Posted on 05 September 2011.
Singer/actress Teyana Taylor was involved in a physical altercation with a movie director.
Teyana and the director — Jean-Claude La Marre — were filming Gang of Roses 2 last weekend outside L.A. … when Teyana asked to be taken home because the pain was just too much to bear.
According to 20-year-old Teyana, she asked multiple times to be taken home by car service — and when La Marre continually refused to allow that … she got in his face and started shouting. Teyana claims La Marre shouted back, “Don’t f**king scream at me bitch” … and pushed her in the face, hitting her aching tooth.
La Marre claims he only defended himself … AFTER Teyana “jumped on me and began swinging” — but says he never hit her. Whoever started it … we’re told several crew members had to separate them.
Teyana says during the scrap her shirt was torn open (above), she got popped in the nose and mouth — and the blood ended up on her denim shorts. Reports also claim that La Marre is planning to finish the movie and killing off Teyana Taylor’s character.
This isn’t the first time the 20-year-old socialite was involved in an altercation. Earlier this year, Taylor was charged with beating a chick down in a Los Angeles recording studio. The charges were later dropped.
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Posted on 05 September 2011.
Spike Lee signed on to be executive producer of the hip-hop horror film entitled, You’re Nobody Til Somebody Kills You.
The title is adapted from the record by The Notorious B.I.G and the movie features Big Daddy Kane, Doug E. Fresh and Ed Lover in the cast. The story follows two New York City homicide detectives that are chasing a suspect that has been murdering hip-hop artists.
Spike’s protégé Michael A. Pinckney is directing the horror flick which is slated to premiere at the Williamsburg International Film Festival in Brooklyn this September.
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Posted on 05 September 2011.
Romeo Miller, 21, is continuing in his business endeavors and launching a new positive youth campaign, College Boyys Back to School “I AM THE NEXT…” campaign.
His College League Apparel is also launching a women’s clothing line, College Girlls, alongside “I AM THE NEXT…” as a cross-promotion.
Romeo and College League Apparel donated school supplies in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Mississippi, and Memphis with hopes for the program to reach even more communities next year.
Miller is currently the head of No Limit Forever Records.
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Posted on 01 September 2011.
ATLANTA — Atlanta-based rapper T.I. has been released one month early from prison, where he was serving a weapons violation sentence.
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke said the artist, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was released Wednesday morning from the Forrest City low-security prison in Arkansas.
The rapper was sentenced to 11 months in prison in October for breaking his federal probation after he was arrested in Los Angeles on drug charges. He was set to be released at the end of September, but prison authorities released him a month early.
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Posted on 01 September 2011.
Comedian Katt Williams went on an extended rant during a comedy show in Phoenix Saturday, taunting a heckler of Mexican descent.
Williams was responding to insults by an audience member, whom he learned was of Mexican origin.
After the initial taunts, Williams unleashed a more than seven-minute tirade in which he stated: “if y’all had California and you loved it, then you shouldn’t have given that mothaf*cka up. You should have fought for California, goddamnit, since you love it…” referred to Mexicans as “landscapers” and condemned those who he said “think they can live in this country and pledge allegience to another country… do you remember when white people used to say go back to Africa? And we’d have to tell them we don’t want to? So if you love Mexico, bitch, get the f*ck over there!.”
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Posted on 01 September 2011.
LOS ANGELES –– Janet Jackson says she will not attend a tribute concert honoring her brother Michael later this year because it coincides with the trial of the doctor charged in the King of Pop’s death.
Janet Jackson says that the timing of the show would make her appearance too difficult.
She joins brothers Jermaine and Randy Jackson, who also have said they will not attend the Oct. 8 show planned for Cardiff, Wales because it will happen during the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray.
The show has received support from family matriarch Katherine Jackson and other siblings of the late singer.
Opening statements are scheduled to begin in Murray’s trial on Sept. 27.
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Posted on 01 September 2011.
DETROIT — Esther Gordy Edwards, who helped build Motown Records alongside her brother Berry Gordy Jr. and led efforts to turn its original Detroit headquarters into a museum, has died. She was 91.
Edwards died Wednesday surrounded by family and friends in Detroit, the Motown Historical Museum said in a statement.
Edwards was a Motown executive for nearly three decades, holding numerous leadership positions within the music company whose artists included Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and The Four Tops. Motown Records, which Berry Gordy started with a family loan in 1959, churned out scores of global hits from the building it dubbed “Hitsville, U.S.A.” in Detroit. The company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.
Edwards served as senior vice president, corporate secretary and director of Motown International Operations, where she was charged with exposing the famed “Motown sound” to international audiences.
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Posted on 01 September 2011.
Vogue Italia has apologized for posting a fashion editorial on large metallic hoop earrings that they described as “Slave Earrings” after protests from consumers.
They’ve replaced the description with “Ethnic Earrings,” and maintain that it was a mistake due to an improper translation.
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Posted on 01 September 2011.
Lil Wayne is set to do big numbers this week for his latest project Tha Carter IV, now that Billboard predicts it will sell over 700,000 copies.
Now with physical copies of the album in stores, he’s expected to have a huge sales boost, one that could put him close to the 1 million mark.
If Tha Carter IV indeed hits the 700,000 mark, it will become the second highest selling album of the year behind Lady Gaga’s 1.11 million debut with Born This Way.
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