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Rap and country collided last night at the 2011 CMT Awards.
Ludacris lent his vocals to country music singer Jason Aldean's song "Dirt Road Anthem remix.” The Nashville crowd seemed to like the collaboration.
Ludacris tweeted that history had been made and that an official remix co-produced by Big K.R.I.T. would be available on iTunes beginning today.
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Beyonce became the latest victim of a premature album leak, when her new cd '4' hit the internet three weeks ahead of it's June 28 scheduled release date.
The singer addressed the issue via her Facebook page.
My music was leaked and while this is not how I wanted to present my new songs, I appreciate the positive response from my fans. When I record music I always think about my fans singing every note and dancing to every beat. I make music to make people happy and I appreciate that everyone has been so anxious to hear my new songs.
No word on whether or not her record label Sony will move up the original release date.
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Slim Thug and his Boss Hogg Outlawz drop a heater off their upcoming album 'Serve and Protect 3.'
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We previously reported on a story about goons out looking for Prodigy, wanting to do him harm, because of his hard hitting autobiography 'My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy.'
Infamous Mobb's Ty Nitty, Capone, Cadillac Tah and Mike Delorean of Bars & Hooks have all made video replying to the book. Either denying the allegations or trying to distance themselves from past felonious capers.
When the biggest goon of them all Don Contablinsky made his videos titled "F*ck Prodigy" some speculated it might even be P himself, poking fun at the others by parodying them.
Check out the Don's latest video and tell us what you think.
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Karrine Steffans became famous by claiming she slept with a who's who of celebrities and athletes. Her best-selling novel, "Confessions of a Video Vixen" named names, places and events.
Stars like Usher, Diddy, Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap were all mentioned in the book Steffans now admits was all a big lie. A hoax to sell more books to a public what was all too eager to believe her tales of sex and violence.
In a new youtube video, a half dressed Steffans finally comes clean.
"The vixen doesn't exist, but you can't tell people that because they won't believe that," she said. "It was all fabricated. I didn't even name my books. 'Confessions of a Video Vixen' -- I would have never named that book that. Somebody else named it."
In the videos, parts of a documentary being shot by My-kel Monroe, we don't see Steffans apologize or even sound remorseful for trashing people's names just to make money. Instead she talks about not wanting to a 45-year old video vixen.
"Who the hell wants to be a 45-year old vixen?" she continued. "Pamela Anderson couldn't even pull it off. I don't wanna be Pam Anderson. I don't want to be 40-something years old and can't get a job, because I'm 45-years old and my thing is being sexual."
Queens rapper Kool G. Rap, who has a son with Steffans received some of the harshest criticism in the book.
G. Rap told AllHipHop he didn't feel bad about the things that were written about him because he knew the allegations of him abusing her were false.
"I'm not the monster she tried to portray in her book," G Rap said. "In her first book, she mixed lies with truth. And captured an audience that wasn't able to decipher what was true from what was false. If I feel I'm not guilty of anything, I'm not going to vigorously defend myself, I know what it is. It seemed like her story was a story and that's it. It's always two sides to a story. It's her story, my side of the story and the truth. And I would consider my story more closer to the truth. I'm not trying to put out a book. If I did put out a book, it wouldn't have anything to do with any of that."
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Nicki Minaj the actress? Had things gone according to her original plans, the Young Money femcee would be a movie star and not a rapper.
Nicki talked to Entertainment Weekly Sunday [June 5] at the MTV Movie Awards about her dreams of making it onto the big screen one day.
“I went to school to be an actress. I never expected to be a rapper. It just fell in my lap,” she said. “So I would like to get an acting gig. I hope that when I am done with the tour I can go back and do some acting. That is my long-term goal.”
The tour Nicki referenced is her upcoming trek with Britney Spears, that runs from June 16 to August 13.
When the tour is over, Minaj will have to squeeze in time to start working on her sophomore album. But if Hollywood comes calling, she already has plans for who she would like to work with. As one might expect, Nicki wants to start at the top.
“I want to work with Will Smith, because he’s a very successful rapper turned actor and therefore a role model,” Minaj said. “And Tim Burton because I love his crazy imagination. He comes up with these characters that are just so fascinating and the costumes and just creates these whole worlds.”
Minaj did have a role in an independent movie titled "Stuck On Broke" last year. Due to scheduling conflicts she wasn't able to finish the movie, but a scene featuring Nicki did hit the internet.
Nicki Minaj in "Stuck on Broke"
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The-Dream is back with his first offerings from his upcoming album 'The Love IV (Diary of a Mad Man), due out September 20.
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Big Snoop Dogg is back with episode 3 of his web series. The 'Double G News Network.'
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For some former athletes it's not easy to know when enough is enough. It's especially tough when you feel you have unfinished business, and still have the ability to play at an elite level.
Former NBA great Allen Iverson wants one last shot at playing in the best basketball league in the world. He retired during the 2009-1010 season after 14 years in the game, but felt he wasn't leaving on his own terms.
"I would like to announce my plans to retire from the National Basketball Association. I always thought that when I left the game, it would be because I couldn't help my team the way that I was accustomed to. However, that is not the case." he said at the time.
He spent part of this past season playing in Turkey, before being derailed by an injury. He had to have surgery to remove a lesion that had grown on his right leg.
He's totally healed now and tells Slam he's still ready to play in the NBA again.
AI: I want to finish my career out in the NBA, if that’s possible. And that’s in any capacity. I did a lot of things, I made a lot of mistakes as far as my actions and things that I’ve said, and I think that was the reason for me not being in the NBA. My whole thing now in trying to get back is letting any organization know that I’m willing to play any part that they want me to play.
SLAM: You watching any Playoff ball and thinking, “Damn, I should be out there?”
AI: You know what, it’s hard. It’s hard to watch. Like, I try to watch it and then at times you’re watching and you get emotional and I get away from it, have a little moment by myself or to myself, and then I try to get back and watch it. I mean, it’s basketball—what I love. It’s what I was born to do. So it’s hard to watch, but it’s hard not to watch.
SLAM: What’s drawing you back out on the court? Just a love for the game?
AI: [Long pause; starts to choke up] I love to play basketball. I’ve always said, If I can’t do what I’m accustomed to doing out there on the basketball court, I’ll leave it alone. If I can’t be effective and help my team win basketball games out there, than I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to play the game that I feel like I’m the best in and go out there and not play like that, not feel like I’m that person. I don’t think it would be fair to my fans, my team, my organization, nothing. But when I look at basketball and when I know what I can do on the basketball court, it’s just hard knowing that I went through a whole NBA season and didn’t play when I know how much I can play. I’ll play for a team in any capacity just to get back out there doing what I love to do.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr., a former five-division champion and one of the top pound-for-pound stars of the era, will end a 16-month layoff when he challenges welterweight titlist Victor Ortiz on Sept. 17.
"My fans have been waiting long enough. Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz. Sept 17, 2011 for the WBC world championship," Mayweather tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
"It's true, but I can't discuss the details of the deal right now because of our contract," Rolando Arellano, Ortiz's manager, told ESPN.com. "There will be more details coming out and I will be with Victor later."
When asked where the fight would take place, Arellano said he was unsure but that "it will probably be at the MGM Grand (in Las Vegas)."
Mayweather, 34, has not fought since easily outpointing Shane Mosley on May 1, 2010. Since knocking out Ricky Hatton in December 2007, Mayweather has fought only twice, a decision win against Juan Manuel Marquez in September 2009 and the win against Mosley.
Most of the news Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs) has made has been outside the ring. He has had numerous scrapes with Las Vegas police and has multiple cases pending against him, including four felonies and four misdemeanors stemming from an domestic incident with the mother of two of his children last September.
Mayweather also has declined to face pound-for-pound king and welterweight titlist Manny Pacquiao in what many believe would be the biggest money-generating fight in boxing history.
The lone issue that caused Pacquiao-Mayweather to fall apart during their first of two negotiations was Mayweather's insistence on random blood testing during the lead-up to the fight. Pacquiao was willing to have blood tests, but the camps could not agree on the specific protocol.
Mayweather has said numerous times that for any fight he has, he will insist on random drug testing. Mosley accepted it. Schaefer told ESPN.com that Ortiz agreed to drug testing under the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency protocol.
Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KOs), 24, was the 2008 ESPN.com prospect of the year. The native of Garden City, Kan., now based in Oxnard, Calif., moved up from junior welterweight and outpointed Andre Berto to win a welterweight title on April 16.
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It's a dirty south thing as Big K.R.I.T. hooks up with Ludacris and Bun B for his latest video.
50 Cent has had an amazing rise to fame and fortune. From a young street hustler to becoming one of the biggest rap stars and businessmen on the planet.
His life story is now being told in a new comic book titled 'Fame 50.'
Check out the full press release below.
Catapulted from the underground New York rap scene to a multi-platinum recording artist, 50 Cent reveals his many identities in an upcoming Bluewater Productions biography comic book based on his life and career.
Scheduled for an July 2011 release, “Fame: 50 Cent” follows the unknown Curtis James Jackson III as he crafted a hip hop persona and began his climb up the music charts with monster rap hits like “In Da Club” and “How We Do.” The issue also addresses his drug-dealing and violent past, his well-documented public feuds with other rap culture figures as well as his lesser known years as a young up and coming boxer, his current title of entrepreneur and the one identity that changed his life-that of doting father.
“50 Cent, no doubt, has enjoyed a colorful, extraordinary and sometimes sordid life.” said writer Dan Rafter. “Despite a broken home life and early run-ins with the law he found his niche. You don't sell 11 million records if you don't have some talent and market savvy; he's got plenty of both.”
“Fame: 50 Cent,” will also feature cover art by famed DC comic book artist Joe Phillips. The interior art was illustrated by J. Bruce Bogle. The issue will retail for $3.99 and be available through most online venues like Amazon.com as well as local comic book stores. To pre-order the comic book from Midtown Comics click here: http://bit.ly/lBE9Fq
The “Fame” series was launched earlier in 2010 as a companion piece to the successful “Female Force” and “Political Power” biography titles. The comic allows Bluewater to delve into the celebrity culture and understand how a person rises to fame, deals with the new-found celebrity and continue to produce in the public eye. That includes actors, sports figures, recording artists and royals.
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