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50 Cent took over ABC's Good Morning America concert series Friday, May 30. He discussed the pitch seen around the world, his new television series Power and liking Miley Cyrus' music.
The music icon later hit the stage to perform "Smoke" with help from Trey Songz, "In Da Club," Big Rich Town" featuring Joe and "Just A Lil Bit."
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Mary J. Blige, the Queen of R&B is back with some new music. Listen to her single "Suitcase" off of the forthcoming Think Like a Man Too soundtrack.
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Snoop Dogg, once a symbol of the gang culture in America, has turned over a new leaf. The Long Beach, California native joined NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana and MC Hammer at the "No Guns Allowed" campaign press conference in San Francisco, Thursday, May 29, seeking a change in American gun laws.
"[Gun violence] is affecting all of us. It shouldn't be until it hits somebody in your family or someone so direct to you that you do something about it," Snoop said. "Because we're all family and those kids that are being affected by these school shootings and the shooting we had the other day in Southern California, this is outrageous. We need to do something about it and I don't mind standing up for a real cause, that's why I'm here."
"If you look at the last 20 years it's not rappers that are dying in the streets, it's the community around rappers," added MC Hammer. "At this point we can divide entertainment and music from reality. And the reality is we need more men, women to stand up and say enough is enough. Not one more and less violence in general."
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Shelly Sterling has managed to sidestep the NBA's involvement in the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers and in the process has secured the most lucrative deal ever for a franchise.
Shelly reached an agreement with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to sell the Clippers for $2 billion.
"I am delighted that we are selling the team to Steve, who will be a terrific owner," Shelly Sterling said in the statement. "We have worked for 33 years to build the Clippers into a premiere NBA franchise. I am confident that Steve will take the team to new levels of success."
Ballmer, who has a net worth of $20 billion, has promised to keep the team in L.A. A group that included Oprah Winfrey and David Geffen lost out after offering $1.6 billion for the team.
"I love basketball," the statement from Ballmer said. "And I intend to do everything in my power to ensure that the Clippers continue to win – and win big – in Los Angeles. LA is one of the world's great cities – a city that embraces inclusiveness, in exactly the same way that the NBA and I embrace inclusiveness. I am confident that the Clippers will in the coming years become an even bigger part of the community. I thank Shelly Sterling for her willingness to entrust the Clippers franchise to me, and I am grateful to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and his colleagues for working collaboratively with me throughout this process."
Donald Sterling bought the team in 1981 for $12 million. He didn't want to sell it, but his hand was forced when audio tapes where he could be heard espousing racist views leaked in April. He was banned by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, fined $2.5 million and was going to part with the team he's owned for 33 years.
According to USA Today, the business mogul wanted to stop the sale Ballmer. Donald claims he only gave Shelly permission to field offers from prospective buyers, then bring them to him for approval. However, he was ruled mentally unfit to make decisions related to the family trust.
The Sterling Family Trust owns the team. Donald and his estranged wife Shelly each have a 50% share.
The NBA is expected to approve the sale.
Ex-Microsoft Steve Ballmer Buys LA Clippers for $2 Billion
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“The rapper, born Curtis James Jackson III, features his strongest work to date with frequent protégé Kidd Kidd. The young star’s needling and nasal voice bobs everywhere 50 weaves.”
First discovered by Lil Wayne (Kidd Kidd was one of the first members of Wayne’s Young Money Sqad Up crew and appeared on Wayne’s Tha Carter III making a guest appearance on “Mrs. Officer” from the Platinum project) and more recently as a member of 50 Cent’s G-Unit imprint and over the last three-years, Kidd Kidd has made numerous guest appearances with 50 Cent.
That trend continues for Kidd Kidd, as he is predominantly featured on 50 Cent’s upcoming LP, Animal Ambition (6-3-14); he has already appeared in three videos from the project, “Chase The Paper” which also features Styles P & Prodigy, “Everytime I Come Around” and “Irregular Heartbeat” which also features Jadakiss and will join 50 Cent onstage for this weekend’s Hot 97 Summer Jam.
Now, Kidd Kidd is making waves of his own, as he preps the release if his forthcoming mixtape, Fuk Da Fame, which will be released on 6-10-2014. In early May, MTV aired the video for Kidd’s “I Am” and after his most recent leak, “The Real,” f/ State Property’s Young Chris, Kidd Kidd releases the latest “pill” (see cover art), “Reach Out To Me,” from Fuk Da Fame.
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Original Hot Boys member Turk recently sat down with Mikey T The Movie Star for an interesting conversation.
Turk revealed that B,G, could be released from prison as early as late 2014, early 2015 on appeal. He also talked about an upcoming collaboration with Lil Boosie.
B.G., real name Christopher Dorsey, was arrested following a 2009 traffic stop along with Demounde Pollard, 17, and Jerod Fedison, 28. During a search of the car police found three guns, along with loaded magazines and two extended magazine clips.
On July 18, 2012 the rapper was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for gun possession and witness tampering charges.
Follow Turk and Mikey T on Twitter @HotBoyTurk32 @MTMovieStar. Book Hot Boy Turk - Bookings4HotBoyTurk@Gmail.com. Contact Mikey T The Movie Star - MovieStarManagement@Gmail.com for visuals and more.
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01. Jung Coasta - #IAmCoasta [Prod. By xP Musik]
02. Jung Coasta - Sponsor [Prod. By Casino]
03. Charlie Scorsazy - Throw Away (Feat. Jung Coasta & Bob-Bo) [Prod. By Casino]
04. Jung Coasta - She Said It [Prod. By Pyroman]
05. Jung Coasta - Say Somethin' (Feat. Charlie Scorsazy)
06. Jung Coasta - Crazy [Prod. By Platinum Sellers]
07. Jung Coasta - Drug Habit (Feat. Charlie Scorsazy) [Prod. By xP Musik]
08. Jung Coasta - Wanna Be (Feat. Mr Blue Ghost) [Prod. By Mick Business]
09. Jung Coasta - Athlete (Feat. Charlie Scorsazy & Mr Blue Ghost) [Prod. By xP Musik]
10. Jung Coasta - Judging [Prod. By Migl Beatz & Vybe Beatz]
11. Jung Coasta - Superstar Chick (Feat. J Marz) [Prod. By xP Musik]
12. Jung Coasta - Been Like That (Feat. Maine Benji) [Prod. By Platinum Sellers]
13. Jung Coasta - Waited So Long (Feat. Jung TrU) [Prod. By Platinum Sellers]
14. Jung Coasta - Forever [Prod. By Platinum Sellers]
15. Jung Coasta - Don't Worry Bout Me [Prod. By Platinum Sellers]
16. Jung Coasta - Da Ghetto (Feat. Maine Benji) [Prod. By xP Musik]
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Your first look at Executive Producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as Kanan in Power, the STARZ Original Series. Kanan is a mentor to James"Ghost" St. Patrick, owner of Truth, New York's hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub for the city's elite. When he's not at the club, he's kingpin of a lucrative drug network. Ghost wants to go legit but once you're in, it's hard to get out.
Series premiere June 7, 9P ET/PT
Power stars Omari Hardwick, Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Joseph Sikora, Adam Huss, Andy Bean, Sinqua Walls, Enrique Murciano, Luis Antonio Ramos, La La Anthony and Diane Neal.
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Tune in for more exclusive content on Friday, May 30.
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Troy Ave brought his Brick Star Boyz team of Young Lito, King Sevin and Avon Blocksdale to The Breakfast Club to chop it up with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Angela Yee. Check out the full interview up top.
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Nicole Scherzinger is back with a brand new single. Give "Your Love" a listen up top.
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Miguel releases an official music video for "SimpleThings." This is off of the Girls Vol 2: All Adventurous Women Do soundtrack. You can grab it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/girls-vol.-2-all-adventurous/id795414070.
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Meek Mill was in Los Angeles recently and stopped by The Liftoff Show to chop it up with Justin Credible and DJ sourMILK. Topics include his upcoming album Dreams Worth More Than Money, features with Lil Wayne and Big Sean, trying to be No. 1 in the game and much more.
Meek Mill Talks Money, Traveling, New Album and Crazy Instagram Comments
Meek Mill Talks Paloma Ford, Clothing Line and Philly
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Check out the official music video for Jennifer Lopez's new single entitled "First Love."
Download "First Love" here" http://smarturl.it/jlofirstlove
Pre-order J Lo's new album A.K.A. now: http://myplay.me/19a8
The exclusive fan bundle includes an autographed booklet and exclusive poster!
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Dylan Dili, known for being a member of P. Diddy's Making the Band on MTV, and the infamous Chappelle skit, talks to www.TaniaOnTheScene.com about why he wants people to stop living in the past, and opens up about what he's working on, including some of the artists that he's done some work with.
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Rocko releases an eight-song EP entitled Poet. Nas is the lone feature on the project. Production credits go to Chase N Cashe, TM 88 of 808 Mafia, Fatboii and Heluva.
Download it for free from LiveMixtapes http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/16630/rocko-poet.html.
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Tracklist:
01. Rocko – Controlled Substance (3:51)
02. Rocko – Poet [Prod. By Chase N Cashe] (3:48)
03. Rocko – Hustle (Feat. Nas) [Prod. By Fatboi] (4:55)
04. Rocko – Phenominal Woman [Prod. By TM 88 of 808 Mafia] (3:15)
05. Rocko – Pain (3:14)
06. Rocko – Call You In Heaven (3:10)
07. Rocko – Forever [Prod. By Heluva] (3:28)
08. Rocko – Street Poetry [Prod. By Heluva] (2:30)
I asked 50 Cent to be my life coach. He said yes: http://t.co/KSwOsv7rjk
— Zach Baron (@xzachbaronx) May 27, 2014When you meet someone who has reached the level of success that 50 Cent has it would be wise to soak up any words of wisdom he offers.
50, real name Curtis Jackson, is a man who went from dealing drugs in Southside Jamaica, Queensbridge, New York before he was a teen to making the Forbes list as one of the top five wealthiest hip hop moguls.
Zach Baron of GQ Magazine wanted to find out more about the man behind G-Unit Records, SMS Promotions, SK Energy, SMS Audio, Cheetah Vision Films and G-Unit Films.
Baron asked 50 to be his life coach for a month. Read how it turned out below.
50 Cent says: Make a vision board. Do it tonight, when you get home. Open your laptop. Create a new folder. Think about the things you want for your future. "I want you to Google pictures and put everything you want in this folder," 50 Cent says. "Everything. All right?"
He's wearing a Yankees cap and a snug, fatherly argyle sweater with horn buttons that keep getting snagged on his various enormous muscles. His beard is like the line a surgeon draws before he cuts. His office in Midtown Manhattan, where we're sitting, is spare. On the table in front of him is a deck of playing cards with the I ♥ NY logo on them that he periodically picks up and shuffles and a white squash ball that he periodically picks up and squeezes.
All right, I reply.
50 Cent thinks for a minute. Actually, he says, my girlfriend—the one I just mentioned, the one I'd just moved in with? 50 Cent would like her to make a vision board, too. Then we're going to compare. "Take things out of your folder and things out of her folder to create a folder that has everything," he says. "Now the vision board is no longer your personal vision board for yourself: It's a joint board." That joint board will represent what we have in common. It will be a monument to our love.
But there will be some leftover unmatched photos, too, in each of our folders. And that's what the joint board is really for—what it's designed to reveal. "The things that end up on your vision board that aren't in hers are the things that she has to accept," 50 Cent says. "And the things that she has that you don't are the things that you have to make a compromise with." In a healthy relationship, he explains, your differences are really what need talking about. This is how you go about making that conversation happen.
"See?" 50 says, smiling. "Now, they ain't gonna tell you to do that in no book."
There were good reasons why I asked 50 Cent—the same 50 Cent who named his dog after Oprah, and not in a nice way—to become my life coach. He has seemed, in the decade since his first record came out, like a person with wisdom, or at least savvy. He's published a couple of self-help books—The 50th Law, a best-selling meditation on fear and the impossibility of trust transfigured into a set of boardroom commandments; last year's Formula 50: A 6-Week Workout and Nutrition Plan That Will Transform Your Life. In his office hangs a poster of the movie he starred in opposite Robert De Niro, Righteous Kill—a testament to an improbable second career on-screen that continues this month with his new drama series on Starz, Power.He invested early in Vitaminwater and earned $100 million. His new album, his first in nearly five years, is called Animal Ambition; maybe he'd be willing to impart some of that ambition to another man.
It was sort of a stunt, the life-coaching thing, and in the beginning I treated it that way. I liked the notion of becoming a better person. Who wouldn't want to become a better person? But I'd also become fascinated with the ways in which 50 Cent had failed—over the course of his long career but especially lately. He was ubiquitous, sold an unfathomable number of records, and then suddenly he wasn't and he didn't. He was said to live alone in an eighteen-bedroom Connecticut mansion that formerly belonged to Mike Tyson, wore a bulletproof vest every day for five years, traveled in a bombproof car. He abjured alcohol. His life in 2014 seemed lonely and impossible. He was a living example of someone who had entirely captured the attention of the culture and then watched the culture speed right by. I thought I'd go to him, ask leading questions, present what I perceived to be his problems as my own—I'm 31, I've had some success already, but now I fear my best days are behind me, what should I do, 50 Cent?—and in doing so get him to talk about himself, about the existential predicament of what comes after success so large it can never be repeated.
But so far he was the one asking most of the questions. About my girlfriend: "How long you been together?"
Two years.
"That's new still."
Yeah.
"She's your best friend?"
Yeah.
"I think friendship is the strongest form of relationship," 50 Cent says. "Don't ever forget to be friends. And you be conscious. Because there's a point that your friendship would develop that it has so much value that it would become priceless. And at that point, you should consider marriage."
I'd come to hold up a mirror, get 50 Cent to talk about himself, his dreams, his fears, his regrets. Except here he was—enthusiastically inquiring about my dreams, my fears, my regrets—holding up the mirror first. He did it without irony or skepticism—it wasn't a joke to him, even if it sort of was to me. That was lesson one.
··· He has led a remarkable life. You don't need to be all that taken with the tabloid aspects of his story, the nine gunshots he absorbed and survived, to see that. His mother gave birth to him at 15. She told her son it was an immaculate conception. "To make me feel special about not having a father," he says with a sly grin. She was murdered eight years later in a manner almost too terrible to recount—drugged by a friend, the windows shut, the gas turned on, left to die at her own kitchen table. She had been a drug dealer; at 12, he became one, too. When his debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin', came out in 2003 and sold nearly a million copies the first week and then nearly another million the second week, he moved from his bedroom in his grandmother's house directly into Tyson's old mansion. There was no in-between. He's lived there ever since, a Gatsby with no Daisy.
That first time we met, we talked about marriage and fatherhood. It was heartbreaking, some of the things he said. He'd had his first son, Marquise, when he was 21. It's what made him start rapping in the first place—a way to live to see his son live. Now his son is 17 and they don't speak, because 50 and his son's mother don't speak. They fell out over money. They were together before he was 50 Cent, and, he says, she feels she's owed something for that.
"Me and my son, we don't have a relationship anymore," 50 said, squeezing the squash ball. "It's based on his mom. He's adopted her way of thinking." He's trying to do it over now, he said, with his second son, whom he had by a different woman in 2012—to do it right this time, even though he's already split with that boy's mother, too. "I don't have anything negative around the concept of kids," he said.
Women are different—harder for him, he said. He was alluding, I presumed, to problems that have been extensively documented in the press. Breakups. Allegations of domestic violence. If you'd read the papers, it was insane to ask him for romantic advice. And yet I'd asked. I wanted to know what he'd say, whether he felt that it was possible for someone to succeed where he had not.
"The one place that I will admit that I've been inconsistent is in my personal life," he allowed, there in his office. That's when he told me about the vision boards and encouraged me to go home and make one with my girl. He gave me a hug. He couldn't remember my girlfriend's name. "Let me know how it goes with Whatshername," he said earnestly.
I broke the news to Whatshername when I got home. "50 Cent wants me to make a vision board?" she asked. "What do I put on my vision board?"
"Your hopes and dreams for your future and our future together," I said.
"Hmm," she said. She asked me what 50 Cent thought of us. She confessed to being worried he wouldn't approve of our relationship. His public persona was so Machiavellian; does 50 Cent believe in love at all?
"50 Cent believes in us," I reassured her.
"Well," she said, "he hasn't seen our vision boards yet."
··· I began living like he told me to live. That first morning, I'd arrived at his office wearing jeans and sneakers, and, in time, I asked him what he thought about the outfit. He looked me up and down. "Look, GQ may send you to interview 50 Cent because you come dressed casual," he said diplomatically. Around him and his friends, I blended right in. "But they would send the guy in the suit to go fucking interview George Clooney in a heartbeat."
So you're saying I should wear a suit to work?
"It's how people perceive the person that they're actually sending you to go interview," he said. Me coming into work every day in Nikes: Maybe I didn't entirely look like I belonged in a room with the type of man GQ aspires to celebrate. I looked down at my scuffed sneakers. 50 Cent had a point.
All right. I'm gonna wear the suit tomorrow.
"And when you do it, I bet you people ask you, 'Hey, you look good! Where you going? What's going on?' Because it's not an everyday thing for you. When you clean up, people notice."
And they did—it was overwhelming how dramatic the difference was. "Whoa," said Whatshername, when I emerged from the bedroom the following morning. "Nice suit!" co-workers said in the hall. "Do you have a job interview?" asked the woman in the office across from my mine. The magazine's deputy editor, an elegant, impeccably dressed man, strolled by my door and then stopped. For the first time, perhaps ever, he took in my outfit. "I like your suit," he said. He summoned a photographer. "Let's put him on the GQ Instagram," he said to her, walking away without another word.
Head over to GQ to read the rest of the story.
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After being exposed as a racist slumlord, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has become the most hated man in America, according to RumorFix.
In a poll of 1100 people ages 13-49, Sterling ranked high in four categories.
Other high profile names making the list include O.J. Simpson, Aaron Hernandez, Bernard Madoff and Justin Bieber.
Check out the full list below.
1.Donald Sterling, 92 percent
2.Bernard Madoff, 90 percent
3.O.J. Simpson, 88 percent
4.Conrad Murray, 88 percent
5.Justin Bieber, 86 percent
6.Phil Spector, 83 percent
7.Aaron Hernandez, 81 percent
8.Michael Lohan, 76 percent
9.Eliot Spitzer, 73 percent
10.Jon Gosselin, 71 percent
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Radio legend Troi Torain (STAR) always delivers hard-hitting objective truth. As a culture critic he is vicious, as a businessman he is relentless, as a luminary he is un-matched.
Considered a radio pioneer by many, STAR has set precedents on the urban landscape and was recently inducted into News One's "Top 20 Black Radio Jockeys Of All Time."
STAR & BUC WILD made the national stage on MTV (1999) but it was their radio show on New York's Hot 97 and Power 105 (2000 - 2006) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.
Torain's resume includes The Source magazine, MTV Networks, Hot 97, Power 104.1, Power 105.1, Pulse 87, Hip-Hop Weekly magazine, Vladtv, Thisis50, 100.3 The Beat, shot97.com and VH1 (The Gossip Game).
This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.
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