Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 14, 2009 at 7:50pm
LATimes Reports
"Dirty Dancing" star Patrick Swayze has died after an almost two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Annett Wolf, Swayze's publicist, confirms that the 57-year-old actor died Monday with his family by his side.
It had been reported recently that he had gone home to be with his family.
Swayze's role in "Dirty Dancing" propelled him to stardom in 1987.
But it was his role in the 1990 romantic drama "Ghost" that raised his celeb status to an even higher level.
His career was on an upswing recently too with his role in the critically hailed A&E drama "The Beast."
Patrick, you will always be remembered and forever be missed.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 14, 2009 at 12:00pm
Video After The JumpAllHipHop Reports
A representative for Jay-Z has issued a statement stating they had “now clue how” Lil Mama ended up on stage during the rapper’s highlight appearance during the 2009 MTV Music Awards.
Lil Mama crashed the stage about 5 minutes into Jay-Z’sperformance of “Empire State of Mind” featuring Alicia Keys.
You can clearly see Jay-Z was not happy with Lil Mama’s presence on the stage during the performance as he grimaces.
He can be heard saying “You’re T-Paining right now,“ before he slyly attempted to push her into the background, referencing an incident when T-Pain crashed a stage when Jay-Z was performing “D.O.A.”
Rapper Fabolous created a new “hash tag” on Twitter named #lilmamais, which has quickly become a trending topic, making fun on the teenaged rapper.
He Tweeted a number of humorous lines about Lil Mama, labeled the American’s Best Dance Crew Judge a “crazy motherf**er.
“#lilmamais fresh off hangin out wit Maia Campbell,” the rapper Tweeted, referencing the fallen actress who made headlines last week when a video surfaced of her allegedly using crack.
Lil Mama served as a judge on Season 3 of America's Best Dance Crew. Her best known hit is “Lip Gloss.”
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 14, 2009 at 8:30am
BallerStatus Reports
She's already confirmed that she was the side chick of Reggie Bush while he was dating Kim Kardashian. Now, Carmen Ortega is talking more about their secret relationship, and ... a sex tape?
In a recent article with Hip Hop Weekly, the stripper/model confirmed the existence of a sex tape starring herself and the NFL player. However, Ortega did not say whether she plans to release it just yet.
Additionally, Ortega says that Bush's infidelity wasn't the only reason the couple broke up. She claims, cheating was going on by both Kim and Reggie.
"If there was no cheating, then how did they find out who I am? I believe that there was cheating on both sides. That was the reason they broke up," Ortega tells the mag.
Reggie and Kim officially split back in July. However, both said their schedules were the cause, despite rumors.
In addition to the Carmen Ortega story, the new HHW issue features a relationship advice column with celebrity couple Ice-T and Coco, a "Hip Hop State of the Union" roundtable with Russell Simmons, and an exclusive interview with Michelle Obama's favorite designer, Brooklyn-based Sophie Theallet.
The issue is on newsstands now.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 14, 2009 at 8:00am
Statement And Video After The JumpBallerStatus Reports
After a video surfaced of actress Maia Campbell ranting in a drug-induced state, the reaction was shock among the internet community.
Rumors began to circulate about prostitution and heavy drug use, among other things, but not much has been revealed from people close to her. Well, Campbell's father, Ellis Gordon, released a statement to Essence recently, revealing that she's currently in a facility receiving treatment.
Here's his full statement, according to Essence:
Our hearts have been deeply touched by the outpouring of love that so many of you have freely displayed in the past several days about our beloved Maia C. Campbell. Our spirits have been lifted by your words of support and your acts of kindness and we have been encouraged to continue our efforts to assist our daughter and granddaughter to become whole again.
As a family, we have been struggling with Maia in her illness for quite some time. We continue to hold fast to our faith and hope that some day she will realize that healing will begin when she decides to reach out and accept the help and treatment that have been offered to her. We all have challenges in life that we must face, but when compound problems such as mental illness and substance abuse are prevalent, it can appear that there is no way out. However, our sustaining faith and trust in God compels us to believe differently. We strongly believe that Maia will be healed.
We also know that Maia's mother, the late Bebe Moore Campbell, who devoted much of her later years in life to mental health awareness and education, along with her family members and friends would welcome your prayers and support for Maia's sustained recovery. In addition, we urge your support for efforts to diagnose and treat mental illness in our community.
We ask that you not only pray for Maia's wellness, but also commit to understanding this insidious disease, which is devastating our loved ones and community. Help erase the "stigma" of mental illness, which is a very serious barrier to treatment, so that we can help those with the disease to live wholesome lives. Call for more treatment options and prevention strategies, have compassion for those stricken with this illness, and help guide those who have been unable to find their way to appropriate treatment. Additionally, support those families who are struggling to cope with loved ones with the disease because mental illness affects the entire family.
Finally, we ask that you support Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, which was established by Congressional Resolution, H. Con. Res. 134, in April 2008, and is celebrated during the month of July each year. It was established to enhance public awareness of mental illness, especially within minority communities. Please join us in this effort to bring attention to this problem, to identify resources and to strengthen the focus on treatment along with research relative to minorities and mental illness. This is the work that we continue on behalf of Bebe Moore Campbell.
Let us move forward, face our challenge, and turn that challenge into victory and a celebration of life.
To God be the Glory,
Sincerely,
Ellis Gordon Jr., Father
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 13, 2009 at 11:00pm
Pics And Video After The JumpMTV Reports
Kanye West was asked to leave Radio City Music Hall not long after he crashed the MTV Video Music Awards stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video.
The rapper rushed onto the stage and immediately protested Swift's win, saying Beyoncé instead deserved the honor.
"I'm sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time," 'Ye proclaimed after he pulled the microphone out of the country star's hands. B looked stunned as she sat by in the audience.
West, of course, has a history of awards-show tirades, beginning in 2004 at the American Music Awards when he bolted during the show after losing out on Best New Artist and later telling reporters, "I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refused to give any politically correct bullsh---ass comment ... I was the best new artist this year."
Two years later at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, West took his complaints to the stage in a similar fashion to tonight's rant.
Justice and Simian's "We Are Your Friends" bested West for an award and the rapper interrupted their speech as he popped up onstage saying he should have won, because his clip "cost a million dollars and Pamela Anderson was in it."
He later apologized for his stunt, explaining he had a "little sippy sippy" before the production.
West seemed to take that instance in stride as he joked he was going to have another "sippy sippy" before the night was over.
But his verbal attack against Swift had a more vicious tone. According to a tweet from Jay-Z's DJ, Neil Armstrong, Swift and her mother were seen backstage crying afterward; Beyoncé brought Swift onstage for another chance at her acceptance speech later in the show. Various celebs have lashed out against West on Twitter, including Pink, who had to be escorted away from the rapper by security.
Prior to Sunday night's show, West was captured by photographers on the red carpet swigging from a bottle of Hennessey. In multiple pictures West can be seen cradling the bottle as he and his girlfriend Amber Rose were snapped; he is also seen sharing the bottle with Pete Wentz, and in a different shot, West is standing near Joe Jackson, who is holding it. Following his rant against Swift, West returned to his seat and flipped off the audience, who began booing him, before he sat down.
He was booed again in the show when Diddy announced the nominees for Best Male Video. "What I say?" Diddy asked, as the boos rained down.
West had already left Radio City Music Hall by then, however.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 13, 2009 at 8:30am
Video After The JumpESPN Reports
NEW YORK -- Serena Williams' U.S. Open title defense ended in bizarre, ugly fashion Saturday night, when she was penalized a point on match point after yelling and shaking her racket in the direction of an official who called a foot fault.
Williams lost to unseeded, unranked Kim Clijsters 6-4, 7-5 in a taut semifinal that featured plenty of powerful groundstrokes by both women. No one will remember a single shot that was struck, though, because of the unusual, dramatic way it finished.
With Williams serving at 5-6, 15-30 in the second set, she faulted on her first serve. On the second serve, a line judge called a foot fault, making it a double-fault -- a call rarely, if ever, seen at that stage of any match, let alone the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament.
That made the score 15-40, putting Clijsters one point from victory.
Instead of stepping to the baseline to serve again, Williams went over and shouted and cursed at the line judge, pointing at her and shaking a ball at her.
Dropping the f-word liberally, Williams said, "I swear to God I'm [expletive] going to take this [expletive] ball and shove it down your [expletive] throat, you hear that? I swear to God."
The line judge was called over to the chair umpire, and tournament referee Brian Earley joined in the conversation. With the crowd booing -- making part of the dialogue inaudible -- Williams then went over and said to the line judge: "Sorry, but there are a lot of people who've said way worse." Then the line judge said something to the chair umpire, and Williams responded, "I didn't say I would kill you. Are you serious? I didn't say that." The line judge replied by shaking her head and saying, "Yes."
Williams already had been given a code violation warning when she broke her racket after losing the first set. So the chair umpire now awarded a penalty point to Clijsters, ending the match.
"She was called for a foot fault, and a point later, she said something to a line umpire, and it was reported to the chair, and that resulted in a point penalty," Earley explained. "And it just happened that point penalty was match point. It was a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct."
When the ruling was announced, Williams walked around the net to the other end of the court to shake hands with a stunned Clijsters, who did not appear to understand what had happened.
"I used to have a real temper, and I've gotten a lot better," Williams said in her postmatch news conference. "So I know you don't believe me, but I used to be worse. Yes, yes, indeed."
Williams denied threatening the line judge but would not reveal what she said.
"I used to have a real temper, and I've gotten a lot better," Serena Williams said after the match.
"I didn't threaten [her]. I don't remember anymore [what I said], to be honest. I was in the moment. And, you know, everyone's fighting for every point. It was a really crucial point," Williams said.
Asked if the line judge deserved an apology, Williams added: "An apology? From me? Well, how many people yell at linespeople? Players, athletes get frustrated. I don't know how many times I've seen that happen.
"All year I've never been foot faulted, and then suddenly in this tournament they keep calling foot faults. I said something that I guess they gave me a point penalty for. Unfortunately it was on match point."
Lost in the theatrics was Clijsters' significant accomplishment: In only her third tournament back after 2 1/2 years in retirement, the 26-year-old Belgian became the first mother to reach a Grand Slam final since Evonne Goolagong Cawley won Wimbledon 1980.
"The normal feelings of winning a match weren't quite there," Clijsters said. "But I think afterwards, when everything kind of sunk in a little bit and got explained to me about what happened, yeah, you kind of have to put it all in place, and then it becomes a little bit easier to understand and to kind of not celebrate, but at least have a little bit of joy after a match like that."
Clijsters hadn't competed at the U.S. Open since winning the 2005 championship. Now she will play for her second career major title Sunday against No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki, who beat Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-3, 6-3 in the other rain-delayed women's semifinal.
Williams came into the day having won three of the past four Grand Slam titles, and 30 of her previous 31 matches at major tournaments.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 12, 2009 at 12:50pm
LA Times Reports
Two Los Angeles police officers have been placed on paid leave as part of an ongoing investigation into how a photo showing the battered face of Rihanna appeared on a celebrity website after the singer was assaulted by her former boyfriend Chris Brown, four law enforcement sources familiar with the case told The Times.
The night before the Grammy Awards in February, Rihanna argued with Brown, who bit, punched and choked the singer in a rented Lamborghini in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, leaving her bruised and bloodied, police said.
Two weeks later, a photo of Rihanna that showed those injuries appeared on the entertainment gossip website TMZ.com. The sources confirmed that the investigation is focused on at least two officers.
One of the officers, identified by sources as Rebecca M. Reyes, is a nine-year veteran of the department and was last assigned to the Wilshire Division. Her attorney told The Times that a search warrant in connection with the leak investigation had been served on her Los Angeles home.
The other, Blanca Lopez, is a rookie officer with the Hollenbeck Division and was a housemate of Reyes, according to sources, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because it was an ongoing investigation.
Both have been “assigned to home” pending the outcome of the probe, according to the sources who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the investigation.
Attorney Ira Salzman, who is representing Reyes, confirmed that the LAPD assigned his client to home during the Rihanna photo investigation but said his client had done nothing illegal and that department officials had not yet presented any formal allegations against her. Salzman, who described his client as a decorated officer, would not comment on whether Reyes had taken the picture of Rihanna or had at any time possessed it.
“My client did not do anything for financial gain,” Salzman said. “She did not sell the photo.”
Robert Rico, the attorney for Officer Lopez, declined to comment on the investigation. LAPD officials also declined to discuss their investigation, including who took the photograph, how it came into the possession of TMZ.com and how much, if any, money may have paid to the officers or associates for the image.
Also was unclear whether the image that was posted on the site was taken with a personal phone or with department-issued photographic equipment.
LAPD spokesman Lt. John Romero described the investigation as “a personnel matter” and said, “We are investigating vigorously.”
Romero said the department would not comment on whether any officers have been assigned to home.
A state law that went into effect this year makes it a misdemeanor for peace officers or law enforcement employees to profit by leaking confidential reports or images. In addition, the LAPD also has adopted strict rules about recording still or video images at crime scenes, which they made more explicit last year after a series of celebrity-related arrests in which details, and even images, appeared on celebrity and gossip websites.
Donald Etra, the attorney for Rihanna, whose real is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, said Thursday that he was pleased that police had gotten to the bottom of the case. He said that no victim should have to worry about such photographs being leaked. He also noted that his client had “nothing but praise for the LAPD.”
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 12, 2009 at 12:13pm
HipHopWired Reports
Just when you thought crunk was dead, it looks like it might just be back. Lil Jon, the originator and arguably the leader of the south's crunk movement, is stepping back on the scene. Sans his silently dynamic partners in crime, The Eastside Boys, Jon is rolling solo for the first time and releasing Crunk Rock. The new album is set to pack a punch with features from R. Kelly, Akon and the south's current “golden boy” Soulja Boy. Jon told Billboard.com that fans can expect every Lil Jon they've come to know on this album and even hear a new sound of Jon as he works with the electro Hip-Hop group, LMFAO.
“This album has all the Lil Jons you've ever heard. From the crunk Lil Jon, to the Usher-like Lil Jon, to the electro Lil Jon who's hanging with LMFAO. I've got to touch all my fans."
Unfortunately for fans ready to hear Jon and his multiple personalities, you'll have to wait just a little while longer. Crunk Rock is not scheduled to hit stores until November 24. For people that can't wait that long, don't get too upset yet. The first of surely many leaks from the album recently hit the net. The song is titled “Give It All U Got” and has a techno-pop feel. Incredibly bubble-gum and featuring vocals from singer Kee, it should be perfect for teeny boppers and avid listeners to bouncy dance music rappers like Flo Rida and Pitbull.
You can listen to Lil Jon and Kee “Give It All U Got” below:
So does this mean crunk really is dead? This song is definitely NOT what we were expecting….
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Posted by Mr.I Get It on September 12, 2009 at 11:30am
DJ Messiah & YourAudioFix.com – Lethal Dose Vol. 3 [Mixtape]
Here is the latest in our weekly mixtape series, DJ Messiah & YourAudioFix.com – Lethal Dose Vol. 3. This mixtape features new tracks from 50 Cent, Jim Jones, Jay-Z, Maino, Fabolous, Prodigy and more!Download: DJ Messiah & YourAudioFix.com – Lethal Dose Vol. 3 [Mixtape]Read more…
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 12, 2009 at 4:00am
Video After The Jump
Source : Rap-Up
Kid Cudi introduced himself to millions of households on Friday’s “Late Show with David Letterman.” Mr. Solo Dolo performed the Ratatat-aided “Pursuit of Happiness,” a cut off his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day.
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