Lil Kim is allegedly one of the biggest flakes on the planet. It’s being said that the rapper bailed on 6 gigs after getting her $20,000 fee and then blamed it all on a nosebleed. Sources say that a company called Abstrakt Visions Entertainment paid her $20,000 up front to make 6 club appearances in London between November 7 to 14. Kim later said that she suffered a nosebleed in her hotel room the night before the first show then got a call from the rapper the next day saying that she’s heading back to the USA. Kim’s camp says that the nosebleed is true but the real reason she bailed was because the promoters had poor planning skills. They also say that the money will be used to cover travel expenses but she might want to invest in a lawyer as Abstrakt is planning to file a lawsuit.
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Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession last week and is expected to be sentenced to a year in jail. The rapper admitted to having a .40 calibre semi-automatic loaded gun on board his tour bus back in 2007. Sentencing isn’t until February so he remains free on bail until then. However, he’ll be busy tending to his other run-ins with the law as he has a trial scheduled in Arizona for felony drug possession and weapon charges from an arrest back in January 2008 at the US Border Patrol. He pleaded not guilty for that one. Either way, he will be getting some jail time in.
The Game is in a serious feud with the lawyers who saved him from doing five years of hard time. The legal team who represented the rapper in the wake of his 2007 arrest on gun charges claim that The Game never forked over $34,683.90 in bills for the work that they did. In the lawsuit which was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the firm Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert claims that they even got the rapper a successful outcome. Since The Game was facing a potential five year sentence in state prison and only ended up serving eight days, you’d think he got his money’s worth.
Common has broken his silence about his cousin’s tragic death last week and took the time to thank everyone for their support during the tough time. The rapper posted his statement on his blog, saying “Man, I want to thank each and every person who sent their love and condolences about my cousin, Ajile Turner. It has definitely been a tough time for me and my family, but as GOD always does he assures us that everything will be alright. I believe that you all’s support is just another way of assuring it. I thank you once again. God Bless.”
According to the National Enquirer, Queen Latifah and over a dozen of her friends were entertained by a less than shy female dancer at a two-story townhouse in New Jersey. In addition to the full nudity, the girls enjoyed a couple of drinks and other adult games. The source said “Queen Latifah is part of a regular group, and she was egging on the strippers to be as outrageous as they could be.” The source goes on to say that “there’s a lot of drinking at these gatherings…some of the ladies get so amorous that they pair off together.” Now that sounds more like an orgy to me. I wonder if the rapper had fun. By the looks of the picture that they put with the article, she certainly did.
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Rapper Lil Mama recently apologized for some comments she made on ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’ after she went a little too far while grilling a transgender dancer. During the rant, she said “Leiomy, come on. Your behavior … it’s unacceptable … You were born a man and you are becoming a woman. If you’re going to become a woman, act like a lady … It gets too crazy and it gets confusing.” After taking some heat due to her comments, Lil Mama sent an apology to GLAAD, saying “My remarks were never meant to be disrespectful regarding Leiomy’s gender nor offensive to the LGBT community, which has been a community that has supported me in all my endeavors. However, in hindsight, I recognize that my words may have come across as hurtful. I spoke with her privately after the taping to express that it was not my intent to offend her or any member of the transgender community and that I still live for Vogue Evolution.”
Jay-Z’s bodyguard was charged with a crime for last weekend’s tripod-tossing fight with a local TV reporter in Croatia. Law enforcement sources say that the rapper’s bodyguard has been charged with destroying personal property and assault, based on a complaint filed by the reporter who got into a scuffle with Jay and Beyonce’s entourage that night. Video of the incident actually surfaced on the internet showing the whole confrontation, including the part where the reporter throws his camera sticks at Jay-Z’s bodyguard and the bodyguard threw the tripod into the sea. Police are trying to track down the hired muscle for questioning regarding the incident.
Drake seems to think that people are willing to pay for what they can already get for free online. The rapper/singer is retail releasing his previously free mix tape to the masses on September 15th. The disc will feature his hits ‘Best I Ever Had’ and ‘Successful’, as well as a new song that will serve as a transition to his full length album ‘Thank Me Later’. I don’t see the point in this at all, apart from wanting to suck some money out of people. I also think that most of his fans already have this as, until recently, they could get it for free. This is just greedy.
Rapper C-Murder was sentenced to life in prison last Friday after he was convicted of second-degree murder earlier last week. C-Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller and who also happens to be the brother of Master P, was convicted of shooting a 16-year old fan in Louisiana in 2001. What would drive a celebrity to shoot down a fan anyway? Someone was definitely in need of anger management. This was the second time that a jury convicted the rapper in the case but a 2003 conviction was overturned. I don’t think having the name murder in his rap name proved to be beneficial in his case either.
LL Cool J was recently quarantined when a flight that he was on also carried someone so ill that all the passengers had to be quarantined when the plane landed. That wasn’t the only trouble that the rapper experienced on that flight. Before the quarantine, the flight from LA to St. Louis, had to make an emergency landing in Kansas City after passengers smelled smoke and realized that the jet reeked of gas. That was when the quarantine order came when one of the passengers who recently returned from a trip outside the US got very sick. They were quarantined for 3 hours. After that, LL opted not to re-board the plane and opted to hire a car service to get him to St. Louis instead.
Coolio has reached a plea deal and has avoided some jail time. The has-been rapper was arrested back in March for possession of crack cocaine at LAX Airport. He was also arrested last June for traffic violation charges and having an outstanding warrant. He has pleaded guilty to felony cocaine possession in a deal that requires him to spend 18 months in rehab. Coolio can request for the case to be dismissed if he successfully completes the program. He is due back in court on September 28th for a progress report.
It seems that yet another rapper has brought honor to his kind by getting involved in a violent crime and ending up for trial. It seems that Tru Life and with his younger brother were involved in the lethal stabbing of a man in New York. Tru Life pleaded not guilty and is currently being held without bail. His brother surrender a day after. The rapper’s lawyer of course claims his client is innocent and will no doubt do everything in his power to prove it. So it seems that the saga of the rappers continues and Tru Life is doing his best to write his own verse in the monumental epic.
If you’re a pot smoking employee who is looking for someone else to take the blame, you might want to consider working for Snoop Dog. Last week, cops in Norfolk, Virginia were tipped off that a suspicious package has arrived in the mail from Canada to the Plaza Hotel where the rapper and his crew were staying. Sources say that the package was addressed to one of Snoop’s entourage and then they swooped in to arrest the guy for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Snoop then showed up in the lobby and said that the pot was for him after flashing his medical marijuana card. The guy who got arrested is still in custody and the case is still under investigation.
Eminem has just been the victim of a robbery! While the rapper was busy getting tea bagged by Sacha Baron Cohen at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, a thief or two snuck into his Los Angeles hotel room and stole a bunch of his stuff. Some of the items that were stolen included a diamond necklace worth $60,000 and his laptop. I wonder if there would be any juicy stuff hacked out of his laptop. Naked pictures perhaps? I don’t want to see any of his junk though. Maybe there are some demos there that we can make fun of.
If you’re a pot smoking employee who is looking for someone else to take the blame, you might want to consider working for Snoop Dog. Last week, cops in Norfolk, Virginia were tipped off that a suspicious package has arrived in the mail from Canada to the Plaza Hotel where the rapper and his crew were staying. Sources say that the package was addressed to one of Snoop’s entourage and then they swooped in to arrest the guy for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Snoop then showed up in the lobby and said that the pot was for him after flashing his medical marijuana card. The guy who got arrested is still in custody and the case is still under investigation.
Kanye West has entered his plea of not guilty to charges of misdemeanor battery, grand theft and vandalism from his September 11 arrest at LAX. The rapper was not in court as he entered the plea through his lawyer. His next hearing has been set for July 15. I wonder what was so important that he had to miss a court date. Mind you, there’s a lot of video evidence regarding the charges against him. There’s a chance that he’s still going to get more than just a slap on the wrist. I would love to see him head to jail. Maybe our eyes won’t have to be harassed by his all caps blog writing for a while.
Slain rapper Dolla may have been caught in an earlier dispute with the events promoter who was arrested for his suspected murder, according to a US report.
The dispute, or altercation, was thought to have happened at a strip club that is popular with the hip-hop crowd. Police did not make the location of the incident available.
But the Los Angeles Times said it interviewed an employee of Platinum 21 Adult Entertainment who recalled Dolla in a dispute with a man going by the “initials A.B.” on May 13.
Los Angeles detectives are reported to be travelling to Atlanta where both Dolla, aka Roderick Anthony Burton II, and the promoter Aubrey Louis Berry, 23, had both been living to investigate.
Dolla was killed in the valet parking area of LA’s upscale Beverly Center shopping mall.
Berry is believed to have fled from the scene of the shooting in a silver Mercedes Benz SUV and boarded a flight to Los Angeles International Airport, where he was apprehended.
Eminem’s recently leaked full album has got to be one of the crappiest albums I’ve heard this decade. I doubted he could actually do something nice. But it turns out that the rapper is doing something nice in return. Albeit, it’s a publicity stunt, but still nice. Reports are saying that Eminem is flying out 200 laid off workers from Toledo’s Ohio Modular Management. They’re all going to be part of Jimmy Kimmel’s audience on May 15th, the first of the rapper’s 3 appearances on the show. The workers flying to LA for the taping are from different auto plants in Michigan and Ohio who were laid off and do not receive certain sub-pay benefits. A former worker from the company revealed “He is flying us out, all expenses paid, for the show to put a face on the American auto workers who are affected by this hardship. He is supposed to do a meet and greet and sign autographs.”
The Queen B is back as Lil Kim has come out with a so-called comeback single and video! Her new song is called ‘Download’ and it features rapper T-Pain. But as much greatness as there is between the two rappers, the song is just ok. It’s kind of mellow to be a Lil Kim single especially considering that it’s the first one after a very long time off the music scene. It sounds more like the B-side of an album instead of what’s supposed to be released as a single. She definitely could have done better but at the very least, there’s nothing really bad about the song.
Foxy Brown is off the hook as the lawsuit that was filed in 2007 against the rapper claiming that she beat down her neighbor with a Blackberry has been dismissed. Even though Foxy pled guilty to the charges of the cell phone assault, the lawsuit was dropped by Justice Robert Miller in a Brooklyn Supreme Court after finding out that Foxy had never been served with the proper legal papers. How the heck did that slip through the cracks and was only found out now? It’s pretty obvious that Foxy got lucky here. Let’s just hope that she doesn’t do it again.
