(AllHipHop News) 50 Cent has 20 acting credits to his name in his 8 year acting career which began with 2005’s semi-autobiographical Get Rich or Die Tryin’. One acting credit you never will see is Ridley Scott’s 2007 American Gangster, however the audition tape has surfaced.
In the 4 minute audition tape, 50 Cent acts out lines for the role of Huey Lucas, one of the brothers of Denzel Washington’s Frank Lucas. The role ultimately went to Chiwetel Ejiofor, the lead actor in the Oscar-bound 12 Years A Slave.
According to Gawker, former William Morris Joanna Wiles and Dana Sims were representing 50 Cent at the time of the audition tape.
Check out the full range of 50 Cent’s acting arsenal below courtesy of Gawker:
(AllHipHop News) Hip Hop legend MC Lyte and rapper/dancer/actress Lil Mama will be attendance at the 25th Thurgood Marshall College Fund Awards Gala next month. The Washington, DC event honors the achievements of individuals that have provided a positive impact on students of public Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
This year’s honorees include Janice Bryant Howroyd, Chairman/CEO of The ACT 1 Group (CEO of the Year Award), Larry Waters, Retired MillerCoors Executive (Community Leader of the Year Award), Johnson & Johnson (Corporate Leadership Award), and Dr. Wayne D. Watson, Chicago State University President (Educational Leadership Award).
Lyte and Lil Mama will be joined at the TMCF Gala by fellow special guests Congressman John Lewis, Washington Redskins player Alfred Morris, and reigning Miss America Nina Davuluri. The event will be hosted by comedic icon Bill Cosby and will feature a performance from Broadway star Jennifer Holliday.
The proceeds from the event help fund TMCF and its efforts to improve graduation rates among students at member schools and provide assistance in post-graduation employment.
“This year’s 25th Gala is perhaps our most important ever because of the unprecedented challenges facing students attending HBCUs. The college access battle is no longer a legal one; it is a purely financial one. For this reason, TMCF is gathering the nation’s most influential people on November 11th in our nation’s capitol to celebrate HBCUs and raise money for their students,” said Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., TMCF’s President and CEO in a statement.
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund Awards Gala will take place Monday, November 11th at the Washington Hilton. For more information and to purchase tickets/tables visit www.tmcfdcgala.com.
What the hell is going on with the Internet generation? Anyway, Two freshman students at Etowah High School in Woodstock, Ga. are facing criminal charges after they allegedly had oral sex in the school cafeteria Thursday. Mind you, this wasn’t an off time in the cafeteria, there were other people around.
Via Huffington Post:
“A female student allegedly made a sexual offer to a male classmate during lunch,” school spokeswoman Barbara Jacoby told the network. “The male classmate later told administrators that he thought this offer was a joke, but when the female student began to act upon it, the male student said he stopped her.”
Jacoby said the girl made the offer because another boy “dared” her to do so. Six other male students reportedly blocked other students and staff members from seeing what was going on.
“They stacked up a bunch of books and book bags and people surrounded them so that nobody would see,” student Taylor Powell told WSBTV.
But people did see it because it was recorded. There are conflicting reports. One person said that two boys filmed it but deleted it shortly after because they realized they could face criminal charges (child pornography). However, another student said that it was distributed. I’m going with the latter report because, how else would such a “carefully guarded” incident get out there to this magnitude? SMH.
(AllHipHop News) Faith-based rapper Lecrae is set to release his next mixtape Church Clothes 2 hosted by DJ Don Cannon next month. The Grammy winning performer reached out to B.o.B, Paul Wall, Novel, Kevin Ross, Crystal Nicole, King Mez, Derek Minor, and Tedashii to provide guest appearances on the follow-up to 2012’s Church Clothes. Production for the project will include work by Boi-1da, David Banner, ThaInnaCircle, Dirty Rice, Thyshane and more.
“I’m so excited to share Church Clothes 2 with the people as we have gotten more creative and the music is amazing,” said Lecrae in a statement. “The mixtape has definitely gone to another level, I have grown as an artist with all my experiences and I wanted to share that with my fans.”
The Houston native made history earlier this year when he became the first Christian rapper to win a Grammy for Best Gospel Album for his LP Gravity. Lecrae recently performed at the BET Music Matters Showcase with Meek Mill during the A3C Hip Hop Festival. His latest single “I’m Turnt” is available for purchase on iTunes.
“Lecrae continues to defy the box that people have placed him in and in turn is being embraced by his peers and the public,” added Don Cannon. “His music shows how much of a diverse artist he is and that is what will possibly change today’s music culture. People need to pay attention.”
Mona Scott-Young has confirmed that we can expect a Love & Hip-Hop Expansion to another city after all the rumors we’ve been hearing. Necole Bitchie caught up with the mogul and asked what was what. She responded with this:
“Of course New York starts up again October 28, so I am excited about that, and I am casting in a few other cities. There’s been a lot of chit chat on the interweb about that. I’m looking at L.A., I’m looking at Houston, looking at New Orleans. Yeah, we’re going to find another city to spread our wings into.”
She’s playing coy but we know she’ll go with the cast that has the most ratchet potential. I’m thinking it might boil down to New Orleans.
In related rumors, Karruechee Tran says she won’t be a part of Love & Hip-Hop LA.
(AllHipHop News) DJ Khaled dropped his seventh album Suffering From Success today, and now listeners can stream the entire LP. The Miami-based Hip Hop curator enlisted regular collaborators Rick Ross, Ace Hood, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Future, and more for the 16-track project.
(AllHipHop News) 2 Chainz has a new album out (B.O.A.T.S. II) which means 2 Chainz is permeating the news. During a recent interview with Playboy, 2 Chainz expresses his desire to star in a self-directed amateur p### movie (sex tape).
In the excerpt from the Playboy interview acquired by The Toronto Sun, 2 Chainz explains his desire to release a sex tape are mostly financial:
I want to put out a sex tape in the next five to 10 years and reap all the benefits in case I spend my hard-earned rap money doing boneheaded activities.
2 Chainz named Iggy Azaela as his ideal leading lady in the sex tape and replied “I’d do that” when asked if Nicki Minaj would also be in consideration.
2 Chainz appeared on ESPN’s First Take earlier today (October 22nd) and live-tweeted from the show’s official Twitter account during last night’s (October 21st) Monday Night Football game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings:
(AllHipHop News) Love him or hate him, P. Diddy probably has made the most influential power business moves in Hip Hop in the modern history. Two decades after founding Bad Boy Records, P. Diddy went to the steps of Notorious B.I.G.’s childhood home to unveil his latest business venture, RevoltTV.
From the steps of 226 St. James Place in Bedford-Stuyversant Brooklyn , Diddy recited a few lines from Notorious B.I.G.’s iconic hit “Juicy” before crediting the late great rapper with
Biggie and I had this dream. We set off on a journey together. He was my partner. He was fearless. He inspires me. And today, Biggie will help to launch REVOLT. Today, that dream becomes a reality…This is not my network, this is your network.
While new programming is promised to be added to the burgeoning channel, RevoltTV already offers a few innovative original shows. REVOLT AUTHORIZED Live is advertised as the first live-created music video playlists on television and will be curated in real time.
Check out Diddy debut the new channel from the steps of Biggie’s childhood home below:
(AllHipHop News) The Queen of R&B has been announced as the National Anthem singer for the inaugural game of the 2013 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals.
The 2013 MLB World Series airs Wednesday night at 7:30 pm on FOX.
Mary J Blige just recently released her eleventh studio album and first Christmas album, A Mary Christmas last week (October 15th).
This is not the first time Mary J will bless the World Series with her National Anthem rendition. She sang the National Anthem during the deciding Game 6 of the 2009 World Series at Yankee Stadium.
Check out Mary J Blige’s 2009 World Series rendition of the National Anthem
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West is back doing interviews again and that means more polarizing soundbites have surfaced. In a recent interview with San Francisco The JV Show.
According to Kanye, his wife-to-be Kim Kardashian even had her questions about him portraying Jesus on stage, which Kanye answered in a way only Kanye West can:
I had a friend of mine that is a pastor there as we were discussing how we were going to do it. My girl even asked afterwards “isnt that weird if Jesus comes on stage or something like that?” No we do plays all the time where people play Jesus. What’s awesome about Christianity is that we are allowed to portray God.
One of the major debates that arose from Kanye’s portrayal of Jesus was his portrayal of the biblical figure as a White man. Kanye used that controversy as a point to finally address the constant implications of him being apart of the Illuminati.
The distractions are working. They try to distract your talking about some ‘That’s Illuminati’. Do anybody know what the Illuminati is supposed to be? What are you talking about right now?
(AllHipHop News) Troy Ave appeared on Radness with Lukas Kaiser/Cipha Sounds’ Take It Personal last Wednesday (October 16th) as apart of CMJ. During the improv show at Brooklyn’s Union Hall, the always loquacious gangsta rapper decided to detail a time when he allegedly spoiled a robbery attempt and was almost set up.
With the help of improv actors and Cipha Sounds, Troy Ave reenacted a scenario where he pulled out a gun in order to stop someone attempting to rob his producer friend.
Cipha Sounds’ Take It Personal Hip Hop Improv show is every Friday at 9PM at 153 3rd St on Avenue A.
Check out Troy Ave act out a gun standoff he may or may not have been apart of:
(AllHipHop News) Maybach Music Group’s Ohio representative Stalley has been tapped to join Lupe Fiasco on the upcoming “Tetsuo and Youth Preview” Tour. The two Midwest rhymers will head out on the North American trek starting November 1 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Stalley will likely perform tracks from his BET Hip Hop Award nominated mixtape Honest Cowboy and his work on other projects like this summer’s MMG compilation Self Made 3.
For more information about the Tetsuo and Youth Preview Tour featuring Lupe Fiasco, Stalley, and The Boy Illinois visit http://www.lupefiasco.com/tour.
There’s a lot of words on the street when it comes to the Love & Hip-Hop franchise but I overheard something else that I needed to share. We already know that K. Michelle and Erica Mena have some beef going on. It’s so bad that they can barely be in the same room with each other but the whispers are saying that Erica popped off because she thought Rich was trying to move in on her on-off again man/manager Rich Dollaz.
We know that K. Michelle can saaaaang and Rich is a smart guy when he wants to be so when it got back to Erica that Rich may have been talking business with K. Michelle, she wanted to put the kabosh on that early (since we know that Rich likes to mix business with pleasure) and took it out on K. Michelle.
In fact, this seems to be a recurring cycle now in the Rich/Erica saga but K. Michelle ain’t thinking about Rich romantically or from a business standpoint.
That’s all I heard but I guess we’ll have to see what happens when Love & Hip-Hop returns.
Hopsin is running rampant again. He’s got a dope new video called “Hopin Is Back” and it co-stars his doo-rap. He went hard and then took a hard left on Kanye and Kendrick. He basically says that Yeezus was some BS and that Kanye overstepped his bounds. On Kendrick, he basically pops of some funny lyrics about his height and whatever.
Here are the lyrics:
I gotta problem yo’
I was ecstatic to buy Yeezus
But I burned it first
Heard it and snapped in 5 pieces
Man Kanye on that bullsh*t!
That’s why the paparazzi made that ni**a hit his f**king head that’s what that fool get
You think you god now you half assin rap little fa**ot b**ch
Perhaps you suffered brain damage back when you had that accident?
But most importantly, hip hop isn’t dead no more you see
Cause Kendrick took the bar and raised it up higher for MCs
Unfortunately the little ni**a like 4 ft 3, the guys a fu**in’ midget
His high is still really short to meet
(AllHipHop News) Celebrity couple Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are reportedly preparing to officially tie the knot. According to E! News, Kanye put a ring on it in San Francisco last night.
West apparently rented out AT&T Park and gathered together friends and family to ask for the reality star’s hand in marriage. The two tabloid regulars were in the Bay area to celebrate Kim’s birthday and for the San Jose stop of Kanye’s “Yeezus Tour.”
The “New Slaves” performer and the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star have been dating publicly since 2012. The couple have a child together; four-month-old North West.
Besides the birth of their first child and getting engaged, 2013 has been a lucrative year for Kim and Kanye as well. Forbes recently reported that their combined income over the past year was an estimated $30 million making them the fifth highest earning celebrity couple during that time.
