01. The Wake
02. I’m Raw
03. Body Ya
04. Hard Feat. Kobe, Paul Cain & LA The Darkman
05. Oh Let’s Do It
06. Suicide 2 f. Paul Cain & Freck Billionaire
07. It’s Goin’ Down f. Freck Billionaire
08. Roger That f. Freck Billionaire
09. Love Come Down
10. Popular Demand f. Paul Cain
11. Mr. R.I.P
12. Body Bag f. Cam’ron & Vado
13. Beamer, Benz, or Bentley f. Lloyd Banks Juelz Santana
14. For The Money f. Nicki Minaj
15. Tonight f. Red Cafe
16. All The Way Turnt Up f. Trey Songz
17. Say Somethin’ Nigga
18. Funeral Service Music f. Kobe, Paul Cain, Red Cafe & Willie The Kid
19. Bring Death To Em’
20. Exhibit F
A war of words broke out on Twitter Saturday between Little Brother and producer 9th Wonder, who is a former producer and founding member in the group.
According to Phonte, a rapper in Little Brother, the issue started when the group attempted to use the last song the former trio recorded as a group on their new album, Leftback LP.
Here is what Phonte said:
"Aiight folks, backstory on Star:
This was recorded back in '05-06 at Young Guru's crib sometime after the release of Minstrel Show.
This was intended for Leftback as an iTunes bonus track but we just got word today that @9thwondermusic doesn't want us to use it for whatever reason, and that's fine.
In any event, I'm not gonna let anything or anybody stop me from getting music to my fans. F**k that.
Enjoy. And as always, thank you for listening".
After the message, Phonte left a download link to "Star," which was removed as an iTunes bonus song.
9th Wonder soon responded a fan on Twitter.
"Let people talk bro....only if they knew the REAL story," he said to which Phonte responded, "Well, tell your side of it or shut the f**k up."
9th said, "@phontigallo you are NOT a tough guy.......none of us is...so KILL that noise.....and n***as aint shuttin up."
The breakup of the group came after the group's second album and, to which 9th Wonder has largely been quiet.
"Twitterfolk...I have maintained silence on the matter for LONG time..for this reason. I apologize to yall for steppin outta character," the producer said.
The other rapper of Little Brother, Big Pooh, said, "This situation has 2 many layers for an outsiders input to really penetrate the train of thought. I appreciate the comments tho, either way. this aint about money, this aint about women, this aint about music...its about respect, loyalty, and ego."
Eventually, Phonte added a viral video to speak his his peace.
9th Wonder concluded his statements with, "Please don't feed into this madness yall...real talk....good music will still be made by all of us....."
Pooh echoed those sentiments saying, "We are all grown, nobody is a victim in this situation, nobody."
Arizona Cardinals linebacker Joey Porter was arrested outside a Taco Bell this morning after officials say Porter put his hands on a cop.
According to the California Highway Patrol, Joey was driving in a Taco Bell parking lot in Bakersfield -- his home town -- when a friend of Joey's was was stopped by police.
According to officials, Porter pulled up near the action - too close apparently -- because a CHP officer rolled over to his car, where he detected the smell of alcohol coming from Porter's car.
Cops say the officer asked for Porter's driver's license, but he refused to hand it over. ... instead, officials say, the 33-year-old tried to roll up his window.
Cops say the officer tried to reach in the car to manually unlock the car -- and that's when Porter "slapped" the officer's hand away.
According to the CHP, the officer decided to grab Porter's arm -- and that's when things got crazy. Porter allegedly got out of his car "in a confrontational manner."
The officer claims he drew his pistol and ordered Porter to the ground, but he wouldn't comply -- though he did ultimately agree to place his hands behind his head.
Additional officers were called to the scene to aid in the arrest. Porter was eventually taken in to custody and booked at a nearby jail. He was eventually charged with 3 misdemeanors -- DUI, resisting arrest and assault on a peace officer.
Porter recently signed a big fat contract with the Cardinals -- reportedly worth $17.5 million for 3 years
Box office gold she ain't. In fact, she barely amounts to pocket change.
Just ONE person bought a ticket to see Uma Thurman's film "Motherhood" on its opening day in England, reports Britain's Daily Mail, which means it made about $11.
And its weekend box office tally there – an astonishing $131 – would barely cover the cost of a pair of high-end denims.
The film fetched a dismal $50,000 its opening weekend in the U.S. in October, according to the box office tracker BoxOfficeMojo.com – but that's a fortune compared to its abysmal UK tallies.
"You're kidding, we must have broken a new record for grosses," said producer Jane Edelbaum when contacted about the film's poor showing.
"Think about how much crap succeeds at the cinema. 'Motherhood' is not bad. It's a very decent movie. I've seen movies that are not half as good," the baffled executive told The Guardian.
She blamed the film's catastrophic failure on poor promotion in Britain.
The movie, which casts "Kill Bill" star Thurman as a frazzled Manhattan mom and wannabe writer frantically planning her daughter's sixth birthday party, cost $5 million to make and also stars Minnie Driver and Anthony Edwards.
Surprisingly, even with its record low numbers, "Motherhood" is not Britain's biggest ever box office bomb.
That dubious honor goes to the 2007 film "My Nikifor," a film about a Polish artist which took in about $10 its debut weekend, the Mail reported.
(AllHipHop News) Philly rapper Cassidy has responded rumors being circulated that he has HIV/AIDS and was responsible for infecting a young woman.
A picture of a Philadelphia woman along with a statement accompanying it claims the woman slept with Cassidy multiple times in a Hackensack, New Jersey hotel.
After numerous encounters, the woman claimed she and Cassidy had unprotected sex, resulting in her testing positive for HIV/AIDS.
Cassidy flatly denied the report today (March 26) via his official Twitter page.
“|Stopactinstupid! I don’t even know that lil girl,” Cassidy Tweeted. “I just took a pic being nice…I only f**k with pretty girls, 10’s and I still don’t go raw.“
He also denied being sick with HIV/AIDS and instead, placed the blame on a jealous female fan.
“I’m sick with it, but not like that! That b**ch probably mad she not my type, lol. I’m perfectly healthy, so it can’t be true. It’s just the devil try make me mad because I’m about to go buy this bently [sic] today, I’m on my way to the bank. B**ch stop hating.”
Looks like Rihanna has officially moved on from her past romance with Chris Brown.
The R&B singer and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Matt Kemp have decided to move in together
In a report by Star Magazine yesterday (March 26), a source is quoted as saying:
“Matt is very happy to be moving in with Rihanna. He knew it was only a matter of time before Ri moved him in. He wants to make her happy. He’s keeping his house, to see how things go, but they are so in love.”
Looks like Matt is playing it safe. Keeping one foot in the door and one out, lol.
This video proves that not every kid loves Miley Cyrus of the popular Hannah Montana show.
When this little girl's father puts on a Miley video she screams and cries. But when he plays 80's music, specifically Bon Jovi she lights up like a Christmas tree and starts dancing.
Bay area rapper Yukmouth was the victim of a robbery and assault Monday (March 22). Initial reports linked Suge Knight to the incident, but Yuk recently spoke to VladTV to clear up that rumor.
"LA police have been after Suge Knight for years and are lying about me to try to get him. If Suge was caught jaywalking they would lock him up. I never filed a police report and I never pressed any charges. Me and Suge have always been cool - I wouldn't have had a meeting with him if I thought there was some sort of problem. The situation happened with some other people that didn't have anything to do with Suge, probably because they saw me shining. I've spoken to Suge after the incident and we're good.
When the incident happened in the grocery store parking lot, other people called the police and filed reports. The LA police have been calling me trying to have me come in and cooperate, but it's not happening."
Yuk lost a reported $92,000 worth of jewelry in the attack that have not yet been recovered.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities stepped up searches for 46 sailors still missing Saturday, hours after a naval ship sank near a disputed sea border with North Korea.
Navy and coast guard vessels, as well as air force planes, were searching the waters near South Korea's Baeknyeong Island where the 1,200-ton Cheonan sank during a routine patrolling mission.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said rescuers had picked up 58 sailors but 46 still were missing.
President Lee Myung-bak ordered officials to find the cause of the sinking quickly while keeping in mind all possibilities, presidential spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye said Saturday. There was no indication North Korea was to blame, but troops kept a vigilant watch.
Lee reconvened a security meeting and instructed officials to make all efforts to rescue the missing sailors, the spokeswoman said. Kim added there were no signs of North Korean troop movement.
Some senior government officials have speculated the sinking may have been an accident, not an attack, South Korean media said.
Friday's accident happened hours after North Korea's military threatened "unpredictable strikes" against the U.S. and South Korea in anger over a report the two countries plan to prepare for possible instability in the totalitarian country.
The two Koreas remain locked in a state of war because their three-year conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, in 1953.
Since then, the two Koreas have fought three bloody skirmishes in the Yellow Sea waters. And in January, North Korea fired about 30 artillery rounds not far from Baeknyeong; the South Korean military fired 100 warning shots in response.
Unidentified military officials told South Korea's Yonhap news agency that an explosion tore a hole into the Cheonan's rear hull, shutting off the engine, wiping out the power and quickly taking the ship down. A number of crew members jumped into the water, Yonhap said.
Nearby Baeknyeong Island, four hours by boat from the South Korean port of Incheon but just 10 miles (20 kilometers) from North Korea, was turned into a triage center, with islanders helping to treat injured crew members, according to cable network YTN.
In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Friday the U.S. was closely monitoring the accident, but there was no evidence that could indicate North Korea's involvement.
"It's looking more and more like it was just an accident that happens on a ship," Carl Baker, an expert on Korean military relations at the Pacific Forum CSIS think tank in Honolulu, said by telephone.
He said Pyongyang was unlikely to attack the far more powerful South Korean military.
Barranquilla, Colombia (CNN) -- She pouts her collagen-filled lips and totters on golden stilettos as she parades down the catwalk. Camera flashes pop in the shaky video recording of the photo shoot. Colombian model Angie Sanclemente is an object of desire.
But that was 10 years ago. Now Sanclemente is one of South America's "most wanted." The fallen beauty is on the run; Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for her.
The woman whose ambition took her from poverty to a life of glamour is thought to be in Argentina. Authorities there suspect she may be the "queen pin" of an international operation that uses models as drug mules to move suitcases loaded with cocaine out of Buenos Aires airport.
"I am convinced Sanclemente is heavily involved in drug trafficking but I still cannot determine exactly what role she plays," one Argentine source close to the investigation tells CNN.
Six people, four men and two women, have so far been detained. Among them a 21-year-old named only as "Maria", who was arrested at Buenos Aires airport in December as she tried to board a flight bound for Cancun, Mexico with 55 kg (120 pounds) of cocaine. That could be worth more than $3.3 million once sold on the streets of the United States or Europe, according to estimates from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Sources say some of those arrested have named Sanclemente and her Argentine male model boyfriend, now in custody, as the ringleaders of the trafficking ring.
Despite an international manhunt Sanclemente, now 30, has continued to update her Facebook page.
In a Facebook message to CNN this week Sanclemente denied any involvement in the case, writing:
"I'm very sad and hurt by the bad information. I don't know how the press can destroy an innocent person."
Later she wrote: "I don't want to go to jail I don't deserve it. I am innocent." She said she had hired a Buenos Aires-based attorney and hoped to clarify her legal situation soon.
The lawyer, Guillermo Tiscornia, said he was hired by Sanclemente's mother and that he has not yet had any contact with Sanclemente, who he believes is in Argentina.
Tiscornia told CNN he has filed an appeal with the Argentine Appeals Court asking that Sanclemente be allowed to testify without the risk of going to prison if she appears in court.
He said: "Angela is afraid to go to prison in Argentina. She is a beautiful woman and she is afraid that she will be raped in prison. She could suffer serious physical and psychological damage."
Former boyfriend, DJ Ludwing Hernandez says he has also had word from Sanclemente since the scandal broke. He lives in Barranquilla, the Colombian port city famous for its carnival and as hometown of pop star Shakira. Sanclemente spent her teenage years there.
"I heard from Angie through another friend," he said. "Right now she's shocked and scared she will get arrested. She's also afraid for her life because this is a big drug problem and the bad guys could harm her."
A Colombian drug trafficker consulted by CNN, who requested not to be named because he continues smuggling, said Sanclemente may be lying low in Argentina. But he said if she had the right connections she could make it back to Colombia.
Sanclemente's mother, Yaneth Valencia, rents a $75-a-month apartment on the outskirts of Barranquilla. Neighbors said she left about two weeks ago -- shortly after the international arrest warrant was issued for her daughter -- and Tiscornia said she was now in Argentina.
"She didn't have a bed only a mattress on the floor. That's hardly the lifestyle of a drug trafficker's mother," said one neighbor, who gave her name only as Dolly.
Sanclemente first hit the headlines in 2000 when she was 20. She won Colombia's prestigious Queen of Coffee beauty pageant. Victory was short-lived. Judges dethroned after just two days when they found out she had been married, contrary to competition rules.
That marriage lasted just three months back in 1998 to a Barranquilla businessman. He paid for her to study journalism at Barranquilla's university.
A university friend, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said Sanclemente dropped out of college after three semesters and spent tuition fees on silicone breast implants instead.
That friend said Sanclemente idolized Colombia's then top model Natalia Paris. She even dyed her hair blonde and imitated Paris' distinctive accent to appear more like her. Paris married a drug trafficker turned DEA informant, known as Julio Correa. He was killed in 2001 by his former associates when he returned to Colombia from Miami. Drug underworld sources say he was cut up in a meat grinder.
While some who have known her doubt she is capable of run a drug smuggling ring, others describe Sanclemente as ambitious and determined from an early age.
"Angie was very analytical. She calculated and weighed things up. She took firm steps so she didn't make mistakes," said Luis Alfonso Posso, one of her teenage friends.
Sanclemente was an only child. Her mother -- a single mom - scraped a living selling shoes and clothes. But she saved enough to enroll Sanclemente in Barranquilla's top modeling school, "La Pasarella."
Instructor Nury Rodriguez remembers the young Sanclemente as skinny and lacking self-confidence. But aside from her exotic looks, Rodriguez said she had one outstanding trait -- she hated to lose.
"Angie always wanted to win and draw attention to herself one way or another. She wanted to stand out," Rodriguez said. "She once confronted the judges in a beauty contest because she thought she should have been among the finalists."
Her brief reign as Miss Coffee Queen also brought her to the attention of admiring drug capos, according to a fashion industry insider who knew Sanclemente in Bogota.
"Narcotraffickers go to beauty pageants to buy the women they like. In other cases they sponsor candidates, paying for their outfits, their plastic surgery and even bribing the judges so their girl wins," the woman explained.
The woman, who still organizes beauty pageants, did not wish to be named saying she feared a backlash from within the industry.
Sanclemente left Colombia around 2005 and headed to Mexico where she continued to pick up modeling assignments and bit-part roles as a TV actress, according to friends.
If the Argentine allegations are true, it's unclear how Sanclemente made the leap from drug trafficker's moll to becoming a cocaine queen in her own right.
"There are some very determined and very strong women who have got more balls than the men. But usually I would say a girl like that would be running the network of mules not the whole cartel," the drug trafficking source told CNN.
The drug trafficker said he was almost certain, if the allegations are true, that Sanclemente was not operating alone. He said she would have needed connections to a Mexican cartel.
"Cancun is a very good spot to export drugs to Europe. A lot of tourists arrive on charter flights and the Mexican cartels have done an excellent job infiltrating the police," he said.
In the past Sanclemente has dyed her hair blonde then black and was last seen with copper highlights. She used to use blue contact lenses though her eyes are naturally brown.
But even if she goes unrecognized, friends say Sanclemente is unlikely to pass completely unnoticed. Her silicone-enhanced curves, tight-fitting outfits and catwalk strut make her hard to ignore.
"Angie kicked up dust wherever she went. Men and women would stop and stare whenever she passed," a female friend said.
Gilbert Arenas won't have to serve jail time, a judge ruled Friday.
The Washington Wizards three-time All-Star point guard was sentenced Friday in D.C. Superior Court by Judge Robert E. Morin on one felony count of violating the District of Columbia's strict gun laws
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Arenas must serve 30 days in a halfway house and register as a gun offender.
He was sentenced to two years probation and must donate $5,000 to victims of violent crimes fund and do 400 hours community service.
The prosecution and defense teams stated their cases earlier this week in voluminous filings. It was all far beyond anything Arenas imagined on that December morning when he says he brought four guns to the locker room to play a prank on a teammate.
Prosecutors wanted Arenas to go to jail for at least three months. They pointed out he lied repeatedly about why the guns were in the locker room, that he tried to cover up what happened, that he displayed a cavalier attitude about the whole affair, that he knew bringing guns into D.C. was illegal, and that he has a prior gun conviction.
Arenas' lawyers asked for probation and community service, arguing that he was playing a misguided joke with no intention to harm anybody. They pointed out that the guns were unloaded, that Arenas' lighthearted comments about the incident were misinterpreted, and that he's a good role model who goes beyond the call of duty when it comes to community service. They added he was confused about D.C.'s gun laws, and that he'd already been severely punished through humiliation and the loss of tens of millions of dollars from canceled endorsements and his suspension without pay for the rest of the NBA season.
The maximum term for Arenas' crime was five years. The sentencing guidelines for someone with his record called for 6-24 months, although those guidelines also allow for probation.
A general survey of similar cases over the last two years in the city indicate that about half of the defendants convicted of Arenas' crime receive some jail time, but the mitigating circumstances vary widely. Arenas' prior conviction -- a no contest plea to carrying a concealed weapon in California in 2003 -- was already a major strike against him, and the evidence revealed this week that he appeared to instigate a cover-up -- as shown in a text message produced by prosecutors -- has further damaged his case.
There was little dispute about the basic facts of the case. Arenas and teammate Javaris Crittenton got into an argument over a card game and exchanged threats while the team was flying home from a road game on Dec. 19. Two days later, Arenas brought his guns to the locker room and put them in a chair by Crittenton's locker with a sign saying, "Pick 1." Crittenton then retrieved his own gun and showed it to Arenas.
Crittenton pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor gun charge and received a year of unsupervised probation. Arenas entered his guilty plea on Jan. 15.
Seems as if Ice Cube has been keeping an ear to the streets. He's hearing the whispers that he doesn't want the up and coming rappers from the west to shine.
He also must have heard about Watts rapper Jay Rock taking the baton for the "New West" with his recent comments. Jay took offense to Cube saying it wasn't his job to make any new rappers famous calling a few unnamed West Coast MC's clowns.
Jay responded by saying he wanted Cube to name names and didn't need his co-sign. Further adding "all I need is my mic, my fans, my hood and this big ass gun"
In his latest blog, Don Mega addresses those issues.
"I understand my last few blogs have been talked about in the streets and all over the internet. I want to make myself clear to all my fans who think I turned my back on the young rappers out here. No. I wish every young MC nothing but success, especially the ones from the New West. BUT, I have a major problem with any mothaf**ka from ANY COAST dissing the Old West...especially me. I'M SERVING YOU!"
Cube doesn't feel the need to name specific rappers just yet. Although It's starting to become clear who he's talking about.
"Now, alot of people want me to name names. Buy the record. In stores July 13th. I ain't naming names at this time, but I'm adding names. You let me know if you wanna be on the list"
First things first: A huge R.I.P. to Eric "Eazy-E" Wright who died 15 years ago Friday (March 26) at the age of 31. Eazy meant so much to the rap game — not just a godfather of gangsta rap, his business acumen was unparallelled and he helped revolutionize the independent record hustle. Your genius was amazing, O.G.
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