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Nate Dogg's two sons, 18-year old Lil Nate and 15 year old Naijiel want to continue their father's legacy by pursuing music as their career.
"We wanna try to be just like him," Naijiel said before adding they would like to work with Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik and other veteran West Coast rappers.
Hopefully they can get the right guidance and make their dad proud.
Nicki Minaj appears headed for the biggest concert gigs of her young career.
Billboard is reporting that there is a very good chance the Young Money starlet could be the opening act for Britney Spears' latest tour.
This all came about because previous opening act Enrique Iglesias pulled out abruptly.
The 26-city trek would keep the two of them road for a month a half.
It's possible Nicki's interest is piqued because she got a similar offer last year from Lady Gaga and turned it down. For an artist like Nicki, who is obviously going for a pop audience, being associated with and performing in front of fans of Spears is a good look.
The timing would work out perfectly for Nicki who would be coming off the end Lil Wayne's 'I Am Still Music II' tour in early May.
Peep Britney's confirmed tour dates below. Now we await Nicki's thumbs up and off we go.
June 17: Sacramento, Ca. (Power Balance Pavilion)
June 18: San Jose, Ca. (HP Pavilion)
June 20: Los Angeles, Ca. (Staples Center)
June 24: Anaheim, Ca. (Honda Center)
June 25: Las Vegas, Nev. (MGM Grand)
June 28: Portland, Oreg. (Rose Garden Arena)
June 29: Tacoma, Wash. (Tacoma Dome)
July 1: Vancouver, B.C. (Rogers Arena)
July 4: Winnipeg, M.B. (MTS Centre)
July 6: St. Paul, Minn. (Xcel Center)
July 8: Chicago, Ill. (United Center)
July 12: Dallas, Tex. (American Airlines Center)
July 13: Houston, Tex. (Toyota Center)
July 15: New Orleans, La. (New Orleans Arena)
July 17: Atlanta, Ga. (Philips Arena)
July 20: Orlando, Fla. (Amway Center)
July 22: Miami, Fla. (American Airlines Arena)
July 26: Cleveland, Ohio (Quicken Loans Arena)
July 28: Detroit, Mich. (Palace of Auburn Hills)
July 30: Philadelphia, Pa. (Wells Fargo Center)
July 31: Washington, D.C. (Verizon Center)
Aug. 2: Uniondale, N.J. (Nassau Coliseum)
Aug. 5: East Rutherford, N.J. (Izod Center)
Aug. 8: Boston, Mass. (TD Garden)
Aug. 11: Montreal, Quebec (Bell Centre)
Aug. 13: Toronto, Ont. (Air Canada Centre)
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The 46th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards were held last night (April 3)
The CMA's added some diversity by having Rihanna perorm. The singer debuted her new single "California King Bed" with an assist from Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles.
The song appears on Rihanna's new cd 'Loud.'
Lil Wayne won't be a superstar forever. it might be time to hire someone to handle his financial records because the IRS is breathing down his neck again.
Weezy just paid off a $1.13 million dollar IRS debt in February. Now they are right back on his heels, this time for $5,610,034 according to the Detroit Press.
The government alleges Wayne didn't pay taxes in 2008-2009.
The star recently said he wanted to make $50 million this year. It's gonna take that kind of dough to pay off this kind of bill.
Looks like Yeezy has found a new pupil to teach.
While Amber Rose goes bopping her way into possible marriage to Wiz Khalifa, Kanye West has reportedly been putting in some quality time with Kate Upton.
According to the New York Post the 33-year old Louis Vuitton Don was spotted leaving hand in hand from Victoria's Secret VIP Swim event at Los Angeles' Club L last Wednesday (March 30) with Upton.
Upton is a 5'10 blonde, blue eyed, 18-year old swimsuit model for Sports illustrated.
Did Yeezy upgrade from Amber Rose?
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Slim Thug hops on Lil Wayne's "6'7" instrumental and gives it a Houston Boss Hogg Outlaw twist.
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The fun part of watching Charlie Sheen meltdown over the last several weeks has been because deep inside you thought to yourself this was all a joke. The act may have lost him his job ob CBS' Two and a Half Men, but he's gained millions of new fans.
Charlie hit the road on his "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option," tour last night (April 2) to further to milk this thing for all it's worth.
His first stop was the Motown City of Detroit
Turns out the fans weren't amused by what they saw and neither were critics in attendance.
David Rooney of the Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Call it 'tiger blood' or 'Adonis DNA' if you will. Just don't call it entertainment. Charlie Sheen pulled a stunt that even by his standards was a little extreme. He alternately pandered to and antagonized an estimated audience of 5,000 people at the Fox Theatre in a blatantly cynical attempt to cash in on his craziness."
Uh oh, looks like that winning streek might have stopped at least temporarily. The actor, turned crazy man still has a chance to redeem himself. There's still 19 cities left on the tour.
One thing is for certain the crowd in Detroit wasn't down with what Sheen was offering because they booed him heartily.
And when things got tough, Sheen got going. Saying he was taking a music break, Sheen left and never came back.
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If you have been sleeping on Bobby Creekwater, his latest single is bound to be a wake up call.
The former Shady Records artist has kept is moving musically since departing the house that Marshall built.
His new album 'Revenge' is due out May 3, 2011 via BGOV/3PM ENT.
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Chicago's Lupe Fiasco took it back in the day with MTV on 'When I Was 17.'
Lupe reminisced on his 1st job, his start in rap, building his 1t studio and creating his stage name.
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10-year old Willow Smith flew through the air, sang and danced her way through performances of "21st Century Girl" and "Whip My Hair" at the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards.
Willow's brother, Jaden also went home happy after nabbing the Favorite Movie award for 'Karake Kid.'
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G-Unit's unofficial European Ambassador, DJ Whoo Kid popped in on the Hip Hop Chronicles UK show recently.
As usual Whoo Kid had lots of jokes, but he did reveal that he and Dr Dre are working on what would be be Dre's first ever official mixtape.
"Hopefully everything goes down and I'll be hanging with Dr Dre for some mixtapes," Whoo Kid said. "Dr Dre wants to get into mixtapes finally."
Whoo Kid reminisced on the early G-Unit days when 50, Banks and Yayo were on some literal killed or be killed type mentality and drove around in a van fully strapped up.
The Unit has come a long way and is still climbing.
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A school is Lancaster, Pa is using a new mentoring program designed to boost academics for African Americans,
McCaskey East High School separate black students from white students, then separates black females from males. This takes place six minutes each day and 20 minutes twice a month.
The goal is to boost kid's self esteem and help them to improve academically. The school has found that the black kids lag behind their white peers in certain academic areas.
Principal Bill Jiminez admits only blacks get this special treatment, but insists it needed to be done.
Others worry the program could have the opposite affect intended.
"Sometimes when we separate students this way we inadvertently reinforce the stereotypes, and may in fact stigmatize these children by suggesting that there is something wrong with them," says Pedro Noguera a Sociologist and Professor of Education at NYU.
I hope this works, but I have to agree with Mr Noguera on this one. There's no reason to separate the kids, even if it is for small perooids of time.
Sara Stokes and husband Tony Stokes were recently involved in another domestic dispute.
According to TMZ, Tony choked and punched Sara while they were at a friend's house in Georgia last weekend
"Everybody speculates and blows things out of proportion. It's a crazy kind of life. We're dysfunctional. We need our own TV show. I love my wife." Tony told TMZ
The couple have a funny way of expressing their love. In 2009 Sara was accused of stabbing Tony.
Sara became semi-well known when she was a cast member on Diddy's Making The Band 2.
Tony was charged with simple battery in this latest incident.
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Flavor Flav's restaurant grand opening in Clinton, Iowa of his new restaraunt, Flavor Flav's Chicken didn't go as planned.
Instead of celebrating the beginning of what he hopes will be a nation wide chain, Flav and Co-owner Nick Cimino had to answer questions about checks bouncing all over town.
Several employees came forward with their stories of not being able to cash their checks. One said she even went to Freedom Bank, the institution check was written from and was told no funds existed.
Flav had a chance to tell his side of the story. He says the restaurant has no money issues.
"It's not true first of all. 2nd of all maybe these are people that are just jealous of me and probably wanna see me out," Flav said. "But yes, we do have money in our account."
Hopefully this is just a small glitch for Flav.
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Well damn, Nicki Minaj fires back!
I honestly didn't think Nicki would respond to Lil Kim's taunts, but she's surprised me.
"Tragedy" gets at the Queen Bee, saying she is is old news. Not sure if this is a snippet or the entire song because it only contains one verse.
"Pink Friday, Eminem, 8 Mile/It must hurt to sell your album on PayPal/Especially when you're in the game fifteen-twenty/You was hot when Shaq teamed up with Penny," Nicki raps.
I respect Nicki for accepting the challenge. This kind of competition is what the game is made for.
We know Lil Kim is built for war, now we get to find out if Nicki is as well.
UK fans hoping to catch a Lil Wayne concert will have to wait a little longer.
The rapper has been banned from entering Europe due to his recent weapons conviction.
The cancelled dates means fans at a couple of festivals and several concerts will have to wait until next time around.
It isn't unusual for UK authorities to keep big name stars out of the country for legal issues elsewhere. Snoop Dogg has been banned from several different UK events in the past 4 years.
Wayne is currently on the North American leg of his 'I Am Still Music II' tour
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Chris Rock was in rare form on Late Show With David Letterman yesterday [March 31].
Rock clowns the hell out of his favorite baseball team, the New York Mets for being a broken down organization.
He also goes in on people who are contestants on shows like Celebrity Apprentice, saying his career is fine as long as he isn't on one of them.
Really funny interview, peep it below.
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