Rap Daily: While Boosie sits in jail awaiting the word on his murder charges, the state selling his home after failing to meet payments.
Lil Boosie has been in jail since June 2010 after being formally charged for a murder case. While he awaits his trial, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office is planning on selling his home after he failed to pay a writ.
Boosie, whose real name is Torence I. Hatch, is up against Flagstar Bank in the auction of his Louisiana residence. According to a police filing, Boosie failed to pay a $375,270.74 writ that was imposed on the plot on January 20, 2011.
The residence, located on Centurion Place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will be put up for auction on June 29, 2011, though no minimum bid has been set as the home is waiting appraisal.
The "Done It All" rapper is currently serving time in prison in anticipation of a murder trial. He was accused of paying for a man named Terry Boyd to be killed, and faces the death penalty.
Rap Daily: A variety of rappers offered encouraging words for single mothers and mothers in general, in observance of today's Mother's Day holiday. Rappers like Slim Thug,Ghostface Killah,E-40, Heavy D, Paul Wall, Jermaine Dupri, LL Cool J, Fat Joe, Waka, Flocka, Wale, Soulja Boy and others wished their own mothers, or mother's in general, a happy holiday. "Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms, Grandma's, single dads and everyone 1 that does their part in raising a child," New York's Power 105.1's DJ Envy tweeted. Hardcore gangster rapper Tony Yayo sent out a message to his female fans who are celebrating the day. "Happy mothers day to all the mothers who go hard for they kids, happy mothers day," Tony Yayo tweeted. "My Mom used to say that everyday was Mother's Day, I shouldn't wait for one day per year to tell her I love her and Happy Mothers Day," said Tek of veteran Hip-Hop group Smif-N-Wessun. "If you love them, don't wait to tell them, you never know how much time is left," Tek continued. "Give them the dozen while they can still smell the roses."
Rap Daily: Eminem, Cee Lo Green, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj are among the artists who helped raise over $5 million dollars to benefit the victims of an earthquake/tsunami, that devastated Japan.
The Songs for Japan CD was released digitally on March 25th and physically, on April 4th.
Since then, Songs for Japan has sold over 500,000 copies, generating $5 million in revenue.
The entire $5 million was sent to The Japanese Red Cross Society for victims on behalf of the artists on the CD, who waived their royalties and proceeds for the project.
In addition to Eminem, Cee Lo, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, artists like The Black Eyed Peas, U2, Bob Dylan, Sade, Bruno Mars, Ne-Yo, Justin Bieber and Elton John contributed tracks to the Songs for Japan album.
Rap Daily: Rick Ross is popping up in some surprising places . Most recently, He visited boxing champ and living legend Manny Pacquiao at his famous compound, where he's training for Tonights fight against Sugar Shane Mosely.
Ross & Pacquiao were both part of Nike’s “Boom” campaign, and oddly enough, is to walk the champ down to the ring before the fight. Ross even claims that he's made a song just for Manny.
We should be hearing some entertaining opinions about this soon from Ross' rival 50 Cent, who has ties with Pacquiao’s rival, Floyd Mayweather. For now, check out Ross at the Pacquiao Compound offering some words of support and announcing that he'll be putting $1M down on his boy for the fight.
Yes, one million dollars. While we wait for tonights fight, fans can head to Manny Pacquiao’s official site, MPBoxing.com - it's the premier platform for Manny’s voice on his life as an athlete as well as insight on him as a person. The site is the home to exclusive content including video, photos and blogs from Manny as well as his renowned trainer.
“I wanted to create something unique and authentic for my site which we were able to do with Craveonline,” stated Manny Pacquiao when launching his site. “This site provides me with the ability to interact with my fans wherever I am in the world whether I’m training, fighting, or playing.”
Rap Daily: Rapper Capone has asked 50 Cent to steer clear of his growing beef with Mobb Deep, who are still close associates of the G-Unit frontman. Capone has been lashing out at Prodigy on the Internet, over allegations made in P's new book, "My Infamous Life: The Story of Mobb Deep's Prodigy." In the book, Prodigy accuses Capone of veteran rap group Capone-N-Noreaga, of going to court and testifying against Havoc's brother, Killer Black. Prodigy's comments and his refusal to back down from the allegations, have sent Capone on a mission to clear his name. "50, I am asking you stay of this please, my ni**a. I got love for you, you're from Queens, you're a Queens ni**a like me, but just this is not a situation which - at the end of the day, it's hammer time." The beef seems to be growing as well, in intensity. Former associate and Bars-N-Hooks member Mike Delorean also chastised Prodigy for calling out Capone in his tell-all book. Mike was also mad that Prodigy talked about him in a few chapters in the book, which included comments about his mother, and accusations that Bars-N-Hooks robbed Havoc. "P you was a wankster, you talking about things you don't even know. you wildin' talking about ni**as mothers. You talkin' about ma dukes and she's resting in peace. Man, the goons are on your head," Mike Delorean said. Capone offered an explanation as to why he ended up on the stand, testifying against Killer Black. "I got caught in a situation, and I gave a false statement [to police]. I lied. Come to find out, the motherfu**ing statement came back, they tried to use me as a witness. But I lied. I wasn't Killer's co-defendant, I wasn't there when the crime happened, I aint speak to him after. But I didn't put nothing in there to incriminate nobody. The n***a you say I snitched on was running in the streets with me. Get your facts right."
Rap Daily: Legendary Hip-Hop group Mobb Deep will give their first performance in over three-years next week, during a highly anticipated show next week at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square. Mobb Deep's Havoc and Prodigy, who was released from prison in early March, after a three-year bid for a gun charge, will headline the show, which will also feature performances by Ghostface Killah and Raekwon the Chef, The Money Making Jam Boys and DJ Stretch Armstrong. Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg and ego trip's Sacha Jenkins will host the event, which is being produced by ego trip and concert promotion/marketing company LiveNDirect. Mobb Deep's first performance in over three years, will take place on Thursday, May 12th.
Rap Daily: President Barack Obama got revenge on mogul Donald Trump last night at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton.
Over 2,500 politicians, journalists and celebrities, including Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons and will.I.am, attended the annual dinner, which honors excellence in journalism.
President Obama and Saturday Night Live comedian Seth Meyers centered the majority of their jokes on Donald Trump, who had been questioning if the President was born in Hawaii.
President Obama began his speech by immediately addressing the "birthers" who claimed he wasn't born in Hawaii.
He then set his sites on Donald Trump, who was booed as he arrived at the dinner.
"Donald Trump is here. I know he's taken some flack recently, but no one is more ready to put the birther issue to rest than the Donald," President Obama said. "So he can focus real issues at hand facing America, like ‘Did we really land on the moon?’ ‘What really happened in Roswell?’ And, ‘Where are Biggie and Tupac?’”
The rap name checking didn't stop there. President Obama also made fun of Donald Trump's aspirations to run for the oval office.
"We all know about your credentials, and your breadth of experience," President Obama said. "For example, on a recent episode of Celebrity Apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men’s cooking team did not impress the men from Omaha Steaks. There was lots of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. Ultimately, you didn’t blame [rapper] Lil Jon or [singer] Meatloaf, you fired Gary Busey. These are the kinds of decisions that keep me up at night. Well handled, sir! Well handled."
Donald Trump claimed he didn't think President Obama would address him during the White House Correspondence Dinner and called the ribbing "inappropriate."
"I had no idea it would be to that extent, where you know, it was just joke after joke after joke," Donald Trump said on Fox and Friends earlier this morning (May 1st). "It was almost like, is there anyone else they could talk about?"
Rap Daily: Although it has been less than 24 hours since President Barack Obama made the announcement that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, Hot Rod, a popular rap artist/singer on 50 Cent's G-Note label wasted no time in releasing a tribute song. Hot Rod dropped the dance track "Osama bin Laden is Dead" earlier this morning (May 2nd) on 50's website, Thisis50.com. The pulsating club track features Hot Rod sining the chorus: "Osama was killed tonight/so everybody come and have a good time/Great news made me lose my mind/so tonight I'm gonna have a good time…" Hot Rod is the first artist signed to 50 Cent's G-Note Records, which is an offshoot of his successful G-Unit Records imprint, which is currently distributed by EMI. Check out Hot Rod's song "Osama bin Laden is Dead" below:
Rap Daily: In one that can be filed as "Hip Hop Beefs That Just Won't Die," Mr. Carey says he's got a few more barbs to toss Em's way.
Nick Cannon is still fighting the good fight—apparently—and is still looking to defend his wife’s honor.
Cannon, who is married to Mariah Carey, revealed that he will discuss his beef with Eminem during his upcoming Showtime comedy special. “I say how I feel about it. I mean it’s definitely an interesting take— I’m not trying to stir up old news. That’s the thing that my stand-up special is actually about. It’s everybody getting to hear what I have to say first-hand instead of [hearing it] through interviews and hearsay.”
“You get to see how I feel about it,” he continued. “And I think that’s why a lot of people are gonna be intrigued to watch. I talk about everything from Eminem, to my marriage, to how I feel about other celebrities and all that stuff. So, it’s an interesting take. People have been buzzing about it. I’ve been on the road with it for the last year, and everywhere I go it’s a standing ovation. So, I think it should be well-received.”
Cannon also had some tough talk for Shady. “I mean, if I see dude, and it ain’t 10,000 body guards around, I feel like we need to have a real man-to-man. And if he’s a froggish type of dude then we both can leap. But I doubt that’s ever gon’ happen because he don’t move like that. It’s one of those things where it’s definitely entertainment, I get that, but then there’s a line you cross where you start to disrespect a man’s family in different situations.”
Rap Daily: R&B singer Mariah Carey and rapper Nick Cannon are now the proud parents of twins, the married couple announced today (April 30th). The couple's twins were born at 12:07PM EST, on April 30th, the third anniversary of Mariah and Nick'swedding. Their daughter was born first, weighing 5 pounds, 3 ounces, while the boy followed, weighing 5 pounds, 6 ounces. "Congratulations to Mariah & Nick on the birth of #dembabies!!," a statement posted on Mariah's Twitter page said. "Born, April 30th at 12:07pm ET. Mommy, Daddy & #dembabies are all doing fine!" "My wife just gave me the most incredible anniversary gift ever in life! I won't ever be able to top this!" tweeted Nick Cannon of his babies, who haven't been named as of press time. A variety of rappers and artists congratulated the new parents, including Rev. Run, Alyssa Milano, Jermaine Dupri andNickiMinaj. "Congratulations Mariah & Nick!!!!!!!!!," Mariah Carey tweeted. "The twins have finally landed on earth!!! Yaaayyyyy!!!!!"
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