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BET's annual Spring Bling kicked off yesterday (April 16).

It was a Dirty South affair for the most part with artists like The Party Boyz, Wacka Flocka Flame, Chris Brown as well as Plies, The College Boyys, Yo Gotti and Roscoe Dash.

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Wacka Flocka Flame "O Let's Do It"




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Plies "She Got It Made"




The Party Boyz "Flex"




Yo Gotti "5 Star Chick/Women Lie, Men Lie"





Roscoe Dash ft Soulja Boy "All The Way Turnt Up"



The College Boyys "Foot work"


Chris Brown Medley including "I Can Transform Ya and Back To The Crib"
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Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the spectre of domestic terrorism has returned to haunt the Obama Administration, with a warning from the FBI that “home-grown and lone-wolf extremists” now represent as serious a threat as al-Qaeda and its affiliates.

The warning, from the FBI Director, Robert Mueller, came as the former President Clinton drew parallels between the Oklahoma City tragedy and a recent upsurge in anti-government rhetoric, while American television audiences heard Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, describe the “absolute rage” that drove him to plan an attack that killed 168 men, women and children.

An FBI spokesman told The Times yesterday that Mr Mueller was referring to right-wing extremist groups and anti-government militias, as well as American Islamists, in his testimony to the Senate committee that must approve the FBI’s $8.3 billion (£5.4 billion) budget.

Last month federal agents arrested nine members of a Christian militia based in Michigan, calling itself the Hutaree. They have been charged with plotting to murder local police with a stash of guns, knives and grenades.

Since the passage of President Obama’s health reforms, the FBI has also made arrests in Seattle and San Francisco after death threats were sent to Democratic senators.

It’s one thing to express dissatisfaction with the Government but once you cross the line with a violent threat, that’s a violation that we take extremely seriously,Bill Carter, the bureau’s spokesman, said.

The Oklahoma bombing was followed by an exhaustive civilian trial in which McVeigh became a hate figure to most but a hero to some members of the survivalist fringe on which he was radicalised.

He was executed in 2001, but not before granting 45 hours of death-row interviews to the authors of a book, American Terrorist, whose tapes will be broadcast for the first time on Monday. McVeigh never confessed to the bombing in court but he appears to do so on the tapes.

I feel no shame for it,” he says. “This was something that I saw as a larger good, and I know that, as I analysed the history of not just the US, but all nations throughout the history of mankind. People have killed for what they believed was the greater good, and it’s accepted. Sometimes killing is accepted.”

The White House was careful to emphasise that the threat of external terrorism remained acute but senior officials are privately confident that military operations in Afghanistan are going well and putting al-Qaeda on the back foot. Few people in Washington are as confident about the domestic threat.

Source: Times Online

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For some reason Shyne decided to diss 50 Cent on a remix to Alicia Keys' "Unthinkable"

While interviewing Banks, Miss Info decided to ask him about Shyne and Blue Hefner went in.

"I didnt hear it, actually, Banks explained. I spoke with Fif today — he just laughed about it. I heard some other things that Shyne put out and Ill be the first to tell you and the world, hes very, very wack. Im telling you right now, it was something in the food or something, hes at a D-Class rapper right now. You know how the dude that wakes up and Im a rap right now because my homies doing it. You dont hear it? What kind of style hes got right now?"

Nothing but the truth right there.

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Don Mega introduced the world to his son, the heir to the throne on UStream.

His son goes by the name OMG, dude let loose a freestyle and honestly it was pretty good.

Being the son of a legend must come with a lot of pressure, but also plenty of opportunities.

We'll keep an eye out for OMG in the future for sure.

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Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has traded in his reality stardom to start a new career.
According to published reports, Rodman has decided to become a celebrity DJ, spinning records on the ones and twos.


Rodman, who learned how to DJ from bestie Josh Slocum, will be hitting the road with DJ Vic Latino on April 23, 2010 at Ultra 88 Nightclub in the Mohegan Sun.

After the duo jam at the Mohegan Sun, they head to Louisville during the weekend of the Kentucky Derby. In Louisville, Rodman will spin at a place called Derby Pretty.

Rodman, who used to run a popular nightclub in Newport Beach, CA, has long been in the promotion spotlight. During his NBA career, Rodman held countless endorsements for major brands including Nike, Converse and Pizza Hut and last year spent his birthday in Canada promoting a new drink from Bacardi.

Despite being one of the featured celebrities on Dr. Drew's VH-1 show “Sober House,” Rodman has vowed to tear down the clubs, hopefully while remaining sober.

If you want to find out if Dennis and Latino are coming to your town, follow him on Twitter at @dennisrodman.

Source: HipHopWired

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Watts rapper Jay Rock is not feeling rappers that take subliminal shots in their rhymes. He recently addressed Ice Cube, now the West Coast spitter has set his sights on the world's most bi-polar mc The Game.

Jay Rock addressed the brewing beef on his Twitter account.

"I GET ON TWITTER N EVERYBODY HITTIN ME SAYIN @ihategame GETTING @ ME IN HIS FREESTYLE. SAME AS CUBE, N***AS NEED TO HAVE BALLS TO SAY NAMES."

The Game's career is headed downhill, he just released his third flop street single for his upcoming album. This time he might have bitten off more than he can chew by going at Jay Rock who's a hungry young lion.

Jay Rock had this to say:

"IM NOT SCARED TO GO AGAINST NOBODY ALL N**GA HAVE TO DO IS SAY MY NAME AND ITS ON WITH WHO EVER .I DON'T FEEL I NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO NO1.

IM NOT WITH THE BEEF SH*T, BUT I WONT BE DISRESPECTED BY NOBODY ! I GIVES A F**K WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE.
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The West Coast has a lot of new talent like Nipsey Hussle, Glasses Malone, Jay Rock & Mitchy Slick. It remains to be seen if they can blend their talents with the Old West legends like Cube, Snoop, Dr Dre & Xzibit to become unified.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hip hop band Cypress Hill still see themselves as ambassadors of marijuana, just like the old days.

But as their new album is released in the United States on Tuesday, the Latino-flavored hip hop band who made their debut almost 20 years ago and found international fame with hits like "Insane in the Brain" and "Hits from the Bong," know audiences and sales can change.

Hip hop artists like themselves who broke through when the genre was gaining international prominence in the 1980s and '90s are struggling to sell albums as they grow older.

Unlike rock or country fans, hip hop audiences are less likely to stay loyal to one group through its career, which makes new songs and albums a harder sell, music industry experts and Cypress Hill's members say.

"It's a different audience, the hip hop audience, it's here today, gone tomorrow," the band's lead rapper B-Real, whose real name is Louis Freese, told Reuters. "It's harder to develop that sort of longevity, that's the problem."

The group's new album, "Rise Up" is their first in six years and the first through rapper Snoop Dogg's label, Priority, owned by struggling music major EMI.


It features guest appearances including Tom Morello, guitarist from Rage Against the Machine, who plays on the thrashing title track. The group also jammed with Latin artist Marc Anthony who sings on the salsa flavored last track "Armada Latina" that features Spanish lyrics.

"I am sure people are going to call this a comeback, but really we never left," said B-Real. "With the six year layoff, we had to come up with something different, we couldn't come with a standard Cypress Hill album...That meant reaching out to other people and trying different things."

The 39-year-old rapper, who described the new album as "more up-tempo, a little bit more rock," said that while fans still flock to their concerts, selling records is another matter. Their 1993 album "Black Sunday" sold 3.4 million copies, but 2004'S "'Til Death Do Us Part" moved just 204,000.

ALL ABOUT "RIGHT NOW"

In the early 1990s, "there was a clear loyalty." But now, many new rappers and artists "come in, maybe last a year or two, and then are out the door," said B-Real.

"The climate change is in hip hop all the time," he added. "You got to figure out a way past that."


Mariel Concepcion, associate editor for Billboard.com, said unless a rapper or hip hop act is at the very top, it is more difficult to keep selling albums as bands age because the music is geared toward a younger audience and fans are more focused on current trends than in other genres.

"It's really hard in hip hop because it's just (about) what's right now," Concepcion said.
Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg and Diddy have all felt the pinch, even when accounting for overall decline in record sales.

Total U.S. album sales fell 12.7 percent in 2009 and are down 10 percent this year compared to the same stage in 2009, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Older rock bands with loyal fans like Bon Jovi have had less trouble -- their 2009 album "The Circle" debuted at No. 1 in the United States and sold 163,000 copies in its first week -- and sales of country albums fell just 3.2 percent in 2009.

But hip hop and rap acts have had it worse. Beastie Boys, for instance, sold 5.4 million copies of their 1986 album "License to III" compared to 170,000 for 2007's "The Mix-Up".

"It's just so much harder for Beastie Boys or a Cypress Hill because of what is going on in the music industry and also because of the kind of fickleness in hip hop," she said.

But Cypress Hill are not too worried about getting older or sales figures while they still enjoy their music.

"If (they) wants to rock in the wheelchair, then I will roll (them) around," B-Real joked of his fellow band members.

The album will be released on April 20, a day dedicated to legalizing cannabis, which for Cypress Hill seems to reinforce the notion that while some things -- record sales and fans -- may change, other things stay the same.

Source: Yahoo

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A massive gang takedown in Queens uncovered a rare alliance between Bloods and Crips and a ruthless plot to assassinate cops, authorities said Friday.

The revelations came as law enforcement unveiled the chilling results of long-running "Operation Under Siege" - 104 suspects, dozens of guns, two slayings and piles of drugs and cash.

The sprawling case was built on wiretaps - including recordings of gang associate Keith Livingston, who blabbed about plans to protect his drug turf by killing cops on patrol.

"He intended to position himself on rooftops and shoot police officers who were compromising his business in Far Rockaway and South Jamaica," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

"Before his deadly plans could be carried out, detectives arrested him and seized a defaced 9-mm. Hi-Point rifle, among other weapons."

Livingston's plot was only one facet of an investigation that began two years ago when police and prosecutors began looking into a drugs-and-guns network in Far Rockaway.

By Friday, they had arrested 104 people, closed two murder cases, and exposed ties between Far Rockaway Crips and the Bloods in South Jamaica.

The Crips, working to lock up the drug trade at four housing projects, bought cocaine, heroin and marijuana from a gang that should have been their enemy.

"The Bloods in South Jamaica aren't loyal to the Bloods in Far Rockaway, who were feuding with the Crips," a law enforcement source said. "That's what made this so unusual."

In fact, some of the Bloods in Far Rockaway were actually part of four Crips sets known collectively as Flocc - the last "c" standing for Crips.

One of the Flocc leaders was charged with shooting at an occupied NYPD car in January during an altercation with members of a Bloods set known as "Klick Klack." The cops were not hurt.

Livingston was arrested in September after he was heard on his cell phone complaining he was fed up with cops on foot patrol along Sutphin Blvd. in South Jamaica.

The officers were part of Operation Impact, an NYPD initiative that floods crime-ridden areas with rookie cops.

"[He] was unhappy with the fact that the police were out there, aggressively doing their job," said Deputy Chief Robert Boyce, head of the NYPD's Gang Division. "He stated that he wanted to shoot a police officer, to get them out of the way, from a rooftop."

Police secured a warrant and arrested Livingston hours later at his home on 160th St., recovering two guns, including the camouflage Hi-Point.

Livingston, charged with gun possession and conspiracy, is being held on $250,000 bail. His lawyer did not return a call.

The Livingston recordings are among thousands of hours of wiretap evidence amassed by the operation.

"It's tedious work. It's laborious work," Kelly said. "But it was extremely fruitful in this case."

Other top suspects collared in the probe include Gquan Lloyd, 23, the Crip who allegedly helped merge the four sets "mainly to corner the narcotics trade."

He was charged with gun possession. His lawyer could not be reached for comment.

Farrad Smith, 23, who worked as a corrections officer for a year before getting fired, was also busted on a weapons rap. Under his mattress, police found a 9-mm. handgun allegedly stolen from another corrections officer and a loaded AK-47.

Source: NY Daily News

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Gary Jackson left Blackwater last year in a management shake-up

The former president of the US private security firm, Blackwater Worldwide, and four other former workers have been indicted on federal weapons charges.

Gary Jackson, who resigned last year, denies conspiracy to violate firearms laws, making false statements and possession of an unregistered firearm.

Also indicted were the former general counsel and executive vice-president.

The charges are partially the result of a raid in 2008 by federal agents who seized 22 weapons, including 17 AK-47s.

Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services in 2009, two years after its guards were involved in a shooting incident in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. They had been protecting US diplomats there.

Their actions outraged the Iraqi government and led to charges being filed in the US against several guards - accusations later thrown out of court after a judge found prosecutors had mishandled evidence.

'Straw purchases'

In addition to Mr Jackson, Blackwater's former general counsel Andrew Howell, former executive vice-president Bill Mathews, former procurement vice-president Ana Bundy, and former weapons manager Ronald Slezak were indicted on Friday.

They are charged with using "straw purchases" to stockpile automatic weapons at the company's headquarters in Moyock, North Carolina, and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the king of Jordan.

Prosecutors said the company signed agreements in 2005, through which it financed the purchase of 34 automatic weapons for the Camden County sheriff's office but was allowed to keep most of them at its armoury.

Federal law prohibits licensed firearms dealers to have more than two of the same style of weapon - the raid on Blackwater found 17 AK-47s. Law enforcement agencies are also allowed to have fully automatic weapons.

According to the Associated Press, the 2005 agreements between Blackwater and the sheriff's office said the weapons would be kept under "lock and key".

Blackwater became known when it was used to guard US personnel in Iraq

Sheriff Tony Perry said at the time that his department only used the AK-47s in shooting practice at Blackwater, while Mr Jackson said it had offered it a place to store the weapons as a gesture of "professional courtesy".

The indictment also alleges that Blackwater officials, hoping to win a lucrative overseas contract for building and running a training centre, presented King Abdullah of Jordan with five firearms "to gain favour".

However, they then realised they could not account for where the weapons had gone and falsified four federal documents "to give the appearance that the weapons had been purchased by them as individuals", it adds.

Mr Jackson's lawyer, Kenneth Bell, said the former Navy Seal was a true American hero and insisted the charges were false.

"He will defend himself, as he defended this country, in what he calls the greatest justice system in the world," he told AP.

Xe spokesman Mark Corallo said it had fully co-operated with the federal investigation and declined to give further comment.

Source: BBC

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DETROIT — The leader of a Christian militia planned an elaborate, two-part training session for this month and told members it was OK to kill "anyone who might stumble upon the operation," federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing Friday.

Details about the Hutaree's planned training session — to be held during the second and fourth Saturdays in April — were revealed in a 17-page document prosecutors filed in response to a defense motion to free Hutaree leader David Stone while he awaits trial.

It, along with several other government filings over the past week, help paint a fuller picture of the southern Michigan-based group's make-up and activities.

Stone and eight other suspected Hutaree members were arrested after a series of raids across the Midwest late last month and charged with seditious conspiracy, or plotting to levy war against the U.S. The self-proclaimed "Christian warriors" trained in paramilitary techniques in preparation for a battle against the Antichrist.

Friday's filing included a transcript of remarks Stone allegedly made during a January briefing on the planned operation.

According to the filing, Stone told other Hutaree members that "we are going locked and loaded."

"If you're made, somebody comes tripping along, they just happen to see you, we're gonna handle it as a hostile situation," Stone said. "That means you put them on the ground."

Andrew Arena, the head of the FBI in Detroit, has said his office felt compelled to arrest the nine suspects before the April training session because of the potential for violence.

Stone's lawyer, William Swor, said he hadn't seen the latest filing but doesn't see any reason why his client should be jailed.

"The government hasn't proved that he shouldn't be free," Swor said.

Prosecutors claim Stone and the others plotted mass killings of police as a prelude to a larger war against the government. In Friday's filing and others that trickled out over the past week, they described several ways in which Hutaree members considered killing law enforcement personnel.

According to one scenario, they would place a phony 911 call, kill responding police officers, then set off a bomb at the ensuing funeral to kill many more.

In another, Friday's filing said, Hutaree members talked about "torching the homes of police officers and then shooting them and their families as they fled their burning homes."

Swor and other defense attorneys in the case have argued their clients are protected by a right to free speech.

A federal magistrate judge in Detroit has ordered eight of the suspects to remain locked up until trial.

A ninth suspect, Thomas Piatek, of Whiting, Ind., was ordered held by a judge in Indiana but recently transported to Michigan.

Piatek appeared in court Thursday and a not-guilty plea was entered.

U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts has set an April 27 hearing to consider appeals of the detention orders, but the date could change because of a scheduling conflict with one of the prosecutors.

Source: Associated Press

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton warned of a slippery slope from angry anti-government rhetoric to violence like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, saying "the words we use really do matter."

The two-term Democratic president insisted he wasn't trying to restrict free speech, but in remarks Friday he said incendiary language can be taken the wrong way by some Americans. He drew parallels to words demonizing the government before Oklahoma City.

On April 19, 1995, an anti-government conspiracy led by Army veteran Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people.

"What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold — but that the words we use really do matter, because there's this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike," he said.

"One of the things that the conservatives have always brought to the table in America is a reminder that no law can replace personal responsibility. And the more power you have and the more influence you have, the more responsibility you have."

Clinton made the remarks at events sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund on the upcoming anniversary of the bombing.

He mentioned the rancorous fight over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Passage of the law elicited threats against some lawmakers.

"I'm glad they're fighting over health care and everything else. Let them have at it. But I think that all you have to do is read the paper every day to see how many people there are who are deeply, deeply troubled," he said.

He also alluded to the anti-government tea party movement, which held protests in several states Thursday. At the Washington rally, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota railed against "gangster government."

Clinton argued that the Boston Tea Party was in response to taxation without representation. The current protesters, he said, are challenging taxation by elected officials, and the demonstrators have the power to vote them out of office.

"By all means keep fighting, by all means, keep arguing," he said. "But remember, words have consequences as much as actions do, and what we advocate, commensurate with our position and responsibility, we have to take responsibility for. We owe that to Oklahoma City."

Source: Fox43

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Rihanna's 'Last Girl On Earth' world tour kicked off Friday (April 16) in Antwerp, Belgium.

Despite losing one of her opening acts in Nicki Minaj, Riri is hitting the road at just the right time.

Her single "Rude Boy" is sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the fifth week.

Check out the behind the scenes footage of Rihanna preparing for the tour and the dates she will be back in North America with opening act Ke$ha.

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Friday, July 2 – White River Amphitheatre - Seattle, WA
Sunday, July 4 – General Motors Place – Vancouver, Canada
Tuesday, July 6 – Pengrowth Saddeldome – Calgary, Canada
Friday, July 9 – ARCO Arena – Sacramento, CA
Saturday, July 10 – Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA
Monday, July 12 – USANA Amphitheatre – Salt Lake City, UT
Wednesday, July 14 - Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque presents The Pavilion – Albuquerque, NM
Thursday, July 15 – Comfort Dental Amphitheatre – Denver, CO
Saturday, July 17 – Mandalay Bay Events Center – Las Vegas, NV
Wednesday, July 21 – Staples Center – Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, July 22 – Cricket Wireless Pavilion – Phoenix, AZ
Sunday, July 25 – AT&T Center – San Antonio, TX
Wednesday, July 28 – Philips Arena – Atlanta, GA
Friday, July 30 – Ford Amphitheatre – Tampa, FL
Saturday, July 31 – American Airlines Center – Miami, FL
Tuesday, August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center – Indianapolis, IN
Thursday, August 5 – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre – Toronto, Canada
Saturday, August 7 – Bell Center – Montreal, Canada
Sunday, August 8 – Comcast Center – Boston, MA
Wednesday, August 11 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT
Thursday, August 12 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
Sunday, August 15 – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater – Wantagh, NY
Wednesday, August 18 – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
Friday, August 20 – Jiffy Lube Live – Bristow, VA
Saturday, August 21 – Hersheypark Stadium – Hershey, PA
Sunday, August 22 – DTE Energy Music Theatre – Detroit, MI
Wednesday, August 25 – United Center – Chicago, IL



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02. Rick Ross Feat. OJ Da Juiceman & 8Ball - Poppin Bottles
03. Consequence Feat. Styles P - Dont Stand SO Close (Prod By Statik Selektah)
04. Sha Stimuli Feat. The Astronomical Kid - Hang On (Remix)
05. Jay Uno Feat. Get fresh- I'm a Hustler
06. Dubby ft Johnny - Honesty (Prod by DJ Hye Quality)
07. Young X and Devvon Terrell Feat. 2 Pistols - Holiday
08. CANE MURPHY Feat. Michael Jackson - Reflections of the Man in the Mirror
09. Cassius aka Hood Barber - 4 The People (Produced By TalenTed)
10. Acrobat - Intervention
11. Deezil GreezilL - EARLY N DA MORNING
12. DEUCE.D - ONE OF THE BEST
13. Extra Domus - Shiven C2C
14. Lil Hines AKA Baddaddy - Party No More
15. Face Capone from City Of Soldiers - Flamboyant G
16. GENERAL WATKINZ FT HEMANIFEZT - I Walk Alone
17. KZ - Heavy Remix
18. PonyPak - K.O.T.B. (King of the Ballers)
19. M.O. ft Chad Ashe - RAP STAR
20. New Heights - Yuengling, Goose, Henney
21. Willie J - Im Ready
22. project aka klassic - Yall Keep Hating
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24. TAIN 2G - Holla Looya
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T.I. is setting the bar high for his post-prison album, King Uncaged, comparing it to Tupac’s 1996 classic All Eyez on Me, which was released months after ‘Pac got out of prison. “This is the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had since then,” T.I. says. “Just given the enormous success of that project, everyone’s expecting the same results. I just want to meet the expectations, if not surpass them.”

The Atlanta MC says he didn’t get much work done while serving 10 months in Federal penitentiary in Arkansas on weapons charges (”I didn’t have a lot of time by myself just to think,” he says), but he got cracking on the day he was released to a halfway house in January, recording the defiant single, “I’m Back.”

He’s been on a creative tear since, recording more than 60 songs for the album, due out in August, working with the producers who have crafted his biggest hits, including Jim Jonsin, who made the beat for Paper Trail Number One hit “Whatever You Like,” Danja (”No Matter What”), and DJ Toomp (”What You Know”).

Some songs talk about my time in prison — how I was affected by that, the way I’ve grown from that, things I see now that I may have not seen then,” says T.I. “Sometimes I talk about love, some songs I talk about life, some songs I talk about me being the shit on every level.”

No songs will talk about T.I. carrying a gun. “Regardless of what may happen, what circumstances may present themselves, how extreme they may be, I will not be the one carrying firearms,” says the MC, who was arrested in 2007 for trying to buy a small arsenal of weapons, including machine guns. He has said he was buying guns in a misguided attempt to protect himself after his best friend Philant Johnson was killed.

T.I. considers the new album the last chapter in a trilogy that began with 2007’s T.I. vs. T.I.P. and continued with Paper Trail, which was the eighth best-selling album of 2008. “If it was a film, the opening act would be the night that Phil got shot, and all the emotions and the sentiments that led to T.I. Vs. T.I.P.,” he says. ”From there, the schizophrenia of it all led to an unfortunate chain of events that left me incarcerated with federal weapons charges, which inspired Paper Trail, and now, people are waiting to hear the end of the story.”


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(AllHipHop News) A federal has judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the mother of the later rapper Notorious B.I.G., which blamed the city of Los Angeles and the LAPD for her son’s death.

On Monday April 5th, Judge Jacqueline Nguyen dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice, after an eight-year wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.

Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, was gunned down in March of 1997, after attending an after party during the Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles.

Although it has never been proven, the wrongful death lawsuit claimed that Marion “Suge” Knight conspired with Amir Muhammad, the alleged triggerman and LAPD officers Rafael Perez and David Mack, to murder Notorious B.I.G.

B.I.G. had been feuding with Tupac Shakur, who was gunned down on the Las Vegas strip six months earlier, in September of 1996.

In March of 2006, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled in favor of B.I.G., awarding the family a $1.1 million dollar judgment against the city.

In May of 2006, Judge Cooper dismissed the previous ruling in the case, after discovering the family had information they told the court they did not have access to.

In June of 2006, the city of Los Angeles claimed B.I.G.‘s attorneys went to “absurd lengths” to "satisfy their ambition to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from the city.”

Source: AllHipHop

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Fans are eager to see Betty White host "Saturday Night Live" on May 8, and now it seems that comedy's most favorite OG will be joined by hip-hop's biggest star: Jay-Z has been tapped as the musical guest for the show's May 8 episode, according to multiple sources.

Both will appear on the Mother's Day episode, which will feature appearances by a number of female "SNL" vets including Tina Fey (who hosted the show last weekend with musical guest Justin Bieber), Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.

Jay-Z, who will headline Coachella on Friday night (April 16), has appeared as a musical guest on the show several times before, but this appearance will mark White's first turn as "SNL" host.

"Years ago, I turned it down three times," said White, who's been enjoying a career resurgence thanks to her role in "The Proposal" and her buzzed-about Super Bowl Snickers commercial from earlier this year. "It's so New York, and I'm not New York at all. But my agent said he'd divorce me if I didn't do it, and I love my agent.

"It's lovely, and at my age it's certainly unexpected," she added. "I've got so much energy, it's ridiculous. I love working. My schedule is a feverish one, and I'm used to that."

In an interview with USA Today in March, "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels admits he "always wanted" White to host the late-night comedy program. "It took on a groundswell," Michaels says of a Facebook campaign that began in response to White's Super Bowl ad. "It isn't something we would have said no to," but the campaign "validated that — 'Oh, that'd be fun.' ... It was the outpouring of affection from fans, and we feel the same way

Source: MTV

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Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger just narrowly escaped legal trouble stemming from an alleged rape of a 20 year old college student in Georgia.

In a statement to the media Wilkinson County District Attorney Fred Bright said, "We are not condoning Mr. Roethlisberger's actions, but we do not prosecute morals. We prosecute crimes.".

With that the criminal phase of Big Ben's latest off the field trouble was put to rest.

Now comes the decision by National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell on whether or not to punish Roethlisberger for his conduct off the field.

This was the second rape accusation leveled against the star QB in a year. Andrea McNulty accused him of sexual assault in 2009 stemming from a 2008 incident in Las Vegas. While Ms McNulty chose not to press charges, she is suing Ben in civil court.

Goodell has made an example of players in the past for violating NFL's personal conduct policy.

Adam "Pacman" Jones was suspended without pay for the entire 2007 season. Chris Henry received an eight game suspension that same year. Both of their suspensions were for numerous arrests.

Michael Vick was suspended for five games after being released from prison for his involvement in a dog fighting ring.

The question here is simple, should Ben Roethlisberger be suspended by the NFL? And if so for how long?

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Actor Nicolas Cage has purchased a pyramid shaped tomb in New Orleans.

According to TMZ the National Treasure star wants it to be his final resting place. I guess he figures it's the one thing the IRS can't take from him.

Nic has fallen on hard financial times recently. Uncle Sam is on his heels for $14 million he owes in back taxes, properties are being foreclosed on and a leasing company is asking for $250,000 for two Rolls Royce's he couldn't pay the lease on.


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