Kendrick Lamar & Meek Mill are set to headline Power 105’s Breakfast Club Powerhouse Concert. The show is going down on November 2nd and the other acts on the show are Trey Songz, 2 Chainz, Meek Mill, Big Sean, K. Michelle and SchoolBoy Q. Pre-sale tickets will go on sale on Thursday, September 19th at 10am to Friday, September 20 at 5pm. Tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday, September 21 at 10am.
More info can be found here.
From the New York Times:
Twitter, which began as a side project in a small but failing start-up seven years ago and grew into one of the world’s largest platforms for public conversation, is about to take its biggest step yet into maturity: selling stock to the public.
The company announced on Thursday — in a tweet, one of the 140-character messages that are the backbone of the service — that it had filed paperwork with regulators to eventually sell shares in an initial public offering. However, it had filed the first documents months earlier under a special provision of securities law that allows a company with less than $1 billion in annual revenue to keep its financial data secret until it begins actively marketing its stock to investors.
Twitter’s caution follows the disastrous I.P.O. of its archrival, Facebook. In May 2012, Facebook sold $16 billion in stock to investors, only to see its share price sliced in half in the ensuing months as shareholders worried that the company could not make money from its billion users.
More recent news stories have the number at 39 and rising. From Reuters:
A co-ordinated car and suicide bomb attack on a Shi’ite mosque in the Iraqi capital killed at least 33 people on Wednesday evening, police and medical sources said.
Worshippers were leaving the mosque after evening prayers when the car bomb exploded, and as onlookers rushed to help the wounded, a suicide bomber blew himself up in their midst.
Policemen saw a second man fumbling to detonate an explosive belt and managed to stop him, but an angry mob overcame them and stabbed the would-be-suicide bomber him to death.
A further 55 people were wounded, some critically, in the blasts, which took place in the northwestern Kasra district of Baghdad.
It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack, but Sunni Islamist militants who view Shi’ites as non-believers, have been regaining momentum and striking on a near daily basis this year.
From BBC News:
Thirty-seven people have died in a fire that engulfed a psychiatric hospital in north-western Russia, officials say.
The blaze occurred in the village of Luka, in Novgorod region. The timber-built hospital housed some 60 people.
A nurse who tried to guide patients to safety was among the dead, Russian media report. So far 15 bodies have been recovered at the scene.
The fire broke out just before 03:00 local time (23:00 GMT Thursday). A patient smoking may have started it.
Officials had previously ordered the building to be closed because of safety concerns.
The fire started in the male ward and spread quickly through the single-storey Oksochi hospital, emergency ministry officials say. TV pictures later showed the gutted building.
“Medical personnel saw a patient who was shrouded in flames. It’s possible that he was smoking in bed and the mattress caught fire,” regional governor Sergei Mitin told Russia’s Interfax news agency.
He added that the ward housed severely ill patients.
From BBC, where you can read more on the story:
US Secretary of State John Kerry has described as “constructive” talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on securing Syria’s chemical weapons.
The two men began a second day of talks in Geneva by meeting UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to discuss the wider issue of peace in Syria.
Talks between Mr Kerry and Mr Lavrov on the weapons issue began on Thursday and could continue over the weekend.
Mr Kerry said they were working hard to find “common ground”.
The BBC’s Paul Adams in Geneva says this is a moment of diplomatic momentum over Syria which has not been seen for a couple of years and both parties want to make the most of that.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called Damascus’s decision to join the Chemical Weapons Convention “an important step towards the resolution of the Syrian crisis” and said it showed the “serious intention” of President Assad “to follow this path”.
The leaders of Syria’s other key allies, China and Iran – meeting at a regional summit in Kyrgyzstan – also welcomed President Assad’s move.
But Syrian rebels say it will not stop the killing. Free Syrian Army spokesperson Louay Moqdad told the BBC Mr Assad still has plenty of conventional weapons at his disposal and he is attempting to “buy time” with the help of the Russians.
I almost forgot that Beyonce’s Mrs. Carter tour was still in effect. Here’s some footage of her performing ‘Irreplaceable’ and ‘Love On Top’ in Fortaleza, Brazil.
From Al-Jazeera:
Fighting is continuing in the Philippines as government forces clash with Muslim rebels holding more than 100 hostages in the southern port city of Zamboanga.
Residents were sent fleeing on Thursday as government troops attempted to flush out rebel fighters from areas of the city, with the fighting leaving houses on fire.
An unidentified group of gunmen launched a separate attack on a town on the island of Basilan, local media reported.
The Philippine government has warned Muslim rebels, to end peacefully a standoff “at the soonest possible time”.
From Fox News:
Days of heavy rain in Colorado caused flash flooding that left at least three people dead and prompted authorities to call on thousands more people in the city of Boulder to evacuate as a nearby creek began rising to dangerous levels.
After a rainy week, up to 8 more inches fell in an area spanning from the Wyoming border south to the foothills west of Denver. Flooding extended all along the Front Range mountains and into some cities, including Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Greeley, Aurora and Boulder.
Boulder County appeared to be hardest hit. Sheriff Joe Pelle said the town of Lyons was completely cut off because of flooded roads, and residents were huddling together on higher ground. Although everyone was believed to be safe, the deluge was expected to continue into Friday.
Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta were found guilty on all counts earlier this week.
Judge Yogesh Khanna said the case fell in the “rarest of rare category”, rejecting pleas for lighter sentence.
The woman, 23, was attacked on a bus in December and died two weeks later.
On Friday, Judge Khanna said the attack “shocked the collective conscience” of India, and that “courts cannot turn a blind eye” to such crimes.
“This case definitely falls in the rarest of rare categories and warrants the exemplary punishment of death,” he added.
One of the convicted men, Vinay Sharma, broke down in tears as the sentence was announced.
Earlier, protesters outside the court had demanded that the four men must be hanged.
Many civilians were killed in a recent attack (reportedly by the Taliban) on a United States Consulate in western Afghanistan.
Although no Americans were among the dead, the attack certainly sheds light on a continuing security problem and the areas continues to stabilize following U.S.’s entry following the 9/11 attacks over a decade ago.
ISAF has posted a statement regarding the matter on their Facebook page.
From NBC News:
Violence started at around 5:30 a.m. (9 p.m. ET) when a truck drove to the consulate’s front gate, American officials said.
“The attackers — possibly firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles — commenced attacking Afghan protective forces on the exterior of the gates and contracted security guards,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a statement. “Shortly after, the entire truck exploded, extensively damaging the front gate.”
It “appears some attackers were wearing suicide explosive devices,” she added.
Slim Thug’s new album is on the way. In addition, you can check out a trailer below.
Kari — you may know him as P, who helped create Fat Trel’s career — has found a new group, FU, which stands Finest Uptown. Worm and Moll Kush are two emcees from Uptown DC and next week they will present their first single to the world, “Damn”. In my opinion, it’s one of the best videos I have seen from a DMV artist and a very long time. We are also dropping our exclusive interview very soon with P, where he goes into details about the Fat Trel situation. Produced by P.
Britney Spears unveiled the new artwork for her upcoming single “Work B**ch” which is off her new untitled album. Britney Spears hasn’t released an album since 2011 and it looks like she will release her new album either this year or next year. Britney Spears co-wrote her single with William Adams, Otto Jetmann, Sebastian Ingrosso, Anthony Preston and Ruth-Anne Cunningham.
The New York Post reports that after midnight, shots rang out near the stage resulting in a stampede to escape the venue. In a statement, Darius “Sunny D” Davie, Fat Trel’s publicist, spoke out about the event and against SOBs security:
“It went from a turnt up show to a battlefield in a matter of seconds. It was a pure stampede of people. After awhile I wasn’t worried about being stray bullets, I was worried about being run over by the mob of people. And I have a feeling that there was more than one gunman in that venue. As soon as I exited the venue safely, I wasn’t leaving until I knew Trel & Debo [Trel’s day to day manager] was ok. My question is…who the hell runs SOBs security?!” –
TMZ reports:
Police in Chicago have been told to haul Chief Keef’s deadbeat ass to jail … if they see him … after the 17-year old rapper blew off a child support hearing, TMZ has learned.
We broke the story … Keef was ordered to appear in court on September 5 to explain why he hasn’t forked over more than $20k in child support payments to his baby mama.
Problem is … Keef no-showed — so the judge issued an order for his arrest, which means if cops see his ass, they can drag him right to the slammer and hold him until he pays roughly 1/5th of his child support debt.
We know he can afford it — but it’s unclear why he’s refusing to pony up. Attempts to reach Keef for comment were unsuccessful.
Tattletailzz reports:
Would you agree with that statement? I think she is right and no lies were told, you have some that have tried and I will even put Nicki Minaj in that category but Until we get another good batch of female emcee’s we won’t see another era like the Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, Missy Elliott era.
Latifah stopped by the Rickey Smiley show this morning and they posed a question to her, they asked her to share a list of female emcee’s that she has been impressed with over the last 15 years?
““I still think some of the best ones that have done it have yet to be topped. I still don’t think anybody has topped the whole era of Foxy, Kim, Missy, Eve, me on the tail end kinda things,” the soon-to-be television host explained. “I’m still looking forward to it not just being a one-at-a-time female rapper thing. I mean, I think Nicki Minaj is great, but I think we definitely need to blow up some of the other females that are out there.”
Her talk show which is set to debut on September 16th ”The Queen Latifah Show” is executive produced by Will and Jada Smith. The Queen says that it will be a show with real conversationsand having real people doing major things. It will air on CBS. I completely agree the earlierfemale rappers could hold their own when rapping with a male on a CD. Queen Bee killed it with that MOBB deep song.. Foxy’s verse on aint no nigga was the jam and still is to this day.. In terms of dominance and power in the industry, we have yet to see more female dominance than the mid 90s crew [lil kim, missy, foxy, lauryn hill,etc]
However, in terms of substance and quality. The late 80s to early 90s wins… Truth hurts…
TMZ Reports:
Drake’s expensive jewelry collection is coming back to bite him in the ass — a famous jeweler is suing him over a $50,000 owl pendant … claiming Drake illegally made knockoffs of it for his friends.
The jeweler Baden Baden Inc. (owned by designer Michael Raphael) filed the lawsuit, claiming Drizzy hired the company to make a custom diamond-studded platinum owl pendant back in January … and paid $49,204.
Then in June … BB claims gold duplicates of the pendant started surfacing on Drake’s Instagram.
According to the lawsuit, BB claims Drake took its original design, copied it, and handed out the knockoffs to his pals.
Baden Baden is suing for copyright infringement, demanding unspecified damages, and asking the court to force Drake to hand over the owl copies.
One potential sticking point — Drake’s been using the owl logo for years … it’s the freakin’ cover of his 2011 mixtape.
AllHipHop Reports:
The last 24 hours have been trying for DJ Mr. Cee. The veteran radio personality was caught on tape soliciting a man for sex and then announced he was resigning from Hot 97. Today Cee spoke on air for the station’s morning show.
During the interview, Mr. Cee acknowledged that has had engaged in oral sex with transgender men, but he does not consider himself gay. He says the video that emerged yesterday was from last year, and that he had stopped soliciting transgender prostitutes after his arrest in May.
Cee broke into tears when speaking about how the situation may affect his ability to support his family and his feeling that he let his friends down.
Later, Cee announced he is returning to his radio show at the request of Hot 97′s program director Ebro Darden. Cee also received support from his co-workers Peter Rosenberg and Funkmaster Flex.
UPDATE: According to Fat Trel, the individual shooting shot at the ground and hit one person in the leg. Pics below.
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I don’t have a lot of details yet, but according to BDot From Rap Radar, someone walked up in S.O.B.s and started shooting. We shall keep you updated as soon as we find out more information.
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After the VMAs, a rumor hit the net that Miley Cyrus went in the studio to record something for Kanye West’s record ‘Black Skinhead’ off of Yeezus. Today, Mike Will Made It confirmed today on RapFix Live with Sway that Miley Cyrus will appear on ‘Black Skinhead (Remix)’. I wonder how this will sound?
We went to the studio with Kanye. So we went right back to work. We all working on that. Yea, it’s about done, man. I was just touching on the beat a lil bit. It’s sounding crazy too.
M.O. drops September 30th; the tracklisting is below. Will anyone really care?
01 Get Like Me f. Nicki Minaj & Pharrell
02 Give U Dat f. Future
03 Rick James f. T.I.
04 Heaven f. Daley
05 Maryland, Massachusetts
06 100K f. 2 Chainz
07 All Around the World f. Trey Songz
08 IDGAF f. Pharrell & T.I.
09 U know U Want To
10 My Chick Better f. Fabolous & Wiz Khalifa
11 Walk Away f. Florida Georgia Line
12 Headphones f. Nelly Furtado
13 Ciroc & Simply Lemonade f. Yo Gotti
14 Hey Porsche
15 Shake Whatever
16 Mo’s Focused
Meek Mill unveiled the official artwork for his upcoming mixtape, Dreamchasers 3, which is set to drop at the end of the month. I know Meek Mill has some fire on this tape.
From NewsOne:
In a bombshell allegation, Florida medical examiner Dr. Shiping Bao (pictured) claims that Florida state prosecutors were biased against Trayvon Martin and purposely threw the case, and he is suing the state for $100 million, reports WFTV.com.
According to Bao, the medical examiner, state attorney’s office, and Sanford Police Department all felt that Martin “got what he deserved.” Bao also claims that he received the strong, though subtle, message not to speak on certain things:
“He was in essence told to zip his lips. ‘Shut up. Don’t say those things,’” said Bao’s legal counsel, legendary Attorney Willie Gary.
Bao’s allegations come swiftly on the heels of him being fired from his position as associate medical examiner.
Volusia County released a letter on Tuesday, stating that Bao was fired last week. Spokesman Dave Byron declined to give a reason for Bao’s termination, citing “county standard personnel practices,” reports CBS News.
Radar Online Reports:
Justin Bieber‘s manager, Scooter Braun, has had it with his friends Lil Twist and Lil Za — who have been tearing up the singer’s Calabasas, Calif. neighborhood — and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned he’s kicking them out of Bieber’s home, where they have been staying.
Bieber, 19, and his two closest pals have wreaked havoc on the upscale neighborhood, getting pulled over numerous times for recklessly speeding through the streets and holding wild late-night parties that are far too loud for the neighbors’ liking.
“Lil Twist and Lil Za have basically been ordered by Scooter to vacate Justin’s house,” a source close to the situation told Radar.
“He wants them out by the end of the month and they’ve even already been set up with their own apartments.
According to the insider, Braun is looking out for the best interest of his client and feels Lil Twist and Lil Za have brought nothing to Bieber’s life but bad press.
