Daniel "Diggy" Simmons has his legendary pop's brash but lovable quality — and it's most apparent when Rev Run's son is rapping. "The son of a king, so why would I ever bow down?" he asks on his Internet-famous freestyle "Made You Look (Flow Stoopid)."
(CNN) -- An 8-year-old boy who is a Dutch citizen is the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash in Libya, airline officials said Wednesday.
Afriqiyah Airways confirmed on its website late Wednesday that the other 92 passengers and 11 crew members were killed when the plane crashed while trying to land at the Tripoli International Airport.
The child, identified as Ruben van Assouw, suffered multiple fractures in his lower limbs and underwent an operation at Al Khadra Hospital in Tripoli, a doctor at the hospital said.
The boy has seen a Dutch Embassy representative and is sedated and asleep, she said.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry, which had a representative at the hospital waiting to identify the boy, declined to confirm the child's name.
The Afriqiyah Airways plane originated in Johannesburg, South Africa. Of those killed, 58 passengers were Dutch, six South African, two Libyan, two Austrian, one German, one French, one Zimbabwean and two British. Another 19 passengers' nationalities could not immediately be identified. The 11 crew members were all Libyan.
The plane, an Airbus A330-200, was at the end of its nearly nine-hour flight when it crashed at 6 a.m.
"We express our sincere regret and sadness on behalf of the airline. As well, we would like to express our condolences to the relatives and friends of those who had passengers on Flight 8U771 destined for Tripoli late last night, due to arrive around 6 o'clock this morning," said Nicky Knapp, a representative of the Airports Company South Africa. She was speaking on behalf of Afriqiyah Airways.
Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament, said the child's survival, "given this tragic event, is truly a miracle."
At the crash site, workers with surgical masks combed through the smoldering wreckage, which spilled over a large area. A wheel lay atop a pile of bags. Two green airline seats sat upright and intact amid burned parts of the aircraft.
Officials recovered the plane's flight data recorder, which investigators use to piece together a flight's last minutes.
The Tripoli-based Afriqiyah (Arabic for "African") operates flights to four continents. The planes in the fleet carry the logo 9.9.99: the date when the African Union was formed.
The plane that crashed was one of three Airbus 330-200s that the airline owns.
It's been a minute since we've heard from Foxy Brown and I have to say it was really good seeing her. She was very emotional and humble during her interview with Mo'Nique yesterday (May 12).
She talked about how she woke up the day after a photo shoot with Jay-Z and Kanye West for XXL and had lost 100% of her hearing.
She has since recovered and credits God for pulling her through, but to this day doctors have no idea how it happened.
Fox Boogie also gave a big shout out to Pam Grier, the original Foxy Brown for giving her permission to use the name
Bobby Ray aka B.o.B. is riding high right now with his smash single "Nothing On You". The song has huge crossover appeal and sits at # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 after several weeks at # 1.
B.o.B. blessed the Jimmy Kimmel audience by performing the aforementioned song with help from Bruno Mars. He followed that up with "Lovelier Than You."
His debut album 'B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray" is in stores now.
That almost became a reality according to the star. The man who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the hugely successful 'Twilight' films told Oprah Winfrey he dreamed of becoming a rapper as a teen.
“I grew up watching American movies and stuff. Also, I used to want to be a rapper when I was like 14,” he told her.
To which Oprah replied, “No you didn’t!” Her amazement isn't a big surprise since it is well known she isn't a fan of the art form.
But for Robert, hip hop has been a huge help for him in developing an American accent for movies even if his co-star and rumored girlfriend Kristen Stewart doesn't think so.
"Kristen thinks I do the most terrible American accent'" he joked.
Pint sized British rapper Lady Sovereign has confirmed rumors that have followed her the last several years by admitting she is a lesbian according to a report by ContactMusic.
She says she would have 'come out' sooner if not for pressure from her publicists to keep her sexuality a secret.
She told Diva magazine "Magazines would always ask about it (sexuality) but (they) would get stopped by my publicists. It was my choice, too, because I was a bit worried about it - but now I don’t really give a s**t.
"You can’t hide away forever. It’s just stupid and now I’ve come out I feel a lot more comfortable with myself. But it was a bit scary back then, because some people do have horrible opinions."
Sovereign was signed to Def Jam Records in 2005 by then President, Jay-Z. She enjoyed success the following year with her single "Love Me Or Hate Me."
In 2007 she appeared to have fallen on hard times personally, culminating in her breaking down, crying and rambling at a show in Brooklyn, New York at Studio B.
During the show she only performed two songs before telling the audience she was depressed, broke, didn't want to do this show.
She then blurted out, "America f*cks you up, f*ck America"
DJ Clue played this one in during his Power 105 mixshow earlier today. Unfinished version of Drake’s Lil Wayne-assisted “Miss Me” off Thank Me Later. It’s still contains Drake’s verse from “All Night Long”, but also a brand new hook and a part of Wayne’s verse.
A shocking beating by a teacher on a 13 year old student was caught on tape.
40 year old Sherri Davis, a special education teacher at Jamie's House Charter School in Houston attacked the boy after he mocked a couple of girls who were dancing.
She beat, kicked and slapped the boy for almost a minute while other students laughed.
The student who taped the video on her cell phone said at least 4 other teachers watched the beating but didn't intervene.
A spokesperson for the shool, Sue Davis watched the video and was appalled. "The video is absolutely horrifying," she said.
"Obviously when we saw the video there was no doubt that the teacher would be terminated,"
"It's unreal that a teacher would do that to a student," said the spokesperson. "That's just not something we are going to tolerate."
The boys mother, Alesah Johnson has filed a police report. She says her son suffered a black eye and several bruises.
Jamie's House is a charter school for students for disciplinary problems.
The spokesperson said it doesn't matter what the student did, he didn't deserve a beating like that.
The student who filmed it said the teacher is normally nice, but not that day.
"Ms Davis came in there and went crazy," said the student.
(CNN) -- A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police officer who told authorities he was shot while on patrol last month has admitted he shot himself intentionally, the city's police commissioner said Tuesday.
Sgt. Robert Ralston, 46, confessed to police early Tuesday morning that he made up the story, possibly to a get attention or a transfer, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said in a news conference.
Ralston reported that on April 5 he saw two African-American males arguing on a train track in West Philadelphia. He told investigators that when he stopped the two men for questioning one of them pulled out a gun and shot him in the left shoulder.
His claim sparked a search for a phantom suspect.
Ramsey noted that there were many inconsistencies throughout the month-long investigation.
"The evidence never did match up. We have forensic evidence at the scene that did not match with the story," he said.
One example of inconsistent evidence was that the gunpowder residue found on Ralston's shirt matched the ammunition used by the police department, he said.
The commissioner said that Ralston, who is white, told police his attackers were black because the district where the shooting took place is predominately black.
"It's troubling in a lot of ways," Ramsey said. "It inflames racial tensions in our community, and that's certainly something we don't need."
Ralston, a 21-year veteran of the police force, will be made to pay the cost of the investigation that followed his report, and has been suspended with the intent to dismiss, Ramsey said.
He will not, however, face criminal charges because police granted him immunity to obtain his confession.
At left, Guerdwich Montimere pictured in his 2007 Dillard yearbook. At right, Jerry Joseph from Odessa, Texas.
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A Texas high school basketball player turned out instead to be a 22 year old imposter.
Guerdwich Montimere, a 2007 graduate of Dillard High School in Ft Lauderdale,Florida made his way to Odessa,Texas where he fooled everyone by telling them he was a 16 year old Haitian orphan named Jerry Joseph.
The coach of the Odessa Permian basketball team, Danny Wright even allowed Montimere to stay in his home.
Wright says he and the rest of the basketball team are in shock.
"I guess he fooled all of us," Wright said. "Hurt is the best way to describe how I feel. I gave him all the opportunities in the world to come clean. I don't know why he did this."
Meanwhile a criminal investigation is already underway. Montimere has been areested and charged with presenting false identification to a peace officer, but that could be just the tip of the iceberg.
"A 22 year old being in our schools is very much a concern that's why this has been an ongoing investigation, that's why we have not dropped it that's why we were not going to let go until we had found the truth," said ECISD Police Lt. Mark Rowden.
Louis Vives and Cedric Smith, coached Montimere on their AAU team when he lived in Florida. They confronted him at a tournament in Arkansas last month.
"I was hoping I was wrong because he was one of our kids," Vives said. "He grew up in our system. He played with us and you don't want any of your kids to go in the wrong direction in any way. But what's right is right. He can't go around impersonating a 16-year-old kid. He can't go living his youth all over again."
After fingerprints from his original immigration papers came in and were a match, Montimere confessed to the deception.
"I knew it was a matter of time. The truth was going to come out. I'm just glad it's over." Smith said.
The Permian team went 16-13 this season including a loss in the bi-district round of the playoffs.
Jailed rapper Lil Wayne has to face the music again - without his music.
The rap mega-star was busted yesterday for "music contraband" - a charger and ear phones for a watch that doubled as a digital music player
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"He was found with a charger for an MP3 player and unauthorized earphones," in his Rikers Islan cell, a source said.
Authorities seized the music pieces at 8 a.m. after a prison rat tipped off officers, who found the music contraband in foil and a bag stuffed in Lil Wayne's trash.
A subsequent search found another inmate in the same wing with the accompanying music player, sources said.
The "Lollipop" rapper and the other inmate - will be charged with an infraction for contraband a Correction source said.
Investigators are trying to find out how Lil Wayne got the items. Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to gun charges in October after a semiautomatic pistol was found on his tour bus in 2007.
You might say Drake is obsessed with the ladies these days, but back before he was a burgeoning superstar he was obsessed with something else you might be surprised by.
"When I was 17, I was heavy on eBay," Drake reveals during the next episode of MTV's new show "When I Was 17," which airs Saturday at 11 a.m. and also features Queen Latifah and Olympic softball player Jennie Finch. "I was a beast. I was like an eBay guru." It was a different time for Drake then; he wasn't the hottest rapper in the game busy with ladies tossing their undergarments his way.
Instead, he was a supporting actor on teen hit "Degrassi: The Next Generation" and living a life that was nearly as normal as any other kid. His online hobby, however, wasn't supported by his friends, who thought it was a bit strange.
"I used to call him up and be like, 'Yo, what are you doing?,' " childhood friend Niko explains dismissively with a puzzled face. "And he'd be like, 'Shopping on eBay.' "
According to the rapper, he was involved in a few scandals. He sold items on the online auction site just as often as he bought them. To hear Drake tell it, though, everything he pushed online wasn't always on the up and up. And as for his own purchases? Well, let's just say today they might be considered as crime too.
"Mostly it as just clothes, electronics, jerseys and velour suits," Drake says. "I look back now and it's all hideous"
Well, it took a few years, but Cory Gunz has finally signed to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment. We all thought years ago — in the wake of Gunz dropping lyrics for Weezy's Tha Carter III blockbuster "A Millie" (Gunz's bars never made the album as originally planned, but it did land on mixtapes) — that Cory was going to be down with the team. ... But there was the matter of the Bronx native's recording deal with Def Jam and then President Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter.
"[There were] miscommunication issues," Cory said recently in New York about why he's just now getting down with YM and CM. "Me and other ventures, a bunch of other paperwork. [Years ago] Wayne took time out of his schedule. He was promoting Tha Carter II and he took time out of his schedule to come from 'TRL' and '106 [and Park]' and come to Sony studio and lay the verse. I was about 17 and it was for my first album, a song called 'I Gotcha.' Shot out to Just Blaze. He took that and remixed it. Wayne did that for free back then. It was a situation that was supposed to go down before, but I was in paperwork with Hov at the time. One thing led to another. I was freed up and he reached out by the powers that be and now I'm here [on his label]. History is about to be made. He just kept it 100. I got nothing but respect for him. Free Wayne."
"Shout out to Wayne," he added. "Shout out to the whole Young Money family. Shout out to Mack Maine. Everybody. It's definitely official. Young Money/ Cash Money. Shout out to Wayne for giving me a shot. He kept it real. All I'mma say, that this is it. This is what it is. Everybody just better get ready."
Cory has been recording a bunch of material for an album that he had planned to title God Forgives, I Don't. That LP is now going to be an EP and will be preceded by a gaggle of mixtapes. Cory's Young Money debut LP still has no title, but Weezy will steer the ship once he gets home from prison later this year.
"Definitely. Wayne is gonna executive-produce the album," he explained. "I trust his insight. He's going to be overseeing everything. I'm gonna keep doing the things I been doing. I think that's what's gotten me noticed. I'mma just keep my grind moving. Whatever ventures I can do, I'm bringing my family through. My whole team is gonna eat. I'm just telling everybody to get ready."
Cory will have no problem getting acclimated into his new family. He has relationships with quite of few of his teammates already.
"I haven't met Nicki [Minaj] yet," Gunz said. "Me and Drizzy met a while back when they was doing the I Am Music Tour in Arizona. I went over there with Shaquille, and Drake shouted me out [onstage]. It was something he didn't have to do. The fact he did that way before [I was on Young Money], I was humbled by that. As far as Jae Millz, me and Millz — Pause — had a relationship before all of this. I went on my first road tour with Millz. I talk to Chuckee and Twist a lot. Mack, of course, I talk to. Gudda is family, Short [Dawg]. Shout out to T-Streets too."
She might have been playing the role of wholesome girl next door, Hanna Montana at the time, but it's clear Miley Cyrus had the dance moves of a grown woman.
Miley was at a wrap up party last summer in Georgia for the movie 'The Last Song' when she and 44 year old producer Adam Shankman hit the dance floor for some dirty dancing.
Shankman who is gay seemed to be really enjoying himself as Miley grinds her butt into his crotch.
Does it make it ok because Shankman is gay?
In my opinion no, because there should be a limit to the kind of contact an adult should have with what the law considers to be a child.
According to TMZ the people who shot the video were said to be offended by what they saw.
No wonder Miley is in such a hurry to push her career into the adult arena with her new video for "Can't Be Tamed" . Looks like the age of innocence for her was lost a while ago.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Gucci Mane will address the media tomorrow morning at 12:01 AM (May 11th) when he is released from the Fulton County Jail.
Representatives for the rapper confirmed with AllHipHop.com that the rapper will hold the press conference at the jail, as soon as he is freed.
Gucci will discuss a number of issues brought up while he was incarcerated over the past year, for violating his probation, by using cocaine and other drugs.
Last week, the rapper announced he had severed his ties with former manager Debra Antney and Mizay Ent as well as booking agency Hitt Afta Hitt and the company’s owner Johnnie Cabbell.
Both Antney and Cabbell are named in a number of lawsuits in multiple states, for allegedly booking Gucci Mane and taking deposits, even though the rapper was heading to jail to serve the one-year sentence.
Yesterday, Antney called out Cabbell in an interview with AllHipHop.com and distanced herself from Cabbell, while wishing Gucci Mane continued success.
“Johnnie Cabbell, I stood there with yo raggedy a**. I didn’t fall down,” Antney told AllHipHop.com. “I tried to back you. I tried keep it 100 with you. But now, you violated," she said. “You go online and you talk that s**t like you didn’t do nothin’. N***a, I don’t book shows. Money don’t come to me first. I’m not thirsty for money like that. People know when they call my phone I shut you down and tell em ‘no.’.”
Johnnie Cabbell denied all allegations against him in a statement released to AllHipHop.com last week and claimed he was still acting as the official booking agent for Gucci Mane and Nicki Minaj.
“While it is being widely reported that my booking agency Hitt Afta Hitt is no longer working with Gucci Mane, I have yet to receive any type of correspondence from Gucci, the label or anyone else that supports that,” Johnnie Cabbell told AllHipHop.com in a statement today (May 5th). “I have known and worked with Gucci for over a decade. I have seen his career grow from being a local phenomenon into a household name and I feel like I helped play a minor role in his success.”
Rap veterans CYPRESS HILL have cancelled an upcoming concert in Arizona in protest of a new state immigration law.
Arizona lawmakers recently passed the SB1070 immigration bill, allowing officials to detain anyone they suspect to be an illegal alien.
The new ruling has infuriated a string of stars including Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am, and Cypress Hill have pledged their support to immigrants by scrapping their planned gig in Tucson on 21 May (10).
Explaining the move in a statement, the California-based Latin group says, "This decision was made in an effort to show support and solidarity with those, undocumented and otherwise, being directly affected by this unconstitutional law. Cypress Hill recognizes those living in the struggle for their basic civil rights."
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