According to Variety.com, Mos Def will star in and executive produce a new film called “Bobby Zero.” Mos will play the romantic lead in the movie, which revolves around a “social satirist” who leaves his musical ambitions behind to work at an advertising agency. Production for the film will begin in November.
MTV News has reported that 50 has shot three more videos for his upcoming album, Curtis, which will be released on September 4. Fif’s next official single will be a collaboration with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland entitled “She Want It.” While “Follow My Lead,” which features Robin Thicke, was rumored to be the next single, MTV confirmed with Interscope Records that the video was indeed shot but it being shelved. In addition, MTV has reported 50 has shot a video for a remix of “Straight to the Bank,” but representative’s at Interscope claim to have no knowledge of the video’s existence.
50 Cent appeared on BET’s 106 & Park to explain his controversial performance at the BET Awards on Tuesday night where he failed to rap the entire first verse of his new single, “Amusement Park.” After the performance, fans, bloggers and message boards went into a frenzy, contemplating whether Fif was lip-synching, his microphone got cut off or he just forgot his own lyrics. 50 cleared up the controversy yesterday at 106 & Park.
According to the New York Daily News, the alleged hooker charged with attacking Foxy Brown was released from Rikers Island yesterday after the rapper refused to sing to a grand jury.
The district attorney’s office had until 5 p.m. yesterday to indict Roshawn Anthony, 23, on robbery, assault, menacing, harassment and other charges in the Saturday attack on the rap diva in Brooklyn.
But when Brown wouldn’t testify, Anthony walked, a law enforcement source said.
The trouble-prone rapper also refused to dish on her jilted boyfriend, Timothy Collier, 33, a small-time pimp who allegedly unleashed three gal pals on Brown after she dumped him Saturday morning, police sources said.
“We don’t know anything about that,” said an older woman who answered the door at Collier’s apartment in the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York.
Neighbors said they had seen the couple together over the past few weeks, but had not seen Collier since Monday.
Brown gave the ex-con the boot after learning he was a pimp, police sources said.
According to TMZ.com, Eve’s lawyer Blair Berk pleaded no contest to the charges on behalf of Eve in Los Angeles County Superior Court today (June 28).
Eve, born Eve Jeffers, had a .08 blood alcohol level when she crashed her gold Maserati, following a night of partying.
The actress/rapper, who is gearing up to release her latest album Here I Am, has been ordered to wear a SCRAM alcohol monitoring device around her ankle for 45 days.
She must enroll in an alcohol education program, serve 36 months of informal probation and pay pay $1400 in fines and penalties.
Atlanta’s Shop Boyz have the highest selling hip-hop debut on the Billboard charts this week with their album Rockstar Mentality. Powered by their smash single “Party Like a Rockstar,” the trio moved 52,000 copies of the disc, but failed to make it into the Billboard Top 10, instead landing at No. 11. Elsewhere on the charts, St. Louis native, Huey, grabbing the No. 26 spot on Billboard’s Top 200 with his debut LP, Notebook Paper. Although the album’s single, “Pop, Lock & Drop It,” has enjoyed heavy radio spins, its popularity only translated into sales of about 28,000 units. Meanwhile, in his second week in stores, Fabolous managed to move just under 59,000 copies of From Nothin’ to Somethin’ to keep him in the Top 10. Last week Fab debuted at No. 2, but this week he dropped several spots to No. 9.
According to the New York Post, hip-hop diva Foxy Brown arrived at the Department of Probation shortly after 2 p.m., nearly four hours after her scheduled appointment.
The raunchy rapper was a no-show Friday, prompting a probation official to tack a failure-to-report notice on the door of her brownstone in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Brown spun on her stilettos and got back in her car when she spotted a Post photographer outside the probation office.
Brown, whose 1996 debut album was “Ill Na Na,” later emerged, surrounded by bodyguards who escorted her through an employee entrance.
After a few words with a security officer, she walked around a metal detector and on to her meeting with a probation officer.
After her two-hour session, Brown left through a side door not used by the public. Probation officials gave no reason for the special treatment.
Her lawyer, John Sampson, declined to comment. Brown’s new manager, Black Hand Entertainment honcho Chaz Williams, declined to talk as well.
Neither Brown nor her representatives gave any reason why she missed her Friday probation appointment, which stems from charges that she beat up two Chelsea manicurists in a salon in 2004.
N.O.R.E., of Capone-N-Noreaga fame, will return to hip-hop with, Noreality, his first album since 2004’s reggaeton project, Y La Familia…Ya Tu Sabe. The LP will be released this September through N.O.R.E.’s Thug Out Militainment imprint and indy label, Babygrande Records. “Noreaga is a legend and a pioneer,” says Chuck Wilson, Babygrande Records CEO. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with him and even more thrilled that N.O.R.E. is back on that street shit we all love.” Noreality will feature production by Swizz Beatz and guest appearances by Jadakiss, Three 6 Mafia, Kanye West, Pharrell, Prodigy, Bun B, Tru Life, David Banner, Capone and Kurupt. The album will also be packaged with a DVD featuring N.O.R.E.’s reality show that chronicles his everyday life. “I just want to give the fans that something extra this time,” says N.O.R.E.
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The New York Post has reported Michael Jackson, R. Kelly and over a dozen music publishers hit Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club with a federal lawsuit for allegedly refusing to pay royalties on songs played in the Manhattan club. According to the lawsuit filed in a Manhattan federal court yesterday, the 40/40 Club has failed to oblige to the licensing rules with “unauthorized public performance of musical compositions.” Broadcast Music Inc. filed the charges on behalf of the artists, which include Jackson, R. Kelly, Kanye West, Ray Charles, Renald Richard and Pharrell Williams. Broadcast Music is reportedly seeking unspecified damages for copyright infringement. According to the Post, BMI spokesperson, Jerry Baily, says the company has reached out, but ultimately failed to work out a deal with the 40/40 Club to license the rights to some of the 6.5 million songs BMI owns.
