Video After The JumpThe Unveiling: Lil Wayne's 'The Nino Brown Story, Pt. 2' DVD
Over the Christmas break, we brought you guys some exclusive clips from DJ Scoob Doo's "The Nino Brown Story, Pt. 2." The DVD gives you the most up close and personal footage of Lil Wayne ever.
Well, since everybody has been talking about our preview on Facebook and Twitter, being the cool dudes we are, we decided to give you a little more. In this exclusive, we catch Wayne in some rare studio downtime. Instead of recording, he's talking about the ESPN show "Jim Rome Is Burning."
Wayne said he had quite the time watching Rome rail against Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin. Of course, Kiffin was the talk of the sports world when Weezy referenced him on his No Ceilings mixtape via the "Banned From TV" freestyle.
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CNN) -- James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.
"I wasn't depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ," Baghdassarian said. "But I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed."
A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.
"That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted.
A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
"Ever since I went to see Avatar I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.
Cameron's movie, which has pulled in more than $1.4 billion in worldwide box office sales and could be on track to be the highest grossing film of all time, is set in the future when the Earth's resources have been pillaged by the human race. A greedy corporation is trying to mine the rare mineral unobtainium from the planet Pandora, which is inhabited by a peace-loving race of 7-foot tall, blue-skinned natives called the Na'vi.
In their race to mine for Pandora's resources, the humans clash with the Na'vi, leading to casualties on both sides. The world of Pandora is reminiscent of a prehistoric fantasyland, filled with dinosaur-like creatures mixed with the kinds of fauna you may find in the deep reaches of the ocean. Compared with life on Earth, Pandora is a beautiful, glowing utopia.
Ivar Hill posts to the Avatar forum page under the name Eltu. He wrote about his post-Avatar depression after he first saw the film earlier this month.
"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning," Hill wrote on the forum. "It just seems so ... meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in a dying world."
Reached via e-mail in Sweden where he is studying game design, Hill, 17, explained that his feelings of despair made him desperately want to escape reality.
"One can say my depression was twofold: I was depressed because I really wanted to live in Pandora, which seemed like such a perfect place, but I was also depressed and disgusted with the sight of our world, what we have done to Earth. I so much wanted to escape reality," Hill said.
Cameron's special effects masterpiece is very lifelike and the 3-D performance capture and CGI effects essentially allow the viewer to enter the alien world of Pandora for the movie's 2½-hour run-time, which only lends to the separation anxiety some individuals experience when they depart the movie theater.
"Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far," said Dr. Stephan Quentzel, psychiatrist and Medical Director for the Louis Armstrong Centerfor Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. "It has taken the best of our technology to create this virtual world and real life will never be as utopian as it seems onscreen. It makes real life seem more imperfect."
Fans of the movie may find actor Stephen Lang, who plays the villainous Col. Miles Quaritch in the film, an enemy of the Na'vi people and their sacred ground, an unlikely sympathizer, but Lang says he can understand the connection people are feeling with the movie.
"Pandora is a pristine world and there is the synergy between all of the creatures of the planet and I think that strikes a deep cord within people that has a wishfulness and a wistfulness to it," Lang said. "James Cameron had the technical resources to go along with this incredibly fertile imagination of his and his dream is built out of the same things that other peoples' dreams are made of."
The bright side is that for Hill and others like him who became dissatisfied with their own lives and with our imperfect world after enjoying the fictional creation of James Cameron, becoming a part of a community of like-minded people on an online forum has helped them emerge from the darkness.
"After discussing on the forums for a while now, my depression is beginning to fade away. Having taken a part in many discussions concerning all this has really, really helped me," Hill said. "Before, I had lost the reason to keep on living -- but now it feels like these feelings are gradually being replaced with others."
Quentzel said creating relationships with others is one of the keys to human happiness and that even if those connections are occurring online they are better than nothing.
"Obviously there is community building in these forums," Quentzel said. "It may be technologically different from other community building, but it serves the same purpose."
Within the fan community, suggestions for battling feelings of depression after seeing the movie include things like playing "Avatar" video games or downloading the movie soundtrack in addition to encouraging members to relate to other people outside the virtual realm and to seek out positive and constructive activities
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While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets pilloried by some Republicans for having once said that President Barack Obama is "light skinned" and only employs a "Negro dialect" when he wants to, there's this from the always-ready-to-offend Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois in the new Esquire (we've deleted two obscentities):
"It's such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of (@#$%) and phonies, but I was real, man --- and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the (@#$%)? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."
As the AP reminds us, "the twice-elected Democrat was impeached and removed from office last year after federal prosecutors arrested him on corruption charges that included trying to sell Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. He has pleaded not guilty."
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Near the end of the hit film “Avatar,” the villain snarls at the hero, “How does it feel to betray your own race?” Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall, long-tailed alien.
Strange as it may seem for a film that pits greedy, immoral humans against noble denizens of a faraway moon, “Avatar” is being criticized by a small but vocal group of people who allege it contains racist themes — the white hero once again saving the primitive natives.
Since the film opened to widespread critical acclaim three weeks ago, hundreds of blog posts, newspaper articles, tweets and YouTube videos have made claims such as that the film is “a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people” and reinforces “the white Messiah fable.”
The film’s writer and director, James Cameron, says the real theme is about respecting others’ differences.
In the film (read no further if you don’t want to spoil the plot) a white, paralyzed Marine, Jake Sully, is mentally linked to an alien’s body and set loose on the planet Pandora. His mission: persuade the mystic, nature-loving Na’vi to make way for humans to mine their land for unobtanium, worth $20 million per kilo back home.
Like Kevin Costner in “Dances with Wolves” and Tom Cruise in “The Last Samurai” or as far back as Jimmy Stewart in the 1950 Western “Broken Arrow,” Sully finds his allegiances soon change. He falls in love with the Na’vi princess and leads the bird-riding, bow-and-arrow-shooting aliens to victory over the white men’s spaceships and mega-robots.
Adding to the racial dynamic is that the main Na’vi characters are played by actors of color, led by a Dominican, Zoe Saldana, as the princess. The film also is an obvious metaphor for how European settlers in America wiped out the Indians.Robinne Lee, an actress in such recent films as “Seven Pounds” and “Hotel for Dogs,” said that “Avatar” was “beautiful” and that she understood the economic logic of casting a white lead if most of the audience is white.
But she said the film, which remained No. 1 at the box office domestically for the fourth straight weekend with $48.5 million and is second among all-time top-grossing films worldwide, still reminded her of Hollywood’s “Pocahontas” story — “the Indian woman leads the white man into the wilderness, and he learns the way of the people and becomes the savior.”
“It’s really upsetting in many ways,” said Lee, who is black with Jamaican and Chinese ancestry. “It would be nice if we could save ourselves.”
Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of the sci-fi Web site io9.com, likened “Avatar” to the recent film “District 9,” in which a white man accidentally becomes an alien and then helps save the aliens, and 1984’s “Dune,” in which a white man becomes an alien Messiah.
“Main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color … (then) go beyond assimilation and become leaders of the people they once oppressed,” wrote Newitz, who is white. “When will whites stop making these movies and start thinking about race in a new way?”
Black film professor and author Donald Bogle said he can understand why people would be troubled by “Avatar,” although he praised it as a “stunning” work.
“A segment of the audience is carrying in the back of its head some sense of movie history,” said Bogle, author of “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films.”
Bogle stopped short, however, of calling the movie racist.
“It’s a film with still a certain kind of distortion,” he said. “It’s a movie that hasn’t yet freed itself of old Hollywood traditions, old formulas.”
Writer/director Cameron, who is white, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that his film “asks us to open our eyes and truly see others, respecting them even though they are different, in the hope that we may find a way to prevent conflict and live more harmoniously on this world. I hardly think that is a racist message.”
There are many ways to interpret the art that is “Avatar.”
What does it mean that in the final, sequel-begging scene, Sully abandons his human body and transforms into one of the Na’vi? Is Saldana’s Na’vi character the real heroine because she, not Sully, kills the arch-villain? Does it matter that many conservatives are riled by what they call liberal environmental and antimilitary messages?
Is Cameron actually exposing the historical evils of white colonizers? Does the existence of an alien species expose the reality that all humans are actually one race?
Although the “Avatar” debate springs from Hollywood’s historical difficulties with race, Will Smith recently saved the planet in “I Am Legend,” and Denzel Washington appears ready to do the same in the forthcoming “Book of Eli.”
Bogle, the film historian, said that he was glad Cameron made the film and that it made people think about race.
“Maybe there is something he does want to say and put across” about race, Bogle said. “Maybe if he had a black hero in there, that point would have been even stronger.”
Source: Access Hollywood
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(CNN) -- Some 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will find themselves lacking wives in 2020, partly because of the country's one-child policy, which has led to the abortion of female fetuses, state media said Monday.
Sex-specific abortions have led to a large male population born since the 1980s, the China Daily newspaper said, citing a study conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The gender imbalance means that the next decade will see many intergenerational marriages: young men married to women much older than them, the study said.
China's Communist Party implemented the one-child rule three decades ago, amid fears that the country would not be able to feed a skyrocketing population. The policy has prevented about 400 million births, China Daily said.
Couples living in cities are barred from having more than one child, unless neither parent has siblings. In rural areas, the law allows for a second child under certain circumstances. And the guidelines are looser for ethnic minorities with small populations.
Enforcement varies, but usually takes the form of fines to discourage extra births.
The policy has curbed population growth, and has led to forced sterilization in some parts of the country, the U.S. State Department said. Because of a traditional preference for male heirs, many Chinese also have aborted female fetuses, according to human rights groups.
Even within the country, calls to overhaul the law have increased in recent years, China Daily said.
But China has said it will maintain its one-child policy for at least another decade.
Nearly 200 million Chinese will enter child-bearing age in the next 10 years, Minister Zhang Weiqing told China Daily two years ago. He said abandoning the policy during this period would cause "serious problems and add extra pressure on social and economic development."
"After the new birth peak ends, we may adjust the policy if there is a need," he said.
China's population, which stands at about 1.3 billion, is growing at the rate of 0.6 percent. It is expected to peak around 1.6 billion by 2050, the U.S. State Department said.
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Actor/producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, right, and co-producer Randall Emmett talk about their movie "Gun" filming in Grand Rapids.The movie business is booming in Grand Rapids — literally.
A little black powder, some sand to push the doors open, a bit of propane to cause a fire, earplugs for everyone in the vicinity and — whoomp! A police car explodes into flames inside the former Lear Corp. plant, 2150 Alpine Ave. NW, Sunday afternoon, where the action movie “Gun” was being filmed with star, producer and screenwriter Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
A voice yells “Cut!” and two Walker firefighters extinguish the blaze. The sprinklers don’t go off, the set is secure and the scene is successfully captured on camera. Special effects supervisor Ken Gorrell was satisfied.
“We had one take, and that’s it,” he said, lighting a cigarette after completing the shot. “It looks like we don’t have to (add any effects in post-producton). Inside this building, everything filled in nicely.”
Fire erupts from a police car during an explosive scene from the movie "Gun" filmed at the former Lear plant on Alpine Avenue NW on Sunday afternoon. The movie starring Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Val Kilmer is being shot in various locations in Grand Rapids.
The big boom will be part of the climactic shootout sequence in the film, in which Jackson — best known as a multiplatinum-selling hip-hop star — Val Kilmer and John Larroquette (“Night Court”) play arms dealers. AnnaLynn McCord (“90210” and “Nip/Tuck”) stars as a manipulator of the big arms transaction, and James Remar (“Dexter”) portrays a cop trying to break up the smuggling ring.
“This is the final confrontation,” Jackson said, wearing a white shirt stained with fake blood, while seated inside a trailer next to producing partner Randall Emmett. “We’ve been shooting this scene for two days. There’s been a lot of action, and now we’re covering some of the details.”
Earlier on Sunday, Jackson was creating more noise, wielding a massive .50 caliber gun that weighs 85 lbs. Notably, it’s not the “Gun” of the title, which refers to his character’s two-hander Smith and Wesson pistol. The gunplay left an acrid smell lingering from the morning’s scenes, also filmed inside the chilly warehouse.
“It’s the big takedown today, the heat of the battle,” Remar said.
“We need the heat of the battle to keep us warm,” he joked.
“Gun” began shooting Dec. 27, and principal photography will wrap Thursday. Budgeted at less than $3 million, the movie is a product of Emmett and Jackson’s Cheetah Vision Films partnership. They plan to shoot three films in Michigan in 2010 to take advantage of the state tax incentives. Emmett said they will debut the film at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Emmett and Jackson filmed “Caught in the Crossfire” locally last year with Grand Rapids-born director BrianMiller; it has not been released yet. Kilmer, who wrapped his “Gun” scenes on Thursday and left town, also starred in “The Chaos Experiment,” which shot locally in 2008 and is now available on DVD.
Jackson and Kilmer co-starred in the thriller “Streets of Blood,” released on DVD last year. Their relationship on that film’s set prompted Jackson to recruit the “Batman Forever” and “Top Gun” actor for “Gun.” Jackson also hand-picked director Jessy Terrero (“Soul Plane”) based on their previous music-video collaborations.
“He’s my biggest client in the video world,” Terrero said. “I knew him when no one knew who 50 Cent was.”
The soft-spoken Jackson talked in great detail about his involvement with the film from top to bottom: He wrote the script’s first draft, serves as its music director and even helped select cameras and cast members. He said he has been offered acting roles, but prefers to pursue “projects that have the level of artistic integrity I want to be associated with.”
Jackson is currently balancing his film work with his music career. He released his new album “Before I Self Destruct” in November, and will take part in concert tours between movies this year. The bonus DVD that comes with the album features a film Jackson directed himself.
“50 isn’t one of those actors who get producer credit but don’t really do anything,” said Emmett, who has produced dozens of films, including “Righteous Kill” and “88 Minutes.” “It’s exciting for me to work with someone as committed as he is.
“He brings his own mobile studio with him,” Emmett added. “He’ll have three-and-a-half minutes between takes, and you’ll see him in his trailer working on music. He makes everyone else feel lazy.”
Also working hard is McCord, who has flown back and forth between Los Angeles, where she’s still shooting “90210,” and Grand Rapids to film her scenes.
“This is the type of role I want — I love action films,” she said. “My agent sweet-talked the ‘90210’ producers so I could shoot both.
“I wanted to work with Curtis,” she added. “We have wonderful chemistry, and we’re having lots of fun together.”
The actress has had some down time in G.R., though; she drove go-carts at Craig’s Cruisers on a recent day off.
“I love it here,” she said. “Los Angeles is not based in reality. It’s nice to be somewhere that’s chill, and you’re not surrounded by a bunch of pretentious L.A. people.”
Actor James Remar, center, plays a cop in the movie "Gun" filmed in Grand Rapids. His son Jason, left, has a small part in the explosive scene shot in the former Lear plant on Alpine Avenue NW on Sunday afternoon.
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James Cameron's "Avatar" dominated the North American box office for the fourth weekend in a row, earning $48.5 million and becoming the second-highest-grossing film of all time.
So far, Cameron's other mega-hit, "Titanic," which remained No. 1 for 15 weeks straight and garnered $1.8 billion in global sales, is the only movie to top the $1.34 billion worldwide earnings of "Avatar."
But box-office watchers believe that as curious movie fans flood the theaters to catch the must-see sci-fi adventure, the "Avatar" aliens could sink "Titanic."
"I believe anything is possible with this picture. Nothing would surprise me," said Bert Livingston, a 20th Century Fox distribution executive.
Meanwhile, "Daybreakers," starring Ethan Hawke as a reluctant vampire, opened at No. 4 with an estimated weekend take of $15 million.
Two other newcomers, the romantic comedy "Leap Year" and Michael Cera's dorky-teen flick "Youth in Revolt," landed in the sixth and ninth spots, earning $9.2 million and $7 million, respectively.
"Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey Jr. as the iconic sleuth, spent a third weekend at No. 2 with sales of $16.6 million, and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" was No. 3 for a third week with $16.3 million.
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Video After The JumpI think we finally have our answer for why there probably won't be a Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao fight.ESPN boxing analyst and former trainer Teddy Atlas has learned of explosive private emails sent from the Pacquiao Camp to the camp of Mayweather Jr.
According to Atlas, who is very highly thought of in the boxing world. Manny's people wanted to know what kind of penalty he would face if he tested positive for a banned substance. And could those results be kept confidential for the benefit of boxing.
He also brings up a very good point. Asking if Manny is clean and has nothing to hide why would he walk away from a $30 million dollar payday?
Fast forward to the 9 minute mark to hear Atlas expose Pacquiao.
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01. DJ Whiteowl - Intro
02. Papoose - Glock Busta (Feat. Biggie)
03. Tony Yayo - Gettin’ Money (Obama)
04. Styles P And Chinx Drugz - We Getz Busy
05. Styles P - Send A Kite (Feaat. Dwayne Collins)
06. Lil’ Wayne - We Made It (Feat. Kevin Rudolf And Jay Sean)
07. Juelz Santana - Home Run (Feat. Lil’ Wayne) (Snippet)
08. Lil’ Wayne - Freestyle
09. Jay-Z - The R.O.C. Cafe (Feat. Beanie Sigel, DJ Premier, And M.O.P.)
10. DMX - We Stay Flawless (Feat. N.O.R.E. And Ja Rule)
11. Mobb Deep - 2 The Death (Feat. Kool G Rap And M.O.P.)
12. Mobb Deep - Somebody Gotta Do It
13. Un Pachino And Chinx Drugz - You Must Be Crazy
14. N.O.R.E. - Exhibit CNN Pt. 1
15. Capone - Exhibit CNN Pt. 2
16. Joe Budden - R.I.P.
17. Styles P - Interlude
18. Styles P - 16 Barz
19. J.R. Writer - I’m Just Warming Up
20. Maino - 2010 Predictions
21. Grafh - Freestyle
22. Pokerface - Verbal Intercourse 2K10
23. Mazaradi Fox And A.T. - We On That Shit
24. L. Black - Skinny Jeans
25. Yelawolf - Dear Mama
26. Lil’ Wayne - Girl U Nasty (Feat. Mack Maine, Jae Millz,And Tyga)
27. Snoop Dogg - Connected
28. Lil’ Wayne - Run This Town Pt. 2 (Chops Remix)
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01. Try Me
02. Every Morning
03. Quarantine
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05. Live Comfortable
06. Drop That Top
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08. Bad Whiskey
09. Bigga Make Me Cum
10. Eye For An Eye
11. Max And Scar (Feat. Scarlett O’Harlem)
12. Picture Me Rolling
13. Chase You Home
14. Have You Seen Her
15. She Touched It In Miami
16. Walk The Streets Alone
17. Tattoos On Her Ass
18. I Wasn’t There
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20. Go Go Go
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23. What Am I Gone Do
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01. Cam’ron - Gangsta Grillz 2 Freestyle
02. Cam’ron And Vado - Stop It 5
03. Cam’ron - Let’s Talk About It (Feat. Jadakiss)
04. Cam’ron And Vado - Arab Muzik
05. Cam’ron And Vado - Caveman
06. Cam’ron - Cuffin’ (Feat. Gucci Mane)
07. Cam’ron - Get It (Feat. Mase)
08. Cam’ron And Vado - Ohh Baby
09. Cam’ron And Vado - Different Cloth
10. Vado - Talk To ‘em
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13. Cam’ron And Vado - You The Baddest
14. Cam’ron And Vado - We Here Now
15. Cam’ron And Vado - Horror Story
16. Cam’ron - Stupid Wild (Feat. Gucci Mane)
17. Cam’ron - Lennox And 7th
18. Cam’ron And Vado - Professional
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West Coast super lyricist Bishop Lamont has finally confirmed the rumors. He is no longer a part of Aftermath Records.
It was an amicable split with Dr Dre allowing Bishop to leave with 700 plus mastered songs. So expect to see his long awaited album "The Reformation" sometime in 2010.
Bishop sounded upbeat in a call placed into The All Out Show with Rude Jude and Lord Sear on Shade 45 radio yesterday (Saturday January 9th). He jokingly referred to himself as a prisoner who has finally been freed. After nearly five years signed with Dr Dre he felt it was just time to move on.
Bishop follows the departures in the last several years of artists like Joell Ortiz, Marsha Ambrosius, Dawn Robinson, King Tee and Rakim who were all at one point signed to Aftermath, but never released an album while there. Raekwon was supposed to release 'Only Built For Cuban Linx II'. through Aftermath in 2007, but eventually put it out through EMI in 2009.
In Bishop's situation, he seems to point the finger at Interscope Records as the underlying reason his project never saw the light of day. Saying he couldn't get the budget to shoot a video for his Dr Dre produced buzz single "Grow Up" as well as other songs.
The Aftermath roster currently looks something like this. 50 Cent, Eminem, Hayes and Slim Da Mobster (who is also signed to Shady Records & G-Unit Records).
Meanwhile, Bishop just left New York where his is talking to various labels about a new record deal.
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He went the extra mile.
A broke but honest cabby spent his Christmas Eve driving back and forth to Long Island to find the Italian grandma who had left $10,000 cash in his taxi outside Penn Station.
Mukul Asaduzzaman, 28, nearly made two round trips between New York City and Patchogue that night, and waited outside an empty house in between, before he finally found his forgetful passenger, Felicia Lettieri, who was visiting relatives in New York.
"It was so beautiful, so kind," said a grateful Lettieri, 72, when she finally got back her lost loot.
Asaduzzaman, a Bangladesh native and pre-med student from Queens, said that he didn't mind spending three hours searching for her.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother told me, 'Be honest, work hard and you will raise your station,' " said the cabby, who refused to accept any reward money.
Source: NY Post
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Videos After The JumpSaturday Night Live seems to have gotten a lot funnier over the last couple of seasons and the Digital Shorts are a big reason why.
In this latest one, R&B superstar Alicia Keys was feeling like she might want some late night company. So she dials up a friend (Andy Samberg) to set up a rendezvous. The hilarious call turns into a three-way with his grandmother, but Alicia was down for whatever!
Alicia also performed "Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart" and "Empire State Of Mind Pt 2" from her latest album 'The Element Of Freedom'
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Jana Rawlinson After Breast Surgery (left) And Before (right)An Australian track star had her breast implants removed in an attempt to boost her chances of winning a medal at the 2012 Olympics.
In a magazine interview, Jana Rawlinson admitted she spent $13,000 in the past 14 months getting her breasts enhanced — only to have the cosmetic procedure reversed.
"Yep, I'm back to being flat as a pancake," Rawlinson told Woman's Day magazine.
The 27-year-old runner said she had the implants taken out because she felt they were affecting her performance on the track.
"Every time I raced, I panicked about whether I was letting my country down, all for my own vanity," she said.
"I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but I don't want to short-change Australia either. I want to feel the most athletic I can, to know that I'm standing on the track in London (2012 Olympics) the fittest I can be."
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Christmas has come and gone, but Chris Cringle aka Ludacris is still in the giving mood.
Luda is dropping a free mixtape next week 'Conjure: A Hustler's Spirit'. To get everyone warmed up for his upcoming album 'Battle Of The Sexes'
In addition to that good news, Ludacris has hooked up with a producer by the name of Igloo for a rock/rap project featuring remixed joints from his last album 'Theater Of The Mind'.
The Atlanta emcee has leaked several tracks from the rock project as well as a one from the mixtape.
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Former Death Row Records CEO, Marion "Suge" Knight is being taken to court by his baby's mother for child support for their four year old daughter.Tammie Renell Hawkins filed paperwork in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking monthly payments from the once filthy rich Suge. But the days of popping champagne are long gone for the man who once ruled the music industry with artists like Dr Dre, 2Pac & Snoop Dogg.
Ms Hawkins will at the most receive a payment of $302 dollars a month for daughter Taz Maree Knight. Since Suge's reported income is now only $1,207 a month.
This is the second time Suge has been in this situation.
In May 2009, singer and ex-wife Michel'le filed on him for spousal and child support.
It's not looking good for Suge. Reminds me of the famous line from 50 Cent's song "Wanksta". "Damn homie, in high school you was the man homie!"
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The saga of Monica Danger, star of VH1 reality show "For The Love Of Ray-J" has taken a sad turn.
According to TMZ, she has lost custody of her newborn baby who has been placed in the care of his father by Los Angeles Child Protective Services.
This news comes just weeks after she was placed in a mental institution following an incident involving the baby. A situation she labeled as an example of "martial law" during a recent rambling appearance on DJ Whoo Kid's Shade 45 show.
TMZ reports she is handling this recent setback well. She is seen smiling in the pic below that was taken at the L.A, courthouse shortly after the decision.
Tween singing sensation Justin Bieber and Barbadian songstress Rihanna are paired up to entertain concertgoers at Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam. The two artists will be singing on the first day of the concert series on Thursday, February 4.
Justin is set to deliver songsfrom platinum debut album "My World" in front of the crowd in the South Beach of Miami. Meanwhile, Rihanna is scheduled to perform tracks from her fourth studio effort "Rated R".
The second day of the gig, which will also be the last one, takes place on February 5. Nelly Furtado, Paulina Rubio and Pitbull are tapped to rock the event with singles from their latest studio installments.
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"Entourage" star Kevin Dillon and TV anchor Nancy O'Dell will host the Thursday night's concert, while Telemundo stars Leti Coo and Jessi Losada will host the Friday night's festivity along with actor Karim Mendiburu. NFL players also will participate in the two concerts which will be aired live on VH1.
Free tickets for both gigs will be made available on a "first come, first serve" basis beginning Monday, January 11 on TicketMaster.com. There is limit of 10 tickets per person.
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