Comedian Dave Chappelle didn't get many laughs during his appearance at Friday's Zo’s Summer Groove charity event in Miami.
According to ENews he only told one joke during his 45 minutes on the stage. Instead he talked with audience members who were heckling him, answered four text messages, then left, telling the audience: "Alright ladies and gentleman it's been a growing experience, I'm really glad I came."
CNN reporter Roland S. Martin was at the event and tweeted details about Dave's strange routine.
"This Dave Chappelle set is bizarre. He's spent more time going back & forth with one audience member, & pretty much stopped telling jokes," Martin wrote on the social networking site. "One woman just yelled, 'Can you tell a joke so we can enjoy ourselves!' He got texted four times during his show and actually checked them. I'm just not understanding what threw him off. He's complained about folks videotaping his set, yelling out loud. I don't get it. Chappelle says this is a 'test of wills.' He keeps saying 'tick tock' & he has 'nothing but time.' He's just staring at the crowd & sighing. Then Dave started talking to me, asking if I was putting this on CNN. Yes, from the stage! He's been on stage 46 minutes & told one joke."
Martin later wrote that Dave's people told him the comedian hates to be heckled and when some audience members did that it threw him off completely.
Actress Gabrielle Union also took to twitter, but she was angry at the hecklers, not Dave.
I've seen Dave perform live and he is one of the funniest comedians you will ever see. It's hard to say exactly what happened in Miami Friday, but it's not the first time Dave has acted strangely.
In 2005 he abruptly walked away from his wildly popular Comedy Central show and the $50 million dollar check that came with it.
Tyler, The Creator of the rap group Odd Future was just nominated for Video Of The Year at the 2011 VMA's for "Yonkers".
When Sway of MTV caught up with him to ask how it felt to get his first nomination, he got a typical Tyler response.
"I almost boo boo'ed on myself," Tyler joked. "I said 'oh sh*t, oh f*ck I'm about to pass out, I'm paid.'"
"Yonkers" is competing against Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," Beastie Boys' "Make Some Noise," Bruno Mars' "Grenade" and Katy Perry's "Firework."
Tyler said he would be heated if he lost to any of them besides Adele, because none of them are very good.
"I'm really excited, shout out to Ron Artest. If I lose to any of those wackass videos, I'm gonna be mad because they all suck — except for Adele's," he told MTV.
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards air live from Los Angeles on August 28, at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Tyler, The Creator Learns He's Been Nominated For Video Of The Year for "Yonkers"
British singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead at age 27 according to various media reports.
Winehouse has battled drug and alcohol addiction for years.
Last month she was forced to cancel her European tour after she mumbled and stumbled her way through a concert in Belgrade.
The Metropolitan Police released a statement about her death, but it doesn't mention Winehouse by name.
"Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased.
On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained."
Trae Tha Truth continued his tradition of giving back to the community by holding his 4th Annual Trae Day yesterday [July 22] in Houston.
Trae Day is all about the youth. With free games, rides, giveaways and a concert for their enjoyment.
This year Lil Duval, Bun B, Twista. Tity Boi, Rich Boy, Lola Monroe, DJ Don Cannon, Trouble Trouble, Lil Bankhead and YC all lent their talents to the event.
Check out performances from the event below and pick up Trae's new album "Street King" which is in stores now.
Lupe Fiasco
Bun B and Pimp C's mom
Tity Boi aka 2 Chainz poses with Trae and Pimp C's mom
Jay Rock is feeling good about his position in the game right now. His debut album 'Follow Me Home' drops next Tuesday (July 26), and he's been touring nonstop since leaving Warner Bros for Tech N9ne's Strange Music label.
The Breakfast Club caught up with the West Coast rapper the day after his album listening session in New York. They chopped it up about everything from his album features to staying hungry in the game.
Injured woman being helped to safety after Oslo bombing
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Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- New details emerged Saturday surrounding the mass shooting and bomb attack in Norway that left 91 people dead, as a fuller picture of the suspect charged in the attacks came to light.
An employee at a Norwegian agricultural cooperative told CNN that the man identified in media reports as the suspect in Friday's attacks bought six tons of fertilizer from her company in May.
Oddmy Estenstad, of Felleskjopet Agr, said she did not think the order was strange at the time because the suspect has a farm, but after the bombing she called police because she knew the material can be used to make bombs.
"We are very shocked that this man was connected to our company," said Estenstad. "We are very sad about what happened."
Norwegian television and newspaper reports have identified the suspect as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik.
Anders Behring Breivik
Official sources and social media indicate that Breivik might be a right-wing Christian fundamentalist who may have had an issue with Norway's multi-cultural society.
Police have not officially released the identity of the suspect, telling reporters only that they detained a 32-year-old Norwegian man who is being questioned in both the Oslo bombing -- which left seven dead and more than 90 wounded -- and the shooting attack at the youth camp on Utoya island, in which 84 people were killed.
Emergency workers carry away dead bodies from shooting massacre on Utoya Island
The suspect was cooperating with police, making it clear he wanted to explain himself, Roger Andresen, a deputy police chief, told reporters during a news conference.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg did not rule out the possibility that there was more than one person involved in the attacks, which he called the "worst atrocity" the country had faced since World War II.
"They have so far arrested one person," Stoltenberg told reporters Saturday. "They have not concluded whether there is one or more than one person behind the attacks."
Indeed, a second person was arrested Saturday in a hotel where the prime minister was due to meet families of the victims of the attack, police said. He was carrying a knife, state-run broadcaster NRK reported.
Seven were killed in Friday's explosion in the Norwegian capital, officials said. In all, 90 people were hospitalized as a result of the blast, said Erik Hansen, a spokesman for Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang.
Woman injured in Oslo bombimg
It was while authorities were searching for survivors of the mid-afternoon bombing that a man wearing a police uniform and identifying himself as an officer arrived by boat at Utoya island, about 20 miles from Oslo, where word was spreading among the campers about the explosion in the capital, said Adrian Pracon, a survivor of the mass shooting.
The hundreds of teens and young adults attending the camp were gathered in a large meeting room where camp organizers were sharing information about the bombing in Oslo when the police officer asked if he could address the group, Pracon said.
"We, of course, allowed him to come" in and talk to those assembled, Pracon said.
It was then that the man started shooting.
What followed, Pracon says, was panic and chaos as some campers ran from the shooter, while others went toward the man because they believed it was a drill or a test.
Many who fled ran toward the shore, jumping into the water to try to swim the three-fourths of a mile between the island and the mainland.
Pracon was among those who attempted to swim, but he was forced to turn back.
"I felt I couldn't breathe. I already swallowed too much water. I also jumped because I was the last person running to the shore from this man. So I didn't have time to take my clothes off. As I was swimming, I felt the clothes pulling me down because they were heavy boots, clothes," he said.
Pracon said the shooter chased people to the shore, screaming at them as he fired at them.
Pracon was lying on the shore when the gunman opened fire at those in the water and on the shore.
"I was maybe 5, maybe 7 meters away from him as he was yelling he was 'going to kill you all' and 'we all shall die.' He pointed his gun at me, but he didn't pull the trigger," Pracon said.
"He left and returned maybe an hour later ... he shot almost everyone."
Authorities on Saturday said 84 had died on the island.
An aerial view of Utoya Island where the second attack took place
"Me and two others were laying down and survived because of the bodies we could hang on to and pretend that we are dead," Pracon told CNN early Saturday by telephone from his hospital room.
"I could feel his breath," said 21-year-old Pracon. "I could hear his boots."
When police arrived on the island, many survivors believed they might also be gunmen posing as police.
"Everyone started screaming, crying and begging police officers to throw away their weapons," Pracon said.
An elite police unit took the gunman into custody on the island, Andresen said. The man did not put up a fight during his arrest, he said.
Authorities were searching the waters Saturday around the island, looking for bodies of campers who may have drowned trying to swim to safety, police said.
Massacre: People are seen on the banks of Utoya after the shooting
The suspect matched the description of a person who was seen near the government buildings shortly before the bombs erupted, police said.
The acting national police chief, Sveinung Sponheim, told reporters in Oslo that the gun used to shoot the campers was an automatic weapon and that undetonated explosives were found on the island after the attack.
Lil Boosie's legal troubles just took a significant turn for the worse.
The Louisiana native, real name Torrence Hatch, was accused in a videotaped confession of hiring two men to kill rapper Chris "Nussie" Jackson for $15,000.
18-year old Michael "Marlo Mike" Louding told police that he and Michael “Ghost’’ Judson were hired by Boosie to carry out the hit on February 9, 2010 according to The Advocate.
Judson, who is now deceased allegedly told Louding that Boosie wanted Nussie "stamped out" because he had been disrespectful to an associate. Both men were present when Nussie was killed, but Louding was the one who fired the shots.
Boosie is said to have paid Judson the $15,000. Judson then gave $2000 to Louding.
Boosie is not charged in Jackson’s death because Louding had no direct contact with Hatch prior to the Jackson killing said District Attorney Hillar Moore III.
But after Nussie was killed prosecutors say Louding and Boosie became acquaintances. He references Louding in the song "Lime Life."
"Ain't no love in my body, Marlo Mike up in da backseat begging for a body," Boosie rapped.
Michael "Marlo Mike" Louding
Prosecutors say Boosie later hired Louding to carry out the October 21, 2009 killing of Terry Boyd. He has been charged with first degree murder for that crime.
In total Louding is charged with murdering six people starting when he was just 16-years old. He can't be executed for killing Nussie or Boyd because of his age at the time, but prosecutors have not ruled yet on whether or not they will seek the death penalty for the 28-year old Boosie in the Boyd case.
Boosie was originally sent to prison in June 2009 for violating his probation on a previous gun and drug case. Since then he has been indicted for trying to smuggle codeine syrup into the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. He's also been charged with one count of criminal conspiracy to take contraband to and from a penal institution, and another of inciting a felony.
Add all that on top of the murder charge and things aren't looking good for Boosie right now.
In response to all of the people criticizing her for her liberal use of the n-word, V-Nasty has released a video thumbing her nose at anybody that doesn't like it.
With fellow white rapper, Riff Raff of SODMG standing by her side, V-Nasty was unapologetic and took issue with her haters.
"On some real n*gga sh*t... how I really feel about these motherf*ckers talking about 'why is V-Nasty using the n-word?' Yall motherf*ckers aint ever walked in my shoes," she said. "Yall aint ever seen where I came from. Go to Oakland and see how sh*t be. Hella fake motherf*ckers always asking Kreayshawn 'why do you guys say n*gga?' Is it a f*cking race? Am I offending people? Am I saying it in a disrespectful type of way? Yall mad at that, you need to be mad at this album I'm about to drop on yall's ass then f*cking haters. Don't be trying to change my vocabulary because I'm on and I got out the hood."
V-Nasty even compared her situation to that of President Obama when talking about the perception that she is trying to act black.
"Motherf*ckers talking about 'she trying to act black.' How can you act a race? Is Obama trying to act white?" she asked.
Obviously Obama doesn't have to try to "act white" because he is half caucasian. V-Nasty is half white and chinese.
It's unclear how the hip hop community will react to V-Nasty's album. Reaction to "Gucci Gucci" rapper and White Girls Mob leader Kreayshawn has been mixed.
How do you feel about V-Nasty's defiant stance on her use of the n-word? Would you still support her music?
The war of words between Chris Brown, 50 Cent and radio host Laura Ingraham has caught the attention of America's number one hip hop critic, Bill O'Reilly.
Ingraham, who has been criticizing Chris Brown and The Today Show for allowing him to perform recently, was a guest on The O'Reilly Factor today. Much of her segment turned into a Chris Brown and 50 Cent bashing session.
You may remember 50 coming to Chris' defense several days ago after he saw Ingraham criticizing him on Fox.
"I just saw a clip on FOX news Hating on NBC for having chris brown on unbelievable. I'm never watching that again. He paid for his mistake assholes," 50 wrote on Twitter at the time.
Ingraham responded today by saying 50 Cent's lyrics are degrading to women.
"[Chris Brown] has a posse and lots of friends in the hip hop community," Ingraham said. "So 50 Cent came out and Fiddy - I just call him quarter. And he slams me, and that’s fine… it’s the same degrading lyrics and degrading words.”
That prompted O'Reilly to invite 50 to his show for a debate on the issue.
"Well I'd like to see them come on the program, Brown and Mr Fiddy or whoever he is, they're welcome anytime to come on," O'Reilly said.
Would you like to see 50 take O'Reilly up on his offer?
Young Chris has been really on his grind recently since signing with Division 1. Here he taps two of his Philadelphia homies, Meek Mill and Freeway to help him spit on this Cardiak produced track.
Chris and Cardiak are working on a mixtape titled 'The Revival' that will be dropping in August.
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