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Immortal Technique has been grinding hard for eleven years in the rap game. The 33-year old is also a political activist who has gained a cult following during that time span.

He was recently interviewed by Doggie Diamonds and said he was cool with fans downloading his music for free. He rationalized that it was only right due to record companies short changing artists for years.

"Get on the internet and just steal my music off of it, because I really don't care about that," he said. "I've had some arguments with executives about that. And I think that they have a lot of audacity -- accusing kids of robbing music when they've been robbing artists for years. Even now it's come up that they were taking royalties under the guise of of licensing of past catalogs. It's just an embarrassment for them to be using the word 'steal' when realistically speaking, they're the biggest thieves and gangsters in this entire business," he continued. "They make everybody that rhymes aboutv doing gangster sh*t look pathetic with in terms of the amount of money they've stolen and the amount of culture that they have robbed from our people."

Peep the rest of the interview where Immortal talks about the American's government's connection to Osama bin Laden and much more.

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This is the second single from Ace Hood's upcoming cd 'Blood, Sweat & Tears' which drops August 9.

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Didn't take long for Casey Anthony spoofs to start popping up.

Check this one out by Blake S. Campbell using Fabolous's "You Be Killin Em" instrumental.

While it seems like everyone has gotten caught up in the planking craze, there's one person you will never catch doing it.

West Coast rapper Xzibit's dislike for the new trend comes from his belief that planking was originally used as a way to stack more slaves on ships as they were transported from Africa to the U.S..

"Planking is THE dumbest sh*t ever," X wrote on twitter yesterday. "Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade. It's not funny. Educate yourselves."

What do you think of Xzibit's comments?

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Wide receiver Roy Williams of the Dallas Cowboys is learning the hard way that money can't buy you love.

Williams mailed a pre-recorded marriage proposal along with a $76,000 engagement ring to Brooke Daniels, a former Miss Texas, right before Valentine's Day of this year. Daniels said "thanks" for the ring, but that marriage thing isn't going to happen.

Williams, who reportedly also mailed $5,000 for dental work and a baseball for Daniels' brother, is now suing to get the ring back.

It's unclear why Williams mailed the engagement ring instead of proposing in person, but an affidavit filed in Ector County, Texas also lists Michael Daniels, Brooke's father as a defendant.

Daniels said he would return the ring to Williams.

"He said (to Brooke Daniels), 'I'm not like a lot of people, I don't want the ring back. You'll eventually come back to me,' and she didn't," Michael Daniels told the Odessa American. “I want to wash my hands of it. It’s just a hassle. I’ll take care of my daughter. I don’t need him.”

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New video from Sade for "Love Is Found," which appears on her greatest hits album 'The Ultimate Collection.'

James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond was hit with 13 felony charges yesterday (July 6) for his role in running a cocaine ring that prosecutors says raked in $10 million annually.

The indictment charges Rosemond with occupying a “supervisory and management position” in a continuing criminal enterprise that trafficked cocaine from January 2007 until Rosemond was caught after being on the run for a month. In addition to cocaine distribution and possession, the head of Czar Management is facing conspiracy, money laundering, and obstruction of justice counts.

The government is also looking to seize millions in property owned by Rosemond.

Allhiphop reports that IRS plans to seize Rosemond's $1 million dollar condominium on the Hudson River in Manhattan, as well as a luxury condo in Belltell Lofts in Brooklyn worth $2.6 million.

The Smoking Gun reports that the 21-page indictment does not mention Tupac Shakur's 1994 shooting.

Last month an inmate by the name of Dexter Isaacs admitted his role in the shooting. Saying he was paid by Rosemond to shoot the rap star at a recording studio in Manhattan.

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Raekwon and Nas linked up in Oslo, Norway for the latest video off of Rae's latest album 'Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang.'

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Yelawolf has had enough of twitter and is walking away from the social networking site following the leak of one of his songs.

"Gangster Of Love" hit the internet over the 4th of July holiday weekend. An obviously upset Yelawolf went off on a particular blog site then said goodbye to twitter.

He later called into DJ Green Lantern's Invasion Radio to talk about what happened and why he's leaving twitter alone.

“I don't have Twitter drama anymore, I relieved myself of it. I'm done with it. It's over for me. It'll be run by management from now on,” he said. "I find myself too personal with it and I just can't help it. It's my personality. It's one thing to get a leak. It's another thing it's another thing when the person who leaks it can sit there and cuss you out about it."

Yela also clarified that the leaked record will not appear on his Shady Records debut 'Radioactive' which hits stores September 27.

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With his deal with Tech N9ne's Strange Music in place, Jay Rock is ready to release his debut album 'Follow Me Home' July 29.

Here's some new visuals from the Watts native.

Eminem continues his hot streak as he becomes the first artist artist ever to sell one million digital copies of an album in the U.S.

Just weeks after Bad Meets Evil's 'Hell : The Sequel' made it's debut at number 1, Slim's 'Recovery' album passes the digital platinum mark. The album was also the best selling album of 2010 and won a Grammy for Best Rap Album.

“Recovery selling one million digital albums is an incredible achievement by an incredible artist,” said Interscope Records’ Vice Chairman Steve Berman. “I have had the pleasure of working with Eminem throughout the course of his career, and I’m delighted to be a part of yet another milestone on his amazing journey.”

Eminem's longtime manager Paul Rosenberg was just as pleased.

"We are thrilled to congratulate Eminem on the history-making digital sales success of Recovery," he said. "Over the years we've made a concerted effort to engage Em's online fan base so this achievement is especially rewarding. Eminem made an amazing album with Recovery and the fans responded in record numbers."

Gucci Mane wasted no time getting back into the swing of things following his release from Fulton County jail yesterday.

AllHipHop reports Gucci partied last night at Club Onyx, an Atlanta strip joint. The 1017 Brick Squad CEO also dropped a new mixtape “Writings on the Wall 2.”

Gucci had been locked up since April  following numerous probation violations stemming from a 2005 aggravated assault case. Most recently Gucci was accused of pushing a woman out of his moving car after she refused to have sex for money with him. His attorney Ashutosh Joshi told MTV yesterday that his client's probation from that 2005 case would be completed once he was released.

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Bow Wow takes viewers on an in depth trip into his world in the upcoming documentary 'Who Is Shad Moss?'

Check out the first of three trailers that will be released.

Twitter was the stage again for another rap beef. This time Shady Records artist Ca$his and CTE's Freddie Gibbs squared off.

This actually started back in July of last year when Gibbs dissed Ca$his in an interview with Complex. Gibbs said he felt a certain way about Eminem not wanting to meet with him when he was shopping for a deal.

"I guess it was disappointing because I saw he signed n*ggas like Ca$his and I was like, man, get the f*ck outta here. These busters can't hold a candle to me," Gibbs said at the time.

Today Ca$his dissed the rapper back, starting a war of words.

"jeezy is the man... But @FreddieGibbs is horrible. Sounds like a wack ja rule tryna be twista, all while being constipated," he wrote.

"@TheRealCashis N*gga suck my d*ck," Gibbs replied. "get off twitter and find a job so you can feed them 15 kids. U wanna see me come see me I'm out here."

From there it was pretty much Ca$his going in, while Gibbs chose to remain silent.

"@FreddieGibbs come c u? B*tch if u get touched, holice will b at my door... Uz a ho... U want rap beef. So rap beef it is... Fraud," Ca$his tweeted. "and keep my kids out ur voca, or this is big n pac 2011... I never spoke on ur seed. I'll end u b*tch, dont speak on my babies. ima make jeezy treat u like a f*cking leper," he continued. "i see u shut the f*ck up about my kids doe... Now its back to rap.... Ima call u bettygibbs from now on ok :)."

We'll keep an eye on this one, it could get interesting.

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors proved Casey Anthony was a liar, but convinced the jury of little else. The government failed to establish how 2-year-old Caylee Anthony died and they couldn't find her mother's DNA on the duct tape they said was used to suffocate her. There was conflicting testimony on whether the putrid smell inside the family's car was a decomposing body or simply trash, and it was never quite clear why chloroform was so important.

The lack of evidence and the doubt raised by the defense — that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family's pool — was enough to win an acquittal. After a trial of a month and a half, the jury took less than 11 hours to find Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse.

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She was convicted only of four misdemeanor counts of lying to investigators who were looking into the June 2008 disappearance of Caylee. She lied about being employed at Universal Studios. She lied about leaving Caylee with a baby-sitter, then again when she recounted to investigators that she had told two imaginary people that Caylee was missing. She also lied about receiving a phone call from Caylee the day before she was reported missing.

Lead defense attorney Jose Baez was criticized by many legal pundits for his strategy and loosely throwing around allegations of molestation and incest. Baez suggested early on that Casey's father, George Anthony, helped cover up the drowning and sexually abused his daughter, accusations the father vehemently denied. Baez also claimed Casey's brother might be Caylee's father and that a meter reader who discovered the girl's remains may have moved them, more allegations that weren't substantiated.

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Ultimately, though, the burden of proof wasn't on Baez.

 
"I don't think it was Baez' great lawyering that won the case," said Richard Rosenbaum, a Fort Lauderdale criminal defense attorney who closely followed the trial but wasn't involved in the case. "I think it goes back to the prosecution and the weaknesses in their case."

Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney for Miami and now a defense attorney, said Baez had to offer an alternative to the prosecution's theory of how Caylee was killed, though he was less impressed with the molestation accusations.

"The biggest questions were the 'how' and the 'why,'" Coffey said. "Even the state acknowledged they weren't exactly sure of how Caylee was killed. That was a candid acknowledgement, but Baez seized on that."

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Orlando's chief prosecutor said his attorneys were disappointed with the verdict but they presented every piece of evidence that existed.

"This is a dry-bones case. Very, very difficult to prove," said Orange County State Attorney Lawson Lamar. "The delay in recovering little Caylee's remains worked to our considerable disadvantage."

Shortly after Lamar's news conference, one of the lead prosecutors on the case, Jeff Ashton, announced he would retire at the end of the week following 30 years as a prosecutor. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said Ashton and Lamar had previously discussed his retirement.

The six-month gap between when Casey was reported missing and when her remains were found in December 2008 affected the amount of scientific evidence investigators could glean from the pieces of bones, some as small as a pebble. And prosecutors didn't have any evidence that put Casey at the scene where the remains were found.

There was also confusion on why chloroform was so important. Chloroform is a chemical compound that can be used to knock someone unconscious and also is found in human decomposition, but prosecutors never made clear exactly what its role it played in Caylee's death.

Prosecutors said Casey searched for the term "chloroform" on the family's computer, though when her mother, Cindy, took the stand late in the trial, she said she searched for it. Later, job records indicated that Cindy might have been at work when the searches were made.

Then there was the smell test. After prosecutors presented an expert witness who said that a carpet stain taken from the family's car trunk had a smell consistent with a decomposing body, the defense called the expert's former colleague who testified to the opposite.

Baez addressed his naysayers during a press conference.

 
"This case has brought on new challenges for all of us. Challenges in the criminal justice system, challenges in the media, and I think we should all take this as an opportunity to learn and to realize that you cannot convict someone until they have had their day in court," he said.

Yale Galanter, who has represented O.J. Simpson in a number of cases since 2000, said he was not surprised by the verdict.

"The issue is there was absolutely no evidence linking her to the death. None," said the Miami lawyer. "So what the defense did was brilliant, they brought up the drowning, they brought up the sexual molestation, and it really got the jury to focus away from the bad behavior of the mom."

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