Posted by Mr.I Get It on October 1, 2010 at 5:10pm
RHHD got a chance to catch up with Lloyd Banks. They touched on subjects such as "Hunger For More 2" Production, EMI deal, G-Unit loyalty, Ashanti, J.Cole and more...Read more…
Somewhere in Southern Cali, Snoop Dogg must be lighting up a celebratory blunt.Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law Thursday, a bill that downgrades the possession of an ounce or less of marijuana from a misdemeanor to an infraction.
Schwarzenegger still opposes Proposition 19 , which would allow Californians to smoke weed until their eyes bleed, as long as it's being used for recreation.
"Notwithstanding my opposition to Proposition 19, however, I am signing this measure because possession of less than an ounce of marijuana is an infraction in everything but name," Schwarzenegger wrote in a signing message.
Proposition 19 goes to the ballot box November 2. If it passes, and polls show it has a great chance to. It could have a ripple effect on the rest of the country.
"The decades-long war on drugs has failed," a proponent of Prop 19 tells the Christian Science Monitor. "It's still easier for a kid to get his hands on a joint than to get a beer or a cigarette. Sixty percent of drug cartels' money comes from marijuana sales. We need to take that away."
Those on the opposite side of the fence feel like legalizing weed is just a horrible idea.
"This is just what we don't need," says Livina Hedgerow. "Another legal drug for kids to get messed up on. It will lead them to worse drugs. It's just wrong."
What do you guys think? Should America legalize marijuana across the board?
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Mario -- the platinum-selling R&B singer -- was arrested in Baltimore this morning for allegedly assaulting his own mother in an apartment they share.
According to police, Mario's mother Shawntia Hardaway -- a former heroin addict -- told cops the former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant had been "throwing and damaging property" ... and pushed her around with his hands and forearms.
Cops say they found several broken items inside the apartment -- including a broken china cabinet, a busted mirror and a hole in the closet door.
Mario's mother also told police the 24-year-old singer had attacked her earlier in the week -- in which he pushed her "eight feet into a living room wall, where Ms. Hardaway hit her head on the wall."
Mario -- real name Mario Dewar Bennett -- was eventually arrested this morning for 2nd degree assault. He was released on $50,000 bond.
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Video After The JumpOne of the advantages to being a male movie star would probably be the love scenes with beautiful women, I would imagine.
50 Cent's co-star, AnnaLynne McCord from his upcoming film 'Gun', talked to Chelsea Handler about what it was like filming a love scene with him.
The movie, written and produced by 50 Cent, is directed by Jesse Terrero who gave the actors a sort of trial by fire, when he didn't have them rehearse the love scene before filming it.
"It was very intense, and it was not rehearsed, which was the fun part about it," AnnaLynne said. "As much as I love Jesse Terrero, he's an awesome, amazing video director. Most video directors don't necessarily rehearse...and they don't necessarily know that actresses that have to get naked like to rehearse. So that they know what they're doing while they're naked. I wasn't the one controlling the scene is all I'm saying, I was just reacting."
"Well that usually happens when you have sex with a rapper anyway," Chelsea joked.
Val Kilmer also stars in the movie. Anna told Chelsea that the trio of her,50 and Val have become the "terrible three", because right after filming 'Gun' they all appear in another flick together titled 'Blood Out.'
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Sad news to report today.
Sean John model, Jubar R. "Esco" Croswell has been found dead in Edison, New Jersey.
According to NJ.net, his body was found in a wooded area near a shopping plaza last week, by a man who's identity hasn't been released.
Croswell's body was positively identified Wednesday.
Police are still trying to figure out a cause of death and exactly what happened to Croswell, who was 30 years old.
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Video After The JumpA war of words has broken out between two prominent porn stars, in Brian Pumper and Lethal Lipps. And I'll be damned if we're not going to be right in the middle of it until we have a winner, lol.
Round 1 started with Lethal going at Pumper or "balloon boy" as she has nicknamed him, basically saying he looks strong, but isn't.
Pumper fired back by calling Lethal a broke b*tch he can't even remember having sex with.
Ding Ding! Round two has kicked off with Lethal coming out firing.
Lethal claims Pumper is not only on steroids, but that he's done gay porn
"He does gay porn," Lipps says "[While] I was at home getting paid to f*ck my own man....you was getting paid to f*ck other men. Like what part of the game is that? So who's really broke...You're so broke you moved from b*tches to bootys."
Lipps goes on to talk about Maino clowning Pumper at Club Perfections, when he lifted up his jewels and laughed while Pumper did nothing.
She speaks on repping her borough of Queens. Explaining that you always see Brian alone because he doesn't rep where he's from.
There's a lot more, so peep the interview below.
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Video After TheJumpHip hop fans are ready to "Detox", as in Dr Dre's long awaited album.
After several years of "anticipointment", the record really does look like it's on the forseeable horizon.Dr Dre andInterscope President Jimmy Iovine held a press conference a couple days ago for "Beats By Dre" headphones. At the time, Doc said the album could be here by Christmas.
In a recent conversation with MTV, Dre said he's found another source of inspiration that's pushing him even harder to get the project finished.
"Being on the stage with Eminem and Jay-Z was one of the most incredible feelings I've felt in a long time. It inspired me, it made me want to hurry up and get back in the studio and put more effort and more work into my own project," he said.
"The response from the people out there was just incredible," he continued "It let me know that I still got love out there and I'm not wasting my time in the studio with what I'm doing, with the music or with all the Beats product that we're putting out."
Ok, Dre we need that album fam, let's get it!
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 8:45pm
Video After The JumpLOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- A Crestwood doctor is charged with sodomizing a female patient, but some patients are speaking out in the doctor's defense. After those spirited defenses, however, Fox 41 News learned from a police report that the doctor admitted to the crime.
Donna Rosenthal has been seeing 56-year-old Dr. Ashok Alur for 17 years. She says she's always felt comfortable during her appointments with him. Before Fox 41 learned of the doctor's admission, she said, "These accusations to me are just an abomination and they're heinous," she said, adding, "Never, ever, ever am I ever unclothed without a female present in the room in that office."
Rosenthal and many other female patients have contacted Fox 41 saying the same thing -- that Doctor Alur has never done anything inappropriate.
But Monday, one 38-year-old patient told police that Dr. Alur sexually assaulted her in his office about a week ago. He was arrested at his primary care clinic in Crestwood, Ky. Monday night and charged with first degree sodomy.
The victim told police that the doctor was treating her for a pelvic wound. The arrest citation goes on to say that Dr. Alur pushed her pants and underwear down and performed oral sex on her. She told him to stop and had to push him away.
He's out of jail after posting a $50,000 full cash bond.
"She said it happened in the office?" asks Rosenthal. "Baloney. There's no way. You can hear everything from room-to-room-to-room in that place because it's an old building."
But according to the report, Dr. Alur admitted to police that he assaulted the patient. He told police the incident lasted for 30 seconds to one minute. He said that he was distracted and tempted, and that caused him to do this. He told police he was sorry for the incident.
Police say they haven't had any other women come forward with similar allegations.
"It's disappointing to hear," says Rosenthal before the report of Dr. Alur's confession. "As of right now, he's innocent until proven guilty." She says she will continue to stand by Dr. Alur. "He is my doctor," she said. "I don't believe it ever happened. Whoever is doing this has an axe to grind somewhere and for him."
Fox 41's Rachel Collier did go inside the doctor's office in the 6000 block of W. Hwy. 46 earlier in the day. The staff was very upset about the allegations. The technicians say one of them was always in the room when Doctor Alur was examining a female patient.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 8:30pm
Video After The JumpLeBron James' manager, Maverick Carter, said that he believes race played a factor in how James' decision to join the Miami Heat was covered by the media.
In an interview with CNN on Wednesday night, Carter said race "definitely played a role in some of the stuff coming out of the media" during coverage leading up to and after "The Decision," a heavily-criticized ESPN special in which James announced his free-agent choice.
James had little to add Thursday after practice.
"I think people are looking too far into it," James said. "But at the same time, sometimes it does play a part in it. I've said what I had to say, and I'll continue to move on."
Through a representative, Carter declined comment Thursday.
"I don't walk in LeBron's shoes," Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra said. "From our standpoint, we've moved on from the summer."Read more…
Posted by Mr.I Get It on September 30, 2010 at 5:23pm
We saw a number of Hip Hop and R&B releases on the 28th of this month and by the figures, it looks like most of y’all skipped copping most of them. Here are the first week sales estimates:Lil Wayne - I Am Not a Human Being (90-100k)Gucci Mane – The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted (60-65k)Lil Boosie – Incarcerated (25-30k)Ice Cube – I Am The West (24-27k)Jeremih – All About You (15-18k)Source:HHNMRead more…
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 10:03am
Ciara is speaking publicly about her ongoing beef with Keri Hilson.
In a recent interview with Boombox, Ciara insists she will be taking the high road from this point moving forward.
"In reference to the Keri situation, I'm so in a different space mentally I can't even bring myself to do that," she said. "It's not [important] to me. There's just so much stuff to get out of life than that. There's so much more for me to accomplish in my career. Personally, I've decided that it doesn't make sense to do that."
It's never been fully explained what got these two upset with each other initially. But it is generally acknowledged that Keri fired the first public shot on her "Turning Me On" remix.
"Your vision cloudy if you think that you da best/ You can dance, she can sing, but need to move it to the left," Hilson sang.
Ciara fired back with the song "Basic Instinct (U Got Me)."
"I was out buying Chanel bags/While I was doing that you turned up your swag. You caught me slippin/But get your hustle on shawty I aint trippin. I been in the game since '03/You can try but you still can't do it like me," Ciara rapped.
It was later reported that the two got into an argument last month at the Power Live concert on Governor's Island. Hilson reportedly refused to perform afterwards.
But now, Ciara is looking past the b.s.
I'm very secure in my place and what I've done over the years," Ciara told Boombox. "I'm just trying to be as successful as possible. I do believe that thinking about stuff like that and giving things like that energy -- it can get in the way. It's not necessary. That's just my point of view. When you read about people having differences, it's case by case. Sometimes there [are] songs that make people think like that, sometimes there are rumors. You just never know where they come from."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 9:34am
When Hotlanta rapper-turned-movie star T.I. was arrested on drug possession charges earlier this month, there was a feeling of "haven't we all been here before?" But also genuine surprise.From ODB to DMX, Kanye to 'Pac, hip-hop performers have a chronic habit of getting busted for stupid stuff. Identity theft. Cruelty to animals. Wearing a bulletproof vest after being convicted of a felony. Rappers behaving badly have become one of popular culture's most numbing constants. After all, T.I. was already on probation when L.A. County sheriff's deputies stopped his $600,000 Mercedes Maybach on the Sunset Strip for what they said was an illegal U-turn and then detected what they said was "a strong odor of marijuana emitting from the vehicle"; earlier this year, he served a seven-month prison sentence for attempting to buy a cache of automatic weapons and silencers.
But celeb watchers began scratching their heads after deputies reported that Clifford "T.I." Tip Harris and his new wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, were also in possession of "a small amount of Ecstasy" (in addition to weed and testing positive for codeine).
Since when do gangsta rappers dabble in designer drugs?
His bust arrives at a moment of renewed public scrutiny of Ecstasy, just three months after teenager Sasha Rodriguez's apparent overdose death from the drug at downtown Los Angeles' Electric Daisy Carnival helped reestablish E's reputation as a potential killer. The recently released annual report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reveals that Ecstasy consumption has jumped 37% in America over the last year. Meanwhile, rave culture has made significant moves toward the mainstream, with bleary, Euro synth beats becoming the dominant sound of both hip-hop and Top 40 pop. Coincidence?
But T.I.'s legal case also underscores another cultural groundswell, coming at a time when Ecstasy is reaching a kind of critical mass in hip-hop.
In the last three years, it's been shouted out in songs more than ever and, increasingly -- if lyrics are any indication -- washed down in the VIP room by some of rap's best and brightest. Just don't go looking for them to shout out Ecstasy by name. Codified references to "X pills" and "double stacks" (as extra large tablets are known), being "geeked out" or "feelin' myself" allow them to hide the drug's usage in plain sight.
Not that all rappers -- or, at least, the "characters" in their songs -- take pains to cover his or her tracks.
In 2008, hip-hop's most crazily free-associative and prolific MC, Lil Wayne, was arrested on cocaine and Ecstasy possession charges. Facing possible incarceration, Weezy nonetheless made his penchant for the drug known in 2009 with the paean "Pill Poppin' Animal." "Stickin' on a double stack, you're rollin' wit a rich boy!" Wayne exclaims (in one of the song's few lines suitable for publishing on a family newspaper blog).
Likewise, Atlanta trap rapper Gucci Mane has never disguised his fondness for Ecstasy, extolling rolling on a number of different cuts over the years. On 2007's "Pillz," he instructs the listener to "put that bean on your tongue," adding later: "I'm off three double stacks and I'm lookin' for that action."
Meanwhile, on his 2007 collabo with Young Jeezy, "Geeked Up," rapper Fabo vividly describes the borderline hallucinatory effects of taking X while driving through one of Atlanta's most famous neighborhoods: "I'm startin' to see spaceships on Bankhead / I roll with gangstas, pill poppers and dank heads."
Jay-Z says he's never tried the designer drug also known by the call letters for its chemical name methylenedioxymethamphetamine. And yet on his smash single "Empire State of Mind," he gives Ecstasy an explicit shout-out: "MDMA got you feeling like a champion /City never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien."
Or consider the recent efforts of Queens rap Barbie Nicki Minaj. On her club banger (featuring Lil Wayne) "Higher Than a Kite," Minaj devotes a throwaway line to Ecstasy's accessibility as well as its ubiquity. "You getting ill, I bet, poppin' a pill again," she raps. "I'm the island and I'm lookin' for Gilligan."
Time was when the drug of choice for rappers was either weed or booze (or, in certain cases down South, sippin' on "sizzurp"). And the notion of ingesting a powerful love drug one known to overwhelm a person's inhibitions, eliciting bro hugs and feelings of cosmic interconnectivity that are distinctly at odds with rap's dog-eat-dog mentality -- would have been as improbable as an MC wearing tight jeans.
But things began to change when Eminem burst on the scene.
In a 1999 Rolling Stone interview, the hard-rhyming pill-popper consumed no fewer than three Ecstasy tablets in the presence of an interviewer and then bragged, "I wrote two songs for my next album on Ecstasy."
Within two years, more and more references to the drug had spread across the mainstream. On Missy Elliott's 2001 hit album "Miss E So Addictive" (um, get it?), the rapper devotes the slow-burn chill-out cut "X-tasy" to articulate certain conditions associated with consumption. Such as feeling "so energized" and describing the artificial love vibes that accompany the drug. "Ecstasy, I'm willing to do all the things I said I wouldn't do /On Ecstasy, the feelin' makes me feel like I'm in love with you," Elliott raps.
More recently, such hip-hop subgenres as Southern California's jerkin' dance movement and hyphy in the Bay Area made widespread references to taking Ecstasy ("thizzing" in hyphy parlance). And this year, on-again-off-again A Tribe Called Quest frontman Q-Tip portrayed an Ecstasy dealer in the Sundance Film Festival official selection about Hasidic X pill smugglers, "Holy Rollers."
But when it comes to laying bare the swirl of physical side effects, social ramifications and potential health ills associated with the drug, Tech N9ne's chopped and screwed ode to Ecstasy, "T9X," comes as close to an exegesis on the subject as any rap song has to date.
"10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, feelin' butterflies /My eyes dilate another size /Overwhelming sense of love got this nut so sprung / Walk up to a stranger, 'Can I suck your tongue?' " N9ne raps over an ominous beat.
After detailing how he has taken "five pills" over the course of an eve, the rapper catalogs certain physical sensations: "Tingling baby, got me feelin' like mingling, baby /This is hella 'Higher Learning' than Singleton, baby /One minute I'm cold, the next I'm heat /Get me some Big Red so I don't grind my teeth."
In the end, though, Tech N9ne pays lip service to the inherent dangers of taking too much. "It's pills and mo' thrills," he raps. "I'm lucky if I survive. I'm high!"
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 8:58am
Video After The JumpNew York (CNN) -- A Rutgers University student apparently committed suicide after an internet broadcast showed him in a sexual encounter, New Jersey authorities said.
Two other Rutgers students have been charged with invasion of privacy after they allegedly placed a camera in 18-year-old Tyler Clementi's dorm room without his knowledge and then broadcast Clementi's sexual encounter, according to the Middlesex County prosecutor's office.
Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, and Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton, New Jersey, are each charged with two counts of invasion of privacy for the September 19 broadcast, according to the prosecutor's office.
Dharun Ravi
Two more counts of invasion of privacy were leveled against Ravi for an attempt to videotape another encounter involving Clementi on September 21, the prosecutor's office said.
"If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity," Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick said in a statement Wednesday.
An attorney for the Ridgewood, New Jersey, family said Wednesday, "On behalf of the family of Tyler Clementi, I can confirm that Tyler committed suicide last week by jumping from the George Washington Bridge."
A status update September 22 on a Facebook page purportedly belonging to Clementi said: "jumping off the gw bridge sorry.""The family and their representatives are cooperating fully with the ongoing criminal investigations of two Rutgers University students," attorney Paul Mainardi added.
A law enforcement source confirmed to CNN that Clementi's wallet and cell phone were found on the bridge that spans the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York.
According to the New York City Police Department, the body of an unidentified male was recovered Wednesday afternoon from the Hudson River by the police harbor unit. The medical examiner will determine the race, age and cause of death, police said.
A Twitter post on the night of the videotaping believed to have been made by Ravi read: "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."
It is unclear exactly how Rutgers campus police learned that a camera had been placed in Clementi's room and used to broadcast his encounter.
Both Wei and Ravi surrendered to campus police -- Wei surrendered on Monday and was released on her own recognizance; Ravi surrendered Tuesday and was released on $25,000 bail.
Ravi's attorney did not return phone calls from CNN.
According to the Middlesex County prosecutor's office, Wei apparently had not retained an attorney as of Wednesday.
If convicted, both could face up to five years in prison.
Raj Andeshna, 17, a senior at West Windsor Plainsboro High School North and a former classmate of both defendants, told CNN that the two were "terrific people."
"To know that two intelligent kids could get caught up in something like this is shocking to me," Andeshna said. "The only rationale I've been able to come up with is that they thought they were being funny -- but I really couldn't tell you.
"Without a doubt they must both be filled with regret and are distraught over what happened to Tyler, and as cliche as it sounds -- they are both good people," Andeshna said. "And they just turned 18 and they just went to college, and everyone slips up without understanding the consequences."
Molly Wei
But Parry Aftab, the founder and executive director of StopCyberBullying.org, disagreed.
"These young people had to have known the devastating effects of their actions," Aftab said. "And while they may not have foreseen death -- they had to have known how much pain that this would cause."
Police at the university, which has its main campus in New Brunswick, are investigating the case, university president McCormick said in his statement Wednesday.
"I deeply regret that today we learned from the family of one of our students that they believe their son has committed suicide. We are profoundly saddened by this report, and our hearts and prayers are with the parents, family, and friends of this young man, who had started at Rutgers this semester as a first-year student on the New Brunswick campus," McCormick said in the statement.
He added, "While there is a lot of information being communicated, we don't have all the facts in this case."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 8:00am
Video After The JumpInterscope Boss, Jimmy Iovine and Aftermath Records CEO, Dr Dre held a press conference yesterday (September 29), in support of Doc's "Beats By Dre" headphones line.
Dre said it's possible 'Detox' could be done by Christmas."I'm working on it everyday," he said.
After the press conference, Soulja Boy, Lady Saw and Keri Hilson took the stage.
Soulja Boy made it rain while performing his biggest hit "Crank Dat."
Then Keri debuted her new single "Pretty Girl Rock" for the crowd. The song is scheduled for an October 12 release on iTunes.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 7:03am
In today's music world, hackers have become a big time menace to artists and record labels.
Full albums regularly leak at least two weeks before their release date, and various singles start hitting the net way before that.
Count Kanye West among the many artists who have had to deal with this problem recently.
Yeezy is so fed up with leaks of material from his upcoming album, he's cancelled the popular G.O.O.D Fridays series, hopefully just for one week.
West had been dropping original music for the last several weeks on Fridays as a way to say thanks to his fans.
He took to twitter to vent his frustration.
"Due to blogs leaking unfinished songs from my actual album I've decided to pass of Good Fridays this week
It's messed up that one hacker can mess everything up for everyone... I love to take a year to finish my songs and deliver them to you guys in there most completed form.
It would have seemed like since I give free music every week even the lowest form of human being would respect that enough not to leak unfinished songs from my real album."
Ye' did deliver some good news a little bit later:
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 7:03am
In today's music world, hackers have become a big time menace to artists and record labels.
Full albums regularly leak at least two weeks before their release date, and various singles start hitting the net way before that.
Count Kanye West among the many artists who have had to deal with this problem recently.
Yeezy is so fed up with leaks of material from his upcoming album, he's cancelled the popular G.O.O.D Fridays series, hopefully just for one week.
West had been dropping original music for the last several weeks on Fridays as a way to say thanks to his fans.
He took to twitter to vent his frustration.
"Due to blogs leaking unfinished songs from my actual album I've decided to pass of Good Fridays this week
It's messed up that one hacker can mess everything up for everyone... I love to take a year to finish my songs and deliver them to you guys in there most completed form.
It would have seemed like since I give free music every week even the lowest form of human being would respect that enough not to leak unfinished songs from my real album."
Ye' did deliver some good news a little bit later:
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