Posted on 15 September 2011.
Singer Kelis took to Twitter just minutes ago to air out her thoughts on being called a slave at a UK airport. Kelis was at a UK airport with her son when a complete stranger called her a ‘slave‘ and ’disgusting Nigerian‘.
Kelis revealed:
Over 50 people said nothing. I mean literally nothing. Didn’t flinch. We all no I’m no saint, so I retaliated. Not the way I wanted to, or how that pig deserved.
But #1 my gorgeous baby boy was literally sitting on my hip and #2 I’m a believer. And we are better. Suposed to be anyway. It made me think. This person was aprox a 50 year old English man.
She went on to explain:
I didn’t say anything at the time of the riots in London for a lot of reasons. But I am in london all the time and today I’m gonna say that the racial issues in the uk are disgusting. Decades behind progression because everything is swept under the rug. People don’t talk about it. People don’t fight about it.
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Posted on 15 September 2011.
Authorities in suburban Atlanta say rapper Gucci Mane will serve six months in jail after pleading guilty to battery and other charges.
DeKalb County Solicitor-General Sherry Boston said Tuesday that Mane, whose real name is Radric Delantic Davis, pleaded guilty to two counts of battery, two counts of reckless conduct and one count of disorderly conduct.
A police report said Davis pushed 36-year-old Diana Graham out of his Hummer as it rolled down a suburban Atlanta street on Jan. 28.
State Court Judge Eleanor Ross sentenced the rapper to serve six months in custody followed by several months on probation.
The judge also ordered him to complete 12 weeks of anger management classes; pay $5,091 in restitution to the woman for her medical bills; and pay a $3,000 fine.
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Leo O’Brien, who played Richie Greene, the main character “Bruce” Leroy Greene’s younger brother in the movie Last Dragon, was shot three times in Harlem by a friend yesterday in an argument over a chair.
O’Brien is currently an entrepreneur working in Harlem and has served eight years in jail for various offenses. Taimak Guariello who played “Bruce” Leroy Tweeted about the shooting.
The New York Daily News reports:
A police source said the two men were arguing about a chair. Someone else was in the chair and got up, then O’Brien sat down. The accused gunman wanted the chair back, but was already out of patience.
“The second bullet hit me in the stomach,” he said. “I knew then it was a real gun….The third bullet hit me in the arm.
“He didn’t say anything to me. He started crying and ran away. He was my homeboy. Did we have a problem before he shot me? No. I don’t know why he shot me. He was scared. Maybe he thought I would hurt him?”
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Posted on 15 September 2011.
NEW YORK — Nas is taking his war of words to the printed page.
The rapper, known for his million-selling album Illmatic and his public feuds with Jay-Z and Bill O’Reilly, has a memoir coming out in the fall of 2012.
HarperCollins announced Monday the book will be called It Ain’t Too Hard to Tell, and co-written with Toure.
Nas’ other records include It Was Written and Life is Good.
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Posted on 15 September 2011.
LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston is negotiating to return to the big screen in Sony’s remake of the 1976 film Sparkle.
Jordin Sparks will make her feature film debut in the movie. Mike Epps also stars.
Houston hasn’t been in a movie since she traveled to Portland, Maine to make Penny Marshall’s 1996 The Preacher’s Wife. She starred opposite Denzel Washington in that film.
“Sparkle focuses on three sisters who form a musical group and then have to contend with the ups and downs of stardom. Think the Supremes.
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Posted on 12 September 2011.
Well…in case you had any doubts after her Twitter-shattering VMA performance, Beyoncé…it’s really, real. King B is having a baby!
While getting a little R&R on a recent trip to Hvar, Croatia, Beyoncé was spotted by the paparazzi looking positively fly in a white bikini and a visibly bare rounded belly.
Although her camp has been tight-lipped about a possible due date, some estimate that Beyonce could have her a little Knowles-Carter by the beginning of next year.
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Posted on 12 September 2011.
Robert Zemeckis is getting back into the live-action business, directing Flight, starring Denzel Washington, Paramount Pictures said Friday.
The movie is a redemption tale about Whip, an airline pilot who lands a damaged plane, saving 98 lives on a flight with 106 people — think Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger with star power. The world considers him a hero, but he struggles with the label, “as he is forced to hold up to the scrutiny of an investigation that brings into question his behavior the night before the doomed flight.”
John Gatins, who wrote Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story and Real Steel, wrote the script.
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LONDON — Jermaine Jackson says his family had secretly arranged to fly Michael to Bahrain if the pop icon was found guilty of child molestation.
Jermaine was quoted as telling The Times magazine out Saturday that a private jet financed by a friend was on standby to whisk his late brother to the Gulf emirate if the 2005 court case ended with a conviction.
Bahrain does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S.
Jermaine says his brother did not know about the escape plan but Michael would have “done it in a heartbeat” because “why should he go to jail for something he didn’t do?”
The singer was found not guilty on all charges. He later spent a year in the emirate as a guest of a son of Bahrain’s king.
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Posted on 12 September 2011.
Nothin’ like getting arrested — and then bragging about it on Twitter!
Rappers Paul Wall and Baby Bash (real names Paul Michael Slayton and Ronald Ray Bryant) found themselves in hot water on Saturday night when they were arrested for marijuana possession in a — wait for it! — drug-free zone in El Paso, TX.
El Paso County Jail Records show the two were arrested at 1:30 a.m. and were released around 1:30 p.m. after posting $300 bail. They were charged with possession of marijuana in a quantity of less than 2 oz.
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