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Six months after his release from prison and deportation to Belize, Shyne is apparently getting his music career back on track. The MC dropped a record called "Messiah" on Monday night, and on Tuesday morning (March 13), MTV News got hold of his handiwork on a remix of Rihanna's "Rude Boy."
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T.I.'s wifey Tiny and Lil Wayne's ex Toyo are promoting the second season of their BET show which debuts tonight at 10 pm.
Off the bat Tiny establishes that T.I. won't be needing the porn magazines Chelsea sent to him while he was on lockdown. If you haven't seen the T.I. interview with Chelsea you need to check it out here. Chelsea seemed ready to have sex right then and there.
From there Tiny and Toya talk about their charities and a possible marriage for Tiny & T.I..
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Oscar De La Hoya and his partner in Golden Boy Promotions Sugar Shane Mosely stopped by Lopez Tonight to talk about the upcoming mega fight between Shane and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The fight is sure to be the highest grossing pay-per-view event in history.
Both Shane and Oscar are confident Mayweather will suffer his first loss May 1.
Oscar gives his opinion on Manny Pacquiao refusing to take the Olympic Style drug testing.
The two also talk about the origin of their their friendship.
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Prince George's prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation of three county police officers who beat an unarmed University of Maryland student with their batons after a basketball game last month in an incident that was caught on video and surfaced publicly Monday, authorities said
County police also ordered an internal affairs investigation of the three officers, Maj. Andy Ellis said. Ellis said the inquiry would also focus on a county officer who filed official charging documents that are contradicted by the video.
"The video shows the charging documents were nothing more than a cover, a fairy tale they made up to cover for the officers' misconduct," said Christopher A. Griffiths, a lawyer for the student. "The video shows gratuitous violence against a defenseless individual."
Police Chief Roberto L. Hylton said that one of the three officers had been identified and that his police powers have been suspended during the investigation. The other two officers will also be suspended as soon as they are identified, Hylton said.
"I'm outraged and disappointed after viewing the video," Hylton said. "That's not the type of professional conduct we promote. Any employee who uses excessive force will be held accountable."
Griffiths released the video Monday after county prosecutors dropped charges against John J. McKenna, 21. McKenna and a co-defendant, Benjamin C. Donat, 19, had been charged with felonies on suspicion of assaulting officers on horseback and their mounts. On Friday, a prosecutor dropped charges against Donat, also a U-Md. student. Griffiths is also representing Donat.
The incident occurred March 3 near the university's College Park campus after the Maryland men's basketball team defeated Duke. After the game, students took to the streets to celebrate. Twenty-eight people were arrested or cited, sparking a debate between police and students over how and when it is appropriate to break up a group of revelers.
At least part of the incident with McKenna was videotaped by another student. The video, which lasts about one minute, is a continuous shot. It was discovered by Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator who worked on behalf of McKenna and Donat. The video does not show Donat, although Officer Sean McAleavey's charging documents say the two men acted together.
The video shows about two dozen students milling about on Knox Road near Route 1. About a half-dozen of them are pointing their cellphone cameras at riot police who are gathered between the students and Route 1.
The video shows McKenna on the sidewalk as he skips and throws his arms in the air. He stops about five feet from an officer on horseback, the video shows. In the video, McKenna's arms appear to be in front of him, but he does not appear to touch the officer or the horse. His hands are empty.
McKenna backs up, then two county police riot officers rush toward him from the street, the video shows. The officers slam McKenna against a wall and beat him with their batons. McKenna crumples to the ground.
As McKenna falls, a third county police riot officer strikes his legs and torso with his baton. The video shows the officers striking an unresisting McKenna about the head, torso and legs -- more than a dozen blows in all.
In the video, county police officers and officers on horseback from the Maryland-National Capital Park Police are seen nearby. They do not intervene in the incident with McKenna. The officers form a line and move toward the students who had been milling about, the video shows, and the students move back.
Charging documents say McKenna and Donat provoked the beating by attacking officers on horseback. The video clearly shows the officers rushing McKenna and beating him, although the teenager had not touched any of the mounted units.
The charging documents also say that the horses injured McKenna and Donat and make no mention of the beating by the officers. The video shows no aggression by the horses.
The documents sworn by McAleavey allege that McKenna and Donat were running and screaming in the middle of Route 1, prompting an unruly crowd to form.
As two officers on horseback from the Maryland-National Capital Park Police tried to regain order, McKenna and Donat "struck those officers and their horses causing minor injuries," McAleavey wrote.
McKenna and Donat "were both kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents say. Griffiths said Donat was beaten by county police with batons about a block away from where McKenna was beaten. The lawyer said the two do not know each other. Griffiths said both men suffered concussions from police baton blows.
McAleavey did not return calls for comment.
Lt. Stanley Johnson, a spokesman for the Maryland-National Capital Park Police, said that McKenna and Donat did not attack any of his officers or horses and that none of the department's horses kicked or struck McKenna or Donat. The charges against McKenna were dropped Monday without comment, Griffiths said.
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OPRAH WINFREY's cousin has accused the media mogul of embellishing stories of her poverty-stricken background, insisting her famous relative was "spoiled" as a child.
The media mogul has often claimed her family was so poor she was dressed in potato sacks and adopted cockroaches as pets growing up in rural Mississippi.
The TV titan's life comes under scrutiny in new book Oprah, by gossip queen Kitty Kelley, and the tome includes interviews with Winfrey's cousin Katherine Carr Esters.
She alleges Winfrey has exaggerated tales of her poor childhood, claiming that although the family wasn't rich, her cousin was relatively "spoiled" compared to her stories of abject poverty.
Esters says, "Where Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea. I’ve confronted her and asked, ‘Why do you tell such lies?’ Oprah told me ‘That’s what people want to hear. The truth is boring.’”
In an interview with EW.com, the book's author, Kelley, adds, "I was having lunch with Ms. Esters, and she was talking about Oprah’s lies. And I said, 'Well, are they really lies? They’re more colourful stories.' And Mrs. Esters is saying, 'No, those are lies. She said she was raised in abject poverty. Oprah said she never had a pretty dress until she was successful. She was beautifully dressed as a child.' I said, 'Is that the most important thing?' And she looked at me and said, 'No, the most important thing is that we were poor folks down there. But she was raised as an only child, and she had the full and undivided attention of all of these adults who spoiled her to death. And that was the reason she was so precocious and successful.'”
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I'm not sure who Nas has as a legal adviser, but he might want to fire them at once.
Nas and Kelis were in court Monday (April 13) in their latest divorce battle.
Again the news was horrible for Nas.
According to TMZ Nas was ordered to pay $47,292.42 in back child support and $40,454.00 in back spousal support.
He also has to pay 90% of Kelis' legal fees in the amount of $155,787.28. In addition to that he must pay $48,549.83 to cover Kelis' accounting expenses.
Last but certainly not least, the Queensbridge MC was ordered to cough up $10,000 a month until he's caught up on the $299,015.50 he owes in back spousal support.
Needless to say, Nas better get on the road and get some show money rolling in because Kelis and her lawyer Laura Wasser aren't playing around.
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PARIS - A French television station bowed Monday to Taliban demands and broadcast pleas from two French journalists held captive in Afghanistan who are facing the threat of death unless a prisoner-hostage swap is worked out.
French officials declined to comment on the threat and said they were consulting with the relatives of the two journalists who were captured in December in Afghanistan while covering France's military presence northeast of Kabul.
The Taliban circulated a video statement by the hostages that was posted on an Islamist Web site on Sunday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group that monitors extremist communications. It demanded a French TV broadcast of the comments and said three months of negotiations had failed.
Then, in a statement e-mailed to news organizations Monday, the Taliban group said it had submitted a list of detainees - meaning not senior figures - held in Afghan or U.S. jails to the French government. It suggested the journalists would only be released if those prisoners were, too.
The e-mail said France's government should pressure the U.S. and Afghan governments to meet the demands. Only those two governments hold detainees in Afghanistan.
France 3, a publicly funded television channel, the journalists' employer, showed a still photo from the video during its lunchtime news broadcast in a brief report Monday. It aired excerpts of the video during its evening broadcast but blurred the two men's faces.
In the e-mail, the Taliban said the video "is not aimed at making a media drama," and "the main goal is to get released the miserable detainees ... who are now living a life under torture and brutalities." It did not elaborate.
No timetable was laid out in the video statement or in the e-mail in English, which called for "swiftness and urgency" without which "the life of the French will face danger."
Asked about the demands, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero declined to comment beyond saying: "We prefer to show the greatest discretion on this point," because the safety of the hostages and the efforts to free them are at stake.
"We remain completely mobilized both in Paris and Kabul in a view to obtaining their freedom," Valero said. "We reiterate our firm condemnation of this kidnapping."
Valero said French diplomats are in close contact with the editorial leadership of France 3 as well as the families of the hostages, who met with ministry officials Monday.
The French government has said it was cooperating with NATO to win the journalists' release, but has stated little publicly about the abductions. It hasn't identified the journalists, though news reports have identified them by their first names, Stephane and Herve.
"It's three months now that we've been held hostage and the Taliban asked us to send this message," said Herve, in a beard, glasses and a red sweater as he read from a piece of paper in the video.
"They ask that all their demands be satisfied which wasn't the case, according to them, when they gave you their demands," he said.
A France 3 reporter summarized part of Herve's statement - that the two men are threatened with execution if the video is not aired and if the French government does not meet Taliban demands.
In a statement read by the anchor, France 3 journalists and personnel said they "are conscious that the video is blackmail" and "condemn it." However, they justified the airing of the video "in the face of the threat" hanging over their colleagues.
Three others, including their Afghan driver and translator, are also being held, Herve said.
Network officials said the situation was wrenching.
"We are really in the midst of a very complicated exercise," said Paul Nahon, a deputy head of news at France 3. He requested news organizations delay airing the video until the hostages' relatives had seen it.
Yann Fossurier, who heads the France 3 journalists' association, criticized the government's handling of the case.
"We have a government that has sought to create a polemic, to criticize the journalists, and point the finger," he said. "Today once again with the new threat that weighs on our colleagues, it makes things even more unbearable."
At the network's Paris headquarters, where Fossurier spoke to Associated Press Television News, wall posters spelled out the journalists' first names and noted they have been held in captivity for 104 days.
"This is the first time there is a real threat to execute the two journalists," Jean-Francois Julliard, the head of Reporters Without Borders, told APTN. "It's something that is very worrying."
The pair disappeared Dec. 30 along with two or three Afghan employees while traveling in Kapisa province, northeast of Kabul, where French soldiers are fighting the insurgents as part of a NATO mission.
Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders criticized comments in February by the then-head of France's armed forces, who said France had spent over euro10 million to try to find and free the journalists.
In January, the watchdog group expressed its surprise after President Nicolas Sarkozy's top adviser, Claude Gueant, told French radio that French officials had asked the journalists not to "venture out this way because there are risks," and said they had displayed "guilty" imprudence.
"The scoop must not be sought at any price," Gueant said then.
Source: The Wichita Eagle
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Here's the cover for Travis Porter's newest mixtape with DJ Teknikz,
Proud 2 Be A Problem! Planned to be released on May 18th!
Scheduled for release on Saturday, April 24th. Features include
J. Cole, Bobby V.,Lil Wayne, Memphis Bleek and more.
Below is the first song off of DJ Diggz' new project Cut From A Different Cloth.
CD will be hosted by A-Mafia.....Dropping soon!
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This girl is just mad talented.
She uses three iphones to recreate Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" from the drum track to the chords.
To top that off she sang it and nailed it 100%.
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Mark Sanchez is enjoying the perks that being the quarterback of the New York Jets brings.
He was was spotted leaving a 'Saturday Night Live' after party with a parade of women.
Six total managed to squeeze into the back of his Lexus sedan where he was also sitting.
I wonder if he had Juelz Santana's "Back To The Crib" playing when his ride pulled off.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Colombian pop star Shakira met child survivors of Haiti's earthquake on Sunday as her charity prepared to build a school in the disaster-stricken Caribbean country.
The singer, who has already joined Hollywood actors and other global celebrities to raise funds for the victims of the January 12 earthquake, flew into the wrecked Haitian capital Port-au-Prince aboard a private jet.
At the planned site of her Barefoot Haiti school, she met about a hundred children, some of whom danced to her songs. She then toured a camp housing nearly 50,000 people on a golf course. There, she met U.S. actor Sean Penn, whose own charity is also helping victims.
"We've come to make all the preparations to be able to start the building of a Barefoot school here in Haiti," Shakira told Reuters in a brief interview.
She explained that the school would be modeled on similar establishments created by her Pies Descalzos (Barefoot) Foundation, a charity that provides education, nutrition and psychological support to over six thousand Colombian children displaced by violence.
"We think we can employ what we've learned (in Colombia) here, apply it in this country which needs it so much at the moment," Shakira added. The Haitian school would be built and run with other non-governmental organizations.
The Haiti quake, described by some experts as the deadliest natural disaster in modern history, may have killed more than 300,000 people, the Haitian government says. It also left more than a million people homeless, many of them young orphans.
Shakira said that providing education to Haitian children would be a key part of the reconstruction of the quake-shattered country, which even before the disaster was already the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere.
"We need to think about the future of this country and of how Haiti's children can be useful to their societies tomorrow ... Education is one of the fundamental tools with which to develop and rebuild Haiti," she said.
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Swizz Beatz has shown tremendous growth as an artist and producer in the last several years.
In addition to working with some of the biggest names in hip hop currently, Swizzy is prepping his next solo project 'Life After The Party'. The follow up to 2007's 'One Man Band'
Swizz says you should expect different sounds on this album.
"2010 I'm gonna graduate my brand, my image, my music, my sound, my audience, my reach, everything
In music nobody is really raising the bar, he continued. We need to bring something more tangible to the table where it's not like a bubble gum factory where the fans are just chewing up the latest flavor and then spitting it out"
In addition to his own album Swizz is working on projects for Eve, Busta Rhymes, Drake and Nicki Minaj.
There's a lot more to the interview including Swizz's take on working with Cash Money/Young Money and Jay-Z.
Check it out below.
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Kelis admits giving birth naturally helped her believe in the power of God.
Kelis believes faith helped her give birth.
The 'Acapella' singer, who has nine-month-old son Knight from her former marriage to rapper Nas, admits her faith in God is stronger because of her natural childbirth.
She said: "It was really savage. I was in labour for 67 hours.
"I went natural, and it was savage! If you ever doubted the glory of God, you have to rethink that after having a baby.
"I mean there's no way I could have done this by myself. There is a creator."
She also admits that hitting the age of 30 in August 2009 gave her a whole new outlook on life.
She said: "My mom always used to tell us, 'Your twenties? Whatever. In your thirties you'll be your most beautiful, your sexiest, your smartest.' I've been through so many life changes getting here, it's like, she was right'."
Discussing her upcoming album 'Flesh Tone', she claims pregnancy helped her record her best work yet.
She told Style magazine: "Being pregnant and recording was awesome. I just felt I had so much to say."
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Lady Gaga is known for her racy, sexually-charged songs. But in real life, the 24-year-old singer (real name: Stefani Germanotta) is celibate.
While recently discussing her role in Mac’s Viva Glam campaign, which supports global HIV and AIDS projects, she told London's Daily Mail she wants her fans not to have sex, either.
"I can’t believe I’m saying this – don’t have sex. I’m single right now and I’ve chosen to be single because I don’t have the time to get to know anybody," she said. "So it’s OK not to have sex, it’s OK to get to know people. I’m celibate, celibacy’s fine."
She said her celibacy is something she wants "to celebrate" with her fans.
"It’s OK to be whomever it is that you want to be," she said. "You don’t have to have sex to feel good about yourself, and if you’re not ready, don’t do it. And if you are ready, there are free condoms given away at my concerts when you’re leaving!"
The important thing, she said, is for her fans to stay true to themselves. "I remember the cool girls when I was growing up. Everyone started to have sex," she said. "But it’s not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It’s cooler to be strong and independent."
She added that she is proud to be a role model. "When you’re in the public eye, you’re a role model whether you want to be or not. And I want to be," she said. "I’m not one of those self-obsessed artists who don’t care about their fans. It’s not just about the music."
She said she has a "responsibility" to her fans and that "and you’re an idiot if you don’t know that."
Source: US Magazine
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Mixtape Maven: Asher Roth
Holding It Down For: The Big Apple? He just moved to NYC
Mixtape: Seared Foie Gras with Quince and Cranberry
Real Spit: Asher Roth is in it for the long haul. He's not just trying to make a quick dollar and skate — although there are aspects to the game that frustrate him.
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The New York Jets acquired talented but troubled wide receiver Santonio Holmes from the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night for a fifth-round pick in this month's draft, sources confirmed by ESPN.com.
ESPN 1050 in New York first reported the story. The teams have yet to announce the trade.
Holmes, the 2009 Super Bowl MVP, gives second-year quarterback Mark Sanchez another big-time target to throw to in an offense that already included receivers Braylon Edwards, Jerricho Cotchery, promising tight end Dustin Keller and recently signed running back LaDainian Tomlinson.
Holmes has 235 career catches for 3,835 yards and 20 touchdowns, but also brings his share of off-field issues, which could explain the relatively low price the Jets paid to get him.
The 26-year-old Holmes is facing a lawsuit in Florida from a woman who claims he threw a glass at her, cutting her above the eye, in an Orlando nightclub. The police also have been investigating the woman's claims. Holmes denies hurting the woman, and a witness has since taken responsibility for tossing the glass, according to Holmes' lawyer.
In 2008, Holmes was arrested for possession of marijuana, and he was involved in a domestic violence incident in 2006; the misdemeanor charges were dismissed.
The 5-foot-11 Holmes, a first-round pick out of Ohio State in 2006, adds a speedy complement to the Jets' passing game. He's coming off the best season of his career statistically, after having 79 catches for 1,248 yards and five touchdowns. His presence should allow Cotchery to assume more of a slot role, where he is extremely effective, and take double coverage off Edwards.
Holmes has one year remaining on his contract.
"Wow we got Holmes this is crazy," All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis posted on his Twitter account. "We makin big moves this off-season. Putting the pieces together to get closer to that superbowl ring."
After making it to the AFC Championship Game last season, the Jets and general manager Mike Tannenbaum have been aggressive despite the league's "Final Eight" restrictions that have limited who they could sign. New York has traded for Holmes and cornerback Antonio Cromartie, and signed Tomlinson, safety Brodney Pool and kicker Nick Folk.
Add in the draft-day trade with Cleveland to select Sanchez last April and the acquisition of wide receiver Edwards from the Browns in October, and the Jets have made quite a splash during the last 12 months.
The Jets are still also waiting to hear from free agent linebacker-defensive end Jason Taylor, who met with the team for two days last week. The NFL's active sacks leader went back home to Weston, Fla., on Friday without a deal in place, but is expected to make a decision sometime this week whether to join the team he has considered an enemy for most of his 13-year career.
The Jets have shown themselves to be unafraid of adding players with questionable backgrounds. They traded for Edwards two days after he was accused of punching a friend of NBA star LeBron James in October outside a downtown Cleveland nightclub.
New York also acquired Cromartie last month from San Diego even though he was dealing with paternity issues. Cromartie has fathered seven children by six women in five states, and the Jets advanced him $500,000 to clear up his legal troubles.
The Jets acknowledged having interest before last year's draft in former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, who's currently serving a prison sentence. Burress pleaded guilty last August to attempted criminal possession of a weapon for having a loaded handgun in a nightclub that went off and shot him in the leg in November 2008.
Despite being benched earlier in the 2008 season for the marijuana arrest, Holmes made a number of big plays for Pittsburgh -- none bigger than in the Super Bowl against Arizona. His tiptoe catch in the corner of the end zone of a 6-yard touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger with 35 seconds left sent the Steelers to a 27-23 victory. He caught nine passes for 131 yards in the game.
The move for Holmes could also end speculation that the Jets might have interest in acquiring Denver's Brandon Marshall. Despite saying those rumors were unfounded, New York has been grouped among numerous teams who could make a move before the draft for the Broncos receiver.
Source: ESPN
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