01. Intro 02. Still Breathin 03. No Competion 04. Let's Talk Money 05. Catch It Feat. Dirty Mike 06. Go Hard Feat. Tre V 07. Feel Good Feat. Bip Bambino 08. Makin Plays Remix Feat. Gucci Mane & Criminal Manne 09. Aww Yea Feat. 8Ball & TMack 10. Yung Pimpin 11. Hatin On Me Feat. Gorilla Zoe & Dirty Mike 12. In The Hood Feat. Dirty Mike 13. My Type 14. Everyday Hustlin Feat. Dirty Mike, Kia Shine 15. I Go Off Feat. Waka Flocka & Dirty Mike 16. Freaky Tales Feat. Royal 17. Gutta Chick Feat. Emani 18. Outro 19. True Story
A Beverly Hills judge found Lohan violated probation on two DUI cases and sent the "Mean Girls" star away after a day-long hearing that left the actress in tears.
"She comes and goes as she pleases," said irate Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel. "There's been a history of that. No excuses."
Lohan was ordered to surrender on the morning of July 20.
The stiff sentence came after a weepy Lohan - breaking down at times - made an emotional pitch to stay out of jail.
"I'm not taking this as a joke," Lohan said through tears. "It's my life, it's my career."
When Revel handed down the sentence - three times what prosecutors sought on the probation violation - Lohan wept on her lawyer's shoulder.
Lohan missed seven scheduled alcohol education sessions between December 2009 and Monday, according to witness Cheryl Marshall, co-owner of the Right On facility.
Lohan's excuses for skipping her sessions ran the gamut from no flights at a North Carolina airport to promoting a clothing line to the death of her uncle (although she did not attend his funeral).
She had previously missed eight sessions, leading to a pointed letter sent to Lohan's lawyer last August.
"Her excuses are endless and disrespectful," wrote John Marshall, who runs Right On with his daughter.
Revel had ordered Lohan to attend weekly alcohol education classes - or face possible jail time for violating her probation.
Lohan, 24, wore a black top, black pants and sunglasses when she arrived at court early for a hearing that could end up with her in jail.
Revel - who ordered Lohan to wear a SCRAM bracelet in May - said she would not throw the onetime Disney star behind bars because of a positive reading for alcohol.
Lohan tested negative for booze hours after the June 7 reading of .03 on the bracelet - less than two drinks.
Prosecutor Danette Meyers had argued that the reading was a probation violation, and encouraged the judge to take a hard line against Lohan.
"She clearly violated your order," Meyers argued before the judge spared Lohan. "It makes no sense to have it there if you're not going to abide by it, and there's no sanction."
Lohan was nearly thrown in jail two months ago when she blew off a Los Angeles court appearance and was spotted hanging out aboard a yacht in the French Riviera.
Revel was so infuriated that she instead revoked LiLo's probation and ordered the former child star to post $100,000 bail to avoid 180 days behind bars.
She also ordered the hard-partying starlet to wear the alcohol-detecting ankle bracelet despite Lohan's concerns that it could affect her career.
The case stems from a pair of 2007 DUI arrests, including one where Lohan drunkenly crashed her car into a Beverly Hills tree.
She wound up spending 84 minutes in jail, and was placed on probation - which Revel extended for a year last October because of Lohan's failure to comply.
A Beverly Hills judge found Lohan violated probation on two DUI cases and sent the "Mean Girls" star away after a day-long hearing that left the actress in tears.
"She comes and goes as she pleases," said irate Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel. "There's been a history of that. No excuses."
Lohan was ordered to surrender on the morning of July 20.
The stiff sentence came after a weepy Lohan - breaking down at times - made an emotional pitch to stay out of jail.
"I'm not taking this as a joke," Lohan said through tears. "It's my life, it's my career."
When Revel handed down the sentence - three times what prosecutors sought on the probation violation - Lohan wept on her lawyer's shoulder.
Lohan missed seven scheduled alcohol education sessions between December 2009 and Monday, according to witness Cheryl Marshall, co-owner of the Right On facility.
Lohan's excuses for skipping her sessions ran the gamut from no flights at a North Carolina airport to promoting a clothing line to the death of her uncle (although she did not attend his funeral).
She had previously missed eight sessions, leading to a pointed letter sent to Lohan's lawyer last August.
"Her excuses are endless and disrespectful," wrote John Marshall, who runs Right On with his daughter.
Revel had ordered Lohan to attend weekly alcohol education classes - or face possible jail time for violating her probation.
Lohan, 24, wore a black top, black pants and sunglasses when she arrived at court early for a hearing that could end up with her in jail.
Revel - who ordered Lohan to wear a SCRAM bracelet in May - said she would not throw the onetime Disney star behind bars because of a positive reading for alcohol.
Lohan tested negative for booze hours after the June 7 reading of .03 on the bracelet - less than two drinks.
Prosecutor Danette Meyers had argued that the reading was a probation violation, and encouraged the judge to take a hard line against Lohan.
"She clearly violated your order," Meyers argued before the judge spared Lohan. "It makes no sense to have it there if you're not going to abide by it, and there's no sanction."
Lohan was nearly thrown in jail two months ago when she blew off a Los Angeles court appearance and was spotted hanging out aboard a yacht in the French Riviera.
Revel was so infuriated that she instead revoked LiLo's probation and ordered the former child star to post $100,000 bail to avoid 180 days behind bars.
She also ordered the hard-partying starlet to wear the alcohol-detecting ankle bracelet despite Lohan's concerns that it could affect her career.
The case stems from a pair of 2007 DUI arrests, including one where Lohan drunkenly crashed her car into a Beverly Hills tree.
She wound up spending 84 minutes in jail, and was placed on probation - which Revel extended for a year last October because of Lohan's failure to comply.
Former talk show host Montel Williams is major advocate of the use of medical marijuana. He recently talked to CNN about this issue.
Williams, who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis told a shocked CNN host he had smoked before he came to do the interview.
"I medicate myself every morning, I medicate myself throughout the day and I medicate myself every single evening," he said. "Just the same way anybody else does and just the same way I did when I was taking prescription medication in inordinate amounts to keep track of the same issues I use marijuana for."
Montel explained that he is a card carrying marijuana user in 2 of the 14 states it's legal in. He wanted to make it clear that he doesn't smoke weed to get high.
"People who have illnesses like mine that have traumatic neuropathic illness. We don't get the same euphoria of people that don't have it. I get neuropathic pain lessening and that's why I use it."
Do your thing Montel, keep enlightening these people and smoke your herb.
Singer Solange Knowles insists she has no desire to reach superstar status like her older sister Beyonce.
She explains, "I also hear, 'You don't get enough respect...you don't get enough love.' And I always tell those people that I'm getting your love. And to me that's enough. As long as I'm artistically free, my son is able to go to the best schools and financially we are good that's all that matters."
Solange suffered a mini mental "breakdown" while recording new tracks for her upcoming album because her search for perfection made her "lose it."
The star recently revealed she holed herself up in a house in Santa Barbara, California for an entire month with just her musician pals for company to work on the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2008's Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams.
But Knowles admits the intense process made her go a little crazy.
She tells Vibe.com, "There was definitely a little bit of a breakdown involved. I literally gave up my sanity for a while to do this record. To the point to where I started doing it in Santa Barbara and I had to relocate to L.A. because I was losing it. We literally were waking up in the morning and just making music all day and all night. We left the house maybe three times!
"It just started to wear on me in so many different ways. I started having these crazy panic attacks. I can say that I totally sacrificed so much mentally, emotionally and financially to get this record the way I wanted it to be. It's more than an album to me. It's a transitional time in my life. This is a dance record, but the lyrics can get pretty dark at times."
The Jamarcus Russell saga reminds me of the movie 'Training Day'.
It's as if I can hear Denzel Washington, as Detective Foley telling him "Damn Jamarcus, I didn't know you like that drank, that lean, that purple stuff, that T-3. that sip sip."
Right about now, the former #1 pick of the Oakland Raiders, quarterback Russell must wish his career was a movie he could start over.
The player who was expected to help bring the black and silver back to prominence turned out to be nothing more than overpriced bust.
Russell could never seem to grasp the team's offense or show that he could figure out NFL defenses. Most blamed his lack of success on laziness.
Now we might know the reason as he was just busted and charged with possession of a controlled substance -- codeine syrup -- after being arrested at his home in Alabama on Monday, in what authorities described as "an ongoing investigation". According to Fox10.
Lori Myles with the Mobile County Sheriff's Department said "We understand that typically sometimes this codeine syrup is mixed with a beverage, like sprite, and they call it sip-sip,"
"It's a felony, it's my understanding it's his first. He could be probation, or it could be drug court. Whatever the court decides,
Russell, who was cut by the Raiders this off season after only three years with the team was well compensated for doing nothing. He completed only 52.1% of his career passes, threw more interceptions (23) than touchdowns (18) and had a career QB rating of 65.2. Yet he was paid $36 million dollars and is due another $3million. Somewhere, Raiders owner Al Davis must pulling what little hair he has left out his head.
Coming out of LSU after his junior season, Russell seemed like a can't miss prospect. Now he will be lucky to ever play in the NFL again after these latest charges.
Russell bonded out of jail for $2500 dollars and is headed into NFL history as the biggest bust of all time.
Hope everyone enjoyed their Fourth of July holiday! We're fresh from New Orleans and the Essence Music Fest. N.O., thank you again for always showing love. Make sure you read up on our adventures out there elsewhere on the website.
On to the business at hand: Mixtape Daily's periodic check-in on the Slaughterhouse/Shady Records deal. The group (Royce Da 5'9", Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I) still isn't officially signed as of yet, but we asked Royce whether he would ink with Shady as a solo artist if his team is onboard. After all, Royce has been traveling with Marshall, and the two have a long history.
"We haven't talked about that," Royce said of a solo deal with Shady. "Right now, we just chillin'. We're getting back acclimated, being around each other, getting the creative juices flowing. Making sure we're on the same page creatively. We're just gonna focus on the Slaughterhouse album right now.
"Man, I haven't thought about it," Royce reiterated about his solo deal. "After I put this next album out, I'm a free agent. So I'm sure it's a possibility. But it's not something we're really thinking about right now. I'm gonna totally focus on the group, because I think [this] sh-- could be something special."
Royce said he's hoping Slaughterhouse can drop a project this year and he can come with a solo opus sometime in 2011.
"Depending on when this deal closes, which should be very soon, I think I'm gonna put my focus on the group," he said. "I got a lot of material done for my solo album, but I wanna take my time with it. I'm looking at next year for my album. I've been doing sh-- sporadically. I wanna put all my focus into the Slaughterhouse album first. I would like for my album to catapult off the next Slaughterhouse album. We're gonna cancel everything. We did the last [Slaughterhouse] album so fast, because we was behind the eight ball, time-wise. It ain't gonna be no timeline on this album. We going in, and we gonna keep recording until it's right."
Meanwhile, as Slaughterhouse continue to work on separate projects (Royce just released the mixtape Bar Exam 3 and Ortiz has his Yaowa tape dropping in the next few weeks), the Nine Nickel said Em is making sure they stay active as a collective while they wait on the label paperwork.
"Em gave me all types of tracks. Dre beats," Royce said. "Just because the paperwork ain't done don't mean we ain't been working. We definitely been throwing ideas around. [Em] stressed he wants to have a lot of involvement in the project. We want him to be as involved as he wants to be. Anytime he runs an idea by me, I respect him so much, I'm down with it. If he gives me a beat, like, 'Yo, y'all would sound ill on this,' I'm going to record it. That's pretty much what we been doing. He hasn't did no beats and gave me nothing yet, but he has given me a lot of beats from other producers."
Lil’ Kim may not get along with Nicki Minaj, but there’s one female pop star who she would love to work with. Hip-hop’s queen of raunch hints at a new collaboration with pop provocateur Rihanna.
The Queen Bee released her own remix to Rihanna’s “Hard,” but reveals that another pairing could be in the works. “I’m a huge Rihanna fan, and she’s a friend of mine, so if I had to guess, I’m 90% sure that song is probably in the works,” she told Australian website Lifelounge.
But Kim, who’s currently playing intimate shows in the U.S. and abroad, doesn’t want people to judge the song before it happens. “I look at it this way: if it happens, it happens. And it should be a surprise. It shouldn’t be something that people are anticipating, or have their own personal opinions on it before it even comes out. So I probably won’t ever mention that again.”
Although she may have choice words for Diddy and Drake, it’s all love when it comes to RiRi. “I just love Rihanna, I think she’s great,” gushed Kim.
Cover art and tracklist for Crooked I’s upcoming EP.
Tracklist:
01 Thinkin Out Loud 02 Independent (prod. Rick Rock) 03 Can I Talk To U (prod. Grinch) 04 Let Me Buy U A Drink f. Vaugn Anthony (prod. Tabu) 05 Music Is My Life f. Brian Rivers (prod. Komplex) 06 #OKBYE f. Skyy (prod. Grinch) 07 Everythang (prod. Dirty Dunnz)
A lot of people know Lloyd Banks had been shot, but the G-Unit rapper has rarely talked publicly about it.
In an interview with VladTV, Banks recalls the circumstances that led up to the shooting and how it's changed him.
"This was around '50 Cent Is The Future', the first mixtape, this was in South Jamaica Queens," Banks explains. "Just going to the nigh clubs still, you know what I mean? I was younger, still going to the clubs and block parties. Sometimes you surpass people's expectations before your own, but you're out there."
"I can't even call it like a personal thing. It's just something that happens when you're there," he continues. "When you're outside the club and the club let out it's only a few things that can happen. It's gonna be a good night or a bad night. You're either gonna witness it or be a part of it and that night I was a part of it."
Vlad asks where he was shot and how he made it to the hospital.
"In my stomach, my back, grazed a couple times. I had to run to the hospital. It wasn't like the movies where you're like 'Uggh". I had to like 'oh sh*t, i'm f*cked up' and I had to run all the way from Jamaica Avenue to Mary Immaculate Hospital."
Banks is much more aware of his surroundings now and watches the company he keeps.
He was one of the lucky ones. He survived the gunshot and has gone on to have a very successful career. He still feels the affects of the injury sometimes, but nothing the 'Boy Wonder' can't shake off..
Pop superstar PRINCE is adamant he will never sell his songs on the internet, insisting web-based outlets will soon disappear because they are no longer "hip".
The Purple Rain hitmaker has long battled to keep his music offline - in 2007 he sued video sharing website YouTube.com as well as eBay.com claiming they "are clearly able (to) filter porn and paedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorised music and film content which is core to their business success."
Prince has also moved to ban fansites using images and anything linked to his likeness, while a home video of a child dancing to one of his songs on YouTube was pulled down in 2007 after the star's Universal Music Publishing claimed the recording infringed copyright.
The artist is still refusing to allow websites to sell his music and he's adamant fans will soon move on from the internet.
He says, "The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.
"The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
New York (CNN) -- He didn't compete for the hot dog eating title this year, but he did cause a scene at the contest.
Takeru Kobayashi was arrested at Coney Island after his rival, Joey Chestnut, won the annual Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest.
The six-time champion of the contest was trying to make his way on stage after this year's event, according to a representative for Kobayashi and a New York police officer at the Brooklyn precinct booking desk.
The incident was not a publicity stunt, Maggie James, Kobayashi's spokeswoman, said Sunday night.
"He got excited when people chanted his name after the contest .... so he jumped up on the stage because he wanted his fans to see him and (he thought) maybe they would chant, 'Let him eat,'" James said, referring to a dispute that kept Kobayashi from the table this year.
Kobayashi -- who took home the title every year from 2001 to 2006 -- did not compete because of a contract dispute with Major League Eating. He watched from the stands.
Chestnut won by consuming 54 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. The win -- Chestnut's fourth straight -- was short of his 68-hot dog record set last year.
A statement from the New York Police Department's public affairs office following the arrest said Kobayashi was charged with two misdemeanors and one violation, with the violation considered a low-level charge similar to a traffic violation. The two misdemeanors were resisting arrest and obstructing government administration (specifically, interfering with police). The violation was trespassing.
Kobayashi was being held at a police precinct in Brooklyn, and it was unclear whether he had a lawyer or when he might have bail set.
His spokeswoman, James, said it appeared that he would spend the night in jail unless he could get a hearing -- unlikely on a Sunday night and also a holiday night.
In the days leading up to the event, Kobayashi said he loves the contest and he wanted to participate, but that the contract was too restrictive. Speaking through a Japanese interpreter, he said that all his income is earned through competitive eating. He said the new contract required by the competition would bar him from competing elsewhere in the United States or Canada for a year.
Both sides said contract negotiations went on until Saturday morning.
MLE chairman George Shea called Kobayashi's arrest "unfortunate."
"It makes you wonder what his thinking was," Shea said.
"Major League Eating made an enormous effort to get him into the contest," he added. "We wanted him there. Nathan's wanted him there. The fans wanted him there."
Hailing from Japan and weighing in at 160 pounds, Kobayashi, 31, rose to frank-feasting stardom in 2001 when he devoured 50 dogs, shattering the previously held record of 25 1/8.
But in 2007, having entered the challenge with a jaw injury, Kobayashi met his match in Chestnut.
Chestnut, the 230-pound contender from San Jose, California, downed 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63 that year. Kobayashi has not won the competition since, and Chestnut is currently ranked No. 1 in competitive eating by the MLE.
For a hot dog to be counted as finished, competitors must consume both the hot dog and the bun.
Currently ranked third, Kobayashi still holds world records for eating cow brains (17.7 pounds in 15 minutes), lobster rolls (41 in 15 minutes) and rice balls (20 pounds in 30 minutes).
"This guy did great things for our sport," Shea said. "He's a fearsome competitor."
SWORDSMAN SNOOP DOGG sure knows how to stack the odds in his favour.
He insisted only women be allowed into the VIP room at his post-Wireless party.
And his strict bloke ban even extended to members of staff at the London club venue.
To make sure the rules were enforced with suitable vigour, he also installed his own security inside Merah in the West End.
And his minders had another critical role - to invite in any girls Snoop might like the look of. They did a good job, picking more than 100.
Snoop put in an impressive live shift at the festival in Hyde Park then partied at the club, splashing out more than $25,000 on posh Armand de Brignac champagne to keep his companions happy.
A witness told me: "Snoop was in his element. He had his own room towards the back of the club and there must have been more than 100 women in there.
"He had two huge security guards on the door who would not let any blokes anywhere near it.
"They were even turning away male staff who were ferrying all the champagne his way.
"Security kept their eyes open and if they saw any ladies they thought Snoop would approve of, they invited them in."
The wily rapper made sure he was on his A-game throughout.
He didn't touch a drop of bubbly all evening - sticking to mineral water instead.
That's a serious commitment to the art of womanising. And I salute him for it. The MC was one of the highlights of Glastonbury for me this year and his Saturday afternoon set at the Wireless Festival was just as good.
Though there were a few grumbles before he made it out on stage.
Snoop had words with organisers backstage when he arrived at the festival and discovered his dressing room wasn't to his exact specifications.
A witness told me: "Snoop was good natured backstage but wasn't chuffed at the size of his quarters.
"A few quick modifications were made and he was then as good as gold."
What fella wouldn't be, with a club crammed with attractive women waiting for them?
She may have been a true Cold Warrior, but Anna Chapman is red-hot in the sheets.
The flame-haired Russian hottie accused of being a deep-cover mole in the U.S. was a wild woman in the sack, her ex-hubby says.
"Anya was great in bed and she knew exactly what to do," said Alex Chapman, who married the then-Anya Kushchenko in 2002. "The sex was great and she had this incredible body."
Chapman told the British newspaper News of the World that he met the stunning spook at a rave in England in 2001 and immediately fell in love.
"I hadn't met anybody like her before," he said. "I was infatuated with her."
They began a torrid affair, which Alex Chapman says quickly veered into kinky territory.
The randy Russian had a penchant for whips and nipple clamps and once joined him in a mile-high sex romp aboard a Moscow-bound flight, he said.
"I found her Russian accent such a turn-on," said the 30-year-old psychologist trainee. "We were having so much fun. We also experimented with sex toys."
Anna Chapman holding sex toy in pic snapped by ex-husband
He said he's not surprised his former flame was accused of spying for Mother Russia, as she always had a deep love for James Bond films.
"If she is a spy then she's fallen into it because of the glitz and the glamour of it all," he said. "She used her looks to get noticed."
Through her lawyer, Anna Chapman, 28, says she is deeply "embarrassed" by photos of her gallivanting around the U.S. that made her the face of the alleged spy ring even though she is considered a minor player.
Alex Chapman says his ex wasn't always so flashy.
For the first few years of marriage, he said, they lived a "carefree" bohemian life in London, where she worked at banks.
But there was always a sinister side. Chapman says his bride told him that her father, Vasily Kushchenko, 53, was a senior KGB agent.
"Her dad was scary. He was very concerned about which direction my life was going, how I was going to 'earn my money,'" Chapman told London's Daily Telegraph.
After a few years of marriage, Anna Chapman began palling around more with well-connected Russian friends and grew increasingly secretive, Alex said.
"She fell in with a group of people who had a lot of influence. She would go to film premieres and became arrogant and obnoxious, always going on about powerful people she was meeting," he said.
By 2006, they had grown apart and had divorced, but she kept his name, and the two remained friends.
He said she later regaled him with tales of dating rich and powerful men who helped whisk her to the Big Apple, where she began a real estate business that became successful suspiciously quickly.
"Clearly a lot of money had been pumped into the business from somewhere, but I couldn't work it out," he said.
Anna Chapman is charged with attempting to gain entree into American political circles and send reports on their inner thinking back to Moscow.
She has been held without bail since being arrested last Monday in an FBI sweep that nabbed 11 suspected Russian spies who lived quiet suburban lives around the U.S.
Does ?uestlove ever sleep? Fresh off last week’s release of the Roots’ best album in several years, the hip-hop band’s drummer/mastermind is already teasing his next dream project: a supergroup consisting of himself and troubled wailer Amy Winehouse. This would be on top of the Roots’ Late Night With Jimmy Fallon job and their upcoming collaborative album with John Legend. Like I said, dude stays grinding.
?uestlove spilled the beans in an interview with Spinner at the Toronto Jazz Festival, where the Roots performed on Tuesday. He said international red tape is the only thing preventing him and Winehouse from jamming together. “[The supergroup is] definitely going to happen — it’s just that we have to work overtime to get her visa situation together,” he promised. “The closest she can come to the States is Jamaica.” He hopes to discuss this face-to-face with Winehouse when the Roots hit France next week. ‘Til then, they plan to continue “Skype-ing the s— out of each other.”
Until that visa issue is resolved, this may be more aspiration than reality. It’s a pretty awesome idea, though. All the drama in Winehouse’s personal life hasn’t made me one bit less eager to hear her follow up 2006′s Back to Black. If anything, sad to say, that kind of hard-lived experience could make her music even more compelling. And ?uestlove would be a brilliant choice to draw that quality out on record. As a drummer and producer, he’s helped coax amazing albums out of complicated personalities like D’Angelo and Al Green.
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