." Cohen told the E! Entertainment host, explaining why he had an urn with him.
Cohen then pretended to trip and spilled the fake ashes all over Seacrest. Check out the video below.
Admiral Aladeen with urn of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il's ashes
(L) Admiral Aladeen sprinkling his homie's ashes and (R) Tina Fey using them to mark a cross on her forehead
Nicki Minaj opened the NBA All-Star Game up tonight [February 26] by performing during the player introductions. The Harajuku Barbie sang/rapped "Moment 4 Life," "Turn Me On," "Starships" and "Super Bass."
Nicki Minaj Performs "Moment 4 Life" x "Turn Me On"
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 26, 2012 at 10:30am
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Shawty Lo held a listening session for Still Got Units on February 22nd as he prepares for the album's release. Lo and his G-Unit/D4L team asked for opinions on songs that may or may not make the disc's final cut.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 26, 2012 at 10:00am
Curren$y and Styles P have released the official cover for their upcoming EP #The1st28. The project is an unexpected surprise for hip-hop fans and will contain 5 songs that Spitta and The Ghost recorded in the last couple of months.
Flo Rida helped get fans in a festive mood during NBA All-Star Weekend at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on Saturday (February 25) by performing his new single "Good Feeling."
The song is off of his upcoming fourth studio album, Only One Rida (Part 2).
ORLANDO, Fla. — Minnesota forward Kevin Love won the 3-point Shootout during the NBA’s All-Star Saturday festivities.
Love was consistent throughout, but had to survive a tiebreaker in the first round and sweat out the last few shots from Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant to pull out the 17-14 victory in the final.
Love tied for third in Round 1 with 18, along with Miami’s Mario Chalmers, but beat him 5-4 in a tiebreaker. Defending champion James Jones led all shooters in the opening round with 22 and Durant was next with 20.
Orlando’s Ryan Anderson just missed eliminating both Love and Chalmers, totaling 17 after missing his final 2-point money ball.
Love and Durant both had 16 in Round 2 to advance to the finals, with Jones posting 12.
●DUNK CONTEST: Utah’s Jeremy Evans won the Slam Dunk Contest at the NBA’s All-Star Saturday night festivities.
Evans, who got into the competition as a replacement for injured New York guard Iman Shumpert, earned 29 percent of 3 million text message votes cast by fans.
This was the first year that fans had total control of voting, a major tweak from past competitions.
Evans earned the win over Houston’s Chase Budinger, Indiana’s Paul George and Minnesota’s Derrick Williams.
Evans dunked with a camera on his head, dunked two basketballs while jumping over a seated assistant and then donned a Karl Malone jersey while dunking over mailman-dressed comedian Kevin Hart.
This year’s contest lasted three rounds, but the four participants had only two minutes per round to complete a single dunk.
●SKILLS CHALLENGE: San Antonio point guard Tony Parker won the Skills Competition of the NBA’s All-Star Saturday night festivities.
Parker was the only one ofsix participants to break 30 seconds in the first round (29.2) and this time of 32.8 in the final run on the obstacle course was better than Boston’s Rajon Rondo (34.6) and New Jersey’s Deron Williams (41.4).
Williams won the competition in 2008, which involves participants moving through a dribbling circuit, successfully throwing chest passes through a hanging tire and driving for a layup.
●SHOOTING STARS: Team New York had the touch from outside and won the Shooting Stars event to open the NBA’s All-Star Saturday night festivities.
Former Knicks star Allan Houston nailed his third attempt at a half-court shot to give his team consisting of current Knicks guard Landry Fields and Cappie Pondexter of the WNBA’s New York Liberty the victory.
The winner completed the shooting course in 37.3 seconds in the final round. It was better than the 47.6 posted by the Team Texas trio of former Houston Rockets star and TNT analyst Kenny Smith, current Rocket Chandler Parsons and Sophia Young of the San Antonio Silver Stars.
Team Orlando and Atlanta posted the slowest times of Round 1 and were eliminated.
If you're a Rihanna fan following her on Twitter you might want to avoid criticizing her about her relationship with Chris Brown or risk having her and her 14 million "army" members on the social networking site get ratchet on you.
The latest episode all started when a user @JuhReeV expressed disappointment in Rihanna for recording two songs with Brown recently.
After that insult from Rihanna @JuhReev kept going in on the singer until Riri told her followers she was being cyber bullied.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 25, 2012 at 12:00pm
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Nottus Tre is a new artist out of Seattle starting to make some noise. He drops a new video for "Da Scrilla" featuring Glasses Malone. The Abaz Beats and X-Plosive produced track will be on Nottus' latest project F.N.S. 3, which is due out in May.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 25, 2012 at 11:00am
In a recent interview with American rap icon Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, we discussed his evolving philanthropic efforts, bridging business with social responsibility, and what’s next on his radar.
Rahim Kanani: What was the moment upon which you decided to become active in the philanthropic space?
50 Cent: Once I achieved success in 2003 with my first album, Get Rich or Die Trying, I quickly realized how I could use my success to make a difference. Shortly after, I launched the G Unity Foundation. And since its launch, we have given out numerous college grants, created a community garden with Bette Midler’s New York restoration project, and done many community events.
Rahim Kanani: How did the partnership with your Street King energy drink and the United Nations World Food Programme come about, and what kind of success have you had thus far?
50 Cent: While touring in Africa, I was shown places where the poverty level was more extreme than I had ever seen or known existed. I knew I wanted to do something. I was introduced to Chris Clarke of Pure Growth Partners and together we founded Street King. We were looking for a charitable partner and the UN World Food Programme was a perfect fit. They have been a great partner and we recently traveled together to Kenya and Somalia and saw firsthand the devastating famine there.
For every Street King energy-shot sold we give one meal to a hungry child. We have provided 3.5 million meals since September 2011, but we have a long way to go to reach our goal of 1 billion, and I hope fans will continue to join me in the quest to put an end to the suffering in Africa and around the world.
Rahim Kanani: Building on this work, you recently launched a partnership between SMS Audio and Feeding America to make an impact here at home. Was this a natural progression of your efforts?
50 Cent: It was clearly the next step. While the starvation is so severe in Africa, you can’t ignore the fact that so many children in the United States are going to bed hungry. So with my audio company, SMS Audio, for every pair of headphones sold in the United States, 250 meals will be provided through Feeding America.
Rahim Kanani: If you were speaking to your fellow artists in the world of hip hop and beyond about why philanthropy should be an important part of their careers, what would you say?
50 Cent: According to World Bank numbers, contributing 1% of business to charitable organizations could alleviate extreme poverty around the world. So with conscious capitalism, I hope to influence my peers and other entrepreneurs to create a new standard of making change.
Rahim Kanani: With respect to “all-things” 50, what’s next on the horizon?
50 Cent: Speaking of all things, my film “All Things Fall Apart” was just released on DVD on February 14th. I’m also busy working on new products for both SMS Audio and Street King. In addition, I am completing my next album, working on a fitness book, and developing several new films as well as a TV series. There are many other things in the works that I’m sure you will hear about soon.
Rahim Kanani is a writer, advocate, strategist and entrepreneur for global social change. His articles, opinions, and interviews with global leaders can be found at www.rahimkanani.com. Follow Rahim on Twitter@rahimkanani and on Facebook. Have an idea for a great interview? Email rahim@rahimkanani.com.
As we previously reported the G-Unit boss visited a refugee camp in the dangerous country of Somalia as a guest of the WFP. The trip was documented by ABC's Nightline. Accompanied by reporter Dan Harris, the record mogul turned humanitarian greeted children, handed out meals and even rapped at the request of some of the kids who had walked miles to get food and medical help.
"I want to be more, not just as an artist but as a person," 50 told Harris "[For] my legacy, what's left behind. I don't want to be a guy who's just remembered for writing a few cool songs."
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