Spike Lee collabs with Absolut Vodka to create a limited edition flavor (red apple and ginger) called ABSOLUT Brooklyn, and a short film with spoken word artist Lemon Andersen for their ongoing City Series.
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50 Cent lost a lot of weight for his upcoming movie “Things Fall Apart”. In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer.
He dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks.
“I was starving.” Now he’s back on tour and says, “I’ve been eating. I’ll be back in shape in no time!”
Former mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick will serve a minimum of 14 months in prison. He is currently at the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in Jackson.
Within two hours of being sentenced Tuesday, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was wearing a bright yellow inmate’s uniform as he stepped into a police van bound for Jackson to begin serving 1 1/2 to 5 years in prison. Full story after the jump.
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According to sources, drug king pin Rick Ross (the real one) is planning to file a lawsuit against Rick Ross the rapper and his label home Def Jam Records, claiming the rapper stole his identity.
The case originally started in 2006 when Ross sent a cease-and-desist letter to Def Jam regarding the issue which Ross alleges were ignored. Upon the real Rick Ross’s release from prison in 2009, he made it clear that the rapper was using not only his name, but his entire image as a drug dealer to sell records.
Ross claims that Miami rapper Rick Ross (William Leonard Roberts II) signed a multimillion dollar deal in 2006, based on his image and likeness as a drug dealer.
The real Rick Ross controlled thousands of workers at the height of his power in the mid-1980’s, who dealt millions of dollars worth of cocaine each day.
In 1996, Ross was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to purchase over 100 kilograms of cocaine, but the verdict was over turned after a series of explosive articles appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, which exposed the C.I.A.’s role in distributing cocaine to Black communities to fund Contra fighters in Nicaragua.
The real “Rick Ross” has been actively touring urban America spreading his message, and motivational speaking to at-risk youth, the hood, ex-offenders, and recovering addicts, about the powers of redemption, and he spoke at the annual Savior’s Day as a guest of Minister Louis Farrakhan.
A movie about his life, written by producer Nick Cassavettes, is slated for release next year.
The rapper Rick Ross (William Leonard Roberts II) is preparing to release his fourth album Teflon Don this summer
According to an interview that Rocko had on Atlanta’s V103 FM with Greg Street, the robbers stole a laptop worth over $130,000 from his 2010 Cadillac Escalade while he was eating lunch at Benihana’s in Buckhead.
Rocko revealed that the laptop contained recordings and production work that would cost him more than $150,000 to re-record. Rocko was so desperate to retrieve the stolen goods that he offered a $50,000 reward to the person who returned the items.
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Checkout the cover art, for New Eminem album, “Recovery” due out on June 22.
President Obama shares his thoughts on hoops and more with TNT’s Marv Albert
Diddy recently spoke to MTV about Nicki Minaj and working in the studio with The Queen of Young Money.
“She’s definitely one of the great ones. She has a long way to go but you know we recognized LeBron was a great one, Tiger was a great one and Kobe was a great one. Her story has just begun.”
While she still hasn’t dropped her debut album yet, Nicki Minaj has also racked up a few BET Award nominations. The current reigning female MC in Hip-Hop picked up nods for Best New Artist and Best Female Hip-Hop Artist in addition to three nominations with Young Money.The 10th annual BET Awards will be held on June 27th at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and will be hosted by Queen Latifah.
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Eddie Murphy is preparing to return to the stage as a stand-up comedian, but he insists it will be a year before he has enough material for a full show.
Before he became an in-demand film star, Murphy was one of the world’s top comics and could fill huge venues, like New York’s Madison Square Garden – and now he admits he’s itching to get back out there.
The Shrek star says, “Within the last six months or so, I started getting an itch to do it again. I started writing stuff… I was like, ‘I could go and do 15, 20 minutes right now. Maybe in a couple of months I’ll start working out again.’
“But it’ll take a year before I’m ready to go on the road… It’s gonna take at least a year to get the rust off; 20 years of rust.” Source: WENN.com
Checkout Throwback clip: Ice Cream scene from Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious” Stand Up
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Manny Paquiao is telling Floyd Mayweather Jr to put up or shut up.
The seven time world champinon has agreed to Olympic Style drug tresting clearing the way for the mega fight everyone wants to see reports ABS-CBN and UK Telegraph.
“So he (Mayweather) will no longer have a reason (not to fight),” Pacquiao said. “Let’s see if that is really the reason.”
Negotiations for their fight fell apart because Manny refused to agree to blood testing the first time around. But Pac-Man said that’s because it’s the boxing commission’s job to dictate the rules not the fighters.
“I’m a boxer, so why should I interfere with the work of the commission? That’s the reason commissions are there, so they can set the rules.”
Manny insists blood testing be cut off 14 days to the fight. That shouldn’t be a problem at all because testing was stopped 18 days prior to Mayweather’s last fight against Shane Mosely says Paquiao’s promotor Bob Arum.
“The USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) stopped the blood test… they took 5 or 6 tests but the last one was 18 days for Mosley and 19 days for Mayweather,” Arum told ABS-CBN News.
Arum added that this fight which would likely generate one of the biggest purses and television audiences in boxing history, could take place on November 13 in Texas or Las Vegas.
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Tiger Woods wife Elin Nordegren is trying to club an eye-popping $750 million out of Tiger in their divorce negotiations, according to reports Friday.
Woods hasn’t agreed yet, but if he does he wants total silence from his soon-to-be ex about the collapse of their marriage – forever, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Nordegren has so far said no to signing a lifetime “confidentiality clause” that would prevent her from writing a book or doing any interviews about the split.
She reportedly also wants full custody of their two kids even though it was first thought the couple were going to agree to joint custody.
Sources said the divorce negotiations “have turned extremely testy” and the couple no longer talk to each other.
Nordegren has spent a lot of time away from Woods in recent months. She went to Arizona alone for nearly a week recently and took the kids to Sweden while Woods played golf.
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