Comedian Mike Epps and rap superstar Snoop Dogg came up with the idea of doing a hip hop/comedy variety show. That idea manifested itself in the form of their current 'Imagine That' tour.
As Epps explained to Chelsea Handler:
"It's kind of like you guys are coming to see a movie and while you're watching the movie it becomes just real right in your face."
Snoop joked "it's like 3-D almost where it comes off the screen right into your face, you can even smell it."
Chelsea asked Mike if he was going to be in the sequel for the smash hit comedy 'The Hangover'. Mike said he would love to but he "can't get the director on the phone," lol.
The rest of the interview is really funny so check it out below as well as the promo for Mike and Snoop's tour.
DARIEN, N.Y. (WIVB) - A sticky and painful situation landed a Cheektowaga teen in big trouble. Police say he super glued another person's eye and ear shut.
Super gluing hands and fingers together, as seen in a YouTube video, might be good for a laugh. But a practical joke played on a 17-year-old, authorities in Genesee County say, didn't go over so well.
Genesee County Sheriff Gary Maha said, "He emptied the entire tube of super glue on the guy's cheek and some of it rolled down into his eye and into his ear. Of course, causing damage, and then when he woke up, the guy couldn't open his eye, he couldn't hear."
19-year-old Michael Johnson of Cheektowaga finds himself in a sticky legal situation. He's charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly super gluing his friend's right eye and ear shut while camping at Darien in Genesee County.
"He put some super glue on his cheek figuring the guy would touch it, and his hand would be stuck to his face," explained Sheriff Maha.
But instead, the 17-year-old was taken to the hospital for treatment. And according to the sheriff, the teen may require a specialist because the glue ran down into the inner ear.
Dr. Ron Moscati is an emergency physician at the Erie County Medical Center. He says, "Most of the recommendations [for super glue] are to just let it stay for a few days, and it loosens up on its own."
Dr. Moscati says super glue bonds very quickly, as a YouTube video demonstrates. He says as a general rule, the glue can be removed with acetone, unless vital parts, like eyes and ears, are involved.
"You don't want to, in the process of trying to remove the glue, put something worse in there that can cause more damage, which is why if it's in the eye, the recommendation would be to get it treated at the hospital," explained Dr. Moscati.
Michael Johnson was arraigned in Darien Town Court says the misdemeanor assault charge could be elevated to a felony if the medical report indicates there's serious physical injury.
Most people would do whatever it took to help their wife or husband if they were hurt badly. Drive them to the emergency room, bandage a wound, at the very least stay by their side until an ambulance got there.
Gary Coleman's wife, Shannon Price does none of those things after she discovers him bleeding profusely from a head wound suffered in a reported fall.
She does at least call 911.
"There's blood everywhere, I don't know what happened...I just heard this bang and I went down there and there's blood all over the floor," she tells the 911 operator.
Price explains that she can't stay down there with him because the stress may cause her to have a seizure, even though realizes her husband is badly hurt, "send someone quick because I don't know if he's gonna be alive."
She does eventually go downstairs after some prodding from the operator but doesn't stay long.
"I just can't be here with the blood, I can't do it, I have my dog," she says.
The rest of the call plays out this way with Shannon giving various reasons why she can't help more or drive Gary to the hospital.
She's asked by the 911 operator if she can tell Gary to put pressure on the back of his head.
"No I can't, it's all bloody and I'm not trying to do.....he's not with it."
*****UPDATE****
What makes this all more disturbing and possibly sinister is the fact that the two were reportedly legally divorced at the time Shannon made the decision to pull Gary's life support.
Entertainment Tonight is reporting that Gary filed and was granted a divorce from Shannon in 2008. When ET contacted the hospital with this information they were told:
"We had no indication that the information Shannon gave us was false. She portrayed herself as his wife."
Ok, the police need to seriously be looking into this now..
It's Larry King's 25th anniversary week so he's bringing in the heavy hitters. He welcomed Pop superstar Lady Gaga to his show last night (June 1).
Gaga honored Larry by wearing suspenders, a King trademark throughout his career.
The singer named David Bowie and Princess Diana as big influences growing up. When asked when she knew she wanted to be a performer she replied "I'm my mother's warm womb."
Regarding rumors of her health problems she revealed a recent test for lupus showed she was borderline positive for the disease.
She told King scheduled to open for the late Michael Jackson on the 'This Is It' tour.
She also previewed a clip from her new video "Alejandro".
Superstar diva Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon are expecting their first child according to a report on RadarOnline.
The news confirms rumors that have been swirling ever since Mariah dropped out of Tyler Perry's new movie 'Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf' after her dr said she couldn't work.
Carey, 40 and Cannon, 29 were married in 2008 after dating for only several months
“They’re both very excited and very happy,” says an insider.
Jay Electronica got people heated — namely DJ Kay Slay — when he said some Southern MCs, such as Andre 3000 and Bun B, could roast cats from up North during an interview with TheMostInfluential.com last month. Electronica, ever the outspoken warrior, was very candid with the outlet.
A few minutes into the topic, the conversation shifted to Wu-Tang Clan's RZA. We all know Jay has the utmost respect for the clan from Shaolin; he shouts them out on his mixtape banger "The Ghost of Christopher Wallace." But he admitted that he took exception to some comments from the Abbot he read years ago. "He said some real ridiculously stupid, ignorant things about some South people," Jay said.
Jay, who is from New Orleans, said he was offended when RZA was quoted questioning the intelligence of some Southern MCs while talking about the quality of lyricism. "I don't like that," Jay explained. "That would be like me coming to New York or another place and saying you're of a lesser intelligence because you're not knowledgeable about my circumstance or environment.
"I took offense with RZA in that," he added. "Peace unto RZA. That's my brother, and RZA had a great effect on me. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for RZA and the music he made with Wu-Tang Clan. But also RZA, you said some crazy, wild sh--. At that time, we might have had a physical altercation how I really felt about it. ... Going around thinking people are slow. I just wanted to say that. Again, peace to RZA, he's a beautiful black man. He's done a lot for our culture, a lot for humanity in general with his music and his contribution."
Well, the RZA recently sat down and talked with MTV News' Sway and was asked about Jay Electronica's comments. The Wu founder wasn't aware of Jay's comments or his music, for that matter. RZA did have a very clear recollection of some things he said in the past about the South.
"I know I said a few things about the South throughout my career in different periods," RZA told Sway. "I don't know the exact comment, but I remember I did an article in Rap Pages years ago, 'cause me and Master P had a talk about this years ago. I was speaking on the education level in the South, how brothers drop out ... in the sixth grade — some of them because they have to go to work, some of them because of the poverty, some because they're not interested in the education system ... just a lot of crazy things that people from up North had evolved from. When I was doing this article, I was taking about my own family at first. My family comes from the South. They frying fat back in the kitchen, Grandpops didn't have more than a sixth-grade reading level. My grandma was a welfare mom.
"The truth is the truth, first of all. The South has evolved later than us," RZA added. "Based upon where we are around. You can get a book in Harlem off the streets. Books like 'Stolen Legacy' the 'Isis Paper,' you can find this stuff in the streets of Harlem. Just walking around in Manhattan. In the South, they won't find that in the bookstores nor the streets; they have to research it. With Internet knowledge, there's a better chance for education for all. I felt and I seen. I got cousins out there that still live in the South. They have not picked up on the wavelength of where their mind should be. But hip-hop has helped it all evolve. Hip-hop, to me, is a blessing and a mercy for the black community first. Then I'll say for the urban community, then I'll say for American culture."
Also while talking to Sway, RZA noted that hip-hop doesn't belong to just one region. The entire world has embraced it and has partial ownership.
"If anybody got a question of what I say, they can ask me. I fear no man. I fear no MC's talent," he said. "But I definitely know when you young, you feel a certain way. At one point, we as Wu-Tang was like, 'The whole industry is wack besides Wu-Tang.' That was our energy, our spirit. That's how we felt until we learned, 'Wait a minute, hold on. That's why they talking about that.' Hip-hop, to me, is more a unifying force than a separating force."
Lebron James has spoken publicly for the first time about his plans in free agency.
King James told Larry King that the Cleveland Cavaliers "have an edge" when it comes to signing him once free agency starts July 1.
Lebron was signed out of high school by the Cavs and has played his entire seven year career there. He's made the All-Star team six times averaging 27.8 points per game.
While he's led the Cavs to the playoffs five times, including one NBA Finals, the team has yet to win a championship.
At only 25 years old, James is just reaching his peak. And although he told King he is leaning towards staying in Cleveland expect the New York Knicks, Miami Heat, New Jersey Nets and Sacramento Kings to make strong pushes to try and sign him.
Lebron also told Larry he will be having a "power summit" with the other top free agents like Dwayne Wade, Joe Johnson Chris Bosh & Dirk Nowitski to discuss where they all might want to play next season.
"It would be fun to get all the free agents together and figure out a way we can make the league better," James said.
The full Larry King interview with Lebron airs tonight on CNN.
All the votes are in and Dr Dre has prevailed over DJ Premier by a margin of 62% to 38% in the final round ofVibe'scontest to crown the greatest hip hop producer of all time.
The final two beat out top notch producers like Timbaland, Rick Rubin, J.Dilla, Pete Rock, The Neptunes, Kanye West, Swizz Beats, Scott Storch and more.
Fans started voting in April and definitely picked an all time great in Dr Dre for the crown.
Dre was happy to accept the award.
"I just found out that I got voted Vibe's best producer of all time. That shit is incredible," Dre said. "I'm a humble person and I would've never expected that, seriously. I just go in the studio. I try to do my thing to the best of my ability."
This summer, the Wu-Tang Clan return to headline the heralded Rock the Bells Tour. But unlike the Killer Bees' previous stage ventures for the annual outing, the Clan's set will have a twist. The group will perform their classic debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) — in its entirety.
"We never did that before," Raekwon the Chef told Mixtape Daily last week. "We never sung the whole album, the 36 Chambers.
"That's gonna be interesting to see these cats do some of the records that really bust hip-hop's cherry open," Rae said. "I can't wait to see this because I never seen it like that before. The concept is great. It gives fans the opportunity to go back and rewrite their history, go back and check it out, see what made dudes who they are. ... This [tour] is gonna allow races to come together and have fun for one night. This is gonna be the event of events. This is gonna be the Royal Rumble of hip-hop. I'm sure that everybody is gonna come out and represent this. It's gonna be right. I can't wait."
Rae said every time he gets to perform among the legends that Rock the Bells welcomes onto its treks, he feels another year younger.
"It's always good to get out there with my brothers. We going to get money, pay them bills, take care of them kids. Then getting back in front of them fans again and giving them what they want," the MC said. "Nobody can say Wu-Tang is a wack group to get onstage and perform. I really feel that these are some of the best entertainers in the world when it's time to get onstage. You're gonna hear clear mics, you're gonna hear us do it they way it's supposed to be."
Besides the Clan, KRS-One will run through Criminal Minded, his 1987 Boogie Down Production LP; Rakim will perform his Paid in Full opus; and Slick Rick will be rapping The Great Adventures of Slick Rick. Wiz Khalifa and the Clipse are among the featured openers.
"Rock the Bells, it's good," Rae continued. "Rock the Bells is one of the biggest functions when it comes to MCs on one list getting it in. They make it universal where it ain't just about New York or the South or West Coast — it's a gumbo of all that. The fans get to come out and see their favorites and see different sides of every MC. It feels good to be a part of it because hey, I'm still a kid at this sh--. It's about having fun."
Last year, Raekwon was involved in a now-infamous physical altercation with Joe Budden during an August date on Rock the Bells, although the two MCs' camps had appeared to squash their beef on an earlier July stop.
The Chef is finishing up his forthcoming Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang album, which should drop around September.
Authorities just released the most disturbing 911 call I've ever heard. A mother of two teen daughters calls 911 after cutting their throats leaving one dead and the other clinging to life.
33 year old Debra Jeter was upset that her husband wanted a divorce.
After her soon to be ex-husband dropped the kids off for a visit she took them to an abandoned house. Telling them she had a surprise and attacked them.
The 9 minute 911 call she placed afterwards is very hard to listen to. She is heard talking to the 13 year old that is still alive begging for help while the dispatcher tries to keep her on the phone as police race to the scene.
"I just killed my children," she says calmly. "One of them is still alive for real, she's asking to be saved and I couldn't handle that."
Jeter was convicted of capital murder this week after pleading guilty to the crime.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You'll have to speak up.
In a narrowly split decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority expanded its limits on the famous Miranda rights for criminal suspects on Tuesday - over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the ruling turned Americans' rights of protection from police abuse "upside down."
"Criminal suspects
must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent which counterintuitively requires them to speak," she said. "At the same time, suspects will be legally presumed to have waived their rights even if they have given no clear expression of their intent to do so. Thoseresults, in my view, find no basis in Miranda or our subsequent casesand are inconsistent with the fair-trial principles on which thoseprecedents are grounded."
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, said a suspect who goes ahead and talks to police after being informed he doesn't have to has waived his right to remain silent. Elena Kagan, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to join the court, sided with the police as U.S. solicitor general when the case came before the court. She would replace Justice John Paul Stevens, one of the dissenters.
A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are at the top of the warnings that police recite to suspects during arrests and interrogations. But Tuesday's majority said that suspects must break their silence and tell police they are going to remain quiet to stop an interrogation, just as they must tell police that they want a lawyer.
This decision means that police can keep shooting questions at a suspect who refuses to talk as long as they want in hopes that the person will crack and give them some information, said Richard Friedman, a University of Michigan law professor.
"It's a little bit less restraint that the officers have to show," Friedman said.
The ruling comes in a case in which a suspect, Van Chester Thompkins, remained mostly silent for a
three-hour police interrogation before implicating himself in a Jan. 10, 2000, murder in Southfield, Mich
The officers in the room said Thompkins said little during the
interrogation, occasionally answering "yes," "no," "I don't know," nodding his head and making eye contact as his responses. But when one of the
officers asked him if he prayed for forgiveness for "shooting that boy down," Thompkins
said, "Yes."
He was convicted, but on appeal he wanted that statement thrown outbecause he said he had invoked his Miranda rights by being uncommunicative with the interrogating officers.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati agreed and threw out his confession and conviction. The high court reversed that decision.
Kennedy, writing the decision for the court's conservatives, said that wasn't enough.
"Thompkins did not say that he wanted to remain silent or that he did not want to talk to police," Kennedy said. "Had he made either of these simple, unambiguous statements, he would have invoked his 'right to cut off questioning.' Here he did neither, so he did not invoke his right to remain silent."
He was joined in the 5-4 opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Prosecutors cheered the decision, saying it takes the guesswork out of when police have to stop questioning suspects. "Is it too much to ask for a criminal suspect to say he doesn't want to talk to police?" said Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Association.
This is the third time this session that the Supreme Court has placed limits on Miranda rights, which come from a 1966 decision - it involved police questioning of Ernesto Miranda in a rape and kidnapping case in Phoenix - requiring officers to tell suspects they have the right to remain silent and to have a lawyer represent them, even if they can't afford one.
Earlier this term, the high court ruled that a suspect's request for a lawyer is good for only 14 days after the person is released from police custody - the first time the court has placed a time limit on a request for a lawyer - and that police do not have to explicitly tell suspects they have a right to a lawyer during an interrogation.
For Justice Sotomayor, deciding to make suspects speak to have the right to remain silent was a step too far. Sotomayor, the court's newest member, wrote a strongly worded dissent for the court's liberals, saying the majority's decision "turns Miranda upside down."
Controversial singer/rapper M.I.A. has warned fans to steer clear of search engine Google and social networking websites like Facebook because she 's convinced they were designed by U.S. intelligence services to spy on t he public.
The Paper Planes hitmaker, real name Mathangi 'Maya' Arulpragasam, is adamant the websites are being used by government agencies like the CIA to secretly gather personal information about its users and she avoids usin g the internet as a result of her suspicions.
She tells Nylon magazine, "All governments are connected to Google. Governments can shift their search engines so only what they want you to see comes up. I want kids to be aware of this digital circumstance.
"Everyone on the internet is like, 'Oh my God, come and join Facebook!' They're all so optimistic and really, everyone is f**ki ng you up behind the screens. And I don't like that. It makes it difficul t for me to interact with my fans knowing that. Google and Facebook were developed by the CIA, and when you're on there, you have to know that."
In the first of a three part series the Associated Press takes a look at the massive budget cuts that are affecting our public schools.
The cuts are affecting public schools all over the U.S., forcing the layoff of thousands of teachers and cutting into school programs.
Larger class sizes, canceled summer schools and reductions or eliminations of anything that is not a core subject are about to become the norm
In California alone, 23,000 teachers are being laid off.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is seeking 23 billion dollars in emergency funds from Congress in an effort to limit the damage.
"We can't afford 150-300,000 teachers on unemployment rolls," he says. We want Congress to take action now. This is not something they can debate for 4-5 months then do something in September or October, it's too late."
This is the future of our country we're talking about. If we can afford to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we should be able to afford bigger budgets to take care of our public schools.
The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel was found dead in a Washington Heights apartment under mysterious circumstances yesterday morning after a daylong drinking binge with a man he had just met in a Midtown bar, law-enforcement sources said.
Andrew Koppel, 40, of Rockaway Park, Queens, was declared dead at around 1:30 a.m. after paramedics were called to the rundown apartment in what a law-enforcement source called a "s- - - building" on 180th Street at Audubon Avenue, where he had been found unconscious and not breathing in a bedroom, the sources said
Andrew Koppel Died In This Room
Koppel -- who was an attorney for the city Housing Authority -- was a slobbering mess when he was brought to the apartment at around 11 p.m. by Russell Wimberly, a 32-year-old waiter he had met at a Hell's Kitchen bar nearly 12 hours earlier.
Koppel "was just really messed up when he came in. He was very drunk," said Belinda Caban, 53, who lives at the apartment.
Caban, who called Wimberly a drinking buddy, told The Post: "I didn't understand anything [Koppel] said. We took him to the bedroom and laid him down to rest."
After a couple of hours, she and Wimberly discovered he had urinated and defecated in the bed and appeared not to be breathing. They called 911.
"His complexion wasn't right. It was pale. I said to call the police," Caban said. "When the ambulance came, they said he was dead."
No one has been charged, and the medical examiner has yet to determine a cause of death.
Koppel -- who lived with his girlfriend and their baby daughter -- began his bender at around noon at Smith's Bar & Restaurant at 44th Street and Ninth Avenue when he befriended Wimberly.
"He had a straw hat on, and I had one on, and he said, 'Nice hat, man,' " Wimberly recalled. "We got to talking, and he started buying me drinks."
Koppel drank straight whiskey and suggested they move from bar to bar, Wimberly said.
As they walked, Koppel sipped from a pint bottle of Jameson, Wimberly said.
"There was a lot of alcohol. He didn't take anything else [drugs] around me, and neither of us ate all day," he said. "We talked about our kids . . . He said he had a kid and loved [her] a lot."
Eventually, they took a taxi up to Caban's apartment, stopping at a liquor store to pick up a bottle of whiskey and beer.
Koppel "wasn't feeling good. I told him to lay down and turn the light off. He was snoring really loud. I thought he was out," Wimberly said.
Koppel was the third youngest of Ted Koppel's four children with his wife, Grace Anne. He was their only son.
His father, former anchor of ABC's "Nightline," could not be reached for comment.
Andrew Koppel's oldest sister, Andrea, a former CNN correspondent, declined to comment. His younger sister, Tara, was spotted weeping at her Manhattan apartment. She also didn't want to talk.
Andrew Koppel was convicted in 1993 of punching out a senatorial aide in a drunken dust-up in DC and was ordered into alcohol treatment. Three years earlier, he got into a drunken fender bender while driving his father's Mercedes in their home state of Maryland.
Actress Kristen Stewart has become a household name and sex symbol thanks to her role as Bella in the 'Twilight' movie series.
This month she covers the UK edition of Elle magazine.
She plays the role of reluctant star in her interview with the mag. Complaining about her lack of privacy and constant questions about her possible romantic relationship with 'Twilight' co-star Robert Pattinson.
"It really bothers me when people write nasty s*** about me and the perception is that I don’t give a f***. It could not be further from the truth," she rants.
People always ask me if I'm dating Robert [Pattinson]. Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?"
Kristen admits she wasn't prepared for the success of the vampire flick.
“With Twilight, we never thought it was going to be so huge; we never even thought we’d do a second, let alone a third.”
Judging from her comments you would think that being famous is the worst possible thing that could have happened to her.
"What you don’t see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction. All you see is an actor or a celebrity lit up by a flash.
"A lot of the time I can’t handle it. It’s f***ed. I never expected that this would be my life."
It's too late now Kristen, you're a movie star, might as well get used to it.
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