50 Cent has found a new vehicle to attach his name to. The business mogul will serve as one of the executive producers of a new hour long drama on the Starz Network titled "Power."
Fif revealed information about the show last night via Twitter.
According to Variety, the project centers on a Gotham nightclub owner who skirts the line between legitimacy and criminality.
50 will be reuniting with Randall Emmett and Mark Canton. Bothwill serve as executive producers alongside 50. The trio have worked together in the past on the movies "Freelancers" and next year's "The Tomb."
Writer and producer Courtney Kemp-Agboh, who has previously worked on shows such as "The Good Wife," "The Bernie Mac Show" and "Eli Stone" will pen the script and also serve as executive producer.
Now word yet on when the show will air. We will keep you updated.
One of the most exciting players to ever hit the court in the NBA is about to lose one of his most prized possessions. Former all-star guard Allen Iverson's$4.5 million Atlanta mansion and all of its belongings will be hitting the auction block on December 4th unless A.I. can somehow come up with the cash to save it according to TMZ.
Iverson purchased the home in 2010, but defaulted on his mortgage and the bank foreclosed
The future Hall of Famer is finding things difficult at the moment. In addition to going through a divorce, Iverson has been ordered to pay $859,896.46 to Aydin & Company Jewelers. In January a judge signed off on an order which allows the store to recoup their loss directly from Iverson's Wells Fargo bank account.
**UPDATE** December 9th
A.I. is attempting to stop his mansion from being foreclosed on. It was set to be auctioned off on December 4th, but Iverson filed legal documents to put the sale on hold according to TMZ.
Iverson is going through a difficult divorce with his estranged wife and claims she signed off on the mortgage and consented to terms she knew he couldn't meet in an attempt to screw him over.
A.I.'s lawsuit has temporarily put a stop to the foreclosure proceedings, giving him extra time to try and gather up enough money to prevent the home from being sold.
As we previously reported, Ryan Leslie was ordered to pay a $1 million reward to a man who returned his laptop that was stolen in Germany in 2010. Ryan had offered the reward hoping to get back songs he had been working on for his Les Is More album as well as collaborations he had been working on for Kanye West and Jay-Z'sWatch the Throne album.
When the laptop was returned Ryan says all the music he had been working was lost because he couldn't access the hard drive.
Last night the singer/producer/rapper got emotional while talking about the incident to the crowd at the Long Island University homecoming concert. Check out what he had to say below.
"As you may or may not know - in 2010, somebody stole all my music from me out the back of a black Mercedes-Benz when I was in Cologne, Germany. Initially I put a reward of $20,000 if they'd just give my backpack back - and when it never returned, I upped the reward to $1MM because that music was absolutely everything to me, it was everything, it was my life, it was everything, I upped it to $1MM.
Eventually, somebody did actually return my backpack to me - and when I plugged in that hard drive to access everything that I had lost, the music just wasn't there. The hard drive wouldn't mount. I couldn't access anything - and a year later, that same gentleman (I don't know if it's because he misunderstood what the million dollars was for) ... he filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in New York City, demanding that I pay $1MM for music that I never got back.
And yesterday (and the reason why I'm on the front page of the news today) everyone thought I was just a cheapskate or something like that - a jury of my peers, 8 people, they looked me in my face and told me I had to pay this man $1MM for music I never got back.
And so I woke up today to get me some orange juice, man, and the lady who works at the deli was like 'aw man - you're the guy on the front page of the paper today!' and I looked at the headline. It said 'Rap Weasel...'
Yo - hahahaa, that's like my twin brother - somebody said 'Swizzy!'
So listen, man - music always comes from a place of inspiration and I gotta tell ya'll - never have I been more inspired than when I lost everything then to try to make the most incredible album I could possibly make and for the last two years I invested every single penny, every dollar I had, to make the most incredible artistic offering I possibly could and on October 22nd it came out. It's my album. It's called 'Les Is More.'
And despite what the jury said, that million dollar reward is still out there for anybody who can return all my compositions to me. That's why I never took the video off of YouTube. I never got anything back, but luckily God blessed me with talent and I could make some of the music over again, you know what I'm saying?
So I appreciate each and everyone of y'all for your support tonight and for the future 'cause we gonna keep making this music and we gonna try to work something out with my man over in Germany - maybe he misunderstood - but this is a record off that album."
At the beginning of 50 Cent's new single "My Life" he sends a couple of jabs at The Game and Young Buck.
"I tried to help niggas get on, they turned around and spit/Right in my face, so Game and Buck, both can suck a d*ck. Now when you hear 'em it may sound like it's some other sh*t/Cause I'm not writing anymore, they not making hits," 50 raps.
In a recent sit down with Big Boy's Neighborhood, the G-Unit mogul explains why he threw shots in their direction.
"Things that are notable they begin that record that was recorded two years ago," 50 said. "These things are monumental moments within the culture. Of course it was Game first that decided to go left. He had help. You know me and Jimmy Henchman never got along. He was managing him at the time so it helped him go left. In Game's case there's absolutely no malice on my heart towards him. I'd like to see him do whatever he can do. And Buck, I think that's over. His career is finished. It's because [of] his temperament. Right now he's in jail, but knowing who he is from the entire time that he's been around I don't think he has what it takes to recover."
Although he wishes The Game no ill will, 50 doubts they could ever work together again.
As with most of his guests Big Boy got Fif to play "The Raft" game. He was asked who he would save if he were in a raft and could only pick one person, The Game or Floyd Mayweather Jr.
"I'd pull Floyd up still," 50 said without hesitation. "Big he's still my brother, he just went crazy. I don't even know how to explain it sometimes. He does things [and] for me he wouldn't get away with it if the relationship wasn't the way it was. He flip flops and you don't see it until it's your turn. And you're like 'What? Boy you must be a punch away from retarded.' It's one of those things where you get in a place like 'nah is you serious b?'"
Floyd may anger 50 sometimes, but he says if anyone tried to harm him he would have his back.
The "I Get Money" rapper also speaks on how he picks his singles and explains how he and Alicia Keys both ended up with the song "New Day."
50 Cent speaks on The Game and Young Buck
50 Cent plays "The Raft" game.
50 Cent talks about picking his singles and Alicia Keys having her own version of "New Day"
Chris Brown and Rihanna appear to be a couple again if recent photos are any indication. This news really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been keeping up with the two in recent months. The only surprise is that haven't publicly admitted that they have rekindled the romance that came to a screeching halt in 2009 after Brown assaulted Riri.
In the latest public display of affection Rihanna tweeted a pic of her straddling Brown last night in Frankfurt, Germany after his concert there.
The two also celebrated Thanksgiving in Berlin together. Rihanna later tweeted a shirtless photo of Brown in bed, followed by her own topless photo.
“As far as our personal life, I think people just got to give it a chance — or not even give it a chance, but shut the hell up. It’s me. At the end of the day, whatever opinion they have ain’t going to change nothing I’m doing," Brown told Big Boy's Neighborhood earlier this month.
“To the world, I feel like there’s no closure,” Rihanna told Vogue recently. “There’s some obsession that’s continued even throughout when we weren’t friends or couldn’t be friends at all. Hated each other. The world hasn’t let go. They haven’t seen any progress in our friendship, because they don’t see anything, really, besides the song.”
Nicki Minaj isn't having her best week. First Steven Tyler criticized her skills as a judge on American Idol, which caused a big uproar. Then the sales figures for Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up came in at less than 35,000 for the first week.
Then yesterday, Hot 97 program directorEbro said Peter Rosenberg ended her career when he criticized her earlier this year for going pop with records like "Starships."
Ebro says he got a call from the Young Money star yesterday regarding his comments. Among other things she called him a fake cornball and told him to never play her music again.
Should Nicki be trying to patch things up with with program directors instead of chewing them out?
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 12:06pm
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Wiz Khalifa releases the third vlog from his 2050 Tour. Wiz and the rest of his Taylor Gang take over a movie theater for a screening on Argo, travel to Vancouver, B.C. for a show and interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette, celebrate President Obama's reelection, play a show in Seattle and more.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 12:00pm
Tyga releases his new 187 mixtape. There are a total of 9 songs on the tape and no features. Download it below.
Tracklist:
1. F %kn Crack 2. Im Different 3. Young & Gettin It 4. Clique F %kn Problem 5. Love T-Raww 6. Luv Dem 7. All Gold Everything 8. Swimming Pools 9. 95 Like Dat
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 11:00am
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Steven Tyler has apologized for a comment he made that got Nicki Minaj all bent of of shape.
As we previously reported, Nicki got upset when Tyler questioned her credibility as a judge on American Idol.
"You just have to give your opinion. It wasn't hard for me, but I would imagine it's hard for some people, and they need a manager to say 'Shut the f*ck up, and just give them your opinion,' " Tyler said. "These kids, they just got out of a car from the Midwest somewhere and they're in New York City, they're scared to death; you're not going to get the best [out of them]. ... If it was Bob Dylan, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cornfield! Whereas, if it was Bob Dylan with us, we would have brought the best of him out, as we did with Phillip Phillips. Just saying."
Nicki took the "cornfield" comment as being racist and called Tyler out via Twitter.
"Steven Tyler said I would have sent Bob Dylan to a cornfield??? Steven, you haven't seen me judge one single solitary contestant yet," she wrote.That's a racist comment. You assume that I wouldn't have liked Bob Dylan??? why? black? rapper? what? go f*ck yourself and worry about yourself babe."
Yesterdaythe Aerosmith singer apologized and said he wasn't a racist.
"I apologize if it was taken wrong, Nicki," the rock-and-roll Hall of Famer said on Canadian entertainment program "eTalk." "I am the farthest from- what did she say I was?- a racist. … I was just saying that if Bob Dylan came on the show, he would've been thrown off, so maybe I spoke out of turn. But a racist I am not, Nicki."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 10:24am
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50 Cent's interview with Big Boy's Neighborhood continues to uncover things that have until now been hidden from the public.
It's no secret that 50 and French Montana are in the middle of a conflict. French now has a close affiliation with Rick Ross' camp. 50 reveals that during his beef with Ross, it was French Montana who provided him with the footage of DJ Khaled's mother's house and where she worked.
50 Cent "A Psychic Told Me" [Footage of DJ Khaled's moms house and workplace shot by French Montana]
"I don't even know if you can call [French Montana] a new artist because you haven't heard a song with him by himself. He's a guy that they put on a record with two or three other guys that already established themselves to sell you something," 50 said. "You only gotta get away with listening to him for a whole 30 seconds, 40 seconds then his verse is off. Then it goes to somebody that has really worked to get there. What is the state of Interscope if he's the biggest artist there? You got an artist that doesn't even have an established sales history. You can't fake the general public pretend or fake them into liking him. They haven't decided they like him yet."
50 then talks about French providing him with film footage during the Ross beef.
"When I got into it with Rick Ross and Khaled. When that happened I didn't know who Rick Ross was so I had to take a look. So I usually do my homework. I'll find somebody who knows somebody that can give me some information. And Frenchie they got me the tape. They got me the tape of [Khaled's[ mother house, where his mom work at. The other cribs, studios. I have all of it. Where they were staying in Atlanta. All of them locations because I ain't taking no L's you can trust me. If you do something we gonna do it live. I'm not even gonna hide it," explained Fif.
The G-Unit mogul talks about why he dissed The Game and Young Buck on "My Life." 50 says he has no malice towards Game and he thinks Buck's career is over. He also talks about why "New Day" ended up being both his song and Alicia Keys.
50 Cent explains how French Montana sold DJ Khaled out
50 Cent tells Big Boy why he dissed Game on "My Life"
50 Cent tells Big Boy why Alicia Keys forced him to push out "New Day"
Former Floetry singer Marsha Ambrosius releases a smooth new single "Cold World." The Diplo and Picard Brothers-produced song will appear on Marsha's upcoming 2013 album Friends & Lovers.
Nas was the musical guest on the Conan O'Brien show yesterday. He brought R&B singer Anthony Hamilton along with him and the two performed "World's An Addiction."
The song is off of Nas' latest album Life Is Good.
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