(AllHipHop News) Capone, half of the duo Capone-N-Noreaga, was arrested in his New Jersey home yesterday on a child-support evasion charge for failing to pay thousands in child support.
The rapper presently owes over $160,000 to the mother of his 12-year-old daughter and is supposed to pay $1,500 per month until she is 21.
He has not paid since 2004, according to the New York Post.
Prosecutors said he has made three payments in eight years, totaling $144.
Capone, real name Kiam Holley, has been released on $10,000 bond.
“It is what it is. I know it looks bad on paper, but I take care of my daughter,” the 36-year-old rapper said outside the court room.
Judge Joan Azrack allowed Capone to travel to New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Kanye West may truly be head over heels in love. Dude has reportedly bailed on the VMAs because his boo Kim won’t be able to make it, says Mail Online. Take it for its worth. But they are saying that he can’t do it alone, even though the pair have promoted the highly touted event for MTV. Kim is partaking in NY’s fashion week at Fashion’s Night Out in New York, promoting her True Reflection perfume at Lord & Taylor. Kanye was not scheduled to perform or anything and Kim wasn’t going to be doing anything anyway. Still, “Mercy” the Kanye hit song is up for
Best Hip-Hop Video and Best Editing.
(AllHipHop News) Rap legends Naughty By Nature has been announced as the headlining act for EXXXOTICA, which is taking place this November at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison. The rap group joines a lineup at EXXOTICA, one of the nation’s leading love and sex expo’s. The event will feature burlesque shows, male and female dances, aerial acts and panels featuring a variety of adult and mainstream stars. “I can’t tell you what an honor and thrill it is to have Naughty By Nature performing at EXXXOTICA New Jersey,” J. Handy, director of EXXXOTICA, said. “We are all longtime fans of theirs and cannot wait to watch these guys rock the stage at our show. They are true legends, and without a doubt the biggest act we’ve ever had at EXXXOTICA…” Other acts confirmed include Rubberdoll, who will present a fetish show, as well as Digital Playground’s aerial artist/star Stoya. The 2012 EXXXOTICA New Jersey takes place on November 9, 10 and 11. For more information, visit www.eXXXoticaExpo.com.
Philly rapper Vinnie Paz has lined up some of Hip-Hop’s top artists for his new solo album God of the Serengeti. The rapper, who is a member of the critically acclaimed group Jedi Mind Tricks and Army of the Pharaohs, will release his sophomore album on October 22. Artists like Scarface, Immortal Technique, Kool G. Rap, Mobb Deep, La Coka Nostra, Apathy, Tragedy, Esoteric, R.A. Jus Allah, The Rugged Man and Celph Titled make guest appearances on the album. For production, Vinnie Paz lined up DJ Premier, Psycho Les, Havoc, DJ Lethal, Marco Polo, Stu Bangas and C-Lance. “I got the chance to work with a lot of legends this time around, which was an honor,” Vinnie Paz told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “To be able to work with people that I came up listening to like DJ Premier, Scarface, Mobb Deep, The Beatnuts, Tragedy, and Kool G. Rap is a blessing and a humbling reminder of how far I’ve come since I first started recording demos twenty years ago,” Paz continues, “to make records for a living isn’t something I take for granted and hopefully that passion I have for this comes across in all of the music I make whether that’s with Jedi Mind Tricks, Army of the Pharaohs, Heavy Metal Kings, or my solo stuff.”
VH1 recently dropped a preview of an upcoming reality show featuring Dipset rapper Jim Jones and his fiancée, Chrissy Lampkin. The pair, who were featured on two seasons of the original “Love & Hip-Hop” series, are starring in a spinoff titled “Chrissy & Mr. Jones.” The preview seems to focus on the pair’s post-engagement relationship, as well as their desire to have a child together. The new series is slated to debut September 24 on VH1. Check out the trailer below:
DNC Guest Blog Post #2 From the League of Young Voters:
The tone of last night’s Democratic National Convention was quite different than Tuesday’s performances. Way more somber than the inspirational speeches that motivated progressive activists the night before, the Dems rolled out individuals like Senatorial Candidate Elizabeth Warren, Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal, and Planned Parenthood boss Cecile Richards to, remind attendees that the party is filled with high ideals and intellectual rigor.
Of course no Democrat, except for maybe Barack Obama, personifies that dual perspective better than Bill Clinton.
Remember Bill Clinton? You know, the affable former governor of Arkansas whose 1992 presidential campaign was so soulful that many people of color started calling him the first black president.
Well, last night he took the stage with the sole purpose of dismantling the economic arguments put forth by President Obama’s competitors. While his message was powerful, thought provoking and rooted in facts, its focus on middle class prosperity missed the mark.
Repeatedly reminding audiences that they were better off than they were four years ago, Clinton and his fellow speakers virtually ignored the hard to ignore reality that poor people, young people, and people of color are by all statistical measures way worse off than they were prior to Obama taking office. While the former president rightly pointed out that many of the problems impacting everyday people may have been exacerbated by Bush’s failed economic policies, the failure to acknowledge the struggles of the poor, further marginalizes populations that have been hurting since Clinton went on the Arsenio Hall Show to play his saxophone.
And that’s the struggle with Democrats. While the party is strengthened by its diversity, far too often it fails to come to grips with the fact that they have often embraced the neo-liberal policies that have weakened the public safety net. Heck, while in office, even Bill Clinton defunded AFDC, deregulated the banking industry, and sent more black men to prison than any other time in the history of the United States.
So unlike the night before, last night’s speeches unfortunately failed to connect to the masses. Although the Democrats are clearly not Republicans, their failure to address the needs of the working poor could be their downfall this election cycle. While many Americans are starting to see the light at the end of the proverbial recession tunnel, no speech, no matter how fact filled, can erase the fact that many of us are way worse off than we were four years ago.
Hopefully Barack Obama won’t make this same mistake tonight.
–Rob “Biko” Baker, Executive Director, League of Young Voters Education Fund
Here is Bill Clinton’s speech in full.
About Robert “Biko” Baker:
The Executive Director of the League of Young Voters Education Fund, Rob “Biko” Baker is a nationally recognized leader. He has organized town hall meetings and used social networking to motivate young people to get involved in the civic process. Baker has served as the deputy publicity coordinator and young voter organizer for the Brown and Black Presidential Forum. He has appeared on MSNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News and CNN and has interviewed luminaries Cornell West, Russell Simmons and Howard Dean to name a few. He has also written a number of articles for America’s biggest online publications, including HuffingtonPost.com, GlobalGrind.com, VIBE, The Source and The Nation.
(AllHipHop News) Toronto rapper Drake will hit New York to support Tyra Banks’ TZONE, a new effort being launched in conjunction with the supermodel and the Lower Eastside Girls Club on Avenue D in Manhattan.
Tyra will preside over the The Flawsome Ball, which will be headlined by Drake.
Tyra uses the word “Flawsome” (a mixture of flawed and awesome) to describe the young girls who take part in the TZONE, which was originally launched in 1999 as a weeklong camping experience for young girls in Los Angeles.
The new Lower Eastside Girls Club will house the first brick-and-mortar TZONE, which will offer hundreds of girls mentoring, workshops, financial literacy and self-esteem building courses and other valuable tools to help them succeed in life.
“Through this partnership, my lifelong mission of raising the self-esteem of young women and empowering them to feel beautiful inside and out can be realized for years to come,” Tyra Banks told AllHipHop.com. “It’s exciting that TZONE is now a physical space, as creating a place like this for girls has always been a dream of mine.”
Banks’ TZONE is one of the first programs being launched by the Lower Eastside Girls Club, which will open its new 30,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art center in the coming weeks.
The Flawsome Ball is slated to take place October 18. A location and more details will be released soon.
After Chris Brown’s rep denied that he would be attending the VMA’s, the celebrity seating chart has leaked – and Breezy will indeed be in the house. In fact, all three love triangle participants will be sitting front row, just a few seats away from one another. Check out the celebrity seating chart photos that leaked last night:
I hope MTV has some serious insurance putting those three so close together in the front row. I can’t wait to see the candid camera shots of those three. They’re reactions are sure to be hilarious.
So now that it has been confirmed that Breezy will be in the house, do you think he and Rihanna will surprise the audience with a duet? A few weeks ago Rihanna asked her fans over twitter if they would like to see “Cake” turned into an official single. Ever since then, rumors have been circulating that the two were going to perform “Cake” at the VMA’s.
We don’t know, but MTV did announce that Rihanna would be opening the show with an A$AP Rocky assisted track. Could that be the ultimate throw off? Will Rihanna grace the stage with Breezy by her side as one of the MTV VMA’s yearly surprises?
Is America ready for that?
R&B singer and former 112-member Q Parker is back in the studio creating new music, like the new “Yes”, a ’90s-inspired track that smoothly showcases the crooner’s vocals.
“I’m an ATL-born, bred, Southern gentlemen. I’m a romantic at heart, and I make my music for women, and I believe that women need a go-to-guy. They need a guy, a male artist, that’s making music for them. Forget trying to be in the club, forget trying to pop bottles, but just really sing and croon, for the women. They’re lacking that.”
“Too many times, as R&B artists, our main focus is what’s going on the other side within the Hip-Hop industry. We have to go get this rapper and be in the club, put them up in the VIP and all that kind of stuff, whereas, we’re leaving these women still wanting more from male artists. I took all that into consideration and I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to be their go-to-guy.’ When they hear my records, they know it’s going to be designed specifically for them,” Q Parker added.
With the single “Yes” picking up steam, that could secure a soon release for Q Parker’s The MANual. We need it. R&B needs it. Music needs it.
This is what its come to huh? A rapper named Lil Mouse. This lil kid is on the new Lil Wayne mix tape. Nice. I never heard of the boy til he was trending on twitter though. And now….
I guess this is what Lupe was scared of with Chief Keef, a generation of young killers influenced by some other blind MF. A little kid talking about “Get Smoked.” Funny enough (if there is anything funny), this boy is from Chicago, which also bred Chief Keef. I wonder if Kanye, Pusha and the crew will lend a helping hand like Weezy? Enable him to spread his message all over the place?
Lil Mouse is 13 years old.
Now, ask yourself…is this cool?
The odd thing is that this isn’t truly new. There have been a few kid rappers that were talking that talk like Illegal in the 90s. Illegal had ties to heavies like Erick Sermon and Snoop Dogg. But, for some reason, this seems way to real and way too sad….pathetic even.
For the sake of history, here’s Illegal’s “Head Or Gut.”
Anyway, I hope somebody pulls this kid to the side before he looks like a different kind of mouse.
People in the Chi are charging that this boy is the victim of child abuse and neglect. Its really hard to argue the point.
The violence in Chi-town has skyrocketed and has taken the national stage again with the recent death of Chicago rapper Joseph Coleman aka Lil Jojo. The deceased rapper, who was only 18-years old, is rumored to be a rival of “I Don’t Like” rapper Chief Keef. A few days before he was killed, Jojo released a diss track towards Chief Keef called “3hunna K.”
According to NBC Chicago, Lil’ Jojo was shot in the back while riding a bike on the 6900 block of South Princeton Avenue in Englewood. He was pronounced dead hours later at a nearby hospital.
Just hours after Lil’ Jojo was struck down, Chief Keef allegedly laughed off Lil’ Jojo’s death tweeting, “Hahahahahahaha… It’s sad cuz … JoJo wanted to be jus like us #LMAO.” Keef has since denied sending that tweet and has said that his twitter was hacked. Because of that tweet, the police are now investigating Chief Keef and a possible connection with Jojo’s death.
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