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Thursday, 04 September 2003 |
Outkast and Missy Elliott spilled the beans on their collaborations to MTV News at this year's VMAs, but both stressed that the No Doubt singer's album is still a work in progress and that their contributions may not make the final cut. They also said they're encouraged by Stefani's open-mindedness in exploring new directions.
"I think the album will sound totally different than her No Doubt stuff," Outkast's Andre 3000 said. "And that's cool. Step out and do something new sometime. It could be interesting."
Outkast said the tracks they've already submitted were "some of the strangest stuff" they could, just to encourage Stefani along the road not usually taken. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2003 |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2003 |
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Monday, 01 September 2003 |
AllHipHop.com reports North Carolina police are seeking a con artist who stole more than $300,000 in cash, jewelry and clothes from rapper Trina.
Trina was performing Friday morning at Club Dynasty in Greenville, North Carolina when an unidentified man posed as Trina's manager and persuaded a Hilton hotel employee to give him a key to the her room.
Investigators are looking at a hotel security tape that shows the clerk and the suspect.
Police said the tape was not the best quality, but was their only lead in trying to identify the suspect.
"Sixteen years in the business and this has never happened," Trina's real manager Mike Hopkins told the Daily Reflector. "That's why we stay in places like this for security reasons. We don't stay nowhere below four-star hotels." |
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Monday, 01 September 2003 |
Announced August 27th, during a press conference held by The Source magazine in New York City, SRC/Universal Recording artist David Banner received three nominations for this year's upcoming Source Awards being held in Miami, Florida on October 13th. David Banner and his SRC debut Mississippi: The Album have been nominated for "Break Through Artist of the Year", "Single of the Year - Collabo" for "Like a Pimp" featuring Lil Flip, and "Live Performer of the Year."
Banner has already had a stellar year with the spring release of Mississippi: The Album. It debuted at #1 on Soundscan's "R&B chart," #2 on Billboards' "Rap Chart" and #9 on Billboards "Top 200 Albums Chart" and spawned the smash hit single "Like a Pimp," featuring Lil Flip. The video for the single stayed in heavy rotation on both BET and MTV2, as well as garnered significant spins on radio stations throughout the country. |
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Monday, 01 September 2003 |
Murder Inc. continues to live up to its crime-laden image. In another related story out of the infamous rap label that boasts Ja Rule and Ashanti, police arrested Tyran Moore, aka "Tah Tah," in Canarsie last night, in connection with the shooting 35-year old Police Captain, Kenneth Girvin in Harlem Wednesday according to Sohh.com.
Moore is an ex-convict with known ties to Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, a long time friend of Murder Inc. CEO, Irv Gotti, who recently was sentenced to 37 months in prison for illegal possession of a handgun. Police arrested 32-year old Moore after a two-hour standoff outside a relative's home, in which he held three people captive inside - his nephew, Antoine Hembrick, Hembrick's wife, Tonya Taylor, and their daughter, Asia, 5. |
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Monday, 01 September 2003 |
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Friday, 29 August 2003 |
AllHipHop.com reports Sean "P.Diddy" Combs signed a deal last week to open a 3,500 square foot Sean John store on New York's trendy Fifth Avenue.
The shop, which is set to open in the spring of next year, could be the flag ship store for a 200-300 unit national chain of Sean John clothing stores.
The store will be located on Fifth Avenue and 41st Street. Puff is planning to launch a womens collection for the Sean John line. |
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Friday, 29 August 2003 |
Murder Inc.'s scruffy-voiced cornerstone, Ja Rule, was greeted with cheers on both Friday and Saturday night as he took on guest performer duties during Ashanti's opening set for R. Kelly according to MTV.
The Rule may soon get a chance to see if the rest of the country is done with that whole backlash thing Irv Gotti said was beleaguering his friend earlier this year when he releases a few new tracks. Def Jam has confirmed that Rule is indeed working on the EP that has been rumored to be happening over the past few weeks. A spokesperson for the Inc. did not have any further details other than that Rule is in the beginning stages, however a couple of people close to Ja say that the EP will definitely have a distinctively harder edge than some of the hits he released the past few years, such as "Always on Time" and "Put It on Me." The sources also say that Ja Rule still has a double LP on tap and that it will likely come out after the EP. There is no known release date for the rumored LP, and a release date has not yet been set for the EP.
Ja is currently in Las Vegas with his musical family members at the Magic convention promoting the Inc.'s new clothing line, ErvingGeoffrey, which is a play off of Irv Gotti's birth name, Irving, and Ja's real name, Jeffrey.
"This is me and Ja's clothing line," Irv said in May, clad in a T-shirt from the line. "Ashanti has a piece of it, my brother has a piece of the company. It's just the natural progression — we felt we could have a clothing line. We're going to release it in the fall. We like army fatigues so we did army fatigues, jeans and T-shirts. Dudes love T-shirts so what we did with the T-shirts [was] we put slogans on them. One of them was the 'Scarface' [movie] slogan, 'Love the American Dream With a Vengeance.' It says 'Get Yours By Any Means.' I have one that says 'America's Most Wanted' and I have another one that says 'Come and Get Me.' " |
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