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The Miss USA pageant is getting dressed down for what some consider to be overly sexy images of the 2010 contestants.
Pageant officials have been getting angry phone calls after posting "risqué" photos of this year's 51 contestants - from Miss Alabama all the way down to Miss Wyoming - TMZ.com reports.
The ladies, most of them in their early 20s, have traded in their traditional ball gowns and tiaras to lounge in bed in various stages of undress.
They offer the camera sultry looks as they show off their lingerie, or lack thereof.
Miss New York, Davina Reeves, holds shut her unbuttoned pin striped shirt but appears to be wearing nothing underneath.
Meanwhile, Miss New Jersey poses in nothing but a black lace bra, her nylon hose held up by garter belts.
A representative for Miss USA told TMZ that they consider the images "tasteful."
"You can have brains and be smart and still be sexy," the rep told the gossip Web site.
Miss USA 2010 takes place in Las Vegas next weekend. It will air May 16 at 7 pm on NBC.
Miss New York - Davina Reeves
Adrielle Churchill, Miss Arkansas
Nicole Michele Johnson, Miss California
Miss Connecticut Ashley Bickford
Cassady Lance, Miss Georgia
Renee Mokihana Nobriga, Miss Hawaii
Miss Illinois, Ashley Bardarich
Bethany Gerber
Katherine Anna Connors, Miss Iowa
Rima Fakih, Miss Michigan
Nicole Houde, Miss New Hampshire
Miss Pennsylvania, Gina Cerilli
Claire Schreiner, Miss Wyoming
Sarah Temple, Miss Alaska
Audrey Moore, Miss Alabama
Kelsey Moore, Miss Texas
Emily Anne Miller, Miss South Dakota
Tucker Perry, Miss Tennessee
Miss New Jersey, Chenoa Greene
Breanne Ponder, Miss Mississippi
Source: NY Daily News
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As previously reported on PaperChaserDotCom, Kobe Bryant posed for some strange pics for L.A. Times Magazine. Now he's getting clowned from coast to coast.
The internet has gone nuts with the now infamous pics..
Even fans at the Utah Jazz vs L.A. Lakers basketball series are clowning Kobe.
Damn Kobe you're still the best on the court, but this is pure comedy at it's finest!
Big shout out to BlackSportsOnline for the pics.
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Kobe's Dad getting owned
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SEATTLE -- A video showing Seattle police officers stomping on a man's head and body and using a racial epithet has prompted an internal investigation by authorities and disgust from the mayor.
One of the officers involved, a 15-year veteran, apologized at a Friday night news conference for his "hateful words."
The incident occurred as Seattle police were responding to an armed robbery call near a nightclub in Seattle's Westlake neighborhood on April 17. Patrons had called police and described the suspects as Hispanic.
The video -- shot by a freelance videographer and aired Thursday by KIRO -- shows a group of officers surrounding two men lying on the ground.
At one point, an officer approaches one of the men and can be heard saying: "You got me? I'm going to beat the (expletive) Mexican (expletive) out of you homey. You feel me?"
Soon after, officers kick the man in the head, hand and leg.
It turned out the man was not the robbery suspect, and the officers let him go.
A tearful Detective Shandy Cobane told reporters the words he used "were offensive and unprofessional."
"A day has not passed that I wished I could rewind the events of that night and take back those hateful words," he added.
Cobane apologized to the Latino community, saying, "I know that my words cut deep and were very hurtful."
"Please know that I am truly, truly sorry," the officer said.
He also apologized to Interim Police Chief John Diaz and his fellow officers.
Diaz said it was Cobane's decision to offer a public apology. The chief adds an internal investigation will continue.
"I watched the video and found it disturbing," Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said earlier in a statement, adding he has spoken with Diaz.
Cobane and a female officer seen in the video are both on administrative leave.
In a statement, police said the internal investigation of possible officer misconduct was being handled by the Office of Professional Accountability.
The video shows the unidentified man gingerly getting up after being on the ground. The man is approached by the videographer and asked why he was kicked.
"I don't know. They knocked me down and kicked me in the head," the man responds.
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Saturday Night Live had a special show last night (May 8) with Betty White hosting and Jay-Z serving as the musical guest.
Hov gave two standout performances. First he came out and went through a medley of songs that included "PSA", "On To The Next One", "99 Problems" and "Empire State Of Mind".
Later in the show he performed "Young Forever" featuring Mr Hudson.
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Chris Brown and Young Money's Tyga are hard at work on a new mixtape and judging from the tracks in this video they're going to have a hot one.
The tape is titled 'Fan Of A Fan' and will be the second mixtape of 2010 for Breezy following the February release of 'In My Zone'.
No release date for 'Fan Of A Fan', but expect it very soon.
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Schoolgirls have been complaining for months to Los Angeles County Deputies patrolling transit lines about a man who allegedly had fondled, groped and felt them up while they road buses to and from school.
Deputies have been searching for the man, and Thursday morning the manhunt ended when a female victim spotted the subject.
She told a few boys on the bus and 14 of her male classmates took matters into their own hands. They chased the suspected fondler off the bus and down the street
After a two-block chase, the boys caught the man and made a citizens' arrest.
The girls and boys all go to University High School in West Los Angeles and have not been identified in this story because they are minors.
Police identified the man accused of harassing the girls as 29-year-old Larry Mims. Mims is a registered sex offender who was convicted twice in the past decade in sex abuse cases.
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The recent photo shoot Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant did for L.A. Times Magazine has gotten people talking.
Just what exactly are these pictures supposed to suggest? Kobe's skin appears to be much darker in the photos than in real life.
Picture number one (at the top of blog) has caused the most controversy. Some have called it racist, saying it brings to mind minstrel advertisements from the 19th Century. Where white men were pictured in black face, with red lipstick, wide white eyes, hats, bow ties, and all black clothing.
The stylist claims they were trying to make Kobe look like Tupac Shakur.
For his part Kobe says the pics look doctored and are a "little too artsy" for his tastes.
His teammate Derek Fisher saw them and immediately asked "are these real?" Which probably sums up the initial reaction of most people when they first view them.
Whatever the photo shoot was aiming for, I think it's safe to say it ended being up one big epic fail.
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Kobe's teammates react to the pictures
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"Top five dead or alive and that's just off one lp"
Who can forget that sick line from Jadakiss off of the remix to Nas' joint "Made You Look"?
With that line, a lot of pressure was placed on Jada's shoulders to live up to top 5 status. The Yonker's rapper has delivered three very good, but not classic albums so far.
With the release of his latest mixtape, 'The Champ Is Here 3' out of the way. Al Qaeda Jada is prepping the release of what he hopes will be his signature LP.
'Top 5 Dead Or Alive' is the name of the album. Jada spoke to MTV recently about the project.
"I got about three good ones not even recorded, probably two verses done off each song," he said. "Probably four good ones, (DJ) Drama sent me something. I'm doing real careful selection on production on this next project."
"I'm looking for fire, big songs, even my street joints or if every verse got 75 curses in there I just want the production to be big."
When asked if the album was still coming out on Roc-A-Fella, Jada joked:
“Its Def Jam, Roc-A-Fella, Ruff Ryders, D-Block, Aphilliates, Green Lantern, a couple of other white guys. You know how this game is. Everybody is in the pot. But it’s enough money for everybody.”
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Make no mistake about it, if you ask a rapper who the best mc in the world is they will probably name themselves.
Sometimes though, as in the case of Fat Joe, you can start talking and get so gassed up you say something ridiculous.
Joey Crack was kicking it with Ricky Padilla and the 102 Jamz Crew. As he went through their rap Wall Of Fame and broke down some of the legends in the game, he actually had the nerve to say that after 2Pac he was the 2nd realest rapper in the game.
Whoa, that's a heavy statement right there. What about Ice Cube, Chuck D, Beanie Sigel, Scarface or 50 Cent? I would go so far as to say if you asked an average hip hop fan to name their top 10 realest rapper ever, Fat Joe's name would never come up.
Joe went on to call Lil Wayne the best rapper in the world today and took a shot at 50 Cent, saying he has only 1 classic album and tried to sign with Terror Squad back in the day.
Joe's one great contribution to the game is that he introduced the world to Big Pun. After that his career hasn't been much to talk about.
If Ed Lover would have been there, he would have hit Crack with a big, C'MON SON!
A judge has denied rapper DMX's request to leave the state so he can be a part of Dr. Drew Pinsky's "Celebrity Rehab" -- which, considering the doc's track record, is probably a good thing.
X is currently in jail in Arizona for violating his probation. Dr. Drew offered to treat DMX at his rehab clinic in California -- and tape the rapper's progress for the show, of course -- but on Tuesday an Arizona judge shot down X's request to hop the border so he could enroll.
According to a rep for the Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona, the judge rejected the rapper's petition for one reason -- he's already doing really well in the Arizona court-appointed substance abuse program, which ends early in July.
After that, the judge says, DMX can pursue treatment at Dr. Drew's facility -- but by then, taping will already have begun for "Celeb Rehab" and X will have missed his chance.
Source: TMZ
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Christina Aguilera joined Oprah Winfrey for a live taping from New York's Radio City Music Hall.
She sat down for a brief interview with Oprah. Where she talked about her son Max being the inspiration for her new album 'Bionic'. And how 'superhuman' she feels as a mother. Xtina later returned to perform her new single "Not Myself Tonight" for the first time live.
Her new album 'Bionic' is due in stores June 8.
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Drake is ready to take on some new acting roles. After starring on Degrassi: The Next Generation, the Canadian born rapper feels comfortable enough with his music career to tackle a movie role or two if the right one comes along.
He told XXL that he's not being offered the right parts.
“That’s probably my biggest goal is to get back into acting and really pick the right projects,” he told the magazine. “I’ve been reading different scripts but I know what I want to do and what type of project I want to be involved in and I’ve just been getting the typical projects that they’d offer to a new rapper, and it’s like, ehh. That’s not really what I want to do, or how I see myself.”
Drizzy feels confident he will do well when the right role comes along.
“I can actually act,” he explained. “I’ve studied acting. I’ve studied the craft and I’m also very open to receiving a role and committing my time whether it’s two weeks, a month, two months, before the movie starts shooting to really get into that role. Like I know what it is to do character research and really live as someone else in preparation for a movie, so that’s something I’m willing to do. I care about acting a lot so I’m excited to get back into it.”
In an interview with MTV last year Drake gave even more insight into what he feels he has to offer.
"I like to give things to people, so whether it be a movie or I have a TV show that me and one of my best friends [fellow 'Degrassi' actor] Mazin Elsadig did," he said. "We write. It's comedy comparable to, like, Judd Apatow and Michael Cera, but with black people in it. So, I mean, there's all kinds of forms of self-expression, and it carries over, obviously, into music. My music is really personal. It's really based on honesty, so it's not much acting involved. And, you know, [Lil] Wayne is a character when he performs. When he spits, he's animated. With me, with rapping, it's more intimate, it's more organic and more personal. My music, I think there's more acting on the business side of it than the music side of it."
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G-Unit soldier Tony Yayo was recently recruited to star in S.W.A.T.: Fire Fight, the Benny Boom-directed sequel to the 2003 film of the same name. XXLMag.com caught up with the Queens-bred rapper to speak on his role in the action flick.
This is Yayo’s first dramatic role and he couldn’t be more thrilled. “[This] is a real big, big look,” he said. “It’s a big movie. It’s gonna be crazy.” According to slashfilm.com the movie follows an LAPD Lieutenant who is transferred to a S.W.A.T. team in Detroit where he “finds himself the target of a homicidal genius who is protected by government officials.”
Yayo is currently shooting in Detroit, playing a villainous character named Carlos, where he will perform his own stunts. “I can’t tell you everything, but I can tell you I’m definitely one of the bad guys,” he shared. “I fit the part…It feels good to play the bad guy. And it’s definitely gonna be me against the police.”
This is just the beginning for Tony. The rapper will also be appearing alongside his G-Unit crew in an upcoming Harrison Ford project titled Morning Glory.
S.W.A.T.: Fire Fight is expected to be released sometime next year.
Source: XXL
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The man who is carrying Young Money on his back while Lil Wayne is locked up apparently doesn't like the sight of women's naked breasts.
Drake was performing live when a chick flashes her bare chest (a very normal occurrence at concerts).
Drizzy yells "Oh my Gawd" and turns away like he'd seen a ghost. This guy is going to be doing a lot more live shows so he better get used to this kind of thing.
Yelling "OMG", in that situation just isn't hip hop.
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NEW YORK – Having already caused a fuss this spring with the depiction of the prophet Muhammad on "South Park," Comedy Central said it has a cartoon series about Jesus Christ in the works.
"JC" is one of 23 potential series the network said it has in development. It depicts Christ as a "regular guy" who moves to New York to "escape his father's enormous shadow."
His father is presented as an apathetic man who would rather play video games than listen to his son talk about his new life, according to Comedy Central's thumbnail sketch of the idea. Reveille, the production company behind "The Office," "Ugly Betty" and "The Biggest Loser," is making "JC."
It wouldn't be the first time Jesus Christ has been on a Comedy Central cartoon; he's a recurring character on the long-running "South Park."
Comedy Central was the target last month of an Internet threat for a "South Park" episode that supposedly showed Islam's prophet in a bear costume.
Whenever "South Park" features Muhammad in an episode, Comedy Central obscures the character with a black box; Muslims consider any physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous.
Following the Internet threat, Comedy Central angered "South Park" producers by editing out a character's speech about intimidation in a subsequent episode.
"It's not certain what is more despicable: the nonstop Christian bashing featured on the network, or Comedy Central's decision to censor all depictions of Muhammad," said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, on Thursday.
Comedy Central wouldn't comment on Donohue's statement, said network spokesman Tony Fox, who declined to give further details about "JC."
A development deal is a couple of steps ahead of a series making it to air and, in fact, most such deals don't result in series. The network would have to like the scripts enough to produce a test episode, then like that enough to put it on the air.
Other series in the works are "Intercourse with Whitney Cummings," about the comedienne's adventures in dating, and "Live Sex Show," a late-night panel discussion about sex.
Source: Associated Press
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In the video for her latest single "Unthinkable", Alicia tackles the subject of interracial dating.
Being bi-racial herself, there isn't a better person to address this issue.
This is maybe the best song off Alicia's latest album 'The Element Of Freedom'.
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Wiz Khalifa
With his independently released mixtape So Far Gone, Drake went from digital dynamo (2,000 downloads in ten minutes) to Grammy nominee all before he signed on any dotted lines. Or maybe not: While a major-label bidding war supposedly raged, rumor had it that he was already signed to Young Money/Universal. Either way, the excitement around his quick, seemingly unassisted rise translated into true stardom. And today, a number of up-and-coming rappers, eager to re-create his magic, are at pains to represent themselves as boot-strapping independent artists — even when they’ve got freshly inked major-label deals.
This phenomenon existed before Drake. “I was over at Interscope when we signed Souljah Boy,” recalls Archibald Bonkers, manager of Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs and A&R for HHH Artists from 2004 to 2007. “At the first radio meeting after he was signed, [the label decided to] do nothing. They didn’t want to mess with the grassroots.” But recent examples of rappers who have secretly signed to labels while continuing to market themselves suggest that the trend’s truly taking hold among those still trying to make their break. The idea is simple: Artists market themselves gradually, via social networks and blogs, avoiding oversaturation. They make their music using low-budget production techniques. And then, once their “indie” success wins notice in the mainstream, their label backers come out from behind the curtains.
According to industry insiders, Pittsburgh’s Wiz Khalifa has been signed to Atlantic Records for close to a month now. (You may have noticed Kush and Orange Juice, the title of his most recent mixtape, trending on Twitter and Google.) Asked about the signing, Khalifa said, “Whatever people want it to be, that’s what it is. I didn’t say yes, I didn’t say no.” Either way, he released Kush independently, planning, as he told VIBE.com, the publicity behind the project himself. “The mixtape was done last month, but I really wanted to do it up and make sure something like this [buzz] would happen,” he said. “I got some more tricks up my sleeve, too.”
Meanwhile, Atlanta’s Spree Wilson recently inked a deal with Jive records without disclosing it. “They want me to market myself,” he explains. “Mixtapes, pre-projects — all before the album, [in order] to create a buzz.” (Release dates for Spree’s upcoming projects have yet to be announced.) And Warner Bros. calls Brooklynite Theophilus London — who independently released I Want You in August April and counts Solange Knowles among his fans — a "new signee," despite the fact that it's known that he was signed late last year.
These marketing plans are meant to capitalize on, and strengthen, an artist’s independently generated buzz. Practical concerns aside, this carries the always-magical whiff of rebellion. “Rebel music always does well, because kids always want to rebel against something,“ says Archibald Bonkers. It’s the new hip-hop cred: succeeding without a record label. So why sign to a major at all? “Money. That’s the only thing,” says Khalifa. Rappers “have to start rolling the weed and sweetening the lemonade.”
Source: Atlanta Post
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Kendra Wilkinson performs an "amazing striptease" in a new sex tape.
The former Playboy model is set to become the unwilling star of an X-rated DVD - which she filmed before she was famous - and sources who have seen it say it's extremely raunchy.
One said: "When I saw it, I was shocked. I mean, I just was shocked to see a Kendra Wilkinson sex tape, but it was obvious and clear to me that it was in fact her.
"Part of the tape is an amazing striptease from her, and then at the end of the tape she blows a kiss to the camera. It is very, very sexual, and she is just a beautiful woman. It's hot, definitely hot."
Because of the clear footage and erotic content, the tape is predicted to become a huge hit.
The source added to America's OK! magazine: "This tape is sexually explicit. It's hot and she's hot. It's going to be a massive seller."
The footage was obtained by porn distributors Vivid who plan to release the DVD, entitled 'Kendra Exposed', by the end of the month.
The 24-year-old blonde star - who has a four-month-old son, Hank Baskett IV, with her American footballer husband Hank Baskett - is not giving her backing to the tape's release and has reportedly instructed Los Angeles law firm Lavely & Singer to stop the proposed DVD from coming out.
However, Vivid CEO and founder Steve Hirsch is convinced his company has the legal right to bring it out.
Source: Contact Music
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A planned reunion gig by Run-DMC at this summer's Roots Picnic has been scrapped, drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson revealed today during a live interview with Billboard.com. Instead, The Roots will serve as backing band for a trio of Wu-Tang Clan members: Ghostface, Method Man and Raekwon.
Vampire Weekend will headline the third annual Roots Picnic, which will also feature a performance by the Philadelphia-based Roots plus two associated side projects from drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and rapper Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter. The event will be held June 5 at Philadelphia's Festival Pier; tickets go on sale Friday (March 5) via LiveNation.com.
Also on the bill are Clipse, Mayer Hawthorne, Nneka, the Very Best, Tuneyards, Das Racist, Bajah and the Dry Eye Crew and Pattern Is Movement. In addition, Questlove will play a set with fellow Philadelphia native DJ Jazzy Jeff, while Black Thought will perform with his side project the Money Making Jam Boys, which also features Dice Raw and Truck North.
Thompson also discussed the band's current studio projects including albums with Booker T. Jones and John Legend as well the group's own long-delayed album "How I Got Over" which will now come out June 8 on Def Jam.
Source: Billboard
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