Legendary Queens, New York emcee LL Cool J is putting the finishing touches on his G.O.A.T. 2 album. In the meantime he recruits Jeremy Austin for a new song entitled "Know Your Name."
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (Associated Press) — Aircraft and ships that spent several hours searching Indonesian waters turned up no sign of an AirAsia plane that disappeared Sunday with 162 people on board in airspace possibly thick with dense storm clouds, strong winds and lightning, officials said.
Aircraft searching for AirAsia Flight 8501 called off the effort for the night and will resume at Monday morning, said Achmad Toha of Indonesia's search and rescue agency. Some ships were continuing the search overnight, he said.
The plane took off Sunday morning from Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, and was about halfway to its destination, Singapore, when it vanished from radar.
The last communication between the pilot and air traffic control was at 6:13 a.m. (2313 GMT Saturday), when the pilot "asked to avoid clouds by turning left and going higher to 34,000 feet (10,360 meters)." It was last seen on radar at 6:16 a.m., and a minute later was no longer there, Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's acting director general of transportation, told reporters.
More than 12 hours later, shocked family members huddled at the Surabaya airport from where the Airbus A320 had taken off, awaiting any news of the jetliner.
Air Asia group CEO Tony Fernandes flew to Surabaya and said at a press conference that that the focus should be on the search and the families.
"We have no idea at the moment what went wrong," said Fernandes, a Malaysian businessman who founded the regional low-cost carrier in 2001. "Let's not speculate at the moment."
It is the third major aviation incident involving Malaysia this year. In March, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people, and in July, a jet from the same airline was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard.
Indonesia and Singapore launched a search and rescue operation for Flight 8501 near Belitung island in Java Sea, the area where the jetliner lost contact with ground traffic control about 42 minutes after taking off from Surabaya.
Murjatmodjo said there was no distress signal from the cockpit of the twin-engine, single-aisle plane.
"We hope we can find the location of the plane as soon as possible, and we hope that God will give us guidance to find it," he said.
Speaking 10 hours after the plane lost contact, Indonesia Vice President Jusuf Kalla expressed deep concern.
"It is most possible that it has experienced an accident," he said.
AirAsia said in a statement that the plane was on the submitted flight plan route. However, it had requested a change due to weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of Indonesian air traffic control.
"This is my worst nightmare," Fernandes tweeted.
Malaysia-based AirAsia, which has a presence in most of Southeast Asia and recently in India, has never lost a plane before and has a good safety track record. Flight 8501 was operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a subsidiary that is 49 percent owned by AirAsia Malaysia.
Sunardi, a weather forecaster at the Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, said dense storm clouds were detected up to 44,000 feet in the same area at the time the plane was reported to have lost contact.
"There could have been turbulence, lightning and vertical as well as horizontal strong winds within such clouds," said Sunardi, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.
The plane had an Indonesian captain and a French co-pilot, five cabin crew and 155 passengers, including 16 children and one infant, AirAsia Indonesia said in a statement. Among the passengers were three South Koreans, a Malaysian, a British national and his 2-year-old Singaporean daughter. The rest were Indonesians.
AirAsia said the captain has a total of 6,100 flying hours, but Fernandes later said the number is more than 20,000. The airline said the first officer has 2,275 flying hours.
At Surabaya airport, dozens of relatives sat in a room waiting for news, many of them talking on mobile phones and crying. Some looked dazed. As word spread, more and more family members were arriving at the crisis center to await word.
Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan told reporters in Surabaya that search and rescue efforts now involved the Indonesian army, the national Search and Rescue Agency as well as Singapore and Malaysia.
The Search and Rescue Agency's operation chief, Maj. Gen. Tatang Zaenudin, said 200 rescuers had been deployed to the east side of Belitung island.
Air Force spokesman Hadi Tjahjanto said three aircraft, including a surveillance plane, were dispatched to the area. The Singapore air force and the navy also searched with two C-130 planes. The area continued to receive heavy rain as searchers looked for the lost aircraft.
Airbus said in a statement that the missing aircraft was delivered to AirAsia in October 2008, which would make it six years old. It said the plane had accumulated about 23,000 flight hours in some 13,600 flights. AirAsia said the aircraft had last undergone scheduled maintenance on Nov. 16.
AirAsia, which has dominated cheap travel in the region for years, flies short routes of just a few hours, connecting large cities of Southeast Asia. Recently it has tried to expand into long-distance flying through its sister airline AirAsia X.
Fernandes, who is the face of AirAsia and an active Twitter user, sent out an earlier tweet saying: "Thank you for all your thoughts and prays. We must stay strong." He tweeted later that he was heading to Surabaya.
Fernandes stirred controversy earlier this year after incorrectly tweeting that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, now synonymous with one of aviation's enduring mysteries, had landed safely. The wide-bodied Boeing 777 disappeared with 239 people aboard soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8. It remains missing.
Another Malaysia Airlines flight, also a Boeing 777, was shot down over rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine while on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17. All 298 people on board were killed.
William Waldock, an expert on air crash search and rescue with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, cautioned against drawing comparisons to the disappearance of Flight 370.
"I think we have to let this play out," he said. "Hopefully, the airplane will get found, and if that happens, it will probably be in the next few hours. Until then, we have to reserve judgment."
The circumstances bode well for finding the plane since the intended flight time was less than two hours and there is a known position at which the plane disappeared, he said.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, expressed solidarity with AirAsia. In a tweet he said: "Very sad to hear that AirAsia Indonesia QZ8501 is missing. My thoughts are with the families. Malaysia stands ready to help."
President Barack Obama, who was vacationing in Hawaii, was briefed on the plane's disappearance and officials were tracking the situation, the White House said.
The Airbus A320 is a workhorse of modern aviation. Similar to the Boeing 737, it is used to connect cities anywhere from one to five hours apart. There are currently 3,606 A320s in operation worldwide, according to Airbus. The A320 family of jets, which includes A319 and A321, has a very good safety record, with just 0.14 fatal accidents per million takeoffs, according to a safety study published by Boeing in August.
Flight 8501 disappeared while it was at its cruising altitude, which is usually the safest part of a trip. Just 10 percent of fatal crashes from 2004 through 2013 occurred while a plane was in that stage of flight, according to the August Boeing safety report.
In 2007, an Indonesia-owned Adam Air flight carrying 102 people vanished during a domestic flight. Debris was found a few days later, but much of the fuselage remains on the ocean floor. In 1995, an Indonesian plane operated by Merpati Nusantara Airlines disappeared over open water while flying between islands in the archipelago nation. The 14 crew and passengers were never found.
Passing through bad weather such as severe thunderstorms could have been a factor with Flight 8501. Airbus jets are very sophisticated and are able to automatically adjust to wind shears or other weather disruptions. However, weather has played a role in past air disasters that occurred at cruise elevation, including the 2009 Air France Flight 447 crash over the Atlantic Ocean.
Another possibility is some type of catastrophic metal fatigue caused by the cycle of pressurization and depressurization associated with each takeoff and landing cycle — something that Flight 8501 would have done a lot. Still, metal fatigue is unlikely because this plane is only six years old.
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Associated Press writers Joan Lowy in Austin, Texas, Scott Mayerowitz in New York and Lori Hinnant in Paris contributed to this report.
Photo sources: Associated Press, New York Daily News
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Young Buck recruits fellow G-Unit members 50 Cent and Tony Yayo for his banging single entitled "Bring My Bottles." Check out the official music video directed by Eif Rivera up top
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01. Kam Wil - DJ Goonie Intro
02. Kam Wil - What's Good
03. Kam Wil - Paradie
04. Kam Wil - Like You Better
05. Kam Wil - YG Skit
06. Kam Wil - Daygo
07. Kam Wil - DJ Fluker Shout Out
08. Kam Wil - Tru Fan Skit
09. Kam Wil - Make It Clap (Feat. Skipper) [Prod. By P-Lo of The Invasion]
10. Kam Wil - Put My Hand On It [Prod. By Daletheewhvle]
11. Kam Wil - Hollywood
12. Kam Wil - Nobody Enters The Room
13. Kam Wil - Stand Up
14. Kam Wil - Real (Bonus)
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The good people from Bay Bay Bail Bonds in Shreveport, Louisiana teamed up with local radio station KMJJ-FM to give away 99 bikes to underprivileged youths. Check out the video up top and Happy Holidays!
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Ludacris proposed to longtime girlfriend Eudoxie Mbouguiengue on Friday, December 26, and he did it with style.
The 37-year old rapper and actor, real name Chris Bridges, chartered a private jet and had the words, "Eudoxie, Will You Marry Me," projected in blue letters on the ground below. She happily accepted.
Luda took to Instagram to let his followers know he would soon be a married man.
"She didn't say yes. She said HELL YES! #milehighproposal," he wrote. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the couple haves been dating since 2009.
"BEST DAY OF MY LIFE WITH THE LOVE OF MY LIFE," Eudoxie shared on Instagram.
Ludacris will be very busy in 2015. In addition to his forthcoming marriage, the Disturbing Tha Peace CEO will release his long awaited Ludaversal album on March 31. That will be followed closely by the April 3rd nationwide opening of the seventh installment of the Fast and Furious movie franchise.
Congrats to Ludacris and Eudoxie!
**UPDATE** January 7
Ludacris and Eudoxie wasted no time tying the knot. TMZ reports that Luda proposed on Christmas Eve and the couple got married the same day.
"Why wait? Did the thing before 2015. #mrandmrsrbridges," Ludacris wrote on Twitter on January 6.
We wish them the best. Check out some of their wedding photos below courtesy of Luda and Eudoxie's Instagram accounts.
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Teeflii is preparing to release his highly anticipated album entitled Starr on February 3. He links up with Chris Brown to give fans a taste of what to expect from the project with the song "Blue Lipstick."
Pre-order it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/starr/id941411184.
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Gino Marley drops off an official music video for "Made Men." The Smoke Booth-directed clip is off of Gino's mixtape, Greater Than Great. Download it now from LiveMixtapes http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/28143/gino-marley-greater-than-great.html.
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produced by @DreeTheDrummer
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Watch part 1, Bobby Shmurda Speaks on Quick Success; Past Rap Name "Chewy"; Shmurda She Wrote - Click HERE
Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller had the honor to sit down with Bobby Shmurda!
Bobby Shmurda Speaks on show money controversy, best advice, crazy groupie story, would get Kevin Hart To Play him in a movie & much more!
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SEOUL, South Korea (Associated Press) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially charged insults at President Barack Obama over the hacking row involving the movie "The Interview."
North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission, which is led by Kim Jong Un and is the country's top governing body, said Obama was behind the release of the comedy that depicts Kim's assassination. The commission described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unidentified spokesman at the commission's Policy Department said in a statement carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.
The White House's National Security Council declined to comment Saturday.
North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy. Sony Pictures initially called off the release of the film, citing threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters. Obama criticized Sony's decision, and the movie opened this past week.
It wasn't the first time North Korea has used crude insults against Obama and other top U.S. and South Korean officials. Earlier this year, North Korea called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a "hideous" lantern jaw and South Korean President Park Geun-hye a prostitute. In May, the North's official news agency published a dispatch saying Obama has the "shape of a monkey."
A State Department spokeswoman at the time called the North Korean dispatch "offensive and ridiculous and absurd."
In the latest incident, the North Korean defense commission also blamed Washington for intermittent outages of North Korean websites this past week. The outages happened after Obama blamed the Sony hack on North Korea and promised to respond "in a place and time and manner that we choose."
The U.S. government has declined to say whether it was behind the Internet shutdown in North Korea.
According to the North Korean commission's spokesman, "the U.S., a big country, started disturbing the Internet operation of major media of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing tag." DPRK refers to the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The commission said the movie was the result of a hostile U.S. policy toward North Korea, and threatened the U.S. with unspecified consequences.
North Korea and the U.S. remain technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The rivals also are locked in an international standoff over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and its alleged human rights abuses.
A United Nations commission accuses North Korea of a wide array of crimes against humanity, including murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment and rape.
The U.S. stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea as deterrence against North Korean aggression.
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Chicago rapper G Herbo a.k.a. Lil Herb gets production from Childish Major, DJ L, Mekanikz, Slade Da Monsta, DY of 808 Mafia, DJ Fu and Syk Sense on his new mixtape, Pistol P Project.
Features include Katie Got Bandz, Jace and Zuse
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Evil Empire and Big Mike co-host the new EP from Riot Squad's Bynoe entitled Luke 11:23. The project packs features from Cau2G$, Chinx, French Montana, King Sole, Zack, Skrap and Chrome.
Tracklist:
1.Luke 1123 (Prod. Illa Beats)
2.Hail Mary (Prod. Roswell Gray)
3.Close Your Eyes Feat. Cau2G$
4.Money On My MInd Feat. Young Prince (Prod. Sonaro)
5.Red Rum (Prod. Black Starz)
6.Truth Feat. Nathaniel (Prod. Sonaro)
7.Like Me Feat. King Sole & Chrome (Prod. Chris Rocay)
8.Don't Know You Feat. Chinx & Zack (Prod. Punisher)
9.To The Limit (Prod. Greatness)
10.Cash Rules Feat. Cau2G$
11.All I Need Feat. Skrap (Prod. Taylor King)
12.Carrera Feat. Dolla (Prod. Dolla Bill)
13.Peep Game III (Prod. Yung Lo)
14.Cold World (Prod. R2G2EATS Robot Radikalz)
15.Perfect Life (Prod. Apo Beats)
16.Thank You Feat. Chinx & French Montana (Prod. B.Korn)
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Harlem, New York emcee Jae Millz gifts fans in the form of a new EP entitled For the Win. The Young Money recording artist got vocal assists from Styles P and Dave East.
Automatik Beatz, Slik Sam, Frankie P, Marvino Beats, Johnn and Millz himself provided production on the six-track project. Download it for free from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Jae-Millz-For-The-Win-EP-mixtape.676375.html.
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Tracklist:
1.For The Win (Prod. By Jae Millz)
2.I Needed That (Prod. By Slik Sam)
3.Time After Time Ft. Dave East & Styles P (Prod. By Automatik Beatz)
4.Itch Ft. Makarel (Prod. By Frankie P)
5.Couple Millions (Prod. By Marvino Beats)
6.5am In Miami (Prod. By Johnn
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N.O.R.E. and his Thugged Out Militainment team drop off their latest project entitled Drinks (Doin Real Intelligent Necessary King Shit). Features include Styles P, Busta Rhymes, Chinx, Raekwon, Troy Ave, Mack Wilds and more.
Listen to the stream up top and cop the project from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/n.o.r.e.-presents-drinks/id952496535
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Detroit rapper DeJ Loaf links up with Birdman and Young Thug to shoot an official music video for their collaboration entitled "Blood." Visuals directed by Be El Be. Track produced by Lambo. This is off of DeJ's Sell Sole mixtape. Download it for free from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Dej-Loaf-Sell-Sole-mixtape.658115.html.
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Remo The Hitmaker is becoming one of the most sought after producers in the business. The New Wave Music Inc. boss links up with Behind The Lens TV to give fans a step-by-step look at how he created French Montana's new single "Bad Bitch," which features Jeremih.
Cop it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bad-b*tch-feat.-jeremih-single/id948462440
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A Holiday treat from Kid Ink!
Merry Xmas from Me to you! This is a song I recorded a few weeks after I signed my record deal. I been holding this record for a couple years now. Still my shit tho! #VintageInk
Use your Holiday Giftcards to Pre-Order #FullSpeed on iTunes!smarturl.it/iFullSpeed
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Hopsin has wrapped up recording for his forthcoming album entitled Pound Syndrome. Today he unveiled the cover art (up top).
"I'm extremely happy to announce that I have already completed my 2015 album "Pound Syndrome" for you guys," he wrote on Twitter. "I didn't wanna tell anyone I was working on it because I didn't want ANY pressure at all. The Funk Volume team is about to come strong as fuck! Shout out to @threekingsdr for the artwork!"
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