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Eminem's grabbing a slice of that Super Bowl commercial money.
This one is pretty funny because it's an ad about how he hates about doings ads.
He's peddling Lipton Brisk Iced Tea in this one, if anyone cares.
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Candice Swanepoel is definitely one of Victoria's Secrets hottest models.
Check out her new Swimwear & Lingerie and her Valentine's "Love Me" campaign.
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Wow, what a fight last night between Vitor Belfort and Anderson "The Spider" Silva.
Silva maintained his stranglehold on the middleweight division, defending his belt for the 8th time with a spectacular front kick knockout in the 1st round.
Belfort didn't seem to see the kick coming,
"He faked to the body and kicked to the head," Belfort said. "Anderson's a great fighter."
Actor Steven Seagal accompanied Silva to the ring and in a post-fight interview with Karyn Bryant was very vocal about having taught him the kick that won the fight.
"I couldn't have been happier because right before he walked out I said stay away from him for the first 2 or 3 minutes... just kind of get him frustrated and then fake low and come high and do that kick that I've been teaching you... and kick him to the head or the face. He did exactly what I said and exactly what I wanted to happen happened." Seagal said.
While I have no doubt Seagal has a relationship with Silva and probably trains with him, it's very unusual for a trainer to try to take credit for a victory like Seagal seemed to do.
Seagal went on to say it's a kick he learned 30-40 years ago in Japan and he's since been perfecting it.
Do you believe Silva learned that knockout kick from Steven Seagal?
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With friends like Akon, Soulja Boy, Trav, Kevin Cossom, Bubbles, Amazin Amie and a bevy of beautiful women packed in the club, Sean Kingston had himself one hell of a 21st birthday party.
While the rest of the country is freezing, party goers at Club Play in Miami's South Beach enjoyed warm 80-degree weather last night (February 4).
Happy B-Day SK!
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Luther Campbell aka Uncle Luke, the man that brought us songs like "Put Her In The Buck", "Me So Horney" and "The F*ck Shop" has announced he is going to run for Mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
In an Interview with the Miami New Times, Campbell detailed why he wants to run.
I've thought about running for public office before, but someone would always end up talking me out of it, saying, "We have this good person here, he will do good for the community," so I always backed out. But I'd end up frustrated because they didn't do anything. I'd give them ideas and they would just tell me what they wanted to hear..
I get in my car, ride around Liberty City, and everything looks the same as when I was in the neighborhood growing up. I see the same crimes in the same areas. Officers and residents are still getting killed in the community I grew up in. I go to a city like Atlanta that has sensible affordable housing, and no one is being murdered. I go to Miami International Airport and see the same construction that has been going on for like a hundred years. All of that frustrates the hell out of me. Why aren't we getting it right in Miami-Dade? Why is our government only serving one set of people? That's what is pushing me to run
Even though all my stripper friends are gonna be mad at me, I think we can stimulate the economy with a tax on strippers. They make all this money and don't pay taxes. I'd take that cash and put it into a fund where it supports youth athletics for girls like cheerleading or softball. Or it can go to help pay for existing little girls programs that are struggling to get government assistance
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Hmmm, would you vote for Uncle Luke?
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Erykah Badu is throwing her considerable talents behind the 1's and 2's as she joins The Core DJ's.
Going by the pseudonym DJ Loretta Brown, Badu's 1st gigs are in her native Dallas this Super Bowl Weekend. She spun records last night at the Grey Goose Lounge at a party hosted by Reggie Bush. Tonight she heads over to the PM Lounge, then Sunday it's the Hennessy Mansion.
Core DJ leader Tony Neal made the announcement via twitter yesterday that Badu had joined the crew.
"Big move today @fatbellybella in the Core. My sis is a serious DJ! #DJLorettaBrown." he tweeted.
Badu responded by saying that she was honored.
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When your father is one of the pioneers of hip hop Doug E Fresh, trying to follow in his footsteps can be a slippery slope. For the group Square Off, it's just business as usual because the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Trips, Slim and Nick Gleamz more than hold it down for the family name. Each one with a unique delivery and potent lyrics.
In this video they team with Smoke DZA with special guest appearances from Militia's Cory Gunz and Young Hash
If you're planning on catching Lil Wayne on his upcoming I Am Music II North American tour you better get in line early because tickets are going fast.
The first 2 shows where tickets were made available sold out in an hour or less.
Tickets for his show at Bryce Jordan Arena in Pennsylvania were gone in an hour and 11,000 seats pre-sale seats for Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York were snapped up in 30 minutes.
Some fans reportedly camped out overnight to assure themselves of a seat
Red hot rapper Nicki Minaj is also on the bill which adds a great boost. When people like Taylor Swift start reciting her lyrics, you know Nicki's made it.
The other 23 dates on the tour are going on sale soon.
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Sit back and relax you mind because you're about to hear some real talk from two rapper with 43 years of experience between them.
Cory Mckay aka Cormega and Percy Chapman aka Tragedy Khadafi held court recently right in the middle of Queensdridge Housing Projects and talked to Taj Mahal about the good times and bad times they have seen in hop hop.
TM: Is Queensbridge different nowadays?
Cormega: On some real sh*t, Queensbridge is a clean ass housing project these days. You can see white people come through here jogging... not running from a n*gga (laughs). It's dope out here now.
TM: What was an average day like in QB back in the 90's?
Tragedy Khadafi: You could come out your building and not know what would happen. It was always something going on, you know how it is. In the summertime it's hot, you got a bunch of motherf*ckers coming in cause they cousin live here, trying to take over. Hood Wars, we'd go look for wars.
TM: What happened to Queensbridge running the rap game?
Tragedy Khadafi: Queensbridge to me, we was like the first supergroup.
Cormega: I call Queensbridge Rome because anybody that's familiar with history. During that era with Ceasar they had that world... their modern world they could have ruled it. The only thing that brought them down was themselves. That's how Queensbridge is... nobody could f*ck with Queensbridge if everybody was together.
TM: Tell us about 2011 Cormega vs the old
Cormega: My mind is so elsewhere with it. I aint on that stupid sh*t no more, I'm on some grown man shit. I'm a grown man - I'm not acting young, I'm not trying to portray a young man's image.
TM: Has prison changed your outlook on life?
Tragedy Khadafi: We [blacks] got the wrong concept of hustling. Black people spend $600 billion dollars a year in disposable income. We spend so much money, but we don't have economic power cause we're hustling backwards. I aint gonna front, to me hustling and making it was like having the illest clothes on, having the illest jewelry, you know the same old sh*t. Success to me was jewelry, cars, clothes and women, but that's not really success at the end of the day, cuz in that there's no value.
Today I'm a man and the things I value are of real value. A year from now that chain aint gonna be hot. That car aint gonna have the same value people place on it, it's value is gonna depreciate. Real life never depreciates when you're living it to it's highest value.
TM: Hip Hop started in New York, why are we losing?
Cormega: It's just certain sh*t n*ggas gotta look at. All these songs coming out glorifying liquor, like everybody got a song about poppin bottles. What the f*ck n*ggas celebrating in a recession? I don't wanna be a hypocrite. I'll go upstairs right now and put on jewelry, that'll make n*ggas that's brainwashed and stupid go 'oh that's ill', but that's not me no more I'm grown. We gotta wake the f*ck up real talk. You got rappers wanna know why n*ggas [record] sales is down. It's because everybody's partying, how you gonna party in a recession? That's why LL [Cool J] lasted so long because he looks like a regular everyday n*gga cuz he never threw that sh*t [in people's faces]. That's why Russell [Simmons] can walk around without security and he's richer than everybody.
TM: What happened to the originality of New Yorkers?
Tragedy Khadafi: I remember there was a time when you would see a dude from Brooklyn and go 'he's from Brooklyn' or 'yo they from Harlem.' Because everybody had their own style and originality. Now if you look at anybody, on any corner, in any hood they all look the same. There's no more originality, there's no more style, there's no more authenticity, there's no more realness.
Cormega: N*ggas is d*ck riding other places when we created this whole sh*t
There's more to the interview, peep it below. Are Tragedy and Cormega right? Has New York fallen off because it lost touch with why they were the kings of hip hop? Is champagne rap killing hip hop?
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By now everyone has seen or at least heard of the movie 'The Blind Side.' It's the true story of how Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher, an African American was adopted by a white family who helped him turn his life around.
A similar story is developing in Seattle, Washington that is even more dramatic, but looks like it could have a very happy ending as well.
16-year old Melvin Jones was bouncing around the streets of Seattle with no home and no real family structure.
His mother was dying of AIDS and although Melvin was attending school, he had zero credits as a sophomore and no discipline in the classroom.
His high school coach Kasey Porrier, looked at Melvin as the younger brother he never had and decided to ask his mom if she would take Melvin in.
"Every time I took him home, I was taking him somewhere else,” Kasey recalled. “We drove around to four or five different places and there were no adults. He never had a curfew, never had to do homework, never had to get up and go to school."
Knowing all of that Kasey's mom, Jennifer Annable decided to let Melvin stay.
Annable had not had an easy life herself. She moved to Seattle when she was 6 months pregnant with Kasey, with only $50 dollars.
She worked hard to become a teacher, then Director of a School For Children With Special Needs.
So given the chance to take Melvin in wasn't a hard choice at all. She had done it five times when Kasey was younger.
It was very hard at first because Melvin didn't trust anyone. He kept the groceries Annable bought for him in his room, afraid they would get eaten up.
"He had been loved, but not parented," Annable said.
Even though Melvin rebelled against it, Annable forced him to study and do his homework.
"Jennifer was like a gnat, like you slappin' at a gnat and it just won't go away." Melvin said. “I tried to leave the house 1:30, 2 o’clock in the morning, and I’d get into fights with Jennifer.”
"Melvin was putting so much strain on my mother that it was kind of breaking her.” Kasey said, starting to think that maybe the whole thing was a bad idea.
Then one day Annable gave Melvin her ATM card and PIN number. Showing him she trusted him with her life and he could do the same with her.
"I didn't want to be responsible for Melvin not making it,” Jennifer said.
Now several years later the high school sophomore with no credits is flourishing at Portland State University. Where he is not only a star player, but a gifted student as well.
“Once he bought into the hard work, to the long hours, to the family, to the changes in his life, he made it." Kasey says.
"She threw a Hail Mary pass,” Melvin says of Annable “I guess I caught it"
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The Kardashian sisters are doing the talk show circuit promoting their new reality show "Kourtney & Kim Take New York."
Kourtney was on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of nights ago, so last night Kim made an appearance.
The two talked about Kim's love life with Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets, what it was like when Justin Bieber's fans thought she was public enemy number 1 and are they all young girls or old guys pretending to be girls on the net?
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For nearly a year the Houston Mayor's Office, District Attorney and Police Chief have tried to prevent this tape from becoming public.
Their reason? In their opinion, the March 2010 tape is too graphic and disturbing for the public to see. In other words, there's some f*cked up sh*t they don't want to get sued for on it.
However, through the efforts of Houston activist Quanell X the video was obtained and given to ABC 13.
What the video shows is then 15-year old burglary suspect Chad Holley running from police along a metal fence when he is cut off/hit by a police car in pursuit. Holley falls to the ground, rolling onto his stomach, where he immediately places his hands above his head in the "surrender" pose.
As police move in he places his hands on the back of his head.
At least 6 officers then swarm him and start kicking him, one kicks him repeatedly in the face and head. Officers are also seen punching Holley to the body and stomping on his legs.
The beating lasts for about 2 minutes before he is picked up and taken to a patrol car.
Right after the attack, "We began to mobilize and organize the community for justice for Mr. Holley and for the community who wanted to view the tape," Quanell X told ABC News. "From day one, I was always subtly threatened by police officers, and the mayor of Houston who made a statement at the very beginning of the case that if anyone possessed a copy of the tape it would be considered theft and would be prosecuted."
Holley was convicted of burglary in October 2010 and is now on two years probation.
Now that this footage is out he will probably be heading back to court to sue the Houston Police Department.
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