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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
T.I. has been hard at work on his new album, Paper Trail, which is due in stores in September. Recently he revealed to a Atlanta radio station that he has "ever so slightly" toned down the lyrics for his new album due to a newfound understanding that he has learned from his past year of troubles including talking to children about guns and drugs. "Not to a great deal or an extra degree of censorship, I'm just making sure this album is much more intelligently and artistically put together," T.I. said, continuing, "I'ma still get loose now. I'ma still do me. But you know when I was living the way I was living, I was rapping the way I was rapping ... A lot of elements that were in my life no longer exist."
T.I. also said that Lil' Wayne, Diddy, Jay-Z and Nelly all reached out to support him during the rough last year. Young Jeezy even came to one of his bond hearings but T.I. said he spoke to Busta Rhymes and Eminem the most. "The only person I spoke to more than Busta was Eminem," he revealed. "Me and Eminem, we stayed in contact, stayed on the phone, making sure each other was doing good."
T.I. will be doing his first televised interview on BET tomorrow since pleading guilty on weapons charges. The interview will be on at 7:30 pm eastern time.
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
Rapper turneed actor, Common, just signed up to be in the next release of the Terminator series called "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins." The new Terminator flick will continue the series as humans fight against the machines. Christian Bale will play the role of John Connor and will lead the humans against the robots while Common will be Connors right hand man.
Common recently starred in "American Gangster" and "Street Kings" among other flicks such as Smoking Aces. The Terminator series isn't the only new project for Common. He is set to have a part in the new action movie "Wanted" which hits stores on June 27th.
Common is also working on his music. His next album, Invinciable Summer, will mark the first time in three years he hasn't worked with super producer Kanye West. The Neptunes and Outkast producer Mr. DJ will instead take on the producer roles.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Lil Wayne is getting ready for his new album, Tha Carter III, to be released on June 10th. Tour plans are on the mind of Weezy now. Wayne was talking to 50 Cent & G-Unit to go on tour after his album was released but now Wayne is changing his mind. "Um, that one, I don't think is gonna work no more, It was something that ain't went right." Lil Wayne said, speaking about the tour with G-Unit.
Wayne told MTV News that "I think I might go out with
Keyshia Cole. You're bringing two different types of people in there.
You got people coming to soothe their souls with Keyshia, and you got
people who wanna throw their hands up with me. It's like listening to
the radio. I think a concert should be like listening to the radio.
When you listen to the radio, and your top-five or top-eight songs come
on, it's hip-hop, it's R&B. ... I think you gonna get that from me
and Keyshia and whatever in between that."
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
After just getting out of prison, Foxy Brown is now facing some more trouble. A woman that she allegedly smacked with her BlackBerry last year is now suing Foxy. The woman, Arlene Raymond, is actually Foxy's neighbor. She was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital in July of 07 with loose teeth and swelling around her lip and right eye occured, after the alleged altercation.
Foxy was just released from prison after serving eight months of a one year sentence she recieved for violating her probation. After she got out, she took a plea deal for another case where she alledgly got in an altercation at a Florida beauty supply store later year. Now Foxy Brown is working on her new album, Brooklyn's Don Diva, which is hitting stores May 13th.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Mary J. Blige is joining music executive Steve Stout to help motivate women to reach their goals. The two are starting a new organization called FFAWN: the Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation For the Advancement of Women Now, Inc. The foundation will be working to inspire women to reach their potential with scholarships, grants and programs that press strong self-esteem, career development and personal growth, while gaining the confidence and skills needed to achieve success.
Besides Blige and Stoute, Kendu Isaacs, Jada Pinkett Smith, Charles Wright, Lisa Price and Samantha Fink all will be on the board of directors for the foundation. Starting with Mary's hometown of Yonkers, the foundation will later spread to reach the rest of New York then the country.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
R-Kelly troubles continue. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that an unidentified woman is about to testify that she engaged in sexual activity with R-Kelly and an underage female, “she was involved in a threesome with [the girl] and R. Kelly,” an inside source said. Whether to allow the woman's testimony was a topic at the secret hearings that were held last year, and Judge Vincent Gaughan decided to allow it.
The underage girl in question is the center of the case, allegedly being the famous young female the infamous sex tape that featured the R&B star. Now in her 20's, Kelly's involvement with her resulted in many child pornography counts back in 2002 which leaves 15 years in prison at stake for Kells. Jury selection for the delayed trial starts Friday.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
The Game becomes the latest rapper to talk retirement. Game admitted 50 Cent did one thing right, creating ThisIs50.com so Game launched his new site ThisIzGame.com "I wanted to create a website and I wanted to use that name because I thought what 50 did was pretty creative," Game said. "I think that Garth Brooks should have ThisIsGarthBrooks and maybe Oprah should have ThisIsOprah because we are who we are. If you're looking at me, this is Game so [put] dot com behind it and you got a hit."
Game is also concentrating on expanding his Black Wall Street label, and making sure he "dive(s) head first into scripts." He was recently in the movie Street Kings, which starred Forrest Whittaker and Keanu Reeves. "Everybody was real professional and respected me and I was always punctual, on time, respected everybody and didn't bring my rapping ego over to the film side," said Game. "I did my thing and they appreciated me and I appreciated them. And Street Kings movie was pretty dope"
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
The ever business man, 50 Cent, will expand his empire by lauching a new line of memorabilia. According to the New York Post, the G-Unit leader signed a mult-year deal with Steiner Sports. The new line will include concert worn-apparel, autograph items & signings, movie releated products and 50 Cent branded items.
Robert Vazquez, a rep for Steiner, said "He's an authentic guy who gets the business portion of his career," continuing, "we have access to [in-flight magazine] SkyMall, to Neiman-Marcus and to corporate clients that might not be familiar with 50 Cent." Steiner Sports was founded in 87' and is famous for clients Sandy Koufax, Miguel Cotto, Lou Gehrig, Tony Hawk and numerous others.
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
Kanye West has never been one to watch his tongue. Recently Entertainment Weekly reviewed Kanye's "Glow In The Dark" tour, and Kanye doesn't like what they said. EW went to the Seattle show Kanye recently put on and gave him a B+ for his performance and went on to call him "a nut." Kanye replied today using his blog saying “What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist. It's either pass or fail! A+ or
F-! You know what, f**k you and the whole f**king staff!!! I know I
shouldn't dignify this with a comment, but the reviewer threw a jab at
all the artists.”
Chris Willman, the EW reviewer, also insulted other acts on the tour stating things like “Pharrell Williams is no great singer” and Rihanna “needs to ramp up the charisma.” The “Glow In The Dark” tour features Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, N*E*R*D*, and Lupe Fiasco in addition to West.
Read The Entertainment Weekly Review & Kanye's Reply, Click Here!
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