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Lebron James Tells Larry King The Cleveland Cavaliers "Have An Edge" In Signing Him As A Free Agent [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 2, 2010 at 5:59am


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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.

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Dr Dre Beats Out DJ Premier, Earns Top Spot As The Greatest Hip Hop Producer Of All Time [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 9:30pm


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All the votes are in and Dr Dre has prevailed over DJ Premier by a margin of 62% to 38% in the final round of Vibe's contest 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."

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Raekwon Says Wu Tang Clan Will Perform Entire 'Enter The Wu (36 Chambers)' Album For 1st Time On Rock The Bells Tour [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 9:05pm


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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.

Source: MTV

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Worst 911 Call Ever: Mom Calls Police After Cutting 12 & 13 Yr Old Daughters Throats "One Is Dead, The Other One Wants To Be Saved" [2 Videos]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 7:00pm


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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.

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Supreme Court Changes Miranda Rights. Suspects Must Now Say They Want To Remain Silent

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 4:00pm


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."

The case is Berghuis v. Thompkins, 08-1470.

Source: KVAL

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Lil Mama Accused Of Stealing Clothes From Romeo & New Boyz Video Shoot

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 3:17pm


Lil Mama could use some positive press these days, unfortunately this article won't provide any.

Hiphopwired is reporting the stage hogging rapper has been accused of stealing and trashing clothes from a New Boyz & Romeo video shoot.

According to the report, she left clothes borrowed for the shoot ruined with dirt and paint stains and simply walked away with the rest.

The producer for the video has reached out to Lil Mama's camp, but has not gotten a call back forcing him to file theft charges.

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Singer M.I.A. Convinced Facebook & Google Search Engine Part Of CIA Plot To Spy On Us. Warns People Not To Use Them

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 2:38pm


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."

Source: PR-Inside

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Public Schools In Crisis As Major Budget Cuts Forcing Massive Teacher Layoffs & Cuts To Programs [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 9:27am


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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.

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Newsman Ted Koppel's Son Dies In What Cops Call A "Sh*t Building" After All Night Drinking Binge With Guy He Just Met

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 8:37am


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.

Source: New York Post

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Kristen Stewart Covers UK Elle, Complains Fame Is Too Hard "A Lot Of The Time I Can’t Handle It. It’s F***ed" [Photos & Behind The Scenes Shoot Inside]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 7:30am


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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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Joell Ortiz Explains The Meaning Of "Yaowa", Speaks On New Mixtape With Green Lantern & Don Cannon

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 6:51am


Brooklyn's Joell Ortiz now has one of the most recognizable call-outs in hip-hop. If you're not familiar, after his mixtape drops this month, you'll be saying: "Yaowa!"

"I got so many meanings of yaowa, it's crazy," Ortiz laughed. "First, it's used as a term of endearment for dudes around my way. How you say, 'What up?' We say, 'Yaowa!' It came from my man Smash. Shout to Smash. He used to be really drunk around the way. It's a distance between the buildings. He used to be saying, 'Yo, what up?' But he'd be so drunk, it sounded like he was saying, 'Yawhuhup?' He'd be twisted. I just turned it into yaowa. Every time I get on a beat, I say, 'Yaowa,' before I rap on it. Then I started playing around with it and turned it into [meaning]: 'you're actually one world away.' I be feeling like my flow is not of Earth. I zone out, become an alien with it. On another freestyle, I said, 'I'll put you in a hospital because my flow is so sick.' That's 'your ass on wild anesthetics.' I just be spazzin' out with the yaowa. But it's a term of endearment around my way."

Joell's new mixtape is named after his favorite word and hosted by DJ Green Lantern and Don Cannon. "Its called Yaowa. Green Lantern is hosting it along with Don Cannon. We been tossing around ideas," Ortiz said. "We didn't really get to the meat of it. But we have a few ideas to see how we gonna make it classic. Don Cannon's got some ideas, Green Lantern's got some ideas. I think we gonna make it a good one.

"Green kinda hooked that up," Joell added about how the Evil Genius and Cannon got involved. "Me and Green was hollering, he said it would be a good idea to hook up with Cannon. Cannon was like, 'That's nothing. I been fiending to do something like that.' So we running a triangle offense with this tape."

Lantern and Green will have the primary production on the mixtape, but Joell said he's open to submissions from everyone — as long as the tracks are hot. As for big-name guest appearances, which have become customary with tapes from Fabolous, Jadakiss, T.I. and Young Jeezy this year, the Slaughterhouse member said he hasn't thought about it yet.

"I'm just thinking about zoning out," he said. "I'm not thinking about who I'm reaching out to. I'm not thinking about who to bring to the tape. I'm just thinking about making a really, really good tape. Letting people know who Joell Ortiz is one more time. This time with Green Lantern and Don Cannon. Just rapping, that's what I do the best. I rap. I'm concerning myself with rippin' this tape and getting some good feedback on it."

Source: MTV

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Roger That: Meet The Rapping Weatherman. LOL [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 1, 2010 at 5:00am


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Let's face it watching the local weather is usually about as interesting as watching an L.A. Clippers game. That is until Nick Kosir of Beaumont, Texas' Fox 4 started spitting rhymes as The Rapping Weatherman.

Now you can laugh your ass off while deciding whether or not you will need an umbrella for the day.

Dude even has a Facebook page set up for his fans.

Check him out rhyming over Young Money's "Roger That" below, lmao.

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Uncle Luke's Daughter Claims He's A Deadbeat Dad & That He Shot Her Mom In The Leg! [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 31, 2010 at 9:00am


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It's probably not all that happy of a Memorial Day in rapper Luther Campbell aka Uncle Luke's crib today. As one of his daughter's has thrown him under the bus.

Lecresha Campbell, who appeared on her dad's show "Luke's Parental Advisory" says among other things that he doesn't acknowledge his own kids and that he physically abused and shot her mom in the leg.

"He even like shot her [mother] in the leg I think."

I would hope Lecresha isn't making all of this up, but she does plug her own show in the video and is obviously reading from pre-scripted notes

I would also think it would be pretty much impossible to shoot a woman in the leg and not have the police kicking down your door soon after.

I guess we'll have to wait for her tv show or next video to get the rest of the story.

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M.I.A. Takes More Shots At Lady Gaga "I Hate It We Babies Say Ga-Ga Now, It Used To Be Innocent, Now They're Calling Her Name"

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 30, 2010 at 12:13pm


Don't expect a Lady Gaga and M.I.A collaboration anytime soon.

For the second time in the last several months, the British singer criticizes Gaga for her lack of originality.

In an interview with the New York Times, M.I.A she actually sounds like she despises the "Telephone" singer.

The comparisons to Madonna and the constant chatter that Lady Gaga has become a cultural icon don't sit well with M.I.A.

“You can’t really say that Gaga is culturally a change,” she said. “Madonna was truly unique.”

Romain Gavras, the director of M.I.A.'s controversial new video "Born Free" added. “And Madonna was pretty,” he said. “Pop stars should be pretty.”

On the subject of "Born Free", M.I.A compared it to Gaga's video for "Telephone".

“With our video, we were really copying ‘Telephone,’ she says “Both our videos are road movies. We kill people, and they kill people. They start out in a prison, and we start out in a squat, hunting people down.”

“I can’t talk about Gaga anymore,” she said “All I’ll say is, it’s upsetting when babies say ga-ga now. It used to be innocent. Now, they’re calling her name.”

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O Really? Natalie Nunn Of 'Bad Girls Club 'Tells VladTV "I've Been Visiting States I Didn't Know Existed" & WTF Is That Thing On Her Lip? [Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 30, 2010 at 11:00am


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We throw the world "celebrity" around too liberally these days. Take some person off the street, put them on a reality show and watch them fight and get drunk and that makes them a celeb?


I don't think so, but I guess the general public doesn't agree with me.


One of those new celebs, Natalie Nunn has gotten lots of face time recently because of her outrageous antics on the show 'The Bad Girls Club'. Also because she regularly bashes Rihanna while sticking up for her abuser Chris Brown.


VladTV asked her what she's been up to since 'Bad Girls' wrapped.


"I was on a party tour all over the United States. I was hosting parties, it's just been great. Ive been to every state. States I really didn't even know existed that had like a population, been there."


The rest of the interview sounded a lot like "blah blah blah blah". So I used that time to try to figure out exactly what the hell is that thing on her lip?


Help me out people.


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