Former President Bill Clinton is getting a hand from entertainers Drake and Jamie Foxx for his fundraising event next week for Millennium Network in Hollywood.
The event supports Clinton's nonprofit organization, The Clinton Foundation.
Other celebrities expected at the event include Maroon 5's Adam Levine, actress Kristen Bell and Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin.
Drake is expected to give a special perfomance.
The Clinton Foundation's Millennium Network encourages students and activists to address global issues like poverty, climate change, education and health care.
On one side you have billionaire owners guarding their pots of gold like greedy leprechauns. On the flip side there are spoiled NFL players who make way too much money in the first place.
As you may have heard, the owners locked the players out yesterday (February 11) after the two sides failed to agree on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The players then decertified their union, with Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and 7 others filing a class acition lawsuit.
That these 2 sides couldn't figure out how to split up $9 billion dollars makes you wonder why we're so fascinated with sports in the first place. It's obviously a big money grab with little or no thought given to how the fans feel.
Think I'm wrong? Just wait until the NBA goes through the same thing in July when their CBA expires.
Both sides are blaming each other in this NFL owners vs the players mess
"We know that you want football. You will have football. This will be resolved," the league said in a statement.
The NFL Players Union boss DeMaurice Smith didn't sound as sure.
"I would dare any one of you to pull out any economic indicator that would suggest that the National Football League is falling on hard times," Smith said. "The last 14 days, the National Football League has said, 'Trust us.' But when it came time for verification, they told us it was none of our business."
Grammy award winning & Platinum selling MC Chamillionaire needs no introduction. But when we talk about the term ‘Underrated Rapper’, Chamillionaire is one name which comes to our minds. The Texas rapper has been out of the limelight since a couple of years mainly due to issues with his label Universal Records. But he’s right back on the scene now with his Playlist Poison releases and has immediately grabbed the attention of the Hip Hop world, again.
Now Cham chats with us about his game plan on releasing music in the near future, what exactly he intends to do with Playlist Posion & Major Pain projects, working with other artists, present equation with 50 Cent, his top 5 dead or alive and of course Prince vs. Michael Jackson.
HHNM: Thank you so much for taking out your valuable time for us. Although we try to be as unbiased as possible on Hip Hop N More, you clearly are one of the most liked artists on the blog.
Chamillionaire: Fasho. I appreciate the people that appreciate me.
HHNM: We all know the story now: You are off Universal Records and the ‘Venom’ album is not coming out. In brief, tell us what the future holds for Chamillionaire from now on?
Chamillionaire: People should just expect more material and higher quality material from me. The majors work hard to water down music because that’s what they believe sells. I’m just trying to release music that I honestly think is dope and a lot of it. I’ll be releasing a free download Major Pain 1.5 Mixtape on April 18th and a Major Pain 2 project after that. I’m gonna announce the details about The Playlist Poison album I’m working on later.
HHNM: The Playlist Poison releases have earned good praise from the fans and it’s nice to see a veteran like you working with new artists such as Nipsey Hussle and Big K.R.I.T. Can we expect more collaborations with other freshmen in the future?
Chamillionaire: Yea I have records with some cool artists who I respect musically sitting in my hard drive that are waiting to be released, but I don’t put too much thought into the feature until I’m in the moment. I like to work with people who I respect musically but who also fit the picture I’m trying to paint. Sometimes inspiration will lead you in places you don’t expect. I just feel blessed to have the respect of my peers and to be able to call up people and get them on records. A lot of times that’s not the easiest task when you’re dealing with rappers.
HHNM: You revealed the artwork for the next edition of ‘Major Pain’ during your recent UStream session. Is it going to be another individual mixtape, or a series like ‘Mixtape Messiah’? What exactly can we expect?
Chamillionaire: Major Pain 1.5 will be a traditional mixtape and the Playlist Poison album I’m gonna release later will be more of a full album. The Major Pain series will keep going and I plan to release a bunch of them. I get excited about the process of trying to build new brands and with mixtapes I have been successful in that process a lot of times. I’m not really about trying to explain to people what they can expect. After enough quality music is released I believe the people who have confidence in your brand as an artist will seek anything you put out.
HHNM: Sounds like a plan. Now that you can’t use ‘Venom’, have you picked an alternative title for your forthcoming album yet? And do you have a time frame in mind when you would want to put it out?
Chamillionaire: No. I don’t have one other than the Playlist Poison album I’m gonna release. I’ll treat that like a proper release and build up to it. So far that one is coming out really dope in my opinion but I’m still pretty early in the process. If any fans have any doubt about the Playlist Poison album I’m gonna release later then just pay attention to all the Playlist Poison records I’m leaking from Chamillionaire.com. When I get enough of them released then I’m sure you will see that I’m in a zone. I think I know what fans want to hear from me and Im glad I don’t have any “I know what’s hot” label execs telling me what to create. They really know how to blow an artistic high. The people that pay attention to what most artists say about their record labels understand what I mean.
HHNM: Definitely. So you recently posted a picture on Facebook of you hanging out with 50 Cent at a Vegas club. Keeping your past not-so-warm relationship with him in mind, what’s the situation like in 2011? As fans, we would like to hear you two on a track together..
Chamillionaire: I have never had any real issues with 50. I think maybe fans and some media tried to make a big deal out of comments he made but I never saw what the big deal was. In person 50 has always been cool. He sat in front of me at the VMAs one time and told me I was gonna win before I did. When I was in New York one time he showed me around his G-Unit offices and I even met his son. I don’t think he would have ever done anything like that if he ever had a real problem with me. We cool but what you saw was just a picture of us hanging out in Vegas. That’s just about it. I went back to my world after that night.
HHNM: Okay. Can you give us your Top 5 rappers, dead or alive? Doesn’t have to be in order.
Chamillionaire: The usual suspects. Pac. Jay-Z. Eminem. Andre 3000. I gotta count UGK as one person. That would probably be my list. Scarface, Nas & Weezy would probably come somewhere next on that list. I know this always debated and people always argue over this stuff but the people I pick are all OG’s in the game and are legends to me. I feel like you can’t be considered the greatest of all time if you haven’t spent a lot of time being on top of the rap game. I like Biggie also and his lyrical ability and wordplay was always ill to me. The only reason I wouldn’t rank him as high is because the subject matter of a lot of his music was kinda dark for me at the time. Death and murder always seemed to be a prominent topic when I would listen to his songs but I could never deny that he was one of the greatest. Unfortunately he didn’t get to live long enough to complete his musical catalog.
HHNM: One last question and this is something we ask everybody we chat with here at Hip Hop N More: Prince or Michael Jackson and why?
Chamillionaire: Michael Jackson because he’s the king of all music. In the world. Period.
50 Cent will be making a donation to UNICEF after it was revealed that he performed for Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy six years ago at a Venice film festival, according to New York’s Daily News.“In light of the ongoing events in Libya, 50 Cent will be making a donation to UNICEF, which is providing vital relief supplies to meet the needs of women and children at risk during this crisis,” a spokesman for Curtis James Jackson III told E!While it was not disclosed how much the 35-year-old rapper was paid to perform, Nelly Furtado tweeted last month that she was given $1 million to play a 45 minute set for the Khadafy family.In addition to the New York MC, Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Usher have all issued statements saying they will donate money to charities in light of the Libyan leader’s highly publicized trouble.
After getting released from jail, P chose to go straight to the studio on the very first day for a recording session with Havoc and Alchemist. A few days ago, we saw a picture but today we have some footage from the event. The Mobb is coming! Thanks to Jux for sending this through.
Lil Kim was in good spirits at Webster Hall in NYC last night (February 10).
And why wouldn't she be,given that her mixtape 'Black Friday' is doing very well and this was the party to celebrate it's release.
Kim singned a few autographs, thanked her fans and performed a medley of songs, that included "She Be Killin Em" x "Queen Bitch" x All About The Benjamins" x "Clap Clap."
Up top, a bootleg view of Rihanna looking nice on the cover of latest issue of VOGUE magazine. After the jump, RiRi’s flirty interview with Chelsea Lately in Australia.
Stack Bundles, founder of his own crew Tha Riot Squad and Jim Jones’ group M.O.B., was a superstar in the making before his life was tragically taken on June 11, 2007. The world has awaited his debut album Rockstar ever since, settling for iTunes compilations of unreleased material in the meantime.
But before the notoriety, Stack Bundles and fellow Riot Squad member Cau2gs were just two kids from Far Rockaway. Street Video/Street Radio and 2GS Films have teamed up to release a DVD of unreleased footage and freestyles from 2001. Almost exactly 10 years later, this DVD gives an exclusive glimpse into the seedling days of Tha Riot Squad.
As Stack announces on the DVD, “Stack Bundles and Cau2gs album coming. It’s called Pros & Cons…it’s coming.” Staying true the original vision, the DVD and mixtape will both share the name “Pros & Cons”. Both releases will contain exclusive, never heard before material, sure to please any fan of Stack Bundles and Tha Riot Squad.
Charlie Sheen fever is sweeping the country. Every talk show and tv station is chattering about the former star of CBS's Two and a Half Men. People at water coolers, bar's and yes even tattoo parlors are talking about Sheen's Adonis DNA.
Some people now want Charlie Sheen tiger's on their leg's
One place you can get a Charlie Sheen tat is South Shore Tattoo in Amityville, New York, where one customer guy decided he needed some tiger's blood.
Tattoo artist Mike Nomy was happy to oblige. He even did it for free since the unidentified recipient is a long time customer. And completely sober according to Mike.
Cool artist, not sure about the tat though. Would you guys be up for some "Charlie Sheen" ink?
Just a few days after being freed from a three year stretch, Mobb Deep's Prodigy finds himself back in the driver's seat like he never left.
First thing Banana Clip P did was hop back in the studio with longtime partner Havoc and producer The Alchemist.
It will be very interesting to if P continues to go in the same rap direction he was on before getting locked up. We heard P getting more political on tracks "Illuminati" and "Real Power Is People" from his 'HNIC2' album.
One person anxious to work with P is G-Unit's Lloyd Banks.
Banks spoke with Sway about the collaboration.
"I haven't spoken to him [Prodigy] yet. We gonna get something done," Banks said. "I have this crazy record, I'm not gonna say the other feature, but hopefully I'll get a good one."
Could this new song end up on Banks' new 'Cold Corner' mixtape? Let's all hope so...
Tokyo (CNN) -- The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in at least 100 years unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats like toys.
Local media reported at least 50 deaths, with more casualties feared.
And the 8.9-magnitude quake, which struck at 2:46 p.m. local time, prompted the U.S. National Weather Service to issue a tsunami warning for at least 50 countries and territories.
It also sparked fires in at least 80 locations, Kyodo news reported.
Its epicenter was offshore 373 kilometers (231 miles) away from Tokyo, the United States Geological Survey said.
But residents there continued to feel aftershocks hours after the quake. More than 30 aftershocks followed, with the strongest measuring 7.1.
"I wasn't scared when it started ... but it just kept going and going," said Michelle Roberts, who lives in central Tokyo. "I won't lie, it was quite scary. But we are all OK. We live on the third floor, so most everything shook and shifted."
A spokesman for the U.S. military bases in Japan said all service members were accounted for and there were no reports of damage to installations or ships.
President Barack Obama, while offering his condolences, said the United States was standing by to help "in this time of great trial."
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said an emergency task force has been activated, and appealed for calm. He said there were no reported leaks of radioactive materials from power plants.
Four nuclear power plants closest to the quake were safely shut down, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said.
About 2,000 residents near the Fukushima nuclear power plant were being told to evacuate, Kyodo said.
At Tokyo Station, one of Japan's busiest subway stations, shaken commuters grabbed one another to stay steady as the ground shook. Dazed residents poured into the streets after offices and schools were closed. Children cried.
The quake toppled cars off bridges and into waters underneath.
Waves of debris flowed like lava across farmland, pushing boats, houses and trailers. About 4 million homes had no power in Tokyo and surrounding areas.
Firefighters battled a fiery blaze at an oil refinery in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo.
Residents said though earthquakes are common in Japan, Friday's stunned most people.
"This was larger than anyone expected and went on longer than anyone expected," said Matt Alt, who lives in Tokyo.
"My wife was the calm one ... she told us to get down and put your back on something, and leave the windows and doors open in case a building shifts so you don't get trapped."
Richard Lloyd Parry said he looked through a window and saw buildings shaking from side to side.
"Central Tokyo is fine from what we see, people are calm ... and not going inside buildings," he said.
Such a large earthquake at such a shallow depth -- 24.4 kilometers (15.2 miles) -- creates a lot of energy, said Shenza Chen of the U.S. Geological Survey.
As the city grappled with the devastation, a massive tsunami swept across the Pacific Ocean.
An earthquake of that size can generate a dangerous tsunami to coasts outside the source region, the National Weather Service said.
In Philippines alone, the tsunami is expected to hit in the early morning and the government has evacuated coastal areas.
The National Weather Service issued warnings for more than 50 countries and territories.
The wide-ranging list includes Russia and Indonesia, Central American countries like Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica and the U.S. state of Hawaii, where warning sirens were sounded in the morning. A tsunami warning was also issued for areas along the United States and Canadian west coasts.
While some officials feared that waves from the tsunami could be high enough to wash over entire islands in the Pacific, at least one expert said it was unlikely.
The tsunami could cause significant damage and flooding, but "washing over islands is not going to happen," said Gerard Fryer of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Humanitarian agencies were working with rescue crews to reach the people affected.
"When such an earthquake impacts a developed country like Japan, our concern also turns to countries like the Philippines and Indonesia, which might not have the same resources," said Rachel Wolff, a spokeswoman for World Vision.
Wolff said her agency is helping people on the ground in Japan and teaming up to help others in countries along the path of the tsunami.
The tsunami could cause damage "along coastlines of all islands in the state of Hawaii," warned the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property."
Tsunamis are a series of long ocean waves that can last five to 15 minutes and cause extensive flooding in coastal areas. A succession of waves can hit -- often the highest not being the first, said CNN meteorologist Ivan Cabrera.
The quake was the latest in a series in the region this week.
Early Thursday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off the coast of Honshu. A day earlier, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake had struck off the same coast, the country's meteorological agency said.
The largest recorded quake took place in Chile on May 22, 1960, with a magnitude of 9.5, the USGS said.
The quake Friday was the fifth-strongest in the world since 1900, the agency said and the most powerful to hit Japan since then.
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