Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Scarface to exit the rap game soon but before he does... he wants Nas & Cube
Houston rapper Scarface announced that he was giving up the rap game after his next album Emeritus…But he said he would put out one more album only if he could put together a dream supergroup project between himself, Nas, and Ice Cube. Cube heard about the news and expressed his excitement about the possible project.
“Of course, I wouldn’t even think twice about doing that…hell yeah!” Ice Cube told AllHipHop.com. “I think the album would be crazy, lyrics would be sick, and Hip-Hop would love it. It’s just making that business happen, that’s the part that gets funky. I ain’t never turned down these kind of projects, they just don’t happen for whatever reasons.”
R. Kelly gets some pocket change
Today, a Los Angeles judge ordered a Georgia based promoter to pay $3.4 million in damages to R. Kelly for failing to compensate the singer for his 2007 ‘Double Up’ tour. As previously reported a couple of months ago, Kelly filed a lawsuit against Leonard Rowe earlier this year. “I agreed to let Leonard Rowe promote my tour because he convinced mehe was an underdog who deserved a chance to prove himself,” Kelly said via a statement. “Like the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.”
Rowe now faces lawsuits from the duped investors. Last month, Rowe was ordered to pay over $700,000 to R&B singer Ne-Yo for breaching a contract related to the ‘Double Up’ tour.
Brotha in a Obama shirt got 3 times... for wearing an Obama shirt... wow...
A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.
Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend ‘Believe’.
The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting ‘I f***ing hate n*****s’ and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.
Full story can be read here.
Courtesy of Illseed.wordpress.com
Rick Ross says that he didn't try to hide his past... (Hahaha)
This is no newsflash to anyone who has two eyes and can see clearly the corrections officer in the photo that Rick Ross once denied (okay, so maybe not an outright denial, but a definite answer of the it-wasn’t-me sorts) was him. But he recently said the following in a recent interview with Don Diva magazine.
“Yes. It’s me…I never tried to hide my past. I put my name inside my cds. My company has my SS#. I could’ve put a company name… I done been up and I done been down and that’s what makes me what I am. I never ratted on a nigga. I never prosecuted a nigga. I never locked up a nigga, that’s first and foremost. I always felt that me being the nigga that I am, I never owed a nigga an explanation… When I’m making my music and I’m talking about blow, it’s because I did it. When I say that I’m rich off cocaine, it’s because i did it. Those are the street principals that apply.”
A few months ago, I would have loved this. I’m so over it now.
Courtesy of kimosorio.com
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Springsteen wraps Obama Tour up on Eastern Michigan University
Gary Graff, Ypsilanti, Mich.
Bruce Springsteen concluded his three-day barnstorming tour in support of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama today (Oct. 6) with an eight-song, 50-minute acoustic set at Oestrike Stadium on the campus of Eastern Michigan University.
"Hello Michigan. Hello Ypsilanti -- glad to be here. I don't know how to spell it though," Springsteen told the crowd, which university officials estimated at 5,000, before kicking into "The Promised Land."
The set also included "The Ghost of Tom Joad," "Thunder Road, "Devils & Dust," "Used Car" -- which drew cheers for its reference to nearby Michigan Avenue ("You can't go wrong singing a song that has the name of the state in it," Springsteen said) -- "No Surrender," "The Rising" and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."
Early in the show, Springsteen noted, "I was on the campaign trail four years ago. This time we're winning." And before "The Rising," he made a long speech similar to those he delivered Saturday in Philadelphia and yesterday in Columbus, Ohio (the text is posted on his official Web site).
He said he believed Obama's Republican rival, Senator John McCain, would begin launching "an attack on Senator Obama's character that will make the Swift Boaters look fair and balanced ... they will fail." Springsteen finished the show leading the crowd in a rhythmic chant of Obama's campaign slogan, "Yes we can."
Springsteen isn't finished with his Obama activism efforts. On Oct. 16, he will join Billy Joel and John Legend for a fund-raiser on behalf of the candidate at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
Courtesy of Billboard.com
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