Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 11:00am
Bullying got out of hand in Belleville, Ill., when students began beating another on a school bus. Student Steve Raines, stepped in and talked to Harry Smith about the incident.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 11:00am
Alicia Keys stopped by the Today Show Wednesday, September 16th to talk about her new single "Doesn't Mean Anything". The hosts asked her about her MTV VMA performance with Jay-Z of Empire State Of Mind where Lil Mama jumped up on stage and also about Kanye West interupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 16, 2009 at 10:25am
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that he believes race is at the core of much of the opposition to President Obama.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter told NBC in an interview. "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans"
Continued Carter: "And that racism inclination still exists. . . . It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."
The 39th president also predicted that Obama will be able to "triumph over the racist attitude that is the basis for the negative environment that we see so vividly demonstrated in public affairs in recent days."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 6:07pm
NY MAG Reports
Luminaries such as Russell Simmons and Jojo trekked to the Ukrainian Institute of America on the Upper East Side yesterday evening to watch Amber Rose walk in her very first runway show for four-year-old label Celestino. Amber walked in the finale look: a white, strapless wedding dress with a long train. How does she measure up as a model? A few of her colleagues seemed to struggle with the sky-high heels, and she was no exception, sadly (either that or her dress was too tight). She kept a poker face, with her shoulders back, but appeared to be taking short, stilted steps. Luckily, she didn't trip on her hemline, so for that we chalk it up as runway success.
Russell Simmons said he came to see Amber and the clothes, though we saw him backstage meeting designer Sergio Guadarrama for the first time. Amber, not wanting to do interviews (perhaps because of her man Kanye's behavior the night before at the Video Music Awards), fled immediately after the show. But Guadarrama explained he decided to cast Amber a month ago. "We requested her specifically," he said backstage. "I mean, we had the choice of big models, but we wanted Amber Rose. I mean, she’s Amber Rose, so she was going to close our show no matter what." Though he cast many very skinny models in the show, Guadarrama applauds Amber's real-woman's figure. "I honestly think she’s going to be a force to be reckoned with in the fashion industry," he said. Did he think the fashion industry was ready to accept her as she is? "Well, they should; she’s a person," he said, adding she was a "natural" and not nervous at all before the show. What is she like as a person? "Oh my God she’s so sweet — like the sweetest girl you have ever met."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 5:00pm
Pics Courtesy Of KanyeGate
Kanye West has turned into one of the biggest internet sensations overnight...just not in a good way. Check out these "Imma Let You Finish Pics" ,epic comedy,lol
Shouts to Miss Info for the heads up !!
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 10:10am
HipHopWired Reports
“Talking greasy because you're 39-0?/Real life b*tch n*gga 39 and hoe/I'm his toughest opponent yet/I'm nothing like Marquez.”
Stepping from the Hip-Hop ring into the boxing ring, the match has been set between middleweight boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Rick Ross. Going by size difference alone, the match could actually be one-sided. Releasing the track “Go (War Remix),” the bawse has made an attempt at a second round knockout.
Mayweather was the first to throw blows last month by taking a jab at Ross and calling him a fraud. Turning his criminal image into a joke, the boxer simply stated that he needs someone to be arrested, then he would call up the biggest C.O. that we've seen thus far. Along with this, he added that with his rap career, the credentials don't match up evenly by denying then accepting his past. Almost like an open challenge, Money stated that he's not hard to find and is in Miami all the time.
“Forever getting robbed/Bloods took your jewels/Can't beat the IRS baby boy/Just pay your dues!”
Shots have also been thrown at rapper Freck Billionaire, who is known for being affiliated with Fabolous and his Street Family team. Money Mayweather issued a statement making accusations that Billionaire was a thief and has stolen a watch after he defaulted on contract obligations with the boxer's record label, Philthy Rich. He added that by Freck not disclosing the fact that he was signed under another contract, the boxer was sued.
“Talking greasy because you're 39-0?/Real life b*tch n*gga 39 and hoe/I'm his toughest opponent yet/I'm nothing like Marquez.”
Outside of a new rap beef, Mayweather held a media conference last weekend in order to promote his return to the ring September 19 for a welterweight fight with Juan Manuel Marquez at Las Vegas' MGM Grand.
Some issues have arisen for the young star, however, as he has been placed under the microscope with two separate police cases. Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting that happened outside of a skating rink and seized two handguns, ammunition and two bulletproof vests from his home and two cars last week. Witnesses have stated to authorities that an associate of the boxer fired shots at the supposed victim.
“Even your name lame/Ain't no Mayweather Punchout!/Catch him in Florida/I'm a need another lawyer/Why your daddy employer/Go by the name of De La Hoya?!...We standing on the bar/Throwing real money/Holla Mayweather when you see a fake hundred.”
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 10:00am
XXL Reports
Beanie Sigel is in hot water once again. The Philadelphia-bred rapper missed a mandatory court date yesterday for a drug possession case causing a judge to offer a bench warrant for his arrest.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer Burlington County muicipal court Judge Gregory McCloskey issued the warrant after Beans decided not to show.
As previously reported Sigel was arrested in August for marijuana possession on his way to a concert at nearby tavern, Kelly’s Bar.
Beans recently released a new CD, his first since 2007’s The Focus, on September 1. The disc, titled The Broad Street Bully, was released independently on Siccness Records and is described by label head Nemo Mitchell as more of a “mixtape” than a full-fledged studio album.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 8:30am
NY Daily News Reports
When it comes to Kanye West, it seems that President Obama is thinking what the rest of the country is thinking.
The President called the rapper "a jackass" in an off-the-record comment during a CNBC interview yesterday, but the comment became public when it was tweeted by ABC's Terry Moran on Twitter, Politico.com reported Monday night.
An ABC statement explains: "ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview."
Meanwhile, West himself admitted to Jay Leno what Americans -and Obama - had already figured out: Kanye screwed up big-time.
And maybe he needs to figure out why.
Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper jumped on stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech and declared her award should have gone to Beyoncé Knowles.
After fielding a 24-hour firestorm of criticism and apologizing on his blog, West told Leno last night, "It was rude, period....I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt."
West, who has had similar outbursts at previous awards shows, said, "I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyze how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve.
"If there's anything I could do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone, I'd like [to]," he said.
Swift, who was invited onstage later at the VMAs by Beyoncé to finish her interrupted comments, gets a chance to respond this morning, when she appears on ABC's "The View."
West's discomfort was a gift from ratings heaven to Leno, who was kicking off his new 10 p.m. show last night.
He wound up with the country's hottest celebrity story landing in his grateful lap.
West had been previously scheduled on the show as a performer only, with Jay-Z and Rihanna. Leno told the audience that because of what had happened the previous night, "Kanye wanted to talk."
Leno asked West when he knew what he did was wrong.
"As soon as I gave the mike back to her and she didn't keep going," West said.
Still, after Leno asked him how his deceased mother would have reacted to his actions, West was silent for so long that Leno came back with a second question to coax an answer.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 8:06am
RAP-UP REPORTS
Kid Cudi’s debut album drops today. So how exactly will he be celebrating? Rap-Up.com caught up with the “Day ‘N’ Night” rapper on the eve of his album release to find out.
Mr. Solo Dolo will wake up early Tuesday morning with a drink in hand. “I’m drinking all day—seriously,” he tells Rap-Up.com. “I’m waking up at 6:30, or whatever time we gotta wake up, 40 oz. on deck—literally. And I have so much press to do, but I’m gonna be so saucy, every interview. When I wake up in the morning, I’m gonna piss excellence. It’s gonna be amazing,” he laughs.
The Ohio native is excited for his fans to finally hear the fruits of his labor. “I really want people to just embrace something new and creative and just think outside the box for a change and understand that it’s a message,” adds the 25-year-old. “It’s one of those albums that you can play from beginning to end and it’ll put you in that zone. I want to bring people into my world, and I think we did that with this album.”
Did Cudi accomplish his mission? Man on the Moon: The End of Day lands in stores and online today.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 15, 2009 at 7:30am
VIDEO AFTER THE JUMPRAP-UP REPORTS
Pitbull is joining the Kanye West bashing. The Miami MC was not afraid to sink his teeth into West after he interrupted Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance speech.
“Kanye, what a fu**in’ disrespectful motherf**ker,” he told TMZ. “I tell you one thing, he know who to do that to though.”
What would Pitbull do if ’Ye did that to him? “Ay ya yay! I come from a neighborhood where they say, ‘Don’t talk about it, be about it.’”
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 14, 2009 at 10:00pm
NY Daily News Reports
HOUSTON - The guy named Vinny with the Vandyke and Brooklyn accent looked out of place in the leafy Texas neighborhood of gated mansions.
That's because this Vinny was Vincent Palermo - onetime Mafia star turned FBI informant - a guy who managed to vanish from the world of scungilli and Sinatra to recreate himself 1,400 miles away in the land of BBQ and the Texas two-step.
Palermo, with a new name, lives under a cloak created by the feds after testifying against the DeCavalcante clan, the Jersey-based Mafia family whose members believe they inspired "The Sopranos" TV show.
Of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Before he admitted taking part in four murders, extortion and a host of crimes, Palermo operated Wiggles, a strip club in Forest Hills, Queens.
The club was a kind of one-stop shop for drugs and prostitution, and then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made it Public Enemy No. 1 in his drive to shut down sex clubs.
Today, Palermo controls the Penthouse Club and All-Star Men's Club in Houston - strip joints city officials say are hotbeds of prostitution and drugs.
Most of Palermo's Texas neighbors will learn his true identity today when his face and identity will be revealed on a local TV station, KPRC. At that moment, he will face a new reality - should he and his family disappear. Again.
Palermo's transformation began in 1999, after an FBI takedown of the DeCavalcantes.
He started out legit, working at the Fulton Fish Market in Manhattan, where he earned the nickname Vinny Ocean. By the mid-1960s, he was married to the mob, choosing a niece of the boss, Simone (Sam the Plumber) DeCavalcante, as his bride.
Before rising to acting boss, he made his name by eliminating suspected informant Fred Weiss as a favor for the late Gambino boss, John Gotti.
On Sept. 11, 1989, Palermo and another gangster walked up to Weiss on a Staten Island street and fired. Weiss was shot twice in the face; Gotti was delighted.
After his 1999 arrest, Palermo hired prominent criminal lawyer Gregory O'Connell, a former prosecutor. He quickly turned informant.
His testimony helped decimate the DeCavalcante family, New Jersey's only homegrown organized crime family. The entire hierarchy is now behind bars or cooperating with the FBI.
After pleading guilty in a sealed courtroom on Oct. 20, 2000, he grew a Vandyke beard. He wore sunglasses while testifying. His cooperation inspired several family gangsters to plead guilty.
He forgot to tell the feds he gave his kids $1.1 million, a lapse that earned him jail time. He agreed to pay $2 million in restitution and keep his nose clean. Soon - with a nod from the feds - he was released.
He and his family were allowed to sell their $2 million stucco mansion in Island Park, L.I., and enter the witness protection program with new names and Social Security numbers. They disappeared into America.
In 2002, Palermo surfaced in Houston with a new name.
The next year, he bought a $875,000 gated mansion complete with fountain and statues in the front yard. He followed up with several properties that became the Penthouse and All-Star Men's Clubs, a Mexican restaurant and a car wash - all next to one another in a gritty section of Houston.
In an interview outside his home, Palermo told the Daily News his son Vincent Jr. runs the clubs. He admitted owning the property and collecting rent.
"He pays me rent. That's how I get income," he said of his son, listed as sole owner of Herewearegain Inc., which owns the clubs.
Before July 2008, his wife, Debra, was listed as sole owner, though Palermo lists himself as company president in a 2007 donation to the Republican Party.
The City of Houston, using Palermo's new name, insists he controls the Penthouse Club. In court papers, it says the evidence "leaves no doubt that the Penthouse Club is controlled and operated by Vincent (Palermo) Sr."
In a sealed court hearing, a state investigator used an old photo to identify Palermo as the man who runs the business that controls the club.
Recordings made by a cooperating informant named Ralphie back in 1998 make clear Palermo has long wanted to run a Penthouse strip club.
In one April 1998 conversation, Palermo boasted of his negotiations with Penthouse founder Bob Guccione to open a club.
"He bought a gentleman's club. I said, but you know what? I said you know, we wanted to do one in the city. The first one. Penthouse Live."
Palermo formed a corporation to market Penthouse lingerie and discussed opening a Penthouse club in Russia.
In 2002, Herewearegain Inc. got a liquor license for a Houston strip club named Caligula XXI, renaming it Penthouse Club in 2005. The club repeatedly made headlines in Houston for all the wrong reasons.
From Jan. 5, 2006, through Aug. 8, 2007, Houston police launched seven stings that produced evidence of 10 prostitution offers and 10 drug sales. Cops reported strippers offering to perform sex acts inside a "Champagne Room."
The club was also repeatedly cited for violations of no-touch rules and regulations barring dancers from coming within 3-feet of customers. A neighbor reported being solicited outside the club on his way home.
After Houston began targeting Penthouse, the club claimed it wasn't a strip club because dancers covered their nipples with latex or body paint. Club managers admitted to occasional "wardrobe malfunctions," but insisted Penthouse Houston was really a "bikini club."
The city moved to shut Penthouse because it violated the law barring "sexually oriented businesses" from within 1,500 feet of schools and residential properties. The club was forced to shut for a year in September 2008.
Across the street is the All-Star Men's Club, also operated by Herewearegain Inc., in a building Palermo owns. In May, nine club employees were arrested on prostitution and drug charges in yet another police raid.
He refused to talk about how he acquired the properties, referring The News to his lawyer, who also declined to comment.
A year after the city shut it down, Penthouse Houston intends to reopen Sept. 17, again as a "bikini bar."
In a brief interview outside his home, Palermo looked unchanged and unfazed. His hair had a touch more silver, but his accent was pure Brooklyn.
He seemed entirely at ease, walking with a slight swagger and claiming that many Houstonians know who he is due to an A&E special on the DeCavalcante crime family.
"Everybody knows who I am," he said. "It was on A&E."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 14, 2009 at 8:41pm
HipHopWired Reports
For the usual artist, an upcoming album gives the green light to have their face in all types of news in order for them to promote the upcoming project. Rapper N.O.R.E, however, has taken another approach as it pertains to his release for Tuesday.
"Do not buy that album coming out on Tuesday," N.O.R.E. said at SOBE Live. "F*ck that sh*t! That's not my real album, f*ck that. That's not it, I'll announce it on the Internet or let people know, but that's not it."
Clearly, there must be some miscommunication going on somewhere in his camp. The album is supposed to be released through his Thugged Out Militainment so the statement has only raised a number of questions.
Speaking with 57th Ave, the rapper expressed his issue with his latest and the problem that has come due to the lack of support from record labels.
“But the worst feeling in the world is when you make a hit record that you know is a hit and nobody hears it or you drop an album nobody knows it's out!!! There's nothing worst in the world then going through that!!!! I just made the dopeest album of my career!!! And I'm honestly scared to let it out!!! Why now should I do so? I need the belief in a record label that I just don't have right now!!!”
Titled, S.O.R.E. for Still On the Run Eating, this project would be the rappers returns as a solo artist since 2007s Noreality. He had linked back up with his partner in rhyme, Capone, in March to release Channel 10. The album would be the return of the group CNN which hadn't released a project together in nine years.
Rumors have been floating that both Capone and NORE have spoken of an upcoming album similar to The War Report, titled Report the War, where they would reverse each individual track, such as "Money Bloody" opposed to "Bloody Money." It is speculated this album will be released sometime after both their new solo albums are released.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 14, 2009 at 8:29pm
HipHopWired Reports
From the beginning of the summer to the end, peace is nowhere in sight for one of the reigning monarchs of the Atlanta's music scene. Sharing the same mantle of power as T.I. and Ludacris is Young Jeezy, whom has found himself the target of several emotionally laced diss tracks as of late. The most recent comes from a former colleague and compatriot, Jody Breeze, whom has decided to take aim at the Snowman for reasons that are still clear only to himself.
Employing the hard laced track found on “Uptown,” the underrated and often ignored rapper from the Georgia boondocks takes a myriad of personal, seemingly pain-induced emotional jabs at a man that once shared stages and rocked crowds with him. Breeze even called Mr.17.5's street affiliations and history into question, a minor jab before insulting his family.
Four years ago, both men were members in P. Diddy's southern rap group, Boyz N' Da Hood, along with Duke and Big Gee. Issues arose between the two when Jeezy, who set the streets on fire with his legendary Trap or Die mixtape, parlayed his success into a tool for stronger negotiations in the boardroom which resulted in him being signed to a one album deal with Bad Boy Records and a very lucrative deal with Def Jam. Perhaps due to ignorance, the remaining members of the group were never able to imitate the breakout success Jeezy found, and faded into the annals of southern Hip-Hop history.
Jody Breeze's biggest hit to date has been 2005's “Stay Fresh,” a duet with Jazze Pha. With a chart topping hit like that, it's no wonder Breeze feels that he made Jeezy's career, as he once humbly proclaimed. Gorilla Zoe was in Boyz N Da Hood too and you don't see Big Gee or Duke making dissin' him. I think I smell another “Stay Strapped” in the air, maybe followed up with a touch of “24,23.”
You could say the Griffin, GA MC committed career suicide, but you have to have a career first in order to kill it.
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