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Are Eminem & 50 Cent Touring Together This Summer??

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 19, 2009 at 2:00am

Are Eminem and 50 Cent touring together this summer? For now, fans can only hope — MTV News' requests to label reps for comment had not been answered at press time — but according to G-Unit member Lloyd Banks, there's been preliminary talk about possibly ramping up the Anger Management Tour again. "I'm in and out the office, and there's conversations," Banks told MTV News recently. "I'm just as excited as the fans are. The first Anger Management Tour, I wasn't a part of." Banks said that if Em and 50 do go out, he'll definitely be on the show with the rest of G-Unit. Eminem was recently a guest on BBC's "Friday Night With Jonathan Ross," and he told the host that he hasn't solidified his touring plans yet. "As far as touring, I haven't got that far to really figure it out yet. I haven't got that part," he said. "I'm kinda in album cycle right now and promoting. But we'll see how it goes." Em has been back onstage in promotion of his new LP, Relapse, which officially drops Tuesday. He performed on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Friday, will rock the Kimmel stage again this week, and he announced a special free MySpace concert in Detroit on Tuesday night. Em's new DJ, acclaimed producer the Alchemist, told Mixtape Daily that he really gets a charge out of seeing Em do the Relapse record "Underground." "When I first heard [Relapse], that was the song I said, 'This is gonna shut mutha----ers up.' Straight up. It would not be an issue," Al said. "Nobody would be like, 'I didn't like this, I didn't like the flow.' ... When we perform that song, Em takes a spot on the stage, and that's it. He picks a spot and dumbs out. There's not a lot of moving. "When we're rehearing the song, you know, 'This is gonna be something crazy.' He says, 'Turn the lights down,' they put the spotlight on Em, and it's just snap rap. In the current day and age, you don't hear songs like that. It doesn't seem like any of that other sh-- going on in the world or in the music industry was going on in his mind when he [made the song]. He was strictly into the craft. I don't think anybody is f---ing with that."
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Danger Mouse Of Gnarles Barkley To Release Blank CD

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 18, 2009 at 4:00pm

Dark Night Of The Soul- a new project from producer Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and film maker David Lynch- will be released as a blank CD due to a legal dispute. The album also features vocalists Iggy Pop, Julian Casablancas from The Strokes, Susanne Vega, Gruff Rhys of Super Animals, The Flaming Lips and Frank Black of The Pixies. But due to an apparent dispute between Gnarls Barkley and Gorillaz man Danger Mouse and EMI it will now only be available to stream on the internet. Visuals for Dark Night Of The Soul come from Lynch. A statement given to MTV News said: “The photographs, which provide a visual narrative for the music, are compiled in a limited-edition, hand-numbered 100+ page book, which will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. “All copies will be clearly labeled: 'For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.” Despite the lack of CD release the full album is currently available to stream on the internet. Danger Mouse is one half of Gnarls Barkley and has produced albums for Beck, Gorillaz, MF Doom, Black Keys and The Shortwave Set.
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T.I. To Only Serve 3 Months Of Original 1 Year Sentence

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 18, 2009 at 2:00pm

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Rapper T.I. will be coming to Arkansas — to serve a federal prison sentence. T.I., whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., must report to Forrest City's low-security federal prison by noon on May 26, according to court filings. There, Harris will join 1,500 other inmates as he serves a year-and-one-day prison sentence after pleading guilty in March to federal weapons charges in Atlanta. The rapper, the self-proclaimed "King of the South," had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each charge in his three-count indictment. Harris will be credited for 305 days of home detention he already has served after being charged, so his stay at the Forrest City prison likely will be only two months. R.D. Weeks, a spokesman for the prison, said Harris likely would be treated like any other prisoner coming into the facility. "Unless there are custody or security concerns, all incoming inmates are placed in general population," Weeks told The Associated Press. Weeks said each cell at the prison is double-bunked. Harris also will have the opportunity to use the recreation yard, as well as take part in counseling or participate in the one of the facility's 14 religious groups, Week said. Harris, 28, was arrested after trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover federal agents in 2007. That came after Harris' best friend was killed following a post-performance party in Cincinnati in 2006. The rapper has said the bullets that killed his friend were meant for him. Upon his release, Harris will be on probation for three years. He also must pay a $100,000 fine as part of his sentence. Harris' sixth album, "Paper Trail," has sold about 2 million copies and the rapper earned a Grammy for the song "Swagga Like Us" that he performed with Jay-Z. Harris wrote the lyrics for the album while awaiting trial.
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Asher Roth Isn't Interested In Spencer Pratt Beef

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 18, 2009 at 1:54pm
Last week, Spencer Pratt released a rap song, compared himself to likes of Jay-Z and Biggie and really upped his street cred by trying to start a rap feud with Asher Roth. Well, Asher isn't going to give Spencer the satisfaction of an actual feud, despite Spencer's claims that he has more swagger than the "I Love College" MC. "I honestly don't even know what that means," Roth told MTV News. "For someone like that, who just kind of loves to talk ... I've got way too much on my mind and on my plate right now to be dealing with somebody who is just looking for attention." Additionally, Roth refuses to get involved in any kind of rap beef with the "Hills" star because he makes music for the fun of it. "That world is not the world I want to be a part of," he said. "I don't buy into all that WWF nonsense." Well, if Roth ever is up for a beef, Spencer has slung plenty of disses his way, leaving the door open for a freestyle competition. "I've always known that I secretly am the hottest rapper in the game," Spencer told MTV News last week. "But I didn't feel the urge until Asher Roth started hitting the airwaves and — no offense to Asher Roth — somebody with some real swagger needed to come into the game. So, I'll challenge him. I'll challenge him to a freestyle or whatever." He went on to add, "I'm the white Jay-Z in the game. I'm doing the baller thing. I'm more for the streets."
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