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50 Cent stopped by the Happy Hour with Heather B to chop it up about a variety of topics.
He talked about Nas' influence on the game, why he made "How to Rob," "50 Central," not regretting any of his beefs, Jennifer Lopez, Ja Rule getting extorted, not liking Rick Ross because he's a cop.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hugh Hefner turned silk pajamas into a work uniform, women into centerfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide multimedia empire that spanned several generations of American life.
With Playboy, he helped slip sex out of the confines of plain brown wrappers and into mainstream conversation.
In 1953, a time when states could legally ban contraceptives and the word “pregnant” was not allowed on “I Love Lucy,” Hefner published the first issue of Playboy, featuring naked photos of Marilyn Monroe and an editorial promise of “humor, sophistication and spice.”
The Great Depression and World War II were over and Playboy soon became forbidden fruit for teens and a bible for men with time and money, primed for the magazine’s prescribed evenings of dimmed lights, hard drinks, soft jazz, deep thoughts and deeper desires. Within a year, circulation neared 200,000. Within five years, it had topped 1 million.
Hefner, the pipe-smoking embodiment of the lifestyle he touted, died at his home of natural causes on Wednesday night, Playboy said in a statement. He was 91.
Hefner and Playboy were brand names worldwide. Asked by The New York Times in 1992 of what he was proudest, Hefner responded: “That I changed attitudes toward sex. That nice people can live together now. That I decontaminated the notion of premarital sex. That gives me great satisfaction.”
By the 1970s, Playboy magazine had more than 7 million readers and had inspired raunchier imitations such as Penthouse and Hustler. Competition and the internet reduced circulation to less than 3 million by the 21st century, and the number of issues published annually was cut from 12 to 11. In 2015, Playboy ceased publishing images of naked women, citing the proliferation of nudity on the internet but restored its traditional nudity earlier this year.
Hefner was an ongoing advertisement for his own product, the pipe-smoking, silk-pajama-wearing center of an A-list, X-rated party. By his own account, Hefner had sex with more than a thousand women, including many pictured in his magazine. One of rock ‘n’ roll’s most decadent tours, the Rolling Stones shows of 1972 featured a stop at the Hefner mansion.
Throughout the 1960s, Hefner left Chicago only a few times. In the early 1970s, he bought the second mansion in Los Angeles, flying between his homes on a private DC-9 dubbed “The Big Bunny,” which boasted a giant Playboy bunny emblazoned on the tail.
Hefner was host of a television show, “Playboy After Dark,” and in 1960 opened a string of clubs around the world where waitresses wore revealing costumes with bunny ears and fluffy white bunny tails. In the 21st century, he was back on television in a cable reality show — “The Girls Next Door” — with three live-in girlfriends in the Los Angeles Playboy mansion. Network television briefly embraced Hefner’s empire in 2011 with the NBC drama “The Playboy Club,” which failed to lure viewers and was canceled after three episodes.
Censorship of the magazine was inevitable. Playboy has been banned in China, India, Saudi Arabia and Ireland. In the 1950s, Hefner successfully sued to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from denying him second-class mailing status. 7-Eleven stores for years did not sell the magazine. Stores that did offer Playboy made sure to stock it on a higher shelf.
He wasn’t only condemned by conservatives. Many feminist and regarded him as a glorified pornographer who degraded and objectified women with impunity. Women were warned from the first issue: “If you’re somebody’s sister, wife, or mother-in-law,” the magazine declared, “and picked us up by mistake, please pass us along to the man in your life and get back to Ladies Home Companion.”
Playboy proved a scourge, and a temptation. Drew Barrymore, Farrah Fawcett and Linda Evans are among those who have posed for the magazine. Several bunnies became celebrities, too, including singer Deborah Harry and model Lauren Hutton, both of whom had fond memories of their time with Playboy. Other bunnies had traumatic experiences, with several alleging they had been raped by Hefner’s close friend Bill Cosby, who faced dozens of such allegations in recent years. Hefner issued a statement in late 2014 he “would never tolerate this behavior.” But two years later, former bunny Chloe Goins sued Cosby and Hefner for sexual battery, gender violence and other charges over an alleged 2008 rape.
One bunny turned out to be a journalist: Feminist Gloria Steinem got hired in the early 1960s and turned her brief employment into an article for Show magazine that described the clubs as pleasure havens for men only. The bunnies, Steinem wrote, tended to be poorly educated, overworked and underpaid. Steinem regarded the magazine and clubs not as erotic, but “pornographic.”
“I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner,” Steinem later said.
“Women are the major beneficiaries of getting rid of the hypocritical old notions about sex,” Hefner responded. “Now some people are acting as if the sexual revolution was a male plot to get laid. One of the unintended by-products of the women’s movement is the association of the erotic impulse with wanting to hurt somebody.”
Hefner added that he was a strong advocate of First Amendment, civil and reproductive rights and that the magazine contained far more than centerfolds. Playboy serialized Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” and later published fiction by John Updike, Doris Lessing and Vladimir Nabokov. Playboy also specialized in long and candid interviews, from Fidel Castro and Frank Sinatra to Marlon Brando and then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, who confided that he had “committed adultery” in his heart. John Lennon spoke to Playboy in 1980, not long before he was murdered. Playboy devoted a 1990 cover to a young real estate mogul with a taste for politics: Donald Trump. (Hefner’s son, Cooper Hefner, recently called the Trump cover a “personal embarrassment.“)
The line that people read Playboy for the prose, not the pictures, was only partly a joke.
Playboy’s clubs also influenced the culture, giving early breaks to entertainers such as George Carlin, Rich Little, Mark Russell, Dick Gregory and Redd Foxx. The last of the clubs closed in 1988, when Hefner deemed them “passe” and “too tame for the times.”
By then Hefner had built a $200 million company by expanding Playboy to include international editions of the magazine, casinos, a cable network and a film production company. In 2006, he got back into the club business with his Playboy Club at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. A new enterprise in London followed, along with fresh response from women’s groups, who protested the opening with cries of “Eff off Hef!”
Hefner liked to say he was untroubled by criticism, but in 1985 he suffered a mild stroke that he blamed on the book “The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980,” by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. Stratten was a Playmate killed by her husband, Paul Snider, who then killed himself. Bogdanovich, Stratten’s boyfriend at the time, wrote that Hefner helped bring about her murder and was unable to deal with “what he and his magazine do to women.”
After the stroke, Hefner handed control of his empire to his feminist daughter, Christie, although he owned 70 percent of Playboy stock and continued to choose every month’s Playmate and cover shot. Christie Hefner continued as CEO until 2009.
He also stopped using recreational drugs and tried less to always be the life of the party. He tearfully noted in a 1992 New York Times interview: “I’ve spent so much of my life looking for love in all the wrong places.”
Not surprisingly, Hefner’s marriage life was also a bit of a show. In 1949, he married Mildred Williams, with whom he had two children. They divorced in 1958. In July 1989, Hefner married Kimberley Conrad, the 1989 Playmate of the Year, who was then 27. The couple also had two children.
On the eve of his marriage, Hefner was asked if he would have a bachelor party. “I’ve had a bachelor party for 30 years,” he said. “Why do I need one now?”
They separated in 1998 but she continued living next door to the Playboy mansion with their two sons. The couple divorced in 2010 and he proposed in 2011 to 24-year-old Crystal Harris, a former Playmate. Harris called off the wedding days before the ceremony, but later changed her mind and they married at the end of 2012.
“Maybe I should be single,” he said a few months later. “But I do know that I need an ongoing romantic relationship. In other words, I am essentially a very romantic person, and all I really was looking for, quite frankly, with the notion of marriage was continuity and something to let the girl know that I really cared.”
Hefner is survived by Crystal as well as his daughter, Christie; and his sons, David, Marston and Cooper. Playboy announced no immediate funeral plans, but Hefner owned a plot in a Los Angeles cemetery next to Marilyn Monroe.
He was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926, to devout Methodist parents who he said never showed “love in a physical or emotional way.”
“At a very early age, I began questioning a lot of that religious foolishness about man’s spirit and body being in conflict, with God primarily with the spirit of man and the devil dwelling in the flesh,” Hefner said in a Playboy interview in 1974.
“Part of the reason that I am who I am is my Puritan roots run deep,” he told The Associated Press in 2011. “My folks are Puritan. My folks are prohibitionists. There was no drinking in my home. No discussion of sex. And I think I saw the hurtful and hypocritical side of that from very early on. ”
Hefner loved movies throughout his life, calling them “my other family.” He screened classic films and new releases at the mansion every week. Every year on his April 9 birthday, he’d run his favorite film, “Casablanca,” and invite guests to dress in the fashions of the 1940s.
He long hoped to be the subject of a biopic and was helping to develop a screenplay for such a film in 2011.
He was a playboy before Playboy, even during his first marriage, when he enjoyed stag films, strip poker and group sex. His bunny obsession began with the figures that decorated a childhood blanket. Years later, a real-life subspecies of rabbit on the endangered species list, in the Florida Keys, would be named for him: Sylvilagus palustris hefneri.
When Hefner was 9, he began publishing a neighborhood newspaper, which he sold for a penny a copy. He spent much of his time writing and drawing cartoons, and in middle school began reading Esquire, a magazine of sex and substance Hefner wanted Playboy to emulate.
He and Playboy co-founder Eldon Sellers launched their magazine from Hefner’s kitchen in Chicago, although the first issue was undated because Hefner doubted there would be a second. The magazine was supposed to be called Stag Party, until an outdoor magazine named Stag threatened legal action.
Hefner recalled that he first reinvented himself in high school in Chicago at 16, when he was rejected by a girl he had a crush on. He began referring to himself as Hef instead of Hugh, learned the jitterbug and began drawing a comic book, “a kind of autobiography that put myself center stage in a life I created for myself,” he said in a 2006 interview with the AP.
Those comics evolved into a detailed scrapbook that Hefner would keep throughout his life. It spanned more than 2,500 volumes in 2011 — a Guinness World Record for a personal scrapbook collection.
“It was probably just a way of creating a world of my own to share with my friends,” Hefner said, seated amid the archives of his life during a 2011 interview. “And in retrospect, in thinking about it, it’s not a whole lot different than creating the magazine.”
He did it again in 1960, when he began hosting the TV show, bought a fancy car, started smoking a pipe and bought the first Playboy mansion.
“Well, if we hadn’t had the Wright brothers, there would still be airplanes,” Hefner said in 1974. “If there hadn’t been an Edison, there would still be electric lights. And if there hadn’t been a Hefner, we’d still have sex. But maybe we wouldn’t be enjoying it as much. So the world would be a little poorer. Come to think of it, so would some of my relatives.”
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AP National Writer Hillel Italie and Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report.
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Things have gone from bad to worse for Young Thug, who finds himself in big legal trouble in Georgia.
As we previously reported, Thugger, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, was charged with felony drug possession after police in Brookhaven, Georgia found 2.5 ounces of weed on him, following a traffic stop for tinted windows on Saturday, September 23.
According to TMZ, cops also found 2 guns, liquid codeine and $50,000 in cash.
Thug and two other men were arrested and hauled off to jail. The rapper now faces two more felony charges. One for gun possession and another for possession of codeine.
The 26-year old appeared in court Wednesday, September 27, and was allowed to post bail.
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Forbes has rolled out it's annual list of The World's Highest Paid Hip-Hop Artists for 2017.
Diddy sits on top with $130 million. Drake comes in at number two with total earnings of $94 million. JAY-Z slides in behind Drizzy with a windfall of $42 million.
Forbes uses a number of factors to determine the rankings:
"To create our list, we add up pretax income from touring, record sales, streaming, publishing, merchandise sales, endorsements and other business ventures. Fees for managers, agents and lawyers are not deducted. Earnings are calculated from June 2016 to June 2017 and based on data from Nielsen SoundScan, Pollstar, Songkick, Bandsintown and the RIAA, as well as interviews with inside sources and a handful of the artists themselves."
Check out the top ten highest earning artists below.
10. Future - $23 million
9. DJ Khaled - $24 million
8. Pitbull - $27 million
7. Wiz Khalifa - $28 million
6. Kendrick Lamar - $30 million
5. Chance the Rapper - $33 million
4. Dr. Dre - $34.5 million
3. JAY-Z - $42 million
2. Drake - $94 million
1. Diddy - $130 million
To see the rest of the 20 artists who made the list head over to Forbes.com.
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Young Dolph is a very lucky man.
The 32-year old Memphis rapper, born Adolph Thornton, Jr., is expected to survive after being shot at point blank range on Tuesday, September 26.
According to TMZ, he suffered gunshot wounds to the arm and buttocks. He underwent surgery Tuesday night and is currently recovering at a Los Angeles area hospital.
The Paper Route Empire CEO, was injured when an argument with three men turned violent at the Loews Hollywood Hotel.
Dolph was knocked to the ground in the valet area during the brawl, at which point someone pulled out a gun and started firing at him.
He managed to get up and run into Shoe Palace, near the famous TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
When police and paramedics arrived, Dolph was transported to the hospital.
KTLA reports that one suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting.
Corey McClendon is now in police custody. He's been booked on suspicion of attempted murder.
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XXL has been a mainstay in hip hop culture for two decades. For the publication's 20th Anniversary Fall issue they are putting out 20 different covers, featuring artists who have impacted the game in a major way.
In the issue there will also be interviews with both veterans in the game and newcomers who have contributed heavily to the the rap genre.
50 Cent has been named the cover king. The G-Unit Records CEO has made the cover an incredible 15 times throughout his career.
The other 19 artists who will be honored with a cover include Nicki Minaj, Run the Jewels, The Lox, Cam'Ron, Wiz Khalifa, Tech N9ne, Fabolous, T.I., Diddy, Lil Uzi Vert, Migos, Snoop Dogg, Pusha T, Future, Gucci Mane, Birdman, Yo Gotti, E-40 and Rae Sremmurd.
The issue hits newsstands everywhere on October 17.
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Rotimi recently stopped by 103.5 The Beat in Miami to talk with Stichiz.
He chopped it up about graduating from college, filming season 5 of "Power," doing both music and acting, his project "Jeep Music Vol, 1," recording part 2, 50 Cent supporting him, wanting to collaborate with Tory Lanez and Drake.
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Atlanta rapper 21 Savage just announced he's hitting the road in support of his "Issa" album on a tour dubbed "Numb the Pain." Youngboy Never Broke Again will serve as the opening act on certain dates.
The trek will hit 22 cities beginning in Austin on November 16. Additional stops include Houston, New Orleans, Detroit, St. Louis, New York City, Los Angeles and Memphis, before winding down in Mobile, Alabama on December 23.
Pre-sale tickets available now on http://www.21savage.com/.
NUMB THE PAIN TOUR DATES
Nov. 16 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s
Nov. 17 – Dallas, TX – Oaktopia Fest*
Nov. 18 – San Antonio, TX – Vibes Event Center
Nov. 19 – Houston, TX — Revention Music Center
Nov. 21 – New Orleans, LA – Joy Theater
Nov. 24 – Orlando, FL – Venue 578
Nov. 26 – Tampa, FL – Ritzybor
Nov. 28 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
Nov. 30 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak
Dec. 2 – Minneapolis, MN – Myth
Dec. 5 – Des Moines, IA – 7 Flags Event Center
Dec. 7 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
Dec. 8 – St. Louis, MO – Pop’s
Dec. 9 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
Dec. 12 – Denver, CO – Ogden
Dec. 14 – New York, NY – Radio Show
Dec. 15 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
Dec. 17 – Los Angeles, CA – Rolling Loud
Dec. 19 – Albuquerque, NM – El Rey
Dec. 21 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
Dec. 22 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
Dec. 23 – Mobile, AL – Soul Kitchen*
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Lil Durk drops off a new song titled "Make It Out." The track was produced by Will-A-Fool.
“This is just a loose song, I wanna keep giving my fans material while I’m gearing up for something big,” Durk told XXL.
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50 Cent's new variety show "50 Central" premieres tonight on BET. You don't want to miss it because it's guaranteed to be high quality entertainment, along the lines of the 90's hit show "In Living Color."
The cast features Tristen Winger, Jasmin Brown, Kiya Roberts, Vince Swann and Mark Harley.
Tune in at 10:30/9:30c. 23 additional episodes will follow every Wednesday.
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Young Thug is currently sitting in a Brookhaven, Georgia jail after a traffic stop for tinted windows turned up drugs.
TMZ reports that the 26-year old, born Jeffery Lamar Williams, was pulled over on Saturday, September 23. When police searched his car they found 2.5 ounces of weed on him.
He was charged with felony drug possession and is being held with no bail, while the District Attorney reviews the case.
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G-Eazy was the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Tuesday, September 26. He used the occasion to perform "No Limit" featuring Cardi B.
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50 Cent stopped by The Breakfast Club studio to discuss his new comedy show 50 Central and more:
· BET Release party at strip club
· Sketch comedy
· Tiffany Haddish
· Why TV now
· Power
· Conflict with Starz
· When does BMF start
· 50 Central
· Why do the show on BET?
· Irv Gotti’s Tales
· Are you going to be on BMF
· Disappointed in 2Pac Movie
· What advice would you give Usher
· Kevin Hunter
· Kevin Hart
· Music projects
· Cardi B and Nicki Minaj
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Collective Music Group head honcho, Yo Gotti is a person of interest in the shooting of Young Dolph, according to TMZ.
The website reports that law enforcement sources say both men were staying at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood, when their crews got into a dispute on Tuesday, September 26.
The argument turned physical and a short time later shots were fired in the valet area outside of the hotel.
Although injured, Dolph managed to run to a nearby shoe store. He was taken to a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and is currently in critical condition.
TMZ claims witnesses placed Gotti at the scene.
KTLA reports one person was arrested, but police are not sure if he is the shooter.
"We have one individual detained. We’re not sure if that was the person who shot Young Dolph," LAPD Detective Meghan Aguilar said.
Police are looking for two additional suspects.
There's a history of beef between Gotti and Dolph dating back to 2014. Both claim to be the "King of Memphis."
Dolph, the CEO of Paper Route Empire, has openly dissed Gotti in songs and on social media.
In February of 2017, his bulletproof SUV was shot 100 times while he was in Charlotte during Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Tournament Weekend. Dolph was not wounded at the time.
Gotti's artist, Blac Youngsta, turned himself into police after being named a suspect in May.
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Ring The Alarm (Music Video)
Zap Feat KoKo the Killer Clown
Zap is here with his debut music video for his newest song "Ring The Alarm". The rising West Virginia rapper decides to come through and share this track “Ring The Alarm” featuring KoKo the Killer Clown. Directed by Aquinofilms, the video finds Zap & KoKo the Killer Clown gettin’ turnt up and gruesome after a night of playing cards with some added graphic effects. Check out the new video above!
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After being banned from the Hot 97 studios for 10+ years, 50 Cent made his return to the main building to chop it up with the Ebro in the Morning.
He talked about Prodigy's passing, the success of Mobb Deep when they were signed to G-Unit Records, Fat Joe putting out hot music, Remy Ma, Cardi B, Lil Kim having some hot unreleased records, JAY-Z's 4:44 album, "50 Central," argues with Ebro over the accusation that he ruined NYC hip hop, needing competition, "Power," STARZ, Donald Trump.
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Memphis rapper and Paper Route Empire CEO, Young Dolph, has been shot multiple times.
Fox 11 Los Angeles correspondent Stephanie Stanton tweeted the news Tuesday afternoon, September 26.
"LAPD CONFIRMS: Hollywood shooting victim-Rap Artist Young Dolph suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Taken to area hospital," Stanton wrote.
LAPD CONFIRMS: Hollywood shooting victim-Rap Artist Young Dolph suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Taken to area hospital. @FOXLA
— Stephanie Stanton (@Newzysteph) September 26, 2017
LAPD: Rapper @youngdolph targeted in Hollywood shooting outside @HandHCenter. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/A1R2QUPwUu
— Stephanie Stanton (@Newzysteph) September 26, 2017
The shooting occurred inside a shoe store near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.
This is the second attempt on Dolph's life in 2017.
The self-proclaimed "King of Memphis," real name Adolf Thornton Jr., had his SUV shot at 100 times in February, during Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Tournament Weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The 32-year old escaped injury because the vehicle was bulletproof.
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#NewMusic Spotlight- Virgo Bandz drops “On Me” Music Video
Artist Spotlight: Virgo Bandz “On Me” (official WorldStar Premier) Video
Virgo Bandz is hot new rising star on the hip hop scene. Virgo Bandz will be spotlighted in the Winter 2017 issue of XXL Magazine. His video is currently a WorldStar Hip Hop Heatseeker and received over 40,000+ views in a few days.
Pick up his new single on Itunes (Below) and follow him on this social media pages
Produced by HAM$TA Engineered by Mike Gonsolin “On Me” Available on Soundcloud,
Soon to be available on Spotify, and iTunes. “Not A Soul” Avaialble on Spotify, and iTunes:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Vxrxh…
Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/not…
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/virgobandz/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/virgobandz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VirgoBandzz
Rich the Kid recruits Kendrick Lamar for his new single titled "New Freezer." Stream it up top and grab a copy from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/new-freezer-feat-kendrick-lamar-single/id1287340126
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