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Waka Flocka Surprises Wishful Fan [Video]

Knock knock. Who’s there? It’s Waka and as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Flocka made one of his biggest fan’s wish come true by making a surprise visit at her hotel with tickets to his show. 16-year-old Kiyana Lyles recently suffered kidney failure and one of her wishes was to meet the rapper. Helpin’, good.






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10-year old Willow Smith flew through the air, sang and danced her way through performances of "21st Century Girl" and "Whip My Hair" at the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards.

Willow's brother, Jaden also went home happy after nabbing the Favorite Movie award for 'Karake Kid.'

 



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G-Unit's unofficial European Ambassador, DJ Whoo Kid popped in on the Hip Hop Chronicles UK show recently.

As usual Whoo Kid had lots of jokes, but he did reveal that he and Dr Dre are working on what would be be Dre's first ever official mixtape.

"Hopefully everything goes down and I'll be hanging with Dr Dre for some mixtapes," Whoo Kid said. "Dr Dre wants to get into mixtapes finally."

 

Whoo Kid reminisced on the early G-Unit days when 50, Banks and Yayo were on some literal killed or be killed type mentality and drove around in a van fully strapped up.

 

The Unit has come a long way and is still climbing.

 


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A school is Lancaster, Pa is using a new mentoring program designed to boost academics for African Americans,

McCaskey East High School separate black students from white students, then separates black females from males. This takes place six minutes each day and 20 minutes twice a month.

The goal is to boost kid's self esteem and help them to improve academically. The school has found that the black kids lag behind their white peers in certain academic areas.

Principal Bill Jiminez admits only blacks get this special treatment, but insists it needed to be done.

Others worry the program could have the opposite affect intended.

"Sometimes when we separate students this way we inadvertently reinforce the stereotypes, and may in fact stigmatize these children by suggesting that there is something wrong with them," says Pedro Noguera a Sociologist and Professor of Education at NYU.

I hope this works, but I have to agree with Mr Noguera on this one. There's no reason to separate the kids, even if it is for small perooids of time.

 



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12348829664?profile=originalSara Stokes and husband Tony Stokes were recently involved in another domestic dispute.

According to  TMZ, Tony choked and punched Sara while they were at a friend's house in Georgia last weekend

"Everybody speculates and blows things out of proportion. It's a crazy kind of life. We're dysfunctional. We need our own TV show. I love my wife." Tony told TMZ

The couple have a funny way of expressing their love. In 2009 Sara was accused of stabbing Tony.

 

Sara became semi-well known when she was a cast member on Diddy's Making The Band 2.

Tony was charged with simple battery in this latest incident.

 



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Flavor Flav's restaurant grand opening in Clinton, Iowa of his new restaraunt, Flavor Flav's Chicken didn't go as planned.

Instead of celebrating the beginning of what he hopes will be a nation wide chain, Flav and Co-owner Nick Cimino had to answer questions about checks bouncing all over town.

Several employees came forward with their stories of not being able to cash their checks. One said she even went to Freedom Bank, the institution check was written from and was told no funds existed.

Flav had a chance to tell his side of the story. He says the restaurant has no money issues.

"It's not true first of all. 2nd of all maybe these are people that are just jealous of me and probably wanna see me out," Flav said. "But yes, we do have money in our account."

Hopefully this is just a small glitch for Flav.

 



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Well damn, Nicki Minaj fires back!

I honestly didn't think Nicki would respond to Lil Kim's taunts, but she's surprised me.

"Tragedy" gets at the Queen Bee, saying she is is old news. Not sure if this is a snippet or the entire song because it only contains one verse.

"Pink Friday, Eminem, 8 Mile/It must hurt to sell your album on PayPal/Especially when you're in the game fifteen-twenty/You was hot when Shaq teamed up with Penny," Nicki raps.

I respect Nicki for accepting the challenge. This kind of competition is what the game is made for.

We know Lil Kim is built for war, now we get to find out if Nicki is as well.

 



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12348817283?profile=originalFor Wiz Khalifa and girlfriend Amber Rose things just got serious.

According to Popeater.com the couple is engaged to married and will be tying the knot as soon as this summer

"Amber is a sweetheart, and my mom, everybody who meets her loves her anyway," Wiz said recently

If the report is true, all I can say is good luck homie.

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Lil Wayne Banned From Touring In Europe

12348503275?profile=originalUK fans hoping to catch a Lil Wayne concert will have to wait a little longer.

The rapper has been banned from entering Europe due to his recent weapons conviction.

The cancelled dates means fans at a couple of festivals and several concerts will have to wait until next time around.

It isn't unusual for UK authorities to keep big name stars out of the country for legal issues elsewhere. Snoop Dogg has been banned from several different UK events in the past 4 years.

Wayne is currently on the North American leg of his 'I Am Still Music II' tour

 



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Chris Rock was in rare form on Late Show With David Letterman yesterday [March 31].

Rock clowns the hell out of his favorite baseball team, the New York Mets for being a broken down organization.

He also goes in on people who are contestants on shows like Celebrity Apprentice, saying his career is fine as long as he isn't on one of them.

Really funny interview, peep it below.

 



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Big Snoop Dogg hit up the Lopez Tonight show and caught up on old times with George.

The Doggfather has a new album out 'The Doggumentary' in stores now. Incredible to think it's his 11th solo cd.  They chopped it up about the new disc, pondered if Snoop should run for president, and cleared up a funny rumor that's been floating around.


When Cameron Diaz appeared on Lopez Tonight recently, she said she bought weed from Snoop in high school. Snoop didn't exactly deny it.

"I might have sold her some of that "white girl weed". you know ... sticks and stems and seeds," Snoop joked.

Later in the show Snoop linked with the Lopez Tonight in studio band, the Esa Vatos to perform "Boom" off his new album.

 

Snoop Dogg interview with George Lopez

 

Snoop Dogg performs "Boom"

 

 


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12348827689?profile=original"She aight for a night, but don't keep her" 50 Cent "Old 2003 Ferrari"

The line was a little shot at Wiz Khalifa's relationship with Amber Rose from 50 Cent.

50 isn't wrong about one thing, things have moved swiftly between Kanye West's ex and Young Wiz. Has is been too fast?

"It's pretty serious. I really, really dig her," Wiz told Hot97 recenly. "People think it's an image thing and that we're just doing it to be crazy, but like, for real, for real, it's just two great people meeting at a good time."

 

At a time when he should be checking the numbers for his new album 'Rolling Paper's, which is projected to sell around 200,000 units, Wiz is also taking time out to enjoy the finer things.

12348827880?profile=originalThe question is, did Wiz make a lose his player card by falling for a video model or it's all good he's got wifey material?

 


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12348817086?profile=originalAlicia Keys the Director?

Swizz Beatz's better half is set to go behind the lens for the first time to direct a new film about breast cancer, for the Lifetime Network.

Alicia is directing 'Project Five', one of four segments in the movie.

The other parts will are directed by Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and 'Monster' director Patty Jenkins.

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12348826094?profile=originalTop down and on the move

What security?

50 Cent was photographed recently driving down Sunset Blvd in his new New Blue Lamborghini Murcielago.

What's $300,000 on a new whip when you're worth hundreds of millions.

 

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RESPECT. Wale Story

12348826691?profile=originalImage: Clarke ToltonHere’s the third piece from the latest issue of RESPECT. Magazine. Take note: This interview was conducted before the ink was even dry on Wale’s Maybach Music Group deal and before Mr. Folarin made amends with his old friend Kid Cudi. Glad these dudes resolved their differences. I fuck with them both muscially. Ha!Go to respect-mag for more ‘Le flicks. And subscribe, dammit!Hustle HardYes, it’s true. Like LeBron James, Wale decided to join a Miami-based team. Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group has a new recruit. Haters revolt—or prepare for the hits.Words: ELLIOTT WILSONWale is chillin’. From his Westin hotel room in Florida, Mr. Folarin lounges in his bed and seems relaxed for the first time in months. After much deliberation, he’s finally decided to join forces with Rick Ross and his new imprint. He knows that the free-agent move will be heavily criticized by some, but he’s finally made his peace with it.Adversity isn’t new to the Washington, D.C.–bred MC who overcame the public crucifixion when his Attention Deficit debut’s sales numbers fell way short of the fiery freshman’s great expectations. While some would’ve been embarrassed and taken their ball and gone home, ’Le regrouped with an effective grassroots campaign that was capped of by the release of the critically-acclaimed mixtape More About Nothing.Everything you want, you gotta work hard for it. And now with a business cosign from one of hip-hop’s top artists, Mr. No Days Off is out to prove that his sophomore album will be met with the sweet taste of success.RESPECT: Thanks for agreeing to talk. You don’t do every interview that’s offered to you anymore.WALE: I’m still new, but when you’re brand-new, you’re kind of encouraged to do every interview. I’m not knocking anybody’s publication, but I needed that break to observe and understand.So in many ways Attention Deficit ended one chapter of your career, right?Absolutely. It was a weird time. The game’s changed. My album dropped in November of last year. Or was it 2009? The increase of viral marketing has shot up substantially. Niggas wasn’t dropping videos every week. So I learned a lot. The viral marketing from artists that aren’t independent—acting as independent. Like Ross doing a video for “Devil in a New Dress,” that wasn’t heard of back then. With my next album, the marketing that’s gonna come on top of the marketing dollars they give me, it’s going to be incredible. I know the game now.I learned a lot, and certain things humbled me. We could take the Cudi situation, you could say it humbled me a little bit, but it showed me the nature of this beast. It showed me certain things can change in people. People’s feelings can change like that, and you can’t necessarily keep the same guidelines that you live in your real world. You can’t apply those in the music industry. It’s a different monster. For better or worse.Why do you think Cudi’s criticism of you in Complex was such a big deal?People wanted something to get behind at that point. People wanted an interesting competition, an interesting argument, a fight, I guess. It came out of nowhere, but I’m not in that dude’s shoes. I don’t know. From the outside looking in I can assume, but the nature of human beings is crazy.Did you have a true friendship? Were you really close outside the music?Absolutely. I can tell you this: The last three times we’ve seen each other, I felt something.That’s before you did the “Number Won” song?This is a thing I never talked about. “Number Won” ain’t a diss record. “Number Won” is me scratching my head, like, this is my man that used to hit me when I was living with my girl in SoHo, like “I’m downstairs, what you doing? Let’s go to Bape, let’s go to the studio.” I’d always be like, “All right, bet.” I remember we had a show—I don’t know the chronological order of these situations, but I believe this was the first time that I felt something. We had a show at [NYC’s] Governors Island, I think his album just came out, and I was with my dudes from back home. So I’m just like, “Oh, yeah, that’s my man Cudi.” He had a rack of his people around him. I’m on this one little shuttle thing, he’s on the next one. I’m knocking on the window, like, What’s up? He wasn’t waving. Knock-knock-knock. Wasn’t waving. Knock-knock-knock. Wasn’t waving. Okay, maybe he don’t hear me. And then he looked over, and he texts me: Sup, bro. That was kinda weird. And then somebody was like, “Young’n don’t really mess with you like that.” It was between me and him to do the MCing for MTV’s Music Video Awards in ’09. Cudi had a bigger record, Cudi’s notoriety was bigger than mine, [so he must have thought,] Why the fuck did they choose Wale? Everything kinda changed after that.But if you look at it from outside at something like GQ—there’s you, there’s Cudi, there’s Drake. They’ve achieved bigger success than you. If anyone’s gonna be catching feelings about something, shouldn’t it be you?Drake is one of the most talented artists out right now. They could say that Degrassi shit, whatever. He can rap, he can sing, he can compose, he can arrange. He’s not a pure, Brian McKnight type singer, but at this point, he could make a song that connects with Brian McKnight’s demo more than Brian McKnight could. That’s amazing to me. If the muthafucka was born in the ’70s, he’d be legendary. That’s what I think about Drake. Cudi as well. My shit is more traditional. I knew from jump it was going to take a while. Being next to Lil Wayne accelerates the process. Being next to Kanye accelerates the process. Being next to Mark Ronson doesn’t necessarily accelerate anything. It’s cool, it looks cool, but it didn’t accelerate nothing. I’m just the muthafuckin’ dark-skinned nigga with dreads from D.C. I knew it was gonna take a little bit longer.How did dealing with the failure of Attention Deficit lead into doing the More About Nothing mixtape?I wasn’t panicking. The shows never stopped. I was getting 60K to do colleges a week after selling 28,000. Money wasn’t stopping at all. I went and bought two cars. I got myself a house. I’m not mad financially. The competitor in me is like, What the fuck. That’s when we started the “No Days Off” series. I started touching the people more, I went to all the neighborhoods, I went to the mall, I did whatever I could do. And as far as the music went, the only frustrating thing I can say is that some of them songs I feel could’ve affected our culture a little more. I ain’t saying I wrote the next “Dear Mama,” but “Diary,” “90210” and “Shades”—those are records that I wish could’ve had more attention.You still love those songs, and you still perform and push those songs.It’s so many things that happen that are poetic justice. Certain things gave me a little bit of peace of mind. Niggas are starting to get introduced to my shit, which is cool. I wasn’t giving up. I said, “Look, I’m-a get this shit to, like, ’bout 140,000 sold.” That’s going to be my goal this time. Did what I had to do. And then that hunger, that desire to be on top, that desire for people to fall in love with my music was back like day one. So I said, “Let me do a sequel to the More About Nothing mixtape,” because that’s when my hunger was at an all-time high. The hunger that I had on this one was way more than the first time. Because it was almost like a fear of losing. My back was against the wall. I did crazy numbers the first day.When you approach a mixtape like that, is it almost like making an album?You gotta have a moment where everything clicks. I got 40 songs right now, but it ain’t clicked yet as far as the body of work that I’m trying to create this time. I got good songs that I’ll probably sell to some movies, or I’ll put on somebody else’s mixtape. But to have that moment when it clicks—and I’m so close now, because my inspiration is going faster and faster, the quality of music is going faster and faster—but I have to have that moment.What’s the connection to Ross? How did that come about?Me, Ross and Waka were like the homecoming kings for black colleges. We beat up the black college scene, man. Basically, he talked to me and was like, “Man, I think you’re so close, I think you’re real close.” So we met a couple times, talked. I’ve met with a lot of people, and I wish I was bold enough to say their names right now. I’ve been around genius muthafuckas, but Ross, that dude is a special nigga. I mean, to know what he’s overcome. You talk about back against the wall.Character assassination.Character assassination to the maximum. What’d he come back with? Hit record after hit record, and arguably the best record of 2010. I know the Ross that niggas don’t know. He took it to a whole other level as far as overcoming shit and just being focused. Sometimes he just be like, “Fuck those donkeys. ’Cause when you start making hit records, watch how everybody switch up.” And my affiliation with Ross, it’s almost like a joint venture; it’s not like I’m here to be a sidekick boy by any means. I’m my own brand. He respects that and he understands that.By the time we read this, on March 1, your deal with his Maybach Music Group label might be official.I’m signing tomorrow morning. Def Jam, J Records and Jive was like, “We’ll sign you without it.” But there’s no way I could put my faith in people that don’t understand black culture. I’m gonna give ’em a record talking about black people’s story, and they’re gonna tell me if it’s good enough or not? Nah. If I have a conversation with Ross and say, “I believe in this right here,” he’ll make them believe it, and we can put it out. He absolutely knows what he’s doing, man. Every city he go in, he’s touching the streets—like, “Who are the niggas that’s poppin’? I’m gonna show them love. These niggas are gonna pick me up from the airport, we’re gonna break bread together”—who does that?Another artist who you work with and catches a lot of heat is Waka Flocka.Fuck hating on Waka Flocka. He has three big, monster radio records. You’re trying to tell me that’s not hip-hop? You’re connecting with all of these people over hard beats—you’re tryin’ to tell me that’s not hip-hop? So—not to say that they’re the same artists at all—but that means Ol’ Dirty Bastard wasn’t hip-hop, right? You’re telling me Onyx wasn’t hip-hop? Onyx in, what, ’95—very similar to Waka in 2010.Waka obviously ended up being a great connection for you.That’s a good dude, dawg. And yeah, I’m the same Wale who did “Dig Dug (Shake It).” That’s me too. So I can’t say, “Look, Ma, no hands”? That hit was the big bang theory. That song had three niggas with three separate fan bases, all together with a giant hook. You couldn’t deny it.Back to Ross. When you first started recording together, was the music chemistry there quicker than you thought?Oh, man, I wrote my verse to “Pandemonium” extremely fast. It’s a vibe, man, when I’m with Meek and Ross. It’s something in the air. Like people call me the deep-thinking, poetry guy or whatever, but I truly believe that when artists are together—like, you see Cudi and Kanye—the music evolves. It’s something that happens when people are in the room with each other. I haven’t had that feeling since I was rapping with my friends in college at Virginia State.I think what most people are concerned with is how the association with Ross now changes the sound of Wale’s music. Am I just gonna hear Wale over these Southern beats?Versatility. Like, I just did a song with Rare Essence. I got some shit from Statik Selektah that’s crazy. I’m influenced by a lot of different shit. I’m influenced by Southern hip-hop—I’m from D.C.! We grew up on that fuckin’ UGK, Scarface, Cash Money. I had those songs right next to my Reasonable Doubt CD. So that’s always been my influence. All genres. I did the Justice Euro shit. I just like music. People need to stop trying to put shit in a box. Not every rapper can be put in a box.Put it this way: Ross is gonna help me accentuate what I was doing already. He’s gonna make those calls to producers that tried to give me the B-folder beats. Now I’m-a get the real A-folder beats. That’s what we’re here for. Everything’s gonna be big.






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12348833470?profile=originalPusha T is finally getting his time to shine. Not that people didn't know how good he was before, it just seemed that Pusha's group, Clipse with his brother, Malice never got the major look he's getting now.

Signing with Kanye West's G.O.O.D Music imprint gives Pusha an all star cast in Yeezy, John Legend, Common, Kid Cudi and Mos Def to work with.  Along with up and comers Cyhi Da Prince and Big Sean

Pusha's getting to work right away.  After dropping his 'Fear Of God' mixtape recently Pusha told AllHipHop that he and Kanye have put in some time in the studio on his solo.

"Me and Kanye have been in [the studio] and we’ve done a good five or six records, and we’ve left them alone," Pusha said. "Then we’re gonna revisit it. We’re about to go to Chile, actually this week sometime, and we’ll probably do a show and just revisit some of the records."

 

No timetable on the album's release date.

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Some stories are almost unbelievable, this is one of them.

A morbidly obese Ohio man had to be cut from a chair by rescue officials who were called to the house by the man's girlfriend and another roommate.

The girlfriend had been feeding the man for two years since he couldn't get up, but she didn't bother cleaning up the filth for her man.

One officer said it was the worst thing he had ever responded to, adding the smell was unbearable.

 

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Maybe we have seen it all now because it's just hard to fathom the girlfriend continuing to feed this man while he's was stuck to a chair in his own mess.

 

The man later died at the hospital.

 



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DJ Khalil, the man behind the boards on hit records like Dr Dre's "Kush", Eminem's "Won't Back Down" and 50 Cent's "I'll Still Kill", and his partner Chace Infinite are back on the scene with a new video.

"Peaceful" features Freddie "Gangsta" Gibbs and Krondon from Strong Arm Steady.

It's been six years since SS dropped their last album "Change", let's hope this joint leads to a new disc.

 


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