Hip hop fans are well acquainted with Blink 182 Drummer, Travis Barker. Name a hot hip hop track and chances are Travis has given it a sick rock remix, heavy on drums.
Name a hot song and chances are Travis has made a sick remix, heavy on drums out of it
Now it's time to call in a few favors as he prepares his solo album
XXL has the feature list looking something like this. Eminem, Lil Wayne, Drake, T.I., Pharrell, Snoop Dogg, Rza, Lupe Fiasco, Bun, B, Beanie Sigel, Clipse, Yelawolf, The Cool Kids and many more.
The album isn't titled yet, but an October release date is realistic.
This is one cd I'll cop.
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Video After The JumpLooks like fans will have to wait a little longer for the release of T.I.'s 'King Uncaged' album.
T.I. says he needs more time to focus on the release of the movie, 'Takers', which also stars Chris Brown. So scratch the September 28 release date off your calenders.
"I pushed the album back, so I could completely focus my attention ro the roll out and release of this film, Takers. Which will be coming out August 27," he explained. "And I felt like it wouldn't be fair to the film or the album if I was splitting my attention span amongst the two. And once we debut number one I will completely re-submerge myself back into the music."
Tip says he has 100+ songs recorded and needs to narrow those down to 14 for the new album.
Back in April, he told Rolling Stone that this album is "the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had." since Tupac got bailed out by Suge Knight.
If he's going to meet his own expectations, he needs to get back into "album mode" fast.
No word yet on the new release date.
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More Pics After The JumpAt 29, Kim Kardashian was just a tween when MTV started airing “The Real World,” but watching those televised tales of seven strangers picked to live in a house was her “aha” moment.
“In elementary school, ‘The Real World’ came on, and I was like, 'That’s it! I know I want to be on a reality show,'” Kardashian told Allure for their September issue. “And I was like, ‘Ok, when I’m old enough, I’ll make an audition tape.’”
Kardashian doesn’t elaborate on whether or not she ever created an audition tape for “Real World,” but we do know that she created a tape of another kind, one that turned an intimate evening with ex-boyfriend Ray J into footage the entire world could see.
“Not my most proud moment,” Kardashian told the beauty magazine about the sex tape. “It was humiliating. But let’s move on. Not that I don’t think it’s no one’s business, but I think I’ve done a good job with replacing negative things with positive things.”
Those positive things all fall under what she terms “The Brand,” encompassing workout DVDs, clothing, self-tanner, skin care products, perfume and, of course, her E! reality show with her family, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”“I feel lazy when I’m not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad,” Kardashian explained. “He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, ‘I know you’re gonna be OK. I’m not worried about you.’”
And so, Kardashian presses forward, trying to limit club appearances – where a celeb can get paid to just show up and party – in favor of endorsement deals for companies in which she also owns a stake. The strategy seems to be paying off – Kardashian recently purchased a five-bedroom home in Los Angeles rumored to cost more than $4 million. (Allure notes that Kardashian converted one of the bedrooms in the home into a closet.)
Kardashian admitted that “It was way above my price range,” but “I saw it, and I was like, ‘This will be mine.’”
Of course, living a lifestyle that’s so focused on building The Brand doesn’t leave much room for finding The One – at the time of her interview with Allure, Kardashian’s five-year relationship with football star Reggie Bush had come to an end.
So while she’d thought that by 30 she’d be a mom of four, the challenges of dating have pushed that dream back about five years, and have dropped the expectant kid count from four to one or two.
“Who would ever want to deal with a hectic schedule and not really [getting] to see someone that often? That’s the reality of my life right now,” Kardashian said of the challenges of dating. “It’s tough, but I’m totally fine on my own. I’ve always been in a relationship, so it’s kind of refreshing to just do me 100 percent.”
What about her obsession with grooming?
“I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms...my entire body is hairless."
Read the full interview in the September issue of Allure, which hits newsstands August 24.
Case dismissed!Charges of driving with expired auto insurance against hip-hop pioneer Ice-T were tossed by a Manhattan judge Tuesday morning after prosecutors acknowledged a DMV snafu.
"That is what I'm talking about - dismissed!" the "Law & Order: SVU" star bellowed as he strutted out of a packed courtroom.
"You appreciate that!" he said to people in the audience waiting for their cases to be called.
"Like I said from the gate, I never broke the law," Ice-T said outside the courtroom, his buxom wife Coco, dressed in a black dress and sky-high heals, close to his side.
"I had no knowledge of any suspension," he said. "That is why I was so angry."
The 52-year-old actor, whose real name is Tracy Marrow, famously vented via an Internet video after his July arrest, irking city cops - the very people he's made a career of portraying on the television drama.
"Everybody heard I called the cop a punk b----," he said on the video diatribe, referring to a statement he tweeted after his arrest.
"The reason I did that was because he pretty much was a punk b----."
Ice-T was vindicated when prosecutors yesterday told a Manhattan criminal court judge that the state Department of Motor Vehicles wrongly suspended his license in 2008 because the agency believed he'd ignored warnings to re-up his auto insurance.
But Assistant District Attorney Jessica Barron admitted Ice-T had properly surrendered his New York plates when he moved to New Jersey - something that "was not reflected in the DMV's computerized records."
"It basically turned out to be a clerical error," Ice-T explained of switching his registration to the Garden State when he moved there that year.
The actor insisted he never got any notifications from New York indicating his driving privileges has been suspended.
"The last two years, I've been driving around and then I'm in handcuffs."
"I wasn't worried one bit," said Morrow's blond wife Coco, sporting matching hot pink lipstick and toe nail polish.
Coco had her own admirers in court.
"Damn girl, you're fine," one man said.
Ice-T said he has no plans of suing. "I was just upset. You're not supposed to go to jail. The cop put me in jail that day. I said, 'You've really got to put me in?'"
"I hate courts," he said as he sauntered out in a crisp blue suit and blue and red striped tie. "I'm not coming back."
Asked where he was headed after court, Ice-T quipped: "Oh, I don't know, Disney Land."
As he left, a fan shouted "I'm down with Ice-T."
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Video After The JumpBUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) – A Hungarian Roman Catholic priest has become a YouTube hit with his distinctive method of spreading the word on wheels.
The Reverend Zoltan Lendvai, 45, who lives and preaches in Redics, a small village on Hungary's border with Slovenia, believes skateboarding can open the way to God for young people.
The video of him in action, has so far attracted close to 275,000 hits and now also has a music version.
Lendvai says he follows the ways of Saint John Bosco, an Italian priest and educator in the 19th century who dedicated his life to improving the lot of poor youngsters and used games as part of their education.
"Many times I have felt that this is the way I can bring many people a bit closer to Jesus," he told Reuters.
He learned the skills of skateboarding at the age of 14 at school but it was only later, when he served as a priest in the town of Kormend in northwest Hungary, that he realized the impact his skill could have on youngsters.
He said three boys aged between 16 and 18 who had never attended church before started coming regularly after he showed them a few skateboard tricks.
His first board bore the papal coat of arms and he has since given away at least six to his young parishioners.
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Singer Erykah Badu has been fined $500 and ordered to serve six months probation for her now infamous video shoot in Dallas' Dealey Plaza for her video "Window Seat"
The video shoot shocked many onlookers, because Badu stripped naked in broad daylight as she walked in the same place where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
At the end of the video , Badu falls to the ground as if she had been shot.
A mother, whose daughter saw Badu naked filed a complaint in April with the city of Dallas. Police cited the singer with disorderly conduct.
The Associated Press reports Badu has already paid the fine.
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Laurence Fishburne has had enough, and has reportedly told his porn star daughter to kick rocks.
According to TMZ, 18 year old Montana contacted her dad for the first time since news of her XXX career broke and he wasn't having it.
Laurence reportedly told her her, "I'm not going to speak with you 'till you turn your life around, you embarrassed me."
He shouldn't wait for Montana to stop her h**ish ways anytime soon. She recently told ENews that she loves being filmed having sex.
Laurence fired one more shot before brushing his daughter off. "You used your last name. No one uses their real name in porn."
That's real talk right there from a hurt father, I hope they can eventually work this all out.
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I'm sure most Juggalos and Juggalettes are good people, but a few are giving the whole lot a bad name..
We've learned that Wu Tang Clan rap veteran, Method Man was also inured at the same festival where Tila Tequila was brutally attacked.
TMZ is reporting that during Method Man and Redman's set Sunday at the Gathering Of The Juggalos, somebody from the crowd threw a full can of beer that hit Meth in the face, cutting his eye.
The music is immediately stopped as Redman screams at the crowd asking who threw the can.
Eventually Method Man decided to keep performing, saying, "Start the music we're continuing the show, let's f**k these motherf**kers up.".
The Gathering Of The Juggalos was a four day event held in Illinois. Juggalos and Juggalettes are male and female fans of the festival's headliner, Insane Clown Posse.
Other acts at this years festival included Tech N9ne, Lil Kim, Kottonmouth Kings, Critical Bill, Brotha Lynch Hung, Prozak, Psychostick, Sid of Slipknot, Vanilla Ice, Wolfpac, Warren G and more according to the festival's website.
ICP needs to get this thing together. I mean how in the hell can you have a concert if the artists playing are getting injured by the fans?
Five months into his jail bid for attempted weapons possession, Lil Wayne hasn't forgotten about his family, fans and famous friends. Weezy wrote another letter, posted on his WeezyThanxYou.com blog today (Aug. 16), in which he shouts out his mother, children, fans, Young Money crew and recently-incarcerated actress Lindsay Lohan, among others.
"Hey Lindsey, glad it's over doll. I should have written her huh?" Wayne wrote to the troubled star. "Young Money, you're the best I ever had. Mother, I love you. Nae, you're my angel. Lil Tunechi Jr., you're the man. Lil Kam, you're the best heartbreaker. Lil Neal, you're the littler meatball," he continued, naming all four of his children by their nicknames.
Lil Wayne Talks Prison Life in New Letter to Fans
Wayne also asked fans to "Look out for 'Nino 3,' and 'I Am Not A Human Being," albums, both which he said are "coming soon."
In addition, Wayne told fans he's using his time in prison wisely by working out ("I should be a little bulky" he said) and engaging in the game of UNO ("Last night, I kicked **s in UNO!"). Wayne also said, although he's met "some pretty cool people" while in New York's Rikers Island -- where he is serving his time -- he's learned "plenty already and the best lesson is to not come back."
He closed the letter with a simple "I love you all!"
Wayne's written four public letters before this one, the last one titled "As Time Flies."
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All signs continue to point toward the eventual divorce between Carmelo Anthony and the Denver Nuggets.
League sources say it is now a matter of when, not if, Anthony and the Nuggets will go their separate ways.
Anthony is weighing whether to sign a three-year, $65 million extension offered by the Nuggets. His dilemma, league sources say, is what affords him the best chance of continuing his career elsewhere. Anthony could sign with Denver and convince the team to then trade him. His other option would be to not sign the extension, thereby forcing the team to move him rather than risk losing him next summer as a free agent.
During his annual basketball camp in Colorado on Saturday, Anthony said he had no timetable on when he'll decide whether to sign the extension.
In either case, "he's going to make it real clear that he's not coming back," said one league source.
But both Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke and Anthony already are well aware that they don't have a future together, sources say. That became clear to Kroenke at a reception after Anthony's July 11 nuptials to La La Vasquez in Manhattan.
A series of toasts at the wedding reception, initiated by New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul, suggested Anthony leave Denver for the New York Knicks. Paul suggested it playfully, one source said, but subsequent guests -- including Knicks power forward Amare Stoudemire and Anthony's brother, Robert -- made the point more forcefully.
Then Kroenke stood up to give a toast and the room was filled with an awkward silence, one wedding guest said. Kroenke tried to make light of the situation by suggesting Paul could come to Denver but that elicited no response.
While Anthony stood and applauded Kroenke when he was recognized, he apparently did nothing to discourage or dismiss the suggestions that he should leave the Nuggets.
"There were other people saying, 'We're going to get you guys together,' but it doesn't become a runaway train if Melo says something," said one source. "Maybe he didn't perpetuate it, but tell people to stop or say, 'Stan, I'm sorry.' He didn't do any of that."
Paul has since met with Hornets management and appears less eager to leave New Orleans, but all the signals from Anthony are that he would like to be in a different uniform this season.
Wedding signals included.
Anthony's agent, Leon Rose, could not be reached for comment and the Nuggets declined to comment.
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Birdman and Slim are set to add another star to their already filled to the brim Cash Money roster.
According to Allhiphop, Bizzy Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is about to join the label with a solo deal.
Bizzy has been in the news a lot throughout his career, and it hasn't always been positive. He's clashed frequently with his band mates. This could be the fresh start he needs to pull things together.
Bizzy did not make an appearance during Bone Thugs' latest reunion tour, although he did take part in recording the group's most recent album, 'Uni-5: The World's Enemy'.
Maybe news of Bizzy's new heavy metal album, 'Crossroads 2010' piqued Birdman's interest, since Lil Wayne released a rock album, 'Rebirth' recently.
Whatever the reason he's joining Weezy's house, we wish Bizzy the best of luck.
'Crossroads 2010' is due out August 24.
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Hollywood superstar Michael Douglas has been diagnosed with a throat tumor.
The 65 year old Oscar-winning star of movies such as 'Wall Street', 'Fatal Attraction' and 'Basic Instinct' will undergo eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy according to People.com.
A spokesperson for the actor said he is expected to make a full recovery.
Douglas issued a statement, "I am very optimistic," the actor said.
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Prison isn't going to stop Remy Ma's grind.
Boombox is reporting the femcee is putting a mixtape and album together with her husband, Papoose from behind bars.
The former Terror Squad member had this to say about the upcoming projects:
"I be killing him on all the tracks I'm on. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Actually, we have so many songs recorded together, he's like, 'We're doing the Mr. & Mrs. Mackie mixtape.' We're actually doing an album together and we have numerous songs together."
Remy is serving an eight year sentence for charges of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion. The charges stem from a 2007 incident where she shot her friend, Makeda Barnes-Joseph twice while they struggled over a gun inside a car.
The mixtape is expected to drop soon. While the album won't drop until after Remy's realease from prison in 2013.
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NEW YORK — Rapper Foxy Brown has been indicted on charges of violating an order of protection stemming from a 2007 confrontation with her neighbor in New York City.
Prosecutors say Brown violated the order in July by screaming at neighbor Arlene Raymond before bending over, baring her buttocks at Raymond and showing her underwear while shouting an obscenity.
The 31-year-old Brown was issued the order of protection after pleading guilty in 2008 to menacing Raymond with her cell phone.
The two had been in a dispute over Brown blasting her car stereo outside their Brooklyn building.
The indictment announced Friday charges Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, with criminal contempt in the second degree. She could face up to one year in jail.
A lawyer for Brown did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The 'Halo' singer ' who is married to hip-hop superstar Jay-Z ' says she's always had good friendships with females and thinks that has played a big part in her never falling for the wrong type of man.
She said: 'I think I am a feminist in a way. It's not something I consciously decided I was going to be; perhaps it's because I grew up in a singing group with other women, and that was so helpful to me. It kept me out of so much trouble and out of bad relationships. My friendships with my girls are just so much a part of me that there are things I am never going to do that would upset that bond. I never want to betray that friendship because I love being a woman and I love being a friend to other women. ' think we learn a lot from our female friends ' female friendship is very, very important.'
While her personal relationships are very important to her, Beyonce admits she sometimes finds it hard to balance everything in her life.
She told You magazine: 'For me, balance is always really hard to find. I love so many different things, and to have the discipline to turn certain things away and focus on one thing at a time so that I can give it 100 per cent is really hard. 'Probably the biggest challenge in my life is time ' making sure I have time to be a wife, to be a singer, to be a songwriter, to be an actor and still have time for my clothing line and now for my perfume. I am like any other woman who has a child, who has a husband, who has a job. I think it's the hardest thing about being a woman because we have so many responsibilities.'
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Video After The JumpAs previously reported here a few days ago. Tila Tequila was attacked at this year's 'Gathering Of The Juggalos' festival.
Tila is seen in this video footage trying to perform, but the crowd of juggalos obviously hate her for whatever reason.
Bottles are seen flying through the air as Tila uses her bodyguards as human shields. At one point a fan tries to rush the stage, but is grabbed by security.
All the while, Tila keeps on rapping and tells the crowd she loves them and "I aint going nowhere, I aint no Paris Hilton in this b*tch".
Colt Cabana, a former WWE wrestler witnessed the chaos. He told TMZ it lasted about 15 minutes. He says a security guard told him someone had a watermelon that had been fermenting in urine and feces for two days and that they had been saving it all weekend for Tila.
Damn, that's some serious hatred right there.
What's not seen on tape is Tila flashing her breasts to calm the crowd down (which they ignored). And them allegedly chasing her and attacking her trailer.
The singer tweeted that a lawsuit is on the way:
"Thank you everyone for your support. The people at Juggalos behavior was disgusting and I am filing a suit against Them now. Thanks 4 ur luv"
Chris Brown may be hitting his musical stride again. Notching Greatest Gainer/Airplay honors for a second straight week, the singer is this close to notching a top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with "Deuces." The breakup song-featuring Tyga and Kevin McCall-moves 15-11 in its sixth week on the chart.
Released to iTunes June 29 along with another new Brown song, "No B.S.," "Deuces" moves 60-59 on the Digital Songs chart. Up 11% in digital sales, the song has sold 132,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"Deuces" also climbs 67-56 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking the singer's return to that tally. Brown last appeared on the Hot 100 last February when "I Can Transform Ya" featuring Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz ended its tenure, peaking at No. 20. "Transform" peaked at No. 11 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The track was the lead single from Brown's third album, "Graffiti," which has sold 316,000.
The "Deuces" momentum follows Brown's emotional tribute to Michael Jackson during the BET Awards in June. While singing "Man in the Mirror," the singer broke down, prompting criticism that the meltdown was staged. Without addressing the detractors, Brown has stayed busy recording and tweeting about new music. He recently polished off a remix of Nicki Minaj's "Your Love" and is featured on a new Twista track, "Make a Movie."
Among the top mainstream R&B radio stations spinning "Deuces" in heavy rotation are KBFB Dallas, WHTD Detroit, KKDA Dallas and WPEG Charlotte, N.C., whose OM/PD Terri Avery says positive audience reaction to Brown at the BET Awards has nothing to do with the song's growing success. "The track, the lyrics . . . it's just a good song."
Brown will next appear in the film "Takers," out Aug. 27. There's no official word from Jive as to when his fourth album will be released. The singer has tweeted that his next CD may arrive in 2011 or sooner, possibly preceded by another mixtape, "In My Zone 2."
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