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J Dilla Foundation Launches ‘So Far To Go’ International Art Contest

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: News
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(AllHipHop News) The J Dilla Foundation has announced “So Far To Go,” a new international art contest thats designed to celebrate the life of the legendary producer, born James Dewitt Yancy. The non-profit, which is run by J Dilla’s mother Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancy, has teamed with La Famiglia and 323East to create original designs to celebrate the life of J Dilla, who died on February 10th, 2006 from the incurable disease, Lupus. Contestants can upload their original designs to the new website Art4Dilla.com, where users will vote for the winning design. “The J Dilla Foundation seeks to be a staple in the movement for progressive musiceducation,” Ma Dukes told AllHipHop.com.  “We also hope to be leaders in the efforts to enhance and develop arts programs in urban communities.”The winner of the So Far To Go art contest will have his or her design produced as a poster, along with limited edition Giclee prints, signed by the winning artist and Ma Dukes herself. Proceeds will be donated to the J Dilla Foundation and fund their ongoing programs.

Michael Vick: Relapse or Recovery

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: Lifestyle
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Michael Vick. Has he recovered or will

he relapse? Sure he’s the guy you want to watch, but is he the guy

you want leading your team? I wrote an article last week in the Washington

Post last week (http://views.washingtonpost.com/theleague/panelists/2010/09/can-vick-return-to-form-boadu.html)

urging people chill on Mike Vick.

I grew up watching Vick. He is “our” 

quarterback. But he’s also our overly talented knucklehead cousin

that you just wonder if he’ll ever “get it” and deep down you

just don’t trust him. If someone shows you who they are, believe ‘em.

We are about to see who Michael Vick is. Is he new changed man or the

same dude in ATL.

Let me get this straight also, as bad

as it sounds, I could care less about the dog fighting. It was a crime

and cruel and yes he deserved to be punished, but I’m over it. What

I’m not over were his inconsistent days in Atlanta. Highlights of

his ATL days will tell you God gave Vick an athletic gene cheat code

when he was born. But stats(75.0 QB rating in Atlanta) and a win loss

record (34-26-1) will tell you that Michael Vick was average or inconsistent,

you choose your adjective.

The Vick we see now, this “new Vick”

is on fire. He single handedly brought his team back in the Packers

game in Week 1. He torched the Lions, who yes they suck, but Vick still

dominated when he was supposed to. His 2010 stat line after 6 quarters

of football reads, 64% completion percentage, 459 yards, 3tds, no picks

giving him a stupid 105.5 QB rating. He’s got the hot hand right now

and you never take the ball out of someones hand when their on a streak.

Sucks for Kevin Kolb who has a knife in his back from Andy Reid, but

such is life.

It’s now or never for “our” quarterback.

Vick wasn’t exactly setup to win in Atlanta. He was changing coaches

and coordinators like draws, still learning to be an NFL QB, and had

Roddy White and Michael Jenkins dropping the ball, the soap, the baby

and anything and everything else they could possibly never get their

hands on. But we can’t let Mike off the hook, he was inconsistent

point blank, and admitted that he didn’t work hard in Atlanta.

“There was a lot more I could

have done off the field and in the film room that could have elevated

my game to a different level,” Vick said. “I was complacent

at the time, somewhat lazy, and I settled for mediocrity. I thought

what I was doing was enough. Just imagine what I could have been doing

if I really would have been applying myself. That’s a regret I have.”

In Philly, Vick has a great offensive

mind in Andy Reid, LeSean McCoy is one of the most underrated backs

in the league, and Desean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin..pick your poison.

He’s got all the opportunity in the world to succeed in Philly if

he has truly recovered from his lazy, rely on natural talent, and make

poor decisions off the field ways. Just keep in mind that he’s playing

for the same coach that put a knife in Kevin Kolb’s back and for the

same fans that boo’d Santa Claus and never appreciated Donovan McNabb.

Who is Michael Vick? Will he relapse

back into inconsistency or has he fully recovered ready to be an elite

quarterback like the Mannings (Peyton), Bradys, and Brees’ of the

world which is where he belongs. For Michael Vick, it’s relapse or

recovery…in due time we’ll see.

For all things hip-hop and football

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Exclusive: Common Extends Olive Branch To Ice Cube

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Chicago rapper/actor Common has extended an offer to fellow rapper/actor Ice Cube, to possibly work on a film together in the future. The news is significant because the pair had one of the most legendary and well chronicled feuds in Hip-Hop. Ice Cube and Common went back and forth over Common’s classic song “I Used to Love H.E.R.” from his 1994 album Ressurection. The track drew the wrath of Ice Cube and his group Westside Connection, who released the track “Westside Slaughterhouse” in 1995, which featured Mack 10 and W.C.Common then replied the same year, with a scathing diss titled “The B**ch” in Yoo,” which was produced by Pete Rock.  The beef between the two camps grew so intense that it took a sit down with The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in 1997 – in the aftermath of the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. – to successfully diffuse the mounting tension within Hip-Hop. Since their early days, both rappers have crossed over into mainstream success. Ice Cube has hit big as an actor and director, starring in and producing memorable movies like the Friday franchise of flicks, as well as the Barbershop series of movies in addition to his recent movie Lottery Ticket. Ice Cube is preparing to release his 9th studio album I Am The West, which is due in stores on September 28th. Common has landed high profiles roles in movies like Terminator: Salvation, American Gangster, Smokin’ Aces and his most recent, Just Wright. “Point blank, when Cube and I had beef, I was a fan of his first and foremost, I grew up like loving Cube,” Common told AllHipHop.com. “I still respected him as an artist, but I had to come at him. It’s like a boxer; if somebody challenge you in the ring, you got to go at him. But we all good now, and maybe we can produce a movie together or something.”For the short term, Common is putting his acting career on hold, while he finishes work on his upcoming album, which will be titled The Believer.Work on the album was delayed when Common, born Lonnie Rashid Lynn, took a break from recording to promote his movie Just Wright, which co-starred Queen Latifah. Additionally, Common shot a pilot for an upcoming show on AMC titled Hell on Wheels. Hell on Wheels, which is set in the 1860’s, centers around a group of men working to build the United States’ first transcontinental railroad. “I stopped and did promo for Just Wright, then stopped and did this TV show and was doing a couple other things that I needed to do,” Common told AllHipHop.com in an exclusive interview. “But now I’m focused, and working and I’m really- in all reality, I believe that the new album will come out in the spring. I’m looking at around April or May for the new album. It’s called The Believer.  I had that title for a while to be honest. The time has come.”For the full interview, click here.

Excerpt: BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: Features
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“BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family” is an instant classic. But the book is not a shoot-em-up chronicle of BMF’s extravagant and violent life and times. Atlanta journalist Mara Shalhoup writes the book and deep-dives into the circumstances that lead to BMF’s creation and those that put their public leader behind bars. Below is an excerpt from the book.

For the past year, Burns, a member of the APD’s organized crime unit, had been working undercover to infiltrate a white-collar crime ring. A purported luxury rental-car company called XQuisite Empire had been using the identities of straw borrowers to purchase BMWs, Jaguars and Range Rovers for suspected drug dealers. Two months before the Chaos killings, Burns got a major break in the XQuisite investigation. On the night of September 7, 2003, XQuisite’s owner, William “Doc” Marshall, called 911 to report that he’d just shot and killed a home invader. When police arrived at the Midtown Atlanta townhouse, they found that it was outfitted with a peculiar feature. The home had a room-sized safe. If that wasn’t strange enough, in a tight passageway flanking the safe there sat a single shoe and a lone kilo of cocaine.

Detectives figured that somebody had been in a big hurry to empty the contents of the safe — such a hurry, in fact, that when his shoe slipped off he kept on running. The detectives also concluded that the home was a drug safehouse. At one point, they figured, the vault likely had sheltered a small fortune in cocaine. And the townhouse was probably targeted by burglars because the attackers knew they’d find drugs inside.

Detective Burns obtained a search warrant for the property, to see if he might find any records pertaining to XQuisite Empire and its owner, “Doc” Marshall. When he carried out the search, Burns found what he was looking for — and more. The day after the burglary-gone-bad, Burns removed several boxes of documents that divulged intricate details of XQuisite’s inner workings, including the names and phone numbers of its employees, a list of cars that had been diverted from straw borrowers to suspected drug dealers, and ledgers that listed the colorful nicknames of the company’s shadier clients.

Two months later, after stepping inside the White House (an extravagant drug spot), Detective Burns was surprised to find paperwork with strong similarities to the XQuisite files. In the White House, Burns discovered documentation for nineteen vehicles (including several limos) and applications for nearly as many cell phones. Many of the cars and phones were registered to the names and aliases of XQuisite’s employees. And the mysterious nicknames of XQuisite’s clients matched some of the nicknames jotted in the White House’s red, spiral-bound notebook: “E,” “Country,” “Cuzo,” “W######.” It appeared that XQuisite was funneling cars and phones to Meech’s associates. Now that Burns had established the link between XQuisite’s owner, “Doc” Marshall, and the murder suspect Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, both his and Harvey’s investigations were going to get a lot more interesting.

Something else about the phone numbers listed in the White House paperwork: about a half-dozen of them had been in regular contact with numbers under wiretap surveillance in Detroit, where DEA agents were building a case against the Puritan Avenue Boys. That investigation was about to wrap up. Eight members of the Puritan Avenue Boys, including the crew’s leaders, Reginald Dancy and Damonne Brantley, were indicted on cocaine conspiracy charges three days after the White House search. Meech was not part of that investigation. But his apparent relationship with the PA Boys would help bolster the DEA’s suspicion that Meech and his brother Terry were big-time cocaine traffickers.

Rounding out their search of the White House, investigators found a photo in the office that showed the Flenory brothers posing with the PA Boys kingpin Brantley in front of Atlanta’s hip-hop mega-venue, Club 112. Also in the office, investigators found an electric money-counter, several bags of rubber bands, and a stack of business cards with the name Terry Flenory and the company 404 Motorsports. One of the owners of the company, federal agents soon would learn, was Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s son-in-law.

What investigators didn’t find, however, was anything connecting Meech to the Chaos killings. Of the three guns pulled from the house — the 9 mm, the .40 caliber and the .45 — none tested positive for a match to any of the bullets or casings found in the club’s parking lot. The big-picture investigation, into the scope of Meech’s suspected drug organization, was taking off. But the murder investigation was sputtering.

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Two weeks after the White House search, Meech was granted bond — an unusual move in a double homicide, especially one that had grown so sensational. In the wake of the shootings, well-heeled and well-organized Buckhead residents were angrily calling for a crackdown on the violence in their neighborhood. (“My question is, how many more body bags have to come out of this area,” one exasperated resident, Katy Bryant, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.) The incident was so emotionally charged that, less than two months after it occurred, it was cited as the impetus for Atlanta City Council to roll back bar closing hours citywide.

Basically, the Chaos gun battle wasn’t the type of crime the Fulton County D.A.’s Office liked to leave unresolved. But the prosecutors were left with little choice. Their case against Meech was simply too thin. As it turns out, the seemingly strong lead — the woman who spoke on the phone to the investigator — fizzled out. She was quick to provide the name “Meechie,” but as for her own name she wouldn’t say. She told police she was scared for her life. Even after she agreed to come down to APD headquarters and give a statement, investigators kept her identity a secret. Investigators didn’t name her in any of the subsequent court hearings, either — of which there were only a few.

No grand jury would indict a case without a murder weapon, a witness or a confession. Indeed, the case never made it to the grand jury. The most that could be concluded was that Meech acted in self-defense, if he acted at all. Meech’s attorney claimed the charge was b#######. Two armed men, one of whom had been tossed from the club, fired on Meech and his crew. Meech said he turned and ran — a fact substantiated by his own bullet wound to the derriere. The injury was sufficient foundation for the defense his attorney would raise: that Meech, far from an aggressor, was in fact a victim.

To Big Meech and his crew, to residents of Buckhead, and to other concerned Atlantans, the Chaos investigation appeared to be a battle the police had lost. But while the murder case against Meech had fallen apart, the APD and DEA were able to take what they learned from the White House search and combine it with other information they’d already unearthed. Judging from the breadth of the evidence, investigators were able to see that they were onto something. It was something big. It was something organized. It was something called, formidably enough, the Black Mafia Family.

50 Cent Sued For $200K Over Movie ‘Things Fall Apart’

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: News
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(AllHipHop News) Rap star 50 Cent is being sued for $200,000 by a production company who claims the rapper stiffed them on payments for their work on a movie called Things Fall Apart. Crispy Twig Productions and Nancy Nayor Battino filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent on September 17th in Santa Monica District Court, claiming they had an oral agreement to provide casting services for the rapper’s self-financed film. According to the lawsuit, Crispy Twig was supposed to be paid $5,000 per-week for 19 weeks. The lawsuit claims that 50 Cent breached the contract by falling over $90,000 behind in payments to the production company. Crispy Twig claims they signed on board with the belief that actor James Caan and actress Diana Rodriguez were contracted to perform in the movie, but neither artist has committed to any role, nor has a “capable director been contracted to direct the film.” Crispy Twig is also suing 50 Cent for other employment opportunities they missed while working on Things Fall Apart. According to published reports, the project was supposed to being shooting in May of 2010 in Michigan, with Mario Van Peebles directing a script written by 50 Cent himself, along with Brian Miller. 50 Cent lost over 60 pounds for his role in Things Fall Apart, which centers around a star running back who realizes he has cancer in his senior year of college.

Review: Tum Tum: Purp Kobain

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9/10When I first saw the album artwork for this project I knew it was going to be a classic mixtape, but at the same time, it was going to be hilarious. The album starts off by flipping the Prince’s “Purple Rain” sample to “Purple Reign”, I could tell Tum Tum was ready to get the fans loaded throughout the project so I began to get ready. Featuring the soulful sounds of Hot Rod, the song was a clean and yet humorous intro to what many call a legendary Dallas mixtape. The second song on the album, “Cannibus Club”, features production from Cardo, who has produced a great deal of music for Wiz Khalifa.  Setting the mood for the album, I heard this song and I wondered if I could roll the song itself up.  I could tell the whole album was going to be perfect for smoking. Hate to say that because that’s cliché, but its true.  DJ Q smoothly blends into the 3rd track, called “September 24th”, a song produced by Todd Hamburger.  Hamburger has produced several songs for E1 and platinum recording artist Dorrough among others, but this song is more reminiscent of some UGK than some of his other music. When “I Be Kickin” [produced by 2Much] comes on, the album seems to shift gears to another level.  The song displays Zillaman’s well known ability to appeal to the streets of Dallas as the hooks sings, “See I be kickin that real s###/ Y’all be kickin that fake s###/ I hang wit n##### that will run in ya crib and take s###/Grab that gun and spray s###/Square off don’t say s###/D-Town don’t play b####/D-Town don’t play b####.”  Overdubs on this one are as well humorous.  “2 Much 3 Much” takes the album down a notch so listeners can get back to the smoking.  The heavy organ and clean solo at the end of this song goes perfect with the theme of being “2 Much for the ni***s and 3 much for the ho’s”.Next song, “Award Winning”, which features Doughski G, Hot Rod and Lil Will goes back to that UGK Ridin Dirty feel with bluesy sounding guitars use of the wah-wah pedal, bass in the pocket and a clean R&B hook.  Perfect example of some smooth Dallas rap with Lil Will on the song who wrote the original “My Dougie” song that took the city of Dallas by storm several years ago. 

“This S### Right Here” is also produced by Cardo and it almost feels like I am listening to Kush and OJ by Wiz. At this point in the album I’m thinking about how much this sounds like other music out there but yet it doesn’t at all. Lets me know Dallas is right there with the rest of the country, yet it has its own swag that Zillaman embodies 100%.“Chucks” talks about Zillaman’s love of Chuck Taylor sneaks.  In the song he shouts out all people that wear Chucks, Levis, and white tees. Song has west coast feel with the way the piano rides the beat. Next song is “Kourtney Love”, when I heard the hook I couldn’t stop laughing.  Its so well put together, and the creativity of Tum is def clear on this track as he seems to have embodied Kurt Cobain to his fullest. He talks all about his love for a female. Is she hip hop, that white girl or is he actually talking about Kourtney Love a pseudonym for a woman that’s put him through everything a woman could?  I don’t know.  Guitar solo is clean to finish the song though. “Smoke Piff” ft Lil Ronnie and Lil Tony follows as DJ Q segues perfectly from the previous song.  Hook is clean, beat is what Dallas music should sound like, or its really what rap music should sound like really.  One of the definite highlights of this project and featured in the music section of AllHipHop.com. “If its F### Me” picks up the pace of the album and the overdubs are dope and it woke me up a little bit. Next song features DSR, who are Dallas legends.  Fat B starts off the track that has an ascending chord progression.  With “Robbin on Elm Street”, the DSR group adds to the street appeal of the classic Dallas record. Are they talking about Nightmare on Elm Street, or like the Deep Ellum, Elm Street in Dallas, TX? The next song features Play-N-Skillz the Grammy award winning producers and rappers.  Although many outside the city may not know they rap, on this song each producer gets on a verse. Zilla and Inertia (SRC/UNIVERSAL/G4 Muzik) finish up the song which features what sounds like the chopped up version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” “Gas Pipes” has a real east coast feel to the beat, reminiscent of GangStarr.  Definitely good to hear a Dallas artist reppin’ what many people call “real hip hop”. With so many artists that have such electronic sounds in their music, it’s cool to hear a more organic hip hop sound out of this region. He goes wild at the end of the song continuing his humor displayed throughout the project towards smoking. “Heart of Champion” is a lighter song about the struggles that Zilla has gone through during his path in the rap game. “Stay Throwed”  starts with shouts to RooR bong, Big Chief and his love for bud.  The perfect outro to what I would say has been an album that you can listen to straight through.  On a ten star scale its tough to take any stars away from this project.  The theme carried throughout the project, it was creative, the album is humorous and I was entertained throughout the whole project.  I would say the project was a little longer than I expected, but how can you complain about getting more music?  You cant especially when it’s coming from an artist as entertaining as Zillaman.I would take one point away because it isn’t an album and it’s marketed as a mixtape but the music is that of an album, a well produced and put together album at that.  As a whole it def one of the better mixtapes I have heard over the past year.  It seems the definition of a mixtape has changed especially when you look at where it can take your music with artists like J. Cole and Drake using the mixtape to expose the music to the masses in plans for a major release.  Looking forward to more releases from Dallas artists. 

Canibus: C of Tranquility Video Preview

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: Reviews / Music
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Canibus has a new album on the way called C of Tranquility, the album features production from DJ Premier, Jake One, Scram Jones, D.R. Period, J-Zone, and more. Here is a video of Canibus, mixing a variety of video footage throughout Canibus’ career with new tracks from the album. Check this out.

Canibus Snippets (v2) from Interdependent Media on Vimeo.

ChartWatch: The Same Ol’ Stuff With More Underground Dropping

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ChartWatch for September 22, 2010First up on the countdown is Linkin Park.  They kind of rap…sometimes…well not anymore….but

they did have that Reanimation album from 2003. 

Plus they did that album with Jay-Z.  All that aside the California band drops their

fourth studio album, A Thousand Suns,

and takes the number one spot selling 253,685 copies.

If I’m going to include a non Hip Hop group like Linkin Park

I have to include Trey Songz as well. 

The R&B singer’s fourth album, Passion,

Pain & Pleasure, enters the charts at number two, selling 244,103

copies.

He is followed by Detroit’s own Eminem who drops down one

spot to number three this week.  The

rapper’s seventh studio album, Recovery,

sells 89,182 copies this week bringing Em’s total sales to 2,607,201.

Drake’s Thank Me Later

drops from 14 to 15 and moves 19,315 copies. 

The Canadian MC has sold 1,083,240 copies of his debut.

Rick Ross is at number 24 with his latest album, Teflon Don.  The 13,967 copies sold last week brings his

total to 395,203.

B.o.B continues his slow sales burn with his debut album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, selling

9,766 copies and moving him up one spot to 36. 

Since its April release this album has stayed in the top 50 and has sold

a total of 381,545 copies. Black Milk’s Album of the Year sells roughly 3,600 for the first week.Finally, my favorite

sell-out band, The Black Eyed Peas takes the number 45 spot with their chart

topping album The E.N.D.  This week Will, Fergie, and the crew move

7,862 copies bringing the group’s total sales to 2,765,497.  You would think that contrived black face

controversy attempted by Will.I.Am would have got the group more sales.  (Next time if you’re going to don black face

and dress like a bootleg superhero do me a favor….don’t block Nicki Minaj.)

Dropping This Week

I only have two albums for you this week but before we get

into that I have to show you some stuff on the site.  Why?  I’m

from Texas, these articles are about Texas artists, and I’m biased.  Killa

Kyleon, Double

A, Thugged

Out, Big

Hud, and Delo

are all featured in this month’s Texas Breeding ground.  I’ll be honest, I only recognize two of those

names, but its Texas so I think everyone should support.  (No, I’m not going to say which two…look at

them all)

The first album up in “dropping” is by none other than Cam’ron

and Vado who make up the duo the U.N. 

The new album Gunz N’ Butta was supposed to come out in March but, as

you can see, it was pushed back to this week. 

Cam’ron is said to have a lot of recordings saved up so fans that have

been missing him these past couple of years should give this one a listen.

Finally, producer Ski Beats (the guy who produced for

Jay-Z, Camp Lo, and most recently Curren$y) releases 24 Hour Karate School.  Ski is largely responsible for giving Jay-Z’s

Reasonable Doubt its sound so fans

might want to give this one a listen.

That’s it for the

charts.  See you next week.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Kimbella’s Steamy Preg Pix! 50 Cent & Kanye Tour? Bishop Eddie Long & Da Boys!?

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Updated Category: Rumors
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DISCLAIMER:All

content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual

info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. Read on.WHO: illseedWHAT: Rumors, Funnies, Fails and more!WHERE: illseed.com, twitter.com.illseedHOW: Send your rumors, sightings and ill pics to illseed at al*************@***il.com.

JUELZ’S BABY’S MOM IS A HOT MOM!

Juelz Santana has one hot babe! And I say that respectfully! Kimbella’s got some real sex appeal. So much that she did a steamy spread even though though she was about to pop! I wonder…ahhh, never mind!

CONGRATS!

REALLY?

KANYE AND 50 CENT TO TOUR?

I can’t see this happening at all, but here is what Whoo Kid told VIBE.com.Other artists are reaching out now, too. Kanye just put Banks in his top five. Is there a G-Unit/G.O.O.D. Music collabo in the works?

It’s cool to receive respect from Kanye due to the fact that he’s lyrical too. Lyrical dudes have respect for other lyrical dudes. Banks is always talking to Fab, he’s always talking to dudes that have lyrical skill, Jay Rock to—everybody that spits bars, they all talk to each other.

But are they actually going to work together?

I guess that opened up the doorway—[50 and Kanye] have been talking about working together since a couple months ago—we all roll out together in a Euro tour. It’s the media that be hyping up all the beef and stupidity. But the real story is behind the scenes on how these dudes be talking. Because I been heard about this s***.

ILLSEED’S QUCKIES

Helloooooooo! Kelly Rowland has reportedly dropped her manager. I don’t even know who that schlep is.

Both LA Reid and The Dream and Sylvia Rhone all have their jobs.

Romeo and his girl friend are reportedly broken up. Who cares.

Did that protest of Atlantic Records go down yet? Lupe is supposed to be there. Let me know how that works out.

AMBER ROSE, THE ICON?

Amber Rose is blowing up! She’s scaring these hoes so much they won’t come to fashion week! Anyway, I thought she looked interesting in this get up.

IT AIN’T OVER MF!  BISHOP EDDIE LONG…WHAT’S UP? LIL BOYS? READ UP!

DAMN…THE EPIC FAIL OF THE DAY AND SIGNS THE WORLD IS COMING TO AND END!

I wrote about these allegations in the past, but it looks like he’s a wrizzy!

(CNN) — Two Georgia men have filed a lawsuit claiming that prominent Atlanta, Georgia, pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex.

The suits, filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male members and employees of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church into sex.

“Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship,” the suits allege.

Long is considered one of the nation’s top black preachers. His church has more 25,000 members, according to the suit, and was the site of Coretta Scott King’s 2006 funeral, attended by then-President George W. Bush and three previous presidents. King was the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The pastor took one plaintiff, Anthony Flagg, 21, on overnight trips to a half-dozen American cities in recent years, Flagg’s suit alleges.

“Long shared a bedroom and engaged in intimate sexual contact with plaintiff Flagg including kissing, massaging, masturbating of plaintiff Flagg by defendant Long and oral sexual contact,” the suit says.

Long took the other plaintiff, Maurice Murray Robinson, 20, to Auckland, New Zealand, in October 2008 for his 18th birthday and engaged in oral sex with him, Robinson’s suit alleges.

“Following the New Zealand Trip, Defendant Long regularly engaged in sexual touching, and other sexual acts with Plaintiff Robinson,” Robinson’s suit alleges.

Read more here—>>>CLICK LANK!

KIMBELLA, WE LOVE YOU! They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!

Def Jam Refutes LA Reid Firing Reports

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LA Reid still as a job with Island Def Jam, contrary to recent reports.

The rumor mill has been ablaze all day with rumors that the mogul was terminated from his post, but that is untrue,

“[The rumors] are completely untrue and without merit,” the spokesman told XXLMag.com.

Reid has held the prestigious post since February of 2004 and signed acts like Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and Shyne. He took over Lyor Cohen’s post after he departed for Warner Music.

Wyclef Formally Ends Presidential Bid In Haiti

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Hip-Hop artist Wyclef Jean has formally ended his bid for the presidency of Haiti after his homeland refused to accept him on the ballot.

“After weeks of quiet but painstaking reflection with my wife and daughter, I have chosen to end my bid for the presidency of Haiti,” Wyclef said in a statement to CNN. “This was not an easy conclusion to reach; but it is one that was thoughtfully made, taking into account many, many competing factors and weighing the course that will best advance the healing of the country and help it find the quickest path to recovery.”

Haitian officials contested the legitimacy of Wyclef’s claims that he had been a resident of the nation for at least five years, a required marker for the presidency.

He said that the decision was difficult and that he wanted what was best for the people of his native land.

“This was not an easy conclusion to reach. Some battles are best fought off the field, and that is where we take this now. Our ultimate goal in continuing the appeal was to further the people’s opportunity to freely participate in a free and fair democratic process.”