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Oakland, Calif. — This city, which has been at the vanguard of medical marijuana legalization on everything from taxation to trade schools to the unionization of marijuana workers, voted Tuesday to permit industrial-size marijuana farms.
After hours of public testimony, the City Council voted 5 to 2 to permit large-scale indoor marijuana plantations. The struggling city, which faces a $31 million deficit and has a 17 percent unemployment rate, estimates that the marijuana factories could bring in as much as $38 million annually in fees and taxes.
“As the industry continues to emerge and grow, we know that other cities are looking at this,” said Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who is running for mayor. “It’s important for Oakland to be a vital part of the growth and development of licensed facilities.”
While the city has been one of the most welcoming in the state to medical marijuana purveyors, how the drug is grown has been largely unregulated. Oakland’s new law, which requires a final vote from the City Council next week, would bring large-scale marijuana cultivators above ground, mandating that they pay a $211,000 annual fee, provide security, conduct criminal background checks on employees, install camera surveillance and fire-safe electrical systems, and buy insurance.
If the plan receives final approval, the city would begin issuing large-scale production permits in January.
Last year, the city’s four licensed medical marijuana dispensaries sold some 6,000 pounds of marijuana worth $28 million and requiring approximately 45,000 square feet of space to grow. City officials estimate that farmers in the new facilities could produce 70,000 pounds a year.
If California voters approve a statewide ballot measure in November legalizing recreational marijuana use for adults, the city would be well positioned to capitalize on the new market.
During the raucous Tuesday meeting — marked by hissing, booing and applause — the council heard testimony from marijuana farmers, including small-scale cultivators who grow their crops in closets and those intending to create marijuana farms larger than football fields.
Nearly all the speakers urged the council to act quickly and to expand the permitting process to include medium-size farmers.
“You want to be the Silicon Valley of cannabis?” asked Jeff Wilcox, who is seeking a permit for a business park for medical marijuana cultivation. “You’ve got to start now.”
With his unique multi-faceted style Rseenal is the future voice of the dancehall and the emerging Jamaican Hip-Hop genre. Growing up in the
politically charged Kingston, Jamaica Rseenal developed a love for
poetry which he used to express his experiences of growing up in such
harsh surroundings. Since then he has fine tuned his skill with words to
the point of excellence.
Rseenal has completed his two projects both scheduled for release in 2010. His debut Hip-Hop Mixtape: Chedda Cheeze & Blind Mice$ and
The Hoztyle CrossOva Mixtape a heavily hip-hop influenced rhythm driven
project.
Rseenal has a vast resume consisting of various live performances on some of Jamaica premier dancehall shows such as Fullyloaded,
Spectrum, Pepsi Teen Splash & Portland Curry Festival .
Rseenal musical career climbed to new heights in 2008 when he earned the title of Reigning Champion on RE TVs Face-Off Battle of the
Lyricist and also in the said year became winner of the Heinekens Top
Star Competition.
Rseenal musical career started with humble beginnings. His first professional step into the music industry was live dub poetry
performances with Dub Traffickers. He then moved on to Multi-Cast
Entertainment, with whom he did his first recording as a deejay. Within
his time at Multi-Cast Entertainment, the company did a collaborative
effort with Mansion Muzik this would be Rseenals first official release.
From here he moved on to work with R.E.A.L. ITY Inc where he released
the song and video, So or So produced by illicit productions. He then
teamed up with Gambling House Recording Studio where they released his
latest Music video Whine Up on .
Rseenal musical influences range from the Notorious Big and Tupac to Peter Tosh and Sizzla Kalonji who remains his single greatest
musical influence.
In the words of Rseenal: Differently still we are not here to change anything, no new image or anything like that, we are here to continue
the works of the legends before us... We are here to be legends of our
time... We are here to make great music.
Dropping soon!
Dropping soon!
Both T.I.-King Uncaged & Kid Cudi-Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager
which both has been push back to September 28th.
Fabolous-There Is No Competition: The Grieving Music EP drops Aug 24! 1st single off
the EP.
Download: Fabolous-LightsOut(I_Don't_See_Nobody)
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Ok let's see, what do you get when you add too much beer, a chair and a frying pan? You get to see somebody's ass get whooped.
These three dudes throw down in a pretty good little scrap inside someone's kitchen.
One dude gets hit with a frying pan then smashed with a chair and still doesn't go down.
This one's a classic, haha.
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Young Chris & Neef-Back to Business drops July 23rd! Download 3 songs off
the mixtape!
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Young Chris & Neef Ft.Curren$y-Dat Tree (NEW)
Having recently served a jail sentence stemming from weapons charges, T.I. is proof positive that jail can be a detour on a rocky road to redemption.
Asked if he has any advice for Lindsay Lohan, the “Live Your Life” rapper was forthcoming. “The first thing would be to recognize and identify the problem,” T.I. tells In Touch.
“Accept the fact that there needs to be adjustments made — and then it’s all in execution and solving the problem.”
T.I. has been reveling in his freedom, working on his upcoming album King Uncaged, watching movies with his kids (“I liked Iron Man 2 and The Karate Kid definitely came across well.”) and giving back to the community.
“In association with the city of Atlanta, we’re doing a summer camp for boys, 10-13,” he says. “It’s got everything from health and fitness to academics. And we’re teaching them entrepreneurial skills and about things like how to open up bank accounts. The intention is to teach them good habits.
Source: InTouch
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Mel Gibson has reportedly been given the support of Britney Spears.
The 54-year-old actor - who is the subject of domestic violence allegations from ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva - has been receiving regular phone calls from the 'Womanizer' singer after he previously helped her out following her much-publicised breakdown in 2008.
A source told In Touch Weekly magazine: "Mel has been talking to her a lot. They speak on the phone all the time, usually late at night.
"Mel was one of the only people who reached out to help Britney when she was at her lowest point, and she believes that demonstrates what a loving and wonderful man he is.
"She wants people to give him a second chance - just like he gave her one when everyone else turned away."
Speaking about lending 28-year-old Britney support, Mel admitted he wanted to help her because he felt no one else wanted to step in.
He said at the time: "She's a nice kid. She was just going through a rough patch. You see kids that you know in the industry. I just felt like this poor kid she's lining up to be stoned. I just thought, 'I wonder if anyone is reaching out to her', so I just called her and she's doing great now."
Mel received a visit from child protection services in Los Angeles yesterday (21.06.10) following allegations from Russian singer Oksana he had hit her and their eight-month-old daughter Lucia.
Source: ContactMusic
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When Tara Rachel Benson went out on a recent night to an album release party in Los Angeles, she put on her makeup, a tight-fitting Herve Leger dress, stiletto heels—and a pair of padded panties.
"It's part of the whole outfit," says Ms. Benson, a 25-year-old assistant to a music manager. Wearing the Booty Pop brand of underwear, which contain egg-shaped foam pads to plump up the posterior, "I look better, I feel better, and as a result, I act better," she says.
For centuries, women have wriggled into girdles and other slimmers to minimize their rear ends. Now, a fascination with the hind-quarters of celebrities like Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian is fueling a booming market for undergarments that amplify the derrière.
On Booty Pop's late-night infomercials, which began airing in December, viewers are entreated to "forget about doing endless squats—and cosmetic surgery, who can afford that?" as models prance around in tight jeans flaunting their backsides.
In May, Bed Bath & Beyond started carrying Booty Pop in most of its 967 stores and online. Drugstore Walgreens, which jumped on the Booty Pop bandwagon in April, is carrying the product at 1,000 of its 7,541 stores and mulling an expansion. Earlier this month, Target started carrying Booty Pop online.
Booty Pop projects it will sell close to 1 million pairs of padded underwear this year.
"I want one," the famously skinny reality TV star Nicole Richie wrote this month on Twitter, after which she posted a link to a "black licorice" cotton-spandex pair, on sale for $19.95. Through her publicist, Ms. Richie declined to comment.
Booty Pop isn't the only company seeking a boost from behind. Early next year, Maidenform Brands plans to introduce a "Jean Collection"—internally called "Project Injeanious"—containing bottom shapers.
"There are a lot of similarities between what you can do for the rear and breast—you can lift it, round it and shape it," says Maurice Reznik, Maidenform's chief executive.
At lingerie retailer Frederick's of Hollywood, the $28 "Booty Boy Short" (they're for women, despite the name) is currently the No. 2 top-selling shaping item online. Victoria's Secret introduced the "bum booster" in January in some outlets, and a spokeswoman says it is selling well.
"It's not so hot to have a pancake a— these days," says Azar Jazestani, a 26-year-old wedding planner in Montreal, who wears Booty Pop panties with jeans.
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Producers Shamar Daugherty and Alonzo Lee, together known as The Trak Starz have plead guilty to charges of failing to file their tax returns
Prosecutors accused Daugherty, 34, of failing to file tax returns for calendar years 2003-2005, when he had a total gross income of $889,938.
Lee, 38, allegedly failed to file tax returns for calendar years 2003-2004 on gross income of $594,263.
The Missouri duo burst onto the national scene by by producing two hit records, "Right Thurr" and "Holidae Inn" for rapper Chingy.
Since then they have gone on to work with big name stars, including T.I., Nelly, Ludacris, Britney Spears, Usher and The Pussycat Dolls.
Lee owes the IRS $144,000, while while Daugherty owes more than $256,000 according to Contact News..
They could both be sentenced to prison time and fines of up to $25,000 during sentencing later this year.
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Producers Shamar Daugherty and Alonzo Lee, together known as The Trak Starz have plead guilty to charges of failing to file their tax returns
Prosecutors accused Daugherty, 34, of failing to file tax returns for calendar years 2003-2005, when he had a total gross income of $889,938.
Lee, 38, allegedly failed to file tax returns for calendar years 2003-2004 on gross income of $594,263.
The Missouri duo burst onto the national scene by by producing two hit records, "Right Thurr" and "Holidae Inn" for rapper Chingy.
Since then they have gone on to work with big name stars, including T.I., Nelly, Ludacris, Britney Spears, Usher and The Pussycat Dolls.
Lee owes the IRS $144,000, while while Daugherty owes more than $256,000 according to Contact News..
They could both be sentenced to prison time and fines of up to $25,000 during sentencing later this year.
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Almost immediately after he finished a jail bid for gun charges in March, T.I. set out to reclaim his status as a hip-hop king — hitting the mixtape circuit and huddling in the studio with Lady Gaga and Swizz Beatz. But that doesn't mean jail wasn't a serious setback.
"It did make me worse in a sense. ... Putting me in prison took me off [a positive] path a little bit, and now I'm working to get back on that path — or at least back on the path to the extent that I was before I went in," T.I. told Complex magazine. Before heading to jail, T.I. was serving part of his sentence by counseling at-risk kids and notched over 200 speaking engagements warning young people about violence on the MTV show "Road to Redemption."
T.I., who is on the cover of the magazine's August/September issue, says that the jail atmosphere definitely took its toll. "I lost a little bit of my positive focus during that period of incarceration. Being in that environment and having those daily surroundings, it's going to affect you."
One result was that he actually tuned out when it came to music. "I didn't listen much to records when I was in there. Music is what I do every day. That made me more homesick than anything," he said. Instead, T.I. logged lots of TV hours to pass the time. "I watched series like 'Sons of Anarchy.' I'm a fan. It's another form of 'The Sopranos' to me. I watched football and ESPN." But, the most popular show on the cellblock — "True Blood" — held no appeal for him.
"I couldn't really [watch it]. They got into that sh-- heavy," T.I. said. "The whole prison damn near shut down. Everybody left off the yard, like, ' "True Blood" coming on!' They went crazy for it — there's a bunch of sex in it, so they were tuning in for that."
T.I.'s King Uncaged drops in September
Source: MTV
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Comedian/Singer/Actor Jame Foxx is known for grabbing headlines. He's recently been in a public feud with shock jock Howard Stern, put rapper Plies on blast for hiding vfrom 40 Glocc and been romantically linked to Kirstie Alley and Stacy Dash.
But it's the Oscar winner's new head tattoos that have had everyone wondering just what the hell is he is thinking.
It's all good though, he hasn't lost his mind, website OnTheRedCarpet.com is reporting the tats are for a movie role.
Jamie is starring alongside Jennifer Aniston in the new comedy, Horrible Bosses that will be hitting theaters in 2011.
No word on if the tats are real or just the intricate work of a barber.
(AllHipHop News) DMX’s wife Tashera Simmons has officially separated from the chart-topping rapper and is planning a reality show focusing on her rebuilding their family without him.
According to Simmons, the reality show is titled Tashera Simmons….Life After X and will give a firsthand account of how their family is coping with the rapper’s legal and drug problems and how they “cope with a husband and a father that has let them down over and over again.”
Additionally, Simmons is penning a tell-all memoir titled Tashera Simmons…Strength of A Woman, with author Aliya S. King.
"It’s not a tell-all, I want to clear that up. It’s a memoir, it’s a story about our life, my life, and our life together,” Simmons told AllHipHop.com in a press release announcing the reality show.
“My side of the story, because I feel like in his book, he didn’t really get into detail to better explain it,” Tashera Simmons stated. “I think reading my book, it explains everything. I’m talking about everything, from my childhood when I was abandoned by my mother and left to take care of my siblings, to when me and Earl (DMX) first met at 11 and we got together at 18 and I’m starting from there until then on…It’s a positive tell all."
According to Tashera, the reality show is being shopping to several networks, who are vying to pick up the show.
Tashera Simmons and the Simmons family was featured on the hit BET reality series, DMX: Soul of A Man.
The reality series chronicled DMX’s career in 2006, during the months leading up to one of several jail stints over the past 10 years, the most recent being from March 2010 until July 2010, for violating terms of his previous probation.
The rapper tested positive for cocaine.
The reality series is currently in negations with several networks to have the show picked up.
Tashera Simmons recently launched a foundation called Women of Strength, a foundation dedicated to supporting drug abuse, abandonment and other issues.
For more information visit: http://www.women-of-strength.com.
Source: AllHipHop
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Here is the latest leak by Joe budden from his upcoming, highly anticipated Mood Muzik IV.
NO COVER YET
COMING SOON
Click song to download:
Joe Budden Ft Emanny - Short Summer (Prod. by Beewirks)
Dropping August 24
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Fabolous - Lights Out(I Dont See Nobody)
Foxy Brown got arrested today for violating a protective order her neighbor has against her according to TMZ.
Law enforcement took Fox Boogie into custody around 6pm after Foxy verbally engaged the neighbor which violated the protective order against her..
But according to Foxy's manager, Bernadette Brennan the whole thing started when Foxy was rehearsing outside for her upcoming show at the B.B. King Blues Club in New York.
The neighbor didn't like the noise, got aggravated and eventually started yelling in the rappers' face.
To avoid further confrontation Brennan say Foxy went inside, which is when the cops go there and arrested her.
There's nothing worse than a neighbor you can't get along with. Sounds like Foxy might want to move.
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