Kanye x Jay-Z Watch The Throne Tracklist

Boy, I been waiting to see this. In Stores August 2.
1. No Church in The Wild (Feat. Frank Ocean)
2. Lift Off (Feat. Beyoncé)
3. Niggas in Paris
4. Otis (Feat. Otis Redding)
5. Gotta Have It
6. New Day
7. Prime Time
8. Who Gon Stop Me
9. Murder to Excellence
10. Welcome to The Jungle
11. Sweet Baby Jesus (Feat. Frank Ocean)
12. Love You So (Feat. Mr Hudson)
Bonus

13. Illest Motherfucker Alive
14. H*A*M
15. That’s My Bitch
16. The Joy (Feat. Curtis Mayfield)

Lil’ Wayne Dancers Charged For Assaulting Waitress

Two of rapper Lil Wayne’s ghetto dancers were arrested and charged with assaulting a waitress during a dispute over splitting a check at a P.F. Chang’s resturant.
Della Hamby, 26, (top) of North Hollywood, Calif., and Jennifer Slaughter, 24, of Auburn Hills, Mich., were charged with third-degree assault and second-degree breach of peace.
According to the Hartford Courant, Hamby, Slaughter, and another woman who was not charged attacked the waitress because she advised them that they should have asked to be allowed to split the check at the beginning of the meal and not at the end.
The women paid and left, but they later returned to retrieve a cell phone that one had left behind. They swore at the waitress and threatened her. Then, witnesses told police, one pulled the waitress’s hair while the other punched her. They threw the waitress to the floor and continued punching her, police said.
The third patron did not participate in the beating, police said. The waitress sustained minor injuries. A worker at the restaurant said Monday that she was OK.
Police found the suspects across New Britain Avenue from the mall, in front of the Old Navy store.
A spokeswoman for P.F. Chang’s said she could not comment on the incident because “this is an active investigation.” West Hartford police said Monday their investigation into the incident was closed with the arrests of Slaughter and Hamby.

DMX Prison Stay Extended For Sneaking Drugs In Prison

DMX just scored an extended stay in his Arizona prison after the rapper was allegedly caught with drugs behind bars … but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, DMX broke SEVERAL rules in Yuma state prison since January — including drug possession, failing or refusing a drug test, smoking when he wasn’t supposed to, being disrespectful, disruptive, and disorderly … the list goes on.
A rep for the prison wouldn’t specify what kind of drug officials found on the rapper.
All told, DMX had seven disciplinary infractions — and we’re told, he’ll be stuck in Yuma prison for AT LEAST another week … and possibly much longer.
X was supposed to be released tomorrow, seven months after he was sentenced to serve time for a probation violation.

Foxy Brown Mooning Charge Dropped

From Rap Radar:
Foxy has another reason to pull her skirt up after a NY judge dismissed charges on her violating an order of protection filed by her neighbor Arlene Raymond. According to various reports, Raymond decided not to take the stand and testify against the rapper. If found guilty, Fox faced up to a year in jail. Following the court appearance, Foxy said of the woman she struck with a Blackberry in 2007:
“It’s rooted in jealousy, it’s a scarying thing like borderline obsession,” she said. “Someone wants to be you and have the life I worked very hard for.”

Kevin Powell Teaching at George Mason University

Kevin Powell Teaching at George Mason University

Kevin Powell, nationally acclaimed activist, public speaker, and author or editor of 10 books, is teaching a Summer course at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Kevin, who was also a 2010 Democratic candidate for Congress in New York City, where he is based, has long been a fixture on American college campuses as a highly sought after lecturer.

But, according to Kevin, he wanted to do something different this

Summer: “I actually taught at New York University in the 1990s, both in a Saturday program for high schoolers and a first-year English course. Coming off my 2010 Congressional campaign I’ve been thinking long and hard about various ways to work with and engage the American people, especially the younger generations. George Mason University offered me an opportunity to teach an empowerment seminar to a group of incoming first-year students. It is a great way for me to share my 25-plus years of life experiences as a leader, writer, community organizer, and someone who has been very forthcoming about my life journey and life work. And to encourage these students to not only become civically engaged, but to forever think critically about the world we inhabit.”

As Kevin is teaching this Summer, he is also working on his 11th and 12th books: “Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and The Ghost of Dr. King:

Blogs and Essays” (to be published Fall 2011) and “The Education of Kevin Powell,” a memoir about his childhood and youth (to be published Fall 2012).