A 12-year old boy was arrested in Bloomington, Illinois last week for throwing a rock at Soulja Boy’s tour bus the day after one of his performances. The incident took place right by Hampton Inn West in Bloomington. When the kid was questioned by the cops about why he threw a rock at the tour bus windshield, he replied with “I hate Soulja Boy!” No one was hurt by the 12-year old rock thrower. Too bad. I was kind of hoping that the rock broke through the windshield and hit Soulja Boy right on the head. You know it’s bad when your music leads people to violence.
Extra is reporting that Rihanna was involved in a car accident on Sunday following the Grammy Awards ceremony. After she performed her two-song set with 80s band The Time (she sang ‘Umbrella’ and ‘Don’t Stop the Music’) as well as taking home a Grammy for Rap/Sung Collaboration for her hit song ‘Umbrella’, the Barbados singer was inside her car outside the Island Def Jam party when another vehicle rammed into it. Fortunately, no one sustained injuries and everyone was free to party while Rihanna can keep on singing her music and shielding us under her umbrella… ella… ella… eh. The joke is getting old. I need a new one.
His mother died of unfortunate circumstances due to a combination of surgeries late last year but Kanye West managed to go on with the show and sing about ‘The Good Life’ when he performed at a New Year’s Eve party at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. It was the rapper’s first ever performance back in the US since his mother’s passing last year.
The pumped up rapper performed just after midnight at the Vegas hotel’s Pearl Concert Theater early Tuesday morning. He pretty much rocked the crowd into a frenzy as confetti and balloons rained down from the ceiling.
Recent rumors are swirling around in the hip hop world that rapper Remy Ma has had some female relations in the past. And no, it’s not a reference to cousins or whatever. The rumor mill really got going when a woman’s video confession popped up on YouTube. The video has the woman claiming that she had a sexual experience with the aforementioned rapper.
Remy is refuting the claims but her publicist still felt the need to issue an official statement to clear up the sexual confusion. I’m not going to quote it because frankly, I don’t care. It’s not like a lesbian rapper is unheard of.
For all the good Lil’ Kim says it does, the “Magic Stick” can’t make a lawsuit disappear.
The raunchy rapper and guest-MC 50 Cent have been sued by a record producer who claims he never cashed in on the royalties he was due from his work on the hit single, which appeared on Kim’s 2003 album La Bella Mafia. Carlos Evans claims, he was paid a $7,500 advance and was promised a cut of the profits, Evans says, but he hasn’t been paid and his requests for a royalty audit have been ignored. Screwed up guy who ever he is, why didn’t he shout so loudly before when he has a lounge in his mouth? What did he think, like they going to come at his house and tell him, ‘hey Evans you did a fanstatic job in that 2003 album, I can’t remember the name of the album but I can remember you, your share of 50 cents as royalty share’. It’s a doggy dog business out there and none’s going to give you your share until you have the tenacity to get what’s yours.
A New York criminal judge sentenced Foxy Brown to one year in jail on Friday (September 7) for violating her probation multiple times, according to a New York spokesperson for the Department of Probation. The troubled, pregnant rapper received the maximum penalty.
Brown (real name: Inga Marchand) had been in custody at the all-women Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island prison since August 22. She was ordered there after violating her probation in two separate incidents (see “Foxy Brown Sent To Jail For Violating Probation”). The violation stems from two separate incidents, Ryan confirmed: Brown’s recent arrest for allegedly assaulting her neighbor with a BlackBerry cell phone and for leaving the jurisdiction of New York without court permission.
In a separate hearing earlier in the day, Brown was indicted on assault charges stemming from the physical encounter with her neighbor.
Spokesman Jack Ryan told that Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson held a “lengthy” hearing in which she scolded the rapper for not abiding by her probation guidelines, which included attending anger-management classes and regular meetings with a probation officer.
Ryan also said Brown failed to report her arrest in the Brooklyn case and a separate infraction in which the rapper changed her primary address from Brooklyn to a New Jersey address without reporting the switch to the probation office.
“She had a [previous] violation and pleaded guilty and got restored to probation [before],” Ryan explained. “So she had a chance. She just didn’t obey a number of conditions. We told the judge that she was not compliant and the judge decided to terminate her probation and place her in jail.”
Ryan confirmed the early hearing in Brooklyn had no bearing on Brown’s sentencing.
Here’s the music video for the new Chris Brown single titled “Kiss Kiss” featuring T-Pain.
Chris’s new album entitled “Exclusive” will hit stores now on November 6th.
Foxy Brown was hauled off to jail Wednesday after a judge revoked her probation. The 27-year-old rapper was accused of violating the terms of her release after she was arrested earlier this month on charges she smacked her neighbor with her cell phone. Authorities said Brown also skipped her anger management classes and traveled out of the city without permission. Foxy, foxy, foxy, why can’t you just act like a lady? I know it’s been a long time since you’ve been famous, but girl, hitting won’t solve anger, there is something call anger management classes, take one you will like it. You’ll have time to tone down that anger in jail. Shame on you…grow up! I know you cannot be a good enough rapper and your plight today is enough evidence of the same but one thing you can strive to be and may be find some success that you have to tasted for a long time is that you can be a good person, now I suppose that would be a tall ask from you as well. Then the only thing I guess that’s left for you to do is sit back in the jail and regroup yourself.
It has been reported that 50 Cent “erupted” during a meeting at his record label Interscope, after a forthcoming single and video–a collaboration with Robin Thicke–inadvertently leaked on to the Internet.
Reported by MTV News, the track “Follow My Lead” was due to be released as the third single from the rapper’s forthcoming album Curtis, and after current videos for “I Get Money” and “Ayo Technology” had dropped from rotation.
According to MTV’s sources, when 50 heard about the leak he reportedly ripped a plasma TV from the wall and threw his mobile phone through a window.
He later talked about his frustrations during an interview with DJ Kay Slay on New York’s Hot 97 radio station.
He said: “The process has been ill for me this go-around. I usually have to start a project myself, as far as Interscope. I got to lead. On the first album, ‘Wanksta’ just took off before ‘In Da Club’ came about. When we got to The Massacre, I leaked ‘Disco Inferno’ and they caught up with ‘Candy Shop.’
“This album, I threw ‘Straight To The Bank’ out there, and ‘Amusement Park’ was the joint they were supposed to assist me with going after. But when that came, it grew at the same pace that ‘Straight To The Bank’ grew. And I was like, ‘Yo, it don’t feel like it’s a difference in the support for the actual record.’”
Clips from “Follow My Lead” have since been removed from YouTube, but have already been posted elsewhere.
On Friday rap star 50 Cent sued an Internet advertising company for one million dollars. Plenty of silly online games involve different target shooting for prizes. One of these games is called “Shoot the Rapper” and uses 50 Cent’s image as a target that the player fires at. The website doesn’t ever use the rapper’s name but his lawyer insists the character is made to look like him. Because the rapper has been a known victim of gun violence he is especially offended because it’s misleading to fans who may think he endorses the game. He is seeking one million in damages. The lawyer for the web company would not comment. He said that he has yet to receive the papers. Is there ever a time in Hollywood when someone isn’t getting sued? The worst part is that it’s always over something completely ridiculous. This story speaks for itself.
It’s a battle of the rap moguls! Kanye West is out for 50 Cent!
Well… not really. Kanye’s new album ‘Graduation’ has just been delayed in its release to September 11th. And yes, that is the same day that 50’s new record ‘Curtis’ will drop.
The two rappers have had a rivalry going for a while. Kanye actually made a pretty conniving move because he is most likely to outsell 50, thus giving him more points in their bout. Even if he doesn’t sell more albums, Kanye wouldn’t be humiliated because 50 is ‘expected’ to sell more.
50’s camp would most likely leak his album to push the release by about a week earlier just so it doesn’t drop the same day as Kanye’s.
In a music sense of course. Think those cheesy porn songs that play in the background as porn stars are going at it. Justin Timberlake is reportedly a guest star on a song for 50 Cent’s new album. The song is apparently about loving pornography.
The two, along with Timbaland, have already filmed a video for the song, tentatively called ‘Ayo Technology’. An insider told the press, “The track is an analogy for watching porn” and that ‘technology’ was a substitute for pornography.
The song is also about being fed up with having to only watch dirty movies and how desperate they are to do those things. The video is said to have the 3 men dressed up as spies peaking at girls using see-through eyewear technology.
Just months after his longtime girlfriend gave birth to twin girls, Sean “Diddy” Combs announced Tuesday that the pair have split up.
A publicist for the 37-year-old rap mogul confirmed that he and model Kim Porter were no longer together. On Dec. 21, Porter gave birth to daughters D’Lila Star and Jessie James; the couple also have a son together.
The move comes a few months after the two publicly proclaimed their love for one another in a cover story for Essence magazine, which detailed their turbulent history: They already had a son, Christian, when Combs began his high-profile romance with Jennifer Lopez. That romance ended in 2001.
In the December article, Porter said Combs simply fell for a “big booty and a smile” and she knew he would be back. Though she took him to court to increase her child support payments in 2002, Combs eventually reunited with her.
But while Combs told Essence he was an “ex-player,” he admitted that he wasn’t ready to marry Porter and even wondered, “Do you really think that God meant for a man to have just one wife?”
Though Combs said “this is the most monogamous I’ve ever been in my life,” rumors persisted about other women so much so that actress and friend Sienna Miller recently took pains to deny that they were a couple.
