Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 28, 2010 at 11:00am
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Dramatic CCTV footage captured a man narrowly avoiding certain death, when he manages to outrun a truck that was about to hit him.
Police in the Turkish city of Adiyaman just released of the incident that happened in early December.
53-year old Bekir Ozcan was casually crossing the street at a redlight. Before he could get to the other side the light turned green. The truck Ozcan was walking past didn’t see him and starts moving forward, leaving Ozcan no other choice but to try and outrun it.
Pedestrians managed to get the truck drivers attention, who slowed down just as Ozcan managed to throw himself on the road according to Yahoo UK.
Lucky to be alive, Ozcan’s got one hell of a story to tell to his grandkids.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 28, 2010 at 10:24am
Rapper Earl Simmons, better known as DMX, is housed in a mental-health unit at an Arizona State Prison Complex facility called Alhambra near 25th street and Van Buren.
DMX was sentenced to a year in jail (minus 113 days served) on December 16, after he pleaded guilty to violating the terms of his probation. At his sentencing, Judge Christine Mulleneaux told him she believes he has "an undiagnosed mental condition," possibly bi-polar disorder.
DMX's manager, Nakia Walker, wouldn't comment specifically on whether DMX might have a mental disorder, but she says she wasn't surprised when he was moved to a mental-health unit. The rapper himself always has refused to comment on speculation about his mental state. In 2001, he threatened to beat up writer William Shaw for asking about it in a Blender magazine interview. "Waaaay too personal," DMX said.
The embattled hip-hop star is incarcerated for the 13th time. His record includes more than 25 arrests across the nation, 11 felony convictions, and 15 misdemeanor convictions.
Arizona Department of Corrections files confirm that DMX was admitted to the Flamenco Mental Health Unit at Alhambra on December 20. According to Walker, he will not be allowed to have visitors for 30 days.
Despite not winning a golf tournament and being involved in a messy divorce, Tiger Woods still managed to rake in a hefty $105 million in 2010. Good enough to land him at # 5 on Forbes’ List of Hollywood’s 20 Highest Earning for the year.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey ($315 million), along with film makers James Cameron ($210 million), Tyler Perry ($125 million) and Michael Bay ($120 million), round out the rest of the top 5.
Beyonce is the highest earning singer on the list. Jay-Z’s better half brought in a whopping $87 million landing her at # 9. Not far behind is Britney Spears, who pocketed $64 million, completing a remarkable comeback following her meltdown of several years ago.
Lady Gaga ($62 million) and Taylor Swift ($45 million) also raked in big money in 2010.
Interestingly, not one male singer or rapper made the this year‘s list.
Check out the full list below.
Oprah Winfrey: Estimated earnings: $315 million James Cameron: Estimated earnings: $210 million Tyler Perry: Estimated earnings: $125 million Michael Bay: Estimated earnings: $120 million Tiger Woods: Estimated earnings: $105 million Jerry Bruckheimer: Estimated earnings: $100 million Steven Spielberg: Estimated earings: $100 million George Lucas: Estimated earnings: $95 million Beyonce Knowles: Estimated earnings: $87 million Dr. Phil: Estimated earnings: $80 million Jerry Seinfeld: Estimated earnings: $75 million Britney Spears: Estimated earnings: $64 million Lady Gaga: Estimated earnings: $62 million Madonna: Estimated earnings: $58 million Sandra Bullock: Estimated earnings: $56 million Ellen DeGeneres: Estimated earnings: $55 million Miley Cyrus: Estimated earnings: $48 million Taylor Swift: Estimated earnings: $45 million Judge Judy Sheindlin: Estimate earnings: $45 million
When beautiful actress AnnaLynne McCord appeared on Chelsea Lately in September, she referred to herself, Val Kilmer and 50 Cent as, “the terrible three” because the trio had just finished shooting back to back films together.
The first of those two films ‘Gun’, which was written by 50 Cent is available on DVD January 4th.
The second film, ‘Blood Out’ will be hitting theaters in April 2011 according to ComingSoon.net.
‘Blood Out’ is an action flick about a sheriff, played by Luke Goss, who puts down his badge to hunt for his brother’s killer, vowing to get revenge by any means necessary.
The Grindstone/Lionsgate distributed film was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Check out the trailer for ‘Blood Out’ below and don’t forget to reserve your copy of ‘Gun’ now on Amazon, Best Buy, WalMart and all other online retailers.
A snippet of this track has been out for a while now. Finally the full version drops for your listening pleasure.
As soon the hook starts you know can hear this is pure fire. When 50 Cent's flow kicks in this ish becomes an instant classic.
If you have been tuned into Fif's Twitterpage, you know he has been hard at work on his next album. Tracks like this plus the remixes he's been killing lately are going to push the anticipation for that new cd through the roof.
G-Dep should have listened to his mother and girlfriend. According to him both of them told him not to go to the police and confess to a shooting that killed John Henkel 17 years ago.
Now that Dep is sitting in a New York City jail cell, probably facing a very long stretch in prison, you would think the victim’s family would be thankful for the confession. But that’s not the case, at least not for one relative.
Robert Henkel, the brother in law of the victim thinks Dep should have kept his mouth shut.
“I think he’s an idiot,” The 56-year old Henkel told the New York Post. “He has three kids and a wife. It was years and years and years ago. Finally, we’re not always thinking about it, and now it has to be dug up all again.”
Dep, real name Trevell Coleman maintains that he didn’t know the man he shot three times in the chest during a robbery had died.
Murder Victim. John Henkel
Dep and his lawyer seem to disagree on why he confessed. The rapper says he wanted to, “get right with God.” His lawyer Michael Alperstein on the other hand said the confession is part of a 12 step anti-drug addiction program.
The former Bad Boy artist is said to be battling heroin and pcp addictions.
Whatever the case, it’s possible some things should remain unsaid, at least Henkel thinks so.
“His mother told him, ‘Don’t turn yourself in,’” Henkel said. “She was right… after all this time, yes he just should have shut up.”
What’s your opinion on this situation? If a family member of yours was murdered would you want to know who killed them and have them brought to justice no matter how long it took? Or after a number of years would you want to just forget about the whole thing like Robert Henkel?
(CNN) -- Teena Marie, a celebrated R&B singer-songwriter, was found dead Sunday at her California home, her manager said.
Born Mary Christine Brockert in Santa Monica, California, the 54-year-old artist famously paired with late funk legend Rick James and was nominated four times for a Grammy Award, according to her official website.
Marie was found dead by her daughter after apparently dying in her sleep, manager Mike Gardner said.
"Teena was a black voice trapped in a white body," said Cathy Hughes, founder of Radio One, a broadcasting company that targets African-American and urban listeners. "I would always tell her that she was one of the greatest vocalists of our time."
Among her songs were "Lovergirl," "Portuguese Love," "Ooo La La La," and "I'm a Sucker for Your Love."
While no cause of death has been released, the singer's publicist Lynn Jeter said that Marie suffered a grand mal seizure -- a neurological event, marked by loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions, according to the Mayo Clinic -- a month ago.
"Luckily, someone was there," Jeter said of that seizure. "The ambulance took her to the hospital, and on the way she had another seizure."
The publicist said that she had a "great" conversation on Saturday with Marie, who told her that she was excited about heading to Atlanta to perform this week -- in what would have been her first performance since the seizure.
Marie sang under various record labels, including Motown, Epic, Stax Records and Cash Money Classics, since bursting on the scene as a 19-year-old, according to her website. Her last studio album, Congo Square, featured several collaborations.
"The enduring influence of Teena's inspirational, trailblazing career, could only have been made possible through her brilliant song-writing, showmanship and high energy passion which laid the ground work for the future generations of R&B, hip-hop, and soul," said Gene Rumsey, chief label officer with Concord Music Group.
"We feel extremely fortunate to have worked with a visionary who changed music in indelible ways."
Eddie Levert, founder of the vocal group The O'Jays, praised Marie as both a singer and mother.
"There are a lot of black people who swore by her and believed in her, as far as her music was concerned," he said. "She was a good mom, and to me, that is saying a lot.''
New York city showed Lil Mama no love when she tried to perform last week.
The Brooklyn rapper was one of the artists at Chris Brown’s “All Black Christmas Extravaganza” at Webster Hall on December 23.
Everything seemingly was going ok, until Mama decided to spit a freestyle about, “Jack and The Beanstalk”
She had already spit the exact same lyrics over Fabolous' "You Be Killin Em" beat, but for whatever reason she decided to do them over acapella
“You been the rat before the hole in the cheese. I been Jack before the stalk and the beans. If I chose the fast life, I chose the hawk with a beam. None of these rap b*tches is talking to me. Talking to me? They not talking to me. Let a b*tch play dumb like she off in the scene,” she rapped.
By this time the restless crowd was starting to boo loudly. Lil Mama’s hype man tried to quiet them so she could finish, but they weren't trying to hear it.
So instead of attempting to finish her set, Lil Mama told the crowd that she loved them and that after her mother died nothing could faze her. She thanked her haters for making her what she is today, then exited the stage.
01. U Know What It Is 02. Stay (OG Mix) 03. Devil In A New Dress
04. Boy Shorts
05. Touch It No Rap
06. Trust No More
07. Round And Round
08. All Over Again
09. Jet Setting
10. Booty Call
11. Back It Up
12. Deuces
01 Phoner to Arizona 02 Revolving Doors
03 Hillbilly Man
04 Detroit
05 Shy-Town
06 Little Pink Plastic Bags
07 The Joplin Spider
08 The Parish of Space Dust
09 The Snake in Dallas
10 Amarillo
11 The Speak It Mountains
12 Aspen Forest
13 Bobby in Phoenix
14 California and the Slipping of the Sun
15 Seattle Yodel
Rapper Talib Kweli might decide to ride solo for New Year’s Eve following this morning’s post-Christmas nightmare.
The Brooklyn MC was in the midst of record release party for his upcoming album ‘Gutter Rainbows’, when he and his wife DJ Eque got into a jealousy fueled altercation, according to the New York Post.
According to the report, Eque “flew into a rage” and jumped her husband after witnessing him flirting with another woman. The pair started wrestling before falling onto a table, breaking glasses in the process.
Security at bar Snap in New York City, where the party was being held then asked them to leave. They were reportedly still arguing when they got into their car outside.
The couple were married in 2009. Talib had earlier that night joked that he was happy that the listening party’s sponsor Hennessy had paid for the wedding, otherwise he might not have gotten married.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 26, 2010 at 10:30am
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The head of Haiti's voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country's deadly cholera epidemic.
Since the epidemic started in mid-October, at least 45 male and female voodoo priests, known respectively as "houngan" and "manbo," have been killed. Many of the victims were hacked to death and mutilated by machetes, Max Beauvoir, the "Ati" or supreme leader of Haitian voodoo, told Reuters.
"They are being blamed for using voodoo to contaminate people with cholera," Beauvoir said.
He said the killers accused voodoo priests of spreading cholera by scattering powder or casting "spells" and complained that local police and government officials were not doing enough to halt the lynchings and punish the killers. Voodoo is recognized and protected by the constitution as one of Haiti's main religions.
"My call is to the authorities so they can assume their responsibilities," said Beauvoir, who fears more attacks against voodoo devotees. Most of the lynchings occurred in the southwest of Haiti but also in the center and the north.
Cholera victims rest at the hospital of MSF (Medicin Sans Frontieres) on December 22, 2010 in Sarthe, a suburb in the north of Port-Au-Prince.
Since emerging in central regions in October, the cholera epidemic has ripped through Haiti's poor population, still traumatized from a January earthquake. It has killed well over 2,500 people and affected all of the nation's 10 provinces.
Cholera is mainly spread by contaminated water and food.
As the epidemic death toll has risen, so too has popular fear and anger. Some Haitians have blamed Nepalese United Nations peacekeepers for bringing cholera to a Caribbean nation where the disease had been absent for decades.
The U.N. mission in Haiti maintains there is no conclusive evidence to back this accusation, despite a report by an expert contracted by the French government that linked the infection to latrines at the Nepalese camp located beside a river.
In November, there were anti-U.N. riots over the cholera, which continued to claim victims as the Western Hemisphere's poorest state held elections marred by confusion and fraud charges. Final vote results have still not been announced.
Beauvoir said he had discussed the anti-voodoo attacks with Haiti's Communications and Culture Ministry, which confirmed the killings this week. Minister Marie-Laurence Lassegue made a public appeal for the lynchings to end.
FEAR AND IGNORANCE
More than half of Haiti's nearly 10 million people are believed to practice voodoo, a religion brought from West Africa several centuries ago by slaves forced to work on the plantations of white masters in what was then the rich French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue.
Cholera, which causes virulent debilitating diarrhea, can kill in hours if left untreated. But it also can be easily cured through fast rehydration of the patient. Aid experts say the ignorance of many Haitians about the disease is one of the causes of the fears and suspicions surrounding the epidemic.
In at least one case in central Haiti, an angry mob worried about possible contagion destroyed a cholera treatment center being set up by foreign medical workers.
For this reason, public education about the disease and how it is spread and can be treated is essential, aid groups say.
"It is hardly surprising that people would be anxious about cholera when it appears in their communities for the first time," said Delphine Chedorge, head of mission in Haiti for Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres, one of the foreign medical groups most active in fighting the epidemic.
"We also need to make people understand that opening new (cholera treatment centers) in or near their towns and villages can help stop the spread of the disease, protecting their communities, rather than endangering them," she said in an MSF statement.
Beauvoir said he suspected that representatives of some other religions might be stirring up popular fears against voodoo practitioners using the cholera as a pretext.
"I saw this coming. Since the earthquake some people have been blaming us, saying that we cast spells and did evil things which brought the earthquake as a punishment," he said.
After the January 12 earthquake, which wrecked much of the capital Port-au-Prince and killed more than 250,000 people, voodoo leaders had to defend themselves publicly against accusations by some Evangelical preachers that the voodoo religion somehow caused the natural disaster.
While over in the UK recently Lloyd Banks sat down with Tim Westwood for an extended Crib Sessions interview.
The PLK speaks on why recording in his home studio puts him in a good space financially and creatively, how the success of “Beamer, Benz or Bentley” provided the inspiration to make his new album ‘The Hunger For More 2’ a sequel to his debut. Banks also talks about being ready to have kids soon and why he doesn’t want to rap past he age of 40.
Of course, a sitdown with Tim wouldn’t have been complete without a freestyle from Blue Hefner.
Check him out as he goes in over Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones Pt 2” x “Survival Of The Fittest” beats.
‘The Hunger For More 2’ is available now worldwide.
01. Nipsey Hussle - The Love? 02. Nipsey Hussle - Keys 2 The City
03. Nipsey Hussle - Mr. Untouchable feat. Kokane
04. Nipsey Hussle - Blue Laces feat 1500
05. Nipsey Hussle - A Million
06. Nipsey Hussle - Top Down
07. Nipsey Hussle - Young Rich and Famous
08. Nipsey Hussle - U Dont Got A Clue
09. Nipsey Hussle - 7 Days A Week
10. Nipsey Hussle - Late Nights and Early Mornings
11. Nipsey Hussle - I Be Killen Um
12. Nipsey Hussle - Call From The Bank feat MGMT
13. Nipsey Hussle - Grindmode
14. Nipsey Hussle - Dreamin
15. Nipsey Hussle - The Crown
16. Nipsey Hussle - Mac 11 On The Dresser
17. Nipsey Hussle - One Take 3
18. Nipsey Hussle - I Dont Give A Fucc
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 24, 2010 at 12:30pm
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You would have thought they were giving away free money judging by the long lines outside of Houston stores Thursday (December 23).
Instead people had camped out overnight to try and cop a pair of the new Air Jordan “Cool Greys.”
Police had to be called out to several locations as crowds started to get unruly. Scuffles broke out and arguments ensued as stores quickly sold out.
One man was so desperate for a pair he hid in a trash can inside a Houston mall, hoping to be the first in line.
“I was in a trash can for about an hour in the mall, trying to be the first one,” said Jumarcus Bingham. “This is the first time they’re coming back out in ten years.”
By the time Bingham got inside the store they had already sold out of his size.
Not to be deterred, Bingham made a mad dash over to another mall and finally scored a pair. But only after paying a stranger $400 for shoes that retail for $180.
It was a nice come up for the stranger, but Jumarcus was happy and didn’t care if people thought he was crazy.
“They probably do [think I’m crazy], I mean I had to get em, I support Jordans,” he said.
The Air Jordan 11 Retro Cool Grey edition shoes had not been available since 2001.
How far would you have been willing to go to grab a pair?
Dude Hides In Trash Can To Cop Pair Of New Air Jordans
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 24, 2010 at 10:17am
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Eve Lora was born in the Bronx then raised by her grandparents in Dominican Republic, later, returned to New York City with her mother for the rest of her childhood. She graduated from Mildred Elley a business school in Latham NY, with an Associates Degree in Office Technologies
As a teen she Participated in talent shows n spring concerts, did local commercials and appeared in the 2004-2005 Glenmont Job Corps Center brochure.
In 2007 she started vending Sub 0 Dvd's at his celebrity events, which is where G-Unit Casting Director Kevin Weekes met her.
She was featured on 50s Most Wanted section on Thisis50.com Numerous of times before her Role as Mrs. Ortiz in 50 Cents Directorial Debut Film "Before I Self Destruct"
Continuesly working she's appeared in uncountable music videos from up coming and relevant artist such as Lo Smooth, Cortez, known artist like Sheek Louch, Jeremih, Fat Joe, Kay Slay and many more. In the midst, she's worked with YNVS a Marketing and Promotions Company own by Shampoo for the Hot97 Summer Jam/Def Jam 2009 and 2010 Promo , along with getting booked for Snoop Doggs Malice & Wonderland promo. Also, with other companies she has obtained bookings not limited to but equaling to Ludacris "Conjure" Cognac NYC launch promo event.
In early 2010, after the devestatin earthquake in haiti, she was asked to do a Voice Over for Wyclef Jean life story including the tremendous efforts his company yele haiti has done to help, in a video that would be played in the Dominican Republic while he accepted a Cassandra award for his humanitarian work.
On the rise, she teamed up with POSSETV a cable network television show produced by Charlie "Tymecheck", where she diligently interviewed Elite celebrities like Russell Simmons, Kerri Hilson, Lloyd banks Serani n others amongst covering major events such as Robert Greene n 50 Cents "The 50th Law" Book signing and more. Eve Lora is the Spokes Person for her not for profit organization
E Lora's Benevolence Association Inc (ELBAI) , which focuses on the awareness of Domestic Violence and Instilling A Positive Frame Of Mind towards the future. She also participated in the 2010 BALL WITH VIXENS basketball game created by Josie Marie and Supported by Jim Jones. Now! Celebrating one of her last project before 2010 is over Eve Lora States "It is Just The Beginning and I have God to thank for this Journey" about her lead background role to Craig Robinson, Kerri Washington n David Allen Grier, in an executive produced by Tyler Perry film, written and directed by Tina Gordon Schism "We The Peeples" scheduled to come out in 2011..
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